• manualoverride@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m going to respectfully disagree; had the phone kept shutting down you would have gone to Apple or a 3rd party repairer and got a new battery for 30-80£€$.

    By masking the real issue and just giving you a poor experience, you wonder if it was always like that, or if there is something wrong at all, maybe you compare it with a snappy new phone and decide to upgrade for 1000£€$

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        19 hours ago

        Where are you getting an iPhone for less than $160 that still gets security updates??

        I can replace my iPX for about $200 for a refurbished one, but not get an 11 which will only have 9 more months of updates. I can probably get a used 11 with an already trashed (<70%) battery for $160.

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          19 hours ago

          I don’t know. I usually buy used pixel devices, but that’s a good point. If you are trying to plan the replacement costs for an iPhone and you can repair the battery for $30-80, that’s a steal.

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        Half the price isn’t bad to get more longevity out of a phone. And a different used phone will probably have to have its battery replaced fairly soon enough, too

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          At that point my phone is usually cracked and worth upgrading, but with each phone I go through I try to take better care of it. But so far I’ve never liked a phone so much that it was worth replacing the battery. But I have bought the exact same model of phone 2-3 times as replacements (esp when I broke one by dropping it)

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            19 hours ago

            This may be the difference here, I have never broken a phone, my iPhone 6 became my dads and is still going, and my current phone is the iPX I bought over 8 years ago.

            You probably need to take better care of your stuff. 😀

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              19 hours ago

              Story of my life lol. I have butterfingers, and am distractable in ways that end up with not taking good care of things :(