Fast battery drain

Mavericks seems to be draining my MBA's battery faster than Mountain Lion ever did. Anyone else having this issue?

i'm having the same problem, after my phone having frozen, as a last resort i conencted it to my computer, and i had to upload all the new software, which i dont think it can handel ...

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Iphone 6 fast battery drain IOS 8.1.2 even on standby

I have a new iphone 6 64Gb setup as a new phone, already with IOS 8.1.2 installed. I have experienced really fast battery drain all the time.
I have tried with location services disabled,
push disabled,
background app refresh disabled
siri off
Icloud Keychain off
Itunes & App store updates OFF, Use cellular data OFF
and is still draining battery very fast. My previous iphone 5 could get from 6.30am to 7pm on one charge, this iphone 6 is on 30% by 3pm. The main apps I use are Mailbox, safari, waze , tunein and phone and ALL of these apps show as the main "battery usage" items. Basically having any app open with the screen on causes the battery % to drop before your eyes. I have also experienced battery drain on standby overnight. The drain is so fast that using waze for a 45 minute journey causes 30% drop
Basically it is unusable as a smart phone without having a charger connected all the time. Please can someone help?
thanks
Dave

I had this same problem. Phone draining brand new, extremely fast. Usage and standby times in the battery usage meter have been nearly identical after 4 or 5 hours off the charger.
Went to Genius Bar two weeks ago, they noticed the battery drain in their test but said that nothing else looked unusual (battery fine, no major software issues, etc) and sent me on my way.
The problem continued, last weekend, did a full reset of the phone and set up as a new phone. Logged in using my AppleID at the setup and made sure to use the @icloud email address. I had previously used my first AppleID--a gmail account--from many years ago. The accounts were linked (gmail ID, linked to @icloud, @me, @mac address from later setups).
My problem was solved--went two days without charging, battery life was amazing, until today, when after the phone was acting odd, powered off then turned back on--battery drain began immediately and usage and standby levels are the same. I left the phone untouched for the last hour and "usage" went up and hour, as did stand-by.
For reference--no push email, fetch at 30 minutes, minimal location services on, background app refresh off, automatic update off, parallax off, etc. I have done every "trick" possible to improve battery life (some that make the phone useless).
iCloud seems to be the problem--can't figure out what part of iCloud is the culprit though.
Have another GB appointment tomorrow. Hopefully will get a more thorough diagnosis of the problem. Hopefully report back a solution.

Location services, Celular data, Usage and Stand by & fast battery drain on iOS 4.3.5

Hi all,
I've been experiencing some trouble with fast battery drain since I have updated to iOS 4.3.5, never experienced it before. I've spent some time reading out through the web, including the Apple Discussion forums, and never found anything conclusive that could lead me to a solution. With some hints from many places and some particular obstination for fixing the problem, I've managed to find a solution. I was willing to share this here just to see if anyone else had the same problem and try to figure out wheter this is a bug or just an ignorant user like me
This is the configuration and symptoms I had for my iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.3.5 (didn' happen until 4.3.4):
Location services enabled, with several apps been allowed to use it;
Celular data (and 3G) turned off;
Usage and Stand by times reported always equal since last charge (really weird, although other have already reported this);
Cell phone overheated;
Battery drain really fast, dropping from 100% to 50% in about four to five hours with almost no use at all.
The following steps solved my problem:
Close all applications to make sure nothing is running in the background;
Reset statistics in order to observe correctly the celular data traffic;
Make sure you have access to the internet over Wifi;
Turn on Celular data and 3G for a short time (2 minutes should be enough). Observe celular data exchange stats: for me it was 3Kb download and 2Kb uploaded, although no application was running in the background (and there was also no need for celular data, since I was connected over Wifi);
Turn off Celular data and 3G.
Turn off (completelly!) Location services;
No more overheating, usage and stand by being reported equal nor battery fast drain noticed: everything was back to normal.
I have come to the following conclusions: it seems that Location services causes problems with Celular data turned off. I'm not sure whether Location services should work at all with Celular data turned off, but I also believe it doesn't give it the right to drain my battery so fast . I'd like to here from others just to see if anyone has experienced a similar thing and if the solution above helped fixed it. It would be interest if we could confirm this is indeed a bug in iOS 4.3.5.
Best regards,
Adriano

Some further testing and observation lead me to new conclusions. I looks like the problem is not actually related to Location services, but to some buggy application trying to access data when it's not available at all. Even closing all apps, the problem doesn't go away untill Celular data is enabled (and then disabled again).
I still believe this shouldn't be the regular behaviour.

After ios7 update my iphone is like android os dead slow processing , too fast battery drain,calling process is too low where is apple brand going my friends 11 members using iphone all are got this problem one thing fans like me y they spoil his name ??

after ios7 update my iphone 4 is like android os dead slow processing , too fast battery drain,calling process is too low where is apple brand going my friends 11 members using iphone all are got this problem one thing apple have unique and unique fans like me why they spoil their name like this update iam too disappointed iam not say for oppose apple iam say for feedback to grow apple in world because i love apple more please solve it
by real customers
iPhone 4, iOS 7, iam apple suporter

please help me after ios7 update my phone is tooo slowww i want my old iphone

Turn off cellular for apps and they turn back on. Fast battery drain. Shuts down at 30-40%. Battery reads "0" when but rises quickly to 17

Turn off cellular for apps and they turn back on. Fast battery drain. Shuts down at 30-40%. Battery reads "0" when but rises quickly to 17 & charges. Happened after IOS upgrades. Have 3 iPhone 4S for 1-2 years & 1 iPhone 5, w/same problem.

Back up and restore using iTunes.

HTC Rezound fast battery drain

I've had my new Rezound for a few days and am astonished at how fast the battery drains.
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From the home screen, go into the settings, select the "Power" settings, tap the "Power Mode" setting, and select/tap "Normal" when the dialog box comes up. I have found that Normal power mode is just as fast as the High Performance mode that is default on new Rezounds.
I think Normal mode shuts off the WiFi if you are not using it for a while, and you may see a screen about that for a few seconds when you wake the phone up. That is the only difference, aside from greatly extended battery life, that I have found. The phone is still just as fast/snappy.
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Upgrade to OS4.1 causes fast battery drain with WiFi on

I've just upgraded the software on my 3G Pod to 4.1, only to find that it has led to a much quicker battery drain with the WiFi on. Is there a fix for this or can I revert to the previous OS?

Owen Glyndwr wrote:
Thanks llaass, but the discussion that you direct me to does not really address the issue of why a very recent upgrade should make such a significant difference. I had already realised that turning off WiFi makes a difference. Perhaps my question should have been addressed to Apple, since it appears that it is their so called 'upgrade' that has led to a deterioration.
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Blackberry 9300 Small clock icon and fast battery drain

Hello there! My girlfriend's been having problems with her 9300. A couple of days ago, a small clock icon started appearing whenever she would try to use a menu item on her blackberry, or when she would try and turn off the lock. She also found that the battery would drain signifigantly faster, to the point where a full charge won't last a day.
She has no 3rd party apps installed, and has wireless disabled. Yesterday, we took it to the local store and they replaced the battery. When she's had these problems, she's turned the phone off and removed/reinstalled the battery to no effect.
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Hi, I had the same problem... I found the solution and the culprit is compression...
Menu >> Option >> Device >> Storage >> Enable Compression...
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Apps close fast, battery drain, warm phone, wifi...the issues go on

For the last couple of weeks, by iPhone 4S has been running warm no matter where I keep it. In addition, when I open an app, it may or may not open. When it does open, it quickly closes almost immediately. It is like trying to beat the clock to type a text or use any features. My iPhone will also not hold the battery charge. It drains to 'dead' within a few hours, if that. The Wifi connection is spotty, too. Recently relocating from California to South Korea, I can use Wifi in my neighborhood, but when traveling to another town, it works intermittenly. When I try to sync my phone to my laptop, it often does not complete a sync, but will restart if I barely touch the phone when it is trying to sync. And, somehow, since the new OS install, my app store on my phone is all in Korean. Not sure how to change this back to English. Everything else on my phone is in English. I have to go into my iTunes on my computer to download any of the appupdates since this is stil in English. My settings are all set to English. I have barely had this iPhone for one year, receiving it in early October, 2011.
Whille I was briefly home in the States over the last 6 months, I visited the Apple stores quite often as there are many glitches when you are using a pc laptop with Outlook 2010 & trying to perfectly sync with the iPhone. I hope soon to invest in a Mac. But until then....
This battery/app issue has happened in the not so distant past. Returning to the Apple store, the Apple expert did end up saving all my information, erasing my phone & reinstalling everything. It took forever & I lost all of my settings & personalized stored data in my apps. I really hope there is another solution to my current crisis.
I hope to hear from you soon as this situation is quite frustrating.
Also, can I Skype with Apple support? A phone call costs $2.29 a minute (no matter who calls first). Besides, I am not sure my phone will hold a conversation right now.
BTW, I did install the new OS recently, too.
Thank you for getting back to me asap...
Christine

For the last couple of weeks, by iPhone 4S has been running warm no matter where I keep it. In addition, when I open an app, it may or may not open. When it does open, it quickly closes almost immediately. It is like trying to beat the clock to type a text or use any features. My iPhone will also not hold the battery charge. It drains to 'dead' within a few hours, if that. The Wifi connection is spotty, too. Recently relocating from California to South Korea, I can use Wifi in my neighborhood, but when traveling to another town, it works intermittenly. When I try to sync my phone to my laptop, it often does not complete a sync, but will restart if I barely touch the phone when it is trying to sync. And, somehow, since the new OS install, my app store on my phone is all in Korean. Not sure how to change this back to English. Everything else on my phone is in English. I have to go into my iTunes on my computer to download any of the appupdates since this is stil in English. My settings are all set to English. I have barely had this iPhone for one year, receiving it in early October, 2011.
Whille I was briefly home in the States over the last 6 months, I visited the Apple stores quite often as there are many glitches when you are using a pc laptop with Outlook 2010 & trying to perfectly sync with the iPhone. I hope soon to invest in a Mac. But until then....
This battery/app issue has happened in the not so distant past. Returning to the Apple store, the Apple expert did end up saving all my information, erasing my phone & reinstalling everything. It took forever & I lost all of my settings & personalized stored data in my apps. I really hope there is another solution to my current crisis.
I hope to hear from you soon as this situation is quite frustrating.
Also, can I Skype with Apple support? A phone call costs $2.29 a minute (no matter who calls first). Besides, I am not sure my phone will hold a conversation right now.
BTW, I did install the new OS recently, too.
Thank you for getting back to me asap...
Christine

IOS 8.1.1 fast battery draining issues!

AFter i updated to iOS 8.1.1, my battery on Iphone 5s drains ridiculously quick while my notifications centre and control centre is unable to drag out from the top and the bottom. Apple please release a new update to fix all these bugs!

Same here, yesterday I went to sleep with 100%, after 8 hours I woke up with 14%. With the flight mode ON... iPhone 5S, 8.1.1.
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Service Battery appeared again along with fast battery drain on Mavericks 10.9.4 with iTunes 11.3

I upgraded to Mavericks on my MacBook Pro about a month ago and bluetooth connection problems with my Bose Mini Soundlink and UE Boom were resolved but everything else went haywire from the dreaded Service Battery message, email, to wifi issues. After a few days of hair pulling and looking for solutions, the problems just went away, and everything went fine again. Two days ago iTunes came out with an update and I installed it. I first noticed the battery lost capacity from 87% down to 74% with just 299 cycles on it. Now the Service Battery warning is back and the battery doesn't seem to last that long anymore. I've removed Google Chrome, done SMC reset, battery reset, and the whole kit and caboodle of tricks from forums but none worked. I tried removing iTunes but I can't. I have a lurking idea this is a software issue. Any tricks out there to get this back into shape?

Hi there Sproox,
You may find the information in the article below helpful.
OS X Mavericks: Battery conditions
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14197
Service Battery: The battery isn’t functioning normally, and you may or may not notice a change in its behavior or the amount of charge it holds. Take your computer in for service. You can continue to use your battery before it’s checked without harming your computer.
-Griff W.

Battery drain faster after udating to iOS 8.1.2 ( iPhone 5s A1530 16GB )

I have been wondering faster battery drain after updating to ios 8, I upgraded to iOS 8.1.2 it has been worst with this drain faster by 40% in draining, What shall i do??? I have contacted apple support and customer care i didn't get a solution. Please help??

Hi Jaberboss
I did start a similar thread on this issue myself, but seeing what I've read here I hope you're ok with me adding it here to
This one is a true case of a phone with zero potentail (electrically)
OK, I've done the rounds on this one, whereby I'm just adding to the list of complaints so that (hopefully) the powers that be, or not, in my phones case, might listen.
Since updating my just over 12 month old 5s to 8.1.2, it has turned into a bag of spanners in respect of its battery life. Its literally gone from 24 or so hours between charges to less than 8 !!
I have tried shutting all the apps down and even had it sitting in full airplane mode, where i've left it alone with the screen off, yet its dropping around 1% every 3 to 4 minutes, blinding!! Checked battery usage in settings after 30 minutes, guess what standby 29 minutes usage 1 minute.
Also tried the full restore, but to no avail, still a bag of spanners!
(slight update here) Even took the SIM out with it in airplane mode and deleted all apps and a full reboot - same thing!
Does anyone remember the good old days of a fixed land line, where the phone had to be plugged into the wall before you could actually use it? lol
Nothing like a bit of retro ay, but some how I cant see this one catching on Mr Apple. Thanks

Battery Drains Faster?

With pride, I noted that my 16GB WiFi iPad's battery would go down about 10 percentage points an hour. After waiting for over 2 hours for my 64GB WiFi + 3G (and it had recharged to 100%), I was down to 96% within about ten minutes, and well within a hour, I had already reached by 10% threshold. All settings are identical to the WiFi only model (I restored from a backup). Is anyone else seeing a faster battery drain with the new model?

First of all, Everyone knew the 3G would eat up slightly more power than the Wifi only model. This is common knowledge. So Whats the big surprise?
And why complain? Don't you realize that the 3G model has Wifi too??? If you want longer battery life, just turn off the 3G and use the Wifi only, and there is NO reason you won't get EXACTLY the same battery life.
I mean come on. Seriously. Think people.
I plan on getting the 3G, but always looked at the 3G as an insurance policy at best. A back up if you will, just in case I am not within range of a wifi hotspot. Personally, I plan to only sign up for the 3G feature when I am traveling or in absolute emergencies. The rest of the time, I'll just use wifi. Here in nyc, there re PLENTY of wifi hotspots, and most of the countries I've traveled to, have extensive wifi coverage. It's those odd spots in America, outside of major cities that I intend to use 3G if I ever do.
Just my 2 cents.

Battery Draining following Firmare update...FAST!!

After updating my phone with new firmware last week, battery lasted fine on first charge for 2 days. Now if I charge the phone, battery will drain FAST.. down to 50% remaining charge with phone on just stand by, after about 5 hours. If I reboot phone, this stops the fast battery drain, until I charge the phone again, and then the superfast battery drain happens again until reboot. I dont have any apps running, that the reboot would be shutting down, so dont understand. Has anyone else experienced this? I can reboot my phone after every full charge to resolve, but a bit of a pain..

My battery went from about 100% to low battery warnings and shut down after 10 hours of none use. I checked email once. No wifi, good HSDPA coverage. I'm on the most recent update.
I have no clue what causes this, but it happened once or twice with the previous firmware I was on.
With the Arc and android I had this happening due to the facebook app. I installed an app killer and ran autokill on that particular app only which stopped the battery from draining. Wonder if something similar can be the case... That one of my network needing apps gets stuck and runs untill the battery is empty.
Will do the same tomorrow and see if I experience the same.
Have happened once or twice before, so not much, but a bit painful as you never know. I need to rely on this device.

Ios 7 battery drain - using faster than charging now

Anyone else have issues getting a full charge on iPhone 4S after updating to ios 7.0?
It's draining noticable faster - battery drains faster than it charges now so that unless you turn off the screen you end up with less charge than when you docked it. Same goes for regular 30 pin cable to 1Amp wall charger without the dock.
I left mine over night on the iPhone dock and it still only reached 92%
Never had issues on ios 6.
Even with the screen dimmed back to 50% (like I had it set for ios 6),
Battery was at 45% before updated yesterday and even though it was docked and charging during update was at 36% after the update, and kept dropping the longer I had it connected.
Does anyone know for sure if ios 7 is using the A5 cpu differently? maybe running it faster or using more power than on ios 6?
Rebooted my iPhone 4S a few times after updating, nosame issue. Was able to use Safari but unable to download from itunes or app store. They asked or my password, but it said "could not connect to app store, please try again". perhaps due to so many users updating yesterday
Then after opening a few apps (ebay, amazon) battery meter jumped to 100%
I do have DND enabled for notice center. update retained that preference and my screen lock code.
I noticed that even though screen lock timeout was set for 2 mins, it was prompting for code immediately. Had to change to 5 mins, since the 2 minute to lock option has been removed in ios 7.
Thanks,
JJ

Anyone else have issues getting a full charge on iPhone 4S after updating to ios 7.0?
It's draining noticable faster - battery drains faster than it charges now so that unless you turn off the screen you end up with less charge than when you docked it. Same goes for regular 30 pin cable to 1Amp wall charger without the dock.
I left mine over night on the iPhone dock and it still only reached 92%
Never had issues on ios 6.
Even with the screen dimmed back to 50% (like I had it set for ios 6),
Battery was at 45% before updated yesterday and even though it was docked and charging during update was at 36% after the update, and kept dropping the longer I had it connected.
Does anyone know for sure if ios 7 is using the A5 cpu differently? maybe running it faster or using more power than on ios 6?
Rebooted my iPhone 4S a few times after updating, nosame issue. Was able to use Safari but unable to download from itunes or app store. They asked or my password, but it said "could not connect to app store, please try again". perhaps due to so many users updating yesterday
Then after opening a few apps (ebay, amazon) battery meter jumped to 100%
I do have DND enabled for notice center. update retained that preference and my screen lock code.
I noticed that even though screen lock timeout was set for 2 mins, it was prompting for code immediately. Had to change to 5 mins, since the 2 minute to lock option has been removed in ios 7.
Thanks,
JJ

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