More battery issues ?

Any thoughts on this one ?
Have 2 2gs phones foe about 8 days, now both of them can no longer charge to 100% when charging overnite.
1 gets to 98%, the other 95%.
Has this happened to anyone else ?
TIA.
Tman

Charging overnight may not give you the complete picture. Mine always charges to 100% then sometimes (while still plugged in) drops to 96-98% .. then later goes back to 100%. Unless you are watching it all night, it may be reaching 100% and then dropping off.
I'm not particularly concerned about this behavior because my MacBook does the same, sometimes dropping as low as 95% charge before heading back up.
Phil

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What consumes battery juice more, playing an mp3 streaming off the web, or playing it from local storage on the iPod Touch. (Or on iPhones, or on iPads).
I have learned much recently on battery issues, and get better battery life now. This is an important question in that regard, I figure.

That makes sense to me. Though we like to stream many things that we do not own locally, this encourages me to store a lot of m3 material we do own, on our devices. Thanks!

A suggestion for those with battery issues:

When I first got my iPhone, I had the same battery issues many people here are talking about, in fact I posted about it myself. Its fixed. Very fixed, and Im very happy with my battery life. Here is what I did.
First, do not charge it using your USB connection. At least not always. Why? I dont know. I did the first few days, and couldnt get a full charge even tho system wasnt going to sleep. I started using the wall charger, and got longer battery life, but still not great. One night, I forwarded the phone to my home phone in case I got a call, and shut the phone down completely, and put it on charge. In the morning, I woke up to a 100% charged, fully glowing battery icon. The battery lasted all day with no issues. Every night after that, I just charged it on the wall charger, but did NOT shut it down to see what happened. I am still waking up every morning to a 100% fully charged battery. The battery life seems to get better daily now.
Today, I ran wifi for about 5 hours because I forgot to shut it off. This was after going to the pool and listening to the iPod on the phone for about 2 hours. And using the phone normally throughout the day, checking mail, sms, etc. Really a full day of work, and my battery is still over 50% full. I purposely didnt connect it to anything during the day for a recharge, not the USB or wall charger.
Good luck, hope this helps. Id be interested to know if it does.

Here's my non-scientific experiment.
After surprising battery drain for the first 10 days or so with not much usage, I completely drained the battery yesterday until the phone shut off.
I plugged into AC charge and was worried when it didn't seem to even begin charging.
I plugged into USB, assuming it needed to charge enough to at least complete a sync.
I left it on USB until about 5-10% charge, then switched it to AC. At about 50% I needed to use it, so I did but sparingly, and put it back on charge, all the while keeping Mail on manual and WiFi off.
I took it off once more to get it home from the office, then plugged into AC.
I left that charging overnight.
I never actually got the "glow", but did get the plug icon showing full charge in the status bar.
After about 2 1/2 hours this morning, the status has not moved off of 100% (but with little usage as before).
This is definitely an improvement already though. Hope this helps.

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On o2 got my iphone from Apple unlocked.
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One more interesting issue is when you go to your purchases in App store, and click dowload and app dissapears and then reappears on home screen few minutes later once it is done downloading.
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Honestly guys,
It is either apple is blinded by their immense success which will not last if they keep going the direction they going. They should have more time to test their products thouroughly before they put their production line on overdrive. Company this size ignoring issues like that.
I think new Ipad will have problems as well, it seems this line up 4S and new ipad is kind of transition point to a newer devices and were made just to get something out on the market. Using same CPUs same formfactor.
My problem is I payed a fortune for it and it doesnt perform, I dont pay 600 pounds for a phone because I want to have issues with it. What they are doing is plainly ignoring these problems. Battery issue been going on since the release of the phone, going to be a year soon.
Microsoft and Apple changing places, look like microsoft going the right direction now with Widnows 8 and mobiles where as apple comes up with something like Lion which I hated and now Mountain Lion which plainly is running out of ideas and starting to implement some features from iOS, these are completely different devices. They do not need to be the same, they werent created for the same purprose.
I was on apples side all along but they are blinded by their pride in leading this revolution that they choose to ignore these issues. Relying on peoples stupidity to show off things like ipad 3 is 4x faster than tegra 3 where as in real results it came out 15% faster.
Apple get his fixed before it is too late. Scared to buy your products now!!! Good thing I didnt get iPad looking at overheating issues it is having, and also not charging from cable while in use but draining battery. No thanks

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J G B,
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But you should be able to get more than 2 hours out of a new battery (depending on how you're using it). If you're within 90 days of purchase, I would return th unit and ask for a new battery.
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On 11/13/12 at 7pm I received my cyan lumia 920.The battery came with about 30% battery life and i played around with it for a little bit and put it on the charger. At 7am i removed the phone from the charger and went to work. between 7am to 12 pm
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I too had battery issues with my new 920 when I received it, however after about two or three days and a couple of battery charge cycles, it stabilised and "broke itself in". I now get about 12 hours usage and still having 35% left after making 20 or so text messages, 2 two minute phone calls, ten minutes of Angry Birds, 15 minutes of browsing the internet, and listening to music on the phone all day, with the phone not being in flight mode.
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I been using my Lumia 800 since December and recenty updated it to the latest firmware version.
I charge my Lumia via USB every night and it lasts me for a good 13+ hours with lite/medium usage. Usage such as checking Facebook/Twitter updates, Fuse for RSS feeds, Outlook/personal e-mails, messaging, playing and download music and light gaming about 15 minutes.
I usually leave my Wifi turned Of. Only in places I turn it on are at Wifi hotspots which I have passwords to.
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1. Perform a hard reset on your phone
2. Charge the phone to max using USB. I heard the faster the phone charges the faster the battery will die so I charge my phone nice and slow via USB every night
3. Run the basic applications and see how long your battery lasts you for. So run your phone with the stock apps for a day and see how good it lasts you and then slowly start adding apps. Maybe theres an app in the background messing up your battery life etc
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you could choose to back it up if you want. The important thing is that you do not restore after u formated your iPhone to your backups.
Go here for learning how to disable iTunes backup:
http://iphonefreakz.com/2008/07/27/windows-users-disable-itunes-backup-for-faste r-sync/
for now u can choose to cancel (x) backup. sync your photos and videos and contact info and etc.
one more point, you must reset to erase all data and content. restore alone will not fully erase your phone.
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Has anybody here got this release on a Late 2008 MacBook?
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My phone lives in range of wifi most of the day, at work or at home.
I have 3g off because I don't live in a 3g area. I turn it on when I drive to the city.
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