IPhone 6 battery suddenly dying faster?
Quick background: I have the iPhone 6 (not plus), Sprint, 128GB, black front, iOS 8.3. I am very OCD about my battery percentage on my phone, I always have been. I'm in high school and my first hour is in a new building that had recently been built on campus and there's no signal ( I know bad signal kills battery). But, normally with my phone on airplane mode and grayscale, only listening to music for 40 min. and by the end of 1st period my phone would only be at 93% AT THE LOWEST. As of last weekend however, my phone in 1st period (airplane, gray, NO music) without doing a single thing, goes down to 85%. Dying quickly by the end of my 6hr school day. Last night I went to bed at about 11pm with a battery of 41%, and I woke up at about 1am (2 hours later) and it was only at 80%. So, not only is it dying faster for no reason now, it's also not charging as fast as it used to. As well as going down in battery while in use on the charger. Now, yes I have downloaded apps and whatnot, but I know it's not an app because it started over a weekend when I didn't do anything different. I have not changed my patterns of battery saving for 6 months in having this phone. Thank you for any help.
How long is the samsung s4 battery supposed to last?
Hi, I just brought a Samsung Galaxy S4 and I have read multiple articles where people complain about overheating and battery life. I turned off GPS and wifi and basically only texted with my S4 for 3 hrs and I lost like 50 percent.. is that normal and how long should the battery last on standby, call, text, wifi, etc? Thanks!
Why does my iPhone's battery drain quickly?
The first thing you may want to to is bring your iPhone into an Apple store. They can help you determine if it's a hardware issue.If it's not a hardware issue, below are a few things you can do to preserve battery life.One of the biggest battery drains is screen brightness. To make sure your brightness is not too high, swipe up from the bottom of the screen. You should see this pop up. From here, you can turn down the brightness if it's too high.The screens below are all available from Settings:Now, you'll want to see which apps are draining the most juice.Apple has battery usage stats built into the OS.To see them:1. (first to to Settings, as shown at the beginning above) Go to Usage2. Then click "Battery Usage."3. Voila! You can see which apps are using the most battery.To turn off apps' ability to auto-refresh in the background:1. (from Settings, as shown above) 2. Then go to Background App Refresh. 3. From here, you can toggle indivual apps off, or just turn all of them off, based on what you just learned about which apps are hogging battery.GPS is also a huge drain. Some apps are on all the time pinging your location. To adjust your location settings, and restore some sanity on your phone:1. From settings, go to privacy2. Then, go to "Location Services."3. Finally, you can scroll through the list of apps using your location. I noticed that Dropbox was a battery hog, so I turned its setting from "Always" to "Never." (all Dropbox needs my GPS for is to begin a camera upload; not a critical function, I can just open Dropbox every once in a while to begin a camera upload).My last suggestion is to turn off automatic downloads, app suggestions, etc from the App Store.1. From Settings, go to iTunes & App Store2. I turned all of these off. No automatic downloads of music, apps, books, or updates will happen. And Spotlight will use less juice hunting around on the App Store. I left Apps alone; this way the spotlight can still find installed apps on my device.If anybody from Apple is listening, stop the madness!!!! Either spend more energy on getting better batteries to us, or have your UX and engineering teams handle more of this in the background. It's crazy how fast my battery drains without doing these things.