Why is the battery draining?
I fully charged my phone. Used it to surf for an hour or so and the battery was half out. Then depending on the mode or function I was in, the battery icon was green and half-full, or solid white. Quit using the phone, and left it undocked. Six hours later I find it has drained itself, and displayed some type of low battery message. I docked it (ac outlet) and a few minutes later it dies. Able to revive it using homekey and wake key. Two questions. Is this phone suffering from hardware or software problem? Should I demand a replacement?
If you look around some other posts on this board, you'll note that you're one among many who have been having these battery problems. The consensus seems to be that it's a software issue that makes the phone think that the battery is fully charged while it really is not, or something like that. Some people have used a number of "jump starting" techniques to get their battery to fully charge and perform acceptably. I've tried all of them and it hasn't worked for me, so I'm taking my phone back for an exchange today. Personally I don't think anyone should be going through self-invented hustles of trying to figure out what to do about fixing this glitch for a $600 device. Understandably this is a new and revolutionary product, but Apple has been quiet about it and has provided no guidance, and it is very disappointing.
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@ neeraj_96 - Thanks for the input, but that's not the issue. As I was saying in my reply, my phone has had a wonderful battery life up until yesterday. This has nothing to do with turning off fetching or lowering my brightness. I have done no major changes in the settings to my iPhone since yesterday, but now all the sudden I can barely hold a charge. I completely charged it last night to 100%. This morning I woke up and it was at 56%. My wife has an iPhone 4, hers was at 96% and this morning it is at 91%. Something is definitely up with my phone's battery that is not a normal operation.
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Since I installed iOS 7 the battery drains 10 percent faster than before. How do I fix this? And is there someway to turn off the feature that makes the background wallpaper moves since it makes me sick and nacious. Feeling that iOS 7 is a flop. First time since I've gotten a Apple product that I have to ask how things work and for the first time I am displeased with their operative system.
This made me buy a Samsung phone yesterday instead of the new iPhone. I don't want this iOS 7. It *****!Not sure what "nacious" means, but you can turn off the movement wallpaper/icons in the settings: General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion > On
The iOS 7 includes many nifty features like the Control Center for instance.
Download the manual for iPad with iOS 7 here:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf
If you want to complain to Apple, use this procedure:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html -
i want to be informed!
- Only Apple know why they di not enble the NT gestures. It is against the terms of this forum to speculate on such things.
- I have heard that Apple will release an update to fix the battery drain issue in a few weeks. -
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1. Check the cycle count of the battery. It may be due for replacement. If the power adapter is connected almost all the time, the battery may need replacing even though the cycle count is not too high.
2. Follow these instructions, or these for OS X 10.9 or later.
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4. Make sure your system is up to date in Software Update.
5. Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service center. -
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What kind of ipad mini / ipad 2 you got?
AFAIK,
1. ipads drain battery with 3g/4g on (regardless on wifi or not) 1% overnight.. so for 7 days .. 65 is about correct.
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Iphone 4S resets itself every few min - the battery drains in an hr.
My iphone 4S is resetting every few minutes as a result the battery drains in an hour.
By resetting I mean, the lock screen would show up, then the apple sign would come up like when you start your iphone, searches for the network etc. This happens every few minute even when the phone is on standby or when I am using it. If I am on the call, then the call gets disconnected because the phone is resetting.
The usage always shows "-" for both Usage and Standby with the message that the usage time will be shown after iphone is fully charged.
This started only a month ago when my phone was not on the latest os version. But now it is on the latest but the problem never did go away. It never fell out of my hand or fall into water and is barely a year old (just 10/15 days over the warranty period).
Please help!And I should mention that I took the foll steps so far:
1. Let the battery drain out completely and charge it overnight
2. Backed the phone, then reset the phone and restored from backup.
3. Took it to the apple store and they did a different kind of restore but no luck
The only thing left for me to try to is to reset it to factory setting unless some one can suggest some other way. -
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Im having the same issue here. Its frustrate me since everyone sharing their excellent battery life.
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A simple search of this forum will get you the answer as it has been addressed umpteen times already.
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Try:
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- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
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- Try on another computer
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Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar -
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Talk time:
Up to 7 hours on 3G
Up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM model only)
Standby time: Up to 300 hours
Internet use:
Up to 6 hours on 3G
Up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 40 hours
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HT1476 why does the battery usage percentage not available in ios5.1.1???
why does the battery usage percentage not available in ios5.1.1???
and why is clock not available on ipad????Because that is a decision the Apple made. You can get the battery percentage (within 5%) by using a free app such as BatteryLife Lite, but it will not show the percentage on the top of your screen.
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