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If spare parts are available, up to 85% percent of complex repairs can be completed in 1-2 days. Modular repairs take much less time. The site indicates the approximate duration of any repair.
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This is very important and has already become a rule of good form for the service center. Diagnosis is the most difficult and important part of the repair, but you should not pay a dime for it, even if you do not repair the device after it.
Service repair and delivery
A good service values your time, so it offers free shipping. And for the same reason, repairs are carried out only in the workshop of the service center: it can be done correctly and according to technology only at a prepared place.
Convenient schedule
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The reputation of professionals consists of several points
Age and experience of the company
Reliable and experienced service is known for a long time.
If a company has been on the market for many years, and it has managed to establish itself as an expert, they turn to it, write about it, recommend it. We know what we are talking about, since 98% of incoming devices in the SC are restored.
We are trusted and passed on complex cases to other service centers.
How many masters in the directions
If you are always waiting for several engineers for each type of equipment, you can be sure:
1. there will be no queue (or it will be minimal) - your device will be taken care of immediately.
2. You give Macbook repair to an expert specifically in the field of Mac repairs. He knows all the secrets of these devices
technical literacy
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To give you an idea of what you need.
Will try to solve the problem. In most cases, from the description, you can understand what happened and how to fix the problem.
Greetings to everyone and everything! The first thing you need to pay attention to is that this article will not talk about the official release date of any iPhone model (you can talk about this) in general, but about each specific device in particular. After all, as you understand, the release of devices takes place almost every day, and for each of the iPhones, the date of its release from the factory will be individual.
The second important note - we will figure out how to determine not only what year the iPhone that you have in your hands, but even its release week. Well, the third is that there will only be several ways to find out the age of the device and by combining them, you can achieve 100% reliability of the result. Let's not procrastinate and drag the animals to different places... let's start quickly and decisively!
However, a little preface is still needed. Why do you need to find out all this - how old is he, dates, some numbers? Use it all! However, not everything is so simple and here are a few situations when it is necessary:
- So that when buying an iPhone or iPad "with hands".
- When buying a new device (not all stores are equally honest and I can sell a used one under the guise of a new one).
- Just out of curiosity.
By the way, for all checks we will use the serial number (IMEI) of the iPhone (). Which is quite convenient, because you don’t even need access to the device - when buying a used one, you can ask for it in advance, and if the gadget is still in the box, then you can do without opening it. Well, now to the main thing...
Find out what year the iPhone was produced by decoding IMEI
The serial number can tell a lot of information about the device - factory, model, etc. But we are interested in the exact release date. And here it is necessary to find out what kind of gadget model it is, the type of serial number and its decoding will depend on this.
If the iPhone was released before 2010 (usually iPhone 4 and younger)
For these devices, the serial number consists of 11 numbers and letters. We will only be interested in the third, fourth and fifth characters. Everything is quite simple here:
- The number that comes third in the serial indicates the last digit of the year in which this device was manufactured.
- The fourth and fifth digits are the ordinal number of the week in that year.
To make it clearer, an example: MN81412ABC1. In this case, the third digit is 8, the fourth and fifth are 14. From this we conclude that this iPhone was released at the factory in 2008 on week 14 (March 31 - April 6)
After 2010 (iPhone 4S and older)
But here, everything is far from being as simple as in the previous example. Starting in 2010, Apple began releasing devices with serial numbers that were 12 characters long. And everything would be fine, but besides this, she also encrypted the release date in it using various numbers and letters.
So, in a 12-character serial number, we are only interested in the fourth and fifth characters from the beginning:
- The 4th character means the year and half year in which the device was released.
- The 5th character means the week of release in that same semester.
True, the whole “ambush” is that not only numbers, but also letters are already present here. Therefore, here are the tables of correspondence of characters and dates for decryption.
In the first, we look at the letter that is indicated 4th from the beginning in the serial number and find out the year, as well as the six months in which your iPhone was manufactured.
Let's look at this case with an example. Here is the serial number - NPL JN DP7FDG5. The fourth letter is J, which, according to our table, means the 2nd half of 2012. The 5th character is the letter N, we look at the second table and see that the letter N for the 2nd half of the year corresponds to the 45th week of release. It turns out - the year 2012, week 45. It's simple!
However, if you do not trust the various tables, there are several more options to determine the age of the iPhone.
How to find out how old your iPhone is through special services
Fortunately, it is not always necessary to look at the serial number and calculate how old your iPhone is with it. There are various services that will do all this work for you. Here are the most famous of them.
- You can find out the date of manufacture of the iPhone by going to this page and entering the serial number there. Perhaps this is the oldest and most famous service for verification. Despite the fact that everything is in a foreign language, you don’t really need to understand it - specify IMEI in a special form and get the result.
- The second option would be to download a special program - Coconutid. Unfortunately, there is a version only for MAC OS, and this is a minus. However, it allows you to find out the date of birth of not only iOS devices, but MAC. Which is definitely a plus.
As you can see, you can find out the iPhone release date in different ways - either “stretch” your brains and calculate it yourself, or trust services and programs specially designed for this.
Fair, not too high or too low. There should be prices on the Service website. Necessarily! without "asterisks", clear and detailed, where it is technically possible - the most accurate, final.
If spare parts are available, up to 85% percent of complex repairs can be completed in 1-2 days. Modular repairs take much less time. The site indicates the approximate duration of any repair.
Warranty and Liability
A warranty should be given for any repair. Everything is described on the site and in the documents. A guarantee is self-confidence and respect for you. A 3-6 month warranty is good and enough. It is needed to check the quality and hidden defects that cannot be detected immediately. You see honest and realistic terms (not 3 years), you can be sure that you will be helped.
Half the success in Apple repair is the quality and reliability of spare parts, so a good service works directly with suppliers, there are always several reliable channels and a warehouse with proven spare parts for current models so that you do not have to waste extra time.
Free diagnostics
This is very important and has already become a rule of good form for the service center. Diagnosis is the most difficult and important part of the repair, but you should not pay a dime for it, even if you do not repair the device after it.
Service repair and delivery
A good service values your time, so it offers free shipping. And for the same reason, repairs are carried out only in the workshop of the service center: it can be done correctly and according to technology only at a prepared place.
Convenient schedule
If the Service works for you, and not for itself, then it is always open! absolutely. The schedule should be convenient in order to be in time before and after work. Good service works on weekends and holidays. We are waiting for you and working on your devices every day: 9:00 - 21:00
The reputation of professionals consists of several points
Age and experience of the company
Reliable and experienced service is known for a long time.
If a company has been on the market for many years, and it has managed to establish itself as an expert, they turn to it, write about it, recommend it. We know what we are talking about, since 98% of incoming devices in the SC are restored.
We are trusted and passed on complex cases to other service centers.
How many masters in the directions
If you are always waiting for several engineers for each type of equipment, you can be sure:
1. there will be no queue (or it will be minimal) - your device will be taken care of immediately.
2. You give Macbook repair to an expert specifically in the field of Mac repairs. He knows all the secrets of these devices
technical literacy
If you ask a question, the specialist must answer it as accurately as possible.
To give you an idea of what you need.
Will try to solve the problem. In most cases, from the description, you can understand what happened and how to fix the problem.
When buying an iPhone "from hand" or in a refurbished state, that is, it has undergone a complete factory restoration, it is important to start inspecting the device by checking its production date. This will help identify potential iPhone issues that vary from batch to batch. And also bring to light a dishonest seller who hides the "age" of the device. To find out what year the iPhone is, you need to “punch” it through the database.
When buying a smartphone "from hand" ask the seller to present the branded box from the device. Its presence in itself speaks in favor of the originality of the device, but also on the back of the package contains information about the "serial number". On the sticker with information about the device, pay attention to the second line from the top. It contains a code containing information about when the smartphone was released.
We immediately see that the month and year of iPhone production are printed on the modern sticker. However, we will not be satisfied with such a check, since the sticker can be re-glued, and the box can be picked up from another device.
"Serial" is also verified with the settings of the device. To do this, turn on the iPhone, on the main screen we find the "Settings" icon, a gray gear. Inside, select the “General” section, then tap on the “About device” link. The screen will display information about the device, including a combination of serial characters. Make sure that the serial number data from the screen and from the box match.
So, the "serials" matched. Only the 4th and 5th characters of the serial number are visible in the pictures. It is they who will be required to determine the production date of the iPhone.
Determine the year and week of the release of the iPhone
First of all, you need to look at the length of the "serial".
If you count eleven characters, the iPhone was definitely released before 2012. In this case, everything is simple. The 3rd character shows the last digit of the year the device was manufactured, the 4th and 5th digits the week number.
Since 2012, the production coding has changed, and all serial numbers have become twelve characters long. In this case, we will take information from the following tables.
Table 1. Correspondence of the 4th character of the 12-digit serial number to the year of manufacture. 
Table 2. Correspondence of the 5th character of the 12-digit serial number to the week of production. In our example, the 4th character is "V", the 5th is "D". The box says that the phone was manufactured in September 2017. Let's check the tables to see if this is the case. The symbol "V" corresponds to the 2nd half of 2017, and "D" to the 37th week of production. Week 37 is really September. All right!
Let's check another iPhone. Judging by the sticker on the box, this is a "six", released in March 2018.
Here the 4th character is “W”, the 5th is “F”. The symbol "W" corresponds to the 1st half of the year 2018, and "F" to the 12th week of the year. Again, everything converges - the 12th week in March.
Conclusion
In such a simple way, it is easy to find out the release date of the iPhone. This will allow you not to be deceived when buying, as well as find out more information about your smartphone. It is necessary to carry out such a procedure if you purchase a phone “from hand”, or when examining a restored device.
If your iPhone was bought with hands, then you will certainly be interested in the date of its production. Firstly, sellers can deceive you in order to pass off an ancient device as a more recent one. Secondly, even if the iPhone looks great on the outside, this does not mean that it has not been actively used. Remember that the battery of the device is designed for 300 cycloin fully charged and discharged, after which it begins to gradually die. Therefore, knowing the age of your iPhone is very important.
Well, if you bought your iPhone officially - in a store - then it will also be interesting for you to find out how long it has been gathering dust in the warehouse, and then - on the salon shelf, right?
Today we will tell you how to find out date of manufacture and activation of the device. To do this, you do not need to know any additional information, except for the serial number of the iPhone. By the way, everything written below is also relevant for the iPod Touch.
For those who have not held an iPhone in their hands, but really want to buy it, we explain how to find out the iPhone serial number right when buying. Find a silver icon on one of the desktops of the device "Settings" and click on it:
Scroll down and select the first item in the third section of settings - "Basic", click on it, then select the top item - "About device". Scroll down to the item "Serial number" and you will see an 11-character code like:
8892 9 KST4NS
We are interested in you third, fourth and fifth digits this serial number. The third digit shows the year of manufacture. 7 - 2007, 8 - 2008, etc.
The fourth and fifth digits are the ordinal number of the week of manufacture of the device. This number can take values from 01 to 52.
Now you can easily determine that the iPhone with the serial number above was manufactured on 29th week of 2009, i.e. during the period from 13 to 19 July.
In case you are wondering, the first two digits of the serial number are the identifier of the factory where the device was assembled, and the last six are a unique code for each device.
For reference, here is the 2009 calendar with week numbers:
That's not all. By serial number you can also check iPhone legality. Go to https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do and enter your serial number. The location you choose in the list below does not play a special role.
You will see something like this:
Follow the link See full coverage details:
Pay attention to the inscription Estimated Expiration Date: September 12, 2010. This means that the iPhone was first activated in the store on September 12, 2009, and from that date the one-year warranty began.
If the iPhone has never been activated, which is quite possible when it is locked, then you will see an error like Please activate your iPhone. We are unable to display coverage details because your iPhone has not been activated.
Good luck with your iPhone purchases and no less successful use of it;) Don't let the sellers deceive you.
