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Battery Usage/Life Screenshots iPhone 6

I'm content with 13.5 hours of usage with the majority being video without a jailbreak or anything. I go from full to dead once per month for lithium ion calibration. Regardless of placebo effect, I'll take my usage time happily.
 
Here is mine. I haven't used it much it the last couple of days, but it is usually this good or better. No jailbreak.
 

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i get better battery life with my 6 than what i used to get with my 5s
 

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I thought I just did a "restore as new from Itunes" to try and get rid of some bugs. Yet all my apps and settings returned because I had a backup. Does this mean I somehow did it wrong and didn't 'restore as new'?
 
heycal said:
I thought I just did a "restore as new from Itunes" to try and get rid of some bugs. Yet all my apps and settings returned because I had a backup. Does this mean I somehow did it wrong and didn't 'restore as new'?
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If you restored from a backup you didn't restored as new.
When you restore as new, you have to manually download apps again afterward.
 
Max(IT) said:
If you restored from a backup you didn't restored as new.
When you restore as new, you have to manually download apps again afterward.
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I thought so too. And I must definitely selected "restore as new" when asked to choose method. But somehow the apps were all there again. What do you think went wrong? Should I redo everything if my goal is to rid the phone of some bugs I've experienced last week?
 


Here's a post on my usage for my ip6, can't seems to get to 10 hours of usage time like some of the bros here... Anyway Merry Christmas guys :)
 
heycal said:
I thought so too. And I must definitely selected "restore as new" when asked to choose method. But somehow the apps were all there again. What do you think went wrong? Should I redo everything if my goal is to rid the phone of some bugs I've experienced last week?
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When you restore as new it asks you to sign into iCloud. If you're signed into iCloud it will automatically download your apps/music/etc.
 
kioko91 said:
When you restore as new it asks you to sign into iCloud. If you're signed into iCloud it will automatically download your apps/music/etc.
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Well, that's not totally new then, is it? That's what I think I did before, when I thought I was restoring as new. I guess I'm confused as to the difference between restoring from backup, and restoring as new and THEN getting your stuff automatically re-downloaded.

In any case, I just did it all again, skipping any sort of backups or restores. This meant that I had to re-download all my apps, and put back in most of my settings manually, so I think I got it right this time. Thanks, folks.
 
heycal said:
Well, that's not totally new then, is it? That's what I think I did before, when I thought I was restoring as new. I guess I'm confused as to the difference between restoring from backup, and restoring as new and THEN getting your stuff automatically re-downloaded.



In any case, I just did it all again, skipping any sort of backups or restores. This meant that I had to re-download all my apps, and put back in most of my settings manually, so I think I got it right this time. Thanks, folks.
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It is but isn't. It doesn't download a backup, more like downloading what it remembers from your history. It sounds the same but it's not. Kind of like once you sign into iCloud it'll upload your browser history into safari.
 
kioko91 said:
When you restore as new it asks you to sign into iCloud. If you're signed into iCloud it will automatically download your apps/music/etc.
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No it won't do that automatically.
I did it yesterday and I had to download manually every app and song again.

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heycal said:
Well, that's not totally new then, is it? That's what I think I did before, when I thought I was restoring as new. I guess I'm confused as to the difference between restoring from backup, and restoring as new and THEN getting your stuff automatically re-downloaded.

In any case, I just did it all again, skipping any sort of backups or restores. This meant that I had to re-download all my apps, and put back in most of my settings manually, so I think I got it right this time. Thanks, folks.
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I did the same. It's a little bit time consuming, but you are going to have a clean installation of you apps and contents.
 
Max(IT) said:
No it won't do that automatically.

I did it yesterday and I had to download manually every app and song again.

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I did the same. It's a little bit time consuming, but you are going to have a clean installation of you apps and contents.
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It's always done it for me when I set it up on the reset screen. If not you can turn the option on in settings to automatically download.
 
Battery test geek bench 3 at 100% continuos brightness.
Model is iPhone 6 plus silver 128gb
 

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Same battery test ran on iPhone 6 (not plus) space grey 128gb.
It's like a 10 minute difference between iPhone 6 and iphone 6 plus.

Same test, so also continous 100% brightness
 

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Explain why I see a 4 hour difference in daily usage then? I maxed out at 9 hours in realistic settings with a 6 and 13 hrs 20 minutes with a plus. Owned both. Both were/are 128gb models. Not trying to be abrasive, just that the test seems off considering I ran the same settings on both models.
 
kioko91 said:
Explain why I see a 4 hour difference in daily usage then? I maxed out at 9 hours in realistic settings with a 6 and 13 hrs 20 minutes with a plus. Owned both. Both were/are 128gb models. Not trying to be abrasive, just that the test seems off considering I ran the same settings on both models.
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Maybe the usage scenario with 100% brightness doesn't do justice to the Plus model.
The plus has 1080p display it has to power over the 750p display in the normal 6. When I have time I will run the test on both again on completely dimmed and about 50%. I wonder what they will do.
 
All valid, but the battery size alone makes a difference day to day. Otherwise I would've kept my 6. I do believe max brightness had something to do with it. I run mine on auto and only turn it up if I'm in a bright room or direct sunlight. Down side to benchmark tests is that they don't portray reality, sadly. kudos for taking the time though.
 
Bamff said:
This is after I downgraded back to 8.1.1. 8.1.2 was just horrible on my battery. Best battery live I've had on my I-6 since day two.
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I had bad battery life with 8.1.2 too until I reflashed everything with ipsw (not via OTA). Now i have the best battery life ever!
 
Dijkertje said:
Maybe the usage scenario with 100% brightness doesn't do justice to the Plus model.
The plus has 1080p display it has to power over the 750p display in the normal 6. When I have time I will run the test on both again on completely dimmed and about 50%. I wonder what they will do.
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You nailed the point.
100% brightness on such a big display made the difference.
In a real life scenario the difference is bigger, and the 1 hrs more usage on a plus seems to be likely.
 
iPhone 6 16 GB Space grey

My battery is constantly getting better. Really happy with my battery performance so far.
 

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This is from my iPhone 6. Very good compared to my old iPhone 5. At that 50% with the 5 I was getting 2 hours at most. In real life usage my iPhone 5 used to get through 3 or 4 PM since the morning. With the iPhone 6 im getting all day battery life. I'm pretty happy about it, really nice so far, since I though about buying the iPhone 6 Plus because I wasn't sure that the 6 was that good.
 
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