It Sucks When You Buy a Defective Device
Posted on 23 August 2008, at 4:46 pm, by Christopher Spera
I’ve been having one heck of a time with my iPhone 3G. I really have…and YES, over and above the problems that everyone and their brother have been documenting all over the Internet. I’ve been tweeting up a storm lately about how my iPhone 3G has been dropping calls, crashing, and more importantly, had the worst battery life known to man. At best, my battery would last about 90 minutes between charges, at the outside, 120 minutes; but that’s only if I had the thing in front of an air conditioning vent, keeping the battery cool.
I took my iPhone to the Oak Brook, IL Apple Store today, and had resident Genius Extrodinaire, Pat take a quick look at it. Yep… Totally defective. He said the battery had the worst standby time he has EVER seen in an iPhone/iPhone 3G; and it was likely the first defective iPhone 3G that he has seen. To make a long story short, he swapped it out without any other questions. I got the very LAST white replacement model they had in stock. I then watched him as he totally wiped my old iPhone of all content so that my “top secret” information wouldn’t fall into “enemy” hands.
I am in the process of restoring this new iPhone from a backup, and we’ll see how things go from here on in. It did NOT come with the 2.0.2 update on it. I had to update the device to that version before the restore would work. Then I’m gonna sync it, and see how things go…
I’m planning on giving it a full charge and then leaving it off the battery until I go to bed tonight, or it dies, which ever comes first. I need to give the battery a bit of exercise, and see how long it will last after a full charge…ESPECIALLY with the 2.0.2 software, now that I have a device with a (supposedly/hopefully) non-defective battery.
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Sheffield Avenue Weblog » Potential Defective iPhone Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 11:07 pm[...] wrong and I need to take it in before someone thinks it from my own hand. I actually found someone who had a similar issue and has taken it to the store I probably will take it to tomorrow. [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Good luck. I guess I have been one of the fortunate few that haven’t had any problems with my 3g.
August 24th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Bummer dude! Having no problems with mine down here in Ozz running 2.02.. But I do wonder how Apple expected to have all radio configurations working across the world with what looks to be one version of the iPhone. Many of my Ozz phones work horribly in the US and visa versa and they are GSM Quad-Band and WCDMA 850.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
The device has been off the charger most of the day, and is just NOW at 20% charge. We went to church today at 10:30, and I haven’t had it back on the charger since we left early this morning..
Uh-huh… there was something definitely wrong with the original device.