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I don't have service on my 6s. My 5s still works fine, although I have it in airplane mode now. I logged into AT&T and it prompted me to activate the new phone, but no luck. Never had to wait before, is this a new thing?
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pragan4 posted:The extra RAM in the 6S+ completely delivers. My biggest annoyance with the 6 was that Pocketcasts would always get bumped from the now playing screen whenever I paused a podcast and did anything else on my phone. If getting in the car no longer means that the first song in my iTunes library autoplays this purchase is completely justified. Lmao, every loving car ride the same Omarion song would play. This is def a game changer.
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Sep 26, 2015 04:21
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EC posted:I don't have service on my 6s. My 5s still works fine, although I have it in airplane mode now. I logged into AT&T and it prompted me to activate the new phone, but no luck. Never had to wait before, is this a new thing? No, it happens every year when the activation servers get slammed. Try calling the contract activation and acceptance line and see if you can get it done that way. 866-895-1099
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Sep 26, 2015 04:21
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I think next year, I'll legitimately just try walking into an AT&T store with my old phone (6S) and doing the swap/pay off for the new one.
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Pivo posted:I wonder, should I leave "Hey, Siri" on? I feel like if it's always listening that would be a battery life killer, but I don't know how the feature is implemented, maybe it only listens in certain situations? If you have a 6S it is not meant to use any extra battery life, if you don't have a 6S it only listens when plugged in anyway.
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~Coxy posted:If you have a 6S it is not meant to use any extra battery life, if you don't have a 6S it only listens when plugged in anyway. It's the 6S, sure, but how can it not use any extra battery life? I mean it's gotta be interpreting what's coming in the mic, that's CPU cycles no matter how you slice it. I just wonder how big of an impact it is.
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Sep 26, 2015 04:35
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I'm feeling dumb but what is this 3D Touch app switcher business? I press the edge of my Splus (Apple leather case) and nothing ever happens...
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Sep 26, 2015 04:41
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Pivo posted:It's the 6S, sure, but how can it not use any extra battery life? I mean it's gotta be interpreting what's coming in the mic, that's CPU cycles no matter how you slice it. I just wonder how big of an impact it is. The way I understand it, the coprocessor has been integrated into the A9 and so it's just always on since it's being used for other functions.
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Feenix posted:I'm feeling dumb but what is this 3D Touch app switcher business? I press the edge of my Splus (Apple leather case) and nothing ever happens... Press hard while sliding your thumb from the left outside edge to the right, into the screen.
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Sep 26, 2015 04:48
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Lmao, every loving car ride the same Omarion song would play. This is def a game changer. gently caress GOD drat IT This is why that happens
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Sep 26, 2015 04:52
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For anyone curious, I bought one 6S+ at Verizon and one at the Apple Store, and they're the exact same part & model number: MKV82LL/A & A1687. Edit: the one from the Apple Store was on the apple upgrade program
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Sep 26, 2015 04:59
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EC posted:I don't have service on my 6s. My 5s still works fine, although I have it in airplane mode now. I logged into AT&T and it prompted me to activate the new phone, but no luck. Never had to wait before, is this a new thing? pragan4 posted:For anyone curious, I bought one 6S+ at Verizon and one at the Apple Store, and they're the exact same part & model number: MKV82LL/A & A1687.
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Sep 26, 2015 05:09
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EC posted:Press hard while sliding your thumb from the left outside edge to the right, into the screen. Oooooooh! Neat. I was trying on the right side. Seems a little more effort than double tapping the home button but it's a rad effect.
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pragan4 posted:For anyone curious, I bought one 6S+ at Verizon and one at the Apple Store, and they're the exact same part & model number: MKV82LL/A & A1687. There are only 2 models in the US. One for Sprint/Verizon/TMo and one for AT&T/smaller regional carriers.
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Ugh, had to force close my background apps/pages on my 6 to get two (rather large) Safari tabs to stop refreshing when switching between them. Wasn't planning to upgrade until the 7 comes out, or next year at the soonest, but the inferiority complex has already begun festering... Dunno if a visual hardware refresh is in the cards for the 7; I've grown quite fond of the aesthetic of the 6/6S. Apple has gotten it's fair share of flak for this design, so who knows. Personally, I could do without the camera bump, but I've seen much worse. enojy fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Sep 26, 2015 |
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Sep 26, 2015 08:35
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Personally, the camera bump doesn't bother me at all - I have an apple leather case that keeps it from resting on the lens. What does still bother me is placing the on/off button opposite the volume/shutter. I still end up turning the screen off by mistake even after a year.
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Sep 26, 2015 08:51
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pragan4 posted:The extra RAM in the 6S+ completely delivers. My biggest annoyance with the 6 was that Pocketcasts would always get bumped from the now playing screen whenever I paused a podcast and did anything else on my phone. If getting in the car no longer means that the first song in my iTunes library autoplays this purchase is completely justified. Can you elaborate on this? I currently have a 5S and the first song in my library plays every single time I get in the car, and sometimes if I answer a phone call as well (it plays over the person talking and I can't hear anything). Is this something improved in the 6S?
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Sep 26, 2015 09:16
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pragan4 posted:The extra RAM in the 6S+ completely delivers. My biggest annoyance with the 6 was that Pocketcasts would always get bumped from the now playing screen whenever I paused a podcast and did anything else on my phone. If getting in the car no longer means that the first song in my iTunes library autoplays this purchase is completely justified. What really? This has been driving absolutely insane and thought it was because of my dumb car's system that was doing it.
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Etrips posted:What really? This has been driving absolutely insane and thought it was because of my dumb car's system that was doing it. It's a combination of factors. First your car stereo may have a setting to disable autoplay on connect. One of my cars has "my Ford touch" (which is a lovely system) and what it does is autoplays whatever is queued up in the phones "now playing" be it a podcast or song. Usually that's the last thing you listened to, but if your phone had to quit the app that was last being used to play music to allocate its RAM to another app (the only time this happens to audio apps is when the audio is paused or stopped for a while and the app is in the background) then it doesn't know what to play, so it just grabs the first song in the music library and starts to play it. In my music library my first song is "A Bitch I Knew" by Snoop Dogg, which can be a bit embarrassing when I have other people riding in the car with me. My other car has CarPlay and it doesn't autoplay (at least mine doesn't) but it does forget what I was last listening to because of the RAM reallocation thing. One thing that iOS 9 did was fix the podcasts app in CarPlay so it remembers which one I was listening to and adds a resume button front and center in the CarPlay podcasts app. I haven't had a chance to drive with the 6S yet but hopefully the extra RAM helps prevent that.
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GutBomb posted:In my music library my first song is "A Bitch I Knew" by Snoop Dogg, which can be a bit embarrassing when I have other people riding in the car with me. Amusing. Duplicate some innocuous song and name it 'A A Song I Start My Day WIth'.
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Pivo posted:It's the 6S, sure, but how can it not use any extra battery life? I mean it's gotta be interpreting what's coming in the mic, that's CPU cycles no matter how you slice it. I just wonder how big of an impact it is. When you turn it on, it asks you to teach it your voice. This means it isn't listening and interpreting every word, but simply passively matching a waveform and using it as a trigger. Integrated chip-on-chip stuff is usually really power efficient, so I imagine it's hilariously negligible on the new design. I enabled permanent Hey Siri on my 6 by simply using a battery case when I was around the house / car. Even here it doesn't ever seem like a significant drain, I'd probably have to do a 100-sample test to notice it in figures.
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Is the AT&T model of the 6s (with band 30) sold unlocked if you pay it in full? I'm noticing now that you can pay full price on the AT&T phone on Apple's site when you weren't able to do so previously. I want to just keep using Cricket without having to go through any AT&T unlocking crap.
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I just got back from the apple shop, checking out how well 3D touch works on the new phones. Not a fan - the multitasking shortcut is too hard to trigger reliably and I can see how it'd be even less slick with a case on. I turned the sensitivity down to 'light' and it improved things slightly, but still not great. It was good for the right-click type options on dock icons (Safari & mail), but doesn't solve my biggest annoyance with the iPhone: double-pressing a physical home button thousands of times a day. Might play with assistive touch for a bit as an alternative.
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On busy iPhone days like this do Apple stores only put people buying iPhones in a line and let everyone else in the store? I want to get one of those new orange cases but I'd rather not wait in a super long line for one.
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How's everyone's WiFi performance on the 6S/6S+? I speedtest at 100/15 on my laptop, 30/15 on the phone, both connected to the same 5GHz 802.11ac network, a foot apart from each other.
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GutBomb posted:On busy iPhone days like this do Apple stores only put people buying iPhones in a line and let everyone else in the store? I want to get one of those new orange cases but I'd rather not wait in a super long line for one. For something like that you should be able to walk In the store, grab the case, and pay for it with your phone. No need to even bother an employee.
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So if I activate my new 6s, will my other phone automatically deactivate itself? Just curious because I really don't want to start using it around work until my case comes in for it, but was wanting to mess around with it at home.
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Brock Landers posted:For something like that you should be able to walk In the store, grab the case, and pay for it with your phone. No need to even bother an employee. That's a thing? How do they prevent shoplifting?
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As recommended by this thread, I walked into an Apple store (on the day the 6S went on sale, no less) to ask for a replacement for my charger cable broken at the phone-facing connector. The chief clerk gave me a little speech about how since the damage was superficial, it doesn't in principle fall under warranty. I got the cable, so I'm happy, but the story made no sense to me. Is there any basis to what he said? It wasn't that the damage was cosmetic - the cable's plastic covering was peeling off - I think he just wanted to give me a story about how it's my fault for handling it too rough. But what he instead said, verbatim, was that the damage is obvious and therefore not in principle covered by warranty.
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GutBomb posted:That's a thing? How do they prevent shoplifting? Well, what's stopping you from picking something up and walking out with it at any store? I'm sure Apple has LP like any other store, except they would have proof you paid delivered to their smart devices as soon as you do so. I think it's an app you can download. Apple Store or something. I don't recall how it works since I've never used it, but you basically just pay for the thing with your phone and walk right out, yeah. It was launched a few years ago. Obviously only for accessories and stuff, not for big-ticket items.
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Yesterday I moved my SIM from my 5S to my 6S and everything was working perfectly. I got an email this morning saying I needed to activate my new device and it would only allow me to activate the correct SIM and IMEI number combination. Now both of my phones say "No Service". Anything to do but wait?
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Pivo posted:Well, what's stopping you from picking something up and walking out with it at any store? I'm sure Apple has LP like any other store, except they would have proof you paid delivered to their smart devices as soon as you do so. I just did this last night. It's pretty cool. You download the Apple Store app, click the pay option, scan the barcode with your camera and pay. A receipt pops up and there's a little message about asking a specialist if you'd like a bag. Wife for sure thought we'd get stopped on the way out but nothing happened. Painless.
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nwin posted:So if I activate my new 6s, will my other phone automatically deactivate itself? Just curious because I really don't want to start using it around work until my case comes in for it, but was wanting to mess around with it at home. Pivo posted:How's everyone's WiFi performance on the 6S/6S+? I speedtest at 100/15 on my laptop, 30/15 on the phone, both connected to the same 5GHz 802.11ac network, a foot apart from each other. I've used the Apple Store app for small purchases lots of time. It no big deal, and I bet the small loss from self-checkout is vastly less than keeping an extra person or two on staff in every store to check out people buying a case or whatever. I'm sure if it was a larger item, someone might at least ask to see the receipt.
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I'm using the Ookla speedtest app on the phone and speedtest.net on the laptop (same thing). I wonder why download over ac is so slow on my phone. I speedtested over 50mbit down over LTE on my iPhone 5... No reason my connection should be so slow on WiFi. Oh well, hopefully it's not a defect. I do find it strange that even though I'm in a 2br condo with paper thin walls, I get only 2 'bars' of WiFi in my bedroom, whereas every other device I have sees extremely strong signal. Gosh I really hope this thing isn't defective. A manufacturing error with the antenna could cause this, I suppose. :/ Pivo fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Sep 26, 2015 |
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So I realized that the 6s is reporting a 4G signal in my apartment, which is odd because all the other phones I've had there reported LTE. The speed itself isn't different (~5.35Mbps), is it possible that Apple made changes to the 6s to make T-Mobile's signal report more accurately (only showing LTE when it's actually LTE and not HSDPA)? I was initially thinking that it was because I kept my old sim and that there maybe was an issue with Band 12 support, but my 5s reported LTE.
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Pivo posted:I'm using the Ookla speedtest app on the phone and speedtest.net on the laptop (same thing). I wonder why download over ac is so slow on my phone. I speedtested over 50mbit down over LTE on my iPhone 5... No reason my connection should be so slow on WiFi. You're paranoid. Restore software as new and try again. It's most likely not the antenna.
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:You're paranoid. Restore software as new and try again. It's most likely not the antenna. It was restored as new, and then updated to 9.0.1. I didn't restore from backup. I'm not paranoid it's just weird that two ac devices see such different download speeds at the same location on the same network, with the phone also seeing a poorer signal strength. No big deal for now, I guess.
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King of all Machines Operate posted:Can you elaborate on this? I currently have a 5S and the first song in my library plays every single time I get in the car, and sometimes if I answer a phone call as well (it plays over the person talking and I can't hear anything). Is this something improved in the 6S? I almost always have a podcast as the last thing I listened to in my car, and when I get out of the car the podcast pauses. With every previous iPhone if I did anything else on my phone, when I went back to the car the podcast was usually forced out of memory and the same lovely song would start playing. It's a small sample size and entirely anecdotal, but I haven't noticed this happening on the 6S+.
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dialectics posted:I just did this last night. It's pretty cool. You download the Apple Store app, click the pay option, scan the barcode with your camera and pay. A receipt pops up and there's a little message about asking a specialist if you'd like a bag. Wife for sure thought we'd get stopped on the way out but nothing happened. Painless. I'm amazed you made it more than 5 feet into the store without a staff member asking you if you needed anything. Every time I've ever been into an apple store they have an insane staff to customer ratio -even staff per square meter. They usually have like 20 staff. It's pretty impressive the way they all whip out their iphones and complete your transaction then and there though.
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