Anyone here use iPhones? My little bunch of overpriced scrap metal has decided to stop charging... Doesn't seem to be the cable, I've tried several and they all work on other devices yet not the scrap metal.... Right now it's working again, but I wonder if there's something I can do to repair it.
@Tinkeringbell I don't use iPhones myself, but have you checked the port for lint? That's been the most common cause of phones being finicky about charging for me.
Would've been weird too if it now gets a problem with lint: It used to be somewhere in the bottom of a backpack, but since March I've been working from home and it's basically been lying in a much cleaner spot..
I once resolved a charging issue by, ironically, putting some water in the charging port to clean it out...make sure you have one of the waterproof-rated ones if you do go that route...I also did it with the phone off, with purified water, and made sure it was dry before turning it back on.
I don't have an iPhone but my Nokia N900 has a buggy webbrowser that takes basically 100% cpu when it goes haywire. That drains the battery rather quickly to an extent that it won't charge either. Maybe your iPhone picked up something similar?
It's... blegh. I don't think I'm biased? Just that I've never had Android phones refusing to charge, or having to manually synchronize their date/time after being turned off for a month, or not sending me a notification if I have a voicemail, or having annoying pop-ups you can't disable permanently...
One of those was futile though, as shortly after that, the chip responsible for WiFi borked big time, causing the whole phone to become useless as it also caused any other method of connection to break, since the OS kept looking for WiFi, and got stuck due to the borked chip. New chip cost almost as much as a new phone, so I didn't fix it.
@Tinkeringbell from experience, doing it via work can take long days (where you won't have the phone), while doing it yourself can take couple of hours. So you can do it yourself, and ask for a refund from your workplace.
The Lightning port design seems like it should be able to be sturdy (no "tongue" sticking out like a USB-C port has) but I'm not a hardware person at all.
It has been a while I debugged an iPhone/iPad but I believe the tooling you have installed on your PC/laptop does have an option to get the log files, maybe that reveals an issue.
@Shadow10YearsWizard That is assuming I can not live without the scrap metal ;)
@rene Hmm. I shall consider. I'm not fond of allowing the phone access to my PC/laptop, that's one of those annoying notifications I keep having to dismiss because there seems to be no way to just put up a standard action (just charge) when connecting it to a PC.
The way it keeps pushing for that access makes me suspect something about it must be fishy.
That would tell you whether it was simply a problem with the port or with the whole battery/power supply (or also coincidentally the wireless charging coil).
Just a couple weeks ago I had an HP laptop refuse to charge when connected. The problem was that a solder joint had broken off the internal charging port.
Speaking of the laptop, I had actually checked its service manual and determined the cause to be the internal charging cord (the wire that connects the charging port to the system board). I ordered that part myself with the intention of changing it myself, but a bad screw forced me to hand it to a repair technician.
They initially told me that it was a system board fault and that it would need to be changed, but a few hours later called me again and said that they made a mistake when testing and it was in fact a problem with the charging cord, and replaced it.
Several years ago, I resolved a charging problem with an Android phone that used the micro-USB connector by bending its pins upward.
@Luuklag I mean, I get called about once a month with that phone... It's not like I gave out the number to everyone XD
I usually tell people to just send me an e-mail. I prefer doing those in bulk at the beginning and end of a day instead of being interrupted halfway through with calls.
Yeah, sadly I'm a consultant too... not one in charge of new contracts though, so I can just work ;) Switching isn't too hard for me, but I still prefer not to have to :)
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Fun update: Just asked the manager where to report malfunctioning phones so someone can take a look and see if they can be repaired... and he's sending me the link to order a new one :/
Nice and wasteful, full of corporate social responsibility I see.
We live in interesting times. Servicing a phone comes out more expensive than buying a new one. And that's before you factor in the productivity loss from not having a phone.
Theoretically you could juggle two phones, but before the backup phone breaks the main one becomes obsolete, so you might as well stick to the backup phone and save the money fixing a phone you probably won't use anyways.
All it might need is a new battery... I don't know why a big tech company doesn't have a single geek that can just measure things to see if that's the case, switch batteries and be done with it :/ We have plenty of managers?
If it's one of those newfangled fancy expensive phones, they have specifically been designed so that users couldn't change the battery. Earns them money.
If it is not core business it is expensive yo have someone on the payroll to repair stuff. They do have two mangers to protect any non-core business staff to get hired.
I replaced the battery in my Nexus 6P. It was a moderately difficult process, not only unscrewing and prying but also heating it up to make the glue easier to come off.
Here's an idea: honeypot screws. Some screws hold the back cover in place, others void the warranty and brick the device. Which is which differs by device.
I didn't have one of those fancy, overpriced heat guns, and I lived in a college dorm at the time, so I had to borrow a hair dryer from a girl who lived in the same building.
I've saved the battery endurance scores from that time. The old battery scored 1,069, and the new one almost doubled the score to 1,926. (I later upgraded to a Pixel 3a XL and it scores a 5,090)
yeah, prices are kinda ridiculous these days... though when I bought my first phone, sometimes you could get more prepaid credit than you'd pay for the entire phone... :|
Here, it used to be that wireless carriers would advertise an artificially low price for a phone, but it would come with a contract to be locked to that carrier for two years and pay inflated rates, and be subject to a large fee to terminate the contract. Those fell out of favor a few years ago.
Yep, it's still there. I'm not sure why, but 10k users can mod flag deleted posts IIRC. Maybe because you hadn't refreshed the page yet, you could still raise that flag?
I don't know about that. Whenever I (accidentally) try something like that, I get the red error saying, "Post has been deleted, refresh page" blah blah.
Not this time.
I'll see if I can reproduce it if they decide to grace us with their presence again.
Yep, when I hover over the "2 hours ago" in my flag history, there's a one-minute difference in post deletion and the raising of the mod flag.
Non-10k users can mod-flag deleted posts via various trickery. I've done it by using browser forward/back functionality before. The only checks preventing it are client-side.
Up to you, really, I think. It does apply to both and is past the date they said they were accepting feedback, so a new post might make sense...on the other hand, it'd be in the same place with the other feedback if posted as an answer.
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