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Sunray said:
All the Apple shop people I've shown my phone to, have a small torch and a defluffing pin on a lanyard. First thing they they always do is defluff the port. Odd it didn't work for them or they didn't do it.
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yes, he used the defluffing pin on it and plugged it into one of the instore chargers and still nothing happened.
 
dynamicbaddog said:
yeah I was happy enough with my 5s. However a week ago it refused to charge. As its insured and I was only a year into my 2 year contract I thought I could just take it to the o2 shop and they would sort the problem out for me. However after testing it on one of their chargers they sent me up the Apple store in Stratford where after waiting ages to be seen by someone I was told it was either a software fault or the charging port needed replacing, they also informed me they couldn't fix/replace it for free as I was a week outside of the phones one year warranty. They told me to go back to the o2 shop and try to claim on the insurance, however when I did that they said I was not covered as the insurance only covers accidental damage such as dropping it or getting water in it. They said my only option was to buy out of contract and upgrade to the iphone 6. So I paid £240 to do that and now have just began another 2 year contract.
The next day my mate came round, blew into the charging port, plugged it into the charger and it came back to life! I managed to sell it back to o2 for £187 so recovered some of the money spend on buying out of the contract. Getting used to the larger screen now and I suppose the extra battery life and improved camera quality is a bonus..
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My charger port went on my iPhone 5 after 14 months..... i.e. 2 months out of contract. 3 were absolute dicks about it, but apple were quite handy.

Because I was on a 2 year contract apple told me that I could consider the device not fit for purpose, and that I could get it repaired by 3 under the european warranty law. Which is what I did..... I rang 3, told them I was filing a claim, and that I'd been quoted £212 to have it repaired by apple. 3 offered me 50% of the repair, which I rejected and told them I wanted the full amount. We settled on something like £207 in the end. So I had to pay apple for the repair and 3 refunded my bills for the next few months until the agreed amount was settled on.

I didn't half give the bloke in the 3 shop in crawley a rough time. He was a fucking prick though.

There seriously needs to be a law in place that means a phone should be under warranty for the duration of its contract.

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Actually Im just going to go an see three about my iPhone 6 now. I keep getting an intermittent problem where the volume up button gets stuck, it will happen for no reason in my pocket and is going to bloody deafen me if it keeps happening.
 
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Used Apple Pay on my iPhone 6 plus yesterday. Have to say it was an incredibly slick and quick experience! So much so that the girl serving me asked on how to set it up and I ended up giving her a tutorial![emoji16]
 
I've set it up but not used it yet because I'm in the habit of using my card all the time. I travel a lot and I like the idea of a backup in case I lose my wallet or have it nicked. Which, to be fair has never happened :D
 
spanglechick said:
any more news on there being a 'mini' version?
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Rumours persist that there will be a 4 inch successor to the iPhone 5c. Some suggest it will have a metal case rather than plastic. However some of the rumours suggest it won't be this year, but rather next year.

I dont place too much weight on rumours unless photos of parts start showing up, and as far as I know that hasn't happened on the 'mini' front yet.
 
elbows said:
Rumours persist that there will be a 4 inch successor to the iPhone 5c. Some suggest it will have a metal case rather than plastic. However some of the rumours suggest it won't be this year, but rather next year.

I dont place too much weight on rumours unless photos of parts start showing up, and as far as I know that hasn't happened on the 'mini' front yet.
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Thanks. True to form, my 5s is getting buggy, but it's about 5mm longer than my thumb can reach already.
 
elbows said:
Rumours persist that there will be a 4 inch successor to the iPhone 5c. Some suggest it will have a metal case rather than plastic. However some of the rumours suggest it won't be this year, but rather next year.

I dont place too much weight on rumours unless photos of parts start showing up, and as far as I know that hasn't happened on the 'mini' front yet.
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Yeah, I'm resigned to having to get a bigger one (but there's no way on earth I'd get the stupidly sized plus). Just wish they'd not bothered going larger, big screen phones are daft.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
Really? One of the things I love about mine is that it's as rock solid today as the day I got it. Is it one app in particular or more widespread?
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facebook - but that and safari are by far the most-used apps. ite recently it's been refusing to connect to the internet when 3g/4g becomes newly re-available after a signal blackout, or when it picks up a wifi connection - requiring a switching off and on.
 
spanglechick said:
facebook - but that and safari are by far the most-used apps. ite recently it's been refusing to connect to the internet when 3g/4g becomes newly re-available after a signal blackout, or when it picks up a wifi connection - requiring a switching off and on.
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I assume you've tried deleting and reinstalling Facebook? And are up to date with OS upgrades etc?
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
Yeah, I'm resigned to having to get a bigger one (but there's no way on earth I'd get the stupidly sized plus). Just wish they'd not bothered going larger, big screen phones are daft.
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I thought that until I got the plus. Now smaller phones feel tiny to me. The plus has become so central that I've actually got rid of my iPad too...
 
I've got a hand-me-down 5 that I wiped and now use mainly just in car or boat, just for music, camera and with my Gopro. Works brilliantly. Actual phone is a nexus 5, wouldn't want anything bigger than that tbh.

I can see apple keeping new but 'classic' style iPhone in the range beside the newer, bigger, fancier ones. If it ain't broke etc.
 
I had a 4S for a year but didn't really get into it. I could check my work and personal email on the phone, the weather, news, LinkedIn and the like but actually I don't want things like email to be that intrusive that I am forever checking it when I shouldn't be working.

Wondering what apps people find so compelling that they HAVE to have them always available?
 
sim667 said:
I don't know why you feel the need to comment on how short the queue is to buy one. You'd give them stick if there was a massive queue, and now you're giving them stick because theres a tiny queue...... :p
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Because the whole news story is about, eerr, the queue. Except there isn't one; therefore the news story is not a news story. It's actually yet more fanboy fluff from The Guardian to keep their pals at Apple happy. That is the story.
 
editor said:
Because the whole news story is about, eerr, the queue. Except there isn't one; therefore the news story is not a news story. It's actually yet more fanboy fluff from The Guardian to keep their pals at Apple happy. That is the story.
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Fuck knows why anyone would queue up to buy an electronic product..... have our lives become so vacuous and empty that we really feel the need to queue up to spend hundreds of pounds on something that really makes little difference to our lives on a day to day basis?

Its fucking painful tbh.
 
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