iDevice battery Life

[AggieMike88]

Evidently there is a "fail" with battery life on the new iPhone 4s, according to an article that is in USA Today. Link = http://usat.ly/sNHVwG

The big thing to take away from the article for us pilots with iPads and iPhones is that there are some software settings that might help extend battery life by turning them off. See the instructions at the end of the article.

 

[rpadula]

Ask and ye shall receive:

Apple confirms battery life issues, software update coming

They've already seeded 5.0.1 beta. The very last item should be good for those approach charts programs.

iOS 5.0.1 beta contains improvements and other bug fixes including:
- Fixes bugs affecting battery life
- Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad
- Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud
- Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation
- Contains security improvements

iOS 5.0.1 beta introduces a new way for developers to specify files that should remain on device, even in low storage situations.

 

[denverpilot]

iOS 5.0.1 beta introduces a new way for developers to specify files that should remain on device, even in low storage situations.

Yay.

 

[flhrci]

Ask and ye shall receive:

Apple confirms battery life issues, software update coming

They've already seeded 5.0.1 beta. The very last item should be good for those approach charts programs.

iOS 5.0.1 beta contains improvements and other bug fixes including:
- Fixes bugs affecting battery life
- Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad
- Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud
- Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation
- Contains security improvements

iOS 5.0.1 beta introduces a new way for developers to specify files that should remain on device, even in low storage situations.

Wow! Seems like a corporation actually listened to complaints or am I imagining it?

David

 

[Jaybird180]

I upgraded to iOS 5 and heard about the battery issue this morning. Anyone have experience in-flight with a battery causing a potential loss of situational awareness or safety of flight situation (who is paperless)?

 

[dell30rb]

Doubt it... according to that article the battery life only affects iphones and I seriously doubt anyone uses their iphone as a primary means of navigation or their only source of charts. I have an iphone and FF - the screen is just too small to read very easily, you have to zoom in big time to read stuff like obstacle altitudes, and radio freq. on a sectional.

 

[Jaybird180]

The radio program I heard this morning said it affects the iPad also.

 

[denverpilot]

Wow! Seems like a corporation actually listened to complaints or am I imagining it?

You're imagining it. Apple is evil and all things Apple should be never purchased... at least according to some folks. (Me, I'm just being sarcastic.)

The radio program I heard this morning said it affects the iPad also.

iPad 1 or 2, or both? (If the radio program didn't say, I'd suspect the article writer's research skill was lacking, and wonder if the iPad really was affected.)

Searching a few articles, I've seen no mention of the iPad at all, and it wasn't mentioned in the Apple statement.

Meanwhile, the fix for the iPhone 4S is apparently already out in Beta to registered developers...

http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/02/apple-releases-ios-5-0-1-to-developers-here-are-the-changes/

And it includes a way for developers to not have items stored in the "cache" directory deleted by downloads, the problem that ForeFlight is warning about here:

http://blog.foreflight.com/2011/10/14/flying-with-foreflight-and-ios-5/

So that'll be a short-lived thing of the past, once FF has a chance to release a version that takes advantage of the change in iOS... hopefully.

I bet Jeppesen and their JeppView product on iPad were none too happy about the cache deletion either... UAL would probably be ****ed if their pilots were reporting random losses of approach plates from the company-issued iPads they're supposedly deploying.

I think a LOT of developers screamed pretty loud and long at Apple for that gaffe... if you're going to jack around with a filesystem...

Bad engineering call there, for sure. I "get" the problem they were trying to solve, but the solution was wrong... dead wrong.

 

[rpadula]

Aaaand, it's out:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/10/apple-releases-ios-5-0-1-to-address-battery-life-issues/

 

[flhrci]

Aaaand, it's out:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/10/apple-releases-ios-5-0-1-to-address-battery-life-issues/

I feel like waiting a few days, possibly months after the last nightmare with two iOS devices.

David

 

[Everskyward]

Aaaand, it's out:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/10/apple-releases-ios-5-0-1-to-address-battery-life-issues/

I took a chance and did this using their over the air system and it seems to have worked. It only took about 5-10 minutes from start to finish. I had not been having battery life problems but I have an iPhone 4 not a 4S. Of course an improvement in battery life would be a good thing even though it wasn't so bad to begin with.