What does this icon mean?

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What does this icon mean?

Hello,

My iPhone 4 battery is draining 1% on every 3 minutes. I fully charged iPhone and removed all the apps from multi-tasking expect the Apple pre-built apps. Even I turned off all the location services, notifications. Reduced the brightness and turn off several additional settings in apps including turn off EQ and Sound Check options in iPod.

Currently I've 3 mail accounts configured for Fetch and 1 Exchange Server account configured for Push.

Current Battery Status: 90%
Time since last full charge:
Usage - 44 minutes
Standby: 4 hours, 9 minutes

Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Sony, Windows 7

Posted on Jun 29, 2010 7:51 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 29, 2010 7:52 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

which icon are you on about?

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SRINATHSADDA Author

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Jun 29, 2010 7:53 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

I forget to mention the icon issue previously. There is an icon (Lock symbol inside circle arrow) besides the battery icon. It still appears even after I reverted both the lock and home screens to default pictures.

Any idea?

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Badjase

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Jun 29, 2010 7:55 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

Since you did not put a picture of the icon in question i can only assume you mean the one that looks like an arrow that pops up on the top right of the screen, that is the location services icon, anytime an app uses location services it pops up to let you know, i.e if you use the camera and its asks to use location services for the places tab in your photos. you can turn off location services in settings, not sure of the impact on the battery with locations running but i have not noticed any reduction, hope this helps?????? maybe im answering the wrong question here

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DaVBMan

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Jun 29, 2010 7:56 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

Portrait orientation lock
See page 17-18 of manual
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_iOS4_UserGuide.pdf

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Answer 5

Jun 29, 2010 7:56 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

That's the screen orientation lock icon.

See page 32 in the manual: http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_iOS4_UserGuide.pdf

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Jun 29, 2010 7:57 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

This symbol tells you that the phone screen is locked in portrait mode (won't auto rotate to landscape)... To get rid of it, double click the home button swipe over to the ipod controls in the multitasking bar (once to the left), then select the left icon (should deactivate the lock)

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w7ox

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Jun 29, 2010 7:58 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

It may mean you have it locked in Portrait mode. Hit Home button twice quickly and then scroll the tray at the bottom to see.

Phil

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Jun 29, 2010 7:59 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

It's the "portrait orientation" lock. You need to download the user's guide:

http://support.apple.com/manuals/#iphone

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SRINATHSADDA Author

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Jun 29, 2010 8:02 AM in response to Julian Wright

I just turned it off. It's look like I accidentally changed this settings while I closing apps from multi tasking!

Any idea on Battery drain issues? I lost more than 10% within 5 hours of time (including 40 minutes of usage).

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Jun 29, 2010 8:07 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

Having exchange server set to push will drain your battery faster.

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Jun 29, 2010 8:08 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

Does the issue persist if you turn off the Exchange Server account?

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SRINATHSADDA Author

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Jun 29, 2010 8:20 AM in response to Bob Morrison

I just turn off the Push option completely. But me and my friend get iPhone on same day and we installed almost same apps (iMovie, WordPress, Twitter, Google, Bing, IBooks, Apple Store, Amazon.com and myWireless.)

When I look into his iPhone, The Standby time is more than 28 hours and Usage is also more than 6 hours until now.

I spoke with Apple Support few minutes back and they suggested me to restore the iPhone. Let's see if it helps me out from this issue!

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Answer 13

Jun 29, 2010 8:27 AM in response to SRINATHSADDA

Yea changing the mail fetching method to fetch saves battery life tremendously compared to when the service is using push.

It knocks atleast 20% of your battery even if you dont do ANYTHING.

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SRINATHSADDA Author

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Jun 30, 2010 5:51 AM in response to iMatt.co.tv

I fully charged the iPhone then I restored it to default (from iTunes). Only synchronized my Outlook contacts. Didn't installed any apps or changed any settings.

After that I waited for 6 hours (standby time) and the battery is 92%. After that I'm in call for about 1 hour (several disconnects occurred in the mean time). Currently the battery is 37%

Now I confirmed that the battery is drain very quickly while I'm in call which is ridiculous! I've Genius appointment at Apple Store and let's see what happen...

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nesemiah

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Jul 19, 2010 6:29 AM in response to Shrod1nger

Than you!

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