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iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

Last night I updated my iPhone 4S to a iOS 6.1.3 and now it drains my battery in extremely fast manner. As I started signing in to write this question from my iPhone I already lost 13% of my battery. I never had a problem with a battery and ive been using iphones since the first one. i miss my morning class because of it because my alarm clock didn't because my phone was dead. Please fix it or have no choice but buy Samsung GS4

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.3

Posted on Mar 21, 2013 9:04 PM

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May 4, 2013 9:51 AM in response to notluK

The number of views is simple count of any activity on the forum: Page changes, reloading a page, replying, editing, viewing attachments and links etc. etc. The total views is always an artificially high number compared to how many actual unique viewers have viewed a forum. The number of replies is also misleading due to the same users posting multiple replies, it does not represent the total number of unique users who have replied, that number will always be much lower. For example: Thai_iPhony4 probably accounts for 100 of the total replies because he can't grasp the simple concept of combining multiple responses in a single reply....

May 4, 2013 3:01 PM in response to thai_iphone4

If you ever really read CNET you will see direct quotes from these forums. So yes including cnet they get 99% of their content from these forums.


Of course you would. I suspect they will put a battery bug in iOS 7 too just to be the hot topic of the tech news sites. Of course they have the magical ability to ONLY effect a few users with any particular update so they could easily do that without effecting all 200,000,000 of their devices out there. Makes since to me.

thai_iphone4 wrote:


I'm not talking about Blogs. The first major hit on Google talking about Battery Drain 6.1.3 is CNET.


And yes. I think apple would release a speakerphone update knowing that there is a battery drain issue.


Just like they knew there was an antenna issue with the iPhone 4 and sold it to me anyway.

May 4, 2013 5:48 PM in response to Timurjonchik

FYI; So far 6.1.4 has had no impact on my iPhone 5 battery life which was back to normal after settings changes made from earlier posts in this thread.


That was this morning... After updating my Google search app which includes Google Now the battery life started dropping noticably faster... While Google Now is pretty awsome with voice recognition, speed of verbal results, built in browser switching, maps and a more human sounding voice (basically it blows SIRI away) the updated app keeps my location services on all the time. I mean the little active location services 'arrow indicator' by the battery percentage is continuosly on even after closing the Google App (not just when minimized) and is still on even after resetting the phone. On my phone the only way get rid of the active location services icon is to it off by going too: Setting > Privacy > location services > scroll down the long list of apps to Google > turn off switch manually! So much for what appears to be a very useful App, it's not worth all those settings adjustments just to use it when needed or suffer batery drain by leaving it on all the time.....

May 4, 2013 6:41 PM in response to sbailey4

Thanks for proving me correct again.


So if people complaint of battery issues and data issues after every iOS update, my theory is origin right once again. IOS BLOWS.


Maybe apple can get a clue and push updates that don't require us to reset and restore and do god knows what else.


And what about MY issue? Any thoughts? Why would it be at 99% after 3 minutes. Restart. Then it's back at 100% and stays there for 16 minutes?

May 4, 2013 7:49 PM in response to gvachhani

All the fanboys here think we are crazy.


Basically they'll say:


1) It's your settings

2) an app is "hanging"

3) corrupt data when you restored (even though they don't know what that means)


Truth is iOS 6.0 was fine, it all went nuts after 6.1. It is an iOS problem. It has a problem. It is a real problem.


I get you. But don't look for sympathy here. They'll try to give you some tips when the tips don't work, all they will tell you is "well. My phone is fine. It lasts 8 hours on 100%".

iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

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