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Upgraded from 4.1 to 4.3.1, battery life unbearable!!

likemyorbs

likemyorbs

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I held off on upgrading my iPhone 4 firmware until the 4.3.1 release. Ever since upgrading, my battery drains so much faster than it ever used to, it's horrible. Anyone else noticed this? Just a few minutes after taking my phone off the charger the battery was already at 99% and i didn't even do anything. Now i'm on hold with the dmv and my battery drained 5% in 7 minutes. I'm afraid my battery won't make it through the day, what a nuisance!
 
Same problem. Check your usage in Settings --> general, see if it's reporting usage that you never used.

I had my phone charged to 100% before I went to sleep. After I woke up, my batter was at 69%, and the usage was showing an hour and 30 minutes, but I never used my phone while I was sleeping!
 
Try this and see if it helps -

Go into settings>store, tap your email and sign out
Open up the phone app, click home button, then kill the phone app in multi-task tray

See if that helps, works for me, have been diagnosing this issue since 4.3 ever came out and it fixes it for me
 
Ashin said:
Try this and see if it helps -

Go into settings>store, tap your email and sign out
Open up the phone app, click home button, then kill the phone app in multi-task tray

See if that helps, works for me, have been diagnosing this issue since 4.3 ever came out and it fixes it for me
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I'll have to give that a try. I have really noticeable battery drain with 4.3.1. Don't know if it's as bad as 4.3 but definitely different than before. Same with my iPhone and iPad2.

:confused:
Frank
 
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I'll have to give that a try. I have really noticeable battery drain with 4.3.1. Don't know if it's as bad as 4.3 but definitely different than before. Same with my iPhone and iPad2.

:confused:
Frank
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Let me know if it works.

Works for me every time, thankfully, the battery issues were driving me insane
 
I believe that is the same battery life that Verizon iPhones have been seeing since day one. The battery life on my Verizon iPhone in comparison to my At&t iPhone is night and day.

Verizon iPhone Battery life = Horrible
At&t iPhone Battery life = Great
 
I do not understand as 4.3.1 did not change my battery life greatly from the previous OS. Slightly but maybe by 5% for the whole average day.
 
Wow thanks for all the suggestions guys, will try when I get home, I should also mention that I have not yet tried to calibrate the battery since the update, don't know if it will help.
 
ok, just gave this stuff a try and going to sleep now. we shall see tomorrow if it's improved. Also another thing, it won't charge to a full 100% keeps stopping at 99.
 
msjones said:
Try disabling ping under restrictions as described in this article.

I have read that this has helped many users with poor battery life since the update.
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To be honest, I think a lot of us are pushing a lot of notifications now, and there's no way to avoid a detrimental effect on battery life.
 
George Knighton said:
To be honest, I think a lot of us are pushing a lot of notifications now, and there's no way to avoid a detrimental effect on battery life.
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So far I've not needed to enable notifications, and while I cannot conclusively state that is the reason. My battery life doesn't suck
 
Another thread?

You do realize there are countless useless threads like this one right?

I don't understand you people, everytime Apple releases a new software update, somebody always has to complain about battery life and how much worse it is...

Why?
 
iphone3gs16gb said:
I don't understand you people, everytime Apple releases a new software update, somebody always has to complain about battery life and how much worse it is...

Why?
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Err people complain as it is bad because of the battery drain.Not had any problems with any of the previous IOS's except for 4.3.1!

Luckily for me i could downgrade and now i'm not losing several % every 5 minutes,neither is it getting hot when using 2 apps or is it locking up!
 
George Knighton said:
To be honest, I think a lot of us are pushing a lot of notifications now, and there's no way to avoid a detrimental effect on battery life.
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Ping isn't for push notifications, its the new music sharing service thats part of itunes. Personally I dont use it and have it disabled.

According to some reports its running constantly in the background. Disabling it under restrictions kills this feature.
 
I've suffered battery drain as has my wife, her iPhone even more so. Just installed today's update though. We'll see if that helps at all. Fingers crossed.
 
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