Comment by andyhmltn
13 years ago
12 hours is a good battery life is it not? Admittedly, the iOS7 BETAs have cut my own down to the point where I have to make sure my phone is on 100% before a 4-5 hour night out so I know I'll have battery to use it by the end of the night.
Although I suspect that'll be fixed post-beta
If you mean standby time, it is absolutely horrible.
That is exactly what I mean.
My Nexus 4 lasts about 4 hours of usage, about 10 hours of standby time. I really wish it had a replaceable battery. Phones these days just don't last very long.
Is that a recent beta? I actually had a day and a bit of battery life recently on the last beta. https://twitter.com/nicholassmith/status/369579656791732224/...
I was just talking about BETAs in general. The one I have at the moment is a bit better but I tend to charge my phone at work so I don't usually notice
Fair enough, the early ones were awful for battery. B1 turned my iPhone 5 into a hand warmer and meant I couldn't be away from a plug for more than 4 hours.
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12 hours would be pretty bad for me. My 4S purchased on launch day (so nearly two years old now) gets unplugged at about 8AM, stays unplugged all day, and usually gets plugged in at 11PM with ~50% battery remaining.
I've noticed my battery life as more to do with how many notifications I get over any other usage.
It means you can trash your phone. It's worthless. The iTemple will welcome you for your next iPhone purchase - if you accept not to indulge in any iBlasphemy.
The 12 hours are in stand-by (no screen/wifi/bluetooth/phone usage/message usage whatsoever).
And I had 3-4 days before the "upgrade".
In my case I just "upgraded" the OS on my 3GS to the current state: v. 3.1.6 (after having refrained from doing so for a very very long time - precisely because I had read about the drastic battery drainage at the time). So no beta software was involved.
EDIT: Here's an example of a thread in the "support" forum: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4325659?start=15&tstart... (I have tried every "solution" I could find on the net - nothing has fixed this. Which means we must assume this is strategy, not temporary bugs.)
It's called a BETA for a reason :-) The 3GS was released in 2009 which is quite a long time ago in technology terms so to expect it to be able to handle a more CPU-intensive update easily is a bit silly.
Did you even read?
> It's called a BETA for a reason
My "upgrade" was NOT BETA.
> The 3GS was released in 2009 which is quite a long time ago in technology terms so to expect it to be able to handle a more CPU-intensive update easily is a bit silly.
It worked perfectly BEFORE the "upgrade" (batter life: 3-4 days!), why would it not AFTER the "upgrade"? I mean, the "upgrade" was SPECIFICALLY coded for the 3GS. If it's "bricked" after the "upgrade", that says it all.
You have to be a sheep if you accept Apple "bricking" your device just like that.
EDIT: Ok, seems like I have enraged the iGods with some critical thinking.
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