everyones experience with battery life?

[thatmtnman]

Thats a great hint! Wondering if anyone knows how much power the browser might use??

But I was wondering what happens when I go from browsing to say using the the music player....If the browser stays on, that is just a waste of power. Can you explain how to turn off the browser? I guess I should also ask how to turn it back on then?

I didn't realize you could actually turn it off.

Thanks Cosmo!

also when you are done with the broser do you hold down the home button? if not I come to find out that the browser stays on thus consuming the batt. also I do a home/off push button at the same time after a charge like once a month. I too listen to my music for about an hour check my email like 4 or 5 times a day, play a game of hangman wile on the toilet and of course text and talk for about an hour a day, I only have to charge mine every 2 days, but I never let it go below 20 percent.

[caymindiver]

also when you are done with the broser do you hold down the home button? if not I come to find out that the browser stays on thus consuming the batt. also I do a home/off push button at the same time after a charge like once a month. I too listen to my music for about an hour check my email like 4 or 5 times a day, play a game of hangman wile on the toilet and of course text and talk for about an hour a day, I only have to charge mine every 2 days, but I never let it go below 20 percent.

I also have heard that if you begin to experience a battery that will no longer hold a full charge, that if you allow it to fully discharge then charge it - it should "reset" the battery memory. Now I have no idea if this really works or is just a rumor . . .

[psylichon]

I also have heard that if you begin to experience a battery that will no longer hold a full charge, that if you allow it to fully discharge then charge it - it should "reset" the battery memory. Now I have no idea if this really works or is just a rumor . . .

It's not that the battery can't hold a full charge, it's that occasionally the battery indicator on the phone will not reflect reality. It will drain nonlinearly, or not appear to charge fully. Wearing the phone down to no charge and then charging it fully every couple months will prevent this.

But the battery does not exhibit "memory"

[cosmo420]

Thats a great hint! Wondering if anyone knows how much power the browser might use??

But I was wondering what happens when I go from browsing to say using the the music player....If the browser stays on, that is just a waste of power. Can you explain how to turn off the browser? I guess I should also ask how to turn it back on then?

I didn't realize you could actually turn it off.

Thanks Cosmo!

not a problem, to exit your browser when finished just hold the home button down until the screen goes back to main icon page,you know time,weather,calender,you tube etc. thats all then you can go to your music or if you are done entirely, this happened to me one day I was browsing the internet and my break was over, I left it on and went to my music and started listening then after a little while my battery was dead when I had a full charge before I left for work, then I came over here and did a search on tips for maximizing your iphone battery.

[SwingOnThis]

turn the brightness down to pretty much zero... ull get used to it and it gives at least 2-3 extra hours with high browsing etc. also when not in wifi..turn it off.

I know lowering the brightness extends the battery life but a big part of the reason i love my iPhone is the big, bright, crisp display. Frigging gorgeous. I'll sacrifice some battery life for that.

[SwingOnThis]

not a problem, to exit your browser when finished just hold the home button down until the screen goes back to main icon page,you know time,weather,calender,you tube etc. thats all then you can go to your music or if you are done entirely, this happened to me one day I was browsing the internet and my break was over, I left it on and went to my music and started listening then after a little while my battery was dead when I had a full charge before I left for work, then I came over here and did a search on tips for maximizing your iphone battery.

So you're telling me that if i don't 'exit' safari the way you say (by holding the button down until the home screen pops up), it will continue to drain the battery EVEN IF the page that it's on has already loaded and the little wheel is not spinning? That doesn't make sense. Why would it keep sucking the battery?

[psylichon]

That doesn't make sense. Why would it keep sucking the battery?

I don't really think it does.

I remember when I first got my phone it was FW 1.1.1 and it seemed to get hot when I was doing lots of things... bouncing around between text, email, youtube, safari. It seemed like it would get overloaded, and in those times, closing programs with the 6-second-home-button thing worked to alleviate the problem.

I have to say I haven't experienced anything like that from 1.1.2 on, I believe. I think Apple did something to more efficiently allocate resources dynamically. I think now, apps in the background are relatively dormant to the point where, for all intents and purposes, they are closed.

I have no actual evidence to this fact, other than I know Apple is being strict about SDK apps not being allowed to run in the background. Who knows.

[Hayesimus]

Well, for those that don't know me that well, I work nights. 12 hour shifts. And I usually take my phone directly off the charger fully charged when I leave for work. I use it on my breaks, about 5 20-minute breaks. Maybe one break will be a phone call but most are just browsing the web and posting in the forum. Well, I've always had fairly good battery life.

I could do this all night and then in the morning still have as much as 40% left. Well, suddenly a couple months ago, my battery was sick or something. I'd barely make it 5 hours before it was going dead. Don't know what started it. But it was that way for a couple weeks at least. Then one day, out of no where, it was back to normal. I was so glad too. I was afraid I was gonna have to send it back! But anyway, still working fine today!

[SwingOnThis]

I could do this all night and then in the morning still have as much as 40% left. Well, suddenly a couple months ago, my battery was sick or something. I'd barely make it 5 hours before it was going dead. Don't know what started it. But it was that way for a couple weeks at least. Then one day, out of no where, it was back to normal.

Your iPhone battery sounds a lot like my wife.

[Eragon]

Oooooooh!

Has anyone used their iPhones so much that they've essentially worn the battery out?