Ipad mini 7 and Skydemon

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Ipad mini 7 and Skydemon - Battery Life

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ThePhantom79	T ThePhantom79 posted 3/6/2025 8:56:54 PM Topic Details Share Topic
T Group: Forum Members Posts: 14, Visits: 28	Hello, I came from Android Lenovo Tablet and had good experience (I normaly not use Apple product). But for my "Flight Pad" I ve choosen now an Ipad Moini 7. Expensive Hardware, good quality (with look and feel I am happy), but the battery life ?!? Its really bad ! After some flights: The Pad is getting warm (even its cold outside / and in the plane not very warm!), the rendering of map is slow (switched on coloured terrain and so on). In less than 2 hrs its empty :-( I habe no other apps installed so far ... With my old Lenovo 5 hrs were no problem. Can anyone tell me his experiences with battery life of Ipad 7? Maybe something is wrong with my Ipad ... (under settings / battery only skydemon is draining the battery) BTW: My colleague use the same hardware, with fore flight - and the battery time is twice (we are both using internal GPS)!!
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 3/10/2025 10:38:37 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.2K	Screen brightness makes the biggest difference to battery usage.
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ThePhantom79	T ThePhantom79 posted 3/10/2025 1:13:14 PM Post Details Share Post
T Group: Forum Members Posts: 14, Visits: 28	Yes, but the screen brightness got down, because the ipad got hot ... It did it, because skydemon something, that makes the ipad to hot. There is something wrong actually! Again: The terrain map appears slow, and there are no other maps on the ipad. As you can see, there are also other customers with the same problem. Additional info: In simulation mode everything works fine and the Ipad stays cold. Even if all terrain switches are "on" ... Edited 3/10/2025 2:37:02 PM by ThePhantom79
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 3/11/2025 10:01:14 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.2K	This isn't something that many people are experiencing, or that we have been able to reproduce for ourselves in our offices, unfortunately. That makes it very difficult for us to be able to help. I would love to know what is causing the slowness of processing in SkyDemon, which presumably is also responsible for it using so much CPU.
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ThePhantom79	T ThePhantom79 posted 3/11/2025 1:02:15 PM Post Details Share Post
T Group: Forum Members Posts: 14, Visits: 28	But what should I do ? Actually I cant trust my Ipad, and I cant use it "productive". I am using Skydemon now for more than 5 years - I never had such problems ...
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 3/12/2025 9:16:27 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.2K	Since we have no idea what is going wrong on your iPad, I am unable to offer any advice. Ensure you've told customer support all relevant details, such as whether you can reproduce the problem in simulate mode, or what external GPS/traffic receiver you're using (if any). How quickly you can reproduce the problem by simply taking your tablet for a drive, or testing while stationary, for example.
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ThePhantom79	T ThePhantom79 posted 4/25/2025 7:44:59 PM Post Details Share Post
T Group: Forum Members Posts: 14, Visits: 28	Hi, thanks for the discussion on AERO in Friedrichshafen @Tim Dawson. Unfortunately wecould not identify the issue. My collegaue in my club has the same ipad and skydemin and has same problems! After AERO I flew through the alps. I made a screenshots, how the SD screen looks like (not for a moment, for minutes!), as soon I switched on "color high terrain". If I fly oin high terrain I really want to have this feature! On an actual device this should run without any issues.
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 4/28/2025 9:35:49 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.2K	Could you get in touch with me via customer support? I want to find out what's going wrong here, so I have ideas about producing a series of beta versions with some counters so that you can help us debug the issue (if you're willing).
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ThePhantom79	T ThePhantom79 posted 4/28/2025 11:31:58 AM Post Details Share Post
T Group: Forum Members Posts: 14, Visits: 28	+x Tim Dawson - 4/28/2025 9:35:49 AM Could you get in touch with me via customer support? I want to find out what's going wrong here, so I have ideas about producing a series of beta versions with some counters so that you can help us debug the issue (if you're willing). Hello Tim, thanks for the offer - I am willing to help for sure. I already contacted the support (Hannah) few weeks ago. Now I send her a message again, that you wanted to get contacted directly. Hopefully this messages reaches you there.
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 4/30/2025 11:15:00 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.2K	I have invited ThePhantom79 to try a beta release designed to help us start to locate the source of this issue. If anybody else would like to try, please get in touch via customer support.
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