Ipad 2 4.3.3 terrible battery life

Hey guys,
Well im new to this site (as of like 3 minutes ago haha) and my iPad has terrible battery life. It's a wifi only version and I have ping turned off and low brightness and fetch mail to manual and push off and everything you could think of to save battery life I have done. I usually get around 7 hours at most in a day. Just doing web browsing, YouTube, music. Well what can do to get better battery life? I don't know if I'm killing my battery but I usually take it off the charger at around 11am and it goes back on the charger at 6pm roughly. That's 17 hours on the charger every day. I thought though that li-ion polymer batteries don't have a memory effect so some people told me not to worry how long I keep it on the charger.

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Have a look at Apple's advice...

Apple - Batteries - iPad

Tim

 

Perhaps its the music playing? That is the only think I don't do compared to you and I get around ten hours.

I haven't tried to measure the actual battery life so it is only an approximation.

 

I can get up to 11 hours by turning the auto-rotate off, only use it when needed. I don't use the music alot, no you tube. Everything else is like you. You should not use 1 thing a day and time it.

 

Use bluetooth by any chance? It can be a battery killer.

 

11-12 hours here. Greatest battery ever for me.

 

I still need to try the restore trick but I lost about 40% a few days ago when I updated to the latest firmware.

64GB 3G White iPad

 

In my opinion the back light brightness setting and how long the backlight stays on could be some of your issue.

I have my brightness setting a little less than halfway.

Check yours and compare.

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How are people working out their battery life? Are you using them constantly, logging how long you use it each time or some other method? I started logging my usage, but kept forgetting

I bought the sys info app as someone said it logs how much you get from a charge, but all it gives you is days, hours, mins since it was last charge. I would like an app that measure the actual time you are using it, not including time it's in sleep mode

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Mine is just over half. I just turned the auto brightness off. It may be the the auto brightness is just now working so I am just noticing it.
Or I may have had it turned off and the OS update turns it back on?

64GB 3G White iPad