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I have found the solution to the 3GS battery life dilemma!
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Ok, this isn't your laptop/notebook battery, so why would we want to calibrate our iPhone battery? "The iPhone uses a Lithium Ion battery and they don't have a memory, so this does nothing for them."
Apple says nothing about calibrating your iPhone battery:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305742
Well, I expected the 3GS to get twice my battery life (something like 10 hours).
Ok, this isn't your laptop/notebook battery, so why would we want to calibrate our iPhone battery? "The iPhone uses a Lithium Ion battery and they don't have a memory, so this does nothing for them."
Apple says nothing about calibrating your iPhone battery:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305742
Sure they do. Someone will give you the link, I'm too tired to find it right now.
http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html
See the bottom of the page:
I thought that with Litium-ion batteries you *didn't* need to "charge the battery to 100% and then completely run it down"? I believe Apple says this on another page; that what's best for these batteries is instead many small charges. This concurs with what I learned in chemistry class.
There was a thread here on the forums discussing Apple's two different statements, but I couldn't find them now...
There was a thread here on the forums discussing Apple's two different statements, but I couldn't find them now...
Something else to consider, I had the same battery problems as most of you did since I restored from a backup. When I updated to 3.0.1 it seemed to have fixed the problem for me. I am now regularly getting about 6 hours of use with Push email on, wifi enabled on and off throughout the day and brightness set just below the "B"
just wanted to let folks know this might be a possible remedy for some.
just wanted to let folks know this might be a possible remedy for some.
Actually, many of us do care. Whenever I see one of these semi-literate posts ("of" for "have," "there" for "their" and vice-versa, improper use of the possessive), I immediately assume the author has nothing of interest to say, nor intelligence with which to say it.
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+1. True, but sometimes their (tempted to put there
) posts add value, so you have to try to decipher what they're writing.
Also. If you use a case on your phone, it acts like insulation. This "insulation" will hold more heat to the phone which won't help your battery life, either.
I'm very well educated and I don't care. It's not an english lit forum but a mac rumor one! I like to use grammar most of the time, but I don't expect, or care, what anyone else does as long as it's readable.
Finally, does anyone's level of education really matter? Should we start limiting the forums to graduates only???
I'm very well educated and I don't care. It's not an english lit forum but a mac rumor one! I like to use grammar most of the time, but I don't expect, or care, what anyone else does as long as it's readable.
Finally, does anyone's level of education really matter? Should we start limiting the forums to graduates only???
Yes!!! j/k
(or maybe not)samcraig, your newpic is messed up on my computer.
Poor grammar is particularly an issue these days, when everybody blogs but nobody seems to edit. It's so annoying to read articles with copious grammatical errors. Posts on message boards are messy -- that's part of their (or "there" -- ha!) charm. But if I'm reading a post, and it's hard to tell whether or not the writer's first language is English, I just skip it.
Yes!!! j/k
samcraig, your newpic is messed up on my computer.
messed up how?
screen shot?
I would make a clear distinction between publications, whether they be blogs or articles and traffic in a forum. The former I expect proper grammar, the latter I do not.
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