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How's your iPhone 6 battery life going with iOS 8.2

Lourayad said:
My advice for better battery life: Never do on OTA update, download the ipsw and restore from iTunes. Just google ipsw and download the right iOS version for your iPhone. For those who don't know which ipsw to download, connect your iPhone to iTunes and check if it's an iPhone5,1, or iPhone5,2 or 6,1/6,2.
I have seen better battery life when I do a normal restore from iTunes using a downloaded ipsw, not a DFU restore.
Hope it helps.
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Normally I would say this advice is rubbish but you're actually spot on.

I updated my iPhone 6 to iOS 8.2 OTA and experienced poor battery life. So I downloaded the ipsw and restored using iTunes. Recovered from my backup and battery life has indeed improved.
 
drigo said:
Mine sucks..my phone is not even a month old..I leave the house in the morning at 100%..mainly stream music via wifi during work and occasionally check facebook and messenger..send out a few texts and maybe get a phone call..by the time I get home in the afternoon,it's between 20-30%..I'm lucky to get 6 hours of usage time before it dies..
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I would say that's nornal for streaming music, Facebook and messenger. Facebook and messenger are known battery drainer.
 
Coupz said:
I would say that's nornal for streaming music, Facebook and messenger. Facebook and messenger are known battery drainer.
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Makes sense,I noticed people who are getting great battery life are not using Facebook and messenger..gonna try and delete both and use Facebook through safari
 
drigo said:
Makes sense,I noticed people who are getting great battery life are not using Facebook and messenger..gonna try and delete both and use Facebook through safari
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Using facebook trough safari means " web browsing " and by doing that for a certain amount of time it could even drain the battery more . You won't notice anything better that way you may even get worst results
 
Lourayad said:
My advice for better battery life: Never do on OTA update, download the ipsw and restore from iTunes. Just google ipsw and download the right iOS version for your iPhone. For those who don't know which ipsw to download, connect your iPhone to iTunes and check if it's an iPhone5,1, or iPhone5,2 or 6,1/6,2.
I have seen better battery life when I do a normal restore from iTunes using a downloaded ipsw, not a DFU restore.
Hope it helps.
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Why download the ipsw file from some random site found in google? iTunes will download the correct one for you automatically and directly from Apple. But yes I agree that iTunes update seems more reliable than OTA.
 
sbailey4 said:
Why download the ipsw file from some random site found in google? iTunes will download the correct one for you automatically and directly from Apple. But yes I agree that iTunes update seems more reliable than OTA.
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Indeed , just connecting the device to iTunes will automaticily show you the lastest version you can geat and voila !
 
sbailey4 said:
Why download the ipsw file from some random site found in google? iTunes will download the correct one for you automatically and directly from Apple. But yes I agree that iTunes update seems more reliable than OTA.
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All the links download directly from Apple anyway. It's getting them signed afterwards that's the problem.
 
sbailey4 said:
Why download the ipsw file from some random site found in google? iTunes will download the correct one for you automatically and directly from Apple. But yes I agree that iTunes update seems more reliable than OTA.
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You are downloading directly from Apple servers through those links.
But from my experience, downloading the ipsw myself has shown better battery life on my iPhone, can't really explain why.
 
Hm.....Whay is the battery sooo bad?
 

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Lourayad said:
You are downloading directly from Apple servers through those links.
But from my experience, downloading the ipsw myself has shown better battery life on my iPhone, can't really explain why.
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Placebo I suppose unless Apple uses different code for iOS when not downloaded via iTunes. :eek: There is no way it could make any difference downloading manually with a browser from Appleserver 1 or letting iTunes download it from Appleserver 1.
 
Yes i played it just for minutes but the problem is that the battery % goes down so quick:After 1h iam on 90% for nothing....
 
AppleDavid said:
Yes i played it just for minutes but the problem is that the battery % goes down so quick:After 1h iam on 90% for nothing....
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It lost that much while locked or while using Safari? If it's losing that much while locked try turning off Facebook's location service and background app refresh and see if that has any impact.
 
Salvor Hardin said:
It lost that much while locked or while using Safari? If it's losing that much while locked try turning off Facebook's location service and background app refresh and see if that has any impact.
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Locked and all turned off i dont know whats going wrong...
 
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