Sorry I was talking about my own problem. Yours is constant drain so it's probably slightly different from mine lol. I believe I also have your problem, but with some poorly calibrated battery added on top
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iOS 7.1 - Battery Drain (merged)
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Sorry I was talking about my own problem. Yours is constant drain so it's probably slightly different from mine lol. I believe I also have your problem, but with some poorly calibrated battery added on top
I appreciate your ability to not mess with the results based upon my exact wording
thanksSorry I was talking about my own problem. Yours is constant drain so it's probably slightly different from mine lol. I believe I also have your problem, but with some poorly calibrated battery added on top
I though you were talking about it was poor coding because to kill Mstreamd you have to shut off things in a certain order LOL
I thought by killing that off it would stop my constant drain, since it was always at the top but it didnt make a difference.
Lol oh, no. I used to see that on my GS2 with Google services. Sometimes they restart repetitively but generally speaking it doesn't translate into battery loss.
I'm pulling an all out assault tonight/tomorrow. Almost done with my full drain/recharge right now. Then I'm doing
1) Full restore (Set up as new)
2) Reboot (a few minutes after it boots up)
3) Change a single setting
4) Put my GF's contact in my empty contact list (necessity, unfortunately)
5) Install a single game - manually (to be able to drain the battery)
6) Drain battery to 0
7) Charge up fully (40 minutes passed 100%)
8) Put in iCloud address
9) Reboot
10) Remove iCloud address
11) Reboot
12) Make sure all services are off (background refresh, location services, etc)
13) Reboot
14) Download 3-4 more apps (essentials - facebook, angry birds, tetris, gmail [might pass on the last one])
15) Hope to god that my battery is not still draining
Back to my android days of doing periodically and by the book to ensure a proper fix, thanks 7.1!
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Keep me updated man, how's it looking?
i can certainly tell the battery is worse on my iPad Air, i use it pretty much the same way every day i am at work. havent crash once though so i guess i will take that over a minor battery problem
I have a 64GB iPhone 5s. I updated to 7.1 OTA soon after it was released on Monday. My battery drain was really bad for a few days but as of yesterday (Friday) it seems to be back to the way it was with 7.0.
Thanks for your input. Mines a 32GB 5s and I had the same situation as you, except mine hasn't gone back to normal yet
. I'm going to do what I stated above, then wait 2-3 days. Do you mind me asking what your settings are for Location Services, Photo Stream, and iCloud functions?
I dropped 17% in an hour. And I only turned it on twice to see what it was at.
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You know I wonder if 7.1 somehow mistakenly removed some of the safeguards surrounding the M7 chips power drain. I've literally not installed anything new since the update and it's so much worse.
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You know I wonder if 7.1 somehow mistakenly removed some of the safeguards surrounding the M7 chips power drain. I've literally not installed anything new since the update and it's so much worse.
Why do you say that? I doubt it's the M7 though. I don't feel like it would be able to produce this much drain. I think it's either some sort of kernel working (deep seeded software activity) or CPU ramping up. And since none of our phones are getting hot for no reason it's not the CPU. My guess is it's either iCloud services or it's something we can't fix with a setting but it's in the 7.1 software.
Oh just throwing things out there at this point, no evidence to back that up.
I believe that iOS 7 uses much more resources than iOS 6 did. If you look at battery stats from iOS 6 and compare them, you'll see a big difference. I can't understand what it is in iOS 7 that makes the battery drain a lot faster but its noticeable. And although I'm using a 4S, its only 3 months old. Even the stats I see from a 5S aren't all that great. I used to get 8 hours or more on my 4S back on iOS 6 with a jailbreak. Not complaining but definitely observing
Yes I think that it is widely known that iOS 7 yields less battery life than iOS 6 did. I have a 5S, so I had no choice upon purchase
Yes I think that it is widely known that iOS 7 yields less battery life than iOS 6 did. I have a 5S, so I had no choice upon purchase
But I wonder what exactly it is about iOS 7 that causes the drain. I want to know so I can turn it off or something lol. At least its not like 7.0 beta 1. Phone was always hot and it lasted about 3 hours on standby. It was terrible
In the process of going through my final restore. Hopefully with a "new setup", all settings turned off, no apps, and no iCloud account, I will have no drain. I'll recalibrate too just to make sure
Let us know how it goes. I just deleted my iCloud account off my phone also
Eh, I was just talking about iOS 7 as a whole. If you want to look at individual reasons for why it's worse I would focus on Photo stream, location services (that new weather app, and the notification shade), multitasking (even though it freezes apps, it probably is less efficient than iOS6 was), allowing background app refresh is pretty bad in iOS 7 I feel like. Probably a combination of those.
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LOL, that's a huge point to have not told me about earlier. This whole time I haven't bothered messing with iCloud. However at this point I am literally doing every single thing possible. Cus I'm done messing around
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I gotcha. The sooner we find out the better
Eh, I was just talking about iOS 7 as a whole. If you want to look at individual reasons for why it's worse I would focus on Photo stream, location services (that new weather app, and the notification shade), multitasking (even though it freezes apps, it probably is less efficient than iOS6 was), allowing background app refresh is pretty bad in iOS 7 I feel like. Probably a combination of those.
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LOL, that's a huge point to have not told me about earlier. This whole time I haven't bothered messing with iCloud. However at this point I am literally doing every single thing possible. Cus I'm done messing around
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I gotcha. The sooner we find out the better
Trust me when I say I have everything off lol. FaceTime is off, Siri is off, Location services are off, game center is off, background app refresh is off, home sharing is off, photo stream is off....etc
And you're still getting drain? You're a little bit ahead of me. I'll be testing that out tomorrow. I'll see how much my phone drains tonight though....it's been 7-12% per night since 7.1
Yea but these have been my usual settings since I first purchased my 4S in January of last year
Oh, lol. Make sure to turn off Find My iPhone too, if you haven't already
I'll definitely let you know how tomorrow goes. Didn't have time for a full depletion of my battery so I'm going off a fresh restore and no settings/accounts added. 4 hour car ride, so should be relatively light usage. I'll know for sure if I don't get at least 4 hours usage on the charge that something is still wrong.
Here we go again, imaginary battery drain as reported by d-heads at 9-5...
If you believe that, you surely believe in UFO as well
If you believe that, you surely believe in UFO as well
My initial beliefs into Photo Stream (system daemon mstreamd) causing battery drain seems to be correct.
After properly disabling it, my phone sat idle for nearly 10 hours without dropping to 99% - usually it does this.
I can't explain the 28 minutes of phantom usage though (my iPhone was completely untouched since the first and second photos were taken), but it's better than before where mstreamd would restart on loop thousands of times.
I really recommend people test this themselves though... unplug at 100%, and either make a note of, or screenshot the usage page... and compare the numbers after you wake up...
I'll test again tonight with the battery slightly used, and see how much % I lose that way (since the first 1% seems to drain slower)... BUT, I can tell you before fixing the mstreamd daemon problem my iPhone lost about 5% overnight from 100% - which is crazy when you factor in the first 1%.
After properly disabling it, my phone sat idle for nearly 10 hours without dropping to 99% - usually it does this.
I can't explain the 28 minutes of phantom usage though (my iPhone was completely untouched since the first and second photos were taken), but it's better than before where mstreamd would restart on loop thousands of times.
I really recommend people test this themselves though... unplug at 100%, and either make a note of, or screenshot the usage page... and compare the numbers after you wake up...
I'll test again tonight with the battery slightly used, and see how much % I lose that way (since the first 1% seems to drain slower)... BUT, I can tell you before fixing the mstreamd daemon problem my iPhone lost about 5% overnight from 100% - which is crazy when you factor in the first 1%.
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My 5 and 5s had pretty bad drain for the first day or two after updating 7.06-->7.1 but last night only went from 100% to 99% overnight. Wifi off and Bluetooth off. I'm guessing it was resyncing a lot of stuff to icloud, or recalibrating the meter, or both, but everything is fine now. I think the best suggestion was in another thread : just turn off the percentage meter and go on with life!!!