Solution for iOS 4.3 battery drain
Hi all,
first of all thank you to all the community of iphoneitalia.com forums.
Thanks to the contribution of many users yesterday night the solution finally came out.
Let us go to the main subject.
1. How to identify if you have the issue:
-disable any push in your device: notifications, mail, find my phone, whatever might create any data traffic related to push activity. Disable gamecenter, ping, facetime in system restrictions.
Then close any app in the background.
In such conditions you should not have cell data consumption (=0 kb consistent along hours if you do not touch the phone)
Symptoms of illness: cell data usage goes up even if the phone is in stand by; usage time goes up even if you are not using the phone; battery consumption looks ugly comparing to previous iOS.
How to certify your feelings:
-download an app called netstat from the appstore, it is free
-run it and check if you have push.apple.com in the active sockets (=green pin)
If you have it even with all disabled as above described, you are really having the problem, they are not only feelings or dreams.
Something is constantly acting along this socket, your data usage will go up even if the phone is in standby, the usage time will do the same.
2. How to fix it
After many and many attempts some users found that the responsible app is the app store.
Simply go to settings->store and EXIT from the account.
Run Netstat again and you will see that push.apple.com is not active anymore.
Check data volume and usage time again and you will see that they are not going to increase anymore.
At this point you can activate again your notifications, mail and what you usually need, your power and data consumption will go back to the values you were used to before upgrading to iOS 4.3.
If you login into the appstore again you will face the problem again.
Of course it is not THE solution but it is an acceptable workaround while waiting for a fix from apple.
Final message:
to all the users: try this and enjoy your battery again
to the Apple engineers: please read, learn and fix
Ciao.
Davide
first of all thank you to all the community of iphoneitalia.com forums.
Thanks to the contribution of many users yesterday night the solution finally came out.
Let us go to the main subject.
1. How to identify if you have the issue:
-disable any push in your device: notifications, mail, find my phone, whatever might create any data traffic related to push activity. Disable gamecenter, ping, facetime in system restrictions.
Then close any app in the background.
In such conditions you should not have cell data consumption (=0 kb consistent along hours if you do not touch the phone)
Symptoms of illness: cell data usage goes up even if the phone is in stand by; usage time goes up even if you are not using the phone; battery consumption looks ugly comparing to previous iOS.
How to certify your feelings:
-download an app called netstat from the appstore, it is free
-run it and check if you have push.apple.com in the active sockets (=green pin)
If you have it even with all disabled as above described, you are really having the problem, they are not only feelings or dreams.
Something is constantly acting along this socket, your data usage will go up even if the phone is in standby, the usage time will do the same.
2. How to fix it
After many and many attempts some users found that the responsible app is the app store.
Simply go to settings->store and EXIT from the account.
Run Netstat again and you will see that push.apple.com is not active anymore.
Check data volume and usage time again and you will see that they are not going to increase anymore.
At this point you can activate again your notifications, mail and what you usually need, your power and data consumption will go back to the values you were used to before upgrading to iOS 4.3.
If you login into the appstore again you will face the problem again.
Of course it is not THE solution but it is an acceptable workaround while waiting for a fix from apple.
Final message:
to all the users: try this and enjoy your battery again
to the Apple engineers: please read, learn and fix
Ciao.
Davide
Macbook pro 13"-Mid 10, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Iphone 4 32 Gb - fw 4.3
