A lot of people swear by calibrating their phone batteries but after religiously doing that with my old iphone 3g and comparing it to my dads iphone 3g who charges it whenever he pleases I found that there really isn't much of a difference. So I wouldn't worry too much about it. That's my opinion at least. I'm sure someone will disagree though.
Thanks for the response. I guess what I'm asking is if there's any difference calibrating right away (phone out of the box) rather then just down the road? I'm asking in terms of damaging the meter or the actual battery.
"Calibrating" your battery is just normal use, right? How would it damage anything? Full dischages and complete recharges just makes your battery meter more accurate, therefore gaining a couple more minutes of use.
All calibrating does is give you a "more accurate" reading on the meter. So with that in mind, if you don't do it right out of the box, it technically won't have as accurate a reading as if you did do it out of the box.
So a calibration later on would give me the same results 'meter accuracy wise' as if i was doing it straight out of box? I'm just worrying if I missed the "window" for calibrating.
Right, it honestly doesn't matter when you do it. You could do it every day to get the absolute most accurate reading, but that's pointless. I haven't done mine yet, and to be frank, I probably won't do it until I naturally run out of battery...
Which reminds me, I never calibrated my 1st Gen iPhone, and that battery is still kicking wonderfully 2 years later.
Did you do an initial charge on your 3G S battery? If so, how long? You've been helpful. Thank you.
Uh, I kind of did...I mean, when I first got mine, I was out for about an hour or so shopping for my mom's birthday and such, so I was using the phone here and there, checking out the GPS and Compass feature. When I finally got home, I plugged it in to sync up my stuff and load all my music on it, but then my friend in California who hasn't seen one in person yet wanted to see it so we loaded up video chat and I was showing him the screen and other things. But I did eventually let it charge all the way up, and I let it sit in the dock for about a few more hours after it's been fully charged. After that...I haven't done anything else.
I did an initial charge of 2 hours (it hit full in 1hr 30min). You think the first charge should be topped off (like 5-8 hours). Sorry for all the questions. I'm really anal about the battery.