Is this battery cycle normal?

[bobright]

So just curious I just got my iPad 2 and obviously been using it pretty heavily, downloading apps, YouTube, bunch of safari browsing.

Anyway I heard people on here say theres last 2-3 days before charging well mine usually only lasts a bit over day am I just using mine more heavily?

I used mine from yesterday morning at %100 all day and now it's at %16 the next day and this morning. Does this sound normal?

 

[bowlerman625]

Could be due to higher use. Expect 9 hours of normal use. Video streaming would decrease that.

 

[xraytech]

So just curious I just got my iPad 2 and obviously been using it pretty heavily, downloading apps, YouTube, bunch of safari browsing.

Anyway I heard people on here say theres last 2-3 days before charging well mine usually only lasts a bit over day am I just using mine more heavily?

I used mine from yesterday morning at %100 all day and now it's at %16 the next day and this morning. Does this sound normal?

Normal for HEAVY usage.

 

[bobright]

Normal for HEAVY usage.

Right I figured not bad really if I can go a full day of good usage without charging that's satisfying

 

[AlexH]

Right I figured not bad really if I can go a full day of good usage without charging that's satisfying

Yep, that's normal. About what I get too.

 

[james92se]

I routinely get 12-14 hours of usage on my iPad (original) and go at least a week in between charges. Very, very impressive.

 

[bobright]

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I there any way to check your hours of usage like you do with a iPhone?

Couldn't find it on my iPad

 

[porcupine8]

Keeping the brightness low (below 25-30%, which is fine for most indoor uses) extends battery life nicely. Although if you really used it all day, as in 8+ hrs straight, then it sounds like you are getting about the advertised 10 hrs of life.

 

[james92se]

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I there any way to check your hours of usage like you do with a iPhone?

Couldn't find it on my iPad

There's not a way without jailbreaking it and tweaking it with iFile or something similar (which is what I did, so my 12-14 hrs of usage times are actual usage times not "eyeballed"/estimated which makes it all the more impressive).

It's really odd that Apple doesn't have this natively. The tweak is really simple/easy. You'd think Apple would be jumping over themselves to show off the fantastic battery life.