Is that mostly listening to music/audio (in the background with the screen off essentially)?
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General iOS 9 Beta 5 battery and performance thread!
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To add my feedback... Safari seems to be a huge battery drain on my 5s. I have reset settings but I can literally watch the battery level drop whilst browsing.
The level will also drop in huge 10% chunks sometimes, and can then miss the low power option trigger.
The wierdest thing though is when charging, I just watched my phone jump from 10% to 30% by just plugging in the charger.
The level will also drop in huge 10% chunks sometimes, and can then miss the low power option trigger.
The wierdest thing though is when charging, I just watched my phone jump from 10% to 30% by just plugging in the charger.
Been getting very poor battery life/heat on my 5S but couldn't pin it down. Plugged the phone into Xcode and started up the activity monitor to see what was going on. Found 2 things
- backboardd chewing up CPU cycles: Think it was mentioned in another thread - turn on reduce motion. If it's off already turn it on and then off. This reduced the cpu usage significantly
- whatsapp: as you soon as you start it the mediaanalysisd daemon goes into overdrive. Only remedy is to kill whatsapp
Using SysStatsLite will tell you the load average - quite helpful. Still looking but thought this might help folks here to see what's going on their devices
[Update] Looks mediaanalysisd goes into overdrive immediately when the phone sleeps. Have tried to turn off spotlight, killing all applications but to no avail. Anyone know what this daemon does exactly or how to kill it off or even prevent it from running
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[Update2] A reset of all settings does seem to help as confirmed by a few folks here on the this thread. I have not not touched any other settings so far and i don't see the mediaanalysisd daemon going nuts - at least not for 30 mins so far. Will monitor tomorrow
[Update3] Looks like a major contribution to the drain is the public beta itself. The update from 8.4 can cause some problems. Since there is no ipsw for the public beta I decided to install the developer ipsw via DFU. The cpu drain does not seem to be as bad. Still not great as it seems to point to locationd daemon draining the battery now. Turning location services off fixes this. Looking at the battery usage screens doesn't generally doesn't help though apps like WhatsApp and Facebook somehow take more backgrounding cycles than normal. Looks like Apple have some work to fix these some of these issues (at least on the 5S devices).
[Update4] If you have Routing & Traffic on under Privacy set turn it off and do not include Traffic Conditions on your Today Screen. See if that helps. It seems to have reduced the cpu utilisation. Will monitor to see how it goes
- backboardd chewing up CPU cycles: Think it was mentioned in another thread - turn on reduce motion. If it's off already turn it on and then off. This reduced the cpu usage significantly
- whatsapp: as you soon as you start it the mediaanalysisd daemon goes into overdrive. Only remedy is to kill whatsapp
Using SysStatsLite will tell you the load average - quite helpful. Still looking but thought this might help folks here to see what's going on their devices
[Update] Looks mediaanalysisd goes into overdrive immediately when the phone sleeps. Have tried to turn off spotlight, killing all applications but to no avail. Anyone know what this daemon does exactly or how to kill it off or even prevent it from running
?[Update2] A reset of all settings does seem to help as confirmed by a few folks here on the this thread. I have not not touched any other settings so far and i don't see the mediaanalysisd daemon going nuts - at least not for 30 mins so far. Will monitor tomorrow
[Update3] Looks like a major contribution to the drain is the public beta itself. The update from 8.4 can cause some problems. Since there is no ipsw for the public beta I decided to install the developer ipsw via DFU. The cpu drain does not seem to be as bad. Still not great as it seems to point to locationd daemon draining the battery now. Turning location services off fixes this. Looking at the battery usage screens doesn't generally doesn't help though apps like WhatsApp and Facebook somehow take more backgrounding cycles than normal. Looks like Apple have some work to fix these some of these issues (at least on the 5S devices).
[Update4] If you have Routing & Traffic on under Privacy set turn it off and do not include Traffic Conditions on your Today Screen. See if that helps. It seems to have reduced the cpu utilisation. Will monitor to see how it goes
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But based on percentages it seems more of it was audio (in the background with the screen off), right?
Youtube was 1 hour and 30 minutes movie , soundcloud 2 hrs and the remaining was on fb,twitter, etc
Thought I'd throw mine in as well. I posted a SS of my battery usage before and said that maybe it'll get better in the future once the OS has kind of "settled in". This was last night, and I've gotta say this is better than what I was getting on 8.4, and I get these results daily.
It finally died at 7 hrs 59 min (was so close to 8 hours lol).
It finally died at 7 hrs 59 min (was so close to 8 hours lol).
iPhone 6?Thought I'd throw mine in as well. I posted a SS of my battery usage before and said that maybe it'll get better in the future once the OS has kind of "settled in". This was last night, and I've gotta say this is better than what I was getting on 8.4, and I get these results daily.
It finally died at 7 hrs 59 min (was so close to 8 hours lol).
Thought I'd throw mine in as well. I posted a SS of my battery usage before and said that maybe it'll get better in the future once the OS has kind of "settled in". This was last night, and I've gotta say this is better than what I was getting on 8.4, and I get these results daily.
It finally died at 7 hrs 59 min (was so close to 8 hours lol).
Did you have it in Battery Saving Mode all the time though?
Nah, I turned it on at around 17% because I was on a call when it recommended it at the usual 20%.
Thought I'd throw mine in as well. I posted a SS of my battery usage before and said that maybe it'll get better in the future once the OS has kind of "settled in". This was last night, and I've gotta say this is better than what I was getting on 8.4, and I get these results daily.
It finally died at 7 hrs 59 min (was so close to 8 hours lol).
do you have reset the settings ?
Yeah, before I reset all settings, I was getting a lot less; between 4-5 hours of usage and about 12 hours standby. Plus it was running hot, especially during calls.
I figured out a workaround for the overheating and battery drain issues on the iPhone 5s with this beta.
My battery has stabilized and heating issues has been substantially reduced.
I turned on Low Power Mode, and while it was on, I rebooted my 5s. I noticed immediate improvements after the reboot. Turning on Low Power Mode and not rebooting would give me no improvements for some reason.
In order to maintain results, though, I suppose you'd have to stay on Low Power Mode the entire time.
Try this out and see if it works for you!
My battery has stabilized and heating issues has been substantially reduced.
I turned on Low Power Mode, and while it was on, I rebooted my 5s. I noticed immediate improvements after the reboot. Turning on Low Power Mode and not rebooting would give me no improvements for some reason.
In order to maintain results, though, I suppose you'd have to stay on Low Power Mode the entire time.
Try this out and see if it works for you!
Wait. Five hours usage is double what you got on iOS 8? Yikes
It was more like 6. But I'm sure he's referring to basically not having to charge for almost 28 hours. (Standby time)
I more meant the standby time and not having to charge my phone at night, usage on iOS 8 used to be about 4 or 5 hours.