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Solved the battery draining issue

thadoggfather said:
Are you on iPhone 4?

http://cydia.myrepospace.com/evnhvn/

Add that repo and download 3209 if you want or 3226 (both are on there). Let me know how it goes!
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I apologize for bringing this up again, but will this also work on the 3gs? Im having horrible battery drain issues!

Here are my apps that would be suspect of drain:
- sbsettings
- have winterboard, just use it for sbsettings... nothing else
- signal, but use it very sparingly


thats really it, hah!

Brian
 
Arisian said:
I apologize for bringing this up again, but will this also work on the 3gs? Im having horrible battery drain issues!

Here are my apps that would be suspect of drain:
- sbsettings
- have winterboard, just use it for sbsettings... nothing else
- signal, but use it very sparingly


thats really it, hah!

Brian
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Knock yourself out. They're hardware agnostic.
 
So I did this, and Cydia is now showing that there is an upgrade available (for MS), any way to turn that update badge off so that I don't have to see the "1" over the Cydia icon forever?
 
Arisian said:
I apologize for bringing this up again, but will this also work on the 3gs? Im having horrible battery drain issues!

Here are my apps that would be suspect of drain:
- sbsettings
- have winterboard, just use it for sbsettings... nothing else
- signal, but use it very sparingly


thats really it, hah!

Brian
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PlanetBeing tweeted a few days back that Signal keeps running in the background unless you manually close it. Could that be part of your issue?
 
chargerfan said:
I don't know... with all of that stuff on, I'm not surprised you lose that much battery life. Just shut off unnecessary things while you sleep and turn them back on in SBSettings when you need them, which will literally take you no more than a few seconds. Overnight I have pretty much nothing open and I lose 0% to 1% of battery life when I wake up int he morning.
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Fair enough -- last night, I turned off everything except for phone functionality and lost only 1% (92%->91%). I don't need that stuff at night, but since it usually sits on the charger overnight anyway, I suppose all I've saved is a few cents in electricity :)
 
I've downgraded to 3209 and I don't think there's that big of a difference. I've had nearly 4 hours and standby and 2.5 hours of usage (iPod in the car for a road trip :)) and I'm down to 90%. Maybe that's good for some ppl? But I'm still upset that the batt isn't any better. Everytime I restore, I get bored and end up jb again...watevs :)
 
Also, I never reinstalled my jb apps after I downgraded to 3209 (idk if that's a big deal or not) but everything see to be working fine: sbsettings, 3G unrestrictor, bitesms, mobile terminal, iFile
 
I guess I'm just going to beat a dead horse here, but I can at least be part of the statistics...

I saw this thread on the 16th when it was 2 pages, so I downgraded to 3209 as suggested. Not that I had any issues with battery life, but I figure, might as well.

I have been keeping an eye out for how fast/slow the battery drops... It either feels exactly the same or... it drops faster! But I'll just settle for stays the same. Definitely didn't feel like it improved any battery life.

I considered upgrading MS to get rid of the pesky red badge reminder on Cydia, so I returned here to see if anyone has any real concrete, positive improvement on battery life. I had come to the above conclusion BEFORE i returned to this thread. BEFORE I read Saurik's response, so my perception wasn't biased from what I read.

So now I'm back to the latest mobilesubstrate.

On a related note: I was also running winterboard before, but had stopped using it because theming icons for PvZ would cause it to crash, so I decided to just not run any themes using winterboard at all. To be honest, I didn't feel that the battery life had improved at all... It felt the same as when I was running LockInfo + HTC plugin + Classica 3 icon set + Nexus One live lock wallpaper AND Nexus One live home wallpaper.

So group me as one of the folks who believe that winterboard and mobilesubstrate are not the battery drain culprit.
 
Top marks for this workaround. I was getting to the point where i was think it was the phone battery being rubbish and was going to restore and take it back to apple.

Anyway i downgrade MS last night to 3209. My battery would normally drop 20% overnight while asleep. Yes 20%.

This morning i checked and the battery hasnt moved. So looks to be working well so far.

Thanks
 
I'm on an iPhone 4 with the latest mobile substrate, and am not experiencing any speed drain of the battery. I used my phone for just about 7 hours today of chatting (yeah, I know), and the battery doesn't drain in standby anymore than it did before jailbreaking.

So what's the deal here with some people dropping 20% overnight? There has to be more to this!
 
Something is def up. I upgraded back to the latest version and I watched my battery drain like crazy. I'm back on 3209 and it seems much better... what gives?
 
Still getting great battery life out of my phone, five icon dock, sbsettings, lockinfo, quickreply SMS

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In my case, the MAJOR culprit seems to be OpenSSH. The second culprit appears to be Winterboard/Iconoclasm combo.

Uninstalling OpenSSH once I was done modding seems to have improved things quite a bit. When idle or browsing on 3G it no longer drops percentages right in front of my eyes. It's less noticeable and I squeeze a few more hours of usage before I have to recharge. I'm sure uninstalling Winterboard and Iconoclasm would fix things even more, because I noticed NO problems when using biteSMS and iBlacklist, but...the visual improvements are worth a little sacrifice I suppose.
 
Bawstun said:
In my case, the MAJOR culprit seems to be OpenSSH. The second culprit appears to be Winterboard/Iconoclasm combo.

Uninstalling OpenSSH once I was done modding seems to have improved things quite a bit. When idle or browsing on 3G it no longer drops percentages right in front of my eyes. It's less noticeable and I squeeze a few more hours of usage before I have to recharge. I'm sure uninstalling Winterboard and Iconoclasm would fix things even more, because I noticed NO problems when using biteSMS and iBlacklist, but...the visual improvements are worth a little sacrifice I suppose.
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I thought OpenSSH was only used when it was called...meaning the device was connected to a computer. When it's not being used, it's just sitting there??
 
I really don't get it.
Why my battery is doing just fine with bunch of Cydia apps while there are so many JB users complaining about battery? :confused:
 
-aggie- said:
I’m on this version and have OpenSSH and my battery is fine.

I also have My3G and MyWi.

Signal seemed to be the culprit for me. I haven’t dared to put it back on.
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I have to agree here and I have a feeling this might be the true culprit for anybody that has signal installed. I downgraded my MS to the earlier version and to be honest I didn't see one change.

So I went ahead and updated back to the latest MS and removed signal. I've noticed a great improvement and I'm pretty sure my battery life is back to its pre jailbreak status.

Last night I forgot to plug it in as I always do and woke up to it being 72%. Today I browsed the interwebs on 3G & wifi, took about 20 pictures, 5 minutes of video and 18 hours later it was at 35% before I plugged it in to charge.

Also another thing is that when I did have signal installed my GPS location was ALWAYS off by 2.5 miles to the northeast, after removing it my location has been accurate.
 
For me it seems like it's sbsettings is causing the battery drain. Aside from BiteSMS and Five Icon Dock it's the only other apps on my phone. From a full charge, with SBSettings installed and wifi and bluetooth off, I was getting about 10% battery drain overnight. Midnight to 7am.

With out SBSettings and bluetooth off and wifi on, I got about 5-6% battery drain in that same time period. With a full charge.

I'm going to try running with SBSettings off but have wifi and bluetooth on and test the results. I might actually end up getting bettery battery life leaving them on instead of using another app to be able to toggle them off and on with ease.

I really hope they can make a version SBSettings that has an icon you can launch. Unfortunately bossprefs doesn't work on iOS4. This way it's not constantly running.


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I also left Activator on my phone just make sure it wasn't that which was causing the issue.
 
tried 3228, then 3209.

3209 is much better with battery for me.

Even if I don't have raw statistics, I feel better with it. And it performs the same, skype aside (don't really care).

With 3228 I could see the battery fly off the meter.
 
thadoggfather said:
tried 3228, then 3209.

3209 is much better with battery for me.

Even if I don't have raw statistics, I feel better with it. And it performs the same, skype aside (don't really care).

With 3228 I could see the battery fly off the meter.
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So, all apps other than skype works like they should with 3209?
 
I can confirm it is OpenSSH you merely have to go to cydia manage packages->openssh->modify->reinstall or remove and battery life went to normal.

Theres definitely a bug with openssh as after reinstall it no longer drains battery which is NORMAL but who know when it will start draining again.

Openssh in it's bugged state drained my battery faster by a factor of 2.5 I have done testing.
 
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