[macvoiceover] Re: iPhone battery with VO?
- From: Jim Fettgather <jimfettgather@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:09:07 -0600
With moderate use, that is, with Voiceover always running, bluetooth
disable, WiFi disabled, but with location services activated, I can
get a day's worth of use, but the phone must absolutely be charged
during the overnight hours every night.
On 12/3/09, Candie Stiles <cstiles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I use the iPhone with voice over as well and the battery seems to
> drain prety quickly alsol
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Laura <laura.mcg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've written to accessibility about this, but I thought it might be
>> worth checking here, too. Can I ask those of you using voiceover on
>> your iPhones what the battery life is like? Specifically, what's it
>> like when the phone is just on standby? I had my first iPhone
>> replaced yesterday, after 2 weeks of using it, because I was finding
>> that the battery charge dropped pretty substantially while I was
>> doing absolutely nothing with it--it would often drop between 20 and
>> 30% over night, and when that happened, the usage and the standby
>> times displayed in the settings menu were very, very similar.
>>
>> The guy in the Apple store yesterday gave me a new one, thinking it
>> might just be a fault, but the same thing happened last night. I've
>> got wifi, bluetooth and location services turned off, and the screen
>> curtain turned on. I switched 3G off for a while with the first
>> phone, but that didn't help, so I just keep it on now. I spoke to
>> someone in Apple tech support this morning, and he's sure it's
>> voiceover, that just having it activated will significantly drain
>> the battery, whether or not the phone is in use. I'm not thrilled
>> with that, but I'll deal with it if it's true, but it just doesn't
>> seem right to me. Turning VO off doesn't stop the usage figure from
>> rising in parallel with the standby one, and with Voiceover on, if I
>> power off the phone and switch it back on, I'll get a certain amount
>> of time where the usage figure stays stable while I'm not using it,
>> and then it inexplicably starts going up again. Neither of these
>> things seems consistent with VO being the problem, at least to me.
>> If many of you report the same thing, though, then it probably is.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Laura>
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