My phone has been washed!

[Paulatic]

£140 for an iPhone 5? Must be the Cornish tax...

Pick them up for about £60 here, £100 in the local 'pawnbrokers'.

Mick says it's blue so I suspect it's a 5c might even be as lowly as 8Gb

I'd have wanted a 5s for that money.

[Mick F]

It's guaranteed two years, and if I don't like it, I can take it back for a full refund within 30days.
It's an iPhone5c 8Gb unlocked and in reasonable condition.

8Gb is more than enough. What do people want extra space for?

[kwackers]

8Gb is more than enough. What do people want extra space for?

If you only ever make phone calls then that's true.

If you run several apps (which are getting bigger all the time) then it's tight, if you take many pictures, almost any video and want to store music or anything else then 8Gb is useless.
(I have 160Gb on mine and have run out! But then I've store films on there to watch on planes, shot HD video and thousands of pics along with a lot of music and quite a few apps & games)

[Bonefishblues]

It's guaranteed two years, and if I don't like it, I can take it back for a full refund within 30days.
It's an iPhone5c 8Gb unlocked and in reasonable condition.

8Gb is more than enough. What do people want extra space for?

Given sir's recent track record, might sir have been better with something like a Sony Z3 which is reasonably waterproof?

[Mick F]

Perhaps I need one of these?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Levin-Underwat ... MBT24Q6B3B

As for space, I took photographs with my (now washed and ruined) Samsung Galaxy, but transferred them by Dropbox and WiFi to my computer. The copy on the phone was then deleted. I'll be doing the same with the iPhone.

Music?
Don't want it on my phone - except a ring tone. I have Glenn Miller "In the Mood" as my ring tone. Excellent intro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CI-0E_jses
Upload the audio into iTunes and crop out the first 30secs. Connect the iPhone and transfer it as a ringtone.
I want to do similar for a text tone, but I can's seem to find out how to do it, but I'll keep experimenting.

Movies?
I have a Sony Handycam for those.

[Psamathe]

It's guaranteed two years, and if I don't like it, I can take it back for a full refund within 30days.
It's an iPhone5c 8Gb unlocked and in reasonable condition....

Check the number of cycles the battery has been through (you don't need to jailbreak it to check). If it's a 5 (or a 5c) it could be quite old and it's possible it was sold 2nd hand because the battery was "tired". So whilst you can still return it, check the battery cycles or you may end-up having to pay-out for a new battery soon. Easy to do.

I price seems "surprising" as you can get a 5 16GB for around £150 and the 5c cheaper (you can even get a 16GB 5S in "very good" condition for £160 from Amazon.

But check the battery cycle count (if you have not already) as battery performance is normally/often excluded from any warranty (i.e. with a phone x years old one reasonably might expect the battery to be a bit tired ...)

Ian

[Mick F]

How do I check the battery cycle-count?
Nothing about the count in Settings/Battery.

[Paulatic]

How do I check the battery cycle-count?
Nothing about the count in Settings/Battery.

https://youtu.be/AGb-gTTZkPY

[Mick F]

Thanks.
I have Coconut Battery app on my Mac already.

Trouble is, it works fine with my Mac, but doesn't recognise my iPhone despite it being connected - iTunes recognizes it and syncs ok.

[Paulatic]

A quick search suggest it no longer works with ios10

I've found an app 'battery life'
Tells me my IPad has 6% wear <a yr old
My iphone4s has 6% wear and it'll be 4x older

[Psamathe]

A quick search suggest it no longer works with ios10 :(

I've found an app 'battery life'
Tells me my IPad has 6% wear <a yr old
My iphone4s has 6% wear and it'll be 4x older
:?

On an 8GB 5c you wont want to be using iOS 10 !!

It's not age but cycles that matter. When Apple checked my 2 year old phone recently they were stunned by the low cycle count. e.g My 4 year old Mac has a cycle count of 36.

Ian

[Psamathe]

...
8Gb is more than enough. What do people want extra space for?

Apps and their data. e.g.

load a mapping app (offline mapping) and use it for track recording, etc, route planning.
Load "Fix That Hole" and report road hazards (make life safer for us all
I've loaded Collins Bird Guide (I enjoy watching wildlife
Load a sky chart application (so you can identify constellations, start, nebulae, etc.
Load music (play through your car radio over BlueTooth
etc., etc.

8GBs are not popular these days (hence being available so cheaply. For £140 are you sure it's not a larger capacity phone?

Ian

[Mick F]

I have IOS 10.1.1 on it and it's fine.
What's wrong with IOS 10?

According to Settings/General/About ............. I have 5.32GB capacity and 4.08GB available.
Plenty room as far as I'd ever need.

This is mine
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-iPhone- ... 2825fd0bcf

[Psamathe]

I have IOS 10.1.1 on it and it's fine.
What's wrong with IOS 10?

According to Settings/General/About ............. I have 5.32GB capacity and 4.08GB available.
Plenty room as fas as I'd ever need.

iOS 10 behaves differently on different phones. Apple focus their efforts on newer models. iOS 10 on 5s is a bit of a battery hog and uses a lot of memory. When I upgraded 9->10, under 9 normal use would have it down to maybe 80% at the end of the day and then upgrade (and wait the few days) and same use and I'd be recharging it by the end of the day!! I've now managed to "make some adjustments" and can last the day. It's an iOS 10 thing (not battery getting tired).

8GB is fine if you only want to make calls. But if you every want to do any of the other things e.g. track recording, etc. (that actually make it wort carrying the thing around then you will discover why the 8GB models are so unpopular.

Ian

[Paulatic]

A quick search suggest it no longer works with ios10

I've found an app 'battery life'
Tells me my IPad has 6% wear <a yr old
My iphone4s has 6% wear and it'll be 4x older

On an 8GB 5c you wont want to be using iOS 10 !!

It's not age but cycles that matter. When Apple checked my 2 year old phone recently they were stunned by the low cycle count. e.g My 4 year old Mac has a cycle count of 36.

Ian

App shows I've 720 cycles on my 4s. Should I be worried?
App doesn't show number of cycles on iPad probably because that's on 10