• iPhone battery drains out REEALLYY fast.
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I put my iphone to charge, and when it was full I unplugged it and went to bed, seeing I was late for school, the battery had lost 10-15%! From not being used in 9 or so hours! What is wrong? Can it be thaat I have 7 alarms and they have 15 minutes in between?
My iPhone loses half it's battery in a day without actually being used at all (except to check for any missed calls/texts). It's just battery deterioration. It only gets worse, and you can't swap out the iPhone's battery with a brand new one :saddowns:
You can get it replaced with a third party service or by Apple (for a fee). It happens, I've managed to minimize by using edge when possible, lowest screen brightness, turning Wifi/Bluetooth off, respringing often to reduce CPU loads, keeping it locked and not passively on, and disabling un-necessary daemons.
I know this might seem stupid, but try freeing up some space on it. When Rock wrote that 10GB log file on mine my iPhone had to stay on the usb transfer cable so it wouldn't die, it was going that fast. It stopped after I got rid of that file.
Sometimes my iPod touch will die overnight with having a full charge. Pisses me off when i get up and want music in the morning. There is no reason for it, other than Apple's batteries being utter shit.
I have an iPhone 3GS and I find the same with battery life - I lose about 10-15% overnight. Although mine is only a month old, so it's not a broken battery issue. I've found that having Push and Notifications (for apps) on seems to be one of the main causes a lot of this. If I turn them both off, I only lose about 5% overnight.
Maybe it's a wall charger you have. I had one and when I would charge it, about an hour later it would be the same.
[QUOTE=PieClock;21381469]I know this might seem stupid, but try freeing up some space on it. When Rock wrote that 10GB log file on mine my iPhone had to stay on the usb transfer cable so it wouldn't die, it was going that fast. It stopped after I got rid of that file.[/QUOTE] Or maybe that was Rock using all the CPU by writing something to that log file every half a second.
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;21381567]Sometimes my iPod touch will die overnight with having a full charge. Pisses me off when i get up and want music in the morning. There is no reason for it, other than Apple's batteries being utter shit.[/QUOTE] Except that apple has the best batteries in the market.
[QUOTE=ExTek;21382614]Maybe it's a wall charger you have. I had one and when I would charge it, about an hour later it would be the same.[/QUOTE] Actually, now that you mention it... it could be the wall charger. I'll charge up my phone using the Cable+PC technique and see if it makes a difference...
Steve Jobs said iPhone OS4 will have multitasking that doesn't drain your battery. Hopefully he is telling the truth because I couldn't handle losing much more haha.
Yeah, indeed.
Leave it plugged in over night. Don't worry it won't overcharge if still believe that can happen. Maybe try turning off 3G when your not using the internet maybe?
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