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IOS7 Beta 6 Battery status?
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Beta 5 has been as good, if not better than iOS 6 here (and for quite a few others).
All this keeps on showing that it's all really different for everyone at different times under different circumstances. Nothing more.
Download the ipsw from the Dev centre and do a DFU restore and you won't have any problems, my iP5 is fine
I must be the exception and not the rule. Beta 4/5 were awful on my iPhone 5. Beta 3 had great battery life and hardly any bugs. I'm doing okay with Beta 6, battery life is decent, better than 4/5 but nothing compared to Beta 3. Its crazy how everyone's experience is different.
So far so good on my iPhone 5. I'm about an hour and a half of use, 4.5 hours of standby and I'm at 93%
reset all settings or restore as NEW. A drop that fast sounds like a stumble from the Beta 5 to 6 OTA update.
I am taking those things into consideration, not just blindly rage about it
I am noticing that most of the guys notice improvement on it, however, on iOS 6 I had a bunch of tweaks including parallex and such... (but seriously A BUNCH) and I get 5 times more standby and 2 times more usage time.
On iOS7 betaX I have all things turned off, system location services, motion, notification center and toggles on lock screen, no animated wallpapers, nothing! I am on edge (not 3G) and for internet I use WiFi (which is easier on battery than 3G), and I regularly clean things from multitasking, for the purpose if something is not optimized.
Comparing to it, with all those tweaks, and all the things I got active on iOS 6.1.2, this is a drastic battery reduction for me :/
That's kind of odd. I guess factoring in that it is a beta though and that the way something was installed and/or any backups that might have been restored, there are definitely a number of different variables that can be in play, even beyond the typical different usage in different places by different people.I am taking those things into consideration, not just blindly rage about it
I am noticing that most of the guys notice improvement on it, however, on iOS 6 I had a bunch of tweaks including parallex and such... (but seriously A BUNCH) and I get 5 times more standby and 2 times more usage time.
On iOS7 betaX I have all things turned off, system location services, motion, notification center and toggles on lock screen, no animated wallpapers, nothing! I am on edge (not 3G) and for internet I use WiFi (which is easier on battery than 3G), and I regularly clean things from multitasking, for the purpose if something is not optimized.
Comparing to it, with all those tweaks, and all the things I got active on iOS 6.1.2, this is a drastic battery reduction for me :/
Yup, clean install... Restore 6.1.3 + update to beta5 than OTA beta6 (no restore from backup)... Got skype, viber, whatsapp, chrome, youtube, linkedin and dropbox... Nothing working in background except push on viber and whatsapp I guess...
That it is beta is a relief, but not quite since there's really short time left for the real deal... I am concerned this might be a permanent problem for me
Fixed the battery drain ...
Disabled iCloud backup
Turned off wifi during night when router is off
Setup static ip for wifi (this seems to be the major standby drain for me)
All push system on, etc and this is overnight drain now -
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Disabled iCloud backup
Turned off wifi during night when router is off
Setup static ip for wifi (this seems to be the major standby drain for me)
All push system on, etc and this is overnight drain now -
I seem to be getting slightly worse in beta 6 but not so much worse that it's an issue. At the end of a busy day I'm left with 5-10% battery. Before it used to be about 10-15%. And iOS 6 I was almost always at 20% when it was time to plug in for the night. With all these animation I expect slightly worse...
My battery has been great today, I updated to beta 6 yesterday and reset the music library. It's 10:00 and I have 51% of my battery left, I got up at 7:30 and did yard work till 11:30 while listening to Pandora and since then I have done some web surfing and checking emails throughout the day.
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So because my usage and standby time are exactly the same, I'm "freaking out"...?
I think theres a bug in the actual % indicator. I noticed mine drop quite a lot yesterday, but stayed on like 6% for about 7/8 hours. I think its fine. Todays been ok with quite a bit of Facebook usage. Now at 84% and was off charge at 6AM-ish.
