3G phone battery dies pretty fast compared to old Iphones!

My Battery like runs out 3x as fast as my old 2G *** ?

Yes it will, which is common or the same with all 3G phones.
3G network access for calls and especially for internet access is a significant battery drain. The lower your reception level when accessing/using 3G for calls and especially for internet, battery drain will be even greater.
Reception level, keeping Bluetooth and wi-fi on when not being used, screen brightness setting, and usage are primary factors along with other factors that play a roll in this.
If you don't need 3G network access for internet - you have a wi-fi connection, turn 3G off.

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Front camera doesn't work! Battery dies super fast!

Hello! I received my ipod touch 5th generation as a bday gift in November 2012 and I'm having a couple of issues with it. First the battery dies really fast. I have wifi on all the time and I dunno if this is the issue, but using music playback for about 4-5 hrs/day and reading/instagram/fb/WWF for like 1-2 hrs, it lasts about 15 - 20 hrs. I think there has to be a problem because my touch 3rd gen lasted longer basically doing the same thing. And if I play a video for <1hr, the battery lasts less than 12 hrs. That's one thing. Also, a couple of times both the front and back camera have frozen up, and for about a week now, the front camera doesn't work. When I switch to it, it closes up as if it's taking a picture, but it never opens up again, it just stays there. This is for video and camera. The front one just doesnt work. PLEASE HELP! I'm obssesed with this thing and I'm really disappointed by these features. I dunno what to do. And the worst is that after I try to switch to the front camera, I can't switch back. I have to restart the ipod to be able to use the back camera, because it just doesn't do anything.

For the camera problem
Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
The battery life you are getting is normal and expected. If you have a concern after doing the above make an appointment at the Genius Bar.

HT1414 my battery dies very fast and my home button doesnt work many times.

my battery dies very fast and my home button doesnt work many times.

iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
I would start with
Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP
or
Removing and reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows Vista or Windows 7
New cable and different USB port?
Runs this and see if the results help with determine the cause
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Try on another computer to help determine if computer or iPod problem
Try using this program to place the iPod in recovery mode
RecBoot: Easy Way to Put iPhone into Recovery Mode

HT1338 battery dies too fast

My battery dies too fast, is it normal?

What model MBP do you have? What is too fast? Post the following from your MBP:
Ciao.

For all of us whose iPhone battery dies ridiculously fast

It's long, but please take your time to read it. Appreciate it.
Firstly, I believe it happens to a lot of us. It not only happens to me, but also a lot of my friends and my family.
Using iPhone certainly will consume its battery, and the way that consumers use iPhones and measure its battery is not the "stand by hours" but how long the battery lasts after charging it till full during our sleep or office hours. We simply only care about how many photos we can take, how long we can search things or browse things on the browser, how long we can call, how long we can use certain apps on the phone and so on so on. Of course, the most important thing is that we don't need to exchange some other essentials such as 4G LTE, brightness, background refresh, background location services, or even WiFi for those very basic functions. We, as users, totally understand certain functions may consumes more battery such as 4G LTE and background operations, but it cannot be the most prior excuse for the phone dies too fast.
Last month, I gradually cannot tolerate to see my iPhone's battery dies too soon, therefore I reserved a time slot in Genius Bar.
The response I got, was just as ridiculous as it could be. Firstly, the "Genius" told me to switch off the location services, the background refresh services, and to reduce the motion. He said, after these, your phone will be fine. It seems to be the end of the story, but it is just not. I have these already done long time before!!! Then, the "Genius" of course, did a comprehensive test for the battery and the phone. After a couple minutes, he showed me a list of app crash history, including some major apps that everyone uses and some foundation services of the system. He, of course, without seeing the apps, told me that many apps may be out of dated and developers may not update their apps on time so these apps may cause issues after time, and suggested me to delete those apps. After seeing the list, including Facebook, Weibo, WhatsApp. It is so obvious that these apps are not out of dated but so up to dated!! Ok, then he suggested me to restore the phone, of course I have tried it so many times. Then, he suggested me to use third party tools to back up some certain data and restore the phone as new. He said the bugs are in the backup. THATS IT!!!
I would not do it, the reason I keep using iPhone is because I value and appareciate the consistency and reliability of the system. I don't need to worry any lose of data when I switch to a new iPhone or upgrade the OS. And of course I don't need to trust and use other non-apple utility services to back up my data. Apple saves my time and brings me convenience, and I always purchase the largest possible capacity to store a lot of files in the phone.
I updated to iOS 8 this morning, and it took one hour to consume a quarter of battery. Now I am restoring it.
It happens to just so many of iPhone users. Hope Apple would value this issue and solve it as what Apple always does.
Thanks for reading. Hope some of you would pass it to insiders.

There is a new feature in iOS 8 that helps users track down battery hogging apps. Settings, General, Usage, Battery Usage. Perhaps that might help you figure out where your electrons are disappearing to.

Battery dies very fast

It's hardly used, and is at 20% by noon. Dies way faster than my Iphone 4.

It's possible that you have an app stuck sending data or attempting to send data and failing. Any app that can run in background can be at fault. If you have an Exchange email account that could be the problem; if you do, try turning the account switches off in Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendars. Reboot the phone, and turn them back on. Other than that social networking apps can also drain the battery fast; Facebook, Find Friends, etc. You can kill them in the Quick Launch bar. When on the Home screen double-press the HOME button, then hold your finger on one of the apps across the bottom until "-" appears on them. Tap the "-" on each suspect app (or all apps to be safe) to close the app.

Ipod touch 5th gen battery dies super fast after updating to 8.1

I updated my iPod touch to 8.1 over the weekend. Now when I charge it, it dies extreamly fast. I let it sit on the charger overnight to get a full charge. In the morning I took it off the charger and drove to work while listening to music. After only 30 min of driving my iPod was down to 50% battery. I then left it locked (no programs running in the background, Airplane mode is always on) after work it was dead. Is this problem becuase of the iOS update or is it my battery is just bad?

% battery is not accurate on an iPod. Large fluctuations in % battery is normal.
The test is how long can you play a video after charging fro at least 6 hours. 4-5 hours seems to be the norm
Also see:
http://www.cnet.com/news/some-ios-8-users-report-sluggish-wi-fi-shorter-battery- life/
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/22/ios-8-issues-battery-drain-wifi/
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/features/how-to-improve-battery-life-on-ios-8-59595 1
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After upgrade to IOS6 my battery dies very fast? any fix?

I updated my itouch to IOS6 and now my battery dies in just a few hours. Is there a fix or can I uninstall the upgrade . This is bad news as I use this device a lot.

My battery is life is back to normal after deleting my Facebook account from the intergrated FB feature (Settings, Facebook, click your name, Delete Account). I started thinking that since the FB integration updates your contacts and calendar it is probably constantly receiving data. My battery seems to be back to normal after doing that. I was also using the new Maps app a lot over the weekend because I am a Realtor and was out showing property (BTW - I hate the new maps app, Google finds businesses by name almost 100% of the time and Apple's app does not). I have shut down the Maps app so that could also be a factor. I see where several people have said they fixed their battery drain by reinstalling the iOS6 update thru iTunes, but I updated mine originally thru iTunes, and noticed the battery drain the same day. I went through right after I updated and made sure everything I always had done on my phone to save battery life was set like I like it (brightness, mail to no fetch, no synching with iCloud, etc). I also do not use Siri so I know that did not contribute to the battery problem. I truly think it was because of FB. Since changing that, my phone has only dropped 6% in 3 hours and I have talked on it a couple of times. I have a 4s.

Battery Dies Pretty Quick. Help Please.

Okay so I have had my iPod for about three years. I never really had a problem with the battery until I dropped it in the water bowl. It's now starting to get on my nerves because my cord that charges it is already breaking and I haven't had time to go buy a new one. I have googled questions but none of them apply to me or help. My brightness is pretty much always on the lowest setting. People have said that having the notifications on can kill the battery or use it faster. Is this true? I am wondering this because my notifications are always on. I am looking at buying the iPhone 4s but I have heard bad things and good things about the battery life. I would like the truth about the battery life it would be a big help because either way I am probably going to end up buying it. But, back to the problem does anyone know why my battery is dying so quick? Could it be because of the water? Thanks.

Yes, notification and also location services and wifi and blutooth drain the battery.
With time/number of charge cycles the battery capacity decrease.
You did not descripe/quantify what you mean by Pretty Quick
I have a iPhone 4S and am satisfied with battery life.

Is my new phone battery draining to fast when surfing the web???

I had/still have problems with my iPhone 3G and the 3G network. To make a long story short, i was given a new phone and the problems have not been fixed.
However when using safari or GPS or any surfing activity on my old phone i could get anywhere from 4 1/2 to 6 hours battery life when using a heavy amount of safari(i use the phone 75% of the time for that alone) weather and stocks, and a few texts and calls and other features. I could get through the day easily when unplugging it around 8 in the morning and didn't have to plug it back in until night.
The new phone seems to drain much faster with very similar use. The only two things i can think of is a tad more GPS and a lack of a strong signal because i was on vacation on marthas vineyard(not a whole lot of service on half the island, lot of signal searching). I notice the battery drains very funny also.
I can get like a half an hour usage before a blip comes off the battery indicator and sometimes i can get an hour. But those will follow up in the second hour draining to like 25% remaining. I can get between 2-2 1/2 hours before my 20% warning comes up. I was used to like 4 1/2 hours before the warning.
I looked online and saw that my new phone was actually similar to some time tests for surfing the web, my old iphone was alot of things, but it wasn't a battery drainer. So im wondering if my new phone is having a problem or my old phone was a "special" phone.
Just wanna know before i contact apple.

If you are surfing using 3G it will drain the battery faster than on EDGE. If you have WiFi on while you are searching using 3G/EDGE the battery will drain faster so turn it off. Signal hunting will also drain it a bit faster. Since you have a new phone it will take a few battery cycles before you see the true charge life of the battery.

Iphone 5 battery dies too fast, bought in Feb 2013

Hi,
Recently Iphone has invited customers to get their battery replaced who have purchased the iphone 5 between Sept 2012 to Jan 2013. I have purchased my Iphone 5 on Feb 2013, however my battery doesn't hold a day (and quickly goes to 30%->0% in no time). I have checked on the apple page and my Serial number is not suggested to be affected by the fault that the company is admitting. Is it possible that the lot that I have purchased the phone in could also be faulty similar to its predeccars. I am facing the battery issue from almost beginning of this year now. That suggests my phone battery was fine only for an year. I am wondering if this is the average age of Iphone battery or my phone behaved exceptionally bad.
Cheers,
abhi134

that's still a relatively young phone 5 if you bought it in February 2013. but if you are near an apple store, try to see if they will let it in under the free replacement program anyways. they might say yes even if the serial number comes up as not affected. when you go there, they will help diagnose your iphone to see if maybe it's just some settings or apps on your iphone draining your battery. or you can try your own bit of diagnosing it yourself after reading articles about battery drain on iphone. this is one article you definitely what to read by a former apple genius technician person:
http://www.scottyloveless.com/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-to-solving-ios-batter y-drain
my own experience is that Background App Refresh can really drain the battery (go into settings, general, background app refresh to turn that completely off or only turn off what you don't need). you may also want to go into settings to check on apps that do location gps stuff and leave location turned on for only what you need. for apps, the facebook app could be a big battery suck. also my experience is that apps sponsored by advertising could be a source of battery suck if they check your location or do background refresh even when they are off. LTE could be a possible battery suck (you can switch this off in settings to only get 4G), although many people will disagree on this, but my experience is it could be another battery suck if you find your iphone always alternating between LTE and 4G.
there is one app you might want to try "Normal: Battery Analytics" in the app store. this can help to tell you which apps may be causing problems.
if you want the battery replaced, you may want to ask your local apple store how much they'll charge you if out of warranty. news was they are doing battery replacements in the store nowadays. but they may also suggest you buy a replacement iphone 5 which of course will cost more. otherwise, if you really want to change the battery, then search on yelp for a good repair shop near you that works on iphones to get a better price. but keep in mind that is outside the apple store, and afterwards you won't be able to get apple to do any future hardware repairs on that particular iphone. but since you're out of warranty anyways, you may end up being like me and either doing it yourself for whatever you are not afraid to do, or, better yet, going to a reputable outside repair shop for iphone repairs that are beyond your skills.

Is anyone else having a problem with the iPhone 4s Battery Life? My 1 year old Iphone 4, which I gave to my wife, is holding a charge better and she has been using it far more than I've been using my 4s

My wife preordered a white iPhone 4s for our anniversary and even though it is preloaded with the ios 5, i am a little disappointed. The battery doesn't seem to hold a charge well at all. I have had every other iphone except the 3gs and have never had such a poor battery life. I owned the iPhone 4 for a year, and already know all the tricks to hold on to battery life, I have adopted the habit of closing out any apps that weren't being used, my mail push notifications are set for hourly, wifi and bluetooth are turned off when they aren't needed. I also stay away from any car chargers, use only the apple brand supplied cables, and only charge when the phone is dead. I only would sync when the phone was about to die as well.
When I saw how fast I was burning through the battery, I turned off Siri, which is kind of the purpose of the new iPhone, and turned off the backing up to iCloud. I barely used my phone today and the battery kept ticking down. My wife, who has been stuck with an iPhone 3g for years, has been fascinated with my old iPhone 4 and has been browsing and playing games and her battery has been holding a better charge than my new phone. I even tried turning the phone off for an hour when it was at 18% and when I turned it back on, it was at 15%. My iPhone 2, which is only being used as a touch iPod now, still has better standby time than a brand new iPhone 4s.
To be honest, I am usually a heavy phone user. Throughout the day I will make and receive at least 50 calls, I browse and check websites daily and watch videos sometimes during my downtime. But this weekend, I haven't even had the chance to put this phone through the same abuse my other 3 iPhones have had to endure.
I just want to know if anyone else has this problem, or if I should just return this one.

I had major issues with the iPhone 4s battery, however it’s resolved.
The tech who set the phone up at the Apple store did so with little training.
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
Also make sure that for any of your email accounts you set them up to fetch, not push. My tech person set them all to have the email servers push data to the phone. The new iphone4s antenna is extremely strong so it will continually try to access stuff that is pushed–***** a lot of battery life doing this. It makes it worse if you have exchange 2010 accounts. Something about changes made to exchange really suck battery life from devices that access such accounts.
turning of locator and the push notifications from facebook--they have a lot!

Battery dies very fast just in standby-HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

My battery on my bb has been dieing very fast in standby. I have no apps running no wifi no blue tooth. I have may found the issue that might be a bigger issue with my phone what you say. The signal can go from 4 bars to no bars and stay at no bars for a few then jump back up to 4 bars. This I think happens all the time there for my battery being dead all the time. I looked at Verizon's map and I get full coverage in my house and my bb does not leave my house.
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The map really doesn't matter here, coverage can vary due to many factors such as terrain, etc.
IF you device is constantly searching for a signal, that can drain the battery.
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Battery dies so fast even when not using it

My battery could be at 100% and when I take it off the charger after one minute it drops to 93% and I wasn't even on it. I've only had it for three weeks.

That is a pretty sudden drop in charge level, mine has on occassion dropped 1% if the battery had just reached 100% and was then unplugged...if it does this consistently, take it to an Apple store genius bar and have the techs test the battery to be sure it is ok.
You can also do a reboot by holding both the power and home buttons until the apple logo appears, ignoring the red slider if that appears...that clears things and may help.

My ipod battery dies pretty quick?

I had this thing since day one meaning i got this when it first came out. Wheni had it the battery never died so quickly and like now it does. Although i do skate alot and i take it with me and of course i've fallen alot on it and it still plays like a champ but dies quick. Do i need a new battery?? and if so how much do they cost?? Thanks

Maybe you should start your own thread.
You have a 1st Generation iPod that is just over 3 months old? How did you accomplish that?
You have called AppleCare? Visited a Genius Bar at an Apple Store?
Gone here: https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do
Restored your iPod in iTunes?
How are you charging your iPod? What are you running on it that it dies in an hour?

3G phone battery dies pretty fast compared to old Iphones!

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