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<\/p>\nRUSH: The Drive-By Media and willing accomplices sense that the walls are closing in on President Trump and that more and more of the people around him who were there to protect him are abandoning him, which makes them all believe they\u2019re going to have a clear head shot, political head shot at Donald Trump sooner than later. And we\u2019ll get into the weeds of all this stuff in a minute.<\/p>\n
But I have to share this with you. For you tech people in the audience, I\u2019ve got a stumper for you. I\u2019ve got an Apple Watch. I have two Apple Watches, each tied to a different phone. One of them is behaving entirely normally and fine. Both watches are identical in terms of apps, complications, watch faces. They are identical.<\/p>\n
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Yesterday morning the watch I wear with my primary phone began to do something very weird. I put it on the charger, and it would lose charge rapidly. When it\u2019s not on the charger, it behaves normally, it depletes its charge as any device does. But when I put it on the charger yesterday — I got up, put it on the charger, it had 91%. When I came back after the routine in the bathroom, it had gone down to 75%. In 30 minutes it\u2019d gone from 91% to 75% on the charger! I didn\u2019t think anything of it. I said, \u201cThis is weird, maybe I didn\u2019t read 91%.\u201d<\/p>\n
So I came in to work and the day went on and I put it back on the charger, and it continued to lose charge so about yesterday morning at 10 o\u2019clock, I noticed, this is not right. So I did a power reboot of the watch and put it on the charger, and it began to charge normally. So, a-ha. There\u2019s something in there that\u2019s causing this watch to go bananas only when it\u2019s on the charger.<\/p>\n
So what happens when a watch is on the charger? Well, the way these things are designed, that is where apps update, system updates, any major CPU task, Apple designs it so that stuff happens when your device is charging so as not to deplete the battery. You don\u2019t know this kind of stuff unless you get into it, but the reason, by the way, when you get a new watch or new phone, let\u2019s say, when you get a new phone and you\u2019re setting it up, they don\u2019t tell you this, but you\u2019re supposed to leave it plugged in charging that first overnight.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when it downloads all of your music, downloads all of your photos, sets all that stuff up so that it doesn\u2019t deplete your battery in the process because those are intense processes affecting the CPU and the battery. And Apple designs their stuff so that stuff automatically only happens when a device is on the charger.<\/p>\n
Now, you can trigger those kinds of processes. You can do app updates and photo and music downloads when you\u2019re not on the charger, but you have to do it manually. If you rely on that stuff to happen automatically, it will only happen when your phone is charging. And, in some cases, only after midnight. It\u2019s designed that way so that you charge your phone overnight and all that stuff happens while you\u2019re asleep.<\/p>\n
So something is depleting my watch. You know what I did? I unpaired that watch and I went and got a new one. I said, \u201cThis will fix it.\u201d I restored from a backup, from an old phone, an iPhone X, to make sure that I wasn\u2019t restoring whatever the problem was. And guess what? The problem is still happening. On a brand-new watch, brand-new setup watch, just two hours ago. (music interruption) I don\u2019t know why what I said generated a music staccato there, but it is dramatic, I\u2019ll tell you, because if anybody out there has any ideas, we are stumped.<\/p>\n
A brand-new watch, not set up identically as the one that was bad. For example, I\u2019ve only got two watch faces set up on this one as opposed to I had eight or nine on the one that was going berserk. And still on the charger, it loses charge, I mean, faster than anything I\u2019ve ever seen lose charge. Ninety-one percent to 75% in 20 minutes? But if I shut the watch down and restart it and put it on the charger, it charges normally.<\/p>\n
So shutting it down stops some process that\u2019s gone crazy in there. We just can\u2019t identify the process. I only have six third-party apps, meaning not official Apple system apps, and I tried deleting them one by one and then en masse. Did not resolve the problem. And this is the kind of problem that — I could write this all out as I have just spoken it, about the way I\u2019ve done this, and send it off to people, and it\u2019s like nobody reads what you say.<\/p>\n
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They ask me, \u201cWell, have you tried this?\u201d Read the email I sent you. Everything you need to know is in the email. It\u2019s that hard to believe. \u201cWait a minute, your watch only loses its charge on the charger?\u201d Yes, that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to tell you. It took me three times to convince somebody that\u2019s actually — They think I\u2019m the idiot and I\u2019m wrong. No, this is why I\u2019m calling you in the first place. It\u2019s why I\u2019m asking you. The watch is losing charge only on the charger. If I shut the watch down and put it back on the charger, it starts charging normally. It does not lose charge anymore rapidly than normal when I\u2019m using it when it\u2019s on my wrist. Only on the charger does, it loses its charge el rapido.<\/p>\n
So I had to share this with you because, my friends, when this kind of stuff happens, it totally occupies my creative juices. Since last night, I think I might have even dreamed about this, but I don\u2019t remember it. Last night, into this morning, setting up the new watch, hoping to try various things, that\u2019s all I\u2019ve — well, it\u2019s not all I\u2019ve done. I am fully prepared here to do yet another barn-burner radio program. But you can\u2019t believe how fast time flies when you get absorbed into a problem like this and trying to fix it.<\/p>\n
If this kind of problem happened to somebody who has no desire to understand tech, they\u2019d just throw it away. They\u2019d throw it away, they\u2019d call Apple, they\u2019d want their money back, they wouldn\u2019t try to figure it out. They\u2019d try to solve it with a new watch, which is what I did. Brand-new watch. Same thing. Imagine that. It helps narrow down what the process going wrong is, but there\u2019s no way of knowing what it is. And I\u2019ve deleted every app, third-party app, and the problem continued to happen to one degree or another.<\/p>\n
I can still use it, but every time I want to charge it, I have to turn if off first. (interruption) It\u2019s not the EKG. I deleted that. Well, you can disable it, but you can\u2019t delete it. Because it\u2019s a system app. I\u2019ve done everything you can possibly imagine. And so now where I am with this thing, every time I want to charge it, I have to shut it down. Now, you know it\u2019s not designed that way.<\/p>\n
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And again, I have another watch that\u2019s paired with another phone that is identically set up as the first one. Not this one. I don\u2019t have nearly as much stuff on this replacement yet, but it\u2019s behaving normally, no problems whatsoever. The only difference is that one of my phones is dual SIM, I have two numbers in it, the other phone doesn\u2019t. The phone with two numbers in it is the one where the watch is going haywire.<\/p>\n
Folks, I have to tell you, this dual SIM, this is such a savior. Permit me to tell you. This is such a savior. You can now with the iPhone XR, XS, XS Max, you can put a second line on your phone. Same carrier, different carrier, data only, it\u2019s got an internal SIM in it, and you can have four internal SIM accounts. You can only have two active at once, two numbers active at once.<\/p>\n
But for me the reason this is a godsend is that my primary carrier — and I\u2019m so tempted to identify them, but there\u2019d be no upside in that. My primary carrier, I cannot use my phone from my home to over halfway to work. No signal. I can\u2019t use it for data, I can\u2019t use iMessage, I can\u2019t stream music, I can\u2019t use the maps navigation. I can\u2019t do anything with it on cellular because the signal is so bad.<\/p>\n
So I added a second number from a different carrier, and it\u2019s amazing what you can do. You can have a primary number as your voice number and use a different number as your data number. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve done. The second carrier I have three to four bars the entire time I\u2019m alive on this island. And so I\u2019ve set up that second number on my internal SIM as the data number, which means that I can stream music, I can use iMessage, I can do whatever I need to do while in the car or even home if I somehow would lose Wi-Fi. It\u2019s just fabulous.<\/p>\n
This way I don\u2019t have to complain to the carrier with no signal. They wouldn\u2019t do anything about it anyway \u2019cause we\u2019ve tried that. So I hope my dual SIM phone is not what\u2019s causing the problem with the watch. That\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s different, and I can\u2019t imagine why that would be. Okay. That\u2019s that. I know that some of you in this audience are tech wizards interested in it, so chew that one over and see if you\u2019ve either had it happen to you, which I doubt, or if you have any suggestions.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: My watch is down to 96% so I\u2019m gonna put it on a charger in the next break and I\u2019m gonna see. I did something here. It probably isn\u2019t gonna matter.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ll see if it\u2019s gonna help the situation. But if I haven\u2019t it\u2019s gonna go on the charger at either 96 or 95%, and 15 minutes later is gonna be down to 85% — on the charger.\u00a0\u00a0Here\u2019s Rob in Winchester, Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0Great to have you, sir.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019re up first today on the EIB Network.\u00a0\u00a0Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Hey, Rush.\u00a0\u00a0I actually ran into the same exact issue with my daughter\u2019s Apple Watch about a month ago, and we did the same thing.\u00a0\u00a0We uninstalled all the third-party apps. We reset the phone. We threw it across the room a couple of times.\u00a0\u00a0Eventually what we figured out was it wasn\u2019t the watch.\u00a0\u00a0It was the charger port that was not allowing the correct amount of current to go through.\u00a0\u00a0So we weren\u2019t sure if it was the cable, if it was the —<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Yeah, but, see, here\u2019s the thing.\u00a0\u00a0I could have told the screener to tell you, “No. I\u2019ve done all that,” but I wanted to put your call on the air because a lot of people, I\u2019m sure, are thinking the same thing.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve tried. I\u2019ve got so many watch chargers. I\u2019ve got remotes. I\u2019ve got portables in the car. I\u2019ve tried five different chargers — and don\u2019t forget we\u2019re talking two watches here.\u00a0\u00a0Now, there is no charge port. So what do you mean?\u00a0\u00a0You mean the back of the watch where the inductive charging takes place was bad? The actual hardware part on your daughter\u2019s watch was bad?<\/p>\n
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CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0\u00a0Yeah.\u00a0\u00a0It was the hardware itself, the charger going to the watch.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Wait a minute.\u00a0\u00a0The charger built into the back of the watch or the cable?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0The cable.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The thing that magnetically attaches to the back of the watch?\u00a0\u00a0Which was it that —<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Yeah.\u00a0 So we swapped it out.\u00a0\u00a0We tried a few different things.\u00a0\u00a0We swapped it out for a different —<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0— different charger point, the magnetic thing on the back.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.\u00a0\u00a0The white circular magnetic thing that you put and attach to the back of the watch, that\u2019s what you\u2019re talking about?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.\u00a0\u00a0All right.\u00a0\u00a0Well, I don\u2019t… It\u2019s too technical. There\u2019s no charge port. It\u2019s wireless because it\u2019s inductive. So you attach the charger by magnet.\u00a0\u00a0It just happens automatically.\u00a0\u00a0But that\u2019s not my problem \u2019cause I\u2019ve tried five of those — and, remember, we\u2019re talking two watches here, and one of them is brand-new, just out of the box this morning.<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t yet thrown anything across the room yet.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve done that in previous circumstances.\u00a0\u00a0Well, I don\u2019t think I ever have actually. (chuckling) But I can understand your frustration.\u00a0\u00a0But these things to me, the more I\u2019ve learned about this, they no longer are frustrations alone.\u00a0\u00a0They are that.\u00a0\u00a0But they become challenges to analyze what\u2019s gone wrong, troubleshoot. You start doing that and you can take days trying various things.<\/p>\n
Deleting each individual app, trying to recreate scenarios and then start eliminating them, trying to track down where the problem is.\u00a0\u00a0I originally thought it was a hardware problem.\u00a0\u00a0But with two watches and one of them being brand-new, what are the odds of that?\u00a0\u00a0So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that.\u00a0\u00a0As it is, I don\u2019t have a solution, other than to not use this watch and just use my other one, which is working fine.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.\u00a0\u00a0No change. So I put the watch on the charger at 12:55 p.m. with 96% on the battery, and I\u2019m down to 94% in 2-1\/2 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0So I\u2019ve lost two percentage points — 96 to 94% — in 2-1\/2 minutes with the watch on the charger.\u00a0\u00a0I do not lose battery like this when the watch is on my wrist.\u00a0\u00a0So I\u2019ll have to get up there and restart the watch — shut it down, and restart it — to stop whatever\u2019s going on in there and then put it back on the charger and everything will be normal.\u00a0\u00a0Imagine having to do that every time you want to charge it.\u00a0\u00a0Shut down the watch first.\u00a0\u00a0What a pain!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Thanks to all of you who have sent your suggestions on what I should do to fix my broken watch. I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m gonna do. The next thing I do is probably going to fix it. I\u2019m going to wipe this watch, and you do that by un-pairing it. When you un-pair your watch from your phone, it creates a backup and wipes the watch and takes it back to factory default settings.<\/p>\n
Then I\u2019m gonna re-pair it, but I\u2019m not gonna restore from a previous backup. I\u2019m gonna set it up as new, which is a time-consuming hassle. And I will bet you that that fixes it because that will not introduce whatever the demon is in this thing that is causing it to go crazy when put on the charger. And, if I do this tonight, I\u2019ll report back tomorrow on whether or not it worked — and I\u2019ll bet that it will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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