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IPhone 4 troubles

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FuckAllOfYou
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I haven't heard anyone else have this problem, so I figure i might as well ask the people of NS.
So, I've had my iPhone for a while now and a few months ago i started to have problems with the charging. Every night I plug it in to charge, and turn it off. When I turn it on in the morning, It's anywhere from 85 to 100 (rarely). this creates problems because it runs out of battery much too early. Then when I try to keep charging it, it takes hours to make up those last few percent. Take last night: I put it in to charge at 93 and when I turn it on this morning... it's at 93...

Any help is appreciated.
Jul 9 2012 1:29PM
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walshie
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Either the plug ist working but dude close your apps and stuff too, but the cord is probably disconnected or somehow not working
Jul 9 2012 1:31PM
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skijunkiedtm
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is it actually charging? like is your charger fucked up? with my droid my charger is slightly bent so unless I have it just right it doesn't charge.
Jul 9 2012 1:32PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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I'm thinking it might be the phone. because If I charge it during the day, when it's on, it can get all the way up to 100 faster. I use other chargers, and it's the same thing.
Jul 9 2012 1:39PM
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walshie
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Change the outlet you charge it on? And also close every app
Jul 9 2012 1:42PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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ok, i'll experiment. yeah i'll close multitask. thanks dude
Jul 9 2012 1:44PM
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walshie
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Any time, only problem I've had with my iPhone is when I was trying to take a photo for instagram driving 55 on a backroad And I had it plugged into my audio, next thing I know I bump the cord and the phone ejects out of my hand and out the window, long story short I just got a new back glass lucky the front wasnt damaged at all
Jul 9 2012 1:49PM
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cubber
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Close apps and reset the phone? > hold home and sleep button simultaneously for ten seconds
Jul 9 2012 1:50PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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hahahaha iPhones are fuckin tanks. I'm amazing that you didn't break the whole thing
Jul 9 2012 1:52PM
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Gypsy_Skier
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btw OP meant to ask, how's your rep doin?

Jul 9 2012 1:59PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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what?
Jul 9 2012 2:00PM
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Gypsy_Skier
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Galaxy S3. fuck iphone. and u seemed to be butthurt about your rep or smt going to shit thanks to that skiierman thread. wait i'll bump it up so you can read it
Jul 9 2012 2:05PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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k cool. do whatever you want
Jul 9 2012 2:07PM
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dan1080
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has your phone been damaged by water or gotten some sand it in or something? i have had problems with 3 seperate i phones, i mean mostly my fault except for one but theyve gotten minor water damage or something (2 of them) and charging capabilities seem to decrease. i have to switch up the chargers i use because after a month or so of using a charger it will no longer work. either way good luck to you
Jul 9 2012 2:07PM
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richard.
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Could be a battery problem, were the battery is not holding the charge.
Jul 9 2012 2:08PM
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Mag
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the fact that your apps are open is not the problem, Iphones charge to 80% in 2 hours I think and then it's another 2 hours for 80 to 100, you said you turned the phone off? have you tried leaving it on? try the following:
use a different charging cable
if that doesn't work use a different power source, as it's quite possible the power is just too low coming from your source.
Jul 9 2012 2:09PM
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theBearJew
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That happened to me for maybe 3 days in a row. then all the sudden it just stopped.. no idea why or how I fixed it. But it stopped...

Good luck that most likely was no help to you.
Jul 9 2012 2:14PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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Maybe. It doesn't lose charge too fast though. weird
Jul 9 2012 2:21PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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oh that's good info. Yeah I'll try a different outlet or my comp. I don't really want to keep it on for so long... keep smartphones on that long creates problems
Jul 9 2012 2:22PM
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baethoven
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wait.. how did it manage to do that?
Jul 9 2012 2:49PM
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Mag
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how does it? I keep mine on constantly, literally never turn it off unless it runs out of battery.
Jul 9 2012 2:52PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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oh... I just remember when I got my first phone (an android) the salesman told me not to keep it on for long periods of time. and boy if I did, it sure got fucked up. Well, that phone sucked, so why would I think that would carry over to iPhones? I'll try that.

Thanks everyone!
Jul 9 2012 2:58PM
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YouAllSuck
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how high is your brightness? if your brightness is high that will kill battery life. not sure about the charging problem though
Jul 9 2012 3:03PM
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FuckAllOfYou
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usually have it pretty high. you're right, it fucks with my battery
Jul 9 2012 3:04PM
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