iPhone 11 stuck on 3 minute bootloop in 'Attempting to Recover Data'
Hi all,
On Friday I got a small splash of water onto my iPhone 11, couple hours later I started getting a bootloop every 3 minutes. I also noticed that the haptics stopped working. Regretably I rushed things and saw online that in order to avoid bootloops people recommended putting the phone into recovery mode and updating the IOS to 17 via a cable to the mac. I followed through with this expecting it to all be fine however the bootloop persisted and now I am stuck on the white screen with 'Attempting to recover data' which will consistently bootloop at 3 minutes. I did not want to restore the iPhone as I have some photos and data on there that I did not manage to back up and need to access. But now I can't even get into the phone because of this data recovery screen.
I had looked online and it seemed to me that this consistent 3 minute bootloop was a indication of water damage to one of the flex cables - often the proximity sensor, power flex, or charger flex. The next day I took the phone apart and began individually testing each component, I disconnected the face ID/proximity, power, haptic engine, cameras, sim card connector, and the connection to the charging dock. Nothing worked however, I still had a 3 minute bootloop every time. The advice online seemed to be that disconnecting the component at fault should have worked for all of the above except for the charger flex, that will need a high quality/OEM replacement due to the thermomonitord sensor.
I can't get into my phone to access panic logs unfortunately. Fair to assume that even with iDevice panic log reader I won't be able to pull the logs?
Should I assume the following:
- The charger flex is at fault and I should try order a new part and replace it? Would this be supported by the fact that the haptics stopped working too shortly before I tried to update my phone?
- Restoring the phone won't fix any bootloop issues and will just lose me all my data?
- If worst came to worst I could take out the logic board + face ID sensor of my current iPhone and transplant it into another iPhone 11?
Help would be much appreciated thank you!
Ist dies eine gute Frage?