MeMeMeMeMe wrote:
1AppleADayNoWay wrote:
MeMeMeMeMe wrote:
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I couldn't afford to hang on though, not when I hear (secondhand I admit) some people being told by Apple employees that they should be satisfied with 20 - 30 hours of standby time. I'd be willing to settle for 100 hours standby time (less if I were to use the phone a lot) for a phone without third-party apps, which is still half of what Apple has advertised for the 4x.
I really commend your analysis. As you've referred to the usage time definition, it includes what Apple calls "background processing such as auto-checking mail" - obviously something out of control in your case. But I wanted to comment on the 20-30hrs standby time people should expect. I find it's some form of acknowledgement by those employees that with most users - contemporary heavy users - this is a 1 day device at most (and an Apple "day" would be about 30 hours instead of 24 lolll). In the sense that such users, with a flawless non draining phone, will use easily up to 80-90% of the battery in a day - 5-6hrs mixed 3G internet/call. And with 10-20% battery left, you should have 20-40hrs standby time on top of that (0.5% per hour x 200 = 100%)... as standby time can only exist in relation to what's left of the battery... maybe they meant something like that...
... in fact the more I think about it the more I feel that's right, as a pattern I often see with someone who has a normal phone is 5-6hrs usage/ 22-24hrs standby.
Yeah, just to be clear, in the tests I did where battery drained to less than 10 % in 17 hours with absolutely no use of the phone, I also deleted my iCloud account, and I never set up any e-mail whatsoever. Oh yeah, push was turned off too, even though I had no calandar or contact syncs, either.
I'd be willing to live with a phone that could make it through two days with light use. I think a phone rated for 200 hours standby time should be able to muster that. Not the experience I had with the phone I returned, but others may have more luck. I'll wait and see where Apple takes this.
... and another thing, just because you can pull the phone off the charger first thing in the morning and make it 15 to 20 hours with light use, doesn't mean you have an acceptable power situation, regardless of what some peoply might say. WIth my 4S, I could charge the phone to 100% when I got home from work at 7 pm. If I took the phone off the charger later that evening, fully charged to 100 %, then set it somewhere and forget to put it back on the charger... without even using the phone overnight, by the time I picked the phone up off the table again in the morning it would be greater than 50 % discharged, and that will NOT make it through the day. The "standby" power usage of this phone was such that, unless you pulled the phone directly off the charger at 7 am when going off to work, your day is quite possibly screwed, and even then it's an uncertain proposition whether you will make it through the day, even if it is 100 % charged right when you leave for work. For example, try charging your phone to 100% at 9 pm, then packing it in a bag to make ready for youself to go for the morning. By the time you wake up in the morning, if you have a 4S that is behaving badly, your phone is screwed.
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