I just got my iPhone 4s replaced because the battery couldn't hold a charge. Now on the second charge of my new phone, I accidently charged the phone overnight, and I think it's dying awfully quickly.
Can someone tell me if overnight charging hurts the phone?
iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.3, Brand new iPhone 4s
It does not hurt the phone or battery
aarkana.1996 wrote:
the links you sent didnt tell me if the battery life will be damaged with an overcharge
Because you cannot overcharge...
but the battery worsened today
How are you determining that battery life decreased? Did you use the phone for the exact amount of time as the previous days? Doing the exact same activities? Exact same celluar signal? Exact same WiFi signal? Screen active for exact same time frame?
my battery worsened
well how can it go from lasting a straight 2 days to being almost half done less than half of today?
Have you tried a Restart? Reset? Restore from backup! Restore as new? The overnight charging did not change your battery life.
I actually am not going to back it up from my old phone because my old phone had some malfunctioned app or soemthing that caused bad battery life for my previous phone. I have restarted it, and reset connection settings.
Charging overnight will not hurt your phone. Once it reaches full charge it drops down to trickle charge to keep the charge at 100%.
If you are having a problem with fast battery discharging you might need to see what is turned on in settings. Push email is one of the biggest culprits for killing a battery. I have all my emails set to manually fetch which helps.
GPS is also a big battery hog. I reduce the number of features that rely on GPS as well.
Notifications can also drain the battery. Keep them to the ones that you really need.
Once you have your phone charged to 100% use it over the course of a day and really drain it down to as close to 0% as you can. Once it is "Dead" charge it overnight. 8 hours seems to be the best amount of time. This will get it to 100% .
After you have it fully charged restart it, hold both Home and Power / Sleep buttons down until the apple logo appears. Release both buttons and wait for the phone to restart itself. This seems to re-calibrate the battery meter so you get an accurate read on how the phone is actually discharging.
I drain and do an full overnight charge on my phone once a month to keep the battery in good shape and the meter calibrated.
Can you or anyone else explain to me what a trickle charge is because i have read about that in many places.
Also, i have not altered any settings since the few days i have had the phone, and my phone lasted for 2 days yesterday, and now it's nearly halfway dead.
also, is it true running it down to zero and then charging it up to 100 the first 12 charges of the phone, maximizes the battery?
A trickle charge is what happens when a charging system, like the one's that Apple use conveniently, charges a device to 100%. When this happens a circuit in the system reduces the flow of electricity to a trickle as compared to the amount it allows to flow through the system while charging in normal mode. Kind of like turning down a faucet until it just drips instead of running full force.
This is a really good idea.
What's a really good idea?
OOOHHH!! If it really works that way then that's super convienient. Does the iphone really do the trickle charge, though?
Your previous post about not restoring from a previous backup was the good idea.
And yes the iPhone and iPad both have the cirtuitry that you need to trickle charge when they reach full charge and you don't unplug them.
Oh, well yeah. Apple said it was a defective app, and the problem is I don't know what app it was, so I haven't downloaded any apps yet.
I charged my iPhone overnight. Will this hurt my battery life?
