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Yeah, but yours has been plugged in since last charge.![]()
Just for a minute to sync.
Yeah, but yours has been plugged in since last charge.![]()
I charged my phone before I went to bed, it was on standby for about 8 hours. I woke up and it was at 99%. Thats fine.
But then I was on a phone call for only 10 minutes, I get off the phone and that 99% is now 95%! What gives???![]()
Based on the official "7h talk time on 3G" claims, a 10 minute call should drop your battery by 2-3%: obviously that's under ideal conditions where the phone isn't having to work very hard to get its signal to the base station. If you're not in an area with an optimum signal a 10 minute call could easily use up 4% of your battery.
I basically need to charge it each night.
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seriously. don't do that. put you phone to sleep. the display does in fact use power, and it wasn't intended to just be on all the time. that's pretty normal and it's simply not designed to be on perpetually--so don't complain about the phone doing something it's not designed to do.I noticed that just with my phone on the homescreen doing nothing the battery will go down a percent every 2 minutes or so.
is that just surfing or downloading apps etc? also, is it on 3g or..?
How is that a problem? Ever since my first basic phone years ago i would plug it in every night. it's a habit, and a good one, because you never know when your car might break down or something.
besides that, how many smartphones make it through two days of real usage?
and don't quote blackberries--they have hardly any games that are played as intensely as iphone games, the web browser is not taxed nearly as heavily as an iphone web browser because it's not worth looking up things on the web.
Think about it. how many times do you just look up something on your iphone when there is a full computer in the other room? How many times did you get up to use the computer when you had any phone that wasn't an iphone?
i had the iphone 3g. it would die by the end of the business day. i'd keep it plugged in in my car, toggle the 3g/wifi, keep the brightness at 25%.
with the i4 i keep 3g, wifi, bluetooth, all on all the time. push email on all the time. i use it for work, so heavy email, calling, texting. brightness is at 60%. and i always make it to the end of the day. i get in bed with my phone beginning to hit 10%. for the amount of usage, that's a beautiful thing.
maybe it helps that i have auto-lock set to one minute? that i run a full cycle at least once a month? that i always put my phone to sleep?
seriously. don't do that. put you phone to sleep. the display does in fact use power, and it wasn't intended to just be on all the time. that's pretty normal and it's simply not designed to be on perpetually--so don't complain about the phone doing something it's not designed to do.
It's an annoyance. I don't really want to carry the USB charged around with me when I'm away. I've used the same phone for the last 4-5years (original battery) and that still lasts longer. Would've expected better.
So here are two snapshots of my usage. Phone just came off the dock about 2 hours ago so since then it's been sitting on the table with the occasional text every couple of minutes. My brightness is extremely low, Push is ON but for e-mail only.
Now, granted these two shots aren't very far apart but considering I'm on WiFi and I'm no where close to "heavy usage" then 2% drain in that amount of time is ridiculous. When I first got the phone the battery life was stellar. This only seems to be a problem in the past week...
EDIT: Just an added detail... I go into the multitasking bar and kill every single app in there at least every 15 minutes to make sure nothing is draining my battery so this shouldn't even be an issue of misuse of multitasking.
Dude all three of the screenshots are from my new iphone and none of these are normal to me, however when I went to the apple store and they tested my battery they said it was just fine. What the hell? I love my phone but battery life does suck.
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5 hours is probably pretty standard across the board. Some might get a few more hours because of minimal use for small things.
Biggest one is turn your damn brightness down. I set mine about 10% and get 5-6 hours on my 3GS. I also turn OFF auto brightness. I turn off wifi when I know I won't have wifi for an hour or more. I turn bluetooth on only when I'm using my BT headset.
Dude all three of the screenshots are from my new iphone and none of these are normal to me, however when I went to the apple store and they tested my battery they said it was just fine. What the hell? I love my phone but battery life does suck.
I have been watching this thread with some trepidation as I had both a 3g and a 3gs with horrible battery life.
Yesterday though I put my 4 to the test and it passed with flying colors:
1 exchange account on push, 2 gmail and 1 .mac account on 15 minute sync (my normal settings) - an accumulated 4+ hours of navigon navigation, with the screen on the entire time and about another 4 hours of 3g surfing all in rural NC.
At the end of the day (~11:00pm) I still had 18% of my battery left!
I'm curious about those who are having battery problems though. If it isn't all phones what is the pattern? Has anyone collected serial numbers to see if they came from a specific batch? How many of them are jailbroken and have unauthorized apps on them? Have you tried multiple AC adapters (maybe it's not the phones). There has to be a common thread.
I certainly believe something is going on - I won't say it's in your heads because that's what I was told by the Genius' about my previous models. If the thread can be identified then the problem can be fixed.
I think you need to go reread my post a page or two back about multi-tasking. Multi-tasking isn't hurting your battery... mostly because NOTHING is multi-tasking unless you literally tell it to. Fast App Switching is NOT multi-tasking... it's a frozen state that is loaded and unloaded when the app is closed from the screen.
So the better question is... in your opinion is my battery life lower than average? Like I said, push is my biggest standby battery drainer.