iPhone Battery Issues

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iPhone Battery Issues

I have a iPhone 3G and I have been very pleased with it until couple days ago. I set up a IPSec VPN connection and downloaded the RDP Lite App from the App store. As soon as I did this and was connected to my network remotly for less than five minutes, my battery started draining.
Three days ago, I finally deleted the VPN configuration and uninstalled RDP Lite hoping that would solve the probem. Since this change, the battery last about five hours less than it did before. I have also tried to drain the battery until it shuts down and give it a complete charge, with no improvments. Does anyone have any idea how I could improve this?

iPhone 3G

Posted on Jan 13, 2009 3:57 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 13, 2009 4:10 PM in response to gibbieinc

Try resetting the iPhone. Hold down both the Home and Sleep buttons. Ignore the Power Off slider, but wait for the white apple before releasing the buttons. It may take a few minutes for it to restart.

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Answer 2

modular747

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Jan 13, 2009 4:12 PM in response to gibbieinc

It's possible there is a thread of an app running and draining the battery. Be sure there hasn't been any change to your email settings such as fetching frequency, etc. If you haven't already done so, try the following steps:

1. Hard reset - press the home and sleep/wake buttons until the Apple icon appears (ignore the red slider).
2. Restore from a backup.
2. Restore as a "new" iPhone.

If these don't help, there may be a hardware problem or the battery itself is failing. You'll have to take it to an Apple store Genius bar.

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Answer 3

Jan 13, 2009 4:20 PM in response to modular747

apps cant run in the background. (except for ipod), once you close them they are closed, no longer operating.

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modular747

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Jan 13, 2009 4:33 PM in response to Dynamite DJs

Dynamite DJs wrote:
apps cant run in the background. (except for ipod), once you close them they are closed, no longer operating.

Not entirely correct. There are several core iPhone apps that run in the background - phone, mail, SMS, calendar, clock (alarms), location services, iPod. Also, it is possible that a corrupted thread of other apps does not shut down properly. That's why hard resetting often fixes battery drain problems.

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Answer 5

Jan 13, 2009 4:40 PM in response to modular747

i meant to add ""..etc after ipod, but what is a hard reset?

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modular747

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Jan 13, 2009 4:45 PM in response to Dynamite DJs

Dynamite DJs wrote:
what is a hard reset?

Read my first post - "1."

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Answer 7

Jan 13, 2009 4:47 PM in response to modular747

oh... I thought it was just called a reset. Let me check the manual again.....

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Answer 8

modular747

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Jan 13, 2009 4:55 PM in response to Dynamite DJs

Same thing - equivalent to removing and reinserting the battery )as opposed to shutting down via the slider and restarting, which can retain some corrupted data caches).

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Answer 9

Jan 13, 2009 4:55 PM in response to modular747

I can't seem to find anything about a "hard" reset in the manual. But what you described is called a reset. On page 34. Is this what you meant?

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modular747

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Jan 13, 2009 5:01 PM in response to Dynamite DJs

What is your point - does it relate in any way to the issue of battery drain? I defined what I meant in the prior post, which you didn't read. I use the term "hard" as it is used for PCs - i.e. equivalent to powering off and restarting as opposed to shutting down and restarting. There are many, many posts in this forum which refer to it in this way.

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Answer 11

Jan 13, 2009 5:10 PM in response to modular747

the point is there is no hard or soft reset. It's a reset... i guess the manual is wrong. Those posts are all right. Take a chill pill.

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Answer 12

modular747

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Jan 13, 2009 5:14 PM in response to Dynamite DJs

You are the only one who is concerned about the definition of "reset"... I have nothing to chill.

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Answer 13

Jan 13, 2009 5:19 PM in response to modular747

But you are confusing people when you tell them to hard reset. Then when someone tells them to do a reset they are confused. I'm just asking you to admit your mistake and correct it from here.

Oh, and since you are checking those other posts about the hard reset you will find that they were also corrected, not by me

Have a great evening.

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modular747

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Jan 13, 2009 5:29 PM in response to Dynamite DJs

OK. My mistake!!!! Yet, you are the only one who is confused. I defined what I meant in the original post (it was not later corrected), which you didn't read before questioning me. What this all boils down to is that you are trying to deflect the fact that you incorrectly stated that a runaway app or thread can't occur in the iPhone, by persisting in this irrelevancy. Own up to your own mistakes.

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funsky

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Jan 13, 2009 11:00 PM in response to modular747

Scoreboard Update

Modular747: 1
DynamiteDJ: 0

Comments: In my judicious opinion, 'hard' reset is a common term to refer to the activity that Modular747 mentioned. Even if it weren't a common term, the fact that it has been attributed with a special definition, is sufficient for the purpose of the suggested solution to be effected. As a footnote: I must thank you both for the brief moment of entertainment that was had in reading the written exchanges.

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