3G - Short battery life

In article <h7pauh$49p$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
RBnDFW <burkheimer.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> My 3G is 9 months old.
> Last night I left it on charge all night, did not use it all morning.
> At lunch I turned it on and it's at 20% power.
>
> I don't think I'm using anything that consumes power while idle.

Are you sure about that?

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Tom Harrington wrote:
> In article <h7pauh$49p$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
> RBnDFW <burkheimer RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My 3G is 9 months old.
>> Last night I left it on charge all night, did not use it all morning.
>> At lunch I turned it on and it's at 20% power.
>>
>> I don't think I'm using anything that consumes power while idle.
>> What gives?
>
> Did you leave an app running while it was idle? Some can keep using
> power even if the screen is off.
>

I clicked through everything before I posted that.
I did not see anything that looked like it would keep running.
But I still turned off anything - notifications etc - that I did not
use. I also turned off 3G.

Primary uses:
Phone 3 times/day
Texting - 2 per day (I know, I know)
Check email - once/day
Only Gmail is set up to push
Fetch New data was set to 15 minutes (now 1 hour)
eReader - as needed
I rarely web surf on it.

Trapster probably runs all the time, but I've turned off all the
notifications. I'm about to the point of deleting it.

RBnDFW <burkheimer.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> My 3G is 9 months old.
> Last night I left it on charge all night, did not use it all
> morning. At lunch I turned it on and it's at 20% power.
>
> I don't think I'm using anything that consumes power while idle.
> What gives?

Have you done the 3.0 update very recently?
If so, back up everything and schedule an appointment at the Apple
store, ASAP.

John Doe wrote:
> RBnDFW <burkheimer.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My 3G is 9 months old.
>> Last night I left it on charge all night, did not use it all
>> morning. At lunch I turned it on and it's at 20% power.
>>
>> I don't think I'm using anything that consumes power while idle.
>> What gives?
>
> Have you done the 3.0 update very recently?
> If so, back up everything and schedule an appointment at the Apple
> store, ASAP.

In the meantime, you can actually turn it off when you're not using it.
Completely, that is.


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In article <h7peks$r5$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
RBnDFW <burkheimer.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

> Tom Harrington wrote:
> > In article <h7pauh$49p$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
> > RBnDFW <burkheimer.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> My 3G is 9 months old.
> >> Last night I left it on charge all night, did not use it all morning.
> >> At lunch I turned it on and it's at 20% power.
> >>
> >> I don't think I'm using anything that consumes power while idle.
> >> What gives?
> >
> > Did you leave an app running while it was idle? Some can keep using
> > power even if the screen is off.
> >
>
> I clicked through everything before I posted that.
> I did not see anything that looked like it would keep running.

I meant whether you left any app open when turning off the screen. I
used to use a Twitter app that turned on GPS and then left it on, even
when the screen was off. That ran down the battery fast. But it only
happened once or twice before I figured out what was causing it, and
never again since.

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Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/

John Doe wrote:
> RBnDFW <burkheimer RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My 3G is 9 months old.
>> Last night I left it on charge all night, did not use it all
>> morning. At lunch I turned it on and it's at 20% power.
>>
>> I don't think I'm using anything that consumes power while idle.
>> What gives?
>
> Have you done the 3.0 update very recently?
> If so, back up everything and schedule an appointment at the Apple
> store, ASAP.

Well, the other problem is iTunes does not recognize my phone since I
did the update, so no backups. I probably need to stop and have a chat
with those people.

Tom Harrington wrote:
> In article <h7peks$r5$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
> RBnDFW <burkheimer.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tom Harrington wrote:
>>> In article <h7pauh$49p$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
>>> RBnDFW <burkheimer.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My 3G is 9 months old.
>>>> Last night I left it on charge all night, did not use it all morning.
>>>> At lunch I turned it on and it's at 20% power.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think I'm using anything that consumes power while idle.
>>>> What gives?
>>> Did you leave an app running while it was idle? Some can keep using
>>> power even if the screen is off.
>>>
>> I clicked through everything before I posted that.
>> I did not see anything that looked like it would keep running.
>
> I meant whether you left any app open when turning off the screen. I
> used to use a Twitter app that turned on GPS and then left it on, even
> when the screen was off. That ran down the battery fast. But it only
> happened once or twice before I figured out what was causing it, and
> never again since.
>

The only app I tend to leave on is Stanza, an ebook reader.
But I had not considered that, thanks

John McWilliams wrote:
> John Doe wrote:
>> RBnDFW <burkheimer.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My 3G is 9 months old.
>>> Last night I left it on charge all night, did not use it all
>>> morning. At lunch I turned it on and it's at 20% power.
>>>
>>> I don't think I'm using anything that consumes power while idle.
>>> What gives?
>>
>> Have you done the 3.0 update very recently?
>> If so, back up everything and schedule an appointment at the Apple
>> store, ASAP.
>
> In the meantime, you can actually turn it off when you're not using it.
> Completely, that is.

I did not think that possible.

nospam wrote:
> In article <h7r7c5$rk$4@news.eternal-september.org>, RBnDFW
> <burkheimer DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> In the meantime, you can actually turn it off when you're not using it.
>>> Completely, that is.
>> I did not think that possible.
>
> hold the sleep/wake button down for a few seconds and you'll see a
> slider to turn it off.

Then maybe that's what I'm missing.
I usually just hit the buttons one.

So if I do the above, will it still take calls?

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nospam wrote:
> In article <h7rtpu$kio$1@news.eternal-september.org>, RBnDFW
> <burkheimer.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> hold the sleep/wake button down for a few seconds and you'll see a
>>> slider to turn it off.
>> Then maybe that's what I'm missing.
>> I usually just hit the buttons one.
>
> that sleeps it which is normally what you want.
>
>> So if I do the above, will it still take calls?
>
> nope. it's completely off. however, the battery will not drain (other
> than self-discharge which you can't avoid but is negligible).
>
> pressing the home button to go back to the home screen will quit any
> running app and then if you sleep it, there should be very little
> battery drain. if that's not the case, your battery may be defective.


I'll try that, and keep an eye on it.

Thanks for all the help !

RBnDFW <burkheimer.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in
news:h7rtpu$kio$1@news.eternal-september.org:

> nospam wrote:
>> In article <h7r7c5$rk$4@news.eternal-september.org>, RBnDFW
>> <burkheimer.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> In the meantime, you can actually turn it off when you're not using
>>>> it. Completely, that is.
>>> I did not think that possible.
>>
>> hold the sleep/wake button down for a few seconds and you'll see a
>> slider to turn it off.
>
> Then maybe that's what I'm missing.
> I usually just hit the buttons one.
>
> So if I do the above, will it still take calls?
>

It's still "on". The circuit's still running to light up the screen and
show you the slider so you can turn it back on....which takes power.


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Michelle Steiner <michelle.TakeThisOut@michelle.org> wrote in news:michelle-
B0EC93.13500604092009.TakeThisOut@news.eternal-september.org:

> No; the phone will be completely powered off.
>
>

How do you turn it back on?


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