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Apple Investigating Reports of Poor Battery Life for iPhone OS 3.1 Users

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Is the iPhone Louder now with 3.1?
Before I was always full volume and wanting more, especially on the train.
now i have room at the top end of the volume slider for the times i need it but can pull back most the time.
 
I was just starting to think that 3.1 has been the best iPhoneOS yet. 3.0 was a disaster for me. Constant freezing, no wifi. I'll take a slightly shorter battery life for sure lol. It would be great if we could have a release without some kind of trade off though.
 
MattInOz said:
Maybe un related maybe related....

Is the iPhone Louder now with 3.1?
Before I was always full volume and wanting more, especially on the train.
now i have room at the top end of the volume slider for the times i need it but can pull back most the time.
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I heard the speakerphone is lower. I'm still waiting for confirmation before I upgrade to 3.1.
 
mm1250 said:
Yes, I've noticed 3.x reduce my battery. I used to safely get a full day out of my phone, than I'd have to charge when going to sleep.

WHEN IS BATTERY TECHNOLOGY GOING TO ADVANCE! This is STUPID! Whoever is able to develop mobile battery technology that can keep up with demands of powering high-power consumption devices with a long period of time without recharging is going to be a real RICH MAN. Right now I see this battery technology really holding back the advancement mobile devices.
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Sadly, battery density is already pretty close to maxed out. There are only so many electrons you can cram into a given battery mass. You can expect to see some improvement, but if you want 100-fold increases, it's just not physically possible. Reducing device power consumption can help too, but again you are up against physics. You can only reduce the power so much and still be able to get a radio signal to the tower.
 
Xenious said:
During the last stages of the 2.0 Enterprise beta a change was made that started my battery life randomly nosediving on an original iPhone with 2003 exchange servers. I had a quite detailed bug report and the final recommendation was that the exchange servers needed a patch that was known to have helped. The whole issue had to do with the frequency of the phone and the exchange server talking. There was no desire to have the patch applied from our admins and we're still running the same Exchange 2003 today. I have this happen sometimes on my 3GS as well. It helps if I switch exchange ssl proxies sometimes. On weekends when I receive far less exchange mail my battery life is considerably improved.

I wonder if any of the users having the worst experience are connecting to Exchange 2003, 2007 or umm 2010 beta?
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I synch mail and calendars over outlook web access instead of straight into the exchange server. After the update, I noticed battery issues as well. I rebooted my phone a couple of times which didn't seem to fix it. I noticed that my outlook calendar was not showing some of my appointments. I removed it and added it back to the phone. Since then, the calendar has been working fine and the battery life is back to normal. Point of all this? Bad battery life might be a result of something you are running that is having trouble synching and so is using the radio much more than normal.
 
Acevesx said:
This should be interesting. I think it is funny how it mentions they ask about wifi bluetooth and push. I went to the genius bar asking about my battery life and he told me that I should have wifi location services bluetooth and push turned off until I have to use it.

I just think it is sad that other cheaper and much less advanced phones can have all of these things on and enabled and last days on a single full charge.
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It is clear there is an issue, but at the same time- the iPhone is doing WAY more than those "cheaper and much less advanced phones" you speak of.....very large LCD screen to name one major battery drain. And those phones are much less advanced....just like you said...the more advanced a phone is the more it tends to drain battery life.

HOpefully they get the fix soon though!
 
You call yourselves Apple users?

If battery life is low, this is not a problem.... its a feature. :)

Given this, we need to ask ourselves how to adapt to the features so graciously given to us by Apple! For example, if battery life is low, then buy an external battery and/or several :)apple: branded of course) USB AC/DC converters and :apple: branded iPod/iPhone cables to make a series of 'power stations' around your work area.

Make sure it has the Apple logo, or it will be an affront to Jesus Jobs!
 
Full of Win said:
You call yourselves Apple users?

If battery life is low, this is not a problem.... its a feature. :)

Given this, we need to ask ourselves how to adapt to the features so graciously given to us by Apple! For example, if battery life is low, then buy an external battery and/or several :)apple: branded of course) USB AC/DC converters and :apple: branded iPod/iPhone cables to make a series of 'power stations' around your work area.

Make sure it has the Apple logo, or it will be an affront to Jesus Jobs!
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Or you could just call Apple and get it resolved.
 
I've definitely noticed a lot faster battery drain on my 3GS lately. I'm not sure though if it's due to 3.1 or to Battle Bears and my new insatiable desire to gun down teddy bears.
 
Well it's good Apple has decided to look into the battery life issue but what about all the other crap associated with 3.1, unresponsive, when it is responsive delays with input, youtube hardly ever works etc.

BTW I have a 3G, never been jailbroken.
 
richxps said:
Has anyone here actually been contacted by apple yet on this ?
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Yes. I posted in the apple discussions thread and received the email described in the macrumors article including the software.

I was losing a full charge within 10 hours (8a to 6p). Oddly, it seems to have gotten somewhat better the last couple of days . . . but my usage hasn't changed in a meaningful way.

My feeling is that there's something in some apps that isn't working with 3.1 very well and keeping processes running.
 
Better Battery

My battery seems to have gotten better since the upgrade to 3.1.

Running 3g that has never been jailbroken.

Hope it continues.
 
As a matter of interest, is this affecting customers in HSDPA areas more? The reason I ask is that AFAIK HSDPA was only enabled in 3.1, this eats more battery although doesn't show as 3G+ on the iPhone. I've found that having HSDPA enabled in WM phones can eat battery as it switches between 3G (UMTS) and HDSPA.
 
bydandie said:
As a matter of interest, is this affecting customers in HSDPA areas more? The reason I ask is that AFAIK HSDPA was only enabled in 3.1, this eats more battery although doesn't show as 3G+ on the iPhone. I've found that having HSDPA enabled in WM phones can eat battery as it switches between 3G (UMTS) and HDSPA.
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Interesting point. I for one am in NYC but I don't think that's one of the places that is rolling out first (AT&T is still patching their edge network in NY)
 
My iPhone 3GS has very poor battery life

I too have been experiencing very poor battery life with my iPhone 3GS :(

The battery life of my iPhone 3GS is nowhere near what Apple advertise :( The iPhone tech specs on Apple's website http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html state:
- "up to 300 hours" standby time
- "up to 5 hours" Internet use on 3G
- "up to 9 hours" Internet use on WiFi
- "up to 10 hours" video playback
- "up to 30 hours" audio playback

The battery life of my iPhone 3GS has never been near anything like that, not even when it was brand new. And this while I turn off Bluetooth, location based services, 3G, wifi and push notifications whenever I do not need them, i.e. most of the time :(

What should I do?

Any suggestions, comments or solutions for this problem would be greatly appreciated.

I am looking forward to any kind of improvement in the battery life of my iPhone 3GS.
 
My iPhone 3GS has very poor battery life

I too have been experiencing very poor battery life with my iPhone 3GS

The battery life of my iPhone 3GS is nowhere near what Apple advertise The iPhone tech specs on Apple's website http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html state:
- "up to 300 hours" standby time
- "up to 5 hours" Internet use on 3G
- "up to 9 hours" Internet use on WiFi
- "up to 10 hours" video playback
- "up to 30 hours" audio playback

The battery life of my iPhone 3GS has never been near anything like that, not even when it was brand new. And this while I turn off Bluetooth, location based services, 3G, wifi and push notifications whenever I do not need them, i.e. most of the time

What should I do?

Any suggestions, comments or solutions for this problem would be greatly appreciated.

I am looking forward to any kind of improvement in the battery life of my iPhone 3GS.
 
Someone needs to add a poll to this thread. "Are you experience less battery life after updating to 3.1?"

I have DEFINITELY been noticing decreased battery life.
 
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