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By activating a dormant software lock on their newest iPhones, Apple is effectively announcing a drastic new policy: only Apple batteries can go in iPhones, and only they can install them.
If you replace the battery in the newest iPhones, a message indicating you need to service your battery appears in Settings > Battery, next to Battery Health. The "Service" message is normally an indication that the battery is degraded and needs to be replaced. The message still shows up when you put in a brand new battery, however. Here's the bigger problem: our lab tests confirmed that even when you swap in a genuine Apple battery, the phone will still display the "Service" message.
It's not a bug; it's a feature Apple wants. Unless an Apple Genius or an Apple Authorized Service Provider authenticates a battery to the phone, that phone will never show its battery health and always report a vague, ominous problem.
(Score: 3, Informative) by ElizabethGreene on Thursday August 08 2019, @05:13PM (6 children)
It's two pentalobe screws to open the case, release the battery connector, pull the battery release tabs (these work like command adhesive strips), and the battery is out. The new battery goes in the same way, and most customers go for the slightly more expensive aftermarket batteries that have a larger capacity than the OEM battery.
It takes literally 5 minutes for an OE quality install, 10 if you are working on a waterproof (hehe) phone that adds the trivial complexity of replacing the screen gasket.
Yes, they feel the same after you replace it properly.
Left turn from phones here. Would you willingly buy a car that wouldn't let you change the battery, or putting in a battery required you to go to the dealer and pay to get it blessed to get the check engine light to turn off?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @05:19PM
If my car were at a price point where I could reasonbly expect to be replacing it around the time the battery gave out, and I expect that I'll afford that cost when that time happens, why not? That could either be because the car will be replaced in 1.5-2 years, or because the battery complex was designed to last for 10 years.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Rupert Pupnick on Thursday August 08 2019, @07:47PM (4 children)
My car has a TPI warning light that won’t go out ever since I got rid of the shitty low profile rims and replaced them with standard 16 inch steel rims that don’t have the TPI sensor. Putting in the four sensors would run about $200. No thanks. If I could get access to the indicator, I’d paint it over with black nail polish for a lot less.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @12:22AM
Google "TPMS bypass"
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Friday August 09 2019, @01:46AM (2 children)
If you're talking about putting the original sensors back in, then you're getting ripped off. If you have to buy new sensors then that's about correct.
The shop I work at would charge $10 per to reinstall sensors. In most cases you only have to break one bead to do so but you'll more than likely have to rebalance after.
Why did you not install the old sensors after changing your wheels?
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Friday August 09 2019, @03:28PM
Parent is asking the right question. For most cars the TPMS is an electronic module that threads on the inside of the tire on the end of the valvestem. They should have been able to move them from the old wheels to the new ones, even if they put in new valvestems.
(Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Friday August 09 2019, @05:14PM
Thanks for asking, fliptop. I actually DID remove and keep the sensors from those old alloy rims.
So, I called the wholesale club (that does free seasonal swaps) where I buy tires to ask about installing used sensors. It’s $13.98 a tire. I’d seen the $200 figure for new sensors advertised on the placard in the shop, and assumed wrongly that they don’t offer the service for sensors bought elsewhere.
Still undecided because I’m a cheapskate.