iOS 5 Battery Killer!?

[Loves2spoon]

Running iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 "restored as new" at the end of the day I had 65%-70% at the end of my work day. Used hanging with friends, words with friends, twitter, email and lots of texting! Didn't stream any music but battery life on 4.3.3 seems a bit better but not by much.

 

[Krandor]

I think we all understand that this is a beta. I don't think anyone on this forum is really worried about it. The point is to try and find the cause of the extreme battery issues in iOS 5. Yes, it is a BETA. The point behind a BETA is (a) for devs to test their apps, and (b) for us to tell Apple about bugs so they can be fixed for the next release. That's all I'm trying to do here.

It probably isn't some big secret. A lot of times in beta there is still a lot of debugging code turned on to help determine and troubleshoot bugs. I really bet it is nothing more then that... just stuff running in the beta that won't be running in retail.

 

[iceterminal]

I don't have iOS5 installed. But I am reading a lot of information on it and from others experience it seems a few things are very common.

1. People that are having issues with battery life have upgraded to iOS5 from a backup.
2. People that have restored as new are more than likely to have little change in battery performance.
3. Misconception on location services, that each app that uses this feature will individually go get the data on its own. But in fact once LS is enabled, each app will obtain the data from that api and not go get the info on its own. So turning on LS on many apps is no different than turning it on for one app.

Again, this is just from my readings on many threads here and on other forums.

My only suggestion if you're having bad battery life is to do a restore as new. Then compare.

 

[Krevnik]

It probably isn't some big secret. A lot of times in beta there is still a lot of debugging code turned on to help determine and troubleshoot bugs. I really bet it is nothing more then that... just stuff running in the beta that won't be running in retail.

There are battery crushing bugs in this beta. Companies ship the same instrumentation in retail builds as they do betas these days. The 'debug code' myth had validity at one point, but in the era of dump collection and crash reports, the code isn't different any more.

 

[profets]

I don't have iOS5 installed. But I am reading a lot of information on it and from others experience it seems a few things are very common.

1. People that are having issues with battery life have upgraded to iOS5 from a backup.
2. People that have restored as new are more than likely to have little change in battery performance.
3. Misconception on location services, that each app that uses this feature will individually go get the data on its own. But in fact once LS is enabled, each app will obtain the data from that api and not go get the info on its own. So turning on LS on many apps is no different than turning it on for one app.

Again, this is just from my readings on many threads here and on other forums.

My only suggestion if you're having bad battery life is to do a restore as new. Then compare.

I've been using iOS5 on a brand new iPhone 4 that was setup as new, and have had some pretty bad battery performance compared to 4.x. That being said, it is a beta and I'm not expecting it to be perfect at this point.

 

[iAAPL]

Today I tested again with a fresh install of iOS 5. I listened to locally stored podcasts for 6 hours in Airplane mode (all radios off). Battery life: 93%. iOS 5 restored from backup battery life: 50%, as noted on page 3 of this thread.

Tomorrow I'll test with all radios on.

 

[gameboy213]

Things seem to have settled down a bit for me. Battery seems to be getting much stronger oddly.


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[Deegz03]

If I continue to use this beta will It hurt or effect my iPhones battery life if I ever decide to revert back?