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My 3gs is down to 95% with 9 minutes of usage

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mmoran27

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Is this normal?

I have everything turned on and 40% screen brightness.

Only usage was emails.
 
my guess is that the percentage meter is way off sometimes. I'm thinking about turning mine off too...
 
MBHockey said:
You should turn off the battery percentage. For your own sake.
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I agree! :D

Here is what Apple says to expect. Test at your leisure!

Talk time:
Up to 12 hours on 2G
Up to 5 hours on 3G

* Standby time: Up to 300 hours
*

Internet use:
Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi

* Video playback: Up to 10 hours
* Audio playback: Up to 30 hours
 
I have found mine will drop a % or 2 pretty quickly within the first 15 to 30 minutes, then it goes quite well. ~80% in about 3 hours, but now 9 hours after removed from the charger, I am at 60%.
 
There is no way this phone can use wifi for 9 hours.

I am on wifi here at work.

I am down 5% for about 10 minutes of email only (Push).

If I started using safari there is no way this thing will even get more than 3 hours on wifi.
 
Technically, its kind of normal, it just seems bad. 5% in 9 minutes means you get 180 minutes or 3 hours. And thats if you did that for 3 hours straight. I dont agree with it, but I think its because % dwindling before your eyes makes it seem worse than it really is.
 
Do you forget that being on standby is also using battery?
9 minutes of usage and an hour plus on standby is going to knock you down 5%.

Geeze, at that rate you'd only get 3 and a half hours of usage and 20 hours of standby...
 
That is what I am getting

I get about 3-4 hours of use max with about 20 on standby.

When using safari, I can see the % drop every few minutes.

Is this battery a dud?
 
so today i checked the app store for updates, sent a few good morning texts...checked the meter and it was down to 95%...hopefully the next update fixes this...its def becoming a common theme....
 
How can that be standard?

Apple says 5 hours 3g 9 hours wifi.

I get about 3.5 hours on 3g.

There is no way to get 9 hours on wifi - what are they smoking?
 
mmoran27 said:
Apple says 5 hours 3g 9 hours wifi.

I get about 3.5 hours on 3g.

There is no way to get 9 hours on wifi - what are they smoking?
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That's 5 hours straight. Not 5 hours with 20 hours of standby.
And it's with email set to manual, and screen at half brightness.
 
I became obsessed with watching the %-meter, so it just had to go. I worry enough already about if the phone will last if I'm out and about all day...like I'm a desert island and have to ration out my e-mail and web use.
 
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MBHockey said:
You should turn off the battery percentage. For your own sake.
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Yup. Personally, I hate it. I find myself watching it all the time, caring far more about battery life/consumption than is necessary.
 
ODog4523 said:
I became obsessed with watching the %-meter, so it just had to go. I worry enough already about if the phone will last if I'm out and about all day...like I'm a desert island and have to ration out my e-mail and web use.
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Check my earlier posts from battery life. I was able to get 6.5 hours doing heavy 3G surfing, but turned wifi, Bluetooth and push off. Used it pretty much non-stop, downloaded 4 songs, played a game and listened to iPod while skipping through multiple tracks. So, unless you're sitting at your desk, constantly on your iPhone, you should get a normal days usage from your iPhone, granted that you have a good battery.

Just make sure to charge for at least one, if not two hours past the battery showing full because the battery and percentage meters aren't always on point. A number of us are taking the phone off of the charger before it's really fully charged. I know that's not a perfect scenario but maybe it'll help a few people on here see the true potential of their iPhone batteries.
 
There are issues with the battery.... I made a thread with pics but the thread police aka Que decided it wasn't worthy.... to many about the battery I guess. My phone was getting hot when charging and very poor life. This is push off, 50% auto brite, location off, bt off, 3g and wifi on,


I did a fresh firmware install and set up as a new iPhone and it has improved but Im still not 100% satisified.... Ill have to wait and see how "good" it gets.
 
I turned my battery percentage off too. Thought it was really cool at first but found myself 'freaking' out over it more than I should be.

Now it's off and all is better.
 
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