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Battery Issues

Just saw it, does it mean that the phone isnt fully charging and that a firmware would make it fully charge?!
 
Same problem here. I get the Plug in the upper right but not the beautiful glow. I did notice that my battery performance is slightly abysmal, I think I'm gonna head over to the Apple Store tomorrow and get a new one.
 
I am pretty sure I have figured out my problem, if not a lot of peoples problems. I believe that the problem lies within the method of charging it. I assume most people use there phone all day and then charge it when they go to sleep, leaving it in all night. I know I do this and have with all my phones. Well yesterday I charged my phone during the day cause I forgot to at night. I noticed right around the 4 hour mark of when it's to be done charging, the plug at the top corner indicated it was done, but I had no need to use it then so I kept it in. I came back about 30 min later to check it, and it had the big battery completely full and I got the glow! I checked the usage meter and it said 0 min / 0 min. Great.

I still didn't need to use it yet so I walked away. I came back about 2 hours later because I was about to go out and was gonna grab my phone, but I noticed something. The big battery meter went back down to a little sliver left and no glow. I then checked the usage meter and it said 2 hours used/2 hours standby!

So the problem seems to be that when people go to sleep at say midnight and plug it in. It is done charging around 4, gets the glow, and then somehow stops charging and using battery power until you wake up. Therefore having quite a few hours already used before you even unplug it! Hopefully this can be fixed by an update. Sorry for writing a book here but hopefully this will give you guys an idea of whats wrong and possibly try this yourself!
 
Iphone Battery not fully charging...

My iphone has the same problem it does not charge fully, even if I leave it plugged in all night. Please email me if you guys here of a fix thanks,lance:)
 
Within the last few days I've seen a drop in battery performance, At first I didn't see a drop in the battery after 4 hours of audio usage, but now I see a 20% drop in half the time.

Could this be part of the on going software bug?

In fact, I find that plugging in my phone allows it to adjust the battery life. Sometimes up, sometimes down. This is within seconds of each other.
 
Would anyone happen to know how to display the battery percentage instead of the battery icon? It would be nice to know exactly how much battery life is remaining.
 
So....can I charge via the DOCK? is that an acceptable way to charge?

Or should I always charge via the iPhone AC adapter?

I don't like having to unplug the damn cable from the dock just to charge it with the AC adapter, so I hope charging it while plugged into the computer is acceptable...is it, or is it not?

Thanks.
 
I just got my 10% battery life warning. I was fully charged, seen the plug symbol and think I had the glow. I'm currently at 6 hours of usage and 2 days And seven hours of stand by. I had about 1 hour of talk time and the majority of the rest was Internet use on edge. I think my phone is going to die soon so I'm going to end This now l. Is this a good battery? Wifi and bluetooth was off the whole time and i did not plug it into anything since the last full charge.
 
Joshua8o8 said:
I just got my 10% battery life warning. I was fully charged, seen the plug symbol and think I had the glow. I'm currently at 6 hours of usage and 2 days And seven hours of stand by. I had about 1 hour of talk time and the majority of the rest was Internet use on edge. I think my phone is going to die soon so I'm going to end This now l. Is this a good battery? Wifi and bluetooth was off the whole time and i did not plug it into anything since the last full charge.
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Apple rates the phone at 6hrs of internet time so yes that's great battery life. Depending on what you are doing you'll get different battery times. Internet is one of the more intensive tasks so you get a lot less battery than, say, listening to music, where the screen can get turned off.
 
WTF I plugged my phone In at 10 at night and woke up around 8 in the morning to find my phone about 95% charged with the lightning bolt showing in the little battery metter. The usgage was showing 4:30 and 4:30 of stand by. What's going on with this ? I think iranintoavan's theory is correct because my phone would charge fully in the day when I would check it once in a while. So I guess from now on I will charge it during the day and just wait untill I get the full charge. But this isn't rite all my other phones I had I was able to leave it charging over night and not have to worry about it. i hope this problem is fixable by a software update and we wont have to exchange our phones.
 
When I exchanged mine, the first thing the Genius asked me, multiple times, was "Did you charge it with the wall adapter with the phone off?". Maybe that makes a difference?
 
I've always thought my battery was weak, and today i ran my own testing. After a full wall charge, my iPhone had a 17 hour standby time and four and half hours of usage. My bluetooth is off and my screen brightness is about halfway. So im just curious, am i paranoid or should my battery stats be better if not much better? Thanks!
 
mmccaskill: When I exchanged mine, the first thing the Genius asked me, multiple times, was "Did you charge it with the wall adapter with the phone off?". Maybe that makes a difference?


I did charge my phone with the wall adapter and with out the dock ( my phone wont fit in the dock because of the case I use ). How ever my phone was on, i never charged any of other phones when they were off. I never really turned off any of my other phones ever. Do you all think its alright to never turn the iphone off?
 
Npalettas said:
I've always thought my battery was weak, and today i ran my own testing. After a full wall charge, my iPhone had a 17 hour standby time and four and half hours of usage. My bluetooth is off and my screen brightness is about halfway. So im just curious, am i paranoid or should my battery stats be better if not much better? Thanks!
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I'm in the same boat as you, I got a little over four hours usage and 14 hours stand by, this is after about 3-4 charges, I would expect it to be a bit better than after tonight. So should our stats be better than what we're getting?
 
I'm actually having the same results with my battery life. Four and a half hours of usage (mixed usage: internet, calls, text, ipod, etc.). I also have the wifi turned off but the brightness at full. I've gone through about 4-5 full charges, have the glowing battery in the morning, etc.

I thought that this was way below the expected battery life so I returned two other previous phones with similar battery lives. Given the battery lives of other users it seems rather short.
 
polyun said:
I'm actually having the same results with my battery life. Four and a half hours of usage (mixed usage: internet, calls, text, ipod, etc.). I also have the wifi turned off but the brightness at full. I've gone through about 4-5 full charges, have the glowing battery in the morning, etc.

I thought that this was way below the expected battery life so I returned two other previous phones with similar battery lives. Given the battery lives of other users it seems rather short.
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Are you saying that your third phone has the same stats of your previous 2, at about 4 1/2 hours usage? What's your stand by time?
 
I went to the apple store during my lunch today and told them about my battery life as explained above. The Genius that was helping me told me the could send it in... and that turnovers were rather quick for the iphone... I asked him about a replacement and he said that their replacment policy was for phones within the first 15 days of activation. After a little bit he came around and swapped mine out for a new one!

I guess the point of my story is that 17 hours of standby time and 4 hours of use is well below the expect performance of the iphones battery. I would go visit your stores rather soon. espically if you fall within the first 15 days of activation! Hope this helps.
 
Npalettas said:
I went to the apple store during my lunch today and told them about my battery life as explained above. The Genius that was helping me told me the could send it in... and that turnovers were rather quick for the iphone... I asked him about a replacement and he said that their replacment policy was for phones within the first 15 days of activation. After a little bit he came around and swapped mine out for a new one!

I guess the point of my story is that 17 hours of standby time and 4 hours of use is well below the expect performance of the iphones battery. I would go visit your stores rather soon. espically if you fall within the first 15 days of activation! Hope this helps.
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I fall within the 15 days but everything else seems good with my phone, I'll give a few more days to see how it goes. Thanks for letting us know.

What was your typical use on the phone when you were getting poor performance.
 
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