iPhone Battery Power?

[Cal182]

I got my iPhone 3GS yesterday and did the whole set up on iTunes and what not and phoned Orange and got my iPhone bundle, but the battery power seems to be draining fairly quickly. I had it on charge last night and have hardly used it today and i'm on 70% already.

Anyone else having similar problem or have a solution for this? Or is it me just being paranoid?

Thanks, Cal.

 

[172Ben]

is it running 3.1.3?

I found this helped mine alot

 

[tyranical]

Battery power is pretty poor anyway mate. However, a few things that do help is to turn brightness down you never need it on full and also turn off auto-check for emails every x minutes unless its something you really need.

You *should* get a days use out of it through normal use.

 

[Cal182]

I'm almost positive its running 3.1.3 to be fair.
I havnt change any of the settings since I turned it on yesterday, i'll have to have a play around.
Its a cracking little phone, luv it!

 

[tyranical]

Thats the other thing aswell mate, for the first few months, you'll be unlocking and locking it and just going on it for the sake of going on it all the time because its new and exciting.

Once the novely wears off a bit you won't do that so much and you'll find the battery lasts much better

 

[Cal182]

Think i'm best mucking around with the settings then?

 

[AK]

Mines about a day too. From about 6am till 8pm.

 

[Cal182]

Mines about a day too. From about 6am till 8pm.

Is that with playing around with it?

 

[Herr Flick]

iphones are cack!! i just bought a n900 so hope thats better for battery, if not it will be a BB 9700 me thinks

 

[JR]

2/3 days out of mine depending on usage

 

[AK]

Is that with playing around with it?

Aye.

Near enough full brightness, e-mails are auto-checked every couple of minutes etc 3g, wifi etc are always on, and sending texts/FB throughout the day.

 

[turnby]

Read all of this:http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

 

[Racingblue182]

Mines never off the damn charger!

 

[BatFastard]

The BB9700 is fantastic for battery, get at least 3-4 days with heavy use!

 

[DrR]

Mine last 2/3 days but I can't use it at work. Had 4 days once.

 

[Daz]

I get at most a day on a 3GS.. sometimes not a full day if I use it loads.

But I do have an Exchange account constantly on push, an IMAP account on push, few apps with push notifications on, etc. 3G, Wifi, and Bluetooth on constantly. Connects to Bluetooth in car (around 1 hour 30 mins a day). 3G most of the day, and a mixture of GPRS/Edge/WiFi at night. And I use around 40 minutes a day average on calls. Brightness is on half.

I very rarely get more than a day and a night... so I just charge it every night.
Saying that, I could probably use it for around 2/3 hours a day for calls, and it'll still last until I go to bed.

My 3G lasted about the same.. and it's never changed with any software update.