Letting my battery drain until 0

I have been frequently letting my iPad Air drain until it shuts itself off (0%) before I plug it in and charge until 100%. Does that have a significant impact on my device?

iPad: Charging the battery
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4060
Charging Tip - Switching to airplane mode turns off battery-draining wireless and cellular access, allowing your iPhone/iPad to recharge up to twice as fast.
Best Practices for iPad Battery Charging
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/best-practices-for-ipad-batte ry-charging/
How to Save and Prolong the battery life of your new ipad
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4480944?tstart=0
Prolong battery lifespan for iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3: charging tips
http://thehowto.wikidot.com/prolong-battery-lifespan-for-ipad
 Cheers, Tom

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Is it ok to let your battery drain completely once a month?

I read on the Apple website that it is good to let your battery drain completely once a month then recharging it fully once a month. Is it good to do this? I was also reading that when you complete a charge cycle, it decreases the battery's capacity slightly everytime. I remember doing this every once and awhile on my older iPhone 3GS and about 3 yrs down the road, the battery would read about 60% charge then it would just cut off. It would cut off on its own even when it would read 100%. I just want to charge my iPhone 5 in the best way so it can last a long time, more than 3yrs like the 3GS.

Follow the good advise from Apple, you may also like to take a look at this Apple link... http://www.apple.com/batteries/

HT1476 i heard that if you let the battery drain to zero that it could hurt the battery life (like if it goes to zero the battery life would go down from like maybe 10 hours, to 8 hours. just an example.) is this true because ive been worried about my bat

i really want all my devices working at full capacity especially the battery and i want more info on the care of it. like should i charge a device for a specific time the first time i get it, and if its ok to let a battery go to zero and if overcharging is bad. by the way i have an ipod nano 5g, ipod shuffle 4g an ipod touch 4g, an iphone 5s, a ps vita, a surface rt, and im planning to get a macbook pro. ive had some of these devices for a while and some are fairly new. i really want to make these devices last and i dont want to have to replace them for any reason.
please help and thanks.

It is not good for Lithium chemistry batteries to become fully discharged, however, iPads, iPhones and iPods will shut off before the battery is fully drained. That is, when the phone goes from 1% to 0% and shuts off there is still plenty of charge on the battery. However, you should not let it sit for a long time after it shuts off, as the phone still uses some power even in this state. So if the phone shuts off due to low power you should charge it within a day or two.
You also cannot overcharge an iDevice. The charger is actually in the device; it is not the adapter that you plug into the wall. That is just a 5 volt power source. And the charger in the device will stop charging when the device reaches full charge.
One advantage of Lithium batteries is that they have no "memory effect". That is, you don't have to fully drain them before charging, and you can connect them to a charger at whatever the current state of charge, and remove them from the charger if necessary before they reach full charge. None of these activities will shorten the life of the battery.
It is a good idea to run the battery all the way down, then charge to 100% every month or so. But this is to recalibrate the battery gauge, it is not to "condition" the battery.

The "not enough storage" window wont close when i press close and my phone also wont reset because my lock button doesnt work. what do i do? just let the battery drain then turn it on?

the "not enough storage" window wont close when i press close and it wont reset because my lock button is broken. what do i do?

Battery does not appear to charge
Important: iPod touch cannot be charged with a FireWire-based power source.
Verify that the power source being used is working properly.
If connecting to a computer's USB port, verify it is a high-powered USB 2.0 port. Note: The USB ports on most keyboards don't provide enough power, so if you're connecting iPod touch to a keyboard, make sure it has a high-powered USB 2.0 port.
Verify the computer is turned on and not in sleep or standby mode. If iPod touch is connected to a computer that's not turned on or is in sleep or standby mode, the iPod touch battery may drain.
Try another USB port.
Try charging from a USB charger if available.
If that does not help, try another USB cable if available.
Learn more about charging the battery.
The Home button isn't working
Put the iPod Touch to sleep.
Wait a couple of seconds.
Press the Home button.
iPod Touch should wake up.
If iPod Touch does not wake up, then iPod Touch should be serviced.
Resources for Service
http://support.apple.com/kb/he57
https://selfsolve.apple.com

Quick Fix BATTERY DRAIN - (until the update of course)

I have recently been having problems with my battery on my iPhone 4S like everyone else has. So I decided that I would go to my local Apple store and see what was wrong. They had done a diagnostic test on it and said that my software was corrupted. They told me that to fix this problem I need to sync the iPhone to iTunes and restore and set up as a new iPhone. He emailed me this link showing me step by step on how to fix the problem with out losing anything on my phone. So I tried it out and IT'S FINALLY FIXED! My battery goes down at least one percent every 2/3 hours, giving me that 200 hour stand by time.
INSTRUCTIONS:
http://listentotristan.blogspot.com/2011/10/iphone-4s-batterygate-fix.html

One thing that drastically helped me was to shut down all the apps that you are not using. When you press the 'Home" button and open up different apps, that previously run app does NOT automatically shut down. It stays running in the background. To see what apps you have running, simply 'double-tap' on your "Home" button and you will see a 'task manager bar' pop up. You can scroll through it and even use it to bounce back into an already running app. To shut down apps that you arent using, simply press and hold on any app that you see in the task manager pop-up (below all the other apps). You will see 'minus' signs appear next to them. Tapping this minus will not delete the app, but will just shut it down or quit the app. It seems that the processor still dedicates power to every app open, even with the screen locked, so periodically just managing your apps and shutting down apps that are not being used will drastically increase battery life. (You can also power off and power on as well...this will shut down everything too). Think of it like your computer.....you have 10 programs running in the background and your bound to have performance issues. I hope this helps....It deffinitely did for me.

Heavy battery drain in iOS7 with iPhone 5

Hello everyone,
As soon as Apple announced its newer upgrade, iOS 7, i've installed that but i noticed a heavy battery drain in my iphone 5. For example, yesterday night i charged my phone to 100 % and by today's morning it was at 77% ( without any usage). I can see the battery percent decreasing with my eyes. in iOS6, i used to get 24 hours stand by and 7 hours usage in 3g cellular and wifi but in iOS, i didnt even get 3 hours of usage in 3g cellular or wifi.
I got an error after downloading of 753MB of iOS 7 upgrade, i guess it is something like "error in downloading or something" and i discarded that error message and it was asked me to click on "install" option and it was restarted and installed the new OS to my mobile. Everything seems good except battery drain and weather app, which always shows "Haze" even though my city was experiencing thunderstorms. A half sun covered by clouds or ground in the "Now" position. Not even updating.
I tried restarting and resetting the phone with network settings but of no use.
Any help??
Thanks

I wouldn't restore at this point.
I would do this: re-calibrate the battery.
Let the battery drain until the phone is completely dead. (the iPhone powers-itself off!)
plug it in and allow it to charge to 100% [do NOT use it, do NOT unplug it]
This will re-calibrate the charging circuitry with what is reported. It's often likely that the battery report is a false one.
At 100% charge, use the phone normally and watch the performance of the battery.
-Alan

Plugged in my new iPhone to charge before letting battery drain to 0%. Did I ruin it?

I plugged in my new iPhone 6 to charge before letting the battery drain to 0%. It was at about 86% when I plugged it in to my computer to restore everything from my previous phone and then left it to charge to 100%. Will my battery be ruined because of my failure to let it drain before charging it? Pls help!!

You aren't supposed to let it drain fully before charging it - in fact, repeatedly doing so can damage the battery.
Charge it whenever it is convenient for you. Try to avoid running it all the way out unless necessary.
Apple does recommend running it out about once per month, and you can also run it to 0% if the battery gauge seems to be incorrect.
~Lyssa

Battery drained and will not charge

the battery on my droid ultra completely drained last night and I plugged it in to the wall charger this morning and it is not responding. Has anyone let their battery drain all the way ans had issues getting it to charge? It has been plugged in for about 30 minutes and the screen is black and the device will not turn on.
thanks!

ddvh, let's bring life back to that device. I recommend that you allow it to charge for approximately 15 more minutes until the battery charging icon populates on your screen. If the device still does not power on, you will need to press/hold the power and volume up button to reboot your device. Keep us posted. We're here to further assist you if needed.
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Temporary Fix for battery drain for iOS 5

After going through various recommendations, the following worked for me:
1. Notifcations - Settings -> Notifications
     Under the 'In Notifcation Center' category, select Calendar and turn the Notification Center option 'OFF"
     This seems to be the main problem for those that have their exchange accounts synced with their phones.
     In addition, I also removed all other items from Notification Center except for Weather and it seemed to slow down the battery drain considerably.
2. Location Services - Settings -> Location Services
     You can see what apps/services have been using or currently using the location service by noticing a grey or purple arrow next to the line item. Go through what items have the location service ON, and see if you really require some of them to access your location information, the less the better.
This helped a LOT: Scroll down to the bottom and access 'System Services'. Under 'System Services' uncheck all except 'Cell Network Search', .Compass Calibration' & 'Traffic'.
3. Let the battery drain completely until the phone switches off on its own, then charge it to 100% without using the phone. Not sure if this really helped, but I wanted to try as many options as possible.
I think the drain is due to a combination of different issues, and hope Apple release a patch soon to fix this annoying problem, till then I hope the above helps.

The 3G option. WHEN that option is off, iphone is connected to your operators 2g network! Because 3G has often weaker signals then 2G
Good luck!

Verizon iPhone 4 Battery Draining issue (continued)

This is not a question or help topic but more of an announcement. Here's my story:
I preordered the phone on it's February 3rd date and recieved the phone on February 7th. I did as Apple instructs when you get a new idevice (drain the battery down till it dies then recharge it to 100%.) I did that and began to use it, and keep in mind this was not heavy usage at all. I didn't have any app store apps installed at all, I set all settings in the phone to the best configuration for battery saving (truning off push notifications, turning off location services for apps you do not need, no bluetooth, no VPN, brightness at 33%, ect.) Now I thought the battery was strange as I had made my first phone call on 100% battery and it was a 5 minute call. I kid you not I lost 10% battery from one phone call. I thought that was rediculous so I went into my local verizon store and had it replaced. I did the same as I did last time and let the battery drain till it died and filled it to 100%. Tried the phone out and still had the same issue. I went back in and got my 3rd iphone 4. Did the same steps as before and drained then filled it. Yet again, I still had troubles with 3 phones in a row. I cantacted apple and got in contact with an apple engineer named Andrew. He sent me a file that they created that monitors what all is being used by the battery and monitors background processes and applications. I let that run for 24 hours and sent the battery loggin file back to Andrew. They reviewed the log and gave me a call the next day. They told me they did find some very significant battery draining and advised me to go to the nearest apple store ASAP and have the phone checked out. I drove 2 hours to the nearest store for them to just tell me the phone is fine (yotta yotta yotta) and they did a hard reset and restore on the phone (which I could have done from home on my computer and save the gas they made me waste driving for a total of 4 hours!) I tried contacting Andrew agiain but Andrew did not reply to any email sent to him nor return my calls. I got the point that he didn't want to deal with me anymore so I then decided to go the Verizon route. I called Verizon tech support and was transferred to a teir 2 representative. I told her my story, how many replacements I had, and how bad the battery life was. I told how my grandmother has an iphone 4 and I sat down comparing the 2 (battery life wise) and she chewed me out saying things like, "How dare you compare AT&T and Verizon!" I didn't want to listen to her chewing me out so I hung up. The next day I gave apple a call once again and they told me things I had already heard several times so I hung up. I called Verizon back and they said ok let's send you a replacement phone. Well the replacement phone came and wouldn't ya know it? The phone still had the same problem and on top of that they only sent me a phone. No box, no headphones, no USB cable, no charger. I called Verizon about this and asked why they only sent me a phone and they said, "Well you get to keep the phone but we want the other things back. The box, headphones, charger, USB cable, ect." I told them no and that they could have their refurbished phone back. This phone was not even refurbished. the reason I kow that is because it had someone's name written in the phone and it was still on 4.2.5. Had it been refurbished they would have done a fresh restore and update as 4.2.5 was deemed obsolete. That was very insulting in my opinion. So I sent that back and contacted apple one last time. I asked what other options I had as I was stressed and did not want to hear the same things I have already heard. they said they could send me a new phone free of charge and have me send back my current phone. I agreed to give it one last shot but I am still not confident that this phone will be any different.
Now that's my story. Now let me go into a discussion. I have been doing my own litle "investigation on this phone to see what is making this phone drain so bad. I took a look at a report from iFixit.com and they revealed some pretty interesting things built into the Verizon iPhone. I am not going into detail about it but you can google it and see for yourself and read the article about the components. They built the phone with not only CDMA tech but also GSM. Now what purpose would that serve? Honestly? That is a big battery drainer right there. Secondly, they found that the phone contained a different model battery that was lighter and had less capacity than the GSM version of the iPhone 4. That's a second red flag. My mission right now is to get Apple's attention that these phones do indeed have aproblem and they need to be looked at because this just aint workin'. I have had several replacements done (all have the same issue), several thousands of people are reporting the same results with their battery on the web, and Apple chooses to ignore it. Something needs to be done and I encourage any Verizon iPhone user to take action and make this issue known. I have a website with contact information of people who work high up in the chain of Apple along with Scott Forstall's contact info. Go to http://idevicesupport.webs.com/apps/blog/show/6441029-update and find a contact you like and call it and deman that apple investigate these phones. We can get this issue resolved if we make it known. Don't be mean or nasty to them. They are very nice people but at the sametime don't let them talk over you. Make your voice heard. Thanks for listening guys. Take care. - Joe

Some Users have Reported that a Restore as New has helped Resolve issues...
Backup and Set Up as New Device
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137

Losing Keychain, WiFi, clock, and last state on battery drain

Recently sent my MacBook Pro (MBP) into the shop to get a new shell put on it. When it was returned, it appears I no longer have Safe Sleep functionality.
Historically:
Prior to sending the MBP into the shop, if the battery ran low on power, I would receive the standard issue "plug-in to a power source" message. I would save my documents and continue to use the MBP unless, of course, power was readily available. If the battery drained to the point of entering "Safe Sleep" mode, the screen would immediately go black. When I finally plugged into a power source and hit the power button, the "restoring state" progress indicator would come on screen, and eventually I would be returned to the point I left off...consistent with:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/10328.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1757
*After New Shell:*
Since receiving the MBP back, if I let the battery drain to the point at which it should enter "Safe Sleep" mode, and plug in to a power source I lose the following:
1. State does not pick up where it left off. Essentially, the computer just shuts down - not enter safe sleep mode.
+After completing reboot (I have Mail, iCal, Safari, and iTunes launch automatically):+
1. Error message regarding clock, stating that the clock is incorrectly set and to correct: I have to open date & time preferences -> uncheck set date and time automatically -> set the correct time manually (as it seems to be set to the Unix time floor ca. 1969) -> save -> check set date and time automatically.
2. WiFi password lost: My home WiFi (AirPort Express) does not automatically sign in, I can either re-enter the password and have it save in Keychain again; or, if I can't remember the password, open keychain -> find the network -> display password -> enter admin password -> enter WiFi password into connection dialog - therefore, the password is still stored in keychain, just not being used.
3. Mail loses keychain passwords as well: When Mail launches it begins asking me for passwords to my email accounts (appears to be based on emails in my inbox) - after entering the passwords multiple times and check "remember password" every time -> force quit (or just quit if the password dialogs stop coming up) -> restart Mail.
4. Restart iCal and iTunes after connecting to WiFi.
5. Should be obvious, but want to make sure it is, any other applications I was using or documents I was editing are lost (no previous state information) - similar to shutting down completely (or hard reset).
Today when I tested the workflow again, I did receive the "battery maintenance" warning; however, that has since gone away.
Is this just me? Can anyone duplicate this problem?
Cheers,
Josh
Message was edited by: amidknight

Maybe resetting your SMC
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US

Iphone 4S resets itself every few min - the battery drains in an hr.

My iphone 4S is resetting every few minutes as a result the battery drains in an hour.
By resetting I mean, the lock screen would show up, then the apple sign would come up like when you start your iphone, searches for the network etc. This happens every few minute even when the phone is on standby or when I am using it. If I am on the call, then the call gets disconnected because the phone is resetting.
The usage always shows "-" for both Usage and Standby with the message that the usage time will be shown after iphone is fully charged.
This started only a month ago when my phone was not on the latest os version. But now it is on the latest but the problem never did go away. It never fell out of my hand or fall into water and is barely a year old (just 10/15 days over the warranty period).
Please help!

And I should mention that I took the foll steps so far:
1. Let the battery drain out completely and charge it overnight
2. Backed the phone, then reset the phone and restored from backup.
3. Took it to the apple store and they did a different kind of restore but no luck
The only thing left for me to try to is to reset it to factory setting unless some one can suggest some other way.

Do you let the battery run down all the way?

I recently purchased a iPod 5g. The first thing I noticed is that the instructions said nothing about letting it charge before using it. That's fine, but I had a question.
Do you let your battery drain down low before charging it again? Just wondering the best way to get the most of my battery.
Happy Christmas !

Hello!
I recommend you read this link: http://www.apple.com/batteries/

My Battery Drain Workaround for iPhone 4S on 5.0.1

Hey all,
i suffered from the battery drain issue with my 2 iPhone 4S's. I found that when i used cloud backup and WIFI sync, the WIFI would continously stay on in standby mode, which was draining the battery very quickly.
I turned OFF iCloud Backup AND WIFI Sync
and this seems to have resolved my issues. Now wifi turns on when in standby.
Unsure if this is your problem?
Leave your phone in standby for around 5 minutes, press the home button to light up the screen and if you see the wireless icon straight away then you know this is your problem. You should normally see the 3G logo then it should initiate the WIFI and connect.
Has been great for a few hours now, even with Microsoft Exchange (Push Method), background apps and Siri.
Hope this helps you as it did for me. I've sent feedback to Apple and hopefully this issue will be fixed soon.
Other workarounds that may work:
Turn off Time Zone in Settings
Disable location services for reminders
Let your battery drain fully and power itself off and fully charge (Full battery cycle)

optimans wrote:
Hey all,
i suffered from the battery drain issue with my 2 iPhone 4S's. I found that when i used cloud backup and WIFI sync, the WIFI would continously stay on in standby mode, which was draining the battery very quickly.
I turned OFF iCloud Backup AND WIFI Sync
and this seems to have resolved my issues. Now wifi turns on when in standby.
Unsure if this is your problem?
Leave your phone in standby for around 5 minutes, press the home button to light up the screen and if you see the wireless icon straight away then you know this is your problem. You should normally see the 3G logo then it should initiate the WIFI and connect.
Has been great for a few hours now, even with Microsoft Exchange (Push Method), background apps and Siri.
Hope this helps you as it did for me. I've sent feedback to Apple and hopefully this issue will be fixed soon.
Other workarounds that may work:
Turn off Time Zone in Settings
Disable location services for reminders
Let your battery drain fully and power itself off and fully charge (Full battery cycle)
You may have discovered the problem. Since I bought the 4S never enabled those features. Never had the battery problem. After a day with full charge and about 20 calls, I still have 90% !

Battery Draining following Firmare update...FAST!!

After updating my phone with new firmware last week, battery lasted fine on first charge for 2 days. Now if I charge the phone, battery will drain FAST.. down to 50% remaining charge with phone on just stand by, after about 5 hours. If I reboot phone, this stops the fast battery drain, until I charge the phone again, and then the superfast battery drain happens again until reboot. I dont have any apps running, that the reboot would be shutting down, so dont understand. Has anyone else experienced this? I can reboot my phone after every full charge to resolve, but a bit of a pain..

My battery went from about 100% to low battery warnings and shut down after 10 hours of none use. I checked email once. No wifi, good HSDPA coverage. I'm on the most recent update.
I have no clue what causes this, but it happened once or twice with the previous firmware I was on.
With the Arc and android I had this happening due to the facebook app. I installed an app killer and ran autokill on that particular app only which stopped the battery from draining. Wonder if something similar can be the case... That one of my network needing apps gets stuck and runs untill the battery is empty.
Will do the same tomorrow and see if I experience the same.
Have happened once or twice before, so not much, but a bit painful as you never know. I need to rely on this device.

Letting my battery drain until 0

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