iPhone after 2.1 update
I don't believe Susan is having the same problem as the rest here. I understand that push is casuing problems with battery holding it's charge as long as it used to, but I believe her problem is exactly like mine. After I updated to 2.1 my iPhone battery also drained all the way down (even while being left plugged in to a powered USB 2.0 port) now it won't charge at all. It just shows a battery symbol on the screen with a little red line on the left side and the charge symbol (or lightning bolt) under it. It can stay like this for days and nothing happens. I can plug it into the wall directly or any other computer or charge device ment for iphone and it still won't charge. It can only be powered down by holding the power button and home button for about 8s, but it won't do anything else. Yes, I can do a restore and have tried everything from 1.1.4 all the way back up (my iPhone is a first generation) I have currently restored it to 2.0, but it still will not charge. Before I did the update, the battery was working perfect and was sitting at 100%, right after the update it dropped to half then very quickly (like about 10 minutes) went to 10% power, then shut off. This is where things get strange. After reading as many posts on the subject as I could find. Most people would say something like "your logic board is fried" or something to that effect, but I sure don't understand how a software update could casue that. Maybe I'm missing something, who knows. Here's what I did ... and I have documented these steps with video I may be posting to utube soon. First I located the disasembly instructions for the iPhone, then after reading it through carefully, I located the proper tools for the job and followed the guide, taking apart my iPhone as instructed (NOT fun), but after very carefully dissasemabling the phone, I was able to remove the battery. I located a battery I had kicking around my house from an old Motorola phone and notice that the voltage was very close to the same as my iPhone (iphone 3.7v and the Motorola was 3.6v ... I figured the lower voltage would be safe and in the worst case, would not boot the iPhone if it didn't meet it's requirments) I wasn't sure about the milliamps, but was willing to take the chance. with nothing to lose. Anyway, I wired up the Motorola battery (already charged) to my iPhone and plugged it in to my iPhone doc. WOW! the iphone came to life and I was able to reload all my apps and settings. I worked perfectly. Another thing that was strange, was that even after using it for a few hours while it was still apart, I put it back into the iPhone doc and noticed that the battery was down a bit, so I left it for an hour or so and it was charging back up. Even more crazy, while my iPhone battery was out of the phone and gave me no reading on the volt meter (dead battery), I put it on the motorola charger and left it to see if it would charge. IT DID! I couldn't believe it. My iPhone battery that would not charge in my iPhone, was charging in my Motorola charger .. and my iPhone WAS charging the Motorola battery WTF! .... I was happy about all this and thinking maybe I had recoverd my iPhone battery from the dead I put i back into my iPhone and put it all back together. Once it was together I was delighted to have it working perfectly again. My iPhone bettery was fully charged from the Motorola charger and I was using it as I had always. Unfortunatly, I'm back to square one now, because once I used up the full charge that the Motorola charger had given me, I dropped my iPhone into the doc and it went from still turning on with 20% battery, to the next moring DEAD with the same screen I wrote about at the begining of the long post ..... and NO I didn't have my computer in sleep mode or turned off. I don't understand, it can't be the battery, because it took a charge from the Motorola charger and it can't be the charge system on the iPhone, because it charged the Motorola battery, so what is the problem when they are connected together?
