Comments on: 10 Ways to Increase your Battery Life

By: Elliot

Elliot — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:19:31 +0000

In summary, don’t use your phone at all..

By: adey

adey — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:19:34 +0000

i barely get 5 hours on standby from my iphone on the standard 3.0 firmware – though I get 35 hrs with medium use with the Dev Team jailbreak – so its definitely the software not the hardware. using SBSettings to flick on wi-fi and EDGE when you need it helps, as does no push/manual on email. i recommend getting pwnagetool 3.0 to see how your battery improves

By: KeriBaby

KeriBaby — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:18:31 +0000

ShuntiBoo u might be right

By: ShuntiBoo

ShuntiBoo — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:11:56 +0000

I only get about 2-3 hours on mi iPod touch. It might be sumthin wrong wit some of the batteries but not all of them. IDK?¿?¿?¿

By: Gostixel

Gostixel — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:13:39 +0000

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:05:40 +0000

So I should charge my iTouch when it gets to about 10% of my battery remaining?

By: rccar

rccar — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:49:09 +0000

I use my iphone non-stop, charge it every night. makes it from 7-10 with about 20% left, i know all the crap there is to know about li-on batterys i have a li-po in my rc car. you never want to over discharge them, that kills them. cycling them every 30 days is a great idea.
These batterys are 1 cell, my li-po is 2 cells so I have to balance them to make sure they are at the same voltage each. this requires a special “li-po balance charger” over-discharging the battery is probbally the worst thing to do to them, although the iPhone has a cut-off built into it. my speed control for the rc car also has that, its called li-po cutoff circuitry.

By: Sueper

Sueper — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:45:20 +0000

My son uses his iphone to stream music all day at work checks his email regularly watches youtube vids, the lot and only needs to charge it every other day. Does he have a super iphone or are everyone elses batteries borked?

By: lol

lol — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:51:45 +0000

lol comment above

By: Saifudeen

Saifudeen — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:45:22 +0000

Why should I use iPhone if I will have to turn everything OFF ?

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:30:24 +0000

How, do you issue the ps command, do you just type “ps” in terminal once your are connect to the iphone or ipod touch?

By: tttiger

tttiger — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:17:16 +0000

Sorry DOUG but you are wrong on this one, the sshd process only starts up once someone trys to connect to the iphone via SSH (check it out yourself by running the “ps” command, each new session is a different instance of sshd). It’s simply added to the list of connections in the inetd deamon which is always running on the iphone anyway.

Source:
http://blog.psmxy.org/pkg-info/openssh/

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:21:55 +0000

@Corim, actuah OpenSSH constantly runs in the background. . ./waiting/ for a connection. If it isn’t running, it can’t detect the connection.

I used to do some admin work for 64+TB of storage(and 100+ front ends) via the command line. I think I know what I’m talking about.

By: Corim123

Corim123 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:25:33 +0000

Yea that SSH comment is bull$h!t. SSH only actually runs when there is an active connection to it and the usage is minimal. Really it doesn’t do jack$h!t. It might seem like you get more time, but that is just your perception of it. Google it and stop spreading incorrect facts. I mean unless you know EXACTLY how SSH and UNIX works and can prove me wrong……

By: jesus

jesus — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:59:55 +0000

Why did you get one in the first place if you have to turn off all functions and stuff.

By: Joey

Joey — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:59:46 +0000

Yes, I got rid of OpenSSH because I don;t SSH into my phone anymore and it saves a bunch of battery life! Thanks!

By: mightyneek

mightyneek — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:40:56 +0000

Great Tips!

Thanks.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:04:36 +0000

Thanks for that tip Tobia

By: tobiasps

tobiasps — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:41:23 +0000

Hi Doug,
About the battery recharging: It is true what you say about the battery needs to be fully discharged once in a while but to my knowlege this should be done about every 30 charges, that is about once a month (as you also say, but no every week).
Lithium-ion batteries (the type used in mobilephones, computers and other similar devices), that is the chemistry, prefers partial discharge rather than fully discharge. The problem is the electronic controlling the charging, it slowly gets out of sync with the actual charge level of the battery when doing partial discharges. This can led to ‘overcharging’ the battery, which will damage the battery.
Therefore to get the battery back in sync you must do a full discharge and a full recharge of the battery. But this should only be done every 30 charge.

In short:
- Keep your battery charged, that is charge it whenever you can.
- Every 30 charge do a full discharge and a full recharge

Reference: http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm