Re:Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?
by whytaka on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:55AM
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They had actually reinstalled the cracked screen before giving it back to me.
Re:Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?
by ljm on Saturday October 31, 2020 @08:20AM
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Did they return your 200 bucks as well?
Re:Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?
by whytaka on Saturday October 31, 2020 @08:53AM
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Thankfully, I did not pay the $200. The fee is charged after delivery when the customer accepts the changes made. And there were no changes to accept.
Re:Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?
by alisonkisk on Saturday October 31, 2020 @08:47AM
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That could unblock a blocked light sensor due to shifting of the broken screen.
Re:Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?
by thebruce87m on Saturday October 31, 2020 @11:42AM
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Yes, or they broke something themselves and replaced it, or fixed a loose cable without realising. There are so many possibilities but trying to get a shop worker to agree that it’s a software bug is going to be tough. My experience with these sort of things is that companies will generally do the opposite - make you do software resets for things that are obviously hardware issues.
1) Hardware problem with the light sensor that was fixed when they swapped the display (might be built in and therefore replaced too, or maybe the crack was obscuring it?)
2) After the hardware problem was fixed, they didn’t think to check the brightness, or forgot to do part of the procedure.
My guess is that the boot process ignores the light sensor and just sets full brightness, much like your fans going to full tilt (or at least a safe default) on your PC when you first boot.
Not defending apple here btw - but I don’t think it was purely a software issue at the beginning.