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Old 11-15-2017, 04:31 PM
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Confirming no signature required.

Also confirming that the Apple employees who suggested setting up as new to solve the Bluetooth problem were correct.

:-)
You mean set the iPhone up as new instead of restoring from an iCloud backup of your previous phone?
Old 11-15-2017, 04:33 PM
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I'm not sure when it's going to arrive it went from China to Kentucky in two days, but it's stayed there for a day, if it was going to make it to Tampa by tomorrow it would've left by now. Is it going to sit in Kentucky for a week!?
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Originally Posted by #1 STUNNA
You mean set the iPhone up as new instead of restoring from an iCloud backup of your previous phone?
yes

i had to do the same
Old 11-15-2017, 10:37 PM
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it’s in FL. It might make it tomorrow
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Originally Posted by 2012wagon
yes

i had to do the same
Alright I'll do that.
Old 11-16-2017, 12:12 PM
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Phone had the origin scan in China this morning when I woke up. Not sure how long it will take to get here but hopefully not till next week.
Old 11-16-2017, 12:23 PM
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I experienced the "stops working in cold weather" last night while trying to add some oil to my car in the balmy 39 degree weather (not exactly terribly cold) and looking up how to do it on the Youtubes..... the screen buttons stop responding to touch. I had to go inside the car and do the researching. Hope software update fixes it. Glaring omission from R&D

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Old 11-16-2017, 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by srika
I experienced the "stops working in cold weather" last night while trying to add some oil to my car in the balmy 39 degree weather (not exactly terribly cold) and looking up how to do it on the Youtubes..... the screen buttons stop responding to touch. I had to go inside the car and do the researching. Hope software update fixes it. Glaring omission from R&D

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wow that sucks.

haven't heard of that. I have had my 7plus heat up in 110F and refuse to work once.


With the lowest temp hitting 48-52 here this winter, hopefully the "cold" whether isn't an issue
Old 11-16-2017, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by 2012wagon
wow that sucks.

haven't heard of that. I have had my 7plus heat up in 110F and refuse to work once.


With the lowest temp hitting 48-52 here this winter, hopefully the "cold" whether isn't an issue
its a known issue and supposedly a software issue

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/09...d-weather-fix/
Old 11-16-2017, 12:44 PM
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It's here! Been playing with it for a couple hours. This thing is a lot faster than my 6, apparently Apple increased the flash storage speed with the 6s (and probably even faster since then). Restarting, upgrading iOS, restoring from backup are all much faster than my 6. I originally set the X up as new but since I'd lose all my previous texts, it wasn't worth it to me. I'll live with whatever Honda bugs there are.
Old 11-16-2017, 01:07 PM
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Congrats.

X is the best IPHONE EVER

I love mine.

Battery life is effin amazing
Old 11-16-2017, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by 2012wagon
Congrats.

X is the best IPHONE EVER


why would apple make a phone that's worse than the previous iPhones
Old 11-16-2017, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by 2012wagon

Battery life is effin amazing



its a brand new phone
Old 11-16-2017, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Mizouse


why would apple make a phone that's worse than the previous iPhones
acura makes worse cars than before....
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Oh yeah, Re: the screen becoming unresponsive in cold weather........ thanks Samsung.
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Originally Posted by #1 STUNNA
It's here! Been playing with it for a couple hours. This thing is a lot faster than my 6, apparently Apple increased the flash storage speed with the 6s (and probably even faster since then). Restarting, upgrading iOS, restoring from backup are all much faster than my 6. I originally set the X up as new but since I'd lose all my previous texts, it wasn't worth it to me. I'll live with whatever Honda bugs there are.
probably sped up even faster with APFS.
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from a friend:
Apparently it’s an algorithm that’s been set too rigidly. They have one to determine false presses (like palms) and it constantly evaluate what is a real press and what isn’t. It is getting ‘confused’ when going through a large temperature difference in a short amount of time. That’s why it starts working again after a short while, it’s recalibrated the algorithm and it works again
if this is the case, then Samsung is off the hook, it is not a hardware issue.
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more info here:

https://www.imore.com/iphone-x-cold-weather
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Cold Weather fix is here.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/16...es-ios-11-1-2/
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Old 11-16-2017, 03:30 PM
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Steve Jobs wouldn't have allowed this.

















Also, rumor is that future iPhones may have the same form factor as the X
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Old 11-16-2017, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by 2012wagon
acura makes worse cars than before....
Originally Posted by Mizouse
why would apple make a phone that's worse than the previous iPhones
Apple publishes documents very often, which detail how it expects that things are supposed to work, and what you need to do to be sure that your devices and applications work well with the iPhone.

The reason that some cars don't work well with Bluetooth after iOS 11, in Apple's opinion, is that the firmware in the infotainment systems was not designed the way that Apple told everyone that things need to be designed.

:-/

Regardless of what we want to think about this kind of conceit (!!), there's mounting evidence that they're making a change in iOS 11.2 that will take Bluetooth back to what it was. The beta testers on 11.2 beta 3 are saying that their connections that were broken before are working now.

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Also, rumor is that future iPhones may have the same form factor as the X
For a short while, it sounded like 2019 would eliminate the notch somehow.

But now they're saying the notch is staying.

And, further, a new iPhone X Plus and new generations of iPad will all have a version of the same notch.
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Originally Posted by George Knighton

And, further, a new iPhone X Plus and new generations of iPad will all have a version of the same notch.
Can't wait to order the X Plus.
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but i thought you loved the X
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Originally Posted by Mizouse


but i thought you loved the X
I do

just like I loved the miura, Diablo, murcie, aventador

newest Is always best (except for Acura cars)
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I ran benchmark comparing the speed increase between the 6 and the X using Passmark's PerformanceTest Mobile Benchmark

Here's the results for the 6 w/ 64GB


Here's the X w/ 256GB



That's faster than SATA 3 SSDs and makes the phone really snappy.
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Most of that disk speed increase happened with the 6s, the X numbers are similar to previous models since then. Also the fact that SSDs that have more storage are faster because they have more channels for the data to travel over (something like that, it's been a while), so there'll be improvements as well going from 64 to 256.
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Originally Posted by #1 STUNNA
I ran benchmark comparing the speed increase between the 6 and the X using Passmark's PerformanceTest Mobile Benchmark

Here's the results for the 6 w/ 64GB


Here's the X w/ 256GB



That's faster than SATA 3 SSDs and makes the phone really snappy.


for reference, i just ran it on my 64GB 6S and got 71.5 MB/s Write and 305MB/s Read
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Face ID is dope. It’s sooo much more reliable than Touch ID was for me. It’s so non intrusive but provides such good security that I’m enabling everywhere I can. I enabled in Outlook for iOS so there’s a Face ID prompt when you open that app. I’d like to have that for iMessages too or Tinder, FaceBook, Google Authenticator, etc so if someone were to take my phone when it was unlocked they’d still get prompted for Face ID when opening certain apps.
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Originally Posted by #1 STUNNA
Face ID is dope. It’s sooo much more reliable than Touch ID was for me. It’s so non intrusive but provides such good security that I’m enabling everywhere I can. I enabled in Outlook for iOS so there’s a Face ID prompt when you open that app. I’d like to have that for iMessages too or Tinder, FaceBook, Google Authenticator, etc so if someone were to take my phone when it was unlocked they’d still get prompted for Face ID when opening certain apps.
agreed
it’s awesome

however unlike you, I don’t use it. Mine stays unlocked always

Someone the other day commented while looking at my X.. how come face id is not active, as if that’s the only reason for owning the phone
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Originally Posted by 2012wagon
agreed
it’s awesome

however unlike you, I don’t use it. Mine stays unlocked always

Someone the other day commented while looking at my X.. how come face id is not active, as if that’s the only reason for owning the phone

you can have face ID turned off for unlocking the phone but can still use apple pay?
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I will say that I’m finding overall signal strength to not be good on the X.
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Originally Posted by 2012wagon
agreed
it’s awesome

however unlike you, I don’t use it. Mine stays unlocked always

Someone the other day commented while looking at my X.. how come face id is not active, as if that’s the only reason for owning the phone
do you have company email or other work data on your phone?
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Originally Posted by Sarlacc
I will say that I’m finding overall signal strength to not be good on the X.
I have noticed that at a given dBm and located in the same place at the same time, the iPhone X reports less signal strength on the screen than the LG V30 reports.

But, having said that, it is also my experience that the LG V30 can use data and make calls in a place and time that the iPhone X cannot work at all.

For whatever one person's experience is worth, there it is.
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No idea what is going on with my shipping. Seems like it has basically reset and started over.

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I will say that I’m finding overall signal strength to not be good on the X.
Network?
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Originally Posted by jupitersolo
Network?
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They did remove the ability to see the actual signal strength number in iOS 11 from the Field Test Menu :tinfoilhat:

Supposedly there's apps that will tell you the values but only when the apps are open


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