HELP HELP Battery Life

My Ipod Nano is about 6 months old and they battery life is really bad
I charged it fully yesterday and only used it for a short time last night and now the battery is empty.
What can I do???

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How to help with battery life in iOS 7

Some tips to help with battery life
-disable location services(for apps that do not need it)
-turn off ask to join networks under wifi, so your phone will not keep searching for networks unless you tell it to
-turn off airdrop/bluetooth if you don’t use it
- reduce motion off in settings>general>accessibility
-turn off automatic downloads in iTunes and app store in settings
-fetch mail manually in the settings>mail,contacts,calendars>fetch new data
-turn off raise to speak feature in settings>general>siri
-of course turn off notifications for apps that you do not need in settings>notifications
-turn off background app refresh in settings>general>background app refresh
-turn off 4g when you are connected to wifi under settings>cellular>enable lte/enable 4g

If you do not use Bluetooth devices, Settings > General > Bluetooth to OFF, when away from WiFi and not using a 3G unit, put Airplane Mode ON.
Change the email push setting to a long period of time.
Simple things that stop the unit from transmitting or seaking responses.

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I recently just updated my iPhone 4s to 5.0.1 and I am losing battery life at a faster rate. How do I help my battery life or can I go back to the old system?

This is my first iPhone I am having problems with my battery life. I recently updated to the new operating system for the iPhone 4S. I am losing battery life at a quick rate is there anything that I can do.

You can search the forum and read the many helpful posts with suggestions on how to improve your battery life.

Will doing a teathered restore to iOS 5.1.1 help my battery life?

OK I waited over a month to update my iPhone 4s to iOS 5.1.1. I did an OTA update (Which I think was my problem) I got hit with the battery drain bug that apparently comes with an OTA update of the OS.
I Did the following:
1. Full backup to iTunes
2. Did OTA upgrade
3. Restarted my phone
4. Turned off most of the notifications and locations
5. Turned off Siri Raise to Speak
6. Turned off Bluetooth
7. Turned off Wifi
8. Turned off Auto Send Diagnostics and Usage
9. Ran the phone all the down to dead
10. Plugged in and charged for about 11 hours
11. Reset all settings as new
11. Reset Network settings
Battery life is worse than I had with iOS 5.1 Which was pretty good. Before I updated to 5.1.1 I could go the whole day with normal usage for me, 5-10 phone calls, 20-25 texts, little bit of web surfing, check facebook a couple of times, check Twitter a couple of times. Play a few games, about 20 - 30 minutes max total over the day. Listen to a couple of podcasts. You know the normal things one does on a smartphone. At the end of the day I would be at 30 - 40 % left.
Once I updated to 5.1.1 I was going to get to 0% by 4 or 5 pm.
Is it helpful to do a restore as new connected to iTunes and just start over?
And if I do this can I then restore my apps, music etc from my back up or will that pull the battery drain bug back into the phone?

Haven't done anything different but battery life seems to be improving. I have run the battery down a couple of times, just normal use but the fast battery drain caused it go get below 20% by the time I would normally plug it in at night when I go to bed. Used to be 50 - 60 % at this point. And I have noticed over the past couple of days that the battery drain issues I was seeing seem to have stopped.
So hopefully the Reset All Settings routine along with a couple of full rechages reset the battery meter in the firmware and I am actually seeing the true battery charge and usage that the phone is getting.

Help with Battery Life Droid Razr M KitKat update jacked up my phone like everyone elses'...

So as with everyone else KitKat has screwed my phone up and I am very annoyed... Disregarding the fact that I had to download a different keyboard because they removed Swype and screwed up the dialer and the colors of our texts, erased the calendar which thank God I didn't use because a friend who did had all her appointments removed it totally jacked up my battery life. Yesterday I literally had a full charge at about 9:30am and by 11:30 it was down to about 30%. I had not used it much at all and it was connected to my bluetooth in my car. The phone also gets hot for no reason when not charging or being used. All of a sudden my leg will get warm and I realize it's because the phone in my pocket is extremely hot... Probably not safe. When I look it says that the screen was draining 46% of my battery life yet the screen is set to auto as recommended in other posts I have seen from customer service. We need a fix for this KitKat or a way to revert to Jellybean... I can't keep my phone charging constantly and I need it as I am a social worker and am in the field often. I need my phone for safety purposes as well as convenience. Sigh... Verizon Wireless Customer Support HELP! I can't CONSTANTLY charge my phone in order to be able to use it! So annoying!
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P.S. None of this was an issue prior to KitKat being downloaded to the phone.

After installing the update, did you perform a Factory Data Reset on your phone?
You might want to consider backing up your important photos, music, videos, other downloaded content. Write down critical things like your email settings. Jot down important contacts, and any calendar events. Diagram where you've located certain icons.
Then perform the FDR.
Allow three charge cycles for the phone to model battery consumption.
Other things you can do, YMMV:
Go to Settings | Tethering and networks | Mobile Networks | System Select | Network Mode | LTE/CDMA (change it from Global).
Instead of screen brightness automatic, choose something like 40-50%.
For email synching / polling, choose a polling interval of 15 or 30minutes (maybe not as often).
Go to Settings | WiFi then press the Menu button. Choose Advanced. Make sure "Battery saving for Wi-Fi" is enabled. Deselect Scanning always available, and Deselect Wif-Fi signal weak.
Now do the following: Go to Settings | Mobile Data. Press the Menu Button. Select Show Wi-Fi usage.
Power cycle your phone.
Now you can go to Settings | Mobile Data and choose Mobile or Wi-Fi tabs and see what applications are using the corresponding radios. That and using the Settings | Battery | Select the battery, then scroll down... The three of these should show you want is consuming the battery and the radios... thus heating up your device and lowering your battery runtime.
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Help! Battery Life

As many others have posted I have had my MacBook Pro for less than a year, about 8 months, and I have terrible battery life.
This is what I get from system profiler:
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Serial Number: SMP-ASMB014-370e-bd6
Manufacturer: SMP
Device name: ASMB014
Pack Lot Code: 0002
PCB Lot Code: 0000
Firmware Version: 102a
Hardware Revision: 0500
Cell Revision: 0102
Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh): 1049
Fully charged: No
Charging: Yes
Full charge capacity (mAh): 6263
Health Information:
Cycle count: 242
Condition: Good
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): 2862
Voltage (mV): 11045
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 5
Automatic Restart On Power Loss: No
Wake On AC Change: No
Wake On Clamshell Open: Yes
Wake On LAN: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 5
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 1
Wake On AC Change: No
Wake On Clamshell Open: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
Reduce Brightness: Yes
Hardware Configuration:
UPS Installed: No
AC Charger Information:
Connected: Yes
Charging: Yes
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Your battery is in great shape based on the specs (you must have a 17" MBP, and your health is 99% after 242 cycles - everyone should be so lucky!). What's "terrible" battery life? Most likely, something is using a lot of CPU power, perhaps a background process - check in Activity Monitor, show Active Processes and look for something using a high % of CPU activity.
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Needs help: x220 battery life ,6 Cell

Last week ,I received my x220.IPS,i5-2520.
But shortly I found that the battery life is too short.I have seen many reviews said that they tested their x220,and their machines will last for 7 hrs or more if just playing viedos or browse pages.
And my poor laptop,if I only use it for internet iexplore and MSN,it will only last for 3 or 3.5 hours,the battery mode which I choose is energy saver,and the brightness or screen is 9,I don't know if there is somthing problem with my battery or laptop...
And other thing is that when i charge my battery ,from 99% to 100%,it will take half an hour to comlete that ,although it display "charge will be comlete in 2 min."...
I use the everest to test my battery ,and the battery consumption is 0%,but the designed capacity is less than the full charge capacity....is that normal?
Plz help me .....LoL....

Screen brightness 9 is pretty bright and will drain the battery quicker but off hand something fishy does seem up with your battery. Hopefully someone else will know more
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Does a Dark Desktop Image Help Save Battery Life?

I know this is a weird question.
But think about it: if you use a very bright desktop image, say something like this: http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4540/deserttoyota24wf.jpg
and if, in the second case, you use a quite dark one, with a lot of "black" pixels that actually does give a lot less light (the one here is my desktop picture, a map with a light-rendering effect):
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Your backligth seems to be white is'nt it ?
So to known how much you use electric power to switch a pixel from white to black, the best way is:
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2) to remember your electricity company counter index
3) mesure the time the powerbook is on
4) put your screen with a white background
5) change the background to black
6) run to the electricity company counter and write down the index
7) substract the start index from the end index
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9) divide this result by the number of pixel your LCD have it will give you the electric comsuption for one pixel.
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How to help increase battery life with ios5?

My battery on my iPad is draining with ios5...anything I can do?

If you do not use Bluetooth devices, Settings > General > Bluetooth to OFF, when away from WiFi and not using a 3G unit, put Airplane Mode ON.
Change the email push setting to a long period of time.
Simple things that stop the unit from transmitting or seaking responses.

Help: Mac Battery Life

I swear my battery barely lasts 30 minutes these days. It is fairly new (2 months give or take). When I went into the Mac store they acted like I was crazed. They looked at the cycles and told me it is normal. But i feel like my previous battery last much longer (they replaced it after a year and gave me this new lemon). And worse yet my Powerbook battery felt like it could last weeks without a charge.
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Have you recalibrated your battery? Also, you might have better luck finding people familiar with your issue in the forum for MacBook Pro. Looking up the URL for the forum, I noticed there seemed to be several discussions of that sort of problem in the area devoted to Power and Batteries. Here's the forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1151
You might find some answers already posted.
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Battery Life after iOS 7. Ways to help the battery.

Some tips to help with battery life
-disable location services(for apps that do not need it)
-turn off ask to join networks under wifi, so your phone will not keep searching for networks unless you tell it to
-turn off airdrop/bluetooth if you don’t use it
- reduce motion off in settings>general>accessibility
-turn off automatic downloads in iTunes and app store in settings
-fetch mail manually in the settings>mail,contacts,calendars>fetch new data
-turn off raise to speak feature in settings>general>siri
-of course turn off notifications for apps that you do not need in settings>notifications
-turn off background app refresh in settings>general>background app refresh
-turn off 4g when you are connected to wifi under settings>cellular>enable lte/enable 4g

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How to save battery life for ios 7

How do you save battery life

There is many things to help save battery life on IOS, hear are some battery saving tips I use when with low battery .
Battery saver 1: Turn off Bluetooth , by going to "Settings>Bluetooth" and switching the little "On/Off" toggle.
Battery saver 2: Turn down the screen brightness half way or just below is fine, for at home, but if you use your idevice outside turn it up just below max brightness so you can see the screen, to turn up or down brightness you can navigate to "Settings>Wallpaper and Brightness" and there will be a slider to adjust brightness.Or if you are on IOS 7 you can swipe up from the bottom of the screen and it will bring up "Action Centre" and there will be a little sun icon, next to it will be another brightness slider, to exit "Action Centre" press the home button or just swipe the little down arrow.
Battery saver 3: Volume turn the volume up and down at certain times of day "eg: I turn volume up full or just below in the afternoons because most things are going on in the afternoon that probably make lots of noise, and at night turn it down because your ears have adjusted to quietness and can pickup on quieter sounds".
Battery saver 4: Turn off WIFI when not in use "eg when playing games or just switched off" you can do this by going to "Settings>WIFI" there will be a "On/Off" toggle or via "Action Centre" "IOS 7+".
Battery saver 5: When your not going to be using your device for a while shut it down by holding the "Sleep/Wake" button.
Battery saver 6: Close apps running in the background by double tapping the home button and holding down the running apps then tap the little "-" minus in a red circle to close "IOS 6 and lower", things are a little different with IOS 7 its the same process of double tapping the home button but a different way to execute the apps, you do this by swiping "Up" on the open apps. "Tip: You can swipe 3 at once!".

My battery life is draining even when IPad is powered off?

I've had my iPad2 for about 15 months now, of course just out of warranty, and within the past week the battery has gone to ****. Before a charge use to last me 4-5 days with usage and on stand-by the rest of the time. Within a night it suddenly changed to that over a 8 hour stand-by cycle that the battery would lose 30-35%. I did a restore to see if that changed anything and it didn't. Went to the Genius Bar and they ran a diagnostic test on the battery and said it was still running excellently at 100% function. He suggested a few things to help preserve battery life but couldn't replicate the problem.
I went home and did a full clean sweep, getting rid of all apps and settings and shutting off my cellular data, in case that might be the issue. Then let the battery drain down until it died. I recharged it back up to 100% over a 24 hour span. Then I just left it sitting there untouched for the next 18 hours. Over that time he battery drained 60%. I again took it to the Genius Bar and they said that was normal, I disagree and understand that standby still uses battery but 60% really? They said at this point the only thing I can do is live with it and just turn my iPad off when I'm not using it or they can replace it for $250. I don't have the money so I said I'll just live with it and turn it off. That was on Tuesday. I spent Tuesday and most of Wednesday using it very little and noticed the battery was doing well. Thursday it was charged back up to a 100% and I read and used it for a few things then went to bed at 2:30, before going to bed I turned the iPad off with a battery charge of 88% and let it be.i woke up at 1030 and just turned it on and now the charge is it 62%. Since typing this it had gone down to 57%. From my understanding this is not normal at all. The Genius Bar so far doesn't know what the issue could be other than something in the software and I am out of ideas. Is there anything you can recommend? I'd really hate to spend the $250 but at this point with no usage to very little usage the battery life won't last much more than a day.
Thanks for any help you might be able to offer and sorry for the long read.

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OG Droid Razr battery life

I have an original Droid and since I am not a big cellphone user I have never had a problem with battery life. I am just wondering if the Razr has similar battery life. I know the Maxx just came out but I am not sure if I would need the extra battery life. Thanks for any advice.

Yes, the battery life isn't the greatest with smartphones.
As a reminder,
Battery life depends on the network, signal strength, temperature, features and accessories used.
It is common for batteries to be warm from use or charging.
Tips for extending battery life
Avoid exposing the battery to extreme heat and cold.
For the first 3 charge cycles, fully charge the battery overnight and allow it to fully discharge before recharging (battery conditioning).
Charge and re-condition a battery after an extended idle period.
A Lithium-ion battery may be damaged by extensive overcharging (continuously on a charger for more than 24 hours).
Use the battery. If possible, avoid letting your battery sit idle for long periods of time.
Use only the phone options and accessories that are really needed.
Here are some tips that will help extend the battery life on your Droid Razr.
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