Can someone tell me which process is draining my battery?

[michaelfields]

I downloaded System Status and I'm looking at processes trying to figure out which one is draining my battery. If someone could tell me which one it is and how to end a process I would be stoked.

I'm trying to avoid doing full restore again.

The only app I have running is System Status and these are the processes it shows.

Mobile User Processes:

System Status
notification_pro
afcd
atc
afcd
MobilePhone
MobileMail
aosnotifyd
BTServer
aggregated
apsd
dataaccessd
fairplayd.N90
iapd
imagent
mediaremoted
ubd
SpringBoard

Root User Processes:

keybagd
networkd
fseventsd
wifid
locationd
powerd
lockdownd
syslogd
configd
notifyd
UserEventAgent
launchd
kernel_task

_mdnsresponder user processes:

mDNSResponder

_wireless user processes:

awd_ice3
awdd
CommCenterClassi

If anyone can help at all I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

 

[Intell]

awd_ice3 is the CarrierIQ process and it should not be active. What firmware version is your iPhone running and what carrier do you have? Have you tried connecting your iPhone up the the Instruments app from XCode and seeing what's running?

 

[michaelfields]

awd_ice3 is the CarrierIQ process and it should not be active. What firmware version is your iPhone running and what carrier do you have? Have you tried connecting your iPhone up the the Instruments app from XCode and seeing what's running?

What is the CarrierIQ process? I'm on 5.0.1 iPhone 4. I've always had great battery life, 5.0.1 lowered it slightly but not too much. Now all of a sudden it's terrible. I've barely used my phone at all today because I was at work and my battery is at 19%

How do I see what is running in XCode? I've never used it before. Should I already have it on a MacBook Pro?

 

[Intell]

Google "CarrierIQ". XCode is not installed by default on Mac OS X. You'll have to download it from the Mac App Store. The Instruments app in the /Developer/Applications. You may have to first tell XCode to "Use your device for development" before it shows up in XCode. Google is an important resource in solving how to do most of these things.

 

[michaelfields]

Google "CarrierIQ". XCode is not installed by default on Mac OS X. You'll have to download it from the Mac App Store. The Instruments app in the /Developer/Applications. You may have to first tell XCode to "Use your device for development" before it shows up in XCode. Google is an important resource in solving how to do most of these things.

Yeah that's what I usually use for troubleshooting problems but I don't understand any of the processes. I'll definitely do that now and see if that fixes it. Is that the only thing that seems off out of those processes?

 

[michaelfields]

Okay so I ran the Activity Monitor in Instruments in xcode but I don't really know where to go from here, how to end a process, or what any of the processes even are. Google isn't doing much for me because I don't really know what to look for.

 

[Intell]

In Instruments, press the record button. Then in the window that opens, you can sort the process by CPU usage to see which is using the most. If you don't know what a certain process it, Google it. You can't kill process from Instruments.

 

[michaelfields]

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That's what I did. I just don't know how to kill the process. All google tells me is the same thing someone just told someone in another post on here "double tap home and hit the x" which isn't going to do the trick in this case.

If only I had found out about the process killer app earlier instead of two days after it was removed from the app store.

 

[michaelfields]

Also all I'm getting from google is other people asking the same questions about what these processes are. Here's a screenshot of what's running

 

[Intell]

Sort it by CPU%, not CPU Time. DTMobileIS is the Instruments process on your iPhone and is only running when Instruments is recording.

 

[michaelfields]

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Yeah I did that as well and it was the same. That's the only thing showing any activity but my battery still drains super quick?

 

[Intell]

Then, as per Apple, nothing is wrong with your iPhone.