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It Would Be Cool
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What a bunch of unfriendly jerks. Someone just posted a random thought (seems to be plenty of them on these boards) that I personally found interesting. The unnecessary negative responses are completely uncalled for. 
That would be so cool!!! NOT.
It's not like people run out of battery every 2 hours, in fact, I almost never run out of battery, except the 1st of each month to do a full battery drain, but that's on purpose.
Macrumors is really a dirty place it's cut throat.What a bunch of unfriendly jerks. Someone just posted a random thought (seems to be plenty of them on these boards) that I personally found interesting. The unnecessary negative responses are completely uncalled for.
It more or less does that as far as you being able to open recent apps and going to the last one used, after the battery charges enough to turn the phone on. As far saving anything you might have typed or were truly in the middle of, that's a bit different. It would require more as far as available space to save all of memory content and then restore it exactly the same way. Probably doable, but this hasn't really been in the realm of mobile devices so far, so maybe an evolution step in the future if something like that would make enough sense to cross over from the desktop world.
Why would you drain your battery at the beginning of each month?
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I would finis this helpful, because I've found this recently when my battery is near dead my phone will die when I'm not exactly expecting it.
It's good for people who have certain charging habits like charging every night or such so that they never have to worry about battery life throughout the day do stuff like this. Depending on their phone habits they may never let the battery drop super low except on rare occasions of high usage. For those kinds of folks, it's still good to let the battery drain completely once in a while so that when you recharge it every single bit of power in the battery gets refreshed. It's a technique for making sure the battery doesn't "forget" charge cycles over time (this is why if you keep a laptop on a charger 24/7 and never let it drain for example, the battery will eventually get "shot" and not hold a charge at some point). The recommended amount that most experts seem to say is to let a rechargeable battery in a phone or laptop drain completely at least once a month to make sure it lasts as long as possible.
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Interesting. All I've heard really though is that batteries now days don't need to be treated like that. It seems to be quite a debate. I have heard that with better use in laptop always being on the charger though. I guess for me it's just enjoy my product. Haha, thanks for clarifying.
That's bad for your battery. When a lithium ion battery gets low it gets unstable. Part of the reason you get laptop fires. Most smart devices including the iphone use software to prevent such occurrence. However, continued draining is damaging log term. Best to top off you battery every night and to store it long term at 40-50%.
What a bunch of unfriendly jerks. Someone just posted a random thought (seems to be plenty of them on these boards) that I personally found interesting. The unnecessary negative responses are completely uncalled for.
This is what I have noticed in this forum. Initially, it gave me a bad impression of Apple users, but then whatever site we go, there will always be pompous jerks who feel entitled to run this site like they own.
If anything letting the battery fully drain before fully charging it once in a while (evry month or two) would mostly be useful as far as keeping the battery meter calibrated well, but that's mostly it. The current lithium ion batteries like to be 50-75% charged and often in use.
Why the negativity, MacRumors has gone down the pipe, people have become much ruder than I remember in the last two years or so.
Sheesh.
I'm wondering if people are getting grouchy waiting for something to happen (another beta, gm, event announcement.... something).
And yet they seem to be able to stay around. Meanwhile, I get "suspended" for a few days for calling them out.
I think this feature would be a good idea if implemented properly.
Actually, according to Apple once a month is recommended:
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On topic, I think that it would be a nice added feature. For anyone against this sort of a feature, I ask why? It isn't like it would hinder your enjoyment of the device..."I wish that when my battery died it would stop saving what I was doing and instead let me start all over", said no one ever.
I'm not sure it would be that helpful. All that's going to happen is when you get your battery down to around 5-10%, it's going to eat up more battery working to save all of the running information in the background.
Ultimately, the developers of apps could easily implement their own "state saving" features. Like if Facebook wanted to, they could easily remember you were on John Smith's timeline last, and it would return you there the next time you open the app whether your battery went dead or you just closed the app from the app switcher.
But I honestly can't think of anything I use on my phone that would be such a pain to reopen should the battery die. It's not like my desktop where I've got Chrome open, spreadsheets, Word docs, etc., all open. Safari keeps all of your tabs (at least I think it does), which is the only thing that comes to mind for me.
Ultimately, the developers of apps could easily implement their own "state saving" features. Like if Facebook wanted to, they could easily remember you were on John Smith's timeline last, and it would return you there the next time you open the app whether your battery went dead or you just closed the app from the app switcher.
But I honestly can't think of anything I use on my phone that would be such a pain to reopen should the battery die. It's not like my desktop where I've got Chrome open, spreadsheets, Word docs, etc., all open. Safari keeps all of your tabs (at least I think it does), which is the only thing that comes to mind for me.
Ok kids, I don't know where you are getting your info from, but, it's good for the battery to run it down once a month.
Directly from Apple, at the bottom.
http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html
"Use iPhone Regularly
For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, its important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down)."