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mib1800

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I have it off. Only have it half way. How does it only give me 4 hours or 5 hours of usage in half a day. I'm already in 22%

This shows you are really using the phone with screen on for 4 -5 hrs.

Don't be bother by other people's stat which give you 10 to 13 hours which just tell you that they have the phone in the pocket most of the time.
 

Ortiz7983

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6 Plus battery life: excellent

Well i called Apple. They sent me a diagnostics test and turned out there was a glitch on the operating system that was draining my battery. They said I had 4 red flags on the diagnostics results. I would not even use my iPhone and it would go down on percentage. Now I reinstalled iOS 8, took of the charger awhile back, still at 100%. If I wouldn't have called apple, it would have been at 83%-84% already without even touching it within a 5 hour span of not using it. Here I am now 5 hours in not using it and I'm where it should be now. Called back and the diagnostics results showed all green light. Glad I called in the beginning. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1413715148.841404.jpg
 
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Shadowbech

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Well i called Apple. They sent me a diagnostics test and turned out there was a glitch on the operating system that was draining my battery. They said I had 4 red flags on the diagnostics results. I would not even use my iPhone and it would go down on percentage. Now I reinstalled iOS 8, took of the charger awhile back, still at 100%. If I wouldn't have called apple, it would have been at 83%-84% already without even touching it within a 5 hour span of not using it. Here I am now 5 hours in not using it and I'm where it should be now. Called back and the diagnostics results showed all green light. Glad I called in the beginning.

Yea this happened to me as well. I wasn't even using the phone and for some reason my phone was warm to the touch. Battery was draining like every minute. So I ended up doing a factory restore and set it up as a new device and that has fixed the issue. I'm not sure what it was that was running but I'm glad the restore fixed that issue.
 

Ortiz7983

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6 Plus battery life: excellent

Just showing progress after installing iOS 8 again and getting the bugs out that were affecting my battery on my iPhone 6 Plus ImageUploadedByTapatalk1413745595.843414.jpg
 

Samar7

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Jun 8, 2008
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This doesn't seem right in comparison to other screenshots, does it?

Mostly using Safari, messages, tweetbot, a bit of streaming video and a bit of Spotify.

Auto brightness is on, using a mix of LTE and Wifi, I have switched off motion calibration and a few other options in location services. I just don't understand why others are getting such better battery life...

6 plus was set up as a new device when purchased.
 

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Samar7

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I ended up on 7 hours and 42 mins of usage. Sound off?
 

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Ortiz7983

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This doesn't seem right in comparison to other screenshots, does it?



Mostly using Safari, messages, tweetbot, a bit of streaming video and a bit of Spotify.



Auto brightness is on, using a mix of LTE and Wifi, I have switched off motion calibration and a few other options in location services. I just don't understand why others are getting such better battery life...



6 plus was set up as a new device when purchased.


That does seem odd. I would call apple so they can send you a diagnostic test to your phone. I did that and there was some glitches on the operating system that was draining my battery bad.
 

Ortiz7983

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6 Plus battery life: excellent

Another pic where my progress is at. I'm trying to get it to 1% after reinstalling iOS 8. So far since disconnecting it last night around 12 am. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1413774959.582245.jpg let's just say big improvement. Very big. I would go from 100% to 20% in 6 hours.
 

Ortiz7983

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6 Plus battery life: excellent

I think some poster fake pictures. That's for sure. Charging in between and not letting it fully charge then posting pictures saying its 2 days and 11 hours of usage and at 47%. ********. And trust me, there are people who "do" do this. Sad
 
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Ortiz7983

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So this is the end results after getting the bugs out. I heavily used it too. Took it off 12 am of last night. Haven't charged it once. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1413781974.855484.jpg
 

myztikal47

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6 Plus battery life: excellent

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How's this look? On 8.0.2, I'm afraid to upgrade to 8.1 seeing the other thread where people said battery life was bad.
 

Shadowbech

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How's this look? On 8.0.2, I'm afraid to upgrade to 8.1 seeing the other thread where people said battery life was bad.

Looks okay to me.

I wouldn't be afraid to upgrade to 8.1. I have 8.1 installed and have great battery life. Of course 2 hours are from listening to music. So battery life isn't bad on 8.1. YMMV
 

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Bacong

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mine has been excellent as well. on days that I need a quick recharge (sometimes I work 12-15 hour days) throwing it on my iPad charger for 20 minutes gets me a nice boost. If you're annoyed at how long it takes to charge on the included wall socket, try an iPad charger if you have one.
 

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