Just noticed that the battery percent display is not always that accurate. I just downlaoded an app and battery showed 90%. I always reboot after download (old habit from android) and after reboot, battery was back up to 95%. Not that I'm complaining as is it was just the opposite with the other smartphones I owned. Just the reboot use to drain the battery a couple percent on those phones.
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How accurate is the Iphone battery percent?
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I find the battery indicator pretty pessimistic on my 3gs. When i get the phone down to say 20% it will hover around that range for quite some time. Never actually made it to low batt shutdown.
Doing full cycles of discharge / recharge is supposed to make it more accurate so old posts say.
Doing full cycles of discharge / recharge is supposed to make it more accurate so old posts say.
Pretty accurate when it hits 0%. I have yet to hit 0% without the phone shutting down.
thats seems to be its most accurate time, unfortunately
yes you have more battery after reboot because you have less things working on the background and on a frozen state.
yes you have more battery after reboot because you have less things working on the background and on a frozen state.
ReBooting puts power BACK into the battery?
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ReBooting puts power BACK into the battery?
of course not
I believe the formula computes battery lifetime based solely on the power consumed. In actual application, the power consumed by the device is often dwarfed by the programs or things connected to it, thus any design must account total power consumed by all components in sleep and active states. The duty cycles from the now not running applications when rebooted will give the battery estimator a different %.