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Big repair weekend at my house
It was bound to happen. My daughter shattered the glass on her iPhone 3GS last week. I have to give her credit, It has been almost a year since she got it so I'm proud of her that she kept it in pretty good shape. She was playing Mario Kart on the Wii and slammed the controller down on the couch, undoubtedly in a banana skin or Blooper power-up fit of frustration, and hit her iPhone instead. She shattered the glass so bad you could not even read the bottom portion of the screen.
On a quick side note, did you know you can hold two power-ups at once on Mario Kart? Me neither. A quick Google search will teach you the ways. Back to Ashley's iPhone mishap. She is fortunate enough to be my daughter :) so we came down to the shop on Saturday and I installed a new iPhone 3GS front glass and Digitizer for her. Apple wants $200 for this repair so if this happens to your kid, save yourself $150 or so and buy the part from www.etechparts.com and do it yourself. After we fixed her iPhone it was on to the next repair. Somehow she managed to ruin yet another hard drive in her MacBook Pro. We spent a few hours trying software repairs on her hard drive but it was toast! It kept getting stuck on the iPhone 4.0 beta software she downloaded for her iPhone.
Hmmm. Another side note, iPhone beta 4.0 is glitchy. I suggest waiting for the real thing.
I gave her a 200gb Hard drive I had laying around and we loaded a fresh install of Leopard to it. Migration assistant kept freezing(on the iPhone 4.0 software which we could not delete for some reason) so she had to transfer her user data folder by folder. She was able to transfer all of her songs and pictures from her old user folder and got her machine back up and running again on this 200gb hard drive we had running externally. Good job Ash! What happened next really makes me proud. It was time for me to hit the sack since my 2 month old son was going to be waking me up repeatedly in the night and she really wanted to get the drive installed into her machine. I told her I would do it in the morning or she could do it herself. I gave her a #00 Philips, T6 and a MacBook so she could search for help if she got stuck. Sure enough she stayed up and replaced the drive herself. Pretty impressive for a 16yr old if you ask me. She even posted pictures on Facebook as she went. Very cool.
