Possible Fix to excessive battery drain on JB 3G iPhones (worked for me)

[Che Castro]

the one you just posted above my post =)

im about to try it again but the first

time i did it the percentage # was over by 5

from the memoryinfo one

but ill give it another try

 

[Che Castro]

HighLife is workin fine for me

 

[Dominat0r]

HighLife is workin fine for me

test the battery if you can, just curious to see.

 

[Che Castro]

test the battery if you can, just curious to see.

just do it it took me 2 seconds lol

heres the

PLIST editor

 

[Dominat0r]

just do it it took me 2 seconds lol

heres the

PLIST editor

well im testing out the battery with the asbattery program installed.

In a day or so ill try it.

 

[PackFan]

I've found that even my 3GS seems to be sucking the battery with just backgrounder, sbsettings, and winterboard with a few customizations installed... I'm trying to let my battery go completely down to see if my battery just needs to be calibrated...

 

[upnorth067]

Thanks Che

After doing the above steps, how do you enable the numeric battery?

Thanks.

 

[jmann]

After doing the above steps, how do you enable the numeric battery?

Thanks.

Did you look in Settings > General > Usage to see if the toggle is there?

 

[upnorth067]

Thanks jmann. I was about to delete my question, but I got slow a$$ 1MB Comcrap and was waiting for the thread to refresh.

We'll see if this helps my battery life. Thanks again.

 

[Dominat0r]

i have to admit, compared to SBsettings, this for sure does make a difference...for me it wasnt as huge as some that posted here but its enough to notice.

I got about 2 hours use and 30mins or so of extra calling when compared to the Sbsettings.

I did almost the exact same thing with the 2 installed by themselves. I ran the battery till the 10% warning and checked the time in usage. Of course its not a 100% perfect accurate test, cause i might of run something for more time or whatever, but it was the best i could get.

However...i notice something that does drain your battery like a fat kid on a cupcake....BACKGROUNDER....i dunno if its just me, but BACKGROUNDER was tearing through my battery at a alarming rate. I removed it since i really dont use it as much as others. I can see the need for pandora (never use it, im a audio geek and have only ALAC on my iPhone and iPod). However how much it ate my battery, i couldnt justify having it.

So, today is the first day without Backgrounder...i used my iphone today for about 2-3 hours between surfing, listening to my iPod (lossless music), checking my email, playing 3d Lab, sending about 30-40 text messages...I took the phone off the charger at 12pm today, its now 11pm and im at 70% battery....

Backgrounder more like.....Batterygrinder.....so if you dont need it, DO NOT INSTALL IT!!!

 

[Hudzilla]

Hate to revive an ancient thread, but is this still relevant?, as ive noticesd excesive drain with percentage enabled in SBSettings.

Thanks