i phone going flat really quickly?

[Bluebeard]

Anyone else had this issue?

My phone goes from 100% when I leave the house in the morning, to about 20% by the time i'm finishing work at 5pm...

Its doing my box in and I need to know what I can do!

 

[matzki]

Have you checked your Bluetooth bud? Mine caught me out. If its not that, have you double tapped the home button and closed all the open applications?

 

[HickiN]

Nothing i dont think mate.... mine does the same... take it off charge about 0630 when i head to work and is around 10-20% depending on how much music i listen too...

try turning off push, dimming it down a bit, turn off things that are constantly searching... but in my experience you wont really notice a difference...

H

 

[HickiN]

Have you checked your Bluetooth bud? Mine caught me out. If its not that, have you double tapped the home button and closed all the open applications?

Apparently that doesnt make a difference... or so i have been told..?

 

[Chapppers11]

Done the obvious things like not leave the screen on, lower the brightness, turn wifi off, close apps?

 

[sbridgey]

are you in a low-medium signal area at work?

 

[Bluebeard]

Have you checked your Bluetooth bud? Mine caught me out. If its not that, have you double tapped the home button and closed all the open applications?

I don't use bluetooth, not since my truck got taken off the road. And I close all the apps every night before putting it on charge.

Nothing i dont think mate.... mine does the same... take it off charge about 0630 when i head to work and is around 10-20% depending on how much music i listen too...

try turning off push, dimming it down a bit, turn off things that are constantly searching... but in my experience you wont really notice a difference...

H

What is 'push'??

Done the obvious things like not leave the screen on, lower the brightness, turn wifi off, close apps?

Lower the brightness, I'll try that.

are you in a low-medium signal area at work?

In terms of what mate? For phone calls or 3g? My phone signal is perfect at work but the 3g signal isn't the greatest.

 

[sbridgey]

In terms of what mate? For phone calls or 3g? My phone signal is perfect at work but the 3g signal isn't the greatest.

If the signal (bars) are not at full strength your phone will be looking for a signal all the time, it is why phones go flat quicker in night clubs as they don't typically have good signal strength in them.

 

[Bluebeard]

This has only happened the last couple of days. Before then I'd get two days out of the phone easy. Just seems a bit odd that i've changed nothing and the phones misbehaving.

 

[coleman]

Are you using it alot?

Mine does the same, but i do hammer it, sending texts, making calls and always browsing the internet.

 

[HickiN]

push; its where the phone is constantly searching for emails, facebook messages, chat programs etc

Settings > Mail, contacts, Calendars > Fetch New data.... thats the push settings for email

Settings > Notifications... In here you can turn which notifications you receive etc.... this may help..

Make sense?

 

[Rob]

Have you let it go from 100% charge, to 0% and run out and the back to 100? You may find that the last 1% lasts like 9 hours because the battery needs calibrating, and you do that by following my method.

 

[Bluebeard]

Are you using it alot?

Mine does the same, but i do hammer it, sending texts, making calls and always browsing the internet.

Usually yes, but the last two days i've been driving so haven't used it and that's why I'm finding it odd that its doing this.

push; its where the phone is constantly searching for emails, facebook messages, chat programs etc

Settings > Mail, contacts, Calendars > Fetch New data.... thats the push settings for email

Settings > Notifications... In here you can turn which notifications you receive etc.... this may help..

Make sense?

Yes it does, i'll have a look now.

Have you let it go from 100% charge, to 0% and run out and the back to 100? You may find that the last 1% lasts like 9 hours because the battery needs calibrating, and you do that by following my method.

The last 5% vanishes faster than food on my plate dude. I will try to get it dead flat tonight and re-charge overnight, thank you.

 

[richy22]

Duff battery.

The batteries are terrible on them after a while. I have changed LOADS

What model and how old?

 

[Bluebeard]

Iphone 4, probably about 6 months old.

 

[richy22]

Yep known for shite batterys. Both the 4 and 4s versions. I've changed more batteries from them then the 3g/3gs

 

[Bluebeard]

Do you work for carphone warehouse?

 

[Dan519]

If the signal (bars) are not at full strength your phone will be looking for a signal all the time, it is why phones go flat quicker in night clubs as they don't typically have good signal strength in them.

I put my phone in the glovebox when I went paintballing, Came back at the end of the day, 14%!!!!! WTF!!!! It'd been trying to find a signal the whole time.

 

[niall.pearce.7]

i heard the iphone 5 battery only lasts 4 hours? please somebody tell me this isn't true cba to research it and im getting one at the end of the month!

 

[HickiN]

i heard the iphone 5 battery only lasts 4 hours? please somebody tell me this isn't true cba to research it and im getting one at the end of the month!

No, similar to the iPhone 4/4S and lasts about a day realistically...

 

[richy22]

Do you work for carphone warehouse?

:S No

But I am an electronic whazzer so repair pretty much anything

 

[Bluebeard]

Tony hunter is really helping me by texting me every 2 minutes....

 

[Tom]

using the phone uses battery. take a charger to work.

(you f**king plank )

 

[silentsnake]

What about one of them charger cases for it? Bloke at work has one for his Samsung and it was still on 100% charge at about 3 o'clock.

Like this.. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0089J2LJW/?tag=cliospnet01-21

 

[Chapppers11]

using the phone uses battery. take a charger to work.

(you f**king plank )

Flol at say what you like wink, c**t.

 

[Toby]

Stop streaming HD p**n at work you big bald f**k.

 

[Bluebeard]

No need, I work with this really hot guy...

 

[Toby]

No need, I work with this really hot guy...

Sam??!!

Thanks Tom x

 

[Bluebeard]

I don't work with sam.

I work with a shambles of a man. You'd need to see him to understand the joke really.

Meh.

 

[Toby]

I miss daddy Sam

Your work sounds fun.

 

[Bluebeard]

It is some days.

On this day, I made a cow head out of a sandwich bag.

 

[Toby]

You look better for it, love the goatee/cowtee.

Or is that the tongue?

 

[Bluebeard]

It was a goatee to mock my partners pathetic attempt at a beard.

(Thats the stupid b*****d stood next to me)

 

[Alan]

I'll give you my 5 for a pic of your dong (again), a glass bottle of irn bru and a curly wurly..

 

[Bluebeard]

i may struggle with the glass bottle.

 

[Munson]

I only ever had a battery problem with my 3GS, and it turned out to be software.

I subject all my Apple device batteries to varied use, and calibrate them religiously every 30 days. They all perform strongly. My old 17" MBP was still pushing 92% after three years and 380 cycles.

Not saying Daniel isn't having legitimate problems, but I do raise an eyebrow at all the horror stories. User error IMO. Apple do actually publish articles on how best to maintain batteries. In my experience, most users just hammer their device all day every day and expect the battery to last all week.

 

[DrR]

Mines on 81% and I took it off charge at 0600 this morning, phones 10 months old. Not used it that much today though, just a few texts.

 

[Alan]

Lack of friends iirc ^

 

[N0ddie]

You have shut down all the apps haven't you? Double clicking the home button brings up all apps that are running.

 

[DrR]

That closing apps thing is pointless, unless it's one desighned to run in the background, i rarely close mine.