nope, signal is fine for me AND during the week there are times i travel within a 100-150 mile radius from where i live
problem persists
problem persists
am i the only one experiencing 6.1.2 battery woes??
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Jaguarr40
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Seeing your latest screenshot Blink now I do understand your frustration and feel for you. Hope you make the trip to the genius bar. Did you also get my latest PM about the question you asked me at the end of you PM back to me?
I've mentioned this before in other threads, but if you really want to know what your battery is doing, you should get an app that allows you to see the actual battery data instead of using the battery meter and usage stats.
If you're jailbroken (and there really isn't any reason why you shouldn't be aside from company policies) there are a couple of great apps on Cydia that can give you guys some real data to start working with to help you try to figure out what's going on. I'm currently using BatteryLogger (from one of the "other" repos because the legit version won't install on iOS 6) but BatteryDetective is what I used to use and it's petty good too, maybe even better for troubleshooting.
Last year something got corrupted in my iCloud data and it caused a pretty massive battery drains. After I figured out what the problem was, I faced the monumental task of convincing Apple's tech support to delete everything from their side and let me start over. As soon as they finally did that (after weeks of phone calls) my phone went back to normal.
Here's how you can use BatteryDetective to help track down battery issues:
1) After installing the app, close all of the apps in your multitask bar and reboot your phone.
2) Open the BatteryDetective app and select "Battery Info".
3) On this page, there is a lot of detailed info regarding your battery. Take note of the difference between the "MaxCapacity" and "DesignCapacity" fields, as that will show you how much your battery has degraded since you've owned it.
4) Scroll to near the bottom of the page, and you will see the "Drain" field. This is how much battery power you are consuming. The field updates about every thirty seconds, so bear in mind that you should wait at least that long after making any changes to see what any differences have made.
I think that then main thing that you guys should be checking is your standby power consumption. To measure this, make sure that the "Drain" field is visible on screen, then hit the sleep/wake button. Leave the phone alone for around a minute, then turn it back on and read that value. It should be somewhere between 4 and 6 mA. If you get a text message or email or anything else during your wait, you will have to wait longer because events like that will make the number much higher.
If it's higher than that, you can start turning things off and repeating the measurement and see if you can figure out the offending party. The first thing I'd do is turn on Airplane Mode and see if its a radio causing trouble.
It's a lot easier to track down problems this way then it is to watch the usage numbers.
If you're jailbroken (and there really isn't any reason why you shouldn't be aside from company policies) there are a couple of great apps on Cydia that can give you guys some real data to start working with to help you try to figure out what's going on. I'm currently using BatteryLogger (from one of the "other" repos because the legit version won't install on iOS 6) but BatteryDetective is what I used to use and it's petty good too, maybe even better for troubleshooting.
Last year something got corrupted in my iCloud data and it caused a pretty massive battery drains. After I figured out what the problem was, I faced the monumental task of convincing Apple's tech support to delete everything from their side and let me start over. As soon as they finally did that (after weeks of phone calls) my phone went back to normal.
Here's how you can use BatteryDetective to help track down battery issues:
1) After installing the app, close all of the apps in your multitask bar and reboot your phone.
2) Open the BatteryDetective app and select "Battery Info".
3) On this page, there is a lot of detailed info regarding your battery. Take note of the difference between the "MaxCapacity" and "DesignCapacity" fields, as that will show you how much your battery has degraded since you've owned it.
4) Scroll to near the bottom of the page, and you will see the "Drain" field. This is how much battery power you are consuming. The field updates about every thirty seconds, so bear in mind that you should wait at least that long after making any changes to see what any differences have made.
I think that then main thing that you guys should be checking is your standby power consumption. To measure this, make sure that the "Drain" field is visible on screen, then hit the sleep/wake button. Leave the phone alone for around a minute, then turn it back on and read that value. It should be somewhere between 4 and 6 mA. If you get a text message or email or anything else during your wait, you will have to wait longer because events like that will make the number much higher.
If it's higher than that, you can start turning things off and repeating the measurement and see if you can figure out the offending party. The first thing I'd do is turn on Airplane Mode and see if its a radio causing trouble.
It's a lot easier to track down problems this way then it is to watch the usage numbers.
Jrome.brooks
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Tanbam - regarding the potential iCloud issue, that might be a strong possibility. is that something to where if i were to remove my iCloud account from the device i would notice a difference? or would it be beyond that.
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Rockdog97
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that's why I'm not in a rush to upgrade to the latest and greatest iOS when it comes out. I'm still on 6.1 and things are awesome.
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NolansVlogs
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Probably the apps you have running, turn wifi off when not used, LTE off if not needed, kill all apps, back light
This was back around this time last year when there wasn't any way to re-restore to a jailbreakable firmware, so I didn't have the luxury of starting from scratch.
If I rebooted the phone in Airplane Mode, it would be fine. When I would enable the radios, it would be okay for a while, then it would start doing whatever was messed up. The battery would start draining quickly, and if I was on 3G, the phone would actually start getting hot. In BatteryDetective, I could see that my standby current was around 400mA, which would drain the battery in a few hours.
I think I ended up deleting the iCloud account and was able to determine that it was the cause. It took me a about a month to get it taken care of. They had me change my password to one that they selected so that they could log in and troubleshoot, but after a week of that, they threw in the towel and deleted everything in my iCloud account. As soon as they did that, it worked beautifully again.
WOW 400mA!?!?!! not good. after doing some testing of my own (using the instructions in your earlier post) it appears that iCloud may be an issue for me as well. i jailbroke and purchased BatteryDetective, here is what i discovered..
while in standby wifi and 3G ON with iCloud enabled 114-143mA
while in standby wifi and 3G ON with iCloud disabled 4-6mA
after seeing this first hand i have since Restored as New and did NOT setup iCloud this time around. so far it "seems" better but tomorrow i will put it to the test
sting7k
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here's what i ended up with today having my iCloud account removed all day
took off the charger early AM. i guess my standby could have been higher had i fully charged then removed from the charger before bedtime
now i need to see how to reset my iCloud account, assuming there is something corrupted
took off the charger early AM. i guess my standby could have been higher had i fully charged then removed from the charger before bedtime
now i need to see how to reset my iCloud account, assuming there is something corrupted
LCW
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I'm on VZW - running 6.1.3 beta 2 and even with LTE on all day (tested a few days with no wifi) still get pretty good battery life...
finally made a genius appt for tonight.. if you see/read about some crazy guy losing it at an Apple store it might be me
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