Original iPhone 3.0 upgrade - No battery life and running warm to hot

This is my third reply to this thread FYI.

For me, this has nothing to do with data plans or not. My phone when set up to talk to my Exchange server using push (not IMAP), will continually use the radio or network interface to attempt to connect to the exchange server -- every second --, forever. My exchange server logs confirm this.

The poor battery life and heat is caused by both the CPU running constantly and the radios (wifi, edge, 3g) being in use constantly. This jibes with others who have reported hearing interference in nearby speakers "constantly" (which means the radio is transmitting "constantly").

As a point of interest, my original complaint was on my 1st generation iPhone. I received my new 3GS yesterday, restored a backup from iTunes (as I was prompted to do) and sure enough, my new phone started hitting the Exchange server every second, the phone started getting hot, and in 15 minutes, the battery was down about 25%. So its not the phone -- dont let anyone tell you it is ("genius" or not).

This should be really easy to diagnose since its happening to a lot of people using push and or exchange and it is not intermittent.

I "fix" mine by disabling the Exchange email account on my phone and rebooting it. (that is the only other "push" email account I have). AP News ap and its "push" has nothing to do with my issue. Turning off the exchange push email account does...

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For your exchange server problem try a recommended fix where you delete the exchange account and add it again. Generic advice is at www.apple.com/batteries/iPhone.html
If the battery keeps draining fast you will need to call Support - it is possible that your Exchange settings are wrong for iPhone push. It may be a few days before this issue is resolved (it took a while with 2.0), so patience may be the only real answer.

This has become a global issue! I've tried everything possible but no gain. I guess we need to downgrade to 2.2 until apple comes out with 3.1 or something!

Hope they know what's going on!

Yeah I have the 16GB 3G iPhone and I'm getting the same issue as you guys. Seems like it's not only an issue with the original iPhone. I turned off Push notification and will see what happens. If that is the case, it's a shame that Push notification is unusable on 3.0 when Apple was trying to bring Push Notification to all apps. sigh

My wife's original iPhone is doing exactly the same - constant communication with the network and rapid fall in battery. One again, a Apple Software Update not fully tested. I will file a bug report.

Push with MobileMe is causing the constant communication with the network. Turning Push off solves the issues. I have filed a Bug Report with Apple.

I have the battery draining problem too. Fully charged at nighttime, fully drained in the morning. I also could not receive any calls as they all went to voicemail. I have turned off PUSH and now the calls get through. What is that about! Will have to wait and see whether turning off push helps with battery life. I have a suspicion it will. It seems strange that this problem was not apparent in the Beta versions of 3.0.

I am not impressed Apple!

Hi there,

I used the iPhone configuration utility console to see what was going on, as I've been having the same problems on an original iPhone since upgrading to 3.0 last night. I've got a MobileMe account, and as soon as I activated Push, I started to see errors on the console of the config utility - an Error (60) message saying I did not have data services - GprsDataServiceNotSubscribed. If I de-activated Push, they stopped straight away.

I went through the Settings, and found that there were no APN settings in my phone - put those in for my network, re-activated Push, and no errors on the console. Not saying that has fixed everything, but I suspect it has...

MJ.

I tend to agree that push notification system for apps is the cause. I did my update when traveling away from home and all worked well, when I got back I used AP mobile news for the first time and ever since, the charging issue started. I charged it overnight and by the morning it was only a quarter charged. Then I tried charging from my laptop and it charged completely but the charge did not last. I tried again with the electric charger same problem. I have now turned notifications off and testing it again with the electric charger. I also noticed that the charge indicator icon on the iphone changes from a plug sign to an electricity sign occasionally. It seems to charge only when the indicator is an electricity sign. Too early to tell if things have changed 'll revert later.

Hi, Richard,

can you tell us how you make "clean restore to 2.2.1"? Seems like a clean solution...

Thanx, Norbert

I have the exact same problem on a 3G iphone. I initially did an update and the phone ran ok - no overheating, no speed issues, no battery life problems - but I was getting a lot of instability issues with apps crashing. So I did a clean install and added all my apps back in from scratch.

Since then the phone has been running alarmingly hot, the battery life is pitiful and apps are sluggish or have jerky frame rates.

After reading this post -
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2045240&start=30&tstart=0
I have tried all sorts of combinations - wifi on/off - push on/off etc

Push is definitely the culprit.

I can turn everything on - wifi, 3G, location etc - and everything runs fine. As soon as I switch push back on the phone runs slow, games are jerky, phone runs hot and the battery bar practically disappears before my eyes.

The above post recommends deleting the push account, restarting and setting the push account back up again. I tried this and it didnt make any difference - but it might work for some of you.

I'm now left with paying for mobileme and using fetch settings - which pretty much forfeits the point of having it.

I've update to 3.0 few days ago..
now my iphone 3G battery life is very short
hope apple can solve this thing quickly..
i don't want to end-up my battery is totally dead..

My phone dies in an hour if not charging because of the 3.0 update. It is a 3g phone and all the settings are set like they should be so please don't waste yours or my time by telling me to take the email settings off push, make it dimmer, etc. I can leave it on a table for an hour and it will die untouched. Completely untouched. The fact that apple released this garbage of an update really ticks me off.

I can't even use my phone now... ugh. I'm so frustrated!!

Same problem here (short battery/heat problems). Original iPhone. No data plan (t-mobile USA). Downloaded the iPhone config utility and saw the same attempts at connecting with no luck. Turned it off while connected to the cofig util and constant attempts to connect stop. Going to have to turn off push which is a **** shame. I hope there is a fix for this soon. I think I will also get a data plan (1 month test) to see if that somehow fixes it.