Battery dies fast after jailbreak 5.1.1
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Do a hard reboot by holding the home button and power button down at same time until you see the apple logo, then release them and see if that clears it up.
I can go 8hrs of usage and thats calling a few calls or so and browsing internet for 3-4 hrs and texting and playing games, now if i don't do much all day i can get 2-3 days lol remember is a phone first, texting product second, browsing product third.
If reboot did not help, then let the battery drain to around 5% and fully charge it and don't use it while its charging and let it stay about 1-2 hrs on charger after it says 100%, then do this all over again. This will recalibrate the battery and should clear it up if a reboot did not.
I can go 8hrs of usage and thats calling a few calls or so and browsing internet for 3-4 hrs and texting and playing games, now if i don't do much all day i can get 2-3 days lol remember is a phone first, texting product second, browsing product third.
If reboot did not help, then let the battery drain to around 5% and fully charge it and don't use it while its charging and let it stay about 1-2 hrs on charger after it says 100%, then do this all over again. This will recalibrate the battery and should clear it up if a reboot did not.
newstang said:
You should always do a full cycle charge after installing a new iOS.
My battery drained rapidly after updating to 5.1.1 until I did a full cycle charge.
Charge to 100%...unplug, use normally.
Let drain down to 15% or lower ( do not let drain so much it powers off, like 3%-1%. Do not plug in at all during the draining period).
After drained to a low percentage....charge back up to 100%. (it is important that you don't use your phone at all..or at least as little as possible during final charge. Let it sit on charge for a good 2 hours after its reached 100%).
Follow those instructions *exactly* and your battery should be back to normal.
While calibrating the battery is necessary, if you are jailbroken a little tweak called Remove Background is your friend! I map it to a long press of the home button and use it liberally. It kills any background apps that may be running and sucking up the battery charge.
zphone said:
MultiCleaner does wonders for managing apps.
It has Activator actions for "quit currently opened app", "quit all apps", "open last app".
That way I can assign whatever gesture I want to kill all apps at one time.
Can also drag apps up and out of the app switcher to quit them.
I love MultiCleaner.lol.
newstang said:thanks guys, Ill try them all!. Hopefully im not sleeping when it goes down to almost dead
I had an app on my droid that showed what was using the most. is there anything like that for iphone?
thx
There is RAM management. And I think Impirium shows how much RAM each app is using. Not sure about that tho.
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I get horrible battery life also. I've tried the hard reboot and full cycle charge blah blah. IMO I think it may be possible some people exaggerate a bit on how much they get out of their batteries. I always keep my brightness at mid or below mid level, turn off wifi when not using, and have all my settings to help with battery life and i still end up switching my Mophie Juice pack on towards the end of the day. If I didn't have the Mophie my phone would die everyday before I got home.
Wow i just was out from 9:30 am until 1:00pm only talk about 20min in that time and surfed about 1hr, Phone was at 100% in morning and was at 84% when i came home.
I have all unecessary stuff turned off = Location services, bluetooth and wifi unless i need to use them i don't turn them on. I have brightness around 80% always.
So yes if you don't use the phone for huge amounts of time i will last days or hrs and hrs.
Like i posted before i can go 8hrs or more on medium usage.
