iOS 7.1 - Battery Drain (merged)

[MacBH928]

I have been facing a terrible battery life. I went to sleep when my phone had at least 60% charge. When I woke up it was dead. I had to charge it for like 5min just so it will be able to restart.

I decided to try and do a simple test. I let it charge up to 69% then I kept it alone. I checked after 30min it still had the same amount of charge. I decided I battery shut it down and cold start it. When it did, I had 75%!!

I think the battery charge reader has issues or something. Before that update it was fine. I am using iphone 5. I did update my iPad 3 and it has 80% charge which sounds about right so no drain going over there.

 

[Vanilla35]

Yeah I take back my comment saying everything is fixed. Now my phone basically does not drain at all in standby (going from no service to service constantly over a couple hours yielded 0% battery loss) then 3 minutes of messaging in a good service area yielded 6% battery loss....wtf.

Not sure what else to do. Maybe I'll try another restore....

 

[Ashin]

Think I found the culprit.

mstreamd system process is on a constant loop (Photo Stream) and preventing the phone from sleeping.

I have Photo Stream disabled, so it makes no sense... but I see it constantly restarting.

Gunna try deleting iCloud and reboot... this is an OLD problem, wish we could jailbreak and just delete the daemon completely

 

[Vanilla35]

Think I found the culprit.

mstreamd system process is on a constant loop (Photo Stream) and preventing the phone from sleeping.

I have Photo Stream disabled, so it makes no sense... but I see it constantly restarting.

Gunna try deleting iCloud and reboot... this is an OLD problem, wish we could jailbreak and just delete the daemon completely

I have photo stream enabled, so I will try removing iCloud, and then rebooting as well.

 

[Ashin]

I have photo stream enabled, so I will try removing iCloud, and then rebooting as well.

Just tried it, and mstreamd is just still there restarting itself... well this is frustrating.

Edit: I tried the following -

Go to iCloud.com and do a data reset in the advanced menu
Remove iCloud account form iPhone
Restart phone
Add iCloud once again
I found at this point disable Photo Sharing first, and then disable My Photo Stream

At least that killed mstreamd...

In fact, usually updating with iCloud enabled can cause a whole host of problems with services kind of stuck in a loop

 

[Max(IT)]

Battery life didn't change with iOS 7.1: it was good and it is good now on both my iPhone 5S and iPad Air

 

[Ashin]

Just an update on my mstreamd (Photo Stream) debugging. Well, it seems like iCloud/Photo Stream are buggy as hell in iOS7.1.

Even if you properly disable it - mstreamd comes back with a vengeance after restarting the phone...

I have worked out this process to kill it each time -

In this order enable - My Photo Stream, Photo Sharing, then iCloud documents.
Then disable again in this order - Photo Sharing, My Photo Stream, then iCloud documents.
When disabling leave it for a few seconds... it is buggy as hell and sometimes toggles back on/lags like hell.

After that mstreamd dies, and your phone will actually sleep in standby properly again.

I am almost certain this runaway system process is causing terrible idle battery life as it restarts itself hundreds of times in a day for unknown reasons (I presume it is waiting to sync, but can't).

 

[davelanger]

Just an update on my mstreamd (Photo Stream) debugging. Well, it seems like iCloud/Photo Stream are buggy as hell in iOS7.1.

Even if you properly disable it - mstreamd comes back with a vengeance after restarting the phone...

I have worked out this process to kill it each time -

In this order enable - My Photo Stream, Photo Sharing, then iCloud documents.
Then disable again in this order - Photo Sharing, My Photo Stream, then iCloud documents.
When disabling leave it for a few seconds... it is buggy as hell and sometimes toggles back on/lags like hell.

After that mstreamd dies, and your phone will actually sleep in standby properly again.

I am almost certain this runaway system process is causing terrible idle battery life as it restarts itself hundreds of times in a day for unknown reasons (I presume it is waiting to sync, but can't).

I don't even have iCloud set up, does this mean I wont have photo stream? My batter drain is still awful. I lose 1% every 2 minutes in standby and if I'm just texting or using FB or email or my phone it drops a ton.

I only get about 2-3 hours of usage per charge since the update.

 

[Ashin]

I don't even have iCloud set up, does this mean I wont have photo stream? My batter drain is still awful. I lose 1% every 2 minutes in standby and if I'm just texting or using FB or email or my phone it drops a ton.

I only get about 2-3 hours of usage per charge since the update.

Believe it or not - possibly.

Even after removing iCloud by deleting the account entirely, the mstreamd process remained (even after rebooting with iCloud removed).

Very weird is all I can say... the only way to actually kill this runaway system process is by disabling it carefully within the iCloud settings... but like I said, it seems to come back every reboot regardless.

You can download a system monitor app to see which processes are running and monitor it... basically take note of the system ID... each process is given an ID, and mstreamd keeps restarting (thus keeps getting a new ID)... mine was in the thousands earlier - so that effectively means it has been on a loop all day draining battery and preventing my phone properly sleeping

 

[davelanger]

Believe it or not - possibly.

Even after removing iCloud by deleting the account entirely, the mstreamd process remained (even after rebooting with iCloud removed).

Very weird is all I can say... the only way to actually kill this runaway system process is by disabling it carefully within the iCloud settings... but like I said, it seems to come back every reboot regardless.

You can download a system monitor app to see which processes are running and monitor it... basically take note of the system ID... each process is given an ID, and mstreamd keeps restarting (thus keeps getting a new ID)... mine was in the thousands earlier - so that effectively means it has been on a loop all day draining battery and preventing my phone properly sleeping

how do i download that app, what is the name of it.

It seems like 7.1 had made my battery drain much worse. I even let it die completely twice.

 

[Ashin]

how do i download that app, what is the name of it.

It seems like 7.1 had made my battery drain much worse. I even let it die completely twice.

I use System Activity Monitor... but it was a paid app I bought a long time ago... not sure what free ones there are

 

[davelanger]

I use System Activity Monitor... but it was a paid app I bought a long time ago... not sure what free ones there are

Ok thanks, its only 1.99, ill buy it.

the top process is mstreamd most of the time and sometimes synchdefaultsd

 

[Vanilla35]

how do i download that app, what is the name of it.

It seems like 7.1 had made my battery drain much worse. I even let it die completely twice.

This sucks so much -___-

 

[davelanger]

I am logging back into iCloud, since it was deleted, and I am turning everything off. Not sure if that will matter but it cant hurt.

 

[Ashin]

Will test it properly tonight when I leave it overnight... but with mstreamd killed after an hour sitting idle my "usage" only went up 2 minutes... this is definitely better than the 12+ minutes an hour that was being added on before.

Will see with further testing.

 

[davelanger]

Will test it properly tonight when I leave it overnight... but with mstreamd killed after an hour sitting idle my "usage" only went up 2 minutes... this is definitely better than the 12+ minutes an hour that was being added on before.

Will see with further testing.

how did you kill mstreamd

 

[Ashin]

how did you kill mstreamd

Disabling some iCloud settings -


First enabled - My Photo Stream, Photo Sharing, then iCloud documents.
Then disable again in this order - Photo Sharing, My Photo Stream, then iCloud documents.

 

[davelanger]

Disabling some iCloud settings -


First enabled - My Photo Stream, Photo Sharing, then iCloud documents.
Then disable again in this order - Photo Sharing, My Photo Stream, then iCloud documents.

Ok thanks, Ill try that. Its odd how the order you shut them off in matters.

 

[ZipZap]

Ive been on the beta since release 2. The battery like was no where near as good as IOS 6.

I have all location services off and turned off background processing where I could.

There also seems to be a problem with 4G and LTE confusion on the phone.

 

[Vanilla35]

Ok thanks, Ill try that. Its odd how the order you shut them off in matters.

It's called poorly coded software.

I'm gonna try draining and fully charging my phone again. I think calibration might be off since it's not draining at all during some periods, and then draining quickly during others. Seems like calibration to me (although battery life is still bad overall). I just did my full drain yesterday though, and that's what led to my battery being so whacky today

 

[sunking101]

iOS7 remains a disaster for me. Lousy battery life ever since 7.0 hit my phone! I personally can't do anything with iOS7 that I couldn't do with iOS6 and yet I'm down 3 hours+ on battery life every charge cycle. This is despite more than ten clean iTunes installs since iOS7 first came out. Gee thanks Apple.
Oh and what have I gained exactly? Nothing, just a 'fresh new look'.

 

[Vanilla35]

just a 'fresh new look'.

I even loathe the look of iOS 7

But let's not try to hate on iOS 7 too much, just 7.1, because I want this problem fixed

 

[HCO]

How is this battery? IPhone 5s iOS 7.1

 

[Vanilla35]

How is this battery? IPhone 5s iOS 7.1

Seems fine to me. Wanna trade?

That's similar to what I was getting on 7.0.4-7.0.6

 

[davelanger]

It's called poorly coded software.

I'm gonna try draining and fully charging my phone again. I think calibration might be off since it's not draining at all during some periods, and then draining quickly during others. Seems like calibration to me (although battery life is still bad overall). I just did my full drain yesterday though, and that's what led to my battery being so whacky today

I did try this and its still draining really fast
i am going to let it fully die.