sorry if this has been asked alot but need help with battery drain.

[moonman079]

i have did some searching on here but am legally blind. when i read too much i get headaches. so i had stop. my phone was at 100% today around noon and now it is down to 65% and i talked on it for a half hour total that is al. i have not done any apps or anything. but my battery is still draining fast. i saw some stuff about things running in the background. but did not see where you go to turn them off.
any other suggestions on what i can do and details on how i can do it would greatly be appreciated. i came to the iphone from a droid so i am new at all of this stuff.

 

[bab2010]

Double tape the home button, and u will see all the applications you think running in the background. U can just hold anyone of the app untill they start shaking, u will see a kind of sign on left top, tap on it to close them. Are u experiencing battery issues since you purchase your phone or this issue just started recentely???


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[moonman079]

thanks for the tip it looks like there was about 13 things running in the background so maybe that will help.
i have only had the phone a few days. it seemed to hold a better charge right out of the box. i charged it again last night it was at 100% at 3am and by 11am it was down to 92%. without being used at all. i turned off the stuff that uses my location and my wifi to see if that helps. but it did not seem to.

 

[iGaz]

Best way to check for a poor battery,

Charge it up to 100%, close all apps in the multitasking bar, put airline mode on and lock it. Go to bed. In the morning check it, you should be at 98-97% minimum. Much more loss than that suggests there's a fault somewhere...

 

[moonman079]

i will give that a try. i got all the apps closed out earlier today and have used my phone for less than 30 minutes and am down to 80% on my battery.

 

[DaZOU]

You should also make sure wifi is turned off (unless you are using it), and that location services is turned off (settings > general > location services).

 

[aliheintz]

OMG! I had absolutely no idea of how to close out applications, or that it was even possible! My battery has been draining like crazy. I literally had every single app on my phone running! No wonder! You guys are awesome!

 

[moonman079]

thanks guys i will try all of these suggestions out i need to charge my phone anyway. i will report back tomorrow and let you know how it goes. besides the battery so far i really like the phone.

 

[bab2010]

i will give that a try. i got all the apps closed out earlier today and have used my phone for less than 30 minutes and am down to 80% on my battery.

What about your screen brightness? Reduce it to the minimum possible you can instead of having it up to 100% bright. If you have setup email account on your phone, the check your mail "automatic fetch email every 15 or 30mn or so" off. You can fetch your mails manually.


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[geoff5093]

Best way to check for a poor battery,

Charge it up to 100%, close all apps in the multitasking bar, put airline mode on and lock it. Go to bed. In the morning check it, you should be at 98-97% minimum. Much more loss than that suggests there's a fault somewhere...

I don't see how the phone would only use 2-3% of the battery when it's idle for 8 hours, even in airplane mode.

 

[iGaz]

Well that's what my phone uses. Give it a try and see...

 

[moonman079]

i charged it to 100% last night and turned it on plane mode. when i checked it today it was at 99%. my wife called from work and talked for about 10 minutes. and it dropped to 90%. it is down to 85% not and that was the only time i have used it. i have not set up any email accounts on it yet so that should not be the problem.
i also have wifi turned off as well as my locations. i also have been keeping all the apps that would be in the background closed. my screen brightness is around 30% thats about as low as i can go and still see it. i am wondering if it is drawing a lot of power because of reception. where i live we don't get good signal. but so far this phone has had the best and i am keeping 2 bars.
my other phones never killed the battery like that. but i was lucky to get 1 bar in the house. that is the only other thing i can think of that would cause it. it just seems strange how it pulls so much just sitting there with the screen locked and nothing running.

 

[moonman079]

Turn ur email push to manually that also helps. Turn off repeat pop up in text messages. And r u jailbroken? Also try checking for updates on iTunes.

my phone is not jailbroken. i have heard of people doing that but am afraid i would mess the phone up if i tried. since i do not know what i am doing when it comes to stuff like that. if it is fairly easy to do i could probably do it. but i have not seen anything telling you how to do it.

 

[iGaz]

The fact that it only uses up 1% overnight on airplane mode suggest theres nothing wrong with the battery.

Perhaps the phone constantly searching for a signal is causing it to drain so quickly?

Check out the hacking section for everything on jailbreaking. There's a step by step guide on how it's done (not that it's hard) and jailbreaking is easily reversible if need be...

 

[moonman079]

thanks for all the info. if i sync my phone to itunes will it put all the songs i have on itunes on my phone? it does it every time i plug my ipod in. it puts all the songs on it again. also where do i look to find out how to make ringtones out of the songs i have on itunes?