What will happen if on iPhone put the date January 1, 1970, time 13-00?
The article will tell what will happen if in iPhones expose date on January 1, 1970, 13:00.
In early 2016, users of iPhones suddenly massively attribute their gadgets to the service centers for the repair of the company's products Apple" The reason for this was one "bug", which struck many iPhones, for which their owners complained.
The fact is that the date of January 1, 1970 installed on January 1, 1970 turned out to be truly fatal. After its installation, the rebooted iPhone became simply ordinary piece of iron and plastic, which could be just thrown into the urn.
It all started with the fact that someone suddenly discovered this phenomenon using its device. Further, the information about that began to spread over the Internet as a certain "joke". And in many cases, users have reported that when installing such a date, the iPhone will be able to show its special hidden capabilities. Thus, the big army of the owners of the iPhones personally dismissed their gadgets.
So what is this date? What will happen if on the iPhone put a date on January 1, 1970, time 13:00? We learn about it in our review.
What happens if on iPhone set the date January 1, 1970, time 13:00?
So let's start in order. When installing the "damned" date on January 1, 1970, 13:00 Ayphons fail and refuse to work. This became aware of this two years ago.
ATTENTION: Below we give instructions, which should not be done, just to familiarize yourself to be aware.
- The essence of the problem is as follows. Users in their iPhones made such operations:
- Came to the gadget settings
- On the tab " Maintenance»Users were held in the date and time settings.
- Next moved the slider to disable automatic time change
- Then the date was set: January 1, 1970, time - 13:00
As a result, the iPhone rebooted, and congratulations, your gadget was out of order! The logo appeared on the screen. Apple"And on this all ended. No other features of the iPhone could no longer be done.
Why does this happen? Tell me. Operating system " IOS.", Under the control of which the iPhones and Aipads work, leads to the countdown of it from the above date. Accordingly, when we put this date and time in the iPhone, then the countdown becomes as if negative.
You ask, why not zero? Because the system adjusts the set date for your time zone and the phone firmware gives failures, more precisely fails.
How to solve the problem?
We want to immediately note that you should not despair if you had this problem. Do not rush to attach the phone into the workshop, and even more so throw out. Inquisible users were looking for a reason to solve this issue and the output was found. We will tell about it just below.
Before you should specify that problems with the failure arise on phones with a 64-bit processor " A7." and higher. To date, new iPhones no longer fail if you set the date mentioned in them.
So, what if you installed the date January 1, 1970, time 13:00 on the iPhones of the above type, and did he get out of action? Remove the battery from iPhone and completely discharge it, for example, on another iphone. Or first discharge the battery on the outstanding aniple, turning it on, only you have to wait a few hours. Then remove the battery.
Next, insert the battery to the phone again, and the date installed at that time will be accompanied. Set the current date. IPhone will work stably.
I must say that the firm " Apple"Realized its mistake and since then began to release new iPhones with a new operating system. Now you will not happen any problems on modern iPhones, whatever the date you are not installed in them.