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[bergholt]

Re: iPhone battery levels and daily crashes.

What is the lowest battery efficiency level you have had, and still had a functional iPhone?

Mine is currently 68%.

Crashes twenty times a day.

Takes two minutes to reboot.

And the screen has been replaced due to being dropped three times.

I know I know. I shouldn’t expect much. But I dearly (pun intended) do not wanna go and give another sh#t load of cash to Mr and Mrs. Apple. They are doing very well without me.

Just wanna weigh up replacing the battery.

Mine is an iPhone SE, must be 6 years old? Sitting on 72% capacity and still working fine, just a bit slow. No crashes or anything like that. I hate buying new phones so I’ll keep it until it catches fire or something.

 

[jwikked]

Re: iPhone battery levels and daily crashes.

What is the lowest battery efficiency level you have had, and still had a functional iPhone?

Mine is currently 68%.

Crashes twenty times a day.

Takes two minutes to reboot.

And the screen has been replaced due to being dropped three times.

I know I know. I shouldn’t expect much. But I dearly (pun intended) do not wanna go and give another sh#t load of cash to Mr and Mrs. Apple. They are doing very well without me.

Just wanna weigh up replacing the battery.

I use my phone so much, I would upgrade instantly if that was my situation lol. I need my phone to work.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Mine is an iPhone SE, must be 6 years old? Sitting on 72% capacity and still working fine, just a bit slow. No crashes or anything like that. I hate buying new phones so I’ll keep it until it catches fire or something.

I had an old Windows phone.
It sucked because no-one was developing apps for it anymore. Reminded me of Betamax video.
Was incredibly responsive and had huge battery life from a relatively small battery.
Finally had to chuck it in last year when they phased out 3G.
For a while i had an android i used for apps ( pretty much necessary during covid ) and the Nokia for phone /text.
I also had an app on it that did navigation without any access to the internet.

 

[SG34]

I've got the Spark Mini. It's cool, but to be honest mate I haven't used it much. I generally use my Yamaha THR30 wireless for that sort of thing. It is rechargeable too.

I need to use the Spark more though. It sounds cool and the app etc seems good. I really haven't scratched the surface with it though.

I have been watching their evolution over the last five years, from 2watts to 40watts. My dream is make instruments with them in built.

 

[SG34]

I had an old Windows phone.
It sucked because no-one was developing apps for it anymore. Reminded me of Betamax video.
Was incredibly responsive and had huge battery life from a relatively small battery.
Finally had to chuck it in last year when they phased out 3G.
For a while i had an android i used for apps ( pretty much necessary during covid ) and the Nokia for phone /text.
I also had an app on it that did navigation without any access to the internet.

The Windows phone story and the demise of Nokia …a tragic story.

 

[dudeintheswamp]

My Spark Mini arrived yesterday, charged it up and gave it a little run through after the game last night. Plugged in a Strat and a Gretsch Double Anniversary and flicked through a few amp sounds from the app. Haven't tweaked anything yet but will definitely be able to find something usable. Something I hadn't really thought too much about but is a pleasant surprise is that it's a very good Bluetooth speaker. They say around eight hours on a full charge at about half volume, that's certainly loud enough for my purposes.

I have some free time this afternoon so will get into the app and see what I can find. First impressions though are that the amp feels well made, sounds good, and the app also seems to be quite straightforward. So, positive vibes so far, hopefully the thing keeps working.

 

[DougalHoward]

I needed somewhere to gloat.
Here's my homemade proscuitto, pork loin ham, hungarian salami, mortadella, smoked cheddar and sun dried tomatoes
Olives and biscuits were store bought.

View attachment 2302419

I brined my own olives recently, just 1/2 cup of salt per 10 cups of water and change the water daily for 12 days. Then just put them in sterilised jars with 1 cup of salt per 10 cups of water and olive oil to cover the top to keep air out.

 

[gringo2011]

Re: iPhone battery levels and daily crashes.

What is the lowest battery efficiency level you have had, and still had a functional iPhone?

Mine is currently 68%.

Crashes twenty times a day.

Takes two minutes to reboot.

And the screen has been replaced due to being dropped three times.

I know I know. I shouldn’t expect much. But I dearly (pun intended) do not wanna go and give another sh#t load of cash to Mr and Mrs. Apple. They are doing very well without me.

Just wanna weigh up replacing the battery.

I've had batteries replaced and they work well. Not sure of capacities or anything. If you are happy with the phone just get it done. I need to upgrade just because I've run out of storage but I hate giving them my money too.

 

[SG34]

I've had batteries replaced and they work well. Not sure of capacities or anything. If you are happy with the phone just get it done. I need to upgrade just because I've run out of storage but I hate giving them my money too.

I’m also out of storage…That’s another thing. …I only have 64GB available and it’s always 62.5-63.5 full. And get this! The biggest culprit is System Data! Over 25GB is swallowed up with it. In desperation, I paid for their storage on the cloud to move my photos off the phone. But the photos wouldn’t upload properly and got ‘stuck’…halfway. Endless lops. I have invested in three calls to the online support. They tell me some things, we do a few things, and we get it working a little better. I think I’m home free, and we greatly relieved, I say thanks. A week later I am back. I am so sick of Apple. They’ve done well. I’m rough with my phone. I get that. But buying yet another phone is making me really doubtful. I might have to just do the battery thing. Maybe go to a sketchy hole-in-the-wall type shop that sells a generic battery for half the price that the official Mac Shop sells em for. In Japan, practically everybody has switched to iPhones. It was a healthy 50/50 between Android and iPhones a decade ago.

 

[gringo2011]

I’m also out of storage…That’s another thing. …I only have 64GB available and it’s always 62.5-63.5 full. And get this! The biggest culprit is System Data! Over 25GB is swallowed up with it. In desperation, I paid for their storage on the cloud to move my photos off the phone. But the photos wouldn’t upload properly and got ‘stuck’…halfway. Endless lops. I have invested in three calls to the online support. They tell me some things, we do a few things, and we get it working a little better. I think I’m home free, and we greatly relieved, I say thanks. A week later I am back. I am so sick of Apple. They’ve done well. I’m rough with my phone. I get that. But buying yet another phone is making me really doubtful. I might have to just do the battery thing. Maybe go to a sketchy hole-in-the-wall type shop that sells a generic battery for half the price that the official Mac Shop sells em for. In Japan, practically everybody has switched to iPhones. It was a healthy 50/50 between Android and iPhones a decade ago.

Yeah, I have done the cheap Chinese replacement batteries and Apple store can't tell the difference. Dropped an older iPhone and smashed back and front screens a few years ago and Apple wanted $900 or something ridiculous for the replacements and got it done through a Chinese guy for $180 and worked just as good as before. Have had charger ports replaced too and they seem as good as OG parts.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

The Windows phone story and the demise of Nokia …a tragic story.

Word is that Microsoft took over Nokia in 2014, because they had heard that Nokia were going to ditch windows, before it became inevitable, leaving Microsoft with an operating system and no manufacturer. ( Not having app developers didn't make it much better though ).
After it had all run its course ( 2016 ) former Nokia executives bought Nokia back and formed HMD mobile.
They are a Finnish company making Android phones . Nokia has pretty much evolved into a supplier of old style phones with numbers, used mainly as budget phones for little kids or elderly.
However the HMD Android phones are gradually working their way upmarket, one of their features is a commitment to supplying replacement parts which can be fitted by users.

HMD Pulse Battery Replacement

Follow this guide to replace a dead or worn-out battery in your HMD Pulse smartphone. Your phone's lithium-ion battery has a limited lifespan. If...

www.ifixit.com

 

[SaintsSeptember]

I’m also out of storage…That’s another thing. …I only have 64GB available and it’s always 62.5-63.5 full. And get this! The biggest culprit is System Data! Over 25GB is swallowed up with it. In desperation, I paid for their storage on the cloud to move my photos off the phone. But the photos wouldn’t upload properly and got ‘stuck’…halfway. Endless lops. I have invested in three calls to the online support. They tell me some things, we do a few things, and we get it working a little better. I think I’m home free, and we greatly relieved, I say thanks. A week later I am back. I am so sick of Apple. They’ve done well. I’m rough with my phone. I get that. But buying yet another phone is making me really doubtful. I might have to just do the battery thing. Maybe go to a sketchy hole-in-the-wall type shop that sells a generic battery for half the price that the official Mac Shop sells em for. In Japan, practically everybody has switched to iPhones. It was a healthy 50/50 between Android and iPhones a decade ago.

Apple were actually busted for making their older phones artificially obsolete ( through updates ), they threw out a lame excuse and the fanbois drank the coolaid.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

I brined my own olives recently, just 1/2 cup of salt per 10 cups of water and change the water daily for 12 days. Then just put them in sterilised jars with 1 cup of salt per 10 cups of water and olive oil to cover the top to keep air out.

I could do that, i have an olive tree, it fruits like mad. Not going to, too lazy.

 

[StFly]

Yeah, I have done the cheap Chinese replacement batteries and Apple store can't tell the difference. Dropped an older iPhone and smashed back and front screens a few years ago and Apple wanted $900 or something ridiculous for the replacements and got it done through a Chinese guy for $180 and worked just as good as before. Have had charger ports replaced too and they seem as good as OG parts.

Re batteries, much of a muchness really, all depends what is around the battery as opposed to the battery itself.

Everything lithium based is "see these three guys, everyone pick one of those three to get lithium and take it home."
Then once home you go "I know electronics!" to wrap that lithium in some conductive things, stick some wires in and go 'I now have a battery, WTF do I use this for?".
Thats where most get on a call to South Korea and are all "oi, I need a controller that talks to multiple things" and South Korea goes "I gotchu fam" and ships it so that other mob can get a clue.

For us anyway, this pisses off to China, Taiwan, general SEA area so they can wrap it in pretty plastic or fibreglass or a composite case, slap some terminals as at at that point it's "I'm using this battery in a phone yo", stick that in some cardboard where designs were ported over for pretty labels that are reasons marketing exists as a category and then popped on a boat.

But the core battery. Probably from Samsung since we're still what 50% of global lithium extraction, easier to ship to Asia to produce things with it and then we buy it it back once it's got fancy things attached hence manufacturing offshore which is why China produces a metric shit tonne of lithium batteries on the label as cheap labour yo.

So chances are we recognise the battery differences we just DGAF as they're all the same thing anyway and just slight differences. Metal now, metal is an entirely different universe, as is well anything in the construction phase as they have NFI what they are doing but happy to import and make robots that work half the time or buildings that are a step up from pots and pans for load baring.

Welcome to the world of batteries, and remember kiddies, if lithium goes "I'm going to be set on fire now" run in the opposite direction immediately as you can afford to lose whatever the frig is attached to it when it does. Unless of course you spent around 400-3k on a lithium extinguisher (which at least past couple years had no approval locally). As the way most bats are is like fire tetrahedron when they collapse into runaway, so it's prevent into not enough time to do anything but immediate extinguish or run TF away outside of controlled environments.

Chargers also, just quickly - generate a metric shit tonne of heat internally as electricity is extremely excited and wants to tell everyone about it. So generally touch 70C, if you think "that's fine" congrats, your the cut off for charger operation. if you get burned, you know the reason for that cut off existing.

Also why stores like Battery World exist to go "yeah I can fix that, gimmie $200" as you test that out the wazoo to ensure it doesn't blow up in someones face.

 

[bergholt]

Apple were actually busted for making their older phones artificially obsolete ( through updates ), they threw out a lame excuse and the fanbois drank the coolaid.

Yeah it's not quite that simple but that is the effect. If they tried they could make new versions of the OS work great on 10 year old phones but they just don't bother because they want you to have to buy a newer phone with a better processor and more memory. It's a strategy but less of an active "we break your shit" and more of a passive "we don't bother to put in a small amount of work to make your shit keep working".

 

[PoppedCorn]

ffs buy a laptop and transfer stuff to that and get a new phone
or
youll just get further and further behind

 

[gringo2011]

Re batteries, much of a muchness really, all depends what is around the battery as opposed to the battery itself.

Everything lithium based is "see these three guys, everyone pick one of those three to get lithium and take it home."
Then once home you go "I know electronics!" to wrap that lithium in some conductive things, stick some wires in and go 'I now have a battery, WTF do I use this for?".
Thats where most get on a call to South Korea and are all "oi, I need a controller that talks to multiple things" and South Korea goes "I gotchu fam" and ships it so that other mob can get a clue.

For us anyway, this pisses off to China, Taiwan, general SEA area so they can wrap it in pretty plastic or fibreglass or a composite case, slap some terminals as at at that point it's "I'm using this battery in a phone yo", stick that in some cardboard where designs were ported over for pretty labels that are reasons marketing exists as a category and then popped on a boat.

But the core battery. Probably from Samsung since we're still what 50% of global lithium extraction, easier to ship to Asia to produce things with it and then we buy it it back once it's got fancy things attached hence manufacturing offshore which is why China produces a metric shit tonne of lithium batteries on the label as cheap labour yo.

So chances are we recognise the battery differences we just DGAF as they're all the same thing anyway and just slight differences. Metal now, metal is an entirely different universe, as is well anything in the construction phase as they have NFI what they are doing but happy to import and make robots that work half the time or buildings that are a step up from pots and pans for load baring.

Welcome to the world of batteries, and remember kiddies, if lithium goes "I'm going to be set on fire now" run in the opposite direction immediately as you can afford to lose whatever the frig is attached to it when it does. Unless of course you spent around 400-3k on a lithium extinguisher (which at least past couple years had no approval locally). As the way most bats are is like fire tetrahedron when they collapse into runaway, so it's prevent into not enough time to do anything but immediate extinguish or run TF away outside of controlled environments.

Chargers also, just quickly - generate a metric shit tonne of heat internally as electricity is extremely excited and wants to tell everyone about it. So generally touch 70C, if you think "that's fine" congrats, your the cut off for charger operation. if you get burned, you know the reason for that cut off existing.

Also why stores like Battery World exist to go "yeah I can fix that, gimmie $200" as you test that out the wazoo to ensure it doesn't blow up in someones face.

Lithium burns like a mother ****er.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Yeah it's not quite that simple but that is the effect. If they tried they could make new versions of the OS work great on 10 year old phones but they just don't bother because they want you to have to buy a newer phone with a better processor and more memory. It's a strategy but less of an active "we break your shit" and more of a passive "we don't bother to put in a small amount of work to make your shit keep working".

Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

Apple agrees to pay a £21m fine in France for not making it clear that it slowed down old iPhones.

www.bbc.com

I'm just not totally buying their excuse.

 

[jwikked]

Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

Apple agrees to pay a £21m fine in France for not making it clear that it slowed down old iPhones.

www.bbc.com

I'm just not totally buying their excuse.

They've introduced it as a software option, to slow the phone down the same way when the battery degrades enough.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

They've introduced it as a software option, to slow the phone down the same way when the battery degrades enough.

NOW they have.
Originally, they didn't tell anyone.
Surely it makes more sense to be able to put your phone is "power saver", if you need it.
And of course the $900 price for a battery change is a total rip off that doesn't reflect the real cost of a battery or the cost of labor.

 

[jwikked]

NOW they have.
Originally, they didn't tell anyone.
Surely it makes more sense to be able to put your phone is "power saver", if you need it.
And of course the $900 price for a battery change is a total rip off that doesn't reflect the real cost of a battery or the cost of labor.

It costs $200 max from Apple to get the battery replaced, and that’s on a sliding scale that gets cheaper the older the phone is. My phones about 3.5 years old and the battery replacement is $150

 

[SaintsSeptember]

It costs $200 max from Apple to get the battery replaced, and that’s on a sliding scale that gets cheaper the older the phone is. My phones about 3.5 years old and the battery replacement is $150

Ok the $900 came from Gringo so I guess they saw him as someone the could rip off.

 

[gringo2011]

Ok the $900 came from Gringo so I guess they saw him as someone the could rip off.

Screens front and back. Weirdly it was one with glass on the back and that was more expensive than the front screen.

 

[StFly]

Just checked my mail as expecting the Amazon and what do I find?

LIB election mail #1.
ALP election mail #1.

Me to no one in particular after looking around for the postie "bit late for that, do a better job snails".

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Oscar Pisastri winning the F1 championship over Norris would be something pretty good.

Iceman 2.0