There’s a small light-coloured dot inside many gadgets, including iPods, that turns pink or red if the device’s internals seem to have been exposed to water or significant moisture. Generally, they’re put there so that a service technician can end their search for the cause right there.
But an internal policy change at Apple suggests that having a good argument as to why water isn’t the issue may keep your iPod moving along the support and repair path. Very cold days and other innocuous events have been known to trigger the Liquid Contact Indicator (LCI), so it’s a nice move toward fairness for Apple.
Have you talked your way out of seeming water damage before?
Josh Mcfarlane
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 11:46 AMI always wondered how apple checked for water damage.
scootah
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 3:18 PMI’ve always wondered how they ethically continued to sell devices using these tests in the tropics, where ambient humidity has been shown to trip the alarms.