Is there nothing Steve Jobs can’t do? After warning that a full recall or update would be required to get the IP3G to fighting trim, I’m pleased to note that this bastard now holds a charge like a champ. Before the latest update, my phone would literally be dead ten hours after being taken off the charger. I would wake up at 8am, pull it off the charger, and at about 6pm it would be near death and at about 8pm it would be completely dead. Not wishing to cheat fate I turned 3G off for the past few weeks but today I used 3G the whole day long and I’m still not even through half the battery.
Now, however, when I sit on the phone I get a No SIM error. You’re damned if you do, and, it seems, if you don’t. Anyone else seeing better performance?
I had very much the same positive change in battery life after the 2.1 update. Made me go from regretting my purchase to loving the phone.
That is why I waited until after the release of 2.1 to even buy my first iPhone. I knew it was a really cool device, but it is hard to be cool when it’s dead. I am pretty happy now.
Actually I noticed mine getting a lot better yesterday. I upgraded to 2.1 the day it came out so this has nothing to do with that.
I noticed better battery life after I took my first one back because of shitty battery life and a stuck pixel. Steve and Co. could care less about my dying battery, but a stuck pixel? Grounds for a replacement.
Not complaining.
Yes, I’ve absolutely seen stunningly better battery life since the update. Before, I was going without location services and 3G most of the time so that I’d have enough battery power to get through the day. Now I can actually enjoy the few features that set the 3G apart from the original iPhone, without having the device die in the early afternoon.
I must have one of those faulty batteries…i use mine a lot for mail/sms/and many phone calls. i take it off the charger at 8am and by 6pm im down to 20%.
Mine is also noticeably better after the update, not to the extent yours seems to be…but I’m pretty happy.
This makes me hopeful that they can shore up the allegedly crappy battery life for the G1.
We bought two iPhones on 10-10-08. My phone out-of-the-box will run two days in stand-by. My wife’s phone will not run 4 hours in stand-by. We have 2.1.
Her phone typically is pegged with bars. Mine can’t work off a tower 1.5 miles from our house, and it nearly always shows either “No Service” or no bars.
My old Cingular 8125 worked great and I have to remove the SIM card from the iPhone and re-install into the 8125 if I need cell service here at home. (We live on a farm and the tower is a clear shot with no obstructions between us and the house… no powerlines, no buidlings no tall cows for tha matter.)
Watch my video on YouTube for a side-by-side comparison of her phone next to mine… I can’t figure this out, but they BOTH will be returned to Apple this week for warranty.
My videos can be seen by typing in my moniker, “royfromtexas.”