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

[thecellar]

i was stressing about my battery at first too, but if you look at apple.com - iphone 3g and 3gs comparison , the battery life is not that much different. I notice its mostly in standby times....maybe im reading it wrong...and if you read the testing for the battery life, they did the testing in perfect situations
(full coverage areas, majority of services off, etc, minus all things that drain your battery quick, hence they did the testing with the 3g too, but anyway.) I dont think the extended battery life was as big a feature as they made it out to be.

just my opinion...

 

[thecellar]

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 just looked at your final screen shot and I actually wouldn't say your in that bad shape, first time around i didnt look at your standby times which are kind of high...plus you had on wifi and 3g.... right now mine has 10hrs standby, 2hr 57 mins usage and about 10 minutes calltime...and im at 57%, plus i have 3g and everything else off.

 

[juice]

My battery worked fine for the 1st week, but the last few days have been horrible. I leave my phone in my car while I'm at work (can't take them inside) and it drains very quickly. I had everything on and here are my stats:

Usage - 34 minutes
Standby - 9 hours 21 minutes
Battery - 35%


This definitely doesn't seem normal. My old 2g would still be in the high 80% range and my new 3GS was in the high 80% range last week. Any ideas what's causing this? I have turned it off and re-started it a few times, but it still drains the battery.

 

[thecellar]

My battery worked fine for the 1st week, but the last few days have been horrible. I leave my phone in my car while I'm at work (can't take them inside) and it drains very quickly. I had everything on and here are my stats:

Usage - 34 minutes
Standby - 9 hours 21 minutes
Battery - 35%


This definitely doesn't seem normal. My old 2g would still be in the high 80% range and my new 3GS was in the high 80% range last week. Any ideas what's causing this? I have turned it off and re-started it a few times, but it still drains the battery.

do you have 3g and wifi on....if the wifi is on that could be causing it.

 

[ouimetnick]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17)

Is this normal?

I have everything turned on and 40% screen brightness.

Only usage was emails.

The battery indicator said 20% when my brother unplugged his fully charged 3GS. It is not Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS (White, 32GB): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16.

 

[Ronnoco]

do you have 3g and wifi on....if the wifi is on that could be causing it.

Push is a MAJOR culprit as well. Also heat will drain the battery while in the car.

 

[juice]

Wifi and 3G were on, but i've had them on for the past week and only noticed the drain the last 2 days. Car is in a cool garage so the car was not hot at all, but I did notice that the phone was very warm.

 

[thecellar]

Wifi and 3G were on, but i've had them on for the past week and only noticed the drain the last 2 days. Car is in a cool garage so the car was not hot at all, but I did notice that the phone was very warm.

plus , do the thing where you let your battery drain out completely and charge it to 100% before unplugging. Not sure what it does, balot of people say it helps. Ive done it twice, and my battery seems better.

 

[iPhoneNYC]

I do find that overall the battery life on my 3GS is less than my old 2G. Maybe I do more stuff on the 3GS maybe not but the battery barely gets me thru the day.

 

[venasque]

You got push on? can kill your battery very quickly

I'm so confused on Push. I thought the point of it, is that it would save battery life by not having the application running in the background. Is that wrong?

Thanks