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iOS 4.3.2 has it solved battery issues?

Hey everyone. I was just wondering has anyone updated to iOS 4.3.2 and has it solved any battery/heat related issues that many experienced with 4.3 and 4.3.1.

iPhone 4, iOS 4

Posted on Apr 14, 2011 11:46 AM

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Apr 14, 2011 7:57 PM in response to m_hamm

HUH????? I for one do not remember this slowdown, which made us want to buy the new phone.....

bbilski

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Apr 14, 2011 8:04 PM in response to colmulhall

My wife and I both experienced battery draining issues with our iPhone 4's on 4.3.1 and 4.3.2. My iPhone 4 was dropping 10-13% per hour with light usage. I took it to the Apple store. They had me re-install 4.3.1, same problem and they gave me another iPhone. I had the same problem today, from 100% to 5% in 11 hours with light usage. I saw the 4.3.2 release and am hoping it works. After upgrade I am sitting at 29% and going to charge on wall charger overnight.

I would like to hear if others have similar problems. Also, I have done all the traditional "newbie" stuff like reducing location services, turning ping off, shutting down multi-tasking programs... There is a clear difference in battery life from 4.2 to 4.3 in my opinion.

rod.gui

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Apr 14, 2011 8:29 PM in response to bbilski

What is connected(on) in your iphone (bluetooth, notification, push, etc)?
What is the average of the signal from your cellular carrier in the places you stay?
Have you tried to do a full restore instead of an update?

Apr 14, 2011 8:39 PM in response to colmulhall

I am currently on 4.3.1 on an iPhone 3GS, and ever since I updated to this software my Battery has been draining very fast. I'm only getting about 3 hours of usage and that's it! on 4.2.1, the battery lasted about 1.5 to 2 days, but now not even one day! I am going to update to 4.3.2 to see if it fixes this issue for me..

Apr 15, 2011 12:18 AM in response to colmulhall

As soon as I see the update, I upgraded my iphone4 to 4.3.2 in the night. I can say that this version is better than 4.3 or 4.3.1 according to the previous battery consumption, this time it seems stabile.
Let me say from 100% to 95% took 7 hours. I have not seen my battery like this since I upgraded to 4.3 and 4.3.1 versions.

Apr 15, 2011 9:49 AM in response to myrealite

I upgraded from iOS 4.3.1 to 4.3.2 yesterday. i fully charged my Iphone 4 over the night and i unplugged it at 07:00 (GMT+1) and now its almost 12hrs ago and im at 88% left on the battery, wich is an BIG increase of the battery life.

I have listen to music in Spotify(offline mode) about 3hrs, made 5-6calls (15mins or so in total today), sent about 10 text messages. and played a game for 10minutes or so, and some random stuff in the menu's..

So im clearly seeing the battery life is back at normal levels again!

/Andreas

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Apr 15, 2011 10:06 AM in response to Frozen1985

Glad it worked for you, mine has been draining from a full charge to 0 within 6 hours, and that's in standby mode with 3-4 txts and with everything turned off except 3g,and data. Upgraded to 4.3.2 and it seems like its better in standby but if I even have it unlocked, I can watch the battery drain 5% in 8 minutes, and it gets very warm without running any apps. Alos while plugged into usb it will continually drain power, while running 4.2.1 it would charge. I hope they have another "fix it" download come out very soon....

deggie

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Apr 15, 2011 12:33 PM in response to Rapiddan45

As a test, if you put it in Airplane Mode does it still get hot and drain rapidly?

What has AppleCare said about the heat aspect?

Apr 15, 2011 8:43 PM in response to deggie

Yes even in airplane mode it gets hot and drains. I turned on some music through the Ipod function and had at 50% volume and while in airplane mode with NO other apps running, it went from 59% to 48% in 3 songs(12 minutes). And I called apple and she suggested to take it to a "genius" only problem with that is there is no apple store here in Okinawa Japan. And to ship a replacement here could take~6-8 weeks. So unless something newer then 4.3.2 comes out and fixes it, Im stuck with a POS for 2 more months

msavwah

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Apr 17, 2011 12:36 PM in response to colmulhall

It has solved my standby drain significantly, finally.

Apr 17, 2011 12:52 PM in response to colmulhall

I have updated my iPhone 3GS yesterday. Previously with iOS 4.3.1 I was facing some difficulties, the battery life was not the best I can get. So I decided to set up the phone as a new one and install the latest 4.3.2 version of iOS. Now the battery life is much worst than what it used to be. I have turned off ping, all location services, constantly switch off mail app from the background - actually try to keep the line with the background apps empty but it seems it's not working in my case. Now I am facing serious battery draining - it goes down for 6-8 hours.

Apr 17, 2011 12:54 PM in response to Rapiddan45

A lot of people with this problem have said that turning Airplane Mode OFF and enabling cellular data fixed this problem. Apparently it allows data to be sent that some app keeps trying to send and failing, and just trying over and over.

Apr 17, 2011 6:30 PM in response to bbilski

bblikski--- yes, I am experiencing the same issue and it started as soon as I upgraded to 4.3.2. Power consumption on my iPhone 4 was fine until then.

I have two email accounts on my iPhone; one is my work's Exchange account, the other is Gmail. If I remove Gmail, then restart, the battery life goes back to normal.

I need the Gmail account, and I need it to continue fetching Gmail just has I always have.

Apr 17, 2011 8:42 PM in response to colmulhall

I had great battery performance when my iPhone 4 was on iOS 4.2.2 ... ever since I upgraded to 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 my battery drains like water. My iPhone don't even last more than 6 hours. Even on low usage with only WIFI & 3G connections that checks emails and notifications which previously last for at least 12 hours on 4.2.2.

Full restore of my iPhone 4 is really not an option since I have 239 apps running on it. Rearranging my apps is going to be an nightmare.

I'm very disappointed at the recent upgrades that screws up my battery performance.

Please fix this.

Apr 17, 2011 8:57 PM in response to colmulhall

After I upgraded to 4.3.2, I said a little prayer, and restored the phone to all default settings. Didn't use backup.

Then I did all the things I learned to do. I turned off "store" and set mail to manual fetch. I disabled ping and itunes. I carefully turned off all the apps after I used them. IT IS WORSE THAN EVER. The battery drains at about one percentage point per second when I use the phone. It drains a little more slowly when I don't. Yesterday, with 38 minutes of usage and 12 hours of standby (with all settings as above) it was left with 24% battery. The "usage" was fetching mail, changing settings, sending a couple of texts. That's all. So, I'm beginning to believe what somebody wrote about different phone batches have different reactions to 4.3. I'm going to go switch it out tomorrow and hope I get a phone that I can use as a smart phone. (drainage isn't bad when I turn cellular data off, wifi off.)

iOS 4.3.2 has it solved battery issues?