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Apple Investigating Reports of iPhone 8 Plus Devices 'Splitting Open' (9to5mac.com)
Apple is currently investigating reports of the iPhone 8 Plus splitting open while being charged with the included cable and plug adapter. The first claim comes from a Taiwanese iPhone 8 Plus owner, who posted photos which show damage consistent with a swollen battery. The second claim is from a Japanese owner who posted similar photos of his device, which he says arrived in this state. The Next Web reports: The phone belonged to a Ms. Wu, who recently renewed her phone contract and purchased a 64GB rose gold iPhone 8 Plus. The issue emerged five days after purchasing the phone. Wu placed her phone on charge, using the supplied cable and adaptor. After three minutes, she reported seeing the front panel bulge, and eventually lift completely from the device. According to multiple Taiwanese outlets, the phone was later recovered by the carrier, and has since been shipped to Apple for analysis. 9to5Mac adds: While any incident affecting a new iPhone model is bound to attract media attention, it's worth noting the usual disclaimers. First, any device manufactured in the millions will include some faulty models -- the real news would be if this were not the case. Second, investigations into charging-related incidents often reveal that a third-party charger was used, even when an owner initially claims to have used the supplied Apple one.
" First, any device manufactured in the millions will include some faulty models -- the real news would be if this were not the case"
That being said, Iphones are a premium products, this should not be happening. Hopefully this is from a defective batch and not indicative of a design flaw.
I guess they listened to complaints and made those new models easier to open and repair.
You're looking at it wrong.
Crapple apologist detected.
Let's see the Apple excuse this time.
"You're charging it wrong"
-- Steve Jobs
Impressive, seeing as the 8 doesn't come in Rose Gold.
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"often reveal that a third-party charger was used,"
Not an excuse. The charger circuit in the phone should always assume the power from the charger (not a charger it's a power supply) is dirty/overvolt/undervolt ect.
If your putting the charge requirements in the power supply then you need to fire your EEs and find an old Gray Beard to design it for you.
The difference between Apple and other companies Is that they rarely admit to a fault. Even if 10% of them were blowing up they would never recall. They would simply slow down the charging rate.
Antennagate they just claimed it was an industry wide problem for instance. They still haven't fixed their cables and iPad nano screens seemed to easily shatter internally.
Also don't be surprised if it is a real fault because Apple is now playing serious catchup and losing market share. They also have too many products in their line up so qa is likely to get worse
There was a young lady named Wu. Whose new iphone broke into two. To her dismay, The warranty did say. If you're too fat this could happen to you.
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Don't use a third party charger. Don't sit on your phone. Don't drop your phone. Don't try to bend your phone just to see what happens. Don't drop your phone in seawater and expect it to work. Don't drop your phone in the toilet in any case. Don't lend you phone to your troglodytic half brother who uses it to take pictures of illegal things.
Otherwise, you'll be fine.
They are not splitting open, just expanding to accommodate the new double tweets.
It's a feature, not a bug!
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I don't think this is impossible, but I am pretty suspicious that both failed devices are from Asia - how to we know these are not some really good look alike clones? You'd think if this was really an issue there'd be at least one report from Europe or the U.S.
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At work I have lost two old macs because the battery swelled, but these were about four years old.
If this is a problem for the iPhone it is bad news, but I suspect they will replace it. If this is a problem for the iPhone, when it is new then I suspect it is going to be a widespread problem, like the watch.
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Slashdot deleted comments from time to time. I've seen comments and entire threads completely disappear. Some of the comments are obvious copy and paste flamebait. The editors clearly do look at the comments. Why are they so inconsistent in deleting posts? If anything ought to be deleted, it's the GNAA crapfloods. If the editors are deleting posts (they are), why aren't posts like this getting deleted?
because it's the editors themselves who post it
This is actually a safety feature to prevent something like the Samsung battery event.
These battery problems are really getting dangerous. Where is that breakthrough Li-ion battery technology from that "Goodenough" guy that would promise safer batteries?
First, any device manufactured in the millions will include some faulty models...
I'f I'm doing my math correctly, In 10M devices we would expect 10 problems, right?
With seven nines, just one problem.
Off hand I'd say Apple's doing pretty good.
That's just how you access the 3.5mm headphone jack!
Maybe instead of pushing the boundaries of battery size, they should make a phone that can fit a good sized battery safely with current battery technology.
While they are at it, they could make the screens and case thick enough to resist day to day use.
I'm not just complaining about Apple here either.
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
So what? Apathetic do as I say and not as I do ism self-detected. There's a better term for the patter half of that, but I am growing senile in my old age. Trying agan. Nope. You are both welcome on and should really get off my lawn. Timey-Wimey. Microsoft's Zo is based on real life Zoe Bond who has a son Neveah, and two dogs, Barkmoji and Asia, age 22.
Hypocrite, that's the word I was thinking of dang nabbit.
Glad to oblige you too!
Obxkcd: As it consumes its battery, it heats up and expands. Soon it will swell to enormous size, engulfing us both.
Off topic, but I just want to leave a fuck you to SlashdotMedia for requiring you to have an account to submit stories. I'm not sure when they made that a requirement, but there's no way I'm creating an account with a marketing company (except Google). If there's ever a slow news day or poor stories, that's your fault. You're not getting my tech story.
The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".
His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants.
When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert. The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development.
One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.
In December 1967 I knew someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.
One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.
One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.
Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. Good luck.
What you call a "charger" is actually a power supply - the charger is integrated into the phone. It is therefore physically impossible to use a third party charger. And consequently, blaming the power supply is just a lame attempt to avoid liability.
Who knows, this could be Apples "Note 7" moment.
Any product has a percent of failures. Its expected that you will have DOA's or defects that slip past final tests. This of course could be the another Samsung issues, or it could be nothing at all. I basically feel the more you cram into a smartphone the greater potential for problems exist. Apple doesn't use magic or build iPhone's in a tree house made up of brilliant hobbits. No it's made the same as any piece of technology by slave labor young people in China who work countless hours for peanuts.
Oh no, I meant that dismissing these incidents as isolated is probably not the smartest thing to do. Not an Apple fan. Android all the way (until we get debian on some open hardware phone)
Actually, LiOn/LiPo battery charge circuitry monitors battery temperature to determine when to start throttling-back in the initial phase of the charging profile. It does not monitor current
The charging circuitry in the smartphone/laptop indeed does NOT monitor anything beyond temperature
(sometimes using a dedicated thermistor inside the battery using an extra conductor).
(and sometimes, it has also a very primitive "do not charge if battery undercharged under given very-low voltage" protection)
The battery management chip inside the battery itself DOES monitor current and voltage (both over/under).
(See the characteristic of any battery management chip).
It also exports these informations over the I2C bus or whatever that peculiar smartphone/laptop uses.
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An Apple phone that one can open without any hassle or need for special tools! I thought Apple didn't want to make user-serviceable phones anymore but hey, how wrong was I. Just plug in the power cord, and it opens. Simple, elegant, as expected of an Apple design. Thank you Apple! I love you!
Never mind that, what are we going to call this?
"Splitgate" doesn't really roll off the tongue. How about "burstgate"?
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