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Battery Life on iPhone 6 is Great
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Yup!
I restored from backup and get about 6 hours, maybe a bit more so I am not disappointed.
It was about the same, give or take on my 5S.
Pretty dam awesome battery life on my 6, so much better then my Galaxy S4 that even had a bigger battery then stock (I had a 2800 mAh battery in my S4 compared to 2600 mAh stock)
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So much better starting fresh
unplugged today for 9 hours, 4.5 of usage and still at 61%. love new phones and their battery life
You guys restore from backup?
My first day of use the battery wasn't too hot. I restored from backup and thought that might have been a mistake. But I am MORE than pleased now. It has been 36 hours since I charged and here is what I have now:
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Hold down the power button on side of phone and home button at the same time. Puts a screen shot in your photos.
Set up my phone as new.
Been using it for only a day as my phone is a day old or so.
Been at 100% charged since this morning at around 6.30am.
End of the day at around 10pm, i have Usage of 6 hours 42 minutes and Standby 15 hours 10 minutes.
All these with wifi, 4G, and bluetooth turned on. Also bluetooth was connected to my headset all day.
Is that reasonable?
Been using it for only a day as my phone is a day old or so.
Been at 100% charged since this morning at around 6.30am.
End of the day at around 10pm, i have Usage of 6 hours 42 minutes and Standby 15 hours 10 minutes.
All these with wifi, 4G, and bluetooth turned on. Also bluetooth was connected to my headset all day.
Is that reasonable?
For contacts, emails and calendar i use iCloud sync. Also syncs keychains to the phone. Photos i have them always synced to Aperture. Messages not that critical for me. I used to keep message history up until my old iPhone 3G, but i never refer back to all those messages. So i just start my messages anew. And with IOS 8 i let them expire a year later now.
I looked around on the web and found this:
The hollow location icon means an app may be intermittently using location services (such as setting a reminder if leaving a location).
The solid location icon means an app is actively using location services -- such as maps / navigation.
I do not know if this is correct, but it seems to make sense.
I have my photos backed up in cloud and any other documents and notes,?apps i just reinstall fresh and i set them up again , i never do a restore from a previous backup, or when I buy a new iPhone (when a new model comes out) I NEVER espcially back up from th previous older iPhone i had, it is defitnetly bound to bring glitches and battery drain etc all that sort of stuff
It doesnt always happen actually, And I also still get everything back on my phone as I had it before, it just takes a little longer, but a clean fresh OS install slate is the best
I have to admit I was pretty surprised after having it for a full day yesterday. It has been doing very well and not dying quick. I was on a call at home for almost 2 hours last night and it only went down by 3%. I was shocked.