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Icloud and battery life
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Ashin
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Redneck1089
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My battery life too has been the same or better in iOS 5 with iCloud running in the background.
The only time I notice there's a huge drop in battery performance is when location services are running. There must be a bug I'm encountering, as location services is not supposed to be in use unless I'm using maps or the camera.
The only time I notice there's a huge drop in battery performance is when location services are running. There must be a bug I'm encountering, as location services is not supposed to be in use unless I'm using maps or the camera.
wow, didn't know you knew my iDevice so well since i have never even met you!! 😱 you' have some freaky abilities, have you been tested?? 😛
on iOS4. i unplugged about 6.30am, by 10pm i'd be at 30%. on iOS5 by 10pm i'm at 40%.
actually since beta 3 i've been at 50% as i've turned off some items in the system services part of the location services menu.
There must be something wrong. I am getting terrible battery life with iOS 5. I am running beta 4 now and it still terrible. On standby, my phone drops about 1% in 15-20 min, with iCloud on and off. I made a test yesterday and turn the airplane mode on. The battery didn't moved 1% in 4 hours !! In the first hour that I turned airplane mode off again, it dropped 3%. I tried everything: iCloud on and off, locations on and off, push on and off. None made it better. I hope for this to get fixed soon !
clean install or update? as on beta, clean installs are usually the best way forward. saying that i did do beta 4 OTA tho.
Redneck1089
macrumors 65816
Recalibrate your battery. I did this and it fixed my problem when I was experiencing massive battery drain after running with location services on (I had turned location services off too before the recalibration and still had the battery drain).
Just yesterday I was experimenting with location services again, and again I started seeing abysmal battery performance. So I turned off location services, but the battery is still draining too fast. I have just done a full discharge and am waiting to see if that makes a difference again.