Fair enough, I take back what I said in the sense that 0.47% is indeed less than 0.5% - although one could say it is negligeable. I would ask if you have anything "on" on the phone with such standby drain i.e. push/pull mail, FB or twitter or similar apps with notifications and such - do you leave the phone on airplane mode or cellular data off during standby and close background apps? My point here is figuring out if a normal setup yields 0.5% on standby or if it yields 0.5% + a margin more, based on setup.
I can appreciate the fact that you replied, the fact you help other fellow users, and your tone. I will add a few things here, and because of my stance in the forum, I have to add that nothing of what I say is meant as irony or sarcasm.
-The 3% drain you alluded to looks good, yet I would ask, on top of what I asked earlier on, if this drain is linear throughout the entire charge - as on more than one occasion, the battery indicator was "flaky".
-I acknowledge that you and buxbuster are readily helpful, yet I would ask why then do you only have 5 points and him, 0 points. Yet you guys have been more helpful here than the multi-level guys. What I'm getting at is this awarding of points is based on what after all - being helpful or being politically correct? The answer is simply that multi-level guys rehash KB stuff onto clueless users. Mind you they're good at it and it is helpful, yet they could easily be replaced by DrPork's support bot, and one day they will be. The point is there is not much creative support like you guys have been doing because the policy is that uncovering the gist of a complex issue is not "support", it is rather "engineering" and it would look bad and weak to do that in these forums. Rather what happens here is briefed to people "up there" and silence is maintained. I make the argument that it would be really empowering for the user base to collaborate with higher level Apple ressources beyond receiving a phone call.
-You should not forget that the remedy you talk about is really only resetting the phone and going through one full charge cycle. It is not rocket science. I'm not even a smartphone user but doing what you advise goes without saying for someone like me. I believe either all users should be educated in doing so (by Apple), or the patch should disclose the need to do that and implement it i.e. say "this patch will reset your phone and then will drain it to shutoff - we ask that after that you fully charge the phone to 100% before using it". In the case of buxbuster, his "remedy" is actually conceptually the same but applied to iCloud. But you know what, despite that, if someone comes here and he has an issue, and you "solve" it through resets, then you've done more for him than the multi-level guys and Apple itself - and I commend that.
-I am certain that you guys don't help out of bias, yet that doesn't mean you can't be biased nevertheless. I do believe your summarizing my contribution as "grumbling" is testimony to that. Mind you I don't really care as I know what my contribution is and I stand by it entirely. The truth is a bit annoying as I'm not an Apple fan, but it is that if all my constructive suggestions were implemented (I did rant on many occasions, I'll concede, but always in a thought provoking way), support for the end user would be better, more efficient, more pleasurable and more intelligent. Some of my suggestions cannot be implemented because it's how Apple is, and I don't have to live with that, but people who come here do. Hence the shame.
You see davidch, I'm not as much about grumbling and rant as you think.
Take care.
Scarface.
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Jason L
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