My iPhone 5s is dead after using a 3rd party cable?
Well, I bought an iPhone 5S three weeks ago but I broke the carger that goes with the phone. The cable worked 4 days so I bought a cheap cable (It wasn't actually cheap. I live in Venezuela and there aren't original cables in stores and even the cheap/3rd party ones are really expensive). It said "This accesory may not be supported" so I found a way to make it work, plug the cable into the iphone, turning off the phone and wait for it to charge. It charged like 30% or so and when it totally drained the phone won't charge at all. It doesn't even show the charging symbol so it's totally dead.
I read information in a lot of places- They told me to put the device in DFU mode... didn't work. I thought that the battery was so drained that I had to wait a whole day and wait it to charge... it didn't. A friend of mine with an iPhone 5 lend me her original cable, it didn't work. An iPhone 5C original cable didn't work either (which I guess it's the same lightning cable but it was worth the try)
So it doesn't charge even with original cables so it could be my lightning/headset port OR the battery. As you may know, there is not Apple Stores here either, only 3rd party repair stores but I'm afraid I lose my "warranty". So I drove 3 hours to the store I bought the iPhone and the seller told me I had to sent the phone via DHL to the company who brought the phone to my country (which isn't Apple). I don't want to since it scares me to never see my phone again.
I read somewhere I could be the "U2 IC chip" but I'm not sure either.
What can I do? What do you think it's exactly the problem?
Questa è una buona domanda?
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I used a non-original Apple charger because it got lost. Instead I was using a Samsung Galaxy S4 my sister has. Anyway, I send the phone to the person who bought the phone to Apple so he will go to the Apple Store and ask for a repair/replacement. He told me that when he gets the phone, I will be recieving a mail from him in 2-3 days. He told me that if Apple decides to repair the phone or replace it, he will send me the phone back -If they don't, he will send me the damaged phone back anyway.
Seems like I just have to wait, but thanks you all for yours answers.
da Pedro