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Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy
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Interesting -- the numbers in your first paragraph are about what I see on my iPhone 7 with 87% battery capacity. Mine's running the latest iOS 11.2. How does your replacement behave at various charge levels after you update to 11.2?
And this is why this throttling pisses me off. Instead of replacing defective batteries that can no longer a fully power the CPU except when fully charged (often not even that!) Apple would rather throttle down the CPU in order to make their sub par batteries seem to last longer...
There isn’t some evil Apple conspiracy here. This is the state of the art in high capacity, high power batteries.
And of course the people drawing emojis for Apple aren’t battery engineers that have been pullled off the iPhone.
But is it possible Apple deliberately did this given what happened to Samsung with the Galaxy Note 7 battery debacle? It may be to ensure that we don't have a overheating battery situation with older batteries, and given how dangerous a lithium-ion battery catching fire can be (as Boeing found out with the 787 Dreamliner battery packs), I'd rather have Apple do this than suddenly have a bunch of older iPhones with scary battery failures.
Without throttling, the phones shut down not blow up. Note 7 had batteries with manufacturing defects that inflamed as they were charged. There is nothing in common between the two cases. Apple case may be worse though since Samsung owned up to their problems and replaced all phones (even though the phones themselves were fine) while Apple seemingly is trying to cover up the problem to avoid the recall.
A recall why? Batteries that go bad after 3 years? Samsung had to own up to their issues, they didn’t want to burn down a house.
But all of this is just at conjecture.
Interesting. Next question would be to see the reported CPU at various charge levels. Does it still drop, just at different charge levels? Or does it stay at 2.3Ghz the whole way?
lol @ I don't believe Apple would do that.
Smartphones have reached an impasse of sorts, there are only so many features to add to a rectangular shaped device that is all screen. They want and need you to update continously in cycles, and battery degradation is a great way to do that, slowing down the device is a great way to do that. I've always believed (but not been very vocal) that they do this. Sad.
Smartphones have reached an impasse of sorts, there are only so many features to add to a rectangular shaped device that is all screen. They want and need you to update continously in cycles, and battery degradation is a great way to do that, slowing down the device is a great way to do that. I've always believed (but not been very vocal) that they do this. Sad.
It's not a hardware issue or photoshop, it's Apple reducing default brightness to save battery:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/reduced-screen-brightness-in-ios11.2061796/#post-25068510
That doesn’t seem to prove that point either because my 6s did not have reduced screen brightness. The last post conjectures overheating.
How do you know your 6s didn't have reduced brightness, maybe you didn't notice it. Have you checked the white point settings as shown in that thread I linked?
this is so true, i noticed that in my old iphone,
it's became very slow and the only major difference is battery life..
so I suspect that it has something to do with that
it's became very slow and the only major difference is battery life..
so I suspect that it has something to do with that
except that they didn't really save millions because they were replacing batteries left and right for every phone in the range of affected models, whether they had a bad battery or not. and many phones that were out of the range but still in warranty
Because I have been able to see the 6s in direct sunlight prior to the battery replacement; which I have been able to do since it’s new and the brightness did not change after the replacement.
Youre SO right
Wich only means they have the same quality as Apple products! Only 65% cheaper! )latest one: 4.2
the two identical geekbench results also puzzle me.
I'll put the iPhone into battery save mode (900MHz) and run GB again.
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So...
the CPU is now permanently clocked down to 1200MHz
the geekbench results stay at the above values.
when enabling battery saving mode, CPU clocks down to 900 MHz
GB then reports 1500 / 2500.
not cool.