Update 6.1.4 seems to be draining my battery & using data.

Ok so here is what I did...

I took my Sprint iPhone 5 to the Mac Store Genius Bar. Told them waht was going on and even had screen shots and a log of time and battery percentage.

The nice genius took my phone and wiped it and forced a new firmware build of 6.1.4 on the phone. She said it was becasue sometimes things can get jammed up with over the air updates.

( I might want to mention at this point that I am an iPhone/iPad/Mac developer - but ok)

So she forced a new iOS 6.1.4 image onlto the device which replaced mine and we set up the phone as a new iPhone 5 and then we waited. It dropped maybe 1 % in about 20 minutes. So we/she decided that we should watch the phone over the next few days just to see what would happen. No watching it hour to hor, just use the phone as normal (turn bluetooth off) and see how the battery lasts.

Fine..

So I left the store with 52%. Drove home which is a 20 minute drive, ate dinner and got ready to put apps back on the phone. I had 21%. So in an hour, I lost 31% without it doing anything but sitting on the desk.

So I drove back to the Mac Store and told them that this was not acceptable and I needed to do more than just watch it for a few days.

So options are these: 1) Wipe and try again 2) Replace the battery 3)replace the handset

So #1 is out. This genius girl went and grabbed a uber genius from the back ( you know the ones that don't come out front often ). We talked and he disappeared with the phone for diagnostics.

So he returned and "nothng is wrong with the phone", there was an engineering broadcast from Apple:

"We have reported that update for 6.1.4 for iPhone 5 is an issue that causes battery drain. We are working on the issue"

The genius bar can't do anything about it, becasue if they give you a new phone, it will do the same thing.

I asked what we do now, and he said to keep a charger and wait for 6.1.5 or a fix for the battery issues.

Really?

I guess we can just &**^ off until someone decides to fix the battery drain issues with 6.1.3 and 6.1.4

A suck way of handling updates if you ask me. Doesn't anyone test these things before pushing them out?

That is my rant and story.

Anyone else have similar experience?

Meanwhile, I still have to charge my phone 2-3 times when I used to charge it once.....

Yep, I am getting this as well. As soon as I installed 6.1.3 and 4 onto my iphone 5 and I've seen the battery life diminish more than substantially, it's bordering on ridiculous! I'm installed the same update on my wife's phone, so I'm going to see if she has had the same problem.

Are you saying that Apple put out an engineering bullitin about the battery drain issue with 6.1.4? Or that AT&T engineers did that? Can anyone confirm this with an Apple Genius?

jamiedaniel wrote:

Ok so here is what I did...

I took my Sprint iPhone 5 to the Mac Store Genius Bar. Told them waht was going on and even had screen shots and a log of time and battery percentage.

The nice genius took my phone and wiped it and forced a new firmware build of 6.1.4 on the phone. She said it was becasue sometimes things can get jammed up with over the air updates.

( I might want to mention at this point that I am an iPhone/iPad/Mac developer - but ok)

So she forced a new iOS 6.1.4 image onlto the device which replaced mine and we set up the phone as a new iPhone 5 and then we waited. It dropped maybe 1 % in about 20 minutes. So we/she decided that we should watch the phone over the next few days just to see what would happen. No watching it hour to hor, just use the phone as normal (turn bluetooth off) and see how the battery lasts.

Fine..

So I left the store with 52%. Drove home which is a 20 minute drive, ate dinner and got ready to put apps back on the phone. I had 21%. So in an hour, I lost 31% without it doing anything but sitting on the desk.

So I drove back to the Mac Store and told them that this was not acceptable and I needed to do more than just watch it for a few days.

So options are these: 1) Wipe and try again 2) Replace the battery 3)replace the handset

So #1 is out. This genius girl went and grabbed a uber genius from the back ( you know the ones that don't come out front often ). We talked and he disappeared with the phone for diagnostics.

So he returned and "nothng is wrong with the phone", there was an engineering broadcast from Apple:

"We have reported that update for 6.1.4 for iPhone 5 is an issue that causes battery drain. We are working on the issue"

The genius bar can't do anything about it, becasue if they give you a new phone, it will do the same thing.

I asked what we do now, and he said to keep a charger and wait for 6.1.5 or a fix for the battery issues.

Really?

I guess we can just &**^ off until someone decides to fix the battery drain issues with 6.1.3 and 6.1.4

A suck way of handling updates if you ask me. Doesn't anyone test these things before pushing them out?

That is my rant and story.

Anyone else have similar experience?

Meanwhile, I still have to charge my phone 2-3 times when I used to charge it once.....

So, I went to the Mac Store and the Genius at the Mac Store said it was an engineering broadcast from Apple that this is a known issue and they are working to solve it.

Just what I was told.

Would be nice to know if Apple actually has this listed as an issue, right?

Make sure that GPS is turned all the way down - disable location services, if possible. The signal strength on the GPS is the weakest thing coming into the phone, which means the highest gain power amp is for the GPS, and this could be the reason why your phone is draining so quickly - it might be doing geolocation 24/7.

I turned a bunch of stuff off and the battery will drain at times and not at others. There is no rhyme or reason.

Besides, why would I buy a phone that you have to turn off 75% of the features? That's not even smart to do... so why do I have an iphone? Why did I become an iphone/ipad developer? So I can use only 25% of what it was designed to do?

I know it isn't your fault and I am not coming off hard on you, but I hear on all these forums to turn things off.

A better idea is for Apple to fix the issue, otherwise I bought a bar phone with a bigger screen...

Makes no sense...

So I charged my phone and twenty minutes of browsing I lost 10%.

Has anyone found a solution?

Anyone from Apple able to say we are not being abandoned?

(crickets)

(sigh)

So much for a mobile phone. I have a wireless phone with a wire (charging wire).

I had the same problem since I downloaded IOS 6.1.4, I mean, battery began to spend 1% every minute, even in standby. I was oriented by the Apple costumer service to back up and restore to factory standard version. I did as instructed, after that I downloaded my usual apps again. The battery kept falling again. I was instructed to take my phone to the technical assistance as it should be hardware problem. By myself I restored again and did not downloaded apps. The battery is back to normal, maybe some application is in conflict with the new version of IOS .

The same problem here, i bought 2 brand new iphone 5 from tmobile, one is working normal, but mine doesnt keep battery charge as much as it should be.im not hard user, but im charging twice a day...mostly im using wifi, no 4g, no bluetooth, brightness is very low, even i turned off all push notifications...i tried airplane mode overnight with 2 phones. First one remained 100% second downed to 87%,...