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Battery Issues with 3.0.1

After upgrading my 3GS to 3.0.1, battery life has dropped dramatically. Before, I could make it through a whole day (12-14 hours standby, 3-4 hours of use) and the battery would be anywhere from 20-30%. After the update now, I'm lucky to make it halfway through the day.

Another problem I noticed was battery percentage "jumping". I would check my phone, and it would show 15% battery life. As I was using it, the battery percentage jumped up and down between the original 15% and 50%. My friend, who also has a 3GS, has noticed this also.

I'm trying a restore now - and see if that has any affect for today.

iPhone 3GS, iPhone OS 3.0

Posted on Aug 5, 2009 9:29 AM

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Aug 29, 2009 7:50 AM in response to dargo21

Here is how the drainage issue was solved after my experience upgrading my iPhone 3G to 3.0.1, and three days of surfing on the web for a single coherent solution, and I didn't want to go over and reset factory values or lose functionality, no push, no mail, no Blue, no iPhone.
So this is what I found in my case a single App (Frings) I started to notice that after the upgrade this application without being active was notifying me of incoming messages from my friends, at the beginning I thought it was cool and maybe a plus on the new 3.0.1 release. So I decided to remove Frings from my iPhone, restarted and test for two days if the battery behaved normal and for the sake of God it did, back to normal use.
My theory is that some logic on installation process is allowing pieces of other Apps code to reside on OS layers not supposed to be, then once you remove them and install them back the issue is resolved.
Hope this helps to others as I mentioned before, there's no coherent and single solution for this battery issue on the web.

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Aug 30, 2009 6:11 AM in response to J.I.A.

I've tried to sync with Google Contacts, but it brought in a bunch of crazy contacts from people, that I've only, maybe emailed once, or was on I list I replied to.

My question to all you iPhone techies.... is this.......

What is the most reliable, Windoze based, iPhone contact/date book backup that will backup my phone's contacts and date book?

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The most reliable and best working option is to take a new gmail account that you will use only and only for syncing with your iphone. Then you can always have a database you can reach anywhere.

Battery Issues with 3.0.1