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iPhone 4 Battery Usage
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Hey i found out that if you turn off "Traffic" in location services the battery life should increase on my iPhone 4. I am currently at 94% with 48 minutes of usage and 2 hours of standby. Does that seem normal for a beta?
Just turn off the battery % and keep the battery topped-off. Never go for the deep charges which I was guilty of doing for a year. Li-Ion batteries want more charging. If you get it down to 20-35%, plug it back to charge. iPhone 4 has the easiest way among all iPhones to replace the battery manually anyway.
How to maximize your iPhone’s battery life
http://www.intomobile.com/2011/07/28/iphone-battery/
It’s also good practice to take your phone off the charger once it’s done charging. It won’t overcharge or explode, but it might affect the overall life of your battery. Don’t let your phone die every single time you charge it, either, because you won’t be helping the battery percentage indicator, and you might be shortening the life of your battery. Once your phone hits the 30% mark, or the 25% mark (when the battery turns red), you should plug it in and let it start charging. Don’t be afraid to charge your phone frequently, since it’s generally considered good for Li-Ion batteries, but you also don’t need to top off often (i.e. you have 89% when you’re leaving home and you’ll only have five minutes to keep it on the charger before you leave).
How to maximize your iPhone’s battery life
http://www.intomobile.com/2011/07/28/iphone-battery/
It’s also good practice to take your phone off the charger once it’s done charging. It won’t overcharge or explode, but it might affect the overall life of your battery. Don’t let your phone die every single time you charge it, either, because you won’t be helping the battery percentage indicator, and you might be shortening the life of your battery. Once your phone hits the 30% mark, or the 25% mark (when the battery turns red), you should plug it in and let it start charging. Don’t be afraid to charge your phone frequently, since it’s generally considered good for Li-Ion batteries, but you also don’t need to top off often (i.e. you have 89% when you’re leaving home and you’ll only have five minutes to keep it on the charger before you leave).
I highly doubt that you have actually been diagnosed as obsessive compulsive. Unless you are satisfying compulsions by doing various events over and over again on your phone, hereby draining the battery life, then you are not OCD. And you are not "OCD about your phone". You're just concerned about battery life.
Anyway, I'm gonna say that if you're getting that much battery life on a beta while streaming over 3G with a decently high backlight, you've got absolutely nothing to worry about. Rejoice, my friend, your battery is fine.
I highly doubt that you have actually been diagnosed as obsessive compulsive. Unless you are satisfying compulsions by doing various events over and over again on your phone, hereby draining the battery life, then you are not OCD. And you are not "OCD about your phone". You're just concerned about battery life.
Anyway, I'm gonna say that if you're getting that much battery life on a beta while streaming over 3G with a decently high backlight, you've got absolutely nothing to worry about. Rejoice, my friend, your battery is fine.
Thank You. I think i am noticing a battery difference because i am running a beta OS. The iPhone 4 that i am using is a replacement that is 1 week old. Does apple replace the batteries from the original owner?
I have a question.
I had an iPhone 4 that was exactly 1 year old July 27th. When i first got the phone the battery life was amazing no matter what settings I had (Push, Brightness...ETC). One day i decided to jailbreak it and that was the worse mistake i ever made. My battery life was horrible and i didn't even installed jailbreak apps yet. I then restored in iTunes and setup the phone as "New". This did not fix the batter, I restored a few more times and my battery life never went back to normal. Before my 1 year hardware warranty expired i went to apple to try and get a replacement.
I was running IOS 5 and the genius bar representative that helped me told me he couldn't help me unless i had IOS 4. I went home and tried to downgrade for 4 hours with no luck. I tried everything. My phone was stuck in DFU mode and it wouldn't even let me put IOS 5 on it. To this day i don't know what version of IOS i had on it when it was stuck in DFU mode because i tried IOS 4.3.3, 4.3.4 and IOS 5 again. I then thought maybe if i try to jailbreak using IOS 4.3.3 with redsnow maybe it will get me out of DFU mode.
When i jailbroke i did not choose to install cydia. The phone then booted to 4.3.3 but no cellular connections worked (I think my baseband was messed up). I then went into iTunes and clicked "check for update" and iTunes updated the phone to 4.3.4 and the cellular connections worked and everything was downgraded and working perfectly. By now after the phone was connected to the computer all day the battery was fully charged and i unplugged the phone and played around on safari, made some phone calls and made a facetime call for about 5 minutes. (No settings were changed after restore...not one...no email...nothing )
After all of that i was still on 100% so i kept on surfing the internet and it took about 40 minutes of usage to bring it down to 99%. By now i noticed that my battery was back to normal. The next day i had another genius bar appointment because now i was on IOS 4 and i was going to try to get my phone replaced. They replaced the phone and on the way home i was on safari and the battery was not lasting as long as it should for technically being a "new" phone. I got home restored it multiple times charged it to 100% and tried to do the same stuff i did on my old phone and it went down to 100% in minutes.
I restored again and nothing changed, then i decided to just put IOS 5 on and just use it without paying to much attention to the battery. That brings me to this current point in time. I am thinking of using redsnow with IOS 4.3.3 to jailbreak IOS 5 back to IOS 4.3.3 like i did before (I dont know how that worked). Please help me, Do iPhone replacements have new batteries?
I had an iPhone 4 that was exactly 1 year old July 27th. When i first got the phone the battery life was amazing no matter what settings I had (Push, Brightness...ETC). One day i decided to jailbreak it and that was the worse mistake i ever made. My battery life was horrible and i didn't even installed jailbreak apps yet. I then restored in iTunes and setup the phone as "New". This did not fix the batter, I restored a few more times and my battery life never went back to normal. Before my 1 year hardware warranty expired i went to apple to try and get a replacement.
I was running IOS 5 and the genius bar representative that helped me told me he couldn't help me unless i had IOS 4. I went home and tried to downgrade for 4 hours with no luck. I tried everything. My phone was stuck in DFU mode and it wouldn't even let me put IOS 5 on it. To this day i don't know what version of IOS i had on it when it was stuck in DFU mode because i tried IOS 4.3.3, 4.3.4 and IOS 5 again. I then thought maybe if i try to jailbreak using IOS 4.3.3 with redsnow maybe it will get me out of DFU mode.
When i jailbroke i did not choose to install cydia. The phone then booted to 4.3.3 but no cellular connections worked (I think my baseband was messed up). I then went into iTunes and clicked "check for update" and iTunes updated the phone to 4.3.4 and the cellular connections worked and everything was downgraded and working perfectly. By now after the phone was connected to the computer all day the battery was fully charged and i unplugged the phone and played around on safari, made some phone calls and made a facetime call for about 5 minutes. (No settings were changed after restore...not one...no email...nothing )
After all of that i was still on 100% so i kept on surfing the internet and it took about 40 minutes of usage to bring it down to 99%. By now i noticed that my battery was back to normal. The next day i had another genius bar appointment because now i was on IOS 4 and i was going to try to get my phone replaced. They replaced the phone and on the way home i was on safari and the battery was not lasting as long as it should for technically being a "new" phone. I got home restored it multiple times charged it to 100% and tried to do the same stuff i did on my old phone and it went down to 100% in minutes.
I restored again and nothing changed, then i decided to just put IOS 5 on and just use it without paying to much attention to the battery. That brings me to this current point in time. I am thinking of using redsnow with IOS 4.3.3 to jailbreak IOS 5 back to IOS 4.3.3 like i did before (I dont know how that worked). Please help me, Do iPhone replacements have new batteries?
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Humans like spaces in between thoughts written down instead of one big paragraph of 60 different things jumbled together.
Much easier to read that way, wouldn't you agree?
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I have a question.
I had an iPhone 4 that was exactly 1 year old July 27th. When i first got the phone the battery life was amazing no matter what settings I had (Push, Brightness...ETC). One day i decided to jailbreak it and that was the worse mistake i ever made. My battery life was horrible and i didn't even installed jailbreak apps yet. I then restored in iTunes and setup the phone as "New". This did not fix the batter, I restored a few more times and my battery life never went back to normal. Before my 1 year hardware warranty expired i went to apple to try and get a replacement.
I was running IOS 5 and the genius bar representative that helped me told me he couldn't help me unless i had IOS 4. I went home and tried to downgrade for 4 hours with no luck. I tried everything. My phone was stuck in DFU mode and it wouldn't even let me put IOS 5 on it. To this day i don't know what version of IOS i had on it when it was stuck in DFU mode because i tried IOS 4.3.3, 4.3.4 and IOS 5 again. I then thought maybe if i try to jailbreak using IOS 4.3.3 with redsnow maybe it will get me out of DFU mode.
When i jailbroke i did not choose to install cydia. The phone then booted to 4.3.3 but no cellular connections worked (I think my baseband was messed up). I then went into iTunes and clicked "check for update" and iTunes updated the phone to 4.3.4 and the cellular connections worked and everything was downgraded and working perfectly. By now after the phone was connected to the computer all day the battery was fully charged and i unplugged the phone and played around on safari, made some phone calls and made a facetime call for about 5 minutes. (No settings were changed after restore...not one...no email...nothing )
After all of that i was still on 100% so i kept on surfing the internet and it took about 40 minutes of usage to bring it down to 99%. By now i noticed that my battery was back to normal. The next day i had another genius bar appointment because now i was on IOS 4 and i was going to try to get my phone replaced. They replaced the phone and on the way home i was on safari and the battery was not lasting as long as it should for technically being a "new" phone. I got home restored it multiple times charged it to 100% and tried to do the same stuff i did on my old phone and it went down to 100% in minutes.
I restored again and nothing changed, then i decided to just put IOS 5 on and just use it without paying to much attention to the battery. That brings me to this current point in time. I am thinking of using redsnow with IOS 4.3.3 to jailbreak IOS 5 back to IOS 4.3.3 like i did before (I dont know how that worked). Please help me, Do iPhone replacements have new batteries?
I have a question.
I had an iPhone 4 that was exactly 1 year old July 27th. When i first got the phone the battery life was amazing no matter what settings I had (Push, Brightness...ETC). One day i decided to jailbreak it and that was the worse mistake i ever made. My battery life was horrible and i didn't even installed jailbreak apps yet. I then restored in iTunes and setup the phone as "New". This did not fix the batter, I restored a few more times and my battery life never went back to normal. Before my 1 year hardware warranty expired i went to apple to try and get a replacement.
I was running IOS 5 and the genius bar representative that helped me told me he couldn't help me unless i had IOS 4. I went home and tried to downgrade for 4 hours with no luck. I tried everything. My phone was stuck in DFU mode and it wouldn't even let me put IOS 5 on it. To this day i don't know what version of IOS i had on it when it was stuck in DFU mode because i tried IOS 4.3.3, 4.3.4 and IOS 5 again. I then thought maybe if i try to jailbreak using IOS 4.3.3 with redsnow maybe it will get me out of DFU mode.
When i jailbroke i did not choose to install cydia. The phone then booted to 4.3.3 but no cellular connections worked (I think my baseband was messed up). I then went into iTunes and clicked "check for update" and iTunes updated the phone to 4.3.4 and the cellular connections worked and everything was downgraded and working perfectly. By now after the phone was connected to the computer all day the battery was fully charged and i unplugged the phone and played around on safari, made some phone calls and made a facetime call for about 5 minutes. (No settings were changed after restore...not one...no email...nothing )
After all of that i was still on 100% so i kept on surfing the internet and it took about 40 minutes of usage to bring it down to 99%. By now i noticed that my battery was back to normal. The next day i had another genius bar appointment because now i was on IOS 4 and i was going to try to get my phone replaced. They replaced the phone and on the way home i was on safari and the battery was not lasting as long as it should for technically being a "new" phone. I got home restored it multiple times charged it to 100% and tried to do the same stuff i did on my old phone and it went down to 100% in minutes.
I restored again and nothing changed, then i decided to just put IOS 5 on and just use it without paying to much attention to the battery. That brings me to this current point in time. I am thinking of using redsnow with IOS 4.3.3 to jailbreak IOS 5 back to IOS 4.3.3 like i did before (I dont know how that worked). Please help me, Do iPhone replacements have new batteries?
Moral of the story is not to mess with your iPhone or at least use a backup iPhone for beta style firmware !
I've heard about worse battery life on 4.3.5. I am on 5 beta 4 so I really don't know how bad it is first hand. Have you tried it on iOS 5? is it the same?
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I am on IOS 5 beta 4 and the battery sucks
itsalexaye said:
I am on IOS 5 beta 4 and the battery sucks