'Poor' Battery Life - miracles of miracles 'problem' solved and dramatically improved

[samcraig]

Incidentally - auto-brightness on or off isn't going to matter when the phone is idle. So that would have had no affect on my personal use-case.

 

[Trat]

While that is certainly 100% true, turning of auto brightness only has a negative effect on battery life if you ask me. The standard brightness level becomes a threshold and the iPhone only dims it when necessary, it never overstates is.

 

[Sir Ruben]

Why would Location services have any impact on a idle iPhone?

Also, why would auto brightness off have a positive impact on battery life? Seems to me that keeping your screen at medium brightness would cost more battery than the iPhone auto dimming it when appropriate (it never sets the brightness above the threshold, only looks if it can set it lower).

Also, why isn't 3G Off part of your list? If there is one particular feature that eats unnecessary battery life then it's 3G networking. It only really adds anything for data speed: not for call quality and especially not when you are near a WiFi point.

I didnt say they were ideal settings, I said they were the settings that I get good results from.

I forgot to mention I do have 3G off, as I have no use for mobile data transfer 90% of the time, and yes it does eat battery life!

I have auto brightness turned off because I found that it has virtually no effect on my battery life and it used to irritate me (gorgeous retina display dimming itself too much in some cases and really toning down the impressive display).

Location services however will kick in frequently for a lot of apps (unless you have manually turned it off on an app per app basis in settings) so keeping this off unless needed makes sense battery wise.

EDIT: In samcraigs case (phone idle a lot of the time) I agree that he would not see the full benefit of my personal settings. I included them as I find that with the phone configured this way I get a very very good battery life.

 

[Trat]

I didnt say they were ideal settings, I said they were the settings that I get good results from.

And I said almost non off these setting will have impact on battery life...

I forgot to mention I do have 3G off, as I have no use for mobile data transfer 90% of the time, and yes it does eat battery life!

Same here: I have no use for it most of the time.

I have auto brightness turned off because I found that it has virtually no effect on my battery life and it used to irritate me (gorgeous retina display dimming itself too much in some cases and really toning down the impressive display).

I can understand that, but leaving it off will consume more battery then leaving it on.

Location services however will kick in frequently for a lot of apps (unless you have manually turned it off on an app per app basis in settings) so keeping this off unless needed makes sense battery wise.

But not when idle, that was my point.

EDIT: In samcraigs case (phone idle a lot of the time) I agree that he would not see the full benefit of my personal settings. I included them as I find that with the phone configured this way I get a very very good battery life.

Yeah, but most of these setting have like zero impact on battery life. Its like saying: I get good battery life if I don't have many apps on my device.

 

[Sir Ruben]

Yeah okay you win, turning off location services, push, etc does not improve battery life. Im talking crazy talk. It lasts just as long with them all turned on.

"please leave us alone" - Sir Ruben & Steve Jobs

 

[Trat]

Turning off push actually saves battery...

 

[jcpazos]

Turning off push actually saves battery...

I follow this from first day, I just have iPhone 4 and the first thing I do is activate Gmail and MSN with PUSH.

Works fine but the battery life was not much than my iPhone 3GS. Reading this post I put the MSN to check manually (no PUSH) and I notice that now it long more time.

So, maybe the best is turn off PUSH for save battery, but at least for a while I prefer push for my primary mail address because is bussiness and I need to stay alert of incoming messages.

 

[Eso]

The standard brightness level becomes a threshold and the iPhone only dims it when necessary, it never overstates is.

Auto-brightness on the iPhone 4 can actually make the screen brighter in a bright environment.

 

[samcraig]

So - did anyone else net same/different results?

 

[jasondono]

Kindle app

I wonder if this is why the Kindle app kills my battery. Maybe it is constantly syncing with the server.

 

[Trat]

Auto-brightness on the iPhone 4 can actually make the screen brighter in a bright environment.

But never above the threshold you set with the brightness slider. At least, in the 2 years of using iPhones, I have never seen it turn brighter than when I turn of that switch.