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By the looks of it, Apple’s latest and greatest iOS 6.1 update has broken quite a few things. Vodafone’s having issues, and apparently it’s destroyed the battery life of quite a few people’s iPhones, according to Apple’s message boards at least. Has anyone seen a drop in battery life?
Apparently it could be to do with a looping bug with Exchange sync. Something to do with repeating calendar appointments. Some people are seeing as much as a 3 per cent drop in battery life every minute, which is pretty crazy.
I can’t say I’ve seen this, in fact, the battery life of my iPhone 4S has actually gotten better by about a third with jailbroken iOS 6.1. Then again, I only really noticed the enhanced battery life after jailbreaking, so who knows whether I should thank iOS 6.1 or team Evad3rs for that.
Fixes apparently include a full factory restore; removing your email account and reconfiguring it, or a settings reset from the Settings menu. Frankly, you shouldn’t need to do this. I know not every update is going to go perfectly as there’s just no way to test every configuration, but is this another slip from Apple? Maybe just a small one. [Apple, 2 via MacWorld]
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Nope.
3% every minute? HA HA HA HA HA. Was this not tested thoroughly before release? Surely some tester or developer would have noticed having to charge there battery like every hour lol.
In fact, can a charger even keep up with that discharge rate??
No idea. It’ll be something around that probably.
No but my Nexus 4 battery life has gone nutso and Google are sending me a new phone.
Chris had a similar problem and solved it with a custom ROM.
I’ll try the new phone first (when it arrives)…here’s a funny thing I noticed, was trying to back up a few apps I have (Notepad, SecForms, etc) to put on the new N4 when it turns up and the apps said backing up to SD card which I though was quite impressive as there isn’t one!
Have to admit I’m getting a little bit bored of Android frag issues like this or other apps which ‘should’ work but don’t work properly on the N4 or interact badly with another app etc… if this carries on I may end up going back to Apple although the last iPhone I had was a 3Gs
That’s just the way Android addresses additional storage sometimes. The Kindle Fire HD does the same thing for instance (the SD card thing).
Did not know that, a bit silly isn’t it?
On a side note: just got an email confirming dispatch of my replacement (less than 24 hours after speaking to one of their CS reps) and yet the Google Play store is still showing 2-3 week wait for new orders; I assume this means they have kept stock back to replace faulty items which suggests not a lot of faith in their product….
How nutso? What’s it doing?
Using the official Nexus 4 charger plugged into the wall it switches between AC and USB charging, it gets stuck around 30-40% and seriously overheats, battery will lose 25% of charge within minutes and then stay on 4% for couple of hours (beeping every few minutes about low charge, seems obsessed with Calendar app claiming it’s using 45% of battery, the list goes on!
Damn, that’s worrying. Mine seems to be fine at the moment.
On a different note, do you get a typing bug when using the standard SMS app, where by you press the ‘O’ or ‘P’ keys and get the shift value instead… ie. “9″ and “0″ instead of “O” and “P”, as if you have long-pressed the key?
Can’t say, personally use the Handcent app for messaging.
This is a different issue to mine, I’ll say. Though I will now swear by the magic battery-granting tricks of CM10.1.
Chris, can you do an article on the benefits (and pitfalls) of rooting a Nexus 4 (and a step-by-step guide) as I can’t be the only person who wonders why one should do it considering it’s stock Android already, it might get in the way of ‘speedy’ releases of new Android versions, etc…
I seem to be experiencing something along those lines – pulled my iPh.4 out of my bag at 12:30 this afternoon to head for lunch and it had 3% battery and had been keeping my bag nice and warm- it lasted about 3 hours off a 100% charge.
Will have to try killing the work email account when I get some juice in it!
This isn’t the first time its happened, though it does seem to vary a bit and it’s only happened since I upgraded.
I think the moral of this story is not to ever upgrade iOS, they only push out upgrades to older phones to cock them up and make the less educated think they need a new phone, and besides they never give users of older iPhones the decent new features anyway, as if the iPhone 4 couldn’t handle siri or turn by turn navigation, it makes me wonder why Apple even bother.
If they want to convince users to upgrade to a newer phone, why don’t they just say new phone, new OS, new features and save them selves and us the hassle instead of all these stupid issues time and time again and patronising us with the your phone cant handle this simple new feature nonsense.
I have to say that isn’t my experience. Never had a problem with iOS upgrades until now- but there we go.
Personally Ive had nothing but trouble since the iPhone 3g through to the 4, mainly the well known issues such as wifi and performance, I just think its a waste of time Apple going to all this trouble updating ios on all these different handsets, messing it all up and alienating users such as myself, when they hold back most of the new features anyway.
Personally I wouldn’t mind the concept of new handset new software thats what they’re doing anyway holding back siri ect. they should just concentrate on fixing the existing bugs instead of creating new ones, when the iPhone 6 arrives with ios 7 they should just release 6.2 for the 5 and earlier models, keep it clean and simple in my opinion.
BTW removing my exchange work email account has seemed to fix this issue. Gmail accounts working fine.
No problems here – seems to be running well.
I did have a problem a while back where I’d just topped it up a couple of times from about 80-85%. It seemed to be draining too fast (difficult to say with a very mixed usage pattern and can’t be arsed to work up a standardised test!). Anyhow, let it drain until it switched itself off then charged up to 100% and been sweet since.
No because 1. I don’t have an iPhone, I have an iPod Touch, it’s not just the iPhone that uses iOS you know?
2. I haven’t installed it, they’re not taking my youtube app!
Eh… Just use the Google Youtube App makes the Apple one look completely half baked
I’ve tried it and unless I’m being a noob or it’s been updated since, it seems to lack a history, which counts for about 99% of my usage of the Apple one.
Yup there is history in there
If you sign in then press the down arrow next to you name then History they all come up.
Yes, intermittently. I’ve not tied it specifically to email though. I did a full restore, and now it’s intermittent. Google Maps would actually be my suspect. If I don’t go in and kill it when I’m not using it then I seem to get the toasty phone and 1% a minute drop, but this isn’t consistent.
Apple need to be careful, part of the premium is so that you don’t have to cope with stuff like this. If they keep releasing buggy versions then that incentive goes away.
Extremely bad news for those who are jailbroken, Apple will fix this issue and patch the jailbreak, one has to wonder if it was done purposely in order to force people to update.
It happened to me the other day, on the drive to work using it as a GPS it drained 75% of my battery. But this has only happened to me once (I use GPS on it all the time), so it could just be a rogue app that was running.
I thought my battery life was draining unusually fast, so I tried removing and re-configuring my exchange email account but it seems to have made it worse!
What’s wrong with Apple these days!!
On the contrary, battery life on my 4S’ increased, but i dont use 99% notifications and dont use built-in facebook (which is the most battery draining thing i think-disable this sh!!ty function and make comparisons guys) and battery is lasting a lot longer than before!
Unfortunately, yes. Mine tends to be when I use our Enterprise app GOOD to access work emails/calendar etc, so may be something to do with this ‘loop’ when syncing.
Guys, iOS main battery issues seems to stem from the built-in facebook app that i have seen 3 people complaining about battery drain, and went on to disable built-in facebook as in the previous update as well, and use appstore facebook app and so far no complaints
i work at it support btw… i narrowed mine by trial error going with notification center apps, kept draining, disabled facebook built-in login, and battery issue is gone…
but i must admit, i see some apps are rogue on gps!! they stick to it even if you went back to main screen…
disable built-in facebook in settings/facebook use instead facebook app from appstore
when i see location service on after some apps dont leave it as it is, i force close the apps using it (double tap and hold, and close)
so far charge is at %61 at 8:45pm
This depends on what you do. Most of the time when I’m out and about I turn off mobile data and WiFi. It sits in my pocket and behaves like a phone should, for calls and texts. When I take it out, I start mobile data to check facebook, emails etc then turn off mobile data before putting the phone away. When I’m at home, it is on WiFi mode.
I suspect this is a problem with 3G as my WiFi only iPad 3 is not affected and that stays on WiFi all day long, gets used for emails and web access and its battery life is always high in comparison.
My 4S on Vodafone has been the same with 6.0, 6.1 and now 6.1.1. No issues with 3G and the battery life is the same as it’s always been.
My battery has gotten a LOT better, actually.
I went home from work with 72% battery last night. So over 10 hours after unplugging, I only lost 28% with normal usage. My Galaxy S II used to die before home time if I used it. (Not trying to start a stupid war – just saying.)
I haven’t got a Exchange account and heard that it has something to do with iCloud. Done 8 restores and deleted everything from my phone, now it won’t even turn on.