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Apple Investigating Two Possible iPhone 8 Plus Battery Failures
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Iirc Apple orders the Battery from Samsung.
Greetings from Samsung, looks like they found the best way to $#@* Apple.
But of course this wasn’t on purpose! *cough - cough*
Apple doesn't get their batteries from Samsung. They get them primarily from ATL.
You're charging it wrong-
Is actually what happened. If an iPhone is left connected to power all the time both day & night, keeping the charge level at 100% continuously while using it and while it sits unattended-- for long enough, the battery WILL get stressed and MAY swell.
That's exactly what happened to my iPhone 5. Learned the lesson the hard way.
Is actually what happened. If an iPhone is left connected to power all the time both day & night, keeping the charge level at 100% continuously while using it and while it sits unattended-- for long enough, the battery WILL get stressed and MAY swell.
That's exactly what happened to my iPhone 5. Learned the lesson the hard way.
Cool, it just pops open.
iFixit repairability score 10/10.
iFixit repairability score 10/10.
I love how people are dismissing this. They sound just like Note 7s owners did a year ago. Same arguments. "There are millions made, and this is just a couple"...
Remember, Samsung did not make all the batteries that failed on the Note 7. They bought the second set from a 3rd party company, Amperex Techonology Limited (ATL), just like Apple does.
Remember, Samsung did not make all the batteries that failed on the Note 7. They bought the second set from a 3rd party company, Amperex Techonology Limited (ATL), just like Apple does.
I would laugh so hard if there was a recall.
Also, they should investigate siri for just sucking too.
Also, they should investigate siri for just sucking too.
If there is recall I would be done with apple because quality control has gone down hill. And Apple users bashing Samsung users last year would get a taste of their own medicine.
Sorry, no. Reporting 2 POSSIBLE battery failures is not clickbait. People are going at it KNOWING its 2 possible. Not because of a controversial subject. It always happens to a few, in no way controversial. Only controversial to someone that wants to make it controversial. Just about every article on this forum has people going at it, they try to create the controversy. Especially idiotic remarks like dropping or opening the box swell makes batteries swell.Sure it can, but this is the very type of story that defines click bait journalism .
Look at us going for it, over 2 phones.......lol. bingo! Take a step back and see what is happening .....
The definition of click bait is an website article with a subject that will cause controversy, used to get readers to click through on the Internet to that website.
Apple Investigating Two Possible iPhone 8 Plus Battery Failures
[doublepost=1506901225][/doublepost]The people with the expanding batteries are unphased because working or not they still own a phone from the company with the largest profit margin. jk
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lol... what do we need screws for ?
Wouldn't really a different as you wouldn't be able to see the screws from that angle anyway.
If that is Apple's response to "not worry" over something that shouldn't happen, we can all rest easier at night time. I'm surprised Apple said that....
It may not be a battery failure with every phone, but its a case with *their* phones.
I wouldn't exactly putting my gold on how small this could impact, then based on that same small impact, decide if its really a big issue or not...
It still came apart due to swelling.
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Now, now. Don’t stir up the apple zealots. They are already mad over the audacity to report it happened.
Quality control has gone up, in my exeoerience. Most new iPhones I setup are free of defects.
Can’t tell you how many awful screens I would see on older iPhones.
Or how much dust would collect under the screen.
Or purchasing a 3GS with a crack on the volume rocker. Or or or.....
Not at all an indicator but I have not seen the posts of bad screens (yellow tint, etc.) as there once was. I do believe their qc is getting better.
It's a non-issue for now, but interesting to say the least. Is it a design issue? battery? Hopefully it's nothing.
I'm just about done with Apple too. 15 years ago, I swore off microsoft. I'm so sick of dongles, crappy and limited iOS, and crappy and buggy software like siri who is really less than half of what Google now is just based on result results query.
So if their hardware quality is down, it would be a hard pill to swallow. I know so many people who are ditching iphones. It's a shame because Apple products so have many positive factors that Steve left them with, but every day Tim finds new ways to torture the hen that lays golden eggs.
That's with the iPhone 6. Just opened my iPhone 8 this morning, and it seems like they've changed the packaging so the iPhone is secured underneath the literature instead of displayed on top.
While I still have a mac my daily driver is windows 10 now and I like it a lot.
Not ready to dump my iphone and ipad yet but doubt I will get another of either when time to get others. I won’t be getting an android tablet, had an nvidia shield and hated it, but I like android just fine. Will get another 2-3 years out of the iphone though.
Happened to my wife's Apple Watch 1st generation, while out of warranty. Apple replaced it, free of charge, with a Series 1.
Where have you been? There were plenty of recalls for specific batches of products, especially for batteries. Both my iPhone 5 and 6S were part of the battery replacement programs. Sounds like you should've done with Apple long time ago.