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iOS 7 GM battery life horrible!
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If whatever issue is plaguing your phone also happens to be in your backup what good is that backup?
But then this makes backup completely useless. So Apple might as well drop backup feature.
It's a new OS. You're playing around with it a lot, hence the lower battery life.
This happens with EVERY new release. Eventually people revert to their normal usage patterns and battery life is mysteriously good again.
This happens with EVERY new release. Eventually people revert to their normal usage patterns and battery life is mysteriously good again.
same here, but a bit less, 17% gone in two hours (without ANY use)
OK come on. Something is obviously wrong with YOUR specific install, be it app, iOS installed funky, restored bad settings etc. But it's clear that 99.9% of the iOS 7 GM users are not experiencing 17% battery life loss in 2 hours without ANY use.
Sure. Maybe Clockwork Mod, Amon Ra and Team win recovery should also drop their backup because Android nand backups get corrupted as well.
While we're at it let's also drop Carbonite as a backup system because they get corrupted as well.
Your argument is invalid.
thats not bad at all, based on those numbers you will get about 8.3 hours of usage. Not too shabby.
Yes, this GM battery life is abysmal!
31% battery after 4 hours 10 minutes of use. This is pathetic!
iOS 6.1 did not drain it the way this iOS 7 is draining the battery. This is with SIRI switched off, no dynamic walloper, no parallax effects, but with background app refresh still active. Weather app is turned off, however. I still think there is something funky going on behind the scenes. This entire iOS 7.0 is just terrible mess.
I think after today's announcements, it's really sad but I think the next phone I'm going to be buying won't be an apple iPhone. Unless iPhone 6 makes a huge leap in innovation, the iPhone is just not appealing anymore.
31% battery after 4 hours 10 minutes of use. This is pathetic!
iOS 6.1 did not drain it the way this iOS 7 is draining the battery. This is with SIRI switched off, no dynamic walloper, no parallax effects, but with background app refresh still active. Weather app is turned off, however. I still think there is something funky going on behind the scenes. This entire iOS 7.0 is just terrible mess.
I think after today's announcements, it's really sad but I think the next phone I'm going to be buying won't be an apple iPhone. Unless iPhone 6 makes a huge leap in innovation, the iPhone is just not appealing anymore.
I set my phone up as new and everything when installing the GM build.
My phone was at 90% when I went to bed and I woke up to a dead phone. That's NEVER happened to me before.
My phone was at 90% when I went to bed and I woke up to a dead phone. That's NEVER happened to me before.
I fail to believe that your iPhone was losing charge whilst plugged in and charging. Makes no sense.
I wasn't experiencing battery life problems before upgrading iOS both times I have experienced this. My device was working fine.
I completely understand. Today my phone's battery is lower than it usually is for this hour of the day at work. I reset network settings to see if it helps. If not, then definately the GM build has something goofy going on with it.
I agree with you... but you don't have to redo your address book. The address book is live synced from iCloud and does not load from the backup.
That being said, for me the issue would be my text messages. It would be very hard to lose all of the texts off my phone. I already backup the message database on a regular basis, but I like knowing that I have all of the text messages I've ever sent going back to mid-2009.
As crazy as it sounds, I have witnessed this before. My buddy plugged his 5 into my imac and it discharged from 5% to 1%. The 2 of us just sat there in disbelief.
That's not bad. An hour of use and 12% down? That's projected to be a little over 8 hours of usage....pretty typical for an iPhone 5.
That's assuming that's actually 1 hour of USE. If it's 1 hour of standby, that's not so good.
So far, iOS7 GM seems fine for me. I haven't used it much since I had it plugged in, with only 6 minutes usage and 53 minutes standby, but I'm still at 100%.
Very strange. I updated to iOS 7 on iPhone 5, no clean restore and have parallax and dynamic wallpapers on, but background app refresh off. Most other things are on, like location, fetch, etc. My battery life is fine. It uses anywhere from 10-15% an hour of usage, depending if I am talking on the phone, browsing forums, playing with settings, or whatever (not standby). I wonder why some are having such battery problems.
4 hours 10 minutes use is what I got on a full charge on iOS 6, I don't see the problem?
If you've restored and used an iCloud backup, you're sure it's not redownloading gigs of your stuff?
My iPhone is losing battery like a demon, but that's because it's sucking up all my purchased music, backed up photos, and so on.
My iPhone is losing battery like a demon, but that's because it's sucking up all my purchased music, backed up photos, and so on.
It's my second iPhone 5, I had it swapped in December. Both were a little more than 4h usage on a full charge, so I doubt it's hardware-related.
Also, we don't have any genius bars in Denmark, so all I'm left with is sending it to the shop I bought it from and wait a month or so before they'll repair/exchange it to a new one