IOS 4.3.3 battery life has been significantly reduced

I had mentioned previously to try the restore option via iTunes (and sync from backup); but wanted to chime in that it didn't help me at all. I did however, turn off push (went to fetch) for my Mobileme and for my work exchange accounts. that made the difference. However, after a day or so- I decided to test out push again. I turned it on about an hour or two ago; and the battery seems to be behaving itself so far. Hopefully, it will stay that way.

So I would try going to the quickest fetch (sadly, that is 15 minutes), and see if that makes a change. If you feel like it, go back to push after a day or so and seeing if the problem is fixed; or if it resumes, fiddle with the amount of data is syncs as well. Mine is set to a day, and only the inbox. Worst case, stick it out with fetch(15) until 4.3.4 is released.

Or, in the case of my gmail account- which would be the perpetual offender in the past; as I don't use it much- I removed it from my phone- which is not an option, I realize, for most people and most accounts.

Same here

I've even done a hard restore to new phone and i'm still having the same problems with a very hot 3gs

Fetch new data is off as it has been for 17months, wifi is off, no background apps running but as soon as I play the ipod it only gives about 30 mins of battery and becomes a mini hot water bottle

I've noticed that the phone cools when it is being charged by a wall socket but not when plugged into my laptop. I'm guessing that its just skipping using the battery ??

Is there a way of going back to an old os version? maybe 2.0.............. I liked 2.0

I'll chime in here. I've been watching the threads and have had the same problem. 4.3.1 hurt my battery life. 4.3.2 REALLY hurt my battery life. 4.3.3 made no difference.

I did a reset and restore from backup, but that didn't make a difference, so last night I set it up as a new phone, then started from scratch with the apps, etc. TA DA! My battery life today was back to what it was before. I used it a lot today, and wouldn't have been able to do that the last few weeks without recharging during the day, then again over night.

I did NOT try removing and reinstalling iTunes. That was my next step, but I don't have to do that now! 🙂

Apple just removed my last post, very sad.

Anyhow, I hope that the battery issues are resolved as I now own this iPhone 4 for the next 3 years and in current state, 3-6 hours of battery use on 4.3.2 or 4.3.3 is not useable for a business device.

Apple,I can not use the device! Immediately release the new firmware!

Try the complete restore, and set it up as a new device. Install the apps and set up your email accounts, etc. I'll bet that it'll work.

I know - you shouldn't have to do this, but if you want to get the battery life back, give it a try.

I wish that Apple would at least acknowledge it.

Culprit discovered! As stated in my post yesterday, I’ve been messing with this problem since the 29th of April. For me it might be more of a 4.3.2 issue because it began before the release of 4.3.3 but continues with the new release. I don’t connect my iPhone to my PC all that often – pretty much only when I have pictures that I’ve taken with the phone and want to save or have purchased a new CD that I want on the phone. So while, I cannot say for sure when I updated to 4.3.2, it may well have been about the time my troubles started. As a side note, my wife is having no problems but is still running 4.3 (8F190) on her 3GS.

So I decided to start absolutely fresh late yesterday afternoon – I’m certain this wasn’t necessary but desperate times call for desperate measures. Did a complete uninstall of iTunes and downloaded a fresh copy of iTunes for Win 7 64-bit. Installed the package and attached my iPhone to the computer. Selected restore and when this was done, selected new phone. Un-ticked all the Outlook stuff as well as the sync apps radio button. When completed, I had absolutely nothing but the stock apps on the phone. I then unattached the phone from the computer connection and did nothing with the phone for one hour. Checked settings; usage 1 minute, standby 1 hour. Added my MS Exchange account onto the phone and turned mail, contacts and calendar off. Waited another hour and checked again; battery at 99%, usage at 2 minutes, standby 2 hours. Turned mail on (with push) and went through the same process and all was still well and hour later. I turned contacts on; everything still as it should be an hour later. Turned calendar on and the battery percentage began dropping. Checked usage settings and usage and standby minutes stayed in sync – that is each additional minute of standby reflected a new minute of usage. An hour later, the batter was down 12% and usage was 64 minutes. Turned calendar off and the battery stopped its drain and usage minutes stayed pretty much the same.

Have to be honest, I don’t get it. Push enabled mail – and I get a lot of mail – doesn’t seem to be impacting battery life. Nor do the BT and Wi-Fi. What in the calendar part of Exchange would cause usage to stay live? It just doesn’t make sense to me. Guess I can live without the calendar – the phone would be worthless without mail and contacts – but it sure would be nice to have what I had before.

Any idea what Exchange server your company/group/department is using? (IE- 2003, 2007, 2010) If they have webmail, it frequently says there.

You might not be able to sync wirelessly w/o effecting the battery, but you should be able to sync the calendars via iTunes; they will be out of date rapidly- but better than nothing.

I just turned OFF my calendar ... just in case this is it. Will report back findings.

My company is using Exchange Server 2003 for comparison purposes.

K

Exchange Server 2003. And will proably do the iTunes link until I find a fix.

I've decided to bring back apps over a period of time. One that I cannot live without is iMExchange for notes and tasks. It autosyncs of the air and it seems to have no impact on battery and usage either. And for what it's worth, the setup is much "cleaner" than Apple's. It's all on one page - email, server, domain, user name, password, SSL setting and whether or not you're using Exchange 2003. We are upgrading to Exchange 2010 but I don't see that happening real soon - unfortunately. I upgraded my MacBook to Outlook 2011 and discovered it doesn't work with our current version of Exchange Server. I'd also like to point out (given many of the rants I've seen in these forums) that I am beholden to no company. I use both a MacBook (albeit with VM Ware) and a ThinkPad 410 on the computer side, and carry both an iPhone 4 and an HTC Tilt 2.

well at least I'm glad I'm not alone with this issue! I only got to 1PM today with minimal usage. Never had this problem before 4.3.3.....

I use Voice Over, so the steps here might be somewhat different for people who don't use Voice Over. Go to the app switcher by rapidly hitting the home button twice. Double tap each app until you get to the editing apps screen. Close out the apps, then hit dismiss app switcher.

I'll give the re-installing of itunes a try and see if that fixes the phone but I don't like all this *****-footing around a phone/phones that have worked perfectly for 4 or so years. It's not a smartphone if you can only use it for texts, calls and emails and charge it 4 times a day. I loved my ability to download music and play games when I felt like it but i guess thats gone. If it was winter at least i could use it as a handwarmer.

Its lucky as i've only got 10 days to an upgrade so I guess I'll be spending the weekend looking at androids and a new ipod classic and not having a lovely iphone 4 😠

Probably not the place to ask but has anyone tried jailbreaking to fix the problem?

maybe i should have used cat-footing