iPhone 3G S Battery Life?

Does the new iPhone 3G S have a really bad battery...or have I been unlucky? Thoughts?

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Science & Technology

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• iphone 3gs battery
• iphone
• new iphone
• battery life

[edwardcrouch]

UPDATE

Battery life seems to be improving with time, has been fully charged about 8 times and seems to be lasting a day now. Will do some more tests and report back

[edwardcrouch]

UPDATE:

Have done some overnight tests showing how various features affect battery life here are the results so far.

"Normal Setup" - 84% after 8 hrs

Push Data Minimised/Off - 88% after 8 hrs

In Airplane mode: 100% after 8 hrs

Will try with Bluetooth off and then with 3G off and report back.

Peace

[MidgetG863]

The battery on the iphone 3g is 1150 mah battery and the iphone 3gs has a 1200mah battery ! They both still stuck i guess the 3gs will last you 20 minutes longer before it dies.

[NGW007]

Note Apparently, there are a number of bad batteries produced by a major company. Unfortunately, there were a number of bad batches of batteries with bad cells and each batch contained millions. The problem is, there are

many in circulation, so when replacing it with a new battery there are no guarantees in finding a good one, and we can appreciate it can and will be expensive.Perhaps,a new re-design of the battery and compartment. Cheaper than compensation?

[User1Unavailable]

@MegaAkad Have you tried to update your firmware to let say 3.1.3? Maybe that could help. :) Coz I'm stuck on 3.1.2 by now

[MegaAkad]

@User1Unavailable same man i thought i was the only 1 with shit battery life it must just be iphone in general

[User1Unavailable]

@MegaAkad yeah, i have to charge my 3gs every night :/ usually I get 8-9 hours of average usage. :(

[MegaAkad]

@User1Unavailable do you charge everynight my

Battery Statistics Last 6hrs 35mins usage

1 day and 2 hrs standby and i gotta charge everyday

Do u have too :) what is ur battery like ?

Cheers Megaakad

[Webcam9000]

I noticed that with my iPod Touch, the longer I had it and each charge cycle, fully deplete and recharge fully, it would last that little longer each time, I got the 3GS yesterday, so I am hoping its the same with this

[User1Unavailable]

yeah, i've got the same problem on my 3gs, i lose 5% every hour in standby. :(

[noenahs]

Let your battery run completely dead before your next charge then charge the battery for about 8 hours. I promise this will extend your battery life. Do this once a month. This is because your iphone is not reading the exact life of your battery yet the life it sustains between charges. Even though your battery life may seem like its depleting, it may not be. I hope this works for you.

[mrlopes1234]

It's just like that! I noticed the same thing on my one... Very poor battery life... The iPhone 2G seems to last longer than the 3GS... There is a way to fix it tho........ Buy different phone.... Apple are hustlers