6.1.2, iPhone 4, Battery Failure

The update for iOS 6.1.2 came out yesterday and I was already experiencing the worst battery drain ever but when i updated my phone it got to the "restart stage" and showed the "0% battery" or "lightning" symbol. I've tried restoring it from recovery mode but each time this happens... Any suggestions?

I have no warrenty or Apple care. Would they charge me for anything they do the phone? Plus I cannot get passed the "charging" symbol. It has 100% battery but displays that it has 0% battery... This shouldn't happen the Apple products, I have had quite a good experience with their products but this is a joke now. I mgiht just wait until August for my upgrade, thank you anyway.

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My best bet would be to restore the phone. Back it up to itunes, and then reset it Factory settings. This way, any corrupt software will be removed, and you can start fresh. Make sure you back it up first. By the sounds of it, you are using the phone for business and probably need the data from it. Hope this helps!

IPhone won't turn on... possibly a sudden battery failure?

Hi,
So my iPhone was working fine, i received a call, put it down... but next time I go to check something I push the home button and nothing happens.
I've tried turning it on - nothing, charging it - nothing, taking the sim card out etc - nothing.
I tried calling too, and just goes to voicemail.
I bought it off a work colleague as a replacement for a lost one, so I have no idea of the serial number, and its definately out of warranty.
Any idea what the problem is? Feels like a sudden and total battery failure, but I don't even know how I'd get that sorted/replaced!
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Does it charge if you connect to the adapter? If yes, let it charge for about 20min. then connect in recovery mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
If it does not charge, contact Apple to get it serviced, see these details about the battery replacement program: http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/service/battery/
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IPhone G3 Battery and Performance Issues

I have a 16GB iPhone G3 (OS 3.1.2). It's only about 6 months old though it is the 4th iPhone G3 I've had since Sept '08. The others have been replaced by Apple for battery failure, modem failure and inability to stay 'connected' to a charging device even when physically still attached to the charger.
I have over 8GB of free space, Push is turned off, WiFI is turned off 99% of the time, and I don't have any major apps that might use up a lot of the battery or CPU cycles.
Ever since the 3.0 or 3.1 update:
* My battery performance is only about 1/3 of it's previous performance. I've charged it from two different Macs as well as the car charger but still get horrible horrible battery life. It has simply made the device undependable while I am away from a charger.
* My iPhone is regularly unresponsive. Sometimes for only 3 - 5 seconds, other times for up to 30 - 60 seconds. This happens whether or not the iPod is playing, whether or not Mail is downloading and even when nothing else at all is being used. This happens repeatedly throughout the day.
Many times all the input events are buffered so it tries to perform them all once when the phone comes out of its stupor. Other times nothing at all happens once it revives.
Several times a week I need to power it off just to get it to work again.
* A few times a week applications don't load or quit properly:
- Mail may load the header & footers but not the body of the app. None of the software controls work. Quitting the app and relaunching it does not resolve the problem - only a shutdown/restart does.
- The green 'Return to Call' bar will stick around after a call is over and can only be removed by placing another call, leaving the phone app, touching the green bar to return to the call and then ending the call.
- Maps loads the header & footer and a portion of the screen. None of the software controls work. Quitting the app and relaunching it sometimes resolves the problem but not always.
- After some calls end the entire screen appears 'disabled' and the 'Home' button doesn't work. This usually requires a restart to correct.
- The iPod will stop or stutter while some other process is running such as checking for mail or loading another app. What good is an iPod that can't play dependably while I use the device for other things?
- I drop so many calls that if 'calls' were 'passes' my iPhone could play for the NY Knicks. I suspect it's probably an AT&T coverage issue though I would hope the NYC metro area would have better coverage than this.
* Bluetooth just turns off all by itself. I have to go into the Settings and turn bluetooth back on. This happens with all three of the bluetooth headsets that I use.
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The phone is acting like it occasionally has a 'race' condition that is eating up the CPU cycles. It is so often and so unpredictable that I cannot pinpoint what the cause is.
All this is very frustrating and tempting me to revert back to version 2 of the OS. I'm not happy at the thought of losing Copy & Paste but I certainly lose more time waiting for the device to decide to gets its act together than I would re-typing everything I copy & paste.
I've considered going back to the Apple store again for another replacement but I have little confidence that #5 will be my lucky iPhone. I'm not sure why the quality has been so 'un-apple like' but I'm 0 - 4 with iPhones even though I treat them with care. Since this dismal performance appears to coincide with either the 3.0 or 3.1 update I'm not convinced it's even a hardware problem this time.
As much as I depend on the phone & e-mail to run my business I can't rely on this iPhone at all.
James

I'd try to get a new one if you can. Hopefully it will come with 3.0 or older. Everything after 3.0 killed battery life.
With version 2.0, using edge + Wifi, I was able to get 2.5 to 3 days with light usage. When I upgraded to 3.0, I got the same 2.5 - 3 days with light usage. My phone definately lagged a lot more due to installing new apps. However, I found if I turned on either push notifications or location services, my battery would last at most 5 hours, even if i wasn't using my phone.
Just a month ago, we got 3G coverage in my town. I was hesitant to use it since battery life was already not stellar, but after testing it, I found I could use 3G and have push notifications on all the time and still get 2 - 3 days of battery. The only changes I made was I deleted about 1.5 gigabytes of old podcasts and I changed my mail settings from fetch manually to fetch off. I always noticed before my mail would try to fetch itself several times during the day even though it was set to fetch manual and it was wasting battery by doing this.
I should mention that 3.0 did not make my battery life worse than 2.0, but I've read 3.1 and newer really kill battery life. I still suggest 3.0 over 2.0 since you get push services. I also didn't have many dropped calles on 2.0 or 3.0. I do notice that voicemails are lagged on 3.0, sometimes by a few minutes, other times by a few hours
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Hello,
For the past few months I've noticed a problem with my iPhone 4s.
When the battery drops below 50%, but usually arround the 20-40% mark it will switch itself off.
I try and turn it back on and it shows me the symbol that says it needs charging.
If i leave it for a few minutes (between 5 - 15) I'll be able to switch it back on and it'll show with 20/30/40% battery.
Or if I plug it in to charge it'll switch on immediately and again say I have 20/30/40% battery.
It used to happen once in a while, but then started to become more regualr, happening a couple of times a week.
So I took it into my local Apple Store and they ran a diagnostic on it, said that it wasn't showing a battery failure, but if I wanted to pay £130 they would replace the battery for me.
Has anyone else had this issue? It's completely random so hard to replicate in store, it just happens.
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Forgot to say:
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And the woman at the Apple Store said she'd never come across this problem before.

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Hi gdgmacguy,
As I stated in my question, I am wondering if anyone else has had this issue, and if so if it also occurred after updating to IOS 5.0.1.
Since a fire in you pocket or your home has the the potential to cause personal injury and property damage I believe the fellow users should be aware of the dangers associated with this type of catastrophic failure.
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iphone 4s battery draining extremly fast, how annoying is that, Battery will be drain out within 12 hrs and I just usually watch 30 mins video (not using 3G/wifi) and 10mins on Phone .
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Go to advanced and set icloud to manual I used to suffer from this because of icloud it was stuck in a loop and always draining the battery, try also resetting your network settings if it didn't work reset all settings and set it as a new phone drain the battery and charge it from 0 to 100% to recalibrate the battery , hope this works for you

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My iphone 4 battery often drains too quickly, and I wonder if it has something to do with my Mail App.
When my phone is not playing nice, it drains at least 20% overnight while on Standby, and from 100% to 30% in around 6 hours when I use it during the day. I found a fix (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11775150) that basically says to wipe your mail account and set it up again.
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So I got my iphone 4 today. 32GB. Came home charged it full powered down for battery memory and left off for a few minutes like instructed.
I have not done much with the phone and I am already at 85% within an hour of using it for texting. maybe 30 texts so far. Wifi off, no tethering connection made, Brightness turned to max push every 15 minutes 3G on. For a battery that is 40%n bigger it is really draining fast.
Now I am noticing yellowish blobs on the right side vertically and a few on the top horizontally. I read in a post that it was because of not cured residue and should go away in a few days. DOES this make sense to you folks. Where does it say that on apples site.
I am about to call a tech about this and have them send me something in writing.
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if you have a mobile me account. First go and move all your data to the cloud by going on your computer and logging in at me.com/move. The cloud has replaced mobile me, so there is no need for those two accounts
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turning of locator and the push notifications from facebook--they have a lot!

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Sorry, but the warranty for the iPhone is only valid in the country where you bought the device.
In most of the cases 3rd party apps or settings caused the battery to drain faster than before the new software has been set up. Sometimes the mail app tried to connect to the mail server over and over again, deleting and setting up the mail account can solve this problem.
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iPhone 5 (US - AT&T GSM - MD634LL)
iOS 6.0.2 (10A551)
Note: What I will detail/propose below is the implementation of a workaround to make do with what we have until Apple provides the solution.
The hard truth to swallow for loyal Apple customers and device users is that the hardware Apple used in the iPhone 5 is power-hungry, services provided via iOS are not optimized to reduce resource consumption, and if Apple did not also include a bigger battery with the iPhone 5 then owners would be even more upset.
So, long story short...
Over five nights, I did some simple tests.
The first night, I left my phone in Airplane Mode overnight - some drain while idle.
The second night, disabled Spotlight Search indexing and left my phone in Airplane Mode overnight - minimized drain while idle.
The third night, I turned off wifi - small amount of drain and I noticed that my cellar data usage (sent and received) increased by just over a couple of megabytes in total. Strange...
The fourth night, I enabled logging on my router. Since all of my wireless devices are assigned static addresses, I can narrow down data hogs pretty easily and see where they are going to get data and how much data was sent/recevied. With wifi left on, many hundreds of requests were sent to push*.apple.com servers by my iPhone 5 and a couple of megabytes worth of data were sent/received. Why? Because I had push enabled for iCloud (I always set my email accounts to Manual data fetching). It seems to me that push is still not push and that iOS will check to see if updated data in iCloud needs to be fetched. Push in the iOS world is another way of saying "try to fetch data much more frequently than the periodic fetch data settings." I also looked at my OpenDNS stats since I got the iPhone 5 in early December and these servers made up a hugely massive chunk of all my internet traffic at home. It is fair to note that my wifi-only third-generation iPad makes many hundreds of requests to those servers as well, but I am guessing that the hardware used for it is not as power-hungry and I do not have BT enabled and I do not have any battery drain while idle issues with it.
The fifth night, with both push and fetch disabled, all notifications disabled, as many location services as possbile disabled, all cellular data services disabled, Spotlight Search not indexing anything, I left wifi and cellular on and noticed that my battery drained only a couple percent while my iPhone 5 sat idle on my nightstand and only a minimal amount of cellular data was used (for what I do not know...).
So, until/if Apple decides to do something, if you want to maximize your iPhone 5 battery's charge, then I recommend implementing the following:
High Prority Settings
If you do not use it, turn off Spotlight Search completely by deslecting all of the items that it can index. As with newer versions of OS X, services related to Spotlight Search indexing seem to run quite often and for extended durations of time.
Unless you are a doctor or a very important person in another profession that must know when you get a new email, turn Push off and set Fetch to manual for all iCloud and all mail accounts. You can also go one step further and set each account to "Manual".
Unless you connect to a very underutlized 4G LTE network, turn off LTE. I tested this change and the difference between standard 4G and 4G LTE on AT&T network in Denver metro area is negligible.
Turn off ALL iOS System Services for Location Services. They do nothing but track you for your Apple's location-based advertising platform. For most, setting the time zone is done when the phone connects via celluar or wifi, and, my car has a navigation system with traffic data and I use Google Maps if I need navigation or traffic data when not in my car. Not a single Apple iOS System Location Service is absolutely necessary and will drain your battery.
Medium Priority Settings
Disable using cellular data for everything if possible. I still choose to leave it on for "iCloud Documents" and that doesn't seem to hurt things.
Disable Location Services for as many apps as possible/reasonable. Do at least leave "Find My iPhone" enabled. Note that some other apps may require that they be able to use your location (e.g. SiriusXM).
Disable as many Notifications (everything about Notifications - banners, alerts, badges, sounds, etc.) as possible.
Low Priority and Typical Settings
Reduce screen brightness as much as possible. Approximately 33% seems to suffice. Auto brightness can be left on since it seems to never really be used anyway.
Turn off Bluetooth when you do not need it enabled.
Turn off any automatic downloads for iTunes and App Stores, and Podcasts.
So, yep, a total PITA. But by doing all of the above, a full battery charge lasts several days with 10+ (or more) hours of actual usage. I hope this helps anyone else that attempts to do the same. Screenshots for those unfamiliar with the key settings above are included below (everything is done via the Settings - aka Preferences - app with a "gear" logo).
Disable Spotlight Search Indexing
Push and Fetch for iCloud and Mail Accounts
Turning Off LTE
System Location Services
Celluar Data Settings
Notifications
Automatic Downloads (apps, music, iBooks and podcasts) for "iTunes & App Stores" and "Podcasts"

Hello,
I am currently an owner of an Ipod Touch 4th generation.
I have had battery drain problem on the Ipod Touch 4th generation.
But, I found a solution that works for me:
Do the IOS update (the one that is the latest, or if you already did, then proceed to step 2)
Reset All Settings: SETTINGS>GENERAL>RESET>RESET ALL SETTINGS
Use it until it dies (automatically shuts off)
Plug into Charge
Leave it 1.5 hours or longer after it reaches 100% --> Undisturbed (preferably overnight)
Give it a few days to Calibrate
This has helped me on my Ipod Touch 4th generation, running IOS 6.0.1
The battery seems to give me 2 days 30 hours of standby, and 10 hours and 15 minutes of usage.
Thats pretty good!

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