Would you do a full factory restore on an iPhone 4S

OK, in Jamaica my utter total POS Samsung Galaxy S6 Active died. I got the phone about 18 months ago as they advertise it as drop proof up to 3’ feet onto concrete and water proof too (1.5 meters for 30 mins) Well after a few weeks my then year old grandson dropped it onto a wood floor and the screen shattered. Samsung wouldn’t’ warranty it as they said they had no idea of how far or onto what it had been dropped. So I had to cough up $350 for them to replace it as a special effing deal. Now last week in Jamaica the water proof part was proved BS too. I carried it up a waterfall, in my hand, never fully submerged. I dried it odd as soon as we got out and blew water out of the charge and headphone port, but an hour later the screen was acting up and by that night it was totally dead. So, Samsung’s water and drop tests are on par with their Note 7 battery tests. Samsung are now on my never buy again list.

But I am no phone less and as this was a pay over 2 years on instalments with my phone contract I’m now paying on a paper weight and not going to buy another phone. Luckily my wife has an old iPhone 4S that she stopped using as it was getting hard to run some programs and apps on being old. I went to ATT and got my number transferred over to it and I’m using that. The issue is that it still thinks it’s her phone, it’s got all her stuff on it etc. I’ve changed the email over to my Gmail account, but it’s still got her stuff on and a really old OS. Should I do a factory re-set, or will it try and load every single update to IOS and brick the phone? It’s only a 16gig model so it’s not got a lot of capacity?

Cheers.

I should add the S6 died over a few hours, when we got back to our apartment it appeared dead, but was obviously alive enough to upload the pics to my Google account when in WiFi before dying.

I'd do a wipe, no question, 100% of the time, eight days a week.

The 4S is obsolete, btw. No iOS 10.

Dunn's river falls? Or the Blue Hole?

Mike wrote: I'd do a wipe, no question, 100% of the time, eight days a week. The 4S is obsolete, btw. No iOS 10.

So can I update to iOs9 or whatever?

mtn wrote: Dunn's river falls? Or the Blue Hole?

Did Dunn's 5 years ago on a cruise. We were staying in Negril. the phone died at Mayfield falls which are much better than Dunn's. No as long, but more fun and 1,000,000 times less crowded. Did the Blue hole then calculated that I was in the air for approx. 1.6 seconds and hit the water at 25mph. Also did YS falls which are even more beautiful to play and swim in.

If you put your galaxy in a bag of uncooked rice it may suck the water out of it. My son's phone was fully submerged twice and we brought it back both times. (Not a galaxy, and not a waterproof phone.)

P.S. I use a lifeproof case on my iphone. It doesn't add that much size. I've dropped it onto concrete from as high as 6' multiple times, I'm clumsy. I have also had it completely submerged, had it in my pocket one time when waterskiing. After two years my phone still looked brand new.

D2W wrote: If you put your galaxy in a bag of uncooked rice it may suck the water out of it. My son's phone was fully submerged twice and we brought it back both times. (Not a galaxy, and not a waterproof phone.)

It spent three days in uncooked rice. Zip, Zero, Nada.

D2W wrote: P.S. I use a lifeproof case on my iphone. It doesn't add that much size. I've dropped it onto concrete from as high as 6' multiple times, I'm clumsy. I have also had it completely submerged, had it in my pocket one time when waterskiing. After two years my phone still looked brand new.

Yeah, I bought the S6 Active as it was supposed to basically be a phone with a built in dust proof, shock proof, water proof case, except it's failed two our of three of those when presented with situations well within their claims. Next expensive phone I get will get an UAG case and go no where near water without a secondary 100% waterproof universal case around that.

Adrian_Thompson wrote:

Mike wrote: I'd do a wipe, no question, 100% of the time, eight days a week. The 4S is obsolete, btw. No iOS 10.

So can I update to iOs9 or whatever?

I believe that's the latest for the 4S.

When you're ready, you can turn off the phone. Plug the phone into your computer while holding the home button. Launch iTunes, which will tell you that you have an iPhone in recovery mode connected. Follow the prompts to agree to a reset. If your wife connected the iPhone to her iCloud account, she may need to log in to that account to allow you to complete the wipe and activation.

My phone is a Nexus 6. Also claimed to be water resistant, largely by way of internal hydrophobic coatings. It had a few months of acting funny after a heavy splash put water in the power and volume buttons. It's mostly fine now, but I don't know that water resistant is really the right term for it.

If you must not buy a phone, then absolutely wipe the 4S and start from scratch. Otherwise, get on amazon and get this Moto G 4: http://amzn.to/2myiesM

There is another version that is $30 less, but I think the better camera makes it a no brainer to spend another $30. I'd also suggest a case and a tempered glass screen protector. I use a waterproof pouch when I think it has the possibility of getting wet. Mine is like a thick ziplock bag with 2 zips and some folds. Works great!