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Tested Battery after JBing
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Well just to be confusing, my battery life today has been fine. Winterboard was the only thing removed. I had restarted the phone twice yesterday. SSH wasn't even installed when my battery was poopy, I've since installed it and turned it off in SBSettings. This is just wacky. Maybe it has to age a little before it settles down. 
My phone battery was the same as pre-JB until i installed MobileSubstrate 0.9.3228-1.
Once i reverted back to 0.9.3226-1, it was back to normal for me.
Once i reverted back to 0.9.3226-1, it was back to normal for me.
My battery life has sucked the past few days. I fully charge it at night, take it off the charger around 11, wake up at 7 with about 80% and over 3 hours of use overnight! what could be responsible for that much activity??
I'm getting less than one day of battery life with probably 2 hours of real use per day. Before the JB, I could get almost 2 full days on a charge.
Wifi on, 3G on, 50% brightness. All the usual JB apps installed
I'm getting less than one day of battery life with probably 2 hours of real use per day. Before the JB, I could get almost 2 full days on a charge.
Wifi on, 3G on, 50% brightness. All the usual JB apps installed
How were you able to revert back?
On my 3rd restore/ Complete setup of the week & I updated a few apps Now I'm Back to having battery issues.....
Really getting tired of this.
Never mind, Got it.Thanx
I'm positive my phone's battery problems were related to ultrasn0w. In about seven hours with light web browsing, some twitter checking and short phone calls I still have 85% of my battery left. Yesterday under the same conditions plus ultrasn0w I was below 60%.
I also have winterboard, and SBSettings. I suppose my themes aren't causing much of a drain.
If you don't need the unlock don't use it. For those of you traveling abroad, my condolences
I also have winterboard, and SBSettings. I suppose my themes aren't causing much of a drain.
If you don't need the unlock don't use it. For those of you traveling abroad, my condolences
Is there an app on cydia which gives out the health of the battery life, like coconutbattery does?
I don't know about on Cydia, but there's one in the AppStore called Accura. Never used it so I can't attest to it's veracity.
try not to respring because that will make your usage go blank, instead switch off the phone then turn it back on.
Turning off wifi is a bad idea. Wifi uses less battery and if you turn it off, the battery will drain faster due to increased 3G use.
It's something that all jailbroken phones experience. When you get it to 100% the usage times should show up. Once you respring the phone they won't come back until the battery is at 100% again.
Not for me. But there is an update that's just been released addressing the issue.
So I've just read through all of the posts in this thread and I'm considering jailbreaking my iPhone 3G when I get a Mac within the next month. I only intend on going through this process to install the multitasking, home screen wallpaper and battery percentage that didn't come with the iOS4 update which I was a bit disappointed with. Do you think this will take a hit on the battery because nothing extra will be used in the background compared to my iPhone now (I don't think anyway).
I'm not really sure whether I'd actually use Cydia or not because the only things I probably change is the theme, but tbh I'd probably not even do that as I'm really paranoid about the placement and how the icons look. Most themes don't cater for all icons that I've got on my iPhone so that would really bug me.
Also, what is the exact test that people are doing to test their battery? On my iPhone 3G there's no way to check exact percentage (as far as I know) so how would I be able to see how much the battery dropped. I have an app installed that measures the battery but it only shows it in increments of 5%.
Thanks for any help.
I'm not really sure whether I'd actually use Cydia or not because the only things I probably change is the theme, but tbh I'd probably not even do that as I'm really paranoid about the placement and how the icons look. Most themes don't cater for all icons that I've got on my iPhone so that would really bug me.
Also, what is the exact test that people are doing to test their battery? On my iPhone 3G there's no way to check exact percentage (as far as I know) so how would I be able to see how much the battery dropped. I have an app installed that measures the battery but it only shows it in increments of 5%.
Thanks for any help.
anyone with battery issues update to 4.0.2 and see if that helped battery at all for whatever reason
No, don't do this. You won't be able to jailbreak and 4.0.2 ONLY patches the exploit
right I know, just checking to see if someone has. Might be worth it fr me, kinda annoying losing 5% after 5 minutes of browsing the web.