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treeroy

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Hello, I am having some major issues with my iphone 7 on ios 13.3.1

It is playing up big time and causing me a headache.

A few times in the past week, i haven't been able to call. If I try dialing, nothing happens; equally people ave told me they called me and a message said 'phone not registered', while my phone does not indicate any missed call.
i've restarted the phone, and it works fine.
THen some other time the same thing happens, restart and its fine.

A couple days ago the phone speaker was making a very loud static noise when calling (no other sounds/voice, just loud static). Restart, and it's fine.

Yesterday, the haptic feedback stopped working. Home button was useable like normal, but couldn't "feel" it, touching it as if the phone was off, just solid. Restarted the phone, it's fine.

The phone also gets warm quite easily.

Also the battery is very bad and drains quickly. It also recharges very quickly. If I just listen to music passively it drains like 20% battery per half hour.

I posting this now because I just pulled out my phone and its on 1% charge. 1 hour ago it was on 100% and i have not used it more than about 2 minutes just to check facebook and check the time.
I've just plugged it in and I bet it will be back to full charge within half an hour.

edit: yes It's gone from 1% to 96% now in 20 minutes.

ANy ideas what could be causing any of these ridiculous issues? Thank you!
sorry for long post.
 
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How many cycles are on that battery?

That's a lot of problems and I'm wondering if it's all down to the battery.
Are you asking me a question (I'm not sure what you mean?) or just commenting that the battery must have been used a lot!

I purchased it about 9 months ago, it was a Refurbished phone.

Is that possible for the non functioning phone to be linked to the battery.. ? Seems strange to me. It's really odd that it fixes itself upon restarting.

I was thinking more along the lines of:
My screen is very badly cracked, and along the top and bottom bezels alot of the "white bit", is missing, so you can see the internals of the phone. In the rain, little bits of water must get right into the phone.
Could that be causing it?
 
Are you asking me a question (I'm not sure what you mean?) or just commenting that the battery must have been used a lot!

I purchased it about 9 months ago, it was a Refurbished phone.

Is that possible for the non functioning phone to be linked to the battery.. ? Seems strange to me. It's really odd that it fixes itself upon restarting.

I was thinking more along the lines of:
My screen is very badly cracked, and along the top and bottom bezels alot of the "white bit", is missing, so you can see the internals of the phone. In the rain, little bits of water must get right into the phone.
Could that be causing it?
You might want to look into a different phone, sounds like yours is near EOL.
 
You might want to look into a different phone, sounds like yours is near EOL.
Thanks. Frustratingly, I was actually given an iphone 6S a few weeks ago for free. I started using it and decided that it wasn't an upgrade on my 7 as the battery life was no better; so I sold it and went back to the 7. Regretting that now, as the 7 is actually way way way worse.


I've been trying to use my phone this weekend, and seems that calling is no longer possible.


For what it's worth, do you think there's any way of repairing the phone? I held off on a replacement screen for a long time as the phone still functioned and didn't want to spend £50 on a screen.
But if I'm looking at buying another phone.. which I don't want to do, and I'm not buying another cheapo second hand phone... then a repair is better than £400 etc for a new one.
 
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I would consider replacing the phone with something your comfortable purchasing. If you want an iPhone and you like the form factor of the 7, the iPhone 8 would be your best bet. It has improvements over your 7 and it will be supported for quite a while. I would say wait for the new SE2/9 but it sounds like you need a phone now.. If you want something more current and don't mind spending the money, the iPhone 11 would be a big upgrade over the 7 in all respects and would be a phone that you can use for a long time..
 
I would consider replacing the phone with something your comfortable purchasing. If you want an iPhone and you like the form factor of the 7, the iPhone 8 would be your best bet. It has improvements over your 7 and it will be supported for quite a while. I would say wait for the new SE2/9 but it sounds like you need a phone now.. If you want something more current and don't mind spending the money, the iPhone 11 would be a big upgrade over the 7 in all respects and would be a phone that you can use for a long time..
Thanks for the advice. I think I will replace the phone. I am trying to not spend money at the moment though (and don't want a new 11 / X whatever anyway).
Looking at maybe getting a refurbished SE but trying to make sure I get a good one. Loved loved loved my SE (previous phone to this 7) and prefer that small form factor to the large(r) 7. I realise that by 2020 standards the 7 is small :p but it is still bigger than I'd like ideally.
 
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