this has nothing to do with this thread, which is about battery life. you should get acclimated with how forums work. threadjacking isnt exactly something you should do.
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iOS 7 B2, better battery, yes or no?
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this has nothing to do with this thread, which is about battery life. you should get acclimated with how forums work. threadjacking isnt exactly something you should do.
since my battery is worse now than ever, let me just confirm that i performed the "clean install" correctly.
i downloaded the .ipsw file for beta 2, and did option + restore, selected the file, set up as "new phone".
thats all right? because right now i'm at usage of 2 hours and 30 min with only 10% left
i downloaded the .ipsw file for beta 2, and did option + restore, selected the file, set up as "new phone".
thats all right? because right now i'm at usage of 2 hours and 30 min with only 10% left
Getting about the same with my 4s. Tried upgrading and restoring with little to no improvement. It does okay with texting and browsing the web/email but soon as I make a phone call or play some music its drops rapidly
My battery life has been quite terrible too. I've tried everything under the sun - I first updated to b2 OTA, but then did a clean restore with itunes backup. I've reset network settings, I've reset all settings, and nothing seems to improve my battery life. I mostly just listen to music/email/text/angry birds. I don't think those things consume too much batter, but it seems like they do. It could do with the fact that right now I am in a rural part of China and their 3G coverage is pretty abysmal, so maybe the weak signal and the constant effort of my phone trying to find signals is hurting my battery life. Would that have this much of an impact? I can get 5-6 hours of battery life at best, and over night it seems to drain 5-10%.
Mine has been much better, but still nowhere near 6.1.3.
Beta 2 seems to have more serious memory leaks than beta 1. I find my apps get slow faster than they did in beta 1 causing me to have to reboot the phone more often. That may be part of why my battery life has been better. I am doing a rest 4-5 times a day now instead of once or twice.
Beta 2 seems to have more serious memory leaks than beta 1. I find my apps get slow faster than they did in beta 1 causing me to have to reboot the phone more often. That may be part of why my battery life has been better. I am doing a rest 4-5 times a day now instead of once or twice.
Hmm alright, thanks! I guess I'll have to wait until I get back to the states to see how ios7's battery life really performs.
Mine is good as well until I start listening to music. Then it drops from the 90s to 60s in the hour I am at the gym.
That's amazing
I'd be around 20-30% at 3 hours. What do you do mostly on your phone?I would say mine is worse. Only two hours usage before going down to around 5% of battery life. I don't have Bluetooth turned on, but I do have Wi-Fi and I was using spotty cellular and music quite a bit.
That being said, what's interesting is that it is worse than the first beta...considerably. I hope the next one at least is a step towards where the first one was.
That being said, what's interesting is that it is worse than the first beta...considerably. I hope the next one at least is a step towards where the first one was.
not really sure where those 5 hours are coming from as i just left work like an hour ago and i unplugged it this morning.
i have bluetooth, gps, background fetching turned off as well as wifi when im not at home. i also close all apps when i dont use them. using anything that requires a internet connection seems to drain it quite fast and it gets "warm" not as hot as it did on beta 1 but still unusual warm
It's interesting that people have been mentioning that the music app appears to be a big battery killer as well. Maybe that's the problem - everyone is still listening to music and expecting the same battery life, but maybe some underlying changes caused the music app to suck more battery in these betas. So if the people who get good battery life (6hr+) could confirm whether they listen to music as a big chunk of their usage or not, that would be very helpful in narrowing down the specific causes for the polarizing statistics on battery life.
I'm getting well over double the battery life in Beta 2. Same usage. The first discharge however was going fairly quick (something in the BG stayed active/leaking but I couldn't narrow it down). I killed all apps and hard reboot and battery life has been great. Haven't used the music app yet. Will give it a try and see.
Usage 5:50 minutes
Standby 19hrs 2 minutes
39% battery
Used a third party app to record a 2hr+ lecture this morning. Have had multiple apps open this afternoon, moderate surfing and listening to iTunes Radio.
Standby 19hrs 2 minutes
39% battery
Used a third party app to record a 2hr+ lecture this morning. Have had multiple apps open this afternoon, moderate surfing and listening to iTunes Radio.
Massive reason there, yes. I used to get 1 bar of 3G coverage at work and it was not unusual to lose 60-80% in 12 hours. Now I have 5 bars thanks to microcells, I lose 10% in the same time
B2 may have the edge on battery here, but it still seems to want to use location services a little more than I would like, thus affecting battery. I think I'm maybe 1/4 worse than the last version of iOS6, but put that down to the Beta
I upgraded my software to 7 beta 2 yesterday afternoon and my battery was terrible. I was loosing like 1 percentage every 30 to 45 seconds and my phone was crazy hot. I am one of the people that did not pay the $100 blah blah blah. What I did to fix the battery was did a clean instal by clicking restore. (not alt update) It installed the ios 7 beta two and i was unable to activate it since i'm not a developer. (Which i knew would happen) Then I downgraded back to 6.1.4, then upgraded it back to ios 7 beta 2 using the alt upgrade option. Now my battery works excellent. Hope this helps any non developers like me that should not have ios7 bust just couldn't resist the temptation.