before having to recharge, what would you do? Take it back obviously, but to Rogers or the Apple Store?
8g iPhone, purchased at Wireless Wave 7/12/08
PS: light use, texting a bit, few calls. Something must be staying on to drain it so quick....
When you say 6-8 hours before recharging, are you talking actual use? If that's the case then there is nothing wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong but Apple says you get about 5 hours of actual use time before you need to recharge if you're using the web, GPS and all the Apps.
When you say 6-8 hours before recharging, are you talking actual use? If that's the case then there is nothing wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong but Apple says you get about 5 hours of actual use time before you need to recharge if you're using the web, GPS and all the Apps.
Try turning off push and keep fetch to a minimum. This massively improved my iPhone battery time. Also things like the camera seem to suck a lot of juice. With no push (which I don't use anyway) and turning off fetch my battery usage time is literally 10x better.
My first day of ownership was a bit of an eye opener - I woke up at 7am, unplugged the phone from the charger, did some email & listened to music on my way into work on the GO train for about an hour, and by 4pm had less than 20% battery left. Is this normal for this device?
I have had an original iPhone for a year now & can go 4, maybe 5, days on a charge, mind you without using edge data connection.
Sooo, is 3G, GPS, and the brighter screen worth 20-25% of the original battery life? I'm having a hard time accepting that a cell phone requires charging to stay alive for a day.
Sidebar question: is GPS the "location services" setting? And if so, does it turn off the GPS receiver when it's toggled off? Frankly, the speed & accuracy seems no better than the cell triangulation used by the original.
Go to an Apple store if you can.. or speak with Apple on the phone, might be the best route actually.. trying to convince the genius might be a futile attempt. I say this because I was trying to explain my reception issues with my 2nd iPhone, he tried calling in the store and of course it was fine and that was that.. luckily I had other issues with it.
Anyway, long story short, my 2nd iPhone had great battery life:
- 3G always on
- PUSH always on
- Light browsing
- A little music listening
- A few calls here and there
With all that, I got up to 4 hours usage, 36-40 hours standby.
I have no problem lasting out the day. That's listening to music a fair bit, calls occasionally, and surfing on and off, a fair bit if I am on the bus. I've never lost complete power yet (though I've come close)
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Try turning off push and keep fetch to a minimum. This massively improved my iPhone battery time. Also things like the camera seem to suck a lot of juice. With no push (which I don't use anyway) and turning off fetch my battery usage time is literally 10x better.
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