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iOS5 GM Battery life?

Since someone mentioned the diagnostics page and crash reports I have a question. I have about 4 gigs free on my phone, but I see alot of low memory errors in there from yesterday and this morning (just hard reset my phone). Are those ram low memory errors or flash memory errors?
 
Gdgtguru said:
I am noticing extreme battery loss as well moving from beta 7 to the GM. I have narrowed it down to my work Exchange account. When that is removed, battery life is back to normal.

Also, if I go into Settings, About, Diagnostics & Usage, Diagnostics & Usage Data, there is a crash report for MobileMail.
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As an update, it appears that this issue only occurs with push enabled on the exchange account. If I change it to fetch, battery life is not negatively affected.

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sawah said:
Since someone mentioned the diagnostics page and crash reports I have a question. I have about 4 gigs free on my phone, but I see alot of low memory errors in there from yesterday and this morning (just hard reset my phone). Are those ram low memory errors or flash memory errors?
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Of specifically mentions low memory, it is most likely low ram.

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OC513 said:
I restored mine again yesterday and the battery is MUCH better. Good luck to you.
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I also tried another restore, unfortunately, I still have the issue.
 
I think the whole 'set up as new' vs. 'restore from backup' thing is BS. I have always restored from a backup and have never noticed any decline or increase in performance or battery life.

If your battery life is sucking, it's because of something you're doing on the phone is draining it. Simple as that. Use the standard techniques to improve it.
 
Restored about an hour ago. Still on 100% after an hour standby, based on what was happening before it would have been on 98% or below.

Overall iOS 5 is running flawlessly, the battery life drop was the only issue i was having. I think performance has increased in some departments, i was starting to see a tiny bit of lag when changing apps when i had quite a few open, not experienced that in iOS 5 so far. Folders also seem to be opening a lot smoother now too.
 
I'm using iOS 5 on my iPod and I have not really benchmarked it but does anyone else feel the browsing is faster?
 
As with the sun rising in the East, each new release of iOS brings out;

1. It's snappier/slower.
2. Battery life is better/worse.

:D
 
I would restore and setup as new but then won't I loose my address book? That the only thing I can't lose. My battery life sucks on this GM version. I lost 25% overnight.
 
Does the new local weather feature have any additional drain on the battery especially when having the weather widget on the notification centre? It seems to check and use the gps icon every time you pull notification centre down.
 
deeddawg said:
Is there a reason you don't sync your address book with your computer or gmail or something?
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I can't use gmail as my company uses the gmail service and that would put over three thousand contacts on my phone ( I learned that when I tried badroid) and I never synced with my computer.
 
nepaiphonefan1 said:
I can't use gmail as my company uses the gmail service and that would put over three thousand contacts on my phone ( I learned that when I tried badroid) and I never synced with my computer.
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When you add a Gmail account, after the initial username/password step is completed it asks you which services you want to enable out of Mail/Calendars/Contacts/Notes/etc. Just turn off Contacts and all should be well (I do this because I have a few Gmail accounts on my phone, but use iCloud as my primary email and of course my contacts are all synced with that).
 
nepaiphonefan1 said:
I can't use gmail as my company uses the gmail service and that would put over three thousand contacts on my phone ( I learned that when I tried badroid) and I never synced with my computer.
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Three ideas come to mind: Set up a second, personal gmail account and use that. Set up your iCloud account and use that. Start syncing contacts with your computer.

Any of those should accomplish the goal.
 
I installed it on my iPad2 and my battery life is not as good. I usually could go two days without charging it, but now I need to plug it in every night. I restored it as new, but that didn't do anything.
 
Interesting read. Where are you guys getting the iOS 5? Is it someplace I can pluck it from, or are y'all developers? Being new to iPhones, I'm trying to ramp up my learning curve!
 
@NJFP: Google around for iOS 5 GM ipsw -- can't post links here as it's not officially publicly available.

Also remember that it can be tricky to downgrade from iOS5GM to iOS 4.3.5 on an iphone if you're not used to messing with this stuff. It's possible, but may not be simple.

To be honest, with public release being five days away I'm not sure there's a lot of point to spending any effort finding / installing it at this point.

If you do go for it, remember you'll also need itunes 10.5 beta 7 or higher to install.
 
deeddawg said:
@NJFP: Google around for iOS 5 GM ipsw -- can't post links here as it's not officially publicly available.

Also remember that it can be tricky to downgrade from iOS5GM to iOS 4.3.5 on an iphone if you're not used to messing with this stuff. It's possible, but may not be simple.

To be honest, with public release being five days away I'm not sure there's a lot of point to spending any effort finding / installing it at this point.

If you do go for it, remember you'll also need itunes 10.5 beta 7 or higher to install.
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True, only 5 days away. I like to fidgit with stuff, and was wondering how to do a lot of this. Thanks for the insight.
 
I went from 4.3.1 to iOS 5 GM on 10/4. Both my friend and I have noticed a very large decrease in battery life. :(
 
iOS 5 on my 3GS is yielding horrible battery life, and apps crash pretty frequently...Friday can't come soon enough.
 
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