first generation iphone battery issues
since i upgraded my iphone software to 2.0 to take advantage of the great new apps, i have noticed some strange things happening. first, there was the residual images of people, the kind associated with a contact that would pop up when that person calls, would sometimes be visible faded back even though my iphone was inactive for long periods of time, and even when i hadn't had calls from the contact.
about a week ago, i noticed this "bug" getting worse. my iphone was warm, and when i turned it on, the battery displayed that it had been drained. one day, i went for not quite two days, and the battery died. during the upgrade, there had been some hiccups with all the new and old iphone users simultaneously attempting to access the update, so i decided to restore and re-update my phone. well, everything seemed to go well until i started noticing a sudden increase in battery power loss the very next day. within hours of fully charging the phone, the battery life would fall to 50%. at the end of the day, i looked at the usage, and found that the phone indicated it had been in use the whole day, which was odd, since i hardly used it at all except checking email a couple times.
i did a little googling and found that i was not alone in my iphone woes. this battery drain seems to be afflicting both first generation phones with 2.0 upgrades and some 3G phones. there doesn't seem to be a clear answer (as of now) or solution to the problem, but some people offered various solutions that worked for some and not others. after turning off location services (under settings>general) and fetch new data services, there was some improvement to battery life, but somehow the life was being sucked out of my iphone more quickly than pre-upgrade.
mike found some information about programs continuing to run in the background and using up battery life, so i followed that advice--hold the home button down for 8 secs to force quit the app (including email, sms, etc.) when done. you can tell something is happening because as you let go of the button, the screen will blink. this last bit seems to have done wonders. today, my battery life hardly drained at all. thank goodness for the internet.
about a week ago, i noticed this "bug" getting worse. my iphone was warm, and when i turned it on, the battery displayed that it had been drained. one day, i went for not quite two days, and the battery died. during the upgrade, there had been some hiccups with all the new and old iphone users simultaneously attempting to access the update, so i decided to restore and re-update my phone. well, everything seemed to go well until i started noticing a sudden increase in battery power loss the very next day. within hours of fully charging the phone, the battery life would fall to 50%. at the end of the day, i looked at the usage, and found that the phone indicated it had been in use the whole day, which was odd, since i hardly used it at all except checking email a couple times.
i did a little googling and found that i was not alone in my iphone woes. this battery drain seems to be afflicting both first generation phones with 2.0 upgrades and some 3G phones. there doesn't seem to be a clear answer (as of now) or solution to the problem, but some people offered various solutions that worked for some and not others. after turning off location services (under settings>general) and fetch new data services, there was some improvement to battery life, but somehow the life was being sucked out of my iphone more quickly than pre-upgrade.
mike found some information about programs continuing to run in the background and using up battery life, so i followed that advice--hold the home button down for 8 secs to force quit the app (including email, sms, etc.) when done. you can tell something is happening because as you let go of the button, the screen will blink. this last bit seems to have done wonders. today, my battery life hardly drained at all. thank goodness for the internet.
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