Anon gets his iPhone battery replaced

Back in the day this was even better:

Original Galaxy S battery was getting weak? Order a new battery from Amazon for 13€. Battery arrives, pop the back of the phone off, pull battery out (just like that, no soldering), push new battery in. Push the back of the phone back on, done.

New battery in and it had more mAh than the original one. Despite overclocking that phone it ran a day longer after the replacement.

If the EU has its way we might all get this.
One can hope.
People can babble about water proofing, etc. There is no legitimate engineering problem.
The battery could power the device wirelessly at this point.
They could even claim they're saving the environment by not including the battery after a couple release cycles.
- Oof i didn't think of them selling the battery separate possibly with an upcharge. monkeys paw curls
- The battery could power the device wirelessly at this point.
  That's not a thing. Wireless charging is horribly inefficient and produces lots of heat, reducing performance and battery life.
- People can babble about water proofing, etc. There is no legitimate engineering problem.
  Even if it was a legitimate problem, it's sad that only about half of the phones are certified waterproof even if almost all are sealed.
- Lol no doubt. Remember when Apple (and other manufacturers I guess) stopped including chargers in the box and they told us it was to reduce waste and was better for the environment? I wonder how many millions of dollars it saved them?
- I think the proposal went through. The Deadline is 2027 though. But hopefully, manufacturers will change in preparation of this rule so we maybe see the effects earlier like we saw with usb c? Officially, obligatory usb c usage starts in at the end of 2024, but I think everyone but Apple has already switched and Apple said they're planning to comply within the time frame.
- About waterproofing: I've had to replace a G6's glass back twice and both times the new cover had the seal pre-installed and the phone could still be cleaned with soap and water, no issue.
- So my consumer preference for a sealed phone with a specific form factor simply doesn't matter I guess?
Thanks for reminding me of how I used to never worry about battery life cause the moment one got low, I'd just pop a spare out of my backpack and continue on with my day. Batteries were so freaking cheap!
- You even had official charging stands that had slots for the extra battery so you could charge everything at once overnight
- I have an Anker powerbank for that, if my phone ever gets low I just plug it in in my bag.
  Though it never got this far to be honest, my Galaxy S22 lasts for 2+ days (so charging it in the evening for half an hour is usually enough to never worry about battery).
  Bought the powerbank 6 years ago to play Pokemon Go (go figure), but then they removed the steps feature (showing you how far away you are from the Pokemon, leading to people actually hunting them down instead of sitting around in one spot) and I stopped playing (:
- great for you, doesn't spund great for the environment, I like the push for replaceable batteries, but surely battery banks are a better solution since they are universal
Lol this post reads like grandma telling her kids about how phones were in her day!
"When I was young, we'd just pop the back off the phone and replace the battery ourselves."
"Yea yea grandma. Let's get you to bed."
- I mean they're not wrong tho. This isn't a I walked up hill both ways to school story. Its meant to convey how crappy companies have become with planned obsolescence.
- Kid today don't know how bad they have it.
- New Fairphones still have that feature.
  But those were also made with repair in mind.
  You can literally replace your usb-c port for 15€ with original parts by yourself, by spending 15 minutes with a screwdriver.
  And the parts of a Fairphone 2 are still available, nearly 8 years after it launched.
There was an even bigger benefit that most people maybe didn't realise at that time or even now, but when the phone fell that energy got distributed into the parts flying apart, which used to reduce the damage the phone took
- That's part of what makes the Noikia 3310 so infamously hard to damage from dropping it, even at extreme heights. It's designed to come apart on impact instead of staying in one piece and taking the full brunt of the impact.
- Oh god, yeah. My original Galaxy S was dropped a few times and the plastic back cover and the battery flew apart. But the screen never got a scratch, just the plastic had a few small scratches.
  But in general the new glass on phone screen sucks ass. My Galaxy S22 has small scratches from normal use, just being in my pocket. The OnePlus 5 I had before that? Not a single scratch.
  They are making the glass softer now so it doesn't crack as easily, but at the same time it starts to scratch more. Instead of going with really hard glass that doesn't scratch and just telling customers to put a case on :-/
- Fairphone sounds great but currently has a poor price to performance ratio
- I only stick to my Note 9 (peak Samsung) because of stylus support that no one else offers. When Fairphone stars offering as awesome stylus support as Samsung does, I'm moving immediately.
I did the same with my HTC Thunderbolt. That phone had so many features that these newer "better" phones don't. Removable battery, expandable storage, IR blaster. That generation was peak for smartphones. Now I just get pixel A's because they are all the same trash, and at least it's cheap.
- My Galaxy SIII took soo much abuse before it finally died, when I got it, a friend of mine had already installed CyanogenMod onto it. Best rooted phone I ever owned.
  It was bulletproof in more ways than one, by the time I finally laid it to rest the charging port was broken and I had to charge it by touching wires to the 2 pins meant for a wireless charger, and the phone wouldn't charge unless it was turned off.
just like that, no soldering
There's never any soldering involved when replacing batteries tho?
- Oh, could be. Looking it up they mostly use adhesives, custom screws and other crap to stop you from replacing. I could have sworn I heard of a phone where they actually soldered the battery in. Maybe I just made that up though.
The batteries are not soldered even in the newest Samsung phones. Everything you'd want to replace is modular. Not sure about Apple.
- Also not soldered on any iPhone but for sure stuck behind several layers of adhesive.
- My pixel 4a battery isn't soldered but I needed to spend 45 minutes taking it apart and it's definitely not something the average phone user would be comfortable doing. We need to pass (in the US) some sort of legislation that makes it simple to replace phone batteries.
Or, better yet, you should be able to hot swap the battery, which means that you can change one half of the battery, then the second half and the phone won’t shut down at all. Foldables make it easier since they already use 2 batteries, 1 for each half. Just wire them up in parallel and the voltage won’t drop when one is taken out for replacement by the user.
But customers want water-proof devices! Therefore we cannot make batteries replacable, it's not what the market wants you know /s

This makes no sense. How does a working phone "miss a few vitals parts" necessary to replace battery?

there's a channel on YouTube, by louis rossman. you'll find plenty of examples of bs answers from apple tech support in order to make you spend a great deal of money.
~~furthermore, nowhere it talks about "vital parts". So yeah, it makes no sense, but for other reasons.~~
Read your comment twice, now I got what you mean. took me a bit, but you're definitely right.
- Does Louis rossman do anything else?
  Because I can see making bank off gathering bad experiences. Statistically there must be dozens each day.
  The anti-Apple crowd would binge the shit out of that.
  Idiocracy is here and now.
The genius bar is pretty infamous for largely being staffed by idiots
- Well that's because there all college kids. Apple is all about the perception not the reality.
  Apple but more effort into designing the aesthetic of the store than they do training the staff.
My best guess is he removed the screws from the phone and maybe they couldn’t service the phone because of that? Wild guess, used to work behind the Genius Bar, but that was almost 15yrs ago. But it sounds like a made up excuse tbh.
They claimed my daughter's phone had a cracked screen and couldn't replace the battery, while showing a picture of the very clearly not cracked screen.
¯(ツ)/¯
I imagine this is how Apple would justify it - if there are internal screws or shields missing then it's a sign that it has been repaired previously by a 3rd party. It might work fine, but it's not to the original Apple specification.
The Apple store don't want to take responsibility for those repairs so refuse to do further work in case it leaves them with liability.

"your phone is missing some parts"

I'm sorry what? Did they fall out when I turned it to the side?

I used to do 3rd party repairs, and it's impossible to describe how fucked up some devices were that came to me from other repair places. Missing screws, shields, screws put back int he wrong places and occasionally they had worked with a bad tech that damaged the mainboard.
"I was expecting $500 inside like in some of those tiktok videos."

It's almost like Apple is incredibly anti-consumer, and go out of their way to make buying a new phone more appealing than trying to repair the one you have

You think Apple is bad, let me tell you about a company named John Deere.
- It's not a competition, they can both be shit.
- I went to the John Deere museum in Moline, and they were playing fucking devotional music about their tractors,
  For God so loved the world that he gave us his sole-begotten tractor...
  🤮🤑
- Oh mate, I'm aware of John Deere and their "but we can't let the farmers repair their own equipment because the environment"
  Yes, because independent repair shops are definitely going to sabotage your tractors to make them worse for the environment if you don't step in and stop them!
  It's totally not about establishing a monopoloy to force farmers to pay exorbitant repair charges, or face paying for a whole new tractor entirely when you refuse to do repairs. Not at all!
  /s in case it wasn't obvious

How are they only just now coming to that conclusion.

A screen replacement for an iPhone is like 80% of the price of the new phone. They've been doing this for years now. This isn't a great revelation.

I mean, they own an iPhone to begin with, slow on the uptake is part of the aesthetic

buys iPhone

complains about unreasonable repair costs

You sleep in the bed you make.

When my phone brakes I'll either be able to repair it myself or it gets cremated, i don't trust anyone near my phone.
We are forced to participate in the society we live in. It is not the consumer's fault that a company is shitty.
- How are we forced to buy Apple products? Legitimately asking.
- True, but also stop giving Apple money

I'm honestly glad that Apple products aren't popular in my country.

Happened to my friend. His son dropped his phone one time too many and facial recognition didn't work from them on.

He took the phone to the service center and was told the true depth sensor was broken and would need to be replaced. Cost was 38000 INR to replace when the entire phone cost around 65000 INR.

He said fuck it and came back. After a couple of weeks, it started working on its own.

Genius scamsters, alright.

Apple was shit during the Steve Jobs iphone years, too. Just ask Louis Rossman (used to do mac repair videos on YT, nowadays mostly talks about current computer stuff)

Oh, and the iphone 4 had a "feature" where holding the phone "wrong" made it lose all signal.

- What town was that?
Casey Neistat got his big break in 2003 with "iPod's Dirty Secret" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTcavAzopg
Just as relevant today as it was 20 years ago.

“Your iPhone has detected that the replaceable battery you have inserted is not a genuine Apple battery. Please purchase and install only genuine Apple parts. Think Differently”

A little taste of the future even if Apple is forced to make phones with replaceable batteries…

This actually already happens, look up Hugh jeffreys
- What's funny is that apple did this because "batteries are dangerous".
  Now to replace a battery we have to cut adhesive attached to the battery with sharp tools (if battery is punctured it becomes a bomb), remove and cut off covers for the terminals and the little battery board, cut the leads of the old battery off, sperating the battery board, use a Dremel to prep the leads of new battery terminals and original battery board, place parts into a jig and spot weld the terminals, melting and fusing them together (if the terminals get too hot or it takes too long the battery becomes a bomb again), then plug the new battery and battery board to a sketchy reprogrammer from god knows where in china and then apply new adhesive to plant it back in the phone. Fuck me.

I want to laugh but a licensed Samsung repair shop couldn't repair my phone because I lost the stylus and Samsung licensing requires 100% pass of a test that includes the stylus before returning phones to customer.

Borrowed one from the Verizon shop down the street - gave them my driver license as collateral. Worked out but I was less than pleased with Samsung. They can still have my babies tho.

I work at an AASP and I can 100% guarantee you that's Apple's fault too cause they literally started that practice. It's bullshit.
I went to a Samsung certified repair shop to get my screen replaced and they said they couldn't do it cuz they couldn't repair my color of phone. Idk what they have against white phones, but I ended up having to mail it to Samsung to get it repaired.
- Another Samsung Store couldn't fix my screen without wiping my data (because procedures) and of course they had to do a full replacement of both the glass and the actual screen.
  A Ukrainian guy came to the rescue and replaced just the glass (screen was working just fine), thus at half the price, and most importantly, kept my data intact. As it should've been at the official store.

I will never bite the Apple

Oh i will, but in a literal sense.
Bite a apple fan boy day!

And it sells like fresh cookies

And people setup camps lining up for new ipoops. Holy fucking hell.
- Does that really still happen?

Would've been nice if they told us the location, still.

They're just talking about those repair shops you see everywhere, they will have a sign outside saying something like "repair iPhone/Samsung/Laptop/Computer"

AndOne for the un

This is such a fake and dumb story and largely why 4chan post 2005 is so shallow. These kids don't have the writing skills to write anything remotely convincing

What part of the story makes you come to that conclusion?
Yeah, everyone knows apple fix things for free, instantly with magic and a blowjob on the side. Apple anti consumer? Never heard of it
- You actually have to give the blowjob to get the repair.
- There’s plenty of things to hate on Apple about, no need to make things up.
  Unless one has taken their phone to a dodgy repair shop, there is no feasible way it would be missing pieces.
  My own anecdotal experiences with Apple range from The fuck? to Nice! It seems that like most companies, it depends on which person helps, and if they are willing to help.
I would have said the same thing if it hadn't happened to my mom as well.
You’re right but people are mad because they think you’re defending Apple for some reason.
- There's really no way to know if they're right. We don't have evidence for the original story either way saying if it happened or not.
  However, we do have plenty of people's experiences saying similar things have happened to them.
  If we're being honest, we can at least conclude the story is plausible, even likely. Saying absolutely either way is dogmatism apropos of nothing.
- Thanks for being the only one to understand,you're the goat.