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I am very displeased with the battery life on my 6+. Is mine defective?
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i see that everyone else is close to 3000 full charge capacity, but i only have 2800. do you think they will give me trouble if i try to claim that my battery sucks?
CycleCount: 13
DesignCapacity: 2855
FullChargeCapacity: 2800
Status: Success
BatteryCurrentCapacity: 52
BatteryIsCharging: true
ExternalChargeCapable: false
ExternalConnected: true
FullyCharged: false
GasGaugeCapability: true
CycleCount: 13
DesignCapacity: 2855
FullChargeCapacity: 2800
Status: Success
BatteryCurrentCapacity: 52
BatteryIsCharging: true
ExternalChargeCapable: false
ExternalConnected: true
FullyCharged: false
GasGaugeCapability: true
I have the same issue except with my regular iPhone 6 which has an even smaller battery than your phone (Though it has a smaller screen to deal with). I would be very happy to get the usage you are getting, it is rare for me to get more than 5 hours of usage, and I have had my phone for 2 weeks. Typically, it dies at around 4 hours and 50 some-odd minutes of usage. It is really bad. I just restored today after it literally was going down a percent a minute. I was texting a friend about how my battery was being horrible, so I said "Oh, at 42% now" which was for example, at 9:16 PM. I then looked back when it was at 39% and it was 9:19 PM. My phone was getting really hot too, would almost hurt to put against your face. I finally plugged in my phone and was preparing to restore it through iTunes. It was charging via my computer and dropped 3% while on the charger. All this time it was at 30% brightness. Sooo.. Yeah. Let's hope the restore has fixed it? I set the phone up as new 2 weeks ago, and updated to 8.0.2 via iTunes.
I am very displeased with the battery life on my 6+. Is mine defective?
This fixed my battery issue,
http://www.scottyloveless.com/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-to-solving-ios-battery-drain
http://www.redmondpie.com/top-15-ios-8-tips-for-saving-battery-life-on-iphone-and-ipad-guide/
This fixed my battery issue,
http://www.scottyloveless.com/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-to-solving-ios-battery-drain
http://www.redmondpie.com/top-15-ios-8-tips-for-saving-battery-life-on-iphone-and-ipad-guide/
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I have gone through EVERY SINGLE BATTERY OPTIMIZATION IN THE BOOK.
also your links are broken
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Mine says it has 2900. Maybe this is the reason our numbers suck
You can always go to the Apple store and have a genius take a look at it. Most likely they will run a quick test diagnostic and they will show you where your battery is currently at. If it shows Green, they will likely not replace it. If it shows in the orange/yellow area or in the red zone, they may replace it.
I was there last night for something at the genius and while I was there, I asked the genius to run a diagnostic on my battery because I did notice a battery drain but I told her that after I did a factory reset that it fixed my draining issue but I just wanted to see if there was anything wrong. She ran the quick test diagnostic and she showed me on the graph that I was on the Green zone (100%). So clearly for me there was something running that I couldn't figure out what was running that was draining my battery so quickly.
This is what mine shows:
Battery
CycleCount: 0
DesignCapacity: 2855
FullChargeCapacity: 3100
Status: Success
BatteryCurrentCapacity: 100
BatteryIsCharging: false
ExternalChargeCapable: true
ExternalConnected: true
FullyCharged: true
GasGaugeCapability: true
Of course it's a brand new one so I have to use it a while to see what happens.
Qualitatively I have been blown away by the battery life on my 6+
On my 5s I would routinely turn the screen display all the way down as a battery saving gesture, rendering it useless outside.
I fly my 6+ loud and proud around 50% brightness all day. It's awesome. 37% right now after traveling all day.
On my 5s I would routinely turn the screen display all the way down as a battery saving gesture, rendering it useless outside.
I fly my 6+ loud and proud around 50% brightness all day. It's awesome. 37% right now after traveling all day.
you have 3100 battery capacity compared to my 2800...i think if anyone has less than 2855, then they should be granted an exchange....but thats jsut me...i paid full price unlocked from my phone and i expect everything to be working 100%. your 3100 capacity is obviously going to show up green. i just dont know how bad my battery has to be to turn up orange/yellow
I quickly went over the previous pages to see whether someone mentioned "network coverage" or not. Looks like not, so my question to you is that do you live in an area where the signal strength is poor or constantly switching between 4G/3G/LTE/what have you. It helps drain your battery pretty well.
As I said you can still take it to the Apple store, have the genius run the test, even at 2800 it would show it in green range. If you aren't satisfied, then yes you can just do a return and get another one. Also the actual design capacity for the 6 Plus is 2915 MaH. Not 2855.
Also keep in mind that battery does fluctuate. I've noticed this on my macbook, especially when looking at coconut battery, the mah for the full charge capacity does go up and down. I'm pretty sure all lithium-ion based battery does that.
you are right about the battery fluctuating, i have experienced that on both my macs as well
i just checked my battery status, and it looks like went up from 2800 to now 2900:
Battery
CycleCount: 15
DesignCapacity: 2855
FullChargeCapacity: 2900
Status: Success
BatteryCurrentCapacity: 24
BatteryIsCharging: true
ExternalChargeCapable: false
ExternalConnected: true
FullyCharged: false
GasGaugeCapability: true
i contacted apple and they told me to do a clean install and to not use a back up files. i will try this when 8.1 comes out and hopefully my battery performance will be better. today i got 3 hours 43 mins of usage and my battery went from 100 to 33%. granted, i was using google maps for 1 hour, so that is understandable.
I Think by battery is doing poorly because at my home I have poor cellular connection 1-3 Bars and on my daily routine, Amy phone keeps switching from LTE and 3G. Also I play some heavy games so I hope my battery is understandable. As an experiment, I turned off my cellular connection my battery was much better. What do you guys think of the screenshot below about my battery?
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My iPhone 6 did this yesterday.
Full charge to 100% was showing 1700mAh
Rebooted the phone showing 1800mAh must be the battery fluctuating.
That's what was causing my battery drain, my battery would drain 25-30% overnight
This seems like just a software issue, but I haven't noticed my phone doing that between Verizon LTE and 3G
I would pay some attention to that. From personal experience (iPhone 5, but still), poor signal strength and change of coverage (LTE/3G/etc) drains the battery a lot. You could perhaps notice how warm your phone gets w/o doing anything.
Yes, I contacted Apple Support and they said my battery life was overall healthy but that there were some software issues were impacting my battery (crashing apps, etc.). She told me to restore from iTunes and I'll do that tonight and report back. I'll restore as new. I have poor cellular coverage too and I noticed a dramatic improvement in battery when I turned Airplane mode on.