Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-23 Thread Ronda Brown
t members received your original message at 1:02:002 AM AWST > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 23/05/2013, at 4:01 PM, Alan Smith wrote: > >> re-sending in Plain Text - - - >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Alan Smith >>>

Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Alan the list members received your original message at 1:02:002 AM AWST Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 23/05/2013, at 4:01 PM, Alan Smith wrote: > re-sending in Plain Text - - - > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Alan Smith >> Subject: Re: iPad Battery charg

Fwd: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Smith
re-sending in Plain Text - - - Begin forwarded message: > From: Alan Smith > Subject: Re: iPad Battery charge cycles > Date: 23 May 2013 10:02:02 AM AWST > To: wamug@wamug.org.au > > A wrap-up on iPad battery life - - - > > I went to the Garden City Apple store and

Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-22 Thread Alan Smith
A wrap-up on iPad battery life - - - I went to the Garden City Apple store and asked about reading the "1000 charge-discharge cycles" count. Yes, Apple can read the cycle count, BUT the figure is meaningless as it resets to zero each time the iPad is reset! Regarding battery replacement, I got

Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-19 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, Developers have to Sandbox their Apps. All Apps on the Mac App Store are Sandboxed. A sandboxed app doesn’t have direct access to any files or frameworks on the system. It's not possible for sandboxed apps to read the cycle count under iOS. Apple Sandboxes apps for security, to protect

Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-19 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Thanks for the information and the Google search tip. The Cydia app would seems to provide the wanted data, so the info must be available (iOS command programming anyone?). But I will not be jailbreaking the iPad! Just hope the battery lasts until the iPad5 or iPad6 becomes irresi

Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-18 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, There is no System Profiler on the iPad. There are third party apps in the app store that allow you to monitor certain system functions on the iPad. Google "system monitor apps" for iPad. -- "BatteryInfo Lite is an application that allows you to view stats about your device’s battery

Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-18 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Thanks for the response, which is helpful. I calibrated the battery once long ago, but have since tended to use the displayed 10 percent as my recharge signal. However, when Apple claims that the iPad battery has a life of 1000 full charge-discharge cycles, I would have expected a Se

Re: iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-18 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, "The only way to really know the state of your battery's health is through how it performs in normal use, which is the only spec that is provided by Apple. The test you go through is a multi-stage one, as follows: Run your battery all the way down, in normal use, all the way until the

iPad Battery charge cycles

2013-05-18 Thread Alan Smith
The battery of my iPad 2 now needs more frequent charging for normal use. How do I measure the capacity of the battery? How do I determine the number of full charge and discharge cycles that have been made? Regards, Alan Late 2012 iMac 27" Intel Quad Core i5 3.2Ghz 8GB RAM - OSX 10.8.2