Posted on 11/21/2016 5:49:49 PM PST by Swordmaker
Apple has admitted that some iPhone 6S devices can suddenly shut down for no apparent reason.
The tech giant is offering owners of the problematic smartphones free replacement batteries.
"A very small number" of iPhone 6S devices manufactured between September and October 2015 are affected, Apple (AAPL, Tech30) said in a statement Monday. It didn't provide details on the battery fault that is causing the phones to unexpectedly go dark.
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Any Apple fan should know, that wasn’t a bug, it was a feature. Apples don’t have any faults.
Interesting. My iPhone 6s was purchased October 2015 and shuts off at random if the battery is below 30%
Take it in for battery replacement.
Shouldn’t that say they are replacing the phone. I didn’t know you could take the battery out of the iphone. Is that a new feature?
Taking the battery out of the iphone is pretty easy. The hard part is getting the phone back together afterwards....
No, they have always been able to replace the batteries in iPhones. You can even do it yourself. I've done it myself for a couple of clients. It is not just a normally fast thing to do.
The following link is for a kit including battery, tools, and new adhesive, from Amazon:
There are thousands of places that do it. . . or you can do it yourself. It's not hard.
The iPhone 4-5 was easy. It that fingerprint scanner added a level of complexity that made this engineer squeal “uncle”. Maybe if I had access to a binocular microscope so I could see depth. But at my age, those small pieces are just to small for me to see and work on. And I am just a myopic 55 yr old engineer.
If you replace the same fingerprint scanner into the same iPhone, you have no problems. It's when they were replacing screen/home button combinations where they were running into problems. So long as the fingerprint scanner was still registered to the three other inter-registrable components and was not mismatched, there will be no problem merely disconnecting it and then reconnecting it.
Take it step-by-step and there should be no problems.
Ed
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