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Battery dying quickly - could this have something to do with it?
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That message means that you plugged in your phone to charge at some point ad unplugged it before it fully charged again. I heard doing that harms the battery.
So always let your battery run to near dead levels before charging again. Plugging in for 5 minutes here and 20 minutes there will damage the battery I believe...
So always let your battery run to near dead levels before charging again. Plugging in for 5 minutes here and 20 minutes there will damage the battery I believe...
Am I the only one that just barely gets through a day without it dying? I've never found that annoying, but rather a simply unavoidable phenomenon - my phone often just can't last through a whole day.
I plug mine in when I can. Only at night do I charge it to 100% every day.
If I just do normal, light usage, I can make it through a day on less than 50% drain. Lately I have been texting an old friend through iMessage a lot and it absolutely kills the battery. I could no longer make it through the day without charging.
Back to the thought of short, incomplete charges damaging the battery, my 4 is 2 years old and it shows 95% of initial capacity after 308 cycles. Doesn't seem very damaged to me.
If I just do normal, light usage, I can make it through a day on less than 50% drain. Lately I have been texting an old friend through iMessage a lot and it absolutely kills the battery. I could no longer make it through the day without charging.
Back to the thought of short, incomplete charges damaging the battery, my 4 is 2 years old and it shows 95% of initial capacity after 308 cycles. Doesn't seem very damaged to me.
No, mine would probably die throughout the day too, but I plug it in with my car charger on my way home from work each day. Its a 40 minute drive with traffic, so it usually gets a big bump insuring I have a comfortable amount of battery life for the remainder of the day.
It is also less likely now that my work phone is an iPhone 4S as well, so I use each of them for different things.
Mine makes it every without charging. Unless I am in a secure area that has cell signals blocked, then it dies quick unless I go to airplane mode. I don't make a lot of calls but I play games during breaks, text and moderate surfing during meetings (4-5 hrs a day) and listen to itunes to drown out coworkers while at desk and trying to work. I usually have 25-30% when I get home. At home I rarely use iPhone, my iMac and macbook pro handle most of my needs. Now if I stream pandora, the battery will die quicker.
All in all, I'm happy with the battery on my 4s. My older dumbphones lasted for days between charges, now I charge every night, whether it needs it or not.
All in all, I'm happy with the battery on my 4s. My older dumbphones lasted for days between charges, now I charge every night, whether it needs it or not.
My iPhone 4's battery did much better than my 4S... It was especially better running on iOS 4
Depends on usage. I've made it more then 2 days when on vacation and not using it. However a normal day gets me about 7 hours of usage and I exceed that.
No disrespect taken.
I've believed that for a while and would always let my iDevice's charge fully before i used them again. Not to be rude, but do you have a source? I know I didn't but I want to read more into that. 
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Read any article about today LI batteries. Nickel based batteries used years ago had this issue.
No disrespect taken.
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
Also, just read about current battery technology (lithium-ion) if that interests you. You can find much more detailed information than what Apple provides all over the net.
I thought it was quite clear in the menu when it says that usage tiems will be shown when phone is fully charged?
waking up at 730, unplug phone and by the time i get into office at 930, i'm normally down to mid 70's after the morning checking of emails and news round ups
Last few days my battery has drained at an unusually high rate. Today my battery drained about 1% every 5 min (not in use). My iPad also. My thinking is its due to and updated app, but cant figure it out. Both are jailbroken but have not updated any cydia apps recently only iTunes.
Doing a restore now. Hope it fixes it. No one else has this problem recently?
Doing a restore now. Hope it fixes it. No one else has this problem recently?
Yes, there are a few threads on it. Restore as new or simply turn it off and on to stop all processes. Also you can get an app that shows system stats and you can see if something is consuming the CPU.