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iOS 4.3 battery drain

If you don't need your data go into Settings and turn off Cellular data. You can still calls this way. If you're not at a charger it could save you tons of battery life. I'm trying this during the afternoon and seeing if it works. I'm sure it will give me some battery life back.
 
Since my battery life has been atrocious since I upgraded to iOS 4.3, I turned Ping and iTunes off in settings. I also reset the network settings as well. That looks to have improved my battery somewhat. I took my phone off the charger at 6:30am, and it's now 11:12am, and I'm at 93%. I have sent a few texts, checked email, Twitter, and Facebook. This time yesterday I was around 75% with the same usage. I plan to do a full battery dump this week and see if the battery improves any more.
 
Battery Drain plus slow apps

Ok so my battery drain is terrible, but i also think it has to do with the fact my signal has been crap everywhere it has normally been 4 or 5 bars ,i am barely getting one so i will probably get a different one today and hopefully that helps. But my bigger issues is that the App store has been terrible since the update, it is soooooo slow just to load. Some other apps where the same way but that is a developer issue and i know that but this is Apple's app. Even on wifi only my app store is just wayyyyy slow and I am a networking student, I have a very superior home network that i have never had issues with before this update. iOS 4.2.1 worked fine, 4.3 blows.
 
Push email killing battery in 4.3

I tried all sorts of measures suggested in this thread to fix the 4.3 battery drain problem: turned off ping, signed out of the store, reset settings, set up the phone as a new phone. None of these helped. What solved it for me was turning off push email.

I always had push on under iOS 4.1 and 4.2 with no such battery drain. Hoping 4.3.1 fixes this.
 
Using it today, It seems to be ok. It only dropped 1% while I slept for 7 hours.

Right now I have 15 hours standby, and usage is 2 hours and 40 minutes and I have 60% battery left.

I use same settings as I always do. 3G on, wifi on, gps on, push off, ping off. I don't sign out of the app store, because having to log into the app store every time would annoy the he'll outta me. Screen brightness is the default with auto brightness off. Seems like 50 percent or so.

Coming from 4.01, 4.3 is a whole other world. The animations for 3rd party apps are gone. What's up with that? They added some cool stuff though. I like that you can select mobile, email or FaceTime for a favorite in contacts now. HDR photos are cool too.

Just need a JB now!!
 
aphexacid said:
Using it today, It seems to be ok. It only dropped 1% while I slept for 7 hours.

Right now I have 15 hours standby, and usage is 2 hours and 40 minutes and I have 60% battery left.
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I have the 3GS but I have not yet upgraded to 4.3. I currently have 2 hours 45 minutes and 7 hours of standby. However, my battery life is at 30%. Normally this time in the day, with the fact I haven't listened to any music at work, my battery should be no worse than around 70%.

I just started to notice this over the past week. Because I never upgraded to 4.3, could this mean the issue isn't with 4.3, but instead it might be a change that was made on Apple's/ATT's end? For example, the way in which notifications work.
 
I haven't noticed a battery drain with my iPhone 4, but I have noticed that when I launch an app there's a pause and then the app screen just appears, instead of having the "zoom" transition.

That usually happens when the RAM is almost full though, which is pretty much all the time after you start using apps. If that is the issue, then I wish they'd have programmed it to maintain enough RAM available so that the app launch/quit animations don't stutter.

Or perhaps it's another reason.
 
RoboCop001 said:
I haven't noticed a battery drain with my iPhone 4, but I have noticed that when I launch an app there's a pause and then the app screen just appears, instead of having the "zoom" transition.

That usually happens when the RAM is almost full though, which is pretty much all the time after you start using apps. If that is the issue, then I wish they'd have programmed it to maintain enough RAM available so that the app launch/quit animations don't stutter.

Or perhaps it's another reason.
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No, I have no other apps running at all. Safari, messaging all factory apps still have the zoom animation on start, but the few that I regularly use that I've downloaded, just sort of appear when you launch them. Obviously, it's not going to make me throw my phone down in horror, but it takes away from the little flash and effects that ios has.
 
I think I'm going to say after a couple of days of usage, turning off Ping has made the difference for me. Battery usage seems to be back to normal... Or, at least, comparable to as it was on 4.2.

Who wants Ping on anyway? (until they make it worth using)
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5)

So I updated about a week ago. Started noticing battery was draining quickly. Normally, at the end of a 8 or 9 hour work day, I would have about 70% to 80%. After update, 20% to 30%. Last night I said, "bump it". Reset all settings only. Just as I read in previous postings. Had to change just a couple preferences back to the previous setting.

Today, all back to normal. Used the phone just like any other day. I
would suggest everyone try this.
 
Wow, i thought is was just me.

I read a story on cultofmac that said people were reporting battery issues with 4.3 on iPhone 4. I thought it was just me. Going though school, my phone is on standby the entire time(no, i don't text in class, just the occasional Angry Birds) and i've notice that my battery has gone down around 10-11 percent on standby than the regular 3-4 on 4.2. I'm only getting a day and a half on a full charge on my phone as opposed to the 2 days on a charge that stopped at around 85%. I hope apple addresses this quick.
 
jowie said:
Good question... It's quite hidden away...

Settings.app > General > Restrictions > Ping > OFF

God knows why it's in there.
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Will just turning off the ping notifications do the same thing to help battery life? Just wondering :) thanks
 
After upgrading to 4.3 I was watching my iPhone 4 bleed to death right in front of my eyes. I'd lose another percent of battery every 20-30 minutes, even with the phone in stand-by mode.

I tried the suggestions in this thread, such as signing out of App Store and disabling Ping etc; none of them made any difference.

So, I tried to downgrade to 4.2.1, having previously saved my BLOBs with TinyUmbrella. I couldn't get the downgrade to take, for some reason, and was left with the iPhone stuck in DFU mode. I had little choice to put 4.3 back on it and then do a full resync with iTunes.

Voila! Battery life back to normal! Who knows why? But I ain't complaining!:)
 
I hope 4.3.1 allows you to disable the AppStore or automatic sign in, that is a battery killer from hell
 
ChillyPenguin said:
After upgrading to 4.3 I was watching my iPhone 4 bleed to death right in front of my eyes. I'd lose another percent of battery every 20-30 minutes, even with the phone in stand-by mode.

I tried the suggestions in this thread, such as signing out of App Store and disabling Ping etc; none of them made any difference.

So, I tried to downgrade to 4.2.1, having previously saved my BLOBs with TinyUmbrella. I couldn't get the downgrade to take, for some reason, and was left with the iPhone stuck in DFU mode. I had little choice to put 4.3 back on it and then do a full resync with iTunes.

Voila! Battery life back to normal! Who knows why? But I ain't complaining!:)
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Hmm... I knew that was too good to last.

I logged into the App Store on my iPhone to download an app (what else?!!) and sure enough, the battery percentage indicator started tumbling again. I signed out of the App Store and did a Network Reset (Settings->General->Reset->Reset Network Settings) but that made no difference. So, I then did full reset (Settings->General->Reset->Reset All Settings) and that looks like it may have done it. I'm monitoring it now.

That's a major pain the butt, as you have to reset all your passwords, including setting up one to get you onto the iPhone itself, plus numerous other settings, but at least it doesn't wipe your data. And it's still a whole lot better than a battery that's haemorrhaging its charge.
 
ChillyPenguin said:
Hmm... I knew that was too good to last.

I logged into the App Store on my iPhone to download an app (what else?!!) and sure enough, the battery percentage indicator started tumbling again. I signed out of the App Store and did a Network Reset (Settings->General->Reset->Reset Network Settings) but that made no difference. So, I then did full reset (Settings->General->Reset->Reset All Settings) and that looks like it may have done it. I'm monitoring it now.

That's a major pain the butt, as you have to reset all your passwords, including setting up one to get you onto the iPhone itself, plus numerous other settings, but at least it doesn't wipe your data. And it's still a whole lot better than a battery that's haemorrhaging its charge.
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Spoke too soon. Battery is still falling fast even after the Reset All Settings. It seems like a Restore is the only thing that's going to fix this for me. And even then, I'd have to stay away from the App Store afterwards.
 
Something seriously needs to be done about these unwanted push connections related to mail and the store sign in.

I have mail set to manual, and I don't want to be signed into the store each time I sync, then have to spend 5 minutes clearing all my connections to get rid of them all...

4.3 is good after you get rid of this crap, especially the new zooming in Safari, but this is too annoying
 
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