DISQUS

David Tom · 3 months ago

I am seeing the same battery life issues. I was thinking I'd try to delete all the apps until I can figure out which one is causing the problem. I did a restore but have not sync'd all my data back yet and the battery seems to be lasting longer. I know if I sync, I'll have to try the delete apps game. Annoying.

mario · 3 months ago

a complete wipe totally makes a difference. the trick is, don't restore from a backup. re-sync your apps, just don't restore from a backup and see if that helps.

David Tom · 3 months ago

did the wipe and re-sync'd apps and data. I'll let you know what happens but I am already at 59% and it's only been on for 2 hours...not looking good.

mario · 3 months ago

did you set up the phone as a new phone, or restore from a previous backup?

mine has been doing pretty well with 3G off. i had the hiccup with the charging issue the other night (see the most recent post), but that hasn't happened again...yet.

David · 3 months ago

Set up as a new phone per your instructions. Took a bit of time since I have CalDev Calendars set up...

BTW, mine is a 3GS if that makes a difference. Push is off. 3G is ON dammit:)

Hope this is addressed in the next update.

David · 3 months ago

UPDATE: Your method seems to have worked:) I am at 88% with moderate use and its been off the charger since abut 7:30 am.

I did notice some crazy battery % behavior yesterday though. Twice it went down to 20% only to recalibrate back to about 50% each time. I had it down to 13% before I plugged it back in before I went to bed.

Anyway, thanks for posting about this issue!

mookie kong · 3 months ago

This is why switched away. There are too many issues with the iPhone and this is one of the bigger ones. My Blackberry Bold has push enabled on my mail and I can squeeze out three days on a single charge. If I turn on push for Yahoo messenger and Google Talk, then I can get a day and a half. With my old iPhone, I had to turn off push email because it drained my battery and I couldn't get a full day with it on. That makes it pretty useless. I also like the hardware keyboard instead of software keyboard. And no, a digital compass doesn't make up for the lack of hardware keyboard :)

mario · 3 months ago

re: battery issues -- 100% agreed.

re: physical keyboard -- as i've stated many times over, this is not an issue for me. whether my next phone is from apple or another company, physical keyboards are not a selling point for me. but i can understand why someone would feel this way.

re: push mail -- for the sake of clarity, the issue doesn't crop up with push mail, only push notifications (apple's "solution" for background apps). there is a difference in battery life between push mail on/off, but for that i differ to re: #1.

re: compass -- i made fun of this as well, but looking at the augmented reality work being done, i retract that. i doubt apple had the foresight to predict the layering of social data on real images/video when they dreamed up the compass, but the teams putting those apps together get a huge nod from me. impressive stuff, and any future phone of mine will definitely have a GPS/compass combo to take advantage of that stuff. i would argue that AR trumps physical keyboard...for me. again, just a preference thing.

lastly, i'm working on a follow up to this post. it seems my charging bug has returned, so i'll be seeing a genius bar in the near future.

mookie kong · 3 months ago

re: it seems my charging bug has returned, so i'll be seeing a genius bar in the near future.

from my experience with the "genius" bar is that they'll ask:
1) did you backup your data? if you say "yes":
2) can we restore your iphone?

and that's about it.

mario · 3 months ago

hmm, that's odd. last time I went in the verified my restores and gave me a new phone. I've also heard from colleagues that issues have been met by replacing 3G with 3GS. we'll see what happens.