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iPad 4 - What is your average Battery duration w/ AB?

Hi iPad 4 Users,

I´m wondering how is your Battery duration using Audiobus along some other apps?

Surfin the web and watching youtube videos, i´m able to nearly reach apple´s promised 10 hours of battery duration. 8 hours to be exactly. But it seems, running some music making/manipulating apps need a ton of battery power. Which I find pretty surprising compared to all the energy draining videos.

The iPad4 i´m using, i bought some months ago. So the battery is pretty new. I recalibrated the iPads´ battery by using it until it turned off by itself and then re-charged. Did this two or three times, before i began this little test.

To make it comparable, here are my iPad settings. I think i turned everything unnecessary off, which draines battery power:

  • iOS 6.1.3
  • auto bright: off
  • brightness: 75%
  • push notification/mail: off
  • location services: off
  • flight modus: on
  • Apps used at the same time: Audiobus, Beatmaker 2, Animoog, Audioshare, Loopy HD, Samplr

In the first run, i reached a battery duration about 5 hours.

I´m curious about your experience...

Comments

  • I haven't timed it, but if you are using several music apps at once then you are probably using it more intensively than just watching a video or other "normal" or average use, so i'm not too surprised that the battery drains faster in these circumstances.

  • Yes, not just with AudioBus. As soon as you run apps in the background (red recording bar) you will drain power much quicker!

  • thank you for the quick answer, guys.

    @PhilW

    I see. It really looks like the processor needs more power to run several apps at the same time compared to watch youtube/vimeo videos. I´m surprised. Well, enlightened :-)

    @Trueyorky

    Agree. As soon the red recording bar appears, I can see my battery display dropping 1% each couple minutes. I find it to fast actually. So was a bit concerned my battery was damaged somehow. But as i said, websurfing with 50% of brightness i get a 8hours of uses out of 1 charge.

    Still curious to hear some experience of other iPad4 users here.

  • I only can talk about my usage of about 3h per session (including short breaks, during which everything keeps running, but isn' really in use), active: Audiobus, Bitwiz, Sampler, iDensity (input), sometimes switched to Loopy, Turnado (effect), Lineout. During these 3h the battery goes down about 25% (from 80 to 60, 50 to 30, etc.). I never had it running any longer yet, but it seems pretty consistent with your findings, since I don't use any output-App... .

  • I using ipad4 too, but I haven't really time the usage, I only using Jamup Pro for input, GarageBand for output, it seems the battery drain similar like yours with 3G on. But I think that the 75% of screen brightness is way too high for me, normally I will only go for 25%.

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