Users of social news site Reddit found an unpleasant issue in the new models of Apple mobile devices. It turns out that a simple rearrangement of the date in the settings you can turn the iPhone practically does not react to external stimuli useless brick.
A death date was January 1, 1970. If the option to enter it and reboot, the gadget function hangs at the time of displaying the logo.
The issue affects devices running iOS 8 and 9, on the basis of 64-bit processors A7, A8, A8X, A9 and A9X. Thus, cebicherias iPhone 5s and above, iPad Air and later, iPad mini 2 and above, iPod touch 6G. Users of iPhone 5 or iPad 2 can not worry.
Must warn that Kirpichny device can be treated only by removing the battery manually, which is not so simple and safe procedure. Full recovery or DFU mode firmware update does not help. So it is better not to experiment unless you are a lover of extreme activities like inserting a light bulb in his mouth or rapid charge your phone in a microwave oven (version Ferra.ru does not recommend).
However there is another theory, not yet proven on real experiences — if you wait a few hours then the problem will resolve itself. Supposedly the hang-up occurs because of the time difference in time zones in which the inhabitants of the Western hemisphere, the variable time in the system receives an invalid negative value. However, the inspection carried out a bold new Wylsacom in Moscow, showed that in the Eastern hemisphere there is exactly the same problem.