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iPhone Battery Life After 6.1 evasi0n Jailbreak
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As impractical as it may sound that only jail breaking is creating battery issues, it's true even in my case.
I have an iPhone 5 and an iPad 2. I jailbroken the 5 first and have installed zephyr, auxo and nitrous and icleaner. I noticed the battery drain. Thought one of the tweaks might be. I guess it's the auxo.
But yesterday , I jailbroken my iPad 2 just to ssh into the file system. Note that I Havant installed a single thing from cydia. And I notice the battery life has taken a hit.
I am not a newbie. I know that jailbreak only gives u root access. It doesn't run anything in background. I am quite computer savvy.
Having said that, I am noticing the battery issues on evasion. There might be some bug.
But battery drain on evasion is a reality.
I have an iPhone 5 and an iPad 2. I jailbroken the 5 first and have installed zephyr, auxo and nitrous and icleaner. I noticed the battery drain. Thought one of the tweaks might be. I guess it's the auxo.
But yesterday , I jailbroken my iPad 2 just to ssh into the file system. Note that I Havant installed a single thing from cydia. And I notice the battery life has taken a hit.
I am not a newbie. I know that jailbreak only gives u root access. It doesn't run anything in background. I am quite computer savvy.
Having said that, I am noticing the battery issues on evasion. There might be some bug.
But battery drain on evasion is a reality.
Battery Life After 6.1 evasi0n Jailbreak
It is hard to tell from sitting idle. What % drop per hour after continuous screen use? Mine is about 10% drop on an iPhone 4.
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I have observed that the first drop from 100% to 50% is a lot slower than the second drop from 50% to 0%.
It is hard to tell from sitting idle. What % drop per hour after continuous screen use? Mine is about 10% drop on an iPhone 4.
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I have observed that the first drop from 100% to 50% is a lot slower than the second drop from 50% to 0%.
I Agree that you shouldn't make blanket statements! But on the other hand I am experiencing the same thing as adm3rd and I found their posts helpful.
So,after jailbreaking 6.1 i have absolutely no doubt there is a massive battery drainage.I remember in the morning 6:30 am when i was on 100% i used to listen to songs straight for an hour and it still showed me freaking 100% battery.I was like faaaakk 
this is some battery.At the evening(6:30 pm),i still used to have around 40-45% battery remaining.
Ever since this jailbreak my phone ceases to last for a day.I am having extreme drainage on wifi,it's like 1% percent every 2-3 minutes,same for games.Just swiping across the springboard,i can see the battery percentage drop.Watching that makes me feel losing a part of myself.
I uninstalled most of the tweaks,i am just on barrel,appsync and ncsettings now.I also installed this stupid app called battsaver.I am not sure if it does help.
Though, i see improvement by uninstalling tweaks.Right now,as i am typing this it shows 84% battery with 1 hr,9 minutes usage and 12 hrs,24 minutes on standby.
I envy all those who seem to have no battery problems after jailbreak.Sounds too good to be true.
If you guys have better solutions,please post.No,i am not in a mood to restore now.
this is some battery.At the evening(6:30 pm),i still used to have around 40-45% battery remaining.Ever since this jailbreak my phone ceases to last for a day.I am having extreme drainage on wifi,it's like 1% percent every 2-3 minutes
,same for games.Just swiping across the springboard,i can see the battery percentage drop.Watching that makes me feel losing a part of myself. I uninstalled most of the tweaks,i am just on barrel,appsync and ncsettings now.I also installed this stupid app called battsaver.I am not sure if it does help.
Though, i see improvement by uninstalling tweaks.Right now,as i am typing this it shows 84% battery with 1 hr,9 minutes usage and 12 hrs,24 minutes on standby.
I envy all those who seem to have no battery problems after jailbreak.Sounds too good to be true.
If you guys have better solutions,please post.No,i am not in a mood to restore now.
Hmm... something is certainly screwy here, given this isn't a persistent issue for everyone. I've been able to jailbreak five iPhones for my family, and all of them are only losing 1-3% of battery overnight (8-10 hours) when idle, and lasting all day when in use.
The only thing I can think of to help troubleshoot, is for folks who are having battery issues to do a clean restore of iOS via iTunes and setting it up temporarily as a new iPhone profile (don't reinstall your data & apps), and jailbreaking that "clean iPhone" to see what the drainage is for 24 hours, BEFORE installing any tweaks from Cydia.
Also, for those who are witnessing massive battery drains, what version of evasi0n and platform are you using to jailbreak with, as perhaps there's an unknown issue yet to be identified...
(eg. mine were all jailbroken with evasi0n 1.2 on OS X 10.6.8)
The only thing I can think of to help troubleshoot, is for folks who are having battery issues to do a clean restore of iOS via iTunes and setting it up temporarily as a new iPhone profile (don't reinstall your data & apps), and jailbreaking that "clean iPhone" to see what the drainage is for 24 hours, BEFORE installing any tweaks from Cydia.
Also, for those who are witnessing massive battery drains, what version of evasi0n and platform are you using to jailbreak with, as perhaps there's an unknown issue yet to be identified...
(eg. mine were all jailbroken with evasi0n 1.2 on OS X 10.6.8)
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Most folks complaining of rapid battery drain seem to be saying that they are experiencing this issue BEFORE installing any or few Cydia tweaks. And as a process of elimination, it would be wise to first rule out if the jailbreak itself is causing issues due to some anomaly.
I had battery drain all of a sudden and just removed the last few tweaks i'd installed and it's now back to how it was.
Hooks law was the offending tweak for me.
Hooks law was the offending tweak for me.
Does keeping wifi and cellular enabled (4G) further promote battery drain on a jail broken iPhone? My phone isn't jailbroken but I'm considering it, however, I keep wifi enabled the whole day and I still have great battery life. Battery drain is more an issue for me when I have 4G and LTE enabled.
Battery Rape
First time post. Joined forums just so I could hopefully learn something about this battery drain issue.
I have JB'd and restored my phone 3 times in effort to isolate the root cause of my 4S battery drain.
Last iteration:
1. DFU restore as new phone. No Apple personal settings were restored (yet).
2. JB'd with 6.1.1 using evaisi0n 1.3 from Mac running OS X 10.8.2
3. Light load of Cydia apps:
-Activator
-Auxo
-Music Controls Pro 6+ (like this app)
-MyWi 6 (one of the main reasons for the JB)
-IntelliScreenX
4. Synched contacts from iTunes
5. Synched a couple of key apps from App Store
-mSecure
-Dropbox
-Accuweather
-NPR News
-Digg
-Pandora
-Spotify
Result: MAJOR battery drain. Before unplugging from car charger this moring, I did a re-start, turned of WiFi, and disabled location services. Very light phone use (a couple of short calls and texts, calculator). By lunchtime 5.5 hours later, the battery was down to 40%. Uninstalled IntelliScreenX. 3 hours later the battery was at 20% after only using the calculator a couple of times.
After JB'ing, I've noticed that the 4S is always unusually warm to almost hot. I'm not sure what processes are running that would cause this (I have been closing all my background apps), but it seems logical that whatever it is, this is where the battery is using itself up.
Really bummed about this. I have no other choice but to restore back to stock iPhone. I really liked the flexibility and functionality of the JB'd 4S. I hope the developers can find a common solution to this.
I hear folks here loudly defending the Jailbreak from being the root cause of the battery problem, I get that, but it is definitely systemic to all phones with this problem.
First time post. Joined forums just so I could hopefully learn something about this battery drain issue.
I have JB'd and restored my phone 3 times in effort to isolate the root cause of my 4S battery drain.
Last iteration:
1. DFU restore as new phone. No Apple personal settings were restored (yet).
2. JB'd with 6.1.1 using evaisi0n 1.3 from Mac running OS X 10.8.2
3. Light load of Cydia apps:
-Activator
-Auxo
-Music Controls Pro 6+ (like this app)
-MyWi 6 (one of the main reasons for the JB)
-IntelliScreenX
4. Synched contacts from iTunes
5. Synched a couple of key apps from App Store
-mSecure
-Dropbox
-Accuweather
-NPR News
-Digg
-Pandora
-Spotify
Result: MAJOR battery drain. Before unplugging from car charger this moring, I did a re-start, turned of WiFi, and disabled location services. Very light phone use (a couple of short calls and texts, calculator). By lunchtime 5.5 hours later, the battery was down to 40%. Uninstalled IntelliScreenX. 3 hours later the battery was at 20% after only using the calculator a couple of times.
After JB'ing, I've noticed that the 4S is always unusually warm to almost hot. I'm not sure what processes are running that would cause this (I have been closing all my background apps), but it seems logical that whatever it is, this is where the battery is using itself up.
Really bummed about this. I have no other choice but to restore back to stock iPhone. I really liked the flexibility and functionality of the JB'd 4S. I hope the developers can find a common solution to this.
I hear folks here loudly defending the Jailbreak from being the root cause of the battery problem, I get that, but it is definitely systemic to all phones with this problem.
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Ncsettings was the culprit for me. I have removed and battery life has increased. Still not back to "normal" but removing has helped massively.
I'd say that its difficult to identify the issue, unless you first test your phone for 24 hours with a clean restore and only the jailbreak running. Once you start installing Cydia tweaks (as tempting that may be), you start introducing multiple variables that may or may not impact the battery.
I'm hoping those who are saying they are experiencing serious battery drain, at least try this for 24 hours, to see if we can collectively identify the root cause. I can't with my iPhones, as each of mine are not experiencing any significant battery drain vs. the stock iOS.
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What your saying about the respring and battery percentage is true. What I've done is respringed until my percentage is a 100% fully charged and then take it off the charger. I think after jailbreak your battery stats or even after a respring resets or is off. I've been getting awesome battery life after respring tell the battery percentage is correct. It takes letting it charge fully then respring or reboot your device to make sure it's still where it was and you should be good to go. I have these tweaks installed as well;
Nitrous
Fakeclockup
Adblock
Adblock network
Barrel
Ifile
Auxo
Springtomize 2
Safari download manager
Bitesms
Well I have determined that Zephyr and NCSettings definitely do drain the battery more. I won't go into details now, but I have been keeping a close eye on my phone and it was as well controlled a test as I could manage without recording numbers down.
Qualitatively:
The combo of Zephyr and NCSettings made the drain noticeable, where I had to uninstall one or the other to get it back to normal. After playing around with one or the other uninstalled, I determined NCSettings to be the bigger drain. I can live with Zephyr installed, as that is only draining 5% overnight idling (stock was about 1-2% overnight idling).
With NCSettings, it was 10%.
It makes sense to me, as toggle widgets on Android had a setting where it could run "all the time" so that they were instantly responsive to button presses (which NCSettings is). When you checked this option, the battery on your phone definitely noticeably drained faster. The other option was to have it activate occasionally, where you have to press the button(s) once to "wake up" the widget, and again to actually register a press.
Zephyr is still a bigger drain than normal, but I can live with it.
I also have tetherme installed, but I don't think that is doing anything to my battery.
Qualitatively:
The combo of Zephyr and NCSettings made the drain noticeable, where I had to uninstall one or the other to get it back to normal. After playing around with one or the other uninstalled, I determined NCSettings to be the bigger drain. I can live with Zephyr installed, as that is only draining 5% overnight idling (stock was about 1-2% overnight idling).
With NCSettings, it was 10%.
It makes sense to me, as toggle widgets on Android had a setting where it could run "all the time" so that they were instantly responsive to button presses (which NCSettings is). When you checked this option, the battery on your phone definitely noticeably drained faster. The other option was to have it activate occasionally, where you have to press the button(s) once to "wake up" the widget, and again to actually register a press.
Zephyr is still a bigger drain than normal, but I can live with it.
I also have tetherme installed, but I don't think that is doing anything to my battery.
It is all about the tweaks you have installed on, nothing to do directly with the JB itself.
I have an iPhone 5 running 6.1.2 jailbroken and only a few tweaks:
Auxo
Zephyr
NCSetttings
Nitrous
Safari Download Manager
iFile
iBlacklist
Overnight (usually 8 hours of sleep) my phone loses 4-5% of battery and not a single digit more. Plus it is still as fast as it was when arrived a week ago. And trust me, I would know. I'm a control freak when it comes to that and I have been trying many tweaks this entirely week and full restoring my device for each try! haha
I rather lose the mods than the speed. No doubt!
I have an iPhone 5 running 6.1.2 jailbroken and only a few tweaks:
Auxo
Zephyr
NCSetttings
Nitrous
Safari Download Manager
iFile
iBlacklist
Overnight (usually 8 hours of sleep) my phone loses 4-5% of battery and not a single digit more. Plus it is still as fast as it was when arrived a week ago. And trust me, I would know. I'm a control freak when it comes to that and I have been trying many tweaks this entirely week and full restoring my device for each try! haha
I rather lose the mods than the speed. No doubt!
For those of you using NCSettings and experiencing battery drain, what version are you using? I use NCSettings but I'm using a 4S so I have to use version 1.6.2. This was the last perfectly working version before he introduced the new LTE toggle.
I don't have any noticeable battery drain with NCSettings but I am starting to think its because I still use 1.6.2. My guess is that those of you who are having issues are probably using 1.7.1. But that's a total guess. I could be completely wrong.
Anyone care to chime in? Maybe we can figure this out.
I don't have any noticeable battery drain with NCSettings but I am starting to think its because I still use 1.6.2. My guess is that those of you who are having issues are probably using 1.7.1. But that's a total guess. I could be completely wrong.
Anyone care to chime in? Maybe we can figure this out.
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