Q: iOS 6 iPhone 4s battery drain
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Sep 20, 2012 10:35 PMby twix0rz,I downloaded ios 6 yesterday afternoon. Charged to 100% around 1 am and went to bed. I had an alarm set for 7:15 am but it didnt go off. So in about 7 hrs all the battery was drained. Then i charged the phone in class to 70%, in around 3 hrs of just standby and checking 3 messages, the battery went down to 20%. Plus my phone was very warm even just on standby.
Just wanted to add my story. Hopefully someone can fix this.
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Sep 20, 2012 10:38 PMby Morac,After restarting I tried to get my iPhone into the state where the battery started dropping like a rock and so far I haven't been able to. I tried Maps, Camera, Calendar and Siri and battery seems to be dropping at a reasonable rate. I managed to get the sociald process running (it seems to be related to the built in Twitter/Facebook functionality), but I haven't yet figured out how to get absinthend.n94 to run.
That makes me think absinthend.n94 is the process that was killing the battery.
On a side note, GPS seems to cause a much bigger drain under iOS 6 than earlier versions. When using an app that uses location services the battery drops about 1% a minute. That woud kill the battery in under 2 hours.
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Sep 21, 2012 12:29 AMby weinfurtner,Hi,
I am also experiencing an extremely fast drain of battery power. I updated my iPhone 4s via WIFI. In normal use I loose approx. 1% every 3 minutes. I then reset the phone to factory defaults (erased all data) and restored it via iTunes backup. Unfortunately the fast battery drain is back again. A normal reset (power + home button) didn’t resolve the problem either. Did anyone who experienced the problem erase the phone and set it up manually from scratch already?
Best regards, Daniel
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Sep 21, 2012 12:44 AMby Tomek.,Dear All,
To me this is just crazy, as if Apple didn't learn from past mistakes. My battery is going down the drain as I write this post.
This is really bad. Maybe I should switch to Samsung or HTC after all.
Cheers from Europe!
PS: Apple this is REALLY BAD - IT'S SUPER BAD! And I am really disappointed!!!!
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Sep 21, 2012 1:44 AMby Smartphonejnkie,I Have already tried a full erase and reset using just the phone and from iTunes
both times I set up as new phone and nothing, still having horrible battery life.
As a long time Apple supporter (since power pc) I'm really starting to get frustrated with Apple
if I wanted a phone with horrible battery life I would have gone with just about any Android phone
sad thing is my battery life is quite a bit worse then some of the newer Android phones friends and family have.
WIth competition stiffer then ever just not a good move on Apples part not a good move at all... :/
I Honestly expected a lot better from Apple especially after the ios 5 battery nightmare.. **** you Apple **** you
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Sep 21, 2012 2:08 AMby xninjagrrl,This may be an interesting tidbit. My iPhone developed battery when on wifi after the ios5 update. I was losing 3-4% or more per hour in standby. My ipad3 recently developed this problem about 1.5 weeks ago. Ios6 seems to have fixed this problem. My phone drained only 1% last night and iPad did not drain at all.
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Sep 21, 2012 2:16 AMby sr96,Investigating this further I went into Settings -> General -> About -> Diagnostics & Usage -> Diagnostics & Usage Data ->
When I scrolled down the list I found that lots and lots of entries titled "webbookmarksd_2012-09…"
I turned off iCloud Safari syncing and then went into the bookmarks on Safari and clicked on 'Edit' in order to delete the bookmarks but I keep getting the message "Bookmarks are being synced. Please edit the bookmarks once syncing has completed." Sometimes edit appears to work but when I try to delete a bookmark the delete button doesn't do anything.
This all seems like it might be heavily related to my battery problems.
