Replaced battery, but still have a lot of battery drain

[eggman2001]

I just replaced the battery on my ipad mini with a new one from directfix. However, the battery drain is horrible now. I measured that my charge went from 23% to 4% in 13 hours while in standby mode.

Clearly, this kind of battery drain is not normal, and my question is, whether this is likely a faulty battery, or something else that could be going awry.

 

[mKTank]

Make sure you investigate potential software causes first. Go to battery usage and see what ranks at the top of the usage table.

Things I usually do right after setting up a new device:
1) Turn off Background App Refresh. It's just dumb and pointless and takes way too much battery.
2) Turn off Location-based iAds, Wi-Fi networking, Frequent Locations, Diagnostics & Usage, Popular Near Me, and Routing & Traffic.

Those two things alone pretty much double my battery life. Furthermore, make sure you're keeping tabs on any misbehaving apps that use your location 24/7. I use a movie theatre app (Cineplex) and for whatever reason it's always requesting location even if I haven't run it for weeks. There are plenty of dumb app developers out there who request location excessively for no reason, so make sure you're good at stopping that.

 

[eggman2001]

Thanks for the tips. I was worried after I replaced the battery, but it seems to be good now.

 

[Alan Mac Farlan]

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/system-monitor-ultimate/id740765454?mt=8


there is a free diagnostic app for the iPhone and I understand it works for the iPad.

this one has 6 stars on the reviews ... I checked it out and it gives lots of information that might be useful.

Also ... turn your iPad off ... wait a few seconds .. and then turn it on for a re-boot ... do that ... about once a day is good.

my very warmest regards.

Alan

 

[eggman2001]

I checked it out, but it doesn't seem to tell me which apps could be causing issues.

On a separate note, I did notice a lot of battery drain coming from Safari and I read that a bug with icloud syncing could be causing that so I went ahead and disabled it.

Thanks for the tip on daily re-booting. I'll try that.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/system-monitor-ultimate/id740765454?mt=8


there is a free diagnostic app for the iPhone and I understand it works for the iPad.

this one has 6 stars on the reviews ... I checked it out and it gives lots of information that might be useful.

Also ... turn your iPad off ... wait a few seconds .. and then turn it on for a re-boot ... do that ... about once a day is good.

my very warmest regards.

Alan

 

[Alan Mac Farlan]

iBackupbot is good to download ...

and there is this place to read.

http://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/