Did it get any better? What is your brightness at?
I'm getting around 6-7 hours usage playing Clash of clans.
Brightness 80% - 6 hours
Brightness 50% - 7 hours
Can't say i'm pleased, i would be if it lasted me 10 hours.
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iPad Air 2 battery life. The potential deal breaker.
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Did it get any better? What is your brightness at?
I'm getting around 6-7 hours usage playing Clash of clans.
Brightness 80% - 6 hours
Brightness 50% - 7 hours
Can't say i'm pleased, i would be if it lasted me 10 hours.
I'll take it off full charge in the morning and play as much as I can and post the results...
My battery on my air 2 is as good or better than my iPad 3. Auto brightness, (lte wifi and Bluetooth on) 
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So.... the Ai2 2 is thinner and has a smaller battery. No surprise here. My Air 2 get way better battery performance that I expected, but slightly less than my Air 1.
That would NEVER be a deal breaker for me and we relaced both of our Air units with new Air 2 and are happy.
The battery is fine, people are crying about 10+ hour battery use? Wow
It's pretty damn hard to kill the battery of this thing in one day unless you're streaming multiple movies over LTE or something
It's pretty damn hard to kill the battery of this thing in one day unless you're streaming multiple movies over LTE or something
I had over 10 hours of use 29% video watching, 14% game playing as well and about 2 days standby time and still had 35% battery life left. Battery life on the air 2 is a non-issue for me. It will vary from chip to chip however. Some a8x chips are probably better than others...certain batches might get less than ideal battery life, and other batches might get slightly better battery life. It's kind of the luck of the draw thing, but worse case scenario of 10 hours is not bad at all.
There has to be something wrong with mine.
After a full charge, brightness close to 100%, 2 hours of use, (xcom, surfing and checking emails) I was at 39%.
After a full charge, brightness close to 100%, 2 hours of use, (xcom, surfing and checking emails) I was at 39%.
Full brightness will crush the battery. Try to use indoors or in a shaded area.
Have a launch day Air 2 with quite a good bit of cycles on the battery now so it should be broken in.
Set the brightness at 50%, and did single tab browsing (no videos, just web pages) and facebook only, making sure to close whichever of the two apps I wasn't using.
I failed to get a screenshot at 1% but I was at just over 9 hours usage with 4 days and 17 hours of standby.
So I guess without the long standby I'd be getting right at the advertised 10 hours. So I guess I can't complain, but it definitely doesn't touch my iPad 4 battery performance.
Set the brightness at 50%, and did single tab browsing (no videos, just web pages) and facebook only, making sure to close whichever of the two apps I wasn't using.
I failed to get a screenshot at 1% but I was at just over 9 hours usage with 4 days and 17 hours of standby.
So I guess without the long standby I'd be getting right at the advertised 10 hours. So I guess I can't complain, but it definitely doesn't touch my iPad 4 battery performance.
Yeah, real deal breaker... LOL
I'm on 22% battery life left with 10 Hours and 15 min of intensive LTE and WIFI use
Bad battery life my ass... Are you kidding me..?!
This!
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Really? I always charge my rMini at 70% and when I'm at 70, I'll have at the very least 4 hours of usage! Under heavy usage I seem to get at least 1 hour and 10 mins per 10 percent used.
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I'm at 94% with 1 hour and 7 mins usage so far today. And I'm using it heavily today
Huh?
Don't go with the forecast, go with the actual battery life you get between charges.
Don't go with the forecast, go with the actual battery life you get between charges.
"Open" apps dont affect battery, you actually get worse battery life if you are closing them on a regular basis.
I have both the rMini 1 and the iPad Air 2. I used the same apps for 2 weeks to make the best comparison possible.
While the Air 2 scored an average of 14-15 hours of battery life, my rMini achieved around 12 hours average.
Brightness at 30%. Used apps; PDF Expert, Safari, Alien Blue . I used used them the same amount of time in relation to each other.
I can't see how people would say the rMini has a better battery life and also how they can't reach 7 hours with similar apps then mine. Send your iPad back, because then something must be wrong.
While the Air 2 scored an average of 14-15 hours of battery life, my rMini achieved around 12 hours average.
Brightness at 30%. Used apps; PDF Expert, Safari, Alien Blue . I used used them the same amount of time in relation to each other.
I can't see how people would say the rMini has a better battery life and also how they can't reach 7 hours with similar apps then mine. Send your iPad back, because then something must be wrong.
