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The thing about iPhone batteries nobody knows
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how long? because that would take weeks, theoretically tens of months of continuous usage...
Tens of months of continuos usage? Try six hours. After that let the phone sit on a counter with no charger for about a week and then it won't even give you the flashing depleted battery message anymore.
huh?!?!?! I've drained my iphones easily after they enter "sleep" mode after 0% is reached to the point where even after plugged in you can get the yellow screen of death for minutes before it's even useable, maybe a day or less after it shuts itself off. And turning an iphone off to charge has nothing to do with battery life.
who would turn off their phones at night anyway? All our phones are always on, good luck getting an emergency call or something else late at night with a phone turned off lol.
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I think it is safe to say the OP is less informed about this than he seems to think he is... I will leave it at that.
I use a app called battery doctor seems to help I watched a video on YouTube about how to replace the battery on iPhone 4s it looks really easy to do I think people who aren't really tech savvy could do it easily I rarely turn my devices off but with my iPad and iPod touch I turn on airplane mode and kill all running apps when I'm not using them
I have done it many times on my iphone. Let it die, put it in a drawer for a week and it's DEAD. LOL
Then it takes maybe 10 minutes for it to turn on once plugged back in as it needs some power to do so. I wish people on this forum wouldn't speak unless they know for a fact on what they are talking about.
But you know that if you leave a battery completely dead for a certain amount of time, it will lose its capacity to stay charged right?
So your battery must be worse off now that you've treated it with neglect.
And that's why your battery won't stay charge and you have to keep plugging it in every 5 minutes.
You are give people poor advice here on this board.
I'd just like to add that yes, this is definitely possible. I've got a water damaged iPhone that works great other than the annoying fact that if I turn it off, it turns itself back on within seconds. Went on vacation, didn't use my phone for a week. It spent the entire week trying turn itself on continuously. So yes, when I got back, it was COMPLETELY dead
Took it over an hour of charging before I even got the screen to turn on to give me a low battery warning.
Absolutely not true. From Apple's support site:
Paying attention to just a few commonsense pointers will pay off with a longer battery lifespan and battery life for your iPhone. The most important thing is to keep your iPhone out of the sun or a hot car (including the glove box). Heat will degrade your batterys performance the most.
Actually that is bad info. Because its better to cycle the battery and allow it to go dead. Either way li-on batteries it still does not cause a problem either way. I have never had battery issues. You are the one giving bad advice. I am an engineer and work on devices like this all the time.
And you continue to post wrong info. You were wrong on the main first post and people Corrected you and you are still wrong.
How am I supposed to help you when you don't understand right from wrong?
It's NOT OK to store dead batteries for long periods of time.
You need to learn more about batteries, here, try this quiz.
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/batteries-quiz1.htm
I'll help you out. The first answer is obvious.
Electrons. I knew that since I was six years old.
Ok, I'll play. What are your credentials for all this knowledge about batteries? If they don't include an EE degree, then it is just opinion. Which you are entitle to and we can ignore as we choose.
Yep, got my EE degree back in 1996. With today's batteries it does not matter if you store it for months in a drawer dead. It will not cause it to have a problem with life. And this is from personal experience on many devices including iphones. In all honesty, it would probably allow it to last longer just because it hasn't been used for months recharging/draining.
I actually prefer the removal of the downvote button. I think some posts get downvoted not for the reason that they are stupid, pointless etc but because some users just don't like to listen to the mere mention of certain brands or terms.
If one doesn't like the post, a reply would be better than just a downvote, it helps clarify things more and actually gives more juice (info etc) to the topic. Just my 2cents
Is this real advice from a person who claims to have an EE?
If you are actually using that EE to do work for my US economy, I would be seriously concerned.
If you are actually using that EE to do work for my US economy, I would be seriously concerned.
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"Originally Posted by PlaceofDis
i've seen this happen. takes a while but a Li-ion battery can be completely drained.
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Prove this OP
You really are making a name for yourself here. Just look at the other posts you wrote.
i've seen this happen. takes a while but a Li-ion battery can be completely drained.
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Prove this OP
You really are making a name for yourself here. Just look at the other posts you wrote.
There's no way you can convince me that you managed to get the phone to go completely flat after it already went "dead".
Theoretically, it's possible, but just leaving it sitting in the drawer is not going to make the battery level deplete flat.
That would take many many months. And you didn't do it.
You probably thought you did, but all you have to do is press the power button to see the little glass battery pop up. That tells you that the battery is not flat yet.
Theoretically, it's possible, but just leaving it sitting in the drawer is not going to make the battery level deplete flat.
That would take many many months. And you didn't do it.
You probably thought you did, but all you have to do is press the power button to see the little glass battery pop up. That tells you that the battery is not flat yet.
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When the meter doesn't come up, after sitting, means it's DEAD. Not enough power to even get that to come up. LOL. You sir need to go back where you came from since you are new here and obviously still learning.
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It's shocking to me that you continue this rant, not only spreading misinformation, but also belittling other posters? Seriously?