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3.0 GM Battery Drain.

aygie said:
I'm trying this now and will let everyone know how it goes. I did a restore this morning and the battery still only lasts about 3-5 hours. Hopefully the reset will work.
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Ok, following up on this, didn't work. My phone got stuck after the re-set (apple logo and spinning wheel) had a bit of a nightmare sorting that out. Even after that though still had really bad battery (fully charged at 2:00 am, woke up at 10:00am and the phone was off because the battery had run out)

Gone back to 2.2.1, only option for me right now. :( Shame cause i was loving the landscape keyboards while smsing
 
Can everyone having battery troubles state their iPhone model so we can try and work this out? I'll start;

iPhone 2g (unlocked)
 
4 hrs & 27 minutes

Yes, since updating the Iphone OS to 3.0, my battery life has become worse, giving me half the juice! Thank God for forums like this, I was thinking of the ominous battery replacement that sends shivers down my spine! Replaceable battery on the Iphone 3g anyone?

8gb iPhone 3g.
 
Horribly battery life, barely making it through half a day just browsing the web and listening to music.

iPhone 3GS 32GB.
 
chimpboy74 said:
3g 16gb never unlocked did full restore after installing the GM
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iluvgr8tdeals said:
Yes, since updating the Iphone OS to 3.0, my battery life has become worse, giving me half the juice! Thank God for forums like this, I was thinking of the ominous battery replacement that sends shivers down my spine! Replaceable battery on the Iphone 3g anyone?

8gb iPhone 3g.
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colonels1020 said:
Horribly battery life, barely making it through half a day just browsing the web and listening to music.

iPhone 3GS 32GB.
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Wow, so its definitely not down to one type of iPhone. Does all of your still have bad battery with no apps installed? (Mine did) Also is your phone a bit slow and laggy?
 
Yep 7 seconds to open SMS app. Sometimes home button just doesn't respond. I hope it is something that I can fix easily
 
1st gen iPhone. Never a problem with battery life, sometimes would last up to three days.

Updated to 3.0 through iTunes a little late and immediately noticed a hotter device, slower performance, and drastically reduced battery life.

Restart. Restore. Same issue. le sigh.
 
Following up on my last post. I had all of the problems described earlier such as the battery draining and the heating of the phone itself. But now all of that has stopped. To be honest I dont know what exactly stopped it but here is the things i did. I turned of the 3G, Puss and wifi. Wiped all the apps I never use and left 3 to 4 pages of apps. Turned the brightness all the way up. Then I charged the phone fully and turned it of, left it overnight and in the morning all of it stopped. Right now is like in 12% and has been used 4 hours 16 minutes and in standby 1 day, 14 hours. The only problem im still having is with the safari app, it like dims a little the screen and says connecting and it doesnt do anything. Besides that all the other problems have stopped. Without any restore or anything, I just did what I told u.

Hope it helps.
 
problem with the OS3. i dunno if its just me. but AFTER i upgraded my iphone 3G to OS3. i started hearing the static interference from desk speakers. plus, the battery life diminished immensely. i usually have it on standby mode without the need for charging for 2 or more days. but after upgrading, my phone runs out of battery after 5 hours or so... im pretty pissed off.
 
Thought I would add my experiences here.

I installed the 3.0 GM and put all my apps on the phone and found my battery was lasting around 2-3 hours. it was draining so fast! even when on charge it kept saying "Warning 20% battery left".

I did some searches and found people on different sites either saying.

1. I have the same issue!

or

2. My battery life is better or how it used to be.

So I decided to restore my phone and got it to install the offical 3.0 via itunes.

Well at this point my phone was clean so I added my MobileMe email account and enabled it to use PUSH for contacts, calenders and email.

Still my phone was fine...

I then added my work Exchange account had it only pushing on Email and Contacts. (inbox push only).

At this point my battery was draining so fast. my phone was hot to the touch also.

I started to think what could be running as I'd had no emails. I had it to only sync for 1 day and had only 33 emails in my inbox. So I thought perhaps the new search tool is running and indexing all the emails and contacts. I have over 400 contacts in the exchange global address book so I thought lets change it to manual sync. So I change contacts to manual sync.

Still my battery drained, so finally I change my Exchange email to manual sync. Since then my battery life has been fine. I have installed back on my main apps (all 3.0 approved) and all is good.

This makes me sad as Apple just allowed us to push more then just the inbox which is brill but now I have had to turn off PUSH or else my battery lasts 2 hours!.

Has anyone had the same happen? I really need my work email to push to my phone. This was never a problem before the 3.0 as I've been running work email on my phone since the 2.0 upgrade.
 
It is pretty damn annoying that people keep whining about this battery issue and are not simply carrying out the fix that is clearly stated in previous posts.

1. Do a FULL RESET. The one located under settings. It takes approx 45mins to an hour to complete. If it takes less, you're doing the wrong one!

2. RESTORE to 3.0 in iTunes.

3. Do NOT restore your prior settings or apps. Set up as a new iPhone and manually install your apps using iTunes on the phone.

4. Issue fixed!
 
you know

you know, I might just do this RESTORE, but man, setting the whole thing up again is such a PIA, but so is having the battery last less than a day, without even TALKING on it.
 
its even more annoying as you never read my post as I did do a FULL RESTORE to 3.0 and had no apps installed and still had the problem.

people like you who don't read and say all is fine, stops people like us who actually still have a problem even though having already completed the steps of your "fix" and still have an issue , getting them actually solved.

back off. read. and then comment.
 
yeeah batt drain no cool

i just got the 32GB 3GS (white) and my wife got the 16GB 3GS (white) i set hers up as a new phone because this is her first iphone and got everything good and she was playing with it all day... got these at 10:30 yesterday (6/21/09) then i did mine i was like eah i will just restore from one of my back ups.... well first off i dont have stocks or contacts and have the emoji keyboard because 2 updates ago i poofed the stocks and contacts and left emoji active and when i update they stayed the way they were gone and the emoji active! well now 3.0 is same way on my 3gs... LAME but my iphone died before 9 and my wife pluged hers in to the wrong outlet (one that did not work) and she woke up with 66% batt: it has to be the fresh install... thank god i saw this here cause i was freaking out!
 
Relman said:
its even more annoying as you never read my post as I did do a FULL RESTORE to 3.0 and had no apps installed and still had the problem.

people like you who don't read and say all is fine, stops people like us who actually still have a problem even though having already completed the steps of your "fix" and still have an issue , getting them actually solved.

back off. read. and then comment.
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Dude, take it easy. Just making an observation.
You say you did a full restore, did you do a full RESET prior to the restore?
Aha! I think not.
 
Squuiid, aygie above said he tried your method of reset and restore and it didn't work. If we can get some kind of secondary confirmation that reset restore solves the battery issue then a post can be made at the top of the forum.

Now if your claiming that reset restore solves the warm phone issue, I'll try it asap!
 
Ratpack1961 said:
Squuiid, aygie above said he tried your method of reset and restore and it didn't work. If we can get some kind of secondary confirmation that reset restore solves the battery issue then a post can be made at the top of the forum.

Now if your claiming that reset restore solves the warm phone issue, I'll try it asap!
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Warm phone is related, part of the same issue. An App/function is essentially stuck running in background maxing out CPU and thus draining battery.
I had this too and it was indeed solved by a full 45min reset then restore to 3.0.
Just trying to help guys, my phone is fixed and wanted to help others.
Later.
 
aygie said:
Ok, following up on this, didn't work. My phone got stuck after the re-set (apple logo and spinning wheel) had a bit of a nightmare sorting that out.
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This happens if your phone was jailbroken with Pwnage. Also can happen if you change the root partition size to something other than the default.
Do a restore to 3.0, THEN activate with your original SIM THEN do a full erase/reset and then restore to 3.0 again.

If you need to jailbreak try the new Pwnage.
 
aygie said:
Ok, following up on this, didn't work. My phone got stuck after the re-set (apple logo and spinning wheel) had a bit of a nightmare sorting that out.]
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How did you solve this? I'm on jailbroken 3.0 also but really want to try the reset/restore. My sim isn't official so I can't officially activate, need the unlock.

Anyone have any advice how to do the reset/restore with a jailbroken 3.0 on 2G? And thanks to Squuiid for figuring this out.
 
Ratpack1961 said:
How did you solve this? I'm on jailbroken 3.0 also but really want to try the reset/restore. My sim isn't official so I can't officially activate, need the unlock.

Anyone have any advice how to do the reset/restore with a jailbroken 3.0 on 2G? And thanks to Squuiid for figuring this out.
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Try using redsnow instead, or use the new Pwnage but use the expert mode and make sure the quick partition erase is not selected and that you leave the root partition at default size. Also, try not installing icy nor cydia.
Finally remember to not sync your data with iTunes once you're done. You must set up phone as a new iPhone and test for a day with no apps installed.
 
Squuiid said:
It is pretty damn annoying that people keep whining about this battery issue and are not simply carrying out the fix that is clearly stated in previous posts.

1. Do a FULL RESET. The one located under settings. It takes approx 45mins to an hour to complete. If it takes less, you're doing the wrong one!

2. RESTORE to 3.0 in iTunes.

3. Do NOT restore your prior settings or apps. Set up as a new iPhone and manually install your apps using iTunes on the phone.

4. Issue fixed!
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Hey dude, i tried it and it didn't work, with no apps, no settings, no nothing my battery still got nailed. I've gone back to 2.2.1 and its fine. :(
 
Just turn push off and the battery problem will be solved.

I have a 2G iPhone and could not get more than half a day's use. Now, with push turned off, it's the second day today and i'm still at 70%.

What pisses me off is with push off, having mobileme service is basically useless!
 
same here guys.
iPhone 2G, jailbrake and unlock.
MobileMe and Google Push and it gets hot and drains the battery in about 3-4 hours. Disabled Push and it stopped draining the battery and temp is normal again.

Didn't behave like this before 3.0 and also, after updating to 3.0 it was ok for a couple of days then started doing this.

Thinking out loud here: Could it be that the fact that apple can change how the MobileMe service works from their service, has provoked this sort of problem? Because if it worked fine for 2-3 days with 3.0 and Push on, why did it happened without changing anything on the phone in the last 2 days?
 
UpDate from me.

I deleted an app (cos I never used it And battery life seems much better. I know that app hadn't updated to 3.0 compatible (because in app store the update is out now)

I'm not saying it will fix everyones problem but try removing apps that you aren't sure of 3.0 compatibility

BTW the app was time crisis lite but I guess it could be any

I still have push and fetch turned off as well
 
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