Ever given Apple decided to do small about a iPhone 4’s conspicuous accepting issues solely indicate that users hold a thing differently and / or buy a nice case, a voodoo engineering remedies have been flying in full force — sure, we’ll admit we tried sticking a little fasten over a side of the phone (no dice), but we stopped short when people referred to we try a integrate coats of spike gloss (insanity). Even you have boundary, after all. But the ultimate snake oil repair is definitely the craziest we’ve listened so distant: according to the 13-page (and flourishing thread at MacRumors, the iPhone 4’s accepting issue can be bound by adjusting or even pleat the micro SIM so the contacts don’t hold a steel tray. The popular idea is that in contact with a side of the phone someway shorts across the micro SIM, causing (mumble mumble) and leading to forsaken vigilance. Making things more engaging, Apple as well as AT&T are assumingly regulating several different types of micro SIMs, together with one with a significantly larger contact area — you can check the shot of two of our iPhone 4 micro SIMs side-by-side after a break.

So does all this hocus pocus actually work? In a word, no. We attempted it upon the few of the particularly bad iPhone 4s — the ones that consistently demonstrate a emanate — and achieved no suggestive results. We even went so distant as to line a corner of one of our trimmed micro SIMs in electrical tape (pictured above) to safeguard which no hit was being made, as well as we were still able to flatline the phone regulating a “death grip.” Sorry folks — we wanted this to work too, though it looks like people have been just being hopefully confident. We’d say the real repair is going to have to come from Apple — and given a growing discontent over this comparatively severe emanate, the sooner a better.