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Half a day, while far from ideal, was long enough for my needs. However, as soon as I upgraded, and not a minute earlier, the battery problem manifested. Now, i

Half a day, while far from ideal, was long enough for my needs. However, as soon as I upgraded, and not a minute earlier, the battery problem manifested. Now, it could be a coincidence and it is indeed just a problem specific to the battery, but its at best suspicious - the timing is. I will replace the batter anyway, and I am getting a new iPhone next week, I just don’t appreciate being “forced” to upgrade -- conveniently when the iPhone X came out, no less.

jakobegger 9y ago
If your battery only lasted half a day before, it was already a severely degraded battery. The update will put a lot of strain on the battery (iPhone does a lot of re-indexing and other stuff after the upgrade), which might might have caused the battery to deteriorate even more. And, as I said, you are not forced to upgrade. A battery replacement is cheap and quick and will solve all your problems and your phone will feel like new. I also have the iPhone 6S, and I've also been having trouble with the battery. I've had to replace it twice. (First time Apple replaced the whole phone because of a manufacturing defect, second time I went to a 3rd party repair shop) Sure, it would be nice if Apple products lasted forever without service. Unfortunately they don't. But servicing iPhones has become extremely cheap and extremely quick -- as long as you stay away from authorised service providers.
- markpapadakis 9y ago
  I am not concerned with the replacement costs -- it's just where I live, getting the battery replacement will likely mean that I have to ship it to another city(Athens), or, maybe, find some place in a different city in the island (Crete) who may be able to do it. Its a hassle and an inconvenience for me. What is odd is that is seems to be related to rendering; sometimes when I scroll on either direction on Tweetbot or on Safari, the iPhone will stall for maybe 500ms and the battery will drop by 20% or so instantly. Other times, I will app-switch to Slack and it will do the same. Reading content in black background/white text on the other hand, doesn't seem to be draining the battery. So I think its safe to assume this is an upgrade related problem. Also, I have disabled spotlight indexing and pretty much everything else I could, and it's also been quite some time since the upgrade for any upgrade tasks to be running to completion still.
  - jakobegger 9y ago
    I had the stalls as well, and they went away after replacing the battery. I’m pretty sure that there is no way to fix your phone with software. It’s a hardware problem. Just replace the battery, and it’ll work fine again. I don’t know where you live in Crete, but typing “iphone repair cityname” in google should quickly get you to a place that can replace your battery in 15min.

jakobegger 9y ago

If your battery only lasted half a day before, it was already a severely degraded battery. The update will put a lot of strain on the battery (iPhone does a lot of re-indexing and other stuff after the upgrade), which might might have caused the battery to deteriorate even more. And, as I said, you are not forced to upgrade. A battery replacement is cheap and quick and will solve all your problems and your phone will feel like new. I also have the iPhone 6S, and I've also been having trouble with the battery. I've had to replace it twice. (First time Apple replaced the whole phone because of a manufacturing defect, second time I went to a 3rd party repair shop) Sure, it would be nice if Apple products lasted forever without service. Unfortunately they don't. But servicing iPhones has become extremely cheap and extremely quick -- as long as you stay away from authorised service providers.

markpapadakis 9y ago
I am not concerned with the replacement costs -- it's just where I live, getting the battery replacement will likely mean that I have to ship it to another city(Athens), or, maybe, find some place in a different city in the island (Crete) who may be able to do it. Its a hassle and an inconvenience for me. What is odd is that is seems to be related to rendering; sometimes when I scroll on either direction on Tweetbot or on Safari, the iPhone will stall for maybe 500ms and the battery will drop by 20% or so instantly. Other times, I will app-switch to Slack and it will do the same. Reading content in black background/white text on the other hand, doesn't seem to be draining the battery. So I think its safe to assume this is an upgrade related problem. Also, I have disabled spotlight indexing and pretty much everything else I could, and it's also been quite some time since the upgrade for any upgrade tasks to be running to completion still.
- jakobegger 9y ago
  I had the stalls as well, and they went away after replacing the battery. I’m pretty sure that there is no way to fix your phone with software. It’s a hardware problem. Just replace the battery, and it’ll work fine again. I don’t know where you live in Crete, but typing “iphone repair cityname” in google should quickly get you to a place that can replace your battery in 15min.