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Battery tip for the iPhone 4s that works!
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Make sure its like at 5% when you don't want to use the phone. Play angry birds or cut the rope to kill some time. If you're battery is not calibrated well, you will notice it takes a lot of time to go from 1% to 0%. I finished like 20 levels of Angry birds staying at 1%. Phone shuts off, leave it for 30 mins. and charge it back up till 100%. You can use the phone in the meantime.
That's nonsense. The phone drawing power regardless if you are using it or not.
Love how you're going to tell me what's nonsense in my thread and my instructions on what I did that works. Once again do NOT use your phone during the charge cycle. Follow the instructions step by step.
Huge thanks for the tip. Worked for me. 
Had noticed the battery percentage gradually waning throughout the day. Let it run completely out of charge, plugged it in, charged back up, and it stayed at 100% for a good couple of hours, only dropped to 98% after I'd browsed the app store, downloaded a new photo app and started playing around with the camera (understandably!). That was a couple of hours ago and it's now still at 97%.
I have most stuff on, push, location, notifications, pointless essential stuff doing its thing in the background, etc!
Thanks again. Happy bunny here.
Had noticed the battery percentage gradually waning throughout the day. Let it run completely out of charge, plugged it in, charged back up, and it stayed at 100% for a good couple of hours, only dropped to 98% after I'd browsed the app store, downloaded a new photo app and started playing around with the camera (understandably!). That was a couple of hours ago and it's now still at 97%.
I have most stuff on, push, location, notifications, pointless essential stuff doing its thing in the background, etc!
Thanks again. Happy bunny here.
I've heard that if you shake your iPhone 3 times while it's charging, and then throw some salt over your left shoulder, it improves the battery life.
Make sure it's your left shoulder though.....people who have thrown salt over their right shoulder have experienced reduced battery life.
Make sure it's your left shoulder though.....people who have thrown salt over their right shoulder have experienced reduced battery life.
Huge thanks for the tip. Worked for me.
Had noticed the battery percentage gradually waning throughout the day. Let it run completely out of charge, plugged it in, charged back up, and it stayed at 100% for a good couple of hours, only dropped to 98% after I'd browsed the app store, downloaded a new photo app and started playing around with the camera (understandably!). That was a couple of hours ago and it's now still at 97%.
I have most stuff on, push, location, notifications, pointless essential stuff doing its thing in the background, etc!
Thanks again. Happy bunny here.
Glad to hear it helped you out!
LOL! Don't get mad because of one post. You are being too OCD about the whole calibration thing. I'll repeat, the phone draws power regardless of if you are using or not! Take a course in Electrical Engineering on how DSP units work and learn the difference between i/p and Vdd, power consumption , transconductance, leakage currents etc. There are ways to minimize these, but they are not perfect.
That's great but what is the reason behind you feeling the need to jump in the post and confuse the average reader who simply could follow my instructions step by step and get better battery life?
I did not jump, I was simply substituting a fact for a wrong information about electrical circuits. Granted, I am not a power expert its not my field, let alone how li-on actually works. But, I have designed and fabricated several models of DSP's in the field of signals and systems engineering, and have never once seen a unit that will just stay still and consume no power if there is no i/p provided.
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Not necessarily if you turn it off in the regular way, but if you do a hard reset it should kill the processes. That helped me.
Thankfully I know nothing about physics. The step-by-step instructions were definitely my level.
Awesome glad it helped you out also!
Thanks so much for the instructions! I followed them and my battery life has improved significantly! Truly appreciate it!
I'm sorry but I read this thread twice and I'm a bit lost.
You let the phone get to 1% then it automatically shuts itself off. I let it sit for 30 mins. Then I plug it into a wall charger. Now when the unit turns itself on again at the 5% mark do I hold down the power switch and turn it off?
Basically I'm confused at the point of turning off a phone that has already turned itself off.
You let the phone get to 1% then it automatically shuts itself off. I let it sit for 30 mins. Then I plug it into a wall charger. Now when the unit turns itself on again at the 5% mark do I hold down the power switch and turn it off?
Basically I'm confused at the point of turning off a phone that has already turned itself off.
You use the phone until it dies completely and turns itself off. Then you plug it into the wall immediately, no waiting 30 minutes. When it turns itself back on that's fine don't touch it let it sit there and continue to charge. Once it reaches 100% charge let it sit on the charger still for a little bit longer, maybe an extra 30 minutes give or take. Then unplug and enjoy!
Great post TS. It's true I can't stop touching her for 3 hours
Gonna have to plug her in another room or something.
I was going to follow the instructions for the macbookpro. They say that after you mac goes off let it sit between 4 and 6 hours then plug in and fully charge. I might just let iPhone sit for 30 minutes or an hour though.
I was going to follow the instructions for the macbookpro. They say that after you mac goes off let it sit between 4 and 6 hours then plug in and fully charge. I might just let iPhone sit for 30 minutes or an hour though.
But that's not what your instructions state. the entire preface of your OP is that it's INTEGRAL to turn the phone "OFF". How can we leave the phone "OFF" if it turns itself back on every time we let it drain completely? Your logic is faulty and your directions are flawed.
Re-think 'em and get back to us.
Sorry but I understood and I'm half drunk and lit up like a xmas tree. Use phone until it dies. Plug phone into wall charger. Phone will come on after 5 minutes or so. Let phone charge to 100% and let it charge a little more. I'd just plug it in overnight and call it good. But yea I dunno. Cheers
Yes if you read this entire thread that has been addressed already. You should spend more time with your eyes open instead of jumping to try and criticize someones post. Use the phone until it is OFF and initiate the charge while the phone is completely dead and OFF and let it go until fully charged.
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Sorry but I understood and I'm half drunk and lit up like a xmas tree. Use phone until it dies. Plug phone into wall charger. Phone will come on after 5 minutes or so. Let phone charge to 100% and let it charge a little more. I'd just plug it in overnight and call it good. But yea I dunno. Cheers
That works perfect. Run it down until it dies completely and then plug it in, go to sleep and unplug it in the morning and enjoy!
Not quite. Re-read your OP:
See that part in bold? That's you instructing people to keep the phone off.
That's nonsensical and incongruous with your subsequent posts.
Now you're saying it doesn't need to "stay off", instead "just let it drain completely and charge it to 100%."
That's called calibrating the battery.
You've discovered nothing new.
You've obviously realized your flawed logic regarding "keeping the phone OFF", so it would behoove those you intend to "help" to edit your OP to remove the conflicting, confusing and incorrect info.