Take it to an Apple store vibeknight. I did, and they swapped it straight away after a firmware flash was unsuccessful.
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iPhone 6 blue screen of death!
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I realize this is a bit older but I've been having freezing issues and then just now got a blue screen and the phone rebooted. Seems fine now but man I'm on mt 3rd phone from dead pixels and screen making a clicking noise when I touched it. Good thing I bought Applecare+. Should I get this one I got now warrantied cause of freezing and blue screen of death? Again its fine now but could possibly happen again.
onto my 4th iphone 6 blue screen issues
Im over apple iphone6.
im not a complainer but im on my 4th iphone 6 128gb in 6 months. im returning latest one this week and am now on samsung note III. constant crashing and blue screen. I have reset device and even set it up as a new user on the device but it still crashes several times. Apple are so slack not admitting to issues. I knwo otehrs who have same problem.
Poor form apple. you have finally lost my loyalty.
Im over apple iphone6.
im not a complainer but im on my 4th iphone 6 128gb in 6 months. im returning latest one this week and am now on samsung note III. constant crashing and blue screen. I have reset device and even set it up as a new user on the device but it still crashes several times. Apple are so slack not admitting to issues. I knwo otehrs who have same problem.
Poor form apple. you have finally lost my loyalty.
Wow that's terrible. Apple switched mine out with this issue, and it's been perfect since. Have had 10+ iPhones and it only ever happened to one.
Sorry to bump this topic, but I thought it's better to have one place to talk about "iPhone 6 Blue Screen of Death", also for people coming from a Google search (like me).
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That said, I'm encountering the same problem.
I had an iPhone 6 128GB running perfectly. No problems at all. Some months later the volume down button became faulty, so I decided to go to the Apple Store and they replaced it.
Full of joy (pff, how wrong!) I kept walking outside the Apple Store with a cellular connection to restore my iCloud Backup, but somehow my connection dropped all the time, so I waited a couple hours to go to my work place and use a more reliable Wi-Fi connection.
iCloud restore went good. Everything was fine. Thank God, I got a perfect refurbished iPhone 6 128GB.
Went back home 8 hours later. I connected my iPhone 6 to my Wi-Fi network which stands right in front of me, so I had full bars.
All of a sudden, after some minutes of messaging, Wi-Fi bar went from 3 to 1 bar and iPhone became unresponsive.
Cool, it blocked, let's restart it with an hard reset (standby button + home button).
iPhone restarted and....wow, that's magic. My Wi-Fi icon went GREY and I couldn't activate it.
Ok, it might be a restore problem (I thought), let's restore it entirely through iTunes in DFU (yeah, it was totally unresponsive again).
"Waiting for iPhone..." said iTunes. It kept waiting for 5 minutes. Then threw a 4003 error. Tried again, 4004 error.
I was having an hard time. I had just got a brand new iPhone 6 128GB by using my WARRANTY and I had got a non-working iPhone. Nice. So I waited a couple minutes.
I decided to try again. Restore went through. Wi-Fi was working again. NICE! Backup restore went through too.
Everything was working perfectly! Oh wait, the Wi-Fi bar just went to 1 bar. Oh it's blocking again. Unresponsive. It restarted itself a couple times. Blue screen. Restarting. Blue screen again. Restarting. Stuck again. Restarting. Restarted and working again.
As of NOW I can use my iPhone, but whenever I try to open "Settings->Wi-Fi" the Settings panel crashes.
"Settings->General->About" shows me a N/D Wi-Fi address, meaning that the internal wi-fi chip is not talking to the motherboard. Cool. I will surely return it to the Apple Store tomorrow. And no, I'm not going to take any appointment, I have no time for that (first appointment available in 3-4 days).
P.S.: this seems to be very similar to the iPhone 4S grey Wi-Fi problem. Whenever the iPhone got hot it stopped working.
Have a good day.
t0r
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That said, I'm encountering the same problem.
I had an iPhone 6 128GB running perfectly. No problems at all. Some months later the volume down button became faulty, so I decided to go to the Apple Store and they replaced it.
Full of joy (pff, how wrong!) I kept walking outside the Apple Store with a cellular connection to restore my iCloud Backup, but somehow my connection dropped all the time, so I waited a couple hours to go to my work place and use a more reliable Wi-Fi connection.
iCloud restore went good. Everything was fine. Thank God, I got a perfect refurbished iPhone 6 128GB.
Went back home 8 hours later. I connected my iPhone 6 to my Wi-Fi network which stands right in front of me, so I had full bars.
All of a sudden, after some minutes of messaging, Wi-Fi bar went from 3 to 1 bar and iPhone became unresponsive.
Cool, it blocked, let's restart it with an hard reset (standby button + home button).
iPhone restarted and....wow, that's magic. My Wi-Fi icon went GREY and I couldn't activate it.
Ok, it might be a restore problem (I thought), let's restore it entirely through iTunes in DFU (yeah, it was totally unresponsive again).
"Waiting for iPhone..." said iTunes. It kept waiting for 5 minutes. Then threw a 4003 error. Tried again, 4004 error.
I was having an hard time. I had just got a brand new iPhone 6 128GB by using my WARRANTY and I had got a non-working iPhone. Nice. So I waited a couple minutes.
I decided to try again. Restore went through. Wi-Fi was working again. NICE! Backup restore went through too.
Everything was working perfectly! Oh wait, the Wi-Fi bar just went to 1 bar. Oh it's blocking again. Unresponsive. It restarted itself a couple times. Blue screen. Restarting. Blue screen again. Restarting. Stuck again. Restarting. Restarted and working again.
As of NOW I can use my iPhone, but whenever I try to open "Settings->Wi-Fi" the Settings panel crashes.
"Settings->General->About" shows me a N/D Wi-Fi address, meaning that the internal wi-fi chip is not talking to the motherboard. Cool. I will surely return it to the Apple Store tomorrow. And no, I'm not going to take any appointment, I have no time for that (first appointment available in 3-4 days).
P.S.: this seems to be very similar to the iPhone 4S grey Wi-Fi problem. Whenever the iPhone got hot it stopped working.
Have a good day.
t0r
I read awhile ago about the hardware mishap in the 128GB iphones. Not the same article but close.
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/11/...make-a-hardware-change-on-some-iphone-6-units
Yeah I read it too. I don't know what NAND I had before the today replacement, but I've still got a TLC and haven't got any problems so far. This refurbished satisfied me. No slowness, no crashes, everything seems exactly like the real new iPhone 6 I had. Luck?
Btw iPhone 6 128GB problems are not mentioned anywhere with the TLC flash memory, in fact they are referring to iPhone 6+ 128GB and iPhone 6 64GB.
It should be easy to detect what type of NAND your sister's iPhone is running. In fact, you should temporary jailbreak your device and run a simple command. This is, anyway, not needed if you do not encounter any problems. Just don't think about MLC or TLC as far as you don't have crashes or frequent reboots.
Just be careful about the glass, as the glue between it and the frame could be weak. If you notice some weird "clicks" when gently pushing the screen corners, then that is just because of the glue. It happens A LOT of times, believe me.
Have a good day.
Hmm no, I really don't think so. There is no signed app to check hardware parts of an iPhone, thus you need either to be jailbroken or to be a developer. Would you mind anyway posting any of those? If any of these is working without jailbreaking it will be useful for everyone reading this thread.
As I recall there's an app in the App Store that has some diagnostics, one of which can be used to determine which kind of storage is used. There's also a website that can be visited on the device and used to determine it as well. I believe both methods (and perhaps more) come up in a somewhat long thread about MLC and TLC at https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ave-mlc-or-tlc-flash-iphone-6-6-plus.1820173/
Yep, it seems it works fine and by comparing results you can define what type of NAND you have. But the best part of that thread (which is the part I was referring to) is here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-flash-iphone-6-6-plus.1820173/#post-20377848
Only with it you can actually see what's inside your device. Unluckily, it stopped working for non-jailbroken devices and won't install.
Thanks for the head up, I didn't know Phone Doctor.
I have faced the same problem. Fortunately, i have fixed this bug on my iPhone 5s. Further visit my thread below. Thanks
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-blue-screen-of-death.1971251/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-blue-screen-of-death.1971251/