Battery Life Problems - Does Your Glow? [Archive]

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 12:08 PM

aggieman

07-10-2007, 12:14 PM

There's an article going around about battery life...

Widespread Battery Problems? (http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wirelessinfo.com%2Fcont ent%2F2-out-of-our-3-iPhones-have-faulty-batteries.htm&btnG=Search)

... the interesting thing is, I'm not sure if I've ever seen that same glow when my battery is charged... Look at the iPhone all the way on the right...

http://www.dangrabbit.com/photography/albums/Shares/batteryglow.jpg

I do get great battery life, when I charge I DO see the plug icon in the little battery, but I'm not sure about the "glow"... I'm charging now to see if I ever get to the "glow" state...

Does YOURS glow when it's fully charged?

I've never noticed if it glows or not just that the bar is full. My battery gets excellent life though, much better than my Q and on par with my Treo 755p although my iPhone gets much more use as I'm constantly playing with it.

I have noticed under "usage" in settings it gives you the total amount of time (usage + standby) since your last full charge, so you can add those totals up to see if you got a full charge or not the last time you charged it i suppose.

oriolesfan23

07-10-2007, 12:19 PM

My iPhone is fully charged now. It's NOT glowing. Does that mean something is wrong?

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 12:21 PM

My iPhone is fully charged now. It's NOT glowing. Does that mean something is wrong?

Apparently, it's SUPPOSED to glow when it's fully charged and on the dock/AC charger.

Look at THIS article (http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wirelessinfo.com%2Fcont ent%2F2-out-of-our-3-iPhones-have-faulty-batteries.htm&btnG=Search).

Whether it's a hardware bug or a software bug, no one seems to know. I'm not sure mine has ever glowed either, but I'm getting very good battery life.

oriolesfan23

07-10-2007, 12:27 PM

My battery life doesn't seem too geat. I find it hard to get through the day withough draining it completely. Maybe I'll take mine back to Apple and ask for a new one.

DMcGrew

07-10-2007, 12:28 PM

I think this is a load of BS.

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 12:31 PM

I think this is a load of BS.

And reason why you think that?

oriolesfan23

07-10-2007, 12:32 PM

I think this is a load of BS.

Looks like a serious problem to me. Why do you think it's BS?

alb0zf1n3st

07-10-2007, 12:34 PM

mines is full now and i think i see it glowing lol...

Platinum

07-10-2007, 12:35 PM

Mine doesnt glow and it gets great battery life

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 12:37 PM

Just to be clear to everyone...

Does it glow when you have it on the charger and it reaches the fully charged state?

DMcGrew

07-10-2007, 12:37 PM

Looks like a serious problem to me. Why do you think it's BS?

To me it just looks like the brightness level is different on all 3 of them. Just look at the gradient where the time and unlock slider are. They are clearly different on all 3. Plus the camera isn't perpendicular to the phone.. its tilted a little bit and that can also throw off the coloring.

TrippalHealicks

07-10-2007, 12:38 PM

If you look at it, the wording on the top of the screen is also brighter.
I'm sure the 2 on the left just have a higher brightness setting, or something.

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 12:39 PM

To me it just looks like the brightness level is different on all 3 of them. Just look at the gradient where the time and unlock slider are. They are clearly different on all 3. Plus the camera isn't perpendicular to the phone.. its tilted a little bit and that can also throw off the coloring.

Go to the article itself and look at the closeup of the three batteries. I think it shows more than just a brightness level difference. You can also see a sliver at the top end of the battery that's not completely filled in.

Test it yourself if you think it's BS... fully charge your battery and turn brightness up. Does it look like the picture?

Platinum

07-10-2007, 12:39 PM

If you look at it, the wording on the top of the screen is also brighter.
I'm sure the 2 on the left just have a higher brightness setting, or something.

Thats what it looks like to me too

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 12:42 PM

Thats what it looks like to me too

Closeup of batteries from the article

http://www.dangrabbit.com/photography/albums/Shares/batteryglow2.jpg

Looks like more than just a brightness issue. But test it yourself.

DMcGrew

07-10-2007, 12:43 PM

Go to the article itself and look at the closeup of the three batteries. I think it shows more than just a brightness level difference. You can also see a sliver at the top end of the battery that's not completely filled in.

Test it yourself if you think it's BS... fully charge your battery and turn brightness up. Does it look like the picture?

I'm sitting here with my fully charged iPhone with the plug icon. My battery glows a little bit but not as much as those pics.. the pics are blurry too.

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 12:45 PM

I'm sitting here with my fully charged iPhone with the plug icon. My battery glows a little bit but not as much as those pics.. the pics are blurry too.

Is it filled in all the way, like the closeups I posted above?

I'm not trying to say there IS definitely a problem... but it's good to know what it is supposed to look like when it's REALLY fully charged.

DMcGrew

07-10-2007, 12:45 PM

oriolesfan23

07-10-2007, 12:47 PM

I just tested it. I tried it at 20% and 100%....the battery still looked the same.

ColsTiger

07-10-2007, 12:48 PM

Never noticed it before. Just seems like something else to complain about to me.

Platinum

07-10-2007, 12:48 PM

I am charging my 2 iPhones right now, once charged Ill post pics.

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 12:49 PM

Ok the more I look at my phone the more it looks like the battery on the right. I can see a real faint rounded rectangle where the edge of the glowing stops. I have to tilt my phone a little to see it though.

I'm hoping mine will be fully charged within the next hour... I'll let you know what mine does.

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 12:51 PM

Never noticed it before. Just seems like something else to complain about to me.

Not necessarily. If it's a bug in the software properly reporting whether the battery is fully charged, it's not a big deal (can be fixed with firmware update).

If it's a matter of the phone not really getting a fully charge because the battery is somehow defective, it's something we should be aware of.

My battery holds a great charge, but if the software isn't reporting properly that's kind of important to know, don't you think?

Platinum

07-10-2007, 01:09 PM

Alright even while I was recharding them I noticed a difference, one phone has the glow and the other has none... it seems to be more of a screen problem. I never noticed it before but even if you goto the weather widget for the same city, one phone has a sun with really long rays and the other has really short. Its something with the screens.

Platinum

07-10-2007, 01:11 PM

Here is the first picture which shows the brightness difference between the two phones, both with Auto-Brightness on and at the same levels. The one on the right is much brighter (also has the glowing battery).

Platinum

07-10-2007, 01:14 PM

Here is a picture of both phones (same brightness levels) while the battery is charging - the phone on the right is glowing.

Platinum

07-10-2007, 01:17 PM

Here is the weather widget, the one on the right has the "glowing battery", the sun also has much larger rays then the darker "non-glowing" phone.

xoulo

07-10-2007, 01:18 PM

mine glows I guess that's good

Platinum

07-10-2007, 01:19 PM

mine glows I guess that's good

Yeah, it seems my phone that doesnt glow has a darker screen regardless of brightness settings... time to return it for another, ugh.

xoulo

07-10-2007, 01:29 PM

I think its because my light setting is on 80% that's why I see it and why don't you try yours and besides how do you return opened box iPhone to the store and get a new one do they allow you?

oriolesfan23

07-10-2007, 01:34 PM

I think its because my light setting is on 80% that's why I see it and why don't you try yours and besides how do you return opened box iPhone to the store and get a new one do they allow you?

It has nothing to do with the brightness setting. I tested it.

Yes, you can return it as long as there is a problem with it.

Platinum

07-10-2007, 01:36 PM

It has nothing to do with the brightness setting. I tested it.

Yes, you can return it as long as there is a problem with it.

Yep, I just tried it agian at lowest and highest brightness settings... one is still much brighter.

jordan

07-10-2007, 01:43 PM

i charged mine from like 2am last night until now mine never glowed?? so is this something faulty from apple and worthy of exchanging it for a new one?

oriolesfan23

07-10-2007, 01:44 PM

i charged mine from like 2am last night until now mine never glowed?? so is this something faulty from apple and worthy of exchanging it for a new one?

Yeah, it sounds like you should be able to exchange it. How is your battery life?

jordan

07-10-2007, 01:45 PM

its not too bad tho. but last night i was on my iphone heavly and it dropped from 3/4 to under 20% in like less than 2 hours/

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 01:46 PM

Yep, I just tried it agian at lowest and highest brightness settings... one is still much brighter.

Mine is reporting fully charged with the little plug icon in the mini-battery, but the large battery does not appear to be glowing (and I reset my brightness back to the default).

I'm going to leave it on the charger for a little longer and do a hard reset...

Mind you, though I get good battery life I have to wonder if I've ever gotten a REAL full charge since Usage Stats have never worked.

jordan

07-10-2007, 01:46 PM

i usually can get away with charging it at night and then maybe once or twice in the car if it needs it thru out the day..

Platinum

07-10-2007, 01:53 PM

Mine is reporting fully charged with the little plug icon in the mini-battery, but the large battery does not appear to be glowing (and I reset my brightness back to the default).

I'm going to leave it on the charger for a little longer and do a hard reset...

Mind you, though I get good battery life I have to wonder if I've ever gotten a REAL full charge since Usage Stats have never worked.

I get good battery life on both phones, and both report usage stats... the screens are just different brightnesses

jordan

07-10-2007, 01:55 PM

i charged mine all night like i said. but the usuage since last full charged was not reset, any ideas??? thanks

Platinum

07-10-2007, 02:22 PM

Here are two new pictures, no phone cover on so its not that.

http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=maxbrightqb9.jpg

http://img234.imageshack.us/my.php?image=medbrightis2.jpg

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 02:23 PM

FYI - I am on the phone with Apple trying to get a definitive answer.

Also, my battery reported fully charged (little plug)... I took it off, went to the AC charger and plugged it in. It showed fully charged (little plug)... I did a hard reset and unplugged it. After it started up I put it back on the dock and IT IS NOT showing fully charged. It has been sitting with a lightning bult now for 10 minutes.

Something tells me the phone (or my phone) isn't accurately reporting fully charged...

mdixon1988

07-10-2007, 02:34 PM

i think it glows while its charging....:foot:

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 02:40 PM

i think it glows while its charging....:foot:

No. LOL.

I'm still on the phone with Apple... THey've escalated me to a "product specialist" and he had to go to his supervisor and "their engineers"... the answer I got was this...

"Yes, it should glow when it's fully charged, but it doesn't have to... if that makes sense".

LOL!

Off the phone now...

They seem to think my battery is fully getting charged, but somehow the software isn't reporting it properly... or something. They forwarded my request to "the engineers" and I'm supposed to get a call back today or in the next few days.

And I was lucky... they called my problem "odd" ... :tounge:

Napoleon_PhoneApart

07-10-2007, 04:35 PM

Mine glows, but then the sticker on my iPhone box says "Made in Chernobyl."

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 08:34 PM

Just bumping up if anyone wants to put in their thoughts...

oriolesfan23

07-10-2007, 09:35 PM

No. LOL.

I'm still on the phone with Apple... THey've escalated me to a "product specialist" and he had to go to his supervisor and "their engineers"... the answer I got was this...

"Yes, it should glow when it's fully charged, but it doesn't have to... if that makes sense".

LOL!

Off the phone now...

They seem to think my battery is fully getting charged, but somehow the software isn't reporting it properly... or something. They forwarded my request to "the engineers" and I'm supposed to get a call back today or in the next few days.

And I was lucky... they called my problem "odd" ... :tounge:

Please let us know what they say when they call you back.

AngelJO008

07-10-2007, 10:09 PM

mine glows when fully charged. I just thought that was a normal feature.

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 10:19 PM

mine glows when fully charged. I just thought that was a normal feature.

It is... the ones that aren't glowing when fully charged are the ones that aren't "normal"... however, no way to know how significant the problem is.

tamakin

07-10-2007, 10:29 PM

here's mine.. does mine glow as bright as it should be? this whole discussion is silly

http://i14.tinypic.com/5yx8o3q.jpg

tamakin

07-10-2007, 10:33 PM

sorry that last pic was too big..

http://i9.tinypic.com/4uxi80m.jpg

tamakin

07-10-2007, 10:34 PM

still too big.. sorry just click this link

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=5yx8o3q

DRabbit

07-10-2007, 11:20 PM

You opinion is noted - lol - but it isn't silly.

Your battery is fully charged, you have the plug icon in the small battery and the large battery glows with the green filling up the battery COMPLETELY... mine has NEVER looked like that, regardless of the fact that I get the mini-plug icon in the little battery.

Now whether it's a software or hardware glitch is still the open question.

Doc Holiday

07-11-2007, 01:25 AM

I read on another post about having "the glow" as reference to The Last Dragon, how funny!

Looking at my battery icon at full charge, I have a halo "glow" around the green battery. That constitutes that to be a glow to me, however not the glow Bruce Leroy had :laugh2:

mc751n

07-11-2007, 09:13 AM

I plugged my iPhone in last night before I went to bed and when I woke up this morning it was very close to being full, and the lightning bolt was still present. But when I went into my settings, under usage it said 55 minutes of standby which had changed from the previous 13hrs or so. Anyone know how this would be possible, or why this happened? lol

climhazzard85

07-11-2007, 09:37 AM

Mine will reach full everynight (changes from lightening bolt to plug) but now it is coming off the charger with an hour or so of usage AND standby, and it counts standby even during use! Anyone else with the same issue?

Edit: I get great battery life otherwise.

Kev1000000

07-11-2007, 09:39 AM

climhazzard85

07-11-2007, 09:44 AM

I have the same problem. This is really annoying.

Is your battery life fine otherwise?

Kev1000000

07-11-2007, 09:48 AM

Is your battery life fine otherwise?

I don't really know. When I surf the net on EDGE, my battery seems to plummet. Like, it will lose a notch of battery every 20-30 minutes. With everything else though, it seems fine.

Is that normal?

climhazzard85

07-11-2007, 09:57 AM

I don't really know. When I surf the net on EDGE, my battery seems to plummet. Like, it will lose a notch of battery every 20-30 minutes. With everything else though, it seems fine.

Is that normal?

20-30 min is a lot of surfing...I do a lot of web surfing at after about 2.5-3 hours I'm halfway through the battery, maybe a bit less. But web browsing is only rated for 6 hours under "optimal conditions" Anyway, so if you are near that you should be fine.

KorbinBoh

07-11-2007, 09:57 AM

climhazzard85

07-11-2007, 10:00 AM

My wall charger gets it to 100% every night, you seem to be having the opposite problem that many others have :/.

Austin

07-11-2007, 10:47 AM

Just to be clear to everyone...

Does it glow when you have it on the charger and it reaches the fully charged state?

Mine glows when fully charged & on the charger.

And I have awesome battery life - more than 6 hours of continuous wifi/email/web browsing.

ja_vo

07-11-2007, 01:21 PM

My iPhone is fully charged now. It's NOT glowing. Does that mean something is wrong?

yes it should glow big time, i will have my change tomorrow, already made the call and they said to take them to a store to have that resolve/exchange.

Am getting a new iPhone :laugh2: :laugh2:

mernst

07-11-2007, 03:25 PM

mine doesnt glow oh well

ATT*Mark

07-11-2007, 03:31 PM

i took my iphone back to the apple store for an exchange because of my low usage times(2 hours 53 min use 5 hours 14 min standby) before i hit the 20% meter.

my phone would never fully charge there would be that thin strip of silver and it wouldnt be "glowing" well my new phone this morning was fully charged and glowing . the setttings were the same on both phones so i can only believe its true. plus im getting awesome battery life so far with this new iphone.

tamakin

07-11-2007, 03:38 PM

Survivor61

07-11-2007, 03:42 PM

Mine don't glow, but little fireworks come out of the image when its fully charged :P

ATT*Mark

07-11-2007, 03:47 PM

hey Mark.. can you post pictures of your battery glowing.. does it look like the one I posted in here?

in fact it looks exactly like that . ill post a pic in the morning when i take it off the charger.

TrippalHealicks

07-11-2007, 03:55 PM

My battery turns white when it's fully charged. lol

ATT*Mark

07-11-2007, 03:59 PM

i know for a fact im getting better battery life. last night when my phone displayed the 20% pop up i was at 3 hours 15min usage 5 hours 36 min standby. right now after i exchanged my phone the battery is at 80% and im at 2 hours 8min usage 4 hours 15 min standby. its obvious i had a battery problem , glad i exchanged.

DRabbit

07-11-2007, 04:53 PM

I found something very interesting related to this topic of the battery meter showing fully charged. I usually charge my iphone using the power supply attachment provided in the box every night. When I do this it never fully charges and never resets the usage properties. I will wake up every morning after it has been charging for 8+ hours to see that there is still a sliver of space from being fully charged.

However, when I plug it into the computer to charge through the USB (Itunes running in background) it will charge to 100% and reset the usage properties. I have done this two days in a row now with the exact same result.

Can anyone else confirm that this happens at their end. It may be an issue with the power supply attachment and the iphone that doesn't complete the charging cycle.

I've tried charging both ways... it doesn't seem to matter with me... I never get that last sliver to fill and the battery never glows.

But I do get good battery life, so who the heck knows at this point! LOL I've been text messaging like a wild banshee all day, doing some e-mails, browsed the net a bit, and I'm still at a 40% charge (I took it off the charger last night around 8pm).

ATT*Mark

07-11-2007, 08:42 PM

ok 5 hours 8 min usage
9 hours 1 min standby . this is on the first charge cycle so i am going to let it die tonite completely and charge overnight. much better than my old iphone im glad i exchanged it.

kghoops

07-11-2007, 09:35 PM

I've had no issues with my battery life. After reading this thread I went home and charged my iPhone. I could not get the battery icon to change to a "plug" until I used the DC adapter instead of the dock.

I did not notice any change in the brightness of the green battery indicator when the "plug" icon showed up. It also still looks like it has a small amount left to fill at the end of the green indicator. I think a percentage amount would go great on top of the green battery indicator. This might clear up some of the confusion!

mdixon1988

07-11-2007, 10:02 PM

OK, I plugged mine into the computer and charged it, the usage stats reset to 0 and i have the little plug but it isnt glowing like the pictures i have seen in this thread, should i be worried? Take Iphone to Idoctor?

cdodkin

07-11-2007, 11:42 PM

Mine glows when fully charged - I use the wall charger

Britna

07-12-2007, 01:06 AM

Mine doesn't glow, but I get awesome battery life.

:2cool:

miamibusta69

07-12-2007, 02:12 AM

mine always glows even if it not full....

right now i have 70-80% 3 hr use 14.5 hr standby.

does it say percentage anywhere or are u guys just guessing?
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/miamibusta69/Photo113.jpg

Austin

07-12-2007, 02:19 AM

Here are four pics of my battery - first two while charging, second two after fully charged - and it switched from lightning bolt to plug.

http://www.austinm.net/iphone/fifty.jpg
http://www.austinm.net/iphone/eighty.jpg
http://www.austinm.net/iphone/full.jpg
http://www.austinm.net/iphone/full2.jpg

miamibusta69

07-12-2007, 02:22 AM

is mine backwords are is yours upside down?

lensey543

07-12-2007, 03:38 AM

seems i only get my glow and fully charge on when i connect it to my pc. ill leave it charge on the power outlet tonight and see what happens in the morning. but ive woken up to it before and saw that it wasnt fully charged n still some space remaining in my battery..ill run some tests. :laugh2:

lensey543

07-12-2007, 03:48 AM

i left it on the dock power outlet for just a few minutes and it went from fully charged with a glow, to just a little bit of space remaining in the battery meter. seems like it only works if i connect it to my pc. dont wanna go through all the trouble of getting a new one. should i exchange it?

tamakin

07-12-2007, 03:54 AM

how's your battery life? I talked to Apple and they said the software update that's coming next week is supposed to fix some of the battery meter display issues. If your battery is good, then I would wait til you get the update next week.

Britna

07-12-2007, 04:41 AM

ATT*Mark

07-12-2007, 11:43 AM

pics of my battery as promised.

95% charge
http://i16.tinypic.com/52z4wgm.jpg

100% charge , see the difference?
http://i8.tinypic.com/5y2j9xf.jpg

DRabbit

07-12-2007, 11:45 AM

I see the difference.

What's funny is when mine is "fully charged" it looks like your first picture, BUT with the little plug icon inside the mini-battery.

miamibusta69

07-12-2007, 12:00 PM

same here.. i wish there was a percentage meter like on my macbook

ATT*Mark

07-12-2007, 12:53 PM

my first iphone would show a full charge as being the first picture too .and my usage times were horrible. i heard the software update will take care of it , but there is definately a problem.

miamibusta69

07-12-2007, 01:29 PM

well i havent charged mine since yesterday at 9 am. right now i have 6 hours usage 1 day standby. 50% battery mostly internet and showing off.

is my battery good?

ATT*Mark

07-12-2007, 01:51 PM

hell its better than mine lol . what do you use your phone for throughout the day? cause if i play on google maps, internet, text messaging and calling im done in almost 6 hours , my phone turned completely off at 5 hours 51 minutes of usage time.

miamibusta69

07-12-2007, 02:34 PM

same same.. about 10 calls.. none very long tho. some video google maps lots of internet using edge. wifi always enabled. brighness like 15-20 percent. auto brighness on turn it down u get used to it very fast i can c it perfect. probly why

tamakin

07-12-2007, 04:42 PM

I'm at 5 hours usage, 1 day 18 hours standby and I'm at 30% left... my brightness is at 50%.. I'm gonna try setting it at 15-20% like you and see if I get better battery life.

jbarrack

07-12-2007, 06:17 PM

I read this thread last nigth and then wanted to see if my battery "glowed". Well this morning it didnt glow and there was space in the bar so it apparently wasnt a complete charge even though i charged it overnigth. On top of that in settings it says your iphone has been used for one day without complete recharge and that iphone was plugged charge inbetween but not fully. My battery today was not as good as it was just the day before. I did the same amount of things on it durring the day and im below 50% where the day before i was at about 90%. Now I ask you what the hell is going on here? Im gonna try a soft reset tonigth and then charge and see how that works. Im also going to call apple and hear what they have to say ...

JnC

07-12-2007, 06:29 PM

Your battery is fully charged, you have the plug icon in the small battery and the large battery glows with the green filling up the battery COMPLETELY

Good eye. In other words, note the gap or lack of it between the green and the "metal" of the battery.

jbarrack

07-12-2007, 06:35 PM

I just talked to apple. They asked me if I keep my wifi setting turned on ... which I do. If you leave it tunred on and plug it in only from the wall your network wifi stays on the phone all nigth ... which explains why I have 17 hours of usage today which is rediculous. Also your battery cant charge completely if the wifi is on bc it drains it so much. This is why when people said if they charge it through their computers it gets a full charge because I believe your wifi settings shut off if you sync and leave it charging ... or this is what Apple said to me on the phone. We will see tonigth ... but it does make sense because yesterday was the first day I used my wifi in a while ...

Witness

07-12-2007, 07:28 PM

Hey does anybody know if you need to bring something specific to the apple store when you are returning your iphone for a new one? Like a receipt or something? Also I bought mine at att, can i still return it at apple? Do I also have to bring the box and all included accesories?

ATT*Mark

07-12-2007, 07:35 PM

i bought mine from at&t originally , returned it at apple when i had problems , upgraded to an 8gig and didnt have the reciept with me , just the box and the accessories it came with.

Witness

07-12-2007, 07:46 PM

i bought mine from at&t originally , returned it at apple when i had problems , upgraded to an 8gig and didnt have the reciept with me , just the box and the accessories it came with.

Thanks and also did they let you keep the sim card that you had in the first place, or what. And what problms did you have ?

ATT*Mark

07-12-2007, 08:10 PM

ya they just swapped sims into the new phone , and entered the new phones imei on my account . easy as pie . i was having less than perfect battery life.

Witness

07-12-2007, 08:17 PM

[QUOTE=ATT*Mark;47732]ya they just swapped sims into the new phone , and entered the new phones imei on my account . easy as pie . i was having less than perfect battery life.[/QUOTE

Did the phone they gave you have better battery life and does it glow radioactively? Mine is like the picture all the way to the left on the article and the battery life sucks.

ATT*Mark

07-12-2007, 08:26 PM

yes look a page or 2 back i posted my current iphones charged battery pics. it glows and shows a full charge.

Witness

07-13-2007, 12:13 AM

yes look a page or 2 back i posted my current iphones charged battery pics. it glows and shows a full charge.

hmmmm...... When my phone is supposedly fully charged it seems as if there is like a millimeter or two that isint filled and my battery ising glowing. I dont know what to do, what if the new phone that they give me has even more bugs than the one I had before?

tamakin

07-13-2007, 12:15 AM

wait for the software update next week.. its gonna fix the battery meter problem.. call 800-my-apple and ask them.. they told me the update will fix the battery issues

Witness

07-13-2007, 12:29 AM

wait for the software update next week.. its gonna fix the battery meter problem.. call 800-my-apple and ask them.. they told me the update will fix the battery issues

Thanks but what exactly do you mean by issues? Like the glowing and the not fully filled battery? Or are they going to make it last longer?

tamakin

07-13-2007, 12:35 AM

Thanks but what exactly do you mean by issues? Like the glowing and the not fully filled battery? Or are they going to make it last longer?

They said sometimes the software won't display the battery meter correctly even if it was fully charged. So I would wait and see first. As long as your battery life is good, I wouldn't risk swapping it.

Witness

07-13-2007, 12:43 AM

They said sometimes the software won't display the battery meter correctly even if it was fully charged. So I would wait and see first. As long as your battery life is good, I wouldn't risk swapping it.

Yeah i think im gonna wait, are you sure though because when I plug it in to charge it hardly shows the full charged plug. Im going to do some tests on the battery life anyway, thanks for the info.

fully

07-13-2007, 12:46 AM

Mine doesn't glow either and i let mine charge over night.

ice436

07-13-2007, 09:06 AM

I just got the 20% warning....

3 Hours 37 Mins of Usage
1 Day 1 Hour of Standby

That doesn't sound right to me, can someone confirm?

A320CA

07-13-2007, 11:32 AM

I found something very interesting related to this topic of the battery meter showing fully charged. I usually charge my iphone using the power supply attachment provided in the box every night. When I do this it never fully charges and never resets the usage properties. I will wake up every morning after it has been charging for 8+ hours to see that there is still a sliver of space from being fully charged.

However, when I plug it into the computer to charge through the USB (Itunes running in background) it will charge to 100% and reset the usage properties. I have done this two days in a row now with the exact same result.

Can anyone else confirm that this happens at their end. It may be an issue with the power supply attachment and the iphone that doesn't complete the charging cycle.

It worked for me! Finally green, glowing and 100% charge!

After taking it off the wall charger (all night) and still not having a full green and glowing battery, I unlocked it and checked email and usage. I then plugged it into my laptop (allowed it to lock) and it continued to charge to a FULL and HEALTHY green and glowing battery at 100%!!! Thanks!

jordan

07-13-2007, 11:42 AM

i got my new iphone yesterday after taking my old one back due to poor battery usuage... charged the new one all night.. and waalaa glowing batery and getting great usuage now..

gmcenroe

07-13-2007, 11:43 AM

Before I put my iphone on its charger last night I gave it a dose of cialis, now it glows for at least 4 hours before I take it to the apple store for a checkup.

Britna

07-13-2007, 01:01 PM

Yay, mine is glowing now. =]

Witness

07-13-2007, 02:49 PM

I just got the 20% warning....

3 Hours 37 Mins of Usage
1 Day 1 Hour of Standby

That doesn't sound right to me, can someone confirm?

I dont think so right now I have at 30 % is
Usage-6 hours
standby-16 hours 52 minutes

And my battery never fills up all the nor does it glow.

Britna

07-13-2007, 02:55 PM

I dont think so right now I have at 30 % is
Usage-6 hours
standby-16 hours 52 minutes

And my battery never fills up all the nor does it glow.

Take it off the charger for a second and put it back on. That's what I did. :)

Witness

07-13-2007, 03:13 PM

Take it off the charger for a second and put it back on. That's what I did. :)

kk I'll try im trying to run out my battery right now but i plugged it into my computer and the ac to charge and it still doesnt fill or glow still. I dont want to return it because battery life is okay.

iPhoneJones

07-13-2007, 03:40 PM

I'm not showing any Usage or Standby times under "Time since last full charge". Granted it has been a day since full charge. Should I be worried? Next time I charge it I am going to check Usage. I don't know if my battery meter glows or not either. I do get the plug icon when fully charged.

ATT*Mark

07-13-2007, 03:40 PM

through more self testing i found a battery drainer . "ask to connect" wifi feature , when its on its searching for wifi even if wifi is off. try turning that off as well while your not doing wifi guys i think you will see an increase.

ice436

07-13-2007, 04:07 PM

I just got the 20% warning....

3 Hours 37 Mins of Usage
1 Day 1 Hour of Standby

That doesn't sound right to me, can someone confirm?

Ya know I thought of something, I had my email checking every 15 mins...

I wonder if that is what was killing my battery. Man they really need push email, it would be so much better.

Anyone have thoughts on whether this would kill my battery?

Thx

TheBigNewt

07-13-2007, 04:14 PM

Ya know I thought of something, I had my email checking every 15 mins...

I wonder if that is what was killing my battery. Man they really need push email, it would be so much better.

Anyone have thoughts on whether this would kill my battery?

Thx
Push email would maybe help, but it's not an option, they use a synch feature like VZN does with my wife's LG EnV. I bet the battery life suffers mostly because of the big touchscreen (the coolest feature of the phone by far). WiFi use would use it up too, similar to the BT radio. Nobody on this thread has said how long it lasts until it dies, or how many mAH are in the battery. My Blackberry (lasts 4-5 days moderate use) will go at least another day after it hits 20%. I have a 30% larger battery in it though. I bet the iPhone will go 2-3 days before it dies.

askewed

07-13-2007, 04:46 PM

FYI

The iPhone's Battery Lifespan

By Jason Snell (jsnell@macworld.com)

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One of the biggest knocks on the iPhone has been its battery. It's not removable, which means -- like an iPod's battery -- it will eventually run out of juice and need to be replaced. But many media reports this week have gone further. Take, for example, CNET's review of the iPhone, which states that "Apple is estimating one battery will last for 400 charges -- probably about two years' worth of use."

Two years of use, the review says, and your iPhone dies. Or disappears in a puff of smoke, like those old tape recordings on "Mission Impossible." Sounds pretty awful, right?

Too bad it's completely wrong.

Apple estimates that the iPhone will lose 20 percent of its capacity -- a darn sight less than 100 percent -- "after 400 full charge and discharge cycles."

"Sadly, there are some inaccurate reports out there," Apple marketing vice president Greg Joswiak told me Thursday during a brief phone call from New York City. Joswiak isn't quite sure where the story went off the rails -- David Pogue's initial New York Times review of the iPhone mentioned the battery issue, but Pogue got it right: "Apple says that the battery starts to lose capacity after 300 or 400 charges." Somehow, though, things got lost in translation. And follow-on reports started claiming that 300 to 400 charges would be the end of the line.

"After 400 complete cycles, the iPhone's battery still has 80 percent of its charged capacity," Joswiak said. "And by a complete charge cycle, I mean completely draining the battery, a full chemical cycle." In other words, using a little battery and then putting your iPhone back in its dock doesn't count as a charge cycle. If you use a quarter of your iPhone's battery and then re-charge it, Joswiak said, that's the equivalent of a quarter of a charge cycle. "If you top it off, you're not wasting a charge cycle," Joswiak said.
Read more from Apple's Greg Joswiak

So let's put this in perspective: if you completely drained your iPhone's battery every day -- which would be a whole lot of use, since Apple estimates the iPhone can offer up to 8 hours of talk time per charge -- in about 13 months your battery would only hold 80 percent of its current charge. Or to put it another way, battery use will vary widely from person to person, but generally your iPhone will still be providing all but the heaviest users with good battery life even two years from now.

lgennarell

02-14-2008, 07:48 PM

this may be a dumb question (and is waaaay after the fact since i see you posted like 7 months ago), but did the phone on the left side of your pictures have on some sort of protective shield that included the screen? maybe that made the difference..

Buffy

02-14-2008, 07:55 PM

lgennarell

02-19-2008, 11:00 AM

No, there really is a difference between the one on the left and the one on the right. I also couldn't get a "full" charge (or the 'glow') initially. I took it off the charger, powered it down completely, and charged it overnight before turning the phone on again, and I've had the glow ever since.

thanks. yeah, i saw the updated pictures (sorry -- i should've followed the thread further last time).
I also noticed "the glow" for the first time today (I've had the iphone for about ten days now). Yesterday, after charging my battery to what appeared to be full, i used it for a bit last night and it quickly drained about 5-10%. I put it back on the charger overnight and, upon waking, noticed the full battery appeared different: a thin faint halo around it -particularly at the top corners- and a faint, thin, green, hazy line just above the upper edge of the battery. I imagine this is what others refer to as "the glow". Perhaps this is the true full charge (after the trickle charging has completed).
I'm curious to see how this affects my usage for this cycle. Previously, it seemed shorter than i expected. As commented by others, the battery appears to drain very rapidly (visibly even) when surfing or watching youtube via the edge network. I haven't tried the wireless yet, but will later today.
I did a trial run of the battery two days ago.. with wireless and bluetooth off, and keeping the phone in airplane mode for all but one hour(sent two text messages and checked one e-mail), I was able to watch four movies back-to-back before it completely died (i.e. over 6 hours of usage). So that was reassuring. Of course, that trial run also left me cross-eyed.