Battery life on 3GS after jailbreak? - Page 2

psylichon · 07-08-2009, 02:08 AM

Originally Posted by cdc515

i charged my iphone to 100%, i then took it off the charger at 1:33 and did not even do one thing to it just simply took it off the charger it is now 1:56 and my battery is at 95% any ideas how i can fix this? my battery is dropping really fast after JB and installation of Cydia apps.

EDIT: it is 2:01 now an my battery is at 94%

This cant be normal can it ????

It can be if you're in an area with poor reception. I also restart my iPhone at least once a day to clear any errant processes and that seems to help prevent non-usage draining like this.

cdc515 · 07-08-2009, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by psylichon

It can be if you're in an area with poor reception. I also restart my iPhone at least once a day to clear any errant processes and that seems to help prevent non-usage draining like this.

I have checked i have no peocesses running and i have full service, i think it may be the wifi thats it not turning off when my phone locks

its 2:28 and i have 90% battery haha this is like funny to me

psylichon · 07-08-2009, 02:30 AM

Did you reboot? Try that and see if the drain continues.

cdc515 · 07-08-2009, 02:34 AM

Originally Posted by psylichon

Did you reboot? Try that and see if the drain continues.

2:33 and my battery is at 89& haha i just turned off wifi and 3g lets see if it stops dropping every second

im going to reboot now

EDIT: Just rebooted and waited 10 minutes to report it is now 2:43 and my battery is at 88%

2:53 = 87%

3:33 = 84%

iMerlin · 07-08-2009, 08:40 AM

I JB'd yesterday and used my phone heavily throughout the day and didnt notice anything strange with battery life until this morning. I plug my phone in every night. Upon waking up my phone was at 75% battery life... it was on the charger for close to 6 hours, so thats not right. I plugged it into my car charger and drove to the health club this morning and it hit 100% on my 30 minute commute. I listened to tunes while I lifted and its down to 86%. Normally it only drops 5% or so for my hour work out.
Im going to reboot now to see if that helps.

Does anyone know, should the battery be re-calibrated after a JB? I wouldnt think so but who knows.

cdc515 · 07-08-2009, 01:48 PM

ok it has been about 12 hours since last post and my battery is at 42% it deffinitly slowed down a little after turning off wifi bluetooth ssh and 3g haha i feel like i should just shut the phone off

PBear · 07-10-2009, 08:52 PM

@cdc515 - I JB'd my 3GS w/ purplera1n and installed winterboard and categories. I had the same problem with the battery draining faster than usual. I lost 10% in an hour and all I did was make a 2 minutes phone call.

Today I restored and then JB'd with w/ redsn0w. I have categories, intelliscreen and myprofiles installed and my battery life seems to be back to normal.

cliffeman · 07-10-2009, 11:17 PM

Seems like results vary for both j/b tools. Mine is still zipping along. Battery life is still about the same as before the jailbreak.

On the other hand...the other phone I j/b with redsn0w, has been running pretty steady. I noticed memory was in the 130's with mo apps open. In the 110's with Cydia running. Thought that was kind of odd seeing mines fluxuated between the 130's to 160's. Battery life is good. No serious drainage issues with Winterboard.

LKB3rd · 07-12-2009, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by psylichon

It can be if you're in an area with poor reception. I also restart my iPhone at least once a day to clear any errant processes and that seems to help prevent non-usage draining like this.

I have very poor on/off reception at home, and my battery drains even when not being used at home. I have been charging it, and turning it off before I go to sleep at night, and as soon as I get down the road with reception the battery holds up just fine the next day.

cdc515 · 07-12-2009, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by PBear

@cdc515 - I JB'd my 3GS w/ purplera1n and installed winterboard and categories. I had the same problem with the battery draining faster than usual. I lost 10% in an hour and all I did was make a 2 minutes phone call.

Today I restored and then JB'd with w/ redsn0w. I have categories, intelliscreen and myprofiles installed and my battery life seems to be back to normal.

Thank you i just restored and re-jailbroke my iphone i will let you know if my battery status has chanfed or not but i do think that solved my problem.

Neermind the problem continues 10 minutes just going through my mail and my battery dropped from 100% to 95%