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Variable_H posted:Everyone keeps talking about the crazy battery life of the new phones, but I've only seen a nominal improvement. Where my 5S could do about 4.5 hours of heavy use, my 6 is getting about 6 hours. It's a definite improvement, but nothing like what people are saying. 33% is pretty nice.
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So reachability chat, I think it's great on the regular 6, even though I claw grip the back to get access to the whole phone most of the time
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Because I've heard that it's supposed to help the battery's overall lifespan. Is that incorrect? Li-ion batteries don't need to be conditioned, I think that was a NiCd/NiMH thing.
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Sep 22, 2014 07:28
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Because I've heard that it's supposed to help the battery's overall lifespan. Is that incorrect? Your phone battery requires no maintenance. A laptop battery may if it is in a situation where it literally never gets unplugged otherwise.
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Sep 22, 2014 07:39
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Ah, alright. Thanks for clarifying. At least it was one more thing that impressed me about this phone in the first few days of owning it 
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Sep 22, 2014 07:43
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I'm attempting to power cycle it
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Sep 22, 2014 07:45
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XyrlocShammypants posted:So reachability chat, I think it's great on the regular 6, even though I claw grip the back to get access to the whole phone most of the time
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Feenix posted:Hey all of you with SixPluses. How are you liking it after a few days? Adapting to the largesse? Able to use it efficiently? Bought a wheelbarrow for mobility? Do tell. I'm loving it so far. The screen is absolutely gorgeous and the camera is aces. It's perfect for watching videos on. I have largeish hands so I can use it one handed pretty well. Don't have a case yet though, so that may change my perception a bit. I've been getting lots of comments in public, and my friends' first reactions have all been "holy poo poo that's huge" essentially. Only real complaint is the amount of apps that still haven't updated for the larger screen. They look like my dad's phone with the font size set to the max.
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KIM JONG TRILL posted:I'm loving it so far. The screen is absolutely gorgeous and the camera is aces. It's perfect for watching videos on. I have largeish hands so I can use it one handed pretty well. Don't have a case yet though, so that may change my perception a bit. Just a small FYI, but a *lot* of apps are being updated today.
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Any word when the Arstechnica review will be up? They're pretty comprehensive so I'm assuming they usually get put up a while after release.
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Sep 22, 2014 10:31
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agentq posted:Got the wife the iPhone 6 while on vacation this weekend. We set it up as a new phone since we were gone. Her old phone is a 16gb 4S. The thing is so full she can't take another picture without deleting an old one first. I can't back it up via computer because it says the phone disconnected during the backup process. I can't drag the photos off the phone without it disconnecting either. I did back it up to iCloud. She can't backup to iCloud? Edit: too early in the morning. Backing up to iCloud is all you needed
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Sep 22, 2014 10:53
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Because I've heard that it's supposed to help the battery's overall lifespan. Is that incorrect? Like others said the conditioning isn't necessary with newer battery technology anymore. It's just so ingrained in people's minds back from the days of nimh batteries.
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Sep 22, 2014 11:49
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looks like I solved my incessantly ringing ringtone issue by changing the time to something else. so weird.
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Trip report with a 6+ through the weekend. Pleasantly surprised how usable the phone has been one handed. Browsing stuff (just needing to scroll and occasionally tap) is super easy and I've managed to send a few texts with just my thumb. Holding the phone while laying down has taken some adjustment due to the size/weight of the thing but I've gotten fairly used to it already. The phone itself is fantastic and the screen is just gorgeous. I picked up the Apple silicone case and it's actually pretty nice as well. I normally go caseless but I figure while I get used to the bigger size, better to be safe. One nice thing about the phones being so thin is that once a case is on there it doesn't feel like some ungodly thick brick like my 5 always ended up feeling like. I've had at least 6 strangers stop my and ask me what my phone was or if it was the + over the weekend, I imagine that will die down but it was still an odd experience as it's never happened with previous iPhones. A+, would buy again.
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DarkJC posted:Apple's backup system is insanely good and why wouldn't you restore? Is this the consensus here? I asked about this earlier in the thread; I'm still not sure whether to restore from backup or set my incoming 6+ up as a new device. I'd really like to keep my messages and not lose hours reinstalling / reconfiguring poo poo, but my backup dates back to 2009 (I've never set any of my iPhones up as new devices since I first got into the ecosystem with the 3GS).
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Sep 22, 2014 12:29
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Wengy posted:Is this the consensus here? I asked about this earlier in the thread; I'm still not sure whether to restore from backup or set my incoming 6+ up as a new device. I'd really like to keep my messages and not lose hours reinstalling / reconfiguring poo poo, but my backup dates back to 2009 (I've never set any of my iPhones up as new devices since I first got into the ecosystem with the 3GS). I've had an iPhone since the first one. It's fine.
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Residency Evil posted:I've had an iPhone since the first one. It's fine. Good to know. But I just checked and I literally have 4 gigs of "other" on my 4S. Is there any way to restore from backup and get rid of all that cruft?
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Wengy posted:Good to know. But I just checked and I literally have 4 gigs of "other" on my 4S. Is there any way to restore from backup and get rid of all that cruft? You might need to do a bit of Googling, but I'm sure I read a while ago that when connected to iTunes there's some sort of script you can run that will remove it. Might have my wires crossed though.
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MacRumors is aflutter with talk about their phones bending in their pocket. Some idiots are even calling other people idiots for putting their phones in their pockets. As someone who doesn't have their phone yet is this a real issue or just MacRumors being MacRumors? Anyone have their phones bend in their pocket? It seems to be more prevalent in the 6+.
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EpicNemesis posted:MacRumors is aflutter with talk about their phones bending in their pocket. Some idiots are even calling other people idiots for putting their phones in their pockets. As someone who doesn't have their phone yet is this a real issue or just MacRumors being MacRumors? Anyone have their phones bend in their pocket? It seems to be more prevalent in the 6+. I haven't seen reports like that anywhere other than MacRumors. Bearing in mind that is the forum with current threads titled "Men Who Own the Gold iPhone" and "Best non-abrasive anti-bacterial cleaner".
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Any time I've had a ton of "other" stuff on my phone I would backup to iTunes, restore the phone to factory settings, then restore from that same backup and that storage space would magically return to me.
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One guy said on the last page that it seemed like people in this thread liked the 6 more than the 6 Plus by a scale of like, 10:1. My counter argument is that there's probably a decent amount of people who are dying for a 6 Plus and are still waiting for it to appear.  Edit: I have a 4.7" phone now and I have my 6 Plus case that was shipped to me and I love the size. I don't have very big hands (Size large batting glove. Does that help? Probably not) but I use my current phone with two hands most of the time anyway.
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I got my iPhone 6. The 240fps slo mo really makes it all worth it. As soon as I took a video of one of my kids sitting on a whoopee cushion, and then the other kid pretending to puke mouth wash into the sink, I fell in love and realized that this phone is worth its weight in gold. edit: Oh yeah, the cat chasing a laser pointer is pretty cool too. Begby fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Ah, alright. Thanks for clarifying. At least it was one more thing that impressed me about this phone in the first few days of owning it bronin posted:Like others said the conditioning isn't necessary with newer battery technology anymore. It's just so ingrained in people's minds back from the days of nimh batteries. Whirlwind Jones posted:Ahh, so you are crazy. withak posted:Your phone battery requires no maintenance. A laptop battery may if it is in a situation where it literally never gets unplugged otherwise. Dewgy posted:Li-ion batteries don't need to be conditioned, I think that was a NiCd/NiMH thing. Apple recommends you fully discharge your phone at least once. It may not be about conditioning the battery so much as calibrating the battery power meter for the OS. *Braces for everyone to rush in and tell me how stupid I am*
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Santas Ainol Elf posted:Apple recommends you fully discharge your phone at least once. It may not be about conditioning the battery so much as calibrating the battery power meter for the OS. I had never heard about this until my wife bought her 5c last year and the AT&T rep told her to do it. I've always charged mine up fully as soon as I got it home.
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ShoogaSlim posted:Any time I've had a ton of "other" stuff on my phone I would backup to iTunes, restore the phone to factory settings, then restore from that same backup and that storage space would magically return to me. What causes this "Other" data?
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Looks like bendgate™ is a thing with the new iPhone 6 Plus. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1785905 Some also reported that their regular iPhone 6s are bent from sitting down with the phone in the jeans pocket. I don’t have mine yet but I wonder if I should sell this one and buy a later one where this issue might be fixed (i.e. by machining a bit less material around the sim slot). 
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EpicNemesis posted:MacRumors is aflutter with talk about their phones bending in their pocket. Some idiots are even calling other people idiots for putting their phones in their pockets. As someone who doesn't have their phone yet is this a real issue or just MacRumors being MacRumors? Anyone have their phones bend in their pocket? It seems to be more prevalent in the 6+. I've been seeing this posted on The Verge's facebook posts by other people (which I really shouldn't even bother reading, it is a cesspool of dumb), people getting really upset that A. Apple made a phone as big as the Note and B. Apple being pioneers for big phones and C. a phone that big is either the worst or best thing ever. Sometimes it's so hard to not touch the poop.
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eames posted:Looks like bendgate™ is a thing with the new iPhone 6 Plus. Goddamn. That's pretty bad and I would be pissed if my $650 device was that easily bent.
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EpicNemesis posted:MacRumors is aflutter with talk about their phones bending in their pocket. Some idiots are even calling other people idiots for putting their phones in their pockets. As someone who doesn't have their phone yet is this a real issue or just MacRumors being MacRumors? Anyone have their phones bend in their pocket? It seems to be more prevalent in the 6+. Wouldn't be shocked at all. It's longer and thinner and aluminum isn't magic. If you look at a teardown, these phones are a sandwich of screen, battery, and back case. If you apply even a bit of force, all three of those will bend, but only the aluminum will stay bent afterwards.
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So far my 6 has been running like a dream since I got it but with one thing I can not work out. Every so often, seemingly completely randomly it will vibrate like a notification ... like I was getting a text or something. But I can not work out what it is. It isn't texts, emails etc... I tried shutting all apps down. Turning off all notifications. Yet sometimes I'll just have it buzz and I can not work out what the hell it is.
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Re: bendgate The same thing happened with the previous generation of the iPhone. Lesson - don't sit on your phone if you keep it in your back pocket.
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When will appending '-gate' stop being the go-to scandal name? How about we start using a different historical scandal to coin these names? Bend-hook or Tail-bend? Hello? Is this thing on?
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eames posted:Looks like bendgate™ is a thing with the new iPhone 6 Plus. I think you're safe as long as you don't do dumb things like drive for 8 hours with your giant phone in your pocket.
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eames posted:Looks like bendgate™ is a thing with the new iPhone 6 Plus. The cadence of that post reminds me of the Onion's autistic reporter.
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supersteve posted:Re: bendgate That actually looks pretty cool.
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thepokey posted:So far my 6 has been running like a dream since I got it but with one thing I can not work out. Every so often, seemingly completely randomly it will vibrate like a notification ... like I was getting a text or something. But I can not work out what it is. It isn't texts, emails etc... I tried shutting all apps down. Turning off all notifications. Yet sometimes I'll just have it buzz and I can not work out what the hell it is. Maybe you have repeat alerts turn on. I think it is on by default.
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Mr. Fix It posted:When will appending '-gate' stop being the go-to scandal name? How about we start using a different historical scandal to coin these names? Bend-hook or Tail-bend? Hello? Is this thing on? I would prefer to call it the bananaphone scandal but all the other pages are already calling it bendgate so I went with that. Admittedly I did some pretty stupid things with my iPhone 5 in my pocket but it never bent at all, so if the 6 is similarly rigid then I have to assume that the macrumors guys indeed ran trucks over their phones.
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