You can get 100 hours if you keep plugging it in and not charge it to 100%.
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Battery life Samsung chip
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You can get 100 hours if you keep plugging it in and not charge it to 100%.
Not enough information IMO. If that is screen on time you're great. If all your doing is playing locally stored music, not so great.
OP, so you came to a forum full of paranoid OCD hypochondriacs to check if your phone has any problems? Good luck with that...
And "Yes, a TSMC chip will provide better battery life but only by 2-3% according to real world independent testing."
And "Yes, a TSMC chip will provide better battery life but only by 2-3% according to real world independent testing."
In real world tests the actual different is LESS than 1%. http://www.cultofmac.com/392650/chipgate-debunked/
You will only notice a difference if you are running benchmarks which push the phone to unrealistic levels and as for performance difference there is zero. Some say the TSMC gives better in benchmarks and others are reporting Samsung. The truth is have 2 units with the same processor and they will each give a variation.
So in short, stop worrying about it and don't be that d!ck who returned his phone because he heard the Samsung was better, then changed again because he heard the TSMC was better and did this 6 times.
You will only notice a difference if you are running benchmarks which push the phone to unrealistic levels and as for performance difference there is zero. Some say the TSMC gives better in benchmarks and others are reporting Samsung. The truth is have 2 units with the same processor and they will each give a variation.
So in short, stop worrying about it and don't be that d!ck who returned his phone because he heard the Samsung was better, then changed again because he heard the TSMC was better and did this 6 times.
it's mostly just messaging with some browsing. I don't do any of that social networking stuff, and I have no local music on here. there was a bit of airplane mode in there, too. I also have a bunch of stuff restricted.
but even I was surprised to see it that day. idk if it was a glitch with the qi receiver before the battery went acting up, but I just had to ss it.
PEOPLE. STOP BEING MAD!!!
Do you know what has a greater impact on battery life??? The damn carrier your on.
3 bars vs 4 vs 5. This can cause upto 25% greater battery drain.
Does your carrier use the 800mhz spectrum or 900? This can also affect battery life.
So all those saying their chip is causing battery drain.... Oh f'it. Your all mental.
Do you know what has a greater impact on battery life??? The damn carrier your on.
3 bars vs 4 vs 5. This can cause upto 25% greater battery drain.
Does your carrier use the 800mhz spectrum or 900? This can also affect battery life.
So all those saying their chip is causing battery drain.... Oh f'it. Your all mental.
So, safe to say that 100% of the usage is screen on time? If so I would say there is nothing to worry about at all.
I think the Samsung versus TSMC debate has gotten way out of hand, personally. A few folks running some highly specialized tests comparing a few devices have got people stressing (not implying anything about you) about battery life which isn't likely to effect most users at all.
3 versus 4 versus 5 bars isn't likely to cause as high a battery difference as you state (it's unclear to me whether this was meant as an exaggeration, so apologies if it was). If your phone is struggling to keep a signal, that's certainly a contributor though.
Whilst making a phonecall it's probably true that one dot would drain your battery quicker than five, but I have a near-constant two dots of signal situation and experience great battery life.
Well, we are now comparing one dot to five, whereas the person I quoted was comparing three to four or five. It's possible one dot is actually "struggling for signal. Multiple dots would no longer be the case. For all intents and purposes two dots is the same as five in terms of battery drain. And based on how iOS displays signal, this can easily even be the case for one dot (for the sake of conversation). Someone more well versed than I am could undoubtedly better
Explain this. The take home point is how stable the signal is though, versus how many bars you actually have.
if that isn't a glitch, then yes. but right after that, here's where my battery stats got stuck at for several days/several full cycles even after a few Restarts...
I think it was on this forum where when I posted my findings, that another guy mentioned his battery stats being stuck and not changing whereas mine just wasn't giving a reading at all.
but mine is usually at about 9hrs+ Usage and 16hrs+ Standby when I get to use it more heavily.
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I was kinda agreeing with you that signal strength is cited as being a massive battery drain around these parts when my own experience suggests otherwise. I can only see it being a noticeable drain when like you say, taking a call with one dot of reception would cause the power level to rocket (and the SAR). On standby less so than when actually taking a call.
I only ever see more than 3 dots on my iPhone when I'm in the centre of town. The mobile networks aren't the best here in the UK and I'm also inclined to think that iPhone signal strength isn't the greatest out there either. None of my iPhones have consistently given me more than one or two dots unless I'm in a locality with exceptional signal strength.
I tend to have 4-5 dots when driving on the highway. Otehrwise, it's about what you're stating. Never really full bars. AT&T has been the best IME, though I gave them the boot for unrelated reasons.
That "-" usage and "-" stanby has been a problem for iOS for years. I am unsure what, exactly, causes it, but I am fairly sure it's "awlays" been there. I certainly can;t remember a time that it hasn't.
Regardless, we are either at the mercy of manually tallying the time we spend on our phones are trusting the sfotware that gives us this information. I would say that, in most cases, the software does a pretty good job.
It indicates a springboard crash or a hard restart was performed.
The latter is easy to determine. However if that's not the case with a springboard crash, but if you are using a device with touchid then it should prompt for the password to be entered before unlocking.
You can replicate it yourself with a reset.
ahh.. I see. my only other experience with iPhones is the 5s but never bothered checking my Usage times on there.
for the most part my 6s+ definitely gets better times than my N5 with especially less effort (of disabling apps and hibernating others) when used equivalently, even though they're somewhat different animals.
Good info! I never knew this! Is there.. A point though for iOS to treat the data that way? I can't think of one, but in sure there's a legitimate reason?