My number was ported this morning so I popped in the EE sim. I have wifi calling enabled but calls on other devices is off and was off before I put in the sim. Battery life is pretty good so far, although only a couple of hours in and no heat. Its just ticked down to 98% with 38 mins of usage and 1hr 14mins standby. I hope it stays like this.
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Carrier EE sim-only battery issues
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After reactivating wifi calling, the drain came back. I turned it off in settings, rebooted the phone and charged it up to full again.
Now on 90% with 1hr 10 usage and 1hr 30 standby.
Now on 90% with 1hr 10 usage and 1hr 30 standby.
I had it working on my iPhone 6 Plus when it was still running iOS 8. I don't think I've seen it working when running iOS 9.
I thought Wi-Fi calling on other devices was a new iOS 9 feature? Also, Wi-Fi calling itself works fine for me on iOS 9. Just not the "on other devices" part, which is not only not working, but causing this bug in the first place.
Sorry, I misunderstood the question. I haven't seen the "other devices" part working.
I wiped my phone and set up as new, but it made no difference, my 6+ still ate batteries and was almost too hot to touch. So I've wiped again and gone back to 8.4.1. Problem solved and I'm running cool again. Wifi calling works fine on 8.4.1. I can see there being a huge stink when the general public get their hands on iOS 9, even more if the 6s exhibits the same behaviour.
For what it's worth, EE do appear to be aware of this. Let's hope from some update before the public release of iOS 9.
Carrier issue, very likely poor carrier settings. Report to apple, but this is carrier related as you have used another sim in your phone and it worked making it a known good iPhone.
I really hope this issue gets sorted out soon, if we use another carrier will it resolve the issue?
Yes it's only an EE issue. They only have around 24 hours to get it fixed and/or a carrier update rolled out before ios9 goes live.
Maybe it will start working today? Fingers crossed otherwise they are in for a PR nightmare tomorrow!
Do you think this will affect the 6s when it comes out?
And does it only seem to appear when you are on a Sim-Only plan?
Initially I thought he issue was due to SIM only because it fixed itself when I changed to a plan SIM but after I enabled wifi calling (and visual voicemail) it came back.
If it helps anyone -- I called EE and had wifi calling explicitly removed from my account before setting up from scratch.
I don't see how it won't affect the 6s, but EE have a far bigger issue to deal with tomorrow when people update to ios9.
I'm not on a SIM-only plan, and I've repeatedly had this issue, so no it's nothing to do with SIM-only as far as I can tell.
Still no update from EE and today's the day! Talk about leaving it to the last minute. I manage our firm's iPhones (all on EE) and we have about 30 solicitors today who are going to automatically update at some point, causing our IT guy a nightmare tomorrow!
Looks like my only option at the moment, and deal with the queries tomorrow about why they can't update (we have a few techy solicitors who'll want to know why!)
I know it won't make a difference since I am on the GM, but I will reinstall everything again when the update from apple is out.
My iPhone 6 Plus kills the whole battery in less than 3 hours... I do not care who is to blame, best iOS release ever.
Just a heads up to everyone: EE claim there's no issue on the release build (See https://twitter.com/EE/status/644073457039319040 ), so either the release build is not the same build as the GM (which has happened before), or they're testing it with a carrier settings update, or something very strange is going on.
If the GM isn't the release version and the release version contains a fix, I guess that's good news for those of you on iOS 9. Those of us on 9.1, on the other hand...
If the GM isn't the release version and the release version contains a fix, I guess that's good news for those of you on iOS 9. Those of us on 9.1, on the other hand...
Sounds like they a burying their heads in the sand on this.
Unless they are going to push a carrier update that fixes it OR the released iOS9 is a different build to GM.
My money is on head burying.
Edit:-
I stand corrected
Unless they are going to push a carrier update that fixes it OR the released iOS9 is a different build to GM.
My money is on head burying.
Edit:-
I stand corrected
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