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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by LoSboccacc on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:45PM (#16025711)
The rigt thing would have been a model recall changing the battery with something that has enough voltage margin to keep the cpu running after the usual degradation for at least the 500 cycles it’s rated for

This is an engineering issue on evaluating margins properly repackaged as “we’re improving battery life” to hide stability issue caused by bad assumptions on cpu stability across voltage ranges.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by tigershark on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:19PM (#16025986)
3.3 years on the iPhone 6 charging it once a day is 1000 cycles, well above 500..
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by goialoq on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:26PM (#16026026)
Cycles are floats, not integers. It's only a full cycle if the battery is discharged very deeply.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_li...

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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by freedomben on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:04PM (#16026302)
Fascinating. Some tidbits to save others time:

> The worst situation is keeping a fully charged battery at elevated temperatures.

> Avoid so-called ultra-fast chargers that claim to fully charge Li-ion in less than one hour.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by LoSboccacc on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:25PM (#16026019)
Because you’re being throttled, duh
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by tigershark on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:24PM (#16026405)
Better being throttled than having to endure boot loops, daily crashes and a battery dead at 5 pm honestly..
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by LoSboccacc on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:28AM (#16028385)
Better having faulty hardware replaced tbh. Especially expensive hardware.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by pishpash on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:52PM (#16025770)
Exactly, this does nothing to prevent Apple from shoving a dinky battery in future phones and selling $99 annual battery replacements (after 2018). Battery itself costs nothing. $29 may be at-cost for labor. $99 is a large margin.
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