My battery life has gotten shorter and shorter over time. I've pretty much foliowed all of the basics, as explained in that post here re: battery management, draining fully once a montn then fully charging, turning Bluetooth, WiFi and location services off, brightness down, etc. I'd guess I'm getting 5 hours full operating time; it also seems to take less time to charge. This device always seemed to be a little shy of the advertised 10 hours, but it didn't matter that it might be only 8 or 9. But now it has to be addressed.
Any other ideas? Have seen a mix of posts about this subject. May need to replace the battery or...the entire device?
Thanks in advance......
Mac SE, P-book 160,MacMini,G3,G5,MBP, iPad, lots of boxes with lights and things,
Mac OS X (10.5.8),
desk, chair, lamp.....
I think I posted something in here before similar to this and was told I should take it back. Seems kind of extreme to go that route when it may just be the battery. But I figured I'd post anyway to see if there was some other insight.
Interesting. I think mine also seems to go down a bit, but it's really hard to tell because i never made any controlled tests at the beginning so I have nothing to really compare it to except my impression of working with it.
Some games are definitely battery draining. Web browsing and watching a movie through netflix seems very easy on the battery. One hour of movie watching (netflix) was about the equivalent of 10-12% battery life.
I have the 3G 64GB version & notice just the exact opposite... battery-life seems longer, each time the battery is almost completely depleted to less than 10%, then fully re-charged back to 100%
To get optimal performance & time from the battery in the iPad, iPhone, iPod, it will retain a full charge longer, if you completely deplete/drain the battery to 0% dead & then fully recharge. The basic principle with most any re-chargeable battery, is memory
Clearly, this is inconsistent. While I'm not sitting around counting the 30 days when I'm supposed to drain the battery to zero and give it a full charge, I'm certainly not doing anything that could possibly force the battery to drain so quickly. I guess i have to take this into an Apple store and talk to someone at the genius bar. I'm at a loss otherwise.