nospam
In article <slrnlsckg6.pkj.mr@irc.sandman.net>, Sandman <mr@sandman.net>wrote:

PeterN
Funny. The problem with my old iPhone was a broken internal switch.

Sandman
What "switch" was this? You say it's an internal component, and the topic was "moving parts" so you seem to imply that inside your iPhone there was a mechanical physically moving "switch" that was broken. Having seen the insides of many iPhones (I have a friend that repair them), I can assure you that no such switch exists.

nospam
he's talking out is ass. there is no 'internal switch'.

the *only* buttons and switches are on the outside (not inside), where a user can access them. an internal switch makes no sense whatsoever.

the status of any of those buttons/switches or whether any of them are even functional do not affect data retention or being able to access the data at all.

there are even ways to continue to use an iphone/ipad with broken buttons/switches although obviously less convenient than getting it repaired, which for an out of warranty device may not be worth it.

and for those who don't want to disassemble their iphone to check what's really in there, just check out any of the teardowns online.

PeterN
The phone would turn on and off, but nothing could be accessed. According t the good folks at the Apple store the diagnostic code was a bad internal switch, or something like that. It cold not be repaired. Perhaps I should have sent nospam to argue with them.

Sandman
Since the topic was data loss, are you here claiming that this internal "switch" failing also made your phone backup fail? Or are you saying that in spite of your iPhone explictly asking you to, and Apple providing it for free, you declined automatic backup of your phone?

Because if you didn't decline, and you had backup, then your replacement iPhone would just ask for your iCloud credentials and then just restore your new phone with all the data from your old phone.

So regardless of this "internal switch" whatever that is supposed to mean, your phone data - while unrecoverable inside your old phone - was not actually lost since you're smart enough to utilize the automatic and free of charge backup mechanism in iCloud (or the automatic free of charge backup mechanism in iTunes if you distrust the cloud).

nospam
a backup certainly makes things easier, but the data in his old phone was still there.

he's wrong.