powerstarprince
In the zone
Hi, the issue with my phone is quite weird and I can never tell whether it's a hardware fault or not but it seems so. Let me explain the phone worked in a great condition but soon I observed strange issues. I had a Vodafone SIM in my previous iPhone 6 and my data plan worked well while I was commuting outside but not inside house. When I switched to iPhone SE then I used the same network and was also Jail-broken for some months have always thought Vodafone signals were bad in my area. After an year I moved to Jio and purchased a SIM and I got better signal at home but the data never worked well outside and the signals always fluctuated and reset and went to no network found and then sometimes reset for a few minutes and so. Just the vice-versa from the previous network. During this time I had no issue with phone calls, no heating during calls and no battery drain.
Then I moved to abroad, I uninstalled Jailbreak in iOS 12 so I had stopped using Jailbreak on my phone. It was about the time iOS 13 released and I had clean installed it after I went abroad. I waited for a new SIM to arrive and moved to giffgaff network. I was happy to see full signals at the location where I lived and enabled the default option of 4G under settings. Thought I would get seamless data connection now. Got a call that day and talked for about 4 minutes and strangely I felt the phone heating up in my hands then after I cut the call, then I checked my battery percentage and half of it drained. This heat and battery drain also happened when I used 4G data. I couldn't find ways to get rid of this problem even after trying out various troubleshooting related to software. An year passed, I waited for iOS 14 release thinking in mind that it's an issue with iOS 13 itself. After I went to iOS 14 it still didn't solve but I understand that signals were full and data worked seamlessly only on 3G and that's where the heat and battery drain came from. The 4G signals were too weak and when I used data over 4G there was no heat or battery drain but few seconds of internet and then a reset to no connection or back to 3G.
So, now I'm extremely tired of troubleshooting to solve this issue and even though I think the battery drain percentage is fake, the phone can still turn off on it's own when talking for more than 10-15 minutes when it reaches 0. I wouldn't even know when to charge the phone and the phone is really hot to hold in hand after 5 minutes of talking but doesn't show the critical temperature notification. I have swapped the giffgaff SIM to another Android phones and my phone still lost battery while theirs didn't. This kind of concludes it's a problem with my phone. I haven't known reasons what led to this whether it's being Jail-broken for a while or whether it's due to me spraying liquid cleaner directly on the phone's screen and cleaning it. In the latter case, it could be similar to sweat dropping on to the phone receiver sometimes while talking for long. The issue only happens on calling through the phone's SIM network and not through Wi-Fi or something. Everything else works just perfect.
Does it still conclude as a hardware failure that might have strangely happened due to either of these two reasons to Jailbreak or spray cleaner directly on phone screen or is there hope to rule that reason out? I'm not sure I hope the other way but the phone is I guess now more than 3 years old with 83% battery health and I could use it for another 1-2 years. What's the best thing I could do? Should I sell this phone or keep it and try to resolve this issue somehow? I really don't know if I had bought a faulty device right out of the box. I used to believe Vodafone signals were bad and for Jio I could confirm that something was wrong with my phone since my mother also used the same network and she was on a cheaper Android phone but a newer network hardware module for example my phone has Cat 4 and her's has Cat 7 and she had no problems at all with her data while at home or commuting outside.
I would really like to keep this iPhone SE cause I purchased it personally as a choice. Sorry for this long post. Just wanted to know what's the best thing I can do with this phone.
Then I moved to abroad, I uninstalled Jailbreak in iOS 12 so I had stopped using Jailbreak on my phone. It was about the time iOS 13 released and I had clean installed it after I went abroad. I waited for a new SIM to arrive and moved to giffgaff network. I was happy to see full signals at the location where I lived and enabled the default option of 4G under settings. Thought I would get seamless data connection now. Got a call that day and talked for about 4 minutes and strangely I felt the phone heating up in my hands then after I cut the call, then I checked my battery percentage and half of it drained. This heat and battery drain also happened when I used 4G data. I couldn't find ways to get rid of this problem even after trying out various troubleshooting related to software. An year passed, I waited for iOS 14 release thinking in mind that it's an issue with iOS 13 itself. After I went to iOS 14 it still didn't solve but I understand that signals were full and data worked seamlessly only on 3G and that's where the heat and battery drain came from. The 4G signals were too weak and when I used data over 4G there was no heat or battery drain but few seconds of internet and then a reset to no connection or back to 3G.
So, now I'm extremely tired of troubleshooting to solve this issue and even though I think the battery drain percentage is fake, the phone can still turn off on it's own when talking for more than 10-15 minutes when it reaches 0. I wouldn't even know when to charge the phone and the phone is really hot to hold in hand after 5 minutes of talking but doesn't show the critical temperature notification. I have swapped the giffgaff SIM to another Android phones and my phone still lost battery while theirs didn't. This kind of concludes it's a problem with my phone. I haven't known reasons what led to this whether it's being Jail-broken for a while or whether it's due to me spraying liquid cleaner directly on the phone's screen and cleaning it. In the latter case, it could be similar to sweat dropping on to the phone receiver sometimes while talking for long. The issue only happens on calling through the phone's SIM network and not through Wi-Fi or something. Everything else works just perfect.
Does it still conclude as a hardware failure that might have strangely happened due to either of these two reasons to Jailbreak or spray cleaner directly on phone screen or is there hope to rule that reason out? I'm not sure I hope the other way but the phone is I guess now more than 3 years old with 83% battery health and I could use it for another 1-2 years. What's the best thing I could do? Should I sell this phone or keep it and try to resolve this issue somehow? I really don't know if I had bought a faulty device right out of the box. I used to believe Vodafone signals were bad and for Jio I could confirm that something was wrong with my phone since my mother also used the same network and she was on a cheaper Android phone but a newer network hardware module for example my phone has Cat 4 and her's has Cat 7 and she had no problems at all with her data while at home or commuting outside.
I would really like to keep this iPhone SE cause I purchased it personally as a choice. Sorry for this long post. Just wanted to know what's the best thing I can do with this phone.