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Re: Motorola and iFixit partner to sell phone repair kits

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Post by CaptSpify » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 11:45 PM UTC

balls187 wrote: post #129

CaptSpify wrote: post #104

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Because we saw the evidence: The batteries they shipped started dying early. I'm willing to believe that they did do proper testing and ignored the results, but I'm not sure that's better.

I'm not a battery engineer, nor a battery tester, so I cannot comment on what a proper test would be, and if that would include testing the battery for extended period of time prior to releasing them to market.

But you don't need to be a battery engineer to understand statistics. If these batteries are dying early, then either Apple didn't do enough testing, they did and ignored the results.

Re: Motorola and iFixit partner to sell phone repair kits

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Post by bubblethink » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 3:48 AM UTC

nickflood wrote: post #139

bubblethink wrote: post #70

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>I'd rather take a Nexus Pixels, the ones bought from the google store (as opposed to retail channels), do allow you to unlock the bootloader, but that is still an implicit network permission check. You cannot get to the oem unlocking screen without turning on wifi, which is basically how it phones home to check if you are allowed to unlock it.

That is because the phone has theft prevention feature which needs internet connection to know whether the phone was not stolen before allowing the user to bypass the theft check forever with a new rom

That could be, but nexus didn't have that. The internet check started with Pixels due to the verizon deal. So the main reason for it seems to be to check if the phone is in the verizon database since all the phones ship with the same ROM.

Re: Motorola and iFixit partner to sell phone repair kits

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Post by fraudsyndrome » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 6:05 AM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #132

fraudsyndrome wrote: post #120

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$250 in Australia

For the part only or the part and labour?

Sorry for the late reply - part and labour from the official Apple store. Although prices can be as low as $30 for non-genuine ones. Obviously screen will be easier to crack if you don't take care of it but damn it's way cheaper.