There’s hundreds of authorized Apple iPhone repair centers around just go and pay 80 bucks and get a new battery. The time is spent posting on the site you could’ve had it done!
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There’s hundreds of authorized Apple iPhone repair centers around just go and pay 80 bucks and get a new battery. The time is spent posting on the site you could’ve had it done!
How about you post a screen shot of the history like Act3 did, and I’ll take your word for it that you actually changed the battery. You show me you ran the test yesterday (Dec 11th and today Dec 12th), and I will stand behind you saying this isn’t true for everyone.
Otherwise, there are people in this thread who have documented before and after speeds, I think it is fair to say, they have more proof than you... It is one thing to disagree, it is another thing to use yourself as an example to disprove what people are saying (and showing) while not being willing it show your proof.
Good luck.
Radon87000 has been asking him for documentation for years on many issues, never delivers. Just an observation. Not taking any sides.
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This was over 6 months ago, and if you read my previous recent posts you'd see that I did pay to get the battery replaced without coming here to bitch back then. Of course it fixed the problem that APPLE REFUSED TO FIX UNDER APPLECARE, and afterwards they didn't care that I'd had to spend money to fix the problem because they said there was NO problem (no speed and 5-6 hour battery life).
If I'd waited it would have been useless, and then soon after out of warranty (lotta good it did). I'm bitching about it here now because they're still doing this to people who are coming here to bitch.
Now that we know Apple is doing this, you are 100% right, we should get the batteries changed, even if Apple won’t. Perhaps, if enough people skip buying a new phone an extra 1-2 years in between they will change their 80% battery replacement (at customer’s cost) rule.
Another lesson to be learned - never buy last years model at a discount and just go for the flagship model on launch day, so it will last the longest before becoming obsolete.
Realistically, for a lot of users (including me), that is quite possibly true. I don't think most of us push our phones all that hard. I could be wrong about that...
The only history is my muscle memory. But I believe there are other posters who posted the “evidence” you want or said similar things to me.
More proof does not equal the “right proof” especially with conflicting views; which is my point all along.
Question to you: Why are my devices slowed down which involves no fault on my part? I paid money for that CPU bling Apple loves to brag about and in reality its performing like a normal Android Soc.
This has been noticed after 2 Years. So is the 7 going to be next on the chopping block next year after battery degrades?
So now not only do I have a crappy worne out battery the CPU performance is throttled. Its ios updates like these which makes me question whether ios updates are an advantage or a disadvantage.
This is basically Apple's version of the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal. And we all know how well that worked out for Volkswagen. I would expect Apple is going to need to break their silence soon and it will be interesting to see how they try to spin it.
The same observation can be applied to that user as well, in quite a bit more instances from quite a few more people.
Question to you, why did my 6s basically exhibit none of these issues being discussed before or after? The answer is it’s not a black and white case as made out here. As is usual there is more to this than is at the surface.
So my battery was degraded enough for a replacement but not a “cheap “ battery?
I have posted visual evidence of everything I have asserted to. I have yet to see even a single video/screenshot of home button delay or battery drain from i7guy.
Your videos never showed any purported issue is the problem; especially the infamous 3 second home button delay.
I saw the problem in my video as did many other members. If you posted your video we could st least conclude if one of us is simply not noticing it.
Videos don't prove the things that have been claimed to be facts in many instances, like actual malicious intent and conspiracy. Not much to debate in relation to any of that as it's all been rather well established across many threads.
Your battery degraded but it wasn't a defective battery. Apple has used sub standard batteries in some of their iPhones which cause them to shut down at lower battery percentages with Wear and this is probably on the iPhone 7 as well. Rather than fix the source of the problem Apple resorted to slowing down the phone as a bandaid solution to save cost.
If you posted your video we could maybe assess if you just aren't noticing the problem because that's the obvious conclusion in that scenario.
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I have an iOS 10 and iOS 11 device in front of me right now. The iOS 10 device does not have any delay on the home button. The iOS 11 device does and is frequently dropping frames in the widgets pane. Is this not a fact?
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Why was the 6s slowed down instead of recalling it for faulty batteries? Do you know what happens when a phone slows down as he battery wears out? 2 things
1. Battery replacement out of warranty
2. New iPhone
What does this suggest?
None of that is related to what I mentioned. But it's all been rather well covered in many threads already, rehashing it won't change anything.
If a subsequent OS breaks what a previous OS does and has a negative impact on user experience and despite being informed, it's not fixed it's being intentionally not fixed.
Facts and proof are not the same as conjectures and suggestions. We are certainly not going to needlessly rehash obvious things like that after dozens and dozens of times that it's already been covered in other threads.