iPhone Forums - View Single Post - How do you know if your battery sucks enough to warrant an exchange?

edu · 05-08-2008, 08:30 PM

[QUOTE=JiggyMatt;72740]Why is everyone so worried about how long their batteries last? just get a car charger and use the hell out of it. With brightness between 10% and 20% it should be fine indoors. turn it up if your outside. and charge it whenever you want no big deal!

and everyone is freakin about having to replace the batteries! i think we should just have fun with it and cross the battery bridge when we come to it. no reason to ***** and moan about it now. apple said that we should see battery performance decline after about 400 FULL CHARGE CYCLES. that means using the one until it dies and then charging it all the way back up. if you use 50% battery and charge back up, that is only one half of a charge cycle. even after the 400 charge cycles, you will only see a 20% decrease in performance. so I figure for most of us who are charging the phone every 1-2 days it will take AT LEAST a YEAR AND A HALF to use the 400 charge cycles. and even after that the phone will get 80% of it orrignal factory charge. so AFTER THE 400 charge cycles we can still use the phone all day and charge every night and have NO PROBLEM whatsoever! its not a big deal. PLUS how many of us will still have the iPhone in 1.5 to 2 years? maybe less than 50% of us? we got the iphone cause we wanted to newest and coolest phone out there. 2 years ago the coolest phone was what? an audiovox 9000 smartphone? that thing is SOOO lame today! 2 years from now i bet we will have streaming television and and 60GB capacity on most phones. so why are we all trippin over this???

Dude you made an excellent point but i my mother's mobile phone "htc" and my dad's "treo" lasts longer

. My iphone battery lasts mostly 7-8 hours. Must be cause i use it a long time maybe, anyway do applications in iphone run in backround? If they do then how do u quit them, to stop juicing up your battery?

I have a iphone 16gb anyway...

05-08-2008, 08:30 PM	#22 (permalink)
edu Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	[QUOTE=JiggyMatt;72740]Why is everyone so worried about how long their batteries last? just get a car charger and use the hell out of it. With brightness between 10% and 20% it should be fine indoors. turn it up if your outside. and charge it whenever you want no big deal! and everyone is freakin about having to replace the batteries! i think we should just have fun with it and cross the battery bridge when we come to it. no reason to ***** and moan about it now. apple said that we should see battery performance decline after about 400 FULL CHARGE CYCLES. that means using the one until it dies and then charging it all the way back up. if you use 50% battery and charge back up, that is only one half of a charge cycle. even after the 400 charge cycles, you will only see a 20% decrease in performance. so I figure for most of us who are charging the phone every 1-2 days it will take AT LEAST a YEAR AND A HALF to use the 400 charge cycles. and even after that the phone will get 80% of it orrignal factory charge. so AFTER THE 400 charge cycles we can still use the phone all day and charge every night and have NO PROBLEM whatsoever! its not a big deal. PLUS how many of us will still have the iPhone in 1.5 to 2 years? maybe less than 50% of us? we got the iphone cause we wanted to newest and coolest phone out there. 2 years ago the coolest phone was what? an audiovox 9000 smartphone? that thing is SOOO lame today! 2 years from now i bet we will have streaming television and and 60GB capacity on most phones. so why are we all trippin over this??? Dude you made an excellent point but i my mother's mobile phone "htc" and my dad's "treo" lasts longer. My iphone battery lasts mostly 7-8 hours. Must be cause i use it a long time maybe, anyway do applications in iphone run in backround? If they do then how do u quit them, to stop juicing up your battery? I have a iphone 16gb anyway...