Iphone 4s battery life,
Her indoors wants a new phone and the above has made her short list. How long realistically does the battery last? Having searched round the net it seems that some people are having to charge every day. Is that the norm or is that the result of heavy use :thumb:
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Every day is pretty normal for smartphones, mine lasts two days sometimes but it depends on what you do with it of course.
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Avereage use on a smartphone is one days battery. For a woman on twatter or facetube , more like half a day !
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Really. What makes them suck so much power? From what i can tell, they seem to use lots of power what they're not being used. Are there a number of things running in the background?
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Originally Posted by Brun
(Post 10568260)
Having searched round the net it seems that some people are having to charge every day
Some folk make a great deal about their phones lasting days without needing charging - don't these people ever sleep? (awaits replies about how charging every night is bad for the battery - it's a phone ffs) |
I hear ya but she's just worried about being caught short with no electric in her phone with no obvious means of charging. If a phone lasts 2 or 3 days then the chances of being caught short are slim.
BTW - she sleeps for England :thumb: |
internet usage on a smart phone hammers the battery.
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Mine rarely goes on charge overnight, more likely to be plugged into my computer during the day or hooked up to the car stereo.
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A lot of apps use location which runs in the background. you can turn it off to save some juice..
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Realistically 2 days max between charges. Thats with WiFi syncing (icloud etc) enabled, bluetooth active (always conected when in the car), location services mostly disabled (except for sat nav and stuff that "needs" to know where I am...ie NOT facebook ;) ) with minimal web or app use and little or no 3G usage. Plus about 30 to 60mins worth of voice calls. If you are heavy on voice calls, or web/app/game/music use that can easily shrink down to less than one day. I've killed the battery in the space of 6 hours messing with games and apps etc.
Could squeeze it to 3days if you turn off some features, but you really are pushing it and have to basically only use it it for the odd voice call and text in a good reception area. So I have an old Nokia 8310 to use for camping trips as its tiny and gets far better reception and has 5 day battery. iOS5.1 update has helped, although that could be just a tweek on the battery meter to make it "look" like it has better battery life ;) Other bug bears:
Good luck! ;) |
Originally Posted by ALi-B
(Post 10568321)
Good luck! ;) |
Originally Posted by Brun
(Post 10568260)
Her indoors wants a new phone and the above has made her short list. How long realistically does the battery last? Having searched round the net it seems that some people are having to charge every day. Is that the norm or is that the result of heavy use :thumb:
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Originally Posted by JackClark
(Post 10568326)
You should restore the phone. Liveleak not working for you but does for everyone else is a big clue. I've never seen the ghost call stuff either.
Done a restore re: ghost calls, no difference. Mates iP 4S does it too (had 6 minute voice mails off him FFS...no audio on the message, just a faint background buzz, and he doesn't use bluetooth at all, so its not that. :mad: ) |
ye gods , and i thought having a phone that does everything for half the price was enough of a reason not to be suckered into the "i" family
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I think my iPhone would probably do 2 days without charge if I needed it to. It as most others do I charge it over night.
Every smartphone I've had pretty much needs charging over night and my list is Blackberry curve Htc desire hd Samsung galaxy s2 Now iPhone 4 They are all pretty similar, the iPhone probably edges it for battery life. |
You could always get one of those battery cases which doubles (some of them) the life of your iphone battery, was actually thinking about one of these as well when I upgrade.
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My iPhone will just about last through the day although not always. I am constantly receiving emails (for work) and replying. The screen takes quite a lot of the power as does the wifi/3G signal. If you are stuck somewhere and start playing games then the battery drains considerably.
You can improve the life by switching off 3G, turning the screen brightness down, switching off location services. I do not as to be honest if I have to do all of that I'm losing half of the fun of the phone. As mentioned above, this isn't specifically an iPhone thing, most smartphones have limited battery life in comparision to 'old' phones that just, well, make calls, have a little LCD screen etc... |
1 day and charge it over night regardless. Do also have issues with it dropping calls & refusing to get a signal. :razz:
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A mixed bag of opinions. We're off down the phone shop tomorrow for a play but the Ip is looking favorite :)
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Isn't the iphone 5 comming soon?
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June from what i can tell but she doesn't want to be spending even mare than the 4s will be costing :)
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Originally Posted by RA Dunk
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Isn't the iphone 5 comming soon?
I'm holding off upgrading my iPhone 4 waiting for the new handset to be released. |
Same here, holding off upgrading my iphone 3 for it's release, when ever that is?
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Originally Posted by RA Dunk
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Same here, holding off upgrading my iphone 3 for it's release, when ever that is?
Steve |
The Blackberry Bold and Torch have pretty good battery life. I get three days out of the 9860 Torch that I use for work.
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My Nokia N8 lasts a week on a charge. Mostly because it's so crap I don't use it.
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My HTC explorer lasts way over a week easily, it's classed as a smartphone, just :)
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Originally Posted by jonc
(Post 10569398)
The Blackberry Bold and Torch have pretty good battery life. I get three days out of the 9860 Torch that I use for work.
My HTC Desire S last around 36 hours with normal usage. Although I killed it in just 8 hours yesterday after I downloaded a new game! :rolleyes: The screen size is what kills the batteries on these phones, not Wifi or 3G. |
Charge mine every night although would last 2 days if needed
Always have a charger in the car as a back up The iPad charger does a quicker job if need be Fantastic phone such an advance on my 3GS ,which the misses has now Camera is great and web sites are so quick |
Didn't charge mine last night, didn't make any calls on it yesterday but did use it for other things 50% this morning.
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