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Top Off iPad Every Night Or Let Charge Run Down?
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Now, don't get me wrong- my wife is decently attractive. But what makes her trophy material is that she's an earner. Pulls in over $275k per year and that's before bonuses and grants.
I bequeath to you what I tell my children: You don't marry for love; you marry for future earnings potential.
BJ
Or tell ******** stories on the internet while posting from your parent's basement.
Thank you. Question if you don't mind:
I have a USB cable extender. Any chance that by using this I'll reduce the amount of electricity flowing to the iPad and thus compromise the life of the battery?
BJ
Link update!!!
The long
http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipad.html
The short
When not in use plug-in. Once and a while milk it dry.
The long
http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipad.html
The short
When not in use plug-in. Once and a while milk it dry.
When, people say to discharge it all the way down, do they mean to the screen warning at 20%, or to simply run it dead, then to recharge it fully?
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WOW is the schoolyard bashing really necessary? Reminds me of the folks who call someone a jerk and then hide behind just kidding, just kidding, just kidding.
This isn't a simple question. Lots of folks believe topping off the battery works best to maintain life, while others believe you should always let the charge run down before attaching the charger. Which way is best? Apple seems to think both... but on this forum and many others, I've seen disagreements. He wasn't looking for APPLE'S opinion, he was looking for users' thoughts.
My sig is a bit confrontational, so I expect a bit of ribbing in the responses. Thank you for the support, but it goes with the territory.
From what I've read, it looks like the iPad is similar to the iPhone in regards to charging practices. With my iPhone, I....
1. Never power it off.
2. Top off the charge from 60% to 100% every night.
3. Run it down to 'dead' 0% once a month.
4. Do a hard reset (sleep + home) twice a month.
My iPhone runs flawlessly, and I don't get the sense that my battery is any weaker 2+ years into the product. Unless someone tells me otherwise, that's what I'm going to do with iPad.
BJ
The "flawless" running aside, it seems unwise to reset a unix-like operating system when you have the option to do a normal shutdown (just hold the sleep button down until you get the power-off slider).
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Hold Sleep Button to Power Down will shut the iPhone/Pad 'off', but only Sleep Button + Home Button (then keep holding and wait, never use red slider) to Apple Logo Reappearance clears the cobwebs.
The hard reset has been good to me. Just like a computer that you put to Sleep all the time, eventually a true shut down/restart is needed to optimize performance.
BJ
You quoted 'off' as if to imply the phone isn't. When you hold the sleep button and use the red 'slide to power off' slider, the phone shuts down and is as off as it can be.
Holding the sleep button and sliding to power off is a true shutdown. Using sleep+home is like poking the reset button on a running computer. It's there as an absolute last resort if you can't do a normal shutdown.
A.
EXACTLY. Anyone who has the life he pretends to have wouldn't put it in their ****ing signature. Haw.
It should come fully charged (at least my Wi-Fi iPad did). One thing I do know about the battery though, is it takes a VERY long time to charge the FIRST time. I let the battery run down to about 20% before I charge my battery.
Be warned that if you leave Bluetooth/WiFi and Notifications turned on, your battery will drain like crazy overnight if you aren't charging it.
Overall, I would say that I charge my iPad about 1-2 times a week, and it lasts about 12 hours when I use it for games, web surfing, email and other app usage.
Be warned that if you leave Bluetooth/WiFi and Notifications turned on, your battery will drain like crazy overnight if you aren't charging it.
Overall, I would say that I charge my iPad about 1-2 times a week, and it lasts about 12 hours when I use it for games, web surfing, email and other app usage.
Depends on the crowd, maybe. Different crowds, you say different things. On some of the car forums, people think nothing of identifying exactly which exotic sports car they have. In smaller ecosystems, some things are absolutely normal.
Some people, you know, thing anybody on THIS forum is actually an elitist by owning ANY type of Mac or Apple product. Some think any Apple owner is an excessive, bling showing snob.
Before I converted mostly to Mac (which happened just a few years ago when the prices started to come down), I used to be pretty poor... grew up in poverty, in fact.
Back then, I use to imagine that whomever had the big bucks for a Mac (I remember starter systems being $3k+ for quite awhile), must have also had money to burn, and thus all the had the life Bolt James had in his sig. A lot of PC people on PC forums, in fact, seem to still have such outdated notions in their head even though the buy in is as low as $500 for a refurb Mini. Old memes must die hard.
I think the exclusiveness of the Mac community has changed quite a bit now, and, of course, some of it my imagings were probably baseless fantasy. Lots of artist folks have expensive tools (like today's higher end Macs), but aren't exactly rolling around in piles of excess cash.
Hell, visionary artist Alex Grey and his wife have incredibly expensive artistic tools, but they're fiscally conservative in their personal lives -- so much so, they almost died recently in their older Subaru wagon. They make decent money, and could afford more, but they chose to spend it on other things (much to their detriment in their recent accident, mind you).
Yeah, the ipad seems to have a crazy good battery life. It's so incredibly impressive.
The only problem I had was when I tried using Atomic Web browser instead of Safari. My battery seemed to drain much faster. Now I try to stick mostly to Safari, and everything is fine again.
I wish there was some way to recharge it quickly. Even the wall charger seems to have forever to me. A true overnight experience.
Thanks for posting those battery tips. Is there a way to minimize notifications instead of merely turning them off? I'd rather have it check less frequently, than to completely remove such a time saving feature.
Jesus folks, what is the deal? Who cares what he has? If his wife does as well as he says thats great for him if not and he's blowing smoke so what ?
I think he said three rolexes maybe he will cut me a deal on one of them?
The main topic was battery life and how to maintain it and most comments were about his sig which makes me want to come up with a good one!
Hmm......
3G ipad/ 16GB ipod touch/975 extreme PC with 12 TB of storage/ Audi S4/1 Movada watch/1 Skagen watch/too big of a house/too many bills/good kids/same wife for 26 years/no damn beach house!
How's that? Hehe
Still waiting on someone posting pics of the trophy wife
This is the page you wanna read
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
You get 1000 complete cycles and end up with 80% capacity.
A cycle is a full cycle, a half cycle today and a half cycle yesterday equal a full cycle. So it doesn't matter but you do need to do a full charge/full discharge/full charge cycle once a month.
One benefit of doing this is a much more accurate battery percentage indicator.
I usually don't top off, just let it die. Then plug it in overnight and start over.
This is the page you wanna read
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
You get 1000 complete cycles and end up with 80% capacity.
A cycle is a full cycle, a half cycle today and a half cycle yesterday equal a full cycle. So it doesn't matter but you do need to do a full charge/full discharge/full charge cycle once a month.
One benefit of doing this is a much more accurate battery percentage indicator.
I usually don't top off, just let it die. Then plug it in overnight and start over.