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| [summary]Is your iPhone taking ages to charge? Are you losing patience while waiting to get enough juice to unplug? Give these fixes a try.[/summary] | |
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| There is a certain anxiety in knowing your phone is nearly dead. This can only be made worse by adding the complication that your iPhone takes an eternity to charge up. Battery life and charging might seem simple, but the chain has many links, and any could be at fault. Luckily, most reasons for slow charging don't require a toolkit, just a little investigating. | |
| The [product|IF126-039|Tristar chip|new_window=true] (or Hydra in the iPhone 8 and newer) on an iPhone logic board is responsible primarily for USB-related functions. But it is also integral in the charging process. It detects items connected via the Lightning port and has electrical lines of communication to the charging chip. It is also the chip most commonly damaged on the board. | |
| - | * Tristar issues manifest in many ways, |
| + | * Tristar issues manifest in many ways, rapid battery drain is only one of them. You can use a [product|IF145-035-7|digital-multimeter|new_window=true] to [link|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaSlgLRTkc|easily test some functions of Tristar]. |
| * This repair requires soldering small surface mount components onto a circuit board. Unless this is a skill you are practicing, it's best to leave this one to the professionals. Any good shop that does board-level repairs should be able to. Ask around to find a board-level specialist in your area. Even shops that don’t work on boards may be able to point you to someone who does! | |
| ** This issue is so common that [link|https://tristartester.com/|there are tools] designed solely to test the functionality of this chip. They are a bit pricey for one-time use but handy if you are a serial fixer. | |
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