Recharging best practices?

My first purchased phone was exactly the same as you describe your current situation. I sent it in for repair and apple replaced the phone and had it back to me in less then 48 hours. My current phone holds a charge for 48+ hours with normal everyday use. The most I have got was 64 hours of standby with an average of 4-6 hours of daily use. I use podcasts, music, video and check emails all day long.

Recommend that you replace it immedietly!!!

Good Luck

I too bought not (1), but (2) iPhone 8GB's when I was in Vegas July 10th. Mac says the iPhone battery is incredible. It is....incrediablly HORRIBLE!!!!! I got rid of my TREO that lasted 4 days without charging. This thing lats about 5-6 hours and I know NOT to talk as long as I used to with my other phones (PDA's).

Example. It's Saturday morning. I took it off the charger at 10AM (now 1PM) I have made 2 calls lasting about 2 minutes each. My battery life is about 25% gone. I do not have WiFi on and Bluetooth is off, No text. No Internet.

What is MAC going to do about this issue? I have spent $1200 for these and I need a charge whereever I go. It's nice it has 8GB, but I'll never get to use it.

Am I the only one? Defective?

I think you mean 'Apple' not 'MAC' - Mac is the name of the computer Apple makes.

Your battery life sounds woefully poor, and isn't common. I'd suggest you contact Apple, or take your phone(s) to an Apple store to have them checked.

i just got the phone and was disappointed the first 2 days at the battery.... but i knew if i came here there would be some good answers.... i left the phone run out with a movie.... then let it fully charge that night... with the wifi shut off.... im happy to say that on standby its lasted 3 days.. no phone calls.. jus tturning it on and checking for messeges... i still have my old phone ... but i really think that it needs to be optimized just like the ipod does... and my mac book pro...

the first 2 days i only got the charge that it came out of the box with... it came with a 50% charge and thats all i would get when i recharged... not now nice and full .. at leats now i wont be afraid of the phone going dead with a 10min call.....

Does it matter if the phone is left in the cradle if the phone is off? Will it still discharge? Same question for the Apple Bluetooth headset.

You should take the phone to an Apple store for review, or call Apple support. I get very good life out of the iPhone. I can got for nearly 2 days without a charge, but I do tend to charge it every night. With normal use, you should get many hours of use per day before the battery dies, something like 3-5 hours of music + watch a full movie (2 hours plue), make phone calls, go online. So something like 5 - 8 hours of regular use (all depends on lighting and actual use). I would recommend you reach out to support services. You may have a faulty battery. Good luck!

From personal experience with my 2nd generation iPod, I started charging it in my car as well and since then my battery life wasn't as good. Supposedly there's something with your car battery that depletes the battery. I'm thinking car chargers have the same effect on the iPhone. With my iPhone I charge it at night with the wall usb charger not the computer (some pc's turn off the USB port while it's in sleep mode therefore there's no electrical current running through it). My iPhone's battery life is indeed superb, on the daily basis it starts off fully charged in the mornings, have it on it's cradle at work and then I use the iPod feature for about 4-5 hours while playing poker, by the end of the night it has used less than half of the charge. I would suggest getting Apple to replace it. Like most technology out there, there's bound to be defective units, it just so happens, you have one of them.

Also I find it best to always manually turn off the screen when done using an application as opposed to letting it time out on its own. I've bought a few extra hours of operation by doing this 😉

try optimizing the battery..... let it run out completly so it shuts itself off. turn on a movie or something....... then charge it overnight,,,, i think you will see a better result.... with my mac book pro, and ipod this is a recommended practise..... especially if your items are always plugged in.. i know they say to do it once a month with my MBP... i did this with my iphone and its night and day... i can make calls... go online, watch a movie and play my ipod... and still have a charge the next day..... but not untill i did the optimizing...

I am having terrible problems with my iPhone battery life. I travel extensively in business, and am not even able to use this phone because the battery life is so bad. I contacted Apple and asked to have the whole phone replaced since I dont want repairs on a model that appearantly has manufacturing issues. They then replaced the phone, but I was disappointed that they replaced it with another phone that start with the serial number with the most complaints on poor battery life! For about 3 weeks the new iPhone battery life seemed good and it was a tremendous improvement. But now it is starting to have the same problems as the first phone:
My iPhone will be fully recharged but drain after only 30 min talktime. Or, I can recharge the phone, leave it off and by the next morning it has drained 30-40% of battery life while turned off (its suppose to last 250 hours on standby). No wifi or bluetooth is on since these features seldom work while I travel anyways. The other day I started adding contact details into the phone and could see the battery drain within minutes(!). When fully charged, the battery will completely drain in two days even if not in use.
Apple has given the excuse that its the adapter that cause these problems (they have not provided me with a new adapter). However, I have 3 adapters… is it really realistic that all 3 adapters have this fault? Apple has told me that since I replaced the phone already I cannot make another replacement. Also, why should I "repair" an obvious manufacturing issue? And how does that justify that they have given me a replacement of a model that has the serial of common problem-model for poor battery life?

Now I am beyond my return policy period, and beyond canceling ATTs plan and am stuck with a phone I can’t even use properly. I'm returning more and more to my old cell. My old Nokia has no problems and even if the battery is old, it will only need recharge once a week.

As a business person and having spent $600 on a phone and had to sign up for a new phoneplan with ATT, I am disappointed that I have to sign-up on a board and spend valued worktime trying to sign-up and follow threads to find solutions to these issue. I dont feel this is right.
The phone is beautiful and I would be very happy with its userfriendly features and great design, but Apple does not make service support easy for this phone. I am often overseas and Apple has no support for this phone overseas. This means I have to wait to next travels to the US before I get help. And getting help is an issue as they are reluctant to help with my phone (took me 3 weeks just to get the phone replaced, and had to wait 3 hours at the Apple store and the issue still remains).

The iPhone has other issues too:
1. The keypad for typing is far too small
2. The touch screen sensitivity can be too sensitive at times (my calls get dropped in the middle quite often because when I'm on the phone, the screen will touch the face - and shut the call off)
3. Touch screen features will eaither be oversensitive or often freeze before reacting
4. The ipod will often freeze before I can turn a song off. And why have to unlock, scroll for the ipod to have to turn a song off?? Too inconvenient. However, I found the iphone has far greater sound than my regular iPod.
5. I have major problems connecting to bluetooth.
6. I can seldom connect to the net abroad (I guess this is an ATT issue). Its very unreliable. Even overseas calls are not reliable and this function wont work half of the time.

As a client I want a reliable product if I'm charged money for a product.

a couple of things.... its my understanding that when a call has been answered.... the screen is black because of a sensor.... untill its pulled away from your face.... that is strictly for the reason of not having callls dropped from touching your face to the screen.... so i dont think thats why your cvalls are dropped...

second.... AT&T controls your service.... not the phone....if your getting lousy service call AT&T...

have you done the practise of optimizing the battery that has already been suggested??


and lastly did you purchase the applecare protection plan for your phone??

i wouldnt buy any apple product without it... not because their products are bad but because its one of the only protection plans thats honest..... the fine print isnt fine print..... they cover the product end of story..... now aside from all that.... even though they've replaced it once it doesnt make sense nor does it sound like typical apple consumer help... for them to say "sorry we did it once... no more" call back and demand satisfaction.... its still under warranty right?????

Great advice. I followed the same process... but I only allowed the battery to drain one time instead of two. As you stated... my iphone also responds better to being fully charged. Thanks.

what on earth do you mean by "glowing?" Is the battery indicator supposed to increase in brightness or something?

Hey all, Have noticed that my battery goes from 20% remaining to shut down in about 20 minutes. From 10% to shut down in five minutes. Anyone else have this issue?