Yeah I've had that happen to myself as well. Shows that some renegade process is really sucking up your battery.
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iOS 7 GM battery life horrible!
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Yeah I've had that happen to myself as well. Shows that some renegade process is really sucking up your battery.
let me guess: you're using a 3rd party-cable? I used a retractable cable which I bought on ebay, and it discharged my iphone too, then got it replaced by another one that doesn't discharge
Thanks for this! I had this set to off in beta 6, it was turned back on in the GM, now battery back to normal. also found some other things I had turned off that were back on like traffic...
frequent locations and traffic made at least a 1 hour change in my battery, and that is huge. So many people are not aware of these settings, and many would trade frequent locations service for an added hour change in battery?
I think Apple needs to better refine these services, no way it should hit the battery this hard, I mean GPS is on anyway, how could this change battery life if the phone records it's locations anyway? Something else is going on here.
I have restored to iOS 7 GM..battery was dead within 3 Hours normal usage.
Then I disabled all known battery draining features like background location, parallax, frequent locations etc..Got a battery life to 4 Hours.
Last resort, set up as new iPhone without iCloud backup..Seems to work sofar.
Then I disabled all known battery draining features like background location, parallax, frequent locations etc..Got a battery life to 4 Hours.
Last resort, set up as new iPhone without iCloud backup..Seems to work sofar.
so many people complaining about battery life issues with this new update but yet my battery life is still very good. this leads me to wonder and I luck or are so many people doing something wrong?
No, but I really, really hate doing that.Is that solving the problem majority of the time?
Not that hard. Do not erase but just "reset all settings". All you have to do then is go back through settings and set back up like you want. Not really a big deal and typically will solve battery issues. Definitly worth a few minutes of time if it improves your battery life and device performance.
Oh... I was under the impression I needed to do a "erase all content and settings" restore. I can definitely work with that.
iPhonne 4S here. did a reset, setup as new iPhone, restored the IPSW, done everything. I leave it off the charger for a night and wake up with 10% battery.
EDIT: now notifcation sounds are gone again. forget it im going back to iOS 6 so my phone can be usable. they better not release iOS 7 like this OTA
EDIT: now notifcation sounds are gone again. forget it im going back to iOS 6 so my phone can be usable. they better not release iOS 7 like this OTA
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so you restored the ipsw and then setup as new? if so i would first get going on making sure notifications, bluetooth and locations services are optimally setup depending on your usage. From there clear your backround apps and reset all settings. Whats the level of brightness?
yeah, i even went back to iOS 6 and notification sounds weren't working but ringing and talking works flawless brightness is on auto. teaches me for trading a gs3 for a iPhone 4S in "perfect condition"
my battery has become phenomenal. after a restore from icloud and a reset all settings, I hit 10 hours of actual usage and 22 hours off the charger yesterday. Use was 75% wifi browsing, the remainder LTE, including iTunes radio and 40 minutes of a locally stored TV show. I went through 3 complete charge cycles this week with progressively better results. LTE signal has been strong throughout in Manhattan on AT&T.
I'm really starting to believe that iPhones are powered by love. The people who are most apologetic to any iPhone complaint seem to have the best battery life while people who view iPhones as tools seem to get hit the worst.
Personally I'm seeing a huge battery hit on both my restored iPhone 5 and a clean setup. I just don't get what's happening (which means my faith must be low)
Personally I'm seeing a huge battery hit on both my restored iPhone 5 and a clean setup. I just don't get what's happening (which means my faith must be low)
It's probably Voodoo, but after installing the GM as a clean setup, my battery drained while I was watching it.
I then did reset the Network Settings and rebooted after enabling Airplane mode. After the reboot, I let the phone search the carrier and entered my WiFi credentials.
A few hours later my battery is at 89%. (Which is OK)
I'm not saying this is "the best trick ever", but it worked for me.
I then did reset the Network Settings and rebooted after enabling Airplane mode. After the reboot, I let the phone search the carrier and entered my WiFi credentials.
A few hours later my battery is at 89%. (Which is OK)
I'm not saying this is "the best trick ever", but it worked for me.
I dont listen to music.
That is for wifi web browsing and phone call only and barely youtube video watching
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