It's a safe bet saying that the plunge in water shorted up the battery, and will account for a short battery life and the heating up device (the logic keeps trying to charge a broken down battery). You could, however, if your current issues are 'just' a really short battery life and your unit heating try to fix it by buying a new battery only, and ordering a new logic board only of other troubles arise. If you go through the iFixit site, you may see that several key parts of the iPhone 4, including the bezel mount and some of the assembly, are radically different, thus. You may also want to clean it more throughly with isopropylic alchol. The only way to know is changing the battery, booting up the unit and tell how it goes. However, you should give us the last four letters and numbers of the serial code. If you're lucky, it should 'disengage' the broken tip and the spring keeping the connector pushed on it, so, pushing carefully the straw out, the plug will follow (2) Failing that, but having to apply the utmost care to avoid further damage, you could try applying some fast-drying but strong.įirst and foremost, I can glean from your question that your unit is an iPhone 4, and not an iPhone 4S. Plastic, soft and inexpensive.: cut it so you can 'roll' in the socket, then push all the way into and try to move it around.

Failing the needle nose pliers, you could try some of this other workarounds: (1) Use a straw, the kind you'd use to sip a drink. Also, remembering you'd have to be extra careful with an expensive device, you can try with a pair of thin needle nose pliers, trying carefully to grab the jack.

It happened on many devices, but there are common hints you may use.

However your kind of accident has happened lots of times: you may find lots of similar questions with several hints. they came out in 2012, and 2013 has yet to end. Your device should still be in warranty, even if it's a first gen Nexus.

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