Comments on: Battery Life: The dilemma of a 3G iPhone owner

By: Art Buesing

Art Buesing — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:36:26 +0000

To save power, under settings, Fetch new datat, change your Push to off, set Fetch to manually.
When you click on the mail button you will get your mail. You will be shocked at your battery savings. Keep your 3G. Bad advice be damned.

By: jhn

jhn — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:15:30 +0000

Is that battery advice really true? Because, with laptops, you should always plug them in as soon as you can, regardless of how far down they are battery-wise, because battery life=charge cycle. (1/2 drain then full then half drain then full = 1 cycle, full drain then full full drain than full = 2 cycles)

By: Shashi P

Shashi P — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:05:29 +0000

Firmware 1.1.4 gave me 36 hours of battery life on the original iPhone. I get hardly 16 hours with 2.0.1 firmware. My phone brightness is set low, wifi is off, bluetooth is on. I did notice that location services consumes more battery under 2.0.1.

I hope 2.1 is better.

By: Nsquared

Nsquared — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:19:15 +0000

Here is was REALLY helped my iPhone 3G battery… A LOT! AND I even keep 3G ENABLED!

1) Turn push mail off. Set mail to fetch at 1 hour intervals.
2) Turn WiFi off when not needed.
3) Turn Bluetooth off when not needed.
4) AND… This one is VITALLY IMPORTANT: when you find yourself using GPS, you MUST go into settings and turn Location Services OFF AGAIN! This is a major bug and hopefully Apple fixes it soon. This 4th step is the one that saved me. It meant the different between having my battery drained before lunch – to having it at at about 90% capacity at bedtime!

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:31:28 +0000

This is why I’m so happy staring at turning 50 this year – the fine (oh, alright, crusty) patina of cynicism that comes with age makes it easy to take claims of “Jesus phone” and all the other overheated babble that’s characterised the coming of the iPhone in all forms of media with a boulder of salt.

Which is not to say that I wasn’t caught up in the hysteria – guess where I was on Friday morning last! By the same token, I didn’t burst into tears when I wasn’t first in the queue to get my hands on an iPhone. Yep, watched that happen twice, and one of the tantrum-tossers was a bloke in his 30′s – seriously uncool. If I was really crusty, I’d wander away about now muttering dire imprecations about the younger generations and saying stuff like “Wernt loike dat in moi day”…

Well, it wernt! (mutter, mutter)

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:06:42 +0000

@Julian—I agree with you. I’m a little gob-smacked by the iPhone too.

The internet is a fickle place. Initial hysteria worthy of the Second Coming is now widely replaced with a slough of despond. I find myself growing into it more and more, despite the atmosphere of skepticism.

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:07:30 +0000

Oh, but it gets worse – even with all the “goodies” shut down, the battery life is less than staggering. You might get a full day and a bit (if the gods are smiling)…

In addition to some savvy battery wunderkind coming up with a battery that packs double the punch of the standard iPhone fitment (and, no, I don’t care if such a replacement voids my warranty, Mr Jobs!), it would be really cool if some equally savvy iPhone Apps coder could come up with a suite of single-purpose doo-hickies that switched the various “goodies” on and off from the home screen(s). The increasing drudgery of going back and forth to Preferences to switch this or that bit off or back on is starting to wear a bit thin!

And, yet… And, yet, I’m still gob-smacked by the iPhone. It really does do the business. Now even more so that MobileMe is working through its teething troubles (and like a global “cloud” network was going to happen smoothly… ever). This is the gadget (and the associated software) that shift the paradigm. Its nice to be at the start of something groundbreaking. Bring it on!

Oh, and fix the battery!

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By: Constable Odo

Constable Odo — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:06:20 +0000

I’d have to agree that the iPhone’s battery is it’s greatest weakness. For such a versatile device, it really deserves a robust battery that can last for a steady seven hours for playing games, watching videos, listening to music, running GPS and of course, talking. Some aftermarket company should create a longer-lasting iPhone replacement battery even if it costs more money. An iPhone user could really get messed up by not being able to replace the battery on the road.

There was a rumor a few months back that said Apple would put out an iPhone model called the iPhone Pro that was thicker than the standard iPhone 3G in order to accomodate a larger battery. I’d definitely buy that model if I had a choice.

By: cynic

cynic — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:03:18 +0000

the funny thing is that apple’s power management tips mean pretty much turning off the new features.