by "Funktheduck" (funktheduck)
Published 09/21/2017 at 22:08
by "Funktheduck" (funktheduck)
Published 09/21/2017 at 22:08
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My phone battery percentage never seems to be right. It’s an iPhone 6s Plus. Between 40-80% it seems to drop off suspiciously quickly. Above and below it seems to mostly drain at a normal rate.
For example: I charged it up before the dog park to 90ish percent. I started streaming radio and put it in my pocket. Took it out and started doing some browsing of oppo and other Kinja sights after about 20 minutes. Phone was at 25%. Continued streaming and browsing. Watched some YouTube when I got home to wifi. Used it for navigation. It sat at 23% for about an hour and has been at 22% since. So in 3 1/2 hours it’s gone down 3% but in 20 minutes went down almost 70%.
Should I let it drain till it dies and then charge back up? Restart? Something in settings?
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/21/2017 at 22:14, STARS: 0
Draining it then letting it recharge back to 100% is the best idea. It’s apparently a routine thing with apple products. You u have to let it die within every month or so and let the phone recharge to 100%.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/21/2017 at 22:14, STARS: 1
I would google something like “iPhone doesn’t show correct battery life.” It’s probably a thing.
"CRider" (crider)
09/21/2017 at 22:21, STARS: 0
“One cycle is just one bout of discharging, but how much energy you discharge in one go—a measure referred to as depth of discharge (DoD)—matters bigtime. Lithium-ions really hate a deep depth of discharge. According to Battery University , a staggeringly exhaustive resource on the topic, a li-ion that goes through 100 percent DoD (the user runs it down all the way to zero before recharging) can degrade to 70 percent of its original capacity in 300-500 cycles . With a DoD of 25 percent, where the user plugs it in as soon as it gets to 75 percent remain, that same battery could be charged up to 2,500 times before it starts to seriously degrade.”
"CRider" (crider)
09/21/2017 at 22:22, STARS: 2
“One cycle is just one bout of discharging, but how much energy you discharge in one go—a measure referred to as depth of discharge (DoD)—matters bigtime. Lithium-ions really hate a deep depth of discharge. According to Battery University , a staggeringly exhaustive resource on the topic, a li-ion that goes through 100 percent DoD (the user runs it down all the way to zero before recharging) can degrade to 70 percent of its original capacity in 300-500 cycles . With a DoD of 25 percent, where the user plugs it in as soon as it gets to 75 percent remain, that same battery could be charged up to 2,500 times before it starts to seriously degrade.”
"JeepJeremy" (jeepjeremy)
09/21/2017 at 22:24, STARS: 0
My 6 has shit for battery life anymore. But it’s coming up on 3 years old so I can’t complain. I don’t think I’ve ever had a cellular phone for 3 years AND put it through the paces as much as my current phone.
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/21/2017 at 22:24, STARS: 0
Oh. Oh wow. I didn’t know that
"CB" (jrcb)
09/21/2017 at 22:27, STARS: 1
My girlfriend’s iPhone went from 100% to dead in about 20 minutes in the cold this morning. Honestly, it just seems like an Apple thing.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
09/21/2017 at 22:29, STARS: 0
When my last iPhone was about 3 years old it started to do wonky things with the battery. Mostly temperature affected it. Cold just killed the battery. Then it would go from 60% to 10% overnight. I eventually had to get a new phone.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
09/21/2017 at 22:35, STARS: 1
Crider is right. Don’t do the run to empty routine with modern batteries. That worked for the old nickel ones. These days, charge opportunistically. Plug it to top off when you get a chance. My 6s Plus takes all day to run to about half, and I don’t see the jumps you do. One thing that uses more juice is moving between cell towers or Wi-Fi networks while streaming. So, if you’re on the move, that could run it down faster.
"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
09/21/2017 at 23:05, STARS: 1
I have the same phone, but I also have a Lifeproof case that nearly doubles the battery life. I am an adherent (like Mini Guy) of running the battery down, but with the fancy case I sometimes have no idea what’s going on. I just want it to last forever because I do not want a 7.
"diplodicus" (diplodicus)
09/22/2017 at 08:14, STARS: 0
Most batteries lose life in the cold. My iphone would die everytime I played pond hockey. Once it warmed back up it would turn on and still have a charge which was weird.