Hi, in settings/general/usage, how long does it say your phone was in use?
Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info 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. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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