ios 7.0.4 Update battery issue again!

Brilliant

The first option sounds good to me I will try that later.

One question though will it still work if I substitute the chicken with my wife as this could solve two life problems in one go.

We have solved the issue at our office our IT guys contacted our phone provider and changed all our handsets for ones running the older IOS. We do however. Have one phone left on 7.0.4 & this will no longer charge unless we turn off the cellular data. Our phone provider 3Three network UK.

Hehehehehe!! I said chicken because it will not fight back as much as your wife will, hehe 😉 But, hey, if it solves your problems, why not? 😀 😀 😀

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

So I had the same issue with my 5s after upgrading to 7.0.4. Went everywhere with a charger, until the other day when I ended up in an emergency room for a relative.

My phone battery died while I was there, it was dead for a couple of hours. Ever since I plugged it back in and got that full charge, the battery has been great. Lasts all day like it used to. I had tried rebooting, resetting, etc. Nothing else worked.

The magic seems to be letting it run out of battery and stay dead for a few hours.

Go figure.

-paul

That doesn't seem to do the trick on my 4s. I've had that happen several times in the last few weeks since I upgraded.

Had the same battery drain problem and have been looking for solutions which didn't work. Fortunately, I found what Thom_D had to say and just followed his instructions. I think my battery now runs normal compared before when it drained 2% in 10 minutes. I tried to experiment my phone after the update and used it nonstop for browsing/games/facetime for like 6 1/2 hours until my battery died. That was way better than before.

I think updating the iOS 7.0.4 through iTunes did the job. I also noticed that after restoring it through iTunes, it freed almost like 700MB of memory. Try to follow his steps carefully. His instructions cured my battery issues.

Btw, thanks Thom_D!

May have a fix here for some. I have an iphone 4 and also had serious battery drain problems after 7.0.4 update. My fix was to put it in DFU mode then restored it via Itunes. Make sure you do a back up first. I had to do this three times but my phone now works fine again and has gone down to only 95% in 15 hrs standby. Happy days!

I solved the problem. After a useless trip to apple store I did countless retores including DFU 3 times to no avail. Got on chat with Apple support of over an hour and a half then reopened case 6 hours later to report findings which was crap as nothing helped. Case was left open and it was suggested to go back to apple store with case #. I did that and tech read over the case and gave me a new phone and it happened to have Ios 7.0.2. Works like a charm, ie, as it should. I've gone a day and a half with normal usage without charging. I'm not upgrading again for quite some time...

This stinks!! what's going on apple

My ipad 3 drains battery like crazy on stand by.

Within a day or 2 it goes from 100 to 0 with no usage at all

Seriously, the only way I've found to fix this is to do a complete restore in itunes, then start as new phone - don't use backup. You'll have to reinstall everything from scratch but it worked a treat for me. Battery life is as good as new. Apple are crap for not even admitting there's a problem.

I don't know what's happened but on my 4s but my issue disappeared 3 days ago without doing nothing.

it's a miracle.

i think that it will appear again some day.

how bizarre how bizarre

I bought a new iPhone 4s in January 2014 and soon discovered that it had excessive battery drainage. It dissipated from 100% to 0% in 12 hours of standby time. I consulted these forums and learned that this is a common problem. I tried re-loading IOS, removing all other applications, deleting my iCloud account, changing settings to their most-power-miserly options - but nothing worked. After fully recharging and waiting an hour of standby time, the displayed usage and standby times would be about the same. Finally I took my iPhone into my local Apple store and they exchanged it for a new one. The difference is like night and day. With the replacement, I can have all of the settings at their most power-hungry option and my battery dissipation only drops for 100% to 90% in a day of typical usage. The display now shows my usage time as only a small fraction of my standby time. I am now convinced that some iPhone 4s devices (even brand new from the factory) have inherent hardware/firmware faults that no amount of tweaking of the settings can fix.

I have the same problem. My kids and wife laughs when I go to home and stright way rush for Charger. I have tried everything which are advised on net. I think local phones made from China are better than my iphone as they have to charge once in 2 days or three. You have options in iphone but needs to keep them off, eats up battery. u cannot use 3g, brightness etc, eats up battery. I think apple should consult local brands for the battery issue. If Steve, its just a horrible. Apple canont give even a simple, rugged and lost lasting charging cable, what else we can hope from them?????

Strongly decided to go back to window phone.....

Welp. I guess I'll join this depressing club. I bought a brand new iPhone 5s (first iPhone ever) and I've had nothing but problems. In the first two weeks my phone would randomly freeze, my lock screen would not respond and my battery life was horrible. I took it in to the Apple store and they gave me the usual frustrating talk that MY usage was draining the baterry (before I tried EVERYTHING to save the battery, turned off every single power wasting option, did a factory reset) and yet the Apple Genius just reset my device and would not replace my 2 WEEK new phone! Continuing to have horrible horrible battery usage. I have every single power wasting option turned off (I mean everything) and with light usage I'm getting 4-5 hours some days 3-4 hours. At this point I've read this entire discussion and have done every single step. Do I go back to the Apple store and try to get a replacement? I've heard horror stories of the replacement being worse then the original. I came from a horrible Android device and when I finally saved enough money I moved to the iPhone 5s and have had nothing but problems. Someone please please help :'(

Well after the inital genius store appointment I had a frustrating experience and left feedback. A manager called me and said they would like to discuss the situation. Long story short I made another appointment today and on the phone the manager said they would replace my phone right away. I had to spend a good 45 minutes with a technician while they did their "diagnostic" trash. According to THEM my phone got 14 hours of battery life per use and I laughed out loud because I have multiple screenshots from my phone in the usage section showing that my phone was only getting 4-5 hours of usage (what a joke). After humming and hawing they finally replaced my iPhone. So let's see now what will happen. I'm just posting my experience for any other ones who have had similar. I've just become very frustrated.

Hello everyone

When I'm going to sleep I'm used to turn off Wi-Fi, 4G and everything except cellular network, and when I got my iPhone 5S (about 15 days ago) I did the exact same thing at bedtime.

Since the first day I noticed that on stand-by, the battery ran out about 15-20% per hour, so I called to tech support but they told me to restore the phone, to deactivate everything and stop enjoying my 1,000 USD cellphone, and actually made fun of me, telling me "Yeah, I would like my cellphone to be alive all day long, too, but we're not God", so I went to the store a few days after.

They told me to leave the iPhone and they would check if there was something wrong and replace it in case it did. As I had some important things on my cellphone, I told them I would go back the next day, so I could backup my things.

Next day I fully charged the iPhone, quit the nanoSIM and put it into my iPhone 4 (whose battery lasts for more than 4 days on stand-by) and then I went to school. That wast at 7AM. 9 hours later, I went out of school and went to the store. "At this time the phone must be death" I thought. I took it out of my pocket and I found that it battery was at 98%. Only 2% less than 9 hours before!!!

Although that, I decided to leave the phone and supplicate to the technician to check it as soon as possible.

The next day he called me and told me that he had restored the phone and in 12 hours id only consumed 4% of battery, so I went back to the store to pick it up.

I got to my house, put the SIM on the phone left the phone on the desk. I went back 4 hours after I put the SIM and the battery was at 15%! so I guessed the problem was happening when I put the SIM on it. Yesterday I put the SIM and left the iPhone without any usage and yes, eight hours later, it was dead. Then I fully charged it, quit the SIM and waited again. Nothing. Battery almost full even after 12 hours.

On monday I'm totally going to the store and ask them for a new iPhone. The bad new is that I would have to wait 2 weeks to receive the new one, but I don't care, I want it to be perfectly fine, it costs a lot of money as to be suffering with things like that.

If you can, check yours without the sim card, and check if the problem is still there. Regards.