Hey, I have two friends that got in on the the refurb deal and they're both telling me that their batteries are barely lasting a day. They're only using it light to moderately. No heavy use really. How's the battery performing on yours? Poorly??
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AT&T Refurb iPhone Users Out There
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Are you kidding? Light use?! I haven't put mine down since I got it Friday!! Yesterday night I got a warning that I was down to 20% battery, but so far it's holding up pretty good. About a day and a half probably. I usually charge my stuff overnight (everynight) anyway, so no big deal to me.
The official one is "Yes, the phone must be activated and locked with AT&T"
but I wonder what T-Mobile users will do when something bad happens.
Are they going to reset and activate with AT&T ? How are they going to do this
if the phone is broken ?
What if we just restore it to 1.1.4, then take it in, claiming that we even tried a hard reset/restore?
Your phone must be activated with an AT&T plan. A genius bar will check if this is true right off the bat. T-mobile and others are screwed.
I got my 8GB refurbished iPhone from AT&T last week and it holds a charge fine. It lasts about 2 days on very heavy use!
They must have totally changed the battery since I got mine because neither myself nor my wife get ANYWHERE near the kind of battery time ppl here claim to get. Ours, usually by 8pm is near dead. And I would say it was moderate use, some of which is calls. But then I see ppl like the above poster saying "2 days with HEAVY usage", how it that possible?
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I bought two on Day 1, an 8 Gb and a 4 Gb. My wife charges her 4 Gb about every three or four days. That has been pretty consistent since new. A caveat here is she uses hers almost exclusively as a phone. She hardly ever uses the iPod function or the e-mail. Google maps is the only app she ever uses. I, however, use the crap out of mine. I check my e-mail all day; check my stock portfolio - Apple is at $139.53 @ 3:34 CDT; check the weather and use it as a phone, with a bluetooth headset. I normally charge mine every other day. I do synch it every night because I rely heavily on the calender, so it is getting a small charge every day, but I doubt it is much. If I did not get at least two good days with heavy use, I would take it back to Apple. Less than a day is clearly a bad battery.
But it was. My serial number is in the system and my warranty is good through June 2008... it was activated at some point on AT&T. So if I restore it, then take it in with "out of the box" software, how would they know?
If you have an AT&T plan then you are safe.
That's not the case for most of other unlockers (including myself now 😉)
I pretty much spent yesterday trying to get it to full charge between uses. Yeah, I know. Not the smartest thing. LAY OFF! 🙂 But I didn't seem to notice any battery issues. I've played a few music videos without the battery going down noticably.
sigh.... so no need to waste the money on Applecare (if you plan on using TMobile)... er.... wait... I already bought applecare.... right..... 🙁
On the bright side, if you restore your phone and get an AT&T plan...no worries.
FYI on the subject of battery life, today I took my iPhone off the cradle around 11 a.m. It's now 6:15 p.m. and it says about 3/4 battery life. This is playing a little music (maybe 30-45 minutes), checking e-mail every now and then, adding a bunch of newspaper Web site links to my home screen, using it for about 5 minutes of calls.