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Upgraded to iOS 6.1.1 last night, now my phone gets hot and battery life drains really quickly. Never had the problem prior to the update.

After upgrading my iphone 4s to the 6.1.1 last night, it suddenly started misbehaving. Battery drains quickly and the phone gets hot. Tried resetting the settings-to no avail. WTH Apple!!!!

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.1

Posted on Feb 13, 2013 10:00 AM

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Feb 13, 2013 10:59 AM in response to soon2bapplehater

Hi!,


Im too new to here and just joining here yesterday, so please bear with me. Haha, ok I try to help you here to sort out of your issues with recently iOS Upgrade of 6.1.1. Ummm, try first restore through iTunes, second try performing hard reset by pressing home button and wake up/sleep button same time for 10 seconds. Try another solution, resetting and resetting network. So let me know here if my solution sucessfully works for you if not that mean iOS Update have some issues themselves. So try that! 🙂

Feb 16, 2013 3:08 PM in response to Danulf

Sadly there is nothing you can do, there is talk of 6.1.2 early next week but to be honest I wouldn't hold out much hope on that either! Every single iOS 6 release so far has brought more problems than benefits from what I read so we shall see.


I wish I didn't have to do that restore, I would be running 5.1.1 which was rock solid on my 4S!

Feb 16, 2013 4:20 PM in response to Danulf

Danulf wrote:


This is obviously a problem with 6.1.1.

Obviously it is not. If it were, it would be affecting the majority if not all iPhone users and it simply is not.



Danulf wrote:


The only question I have is how can I undo the damage that Apple did? Can I jail-break the phone and somehow downgrade? 6.1.0 work fine.

There is not damage.

Downgrading of iOS is not supported.

Discussion of jailbroken devices is not permitted here per the terms of use of these forums. Jailbreaking the device voids the warranty.

Feb 16, 2013 4:29 PM in response to diesel vdub

<sigh>


I suspect this is related to exchange support. But logic prevails that if you only change one thing and the result correlates with others who only changed one thing, then that one thing is likely the problem. Its 6.1.1. Now, it might be 6.1.1 and Exchange; 6.1.1 and CDMA; 6.1.1 and people with gray hair; but the common point there is 6.1.1.


If it works for you - thank your lucky stars.

Feb 16, 2013 4:46 PM in response to Danulf

Honestly, if you take a few minutes to search the forums, you will see that after EVERY iOS update there is a group of users reporting battery issues. iOS updates are not the problem.


Users failing or simply refusing to do basic troubleshooting is the issue. I have seen no greater reporting of issues with 6.1.1 compared to previous iOS updates to indicate the issue is something specific to this version. That being said, if your device is having the issue with the Exchange servers, that will most definitely cause significant battery drain. Granted that issue seems to have been introduced in 6.1, not 6.1.1.

Feb 17, 2013 9:06 PM in response to diesel vdub

I hope when you have an issue with your device someone tells you that it is your fault. Your fanboyism is out of control if you honestly think this is a user issue and not an apple issue. But, im guessing you're one of those people who thinks apple can do no wrong.


When the iPhone alarm clock bugs happened I assume you told everyone that apple was not at fault, it was the universes fault for not creating time to work effortlessly with iOS devices.


iOS updates are clearly the problem as are people like you.

Feb 18, 2013 12:39 PM in response to soon2bapplehater

I'm not a hater, and I'm not an unbridled sycophant...I simply say what I am seeing.


Prior to upgrading to 6.1.1 I was getting a full day plus from each charge, generally about 36 hours.


I upgraded Saturday morning and now I run out of charge within 6 hours. I've done nothing to the phone - no new apps, and running the same stuff as usual.


Yes, it is also running hot.


My email (from MS Exchange) seems to be working okay.


I do wish I could go back to 6.1. That was working fine.


Apple will get this right. I trust that they will fix it. Not worried unless it takes a month to get 'er done, or if they deny there is a problem.

Upgraded to iOS 6.1.1 last night, now my phone gets hot and battery life drains really quickly. Never had the problem prior to the update.

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