![]() I would never pay hard earned money for one of these iDevices. I suppose it made sense to release support for the newer ones first, since that is what most people who would be interested in playing with it are running now. Funny that you can now download a working jailbreak an iPhone 10 but not this 6. Maybe I can get it back functional if I can get it booted with an older iOS. Once the T7000 is supported, I'll try to bring it up using the jailbroken bootloader and then can try an older unsigned iOS closer to the version it was probably running. I think I'm going to wait for the released checkm8 jailbreak implementations to support the T7000 processor platform without having to do it myself, although I think I probably do have a working 6 around here somewhere I could pull the stuff out of to implement it myself if I needed to. The new checkm8 may be able to restore a lot of those perfectly valid phones to functionality, even though apple declined to repair any of them. ![]() I think there was a bricking glitch on lots of model 6 phones right around the time of iOS 10 or 11 updates or something. Either that or a hardware issue (bad flash?), blacklisted serial number, or some other software glitch. I can't seem to ever even pull the IMEI out of it with irecovery, although I'm not sure if that always happens with phones with a borked iOS install or not. My best guess? Someone tried to carrier unlock it and bricked it somehow. It will pull itself out of recovery OR DFU mode, load the iBSS and iBEC update routines, boot to the apple logo with bar, but of course iTunes won't recover it. Attempts to reinstall iOS (12.4.2 is the latest, and now of course, only version you can install) fail at the "verifying upgrade with apple phone-home procedure). No clue what version of iOS was on it, unknown history. The 6, (non-S) is stuck in recovery mode. She needs a better working phone, her Samsung somethingorother only holds 17% battery charge so is only marginally useful, and essentially only when plugged in. Oh, my! After bending back all the various pins they bent on the battery and screen connectors on the mainboard, I have a feeling it would work if we put a new screen and battery in it but will have to see what my friend wants to do with that one. They had then obviously proceeded to try to snap the screen back in, cracking the screen right in front of where the poor little (now very bent) metal cover is. ![]() The connectors are different, so they just smooshed it in there and then tried to screw the little metal plate back over the battery connector (which only went on part way at one side, of course, because the wrong connector won't seat fully). Someone who did NOT know what they're doing tried to put an aftermarket replacement battery for a 6 into the 6S. I don't "stock" extra parts, only what I happen to have on hand from other "parts" phones or extras of very common inexpensive items ordered in multiples.) The next 6S was hysterical. Updated iOS to 13.1.2 at their request, tested the battery, still 72% of nominal but have recommended that they will soon probably want to swap in a new one but we can plan ahead and order one inexpensively. The first 6S was the most important as it is her son's and it's been down for several weeks! That one was just the lightning port/charge assembly. Sweet! I've just been fixing a trio of iPhone 6,6S,6S from a friend who asked me to to take a look. Just got a new battery for it in the spring, (cost $7, shipped) to replace the stack of original BL-5Bs which understandably don't hold much of a charge anymore after the 10-12 years they've been in service (especially when cold in the winter!), so now it is even back to lasting a week on a single charge. I think this is the last one in working order right now but I'm sure I could make another working one with the parts from all three. I would still be using my beloved 6160 if they hadn't shut down the TDMA network. I still use a Nokia 5300 as my daily driver. Ditto! I have a whole pile of iPhones and Blackberries, other "smartphones" and random "feature" phones.
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