I am forced to write an article on this issue given the number of occurrences. You might as well bargain for a 3G iPhone in return!
The following write-up applies to an iPhone which has mal/dis-functioning home button, iPhone sync/charging USB pin and some other similar situations.
Hey, hardware failures are taken care of by Apple, why do I care? What if you jailbroke your iPhone and you are now unable to get rid of the most favorite installer.app icon which Apple Geniuses are fond of since they can deny service outright …

A quick note to everyone using ZiPhone and worshiping ZibZi as a god need to think twice if you are planning to claim warranty or AppleCare on your shiny iPhone! Though Apple benefits from unlocking (huge sales and exports!), they definitely will deny warranty if you tamper your device the Zi way! I suggest iLiberty+ which is an enhanced GUI version of iPlus. It uses fake BL 3.9 while Zibri denies using it just because it is from the Dev team.

aCujo, a senior member from hackint0sh covered ‘Apple denying AppleCare’ …