My/her/his/your phone

The Barracks
#964

Hm, I do nothing on my own, besides letting the virus scan run.

I use my phone a lot. Not for actual calls. But What’sapp and all English writing. Need the correction proposals to get it right.
So I have usually a power bank to recharge while I’m not home.
Donno if it’s normal batterie time.

Edit
I still don’t know, how to maintain the battery best.
Let it just for the charging on the charger?
Use the phone, till the battery is nearly down and then charge again?
Or charge everytime, I have the opportunity?

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#965

Just don’t let the phone die completely. Charging it from around 10% is fine. Frankly, even letting it deplete completely isn’t that bad for it. The circuitry is designed such that the battery cutoff is above the minimum threshold. Engineers typically work under the assumption that a product will be used by a complete ape.

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#966

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I had charged it to somewhat above 80% and did go on a long walk. Didn’t use it at all. Again, massive power loss. :frowning_face:

#967

Where did you go for a walk? If you were in the middle of nowhere with no signal, the phone would have been searching the entire time and that eats through the battery. Although, that drop happened very quickly by the looks of it.

My curve has been fine since I posted my first pic. I also got an update last night. Did you get one?

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#968

No, good signal 4G

Just looked it up. I thought it would happen on its own. But it didn’t, so I run it. Last before was in early January.

#969

Mobile data also drains your battery.

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#970

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Did it again.

#971

That’s really weird I’ve never seen a brand new phone do that so soon. Over time the battery degrades (obviously), but I’ve had mine for nearly 4 years and have had it happen maybe a dozen times. I don’t know what could be causing it. Are you somewhere that’s abnormally cold, like sub 5?

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#972

No. Between 6 and 10°C.

#973

Hmmm, you might be suffering from what I call battery Apple-itis. Where low temperatures affect the battery chemistry (happens to all batteries) which reduces their capacity. A friend used to own an iphone SE and it would drop from 80% to 0% in maybe 15-20 mins when we were outside filming drones in ~15℃ weather and would then go back to about 70% when we got back inside. Mine only starts suffering like that in temps below 5 and nowhere near as badly. This might be happening to yours. I’d do some digging around online to see what else might be a cause.

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#974

The dropping today was in a timeframe from 5 minutes.

Thank you for your efforts

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#975

I’ve experienced that phenomenon my fair share of times :joy:

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#976

What phone do you own? I’ve only had it happen a few times. Weirdly it didn’t happen during one of our rocket launches where we were in snow for a few hours.

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#977

I got an iPhone 5 (or 5s, really don’t remember or know the difference). I know y’all like to hate on Apple but I really like it. I will admit that it’s got booty storage and battery tho. I’m severely limited in what I can download and store on here and my max battery capacity is currently at 68% of max :joy:

I had an Android before this one and it was alright. I just enjoy the interface of Apple better and the fact that it lets me connect better with people because literally all my friends have Apple.

The biggest drawback of Apple as we all know is the fact that there’s no GBA emulator on the App Store but that’s a whole different discussion.

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#978

Now if only somebody had invented some kind of way for people to get more storage on your phone fairly cheaply. I mean if I were to do it, I’d probably do it on some kind of ejectable flash storage in a small, standrardised, form factor and it would then just be up to manufacturers to implement a slot for it…Oh, wait… :joy:

You enjoy being stripped of basic and useful features? :joy:

The inability of an Apple device to interface with anything other than an Apple device boils my blood. Like you can’t even transfer your files by just plugging it into a PC with a USB. It doesn’t behave like an external drive like all other phones.

I’m reposting this from an old post of mine:

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#979

There’s little adapters that allow you to plug in :roll_eyes:
Blegh
Bla bla we know the limitations

Lmao to the sd card bit tho…

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#980

I do admit macs are garbage. That’s a known fact.

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#981

@alz89 boutta come whoop your fishtail lol

#982

The only good thing to come out of Apple was Magsafe, but they realised it was actually a very good and useful idea, so they killed it immediately, because they can’t afford to come up with anything that’s actually useful, lest their reputation takes a battering. :joy:

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#983

@anna834, what’s the situation on the battery?

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