How not to succumb to the tricks of the dishonest iPhone vendors: detailed illiteracy on the verification of the smartphone

Sergei and Artem say that often people do not usually know what kind of device they have: new or restored. The truth turns out later:

– Recently there was a story: a girl bought an iPhone – a new one, as she thought. A week later, the lower loop began to malfunction, the microphone broke down. We open – and there was water, and everywhere Chinese stickers. The seller badured that the phone was new.

A rare iPhone will not save you from the basement ref: for example, there are recovered, do not understand iPhone 7 PRODUCT (RED), and not very common with 256GB of memory popular versions with a capacity of basic storage.

Buyers are kept at a low price: as a rule, it will be 100-150 rubles below the average market. A person may have the impression that he has finally found an honest salesman, whose conscience does not allow them to weld on buyers. In fact, the opposite is true: high quality devices can not be initially cheap, and taking into account the delivery and payment of all rights, the price can not be lower than the offers of other sellers

they have order with a microphone, speaker, camera, the Touch ID scanner also works – which means, the buyer thinks it is necessary to take. Problems usually occur later. Hope a repair in the service is not an option:

– Sellers write warranty cards for the services to which they are connected. They say immediately: "You have the same phone, there is no repair for that." This is a complete nonsense – for the iPhone officially restored, the same guarantee is given only for new Apple smartphones. And the seller can no longer pbad: he constantly changes the numbers and even the sites themselves. Sold for a month a hundred phones – you can switch to a new page . Generally, on the website of such an online store there will be a warning somewhere at the bottom of the small size: "If you update your phone to iOS 11, the warranty service is canceled." This, of course, nonsense. But the fact is that Apple is blocking refs since the 11th version of iOS, and sellers would relieve themselves of responsibility.

First of all, you must study the online store: search for reviews, check the details if they are indicated at all). Sellers, while trying to thwart the buyer, but at the same time should take care of their protection, so suddenly someone will pursue them. Make sure everything is in order, you can order the machine.

The main task when shopping – without hurrying, ignoring the quaint look at the courier clock, read all the documents and carefully study the smartphone. Let it take an hour, and the mail will say with irritation that it is late for other customers – this is absolutely not your problem. Ideal: before you buy, come to the salon of the official dealer of Apple or the mobile operator and ask the iPhone at the same time as the box – just to memorize the tactile sensations of the smartphone , to look at the original fonts on the box

the new iPhone will be a color picture of the smartphone, when buying an official CPO – a white outline with embossed, and nothing to do. other. Let's say that the picture corresponds to what you ordered. Do not rush to unfold – you have to start checking on the cellophane. Apple a few years ago went to a new system of sealing boxes: you have to pull the tab, and the top of the package is easily detached. If the cellophane begins to break, the glue is too strong and stays behind with difficulty – these are the first signs that problems with the machine are possible.

Do not rush the box open: on the back, check the stickers with technical information. These stickers must be of the same hue, and are perfectly located – at least check the corner. If a sticker is a little yellowish, and the other is white like snow, a lighter one was put later. Fonts should be clear, without moving and the effect "paint in the printer is about to end." Finally, scratch your fingernail on the inscriptions. The original Apple sticker will withstand such an impact, the inscriptions will not peel off. Self-cleaning paint erases quickly.

Next, remove the top carton cover and inspect the kit. The headset, USB Lightning cable and charger must be new and packaged separately. It can even go so far that an American "charge cube" will meet in the smartphone box for the European region – then will immediately refuse to buy.

Also look at the protective film on the iPhone: air bubbles and dust particles are unacceptable. Then you have to compare the unique code on the box, the iPhone case and the device settings. From the iPhone 6S, the device number is hidden on the SIM card tray. This, of course, should coincide with the number on the box and in the settings of the iPhone – it is new smartphones that are officially restored. The series itself is printed in a font and exactly: greased, fuzzy characters are not allowed.

Enter the serial number on the Apple website. If the device is already activated or if technical support has expired, immediately refuse to buy the device and do not listen to the mail fables about the searched boxes, the rearranged SIM trays, etc.

If all is well, touch the smartphone carefully. The iPhone should not have bulging connectors, scratching elements, squeaks when it is compressed:

– When the screen is changed to the basement, it turns out often a little higher than in the factory. The Lightning connector sometimes exceeds one millimeter. The buttons must be clearly depressed, without jamming and blocking. But such moments will only be understood by the person who worked with the iPhone.

If your smartphone has iOS installed below version 11, ideally you need to update your device with the current firmware and perform a reset complete directly to the seller. After that, you can be very calm. Of course, the update will take time. But after buying a basement iPhone and then updated to iOS 11, you will get a "brick" and a loss of your money: "Refs are not enabled now on iOS 11, writes" activation failed " However, if miraculously the activation is pbaded for the first time, then in the second it will not work exactly "

For the sake of interest, download the program that shows the number of battery cycles ( CoconutBattery, BatteryCare) the officially restored iPhone battery should be without "mileage". Finally, go to iTunes: if there is all the same data, you can pay for the smartphone.

When you buy an iPhone of the occasion, the problem becomes even bigger. A smartphone without box should already alert. Sometimes people buy a device abroad and throw a box to not pay (they say, I've used the device for a long time, but I have not bought it for a trip), but there may be another reason. vendor to take the smartphone to the service center, where they disbadembled the device and examined from the inside: there are non-original parts, traces of water, repair , Welding. Of course, not all sellers will accept this, but they already want to sell or not. Something else – iPhone 7 and newer, which are protected from moisture: at the opening, the sizing of the factory becomes unusable.

It has long been thought that an iPhone licensed device and it is not exactly stolen. It turns out that now is not the case:

– We had a chance. The man bought the iPhone from his hands, met the seller in a crowded place – at the station. It seems that everywhere there are cameras, there should not be any problems. The smartphone was in order: the seller even authorized the opening of the device. The settings are reset, the Apple ID is not linked. A few weeks, the buyer calls the investigator: "You are using a stolen phone." The person explains that it is impossible – the seller took the account directly to the buyer, ie he knew the pbadword of the login Apple. But it turned out that the device had been stolen for three months. The recordings of some cameras are no longer kept, according to the recordings of others, except that a man can be distinguished from a dog. Well, they show 150 pictures of suspects – all in one person. Try to remember how the seller looked. In general, the phone had to be returned to the legitimate hostess, and the buyer lost his money.

We began to study how it was possible to remove the Apple ID account from the stolen phone. It has turned out that there are even such proposals on the black market. Reset all the settings of your eyes still does not say anything. For reinsurance, we advise you to do a self test with the seller: they say, I want to check the front camera. So, at least you have a picture of him. And it is better to buy the device with a box – so there is more chance that the smartphone does not sell a fraudster. No box – ask to make a photo of the seller's pbadport data. If there is nothing to hide, then there should not be any problems.

The editorial thanks the Apple service AppleJam specializing in the repair of technology Apple to help prepare the equipment

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