I usually turn my iPhone 4 off when I go to sleep and last night I checked the battery percentage and it was 40%. Then when I turned it on this morning it was 36%. Is this normal to lose battery when the phone is off? What can I do to prevent this?
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Battery While Turned Off
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I'm not an expert but I think that start up and shut down are more intensive processes and probably are what's causing you to lose that battery power. Also, a battery will tend to discharge to a degree even if the device it's in is not even turned on. I wouldn't worry too much about 4%.
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eternlgladiator is right. You'll save more battery leaving the phone on standby. You'll save even more power by enabling Airplane Mode.
eternlgladiator is right. You'll save more battery leaving the phone on standby. You'll save even more power by enabling Airplane Mode.
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The boot process eats battery life. My iPod touch did the same kind of thing. I haven't paid attention rebooting my iPhone yet.
The boot process eats battery life. My iPod touch did the same kind of thing. I haven't paid attention rebooting my iPhone yet.
Do you actually turn it off with the whole "slide to power off" or you just tap the power button to basically put it on standby? The iPhone has to use some charge to restart and to initialize all of its components. Now the 4% loss may not be all that accurate, but it may lose ~1% or so even if the indicator may not reflect if fully charged.
Yeah I turn it off all the way. But yeah, I'll probably just turn airplane mode on and leave the iPhone on standby overnight. Thanks for the help.