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Battery life w/ and w/o wifi
- Thread starter yojimbo1
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I generally have wifi off, where i work i cant access anything wifi, and when i get home i turn it on when i need to beef up the connection speed a little for youtube or satellite view in maps, for email i wouldn't turn it on. And going between work and home i use a motorbike so cant really use it, and i don't condone using it for music whilst riding!!! sometimes i do wish i used a bus to get to work.
I can probably get 3 full days between charges but im usually syncing every night,
3/4 calls a day
5 texts a day
5 bits of browsing whilst smokin a ciggy outside in work breaks
2/3 hrs listening to music a day at work
I can probably get 3 full days between charges but im usually syncing every night,
3/4 calls a day
5 texts a day
5 bits of browsing whilst smokin a ciggy outside in work breaks
2/3 hrs listening to music a day at work
I have never turned wifi off...I average over 48 hours stand-by and probably would get more if it werent for the fact that I recharge every other night.
If just in standby, WiFi uses probably only about 20ma. If actually transceiving on WiFi, it's using perhaps 150-250ma.
The battery has 1400maH (milliamp Hours) capacity.
You can calculate how much of the battery active WiFi would use.
The battery has 1400maH (milliamp Hours) capacity.
You can calculate how much of the battery active WiFi would use.
From what I have read no it is not bad. It is however bad to let you phone drain all the way. Your phone has a set number of charge cycles but those are full cycles, so if you are charging every night when you have 50% left, every 2 will count as 1 cycle.
Please correct me if I am wrong
I charge just about every night too. If I don't, I may run out of power during the second day. I've only run out of power once- early afternoon on day 2-(below), but I've been close a few times. Can anyone confirm LastZion's comment about charging?
I started to keep track of my usage stats last week. So far, these are the longest times:
Usage: 7 hrs, 56 min
Standby: 1 day, 4 hrs
Battery charge remaining: completely dead
Would that be along the lines as 'normal' or 'acceptable' for usage and standby? Any insight would be helpful.
I also believe this to be correct
My iPhone charges everynight whether it needs to be or not, just it case it runs out on the second day 
I also believe this to be correct
I also do this. I use it pretty heavily, though. I have had it die a few times the second day if I didn't have a change to charge it over night.
Yeah, almost 8 hours of actuall use is actually not just ok, it's pretty good if you ask me.
Personally I've never had so long use-time, I only use it a little bit every day. Maybe 30 minutes or so. I would have to recharge it every 5-6 days but normally do it a little bit more often just to make sure I don't completely run out