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Some Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Smartphones Mysteriously Powering Down
MojoKid writes: Apple's iPhone 6s and 6s Plus were two of the most highly anticipated smartphones to launch so far this year. The excitement surrounding Apple's new refresh cycle flagships was so great that Apple reported record first weekend sales, with 13 million devices finding their way to customers. However, it appears that some of those customers are having a puzzling issue with their brand new iPhones. Owners are reporting that their phones are turning off randomly when left alone — even when the smartphones have sufficient battery remaining. "New Phone 6s 128GB turned off for no reason the last two nights," wrote Joachim Frey in an Apple discussion thread. "In the morning you then have to push the power-on button for a long time to get it started."
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This is not a bug... I think it is due to safety reasons... Apple wouldn't allow any device go out of the factory like this... They test them for this kind of things...
It has to do with some security feature... Probably some group of hackers is trying to exploit some vulnerability... which is bad from Apple... but still it is good to know that the devices power off themselves rather than silently hacked... Although I wonder what is happening to the other devices that are not powering off... Probably those have different firmware and are invulnerable to that? Anyone knows? Could Apple give different devices to different people to test something? You can never know what these guys are trying to do...
So no... I think this is not a bug, it is a feature that prevents the phone to be hacked... although there is no kernel panic as reported in macrumors...
Are these devices actually powering down, or are they entering deep sleep and not coming back? I only ask because that sort of thing is actually quite common on mobiles. I became familiar with it because I bought a used Transformer Prime (TF201) to dive into the wide wide world of Android tablets, it was priced nicely and I'd rather a slightly old mainstream SoC than a new but support-is-only-in-Chinese spanking new one, and with the "best" (highest-performing) kernel some but not all units suffer from a "Sleep of Death" failure where they exhibit precisely the same behavior as is described here in the summary. Holding down the power button for ten seconds or so forces a reset. I am running a different kernel (Omni-V1.1+) than what comes with the custom ROM ("KatKiss", now v28, based on 5.1.1 LMY48P) because the included kernel (GRIMLOCK 5.1-lite) causes SoD and the normal alternate kernel (GRIMLOCK 5.1 (not lite)) causes display corruption due to excessive overvolting... which causes me to pucker.
OK, I broke down and RTFA, and the same question is raised in the article. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that it's still on, but not returning from sleep.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Why would you leave your iPhone alone for any length of time? Clearly this only affects a small amount of users such as those in comas or waiting for an executor to distribute an estate. Trust the Fandroids and Micro$oft shills to blow it out of all proportion though.
I expect it's a new feature. Battery life is excellent with phone powered off.
What Apple's official answer will be: You are turning the phone on wrong.
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When shipping 13 million complex computing units, some may be faulty.
We get this with every iPhone release. Issues affecting a couple hundred devices. Or is there really more to this? I doubt it.
Apple is drunk from money laundering iPhones. They are pushing a commodity device out the door with little testing for big dollars. I am not, by an stretch a Steve Jobs fan, but this kind of shenanigans would likely not being happening were Steve still at the reigns. Steve was a control freak and cared deeply about perception and simplicity. The current crew care about neither. Apple has no innovated in some time and they are riding the money train largely because of the iPhone. If they cannot push out a device that is largely problem free, people will realize the premium they are paying is simply not worth it. And it really isn't. Think different? Having an iPhone is now herd mentality. Want to think different? Go back to the Blackberry, while having a tiny marketshare, doesn't suffer the nightmare crap Apple stand for these days.
Clearly the phone is just unhappy at not being fondled constantly, since most people can't put the fucking thing down for more than 2 minutes.
The phones detects that the owner, err, sorry- the "renter" isn't constantly touching, fondling, and using the device, and after 10 whole minutes goes into "Snit Fit" mode where it sulks.
10 minutes after that it goes into the "Why You Don't Love Me Anymore" mode, and after a final 10-minute grace period it decides that it's been abandoned for a newer, shinier wife, errr, I mean "phone", and shuts down in a fit of rage (but not before posting to Facebook that you smell, have a tiny dick, and hate your mother).
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
and entering enhanced power saving mode to cheat on the nbattery life tests!
C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
O: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting. Powered off I mean.
C: Look, matey, I if me mum canna call me at night the phone is deaad. I know a dead phone when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
O: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
C: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he turn 'imself off the moment I got 'im home?
O: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable display and feaatures idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
C: The features don't enter into it. It goes dead.
O: Nononono, no, no! 'E's just off is all. Such a dimwit h'ta come in to the store to learn how ts turn a phone on? Gaaarsh.
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If your mobile is turned off, the "ping pong" in telephony/internet is unexpectedly disabled and you can not receive calls ("lost calls").
FBI needs it enabled for locating suspected criminals when there is a kind of crime to investigate.
It retards WhatApps's coming messages too.
I pulled it out of my pocket about an hour ago and it was off. I'd just gotten it off the charger - it only had about 35% battery left, but it definitely was nowhere near running out.
This happens to me about once every 4-6 weeks. Seems to be totally random. Stock phone running latest official OS.
If it was happening frequently I'd be pretty sad but as it is I just see it as me leaving my computer on for more than a month and it deciding it needs a break and crashing.
No reason to be alarmed, the power-downs are just the NSA installing updated tracking software to better observe you pooping.
Reminds me of my old MacBook black which liked to turn itself off randomly. My old housemate had a problem with his as well. There were a ton of blog posts back in the day about this being a physical problem; about heat causing part of the case to expand and a capacitor on the motherboard would push up against something causing it to short and shut-off. That was only one of the theories. There were tons of others. It might have been several different design faults depending on the model/generation.
. . . in the NSA remote control code. Nothing to worry about.
We're in 4Q2015 - how many more phone releases will there be this year?
Mines not dead yet.
You're holding it wrong!
its powering down so those unimportant texts, emails, and tweeets dont disrupt your sleep and ruin your relationship. Apple is just thinking of you, and wants you to be at your best each and every day.
Seriously though, the moment I get home, my phone goes on silent and gets dumped in the keyrack basket along with all the other junk in my pockets. Family members have my home phone number (yes I have a land line and at least one corded analogue phone, call me oldtech) to call me if its an emergency or something pretty important, otherwise I'll deal with what ever people feel the need to communicate to me in the morning in my own time.
If you're not tied to on call 24/7 what's wrong with just turning the damn thing off in the evening?
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You're imagining things.
Note that all of those product releases happened under SJ.
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Few days after getting it. Had to hold both buttons to do a forced reset for it to come back on. Hasn't happened again though so fingers crossed. Hopefully it's a software issue they can patch.
It's a nightmare. It's just a week old. Thanks. From Puert Rico