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MrBond posted:If she has photo stream or ICPL turned on, sounds like someone's broken into her iCloud account if random photos are showing up that are not her pocket/purse. Change the password and trusted devices on icloud and probably set up 2FA as someone else said. We're reasonably sure her iCloud account is okay, at least at this point. She changed the password at the first sign of weirdness and her email hasn't had any alerts from Apple indicating account or setting changes. That seems like the most likely source of problems but I haven't come up with a way to confirm. iOS is such a black box it's hard to do the sort of poking around I could do on my desktops. What has me asking around is that she wasn't running 9.2.1 yet, and the release notes for that release were a laundry list of exploits.. lots of local vulnerabilities plus a couple that could be exploited by visiting a website. I agree two factor is the next step, just to try and harden things up a little more.
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Zero VGS posted:Now now, it could mean "I thought it was lost so I used my insurance replacement, but then I found it in my couch cushions." Or "I did not pay my bill and the phone company blacklisted my phone."
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Feb 5, 2016 20:11
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withak posted:"Bad ESN" usually means "stolen property" FYI. I figure half the stuff sold on Ebay/Cl is stolen. The main question is: Will a bad esn iPhone be able to install an app from the store over wifi?
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Pivo posted:2 years of discharging every day is pretty good for these batteries tbh. Battery technology just sucks.
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Meydey posted:Question for Apple folks from an android guy. Bad ESN is fine, the only thing it will do is make it fail a check were you to try to activate it with a carrier. That being said, if it's activation locked (which has nothing to do with carrier activation, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201365 ) it's useless for anything but stripping to parts.
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xzzy posted:We're reasonably sure her iCloud account is okay, at least at this point. She changed the password at the first sign of weirdness and her email hasn't had any alerts from Apple indicating account or setting changes. That seems like the most likely source of problems but I haven't come up with a way to confirm. iOS is such a black box it's hard to do the sort of poking around I could do on my desktops. http://twitter.com/kirstendunst/status/506553772114317312 Phishing is most likely.
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Zero VGS posted:Now now, it could mean "I thought it was lost so I used my insurance replacement, but then I found it in my couch cushions." I think your insurance would require you inform them of this. So really, it's still sorta stolen.
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Josh Lyman posted:Phishing is most likely. It's not even most likely, it is fact. There was a good New York Times article about the fappening. The window to the opportunity for this was getting the celeb's personal phone numbers / emails. He then texted or emailed them standard phishing texts or emails and stuff like "This is Apple, we need to verify your account, please input your password." None of these celebs are fairly tech literate so they all fell for it. People who are tech illiterate will fall for that stuff 9 times out of 10. They just don't understand the fundamentals. Obviously, it had nothing to do with Apple. A good lesson in random bad PR. e: Ah here it is, from the criminal complaint: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/nyregion/us-says-hacker-stole-ids-and-unreleased-scripts-from-host-of-celebrities.html NYT posted:Mr. Knowles, who went by the name Jeff Moxey on email, acknowledged to an undercover investigator that it was difficult to hack someone directly when he is “going after a high-profile celebrity,” according to the complaint. So instead, he looked through photos for friends of the celebrity, and then hacked the friends’ accounts in order to find the celebrity’s personal information. Michael Scott fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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Meydey posted:Question for Apple folks from an android guy. Why not just buy an iPod touch 6th gen then? I guess a 5th gen would work for your purposes but they're super slow these days. I'm not sure if a phone with a bad ESN would get past activation on an erased install.
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MrBond posted:Why not just buy an iPod touch 6th gen then? I guess a 5th gen would work for your purposes but they're super slow these days. I was just looking at the cheapest route. Used 5th gen Touch's are around $120-140 or so on Ebay. I only need the drat thing for 1 app so speed should not matter. Will keep an eye out for a lightly used 5th Gen Touch under $100 (thats's not pink). Not in a big rush or anything.
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Pivo posted:2 years of discharging every day is pretty good for these batteries tbh. Battery technology just sucks. No, it's not at all. The best thing for these batteries is to sit between 20 and 80% charge forever. If you regularly drop below 20% or charge above 80% the number of cycles in the battery's life drops off significantly. The ideal being something like a battery charged when it hits 50% up to 60%, using 1/10th of a cycle at an easy voltage every time you charge. At that point you'll get like three or four times the cycles from your battery over its lifespan. So, if you charge to 100% and discharge to 0 every day, you'll get about 500 days of cycles until your battery starts dying. If you charge 50-60% ten times each day, you'll get about 1500 days of cycles until your battery starts dying. Depth of discharge and resting voltage are very important. This is obviously not recommended and I don't do it, but it's cool to me to understand and dispel stupid battery myths.
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You're wrong, and discharging is what hurts these batteries, but ok. You may have misread what I meant. 2 years of cycling and still getting good performance is a good thing.
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Feb 5, 2016 22:14
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The stupidest battery myth is that there is anything special that you need to do to keep the battery "healthy" besides plug it in when it is low.
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Feb 5, 2016 22:39
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Just got a secondhand iPhone 5s. Updated it to 9.2.1 because it was bitching about it. Didn't test the Bluetooth before I updated but now my iPhone won't discover ANY Bluetooth devices at all. I've tried resetting the network settings and all settings with no help. I tried renaming the phone in case my bluetooth devices got some weird name confusion. I tried multiple devices and nada, no discovery of anything. Anything obvious I'm missing here?
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Feb 5, 2016 23:10
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Making sure there's not a discovery mode on the device you're trying to pair with itself, I guess. My Bluetooth audio thing needs to be entered into a discovery mode else it'll look continually for the last paired device.
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Is there any way to tell my phone to use a particular Bluetooth device for media audio only and not phone audio?
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tuyop posted:No, it's not at all. The best thing for these batteries is to sit between 20 and 80% charge forever. If you regularly drop below 20% or charge above 80% the number of cycles in the battery's life drops off significantly. The ideal being something like a battery charged when it hits 50% up to 60%, using 1/10th of a cycle at an easy voltage every time you charge. At that point you'll get like three or four times the cycles from your battery over its lifespan. But your post is a stupid battery myth. It's largely pointless to do any of the above, because you pulled the "three to four times" stuff out of your rear end. Or more specifically, from a load of testing data that can't readily be reproduced, and is hugely less important over typical usage ranges. Numbers like 3-4x come from outliers (comparing 10% to a normal range) yet normal use, say 60% vs 90%, show much smaller differences. Also degradation over 80% relates to storage, not charge. It's still recommended to charge to 100% unless you're storing the battery / not using it. NICE MYTH
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Feb 6, 2016 00:48
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Apple documents state if you're going to store a battery for a long period of time to leave it around 50% charged. This was for their laptops, however...and also back in 2009.
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The rear end Stooge posted:Is there any way to tell my phone to use a particular Bluetooth device for media audio only and not phone audio? When you answer a call you can change to phone audio by tapping the speaker icon. It takes like one second.
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Feb 6, 2016 02:07
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Battery sperging source.
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decypher posted:Apple documents state if you're going to store a battery for a long period of time to leave it around 50% charged. This was for their laptops, however...and also back in 2009. I think this is still true for batteries today. You don't want it discharging so far there's damage but there's also something non optimal about long term storage at 100% too.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:When you answer a call you can change to phone audio by tapping the speaker icon. It takes like one second. The rear end Stooge probably wants a way to just set it up once and not have to deal with this again. This has been a feature on android for quite some time but unfortunately has not yet made it to iOS (as far as I know—haven't done any jailbreaking). This is one of the weird things that's very slightly annoyed me ever since switching to iPhone. Certain things that were easily automated or very quick and easy on my Android are now slightly more inconvenient. Yes, it's slight, and overall the experience has been an improvement, but it would be nice if, for example, I could manage notification settings for an app right from the notification center, or disable my alarm if I wake up before it goes off but still have it automatically re-enabled for tomorrow, or prioritize wifi hotspots, or make it so that keyboard sounds don't go through headphones or bluetooth, (all of which my M8 was doing automatically), but, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The first table implies that if you only used your Li-ion battery 10% before recharging every time, you would get about 10x the discharge cycles as if you used the battery 100%, which is 10x the usage before recharging. This doesn't seem like a coincidence and makes me thing they're using "discharge cycle" incorrectly, as "cycle" typically refers to a full cycle that uses the entire battery.
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Josh Lyman posted:The first table implies that if you only used your Li-ion battery 10% before recharging every time, you would get about 10x the discharge cycles as if you used the battery 100%, which is 10x the usage before recharging. I was thinking more about the depth of discharge table below it and the voltage charge a little way down. How should those be interpreted?
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tuyop posted:I was thinking more about the depth of discharge table below it and the voltage charge a little way down. How should those be interpreted?  The voltage charge table also has the same "issue", which is that they seem to use "discharge cycles" not as a full discharge.
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japtor posted:Speaking of unlocking, third party home button replacements could gently caress you up: I thought this was well know. Even if your home button breaks, don't replace it if you have a TouchID device.
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noirstronaut posted:I thought this was well know. Even if your home button breaks, don't replace it if you have a TouchID device. Prior to iOS 9, TouchID would just not work, but the phone would otherwise be fine. Now the iOS 9 update performs an integrity check and bricks the phone if it fails. From a security standpoint it makes some degree of sense, especially given Apple's fairly unwavering stance on device encryption. The touch sensor and secure enclave in the CPU work together as a system in terms of storing and accessing the decryption keys for the filesystem. If part of that system becomes untrustworthy then the whole thing falls apart.
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Meydey posted:I was just looking at the cheapest route. Used 5th gen Touch's are around $120-140 or so on Ebay. I only need the drat thing for 1 app so speed should not matter. And are you sure it works on Android without that dongle you mentioned?
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Josh Lyman posted:Depth of Discharge IS the table I'm referring to--the first image is a graph, not a table. The table isn't wrong, the battery will wear 10x less if you only charge it 10% every time, vs fully discharging it. The problem is when you look at all the data, you find the differences between say, 40% and 75% to be largely inconsequential and not worth any thought.
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At the absolute most it's $80 for a new battery ant the Apple Store, less if you replace it yourself, why stress yourself out so much over something so silly.
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e.pilot posted:At the absolute most it's $80 for a new battery ant the Apple Store, less if you replace it yourself, why stress yourself out so much over something so silly. I just like understanding these things, I'm not recommending stressing out. Though it makes sense to me to extend a bit of effort to help a consumable part made of finite resources last longer, as an ethical thing. I'd say it's on the same order of consideration in my mind as using a little bit less floss than usual because seven billion people using a foot too much floss means seven billion feet of wasted floss each day. (Or however many people floss, this is just an example)
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What's the timeline for the next full-featured iPhone? I wish Apple wouldn't devote development time to silly in-between product lines.
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A year since the last one, just like it's been since 2007.
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carry on then posted:A year since the last one, just like it's been since 2007.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_6S#Timeline_of_models
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Khablam posted:The table isn't wrong, the battery will wear 10x less if you only charge it 10% every time, vs fully discharging it. My complain is that discharging from 10% to 0% is not a full cycle, and discharge cycle typically refers to full discharge cycles, making the terminology misleading.
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Josh Lyman posted:Yes, but there's no point to saying "you get 10x the discharges to 0% if you only charge to 10% vs 100%". It's tautological. No. You have it wrong. They count a cycle as a 100% charge, so in their example it would be 10% x 10 vs 100% x 1
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Michael Scott posted:What's the timeline for the next full-featured iPhone? I wish Apple wouldn't devote development time to silly in-between product lines. Sept 2016 iphone 7
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Can we just start a new thread to argue about battery hygiene
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Make sure to go grab the Android posters too, wouldn't want them to miss out.
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