iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

The temporary status is most likely some particular app you have. Highly doubt its iOS itself. I know you cant but if you could leave it at defaults for say a week or two weeks and see if iOS is broken and causing your issue. If the device continues working past the few days you mentioned then add a few apps back by syncing with iTunes OR restore your backup (which could put the issue back) .perform the reset all settings after you restore the backup if you choose that option. I suspect you will see there is some particular app causing this and it starts up after you launch it in a few days or so.

thai_iphone4 wrote:

The issue is the % is being read wrong. I think that's the issue for sure.

Many of the "fixes" will work. Lets say, you restore the phone as new. Erase everything. Install everything again. Your apps. Set up your emails; everything. Works!

Calendar iCloud issue. Reset that. Works!

Location services going nuts. Works!

Everything works. Hard Resetting the phone after deleting iCloud and emails. Works.

All of it may work or some of it may work for you.

The problem is that these fixes are TEMPORARY. After a few days of using the phone and charging it, the OS goes right back to reading it wrong and a week later, you're back at square ONE.

I've stopped trying to fix it. Only an update will.

Here's what worked for my iPhone battery drain issue after upgrading to 6.1.3. A hard reset followed by choosing "Settings" "Mail Contacts Calendars" "Fetch New Data" "Advanced." Then set my non Apple email account to "Manual";

Backing up one screen, I also set "Fetch" instruction to "Manually" for those apps using "Push" when "Fetch" is not available. Good luck!

Well so far my iPhone 5 seems to be back to normal. 24 hours and still @ 63% -- 24 Hour usage: 2.75 hrs talk, 4.5 hrs music play through dock w/ lightning adapter cable (not charging) and average day (for me) of texts / emails / browsing (approx 1.5 hrs) and overnight standby. Seems I'm back to an every other day charge cycle.

All I did was turn off facetime and iCloud Docs and data and reset after each setting change. Note; both features were turned on during the 6.1.3 update.

Ive tried all of these and nothing seems to be working for me, my last resort was to restore my iphone 4s and set it up as a new phone and now its working fine, still have 50% for 8 hours of use (facebook, youtube etc,,) and no longer warmin up..

So after sorting out my stuff via SYS ACTIVITY Manager... My phone was 100% at 7AM (when DO NOT DISTURB goes off) and 88% at 8AM and I had not used it...

BUT something had... Turns out for me it was PHOTO STREAM.. I always manually moved pics from camera to computer not trusting airwaves... That was the right idea. My iPhoto was messed up.. (Have repaired permissions twice now) So for me I am back to only wired downloading of pics, so I can control it.

As of 5 PM (I recharged to 100% at 9AM) ... is now 94%!

Hope you all find your problems.

FYI: I thought I had all my Mail set to manual with Fetch set to 'Manual' and Push turned OFF. While I was just composing a long email my phone 'dinged' notifying me I have new messages. It seemed odd, I had fetch off.... Checking my settings I noticed an 'advanced' Fetch setting that I was not aware of (new with 6.1.3?). It is located at: Settings > Mail, contacts, calenders > Fetch New Data > Advanced.... You can set each mail account to Fetch or Manual here. Both my accounts were set to fetch (even though fetch was set to manual on previous page). After changing both to 'manual' I tested my accounts and discovered that my Gmail account still recieves new messages when set to manual here??? It only happens when the Mail app has been opened and then closed onto the recent app list (when double clicking home button). It took about 10 minutes for the new message to show up and it only showed as an increased number on the app icon (red circle over app logo) with no audible alert. So far my Yahoo account has not showed any sign of recieving my test 'mail' (been 1+ hour).

So it appears my Gmail account is somehow checking for or recieving 'push' data even though I have it set for only manual checking and the app is not 'in use'.... Not sure if this is something new with 6.1.3 but it may be part of my battery drain since I normally just close my mail app by clicking home and don't bother to actually close it by the double click and 'minus' method. Also odd the yahoo seems to behave differently with the same settings...

i also experienced that, 96% my iphones getting warm so i tried s hard reset, then when it booted back on its 99%. Also, when launching a certain battery monitoring app my battery % increased 1%, but when closing it its down a percent. I repeated it and it seems to be playing with the battery % icon. So I really think theres something wrong with iphones battery % but I do not discount that the hardware/battery life is also being affected by this software glitch, any word about 6.1.4??

Hi everyone,

After multiple tests with my new iPhone 5 (bought it one week ago), it shows that the main source of the battery drainage (for my iPhone at least) come from 3G/EDGE auto détection.

If only i could switch off only 3G to stay on EDGE only (like on my iPhone 4), i'm sure that the battery would stay charged longer.

But if you are in a place where you just have a little 3G signal, that's when your battery will discharge the fastest because off the neverending network scan.

I was very familiar with all battery saving params et techniques since ios 4.x and i always clean open apps before lock.

The problem is that you can see the battery draining just by sending iMessages or loading your mails.

I tried this the night before: All night without cellular data and with wifi activated

And this last night: All night just with cellular data

Results:

-Without cellular data and wifi: lost 3% of battery during the night

-With cellular data only: lost 40% of my battery during the night

The apps i left open during night were Messages, Mails and Facebook (v5)

I'm not asking for a big solution right now, but if only a least, apple could réactivate the 3G switch off button (if possible), i think that would be a great thing to calm down battery drainage.

(Yes EDGE is slow but for the majority of everyday apps, it is sufficient. Plus if necessary you can reactivate 3G at will)

Hope i helped.

@ msabri

I just read your post. You're right it's very frustrating..

Here's what you can do ( also frustrating, sorry ).

Follow Finh's advice again but this time DO NOT restore from backup or iCloud.

Wait for sometime - just like you did - to make sure your phone isn't losing charge.

Add your apps one by one and wait for an hour or so after downloading each app while watching your battery percentage..

This is the only way you can identify the defected app that's causing your battery tremendous drop of charge.

Regarding your contacts and photos, there's an app called BUMP. You can download this app now and transfer all your contacts an photos to any other iOS device you may have - before you restore as new. After you're done with the restore you can just BUMP back all the info you previously sent to other iOS device.

There are other valuable info in this forum about switching off the things you don't use or may keep them on upon your own need like Bluetooth, 3G, some of the location services and so on.

Hope this would help you and many others.

Kind regards.

This was my fix!

Go to settings> privacy> location services> system services

Turn off Cell Network Search! Also turn the rest off if they aren't necessary.

The cell network search was what did it... I did a little research and it's not necessary.

Hope this helps

Has ANYBODY tried ensuring you're signed out of Chrome and have sync turned off in the Chrome settings?

Settings > sign in to chrome > Sync : off

Also disconnect your Google account in the same panel.

Even if Chrome is installed but not your main browser. chrome must be doing something in the background that's causing some kind of crazy sync loop or something.

Please report back, whether it makes a difference or not. For me it's doubled my battery life.

Pandora can be a real battery killer depending on your connection type / speed / quality, it forces the phone maintain a continuous 2 way data connection.

Have you tried a hard reset of the 4S? It could help reset any stuck or open apps that may be running in the backround. To reset just hold down the on/off button and the home button at the same time until the Apple logo appears (~10 sec).

6.1.4 was never intended to fix the battery drainage issue. It was a very small patch aimed at enhancing the speakerphone quality and was almost certainly in their release schedule before 6.1.3 issues began to appear. Furthermore Apple continue to remain silent in terms of acknowledging the fact that many more devices fell victim as a result of updating to 6.1.3 which was supposed to fix the issue.

For what it's worth, I'm enjoying my tenth consecutive day of my iPhone 5 retaining a charge throughout the day since doing a factory restore without restoring the apps and data from the back up. You can see more if you search for my earlier posts in this trail. Some say this workaround only worked for a week before the battery drainage issue resurfaced. As I say, I'm ten days in and my battery is performing just as well as it did before 6.1.3.

I would expect the latest attempt by Apple to fix the drainage issue to be included in IOS 7 which is apparently out there and under test with the Apple Development community.

If you do try my workaround make sure when you reinstall your apps from the App Store you do it over Wi-Fi. There are many reports of battery problems remaining if you download over GPRS. Doesn't make any sense I know as it's just data but there is no real identifiable common denominator or pattern with this issue.

Please check this solution which worked for me since the ios 6.1 update. You dont need to restore anything, just a few minutes of your time will do. Try to do this proceedures while the phone is plugged in, and charged to 100%.

1. Go to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>iCloud

2. Turn off everything from mail to find my iPhone, but do not delete anything. Leave everything in your phone or iPad.

3. Follow the same proceedure for every mail account you have.

4. Go to Fetch New Data, turn off Push, and check Manual. Go to Advanced at the bottom, and swtich everything to Manual.

5. Go to Privacy>Location and turn it off.

6. Set Brightness to Auto

7. Kill all open apps. Reset the phone by holding both Power and Home buttons at the same time until the Apple logo appears.

8. Go back to Settings and turn your settings back ON except for Push.

For my iPhone 5, I have my wifi on 24/7. I only turn on data when i need it as it is really gulps you battery juices. You won't fix it the first time, just try to do it when you feel your battery is not right or when you feel your phone or other iDevices getting hot. Hope this will help you.

Hi,

Nobody knows the secret energy drain on the update, not even the engineers but I discovered

this helps maintain battery juice with the 613 update. Hope it helps.

I upgraded to 613 last week from 511 and have found that the battery drain issue is real. I waited to upgrade for several reasons, but wanted better security. So, my 3gs phone drains in about 3 hours and like everyone else who has been advised,resetting this and that and turning off this and that is not a solution. I did discover though, while sitting through a 6 hour mariner game against the white soxyesterday, 16 innnings ! and mariners lost; was that If I set my : reset network settings", then it drains a charge at 1 % every 5 min, ratherthan 1 % per minute. This is with the screen saver turned off. If i black it out, it lastlonger; however, let me start using it again, and the drain is faster but not at 1% perminute. This being said, I called apple today, gave a report and hopefully they'llfix it. Its definetly a network software program issue. At least I found a temp solutionto maintain my battery life, somewhat. No iphone upgrade for me, will have to switch off if they cant solve this. Hope this helps.