It's possible there are a lot of people (the ones complaining) who went straight from the 2G to the 3G S, and thus aren't used to the extra battery drain associated with the 3G network.
3 hours and 11 min of usage...some heavy texting this am, listened to music, and checked the app store.....im at 60%....took my phone off the charger at 730am..it is now 3:42 pm....
do you think my battery is defective??? am i going nuts?? ive researched all the battery threads,,done all the "fixes"
I was surprised to see I lost 22% with about 8 hours overnight of standby on Wifi. Practically every other night with the 2G I'd put my fully charged phone on the table with my keys and wallet and it would show full charge the next day with the same settings. Either there's an app gone screwy, the 3G S has a ridiculous battery life, or my phone needs to be replaced. I've started to take some screen grabs of my usage through the day.
Tonight I'll put it in airplane mode and see how much charge is left and work from there.
I have a weird problem. My battery seemed to be doing fine. Took it off the charger at 8 and then about 45 minutes of talk time, a little tweeting, couple youtube videos, 45 minutes of ipod, and some texting and I was down to about 60% battery life with about 2+ hours of usage. I then plugged it into my macbook for a few minutes to sync some things and it went up to about 65%. I took it off sent a tweet and maybe a text or two and the next thing I know my battery reads 35%. This is the third time my battery has done a significant jump. The other time was when I was using the GPS and talking for a while and it jumped from 40% to 10% and the other day it jumped about 10% from 70 to 60. Should I be concerned or is this just the reader not working correctly. Yesterday I had 4hrs and 41min of usage and 17hrs and 18min of standby. What do you guys think?