ide takes about 40 minutes (so almost an 1 1/2 hours there and back). my old iPhone would have its battery drain pretty quickly as well. my iPhone is a year old and i go from a full battery to about 1/5 power in less than a day and have run out a few times along the way when i really needed to get back online more. my wife's 1st gen. iPhone can go days without being recharged. she obviously didn't