how's your iOS 6 (beta) battery performance?

[Garz]

Standby battery life on beta 3 isn't that great but it's bearable.

 

[Exxod]

My battery usually drops 1-2% a minute while on the Internet using my 3G. Now, I'm not attributing that all to the Beta 3, but it doesn't help. Too, it drops 7-8% an hour while in standby; and that's with all my apps closed. So, I'm looking forward to what the 4th Beta does in terms of battery life.

 

[dictoresno]

My battery usually drops 1-2% a minute while on the Internet using my 3G. Now, I'm not attributing that all to the Beta 3, but it doesn't help. Too, it drops 7-8% an hour while in standby; and that's with all my apps closed. So, I'm looking forward to what the 4th Beta does in terms of battery life.

i agree. i loose 1% a minute or so while browsing on 3G, little longer on wifi. i unplugged at 6pm and its now 4:20am, almost 10.5 hours, and these are my stats. dont know if its good or not.

58% battery

Usage: 4 hr, 23 mins
Standby: 10 hr, 17 mins

opinions? if i reboot the phone immediately after being unplugged from 100%, it will be a slow drop to 99/98. if i dont, it will drop to 99% within minutes. sometimes it goes to 97% and i reboot and it goes back to 100%.

 

[BLiNK]

i agree. i loose 1% a minute or so while browsing on 3G, little longer on wifi. i unplugged at 6pm and its now 4:20am, almost 10.5 hours, and these are my stats. dont know if its good or not.

58% battery

Usage: 4 hr, 23 mins
Standby: 10 hr, 17 mins

opinions? if i reboot the phone immediately after being unplugged from 100%, it will be a slow drop to 99/98. if i dont, it will drop to 99% within minutes. sometimes it goes to 97% and i reboot and it goes back to 100%.

so you are saying that at 58% remaining you have those stats??

 

[Roose00]

opinions? if i reboot the phone immediately after being unplugged from 100%, it will be a slow drop to 99/98. if i dont, it will drop to 99% within minutes. sometimes it goes to 97% and i reboot and it goes back to 100%.

Im not on the beta. However I believe the percentage is an estimation based on usage or what it thinks you are using. On 5.1.1 JB if I respring the percentage will go back up again as much as 4% if I have been using several apps consistently. just my .02

 

[scottalg]

i know there is monitoring software and other variables that could make an impact with each build during these betas which will make it difficult to judge

however, i am pretty impressed so far: currently at 30 Min usage with 2 hours of standby 98%

i hope it stays this way or get better come the GM

Like the sounds of this...hope iOS6 does really fix some of the battery issues

 

[LCW]

It bugged me a bit at first - ie. decent but far from great battery life on my 4S running iOS 6 - but in reality it is kinda moot when I think about it... since i'll probably end up with an iphone 5 (or whatever it ends up being) with iOS 6 on it

 

[dictoresno]

so you are saying that at 58% remaining you have those stats??

correct. and if i do 10 mins of texting, words with friends or check FB, i can watch the battery drop a percent every 2-3 mins. THAT seems a little high.

im now at 56%

Usage: 3h, 47min
Standby: 8h, 41 mins

worse than yesterday.

 

[dictoresno]

strange. right after typing my last message here, i was using my phone to about 45% then all of a sudden, it jump directly to 37%. nothing in between. it just seems like the battery really sucks....i have no idea why it would jump like that. only thing i did was reset network settings and reboot earlier around 65%.

 

[Exxod]

correct. and if i do 10 mins of texting, words with friends or check FB, i can watch the battery drop a percent every 2-3 mins. THAT seems a little high.

im now at 56%

Usage: 3h, 47min
Standby: 8h, 41 mins

worse than yesterday.

Facebook, especially the app, eats up quite a bit of battery and uses a big chunk of memory. Your usage time is still decent though.

 

[dictoresno]

i reset my network connections, and let it drain all night. fully charged it today. it sat at 100% for about an hour before moving.....no reboot required as usual to correct the reading. so far so good.

 

[Exxod]

This is about the best I can get.

 

[dictoresno]

This is about the best I can get.

wow, thats crummy. my current stats are

Usage: 4h, 28m
Standby: 10h, 39m
Battery: 57%

not bad, started the night off really well. once i hit the 80's, it starting coming down quicker.



on a side note, i just restored my ipod back to 5.1.1 and set it up as new, manually synced the apps back from itunes. if the battery life doesnt seem to get better, my phone may follow suit. this losing 1% per 3 mins when texting needs to stop.

 

[dictoresno]

oh and this is the second day in a row where my battery jumped abnormally. ill probably revert back to 5.1.1. it went from 46% directly to 37% out of nowhere and today went from 56% to 50%. something is whacky with the battery indicator i think. anyone else notice this??

 

[BLiNK]

anyone have any comments/thoughts on the beta 4 battery performance yet?

 

[Garz]

anyone have any comments/thoughts on the beta 4 battery performance yet?

Standby battery is still terrible. Battery was at its best on beta 2.

 

[LCW]

beta 4 seems a bit better for me than beta 3 was, for battery life

 

[BLiNK]

beta 4 seems a bit better for me than beta 3 was, for battery life

i too thought it was better..

 

[ghostface147]

Similar life for me. Nothing special.

 

[Garz]

Battery on beta 4 is a little better than beta 3 but still needs work.