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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 5:27 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 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 <mk...@ucla.edu> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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. 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