Hello Mark, yes that's exactly what Scott means. > On Oct 23, 2015, at 2:16 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Scott, > > I changed the Subject line to more accurately reflect our conversation. > > Thank you ever so much for the tips on how to calibrate my iPhone battery. > > I will do exactly as you suggest. > > I have already rebooted the phone and I have forced a reset via > simultaneously pressing both the Home and Power button until the device > restarted by displaying the Apple Logo. > > One question: > > When you say "completely drain the battery", do you mean let the battery > drain all the way down until the phone will no longer power on? Past all of > the warnings? > > Thank you again, > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Granados > Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 5:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Mark on iOS 9.1, So Far > > Mark, I think I can help you on the battery front. > > I'm running the 6S+ with 9.1, a 6 with 9.1 and several iPads with 9.1. When > you first start out with a device the battery circuits need a bit of > celebration. It's not like the old days where a battery was just a battery. > There's complex little circuits embedded in the batteries that actually > control their discharge and manage their operation. These need to calibrate > and this is also why you should calibrate your phone once per month or so. > Charge and fully discharge the phone a few times and you should see far > better battery life. Also, once you install the OS and the phone restarts, > reboot it one time further. Use the holding of the home and power buttons > to accomplish this. A restart after the phone initially boots has also > helped me clear many a drain issue. Once your new installs stabilize I > think you'll find that your battery life has improved. Let me know if this > helps at all. > > Thanks > Scott > > >> On Oct 22, 2015, at 5:30 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Well, last night, I finally installed iOS 9.1 on my 6 Plus. >> >> For me, there are no proverbial show-stoppers. >> >> 1. >> However, given that I have been in an ongoing dialog with Apple >> engineers, I am a little disappointed that the camera app zoom >> VoiceOver bug still persist. However, on a positive note, at least, >> enabling VoiceOver, after zooming in on an image, no longer cancels the > zoom. Baby steps, eh? >> (smile). >> >> 2. >> I am surprised at how much I miss having the time announced when >> waking the phone. >> >> 3. >> Perhaps it's just me but I swear the quality of Samantha has been >> greatly degraded in this version. I just don't understand why, with >> every major release since iOS 6.x, the quality of Samantha has been > steadily declining. >> Of course, this is just my opinion. What I do find interesting is >> that Samantha's pronunciation of words that were absolutely correct in >> iOS 8, has been changed and are now incorrect in iOS 9.1. >> >> In iOS 8.x, I found the high quality version of the Samantha voice >> somewhat pleasant, in iOS 9.x, I find it unsettling, to say the least. >> I cannot imagine having the current Samantha voice reading long >> stretches of texts, whereas in the previous iOS, this would not have >> even been at issue. Is Apple trying to force everyone to Alex? (Yes, a > conspiracy theory). >> (Smile). >> >> 4. >> Also, the SMS Reply To dictation feedback problem is very, very annoying. > >> >> For those who disagree, let me say that I respect your opinion. Also, >> the feedback is not much of a problem if one dictates using either a >> Bluetooth or wired headset. I suppose it is not much of an issue if >> one only dictates >> 1 or 2 words. However, if one attempts to dictate a full sentence, >> then the feedback becomes problematic as a kind of feedback loop >> ensues causing a great deal of random text to be inserted as Siri, >> hearing VoiceOver, begins to dictate to itself. >> >> 5. >> I know this comes up every time a new OS is released but it seems to >> me as though my battery drains faster since updating from 8.x to 9.1. >> I just turned off a lot of items that were active in the background >> app refresh area so I'll see how it goes. However, I can tell you >> that I updated a total of three 6 plus phones, yesterday, two from iOS >> 9.0.2. Now, even though both of those two phones that were already >> running 9.x, were plugged into an outlet at the time of the update, >> via OTA, both had less charge after updating than they did, before the >> update began. I've never seen such a thing before. >> >> 6. >> As always, I have sent my findings to Apple. >> >> 7. >> Finally, and I want to be clear on this: Updating the OS OTA >> (over-the-air) is in no way the same as installing it from iTunes via >> a USB cable. For whatever reason, there does seem to be a pattern of >> more problems when going from iOS 8.x to 9.x via OTA. >> >> What is the difference between the OTA method and the iTunes method? >> In short, updating OTA does not rewrite the file allocation table and >> file structures, just for starters. When you update via iTunes, it is >> as if you are doing a fresh install as all of the file tables and data >> clusters are actually rewritten to the disk.. >> >> Want proof of this? No problem, here's how to verify the difference. >> When you use the OTA method, you will notice that any custom keyboard >> shortcuts you may have added remain, after the update. However, when >> you update via iTunes, you will discover that only default keyboard >> shortcuts exist, meaning you will have to rewrite your custom keyboard > shortcuts. >> >> I wish I could lay claim to having learned about the difference >> between the two methods, independently but I was told of the >> difference by a senior Apple iOS design engineer. >> >> I'll be honest, I have not used the iTunes method since the OTA option >> became available but now that I have had several of my recent syncing >> problems resolved after having used the iTunes method, I'll probably >> use it from now on, when possible. >> >> Mark >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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