Last weekend published an article in which he talked about whether or not it was worth buying the iPhone 5s despite the accelerometer failure and the answer was yes. It seems that there were many who did not want to read the complete article, and it is that in the post we assured that this hardware problem in the calibration of the iPhone 5s accelerometer had an easy software solution, therefore, we are not facing a failure as serious as that of the antenna in the iPhone 4.
Indeed, from Apple they were aware of this error (although they have not made an official statement about it) and they have fixed in latest software update. This is what we can read in the description of iOS 7.0.3, released Tuesday after the completion of Apple's keynote:
"IOS 7 Fixes an accelerometer calibration issue".
After two days of testing, I can confirm that my iPhone 5s no longer has problems with calibration of the accelerometer and that all applications related to this sensor work perfectly.
Ultimately, here Apple does not pay us to advertise their products and the information we published in our article was objective. Now everyone can decide whether to get an iPhone this Friday or not depending on whether they like the hardware of the terminal. The accelerometer works again with the correct measurements after updating the software to iOS 7.0.3 and this error only affected a certain number of units.
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Great news! I was expecting an Antenagate 2.0, but hey, it seems that it has been left alone in a calibration error!
It is not a calibration error that you are not fooled. The defective part exists and will always exist. What Apple has done is deceive the customer, since for the faulty accelerometer it is one measurement but the patch causes it to show another. Come on that is a hoax through software.
Replacing ALL defective units is apparently not financially viable for Apple and they settle the matter with this embarrassing fudge. All this reminds me of the sudden dismissal of Forstall for the failures in the Maps app. He has noses that a guy gets fired in a sudden way for a failure that this time if, it is corrected with software because the problem was in the software, but nevertheless Ive, directly responsible for hardware, is not affected in the least by a defect whose The only REAL solution, I insist, REAL, would be the replacement of all the defective terminals. Not only that, it is that they no longer have to worry about whether the new iPhone 5s manufactured come out or not with the defective part (which will obviously all come out defective), With this botch they solve everything.
Every time I reaffirm more in the steps taken within Apple to get to get this mess called iOS 7.
Hello, so if I buy an Iphone 5S right now, is it going to come with this fudge as standard? Or the new models that arrive in Spain will come without that problem.
Hello, I have an iPhone 5s and it is fatal, I do not take wifi, the screen is caught, I went to appel and they say they do not change it or areglan to come from the United States fence scam
Hi, friend. All Apple products come with a one-year international warranty, if they don't want to change it, come back and c_gate in their motherfuckin 'until they listen to you. Or even better, do yourself an apple care that you will see that Maria Luisa laugh
Sometimes Pablo, because of some comments and conclusions that you draw, it does seem that you are paid for that advertising that you do, I prefer a actualidad iphone with more objective information and less looking for sensationalism and easy news, I remember that your recommendation was out of place, now you could say it but not in that post
I do not think this is advertising, they reported the problem with the accelerometer and that now 7.0.3 corrects it.
It does not correct anything, it masks it, it hides it. In short, a deception to the user who still has a defective device. If in for example iOS 7.0.4 they forget to insert the patch, the same thing will happen again because the defective part is still there.
AMEN!
Since the accelerometer error responds to a hardware failure, I still think that software correction is a fudge. Apple should ensure that a device worth more than € 700 is free of design flaws, and if it cannot, replace defective units rather than content users with a software patch to fix a hardware problem.
It seems to me that the one who did not read the entire comments was you.
As an Apple user that I am, here it is criticized that you defended buying an iPhone that it brings, which for me and for many is, a blunder for a Mobile from € 700 to € 900. Each one does with their money what they want, but that way of yours to defend Apple tooth and nail without any argument is what more than one (to me the first) can get annoyed.
It's like the one that says, "no ... as it is a first generation M7 device, poor Apple, let's give them a margin", and I say ... the balls for Apple. The problem is that we are already so used to this type of shit that we see it as a normal and ordinary thing and no, it is not fair that I decide to spend the pasture that their products are worth and even have to give them a margin to polish their mistakes. Products that are most likely starting to be tested since the launch of the previous generation.
Most of us who enter this type of blog, what we try to read is at least something impartial, as far as possible (remember that it is a blog dedicated to the iPhone)
It makes me laugh when you comment that Apple doesn't pay you to advertise, well, man, as Jocker would say in The Dark Knight's hair "if you're good at something, why do it for free?"
Pablo, it will be you ... Exactly the same thing happens to me. By putting it flat, in the application level that comes standard, it continues to displace me 2nd thing that my partner's iPhone 5 does not do.
Did you have to do something? I have updated via OTA.
Anyway ... It's sad ...
Yes, but now the webapps, the links open in safari 🙁
It works perfectly for me with this latest update!
A 20000 car may have bugs (which it shouldn't) but imagine if a 300.000 Ferrari has them.
If you buy something, it is so that it works 100% of what it offers.
I assure you that Ferrari also has faults
But what does it matter if a Ferrari or whatever make of car has a fault. Here we are talking about a product that we know has the fault, not that it is discovered at a certain time that it has it. The incredible thing is recommending the purchase of a defective product.
By the way, as I have already said on another occasion, precisely using the example of automobiles, it is that it has not been the first, nor will it be the last time that X car brand calls hundreds of thousands of vehicles for review for the discovery of a defective part to change. Do you know the economic amount that that supposes? Well, they still do it by making their clients see that they make mistakes but that they do everything possible to correct them; Not at Apple, at Apple they make a botch to deceive the customer and that's it. What a shame.
You apply all these epithets to yourself, partner, since you are the one who knowingly buys devices that they have defects. A normal person would not buy something that has a defect knowing that it has it.
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Hello, I have an iPhone 5 and before the 7.0.3 update, the calibration was going well and now it marks me at everything -1 and the compass I don't think it's going very well.
I read your article several times Pablo because I couldn't believe it. The one who seems that you did not read it before publishing it was you.
In the article you did not guarantee that the defect would be easily corrected with a software patch. You speculated that it could be like that and there was a gulf between the two. What's more, you even put the app and game developers on the hook so that they were the ones to solve it.
Neither you nor anyone outside of Apple had the slightest idea of what was going to be done, nor what the solution to the problem was going to be, because they had neither pronounced nor admitted the defect of course.
Now they "correct" the defect with a software patch, that is, the defective component is still there and the worst thing is that it will continue to be there, otherwise iOS 7.0.3 would decompensate the 5s that came with the component without the defect. Let's see, apparently the correction from Apple is this ... If the accelerometer shows -5 when it should show 0, what the patch does is FORCE it to show 0. A sensational solution for this company and its customers, right?
It is in my opinion now when you could recommend the purchase of the iPhone 5s warning before that the defective component is still there but that with the patch for normal use of games, etc., etc., there would be no problem. We would all understand you and I the first, since if for normal use there is no problem, many people will not give importance to this once "corrected". In that article you had no idea what was going to happen or how they could solve it, you only speculated with a possible solution (in which as I say you even allowed yourself to involve third parties) and still you recommended the purchase of a defective device but you played to driving games, play the….
The worst of all this is that you have not been able to correct your mistake and modify that article by admitting it. You're still stubborn about it and this is even worse.
From now on many when we see an article of yours we will have to make sure that what you say is true by consulting other sources because you have lost all credibility. You missed a HUGE opportunity on this new article, yourself.
Good ... I share a large part of what you say and think a lot about what you write ... but there is something that as a technical engineer I have learned and been taught ... practically any object that measures a certain unit, whether it be mass, time, volume, level as in the case of the iphone 5s ... they are relative data is not something exact, it is not absolute ... Therefore all the values that we determine as "0" in this case is because someone defined it as such, and in this case I think that the wrong caliber can be adjusted by means of a software patch ... I do not consider it as a blunder ... if it is true that the technician and the company that belongs to said accelerometer could have adjusted it better and have done more incantation in building better….
It is my opinion with my personal experience ...