Posted on 12/13/2018 11:42:26 AM PST by goldstategop
RUSH: The Drive-By Media and willing accomplices sense that the walls are closing in on President Trump and that more and more of the people around him who were there to protect him are abandoning him, which makes them all believe they’re going to have a clear head shot, political head shot at Donald Trump sooner than later. And we’ll get into the weeds of all this stuff in a minute.
But I have to share this with you. For you tech people in the audience, I’ve got a stumper for you. I’ve got an Apple Watch. I have two Apple watches, each tied to a different phone. One of them is behaving entirely normally and fine. Both watches are identical in terms of apps, complications, watch faces. They are identical.
Yesterday morning the watch I wear with my primary phone began to do something very weird. I put it on the charger, and it would lose charge rapidly. When it’s not on the charger, it behaves normally, it depletes its charge as any device does. But when I put it on the charger yesterday — I got up, put it on the charger, it had 91%. When I came back after the routine in the bathroom, it had gone down to 75%. In 30 minutes it’d gone from 91% to 75% on the charger! I didn’t think anything of it. I said, “This is weird, maybe I didn’t read 91%.”
So I came in to work and the day went on and I put it back on the charger, and it continued to lose charge so about yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, I noticed, this is not right. So I did a power reboot of the watch and put it on the charger, and it began to charge normally. So, a-ha. There’s something in there that’s causing this watch to go bananas only when it’s on the charger.
So what happens when a watch is on the charger? Well, the way these things are designed, that is where apps update, system updates, any major CPU task, Apple designs it so that stuff happens when your device is charging so as not to deplete the battery. You don’t know this kind of stuff unless you get into it, but the reason, by the way, when you get a new watch or new phone, let’s say, when you get a new phone and you’re setting it up, I don’t tell you this, but you’re supposed to leave it plugged in charging that first overnight.
That’s when it downloads all of your music, downloads all of your photos, sets all that stuff up so that it doesn’t deplete your battery in the process because those are intense processes affecting the CPU and the battery. And Apple designs their stuff so that that stuff automatically only happens when a device is on the charger.
Now, you can trigger those kinds of processes. You can do app updates and photo and music downloads when you’re not on the charger, but you have to do it manually. If you rely on that stuff to happen automatically, it will only happen when your phone is charging. And in some cases, only after midnight. It’s designed that way so that you charge your phone overnight and all that stuff happens while you’re asleep.
So something is depleting my watch. You know what I did? I unpaired that watch and I went and got a new one. I said, “This will fix it.” I restored from a backup, from an old phone, an iPhone X, to make sure that I wasn’t restoring whatever the problem was. And guess what? The problem is still happening. On a brand-new watch, brand-new setup watch, just two hours ago. (music interruption) I don’t know why what I said generated a music staccato there, but it is dramatic, I’ll tell you, because if anybody out there has any ideas, we are stumped.
A brand-new watch, not set up identically as the one that was bad. For example, I’ve only got two watch faces set up on this one as opposed to I had eight or nine on the one that was going berserk. And still on the charger, it loses charge,
So shutting it down stops some process that’s gone crazy in there. We just can’t identify the process. I only have six third-party apps, meaning not official
I can still use it, but every time I want to charge it, I have to turn if off first. (interruption) It’s not the EKG. I deleted that. Well, you can disable it, but
And again, I have another watch that’s paired with another phone that is identically set up as the
Folks, I have to tell you, this dual SIM, this is such a savior. Permit me to tell you. This is such a savior. You can now with the iPhone XR, XS, XS Max, you can put a second line on your phone. Same carrier, different carrier
But for me the reason this is a godsend is that my primary carrier — and I
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RUSH: My watch is down to 96% so I’m gonna put it on a charger in the next break and I’m gonna see. I did something here. It probably isn’t gonna matter. I’ll see if it’s gonna help the situation. But if I haven’t it’s gonna go on the charger at either 96 or 95%, and 15 minutes later is gonna be down to 85% — on the charger. Here’s Rob in Winchester, Virginia. Great to have you, sir. You’re up first today on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. I actually ran into the same exact issue with my daughter’s Apple Watch about a month ago, and we did the same thing. We uninstalled all the third-party apps. We reset the phone. We threw it across room a couple of times. Eventually what we figured out was it wasn’t the watch. It was the charger port that was not allowing the correct amount of current to go through. So we weren’t sure if it was the cable, if it was the —
RUSH: Yeah, but, see, here’s the thing. I could have told the screener to tell you, “No. I’ve done all that,” but I wanted to put your call on the air because a lot of people, I’m sure, are thinkin’ the same thing. I’ve tried. I’ve got so many watch chargers. I’ve got remotes. I’ve got portables in the car. I’ve tried five different chargers — and don’t forget we’re talking two watches here. Now, there is no charge port. So what do you mean? You mean the back of the watch where the inductive charging takes place was bad? The actual hardware part on your daughter’s watch was bad?
CALLER: Absolutely. Yeah. It was the hardware itself, the charger going to the watch.
RUSH: Wait a minute. The charger built into the back of the watch or the cable?
CALLER: The cable.
RUSH: Okay. All right. Well, I don’t… It’s too technical. There’s no charge port. It’s wireless because it’s inductive. So you attach the charger by magnet. It just happens automatically. But that’s not my problem ’cause I’ve tried five of those — and remember we’re talking two watches here, and one of them is brand-new, just out of the box this morning.
I haven’t yet thrown anything across the room yet. I’ve done that in previous circumstances. Well, I don’t think I ever have actually. (chuckling) But I can understand your frustration. But these things to me, the more I’ve learned about this, they no longer are frustrations alone. They are that. But they become challenges to analyze what’s gone wrong, troubleshoot. You start doing that and you can take days trying various things.
Deleting each individual app, trying to recreate scenarios and then start eliminating them, trying to track down where the problem is. I originally thought it was a hardware problem. But with two watches and one of them being brand-new, what are the odds of that? So I don’t think it’s that. As it is, I don’t have a solution, other than to not use this watch and just use my other one, which is working fine.
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RUSH: Okay. No change. So I put the watch on the charger at 12:55 p.m. with 96% on the battery, and I’m down to 94% in 2-1/2 minutes. So I’ve lost two percentage points — 96 to 94% — in 2-1/2 minutes with the watch on the charger. I do not lose battery like this when the watch is on my wrist. So I’ll have to get up there and restart the watch — shut it down, and restart it — to stop whatever’s going on in there and then put it back on the charger and everything will be normal. Imagine having to do that every time you want to charge it. Shut down the watch first. What a pain!
I see that great minds think alike: Just get a watch, already!
Go to the internet Menehune, he's not alone........
I get tired of hearing Rush talk about being a techie. When he can sit down at a Linux console and write a functional shell script, I’ll consider him a techie.
I tried listening to him a few times decades ago. Just do not have the patience for droning on from anyone. Now, my hearin is shot, so reading is it.
I see a few millennials with those huge square watch things, but they seem to be a bauble. never seen anyone actually do anything with them. Guess you cannot check "likes" from them?
“I have an android watch. The battery life is terrible, maybe 14 hours. Reverted back to my Invicta.”
My Omega Constellation Day Date runs like a Swiss watch.
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