interesting, and the creeps is not really all that graphic oriented. heh. i love playing creeps.. got it for free, def worth buying tho.. chris.
hopefully this and the signal bar issue will be resolved in the next Firmware update, they really need to test their FW's relentlessly before going public.
While gaming i didn't notice any big diference. I played Chaos Rings for over 2 hours (the game that most burned my baterry before) and the baterry fell from 100% to 30-35%, which is more or less the usual (i remmber getting a 20% warning after 2:30 hours before). I was playing in Airplane mode, as usual (i always turned wi-fi and Bluetooth off before). But when i turned the device off (power button + red slider) overnight, the device woke up with a 20% warning. The ammount of drain overnight clearly increased.
I'm pretty sure that if anyone has a jailbroken ipod touch 2g, then they must have installed the wallpaper and multitasking with it. I've heard news that even with the wallpapers on, it's not supposed to be a battery drainage because that's how LED's work, but they do increase the ram, which drains the battery, so idk about that one. One of the changes on iOS4 is that the wifi stays on, even at the lockscreen. Multitasking is a bit of a problem, when games run on the background, especially the ipod touch 3g, it can totally drain the ipod's battery. I've also found that the wifi signal is better when I upgraded. The main problem i'm having is when i'm leaving my ipod on lock mode, that's when it drains out half the battery, which is a big deal, when it used to drain out about 15% (my router gets buggy at times when it doesn't get a connection). So maybe leaving your wifi turned on might be the problem, plus having unclosed apps.
Was experiencing horrendous battery drain on iPod Touch 2G 16GB (MB model). Nearly 50% in 8 hours with everything turned off, made sure nothing sitting in multitasking, etc. I had jailbroken via redsnow with wallpaper and multitasking turned on. I decided last night to simply rerun redsnow, no restore to 4.0, etc. I did turn off wallpapers and multitasking this time. I fully charged, unplugged, left WiFi on and checked it 8 hours later. Lost only 6%! This is either better or same as 3.1.3. It might be interesting to try turning on wallpapers again to see if that makes an impact and then multitasking but don't have the time. Hope this helps some of you out.
Sorry to break your bumping game but I re-calibrated my battery yesterday and it seems to help. Okay, game on.
1. Reset your iPhone by holding down the sleep/wake button and the Home button simultaneously until your iPhone resets. Ignore any pop-up messages and keep holding down both buttons until the screen turns black and the Apple logo appears. Now its ready to learn new values for the capacity of its battery. 2. Discharge your iPhone until it turns off automatically. The battery has reached a minimum level and the iPhone wont turn on again. It shows you an emtpy battery icon and indicates to recharge. You dont have to force a full discharge, you can just use it as usual until it turns itself off. To deplete your battery faster turn on 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS (Location Services) and turn up the brightness to max. Then run a video or just start Skype which is an excellent app to drain your battery quickly even without doing anything. 3. Fully charge your iPhone. Thats it, just charge it to the max and your iPhone learned the lowest and highest capacity levels of its battery.
Ok... The battery problems people were reporting was one big reason why i have not upgraded to IOS4 (have a 3rd gen iPod touch). Now Should I??
When I installed os4 to my 16gb iTouch 2G, I noticed the difference immediately. I lost 75% of battery overnight, from 100% charged to less than 20% while on sleep mode. This blog post gave me the fix: http://sustworks.blogspot.com/2010/06/ios4-vs-ipod-touch-battery-life.html By going into settings and turning off all push notifications and invites, my battery has lost less than 10% power while on standby or audio only for 2 days, and I didn't have to put it on airplane mode.
As I mentioned a few pages back, you should also power-off (hold down the sleep button until you get the red slider) and power-on whenever you get an app that crashes on you. There is some sort of memory issue that keeps the app running in the background, draining your battery life. After getting into this habit, my battery life is now back to the way it was before iOS 4...i just wish more devs were updating their apps
