Unfortunately i don't know. I updated the carrier settings after a clean intall from the official IOS 7 seed and experiencing same or better battery life.
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iPhone 5 users w' reduced battery life: what's your carrier?
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Unfortunately i don't know. I updated the carrier settings after a clean intall from the official IOS 7 seed and experiencing same or better battery life.
If there is a problem and Apple said there was but they dont know how to fix it or how long the fix will take, would that make things better? Would people without problems start thinking there was something wrong? In the past, it has kept quiet as you say, but when its spoken on the subject and offered a solution, its tended to be a considered response personally, I prefer that.
Dont get me wrong, Ive had issues in the past and would love to get them sorted as quickly as possible. However, we dont know how common this problem is and its not that easy to get an idea of the extent of a problem just by threads such as these.
No difference to me as mentioned, my problem is at hardware related and it might be that the software has nothing to do with that, though.
For those who say that their battery life has improved, how many apps are you running? What are your settings?
If you're not on a 5C/5s, turn wifi off when you're not using it, and cellular data off when you're not using it.
Until they refine it, mutipath tcp is not so hot for ip5 and earlier. There also seems to be a Facebook secure login loop that occurs in background, despite whether you have an account registered in settings / app installed. I have contacted the dev with the particular app I am using to check my connections, but it looks like my devices are trying to login to Facebook a few times every minute.
I've confirmed and replicated it on freshly restored devices on genuine builds of 6 and 7.. without any user interaction ios contacts facebook secure login, establishes a connection and without the right credentials it gets the boot.
Device loops and retries less than 30 seconds later.
As a result CPU load on A5 increases by 15-20% during these times. Wifi never goes into low power mode and over 3G the persistent establishment of connection leads to further uptime and drain.
If you have bad coverage you may have an increase in the number of retries, leading to greater demand on radio and CPU.
If it is not the monitoring app doing it itself, unless apple investigate and recognise its real potential to waste cycles, we are all stuck with it. I've read in several places about the Facebook app doing a lot in the background (here's one http://www.tuaw.com/2013/06/04/developer-suspects-facebook-app-is-behind-iphone-battery-drain/ )
If what I've seemed to have found is consistent with that, then ios is the culprit, not the app.
Until they refine it, mutipath tcp is not so hot for ip5 and earlier. There also seems to be a Facebook secure login loop that occurs in background, despite whether you have an account registered in settings / app installed. I have contacted the dev with the particular app I am using to check my connections, but it looks like my devices are trying to login to Facebook a few times every minute.
I've confirmed and replicated it on freshly restored devices on genuine builds of 6 and 7.. without any user interaction ios contacts facebook secure login, establishes a connection and without the right credentials it gets the boot.
Device loops and retries less than 30 seconds later.
As a result CPU load on A5 increases by 15-20% during these times. Wifi never goes into low power mode and over 3G the persistent establishment of connection leads to further uptime and drain.
If you have bad coverage you may have an increase in the number of retries, leading to greater demand on radio and CPU.
If it is not the monitoring app doing it itself, unless apple investigate and recognise its real potential to waste cycles, we are all stuck with it. I've read in several places about the Facebook app doing a lot in the background (here's one http://www.tuaw.com/2013/06/04/developer-suspects-facebook-app-is-behind-iphone-battery-drain/ )
If what I've seemed to have found is consistent with that, then ios is the culprit, not the app.
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I have a Verizon iPhone 5 32gb and I am having this problem. It seems to only have awful battery life with WIFI enabled. It sucks because I haven't updated my wife's iPhone 5 vz 32gb because of this. It is ruining my enjoyment of iOS 7. Especially since I just bought a new WIFI router and I can't even enjoy it 
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I am getting a 5s this week so it won't matter for me. But, this is still a pretty big oversight by Apple during beta testing. I really want to update my wife's iPhone 5. I had to tell my boss not to update her vz iPhone 5 because of this.
.I am getting a 5s this week so it won't matter for me. But, this is still a pretty big oversight by Apple during beta testing. I really want to update my wife's iPhone 5. I had to tell my boss not to update her vz iPhone 5 because of this.
If what I'm seeing is legit, then deleting the app won't make a difference. That said, what's effecting me might not be effecting you.
Try turning wifi off when you're using 3G, and turn 3G off when you're on wifi for longer than a few minutes. See if that helps.
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/paper/cellnet/p31.pdf
Try turning wifi off when you're using 3G, and turn 3G off when you're on wifi for longer than a few minutes. See if that helps.
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2012/paper/cellnet/p31.pdf
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That is odd...I've gone through another day and I do tend to write things down...battery life is the same..you haven't accidentally turned on BT or anything else from the swipe up menu have you? I did that at first.
No. I've got more settings switched off on iOS7 than I ever had on iOS6 and still I'm two hours+ down on usage time. This absolutely stinks.