Freaking battery on new ipad

[tekmoe]

Agreed, the battery in this new iPad is the tits. I've been playing with mine quite a bit since Friday morning and still have 40% left! Pretty damn impressive if you ask me.

 

[kingalien]

Yesterday got it down to 20% and charged overnight. 7 hours later and the battery is up to only 86%.

 

[applefanDrew]

Been using mine since since 1 Pm friday. Started at 100%. As of this post, is it at 39%. I'm pretty sure I've used it for at least eight hours this point.

 

[S13eric]

Anyone heard how long it take to charge it fully?

Took mine ~5 hours perhaps a bit longer. God it lasts though

 

[snowmoon]

Yesterday got it down to 20% and charged overnight. 7 hours later and the battery is up to only 86%.

With the included charger or something else?

 

[jackc]

Dont post in a battery thread if you don't know what your talking about. Apple state that it's a good idea to fully drain your battery nice a month to keep it calibrated properly, if draining your battery was a bad idea then why would they recommend you do so?

Do you let it go all the way to 0% or just close to it?

 

[kingalien]

With the included charger or something else?

Aftermarket wall charger that had always charged the 2 to 100% overnight. Will be testing it tonight with the apple charger.

 

[timothevs]

I have been using it rather rigorously since Friday and I'm still at 77%

 

[identity]

Mine went from fully discharged (0%) to 100% plugged into the wall with the charger that came with it in 6 1/2 hours.

Yep, same time as me.

 

[Ducky280]

I was using my old wall charger and it was taken ages (not sure if it was iPad or iPhone one)

Swapped to one included in iPad 3 pack and it's going way faster...

 

[G77]

This is my first iPad and I am loving it. It seems to drain 1% every 6-7 minutes with simple web browsing, Facebook, and twitter with brightness at about 40%. Is that normal? Just trying to gauge what is a good rate of drain since the iPad doesn't have usage/standby times like the iPhone does.

Well, its simple math - 10 hours of usage claimed by apple, thats 600 minutes.

600/100=6 minutes for 1%

 

[magbarn]

Aftermarket wall charger that had always charged the 2 to 100% overnight. Will be testing it tonight with the apple charger.

It sounds like your aftermarket charger only puts out 1 amp or so. Good enough for iPhone, but too slow for iPad. iPad rated chargers put out 2 amps. In other words your 1 amp charger will take twice as long to charge.

 

[dukeblue91]

I was using the iPad all day yesterday at least 7 hours and still had about 46% left on it.
It definitely lasts allot longer then my iPad 1 did.
I don't know how long it took to charge though as I hooked it up to the charger last night and it was at 100% this morning.

 

[LFMNX]

My understanding is this is lithium ion which is OK and actually preferable to keep topping it off when convenient of course.

The reason apple asks that you run it down once a month is not that it is good for the battery but rather a way to keep the battery calibration in sync with the logic.

 

[quagmire]

Well, its simple math - 10 hours of usage claimed by apple, thats 600 minutes.

600/100=6 minutes for 1%

Thanks. So I am on target then for Apple's claimed usage.

 

[gigaguy]

Dont post in a battery thread if you don't know what your talking about. Apple state that it's a good idea to fully drain your battery nice a month to keep it calibrated properly, if draining your battery was a bad idea then why would they recommend you do so?

Well, if you read the wording carefully, they are only referring to battery calibration, that means the battery remaining readout. says nothing about whether it helps the battery life itself.

 

[Redrum509]

I let my battery die completly yesterday. Plugged it in via wall charger at 5pm and I was getting 10% charge every hour. So at 10pm I was at 50% and when I went to bed and woke up it was of coarse fully charged.

 

[Shanpdx]

Brightness and battery life?

how long the battery last on wi-fi, apple claims of 10 hours with 50% brightness on the screen.

I do not think we need 50% brightness, on iPad 1 and 2 i had brightness set to zero.

so how long it lasts for general usage?

 

[MattZani]

So far I've already used ~160% of my battery

 

[dfiler]

Dont post in a battery thread if you don't know what your talking about. Apple state that it's a good idea to fully drain your battery nice a month to keep it calibrated properly, if draining your battery was a bad idea then why would they recommend you do so?

To be perfectly accurate, Apple does not recommend draining it every month. A small footnote acknowledges that this can provide a more accurate battery monitor percentage. However on some of their laptop pages, apple has historically recommended keeping batteries constantly fully charged by being plugged in as much as possible. It is a choice for each person, optimize long term battery life expectancy, or optimize the percentage readout accuracy.

 

[darngooddesign]

Yikes! That's quite long!!! Significantly longer than iPad 2!

The battery is significantly larger.

 

[CrAkD]

i was worried about charge times because of the forum but mine is charging pretty fast. its been on the charger less then an hour and its already increased by about 15%.

 

[appleguy123]

This is my first iPad and I am loving it. It seems to drain 1% every 6-7 minutes with simple web browsing, Facebook, and twitter with brightness at about 40%. Is that normal? Just trying to gauge what is a good rate of drain since the iPad doesn't have usage/standby times like the iPhone does.

So 100% in 600 minutes aka ten hours? Sounds exactly right to me.

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My wifi iPad is getting so much better battery life than my wifi iPad 2. I just got through an entire day of solid use.

 

[Buildbright]

8 hours for a full charge.

 

[MF878]

All this talk of fantastic battery life is just making me even more excited to receive mine!