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iOS 7.1 - Battery Drain (merged)
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Not sure I take your word for it... your story keeps changing, either post pics or stop replying to me.
Yep. That's Ars Technica analysis and there is 2-3% variation on battery life from 7.0.6 , something they called as "negligible".
This are they words:
Our Wi-Fi browsing test measured both small gains and small losses, but most of these scores are different by just two or three percent, which we'd consider to be within the margin of error.
Here there is people with a corrupted process and they are blaming Apple for that.
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First : I don't care a little bit about what you believe and what you don't.
I'm a much more active user here than you are, and I posted a lot of pictures and analysis about battery life in this forum, well before you did, especially complaining about iPhone 5 battery drain with iOS 7.0 (and that was documented by Ars Technica also) ....
What I'm saying is that YOU surely have a problem with your iOS 7.1 installation .... But it is related to your hardware/software configuration.
iOS 7.1 is pretty much identical to 7.0.6 regarding battery life
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Please link me to your 7.1 battery analysis pictures then, I can't seem to find them.
I don't care much for conjecture, either post some before and after pictures or I can only assume you are ignorantly believing something without truly testing it.
Oh, and bragging about how active/old you are is just cringe worthy, doesn't make you some kind of authority on everything, or make your conjecture any more trustworthy... either post hard facts and proof, or don't bother at all.
I don't have to prove anything, since my iOS 7.1 installation is working just fine, I have a 2% battery drop overnight and I can reach 7-8 hrs usage time (depending on network signal strength) at ease.
You have the problem and you are making assumptions .... Ars Technica, not an illustrious unknown, made an article stating that iOS 7.1 battery life is unchanged from 7.0.6 : you are the one making assumptions to justify a problem on your unit.
And you are also suggesting people to kill a process it's not supposed to be killed.
You have the problem and you are making assumptions .... Ars Technica, not an illustrious unknown, made an article stating that iOS 7.1 battery life is unchanged from 7.0.6 : you are the one making assumptions to justify a problem on your unit.
And you are also suggesting people to kill a process it's not supposed to be killed.
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You're just not willing to prove it that's all. Really takes no time at all to screenshot usage before bed and after you wake up. Seems you're trying to hide something / protect Apple, so whatever really.
I've already provided proof there are battery bugs in iOS7.1, so it's on you to disprove me with evidence to support it and not conjecture. If you're unwilling to do that, then please just stop posting.
You only proved that YOUR DEVICE has a problem.
No battery bugs in iOS 7.1, just in your installation (or in an app you installed/restored after upgrade).
Is it so difficult to understand ???
I can do screenshots tonight, but as I already stated, this morning I had a 2% drop in about 9 hrs ....
You are just totally ignoring what Ars Technica has written about iOS 7.1 ....
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/refinements-additions-and-un-breaking-stuff-ios-7-1-reviewed/
In the move from iOS 6.1 to iOS 7.0, we observed a statistically significant drop in battery life—the iPhone 5 was the biggest loser, while everything else was down just a little bit. The move from iOS 7.0 to 7.1 doesn't make as much of a difference. Our Wi-Fi browsing test measured both small gains and small losses, but most of these scores are different by just two or three percent, which we'd consider to be within the margin of error.
And especially their conclusion, that are related to your situation:
In the meantime, it's probably safe to say that unless something is wrong with your hardware, you'll get about the same battery life out of iOS 7.1 that you got from 7.0.
Obviously some people are having issues and others are not. I'm not on my iPhone 5s and I ran every beta in 7.1's very long beta period. Neither is my girlfriends iPhone 5s that had no beta's on it.
I have two friends with 4s' and they are having battery issues and tow other friends with 4s' who are not.
7.1 was a very long beta period and extensively tested so I'm surprised to see these issues.
I think the only fix is a wipe and reinstall of all your apps and settings one by one rather than from a backup. Or wait for Apple to issue an update.
I have two friends with 4s' and they are having battery issues and tow other friends with 4s' who are not.
7.1 was a very long beta period and extensively tested so I'm surprised to see these issues.
I think the only fix is a wipe and reinstall of all your apps and settings one by one rather than from a backup. Or wait for Apple to issue an update.
I would be grateful... in fact I would love to be proved wrong, because then I can go about searching for other reasons why my phone has battery drain
I'm far from an apologist, and you can find by yourself how angry I was with Apple for iPhone 5 battery life after iOS 7 release ....
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This is the point.
When two people with the same hardware are experiencing a totally different behavior , this means that the one with the issue has to search for another reason in his software installation.
It could be caused by many factors: a corrupted installation, a corrupted app installed after the upgrade, a software conflict between apps ...
Yes, more or less unchanged from 7.0.6 whilst WiFi browsing in a benchtest to find maximum battery life by that one method. You guys are praising Apple for an update which keeps iOS7.1 more or less the same as 7.0.6, when 7.0.6 was LOUSY compared to iOS6??
Face it, most users were waiting 6 months for a fix to be applied to their chronic battery life - not keep it more or less the same/worsen it.
5S owners are in a different boat. For one they have never run iOS6 on that device and two, they have a bigger battery than all previous iPhones. It's true that a clean and non-corrupted install of 7.1 is similar in performance to 7.0 through to 7.0.6, but that's hardly fantastic when iOS6 was SO much better in so many respects.
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I agree. This is pretty much my experience overall. Better performance (although it wasn't good before, it was crap), but battery life is cut by about an hour.
You only proved that YOUR DEVICE has a problem.
No battery bugs in iOS 7.1, just in your installation (or in an app you installed/restored after upgrade).
Is it so difficult to understand ???
I can do screenshots tonight, but as I already stated, this morning I had a 2% drop in about 9 hrs ....
You are just totally ignoring what Ars Technica has written about iOS 7.1 ....
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/refinements-additions-and-un-breaking-stuff-ios-7-1-reviewed/
In the move from iOS 6.1 to iOS 7.0, we observed a statistically significant drop in battery lifethe iPhone 5 was the biggest loser, while everything else was down just a little bit. The move from iOS 7.0 to 7.1 doesn't make as much of a difference. Our Wi-Fi browsing test measured both small gains and small losses, but most of these scores are different by just two or three percent, which we'd consider to be within the margin of error.
And especially their conclusion, that are related to your situation:
In the meantime, it's probably safe to say that unless something is wrong with your hardware, you'll get about the same battery life out of iOS 7.1 that you got from 7.0.
Here is the problem. Regardless of is you got a small drop, an hour less, or an improvement from 7.0 to 7.1, the fact remains a lot of people have had a huge drop from 6.xx to 7.0/7.1
When I was on 6.xx I could go two days between charges with normal use, I was getting 8-10 hours of usage on my 4s under 6 and now under 7 i am lucky to get 4.
Yep, every single time. My battery life sucks! If that is the case, I would check your location log. I just deleted an app that was constantly checking my distance traveled during the day and killing my battery.
Its gotta worse since 2008. Back then I was getting 10 hours of usage, now I am down to 4. And yes I have done clean installs and even downloaded all my apps from the app store not a back up.
It seems with every new OS update I lose an hour or two of batter life per update.
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If you have an iPhone 5 here are the stats on your phone, are you getting this? I bought my iPhone 5 brand new 1 year and 4 months ago and my battery went out, apple replaced it recently and now I am getting very close to 8 hrs on LTE. A fresh battery does help.
iPhone 5 Battery Specs per Apple
http://support.apple.com/kb/sp655
Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G
Standby time: Up to 225 hours (approx 9 days)
Internet use: Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 8 hours on LTE, up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 40 hours
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If you have a 5s here are your specs, are you getting this?
Talk time: Up to 10 hours on 3G
Standby time: Up to 250 hours
Internet Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 10 hours on LTE, up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 40 hours
iPhone 5 Battery Specs per Apple
http://support.apple.com/kb/sp655
Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G
Standby time: Up to 225 hours (approx 9 days)
Internet use: Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 8 hours on LTE, up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 40 hours
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If you have a 5s here are your specs, are you getting this?
Talk time: Up to 10 hours on 3G
Standby time: Up to 250 hours
Internet Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 10 hours on LTE, up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 40 hours
I'm an iPhone 5s owner and my battery life is just fine. A whole work day without any problem. It was ok with iOS 7.0.6 and it is the same on iOS 7.1
But with A BIG DIFFERENCE: iOS 7.1 is rock solid while iOS 7.0.6 was flawed with too many low memory crashes and a little unresponsiveness due to slow animations.
iOS 7.1 is a very welcomed upgrade.
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The only phone that had a huge drop from iOS 6 to iOS 7 was the iPhone 5, according to Ars Technica investigation.
Battery life with your iPhone 4s should be almost the same. If you don't have the same battery life perhaps is because it is getting older and older (batteries doesn't improve over the time ..... quite on the contrary).
Do you expect your battery to improve over the time ?!?
Don't you know ? Batteries are subjected to degradation. How many cycles has your ?
Batteries don't degrade that fast over time.Do you expect your battery to improve over the time ?!?
Don't you know ? Batteries are subjected to degradation. How many cycles has your ?
They do.
It depends on the cycles number.
You can deplete a battery in a little more than one year in some cases
I get between five & six hours WiFi web browsing, and between two & three hours 3G web browsing on my 7 month old iPhone5.
Whilst running iOS6 I more or less achieved the quoted stats (one hour down on each).
Do you expect your battery to improve over the time ?!?
Don't you know ? Batteries are subjected to degradation. How many cycles has your ?
Not when you are going from 6.xx and getting 8 hours at best then you have an update the never week and you start getting 4 hours.