hold the option key while you click on the restore button and then choose the iOS 7 file from wherever you saved it on your computer
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iPhone iOS 7 Clean Install = Improved Battery Life?
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hold the option key while you click on the restore button and then choose the iOS 7 file from wherever you saved it on your computer
I did a clean install and started fresh (no restore from backup) and my battery life sucks on my 4S.
In my opinion, there is no mastery with this. It appears to be a case by case basis, which also appears to be subject to change at any time for any reason.
For whatever it is worth to those reading, I did a fresh install last night (not update) on my 5. Not long after the install, I could feel the back of the Otterbox case getting warm. About 15 minutes or so later, I reset network settings. Phone has not been warm today, that I have been able to tell. I have used LTE briefly, along with iTunes radio and minimal surfing. I also turned off mail push last night. Wasn't in a good cell area earlier in the day, so battery suffered. I had it in airplane mode most of the time at school. Started the day at 7am with 100%. Down to 67%. I did have a few apps running in the background at times, that I had forgotten about. I am doing my best to be conscious about closing apps asap.
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For what it's worth, I did NOT do a clean install (just updated, kept all my settings and apps intact) and my battery life has been better than what most of the people have been posting. Seems to be on par with, if not better than what I was getting on iOS 6. I would say it's more about apps not being optimized for iOS than the beta just having bad battery management. I'm sure it isn't perfect but I think a lot of apps are having some runaway CPU power draw.
When I installed iOS 7 and restored from backup, the battery life was the same as iOS 6. After a clean install as new phone, the battery life is outstanding. I have all location services on. Wifi and BT are always on as well.
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I updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 7 without restore too. Battery was utterly horrendous until I disabled Background App Refresh and Automatic App Updates and reset my network settings. Battery drain is as normal now.
Ive done both and I cant really say that the clean install helped.
I charged it last night before I went to bed. Used it slightly, it was at 86% when I went to bed and when I woke up it was at 60%. It is currently now 1.5 hours later at 37%.
In the past 1.5 hours all I did was go on tapatalk, facebook quickly, reset network settings, downloaded an app!
Settings are no app refresh, frequent notifications off, motion on!
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Where do you find that setting?
I charged it last night before I went to bed. Used it slightly, it was at 86% when I went to bed and when I woke up it was at 60%. It is currently now 1.5 hours later at 37%.
In the past 1.5 hours all I did was go on tapatalk, facebook quickly, reset network settings, downloaded an app!
Settings are no app refresh, frequent notifications off, motion on!
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Where do you find that setting?
Oh yes I know about that one!
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Battery declining 2% every 10 minutes lol so I guess my clean install didn't work
Someone said something about automatic app updates lol I didn't know there was such a setting unless they were talking about something else! How's it battery dude?
to turn off the app automatic updates that is in iTunes & App Store section in the settings.
I did a clean install and my batt life isnt as good as yours..what am I doing wrong? All settings are off like location, frequent and app refresh
Thats good
About ur batt life! I will find solutions Just hope I dont have to clean install again..thats such a pain in the butt..
great so far 28 minutes of usage, 38 minutes of standby and im still at 100%
Thats good
have you tried the "reset network settings" trick?
Wow that is awesomeness lol it's like I'm losing 1 % every 3 min it seems! With everything turned off haha
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Yah I did!!
Why are you guys bothering? It's a beta, you can't really make the battery life better. The beta has extra debug code and extra stuff running in the background for feedback purposes. If you want better battery life, go back to 6.1.4.
Thats good
Think about turning off cellular for a while, if you are on wifi, especially if your cellular signal is low. Low signal will drain battery faster.
Also, if you load up the phone with a bunch of apps at one time, makes it that much harder to find a possible app hog etc. Just a thought.