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Batterygate??
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This happened to me yesterday, although I had done about 6 full cycles in a row before. But it's not that big issue.
What DONT you have turned on on your phone? And how long out of the day do you have your phone on wifi/airplane?
Also.. What notifications do you have turned off?
Is updating to 5.0.1 a hit or miss on majority phones?
Should I hold off on updating to 5.0.1 if I want to jailbreak? Even though it's not released yet?
First night it dropped from 100% to 75ish%. This was straight out of the box to a full charge.
Right now it's at 16% with a standby time of 2 days 1 hour. I'm going to let it drain completely and a do a calibration. Hopefully I won't see huge overnight drops anymore.
Right now it's at 16% with a standby time of 2 days 1 hour. I'm going to let it drain completely and a do a calibration. Hopefully I won't see huge overnight drops anymore.
That's pretty amazing. My standby time is 13 hours max. Always dead by the time I get ready for bed after taking it off the charger at 6 am.
perhaps this is obvious/mentioned before, but i was visiting family in an area with very poor cellular reception, and noticed my battery drained considerably faster even in standby. i assume it expends considerable battery constantly hunting for the weak signal, but i have no idea how it fares in relation to other smartphones under comparable conditions.
I'm pretty appalled by this. I played some temple run and surfed the web for a few minutes before going to bed, set it at my bed side and didn't touch it until I was going to use it this morning. It was completely dead when I woke up and I had thought it was actually broken, because there's no way it should have died that fast since I'm normally getting about 5 or 6 hours of usage (mostly games and texting) and 20 ~ 24 hours of standby.
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If it would just do 5 hours usage and 24 hours standby I'd be fine with it.
If it would just do 5 hours usage and 24 hours standby I'd be fine with it.
I just bought a used 4S off of Craigslist on Saturday and have been really impressed with the battery life. The first full charge got me about 2 days of standby and 7 hours and 15 minutes of usage.
This consisted of about 45 minutes of phone calls, 30 texts, an hour of listening to music, about 2 hours on Twitter, and another couple of hours just playing around with things.
I had bought the Sprint 4S on launch day and took it back after a week and switched back to the 4 because the battery life was so bad when compared to the 4.
This consisted of about 45 minutes of phone calls, 30 texts, an hour of listening to music, about 2 hours on Twitter, and another couple of hours just playing around with things.
I had bought the Sprint 4S on launch day and took it back after a week and switched back to the 4 because the battery life was so bad when compared to the 4.
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I have no idea what happened, but I'm now getting much, much worse battery life then I did when I originally reported in (above). Check this attachment. Should I hit up the Genius bar? I think I might since the guy above me has 4 more DAYS of life
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5 days and 5hr usage. How does that work? Leave phone alone for 5 days. Then fire up an app say sleep talk recorder that uses little battery and thus records 5hrs usage. Thats the only way I can think of outside of hacking the operating system to get those stats.
5 days and 5hr usage. How does that work? Leave phone alone for 5 days. Then fire up an app say sleep talk recorder that uses little battery and thus records 5hrs usage. Thats the only way I can think of outside of hacking the operating system to get those stats.
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In theory its possible and indeed its the sort of standby time we could expect if it really did hit its 200 hours.
In theory its possible and indeed its the sort of standby time we could expect if it really did hit its 200 hours.
This is what I'm thinking. Like literally leaving the iphone on airplane mode for a week and just using the macbook or ipad as a form of communication for a week, then sitting it in a drawer for a while.
If you disable everything including wifi and 3G, you can probably do an hour of calls a day and have about 80-85% battery left. At the end of the day my phone would typically be at 90% with 15 minutes of calls or less (and thats with only 4 bars on Verizon at my work cube).
I did this for about a week last month but recharged it every night. (Once the phantom usage stopped, I re-enabled everything though.)
I did this for about a week last month but recharged it every night. (Once the phantom usage stopped, I re-enabled everything though.)
I'm probably stating the obvious here, but it seems to me that on standby my battery would last forever, but when I'm doing normal stuff (playing a couple games, checking Facebook and Twitter, reading a couple emails) the battery drops faster than it used to on my old iPhone 4. So I would think that it is something software related. But I also have an AT&T tower down in my area and I'm wondering if my phone is constantly searching for a signal and that is eating up power. By the way, you should get a $100 prize if you can actually get one of the HORRIBLE customer service people at AT&T to admit that there is a tower problem. Either they are a bunch of idiots or AT&T actively tries to deny problems.
My phone is saying I have used it for 8 hours since I've had it in standby for 13 (since waking up at 2:50am) - how is this possible? I went to work, did an 8 hour shift with almost zero texting and no web browsing except at lunch and on breaks and not even running music. There's NO WAY I have 8 hours of usage since my last full charge (and it's always full when I go to work, it charges while I sleep).
So what's causing this? I didn't install anything new or change any settings. I've tried restarting the phone and the times are still matching together (after waiting about a half hour) and I've tried shutting the phone off and turning it back on...
I really really really do not want to install as new.
So what's causing this? I didn't install anything new or change any settings. I've tried restarting the phone and the times are still matching together (after waiting about a half hour) and I've tried shutting the phone off and turning it back on...
I really really really do not want to install as new.
If what I found is applicable to others: the mstreamd process appears to be preventing the system from idle sleeping properly. Normally when the process is created it appears to set PreventUserIdleSystemSleep. It holds that and then releases it quickly; from 0 seconds to at most a couple of minutes (generally 0 to 40 seconds).
However since the 19th of December on my I've had abnormal power usage and after digging around in the powerlogs (I had an old debug profile active) from the phone I found that since the 19th mstreamd is often only releasing PreventUserIdleSystemSleep after 2 thru 33 hours and that seems to be why the devices are fast draining. Basically they aren't properly idling down.
I get at most 25 hours Standby/Usage time (figures are the same) on the 4S and my wife gets 5 days 10 days standby time and 4 hours usage on her iPhone 4