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Battery Usage/Life Screenshots iPhone 6
- Thread starter tubbymac
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last battery life result
iphone 6 64Gb
(browsing / twitter / texting) without stop and without playing music and games (screen on) all time i got about
3G/4G (5:15h)
WiFi / (3G /4G OFF) (6:00h)
WiFi (Airplane Mode) (6:30h)
my friend tell me ip6+ got about half hour more what i get on ip6 !
i think its like S5 battery life but with 1810 Mah !
iphone 6 64Gb
(browsing / twitter / texting) without stop and without playing music and games (screen on) all time i got about
3G/4G (5:15h)
WiFi / (3G /4G OFF) (6:00h)
WiFi (Airplane Mode) (6:30h)
my friend tell me ip6+ got about half hour more what i get on ip6 !
i think its like S5 battery life but with 1810 Mah !
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Keeping the brightness down to your lowest usable level is usually the best thing IMO.
Turning off bluetooth, background app refresh for certain apps I don't want doing that, trying to have my brightness at a reasonably low amount in different areas, making sure location services aren't gobbling up my data by manually checking all the apps that have the feature. I try to close apps that I know won't be using often during the day after I am done with the app, like My Verizon. I leave open apps I check fairly frequently because I heard closing and re-opening constantly is actually worse.
Also, signal strength is pretty important for battery drain. Low signal will murder your battery life and it'd be better to turn off LTE or whatever that has low signal if you stay in low signal area a long time.
I'm still unsure as to how accurate this is. For me at least, I have 2 bars of LTE throughout the day, which iOS considers to be "low" and I'm sure most people do as well. Still, my battery life is generally great on my 6+. YMMV.
Same here. I agree with you on that. Ofc battery drains on low signal, but it doesnt 'kill' or 'murder' the battery.
Could you include some db numbers please? 2 bars can range anywhere from -110 to -90db which is a huge difference. So you can have a weak 2 bars or a strong 2 bars.
I range anywhere from -95db to -115db in my house, but never see low signal under usage... Outside my house it is -75db to -90db. So I get like 4 bars outside but 1-2 bars inside, pretty annoying.
My battery is always 6 and a half hours or less. Can't for the life of me figure out what's draining it, I have tried everything. I have resorted to turning battery percentage off because I'm so sick of worrying about it all the time. Every so often I go into usage and quickly turn on the percentage and look at the usage times but then I just go back out and turn the percentage off and forget about it.
I just turned Bluetooth off which has always been on in the past. However with that I will have to sacrifice all continuity features, which I'm still not entirely willing to do. I love answering calls on my iPad and sending SMS from it as well. Handoff is also pretty cool. But whatever.
Right now at my desk in an office where I'm at for the majority of the day, I'm getting -112 for 2 bars (which still results in nice speeds -- getting the usual 40Mbps~ thanks to their soft backhaul cap).
Wow. This is what I get at -105db with Verizon in my area.
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How often do you guys let it drain all the way down? I fully charged from 19% last night but I think I'll probably do a partial when it goes down to 50 or 40.
I had the exact same locationd problem with my i6 right after jailbreak. My phone was getting warm and the cpu was stuck at about 50% never idling then I did a reboot and it went away ever since! I did however do a clean restore to 8.1.2 so I can get a feel for what stock battery life is again before I decide to jailbreak! It's so snappy compared to when it was jailbroken I'm not sure I will go back! I only had winterboard springtomize3 and a couple other tweaks but stock seems so crisp.
I've been getting about 6-8 hours usage of onscreen time on wifi with my habits of mostly surfing safari some tweetbot, Instagram, FB and email with brightness less that 50%. LTE knocks my usage down about and hour or two. If I play a demanding game like a GTA or MC5 the battery is gone in 2.5 hours easily! Very similar to my iPhone 5 on iOS 6 a couple years back!
I let go of the jailbreak but still suffer from poor signal on campus lol. I constantly have 1-2 bars no matter where I am on campus and my battery suffers because of it
I'm waiting for the day when Apple gives people more control over the cellular network. "If I have 1 or 2 bars, don't even try searching for a stronger signal."
I still average 2 bars of LTE throughout the day and get good numbers. I think T-Mobile's carrier profile is tuned differently than some of the others.