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Solved the battery draining issue
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I made a seperate thread the other day but I thought I'd copy and paste it in here as well:
I left my phone on standby for 9 hours the other night without using it at all. When I checked it in the morning it had dropped to 91% with 31 minutes usage. I had push disabled and mail set to fetch hourly.
I ran a few more tests leaving the phone on standby for an hour and found for every hour on standby the usage was 4 minutes (even though I hadn't touched it in that time).
I tried uninstalling a few programmes like sbsettings but it made no difference.
I restored to stock 4.0.1, set up as a new phone and ran the same test again (left the phhone on stanbdy for an hour) this time I found no usage at all. As soon as I ran jailbreakme and installed cydia the phantom usage came back.
I haven't even installed any packages yet, not even openssh.
I left my phone on standby for 9 hours the other night without using it at all. When I checked it in the morning it had dropped to 91% with 31 minutes usage. I had push disabled and mail set to fetch hourly.
I ran a few more tests leaving the phone on standby for an hour and found for every hour on standby the usage was 4 minutes (even though I hadn't touched it in that time).
I tried uninstalling a few programmes like sbsettings but it made no difference.
I restored to stock 4.0.1, set up as a new phone and ran the same test again (left the phhone on stanbdy for an hour) this time I found no usage at all. As soon as I ran jailbreakme and installed cydia the phantom usage came back.
I haven't even installed any packages yet, not even openssh.
Does anyone know any good write up for this process I cant seem to be able to fine anything good on google and youtube?
Does anyone know any good write up for this process I cant seem to be able to fine anything good on google and youtube?
All in 1st to 2nd page. Solved my battery problem too.
Cheers, I think I've done it, there were bits information everywhere ...
Here is what I did:
1)Download - 3209 from: http://apt.saurik.com/debs/
2)Download - Diskaid for pc/mac
3)From Diskaid Drop 3209.deb to var/mobile/media/downloads/
4)Install ifile from Cydia
5)From ifile find 3209.deb and open it with installer
6)Reboot
And did you still have mail set up to poll every hour after restoring?
31 mins usage for 9 hours = roughly 3.5 mins per hour which falls in with your 4 mins per hour (roughly
). Possible your mail boxes are/were taking 4 mins every hour to wake the unit, poll the box and get any mail?
None that I can see. Nothing's changed at all. If something did screw up you could always just update through Cydia - the newer version is obviously there and will always be flagged with a badge in 'changes', just update if neccessary.
If you folks want to know when the next new version of Mobile Substrate is available but don't want to see version 0.9.3228-1 in the "Upgrade" list, you will want to make a change in this file:
/private/var/lib/dpkg/status
In this file, find the line that reads:
Version: 0.9.3209-1
Change it to:
Version: 0.9.3228-1
This will make apt (Cydia) think you have 0.9.3228-1 installed. When a newer version is released you will have the option of installing it.
If you want to actually install 0.9.3228-1, just go to:
Cydia --> Manage --> Packages --> Mobile Substrate --> Modify --> Reinstall
Then you will be up to date for real.
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/private/var/lib/dpkg/status
In this file, find the line that reads:
Version: 0.9.3209-1
Change it to:
Version: 0.9.3228-1
This will make apt (Cydia) think you have 0.9.3228-1 installed. When a newer version is released you will have the option of installing it.
If you want to actually install 0.9.3228-1, just go to:
Cydia --> Manage --> Packages --> Mobile Substrate --> Modify --> Reinstall
Then you will be up to date for real.
S-
Thanks! I just did wat u listed and everything seems ok. Now will observe if my battery does improve
Thanks! I just did wat u listed and everything seems ok. Now will observe if my battery does improve
my battery life on my iphone seems to be fine... was the battery draining fixed in a later update?
yea transfer it to your phone then install with iFile.
i'm not sure if you have to reboot after but i always do.
definitely reboot.
i've tried this, not sure if i'm seeing much difference yet (but need to give it a few days). my battery usage definitely sped up when i JB'd my phone. so am helping this helps...
i've tried this, not sure if i'm seeing much difference yet (but need to give it a few days). my battery usage definitely sped up when i JB'd my phone. so am helping this helps...
Downgrading to MS 3209 Worked for Me
I respect the work and comments of Saurik but downgrading to MobileSubstrate 3209 got me about an extra hour of battery life.
I've kept a battery use spreadsheet for the past 3 weeks, logging usage and standby times at consumption intervals of 10%. For the past 2 of the total 3 weeks of tracking I've been using MS 3209. To really push the battery I'm streaming audio over 3G to a Bluetooth speaker, doing light browsing, and have Mail & Facebook set for Push. I have a Winterboard theme and LockInfo running too. I'm running the battery down past the 10% warning almost everyday and have gone from about 6 hours of usage to at least 7 hours.
I won't be "upgrading" MobileSubstrate until I see that the next version won't take away that extra hour of battery life.
I respect the work and comments of Saurik but downgrading to MobileSubstrate 3209 got me about an extra hour of battery life.
I've kept a battery use spreadsheet for the past 3 weeks, logging usage and standby times at consumption intervals of 10%. For the past 2 of the total 3 weeks of tracking I've been using MS 3209. To really push the battery I'm streaming audio over 3G to a Bluetooth speaker, doing light browsing, and have Mail & Facebook set for Push. I have a Winterboard theme and LockInfo running too. I'm running the battery down past the 10% warning almost everyday and have gone from about 6 hours of usage to at least 7 hours.
I won't be "upgrading" MobileSubstrate until I see that the next version won't take away that extra hour of battery life.
Or it could be not a problem with Mobile Substrate at all. Maybe 3206 is changing a feature which could be causing some other library/program to work differently? Just a guess! IMO, the current version gives me much better battery life than 3206!