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How's your battery life looking so far?
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Last night i put the phone face down and it just drained 1% ! Put the phone on face while idle and share the result.
Hello any advice to stop a drain at idle?
I have new iPhone SE (i got TSMC lol) but i got huge drain at idle, i put airplane mode and tomorrow this morning, i noticed even with airplane mode enabled, the battery drain is still there (4/5%)
I have normal settings, i disabled BT and localization
Thanks
I have new iPhone SE (i got TSMC lol) but i got huge drain at idle, i put airplane mode and tomorrow this morning, i noticed even with airplane mode enabled, the battery drain is still there (4/5%)
I have normal settings, i disabled BT and localization
Thanks
What does the battery usage screen say is using battery?
If you are dropping a significant amount of battery in airplane mode and location services are turned off and background services are off, then there's probably something wrong with the battery.
You can try doing a restore first and see if that helps or you can take it to the Genius Bar and they can test the battery.
Iphone 6s here. Is somebody experiencing the same usage as? Basically, I am not doing anything with my phone excepts text messages, I use it for a couple and then put my phone back to standby. However, eventhough I am not usinh my phone, there seems to be something running in the background because it adds time to the battery usage. So in the end from 100% til 90% i have like 1h45 min which is not normal. Anybody experiencing the same?
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So you say you that 1:30 in the stats is not true ? If the screen has really been on that much it's normal otherwise there must be something wrong.
After letting my 
7 plus die then fully charge it again this is the results I'm getting
Phenomenal
7 plus die then fully charge it again this is the results I'm getting
Phenomenal
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After letting my
Phenomenal
Amazing battery life
What are you doing on it? In other words what app is using the most battery?
Also it looks like you have 4 bars. The higher the bars, the longer the battery life. For example I've been home all day where I get 5 bars and my 7 Plus is at 66% battery after 3 hours and 40 minutes of use. At my work place where I get 2 bars, I would probably have around 40% battery with the same amount of usage.
I do everything.
Gaming,
Music via speaker at full blast, texting ,calling , web browsing, video etc.
The better the reception the less battery drain.
Also make sure you let your phone die entirely when you first get it.
It helps calibrating
My latest one was at 7%, with 10.5 hours usage and 42 hours standby!
I'm getting two days out of it!
I probably wouldn't on the weekends but still!
I'm getting two days out of it!
I probably wouldn't on the weekends but still!
This is probably gonna get flamed. But here I go
I´m seriously considering the new Sony XZ. It´s design is graceful, and with the smart charging it´s looking to have amazing battery life. But those can be empty promises from Sony, xperia performance was terrible I´ve heard.
So here´s the contender to the XZ; The 6s plus 16gb model.
My carrier has a offer on it, and I really care about is good battery life, and I also have kind of a love- hate relationship with IOS. Android, I´ve tried, but remember I switched back to IOS pretty quick..
IOS 10 looks ******, it´s like Jobs have completely left the building, and we´re getting more and more Android features, example: profile pic next to contact when messaging. Also other design choices like the horrendous interface of the Music App.
So, a waterproof and beautiful phone with great camera and screen: The Sony.
Or a 6s plus with amazing battery life
What do you guys think?
I´m seriously considering the new Sony XZ. It´s design is graceful, and with the smart charging it´s looking to have amazing battery life. But those can be empty promises from Sony, xperia performance was terrible I´ve heard.
So here´s the contender to the XZ; The 6s plus 16gb model.
My carrier has a offer on it, and I really care about is good battery life, and I also have kind of a love- hate relationship with IOS. Android, I´ve tried, but remember I switched back to IOS pretty quick..
IOS 10 looks ******, it´s like Jobs have completely left the building, and we´re getting more and more Android features, example: profile pic next to contact when messaging. Also other design choices like the horrendous interface of the Music App.
So, a waterproof and beautiful phone with great camera and screen: The Sony.
Or a 6s plus with amazing battery life
What do you guys think?
My battery life is really good in standby. I don't lose a single percentage through the night. Im able to make it through my day with somewhat heavy use, and still have about 50% battery life left when I return home. I'm mostly impressed with how little battery games drain. My husband, on a nexus 6p, lost 7% battery in a 30 min gaming session. I lost 1% in that same time.
Have yet to test it out with videos.
My main source of battery drain is music while browsing or reading, during my daily 3.5 hour commute.
Have yet to test it out with videos.
My main source of battery drain is music while browsing or reading, during my daily 3.5 hour commute.
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I'm not one of the crazies who constantly close apps, a waste of time* and actually counter productive the vast majority of the time.
With that out of the way, I do have a habit of closing all apps immediately before going to bed. If I'm not charging overnight I only ever seem to lose 1 or 2% via drain, 7+ included. No idea if this actually makes a difference or is just placebo.
*Except for poorly written apps with memory leaks etc of course, and I do tend to close Maps or Google Maps when I'm done with it. I don't play games on my phone, moderate/heavy use of GPS is the only thing that absolutely slaughters my battery life.
With that out of the way, I do have a habit of closing all apps immediately before going to bed. If I'm not charging overnight I only ever seem to lose 1 or 2% via drain, 7+ included. No idea if this actually makes a difference or is just placebo.
*Except for poorly written apps with memory leaks etc of course, and I do tend to close Maps or Google Maps when I'm done with it. I don't play games on my phone, moderate/heavy use of GPS is the only thing that absolutely slaughters my battery life.
Since iOS5 and Dynamic RAM allocation - the habit of closing all apps out of switcher is an utter waste of time that does nothing for battery and actually hurts the RAM over time.. To always fill from zero is hard on the chip.. Just like waiting til your battery runs to under 5% before charging diminishes the life of your battery quicker..
People are used to 2000's standards with RaM and old habits die hard..
The Switcher was designed to choose apps quickly not be a RAM cleaner. It just makes me giggle when I see people quitting all their apps out of switcher.
And when phone is in deep sleep - apps can't run.. not even poorly written ones. So you don't have to worry about that either.. (Unless you're jailbroken then it's possible to make things run in deep sleep)..
So leave the switcher alone people!! You're hurting your RAM doing all that obsessive compulsive clearing.
And watch your use of Background App Refresh. Cool feature - but a battery drain for sure.
Yeah, I agree, hence why I said it's a placebo.
On iOS 10 on my 6s plus I am losing battery because Waze and SiriusXM are doing background activities but I have background refresh turned off? What's going on?
I think it depends on how you use it. There's two different CPUs in it: a higher powered CPU and a lower one. Doing a lot of low processor stuff should result in much better battery life that the 6s plus. Doing more high processor stuff would give worse battery life.
Personally I'm finding the battery life on the 7 Plus to be slightly better than my 6s Plus. My 6s Plus was getting 6 hours of usage at my office, which I didn't think was that great. According to Apple it should be 1 hour better on average.
Kill Waze when you aren't using it or put it in sleep mode.
Make sure SiriusXM isn't allowed to use your location.