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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: 2) by Chocolate on Friday August 09 2019, @09:22AM (1 child)
My strategy is to keep buying old style phones until it's no longer possible in the vain hope that by the time the top end sorts itself out the bottom end will have another decent phone in the $200 to $300 range worth having. That's the plan and I'm sticking by it.
I give it three to five years before I am screwed.
Bit-choco-coin anyone?
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Friday August 09 2019, @09:36PM
I got a ZTE Blade spark for $80 last year. It's a good phone with a massive screen. If it had more ram it would be a great phone.
I thought the battery was tool-less replaceable when I bought it, but I was wrong. Disassembly isn't bad though, the rear case is held on only by adhesive and the same adhesive I use on the Samsung J3 fits it.