Ios 6.1.2 still has battery drain!

Ios 6.1.2 is still having battery life issues on iPhone, anybody else having battery drains?

iPhone 4 (8GB), iOS 6.1.2

Posted on Feb 20, 2013 6:57 AM

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Feb 22, 2013 10:20 PM in response to gher03

I have turned Cellular Date OFF. All of my apps are closed. Everything is pretty much disabled. My Iphone 5 battery is still draining 1% every 10 minutes with ios 6.1.2. (and i am not even using it).


I cannot believe how incompetent Apple has become. This would have never happened in the past.


My phone isn't worth much at this point, because it drains incessantly.


I have had a 4 and a 4s with ios 5 in the past, and never had any battery issues whatsoever.


The crazy thing is that the battery issue has gotten worse for me with every 6 update.


But this latest update is a whopper. It's pretty much killing my phone.

Feb 23, 2013 12:33 AM in response to Alister452

I installed the IOS 6.1.2 update 2 days ago and since then my battery only lasts a few hours off charge (not being used) if I take a call or go on the net then it lasts under an hour from full charge! This is terrible... Apple you must get it fixed, I am not happy and I am very disappointed that a fix hasn't been rolled out by now! I am considering changing provider as this just isn't good enough - I don't have a mobile charger to hand wherever I go, I'm sure this wouldn't be good enough for your directors... I'm sure they don't have to deal with these problems and neither should your customers! Sort it out please and quickly!

Feb 23, 2013 1:11 AM in response to Alister452

I think I found something interesting.


Yesterday on my Iphone 5 i let the battery completely discharge and then totally recharge but leaving iphone connected to power cord for 4 hrs. The strange thing I noticed is: when I connected my phone to power outlet after a min power was 4% and after 5min was 23% so I thought that the problem was basically in battery power calculation. That's why I tried to leave the phone connected more then needed and the results are no: 2h 50 min usage 14h 30 stand by and battery is at 44%. I think it's a good deal

Feb 23, 2013 1:42 AM in response to F4B

Understand people "everything that are trying to do does not work 100% What use is it to remove the SIM card? Disable all notifications? Then after that, we dont need any mobile phone!!

shameful is that Apple did not immediately respond and fix this bug and gave fire all people who are in charge for iOS!!

This is HUGE hardware problem and thay should respond!!

Feb 23, 2013 2:46 AM in response to Zeljko83

I think the continuing software issues are not just related to iOS. I'm experiencing both iOS issues and OSX issues. Such a pity that Apple are rapidly denegenerating into pushing out rubbish like this. Based on what I've seen so far it's accross the board with a lot of products - bad software quality.


I couldn't update from iOS6.1 to iOS6.1.2 as it failed continuously. After resetting the phone and disabling and re-enabling WiFi I finally managed to install the update. Reading this post I think I should have delayed updating.


Will monitor battery life and post back any issues. So far though I don't think I'm suffering from reduced battery life. This may be due to the manner in which i had to install the update. Time will tell.

Feb 23, 2013 3:16 AM in response to Alister452

I reinstalled 6.1.2 from scratch again and didn't even run native iphone e-mail application nor for exchange nor for other e-mail services. Now during 6 hours I have only 10% battery discharge. that is GREAT!

As for the e-mail, I will use third party app's like Outlook Mail and Google Mail, that is available in appstore. So for me is the only a real solution and I have battery drain story over.

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