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Re: What the location arrow on iOS 4.1 now means

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Post by thought_alarm » Wed, Sep 29, 2010, 8:10 PM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #4

dinedal wrote: post #2

I wonder why Apple didn't use color to distinguish from "GPS ON" and "Some App knows where you are" To me, I'd like to know when my phone is sucking down juice on knowing exactly where I am, and I'd also like to know when the phone just knows about where I am in a low battery usage way. I suppose that Apple thinks that most people just care if the phone knows where they are or not, battery life is a non-issue.

Battery life on my Iphone 4 (4.0(8A293)) is so bad that I frequently have a brick in my hands. That was never the case with the 3GS. Now, If I reboot the iPhone, and don't use it for anything other than making a few phone calls - I can go two, sometimes three days without needing a recharge. But, if I use a few apps, Maps, Email, etc.. I typically either wake up in the morning, or end the day with a dead phone. So, t…

If you think it's related to GPS you can turn off Location Services to see if it makes a difference.

However, I would guess it's related to network usage.

Re: What the location arrow on iOS 4.1 now means

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Post by albertzeyer » Wed, Sep 29, 2010, 8:15 PM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #4

dinedal wrote: post #2

I wonder why Apple didn't use color to distinguish from "GPS ON" and "Some App knows where you are" To me, I'd like to know when my phone is sucking down juice on knowing exactly where I am, and I'd also like to know when the phone just knows about where I am in a low battery usage way. I suppose that Apple thinks that most people just care if the phone knows where they are or not, battery life is a non-issue.

Battery life on my Iphone 4 (4.0(8A293)) is so bad that I frequently have a brick in my hands. That was never the case with the 3GS. Now, If I reboot the iPhone, and don't use it for anything other than making a few phone calls - I can go two, sometimes three days without needing a recharge. But, if I use a few apps, Maps, Email, etc.. I typically either wake up in the morning, or end the day with a dead phone. So, t…

Some applications seem to restart themselves automatically in the background. Even when you kill them (via jailbreak tools), they restart themselves. I had that problem with Skype. Those jailbreak tools also seem to be the only way to see what really is running right now in the background. Deleting Skype seemed the only solution so far (without much further hacking).

Re: What the location arrow on iOS 4.1 now means

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Post by lukifer » Wed, Sep 29, 2010, 9:13 PM UTC

That arrow drives me nuts. The formerly used crosshairs icon implies a specific target, and is intuitively associated with a precise location. Arrows, on the other hand, are used for all sorts of things in lots of different contexts, and implies a direction rather than a specific spot.

Re: What the location arrow on iOS 4.1 now means

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Post by ghshephard » Thu, Sep 30, 2010, 4:11 AM UTC

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #9

ghshephard wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Battery life on my Iphone 4 (4.0(8A293)) is so bad that I frequently have a brick in my hands. That was never the case with the 3GS. Now, If I reboot the iPhone, and don't use it for anything other than making a few phone calls - I can go two, sometimes three days without needing a recharge. But, if I use a few apps, Maps, Email, etc.. I typically either wake up in the morning, or end the day with a dead phone. So, t…

Check your mail settings.

Absolutely - the very first thing I did was disable every automatic mail setting. It's 100% manual now.

The key data point is that a _reboot_ of the phone, and then doing nothing but making phone calls, results in pretty good battery life for three (sometimes four) days.

But, I'm frequently tempted to click on some apps (zillow, maps, safari) - and then, if I don't reboot the phone, I'm down to 0% within a maximum of 16 hours, regardless of how careful I close all of my apps with the backgrounder tool.

I love my iPhone so much, that this is more interesting than upsetting. But I'd _really_ love to know what, precisely, is pulling the battery down.