iPhone 4s suddenly stopped charging.
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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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@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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In the Apple community there were some extremely busy threads discussing the exact issue. Definitely not a unique case.
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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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It doesn't appear to be hardware related but software.
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@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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That's the 5s with Lightning like I have. Hers is an old style one, 4s.
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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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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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A 4S is a pretty old phone. Perhaps the battery finally gave out?
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@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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My phone still only charges while it's powered off. Not ideal, but at least it's charging.
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@Dominica only for a few more months. Just keep reminding yourself.
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It only has to last until my contract is up on June 14th.
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@dominica
...and just when rumors of the iPhone 6 release date are hitting the streets— -
I doubt that she can hold out long enough.
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I, on the other hand, will be ready for my update right at that time!
