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iOS 6 iPhone 4s battery drain

Did an OTA update to iOS 6, and my iPhone 4s is draining quite quickly almost a percent every three minutes


Only apps running are Settings, Messages, Phone, and Mail, and Location Servces are on for Google, Maps, Nearby, Reminders, Safari, Siri, weather, and YP Mobile (sames as before the iOS 6 update) All apps are up to date, and restarted the phone twice. On local WiFi, with AT&T cellular service, four bars.


Phone would get warm at times as well.


Maybe it's an anomaly, else, lets see if this post grows...

Posted on Sep 19, 2012 12:39 PM

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Feb 27, 2013 6:58 AM in response to TimK1964

"My iPhone 4 was up to 434 cycles for the battery"


Is there an app to tell that? I'd particularly like an app that would tell me the mAH charge and capacity (as well as cycle count) as we can see for our Macintoshes:


Charge Information:

Charge remaining (mAh): 4649

Fully charged: Yes

Charging: No

Full charge capacity (mAh): 4746

Health Information:

Cycle count: 231

Condition: Normal

Battery Installed: Yes


Is there anything in iOS that gives that? Or, an app that would show it?


It would help in all sorts of ways--knowing condition of battery, fairly representing the battery condition before a sale, etc.

Feb 27, 2013 7:33 AM in response to Jon Baumgartner

Guys,

Please take a break. The battery draining problem seems not an all-user problem. Apple has Millions of users around the globe. But only a few are facing this problem. There might be some sorts of hardware problems too for specific batch of iphones manufactured under a lot. The reason I am saying this I am using iphone 4 for over 2 years now without any significant/serious battery problem even after upgrading to ios 6.1.2.


Here is a scrrenshot of usage:

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Feb 28, 2013 2:21 PM in response to Greg Bastug1

Hello everyone. Ive posted on this forum a few times now because my battery life was shocking!


Anyway I put my phone in DFU mode the other night for about an hour. When I turned it back on, I charged it all the way to 100% and left it on charge for about 8 hours after it hit 100%. Since then, my battery life has started to get better. It usually lasted me 6 hours a day but since the DFU mode, it has been lasting between 8-12. I know this obviously isn't good enough but I'm pleased for now because today I didn't have to charge it at all until I went back to bed!

Feb 28, 2013 9:22 PM in response to HayreKopal

Little confused, re-start after complete shutdown? Help fill in the blanks here? How can you re-start after complete shutdown? Shutdown meaning battery is depleted? Re-start after that? But the battery is dead? Not trying to be an *** but I just wanna understand this a little more? Do you have to do this every time you charge your battery?



Apple, fix the firmware so we don't have to put our selfs through this $hit!! My god That Apple logo is starting to look like dog ****!!

Mar 1, 2013 5:27 AM in response to Ankit_IPhone4s

Seriously. If your phone is only 6 months old, still in warranty, and visibly doing this after 24 hours charging I am 100% sure apple will help you. It could be a bad charging cable even. Maybe your local store has issues and is not doing their job. You should fill out the iphone feedback form at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html and also call apple care toll free at 800 275 2273, from a pay phone if you have to. I apologize if you already did this and I did not see.

iOS 6 iPhone 4s battery drain

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