ios 7.0.4 Update battery issue again!

Hello everybody,

For all of you who haven't updated to 7.1.

Will you please try the following steps before EACH AND EVERY iOS update.

1- double click home button and flip away all apps.

2- switch off phone for about 5 minutes and then switch it back on.

3- perform a hard reset ( press and hold both power button and home button till apple logo appears ).

4- go to settings and perform the iOS software update.

5- please make sure you perform these steps preferably at night ( the time when you don't expect calls, SMS, mail ... Etc ).

6- fully charge the battery ( preferably to perform the update while phone is charging ).

These steps where mentioned in a similar forum 3 years ago when apple released iOS 5 ( thanks to the person who made that post ). Since then I've been following these steps before EACH AND EVERY iOS update in all my apple devices and thankfully I've been having very minimal problems.

Hope this helps some of you fellows.

Kind regards to all.

@Shahd Thanks for your insightful advices. I would add some things to do before proceeding with your steps:

1. Take the blood of a virgin (no need to kill her, a drop or two will do)

2. Before upgrading, hold your iPhone facing North. If this can be done at night and you can see North Star, even better.

3. In the back of your iPhone, make a pentagram using the blood

4. Cut a lock of your own hair and burn it so the smoke touches the iPhone and, very important, the pentagram. If you are bald… well, I wish you luck, you are f*cked…

5. Recite the two first verses of the Sauptika-parva in the Mahābhārata, in the original Sanskrit language it was wrote.

6. Pray two Christian Lord's Prayers, but backwards, phonetically. BEWARE: do it only TWICE, if you do it a third time, Satan will appear and bring you to hҼll. Well, to another hҼll not related to iPhone updating, actually…

7. You are done: now you can proceed with install, following your steps.

Now seriously, is Apple really being serious about this? Do we really need to perform black magic trickery so the iPhone performs as it should by just installing an update? Do we have to deactivate half the functions that make it a smartphone, in a way that the phone has the same functionality that a Nokia 6100? Come on…… 😐😠

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

Thanks for that

Tried it but no good,

I think the Virgin may not have been as truthful as she first appeared

"FUN THOUGH"

Maybe your Sanskrit accent was not the proper one… 🙂 😉

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

Ever since iOS7.0.6. and still on iOS7.1 both me and my wife had huge battery drain on our iPhone 4S and stand-by was equal to usage time. We finally found the solution to a post of another user on the Dutch Tweakers forum. There seem to be a bug within a certain Dutch coupon app called 'Scoupy' which drained the battery completely although GPS setting was turned of and also 'refresh on background' was off.

Scoupy said that a fix for their app is send for approval to the App Store. We removed the app and our usage/stand-by time is again as normal (higher stand-by time then usage time) and best of all a 'normal' battery use as it was the case on iOS7.0.4. I hope this could help someone. I'm wondering if the iBeacon changes in iOS7.0.6/7.1 together with a bug in the Scoupy app could be the cause? Maybe this is also with our similar apps you have on your phone.

The issue appeared with the 7.0.4 update then disapeared without doing nothing then appeared again without doing nothing and is worth with the 7.1 update.

The issue continue even with the phone restored as a new phone .

With the iphone the hardware is better than the software

Don't know what to do

Thank U Apple

I have had the same issue. So do others that I know, to the point where some have bought brand new phones thinking that would solve the problem. The Apple Store in Century City, Los Angles is saying that the problem stems from bad software from the previous phone. Neither one of us restored from our old phones. I had to manully re-install all Aps previously bought. Advice Pro solution is great if you have a land line but then what is the purpose of icloud?

Its not true. The issue continues even with my phone restored as a new phone.

No aps installed, no contacts and even in plane mode.

The problem is in the usage time wich is almost the same the the sleeping time.

The phone never sleeps, so the battery drains. Really boring

Try this. It made a huge difference on my iPhone 4S. Settings => General => Reset => Reset All Settings. You will not lose any data or content. You WILL have to go back into Settings and turn on or off any thing you changed as this type of reset will put all settings back to factory default. This includes resetting all your email accounts to Fetch rather than Push.

Once you are happy with all your settings. Run the phone down until it shuts off and will not turn back on. Dead battery. Plug it in to a wall charger and let it charge to 100% and then trickle a little longer. Overnight is probably the best way to do this.

I don't know what the issue is with updating the OS and the battery meter being fooled. But when you reset every setting and do a full charge cycle recharge the battery meter gets an accurate read again and your battery life will go back to what it should be.

Once a month do a full cycle recharge like this.

i went to apple store yesterday and of course they tried to tell me too many apps in which i told them that I have no apps ha ha, which I didn't. then they checked battery and it was well in the green. they suggested a DFU insall and I agreed. result no change. I have the same thing, exactly the same, my idle or standby time has from one day to another decreased to 10h in airplane mode and no apps or mail. its horrible to loose all your battery power in a standby mode. also, apple wants to tell you to close this app and that app, what is the point if you have to close everything, how can they even think that it is a solution, genious, they so ******** because they only think through an apple and have lost all brain mass.

If they would know 2 technical sentences, it would surprise me

So, I had the same problems.

My iPhone 5 and iPad Air got super warm when using and the battery drained from 100 to 0 in a few hours.

The support said that a single process is running all the time. And the RAM was to 100% in use. The process was called "kbd".

Also I could not make any shortcuts on my iPad (which are synchronized as well with iCloud).

This problems only appeared when "documents & data" in iCloud settings were enabled. So i figured out that this was the problem.

When documents & data were disabled my battery was good for up to two days.

A few days ago I made a new iCloud Account and set it up on my devices. And all problems were gone.

Yeah, I had to copy each of my notes per hand, but that was the only "hard" work... Finally, all my documents from Pages and Numbers are in the cloud and on all my devices!

@all:

Try to set up a new iCloud account! It will work!