Equipment not taking a charge is anything but Minor, IMO.
And yes, glad it's fixed.
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iOS 12.1 Beta Includes Fix for iOS 12 iPhone and iPad Charging Issue
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Equipment not taking a charge is anything but Minor, IMO.
And yes, glad it's fixed.
That's a lie. It was taking a charge, except when the screen is off, and that was with limited number of devices.
From the first moment it was obvious this was a software issue. Anything that requires editing few lines of code without making rest of the code FUBAR is minor.
Issue fixed in a beta version that has yet to be released, so not fixed in three days because it’s not general release, there is no patch as of yet to sort this out so if you’ve got a phone that doesn’t charge what are you supposed to do, keep changing the phone till you get one that does charge? Not ideal really, not exactly what I would expect of a phone at this price point, in fact not what I would expect of any phone at any price tbh.
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That's not how these things work and you should know it by now.
I think it's still hard to pin down a true cause of the poor LTE/wifi issues. There are multiple other threads with 30+ and 60+ pages of comments on those issues.
I have an iPhone XS Max on AT&T in NYC. I am experiencing the awful LTE/wifi reception and NYC is definitely not a fringe area. Coming from an iPhone 7+ the difference in reception is staggering. I opened a support ticket with Apple and have been working with an Apple engineer who contacted me to collect system logs etc. It's well documented that there is definitely an issue but no one is quite sure the cause. It's impacting users across carriers and locations.
Definitely isn't impacting everyone, so if you're not having issues then I'm jealous! Good luck.
I have the issue with my carrier, Verizon, advertising LTE when the performance is spotty at best, and it's not because of the iPhone. It's because their build-out density is crap.
How in the world is this a major issue? The issue was - “phone won’t charge, sometimes, for some people, if they don’t press the screen first. Seems like a software bug and fixable.”
The right comparison would be “my car’s start/stop button acted funny for a week, I had to press it twice to start the car, then the manufacturer pushed an OTA update and fixed the issue”.
Hardly worthy of burning Apple’s HQ down and engaging us lawyers for a billion dollar class action IMO.
The right comparison would be “my car’s start/stop button acted funny for a week, I had to press it twice to start the car, then the manufacturer pushed an OTA update and fixed the issue”.
Hardly worthy of burning Apple’s HQ down and engaging us lawyers for a billion dollar class action IMO.
Alas, I was wrong - you truly don’t see it.
Good day to you Michael Goff. *tips hat*
No.
Are you by chance plugging into an iPhone charger, a computer, or some other device providing less wattage than the charger brick that's shipped with the iPad? If the device provides enough wattage to charge the battery, but fewer watts than a booting iPad requires, you can get stuck in a boot loop like this.
I've seen this happen a couple of times with iPads, and a whole bunch of times with Android tablets (even some of the Google branded ones).
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I ****ed up getting rid of my X phone for that stupid trade-in amount, when they conveniently discontinued it since the XS is basically the same ****.
This XS Max has a few issues that are not being addressed but we are getting new emojis.
This XS Max has a few issues that are not being addressed but we are getting new emojis.
It just sucks that a bigger iPhone isn’t just that.
But it comes with all these things that were not present in previous model.
YES!!!!! I knew it!
There was an ease to which your initial comment was made. I sensed it.
I agree it doesn’t rise to the level of negligence, but at the same time it’s not exactly benign. Somewhere in the middle of this spectrum is where this oversight belongs.
It’s rather difficult waking up to a dead phone to be that reasonable, especially if you were relying on your phone for your commute/directions.
But I get it. No ones going to burn a Tim Cook effigy at Apple HQ, decrying that Steve Jobs would have never let this happen.
Yes they may of fixed the charging issue in this BETA, which who knows how long it will be until it's released. Most people don't run the beta updates, so they will be plagued with this issue until Apple releases an official update the the masses.
So saying they fixed it in a few days is meaningless when the update won't be available to the mass population for an unknown period of time.
For the record, I don't have the charging issue or the poor LTE / WiFi issues with my XS Max, but I've been on this forum for many years, and I honestly believe all the people on here who do have issues.
So saying they fixed it in a few days is meaningless when the update won't be available to the mass population for an unknown period of time.
For the record, I don't have the charging issue or the poor LTE / WiFi issues with my XS Max, but I've been on this forum for many years, and I honestly believe all the people on here who do have issues.
People are expecting way too much for a $1K phone. It's not like you're paying $2K.
All that complaining in MR forums for nothing. All people had to do was turn on the screen before they plug the cable. The definition of a first world problem. I wonder what people like this do when some real problem comes into their life.
Yes. Most problems with a 1k phone are first world problems.
From the article...
“... refuse to charge over a Lightning connection when the screen is not activated”
So could this actually brick a device, at least for someone who doesn’t have a wireless charger?
I’m running my battery down to shutoff point to calibrate the percentage reading and also out of interest to see how long it lasts. When it gets to the shutdown state the screen will definitely not be activated or activateable. If I have a unit that has this issue then would that mean that without a wireless charger I would have no way of reactivating the device? Pretty serious if travelling with just a recharge cable and forget to charge so it shuts down at the end of the day.
As luck would have it Amazon should be delivering my first ever wireless charging pad tomorrow. I’m at 7% at the moment and it’s just after 8pm here so I suppose there’s a possibility, depending on when Amazon deliver tomorrow, that my phone might be out of use for Much of tomorrow. To take the risk or not? I’m really not sure.
“... refuse to charge over a Lightning connection when the screen is not activated”
So could this actually brick a device, at least for someone who doesn’t have a wireless charger?
I’m running my battery down to shutoff point to calibrate the percentage reading and also out of interest to see how long it lasts. When it gets to the shutdown state the screen will definitely not be activated or activateable. If I have a unit that has this issue then would that mean that without a wireless charger I would have no way of reactivating the device? Pretty serious if travelling with just a recharge cable and forget to charge so it shuts down at the end of the day.
As luck would have it Amazon should be delivering my first ever wireless charging pad tomorrow. I’m at 7% at the moment and it’s just after 8pm here so I suppose there’s a possibility, depending on when Amazon deliver tomorrow, that my phone might be out of use for Much of tomorrow. To take the risk or not? I’m really not sure.
There are 0 reports of that happening.
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You’d be amazed at how many people will be complaining about their 512GB iPhone XS Max while breathing the clean air of Mumbai or enjoying democracy in Russia.