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Anyone tempted by this as a daily driver, I'd advise against it. You mileage may vary but here's my experience:
- Won't sync with the Apple Watch
- FaceTime doesn't work (as reported)
- Crashes a lot more than Beta 1
- Choppy animations (not smooth at all)
- Music app crashes lots
- Battery better than Beta 1 but still awful
Hey guy, you need to dfu back to iOS 8.4 or iOS 8.3.
 
Result of my first full charge cycle from 1% to 100%.
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@73% Currently

Usage - 3 hrs - 5 min
Standby - 15 hrs - 11 min

With LPM on.

I have been texting, FB Messenger, Fallout Shelter, Email, Web
 
That's neat that it's showing some on screen usage time for individual apps but I wish it would show a total onscreen time per full charge too.
 
Battery life is amazing. Must better than beta 1.
 

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Not sure why it is showing like this today as yesterday was right usage, maybe it is proactive working in background, still brilliant battery.
 

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I've posted once in beta 2 improvement on battery, but I am much happier now as I can leave cellular enabled.

Here's my latest results:

4 hrs 44 minutes of use
45 hrs 15 minutes on standby
Battery left 47%

On beta 1 I had to turn cellular off and still could not make it through the day without dropping to under 10% battery life.
 
Incredible batt stats now on beta 2. I have everything running as I did on 8.4 and I'm rivaling the battery life I used to get.
 
Battery fine here, on my iPad Air 2. Battery indicator, too.
From 100 to 88% after 3 hours of mainly Safari, Podcast and Mr. Reader.
 
Not sure why it is showing like this today as yesterday was right usage, maybe it is proactive working in background, still brilliant battery.
This is not simply brilliant. This is just out of the earth! 8 hours for 75%? Then could I expect 32 hours in total? :eek:
 
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Seems like a lot of people are getting decent battery life like me. Will post my battery stats in a moment
 
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