iPhone Anyone having battery drainage?

[hafr]

It uses it twice a day for a few seconds. I can never detect battery drain with F.lux. It's a great tweak.

I agree and as I said it uses a 'little' more battery due to it accessing location services.

It is a great tweak.

But it doesn't access location services unless you actually open the app and let it access it in order to set your location.

Anecdote: I spent the holidays away from home, jailbroke "over there", and when I got back I was confused as to why f.lux didn't update my location even after several days, meaning the screen went yellow despite having two more hours of daylight to go.

I opened the app, it got my new location and all is well.

 

[Carlanga]

Thanks. But what about Pandora Downloader? I have that tweak from the Sinful Repo which is not updated for ios7 yet. Or am I just beating a dead horse?

Nope. The culprit will be winterboard

 

[HankHowdy]

Nope. The culprit will be winterboard

I agree.

 

[BumpyFlatline]

It changes the color temperature of the screen to match the sunlight based on the time of day, so in the evening, it takes on a yellow/orange tint that is much easier on your eyes and it also doesn't keep you awake as much if you are on your phone before bed.

Exactly. And this "issue" on electronic blue screens is gaining more and more talking point discussions. Just last night on the radio, the host was arguing about some law that will force people away from using incandescent lightbulbs for environmental reasons (I'm making some assumptions on his point since I was not listening closely until the next part). He was saying its a stupid law and can ultimately be bad for people's health because of the blue light effect of modern technology. He didn't mention flux by name but he talked about a software for your computer to soften the brightness of the screen to be better on your eyes.

Anyways, you can google the research and debates regarding this topic. I've been using flux for so many years now that for the few months I used my 5s stock until the jailbreak came out, I forgot how much I hated my iPhone screen at night. My laptops keep flux permanently installed so I never notice it there. But every single time I used my stock iPhone 5s at night, I always wished I had flux installed. Flux is the first thing I install after every jailbreak.

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But it doesn't access location services unless you actually open the app and let it access it in order to set your location.

Anecdote: I spent the holidays away from home, jailbroke "over there", and when I got back I was confused as to why f.lux didn't update my location even after several days, meaning the screen went yellow despite having two more hours of daylight to go.

I opened the app, it got my new location and all is well.

This is my understanding as well. Once the app pings your location, it doesn't do it again. I had the exact same thing happen to me last weekend. I went to the east coast for the holidays and came back west. Flux wasn't changing because it was still set for Easter time zone. I opened the app, it pinged my location and updated the appropriate plist file or whatever.

Now, how does it monitor the time and know WHEN to change the screen, that is probably the bigger question. Because it can save your location but it needs to be aware of the time so it knows when to change the screen. How does it keep track of this is my question because I assume that would need to run in the background, even periodically, so it knows when sunset and sunrise is occurring based on your current time.

 

[hafr]

Now, how does it monitor the time and know WHEN to change the screen, that is probably the bigger question. Because it can save your location but it needs to be aware of the time so it knows when to change the screen. How does it keep track of this is my question because I assume that would need to run in the background, even periodically, so it knows when sunset and sunrise is occurring based on your current time.

The same way an alarm, a reminder or a calendar event does, I assume. I for one haven't heard anyone say using the alarm kills the battery

 

[BumpyFlatline]

The same way an alarm, a reminder or a calendar event does, I assume. I for one haven't heard anyone say using the alarm kills the battery

Don't get me wrong, I have never once experienced ANY battery drain due to flux. My fault if I sounded like I was accusing flux for draining my battery. I was simply saying that in my opinion, I do not believe that the location aspect of flux drains your battery and that if flux DID have an impact on battery life, it would be how it runs in the background and monitors the time of day.

But I agree with you, it probably works in the same way as the alarm does.

 

[hafr]

Don't get me wrong, I have never once experienced ANY battery drain due to flux. My fault if I sounded like I was accusing flux for draining my battery. I was simply saying that in my opinion, I do not believe that the location aspect of flux drains your battery and that if flux DID have an impact on battery life, it would be how it runs in the background and monitors the time of day.

But I agree with you, it probably works in the same way as the alarm does.

Haha, and I'm sorry for making it sound like I thought you made it sound like f.lux was a battery drainer

 

[Sital]

Probably is Winterboard. Even on iOS 6 some people reported it killed their battery, others said it didn't. Maybe the theme applied has an effect (although I don't know why it would).

Having said that I'm using Winterboard now on my iP5 and haven't had any battery issues (I've lost 2% in the past 3 hours, albeit with very light use).

 

[BumpyFlatline]

Haha, and I'm sorry for making it sound like I thought you made it sound like f.lux was a battery drainer

 

[vols]

Removing Winterboard did wonders. Thanks guys.

 

[iMrNiceGuy0023]

could iFile cause battery drainage? I think I noticed the battery drain more when I installed it

 

[darricksailo]

could iFile cause battery drainage? I think I noticed the battery drain more when I installed it

I really doubt it

 

[guitarmandp]

What about swipe selection. My iPad battery now is at 38% it used to be about 80% at the end of the day prior to the jailbreak

 

[onepoint]

All seems normal here.

 

[Auxo]

All seems normal here.

It all depends on how many and what tweaks you're using. For someone using WB or a gif as wallpaper , things are going to be different with the battery.

 

[darricksailo]

What about swipe selection. My iPad battery now is at 38% it used to be about 80% at the end of the day prior to the jailbreak

Have you considered that you may have been using it more since the jailbreak?

 

[BadLTD]

Does Winterboard or Dreamboard kill more battery?

or should I go without a different theme?

 

[darricksailo]

Does Winterboard or Dreamboard kill more battery?

or should I go without a different theme?

For least battery drain, go without a theme