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Yours is broken.

by aero142 13y ago

Yours is broken.

ghshephard 13y ago
The hardware is fine - if I put it in Airplane mode, or, carefully disable every single background process, then it can sit in sleep mode with little battery loss, for a week. I guess another way of double checking this, is just reinstalling the Operating System from scratch at the Genius Bar.
- Steko 13y ago
  Well it's either broken hardware or severely misbehaving software. There's a free app called Carat that you can use to monitor apps for battery hogs.
  - workbench 13y ago
    It's not possible for software to misbehave on iOS. The system is ridiculously strict and "background processes" are basically faked and can only run for 10 minutes before they're killed. Clearly the poster has a faulty battery.
    - Steko 13y ago
      That's not clear at all because he states that the battery works fine when he runs it in airplane mode. If anything is clear it's that he uses a setting that activates the radios too often or an app that spams notifications. Without knowing anything else about his setup I'd implicate a busy push email.
- eclipxe 13y ago
  Or you know you could reinstall iOS via iTunes pretty easily. Why do you need a genius bar? And by carefully disabling every background process - what exactly do you mean? Other than mail checking - what user controllable background processes are there?
  - nwh 13y ago
    There's none. "Closing" apps in the multitasking switcher is more of a placebo than anything, the apps in it aren't running anyway. (The exception is VOIP and GPS apps, but they are not likely to be enabled without the user either being on a call or geting directions to somewhere.)
    - ghshephard 13y ago
      Closing Apps in the multi-tasking switcher has been the only way, on both the iPhone and iPad, to save your battery when apps on iOS run out of control. I certain I'm not the only person who has felt their iPhone get hot, and shut down everything in the switcher to recover the and stop the battery from draining? Likewise with the iPad, making sure every music, every voip, every downloading, every geo-fence, every GPS, every-single-app is shut down is the only way I can keep my iPad Battery from draining after running a good handful of apps. That, or just powering it down - which, as I said earlier, kind of defeats the purpose....
- workbench 13y ago
  iOS doesn't even have background processes. if you run an app and switch out then it can perform a network operation or a few other very specific tasks but they're all killed after 10 minutes anyway. The whole multitasking part of iOS is basically smoke and mirrors. Manually quitting tasks is pretty much voodoo at this point
eclipxe 13y ago
Yeah seriously. What apps do you have installed?

Yours is broken.

by aero142 13y ago

Yours is broken.

The hardware is fine - if I put it in Airplane mode, or, carefully disable every single background process, then it can sit in sleep mode with little battery loss, for a week. I guess another way of double checking this, is just reinstalling the Operating System from scratch at the Genius Bar.

Steko 13y ago
Well it's either broken hardware or severely misbehaving software. There's a free app called Carat that you can use to monitor apps for battery hogs.
- workbench 13y ago
  It's not possible for software to misbehave on iOS. The system is ridiculously strict and "background processes" are basically faked and can only run for 10 minutes before they're killed. Clearly the poster has a faulty battery.
  - Steko 13y ago
    That's not clear at all because he states that the battery works fine when he runs it in airplane mode. If anything is clear it's that he uses a setting that activates the radios too often or an app that spams notifications. Without knowing anything else about his setup I'd implicate a busy push email.
eclipxe 13y ago
Or you know you could reinstall iOS via iTunes pretty easily. Why do you need a genius bar? And by carefully disabling every background process - what exactly do you mean? Other than mail checking - what user controllable background processes are there?
- nwh 13y ago
  There's none. "Closing" apps in the multitasking switcher is more of a placebo than anything, the apps in it aren't running anyway. (The exception is VOIP and GPS apps, but they are not likely to be enabled without the user either being on a call or geting directions to somewhere.)
  - ghshephard 13y ago
    Closing Apps in the multi-tasking switcher has been the only way, on both the iPhone and iPad, to save your battery when apps on iOS run out of control. I certain I'm not the only person who has felt their iPhone get hot, and shut down everything in the switcher to recover the and stop the battery from draining? Likewise with the iPad, making sure every music, every voip, every downloading, every geo-fence, every GPS, every-single-app is shut down is the only way I can keep my iPad Battery from draining after running a good handful of apps. That, or just powering it down - which, as I said earlier, kind of defeats the purpose....
workbench 13y ago
iOS doesn't even have background processes. if you run an app and switch out then it can perform a network operation or a few other very specific tasks but they're all killed after 10 minutes anyway. The whole multitasking part of iOS is basically smoke and mirrors. Manually quitting tasks is pretty much voodoo at this point

eclipxe 13y ago

Yeah seriously. What apps do you have installed?