A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work - 3g sucks (battery)

Sep. 6th, 2008

10:07 am - 3g sucks (battery)

The day after I complained about 3g not working, my phone's Edge connection started to work OK, so for the first time I let it run in Edge-only mode for a couple of days.

Holy cow: I didn't know that 3g affected battery life _that_ much. My phone can now go two full days without a recharge. Time was, the battery was completely dry after 15 hours of casual use.

It's noticably slower this way too, but... I think I'll leave it like this for a while.

Edit: Shozu fail! It let me type in my tags and a "geotag", and it appears to have posted neither, but it did feel free to replace both with a binky little banner-ad for itself. Get offa my phone, you pantload.

Tags: iphone, shozu

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From:	xartofnothingx
Date:	September 6th, 2008 02:27 pm (UTC)

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the apple network was down around for a while around the time your interwebs stopped working. they said they fixed everything though but didn't know how many ppl were affected.

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From:	jtroutman
Date:	September 7th, 2008 01:04 am (UTC)

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I run in "edge only" mode all of the time because no 3G in Maine ANYWHERE. I also go to the trouble of turning off Wifi or Bluetooth when I don't need them, and to use "airplane mode" in areas where I know that I cannot get any signal. Still, even with all of that, I am am lucky to get 4 hours of usage out of it on a full charge. I generally charge the phone overnight, and then end up charging it again sometime in the mid to late afternoon, lest I run out of battery.

I have wondered if there might not be something wrong with my battery.

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From:	prog
Date:	September 7th, 2008 02:38 am (UTC)

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If this is a new phone, then yes, something's strange.

Do you have 'push' turned on and shoving things at you more than once an hour?

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From:	mrmorse
Date:	September 7th, 2008 03:28 am (UTC)

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I meant to drop an update that things seemed to start working normalish for me the day after your post about problems. Things do seem better than earlier this week.

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