It's good to get the word out to warn others about these batteries. Luckily, the battery kit was sonly $23 or so so I'm not out a ton of money. I've gotten no reply from iFixit so far.
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Are ifixit batteries good?
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The Problem is nobody wants to spend the money on OEM parts. They would rather opt for the cheaper alternative, but you might get cheaper results. As Someone else alluded to above me, if you have the option, pay for the OEM part, especially given how much you require battery life on a daily basis with smart phones.
Have u guys been living in a cave? Due to Apple recent bruh-ha-ha, Apple has a usd$29 bux battery replacement program until the end of this year. No need to go to cheap corner mechanic when the dealer will do it for 29.
That's not the only problem:
When the battery gets low, it does not shut off at 0%, it shuts off when the voltage drops too low. Then it may restart, shut off, restart... until it is dead.
Charging it, you do not get the low battery graphic. It will charge until it gets just enough voltage to start up, then it will shut off, restart, shut off, etc. Until enough of a charge has built up to stay on.
This happens even though the battery indicator works as expected.
I have no gripes about the quality of their stuff. But I regret not going to Apple. (My iPhone was slow as hell, and I swapped the battery about a week before Apple announced their battery program)
My 6S+ is on iOS 10 and jailbroken. I will not risk Apple having to upgrade the phone just to replace the battery.
iFixit respond to my email stating that there is an iOS bug that can sometimes make the software not communicate with the battery status. I've heard of this over the years and I believe that is what has happened. Sometimes my battery will show 91.2 % and then drop 20% in 20 minutes. They told me to do a DFU restore and that should restore the software communicating with the battery.
They also said if this doesn't work, they ship me a new battery.
I may just pay the guy who replaced my 6S+ battery to come back out to my house and replace my 6S battery. Although the replacement 6S+ battery is not an Apple one, it's capacity still states 100% after 31 charges and it behaves just as it did new.
Apple is doing $30 battery replacements this year. Not sure why you wouldn’t take advantage of that since the battery, tax, shipping, and tools will cost more.
Some of us replaced our batteries on our out of warranty phones before Apple decided to drop the battery prices.
Now that we have, Apple won't touch them.
That’s a great point. Especially considering that iFixit kits are not usually not that inexpensive when you factor in shipping, and I just think Apple if services the phone with their batteries, it places the liability on them and not the customer.
Ah, OK, some of u with "special" circumstances can't have Apple do it, then ya, your choices will be some unknown vendor from Ebay, or iFixit, I give Ifixit my money, but again, ya, Apple as of late is been on their greedy bend again, making new software reject non-Apple hardware, oh well, love 'em or hate 'em.
iOS' battery health is designed to read a specific battery's circuitry; not surprising that it doesn't read some third party battery. You have no idea if that other battery even has the necessary circuitry to be diagnosed accuratly.
I discovered something concerning my 10.1.1 jailbreak. After rebooting so the phone wasn't in the jailbreak state, the battery seemed usable although not at 100% capacity. When rejialbreaking with Yalu, the battery was unstable again.
I used Cydia eraser to delete the jailbreak and start fresh with nothing installed from Cydia and so far the capacity has gone up to 96.44% with 14 cycles.
Also, it appears now that iFixit it was correct. There is a bug in iOS that make the battery perform poorly. My 6S was on 10.1.1 and was jailbroken. When I rebooted the phone so that it wasn't in it's jailbroken state, the battery was pretty much normal. When I applied the JB, the battery would only last a few hours. I restored the phone to 11.3.1 and I have a full day in of standby and the battery is at 89%.
I used Cydia eraser to delete the jailbreak and start fresh with nothing installed from Cydia and so far the capacity has gone up to 96.44% with 14 cycles.
This is what I did with my 6S. I ordered the batteries back in November before the whole throttling thing even became news. I also had the battery in my 6S+ replaced in November.
Also, it appears now that iFixit it was correct. There is a bug in iOS that make the battery perform poorly. My 6S was on 10.1.1 and was jailbroken. When I rebooted the phone so that it wasn't in it's jailbroken state, the battery was pretty much normal. When I applied the JB, the battery would only last a few hours. I restored the phone to 11.3.1 and I have a full day in of standby and the battery is at 89%.
The Battery's are good the same company make then to all include Apple. Apple buy them too
Possibly. I never mentioned in my email to support that the iPhone was jailbroken. She got this idea from what I mentioned the phone was doing and this was before I figured out that the battery acted normal without the JB active so they've had this issue pop up before from people.
Jailbreak on - problem
Jailbreak off - no problem
Doesn’t sound like “possibly” to me unless I misunderstood what you posted.
I didn't;t give it a long enough time to see if the problem was completely solved by simply rebooting the phone. This is why I say possible. I have it maybe 15 minutes at the most.
This is inaccurate. iFixit's batteries are not OEM. They are actually of the same quality or better.
Unless otherwise specified, the batteries iFixit that sells are made to the same specifications as an Apple OEM part, but cannot be classified as 'OEM' because they are not made by Apple.
For iFixit's definition of what makes a part OEM, see here.
(Apple doesn't like to sell their OEM parts to just anyone, so they are extremely hard to find.) iFixit's parts are brand new, fully tested, and are held to higher standards, specifically iFixit Quality. All of iFixit's batteries come with a 1-Year Warranty as well, which is nice.
With this quality in mind, It is significantly more affordable to buy an iFixit battery replacement kit and do it yourself, in comparison to taking it to an Apple repair shop to repair it. (A $20+ difference.)
iFixit's parts are brand new, fully tested, and are held to higher standards, specifically iFixit Quality. All of iFixit's batteries come with a 1-Year Warranty as well, which is nice.
(Apple doesn't like to sell their OEM parts to just anyone, so they are extremely hard to find.)
Unless otherwise specified, the batteries iFixit that sells are made to the same specifications as an Apple OEM part, but cannot be classified as 'OEM' because they are not made by Apple.
For iFixit's definition of what makes a part OEM, see here.
With this quality in mind, It is significantly more affordable to buy an iFixit battery replacement kit and do it yourself, in comparison to taking it to an Apple repair shop to repair it.
Unless otherwise specified, the batteries iFixit that sells are made to the same specifications as an Apple OEM part, but cannot be classified as 'OEM' because they are not made by Apple.
For iFixit's definition of what makes a part OEM, see here.
(Apple doesn't like to sell their OEM parts to just anyone, so they are extremely hard to find.) iFixit's parts are brand new, fully tested, and are held to higher standards, specifically iFixit Quality. All of iFixit's batteries come with a 1-Year Warranty as well, which is nice.
With this quality in mind, It is significantly more affordable to buy an iFixit battery replacement kit and do it yourself, in comparison to taking it to an Apple repair shop to repair it. (A $20+ difference.)
[doublepost=1548877522][/doublepost]iFixit batteries are actually quite amazing and held to great quality control standards.
iFixit's parts are brand new, fully tested, and are held to higher standards, specifically iFixit Quality. All of iFixit's batteries come with a 1-Year Warranty as well, which is nice.
(Apple doesn't like to sell their OEM parts to just anyone, so they are extremely hard to find.)
Unless otherwise specified, the batteries iFixit that sells are made to the same specifications as an Apple OEM part, but cannot be classified as 'OEM' because they are not made by Apple.
For iFixit's definition of what makes a part OEM, see here.
With this quality in mind, It is significantly more affordable to buy an iFixit battery replacement kit and do it yourself, in comparison to taking it to an Apple repair shop to repair it.
Considering that the user you’re quoting hasn’t been active for almost 2 years now, and this thread hasn’t really been active for 6+ months, I’d hope that everyone has gotten everything sorted by now.