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Purplera1n/redsn0w affects 3GS Batt Life BAD & Speed is okay?

SpaceKitty said:
Anyone of of such an app? SBSettings just shows mail and phone as running processes.
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If you close your mail app does it sometimes open itself without you noticing?
Mine does that everytime i call someone and its been effecting my battery life (sorta).

A decent system monitor app is called "system activity monitor" if you have 3 dollars to spare from the app store. i'll try looking for a free one though and edit this post.

Edit: the best one i could find was "memoryinfo with free memory and battery level" for 1 dollar :[
 
impulse462 said:
If you close your mail app does it sometimes open itself without you noticing?
Mine does that everytime i call someone and its been effecting my battery life (sorta).

A decent system monitor app is called "system activity monitor" if you have 3 dollars to spare from the app store. i'll try looking for a free one though and edit this post.

Edit: the best one i could find was "memoryinfo with free memory and battery level" for 1 dollar :[
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I finally gave up and restored the 3G and will not try to jailbreake it again.

I used Purplera1n on my 3G S and am going to see how the battery lasts on that. So far, I am liking it.
 
SpaceKitty said:
I finally gave up and restored the 3G and will not try to jailbreake it again.

I used Purplera1n on my 3G S and am going to see how the battery lasts on that. So far, I am liking it.
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The jailbreak on my 2g is killing it but my 3g and 3gs are fine. your problem with the 3g is probably the same with my 2g but whatever
 
impulse462 said:
The jailbreak on my 2g is killing it but my 3g and 3gs are fine. your problem with the 3g is probably the same with my 2g but whatever
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Battery life on my 3G S after Purplera1n is perfect! Hasn't changed one bit. It has only dropped to 98% after two hours and I can what I was trying to do with the 3G phone done on the 3G S now.

This is why I am keeping all my old iPhones.
 
My unlocked 3GS drops 4% in 10 minutes !

-Did not run wifi or bluetooth or any gps programs
-Was fully charged... dropped from 100% to 96% in that time frame.
-Push notifications switched to "off".
-3G is disabled.
-Reset network settings too= no effect

Anything else I can do?
 
SpaceKitty said:
Battery life on my 3G S after Purplera1n is perfect! Hasn't changed one bit. It has only dropped to 98% after two hours and I can what I was trying to do with the 3G phone done on the 3G S now.

This is why I am keeping all my old iPhones.
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Is that without doing anything? Even before purplerain if i listen to music for an hour (i run) my batterys at around 87-89%.
 
Again, as the others post said it is not the jailbreak within itself that is causing your problems it is one or more of the programs you are installing. I would suggest you try removing the programs you have installed one at a time and monitor battery life, or vise versa. Restore and try installing one program at a time and monitoring battery life. Almost all the programs via Cydia and Icy were designed for previous operating systems so this is a major factor as well. Be patient and objective in what you install on your phone.
 
Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings

This solved the battery drain for me.
 
3GS purplera1n battery stamina

im really happy thus far with the J/B on my 3GS

although im no longer running winterboard the phone is just as fast as it was stock, there is no noticeable difference unlike on my 3G.

Battery usage is right on par with my stock usage.
today it was standing by for 18 hours, was right around 6 and a half hours of usage and it was just under 20%, which makes me very happy.

Im running
SBSettings
Notifier
OpenSSH
 
hello. on 13.5hours of standby, battery life dropped by 3% only.

Settings are: 3G off, wifi off, BT off, BRIGHTNESS half, Jail-broken with redsn0w 0.8 (haven't install anything except for appsync), Location services off, push off.

Usage at the most 5-10min(sms). Is that normal? :confused:
 
So I did some experimenting today and found out why my 3G iPhone was losing battery power in about six hours.

Problem? The sim. It is a sim card from a Samsung cheap little flip pay as you go phone from AT&T. The sim will acivate the iPhone with no problems through iTunes after restoring, that I was surprised about. It's just the account associated with the sim has no data plan so the phone can only make calls or access data while on Wifi. No problems there. The problem comes in to affect when the phone is sleeping and the phone switches to edge or 3G. That drains the power very quckly as it can't connect to get a data connection.

Easy fix: Airplane mode or remove the sim.

I verified all of the above by placeing that sim in my 1st generation iPhone and the battry drained 50% in just two hours. I put the phone in airplane mode and the battery has stayed on 20% for the past hour.

My 3GS phone is also now Jailbroken using Purplera1n and of course since that phone has a real iPhone sim in it with a dataplan, that one never had battery draining problems.

Just putting the idea out there because I know many people here aren't using AT&T sims in their iPhones and some have no data plan. Your battery issues may be caused by this.
 
SpaceKitty said:
So I did some experimenting today and found out why my 3G iPhone was losing battery power in about six hours.

Problem? The sim. It is a sim card from a Samsung cheap little flip pay as you go phone from AT&T. The sim will acivate the iPhone with no problems through iTunes after restoring, that I was surprised about. It's just the account associated with the sim has no data plan so the phone can only make calls or access data while on Wifi. No problems there. The problem comes in to affect when the phone is sleeping and the phone switches to edge or 3G. That drains the power very quckly as it can't connect to get a data connection.

Easy fix: Airplane mode or remove the sim.

I verified all of the above by placeing that sim in my 1st generation iPhone and the battry drained 50% in just two hours. I put the phone in airplane mode and the battery has stayed on 20% for the past hour.

My 3GS phone is also now Jailbroken using Purplera1n and of course since that phone has a real iPhone sim in it with a dataplan, that one never had battery draining problems.

Just putting the idea out there because I know many people here aren't using AT&T sims in their iPhones and some have no data plan. Your battery issues may be caused by this.
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wow I never would have thought of the sim card..thats pretty smart.

eh disregard my previous comment looks like my 3gs phone is at 97% after 2 1/2 hours after i fully charged. looks like i can stop worrying about my battery life and actually start using my phone
 
are you sure redsn0w isn't causing the battery drain..

my 3G and 3GS seems to be draining 1% every 2 - 3 mins and that is just by moving the homescreen left and right no apps installed.


Gonna do the same thing with purplera1n and see if it happens as well
 
BlkR said:
are you sure redsn0w isn't causing the battery drain..

my 3G and 3GS seems to be draining 1% every 2 - 3 mins and that is just by moving the homescreen left and right no apps installed.


Gonna do the same thing with purplera1n and see if it happens as well
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If you are talking to me then yes I am 100% sure. My battery was draining with that sim card in the phone even when the phone wasn't jailbroken. It just seemed to me like jailbreaking it was the problem because I got the sim activated the same day I jailbroke the iPhone. I had to jailbreak my 1st generation phone becase this pay as you go sim would not work in the 1st generation phone without it being unlocked. In my 3G phone, it works no matter what, even activates it after restoring.
 
BlkR said:
are you sure redsn0w isn't causing the battery drain..

my 3G and 3GS seems to be draining 1% every 2 - 3 mins and that is just by moving the homescreen left and right no apps installed.


Gonna do the same thing with purplera1n and see if it happens as well
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Isn't 1% every three minutes with the phone powered on (not in standby) perfectly normal? At that rate, your iPhone's battery would die after 300 minutes, or five hours. That sounds normal to me ... :confused:
 
legaleye3000 said:
Unlocked 3GS. Push notifications turned off... BATTERY LIFE WORSE than 3G model... Anyone experience this? Its draining pretty fast considering my 3G is also off (TMO USA).

I'm using it the same way as I did with my 3G....
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I would try returning it asap if I were you as i too had the same issue. I have unlocked on redsnow with tmobile (3g off).
 
legaleye3000 said:
My unlocked 3GS drops 4% in 10 minutes !

-Did not run wifi or bluetooth or any gps programs
-Was fully charged... dropped from 100% to 96% in that time frame.
-Push notifications switched to "off".
-3G is disabled.
-Reset network settings too= no effect

Anything else I can do?
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Same here... Did u redsn0wed your 3GS?
Mine did, and I'm going to try purplera1n and see if it gets better.
 
Just as a reminder post:

I traced my battery drainage problem to my GoPhone sim without a data plan. Once I removed the sim, the battery would last a few days. Put the sim in, the battery would drop 1% every few minutes.

I would put my real iPhone sim in and the battery life was normal. Put the GoPhone sim back in and the battery life would drop again like above. I tested this on a 1st generation, 3G and the 3GS, same problem on all.
 
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