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I’m curious whether anyone who was organically affected by this power management feature actually could notice the peak CPU throttling, and especially if the th

by baddox 9y ago

I’m curious whether anyone who was organically affected by this power management feature actually could notice the peak CPU throttling, and especially if the throttling would be anywhere near as noticeable as the gradual increase in random shutdowns. Of course it will show up in synthetic benchmarks, but I haven’t heard any analysis of whether people’s perception that their old phones are getting slow had anything to do with this power management code.

matt_wulfeck 9y ago
Yes I was noticing it. I was really noticeable compared to my wife’s iPhone that’s newer but of the same model. The time it takes for search to return was the biggest thing that was bugging me. A $50 battery replacement for 2.5 years of service is totally reasonable.
- MBCook 9y ago
  Small note, it’s not $50. That’s the price REDUCTION. So now it’s only $30. I made the same mistake, which someone else pointed out to me. There are a lot of companies that make their money fixing iPhone batteries for $30. If this isn’t a limited time offer they’re in deep trouble.
  - latexr 9y ago
    > If this isn’t a limited time offer It is. > starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018.
MBCook 9y ago
Yes. It may depend on various factors, but I know someone with an iPhone 6+ that is ridiculously slow. At times it can’t keep up with typing terribly well. Or you’ll go to open a simple app and it will take a couple of seconds. And iPhone 6 that one of their relatives purchased on the same exact day does not exhibit this behavior. At least not to a noticeable degree. The phone is three years old and has had a hard life. It gets discharged down to 10% pretty often. As soon as the articles about this started to come out it fit perfectly. We’ll find out when they try and replace the battery, but I suspect this is the issue. However this is also probably one of the worst cases. I mean if my phone was throttled 10 or 15% I’m not sure I would really notice. If things get bad and it starts being 40%+ I can see how it would be noticeable.
- baddox 9y ago
  I’m assuming this slowness started immediately when upgrading to the iOS version that introduced the throttling?
  - MBCook 9y ago
    That version came out almost a year ago, but I’ve only heard the complaint about performance recently. However the battery would’ve been deteriorating that time, and it’s starting to get quite cold here which would only make things worse. I think I remember hearing that it would randomly shut off before that so I’m totally willing to believe the battery already had small problems.

by baddox 9y ago

matt_wulfeck 9y ago

Yes I was noticing it. I was really noticeable compared to my wife’s iPhone that’s newer but of the same model. The time it takes for search to return was the biggest thing that was bugging me. A $50 battery replacement for 2.5 years of service is totally reasonable.

MBCook 9y ago
Small note, it’s not $50. That’s the price REDUCTION. So now it’s only $30. I made the same mistake, which someone else pointed out to me. There are a lot of companies that make their money fixing iPhone batteries for $30. If this isn’t a limited time offer they’re in deep trouble.
- latexr 9y ago
  > If this isn’t a limited time offer It is. > starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018.

MBCook 9y ago

Yes. It may depend on various factors, but I know someone with an iPhone 6+ that is ridiculously slow. At times it can’t keep up with typing terribly well. Or you’ll go to open a simple app and it will take a couple of seconds. And iPhone 6 that one of their relatives purchased on the same exact day does not exhibit this behavior. At least not to a noticeable degree. The phone is three years old and has had a hard life. It gets discharged down to 10% pretty often. As soon as the articles about this started to come out it fit perfectly. We’ll find out when they try and replace the battery, but I suspect this is the issue. However this is also probably one of the worst cases. I mean if my phone was throttled 10 or 15% I’m not sure I would really notice. If things get bad and it starts being 40%+ I can see how it would be noticeable.

baddox 9y ago
I’m assuming this slowness started immediately when upgrading to the iOS version that introduced the throttling?
- MBCook 9y ago
  That version came out almost a year ago, but I’ve only heard the complaint about performance recently. However the battery would’ve been deteriorating that time, and it’s starting to get quite cold here which would only make things worse. I think I remember hearing that it would randomly shut off before that so I’m totally willing to believe the battery already had small problems.