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This is the best ive had so far. Pretty crap as i read somewhere on here that the benchmark for usage should btw the range of 5.5 hrs
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Piss poor battery life with iPhone 4...?
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As promised this is the screen shot.
This is the best ive had so far. Pretty crap as i read somewhere on here that the benchmark for usage should btw the range of 5.5 hrs
I'm a little curious about the initial post. Your phone makes it through a complete day of usage (at 75% brightness no less), dies overnight, and that qualifies as piss poor battery?
Perhaps I misunderstood somewhere.
Anyway. Went from a 3G to an i4 and the improvement is phenomenal. I used to run at 30% brightness, constantly switching wifi or 3G off, and push email and would have low battery at the end of the workday.
Now I run 50% brightness with 3G wifi and Bluetooth all left on during the day with push email on. My phone needs to be plugged in every night but I rarely run a low battery until night time. Are my standards simply too low?
Perhaps I misunderstood somewhere.
Anyway. Went from a 3G to an i4 and the improvement is phenomenal. I used to run at 30% brightness, constantly switching wifi or 3G off, and push email and would have low battery at the end of the workday.
Now I run 50% brightness with 3G wifi and Bluetooth all left on during the day with push email on. My phone needs to be plugged in every night but I rarely run a low battery until night time. Are my standards simply too low?
Last screenshot before my phone died today. I dunno is that good. My BB used to last 3 days with one charge
Last screenshot before my phone died today. I dunno is that good. My BB used to last 3 days with one charge
How much data usage did you *really* use on your BB? How much time did you spend on the web (as opposed to avoiding it, using it out of desperation when there was absolutely no computer around?
And how often do you use your iPhone to look something up on the web instead of using the computer that's nearby?
Lastly, you've only sent out 677 kb of data. I'm assuming you're not a heavy emailer. So assuming you didn't browse the web nearly as heavily on your BB (granted that's an assumption based on a frequently true generalization) nor did you use the BB for heavy email use, what activity was there on the BB that would drain the battery significantly?
Yesterday, I turned off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. I fully charged the iPhone 4 and went to bed. 8 hours later. The phone battery gauge was red showing less that 10% battery available.
Push was on for MobileMe and fetch is manual or two other email accounts. This is a new phone that needs a charge every 8 hours.
This is not right.
Push was on for MobileMe and fetch is manual or two other email accounts. This is a new phone that needs a charge every 8 hours.
This is not right.
I have found that turning off all useful features of the phone and dimming the screen to the point where I can barely see it gets me FANTASTIC battery life!
Everyone try it and report back here!
Everyone try it and report back here!
I have found that turning off all useful features of the phone and dimming the screen to the point where I can barely see it gets me FANTASTIC battery life!
Everyone try it and report back here!
And now, what good is this device to anyone? If you can't use it, who cares how long the battery lasts.
I charged to 100% put on Airplane mode with wifi off, went to sleep for 8 hrs and lost 20% overnight.
It seems when I'm asleep my apps come alive and go out on the piss.
It seems when I'm asleep my apps come alive and go out on the piss.
I charged to 100% put on Airplane mode with wifi off, went to sleep for 8 hrs and lost 20% overnight.
It seems when I'm asleep my apps come alive and go out on the piss.
There must be something deliriously wrong with your phone.
I charged my phone to about 90% last night (10pm) and woke up @ 6:30am w/ battery life at 19%! What the heck happened?! Is this related to the case program app (which I deleted before going to bed)? I downloaded the case app yesterday & have never before experienced any battery issues.
I've been having the issue as well. This is my second I4, and I was getting amazing battery life on the first phone. That one was crashing all the time, even with all apps uninstalled, so I took it back and apple replaced it. Now I lose battery life like crazy.
I don't fetch or push email. They are turned off. I consistantly have the phone brightness at 25 to 30 percent. I use wifi at home, but 3g when at work. However, within an hour of use I am well below the 80% remaining. I noticed that my battery was draining over night. I went to bed on 100% and woke up with 80%. So, I did a full restore, set up as new, and thought for a day that my battery life had improved... it went back to the usualy poor preformance, though.
I think the worst I got was about 3.5 hours of usage but I was playing Godfinger some of the time. (which crashes occasionally)
But realistically I shouldn't be getting battery life this bad. I don't play that many games, I surf the net once in a while. I use it mostly on wifi and that should IMPROVE the life of the battery.
I have an appointment thursday night. I will be paying close attention to it for the time being. I want to be armed with as much info as possible.
Anyway, the point is, I don't use any of the features that drain the battery like push or fetch. I am still getting just as bad or worse battery life than everyone here. Would post a screen shot but I just restored again and don't have any yet.
I don't fetch or push email. They are turned off. I consistantly have the phone brightness at 25 to 30 percent. I use wifi at home, but 3g when at work. However, within an hour of use I am well below the 80% remaining. I noticed that my battery was draining over night. I went to bed on 100% and woke up with 80%. So, I did a full restore, set up as new, and thought for a day that my battery life had improved... it went back to the usualy poor preformance, though.
I think the worst I got was about 3.5 hours of usage but I was playing Godfinger some of the time. (which crashes occasionally)
But realistically I shouldn't be getting battery life this bad. I don't play that many games, I surf the net once in a while. I use it mostly on wifi and that should IMPROVE the life of the battery.
I have an appointment thursday night. I will be paying close attention to it for the time being. I want to be armed with as much info as possible.
Anyway, the point is, I don't use any of the features that drain the battery like push or fetch. I am still getting just as bad or worse battery life than everyone here. Would post a screen shot but I just restored again and don't have any yet.
Can someone please explain to me how PUSH email would drain your battery? Shouldn't it only push something when you actually have an email?
I'm having battery problems as well. For instance, draining 14% overnight without touching it. Haven't reset/checked the usage stuff, but that's next.
I was under the impression that using PUSH would be better than FETCH since there should only be data when you actually have something. I only got 4 emails overnight.
I'm having battery problems as well. For instance, draining 14% overnight without touching it. Haven't reset/checked the usage stuff, but that's next.
I was under the impression that using PUSH would be better than FETCH since there should only be data when you actually have something. I only got 4 emails overnight.
This is my issue too. I never have brightness past 50% (usually 30-40% in home) and bluetooth is never on either. I do keep wifi on. I don't understand how the battery could go down so much overnight.
Ive finally found the solution to my battery problem.
Im now on my 4th or 5th replacement iPhone 4 (I have honestly lost count)
For me it was the Sim card. When i bought my iphone on launch day i had to cut down my original sim card as T-Mobile UK were not sending out micro sims.
I was constantly losing 20% overnight.
Yday i was at 100% by 7am and by 6pm i was down to 56%
I then got an official micro sim card from Tmobile and switched my cut down sim. Since then i have had massive improvements with the battery. (The new sim required a connection to itunes, so had to connect before it worked)
I haven't charged my battery since yday and now im only down from 56% - 30% (12 hrs)
30%
usage 5hrs 3 mins
standby 1 Day 19hrs
Will post pics once im down to single digits.
Im now on my 4th or 5th replacement iPhone 4 (I have honestly lost count)
For me it was the Sim card. When i bought my iphone on launch day i had to cut down my original sim card as T-Mobile UK were not sending out micro sims.
I was constantly losing 20% overnight.
Yday i was at 100% by 7am and by 6pm i was down to 56%
I then got an official micro sim card from Tmobile and switched my cut down sim. Since then i have had massive improvements with the battery. (The new sim required a connection to itunes, so had to connect before it worked
) I haven't charged my battery since yday and now im only down from 56% - 30% (12 hrs)
30%
usage 5hrs 3 mins
standby 1 Day 19hrs
Will post pics once im down to single digits.
Ive finally found the solution to my battery problem.
Im now on my 4th or 5th replacement iPhone 4 (I have honestly lost count)
For me it was the Sim card. When i bought my iphone on launch day i had to cut down my original sim card as T-Mobile UK were not sending out micro sims.
I was constantly losing 20% overnight.
Yday i was at 100% by 7am and by 6pm i was down to 56%
I then got an official micro sim card from Tmobile and switched my cut down sim. Since then i have had massive improvements with the battery. (The new sim required a connection to itunes, so had to connect before it worked
I haven't charged my battery since yday and now im only down from 56% - 30% (12 hrs)
30%
usage 5hrs 3 mins
standby 1 Day 19hrs
Will post pics once im down to single digits.
This doesn't make sense to me. I already have a microsim and my phone behaves just as poorly. I literaly don't have anything cool on, and my phone still drains.
Some of these issues people are having regarding their battery's performance might be due to not fully understanding the new multitasking functionality. I know I was a prime example of this and was getting "piss poor" performance before finally learning how to use the new function correctly.
1. Double tap your home button.
2. Swipe through the icons in the multitask tray (in my case every application), this is what is currently running in the background of your iPhone.
3. Hold down your finger on one of the applications until it starts to shake and the option to close the application becomes available.
4. Turn off most of the applications, or all of them if you want.
Doing this combined with some of the other settings already mentioned in this thread should produce better battery performance overall. If this doesn't help, well then I'd suggest visiting your local Apple Store. If you were like me and didn't bother reading on how to actually use this important feature to begin with it might actually be a very simple fix and save you that trip.
1. Double tap your home button.
2. Swipe through the icons in the multitask tray (in my case every application
), this is what is currently running in the background of your iPhone.3. Hold down your finger on one of the applications until it starts to shake and the option to close the application becomes available.
4. Turn off most of the applications, or all of them if you want.
Doing this combined with some of the other settings already mentioned in this thread should produce better battery performance overall. If this doesn't help, well then I'd suggest visiting your local Apple Store. If you were like me and didn't bother reading on how to actually use this important feature to begin with it might actually be a very simple fix and save you that trip.
Works for me, I read on the Apple discussion boards that if the gold chip on the sim comes in contact with metal bits in the phone it cause a drain in the battery.
Its supposed to be more common if the original sim (mini sim) card has a larger golden metal part in it.
When i cut mine down to a micro sim the gold chip was so large that there were no plastic edges left which would have caused the metal to ground with the phone.
Now that i have a micro sim the metal parts are smaller thus eliminating the contacts touching.
Its worked for me but that's not taking away that there are still people with faulty iphones
Some of these issues people are having regarding their battery's performance might be due to not fully understanding the new multitasking functionality. I know I was a prime example of this and was getting "piss poor" performance before finally learning how to use the new function correctly.
1. Double tap your home button.
2. Swipe through the icons in the multitask tray (in my case every application
3. Hold down your finger on one of the applications until it starts to shake and the option to close the application becomes available.
4. Turn off most of the applications, or all of them if you want.
Doing this combined with some of the other settings already mentioned in this thread should produce better battery performance overall. If this doesn't help, well then I'd suggest visiting your local Apple Store. If you were like me and didn't bother reading on how to actually use this important feature to begin with it might actually be a very simple fix and save you that trip.
I think this might be it. My brother was using my iPhone and I think he left a bunch of apps running. My usage seems okay for right now (it's gone down 1 percent since about 10am) so I'll see how it does overnight today.
Sorry about your poor performance. Last night I took a screen shot with over 8 hours of usage and 25 hours standby, with 12%. An hour was iPod use but nevertheless I was impressed.
I wonder how battery life can vary so much (from battery to battery). I know different usage gives different results but aren't all these batteries coming from the same source?
Blonde Buddhist
I wonder how battery life can vary so much (from battery to battery). I know different usage gives different results but aren't all these batteries coming from the same source?
Blonde Buddhist
Hey bud,
To corroborate what others have said, get it exchanged. The battery length on my i4 destroys the battery length on my 3gs on its best day. I'm a fairly heavy user of my iphone throughout the day so not having to charge my i4 as often as my 3gs was very noticeable.
I noticed that just with my phone on the homescreen doing nothing the battery will go down a percent every 2 minutes or so. Brightness is at 50%, push and location services off. Last night after an hour and a half of heavy 3g usage I was at 58%. Thats horrible. During the night, (12 hours) it only went from 40 to 35. So I'm draining it today and than charging it back up. Ill do my normal usage and then post a pic. If it's bad, I'll restore and if it's bad again I'll try to return it. ****, so many problems.
Thanks,
Zach
Thanks,
Zach