Dropped my phone (11 pro) Friday - wallet-type cover - but it flipped open and
the phone landed face down in a gritty car park.
Apple cost is £289
Popped into the local town and paid the inpdependent £90 for a 3rd party repair. Very neat, all seemed fine but... I have immediately noticed that the battery is draining far more quickly than it did before - needing a charge late-afternoon - never needed to do that before.
Looking at the battery usage graphs which shows usage against battery charge and it's clear that the pattern of energy consumption changed significantly from that point.
Does this sound plausible?
Dropped my phone (11 pro) Friday - wallet-type cover - but it flipped open and
the phone landed face down in a gritty car park.
Apple cost is £289
Popped into the local town and paid the inpdependent £90 for a 3rd party repair. Very neat, all seemed fine but... I have immediately noticed that the battery is draining far more quickly than it did before - needing a charge late-afternoon - never needed to do that before.
Looking at the battery usage graphs which shows usage against battery charge and it's clear that the pattern of energy consumption changed significantly from that point.
Does this sound plausible?
Am 14.03.23 um 09:25 schrieb jeremy:
Dropped my phone (11 pro) Friday - wallet-type cover - but it flipped open and
the phone landed face down in a gritty car park.
Apple cost is £289
Popped into the local town and paid the inpdependent £90 for a 3rd party
repair. Very neat, all seemed fine but... I have immediately noticed that the
battery is draining far more quickly than it did before - needing a charge >> late-afternoon - never needed to do that before.
Looking at the battery usage graphs which shows usage against battery charge >> and it's clear that the pattern of energy consumption changed significantly >> from that point.
Does this sound plausible?
Very much so. £290 vs £90 says a lot.
The screen is the component with the highest energy consumption of a smartphone.
Am 14.03.23 um 09:25 schrieb jeremy:
Dropped my phone (11 pro) Friday - wallet-type cover - but it flipped open and
the phone landed face down in a gritty car park.
Apple cost is £289
Popped into the local town and paid the inpdependent £90 for a 3rd party
repair. Very neat, all seemed fine but... I have immediately noticed that the
battery is draining far more quickly than it did before - needing a charge >> late-afternoon - never needed to do that before.
Looking at the battery usage graphs which shows usage against battery charge >> and it's clear that the pattern of energy consumption changed significantly >> from that point.
Does this sound plausible?
Very much so. £290 vs £90 says a lot.
The screen is the component with the highest energy consumption of a smartphone.
Very much so. £290 vs £90 says a lot.
The screen is the component with the highest energy consumption of a smartphone.
So effectively they've replaced an expensive screen with a cheaper
screen using an entirely different technology. In particular, OLED doesn't take any power when pixels are off, whereas for LCD the power consumption mostly depends on the backlight brightness.
On 14 Mar 2023 at 15:36:37 GMT, "Theo" <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
So effectively they've replaced an expensive screen with a cheaper
screen using an entirely different technology. In particular, OLED doesn't >> take any power when pixels are off, whereas for LCD the power consumption
mostly depends on the backlight brightness.
Yep that's what I was informed of today when I went the genius bar @ Basingstoke today - they ran diagnostics etc and found everything to be in OK shape (except the screen)...
Am 14.03.23 um 23:19 schrieb jeremy:
On 14 Mar 2023 at 15:36:37 GMT, "Theo" <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
So effectively they've replaced an expensive screen with a cheaper
screen using an entirely different technology. In particular, OLED doesn't
take any power when pixels are off, whereas for LCD the power consumption >> mostly depends on the backlight brightness.
Yep that's what I was informed of today when I went the genius bar @ Basingstoke today - they ran diagnostics etc and found everything to be in OK
shape (except the screen)...
Not really a surprise. What are you gonna do?
Am 14.03.23 um 23:19 schrieb jeremy:
On 14 Mar 2023 at 15:36:37 GMT, "Theo" <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> >> wrote:
So effectively they've replaced an expensive screen with a cheaper
screen using an entirely different technology. In particular, OLED doesn't >>> take any power when pixels are off, whereas for LCD the power consumption >>> mostly depends on the backlight brightness.
Yep that's what I was informed of today when I went the genius bar @
Basingstoke today - they ran diagnostics etc and found everything to be in OK
shape (except the screen)...
Not really a surprise. What are you gonna do?
On 15 Mar 2023 at 05:55:56 GMT, "Joerg Lorenz" <hugybear@gmx.ch> wrote:
Not really a surprise. What are you gonna do?
Well the local supplier who fitted the screen agreed to refund me if I returned the screen. So I had intended to just get Apple to replace the screen
and return the current screen to me so I can give it to the guy for my refund.
But, oh no, Apple policy means they simply won't give you the old screen back (only disks) - so I would be paying 289 to Apple and wouldn't be able to get the refund (so total cost of a moment's carelessness now £380...) - and so potentially a trade-on or private sale and buy a new (or perhaps refurb) phone
would be an approach.
But instead I contacted another well-regarded Apple (local) specialist who is Apple Certified and who for £150 would put on a genuine Apple screen and return the current screen to me for me to get my refund. All of which has now come to pass.
Fingers crossed, the new display appears to be OK :)
On 15 Mar 2023 at 05:55:56 GMT, "Joerg Lorenz" <hugy...@gmx.ch> wrote:
Am 14.03.23 um 23:19 schrieb jeremy:
On 14 Mar 2023 at 15:36:37 GMT, "Theo" <theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> >> wrote:
So effectively they've replaced an expensive screen with a cheaper
screen using an entirely different technology. In particular, OLED doesn't
take any power when pixels are off, whereas for LCD the power consumption
mostly depends on the backlight brightness.
Yep that's what I was informed of today when I went the genius bar @
Basingstoke today - they ran diagnostics etc and found everything to be in OK
shape (except the screen)...
Not really a surprise. What are you gonna do?Well the local supplier who fitted the screen agreed to refund me if I returned the screen.
So I had intended to just get Apple to replace the screen
and return the current screen to me so I can give it to the guy for my refund.
But, oh no, Apple policy means they simply won't give you the old screen back
(only disks)
- so I would be paying 289 to Apple and wouldn't be able to get
the refund (so total cost of a moment's carelessness now £380...) - and so potentially a trade-on or private sale and buy a new (or perhaps refurb) phone
would be an approach.
But instead I contacted another well-regarded Apple (local) specialist who is
Apple Certified and who for £150 would put on a genuine Apple screen
return the current screen to me for me to get my refund. All of which has now
come to pass.
Fingers crossed, the new display appears to be OK :)
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