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iOS 7 low battery iPhone shutdown

This has happened twice to my iPhone 5 since updating to 7.0.3. Both at around 30-ish percent. One time I was on the phone with my wife and it just went dead with the spinning circle then cut off.

I remember thinking WTF because I didn't get any warnings about a low battery. I tried to turn it back on and it gave me the battery icon showing red telling me to if it in. I plugged it in and within about a minute it had rebooted and went to the lock screen with 35% and charging. Again, I said WTF and chalked it up as a fluke.

Then it happened again today. Was at about 32% or so and it cut off while playing music. I plugged it in and it rebooted.
 
Mazda 3s said:
This has happened twice to my iPhone 5 since updating to 7.0.3. Both at around 30-ish percent. One time I was on the phone with my wife and it just went dead with the spinning circle then cut off.

I remember thinking WTF because I didn't get any warnings about a low battery. I tried to turn it back on and it gave me the battery icon showing red telling me to if it in. I plugged it in and within about a minute it had rebooted and went to the lock screen with 35% and charging. Again, I said WTF and chalked it up as a fluke.

Then it happened again today. Was at about 32% or so and it cut off while playing music. I plugged it in and it rebooted.
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You just described EXacTLY my situation. They keep saying the batt life is over but how can it happen all of a sudden after the update? Obviously software related.

I just wiped whole phone and set it up as new losing all my data and stuff and now I can run it down to about 6-11% without it shutting off. Still annoying though
 
richpuer said:
You just described EXacTLY my situation. They keep saying the batt life is over but how can it happen all of a sudden after the update? Obviously software related.

I just wiped whole phone and set it up as new losing all my data and stuff and now I can run it down to about 6-11% without it shutting off. Still annoying though
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Yeah, I never had any of these problems until 7.0.3 and I tested all the betas. In fact, I've never encountered this problem in 4 years if having iPhones.

My iPhone had always cut off at 1%, never 30%. Wondering if I should make an Genius Bar appointment. I bought AppleCare for this this phone, but if it's software related I don't know what good it will do me.
 
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Mazda 3s said:
You, I never had any of these problems until 7.0.3 and I tested all the betas. In fact, I've never encountered this problem in 4 years if having iPhones.

My iPhone had always cut off at 1%, never 30%. Wondering if I should make an Genius Bar appointment. I bought AppleCare for this this phone, but if it's software related I don't know what good it will do me.
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Yes all my previousniphones since 4 always cut out at 1%. Lucky for me I bought the launch phone so my warranty is dead. Won't do me any good calling tech support eithet
 
thegreatdivorce said:
Mine does this too. Anywhere from 20% to 5%. Super annoying.
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I was out near airport taking some pics and videos and maybe because it was cold, the phone just died at 32%. it happened again wednesday was taking a video and it was windy and cold out but like 8'c and it died again at 28%. However, i waited like 5-6 mins and powered it up and it was back to normal.

It has to be a software thing as it never has done this before.
 
Mazda 3s said:
Yeah, I never had any of these problems until 7.0.3 and I tested all the betas. In fact, I've never encountered this problem in 4 years if having iPhones.

My iPhone had always cut off at 1%, never 30%. Wondering if I should make an Genius Bar appointment. I bought AppleCare for this this phone, but if it's software related I don't know what good it will do me.
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My iPhone 5 cut off at 1% since day one, and it was the same with iOS 7 until two says ago , when while playing music it shut itself off at 23%.

It's not hardware related ....
 
My iPhone 4s shuts down when it gets under 20% - usually when taking a picture... Never happened on previous iOS6
 
me also the iphone 4s is terrible

Vell843 said:
I am running iOS 7 GM on my iPhone 5. Whenever my iPhone get to about 20% battery life, it automatically shuts itself off and if I press the home or sleep/wake button the icon comes up that I need to plug my phone into a charger. Now I have never had this problem on iOS 6.1.4, has this ever happened to anyone else?
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there is no solution. i sent all day with no solution except spend $199.
it is time to leave apple! BYE BYE no customer service

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MajkJaro said:
My iPhone 4s shuts down when it gets under 20% - usually when taking a picture... Never happened on previous iOS6
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apple will not fix the problem. i reccomend you do not support them with your $
 
hippo31 said:
there is no solution. i sent all day with no solution except spend $199.
it is time to leave apple! BYE BYE no customer service

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apple will not fix the problem. i reccomend you do not support them with your $
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Good bye troll :cool:
 
Feel the warranty should be 2 yrs on these handsets because they cost so much, particularly for issues brought about by FORCED software updates.
 
Damolee said:
Feel the warranty should be 2 yrs on these handsets because they cost so much, particularly for issues brought about by FORCED software updates.
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In Europe warranty is two years, but batteries are partially considered as "expendable" so warranty usually works for the first year only.
 
Battery Drain

I don't think its the OS or battery.

I had a 3gs for three years and updated it to OS 5 and it started dying between 2-10% After awhile it got worse. I tried a hard reset a few times, I tried draining to zero and recharging full many times. I went and got a new battery but it continued getting worse. Eventually it would die in the 90's%. Then kaput it never worked again. This all happened in about a 6 week span.

Now I've had a 5/OS6 for three months and its starting to do the same thing at about 15-20%.

Thank goodness its still waranteed but it still sucks. I'll see how it goes for a bit and then try to get it replaced.

If it happened on both my iphones I have a feeling its a pretty big issue.
 
Oh

...and when I got my battery the guy at the shop said don't use non apple rechargers. I've only been using an apple charger with my 5 but it is attached to an extension cord. I have a feeling extension cords or apple chargers are bad.
 
This has been happening to me a ton recently, on iOS 7.0.4.

Did a restore from DFU mode to my backup, and it is better, but still will shut down at 15-23%. Taking rapid photos or long videos while at a low battery percent(~20%) will cause it to shut down, as will rapid app-switching.

I have done the battery calibration process multiple times, which seemed to help it last longer, but not by much.
 
I noticed whenever I am using the phone (4S) when it hits around 20% it starts to shutdown. However if I just leave it on the home screen, to drain it past the 20% mark, or overnight to discharge, it seems to be able to drain down to about 5%.
 
I just got a shutdown at 33% battery after making 4-5 photos with flash


after 3-4 minutes worked to turn it on and the battery was at 31% and I have used it after that about 4h (no photos)


wtf apple??
 
Oz. said:
I just got a shutdown at 33% battery after making 4-5 photos with flash


after 3-4 minutes worked to turn it on and the battery was at 31% and I have used it after that about 4h (no photos)


wtf apple??
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iPhone 5 ?
 
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