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iPad Ipad 4 CPU Throttling...
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“Buy new iPad mode” is an idiotic term.
Your best bet is to use Geekbench 4, close all running apps, and compare your results to the ones in their website.
Your battery seems healthy enough tho, how many charge cycles have you gone through?
You can use coconut battery on your Mac to get more detailed battery info about your iPad.
Your best bet is to use Geekbench 4, close all running apps, and compare your results to the ones in their website.
Your battery seems healthy enough tho, how many charge cycles have you gone through?
You can use coconut battery on your Mac to get more detailed battery info about your iPad.
A6X with 1gb of ram is slightly better than what the iPhone 5 came with. It’s just showing it’s age. I used my 4th gen. with 10.3.3 and it was usable. If you think your 4th gen is bad, you should try a 2nd or 3rd gen on 9.3.5. Thats slow...
Noticed you edited you comment.
I do still think it’s an idiotic term.
1. Your benchmarks are about inline for that SoC. (The iPad 4, I mean)
2. In a world where they weren’t, this is simply a fact of battery technology. I say this as a software engineer who has suspected this has been Apple’s practice for years and wasn’t remotely surprised. Apple’s solution is actually quite clever if not somewhat disingenuous and pretty difficult to achieve — allows you to eek out a few more crash-free months from your older battery devices.
3. iPads have much larger batteries than iPhones and are rated for double the charge cycles (1000 instead of 500). They don’t need to throttle your 5-6 year old device to make it be slow.
Geekbench is hands down the best synthetic benchmark on the market — the founder of the company is the one who discovered the “buy new iPad” mode you speak of. If it’s not showing up on Geekbench, it’s not happening.
That said, Your battery is in a much better shape than I had expected. Given all The hullabaloo going on right now, you might be able to get Apple to replace your battery even if it doesn’t fail the diagnostic test (for a fee of course), if you’re really concerned about “buy new iPad mode”...
But your device really is ripe for replacement at this point it’s using a 32-bit chip that’s several generations behind.
The iPad 4 (A6X) has a 2048*1536 (3.1MP) display while the iPhone 5 (A6) only has a 1136*640 (0.7MP) display. Normalizing for that, they're probably around even.
Hi Bobosita, how is your iPad 4 behaves with iOS 10.3.3 ? I'm on iOS 8.1 and wondering if I should upgrade or not 