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Downloaded new OS 6.1 for iPhone 5. Phone becomes super hot now and battery drains before my eyes. Was told Apple is releasing a fix for this issue. True?

Downloaded OS 6.1 for iPhone 5. Phone becomes super hot now and battery drains before my eyes. Issue first occured 5 days ago when in an area with no wifi and I was on a weak 4G signal. I thought it drained rapidly (literally before my eyes) due to 4G but it has happened 2x since then. It seems to occur when I am on 4G. I was told Apple will be issuing a fix, that the new OS was causing this issue. True? Prior to this, I haven't had any problems with the battery. Phone is 4 months old. My third iPhone,no issues before. Any ideas?

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1, Hot phone, rapidly draining battery

Posted on Feb 12, 2013 4:12 PM

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Feb 12, 2013 9:55 PM in response to Robbi1

I'm having the same issue, but without having upgraded to iOS 6.1 - it just started out of the blue last night.

Timeline:

  1. It suddenly heated up, I turned it off. Battery at 87%
  2. After maybe 45 minutes, I turned it on again. Battery at 45%. It would not charge at this point.
  3. I tried MANY things, including turning off WiFi, mobile data, location services, Gmail sync (though not Exchange sync, which had given no problems before. I'd recently changed some Gmail settings, so I reverted them).
  4. I tried to restore, but my crappy internet was unable to download the iOS 6.1 file.
  5. I looked it up on the internet and performed a hard reset, after which the phone began to charge, to my delight.
  6. I charged it to nearly full (92%) then lay in bed using Twitter and iBooks for some time, after which battery was at 65%.
  7. After sleeping for around 7 hours, the battery lies dead. Attempts to charge it (both from the wall adapter, which is a standard India 220V charger, and from my laptop) are making it flash the Apple logo for around 4 seconds before the screen turns off; this repeats ad infinitum.


What do? The nearest Apple Store is three hours away and I have exams on; can't get away before Saturday at the earliest, so I'd like to have some use out of the phone in the near future.

Downloaded new OS 6.1 for iPhone 5. Phone becomes super hot now and battery drains before my eyes. Was told Apple is releasing a fix for this issue. True?

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