iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

I got some solid info, thanks. This just confirmed my suspicion that my battery is faulty. For the wifi tests they used default settings on the phone. If they get up to 9 hours using default settings and I only get 7 or so hours using battery preserving tricks, then there's a definite problem here. Looks like ill be paying the apple store a visit over the weekend.

AmuricanPatriot - And your distance from your router is exactly the same as that as Apple's. And the surroundings are exactly the same? And any interference to your Wifi (neighbours, appliances etc) is exactly the same? And the webpages accesed are exactly the same (loading times etc)? In short your are operating in EXACTLY the same controlled conditions that Apple used when doing it's tests?

No?

Think therefore that your results may differ then?

Yeah and of course they are probably in lab with perfect conditions etc etc. Very subjective and really marketing hype if you ask me. AmuricanPatriot, can do some math and see where you stand and as stated "up to" leaves a lot of wiggle room for them.

using the specs example below:

6 hr 45 min stby

1 hr 31 min use

75% remaining

per spec 6.75/200=3% used for stdby, 1.5/7.5 wifi /3g mix = 20%, so 100%- (3+20)= 76% should be remaining. in this example 75% was remaining so very close to max spec.

Of course use the numbers for whatever partcular type of usage

• Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)
• Standby time: Up to 200 hours
• Internet use: Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
• Video playback: Up to 10 hours
• Audio playback: Up to 40 hours

That's a great battery life. You're heading for over 8 hours usage, maybe even 9+!

It's an interesting observation you've made and there could well be something in it. I'd definitely try it if I were one of those still suffering with terrible battery.

Your battery does seem slightly better than mine, mine is usually at about 50% with 4 hours usage. But I'm not sure I can be bothered manually readding all my apps etc! Though I'd definitely give it a go if I was getting considerably less.

I know what you mean 🙂. I'm fortunte in that my working week is based mainly around my office desk so this battery draining issue has been more of an irritation that I've been able to manage by keeping the phone connected to a charger. However, I recently had to spend a couple of days off site visiting clients and that's when it really became a pain in the backside worrying when I was suddently going to lose the phone.

I have no idea whether this approach will work for everyone but I guess it's worth a try.

Good luck!

Apple better step it up with ios 7. The ios is boring and old, Apple needs something new! Something w/o battery issues. It really hasn't changed much, couple add on's but that's about it. Plus Siri is a joke..lol. Rumor is that Tim Cook may be replaced? It's a rumor, nothing else. But I can see it happen. Ios 6 was a problem from day one. Step it up or another company is gonna come in and I don't want to see that because Apple makes great products! Just need a better software for mobile products, iPads and iPods.

Battery still draining.....went through all fix it yourself and nothing works. Seems worse now? Oh well.

Okay, here's the update I promised. Following on from yesterday's activity reinstalling 20 of my most used apps direct from the App Store over WiFi the device finally died at 10pm yesterday evening having run since 6.30am without a recharge. That equates to an average 6.45% loss of battery per hour. I didn't make or take any alls during the day but I was picking up emails from Outlook Exchange and Hotmail. I left Bluetooth running all day as well. Did about an hour of browsing during the evening (WiFi again) and it finally died at 10pm.

So far this morning, it's been up and off charge (100%) since 6.30am (4 hours) and the battery is showing 80%. I'm perfectly happy with 5% dissipation per hour.

• Uptime off charge - 4 hours
• Battery level - 80%
• Time since last full charge
  • Usage 1 hour, 34 minutes
  • Standby 4 hours, 3 minutes

Good times!

Google search was draining my battery...I started deleting apps one day at a time to see if battery would improve. Not going to say what apps I think had an effect on my battery, but you would be surprised how many apps did drain my battery. I thought apple was getting ahold on this issue?

Hope next month Apple shows us a little of ios7? I hope it's completely different from 2007 to present. Change the whole thing, ios is boring and way to user friendly. A 3 year old can use it. Give it a future look.

Thats better battery life than what I'm getting. You're on pace for nearly 8 hours with Bluetooth enabled. Mine only lasts about seven hours with Bluetooth and many other features off. Maybe my battery's just old

Exactly, The battery clearly is a bigger problem which is why its taking Apple longer to address. I do think that releasing a small patch like 6.1.4 is a kick in the nuts for those people desperate to see the battery issues fixed and it might have been more prudent for Apple to hold back and include the speaker phone enhancement in the roll out of IOS 7. Then again, who knows what knew vexations that might provide us with???

My phone is about 7 months old I think. I'm actually getting close to 15 hours standby with bluetooth enabled and just picking up emails and a bit of browsing. Now I've had three stable days of good battery life I'm going to back it up in iTunes just in case the next release or app causes the battery issue to return.

Ha yeah it needs to be a lot more difficult to use. Who wants a phone thats user friendly? What were they thinking?

Papasin69 wrote:

Hope next month Apple shows us a little of ios7? I hope it's completely different from 2007 to present. Change the whole thing, ios is boring and way to user friendly. A 3 year old can use it. Give it a future look.

today i looked up on the specs of iphone4 on gsmarena.com. it said iphone4 is upgradable to ios 6.1.3. that means there will be no updates anymore for this device? does anyone know about ios 6.1.4 or io7? when they will be available?

6.1.4 was a small patch release to enhance the speakerphone. IOS 7 is rumoured to be under test amongst the Apple Development community right now. http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/rising-ios-7-traffic-hi nts-at-impending-apple-reveal-1150090.

Only compatible updates will be recognized by your IOS device. No need to check specs ect. Just go to Settings > General > Software Update -- If thier is a compatible update it will show up there.