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549 - more than half of the purchase cost of the 64GB model. Percentage-wise, this is broadly in line with other iPhone models. 349. But the actual dollar amount for the iPhone X is large enough that it may give some people pause for thought. Especially given that all-new glass back. 99 for anything else. 300 for premium and repair fee combined. The cheapest way to insure an iPhone is often to add it as a worldwide all-risks item to an existing home contents policy. This means that it is insured inside or outside the home. However, you do need to check your deductible, as some can be too high to make an iPhone claim viable. Other options for free iPhone coverage include Uber’s recently announced credit card, among many others.


Bonus: How to fix Error 3194? One of the most frustrating problems you’ll encounter is linked to your iPad or iPhone. Error 3194 means your copy of iTunes is unable to access the server that’s responsible for both delivering updates and helping restore your iPhone or iPad. Related error codes are 17, 1639, 3000-3020 and 3100-3199. You may also get a cryptic error informing you "This device isn’t eligible for the requested build". Check for Updates). Next, verify your internet connection is working, and that your security software isn’t blocking access to the update server. Once installed, launch the tool and choose Repair followed by iTunes Repair. 2. Repair iTunes Connection Issues: click here if your iPhone or iPad won’t connect at all, or you’re unable to access the content on the device. 3. Repair iTunes Syncing Error: this option resolves issues with syncing content and apps to and from your iOS device.


You're never more than a few feet away from a phone charger. Your whole life revolves around your smartphone, if you're like most people. You have your calendar set up to remind you of your schedule throughout the day, you respond to work emails and answer calls. You chat all day long on Facebook and Instagram with friends and family. You use the camera, the alarm clock and on and on, which is why you dread a dead iPhone battery. But what do you do when you can't charge your iPhone? You plug in your charger and your battery drains and dies.


Don't run to the Apple Store or the iPhone repair kiosk at your local mall, yet. That can set you back hundreds of dollars. They'll most likely suggest you just buy a new phone -- "there's nothing we can do." Keep reading for five solutions to charging your iPhone when it seems to be dead. This simple tip is going to save you hundreds of dollars and hours of frustration. Do not panic if your iPhone isn't charging, or don't panic yet. There's a very good chance that you just need to clean your iPhone. Tip: You may want to grab your magnifying glass for this.


Check the charging port at the bottom of your iPhone. Use a soft brush, a pin or a paperclip to clear out any dust that has accumulated in your charging point. It's in there, no matter who you are, and it's preventing charging, so get it out. Then, plug your charger back in. Make sure it's firmly inserted into your iPhone and that the plug is firmly inserted into your wall socket or another power source. Do not spend hundreds of dollars on a new iPhone just because you think it's dead. You might just need to change your iPhone battery.


You don't want to do this yourself, unless you have a lot of experience fixing iPhones. Plus, Apple will most likely not do future repairs if they see that you've messed with it. Go to an authorized Apple repair store. Try multiple charging cables, plugs and power sources to see if any of those work. You might have a faulty charging cable. Has your dog been chewing on it? Try plugging your iPhone directly into your laptop's USB port. Try different wall sockets and make double sure that your charging cable is firmly inserted into your iPhone. You may just need to reset your iPhone. You know how technology is - for some mysterious reason, you can fix loads of problems with tech devices by restarting them.


Here's how Apple Support suggests you reset your iPhones (8 and newer). Press and release the volume up button, then do the same with the volume down button. Hold down the side button until you see the Apple logo on your screen. Here's how to do it on older iPhones. Hold down the side button and the volume down button at the same time, until you see the Apple logo. Warning: This step will result in you losing your iPhone settings and information. Make sure to back up your iPhone before proceeding. Bonus: We recommend our sponsor, IDrive, for fast and reliable cloud backups.


So, what's next if you've tried all these steps and your iPhone still isn't charging? You may need to pay for Apple to service your iPhone - call customer support or go to an Apple Store. Or, you can go to your cellphone provider's store. Head to the mall or a nearby shopping center and go to your AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobil or Verizon store. You may end up paying quite a bit of money, maybe a couple of hundred dollars to get it fixed or hundreds more for a new iPhone. Wouldn't it be great if your iPhone stayed charged all day? You can daydream about it. While the latest iPhones on their own will last you about a half day before you need to recharge them, Apple has a clever solution to keep yours charged all day and night. Yikes, though. Is this budget-busting price tag too much or worth it? Tap or click here for a battery-saving tip! Please share this information with everyone. Just click on any of the social media buttons on the side. Please share this information with everyone. Just click on any of the social media buttons below.


The solution is quite simple really. Since May of 2009, AT the phone has to have been released after May 2009. Not bad eh? Provided to the side are pictures of some of the phones offered and what the packaging for the updated phone looks like. 50), then you just have to slot your SIM card in and it will work! Your SIM card lost or damaged with your phone? Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account. 0 of 8192 characters usedPost CommentNo HTML is allowed in comments, but URLs will be hyperlinked. Comments are not for promoting your articles or other sites.


I want to give you Kudos for a very useful article. At 5 years old, at this comment, it is still great advice. I get tired of old blogs and web pages in my search results. I'm glad I didn't sort by date this time. I just broke my new IPHONE and someone gave me their blackberry to use in the meantime. It is a sprint phone. Can I walk into a store and have them activate it for me? I am very glad this article helped in so many ways! Thanks for your insight and tips to replace goPhone. I lost my samsung sgh 137 (very inexpensive flip phone) at parking lot and realized that nobody was turning it in or calling me, so decided to get a replacement in order to keep my current number/balance/etc.


On a side note: I decided to buy an extra phone (identical) for my mom for future when she visits and for my own sake just in case I lose it again. Happened to purchase a new one (sealed package) on ebay and decided to use the new one (putting my sim card from ATT store) briefly, then decided to use the old spare one that was my mom's. 15 on my account even though I switched back to the old phone after deciding not to use it because I needed to add all new numbers that I called last 2-3 weeks.


It was surprise extra credit which almost paid the new phone's price. I wouldn't have put it so crassly, but ADude has a point. This isn't a customer service forum. I just wanted to share a neat trick that could save everyone money. It functions as a normal phone so long as the SIM in the phone is associated with a Post Paid account. So to be clear, if you upgrade to the phone that your are replacing then you are a Post Paid customer. The idea is that you don't have to pay an arm and a leg for a replacement. Sadly, I have noticed that most phones are extremely overpriced to begin with.


I have to keep adding more prepaid minutes to it or does it just function as a regular cell phone that gets billed through my current plan because it has the same SIM card as my old phone? Can I retain my phone number? Thank you so much! My phone is broken, I have no insurance and I'm not interested in upgrating my phone because o change in contract agreetment. I was looking options. Rumor has it it works the same way with T-Mobile, but I want to confirm this before I write a hub on it. Handy hub for Americans with a broken phone.


Apple iPhone iTunes error problem is common, now here is an iPhone 6 with unknown error 4005 problem, how to best fix this problem? Generally, we can try some simple solutions first, if it's not working, then we can check the hardware aspect. Next, disassemble the iPhone 6. Use phone opening tools to disassemble the iPhone 6, and then remove the iPhone motherboard. Now use digital multimeter to measure the iPhone Nand flash, power supply 3V, iPhone power supply C0604 1.8V, CO603 1.2V and C0625, all voltage tested are normal. Next measure the resistance value for iPhone Nand flash, but it's still normal. Use QUICK 861DW hot air rework station to remove the iPhone Nand flash, and the put iPhone motherboard under the microscope, re-welding the pins on the iPhone Nand flash, and then solder the iPhone Nand flash back to iPhone motherboard. Next assemble the iPhone 6, connect iPhone to the computer, and then use iTunes to restore it, now it works, there is no unknown error code. Testing the functions on iPhone 6, they all works properly. The iPhone 6 unknown error 4005 has been fixed!


Many iPhone X users while restoring old iPhone backup from iCloud backup are facing issue that iPhone gets stuck at "restoring media". The restore finishes with messages and all apps loaded well but no photos/vidoes. When the users tried to Check status of the restore, it is found to be stuck at "restoring media" without any further activity. For many users the iPhone x and iPhone 8 are stuck at "restoring media" for more than 30 hours and the camera roll are not loading properly. The issue is majorly reported while iPhone users tried to restore backup from iCloud. Not only iPhone X but the iPhone 8 plus with iOS11 is also reported with this "restoring media" issue.


Phone makers promise "all-day battery life." Sure, and you haven’t stolen any of the kids’ Halloween candy. If you recently bought a new flagship phone, chances are its battery life is actually worse than an older model. For the last few weeks, I’ve been performing the same battery test over and over again on 13 phones. With a few notable exceptions, this year’s top models underperformed last year’s. Phone makers tout all sorts of tricks to boost battery life, including more-efficient processors, low-power modes and artificial intelligence to manage app drain. Yet my results, and tests by other reviewers I spoke with, reveal an open secret in the industry: the lithium-ion batteries in smartphones are hitting an inflection point where they simply can’t keep up.


"Batteries improve at a very slow pace, about 5 percent per year," says Nadim Maluf, the CEO of a Silicon Valley firm called Qnovo that helps optimize batteries. Blame it on the demands of high-resolution screens, more complicated apps and, most of all, our seeming inability to put the darn phone down. Lithium-ion batteries, for all their rechargeable wonder, also have some physical limitations, including capacity that declines over time — and the risk of explosion if they’re damaged or improperly disposed. And the phone power situation is likely about to get worse. New ultrafast wireless technology called 5G, coming to the U.S. My test has limitations.


Your experience will depend on how you use your phone, and there are steps you can take to make your phone life stretch. We’re not without hope. Two phones that performed well in my tests, Samsung’s Note9 and Apple’s iPhone XR, offer ideas about how to design phones to last longer — at least until a totally new battery tech comes along. My results made me do a double take, so I called up a squad of other tech journalists also obsessed with testing at CNET, Tom’s Guide and Consumer Reports. But not all other reviewers have noticed the same declines — and the differences in our results help shed some light on what’s going on. Larger phones often last longer, but it’s not as simple as the size of the battery inside. Those had much smaller batteries than today’s smartphones, but could go days without being charged.


There’s no perfect battery test. Mine, which I borrowed from an industry group called the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, particularly stresses the screen. I use a light meter to set all the phones at the same brightness and then force their web browsers to reload and scroll through a series of sites I serve through a local WiFi network. I rerun the tests as many times as possible, and then average the results. CNET, which like me found conspicuous dips in battery life between the iPhone 8 and iPhone X (and Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S9), tests screens at 50 percent brightness playing a looping video with Airplane Mode turned on. What we both discovered: phones with fancy screens that are especially high-resolution or use tech such as OLED perform worse.


So if you want your phone to last longer, turn down the screen’s brightness. Or stop looking at your phone so many times each day, if you can break our nationwide spell of phone addiction. Tom’s Guide throws another factor into the mix: the cellular connection. It makes phones run through a series of websites streamed over LTE. Unlike me, it also saw a big battery life hit to the Pixel 3 XL versus the Pixel 2 XL. Another lesson: If you want the battery to last longer, use WiFi when possible — or even Airplane Mode when you don’t need to be reachable.


Both Apple and Android phones also offer low-power modes (not reflected in our testing) that reduce some draining data functions without taking you offline. Consumer Reports is likely better testing the phone’s processor, an area where a number of companies — but particularly Apple — have made efficiency gains. So overall, are battery lives decreasing or increasing? "You can’t make a straight trend," says Consumer Reports director of electronics testing Maria Rerecich. I wish companies had more standardized ways to talk about battery life. So what about the two 2018 phones that did better in my tests? Samsung’s Note9 succeeds by stuffing in more battery. It contains a battery capacity of 4,000 mAh, up from the already-huge 3,300 mAh in the Note8.


Lots of phones have followed the bigger battery trend. Fixit, a repair community that performs teardown analysis of phone components, says battery capacities have almost doubled in the last five years. How much further can the size game go? Huawei just introduced a phone called Mate 20 Pro, not sold in the U.S., with a 4,200 mAh battery. Larger, denser batteries can be more dangerous (remember Samsung’s exploding Note7?), not to mention heavier. The Note9, which also has a giant screen and a stylus, weighs 7.1 oz — more than twice a deck of cards. Apple’s iPhone XR, the new phone I recommend to most people, has a different approach.


"Consumers have to start getting ready for compromise," says Maluf, the CEO of the battery optimization company. Perhaps the market will fragment further, making phones more like buying cars. That market was eventually upended by fuel-economy models; instead of the gas-guzzling Cadillac, you could choose the Honda. Apple’s iPhone XR is the Civic of smartphones. Our near-future choices are likely either: Get an economy phone — or plug in more often. Faster and more convenient charging is the strategy for some makers. Lots of phones now support wireless charging, though still few cafes, offices and airport lounges offer it. And then there’s the plug itself. The explosive problem with recycling iPads, iPhones and other gadgets: They literally catch fire. We tested Apple’s new Screen Time parental controls. First came tears — then frustration.


The ability to update apps quickly and easily is one of the things which makes the idea of the iPhone App Store so appealing. Push a single button and every iPhone app you have updates at once, which is far easier than more traditional ways of updating software. However, there are times when iPhone apps won’t update and when this happens that ease of use can turn quickly to frustration, but with some effort you can almost always make an iPhone app update. There are a number of possible reasons why an iPhone app won’t update. One problem that is easy to miss is storage space and the size of the program.


Often updates of programs are larger than the original and if your hard drive is out of space there is no way to update the app without making room. Another issue that can appear is that very large updates need to be done over Wi-Fi or through the computer. If you have moved the apps from the /Applications folder this can also cause them not to update. The first thing that you will want to do if an application will not update is to attempt to update it in iTunes and then sync your iPhone. The major issue this will most often get around is the limit on the size of updates but it can sometimes overcome other problems too.


A bad connection can cause errors in updating as well. In most cases this will solve the problem. In order to do this go to the Apps section on the left side menu and find update apps in the bottom right corner. There are times when an update from iTunes will not work either. This most often happens when the file on your phone is in some way corrupt. At this time you have to take a bit more drastic action, deleting the app from your iPhone. In order to delete an app simply touch any app for a couple of seconds until you see all the apps on the screen begin to wiggle.


There will be an x in the top left corner of the app. Touch that and you’ll be given the option of deleting the app. If you do this then sync iTunes after having updated the app it should work. If neither of these work, or a lot of apps are giving you trouble then the next step is full restore. This will restore the iPhone to its original factory settings. You should not lose data while doing this but backing up your important information is a good idea. In order to restore your iPhone connect it to iTunes. You will then see the phone on the menu on the left side of the program. Open that menu and click the summary tab on the top of that screen. There is a restore and update button. If you have not updated recently trying that may solve the problem less dramatically. Otherwise try restore. It should at this time give you options to save data and then restore your phone. This should fix any problems by returning the iPhone to the factory settings.


I think everyone likes to use their iPhone’s or iPod’s Wi-Fi quite a bit. For one thing it’s almost always faster than using your 3G and you save on your data usage in the process. All of this, however, can turn into a nightmare when your iPhone’s Wi-Fi slows down dramatically or stops working all together. Most of the time the problem can be solved by following a few quick steps which are outlined below. If your iPhone won’t connect to Wi-Fi try this troubleshooting guide. You don’t want to spend hours trying to figure out your iPhone’s Wi-Fi problems only to discover that it was a simple problem causing the upset all along. Firstly make sure that your device’s Wi-Fi is turned on. You can do this by going to settings, selecting Wi-Fi and sliding the appropriate switch to the ‘On’ position.


Then, ensure your router is also powered on and connected to the internet. You may have to consult the instructions for this. Your device should recognize the Wi-Fi network and allow you to select it from a list in the settings menu. Here are some more basic steps to take to ensure all small possible problems are covered. Ensure you are within range of your router. Make sure your router is connected to the internet. Ensure no temporary problem with your ISP has occurred by phoning them. See if other devices can connect and use the internet. If so, the problem lies with your iPhone. Make sure your ISP security credentials are correct. By selecting a certain network from the Wi-Fi menu you can make sure that you are entering the correct details to connect to the network.


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