iphone 3g Battery Life

[Mollox]

How are people getting on with the battery?

I use mine sparingly - maybe an hour of music a day, very few calls and it checks for emails every 15 mins or so.

It comes off an overnight charge at 7:45am and then by 11pm its down to < 20% if not worse.

Seems not good enough to me - is anyone else experiencing this?

[Biscuits]

It seems like the 'push' or 'fetch' email is zapping the battery life, also having the backlight high seems to drain it a lot.

I've not done it, but I bet if you switched the email and wifi connections off it would last twice as long.

Problem is, this is why we all own an iPhone. The car has a cradle in it, so it gets a half hour top up too and from work, plus it's charging at home in a dock, so I'm usualy ok, but if you get to <20% your stuffed if you need to use it much.

[Mac]

I get the same effect Molly. I find it's better if I turn off location services and 3G - I get a couple of days then. Push works just as well on edge.

Pain if you want to start then using it for web browsing. It's a great phone - the battery life sucks monkey though.

[Mollox]

What exactly are Location Services?

Is that the stuff that finds you on the map?

Also, why does it ask me if I want to allow I'm not sure who to know where I am when I'm taking a picture? I'll see what effect turning location services off has

[Mac]

Yes, it's assisted GPS. I rarely use it anyway so I don't miss it.

[Ritey]

All this and it was the battery life that stopped 3g coming out at first launch, can't imagin how pants it must of been

[CarMad]

Even on SE and Nokia's it can kill battery life. On my SE I can get a week out of it easily, turn 3G on and it's a few days. Its because is always hunting for a 3G signal that kills it, with normal 2G/GPRS its happy with a basic single.

Your not selling me the iPhone at all with only a day of battery life though thats for certain. :eek:

[Mollox]

But you can play Texas Hold 'Em Poker on the toilet with it

[Brabus]

Oh really? I play Canons

[Mollox]

Yeah, sometimes. Could be machineguns too though

[tom_hargreaves]

I had this problem, so I just turned off Location services and 3G and it's back to it's usual 2 days. Also tell it to fetch emails less frequently if possible. That extends battery aswell.

[RobGTi]

I have mine to fetch emails every 30 mins, 3G enabled, backlight on fairly low (although I never have trouble seeing the screen) and the best I have had out of the battery is just over 3 days, which I was amazed with. I think that was including only 5/6 hours of usage though. If you use it with wifi and browsing the web then charging is pretty much a daily routine though.