IPhone 5 battery overheating

I heard that iPhone 5's battery is overheating is this normal because of the aluminium back or its a defective one?

After backing up your phone, Settings->General->Erase All Content and Settings.
Then set up as a new phone.
DO NOT RESTORE from backup as you may be bringing the problem that was causing the overheating back on your phone.
Slowly add your most favorite apps from the App Store, waiting a day or so to make sure your problem isn't caused by a bad app.
If this doesn't work, take your phone to the Genius' for a new battery/phone.
BEWARE. When you backup your phone, it isn't that easy to get to some of your important data like documents in your favorite programs or photos if you are not using photo stream so pull those out of iTunes.

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IPhone 4 battery draining quickly // Overheating

Hi!
So I got my iPhone 4 late August, and everything's been going fine up until last week.
I have the ios that is right before ios7 (I think 6.1.5), I didn't install as I've heard bad reviews.
I woke up at 9am today. By 11:30am, it was down to 20%. It gets very hot within 20 minutes of it being turned on.
I have my wifi off, 3G is always on, brightness is at about 25-30%, I never use mail / calenders.
It's really only started since I've been leaving Clash of Clans open so I don't get attack, but it happens to all apps now aswell.
I've tried turning off / on, restoring, anything that's been suggested but my battery still drains too quickly!
Here's how my day goes:
I go to school at 8am. I use it on the train, and class starts at 9am. I use it for taking notes as my laptop is broken. By lunchtime (12:30pm), it's already all used up and I have to charge it, which I don't like doing as it can get stolen. By the time I get home, I have to recharge it, and when I go to bed I leave it charging for the night.
Would somebody be able to assist me? Thanks!

My Iphone 4s is overheating and draining the battery what do I do. I have done a hard reset and also reset to orignal settngs and it is still overheating and draining it's battery

New iPhone 5 is overheating, I can hear a loose screw & the battery life is terrible?

I recently upgraded my 1 year old iPhone 4s for an iPhone 5. Using it in exactly the same way as the iPhone 4s, it ran out of battery considerably faster and it got really really hot whilst I was using it. This has never happened with my iPhone 4s, and the fact that a brand new iPhone's battery is worse than a 1 year old phone isn't very good. Also the heating up is a bit concerning. Moreover, when I shake the iPhone, I can hear a screw or something else rattling on the inside of my phone.
Has anyone else had these problems & if I brought it to apple would I be able to get them to do anything about it?

Bring your phone in to Apple for evaluation

Serious problems including battery overheating

My dad and I both bought Revolutions and have had the same issues with our phones (listed below). We truly believe that the LG Revolution is a defective phone - what are the odds that we would both get "lemons"? While at the Verizon store on 3/13, the store, corporate customer service, and LG claimed to not be able to do anything for us except send us refurbished phones or return our phones to LG and have them worked on (HA. Seriously? Go without a phone? We don't have a land line anymore - might as well dump us on a deserted island). We were notified today, 3/15 that the phones were in the store ready to pick up, but they didn't come with new batteries! SERIOUSLY?!?! THE MAJOR ISSUE WITH BOTH IS THE BATTERY OVERHEATING! These phones are bound to either burn us or kill us. We don't want someone else's "fixed" phone, because it will just do the same thing! Unless Verizon will help us, I'm afraid we are going to get iPhones from another provider, as well as go to the BBB to file a formal complaint. I really don't want to, but I can't believe how much we have spent for our little death machines. We really hope Verizon will cooperate and uphold the standards they set forth in their employee handbook. We would love to be contacted by someone who can help. Please, don't give us the run-around. As anyone can see, factory resets, changing settings, etc. don't work. We have put up with those suggestions for months with no improvement.
My Dad's Revolution:
Bought LG Revolution ~July 3, 2011 for $250 + taxes & fees, car charger, (and eventually extra chargers). Over $300 total put in.
Battery gets overheated to the point that the phone is too hot to touch. This drains the battery from any percentage of battery to 0% in a matter of minutes. FIRE HAZARD IN YOUR POCKET! My dad's chest was almost burned! If it is too hot to touch on the outside, what is it doing to the guts of the phone?!
Not receiving text messages and picture messages that are sent
Internet doesn’t work properly - only when it feels like it
Loses data connection between 3G/4G/Wireless
Not always getting voice mail notifications
Phone burned up 2 wall chargers
Freezing
Phone is ringing, but the “answer call” screen doesn’t come up, so there is no way to answer the call
Phone rings once and then shows a missed call. When calling the person back, they say it rang the normal number of times before going to voicemail.
Not keeping a charge
Called sister next door and Dad could hear them, but she couldn't hear him. He called back and he could hear her fine, but she said he was very "scratchy" - keep in mind this is NEXT DOOR.
My Revolution:
Bought LG Revolution ~July 9, 2011 for $250 + taxes & fees, (eventually, multiple) car charger(s), insurance plan, (eventually, additional wall chargers) $400+ for the total cost
Battery gets overheated to the point that the phone is too hot to touch. This drains the battery from any percentage of battery to 0% in a matter of minutes. FIRE HAZARD IN YOUR POCKET! My thigh has almost been burned! If it is too hot to touch on the outside, what is it doing to the guts of the phone?!
Paying for “Unlimited Data” and phone constantly says “Mobile Network State: Disconnected”
Not receiving text messages and picture messages that are sent
Not being able to send text messages or picture messages
Getting the same text 3-4 times
Sending a text once and recipient getting it 3-4 times
Internet/apps don’t work due to no data
Loses data connection between 3G/4G/Wireless
Not always getting voice mail notifications – getting voice mails 14+ days late. This creates a serious problem for time sensitive messages.
Phone burned up 4 wall chargers and 2 car chargers
Freezing
Phone is ringing, but the “answer call” screen doesn’t come up, so there is no way to answer the call
Not keeping a charge. On a daily basis between 7:30am-12:30pm, I go from 100% to 20%. In the store on 3/13, the Verizon rep witnessed my phone go from 81% to 68% in about an hour
Phone rings once and then shows a missed call. When calling the person back, they say it rang the normal number of times before going to voicemail.
In the beginning, I would get email notifications and after I would read them, it would appear that they were “marked as read”, however, after I back out of the program, it notifies me of the same emails that I just read, only they’re once again “unread”. Now, I’m not getting ANY notifications of email except in the top drop-down screen, which if I click on it, I can see the emails, but after I back out, they disappear because the program decides not to work.
GPS is unreliable. It often says that I'm 2+ miles away from where I actually am.
The phone does what it wants to do when it wants to do it – not when you tell it to! All of our previous phones have given us reliable, clear service. What is wrong with this picture? HELP!!!

Hi I recently had the same problem with the LG Revolution. In fact it had been one of multiple replacement models that I had received in just a few weeks. The first two devices I had problems with them recycling power, I would make calls and they would make the same call multiple times i.e I would get through to the person I was intending on calling and the phone would call them on like a three way call asking me to merge the conversation I was only having with one other person... The 2nd replacement only lasted a few days. I was playing Words with Friends it gave me a sim error out of nowhere shut down. I checked the card after removing the battery and powered it back up. I was fine for about 10 minutes shut down and I was never able to turn it on again. The next phone they sent I received a few day ltr was the frosting on the cake. As soon as I tried to set it up the problems began. The phone was recycling power so much that it wouldn't fully power up before shutting down. Tech support insisted it had to be the battery, that there was no way they sent me 3 bad phones within 2 1/2 weeks... The new battery was sent over night. So I charged it up and gave it a go. It seemed fine at first, but then started acting up again. I resorted to it wasn't the battery and figured when I got to a land line or another line I would call Tech support. I was driving the phone was in my right lower scrub pocket apparently because of whatever mechanical defect it had overheated and burned me. I have been kind of at a loss when it comes to the Customer Service Dept. I have reported the incident to them even called to find out who to send my co pay bills too, no response. However they did have the nerve to send me a text asking for the device back or they were going to charge me $500. Now I'm thinking may be if people started taking things like this to the media they would act on it...

My new iPhone 4s keeps overheating. I mean it gets really Hot! Should I take it back?

My iPhone 4s keeps overheating, gets really hot! Should I return it?

My belief is that this is a flaw in the 4S. I've had two--same exact problem on both. I've been chasing this problem for six days. I've restored, restored without using a backup, removed email accounts, etc. I downloaded a couple of applications that show processor utilization. Consistently, the phone is around 72% of processor utilization.
Going back to my 4, I do not have these issues at all. Same EXACT configuration. (Software, carrier, etc.) I'm surprised more people aren't raising this as an issue. It also shows significantly reduced battery life. When my processor is pegged (as noted above, that is often) it loses about 5% every 1/2 hour.
Joel

Iphone 4 battery runs completely down with no use in an hour or two.

My Iphone 4 battery, out of the blue, started running completely down in a couple hours with no use. I would take it off the charger reading 100% and not do a thing, but the unit will get pretty warm and the battery drains. The phone is only 3 months old and two days ago I was getting a full day to a day and a half with my ususal usage. Anyone know what is causing this or a fix? I've tried shutting down and rebooting and for software updates? Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks, Josh

One thing to try is cleaning iPhone Dock Port with a clean dry toothbrush.
If still problem and you have Warranty or AppleCare Coverage take iPhone to Apple for resolution.
Another is to clean the dock port again with the toothbrush and a bit of Isopropyll Alcohol, especially clean the pins which are on top of the Dock Mid Rib.
Reset, hold both Home and Power buttons for about 10 seconds until the iPhone restarts itself, ignore the 'slide to power off' slider.
Restore Firmware, at end when iTunes asks, Restore as New, not from backup.

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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 .
I always turn off my Siri, Auto Detect Time Zone, 50% Brightness, NO background Apps are running and Mail is manually updated.
Does anyone facing the same problem?

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

Iphone 4 battery sometimes drains fast -- problem with Mail app?

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.
This fix works, but only temporarily for me. I find that I have to keep resetting my mail every few days to get back to "normal battery" where it barely drains overnight. I only use one email account (gmail) -- could there be something going on there?
Oh, and when my battery drains fast, nothing changes when I turn off WiFi, notifications, push, etc. I usually have my mail refresh hourly.
Has anyone had this experience?

iulo wrote:
I believe this must be a major bug on iOS 4.
Sorry, it isn't:
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Iphone 4 battery draining fast and yellowish blobs on the screen

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.
This is just frustrating as I was hoping for a great experience this year. From the let down from the white iphone to my battery being drained to now yellow blobs..man can anything else go wrong.
What say you??????? any of you have battery issues yet

If my past experience with iPhones and iPods is any indication, you'll find that over the next couple days as you use your iPhone the battery indicator will become more accurate. My habit (as I've done with my new iPhone 4) is to use it until the indicator shows red and then charge it fully and then do that twice more. At that point the indicator should be 'calibrated' with the battery and be more accurate. Yesterday I used my phone for about 5 hours before the battery indicator gave me 20% warning. Today I've used it as I normally would in a day and, as I always did with my G3S, I'm currently home from work with a 40% charge showing. Guess I'll have to play a little Angry Birds tonight
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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.
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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
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turning of locator and the push notifications from facebook--they have a lot!

While taking photos my iphone's battery died, now my photos app won't open and I can't save any pictures taken or downloaded. Please help.

While taking photos my iphone's battery died, now my photos app won't open and I can't save any pictures taken or downloaded. Please help.
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My iPhone 5 Battery Drains Too Quickly! Apps closed, bluetooth off, brightness, low, no notifications...What else can I do?

My iPhone 5 battery life is terrible! The software is updated--ios 7.0.6. I have to charge my phone 2-3 times a day on some days. I have to close all apps, turn off location services, turn off bluetooth, turn off 90% of my notifications, lower the screeen brightness to less than 10-15%, and turn off all push notifications--all to get my battery to last until 6:00pm.
I may talk on the phone 10-20 minutes a day, but check emails on my phone a few times in 10 hours. I am indoors most of the day so cold temperatures aren't at play (although if I do use my phone in the cold (less than 25 degrees), the battery drains within minutes!) If I leave my Camera, Facebook, Maps, or the Weather Channel open in the background, my battery will go from 100% to 20% in less than 2 hours.
I have been to the Genius Bar more than once. They replaced the battery about a year ago becasue it was bad. I returned a few weeks ago to have them checked my battery again and it tested fine. The Genius I spoke with wiped my phone and removed all data on it and reset it. Unfortunately, the problem has not been solved.
Has anyone had similar problems? How did you resolve them?

I set the phone up this morning as a new phone no back up.
Brightness set to full
No wifi
No bluetooth
No back ground programs running
Fetch every 15 minutes for emails for half the day and then went to manually for second half
3G for half day and 2g for second half
tethering off
thats all I can think of. My friend and I looked at all his setting and mine and they were both similar except he keeps his on wifi all day.
we put them to exact same spec when i got to his house at 3. I had close to 50% from a full overnight charge and when I left at 7:30 I left dead and His was at 17% left still from the previous day and when I left his was at 8%
I dont know

My iPhone 5 battery drain with in 3 hours when I use cellular network on and stand by time is only 2 and half day

I Bought iphone 5 from USA when I came to India I started it then I noticed the battery stand by time is only 3 days. And when I use cellular data then it is live only for 2 and half hour. I bought this phone in January till now I am having the same problem. I have done all the thing whatever the support center told me about restore and all stuff. After that they told me to visit any apple store but there are no store in India and I'm helpless. For my iPhone only I can't go abroad to that country where stores are. Before I used to believe that apple products are the best but this iPhone has just disappointed me. You know my friend making fun of my mobile because they are using samsung product.
Pleade do some thing for me I have left only 2 month of warranty. other wise I will have to through this on dustbin because everywhere it is insulting me.

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.
In other cases social media apps did similar things to the phone.
Here are some suggestions for getting back the normal battery life, maybe they are helpful for your problem with your iPhone 5 as well.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3935221
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Want to Fix iPhone 5 Battery Drain? (A Workaround)

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!

IPhone 6 battery life draining since 8.1 update

Is anyone else having problems with their iPhone 6 battery life diminishing since the latest 8.1 update? I notice I'm getting much less usage time per hour. For example, before 8.1, it would take about 3 hours of usage time to get to 70%. Now it only takes 2 and it gets worse after that. Here is a screenshot I took of the battery usage before the 8.1 update:
This is pretty normal usage timings for me (it was taken Monday, October 20th). Now, here is a screenshot from today, after starting out with 100% this morning:
As you can see, it's quite a huge difference. The weird thing is that messaging seems to take up more battery life than it used to. Yes, I do text quite a bit during the day but the frequency of this has not changed between now and October 20th. It shouldn't be using THAT much battery life. I took it to the Genius Bar yesterday to ask them about this problem and the girl told me that she saw some crashing from the Messages app in Diagnostics Information and she felt that maybe since the update, there was something causing that app to use more battery. So she suggested erasing the phone and restoring from an iCloud backup. I did this yesterday when I got home but, as you can see, the problem is no better (though there are no more crashes listed in the diagnostics information).
I have no idea what else I can do to fix this and I'm getting really tired of having to charge this twice a day now (I used to have to do this with my iPhone 5, as well). If anyone has had a similar problem, I would appreciate suggestions. And before you ask, I'm doing all of the normal battery saving tricks, like turning off background app refresh, not having it check for mail all the time (it's manual), brightness is down, I turn wifi off when not using it, I don't leave apps open, etc etc etc.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!
Pooja

I turn off background refresh, mail push/fetch, and I turn off wifi and bluetooth if I'm not using them. I also minimize which apps use location services. Even when doing all of that though, the battery life became terrible on 8.1. Since updating to 8.1.1 all issues seem to have been fixed so I'm very grateful for that. I recommend anyone on 8.1 who is having issues to upgrade to 8.1.1 immediately.

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