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So is the battery better with the 7.1 update?
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My battery is definitely a little bit worse. Usually I get around 1-2% drain over a couple hours (if I'm not using my phone much at all - a few messages), now I'm getting around 3-4%. Doing basic tasks drains my battery a little bit faster. I'd calculate the battery at maybe 15% worse since updating yesterday. I've done a full charge, so I'm gonna try and do a restore and hope that is it (I haven't downloaded any new apps though). Otherwise 7.1 is definitely worse battery life.
The most prominent thing to me was overnight. I usually get 1-2% drain over night (my phone is in do not disturb) where it sits there for 8 hours and then that's the drain the next morning. Last night it drained 5% doing the same exact thing it always does.
The most prominent thing to me was overnight. I usually get 1-2% drain over night (my phone is in do not disturb) where it sits there for 8 hours and then that's the drain the next morning. Last night it drained 5% doing the same exact thing it always does.
What a joke! The ONE thing I needed fixing was the battery drain on my iPhone 5 and apparently the drain is even worse. Fabulous. Role on upgrade time.
Having major battery drainage issues & my 5S is heating up after updating to 7.1
Have a genius appointment in an hour.
Have a genius appointment in an hour.
So far battery life on my 4s and 5 seems about the same, perhaps marginally better. Will see how it goes over the next couple of days.
Are you trying to say that with each update the battery is used less and less (and therefore there's better battery life)?
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Or may not and at the same time bring other improvements.
Also, how would you know what's better for you without trying a newer version to see what it's like for you?
Just do a clean install from iTunes and save yourself a trip. That's what the "genius'" will tell you anyways.
It usually takes a few days and full battery cycle after a major update for the battery usage to stabilize, but preliminarily it looks like battery life is a bit worse. On my iPhone 5S, it dropped from 83% to 78% after being in a non-GPS using app for a few minutes after a few more minutes usage it dropped to 72%. It seems okay when I'm not using it, but when the screen is unlocked it seems to be dropping faster than it did under 7.0.x. Currently my usage is 1 hour 56 minutes, standby is 6 hours 4 minutes and the battery is at 72% after being at full charge 6 hours ago. At that rate the battery will last a little under 7 hours of "usage". Under 7.0.x I could go an entire day and still be at or above 50% battery. That includes using GPS apps for brief periods. Most of my background services are off. I'm on WiFi and I have 3 or 4 bars currently.
i think you guys are using the phone more after the update than you would normally , that's why is draining faster
Usage time is usage time and it makes positively zero difference whether you use up the battery fast or slow.
All usage time is not created equal though. There's a big difference in battery life between an hour of listening to music and an hour of using GPS or an hour of playing a 3D game. The later two drain the battery much faster than the former. Also there's background things that are done that affect the battery that have no affect on usage. For example communicating with cell tower where having 1 bar will drain a lot faster than 5 bars. There's too many variables to compare two days of battery usage to each other. You need to compare the average over a long period of time.
Bingo. Usage time isn't the same. You can be doing something intensive like GPS with the screen on and audio on and perhaps some other app running in the background like Skype for 1 hour and that would use up a lot more battery than 1 hour of music playback that's not using any data or the screen or much of anything else. So not all usage time is created equally.
If people have the same usage patterns, which most do, then we can tell within one charge cycle how our battery is performing compared to an older o/s.
When I upgrade an o/s, I don't suddenly start playing games and doing things I don't normally do.
But you do spend more time looking at and changing/trying some new settings or features or changes. And the update itself can have some processes running in the background for a bit even after the update is done to sync some things or make sure everything is updated or something of that sort.
I have spotlight search switched off so once all my apps etc have updated (and I'm still plugged in at 100% charge), what on earth can the o/s possibly be doing?
Some housekeeping stuff that OS of all kinds do especially after updates? Perhaps something changed deeper down about how messages or emails or something else is stored as part of the update and some things have to be reindexed, or something else along those lines. I'm suggesting there's a higher potential of that after an OS update pretty much with any OS that could be a contributing factor in some short period of time after an update or perhaps even for a few hours or so after one. But the mere playing around that people do after an update can play a role too. The main point is that it's not the best idea to judge something like battery life within a single day/cycle of usage after an update, you'd want to go through at least a few of those with typical usage to get more of average typical usage that would be more meaningful.
Of course it is a bit early to tell.
My normal Usage Time on 7.0 and 7.0.x has been 8 hours, based on measured hours and projecting the Usage Time by calculating: Usage time/ (1- %remaining).
So right now I calculate on 7.1:
Usage time is 3 hours (2 hr 56 min). % battery remaining is 70%
Therefore: 3 hours / (1- 0.7) = 3/ 0.3 = 10 hours.
so my battery life is better on 7.1
My normal Usage Time on 7.0 and 7.0.x has been 8 hours, based on measured hours and projecting the Usage Time by calculating: Usage time/ (1- %remaining).
So right now I calculate on 7.1:
Usage time is 3 hours (2 hr 56 min). % battery remaining is 70%
Therefore: 3 hours / (1- 0.7) = 3/ 0.3 = 10 hours.
so my battery life is better on 7.1
Nope.
My battery drained to 20% with only 3 hours of usage.
It's even worse than 7.0.6 where I got around 4 hours usage..
Just saying 3 hours of usage is meaningless for example if you were playing games for 3 hours then that would be good battery life, if you were listening to music for 3 hours then you would have bad battery life.
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Well, if you say so, case closed then.What timeframe does the Apple Bible proclaim is an adequate test period?
Anyway, I won't pretend to be as intellectual--I have noticed decreased battery life, even when no apps are actively running in the background. Minimal, but noticeable. With all of the hype from bets testers, I suppose I expected some improvements, thus my anecdotal and perceived expectations.
Because anyone with sense would recognise that there are too many factors involved to base battery life of off under a days testing of the new OS version, i'd say 3 days minimum.
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Not really, usage time with the screen on will obvilously use more battery then usage time with the screen off..
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What are you talking about, the guy said that people are using the using the phone more because of the new update thus draining the battery faster, i've no idea how you got that he was saying that people should use their phone less...