What's your average battery life at this point?

[mpossoff]

Also - too many variables - which is why Aggie said screen shots are useless.

Screenshots don't indicate:

1) if you're in a poor cell area
2) screen brightness
3) how many email accounts you have and whether you are pushing, fetching and how often
4) doesn't indicate whether that time is spent on 3g, wifi or edge
5) doesn't indicate processor usage (were you listening to your ipod or were you playing a processor intensive game/video editing/etc
Again - way too many variables.

I have to agree. when I talk about usage I'm referring to real bonafied usage.

Here's an example;

At 10am-1:30pm when my battery is about 90%- 95% on idle is when I start to use my iPhone.

What does that mean?

For 3.5 hours my iPhone is getting used, not staying idle.

1-I'll visit and post to various avenues for my business.

2- write, check and respond to emai

3- take some video for my business

4- surf various sites related to my business.

5- listen and watch videos related to my business

Now I can honestly say that between 10am- 1:30 pm my iPhone is getting real bonafied usage without being idle.

Phone calls and the like aren't included cause to me it's not considered bonafied usage, peanut usage.

By doing these tasks of 3.5 hrs my battery can drain from 95% to 50% easily.

Then at night starting around 7pm at 40% battery(usage still increases when idle) for 2 hrs of what I consider real bonafied usage with similar tasks my phone is less than 10%.

People come here and brag about usage but it's not real bonafied usage.

Marc

 

[esadb]

How about this? This is with NO IPOD AT ALL. 3G On, Locations ON, no Push, lots of text, talk, web, news apps, doodle jump...not bad

That's even better than what Apple claims as their battery life.

Its kinda hard to believe people get 5-6hours and your doubling that.. You couldn't get 12hours usage if you texted the entire 15hours..

 

[mpossoff]

That's even better than what Apple claims as their battery life.

Its kinda hard to believe people get 5-6hours and your doubling that.. You couldn't get 15hours usage if you texted the entire 15hours..

Depends what the usage entails.

Marc

 

[Irish Rose]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

Since upgrading to iOS 4.1, I have now noticed a slight decrease in the battery life of my iPhone 4, but it is terrible. I usually get about 4 or 5 hours of usage in a 24 hour period.

 

[RuggedPro]

5hrs 32 mins usage
17hrs 11mins of stand by

took me to 20% battery life.

WIFI all the time. Push notifications on. Locations services on. Brightness on auto but it's always full blast for some reason.

 

[djgulia]

I haven't paid attention to the specifics, but I charge mine every night. I generally unplug it at 4:30/5am and plug it in around 11pm. Most of the time I'm down around 15-20% battery left. I do have a dock at work, so if I forget to charge it at night, it sits on the dock during the day charging.

General usage...

1. Wifi is enabled, but I don't have access to wifi at work, so most of the time (10-12 hours) it's on 3G unless I am home
2. Screen brightness is set to 50% - auto brightness is on
3. 2 email accounts are set up as Exchange, so those push. Regularly receive emails on 2 other accounts, so I open the app many times throughout the day.
4. Spend 3-4 hours using the ipod each day, regularly use apps such as Facebook, Echophon, Weather Channel. Very little game playing.
5. Always toggled to silent..not sure if vibrate vs ringtone has any impact
6. Location services on