Another IOS 4.3.2 Battery issue.

You now have multitasking. Right swipe the bottom of your iPhone and it will show you by rolling that bar to the right, how many applications are active. Each active application in multitasking is draining battery. Hold down one of the applications until you get the jiggly with an X. Then close each application by hitting the X. You may be surprised that you probably have all of your applications active as they haven't been closed down and each active multitasking application drains a little battery. Think this might be what's going on.

I finally fixed mine after trying a bunch of fixes. The only thing that worked was to reinstall iTunes then backup the iPhone then do a "restore". That fixed it.

All the solutuons dont work.

I agree, I have even turned off 3G and I still only made it 7 hours with minimal usage. Does anyone know when iOS 4.3.3 coming out and how/can I go back down to iOS 4.3.1?

Update: I tried to turn Ping and iTunes restrictions off, but that caused the problem to return. Yesterday my battery went dead after less than four hours with minimal usage.

The slow charge time hasn't reappeared and I've turned restrictions back on for Ping and iTunes and did the Cellular Data/3G turn off step. I'm hoping after I drain the battery and recharge fully, the problem will dissipate. I'd really like to avoid doing a full restore.

I know the issue's not related to multitasking/too many open programs because I regularly close out apps.

Very frustrating...

I have 4.3.2 and before downloading this firmware, my battery had no issues. I immediately noticed a battery drain after installing the 4.3.2 update. I have tried all mentioned tricks, but none of them seemed to make any difference. My battery is still draining rather quickly. Actually, last night I was at 100%, got a text and read it, put the phone down and then got another text a minute later and I was at 98%. I then googled, the drain issue for no more than 2 minutes and noticed my battery at 91%...something is wrong here and I can't believe Apple hasn't mentioned anything yet. There has to be some process running in the background constantly that is draining the battery.

Not sure if this is related, but I also notice that my phone switches from WiFi to 3G sometimes while in my house, and this NEVER happened before installing 4.3.2. There is definitely something strange going on here.

I have done 2 restores to factory settings and then reloaded to a backup - NO difference whatsoever.

When I saw iOS 4.3.3 - there was my savior... made no difference, is there a way to down grade the fw back to 4.3.1 without Jailbreaking - really dont want to!!!

griswald88 wrote:

I have done 2 restores to factory settings and then reloaded to a backup - NO difference whatsoever.

the problem most likely is in your backup. try setting up as-new and manually install all apps, sync music, etc..

I think I should wait for 4.3.3 to avoid those problem.

I haven't seen yet any response from the apple about the problem from 4.3.2

Well before I restored to backup I was obviously using the applied update. 4.3.1 was fine, but it wasn't until 4.3.2 that I saw this major issue. 4.3.3 does not address this either. These needs to be addressed ASAP, it's ridiculous how bad the drain is, what's going on here apple?!

4.3.2 - iPhone 3GS - a bloody star up until this point (with only minor hiccups) - turned EVERYTHING off, effectively turned it into a 'touch' - drained it completely (well, I didn't - the darn thing did it itself) - charged it on the original equipment power supply overnight (that's 12 hours to me). It went from 100% to 28% in 45 minutes... yes, 45 minutes (which is the same period of time pretty much all over the world).

Now all this is reminding me of something in my past I thought I'd left behind ... what was it? ... oh yes, I remember, WINDOWS! Hours spent trawling the net looking for validation that the behaviour is not isolated to me and my usage patterns. Finding the same story being repeated by LOYAL Apple clients and then hearing the deafening sound of silence from ze Apple programming elite. The gap narrows. Shame really.

At least I didn't do anything crazy and update my iPad to 4.3.2!

Now where did I store that old Samsung Omnia.

Updated to 4.3.3 - battery life issues significantly addressed - though not fully solved. At least it lasts most of the day with only the very basics turned on (I don't ever use push email etc.).

Not nearly at the same level of quality as 4.2 however.