GB Wireless Cell Phone Computer Repair — Attraction in Arlington

I called this place today after having had an incredibly poor experience at ubreakitifixit on route 7 on the right headed toward Shirlington, where I took it last week. I’ll post a different review on their site.

So I called this place, spoke to the owner I believe and he told me what he thought the issue was and what the options likely were. There was clearly a problem with the charger port as when I’d plug it in it might or might not charge depending on the level of the cord.

So I arrived at the shop with it and he said that often times if an iPad isn’t charging properly that it is an issue with the charger port not being clean or having foreign matter in there. So he said he could clean the port to see if it was the issue without needing to be replaced. He came back 5-10 minutes later and said that’s exactly what it was and it was fixed. $39.99 versus the $250 those other charlatans ended up quoting me. BTW, he said if I needed a new port it would still have been only around $90.

Very nice guy. While he could have told me just about anything and I would have believed it, I could tell he was a person of integrity. I can’t recommend him highly enough. I wish I had gotten his name. Anyway, if you’re going down Columbia Pike toward DC it is on the next block, same side, as the Arlington Cinema and Draft House.

Hopefully I won’t—but if you know me, I will— need iPad service again but I’ll gladly...

My kid’s iPhone 8 was water damaged. No matter how Apple Genius Bar and several repair shops tried to rescue the phone, it just could not get out of the recovery mode. Despite one of the shops told me no one can repair this phone, I kept calling around without much luck until I spoke with Gal at GB Wireless Cell Phone Computer Repairs. From my initial brief phone conversation with him, I felt he is a guy who has some exceptional experience that gave me some hope. I was convinced his repair shop would be my best bet. I decided to drive for 40+ minutes from Maryland to Arlington, VA and dropped off the phone. I called for a few times to ask for the progress and realized there were a lot of troubles with this phone. But a week later, he called me back and told me the phone is repaired and ready for me to pick up. And he charges a very reasonable fee. Imagine how much those Apple “Genius” guys would have costed me after this amount of work was done to save the phone. I’m really impressed with Gal’s skills and fair price, and he was very pleasant to talk with. I highly recommend this repair shop and will absolutely go back to him if I need to repair...

Update: within 1.5 years of the battery replacement, needed to replace the battery again. Regret trusting this shop.

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If you have an iPhone and need your battery replaced, I’d suggest you go the Apple store. I got mine replaced here 6 months ago and the battery never worked as well as the original. It currently only lasts at the most about 6 hours after being fully charged with normal use, requiring me to charge it several times each day, and battery health is already reduced to 91%. Not sure if all batteries here are like this, I got a dud, or something else is going on with one of my apps (not seeing any red flags when looking at app battery usage).

Also realized afterwards that battery replacements at Apple are actually less expensive than here. So no reason at all to not just go to the original manufacturer and know for sure you are getting...