I did have this problem after restoring from back up from my old 3G. My battery life wasn't that great. Once I wiped my iP4 clean and set it up as a new phone, my battery life greatly improved. The good thing is backups and syncing is much much faster on the iP4.
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Restore from backup = bad battery?
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Hey Focker, quick question. How did you get your photos and things back on once you'd set up you iPhone 4 as new? Sorry if this is a basic question!
Once you set it up as new, you can then do your backup.
Setting it up as new puts a new OS on it basically. If your still having battery issues after that, it's hardware not software. You need a replacement.
Like me
Well when I wiped my phone, I lost all the photos in my camera roll (which wasn't a big deal to me). Then I just selected which folders of pictures I wanted to sync onto the phone. What I could've done was plugged my phone in and then went into "my computer" (on a PC), since it reads the phone as an external digital camera, and saved those pics into a folder 1st, before wiping the phone. And then synced those pictures back.
I have also just given this a try, I wasnt too impressed with battery life on my iphone4, compared with my 3gs. Hopefully this does the trick
I have also just given this a try, I wasnt too impressed with battery life on my iphone4, compared with my 3gs. Hopefully this does the trick
Please report back here when you do.
I restored from a 3G, and while battery life has not been terrible, it is not nearly as good as most users seem to be reporting.
Resetting settings did nothing. I lose about 1% every 1.5-2 minutes with only safari open.
I'm about to do a restore to new now. I just want it to improve! Will let you guys know if I notice improvement.
Will let you guys know if I notice improvement.
I've restored from backup, from my 3G to iP4. And my battery seems good, I get about 8hrs of usage on abotu 24hrs standby....thats in the range of iP4 proclomations I suppose. I mean today for example, I've streamed Pandora played my iPod, sent a bunch of text, safari for 20min and heavy email, and i'm at 2hrs of usage at 75% battery left....
I recharge my phone every night. I've used it for 42 min and it has drained 11 percent (mostly email, some safari browsing and about 2 minute of game checking). I originally restored from backup.
But also, I had the very hot phone day around the 2nd or 3rd day. I'm wondering if any of you had that as well, who are having battery problems?
(I really hate having to mess with the phone again - it took two genius visits to set up the pop accounts properly, mostly connectivity problems).
To reset it to new (without using a backup) just select the "Restore" option in iTunes under your iPhone. When asked if you want to restore from a back up select no, and your iPhone will be set up in an "as new state". Someone correct me if I'm wrong though as I'm stating this from (a very weak) memory
Feck it, have now decided to restore and setup from new. wont be too much hassle as all my contacts are on mobileme...will report back in a few days if I have noticed any difference
If and when the next software comes out (hopefully today)... won't this also potentially fix a battery issue for those who restored from backup? It is new software.... right?
When I did a restore from backup from my old 3g my battery life was terrible. I went overnight from 70% to 17% with 4 emails being pushed, wifi on, locations services off.
I then restored it as new and I just put 2 emails back and left it overnight after fully charged with wifi on and I only lost 2%. Definitely an improvement. I will continue testing by adding the rest of my emails, ect.
I then restored it as new and I just put 2 emails back and left it overnight after fully charged with wifi on and I only lost 2%. Definitely an improvement. I will continue testing by adding the rest of my emails, ect.
I restored from my 3G back-up at first and battery was actually quite good. Then I started thinking that since I really don't have too many saved games I should start fresh. So this morning I restored and set up as new.
The battery seems to be the same but it's really hard to say, given the short time frame.
The battery seems to be the same but it's really hard to say, given the short time frame.
I started with a 3GS restore and then a clean setup as a new phone. The only thing I noticed was that with the 3GS restore, my usage and standby times were equal.
Ideally that would imply something in the restore was draining the battery constantly but in reality, after the new phone setup, battery life still sucks.
I have no clue how people are leaving everything on and getting 4 hours usage time at 50%
Ideally that would imply something in the restore was draining the battery constantly but in reality, after the new phone setup, battery life still sucks.
I have no clue how people are leaving everything on and getting 4 hours usage time at 50%
I reset all settings. My app data remained intact except for the clock and stocks app strangely.
Did the same test as before and only went from 84% to 82% over 6 hours overnight. I guess this works out exactly to the 300 hours standby Steve Jobs mentioned.
It seemed to fix the drain overnight issue, SIGNIFICANTLY.
I went from losing 20-25% to losing 3%.... big change.
I think talked on the phone with bluetooth for 30 min. this morning, went from 97% to 86%.... now I've been cruising the internet for a little bit, down to 83%... sitting at 83% atm.
I'm satisfied with the overnight aparent fix... not sure bout normal battery use though. 83% with 1 hour usage seems a little drastic. I do have 9 hours of standby, that that was what took me from 100% to 97%. So then after an hour of usage I went from 97% to 83%.
Still not thrilled... might go ahead and return it anyways today.... but we shall see what the rest of the work day brings.
I went from losing 20-25% to losing 3%.... big change.
I think talked on the phone with bluetooth for 30 min. this morning, went from 97% to 86%.... now I've been cruising the internet for a little bit, down to 83%... sitting at 83% atm.
I'm satisfied with the overnight aparent fix... not sure bout normal battery use though. 83% with 1 hour usage seems a little drastic. I do have 9 hours of standby, that that was what took me from 100% to 97%. So then after an hour of usage I went from 97% to 83%.
Still not thrilled... might go ahead and return it anyways today.... but we shall see what the rest of the work day brings.
Mines on 77% remaining with 2 hours 31 minutes usage and 17 hours and 27 minutes standby.
Just to compare with others the usage can be broken down as (approx.):
15 minutes gaming (DoodleJump)
5 minutes web browsing
20 minutes on WhatsApp
10 minutes of phone calls
Remaining is texting
I have push disabled, mail set to fetch hourly, WiFi on, bluetooth off and auto-brightness set to off with the brightness set at about 50%. Pretty happy with the battery, although would be good to see what other people are getting still.
Just to compare with others the usage can be broken down as (approx.):
15 minutes gaming (DoodleJump
)5 minutes web browsing
20 minutes on WhatsApp
10 minutes of phone calls
Remaining is texting
I have push disabled, mail set to fetch hourly, WiFi on, bluetooth off and auto-brightness set to off with the brightness set at about 50%. Pretty happy with the battery, although would be good to see what other people are getting still.