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Okay seriously... what is up with the battery meter in Windows 8?

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macmee

macmee

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Still 50/50 here lol... this week I've had my Surface randomly reboot as soon as I attached the Type Cover
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and I had my iPhone turn off saying dead battery, plugged it into charger and it instantly booted up and said I do have battery, wtf.

I was big into Android phones and I switched from the Nexus One to the iPhone 4. I've had it for several years now and I've never had a single problem with it with the exception that it takes several minutes for another device to recognize when I turn wifi teathering on.
 

CrippsCorner

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Don't get my wrong I absolutely adore my iPhone... but it's certainly not without it's problems.

This model though, is mostly plaged by iOS 7.

I'm not a 'hater' but I've experienced issues with Safari, the music player and the app store all of which were pretty much perfect in iOS 6
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tarrant64

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I don't know if this will really work but you can try following steps to recalibrate the battery and see if you get more accurate times. I've only tried a couple of times with older laptops and had mixed results. I believe one method is to even just run your battery all the way down and charging it back up. See if that helps at all. Might not but worth a try and just trying to help.
 

daniielrp

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Don't get my wrong I absolutely adore my iPhone... but it's certainly not without it's problems.

This model though, is mostly plaged by iOS 7.

I'm not a 'hater' but I've experienced issues with Safari, the music player and the app store all of which were pretty much perfect in iOS 6
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I think it is iOS 7 too, my iPhone 5 with iOS 6 was great, then I went to a 5s with iOS 7 and experience random reboots at least twice a week, and frequently suffer a bizarre problem when I will have an app open and working fine, but the home/lock buttons stop working so am stuck in the app unless I 2-button reset, madness!

As for the Surface Pro 2, so far had no major probs apart from the trackpad not responding every now and then but a disconnect/reconnect of the type 2 fixes this. I did however randomly see my battery reporting 18hrs a few days ago, but it quickly dropped to 7 after a few minutes :p
 

CrippsCorner

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Yeah I've started having more random reboots recently, pretty annoying! Any idea of different music players on the iPhone, is that even possible?
 
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macmee

macmee

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Yeah I've started having more random reboots recently, pretty annoying! Any idea of different music players on the iPhone, is that even possible?

My complaint about iOS 7 is that when I updated to it on the iPad 3, it was noticeably more laggy. Oddly enough it seems to run flawlessly on my 4s though.
 

daniielrp

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Yeah I've started having more random reboots recently, pretty annoying! Any idea of different music players on the iPhone, is that even possible?

I've been using Splyce for a good few months now. I like it as you can set it track length and a new feature called smart length jumps you right into the action of the song. My personal use began just as a player for the gym/walks/training as I can set track length and time things perfectly, but it quickly became my default player for music all the time!
 

CrippsCorner

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Okay thanks, maybe I'll check it out. Since posting yesterday though I found Beat and have been trying it out, seems pretty good so far! Gorgeous looking piece of software...

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daniielrp

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Ah yes, it is a stunningly good looking app - I actually used that one about a year ago, but it was a bit buggy and crashed too often. I may go back and give it another try!
 

CrippsCorner

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Just had a look for you and it says the last bug fixing update was in November last year... so if you haven't used it since then it might be worth a go! Certainly working well for me. The only thing I wish it did was to show what number you are into on your playlist.
 
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