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How's your battery life looking so far?
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Yeah only time I don't is when I go asleep so Bluetooth is on all day pretty much
You have problems with your backup >>set up as new, or you have every setting known to man toggled on. I get just shy of 10 hours very heavy use out of my 6S+, or 12 hours of WiFi browsing. An iPhone 6 should get nowhere near that.
Get them off your phone first, before you wipe it clean. Send them to your pc/mac, erase your phone, set it up as new, then transfer the photos back.
I guess that would go for everything, messages, contacts, etc. Not worth it for me to lose it all. I can live with the battery life the way it is, just sharing my findings.
Contacts are stored in iCloud (independent of a backup) so you wouldn't lose them and even if they weren't, it wouldn't be such a trauma to manually input them once in a blue moon. You would lose messages though. Everything other than messages can be saved, if you're prepared to put the effort in. I would hate to be getting iPhone 6 battery life on a 6S+.
So I have a 5 day old iphone 6S now with the Samsung chip and iOS 9.0.2
Basically, I'm getting only like 5-6 hours of screentime max and I already have background refresh off, wifi assist off, location services almost all off except for find my iphone.
AND I have also recalibrated my battery like many in this thread have suggested. Anyone else have any other suggestions? The 5-6 hours screentime is not even really heavy usage. Some safari, maps, games and whatsapp. That's about it.
Would appreciate if someone can point out what I'm doing wrong.
Basically, I'm getting only like 5-6 hours of screentime max and I already have background refresh off, wifi assist off, location services almost all off except for find my iphone.
AND I have also recalibrated my battery like many in this thread have suggested. Anyone else have any other suggestions? The 5-6 hours screentime is not even really heavy usage. Some safari, maps, games and whatsapp. That's about it.
Would appreciate if someone can point out what I'm doing wrong.
I'd get about 1-2 hours of screen time on my HTC ONE M7 from 2013. Just ordered an iPhone 6s and I'll be over the moon happy to get more than what I'm currently getting. lol!
What do you class as heavy use? Maps use GPS, and games are battery drainers. Safari too, oh and Whatsapp. All big hitters there.
What do you class as heavy use? Maps use GPS, and games are battery drainers. Safari too, oh and Whatsapp. All big hitters there.
well. I use maps for like 15 minutes, whatsapp is through the day.. and safari maybe for like 30 minutes tops. The games are almost negligible.. Maybe like 15 minutes? :/ The rest of the time I can see my battery just dwindling down even though I'm not really using it. (I notice the battery going down when I check the time.. lol)
Practically every battery issue is due to a compromised backup, a rogue app, or a settings problem.
I would try a 'reset all settings' as a first port of call, and then go through toggling things to your preference. It takes 10-15 mins.
If that doesn't cure your problem then although it's a PITA, you would need to erase all contents & settings and then set up as new (without a backup). Download your apps, but stick to recently updated iOS9-compatible apps. This should almost certainly resolve the issue.
Take the guesswork out of it, go to Settings > Battery and see exactly what's taking it up.
That's about what I get from my 6s. I don't play any games, but with similar settings to yours I get 6-7 hours depending on the day. Games do drain the battery in my experience. I restored from backup, running 9.1 B5. Let us know if you reset all settings and if it makes a difference.
I'm a bit worried about my 6S Plus. I had the 6 Plus before and battery life was amazing. This weekend my daughter took my 100% charged phone down to 40% by playing Minecraft for an hour (actually a bit less). This is something she'd frequently do, but she never killed a battery like that before.
But if the battery life is the same while the phones have gotten much faster, then there *have* been improvements..
Went from a Samsung64gb to a TSMC128gb
Highly impressed with both
This was the best I could get with the Samsung, nothing intensive, no gaming, no video recording, just a few pictures and screen the dimmest I could tolerate the whole time.
This blew me away (TSMC) this is with about 3 hours of video recording and about 30 minutes of gaming, lots of app downloads with a 30-55 brightness
Highly impressed with both
This was the best I could get with the Samsung, nothing intensive, no gaming, no video recording, just a few pictures and screen the dimmest I could tolerate the whole time.
This blew me away (TSMC) this is with about 3 hours of video recording and about 30 minutes of gaming, lots of app downloads with a 30-55 brightness
I had a weird battery problem on my 6s+. 2 day old phone put on the charger with 20% battery. I charged it for hours, but it stayed at 20%.
I took it to the Apple Store and they couldn't get it to charge above 20%. They restored the phone as new and the battery indicator was at 100%.
3 days later the battery level dropped to 64% and wouldn't go any lower no matter how much I used it. Swapped out for a white box replacement today.
So your experience shows TSMC battery is much longer than Samsung? In your description, TSMC should go over 15 hours if using as your samsung daily life no video recording.
Yes I am afraid to say that appears to be the case.. I really don't think I could have gotten much longer on the Samsung. I can only confirm I used the TSMC under heavier load..no question to that. I'm going to run the TSMC in low power mode from the 100% and do my daily routines until it dies, I'll post back with results.