iPhone troubleshooting

[Epyon MX]

A thread for posting whatever issues or problems that crop up with our phones. Off-topic posts will be deleted.

This happens to me occasionally: when I plug in my iPhone to iTunes when it has less than 20% (10%?) battery life it appears that iTunes drains the battery completely. I don't know why it does this. It's not a problem with the connection. Does that happen to any body else?

[Wondermonkey]

Hasn't to me, and my battery goes up real quick when I plug it into iTunes. I'm sure I already know the answer, but you've conditioned the battery fully right?

[Epyon MX]

What's proper conditioning?

[Wondermonkey]

Let the battery die (tough to do with a phone because you want to always have it on).

When dead, let sit for 30 minutes to an hour to drain fully.

Plug in, charge all the way up, and repeat the battery death cycle (don't charge it in between that time at all).

Now it should be properly conditioned.

[CoryB23]

This will be a helpful thread methinks. My iPhone 3G is almost 100% ready to go.

[JParker0105]

Wow wonder, i never knew about that... Thanks!

[Epyon MX]

From Apple's battery support page:

For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).

[Reifel Tower]

someone create and app for conditioning the battery. thank you in advance

[Rhino Chaser]

Reifel, supposedly 2.1 has a fix for battery life!

Personally I think that the 1st solar cell, motion phone (watches do it) will make a killing...

[Rhino Chaser]

Second post, bad etiquette, sorry..

However, I am posting my issue and how it was resolved:
In regards to my issue with losing all music/music & media content not loading. You will also notice that your apps won’t load either. No matter how many times you reset the phone. I believe it means that one of the apps is corrupted.
Use iTunes to remove all applications and then reset the phone. You may need to sync at least one app back to make the fix work.
Then clean up your library. Until 2.1 the updates would continue to stack in your library. I deleted everything from iTunes and moved it to a folder for storage. Then I downloaded new versions of all of my apps. Then I synced them a few at a time and tested them to ensure that they wouldn’t mess up my phone again….so far so good.

Thanks for the threat EP!!!