New iOS Update Fixes Unexpected Shutdown Issue On iPhone 6, iPhone 6s (techcrunch.com) 49
Matthew Panzarino, writing for TechCrunch: Over the past couple of iPhone versions users have complained of "unexpected" shutdowns of their devices. Some iPhone 6, 6S, 6 Plus and 6S Plus devices could basically go dark unexpectedly, forcing a user to have to plug them into an outlet to get them to power back on. Apple has been working on this very annoying bug and it says it has come up with a fix of sorts that should mitigate the problem on a majority of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s devices. The fix is actually already on your iPhone if you have installed iOS 10.2.1 -- something that around 50 percent of iOS users have already done. After letting the fix simmer on customer devices, Apple now has statistics to share on how it has improved the issue, citing 80 percent reduction on iPhone 6s and 70 percent reduction on iPhone 6 devices.
Re:Never install the latest OS (Score:4)
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And never buy a red smartphone! Every Star Trek fan knows that!
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I thought that was Initech employees that knew that.
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Yeah, malware purveyors and other malicious types are usually kind enough not to target people containing the latest disclosed vulnerability if they know that people are waiting on some mystical numerology before patching.
Looks like power surge issue (Score:3)
As far as I’m able to understand what happened here, Apple found that sudden spikes of activity to the maximum power draw could cause older batteries, which had some mileage on them, to deliver power in an uneven manner, which would cause an emergency shutdown of the devices
So some older batteries are not able to support higher draw. They might have tweaked the scheduler not to launch too many jobs at the same time or throttle some jobs or even slow down the clock at high loads.
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Create a special circuit to detect the battery's surge current delivery capacity. This is a good indicator of how old the battery is, and good indicator of how old the phone is. Internally throttle the clock based on the current delivery capacity. Thus as the battery ages, the phone slows down. Slowly, over time, imperceptably to the user. Then two years later, when they see a new phone, it is zippy by comparison.
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Battery voltage falls as current draw goes up. It's worse on older batteries. Chances are they just made the code that checks for low battery voltage wait for it to fall consistently for say 30 seconds rather than momentarily, or maybe account for the current load on it.
Actually there might be other factors at work, like failing capacitors due to them being flexed or badly made.
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If you do have a battery issue with 6s you can get it replaced for free at an apple store.
Any idea why Apple wants you to do this before they replace the battery?
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Because they may decide not to replace the battery and to give you another phone. But why wouldn't you want to do that anyway before giving random people your phone?
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If you do have a battery issue with 6s you can get it replaced for free at an apple store.
Any idea why Apple wants you to do this before they replace the battery?
Um, maybe so they don't have to worry about people in the refurb-chain stealing your data?
I think that the word "fix" is not really correct. (Score:3)
For something that still happens 20% to 30% of the time it did before.
Mitigation is more appropriate until they can do much better,
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It's not a huge problem, unless the fucker shuts down at 55% power while you're navigating through a new city. Fuck Apple and this blatant attempt to force people to buy new phones.
Really, you can't fix a fucking batter you broke via software? I don't believe that. Hell, the Chinese knockoffs are better than that with their hamfisted engineering.
STFU, Hater.
Show me PROOF that Apple CAUSED this ON PURPOSE, or GTFO.
Seriously.
Fucking ACs...
Typical Apple (Score:2)
"fixes" :Apple now has statistics to share on how it has improved the issue, citing 80 percent reduction on iPhone 6s and 70 percent reduction on iPhone 6 devices.
Well, that's not a "fix".
That's a quick patch to reduce the instances.
And suggestive that they have no idea what the issue really is.
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Ah, yes. I miss the days of AntennaGate. That was the last chance for Apple to get killed off, but damn it, Apple survived.
And Samsung survived Explodegate. Their phones fucking exploded, and didn't just lose a bar if you held the phone in a fucking awkwardly forced way.
Maybe if they had a safety feature that shut off your phone if the battery voltage suddenly dropped, indicating a possible problem. That could have avoided that whole sudden spike in temperature thing. Aren't they supposedly the company that actually invents technology?
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"fixes" :Apple now has statistics to share on how it has improved the issue, citing 80 percent reduction on iPhone 6s and 70 percent reduction on iPhone 6 devices.
Well, that's not a "fix".
That's a quick patch to reduce the instances.
And suggestive that they have no idea what the issue really is.
Or that there is something out of their control that is causing some batteries to have more problems than others.
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Seriously?
Buy a better phone.
You know, one that has a working mic.
How's that "most expensive phone on the market" thing working out for you?
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Seriously?
Buy a better phone.
You know, one that has a working mic.
How's that "most expensive phone on the market" thing working out for you?
Wouldn't know; because a Samsung GN7 (when it was available) was MORE EXPENSIVE than an iPhone 7 PLUS, which is more expensive than the iPhone 6 and 6s models affected by this shutdown issue.
So, STFU, Hater. Do so research before venting your spleen.
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I have a 6s as does my wife and son, and an iPhone 5 before that, and we've never had these issues. (Battery did die though, eventually). The phone that *does* often just randomly shut off on me is my Galaxy S4, which is my work phone. I've changed the battery on that twice already. Also, my Galaxy Tab A freezes, but to a much lesser extent than the S4. Overall I have more reliability issues with Samsung/Android than I do Apple. It's the pick of the draw, all these things have the potential for failure.
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I have a 6s as does my wife and son, and an iPhone 5 before that, and we've never had these issues.
I have a 6+ (over 2 years now), and an iPhone 4 before that. I haven't had any of the oft reported issues on either, such as "antennagate", "bendgate", or random shutdowns. Not sure if I'm lucky, or if some users are doing weird stuff with their phones.
That's why I never update my phone anymore (Score:2)
My iPhone 6 Plus came with iOS 8.0 factory installed. I kept up with the updates until 10 came out, at which point I've refused every update. So my phone sits at 9.35, likely forever.
Reason (aside from avoiding bugs like in this thread topic) is to avoid a bloated OS that eats your battery life and overtaxes the processor/gpu. On a previous Apple device, I noticed that as soon as you got to two OS revisions above what it came with originally, it gets painfully slow. On that particular device it was origina
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Another reason to ditch iPhone (Score:1)