Why do you talk to me as if you know what level of a user I am, and as if I'm not fully aware that this is beta software?
Get over yourself.
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iOS 7 beta 3 is actually worse than beta 2?
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Why do you talk to me as if you know what level of a user I am, and as if I'm not fully aware that this is beta software?
Get over yourself.
For me it has been the best beta! No crashes so far and the battery life is being just on a pare with iOS 6.
Man I'm getting terrible battery life. Installed Beta 3 as a fresh install on my iPhone 5 (which itself was only 2 weeks old), and I'm sitting at 66%, when I would normally be at 80ish%.
I've disabled Background Refresh, a whole host of App and System Location Services (including Passbook, which still requests Location Access even if none of the entries have Show On Lockscreen turned on) and the drain is incredible. Hell I only have 3 apps in the Notification Area!
Not sure what's going on over here. I get that this is a beta, so my complaints are baseless, but seeing that no one else is getting high drain is making me believe it's my device. Or maybe a new install is needed.
Who knows.
One thing's for sure. There are so many variables, it seems, in terms of device, settings, apps & usage that we can't make general statements about the Betas.
My experience on a 4S is the total opposite of yours, for example.
Beta 1 was surprisingly good on my phone. 2 was shockingly bad with stock apps and others crashing regularly.
Beta 3 is a decent improvement with extremely few crashes but one spectacular blast out to DFU for me.
It is very weird as it appears to have different impact on a different phones.
Here is screenshot of my phones battery usage today (I have posted somewhere else too)
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Wouldn't one of the reasons why battery drain is worse than in previous betas or iOS is due to apps have not yet been updated to be optimised? I think so. Anyways, I only did a manual transfer of contacts, photos, songs, apps, etc on my iPhone 4S. For my iPad 3 and 2 iPhone 4, I restored from backup. Don't know if that's the reason why my iPhone 4S performance seems to be the best among all. All of them send me straight to home screen when I first want to change wallpapers, though. Hmm ... Beta 3 does seem to be better than previous betas for all my iDevices.
Well, considering how closely iOS tends to hand-hold apps in giving them cycles, I really doubt it. If existing iOS 6 code that ran fine is suddenly causing battery problems, that's a regression in the OS, not the apps.
That said, the battery bugs I've seen make the device warm with iOS 7. Which means that the system is using a LOT more CPU than it should, not just a little. When I hit that though, shutting down the device and bringing it back up have fixed it. Haven't seen any drain on Beta 3 after doing that, but I did see it immediately after the update. So it's likely a system service misbehaving, and those are usually free to do whatever they want. Still an OS bug.
Beta 3 is a huge step up in stability. My only gripe is I can't get a steady network connection on both cellular and WiFi.
Tried reinstalling it but to no avail. Guess I'm jumping back down to 2.
You are not helping jumping back to 2
Music listening perhaps but when i listen to the music I am always doing other stuff on my phone at the same time. I don't stream it though, only listen to what I have in my phone. That's why I said it is very strange, as on beta 1 and 2 I used to get from 4 to 6 hours of battery life and the phone used to get very hot. Now with the beta three the battery gets me through the day and it is cool as ice!!
In fairness, this forum is dedicated to iOS 7 discussions. Nothing wrong with submitting a bug report and discussing it here as well.
Ya. I think people get a new Beta or release version of iOS and then spend tons of time playing with all the new features, and then complain that it's draining their battery faster than the previous version - but it's because they're playing with it more than usual, because of the novelty. Or people are constantly staring at their screen and battery indicator, monitoring how fast it's draining, where they used to leave their phone in their pocket much more.
You didn't even read the OP, did you?
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Something interesting I've noticed about battery usage reporting (since beta 1)... the "standby" time is inaccurate. The standby time is actually the entire time since you've unplugged your phone. To get the actual standby time, you have to subtract your usage time from the displayed standby time.
Like if you unplug your phone and use it immediately for an hour, both your usage and standby times will say 1 hour.
I don't know if that's a bug in iOS 7, or if it's always been like that even in previous iOS versions (as I've never really cared to look before).
Beta 3 runs a lot smoother on my iPod then Beta 2 did. Out of all the betas, I have to say 2 was the worse.
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