Looks like that’s over 6 years?
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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i am fairly good at keeping my electronics and machines working for long time, but i don't think any of my cellphones made it to the 4th year
What? How? Are you starting from an old phone already? I’m typing this from a pristine iPhone XR.
Some people just don't treat their phone as the literal luxury item it is.
is this a competition?
Round 2: i drive a 2003 Saturn with 285K miles.
your turn
Been using the same public transit networks for years.
I’ve lived in a house built in the 1400s
my left leg has been with me my whole life and so far there was no need for repair or replacement
I drink water that is billions of years old.
before moving to South Carolina my main form of transportation was the bicycle, but here roads are super unfriendly to anything that isn't a car/truck
Dang, you beat me! Just gave up my 2007 Nissan, which had 245k on it. Still, it was worth every penny.
97 Toyota with 300k
Hmm, I’m game. My 2007 Toyota is at 210,000 or so. Passed down from a family member.
Though I didn’t quite mean it as a competition. In fact, I’m pretty rough on my phone. That’s why I was so surprised at a phone never lasting beyond 4 years.
iPhone longevity was one of the things that convinced me to switch. With all my Android phones I usually couldn’t wait to upgrade after 2 years, because they tended to get sucky when the manufacturer gave them their last update. Then I had a Pixel 2 that, other than having to ship it in for a warranty replacement about 18 months in, was still going strong after 3 years when Google stopped supporting it. I looked at my stepdaughter with a 6-year-old iPhone (her mom’s old phone) still getting updates, still easy to get repaired locally with parts readily available (needed when a kid is using it!), and wondered why I was spending so much money on something that would be abandoned so fast by the manufacturer.
I’m glad Google is promising longer support now on newer Pixels. It might someday switch me back, but my iPhone is working fine and has years of life left.
Meanwhile, I'm still on a pixel 3.
I upgraded from my pixel 3a last December after 5 years. To be honest, most of the performance gains are unnoticeable to me as I don't game and use pretty light apps.
Damnit im only in rookie numbers!
The best time to start a stopwatch is 20 years ago. The second best time to start a stopwatch is today.
I'm always trying to get real answers about when to plant trees but I always get this instead. I just don't want to start my stopwatch and then it does because it's too hot.
And to think that I was so proud of my 10k stopwatch.
There's like 2 more of us! Holy shirt nice to meet you!
Almost 2 years, not bad
6 years, 44 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes, 22.44 seconds.
Plus 6 hours
The timer is just the difference between the timestamp when the timer was started and the current timestamp, but I don't know of any timer app that let's you import/export timestamps as easy as that would be to implement.
This timer allows pausing though, so I think you have to store a sequence of timestamps
If you rooted the iPhone could you use some kind of hex editor?
Probably, the data exists somewhere
Does it show the "laps" and their times? If not, I think it can still be implemented by storing just two values - time delta before previous stop and timestamp of previous start/un pause.
It does, those can be a list of timestamps with a lap flag. Pauses can be a pause/resume flag.
Fairly easy data structure to build.
I used to start a stopwatch when I'd get a new phone so I could see exactly how long I had it. Can't say I ever tried to move them to a new device though
So did you just never turn your phone off?
I could use my phone like normal. It marks the start time then anytime you view it it'll display the difference. Reboots had no effect
A lot of timer apps save the start time to disk.
What did you do when you needed to use the stopwatch?
Also, if you use android, you can use this site https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity and pick your device, and it tells you the date it was first registered.
Stupid, but I'd just lap it. Would give me the difference and worked well enough for the rare occasion I actually needed a stopwatch.
Also the Google sign in trick only works if you're signed into Google. I used to put lineage on my old phones and now GrapheneOS. I stopped doing the stopwatch thing long ago however.
What is this, a stopwatch for gooners?
Yes. Everything is a mirror of the old phone.
Uhhhhh
I wiped 🤦