PC World Ipad repair question

digitaldr · 29-08-2013 01:28AM #1

I cracked my iPad 3 glass (not the LCD) and am planning to get it repaired under my PC World coverplan. Problem is that it's jailbroken mainly so I can use XBMC on it. Does anyone know if PC World will send it back to Apple for repair (in which case they might not touch it due to jailbreak even though it just has a broken screen) or if they do the repair themselves. Hopefully if it's done in house they won't wipe it as I'd then be forced to upgrade to 6.1.3 which unjailbreakable. If it went to Apple and they agreed to repair it I'd more than likely end up with a refurb and hence no jailbreak:(

goz83 · 29-08-2013 02:49AM

If it is less than a year old, you are pretty much guaranteed to have it sent off to Apple afaik.

digitaldr · 29-08-2013 06:53AM

Sorry forgot to mentio it's more than a year old.

davo2001 · 29-08-2013 10:25AM

Is it just the XMBC app on the iPad that you want? If so then this will work without a jailbreak.

ozmo · 29-08-2013 10:33AM

PC world have their own forum in boards - you could ask them directly there?

http://www.boards.ie/ttforum/1333

digitaldr · 29-08-2013 10:54AM

Lots of XBMC remote apps but I'm pretty sure that a jailbreak is needed to run XBMC itself. PC world boards.ie forum has been closed for a while now.

digitaldr · 29-08-2013 05:43PM

Well just popped into PC world and the know how guy there said that they usually just send out a replacement ipad as screen repairs are uneconomic. Also when I took it out of its (crappy!) case one of the aluminium corners is pretty badly damaged so it would be even more uneconomic to repair. So looks like I'll be losing my jailbreak

PC World Ipad repair question

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