Hi,

in settings/general/usage, how long does it say your phone was in use?

Ricardo Walker
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On Sep 26, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My iPhone was fully charged yesterday morning:
> 
> • down to 73% this morning.
> • Background updating is On.
> • a number of Apps including Weather, Messages and Safari are running in the 
> background according to the App Switcher.
> • iCloud Syncing is On.
> • Mail notifications is on Manual.
> • Calendar runs always and notifications are on.
> • FaceBook notifications are On.
> • Reduced Motion is On.
> • WiFi and LTE/3G services are On.
> 
> Regular use yesterday included a number of calls including a 25 minute call 
> from my son.  All calls are within a building with 8 inch think cinder block 
> walls, often multiple walls for the signal to make its way through.  Lots of 
> Text messages, Calendar checks, check on tweets in Twitter, checked news in 
> the CBC News app a few times and probably some things I can't recall.
> 
> So, by no means super heavy duty use, lots of background things going on, and 
> battery life is quite normal in my opinion.  As I mentioned before, I'm not 
> sure why others are having issues, nor am I disputing that you're having 
> these problems, I'm just not convinced that these problems are due to a bug 
> in the iOS.  I've read lots of suggestions in this thread that may help 
> including letting your battery totally drain then charging it up fully to 
> reset any confusions with battery level, or possibly a weak battery issue, or 
> specific app or background app problem.  We all use our iPhones for such 
> varied tasks that its difficult to pin-point an exact, "fix-all" for everyone.
> 
> Have a good one.
> 
> Later...
> 
> Tim Kilburn
> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
> 
> On 2013-09-26, at 5:39 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote:
> 
>> it seems that when these battery start to go bad, a lot of times they don't 
>> just crash all it wants. At least, that's what mine did, it started giving 
>> me less and less time. So, if you have had your iPhone for a while, it might 
>> be beneficial to get the battery tested. At least it was for me.
>> Regards,
>> Gigi Hi there
>> I think maybe I was not clear on the last message I sent. I in did up 
>> getting my iPhone battery replaced. I was getting less battery life, and I 
>> suspected I might have a problem.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:03 AM, Nicholas Parsons 
>>> <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My battery usage varies depending on what activities I do with the phone. 
>>> GPS and heavy internet use over 3G is a major battery drain. I was once 
>>> getting turn by turn directions in the car while streaming my iTunes Match 
>>> music over 3G. I drained my spare battery pack and drained the iPHone's 
>>> battery down to about 20% in only a few hours, which meant we had to ditch 
>>> the directions for the rest of the trip and the way home. :) If I'm 
>>> connected to wifi, however, I seem to get a day or so from one charge. That 
>>> is, the battery isn't fully dead when I go to bed and charge it up again. 
>>> If I'm off wifi for the day but don't do anything crazy (like heavy use of 
>>> GPS or 3G) my battery will probably die in the evening once I'm home again, 
>>> but before going to bed.
>>> I haven't noticed any differences since upgrading to iOS 7.
>>> 
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