Is that even a thing anymore? I do it anyway, but I don't think it's required with lithium batteries.
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Is that even a thing anymore? I do it anyway, but I don't think it's required with lithium batteries.
just wanted to let users here know...
after u all had ur fun figuring how long ur battery can last.
- just charge it whenever u can, unless u have no choice at all.
by doing 90-100% discharge so willingly (when u don't have to), u have just shortened the life expectancy of ur battery holding charge capacity.
do it for another 300-500 cycles, and ur total battery life will suffer a 70-80% degradation.
[who says so? all studies on lithium-ion batteries say so.]
after u all had ur fun figuring how long ur battery can last.
- just charge it whenever u can, unless u have no choice at all.
by doing 90-100% discharge so willingly (when u don't have to), u have just shortened the life expectancy of ur battery holding charge capacity.
do it for another 300-500 cycles, and ur total battery life will suffer a 70-80% degradation.
[who says so? all studies on lithium-ion batteries say so.]
Best smartphone battery life I've experienced.
I have brightness on 65%, location off, 4G at all times, very heavy internet usage and facebook.
Edit: I forgot to mention that this is on 8.0 iOS. I'll test the phone with 8.1 soon and post results.
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I actually have 4. The nexus 5 work phone gets all the use. Factor in the computer, laptop and iPads and there ya go
Is anyone noticing 3rd party keyboards taking up a lot of battery? I have swift key, do a good about of texting and it's at 10% battery usage. Seems kind of high, I'd rather not use it if it's going to be sucking thay much of my battery. Do other keyboards do this?
I think 3rd party keyboards are not optimized yet. (Not sure if they ever will)
Most 3rd party keyboard causes lag, espcially when you send an iMessage/SMS, balloon animation is EXTREMLY laggy
I most say that I am very impress with battery life my 64gb space gray iPhone 6+ use it for 10hours of heavily use and still have 17% battery life left. I also love the srcreen size find my self using it more than my 13inch MacBook pro. Never could use my 4s for long because of the size of the screen would hurt my eyes after awhile.
Battery life on iOS 8.1
iPhone 6+, location turned on for weather and facebook. Brightness 65%. Extremely heavy internet usage on 4G and non stop facebook posting/updating. iPhone 6+ is a new toy for me, so I pretty much never put it down. Still, I didn't manage to drain it by the end of the day. I can safely say, this is the first smartphone that truly lasted a single day for me without the need to plug in.
iPhone 6+, location turned on for weather and facebook. Brightness 65%. Extremely heavy internet usage on 4G and non stop facebook posting/updating. iPhone 6+ is a new toy for me, so I pretty much never put it down. Still, I didn't manage to drain it by the end of the day. I can safely say, this is the first smartphone that truly lasted a single day for me without the need to plug in.
Love it but it takes too long to charge
You know both 6/6+ has a fast charge feature right? But you will need to get a wall adaptor that does fast charge, I think it put out a 2.1 amp vs the stock apple 1amp wall adaptor.
