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iOS 4.3 battery drain

help me

please can somebody help me????? I have a iphone3gs It wouldn't connect to the computer after a dock connector replacement, so I did the reset everything erase all settings and all throughout the handset now it comes up with the apple logo with a litle status bar around the apple logo and will not get out of it please please help me!!!!!
 
Ashin said:
How to fix it, my three step method, works every time for me and gives me great battery life (4-5 days standby 7-9 hours REAL usage).

Every reboot and sync, I do the following -

Leave iPhone for about 5 minutes so everything settles down and all buggy/unwanted Apple connections are established
Go into settings>store and tap your email then log out
Open the Phone app, minimize it, then kill it in multi-task tray


Done :)

After doing this, I have No TCP connections in NetStat, all buggy, unwanted Push connections are gone, no more random data packets every 10 minutes draining my battery and making my usage go up in standby.

Don't believe fanboys on this forum, this is an Apple problem, not any specific app, these Apple connections are confirmed by numerous sources, and myself have tested it on my 3GS, sisters iPhone 4 and also a friends 3GS.

I'm just happy my battery is great, but unfortunately, this issue is in my opinion affecting ALL iPhones, and I feel sad knowing people are totally unaware it is draining their battery, and the worse thing is it makes your "usage" go up in standby, so gives you a false sense that the battery isn't all that bad (when in reality "5 hours usage" is really only 2-3 hours.
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Cool, I'll have to try this, battery issues are back.

So if you want to use the app store, do you have to redo these steps after you're done? Looking forward to trying.
Thanks.
 
Spitfire411 said:
Cool, I'll have to try this, battery issues are back.

So if you want to use the app store, do you have to redo these steps after you're done? Looking forward to trying.
Thanks.
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Well, you can sign in if you want, but just sign back out every time.

Also sign out every sync, it resigns you in
 
Ashin said:
Well, you can sign in if you want, but just sign back out every time.

Also sign out every sync, it resigns you in
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This works for you with the latest update as well? Afraid to update to iOS since people are saying the battery drain is worst with iOS4.3.2.

Will give your method a try with my 4.3.1. Fingers crossed.
 
busybee said:
Afraid to update to iOS since people are saying the battery drain is worst with iOS4.3.2.
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I haven't seen many posts here about 4.3.2 battery drain, maybe my search just now wasn't a good one. Do you have any links to posts saying 4.3.2 is the worst?

I'm also afraid to update and am sticking with 4.2.1 for now but I think I might crack soon and upgrade and hope for the best.

For me signing out of the iTunes store isn't an acceptable workaround because I use iBooks a lot and logging out of the AppStore also logs out iBooks so that every time I open a book I get a message telling me to log in to be able to synchronise my bookmarks. I can always ignore it but I do read on multiple devices so I want that synchronisation to work silently in the background and to do that it needs to stay logged into the store.

- Julian
 
Signing out of the store opening the phone app and closing the phone app
while standing on your head during a full moon on tuesdays, has absolutely no affect on the battery.
 
iAmYou said:
Signing out of the store opening the phone app and closing the phone app
while standing on your head during a full moon on tuesdays, has absolutely no affect on the battery.
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What if I do it on Wednesday instead?:D

But seriously, the battery drain is bad for me since upgrading to 4.3.1. Dropped about 20% while on standby for 5hrs. I can actually see the % going down every 1 to 2 mins while checking emails, surf or checking twitter., so I'm pretty desperate.:(

Never had this sort of drain when I was on 4.2.:(
 
JulianL said:
I haven't seen many posts here about 4.3.2 battery drain, maybe my search just now wasn't a good one. Do you have any links to posts saying 4.3.2 is the worst?

I'm also afraid to update and am sticking with 4.2.1 for now but I think I might crack soon and upgrade and hope for the best.

For me signing out of the iTunes store isn't an acceptable workaround because I use iBooks a lot and logging out of the AppStore also logs out iBooks so that every time I open a book I get a message telling me to log in to be able to synchronise my bookmarks. I can always ignore it but I do read on multiple devices so I want that synchronisation to work silently in the background and to do that it needs to stay logged into the store.

- Julian
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https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1136661/
So far nobody has experienced a better battery life.:( Some people are saying doing a restore helps, but anyone know if it's doing a restore from back-up or as new phone? Restore as new phone is no go for me 'coz I want to keep my messages and the saved games:D. Would have to play the games all over again to unlock the extras:(.
 
Maybe I'm the only one, but I am actually experiencing better battery life in OS 4.3.2. Currently my iPhone 4 is almost at 2 days standby and 7 hours of usage and shows 23% battery left, which is pretty similar to how it was on 4.2. On earlier 4.3 versions it sometimes drained full battery in single day and slightly over 4 hours of usage.
 
Megakazbek said:
Maybe I'm the only one, but I am actually experiencing better battery life in OS 4.3.2. Currently my iPhone 4 is almost at 2 days standby and 7 hours of usage and shows 23% battery left, which is pretty similar to how it was on 4.2. On earlier 4.3 versions it sometimes drained full battery in single day and slightly over 4 hours of usage.
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No, I'm the same with 4.3.2 on my phone (haven't updated iPad yet). I'm getting outstanding battery life. I wish I could relay why so others can take advantage but I'm one happy camper.
 
3GEE said:
No, I'm the same with 4.3.2 on my phone (haven't updated iPad yet). I'm getting outstanding battery life. I wish I could relay why so others can take advantage but I'm one happy camper.
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Really? I've updated mine to 4.3.2 and my battery goes down by almost 20% overnight with no apps running, except for automatic email fetch/push every few mins. Before 4.3.0, however, I didn't notice this significant change at all. Also, I was playing zombie farm for a few mins, and the battery decreased by 4%! Something is definitely wrong with my phone.
 
my fix method

Hi,

i've got same symptoms.. lost 20% of battery overnight.. 3GS@4.3.3

Thanks to netstat, i see permanent connection to *.push.apple.com:5223. All push/ping/appstore are disabled, but this connection is always active (over cellular data, making my monthly FUP spent in 3 days :mad:). So, step 1 is kill this connection forever :)
Yesterday works "logoff from appstore"-method to me, but after mail set-up, push-connection is back. Even if PUSH is disabled in mail setting, just running Mail in background makes push-connection active (kill mail, connection is done)...

Culprit is apsd (apple push service deamon = /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/apsd) process, running and making this push-connection as it (or another app) wants..
Killing this process is useless, it starts again :eek:
So, if you're jailbroken, just move /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.apsd.plist to safe location (ssh to iphone, mv System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.apsd.plist ~) and reboot phone.
This disables apsd (and all push services!) forever.

If not jailbroken, make sure, no push-enabled-application is running (Mail, Itunes, Appstore, setting/notifications, setting/push, Ping....) - i think, this IS apple bug... (maybe is not problem with connection itself, but with data sending .. on some iphone may be repating permanently, large data size, or whatever, depending on concrete iphone, cell operator, email provider, and so on..)

Now i lost 1% of battery in 6 hours :D
 
I've upgrade from 4.2.1 to 4.3.3(8J2) and my battery life seems slightly better

Sorry I should have said I have a iPhone 4
 
Since I upgraded to 4.3.3 my usage is far better got 8 hours, 30 minutes usage an 2 days standby
 
1 - Reset you iPhone from scratch.

2 - Do a reboot everyday.

3 - Do a hard reset every 2 days.

4 - Once a month, drain your battery completely and then do a full cycle charge.

I do this often and my battery is quite good and lasting longer than before (I have an iPhone 4, 4.3.3, never JB)
 
Hi,

First of all sorry for my bad English.

I registered this forum because i think i found a solution.

I use my iphone with no 3G or cellular data. Sometimes i use Wi-Fi at home or work. About 2 months ago i formatted the phone as "setup as new device". Everything was fine with battery until yesterday evening. Battery suddenly started draining very fast. I was planning to reformat it. But then i do some research on the internet. Which site i dont remember, someone was said "turn on 3G and cellular data wait for about 5 minutes and close them again".

Then I turn on 3G and cellular data. About one minute later a got an commercial MMS message from my carrier company. Before that with my iphone i never got any MMS messages from my carrier company! The date on the message was exactly "07-09-2011 16:04". I got this message at "08-09-2011 15:30". That is 1 day later. The MMS message was send from the carrier company exacly when my battey problem started.

Then i waited about five minutes and turned off 3G and cellular data. Now my battery is draining normally.

I think this information can help someone.

Regards.
Bunyamin
istanbul/turkiye
 
Aye i got 1 for ya

I read about the battery issues... So i decided to erase this file for
the push notifications.... Well as it be since then i cannot connect my iphone4s 16gb to ANYTHING! Ive tried, Ifunbox, diskaid, winscp, ifile, and many others nothing, and i mean nothing will connect to it... Any thoughts?:confused:
 
WraithOfIphone said:
I read about the battery issues... So i decided to erase this file for
the push notifications.... Well as it be since then i cannot connect my iphone4s 16gb to ANYTHING! Ive tried, Ifunbox, diskaid, winscp, ifile, and many others nothing, and i mean nothing will connect to it... Any thoughts?:confused:
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By deleting that file you pretty much screwed up your iPhone for life. Any idea as to what it was called and where it was located?
 
WraithOfIphone said:
I read about the battery issues... So i decided to erase this file for
the push notifications.... Well as it be since then i cannot connect my iphone4s 16gb to ANYTHING! Ive tried, Ifunbox, diskaid, winscp, ifile, and many others nothing, and i mean nothing will connect to it... Any thoughts?:confused:
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Why the hell did you post this on a thread about ios 4.3?? The iphone 4s doesn't even run it! :confused: :mad: The previous two posts were from September and June (!!!) last year!

No wonder you deleted what the poster above said is a vital file. :rolleyes:
 
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