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iPhone os3 beta 1 has better battery life
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You might have better battery life. I hope they improve the battery percent indecator. I think that is what you are seeing. A more accurate dispaying o the amour of battery left. But yeah, updates do improve the iPhone/iPod's battery life.
You might have better battery life. I hope they improve the battery percent indecator. I think that is what you are seeing. A more accurate dispaying o the amour of battery left. But yeah, updates do improve the iPhone/iPod's battery life.
In a couple hours you decided it had better battery life, you're full of you know what. You don't know if the OS just reports back differently now or what. Just like when 2.1 came out and everyone was reporting better signal strength. But there was actually no difference when you looked into it via field test.
There are different ways of going about this, but I do agree with Jeremy here. You've really no idea about the battery life. Whenever people do an update, they automatically scream out that they have better performance etc etc, when really... it's a placebo or the fact that they've essentially reset their device, hence the speed increase.
I am a developer and just put on 3.1 beta and on my 3GS the battery life goes down at roughly 5% per hour.
Doing a full charge as we speak and will report back my findings but I do agree with the others here just 30 mins or so does not qualify really better battery life.
Too many things like signal strength, location, come into play.
Doing a full charge as we speak and will report back my findings but I do agree with the others here just 30 mins or so does not qualify really better battery life.
Too many things like signal strength, location, come into play.
I think I would give him the benefit of the doubt.
If not for
10 minutes and already at 90%? That doesn't seem right. If it were using that much power it would only last you about 2 hours. Sounds like a problem with battery or some software stuck in a loop wasting CPU power.
If not for
10 minutes and already at 90%? That doesn't seem right. If it were using that much power it would only last you about 2 hours. Sounds like a problem with battery or some software stuck in a loop wasting CPU power.
Well after 1 hour of standby and just 20 mins of use with WIFI turned on the battery has gone down from 100% to 97%
It's a bit early to tell but I think the battery life has not improved with this beta but only time will tell.
These are enabled on my phone
Beejive Push (without beejive running)
Mobile Me Push email
Location Services
It's a bit early to tell but I think the battery life has not improved with this beta but only time will tell.
These are enabled on my phone
Beejive Push (without beejive running)
Mobile Me Push email
Location Services
I think what youre seeing is a more accurate percentage indicator, not necessarily increased battery life. I had also read somewhere there was some sort of power management package included in the 3.1 SDK but I havent been able to confirm as of yet.
It would be nice if those reporting better battery life, would mention whether you're on the 3G or 3GS. I'm interested to know if OS 3.1 will help the 3G, whose battery life has much to be desired