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sashie

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My iPhone 3GS have been jailbroken with ipwnage tool since last july. yep - that's july 2009.
I am currently on firmware 3.1.2
I have never had battery issues until lately (a few days ago).

I realized that my battery life depletes a lot faster than usual.
(i.e. down to 50% within 1 - 2 hours without doing anything specific) * i can literally see the percentage going down every minute or so.
(i used to be able to last whole day without any problems)

I am a careful user. I have bluetooth, GPS and wifi constantly switched off when i am out. no push for any mail accounts and brightness at 10% (with auto brightness ticked)

As for jailbroken apps I have:
- winterboard + Glasklart theme
- boss paper
- five icon dock
- blue fire battery (battery mod)
- SBSettings + built in toggles + 1 SBSettings theme
- Quick Reply for SMS
- Poof
- OpenSSH
- MakeItMine

and thats it.

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as to why it randomly started depleting at such extreme rate lately..
i can only think of one major change i've made throughout the past few days..
since it was revision period so i played with my phone a lot.. (sigh, typical student)
and i launched Cydia for the first time in a long while..
and realized that there were a lot of updates.. (like 6..)
and since i was bored i decided to upgrade all of them.

I am not sure as to whether this may have caused the problem.
Obviously, I have also installed 3rd party apps.. but they are mainly games (i.e. We Rule) and random apps that don't really do anything.

I have no multitasking apps.. i.e. backgrounder.. or anything like that.

Anybody has any idea what is causing the battery life issue?
It's a pain in the arse. 🙁 and im often super worried when i am out -___-

Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thank you guys! xoxo

P.S. I really shouldn't have updated anything on Cydia since everything worked like a charm to begin with 🙁

P.P.S. sorry for such a long ... 'question'. 🙁 i tried to explain my problem with minimal words. .... fail i guess.
 
You could have installed something that's doing it, but who knows.🙂

Your iPhone could also have a battery on it's last legs. Did you restore to a normal firmware (3.0.1 preferable as long as your SHSH is on file with Cydia) and see how your battery life works? If same, it's a hardware isssue and should still be under warranty. Unfortunately if you do get a replacement phone, you most likely will be unable to unlock it.

Make sure SSH is off, it will drain your battery if its on
No it doesn't. 🙂
 
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