Hey so today my iphone 5 has started to drain my battery at a crazy pace.
After I removed my phone from its nightly charge after 3 hours of being idle in my pocket I got a 20% remaining battery life warning.
I checked my phone and it had been downloading from cellular ( I am at work) and my usage was at 11 GB of data. Not sure how much was used this morning so I went and did the following
1.) turned off cellular for all my apps and the problem was not resolved.
2.) turned off all location services and still the same problem
3.) I updated 2 apps this morning. ibooks and itunes university. So I deleted both of those and still the download and battery drain persisted
4.) Turned off icloud sync and icloud backup, no help
I then noticed my "systems Services" usage was almost the same as my cellular usage. Both located under Setting---Cellular
Looking further into "System services" and it was my "Media services" that was pulling all the data.
I reset all my statistics and yup both my "celluar data" and my "Media Services" usage was the same. I watched as every few seconds my phone downloaded 5-10 megs it got to 458 megs before I turned off all Cellular to my phone and that did the trick.
What is media Services doing? and how do I stop it?
Currently I have Cellular data turned off and its not longer downloading and my battery drain is back to normal, but my fancy phone is now just a phone
Thankfully I am on ATT and grandfathered into unlimited data (even though this will throttle my speed for the remainder of the month now)
anyone seen this before?
After I removed my phone from its nightly charge after 3 hours of being idle in my pocket I got a 20% remaining battery life warning.
I checked my phone and it had been downloading from cellular ( I am at work) and my usage was at 11 GB of data. Not sure how much was used this morning so I went and did the following
1.) turned off cellular for all my apps and the problem was not resolved.
2.) turned off all location services and still the same problem
3.) I updated 2 apps this morning. ibooks and itunes university. So I deleted both of those and still the download and battery drain persisted
4.) Turned off icloud sync and icloud backup, no help
I then noticed my "systems Services" usage was almost the same as my cellular usage. Both located under Setting---Cellular
Looking further into "System services" and it was my "Media services" that was pulling all the data.
I reset all my statistics and yup both my "celluar data" and my "Media Services" usage was the same. I watched as every few seconds my phone downloaded 5-10 megs it got to 458 megs before I turned off all Cellular to my phone and that did the trick.
What is media Services doing? and how do I stop it?
Currently I have Cellular data turned off and its not longer downloading and my battery drain is back to normal, but my fancy phone is now just a phone
Thankfully I am on ATT and grandfathered into unlimited data (even though this will throttle my speed for the remainder of the month now)
anyone seen this before?
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