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Zac4mac
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 09:25 am: | 
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odd, I just ran that update to 9.01 IOS and no change to a solid wi-fi.
I did get a pop-up box that said if I wanted to use phone-over-wifi I had to go to prefs... never seen that before.
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Reepicheep
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 11:30 am: |
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Maybe it's the WiFi router then. Maybe it's using some kind of security (or not any security) that Apple deprecated by default (<- Pure speculation) |
Froggy
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 01:27 pm: |
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I've heard from others that iOS 9 did the same thing to their 4S. |
Phelan
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 12:33 am: |
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Pwnzer that is an old school problem. Usually the fix is to hook the phone to a PC with iTunes, put the phone in DFU mode, and restore it via iTunes downloading the entire iOS and installing rather than just the OTA update the phone does. |
Phelan
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 12:36 am: |
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Keep in mind this wipes all the data off the phone, so make sure it's properly backed up beforehand. |
Pwnzor
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 08:41 pm: |
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Ok... Whatever it was, the "Geniuses" just forked over three brand new phones because they couldn't figure it out.
So much for the collective brilliance. I will stick with Android. |
Phelan
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 09:36 pm: |
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That's Apple Store "techies" for ya. It's the American way lol. I worked on over 400 iPhones in a 3 year span; quit about 2 years ago. Ran into that issue a few times. |
Pwnzor
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 06:53 am: |
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Handing over $2100 worth of new equipment because of a software glitch doesn't seem like a very solid business model to me.
I was really shocked by the whole thing, but we left satisfied... so, whatever. |
Oddball
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 11:18 am: |
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They will be back out for sale as 'refurb' for a whole $50 off full price. |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 11:22 am: |
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And it wasn't $2100 to them. iPhones cost about $35 to manufacture, last I heard. A few bucks for shipping and packaging, and the rest is gravy. |
Phelan
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 03:06 pm: |
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Last I read it's actually about $200/ea, with the storage being the most expensive portion. Pwnzor, I would think they actually supplied the girls with refurb models, and just send their old phones in to the refurb center. A lot of places do that, like Best Buy, AT&T, etc. |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 03:26 pm: |
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Where the hell did I get $35? I know I read that in the news. Thanks for the correction. That's still a lot of gravy though. Apple is doing well. |
Pwnzor
| | Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2015 - 07:11 am: |
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They brought out brand new phones with hologram seals on the boxes and all.
Like I said, shocked. I expected refurbs, but that's not what we got. In fact, this makes my oldest daughter's second brand new phone in 3 weeks.
I know what they cost to make, but 64GB iPhone 6's retail around $650-$700.
Nobody is really paying that up front, but all the little payments they nail you for... they get every penny of that and more.
The price I pay for girls to smile about shit they don't need... You should see the panic when there's an outage, or the wifi goes down |
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