>Gadget repair firm iFixit has reported about a flaw dubbed "Touch Disease", which it claims is cropping up.
>With it, owners of the phones are experiencing, to start, a gray bar that appears at the very top of their display. And, for many others, the display itself becomes unresponsive to touch, or less responsive overall.
>"In both the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, the Touch IC chips connect to the logic board via an array of itty-bitty solder balls -- "like a plate resting on marbles," Jessa explains.
>Over time, as the phone flexes or twists slightly during normal use, those solder balls crack and start to lose contact with the board.
Bend up and take it, boy, because we ain't fixing it.
Sebastian Campbell
Oh lord bendgate 2.0
Hunter Long
iSHIT BTFO
Logan Kelly
Apple really needs to get back their "infallibility" sense, they're losing it
Easton Smith
It's a design feature!
Carson Gutierrez
This is why I upgrade my phone every year.
Logan Martinez
>iPhone
Landon Gonzalez
Now this is some advanced planned obsolescence.
David Parker
Reality distortion field has mostly dissipated.
Michael Long
>iphones are high quality compared to android Oh boy, I can't wait for icultists to defend this.
Robert Young
>spend 800$ on a phone >1 year of warranty I don't understand why people accept this, that alone should be enough of a signal of what a cheaply designed product it actualy is
Of course it's true, it's being reported and they pretty much showed it. There's nothing more trustworthy to shit on a company, than the guys who fix their engineering and design fuckups. Of all the people, Apple fucked the experts that know more about their products than the engineers who designed them.
It's every fucking year that Apple releases at least one flawed fucked up device.
Chase Martin
>It's every fucking year that Apple releases at least one flawed fucked up device.
So everything?
Jacob Gray
YOU
ARE
HOLDING
IT
WRONG
Gabriel Howard
top-notch engineering. product starting to fail just days before the announcement of the successor.
that's some 12-dimensional checkers.
Nicholas Adams
Not everything, but a good portion. The worst is how Apple delays any programs for fixing shit like with the trashcan graphical chipset fuckup, even over a year sometimes.
Luis Clark
INNOVATION
Leo Myers
DELETE THIS
Ethan Smith
>APPLE DID IT AGAIN! Absolutely! Apple is the only company ever to have production difficulties.
Samuel Nguyen
Found the iPajeet.
Austin Reyes
>only happened to iPhone 6 and 6 plus >not to S models >right next to the iphone 7 announcement What the fuck!? Will my SE shit the bed when they announce the iphone 8? Well, im not upgrading past iOS 10 for all that matters
Lincoln Brooks
>he thinks he has a choice
Josiah Robinson
Holy shit please delete this or my 14 kids will die of starvation
Noah Flores
POO
Xavier Scott
IN
Isaiah Adams
THE
Jason Flores
LOO
Jose Watson
>saved as ".jpg"
Jayden Hughes
Sup Forums does not support raw
Isaac Scott
ayyy
Luke Robinson
>tfw Pajeet has a better computer than you
Benjamin Perry
>The safest bet at this point is if the phone is under warranty to get it replaced by Apple. And, if it is not under warranty any longer, to find a repair shop that will replace the chips inside the device altogether.
Oh what about just not fucking buying iPhones anymore?
Mason Ortiz
But then you wouldn't give money to one of the greatest companies ever :^)
Jacob Wright
Apple is too mainstream for hipsters, user.
Charles Sanchez
...
Jayden Gonzalez
Apple can never be too mainstream for us hipster master race.
Anthony Turner
kek
Grayson Allen
Explain this... not a applefag so not sure whats this is really about
Seems kind of fishy... Se should calle it testing Mode. You can test any app forma free for 3 days or so.
Thomas Harris
I don't really see the problem here though. - All Apple products come with 2yrs of warranty. - Most people, including me, have insurance on it for 3-4 years. - After 3-4 years it's already too slow for the current iOS/apps, so you sell it.
What's the fuss about? For 4 years I can break it, people can steal it, whatever, and I get a replacement for free. (Yes, I can only get it stolen 3 times a year. Wow.)
Ps.: I am no fanboy, I have a Note, just saying that it's stupid to cry about it.
Sebastian Bailey
LMAO M A O
Connor Harris
a old greybeard rule of thumb for buying macs was 'never buy rev a'.
Alexander Ross
Haven't had this issue but the fingerprint reader on muh 6S was wonky as fuck for a couple of months. Like it was scraping against the screen cover. I've heard and read that many others had this same problem as well. Got better after those couple of months of scraping, as if something 'extra' got off of it. Seems like APL QC is shit.
Logan Collins
the problem is that the 6S is the revisioned "S" version. ...
Charles Torres
>- All Apple products come with 2yrs of warranty. no >- Most people, including me, have insurance on it for 3-4 years. laff.
Noah Rivera
So they didn't test the BGA solders for extended twisting forces. Shit happens, especially since it's a mass-produced consumer device. This might even be limited to a batch of devices (wrong soldering paste/temperature gradient). While this is a real problem to those affected I feel that it's being blown out of propotion. [note: the last Apple device I've owned was a G5 PowerMac. I habor no love for the company and avoid their products whenever possible.]
Chase Phillips
Its happening to the 6 models because they did not use metal plating on top plus there was no underfill under the unit. Plus the 6 is just more prone to bending in general. the 5s and 6s models have underfill and metal plating.
Evan Bailey
I have an iphone 6s plus, doesn't have these issues.
Hudson Sanchez
>We have also heard that this bug has caused a big headache for Apple Store employees in the past week, as people intentionally set the date back on demo iPhones and iPads in retail stores to break the products on the benches.
DEVILISH
Ian Turner
>While this is a real problem to those affected I feel that it's being blown out of propotion.
It is but mostly because Apple puts out an image of making the most premium perfect quality product out of all their competition.
I mean that's why even apple fans go berserk at minor flaws because they believe they're getting premium high quality products and are putting in the cash for it.
Justin Lopez
Do the 6S models have underfill or have they just not been out for long enough for the problem to become widespread? It's taken some time to become an epidemic on the 6.
Josiah Sanchez
>So they didn't test the BGA solders for extended twisting forces. Shit happens, especially since it's a mass-produced consumer device. This might even be limited to a batch of devices (wrong soldering paste/temperature gradient). Every single iPhone 6 (and 6 Plus) doesn't have underfill on the Touch IC. End of story. It's not a limited run issue, it's not a mistake in manufacture. For some reason they decided to stop underfilling the Touch IC in the iPhone 6 (they had underfilled it in previous generations) and that resulted in it failing at much greater rates.
Camden Moore
The 6S does have underfill. The reason this is only now becoming apparent is due to Apple having a pretty solid warranty replacement program but now that most warranties are wearing off people are going to specialist shops to fix the issue.
Jason Turner
>So they didn't test the BGA solders for extended twisting forces. Shit happens, You are absolutely right. You cannot expect high-quality engineering and stress-testing from a company, which is mainly selling low-end budget-devices. The margins just can't cover that kind of service.
Gabriel Miller
>cheaping out on soldering on a $700 phone kek
Kevin Morales
Happened to my gf's. What a pile of shit.
Sebastian Martin
>laff. > Xperia Z3C Took it back 4 times, it's in repair now. Flaps come off, water went into camera, blurry cam pics. > S3 Overheated, dropped calls, battery buffed up. Took it back 3 times. > Note 2 Started dropping calls, system froze, took it back once. > Xperia Sola Screen popped out after a few months of use, was unusable, they refunded my purchase. > HTC One X Took it back around... phew, 6 times? Then they gave up and refunded me.
Protip: New phones suck when it comes to quality & durability.
Logan Brown
Yes and tell me which lagdroid noupdates malwareappstore phone has better?
John Watson
If you had to return that many phones it's obviously you.
Julian Gray
>Galaxy S3 Using it since 2012 Replaced battery for 5$ Lags but works
>Galaxy S4 Friend has it Dropped it over 9000 times Whole screen is shattered Bezels falling off Camera is cracked It still works tho including the touch screen
Hudson Fisher
>mfw I beat the shit out of my chinkwei and absolutely nothing has broken yet
Lucas Gray
>Note 3 >Screen cracked to oblivion >Bezels battered and scratched >Dropped hundreds of times >Battery still holds out and charges properly >Installing custom ROM
Three more years big boy, three more!
Henry Clark
>Actually liked the idea of vape pens or bubblers at least >Was gonna be a goofy faggot and try and find a corn cop pipe with a bubbler installed in it.
>Saw some obnoxious pair of fuckfaces using vape pens at an I-Hop >Fucking things make me physically nauseous now.
Goddamn it.
Easton Rodriguez
> people can't call me up > call drop > no signal > it's you!
> battery bulges up even though I never played games on it > it's you! ...
yeah it is definitely me mate.
Mine was an S3 LTE, maybe it was shittier? I don't know man.
Nathaniel Jones
> not using cases > not having a tempered glass on top
Well user...
Noah Torres
Nice strawman, does your butt really hurt that bad?
Ryan Lopez
>What is BGA?
Sebastian Collins
>iPhone
Mason Ortiz
This happened to my wife's son's iPhone. I hope it doesn't happen to mine.
Xavier Roberts
IT JUST WORKS
Michael Wilson
2 days ago thread, thank you pajeet rakesh for bumping this thread
Ian Fisher
You seem upset, iPajeet
Carson Stewart
Wife's son's? Dumb motherfucker, he is YOUR son!
Parker Gonzalez
>iPhone Found your problem.
Chase Morales
Just 2 weeks from the announcement of the new iPhone, what a happy coincidence.
Josiah Thompson
kek
Easton Barnes
He is a cuck aka stepdad
Isaac Kelly
good thing i have a 6S :^)
Levi Rodriguez
>good thing i eat shit from my hands :^)
That's nothing to brag about.
Hunter Peterson
If it's a design flaw it doesn't matter if it's under warranty or not
Colton Stewart
>another man's genes >your son KEK There's open-mindedness, and then there's retardation. Picking the one stupid bitch out of over 2 billion on this planet who has another man's baggage is extreme retardation and the bottom-of-the-barrel-level-catch.
Jayden Richardson
Fucking incredible
Austin Ramirez
You must give off a field off some sort to kill that many devices! Or just horrible luck
Logan Barnes
>iPhones start breaking literally 2 weeks before the new one is announced
Tyler Long
DELET
Julian Wilson
We don't put up with this shit in Australia and I think Europe is the same. Apple interprets Australian Consumer Law to mean at least an additional year of warranty-like service. Systematically it auto-covers Australian purchased iOS and Macs for 2 years, but beyond that you can argue to a manager why you think it should still be covered beyond 2 years and they have the discretion to approve it, especially for Macs if they're less than 3 years.
Logan Kelly
Ahhh so this is the superior Apple design. Good to know.
Isaac Wright
Stop wasting your parents hard earned money, you greedy bastard, your parents probably have to skip meals just so you can pay for your little toys.
