Phone Update

[dorchadas]

Alright, in my previous post I wrote about how my phone died. I went into the Apple Store, they managed to get it restarted, and they did some tests on it. It passed all the tests, and then immediately after that it went into a boot loop, so they wiped the phone, restored it over a cable from a laptop, I started downloading my backup, and I went on my way. On Wednesday I had no problems, and on Thursday when I picked it up in the morning off the charger it immediately restarted, so I made an appointment for after work. It restarted a further three more times during the day, including at least once that corrupted an app and required me to delete and reinstall it, and then I went to the North Ave. Apple Store for my appointment. This time the phone failed the test in about 20 seconds and the tech brought up an entire screen of kernel panic logs, so I got scheduled for a repair to fix obvious hardware failure.

This is where my future-proofing failed me. I bought the 1 TB model of iPhone, partially so I could keep it for a while and partially because I have tons of podcasts I listen to and this way I could store them all on my phone. Well, it turns out that very few people bought the 1 TB model, so they didn't have any extras in stock and didn't have any parts necessary to do the repair, so they got a part shipped expedited but I still have to wait until probably tomorrow to get a repair done. At the moment I'm just kind of trying to avoid using my phone much since it's also restarted twice today. Just entering my food, checking my podcast list but then listening to them on the computer, and otherwise putting it down on my desk and just making sure it doesn't freak out. I will report back when I get it fixed (hopefully tomorrow).