Comments on: Normal iPhone 3G Battery Life?

By: jb

jb — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:41:23 +0000

I just bought a 16g black iphone 3g on Saturday….I have turned off 3g and push and wifi as a test and I cannot even make it through the day…. sounds similar to your situation. Anybody think this is a defect?

By: Al

Al — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:24:33 +0000

Hey, love the phone, love the features etc etc but hate the short battery time. I get around 11 hours stand by and 5 hours usage. I don't monitor if I am on 3G or not but assume I am most of the time.

Hope this helps and hope Apple will do something about it as the new BB Bold gets a lot longer battery use…..

By: bucko

bucko — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:18:05 +0000

I nor none of my friends have any problems with battery life on the 3G. I agree with MacDavid that it is probably defective

By: cdizzledazzle

cdizzledazzle — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:48:02 +0000

My phone set as default got about 6 hours total, with about 15 minutes of internet time, and 20 texts. Is that normal for iphone?

By: MacDavid

MacDavid — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:16:18 +0000

I know I’m sounding off on this post rather late, but it sounds like a defective battery–which I’m sure you’ve taken care of. :)

By: itsross

itsross — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:43:48 +0000

I’ve been getting about 12-14 hours standby with 3G on, and about 30 hours standby with 3G off (push email etc turned off in all cases, with about 3-5 hours use).

edit: I found my battery improved a lot after I fully charged the battery for about 10 hours, then fully discharged and repeated the process for 4 or 5 days.

By: jrmozart

jrmozart — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:10:06 +0000

John… i would love to go through the testing you went through, but I don’t have the time to practice with my phone in all of these various states. I iPhone battery does go down quickly if I perform alot of 3g tasks… however, when i’m just using it for phone and other apps, it seems to be okay.