The 5th digit in the SN indicates the build week. I have F17VPXXXXXXX. So P is week 46.
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The iPhone 7 has been around for more than a year, so yes, a refurbished unit is expected. Also, the iCloud glitch you are referring to is a known iOS bug and has nothing to do with whoever previously owned your phone. I have had it on almost every brand-new retail iPhone while restoring from backup.
My point was that my iPhone 7 which was a replacement from Apple was a refurb with a manufacturer week of October when clearly it wasn’t built in October.
Manufacturer week doesn’t mean anything once launch is over.
And you’re wrong.
Your refurbiished unit was manufactured in October. Apple’s contractors (factories) disassemble a phone when they receive it and reassemble based on what needs to be done to it. In most cases they put a new battery in it as well. The whole thing gets wiped and assigned a new serial number/IMEI, hence they indicate the week when it was actually done.
There is no way to tell what has happened to your phone before. It might have been smashed and they replaced the entire front panel and battery, etc.
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I should have said it wasn't built as a new phone in October.
I dont think you guys understand. What you just described above is a refurbished or whatever apple wants to call it.
People here are saying that bc the manufacture date is this month, its a new phone. I said not always, because in the past ive gotten replacements with manufacture dates of that same month.
Therefore it isnt guaranteed. Because the X is so new, its most likely new, but not guaranteed.
Well, techically, it’s a new phone.
They didn’t just wipe it with a cloth and hand it over to you. They disassemble the whole thing and reassemble it with new or refurbished components: it does go through a manufacturing process though.
I use http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html to lookup the info using the SN.
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Update on my dilemma. I went back to the store, all the floor models have G6 serials and look great at typical viewing angles. I messed with the settings and even with TT and NS on and brightness down to normal level they looked better than mine. I showed a sales associate the difference and he kindly showed a genius who agreed the yellow/blue two tone look was wrong and offered to order me a replacement, or refund/rebuy. I returned it, will reorder a new one and hope for the best.
How can I know that I got refurbished device? I should get mine old X replaced, so hopefully it will be brand new... thank you
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All replacement white box X’s at the moment are brand new pulled from
Production line units. This will be the case until well after Christmas.
Actually...what I was saying about my white box replacements, is that they were built in week 42...which is before the iPhone X was released......hence they’re brand new units.
I don't think week or factory code is important.
Yes from what I can see similar factories usually have similar colour temperatures.
In australia we get F2 and DNQ factories. Launch day was F1 and most demos are F1s and DNQ but we don't get F1 anymore.
IMO DNQ have a very reddish undertone and can come across very dirty looking with truetone on but have better uniformity (not great still for a US$1000 device)
F2 are generally yellowish blue but uniformity is not always there. Does look better with truetone similar to the iPhone 8.
Ive see the apple iPhone Xs on display in the apple store and I gotta disagree... this is possibly the only year where all the demo units are horrid. Uneven screen, yellowish tint bottom only... If u are looking at their devices at full brightness you won't see it. Drop the brightness to half and turn off True Tone and then look at it.
In the past you would be able to compare your flawed display to a demo unit and hopefully a genius would sympathise and u try the panel lottery again. This year that is not happening
I bought an iPhone 8 plus on day 1 and the screen was spectacular for an LCD but colour temp was spot on.
I have 2 iPhones X now. One a DNQ and its violet IMO under most lights. But uniformity is good. It has dust in the lens. It has uneven paint work on the side.
The second is a F2 and it has a yellowish screen but under most lights looks perfectly fine. Uniformity however is an issue. The bottom is a tad bit whiter or brighter. How this happens on an OLED I have no idea. Unless the shift is so bad that when looking at it on, it makes the bottom appear whiter...
I was so hoping 1 manufacture for OLED screens this year would stop this panel lottery. I was wrong and this has been the worse year for their screens. Pity because the X is an amazing device. I sold off my iPhone 8 plus otherwise I would just keep it and return the X.
My next option is to completely give up the whole apple ecosystem and get a pixel XL where LG makes their panels and with the latest software update makes the display on par to the S8 with vibrancy
Yes from what I can see similar factories usually have similar colour temperatures.
In australia we get F2 and DNQ factories. Launch day was F1 and most demos are F1s and DNQ but we don't get F1 anymore.
IMO DNQ have a very reddish undertone and can come across very dirty looking with truetone on but have better uniformity (not great still for a US$1000 device)
F2 are generally yellowish blue but uniformity is not always there. Does look better with truetone similar to the iPhone 8.
Ive see the apple iPhone Xs on display in the apple store and I gotta disagree... this is possibly the only year where all the demo units are horrid. Uneven screen, yellowish tint bottom only... If u are looking at their devices at full brightness you won't see it. Drop the brightness to half and turn off True Tone and then look at it.
In the past you would be able to compare your flawed display to a demo unit and hopefully a genius would sympathise and u try the panel lottery again. This year that is not happening
I bought an iPhone 8 plus on day 1 and the screen was spectacular for an LCD but colour temp was spot on.
I have 2 iPhones X now. One a DNQ and its violet IMO under most lights. But uniformity is good. It has dust in the lens. It has uneven paint work on the side.
The second is a F2 and it has a yellowish screen but under most lights looks perfectly fine. Uniformity however is an issue. The bottom is a tad bit whiter or brighter. How this happens on an OLED I have no idea. Unless the shift is so bad that when looking at it on, it makes the bottom appear whiter...
I was so hoping 1 manufacture for OLED screens this year would stop this panel lottery. I was wrong and this has been the worse year for their screens. Pity because the X is an amazing device. I sold off my iPhone 8 plus otherwise I would just keep it and return the X.
My next option is to completely give up the whole apple ecosystem and get a pixel XL where LG makes their panels and with the latest software update makes the display on par to the S8 with vibrancy
I agree in being disappointed that the OLED screens didn't solve for the screen lottery. I also have seen brighter, whiter screen bottoms on three Xs I have used and don't get how this can be given OLED tech. Perhaps an expert can share how brightness uniformity occurs on an OLED. We all understand how it happens with side-lighting and dispersion on an LCD. But where do lightness uniformity issues come from on an OLED? Is it a voltage issue? Angle of view on pixels?
i thought the same tbh i am confused as to how mine can be brighter on the side and bottom with oled?
nearly every iphone x that I have seen at the apple stores and local shops have a horrible pink tint at the edges.
mine is a little bit yellow all in all but fortunately nearly no pink or no pink spots at all. Its also quite brighter than many other iphone x
I am really shocked by quality control of these screens. seems like samsung can not deliver better and apple wants to sell and hopes that the costomes (like we do) just bare this mess.
The question (in law terms) where does a defect begin. Seems like these things have never gone to court. And: every iphone is different. Is one small pink spot already a defect in law terms? Well... that is very difficult to decide, but I would say no.
mine is a little bit yellow all in all but fortunately nearly no pink or no pink spots at all. Its also quite brighter than many other iphone x
I am really shocked by quality control of these screens. seems like samsung can not deliver better and apple wants to sell and hopes that the costomes (like we do) just bare this mess.
The question (in law terms) where does a defect begin. Seems like these things have never gone to court. And: every iphone is different. Is one small pink spot already a defect in law terms? Well... that is very difficult to decide, but I would say no.
I think that MacRumors should post a separate article on how everyone here says, "my unit was brighter than the display units". It's not the case, as the X caps the max brightness level when it gets warm. It's a hardware thing. You'd need to let them cool off and then compare again in order to see what's the actual max brightness is.
Mine is the same way a bit yellow looking at it straight on and with a little tilting its gets bluer and more true. I've contemplated on taking it back and exchanging it but who knows what the next one will look like and I don't want to get into that game. My phone has nothing else wrong with it that I know of.
I have bad OCD but in all reality majority of us will only keep it for a year and either sell them or if leasing hand them back to the carrier and get a new one anyways. Also what's not to say that apple doesn't release a fix to this in the near future.
I'm just setting my replacement device up now, and I'm happy to report that I seem to have found a good one. It's a nice bright screen with no pink border, and blue rather than pink tint when off-angle. I have a slight uniformity issue that is barely visible in normal use, but almost no banding whatsoever...and definitely no severe banding like the last 2 I had. OT for this thread, but it also doesn't have any large gaps around the screen like the last one had either.
Edit: The difference in screen from my last 2 was actually visible as soon as I powered on......the Apple logo is much cooler in colour.
Edit: The difference in screen from my last 2 was actually visible as soon as I powered on......the Apple logo is much cooler in colour.
Hi my name is oren and i am from israel and i find amazing solution for the problem of yellow screen in iphone x.
the solution is to make a yellow wash to the screen.
open true tone and night shift and put it on the high warm. put the brightness on high.
leave the iphone like that about half an hour preferably with a white background.
after that close true tone and night shift and look the screen and you love what you see. a nice white screen with no yellow at all.
do it again after a while and the yellowish disappear forever.
the solution is to make a yellow wash to the screen.
open true tone and night shift and put it on the high warm. put the brightness on high.
leave the iphone like that about half an hour preferably with a white background.
after that close true tone and night shift and look the screen and you love what you see. a nice white screen with no yellow at all.
do it again after a while and the yellowish disappear forever.
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Why are you forced to give up on the Apple ecosystem?? Just buy another 8 plus and be happy...