Pretty soon Apple will ban him from doing exchanges. Even Apple has a limit to how ridiculous a customer can be.Someone on another forum has exchanged seventeen times trying to get a TSMC...and every single one has been a Samsung.
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Any rhyme or reason to getting a TSMC over Samsung!
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Oh dear than what will people compare it to. Plot by Apple to ruin a good complaint thread.
I have an iPhone 6s Plus with the Samsung chip and I'm totally satisfied with it. I would say that if you are happy with it keep it. There is no real reason to try to switch phones at all.
P.S. at normal use from 8:00 am to now almost 7:00pm I'm still at 79%. I may not use my phone as much as others because I have an
Watch, but I've been taking a lot of photos and a few videos today as well as my normal surfing, and e-mail and book reading.
P.S. at normal use from 8:00 am to now almost 7:00pm I'm still at 79%. I may not use my phone as much as others because I have an
Watch, but I've been taking a lot of photos and a few videos today as well as my normal surfing, and e-mail and book reading.
That is not really typical usage though for an average day for most people. You have 2 hrs of Safari and 1.5 hrs of Messages...
I have no idea why you're coming here posting figures from your "first full day". Come back in a week and someone might be interested. In the first few days the battery is still wearing in, your usage is still settling down, the background processes to fully setup and index the new phone are still running, basically it's a crap shoot and a complete waste of time trying to judge.
It very much sounds to me like you made up your mind that this phone would be no good if it was a Samsung before you got it, and now you literally can't wait to "prove" it.
I've had a Samsung-chipped 6S since launch day. Hands down the best and longest lasting iPhone I've had in seven years. In the first few days battery life was all over the place; a month later and I'm coming home from a day at work with my battery still over 90%. I cannot make it die. It's ridiculous - as is the whole premise to this thread.
Are we really still speaking about this ?
I would have the customer fully refunded and escorted to the exit after 3 returns ....
Shame on the store manager (if it was just one store).Someone on another forum has exchanged seventeen times trying to get a TSMC...and every single one has been a Samsung.
I would have the customer fully refunded and escorted to the exit after 3 returns ....
I think it's up to the store manager...
WeChat ? Good choice , an unreliable chinese app .... a good backdoor
This is why I think Apple should have the same no exchange policy that they have overseas. This guy should have been banned from the Apple Store and his Apple account flagged from any further returns after the second time.Someone on another forum has exchanged seventeen times trying to get a TSMC...and every single one has been a Samsung.
I have an iPhone 6s Plus with the Samsung chip and I'm totally satisfied with it. I would say that if you are happy with it keep it. There is no real reason to try to switch phones at all.
P.S. at normal use from 8:00 am to now almost 7:00pm I'm still at 79%. I may not use my phone as much as others because I have an
You are at the other end of the spectrum and would be considered a "light user". Unless we see a breakdown of your usage and what specific apps and programs you are using, it's hard to determine. That's why I took a snapshot of my battery usage along with all the apps I used during the day (aka 2 hours of safari web browsing, 1.5 hours or so of texting etc). Those require the screen to be on most of the time.
I am on full day 2 of my phone. I've babied it along today. 5 hours and 42 minutes of real usage (2 hours safari, 1.7 hours of text messaing plus various other apps (facebook, phone to make up that total of 5 hours and 42 minutes.) Down to 42%. Phone has been on since 4am. Still looking at around 9 hours of real time usage before it dies.
I don't care for standby time since I disable just about every app running in the background including weather, and have almost no notifications on. Which means I can have the phone sitting for 10 hours and it would be at 99-98% cause nothing is running.
I count real time usage.
The 5.5 inch iPhones do have better battery life than the 4.7 inch iPhones. We can all agree on that!
I have owned the 6S as well and battery life is around 7 hours for me of real time usage.
They will indeed. I was told at my 4th exchange by the manager of my local Apple Store if the next phone happens to have a screen fault then maybe I should consider another option. In fact he was going to put something on the system to prevent me from doing another exchange. Apparently these imperfections are all within "manufacturing tolerances".
My wife is pretty happy with her 6s+ samsung chip version and she doesn't care whatever inside it as long as it works fine, I agree for some people it is not a big deal at all. In term of math as I mentioned before average 11.2%, for people who loves 3D games, 4K recording it would be average 18% different which is a pretty big deal. Also if you are a person seeks for perfection, which is the reason why some people spend so much money to buy iphone, having a samsung chip may not let you feel perfect and some people would just do something about this. I agree other parts of your phones like the screen, the home button, everything works fine is more important than the chip version if you don't care anyway.
Don't worry about either. My Samsung was exchanged for a Bluetooth issue. New one is tsmc. Been over a week now and the battery life is the same. Doing what I do day in and day out. Still hit 20% battery around 10pm. Approximately 6 hours use
Can't believe I have a tsmc. 3-1 odds Samsung , nuts.
Not that Samsung is trash or anything, if there were no issues I wouldn't care. I had a TLC nand 6+ and was kinda bummed compared to MLC people but the speeds were actually faster at write by quite a bit and in similar leagu to MLC if I recall accurately in read speeds. Just bummed that when I got random resprings, I always second guessed the hardware for a bit but not shocked to see software do anything odd at this point. .. But dared not play the exchange game with the 6+. And by 8.4 no resprings ever, even highly tweaked with jailbeeak.
If I had gimped battery life, I'd always be second guessing the SoC (in addition to battery variation in quality I suppose haha)
Delight to report no resprings on this phone 9.0.2 6s+ tweaked out.
glad to not sweat this one. Of all things.
Qc hurdle isn't a fun one on its own. And yeah to that person who made 17 exchanges that is straight psychotic and beyond loving a product and wanting to see it through. I was getting close to double digits on ipad3 , never ever again. Cause of trashy screens. It kinda took the joy away from the novelty of having a retina screen. And ipad4 after a dud or two I went back to my ipad3 for another year.
Not that Samsung is trash or anything, if there were no issues I wouldn't care. I had a TLC nand 6+ and was kinda bummed compared to MLC people but the speeds were actually faster at write by quite a bit and in similar leagu to MLC if I recall accurately in read speeds. Just bummed that when I got random resprings, I always second guessed the hardware for a bit but not shocked to see software do anything odd at this point. .. But dared not play the exchange game with the 6+. And by 8.4 no resprings ever, even highly tweaked with jailbeeak.
If I had gimped battery life, I'd always be second guessing the SoC (in addition to battery variation in quality I suppose haha)
Delight to report no resprings on this phone 9.0.2 6s+ tweaked out.
glad to not sweat this one. Of all things.
Qc hurdle isn't a fun one on its own. And yeah to that person who made 17 exchanges that is straight psychotic and beyond loving a product and wanting to see it through. I was getting close to double digits on ipad3 , never ever again. Cause of trashy screens. It kinda took the joy away from the novelty of having a retina screen. And ipad4 after a dud or two I went back to my ipad3 for another year.
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psychopath.Someone on another forum has exchanged seventeen times trying to get a TSMC...and every single one has been a Samsung.
That is literally of an example of a psychopath. Please whoeverisinchargeofthedictionary, for example of pyschopath, use this example.
Just like what I just said, some people seek for perfect and they cannot accept thier phone is not perfect, not the best chip then for them it is not closed to perfect.
Well, whilst I would only exchange for an actual fault, I would still prefer a TSMC chip if given the choice.
I have a Samsung and that's that, but this guy obviously wasn't going to be happy until he got the TSMC A9. I guess he was expecting to get one well before his 16th exchange. By all accounts he still hasn't got one...
Is he a psychopath? I don't think so. Like some would exchange screens until they got one they found acceptable, this guy won't accept anything less than a TSMC processor. Rightly or wrongly, he believes in chipgate.
17 is beyond bad luck though.
Either that or they've switched to exclusively Samsung recently for manufacturer and phased out tsmc with economies of scale.
Either that or they've switched to exclusively Samsung recently for manufacturer and phased out tsmc with economies of scale.
It depends on where does he live. Around 95% 6s+ in Taiwan are with samsing chip, so exchange 17 times still cannot get a tsmc is normal in Taiwan.
I just had my 3 week old 6s+ replaced today for the unlock freezing issue after multiple 'clean and dirty' restores. I was half expecting to be told that will be fixed with a new update so put up with it. They gave me a new handset out of a flat white barcode sealed box. I asked what happens to my 'old' phone. They said it goes back to the factory to be refurbished before being sent for restocking at an Apple Store. I reckon they will do a DFU restore at the store and restock it. What do you all think?
With my returns for screen faults and a dodgy home button the store rep wasn't even interested in the fault and nor did he make a note of it. I reckon my old phones (which were mint and had screen protectors on) will just get put straight into the refurbs pool for some poor sap to find the flaws themselves.
A lot of people in my city report after they exchanged their iphone 6s/6s+ in Apple store, some of them get one with some using hours and sometimes have dirt on it, sometimes it would be a total real new one, the one with using hours and dirty very likely are the phones that look new and return by others, then they just kind of clean it and put in back to a new box and somehow warp it. The chance to get a real new one should be higher with Apple Online Store.
I have a Samsung 6s plus and have 0 issues with it. The battery is still crazy good. Slightly better than my 6 plus. Super fast and no lag.
Just ignore the folks on this forum who went back a zillion times in hopes of getting a TSMC. I personally think some people do not have jobs or careers this is why they had time to go to the apple store 3 and 4 times to play chip lottery.