Posted on 02/05/2016 12:46:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
Apple for the first time is accepting banged up iPhones as a trade-in from those wanting to upgrade.
Until now, Apple offered credit to iPhone owners only if the device had an intact screen and working buttons. Apple hopes that with more leeway, applicable only to iPhone 5 and later models, more people will upgrade to new iPhones. ...
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Apple is tryig to keep them off the used market. They are simple to repair and get good money at eBay and other sites.
A new bug has been discovered that can brick your iphone. It involves setting the date to January 1, 1970.
If you set an Iphone to January 1, 1970 and reboot the phone, it will reboot the the Apple Logo and be bricked.
Don’t try this.
It is reported this will also brick other 64bit I-devices.
Unix counts the number of seconds from Jan 1, 1970 to determine the time and date. Some kind of bug in this function.
My 6 just survived an hour and a half being scooped up and deposited by a scraper, compacted and then extracted by a CAT 140 M blade fine grading. It fell off the dirt on the blade while I was using the guys phone to try to hear it ring (quack) to find it. I’d already made some metal detector passes wher I thought it had gone down. I was despondent, now elated (still works but sacrificial screen is toast... Gotta mine the dirt out of the charging port too...
Why would anyone want to set their phone to that date to begin with?
You get kids a phone and they play with the settings. Well this one can brick it.
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