Iphone

[sreeve40]

Hi all,

First time to Glastonbury and sooooo looking forward to it!

I have an IPhone and if any of you have them then you know the battery life is crap! Any ideas on what i can do to charge it? Are there plenty of chargin points or any sort of portable chargers that will do the job?

I coulld just take my old Nokia that should see the festival out on 1 charge.

Thanks for your thoughts!

[pie_and_a_pint]

I can't see the logic of taking something so valuable to a festival, to be honest. There is an Orange Chill and Charge Tent where you can queue for ages and charge your phone, or you could try some of the wind-up, solar or AA battery chargers on the market, but I think the old Nokia plus a four-quid spare battery from eBay is your best bet.

[sreeve40]

I can't see the logic of taking something so valuable to a festival, to be honest. There is an Orange Chill and Charge Tent where you can queue for ages and charge your phone, or you could try some of the wind-up, solar or AA battery chargers on the market, but I think the old Nokia plus a four-quid spare battery from eBay is your best bet.

[sueg]

Hi all,

First time to Glastonbury and sooooo looking forward to it!

I have an IPhone and if any of you have them then you know the battery life is crap! Any ideas on what i can do to charge it? Are there plenty of chargin points or any sort of portable chargers that will do the job?

I coulld just take my old Nokia that should see the festival out on 1 charge.

Thanks for your thoughts!

[myusernameishere]

yeah i just got a spare battery for my old phone from ebay for £4 alot better than bringing valuables they might not look as good but better than wrecking ur good phone!

[punkincowcat]

look out for the orange charge and chill tent. they will charge your phone up for a donation and you can pick it up a couple of hours later

[Octave Doctor]

definitely an old phone and a spare battery or two - the chill & charge can be a pain with the queues

[djoli101]

Tip 1 Turn put it on flight mode or turn of 3g, location and wifi when not needed. if you turn it on when you need it it may last a whole day (hate the battery life)

Tip 2 i have a power pack that i will charge before hand that also can be charged by solar. from poundland a wind up charger takes a while but works.

Tip 3 Get a different phone for the festival, i say that but i will only end up taking mine, Hope it comes back. saying that i protect it more than myself at times.

[Laura_Babs]

Strangely, I'm quite impressed with my IPhone battery. It'll easily last a few days and that is with making a good few calls on it! That's only if I have charged it fully though. Didn't get mine too long ago so maybe they improved battery life since the begginning?

My debate about the IPhone is I like being away from the real world when I'm at Glastonbury. I always have a phone but i am worried I will accidentally connect to the internet on it. I like to spend time away from the outside world and don't want to end up online by mistake!

[Laura_Babs]

Tip 1 Turn put it on flight mode or turn of 3g, location and wifi when not needed. if you turn it on when you need it it may last a whole day (hate the battery life)

Tip 2 i have a power pack that i will charge before hand that also can be charged by solar. from poundland a wind up charger takes a while but works.

Tip 3 Get a different phone for the festival, i say that but i will only end up taking mine, Hope it comes back. saying that i protect it more than myself at times.

[sreeve40]

just got spare battery fro my Nokia from ebay for £3.75 and no P&P so im a happy bunny!!

[johnmcga]

Completely agree with the other posters. Don't take your iPhone - take an old phone instead and get a spare battery so you can swap it out. Failing that, borrow an extra old handset from someone else so you can swap when the battery on the first one dies.

Keep it switched off too, except when you need to use it - that'll save a good bit of battery.

With reception problems (sometimes took hours for texts to get through last year) it's hard to coordinate meeting people at Glastonbury by phone anyway, so my advice is do it the old fashioned way. Arrange a time and place (and then get drunk on cider, lose all track of time and fail to meet anyway...).

[musky]

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Tip 2 i have a power pack that i will charge before hand that also can be charged by solar. from poundland a wind up charger takes a while but works.

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[loosechange]

I was thinking of getting one of those cheap wind up chargers. Does anyone know how long they take to charge a battery? Is it ages of winding just to get a few minutes of calling? I just want it so that I could maybe call someone and have an hour or two on standby so that if I have to leave a message someone can get back to me.

[loosechange]

Oops - double post.

Edited May 15, 2009 by loosechange

[sueg]

I was thinking of getting one of those cheap wind up chargers. Does anyone know how long they take to charge a battery? Is it ages of winding just to get a few minutes of calling? I just want it so that I could maybe call someone and have an hour or two on standby so that if I have to leave a message someone can get back to me.

[fur_q]

I love my iPhone but will def not be taking it to glasto too expensive and tbh I'll have better things to do run check facebook, email, efests etc.

I have a couple of old phones with multiple spare batteries at home that I can dig out. Would recomend you people do the same.

[musky]

Thanks for the replies.

I think I'll give the wind up charger a miss then. Looks like I'll be trying to get a spare battery off ebay then.

[tarff26]

I've got an iphone too mate and there's no way I'm taking it, far too expensive

I'm buying a cheap nokia from vodaphone for £4.89 Only me and the burd going to glasto and no need to contact the outside world so I only need it if I lose her (it's her first glasto)

[LusciousLucy]

People people...NEVER waste your precious Glastonbury time queuing for your phone to get charged at the damn Orange Tent. It's a sad sad sight to witness hundreds of muppets standing in line for hours on end waiting to get their phones charged up.

If you are savvy, willing to walk around and have a good old nose, there are always other places especially over in the East of the site and in the Green fields where stall owners set up charging bays (with mini lockers). They usually charge a fiver but you know you will get a fully charged phone back.

The stories you hear from folk who queue for bloody ever and to get a phone back that has only pulled one bar of charge are numerous!

Buy your spare batts on fleabay.

Buy a decent solar charger (which are very good)

AND at the bottom of Pennards and all throughout the markets there are the mini stalls that now sell the single battery chargers. You just tell em what phone you have and for a tenner you get one a very good mini charger with the correct adaptor.

OR just go to Maplins/Argos/any petrol station before hand and buy the same thing for a fiver!

DONT get a wind up one cos everyone within earshot of you will want to strangle you after 15 seconds of usage!

But most importantly NEVER QUEUE AT THE ORANGE TENT cos you will hate yourself for wasting your time!

[Alcatraz]

I sometimes take two very, very cheap/old phones and swap my sim card. If you have a few handsets lying about, use them

Edited May 16, 2009 by Alcatraz

[Laura_Babs]

I sometimes take two very, very cheap/old phones and swap my sim card. If you have a few handsets lieing about, use them

[Kyelo]

I take an old phone and leave it in my tent off, never once needed it.

[glasto_freak]

i got a solar phone charge a bit back free with something, it's great, it has a built in battery, which i charge up before i leave, this gives a bit of charge, then whenever i'm sitting down i whip it out and give it a bit of a top-up from our good friend, sol

[fur_q]

i got a solar phone charge a bit back free with something, it's great, it has a built in battery, which i charge up before i leave, this gives a bit of charge, then whenever i'm sitting down i whip it out and give it a bit of a top-up from our good friend, sol