Battery Drain from Background Program!?!? (Pics & Proof)

[vrflyer]

.... and I mentioned it on Page 1 of this thread - I guess people just don't read through prior to posting.

So you must be special then(right)?

You should work for the Dept. of Redundancy Department, seriously you should look into that.


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[bstpierre]

The other day I unplugged my iPhone at 6:00 am. By 11:00 am I was at less than 10%. I charged it some more but not fully. By 5:00 pm it was below 10% again. Usually I last the whole day. That night I unselected some of the apps I had installed but wasn't using. They all came off during the sync except iPint. I removed that manually. Since then my battery usage is back to normal.

I don't know what was causing the issue but I am glad it is gone.

 

[slate1]

So you must be special then(right)?

You should work for the Dept. of Redundancy Department, seriously you should look into that.


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Jeez Dude, I was agreeing with you and merely seconding your notion that this has been covered numerous times and contrasted against post after post of "wow how did you increase your battery life so much?" rediculousness.

Settle down my friend... I'd tell you to have a drink but I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that most on this board have a mean average age of 12.

 

[packetjunkie]

I think my mail app gets hung up going from WiFi to 3G and back. Next thing I know, the thing is spinning and never seems to stop. That's when I notice usage times about as long as the phone as been powered up.

I end up having to restart the phone to get it to stop.

 

[slate1]

I think my mail app gets hung up going from WiFi to 3G and back. Next thing I know, the thing is spinning and never seems to stop. That's when I notice usage times about as long as the phone as been powered up.

I end up having to restart the phone to get it to stop.

I have a similar recurring problem with mail; mine, however, will not connect to the mail servers sometimes when I go from wi-fi to edge or 3g. The only solution is to "force quit" mail (open mail and hold down the "home" button until mail quits) and re-open it. You may try that instead of restarting the phone.

 

[mavis]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G (16GB, 2.0.2 JB'd): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_0_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5C1 Safari/525.20)

I don't know how true it is, but it came from the mouth of an iPod Bar genius at Regents Street:

Apparently, the 10 second hold down of the home button doesn't just force-quit the current application, it force-quits all applications. You could maybe try comparing an overnight run after a force-quit?

Some of these apps definitely drain the battery in no time. Aurora Feint is probably the worst one on my phone for consuming battery.

Huh? What 'genius' told you that a ten second hold would force-quit everything? It doesn't work. Try closing Safari, opening another app, and ten second holding it. Now, go back to Safari. No page loading, nothing - right back where you left off. Now try force-quitting Safari, and re-open it. Notice anything different?