IPhone 5 iOS 6.0.2 battery fix (unofficial.. I think I got it)

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IPhone 5 iOS 6.0.2 battery fix (unofficial.. I think I got it)

I bought the iPhone 5 last week , love the phone .. Battery life was great , didn't use it much though . Never even thought battery life an issue . Updated it to 6.0.2. Immediately noticed decreased battery life. Not what some people claim on this forum of phone dying in 2 hrs (these people probably have a hardware issue or are against apple no matter what ) but my new decreased battery life was more like 6-8 hrs occasional use or more like a shift at work and I need a charge. So I took phone back to place of purchase (only 3 days old) . Got a new one. DID NOT update to 6.0.2 this time. Again battery life was great. About 2 days later , I noticed severe drain , this on 6.0.1. THIS LEADS ME TO BELEIVE IT IS NOT 6.0.2 but the issue resides in 6.0.1. Went online ... Researched the issue . Read forums , posts .. Everything. I also recall terrible battery life on my old 4s as well after going to 6.0.1 . That's the reason why I upgraded to the 5. To get better battery life. But this is not the case.

So after doing absolutely everything ie. reset , reboot, DFU reset , wipe device , restore.. Turned apps off, settings off , location settings etc etc etc. I still had no luck .

My guess is that it's a COMBO of factors when in place TOGETHER and only when TOGETHER trigger the draining battery cascade. That's why its so hard to identify. Once the phone goes into drain mode .. It takes a lot of resets , wipes settings turned on then off.. Ie to catch it and shut it down but when factors come together again.. Battery drainage resumes.. COULD be an app TOGEThER with an setting in the phone... Could be how the phone is used... Ie. iCloud + something else.. The way you charge with certain apps running.. The way you close apps.. Etc. THiS IS WHY SOME PEOPLE HAVE THE ISSUE AND SOME DON'T. ,,!

So not being an apple engineer (none of us are..!) we could only hope to guess or try out different things to figure it out ....

I spent hours( days ) trying different stuff and I feel I might have nailed the magic setting/(s)

Please this is exactily what I did.. .. If it doesn't work, well than 6.1 might be the only help. THIS Worked for me !! In no way I claim what exactly fixes it only this is what I did and all together " exactly " what stopped battery drain. If this helped you like it helped me you could start using your phone the way you want. The way it should be.

Here are my settings:

Wifi :ON

Limit ad tracking : On ( default is off !!)

Diagnostics & Usage : don't send

Battery percentage : ON

sIRI :OFF

cellular data :ON

LTE: on

Use cellular data for iTunes :OFF

" "" Passbook updates: OFF

"". " Reading list: OFF

Spotlight search: everything OFF

Date& time : set automatically : ON

Auto brightness : ON

Location services: ON (only google maps & find my iPhone) :ON

On bottom of screen.... System services : EVERYTHING ON!!

iCloud for contacts/ calendars/ reminders / find my iPhone : ON (everything else ... OFF)

iCloud backup :ON

Mail contacts &calanders : PUSH : OFF

:Fetch : HOURLY

ON ADVANCED SCREEN: all set to manual !

IMessage : ON

FaceTime :OFF

Safari : reading list Use cellular data : OFF

iTunes and app stores : everything OFF

Music iTunes match :OFF

Photo stream : OFF

Podcasts : sync subscriptions (I have mine on ON .. Use cellular data :OFF

You could experiment ie. by turning mail to push etc... But these are the settings that worked for me. I don't know which one or which COMBO did it .. All I can say is I'm using my phone nicely now. I spent a lot of time on this trying so many combos so if it worked for You feel free to reply back positively or shoot me a PayPal or something:-) couple bucks won't hurt !!!

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Dec 25, 2012 6:07 PM

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realmadrid21 Author

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Dec 25, 2012 6:13 PM in response to realmadrid21

BEFORE CHANGING SETTINGS I FORGOT TO MENTION THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT STEPS..

1. Shut down all running apps in background

2. Power down phone .

3. Turn phone back on ( there should be no apps running.

4. Complete power down again

5. Turn phone back on

6.Change settings before accessing an app.

Enjoy

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Dec 25, 2012 6:20 PM in response to realmadrid21

Hi Friend,

I cannot believe have a "COMBO" to improve the battery, but it is your theory...

I usually recharge the battery until reach 80 - 85%. If you always full recharge the battery, the battery will drain quite fast.

Make a full recharge just once a month (says IOS 6 User's Guide).

My battery life is over 15 hors with a single charge. In stand by (without make calls, text messages, games or something else), I already presented up 30 hours a single charge!

Hope that helps

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realmadrid21 Author

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Dec 26, 2012 10:57 AM in response to Kaka Dongguan

Well if you read my entire post VERY carefully you can see I explain why I think some people have the problem and some dont

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CoreyX64

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Jan 1, 2013 9:39 AM in response to realmadrid21

I would like to shed some light on this as to what has appeared to solve my battery drain issues. I doubt it is any settings combination in particular, although you may be experiencing good results with the combination you described. However, since the whole iOS 6.0.1/6.0.2 battery issue is clearly software related, I don't see how upgrading to a 5 would have fixed the problem by any means. Hardware aside, all I did was simply turn off cellular data. My 100% battery lasts all night and well into the late morning if taken off the charger at, lets say, midnight. (I always kill apps before I go to bed) Overall in using the phone it appears to drain normally. I can't speak for anyone else, but this is what has "solved" the issue for me. Clearly Apple needs to work on this, because it appears as though the phone is incessantly tag-teaming the nearest cell tower. It would be rather difficult to determine this through data usage since the phone is always using small bits of data for various services. (which before, did not suck the battery dry) I have an 8GB cap, so I'm not all that concerned about pushing the limit as I am being tied to AC more than battery.

I'm going to have to turn cell data back on though, because the phone is essentially useless without it.

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iPhone 5 Black 32GB VZW

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realmadrid21 Author

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Jan 1, 2013 12:24 PM in response to CoreyX64

I never said it was hardware or software issue but what I do know is that no one but apple may know what the issue is and everyone up to this point is only speculating what may be causing the battery issue . The reason I went to a 5 was not because I felt it was a hardware issue . I never stated that , but instead it may be a "combo" of software settings OR a combo of software-hardware issue . For example I have a iPad 1st generation which used to be fast as heck and after upgrading to the latest iOS available the iPad crashes more and is a lot slower. Does this mean the hardware is bad?? NO ! . Because on the old iOS it ran flawlessly . Does it mean the iOS version is bad ? NO! Because the latest iOS runs flawlessly on the later generation iPad . So obviously it's the COMBO of old hardware and new iOS that doesn't gel well. This is why I went to the 5 , hoping that it was the latter case but since since the battery issue again reappeared with the 5 , I figured it was worth a shot. ( the 4g LTE) was another reason . Anyways, as a mentioned I experimented much and the settings I came up with since I had the issue seems to work for now . I've been on these settings for a week now and I easily make it through the day with extensive use ending the day in the 15-20 percent range .

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CoreyX64

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Jan 1, 2013 1:26 PM in response to realmadrid21

I agree- I apologize if I sounded skeptical and attacking. In no way did I mean it to sound that way.

I completely agree on the software-hardware combo issue- this is why apple killed off 1G and 2G devices- because newer software revisions would never ever run well if at all on such ancient devices. can you imagine running iOS 6 on an iPhone/iPod touch 1G? That would be terrible. Let alone iOS 3 runs terrible on them and now are generally rendered useless due to newer App Store requirements (most require 4.3+ now to allow apple to kill off the older devices). forcing newer software on older hardware (apple, dell, HP,... Anything electronic this definitely applies to) will almost always yield less-than-par results. The other part is apple forcing you to upgrade by means of intentially making things obsolete. all companies do that.

All of this factual info aside, the issue at hand with the 5 is not a software-hardware combo problem- those are most widely seen with the major revisions. then again, this isn't the first time apple has gotten caught up in battery drain snafus (even iOS 5 was plagued with this as well- and now there are some people desperate to roll back but can't). it basically waters it down to the point where keeping the stock software will always yield the best results even though newer versions provide better features- it all depends on whether or not the person deems the added features are worth a performance hit.

PS. I'm still at 100%- and I've been using it periodically throughout the day. your combo worked for you, but didn't for me. And may or may not work for others- As the tech world would say, mileage may vary.

PSS. What model/carrier do you have? Just wondering.

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