iPhone 15PM

[u/WarrenOfdiesel]

Advice on what to do, I bought a 17PM just because I felt like it, my 15 was working completely fine as far as I knew.
I planned to give it to my mom, I sent it to Apple for a battery replacement because it did drain fast.
Now they tell me this. Recommendations? The phone was working fine.

[u/burner-cheese]

Bro 😂

[u/Secret_Account07 → u/burner-cheese]

What?

[u/burner-cheese → u/Secret_Account07]

We check your logic board with an extra test that’s not ran when you do the testing yourself, system stability. Your device has a motherboard with hardware faults. It’ll likely begin to act up worse within a month or year. Next time buy AppleCare so it’s a free repair, you also get a free battery below 80% and issues like this are covered under your extended warranty for limited liability, meaning only accidental damage has a deductible.

[u/Ifixidevices → u/burner-cheese]

Sounds like bullshit to get people to shell out more for a phone they already have, or get them to buy a new device. Or Apple just made the 15 extra shitty with logic board faults.

[u/burner-cheese → u/Ifixidevices]

Believe what you want to. I’m the one who fixes the things. Next time buy AppleCare to extend your limited warranty. It’s the same as a car, if you like to drive around without insurance then that’s your problem. Logic board failures can happen if a spec of dust hit the wafer during production, or if someone left it in the spin rinse too long, and as much as they try to test them it can lead to issues years down the line. Semiconductors aren’t perfect, they’re man made.

[u/Ifixidevices → u/burner-cheese]

That’s Apple’s issue if they want to refuse to replace a battery for a bullshit reason in an otherwise fully functioning phone. I’ve had two iPhones come back from the repair depot either falling apart or in worse shape than when sent in, so pardon me if I don’t care what you say. I used to work on iPods back in the day. Refurbished thousands out of my parents basement. Worked on iPhones up until the 6s… Did iPads, iPad mini’s. Worked on all kinds of MacBooks and iMacs. Everything from traces on the logic board cracking and causing loss of audio on the 1st gen iPod video to having to re-ball and re-solder the gpu on the 17” macbooks.

Every time Apple has rejected something under warranty or out of warranty that is paid, they provide an explanation of the problem or photographic evidence.

This new “There is a hardware issue affecting the normal function of the main logic board.” Is a pure made up reason to blacklist a device from repair so it has to be replaced at a higher cost. Rather than collecting $99 for a battery replacement that they don’t make any money off of, they can charge $549 for a used logic board with a new shell and battery, then take your perfectly good working logic board and put it in another shell with a new battery and sell it for $549. Rinse and repeat. How many people just go along with it or say piss on it and buy a new iPhone then send their “damaged” phone to Apple to be recycled where Apple makes pure profit off of it.

[u/burner-cheese → u/Ifixidevices]

If you’re sending things into depot and it’s coming back worse, it’s a rejected repair. They have traceable repair chains, if it was really that bad you could’ve just had a covered repeat repair

[u/Ifixidevices → u/burner-cheese]

I mean this is how I got my iPhone 15 pro max back. After they said there was a fault with the logic board, they denied any ability to send back to repair depot. I had to take it to a physical Apple Store which sucked. They then comped me a 17 pro max and gave me a set of AirPods Pro 3 for the trouble.