iPhone battery seems to be waining, when would I be able to take it back?

jon86 · 22 Nov 2009 at 16:02

Hi.

I have had my iPhone 3GS since around mid July and I would consider myself to be someone who uses my iPhone a lot everyday. I listen to music using Spotify (offline) and have emails pushed but turn off notifications, 3G, wifi, bluetooth and Location Services. I have noticed that the capacity in battery has been getting worse and worse recently, to the extent where I think it might nearly be at the point of being able to be replaced. I have to charge my iPhone every night and have had to start charging it during the day as well. I understand that Apple's AppleCare covers a replacement when the battery is 50% or less of it's original capacity.

My iPhone's battery is down to 23% and usage reads 5 hours, 12 minutes and standby reads 8 Hours, 11 minutes. It's pretty bad that I can't even get most of a full day's use out of one charge anymore.

Do you think it's worth taking it to my local Apple store yet?

Thanks.
Jon

Feek · 22 Nov 2009 at 16:48

jon86 said:
Do you think it's worth taking it to my local Apple store yet?

Can't hurt.

Geek. · 22 Nov 2009 at 17:33

take it back to a apple store!

FreeStream · 22 Nov 2009 at 17:40

Mine was doing this and cutting out, after a week its fixed itself and its fine now.

Whatever happened fixed itself.

jon86 · 23 Nov 2009 at 01:05

One of my housemates informed me that they install a monitoring application on your phone first and use data it logs to determine whether to replace the phone/battery or not.

I'll take it in on Saturday.

Thanks.

arknor · 23 Nov 2009 at 01:22

im still using a k700i (dont laugh) and the battery still lasts almost a week after god knows how many years lol

n111ck · 23 Nov 2009 at 09:27

jon86 said:
One of my housemates informed me that they install a monitoring application on your phone first and use data it logs to determine whether to replace the phone/battery or not.

I'll take it in on Saturday.

Thanks.

This is correct - they plug it in to a Macbook and it downloads diagnostic logs so they can check the actual usage.

Mine was only doing 3 hours use / 16 hours standby and was down to 3% by the end of the day - got it swapped no problem.