Just got my iPhone yesterday and loving it. I was wondering how is the battery life though? I know most smart phones when you leave it on the charger it doesn't hurt cause it stops charging when full now that the same with the iPhone? Also I feel like my auto brightness isn't working. When I have it on it seems to always be the lowest brightness and never change many suggestions?
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Battery question
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Battery life is great, it lasts at least 3 times longer than my previous iPhone (1st gen 2007). Don't bother using the auto-bright, it's just better to set it yourself. It almost never works the way you want it, hopefully that's fixed in iOS 5. 
The iPhone 4 battery life is astounding. I am on Wifi most of the day, either at home or in the office, and regularly get 3 days of use out of my phone. Of course, I do not receive many phone calls, mostly texts, emails and data use.
Make sure you turn off any non-essential services like bluetooth and push.
Don't know about leaving it plugged in all the time ... I think that negatively affects the battery life of all phones, laptops, etc.
Have you tried turning up the brightness in Settings?
Make sure you turn off any non-essential services like bluetooth and push.
Don't know about leaving it plugged in all the time ... I think that negatively affects the battery life of all phones, laptops, etc.
Have you tried turning up the brightness in Settings?
Perfectly normal if not on charge and set to sync anything e.g. Email... Also how good your cell signal is will have a bearing as a weak signal will require more power. Try putting it in airplane mode overnight; you'll see it hardly drops at all.
