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4.0 Battery Drain?
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Same here
I updated my 3GS to 4.0 GM and have really bad battery life. The first full charge got me almost 7 hours of standby with about an hour of talk and wifi usage. With this type of usage on 3.x, i could have easily gone a couple of days between charges. I set my only email address that was using fetch to manual and I left three addresses as push. This improved things a little bit. I took the phone off the charger and left it sitting on standby for about 5.5 hours. This drained my battery to about 65%. Still, this is not acceptable. I have a 12 hour road trip coming up in less than a week and don't (yet) have a car charger.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate them.
I updated my 3GS to 4.0 GM and have really bad battery life. The first full charge got me almost 7 hours of standby with about an hour of talk and wifi usage. With this type of usage on 3.x, i could have easily gone a couple of days between charges. I set my only email address that was using fetch to manual and I left three addresses as push. This improved things a little bit. I took the phone off the charger and left it sitting on standby for about 5.5 hours. This drained my battery to about 65%. Still, this is not acceptable. I have a 12 hour road trip coming up in less than a week and don't (yet) have a car charger.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate them.
Download and reinstall and set up as a new phone- do not restore from backup. Alos try resetting network settings
Yeah. I did reset network settings. I was kind of hoping to not set up as new phone. Will I lose my app data by doing this, such as game states and things like that?
I can add credibility to this. I upgraded to iOS 4 GM yesterday and was just telling my wife that I think my battery on my 3Gs is wearing out all of a sudden because I got really bad battery life today. It didn't occur to me that it could be iOS 4 until I read this thread - hence it is likely not placebo effect.
I'm not going to worry about it since I'll be getting the new phone, but I may clean install before selling this one.
Wolf
I'm not going to worry about it since I'll be getting the new phone, but I may clean install before selling this one.
Wolf
Maybe it't because the 3rd Party Apps are not setup for Multi-Tasking yet. I noticed they remain in the bottom Apps running bar. You can close them manually by holding down on their icon. Not sure if this will help. I did notice my battery drain faster today than normal but I also think they were working on towers in my area and my phone was working harder for signal than usual.
This makes perfect sense! Improper multitasking would definitely kill battery.
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Umm there is no multitasking yet. And apps in the subdock are *not* running in the background.
I saw a 20-30% decrease today after installing the GM yesterday.
Umm there is no multitasking yet. And apps in the subdock are *not* running in the background.
I saw a 20-30% decrease today after installing the GM yesterday.
Sorry to quote my own post; however, I have seen some results after disabling notifications. Since my last post, about three hours ago, I disabled all notifications and left the phone on standby. Since then, I remained at 54% battery power. So, it might be a particular app or just notifications in general that aren't playing nicely with OS4 GM. I'll add any updates if the situation changes or I can determine that something in particular is the culprit.