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- yocouchdigga, on 07/06/2009, -35/+207"La, la, la, la, la, can't hear you, everything's perfect."
/fanboys - m4x30000, on 07/07/2009, -3/+154Want to drain your battery ?
There's an app for that. - CrikeyMike, on 07/06/2009, -5/+54I've noticed the shorter battery life. It was already pretty bad and this makes it almost unusable as a day-out phone. I really do not like Apple's trend toward built-in/non-swappable batteries. I'd just carry an extra. They'll probably find it and fix the problem soon... you'd think the new firmware, which is called "iPhone 3.0," would improve battery performance... c'mon guys.
- inactive, on 07/06/2009, -5/+52I knew it!
- snafflepaffle, on 07/07/2009, -3/+43Yup, there's definitely something going on. I too have noticed significantly shorter battery life and I'm not even a heavy user. Seems like it drains the battery when it's just sitting there in standby mode.
- MacParrot, on 07/06/2009, -6/+40This was my first iPhone (a 32gb) and I have to admit that I was surprised by how quickly the battery drains compared to either a stand-alone cell phone or an iPod. I think the much vaunted "Push" notifications are a likely suspect. I've changed mine to only checking once an hour and my battery life improved greatly.
I think it could have been much worse if multi-tasking had also been implemented. If I just use it as a phone with some occasional web access, it lasts about 2 days. Audio doesn't seem to drain it much, but video playback has quite a detrimental effect. I've got a Mophie Juice-Pak on order which should take care of most of these issues, but hopefully a software update will extend it a bit as well. Let's get it going Apple. - betadan, on 07/07/2009, -5/+35All i know is that since upgrading to OS3.0 on my iPhone 3G, my battery life has been cut in half.
- KillTheAcademy, on 07/06/2009, -10/+40at least mine hasn't caught on fire like the 3GS's
- doctordbx, on 07/07/2009, -4/+29Comes standard with the phone.
- zbeast, on 07/07/2009, -0/+24How long your battery lasts is completely dependent on how good your cell signal is.
I work in an office that has full bars.. my cell phone lasts all day and then some.
When i'm at home on the weekend.. doing less cars.. I only get about 4 hours of battery life.
As I get no bars or 2 1/2 bars at best. Thanks ATT..
Fewer bars in more places. just a street over at a friends house I get no cell coverage and the battery lasts only 2 1/2 hours as the phone trys again and again to reach a tower. I say it's 1/3's apples fault for making the phone so small that
you can only put a small battery in it and 2/3's AT&Ts fault for having a suck network. - Kev585, on 07/07/2009, -2/+23Low coverage drains the battery faster.
- mdshort, on 07/07/2009, -4/+25Actually there is no such thing as PUSH when it comes to phones. Phones work by continuously polling the service provider for status updates on incoming calls and text messages. When sending or calling, the phone makes the push to the tower, but the receiving phone must check for an update to get it. MMS messages are sent using an sms (internally) which includes a link to the MMS server on the service providers intranet.
Essentially, all phones work by polling the service provider. On some phones you can actually adjust the polling rate and it can drastically improve the battery life of the phone. The downside to this is that callers have to wait longer for your phone to realize that there is an incoming phone call or text message (and you will have less time to answer it). - yocouchdigga, on 07/07/2009, -5/+23The one that wants a cracker?
- blackinthmiddle, on 07/07/2009, -3/+21Depends on what you're doing with it. If you're just using the thing as a phone, you'll get a day and a half/two days out of it. If you're actually trying to use the features on the phone, especially on the 3G with an older battery (like what I have), I've seen my battery go down as much as 20% just sitting eating my lunch. I absolutely carry my charger with me everywhere I go.
Look, whether Apple figures out a way to eek out 10% more efficiency out of the battery is a moot point to me. Clearly, smartphone technology and their need to consume power has outpaced battery technology. I can't wait for the day that I can go a week without charging a smartphone and that's with heavy, heavy use. - Scaryclouds, on 07/07/2009, -3/+19Huh, I've noticed the polar opposite. My phone now last considerably longer after I updated to 3.0.
- xcrunner41888, on 07/07/2009, -0/+15and this app can even run in the background
- lorddazzer, on 07/07/2009, -2/+16Errr... did fiancee/mom cancel your WoW subscription or something?
- CPUGUy, on 07/07/2009, -1/+15It's the push notifications. If you turn them off you'll be back to your older battery life, or at least near to it.
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -7/+19so say a guy with the name MacParrot.
- popfrogs2, on 07/07/2009, -5/+17Good solution. Instead of using the phone's features as intended I'll work around it by disabling the things that make it useful.
Apple needs a point update for 3.0, pure and simple. Something is working way too hard. - Swift2, on 07/07/2009, -1/+13They've shown a couple of times before that the line between very good battery and poor is very fine. For instance, since updating, I've found that I often can make it to the next morning only down 40% or so. I think it's likely an individual configuration issue. Do you have "push" turned on? What about wi-fi? Are you often in marginal signal areas?
I ran into some trouble last year with a misconfigured wi-fi. It didn't improve until I trashed the settings and then set it up again. Some mistake I had made meant that, whenever I went to the office, my phone kept begging for Internet, but the settings wouldn't let it on. Trying over and over and over really drains the battery. One configuration change and boom! Back to a full day between charges. - enricorpg, on 07/07/2009, -1/+13what is wrong with you man?
- rnawky, on 07/07/2009, -10/+21You have no idea how Push works do you?
You don't set Push to check every hour, they are PUSHED to your phone when they are received by at&t. FETCH, on the other hand, you can set to every hour, as your phone will try and FETCH new data every so often. - sh0rtstop00, on 07/07/2009, -0/+10i noticed this the day after i upgraded to 3.0 firmware... few days later i found out it was the "push" function on some of the apps that was draining the battery.. i disable them all and it is to normal.. you can do a simple test to see whether all the apps' push function have been disabled by going to Settings>General>Usage and look at the Standby and Usage time, now remember both time, put the iphone to sleep, wait a couple minutes, then turn it back on, if the Standby time and Usage time have both advanced the same amount of minutes, then the push function on some apps is still on. you need to check every app to make sure
- valentine76, on 07/07/2009, -2/+11weird, i thought my battery life improved from the 3.0 upgrade. it's a 2g though.
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -1/+10i've noticed shorter battery life in my 3g since the 3.0
- dogfood, on 07/07/2009, -1/+8I've had no change in battery life on my Iphone 2G. Which is to say it's still *****. My wifi reception has turned to crap after updating to the 3.0 firmware, though.
- inkswamp, on 07/07/2009, -1/+8Did your dog and wife leave you too?
- athinnes, on 10/01/2009, -4/+11Apparently people are not happy with those not having this issue.
- dmbchris, on 07/07/2009, -1/+8upgraded my 3G and didn't notice a difference in battery, just lots of new features and a faster browser.
- Deviate, on 07/07/2009, -0/+7Yea, reading the comments, I was wondering if I was the only one who experienced better battery life than before, but I agree that it must be a touch vs iphone thing. My battery life was getting pretty bad on my 1st gen touch (recharging every two or three days) but after the update I'm going an entire week without recharging, which is pretty much as good as when I first got it.
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -4/+10OS 3.0 on my iPod Touch has increased my battery life... maybe it's just an iPhone problem.
- Zorkon, on 07/07/2009, -4/+10Actually in all non-fanboy seriousness, I noticed a battery life *improvement* when I installed the 3.0 beta on my iPhone. Now, that isn't saying much, because my 2.0 battery life sucked *hard* ... we're talking having to charge it daily, if not twice or more in a single day, with light-to-moderate use.
When I put the 3.0 beta on, my guess is that it reset the power management unit & I'm now getting the expected battery life ... which isn't great (our Nokia e51 does much, much better, but doesn't have a power-hungry screen or CPU to deal with). I haven't seen a decrease in battery life since going from the beta to the 3.0 final.
Still, the battery life could be better. - Clepensky, on 07/07/2009, -1/+7Horrible battery life with my 3g s compared to my old 3g with push turned off.
- superkendall, on 07/07/2009, -0/+6I have a 3Gs now, but the battery life so far has been better than my 1st gen iPhone. I made heavy ue of the network and GPS for half a day, and waited until sometime the next day to charge it up...
I've no doubt there's some rogue process eating things up at times, but it doesn't seem to happen to everyone. - Flagg3, on 07/07/2009, -0/+6For the record: I know 3 people who own the T-mobile G1, 1 with a Blackberyy Storm and 1 who has a Palm Pre, and NONE of them can make it through an entire day on 1 battery charge.
The more features you add to a smartphone, the more it will be used and the faster the battery will drain.
Personally, I used to get 3 or 4 days out of 1 charge on my original iPhone, and I get 1 or 2 days on my 3GS, but I AM NOT a heavy user by any means. But even I am finding that the more apps I download the more I am starting to use the phone, and there have been days when I have run out of battery before the end of the day, something that NEVER happened on my original iPhone.
It's not an iPhone problem, it's not a push problem, it's a smartphone problem. - Keicharones, on 07/07/2009, -2/+7I charge my iPhone's battery for about an hour every day, it seems to be at about 75% to 85% before I charge it, and this is with heavy internet browsing (even split between 3g and wifi), a lot of texting (I average 300 per month), and several phone calls per day. I see nothing wrong with the battery.
- Keicharones, on 07/07/2009, -1/+6Think about what you are saying. 300 a month is a lot, not compared to people who live and breathe through TXT, but it is still a lot.
- onatski, on 07/07/2009, -2/+7even my 2G iPhone battery drained easily. : )
- Invid, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5"My 3G looks exactly like it did the first day I got it. I don't even treat it especially nice; I've dropped it several times, but the screen looks absolutely brand spanking new, especially after if I wipe the grease of my fingers off of it with the bottom of my shirt. You don't need screen protectors, the screen is made to be resistant. "
As does my 2G original. But my new 3GS has a screen protector becasue the oleophobic screen isn't as durable as the mineral glass of the original iPhone screens. I believe the new screen has a polymer coating over the glass that's more scratch prone than the glass underneath. I like the idea of the oleophobic screen, but it's important that my phone be mint when I flip it for next year's model (be that another iPhone or Sony Ericsson's sexy android phone). Resale value on iPhones is very, very good (for a phone) so it makes sense to protect them.
Just another point of view. - deaftly, on 07/07/2009, -2/+7I've noticed horrid battery life also with 3.0, ugh.
- bays, on 07/07/2009, -2/+7my 2G has significantly shorter battery life after upgrading to 3.0. I could usually get 2 days out of it but now I have to charge it every night.
- doctordbx, on 07/07/2009, -1/+6Wow what a pain in the ass.
- inkswamp, on 07/07/2009, -2/+7WTF are you getting buried for?
You're not alone. I was logging in to post exactly the same. The battery life on my 3G improved noticeably after the 3.0 update. Clearly, it's not an across-the-board issue. I suspect it might have a lot to do with what applications/features users rely on. For example, I don't use the music playback in my iPhone much--maybe 20 minutes a day at most. If the 3.0 update had a bug that caused the iPod functionality to suck up the battery life, then those using it more frequently would see something different. I wonder what's causing this. - waluigi14, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5My original iPhone dies in its sleep (even in airplane mode), but my iPod touch 2G is just fine (they both have 3.0).
- inkswamp, on 07/07/2009, -2/+7Way to lower the bar.
- Kyle918, on 07/07/2009, -1/+6I noticed the same thing. This kinda defeats the biggest feature of the phone, but turn off 3G. Using edge will save a LOT of battery. Text messaging or talking using the 3G is not at all a necessity but will drain your battery nearly twice as fast... When using Pandora or AIM, or something alike, which use constant bandwidth, your battery will just be eaten up in a couple hours using 3G, but Edge is plenty fast enough for the constant streaming of Pandora...just sucks to turn it back on before you surf the web, or browse the App or iTunes store...
"KB" - migitalwarfare, on 07/07/2009, -1/+5@MacParrot: You might want to take another look at your mail settings. "Push" notification is the switch at the top of the "Fetch New Data" sub-menu, which is something you have no control over the polling rate. Below that is the "Fetch" polling frequency. You're obviously overlooking this since "Fetch" is simple text, while "Push" is a highlighted switch in this sub-menu.
Before you get all snarky, you might want to make sure you know what the hell you're talking about. You were changing your fetch frequency, not your push frequency. - JimmyYeung, on 07/07/2009, -1/+5Has anybody else noticed a keyboard issue with both regular and landscape. I always press return or send on accident. It seems like the accuracy has been changed or something
- jkoke, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4My 3G S has better battery life than my former 3G, so I definitely think that while the problem is real, it's not affecting every phone.
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