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    • Dominica
      Dominica last edited by

      I installed the latest iOS update on my phone, and about a week later, it started not recognizing any wall chargers, and turning off before it was fully discharged. I plugged it into my computer and it charged, so I thought it was just being quirky. I erased it and restored it and there was no change, so I lived with it being annoying, but then last night, I got an error when I plugged it into my laptop that the phone was malfunctioning and the computer couldn't recognize it, and the phone wouldn't charge. Yay. We plugged it into the PS3, and it charged about halfway, then wouldn't charge anymore. At this point, I was ready to dropkick the damn thing, but before I did something rash, Scott found a thread on the Apple support forum where people were talking about this problem, and a few people said that turning off the phone, then plugging it in, then turning it off again resulted in the phone charging. So I tried it, and when I woke up this morning, the phone was charged. Hopefully the issue is resolved.

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by

        That was pretty scary. Really thought that we were buying a brand new phone months before a two year contract was up.

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        • Katie
          Katie @Dominica last edited by

          @Dominica Interesting how it's summarily stop charging like that. Makes me wonder about manufacturing standards, as if they're designed to fail after X amount of time.

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          • scottalanmiller
            scottalanmiller last edited by

            In the Apple community there were some extremely busy threads discussing the exact issue. Definitely not a unique case.

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            • Dominica
              Dominica last edited by

              It was suspiciously close to the iOS update. I'm wondering if there was a firmware update or something that could have affected the charging port. A time-bombed manufacturing process really wouldn't surprise me though. We did have close to 10 broken 2-year-old Android HTC phones of the same model sent to my sister, one after the other.

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              • scottalanmiller
                scottalanmiller last edited by

                It doesn't appear to be hardware related but software.

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                • RoguePacket
                  RoguePacket last edited by

                  @dominica @scottalanmiller For the iPhone 5, iOS 7.1 gets grumpy about "non-certified" Lightning cables. (Cables have a ship in them, http://www.wired.com/2012/10/iphone-lightning-cable-contains-security-chip/.)

                  Wonder if this is similar?

                  p.s.: Seeing noise about Morphie battery packs (counterfeit?) breaking, too.

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller last edited by

                    That's the 5s with Lightning like I have. Hers is an old style one, 4s.

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                    • RoguePacket
                      RoguePacket last edited by

                      Yeah, know the 30-pin was referenced and different.

                      Same iOS update, similar programmatic logic. Have seen people use very frayed and unsafe looking cables on their iPhone 4/4s. Imagine has a clever programmer who could eek such detection for the older 30-pin connector cable....which could have many false positive results. Would be weird no message or other warning.

                      Am sure it'll get hashed & rehashed on die-hard forums, until a truth comes out.

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                      • Dominica
                        Dominica last edited by

                        I've tried different cables and adapters, all genuine Apple, and all had the same result. Tonight when I plugged my phone in after it died, it did not turn on by itself, so I'm taking that as a positive sign.

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                        • Nara
                          Nara last edited by

                          A 4S is a pretty old phone. Perhaps the battery finally gave out?

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                          • scottalanmiller
                            scottalanmiller @Nara last edited by

                            @Nara said:

                            A 4S is a pretty old phone. Perhaps the battery finally gave out?

                            It was software. There is a known bug that came out recently that does this. No announced fix yet, though.

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                            • Dominica
                              Dominica last edited by

                              My phone still only charges while it's powered off. Not ideal, but at least it's charging.

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                              • scottalanmiller
                                scottalanmiller @Dominica last edited by

                                @Dominica only for a few more months. Just keep reminding yourself.

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                                • Dominica
                                  Dominica last edited by

                                  It only has to last until my contract is up on June 14th.

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                                  • RoguePacket
                                    RoguePacket last edited by RoguePacket

                                    @dominica
                                    ...and just when rumors of the iPhone 6 release date are hitting the streets—

                                    • http://blogs.computerworld.com/itbwcw/20140328/iphone-6-nikkei-ua
                                    • http://www.techradar.com/us/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/iphone-6-release-date-news-and-rumours-1099865
                                    • http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-6/
                                    • etc
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                                    • scottalanmiller
                                      scottalanmiller last edited by

                                      I doubt that she can hold out long enough.

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                                      • scottalanmiller
                                        scottalanmiller last edited by

                                        I, on the other hand, will be ready for my update right at that time!

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