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By: Rokaya

Rokaya — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:26:41 +0000

I also had the same problem with battery drain after I did the update, so I clicked on my itunes and restored my phone and when it asked to restore it to a new phone or the backup I chose backup and it redid the whole process. I charged my battery to full yesterday and today it's still 90%. so it kinda worked. try that maybe it will work for u to.The battery life seems longer now.

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Colin Hall — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:18:49 +0000

IMHO it's a very good idea, but Apple should approach it with care and a level delicacy. The product is excellent in my experience, but there should always be room for improvement and involving the consumer in this process is a logical step. I think that Apple could make the whole process easier by rewarding anyone who helps them track down any faults.

By: Lauren Riya

Lauren Riya — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:37:45 +0000

When you got more information, remember to contact me. I too facing the same problem, my 3gs did nothing and it will only last half day to a day. It can't go more than 1 day even you off the wifi, 3G, etc.

By: Tom Hood

Tom Hood — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:46:56 +0000

Coun me in - my 3GS is running at less than half of pre-upgrade, only about 3-4 hours without any heavy usage - very bad. Thanks for getting the word out!

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Watch Movies For Free — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:52:45 +0000

I was using 3.0 with my 3GS. Upgraded to 3.1 now battery drains like drinking a beer. My phone lasts only 10 hours. Apple, I demand you to fix this issue. Don’t you care about your customers ?

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Serge — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:39:17 +0000

WoW!!!!!! just purchased the iPhone a week ago......God I should have stayed with Blackberry!!!! I feel the iPhone has so much potential, but man, the battery life takes all of that potential away. It has great apps and all, but I'mnot into recharging my phone 2 to 3 times a day. With the BB storm, I did as much as I'm doing with my new iPhone, only diff., just needed to charge the battery every 2 days.!!!!

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Budi — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:35:53 +0000

Sure the battery on iPhone 3G is not that great, but what can we do? We want small size phones, powerful features and lengthy battery life.

By: Corey williams

Corey williams — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:06:59 +0000

I just bought a mophie juice pack. And for the first couple of days it worked fine. But now when I go to use my phone after a full nights charge of both the iPhone and the mophie my phone shutsdown claiming to have no battery charge. I turn on the mophie to charge it andafter a couple of minutes my phone reads full charge again. I turn off the juice pack and use my phones 3g and it wipes the battery clean again after like 2 minutes of use. Please tell me what I can do to fix this problem it is getting frustrating.

By: Slh1812

Slh1812 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:56:42 +0000

I got a refurb 3gs, battery life totally bites. If I use anything--type an email, listen to a few minutes of tunes, whatever, battery life cascades from 99% to 85% in no time flat. Then if I don't charge it, indicator shows life don't to 65% in less than 2 hours. In fact, after charging all night, and just from being on this site and typing this note, I've gone from 100% down to 95%! Pretty annoying and a big issue for me since I'm untethered most of the day. Yeah, I'd like a chance to tell Apple what I think about 3.1 and 3gs!! Thank you for the forum.

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Donna — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:51:38 +0000

Hi there, i got iphone 3Gs, im not playing any games nor using it whnever im in my duty in the hospital. I leave my house with my iphone fully charged and go back 8hours after duty only to find my iphone out of battery power again. Do you guys think it's still normal??

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I just read the comment above... that makes sense. I'd just changed my phone to sync 90 days of email.... I bet that's it.

By: infused

infused — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:28:10 +0000

Mines been fine for weeks. Then suddenly, today it starts. Within 2-3hrs it will go from 100%-0%. This happened when I synced with my pc (normally just power from mains outlet). Ever since it drains. Running a restore now. Hopefully this fixes it.

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By: Ryan La Riviere

Ryan La Riviere — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:06:50 +0000

I finally got my battery problem resolved...by the MoblieMe team. Turns out I have a rare issue of syncitis. The sync log on the MobileMe servers was over 3000 for my contacts and over 2000 for my calendars. (Note: my battery problem would go away when I wasn't syncing contacts/calendars over-the-air). The tech said most "normal" people are only up to 500-1000. This higher number of sync logs was causing the iPhone to work much harder and never actually finish syncing in the background (the CPU usage was usually in the 70% range 24/7). Once the tech cleared all my logs from the servers and I cleared all the computers from syncing and set up everything fresh, life was good and my battery life is now what it should be.

By: Ryan La Riviere

Ryan La Riviere — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:54:07 +0000

I had the same battery problem on my 3GS. I had narrowed it down at the time to something with my MobileMe e-mail account. I called Apple tech support who then routed me over to the mobile tech support who then suggested I go see a Genius at a store. I did do and they gave me a new phone. Same problem when I got home. A little more digging and it turned out I only had the problem when I had over the air syncing of my address book and/or calendars. Turning them off and I get 2 days of use. Turn any one of them on and I get 5 hours (without even using it). Seems there is some background app chewing up CPU and subsequently killing the battery. When I looked at my usage and standby times they were always in sync while the address book and/or calendar syncing was on. I'm in the process now of working with Apple on finding a solution other than turning off over the air syncing of the addressbook and calendars.

By: Luke Robinson

Luke Robinson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:53 +0000

I have the 3g iphone and its battery only last 7 hrs max and thats on standby time if i use it calls and txt it will get a maxium of 4-5 hrs its flat every day and gets charged everynight... wondering is there a fix or if its this 3.1 software it seems to have caused it to get worse.. was going to get the battery changed but probley not worth it....

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By: John

John — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:43:38 +0000

3.0- 10 hours battery life easily..lots of gaming,music,surfing,mailing, talking (edge)...was like a MAGICAL DEVICE

3.1- EXTREMELY poor battery life, 1 day got it's usage as 7 hours, next day it dies in 3 hours, WTF !!!

SCREW all new additions from 3.0 to 3.1 , if this freaking lame 3.1 is taking the heart (battery) out of the device.....there is no fckin point of having such a weird OS UPDATE !!!

i will revert it back to 3.0 no matter whatsoever it may take me to do that

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By: drmurti

drmurti — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:32:03 +0000

Hi all,

I was using 3.0 with my 3GS. Upgraded to 3.1 now battery drains like drinking a beer. My phone lasts only 10 hours. Apple, come one and fix this issue. Don't you care about loyal users ?

By: Edie

Edie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:36:33 +0000

I think it doesn't make a difference. I'm in Europe, Bought the iphone in the US, and all the same problem to me. Rediculous. I haven't unlock the phone yet, but I'm gonna wait until the apple fixes this with a new application. Hopefully. Or I don't know what to do...

By: starrwulfe

starrwulfe — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:13:03 +0000

I recently bought a 3Gs with 3.1 out the box... I had to restore it last night due to an issue with a corrupted app. This automatically put 3.1.2 on the phone. Before then, I would last a day with regular use (surfing net, using google, making calls, listening to ipod thru Bluetooth)

Today I left the house, and during my 20 minute subway commute, didn't use the phone at all... When I got off the train, my 100% battery charge went down to 81%!! It's usually at 98! After 20 minutes of mails, tweets and such, its down to 50%! WTF?! Why the hell did I need to install the LATEST firmware thru iTunes BEFORE I could restore it anyway?? I could have been fine with just restoring it with the backup that was already there!! It charges slowly too... this is rediculous. I'm in Japan if that makes a difference...

By: Edie

Edie — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:19:40 +0000

Hi I bought my 3GS in August. I used it for internet and applications and the battery lasted for at least 3 days. In september after the software update, the battery does not even lasts for a day in standby. No kidding. I do not touch it and it goes dow from 100% to 0 in 20hrs. I have to jailbreak it but I think I am going to wait because I am afraid that after this the problem is gonna last.

By: Enrico

Enrico — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:11:58 +0000

Hi, I never had big battery issues, but after installing the 3.1.2 on my iPhone 3GS (october,7) I started with exagerate battery draining !!! But in same time I've upgraded some APPS, so... what's the real problem ??? AAARGH !!!

By: AM

AM — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:38:18 +0000

I'd been having the battery life issues for a couple of days too. The battery drained as if the phone was in use even though it was in sleep mode. I upgraded to 3.1.2 and hoped it would solve the problem, but nothing happened. After trying to troubleshoot long and hard, turns out it was app that was draining the battery life even though i was not using the phone. In my case, it was a game called Topple. The minute i deleted the app, everything started to work as normal again. It may not be topple that specifically causes the problem, i believe it is some kind of compatibility issue. So suggest you start by deleting your apps one by one and observe which one may be causing the problem. Good luck!

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By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:15:56 +0000

I was having major problems with the battery until I restored to 3.1 and then re-loaded from backup at the advice of Apple. Still had MAJOR battery issues until I let battery discharge overnight past RED. Re-charged fully and battery is acting as if new. Possible there are several issues and one of them is the battery memory or charging circuit.

By: Kien

Kien — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:58:18 +0000

Anyone out there on AT&T's most data used " blacklist" everytime I'm on utube or poker live for 5 minutes or so I get switch from 3g to edge network.I have 5 iPhones on my family plan. This only happens to my phone because I use alot of data. AT&T is soooooo lame!!!!

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Kien — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:14:27 +0000

I'm sick of AT&T switch my network from 3 g to edge just because I use alot of data on poker live. Do something about it Apple! Can't do anything with iPhone on edge network.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:14:03 +0000

3.1 I meant, and my phone is about to die again after 12 hours standyby and 53 minutes usage. I took it off the charger at 9:oo pm last night and now it's dead at the beginning of the work day....

Notes: a) My phone was good for 6 - 7 hours usage prior to 3.1.

b) 3.1.2 has still not fixed the problem.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:03:37 +0000

I've been having battery problems ever since 3.0 came out. It seems like my phone works normally until the battery hit's the mid 70's and then it drops to the low 20's and keeps dropping fast to shut-off over the next hour or so.

I installed yesterdays' (Oct 6) update and hoped that was going to fix the issue but now I'm posting and my battery just dropped to 23% after very little usage...

By: GetWithItApple

GetWithItApple — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:58:54 +0000

Just wanted to add my 2 cents that I am also having major battery issues since upgrading to 3.1. A full charge would last me usually 3 days with minimal use and now it barely lasts a day.

I am extra ticked off this morning because when I went to sleep last night the phone had at least 60% charge but when I woke up 20minutes late I released my alarm to did not go off and what do you know, the battery is dead.

This is ridiculous considering what I pay for this device! Apple get your stuff together! I can no longer trust this phone to be there for me and will be spreading the word to everyone I know.

By: Roger L

Roger L — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:58:21 +0000

I just wanted to add that I also am noticing poor battery life. I shoed an eight of a bar of power at least yet a few minutes later it died. The bar indicator seems to not give accurate indications along with the issue of it just dieing faster than it used to.

I was out of 3G range when it happened.

By: Dustyn

Dustyn — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:04:14 +0000

Ive had my iphone for a week now i took it off charge this morning at 6am sent 2 messages at 9am saying 64% battery, then at 4pm check if i missed any calls or messages and it was dead flat. 10hrs on standby you could say what a fkn joke.

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Indonesia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:54:04 +0000

I really regret for buy this iphone,we pay so expensive for the low quality battery iphone,compare to my nokia e71,i can say the battery life can 3x stronger than iphone ,what kind of business phone is iphone? If you just have 1 phone (iphone) your business will ruin by this battery..

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:03:09 +0000

Glad to know it was a problem with so many other people. I brought it to the apple 2 days ago and they couldn't do anything either. I get frustrated so I don't use it anymore. I hope this problem gets fixed soon..

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:17:07 +0000

I have both problems. I have had many comas but my batteries were fine until now.

Since yesterday my batteries have only lasted a few hours. I turned off all notifications and still it's draining 1% every few minutes.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:24:22 +0000

Recieved a text with picture for the first time and noticed I have a camera icon next to texting window. 3G 3.1 Not sure what I did to enable phone to be able to recieve and send pic via text. Also have issue with phone going dead susposidly with full charge. Phone will not turn on and does not seem to charge except when hooked to laptop. At that time it indicates the battery is completely dischaged. Once hooked to laptop phone comes back to life and starts charging.

By: 3Gs 32g v.3.0

3Gs 32g v.3.0 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:08:19 +0000

Got my 3Gs in July and had heard of lousy iPhone batts before then. My only saving grace is that I'm home ALL the time, because I do have to charge it constantly every few hours, non-stop recharging probably a half-dozen times a day and more. (I am online with this thing 12-16 hrs a day, so maybe that's normal -?).

I never use wifi (none around here) or GPS or even push that I know of. Not even hardly any video, a utube here and there. Mostly simple web surfing researching reading, checking email, a little texting, some Twitter, blogging, etc.

Thankfully apple store gave me a freebie extension cord as the one that came with the phone is waaaay too short. (I wonder what they charge for that sucker? Probably $20 bucks!)

But I'm also using the thing non-stop, as an Internet device (and I really love it for that) so maybe it's normal for the batt to have to be recharged incessantly.

I never use the Iphone as a phone, believe it or not, so can't comment on those issues. I had heard of the dropped calls, bad reception issues, etc. before I got it. So I don't chance it and when needed I use my throw-away Nokia.

Since I heard of the problems with 3.1, I think I'll keep things as they are. I've never even updated to 3.0.1, still using 3.0 that it came with.

Sometimes the phone feels like it is in stall mode but I always figured it is ATT, but I don't know.

I really feel for everyone who has to be out and about with a phone and batts that are so unreliable. :-/

By: Derick Foroutan

Derick Foroutan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:26:08 +0000

see ive been up for 48 min exactly and my phone is already at 75% wt and i havent done anything but check for messages and phone calls. i read one email using my wifi signal and now its at 75% with my 3g i could watch three movies a night at work and still have atleast 25%battery life left. thats 6 hrs of constant video. come on apple come on on on on on board.

By: Derick Foroutan

Derick Foroutan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:21:44 +0000

Im having these same problems man this really make me mad. im tired of this. i had a 3g stolen then two mos later i get this 3gs on 3.1 ive had it for not even 30 days yet im about to take it back to att and tell them to just give me a 3g or is it bad too with the 3.1 update. my battery drops half way within an hour of taking it off of full charge i can text for 30 min. yall already know this ive called you and told you about it can you please fix this. wt is going on.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:55:58 +0000

Hi, I just updated to 3.1 on my iPhone 4 days ago. Since then my phone has stopped responding 4 to 5 times. By stopped responding, I mean I could be using it and it looks to have 20% to 40% power, hit the top right button to put turn the screen off, then pick the phone up only a few seconds later only to find that clicking any button does not start the phone back up.

I tried the tip from another site where they said to hols down both buttons (top right and front bottom) at the same time and for 10-12 seconds. This caused the Apple logo to appear. But it stayed on the Apple logo for like 5 minutes until I plugged it into iTunes to see of that would help.

I just had to drop $2,500 for a new MacBook Pro two weeks ago because the logic board went. Now this? WTF is up with Apple lately? My Apple products have been transforming more into lemons rather than Apples.

By: eric h

eric h — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:25:54 +0000

So.... even though I often can't make or receive phone calls on my 32G 3GS, I have noticed that my batt runs down extremely fast, and the phone getting HOT after turning on google maps, or the compass. After using these I have to turn the phone off and on after using them then it preserves the batt life. I am extremely upset about the inability to call though. an iP(what)

By: Marianne Stone

Marianne Stone — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:10:24 +0000

I've noticed a significant change - my battery drains very quickly, even though I've made changes recommended by others online (turning of automatic processes such as email push and checking for wifi). I used to be able to listen to internet radio at work with my phone plugged in to charge it, and it would be fully charged at the end of the day. Now it seems that listening to the radio disables the charge, because I get a low battery warning halfway through the day. Turning off the app results in my being able to charge it, but this is unacceptable.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:47:31 +0000

I haven't noticed a change in my battery life..it was always horrible. The only time I'm on Wi-fi is in my house, and I do text a lot. Seems odd that just SMS would cause such a decrease in life. I also experience the coma about once a day. I'm so afraid of my phone going into a coma during the night, I set a back up alarm so I do not oversleep. I hope Apple has their guys hard at work coming up with a new update for these issues.

By: Pete's Sake

Pete's Sake — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:42:55 +0000

Yes, I have experience serious battery drainage even thou I'm on stanby mode, in every 2 to 4 minutes, the battery percentage drops by 1% even when I'm not using any apps, in fact I was just checking the time. Again and again, and hve realized it dropped again, time after time, this happened immediately I've updated to OS 3.1..

I hope apple will seriously look into this matter and quickly come up with a new OS version or something, that will fix all the bugs in 3.1 Thanks.

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Hans — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:10:47 +0000

I join the choir. Last Sunday I went for a walk. Iphone 3GS 3.1 fully loaded. Started Runtracker to record my tour. After a while I had to switch to application Maps (a wee bit lost). After approx. 2.5 hours of walking phone starts complaining of only 20% charge left. I'd say there is something draining the battery which is not normal. I've had cell phones since the old NMT700 system and nothing ever behaved this way. I think Apple should give the problem some serious attention. No coma so far though, phew!

By: Star

Star — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:55:31 +0000

Even after a downgrade the phone continues to eat up the battery 'insanely'. I used to be able to use the phone very intensely for a day and a half and three days with medium use. That is play games take calls and other CPU intensive activity. The phone would last for a day and a half with this type of load. Now it last about six hours, if that. That’s on Firmware 2.2.1 with modem firmware 04.05.04_G. I have a 2g iphone, which also means that the battery it has possesses a HIGHER yield. At I believe 1400mAh as apposed to the 1150mAh that the 3g posses. Also the CPU is not as powerful either. Apple is running some serious threads in the background. I would like to know what exactly they are running. And have them stop it.

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By: Fer

Fer — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:51:14 +0000

Ok, here is my issue... I use my iphone every single minute of the day so It's hard to me to find out if I am having the same battery problems, but yesterday I tried to open an app and it suddenly closes, I tried that with every each of one and it happens again! I made an update on one of them and the issue got solved on every app, the rare fact is that the apps from the firmware were working just fine. The other thing that happened today was the ipod function, every song transfered before the 3.0 and that they were purchased on the itunes store cannot be played. I said that itunes 9.0 is causing the problem because my iphone was working fine before the itunes update even with 3.1 update. Right now I'm restoring the iphone to it's original factory settings, so wish me luck!

By: Santiago

Santiago — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:48:34 +0000

I had the same battery problem after Iphone software update to 3.1 (i have an iPhone 3G). I solved the problem by turning the iPhone off and turning it back on a few seconds later. And it worked!!!

Here is how: Hold down the sleep button until the red “Slide to power off” arrow appears. Then just swipe, let the iPhone turn off, wait a few seconds, and hold down the sleep button again to turn your iPhone back on.

Try the power cycle solution. It worked for me. Good luck.

By: Jenny O

Jenny O — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:07:35 +0000

I have a 3G that worked PERFECTLY until I upgraded to 3.1 ... now the battery will completely drain without warning, shutting off the phone and resulting in missed calls and missed alarms. My battery used to last for days at a time and now it won't get through the night. Apple - please come up with a fix so that I can have my trusty phone back!!!!

By: Davenull

Davenull — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:34:41 +0000

Well, I noticed a trend here that I am not part of. My service is cut off, so I in essence use my iPhone 3g as an ipod. I never have any cellular data usage, as I have no service, but my battery life is about the same as it was, I get 15% less time or so, but no freezing, nor rapid drains. I use it all day long, music, wifi internet, a few games, twitterific, and a few other tasks, but no major drain increase like I have heard of, but one still...

By: blavett

blavett — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:59:20 +0000

My battery on the 3GS is worthless!!!

By: Aferguson

Aferguson — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:58:13 +0000

I recently upgraded as well. Not only is my battery life all over board, my phone will freeze and after I restarted it will show missed voicemails and text from the past 12+/- hours that I never had recieved before.

By: Xaroc

Xaroc — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:37:08 +0000

I have had my Iphone 3G for about 3-4 months. when 3.0 Was released i was very happy with the increased battery it appeared to have. i could go a whole work day with solid 9 hours of music and still be around %50 give or take depending on how many SMS or Emails. since 3.1 after work , im down below 30% and get the 20% warning just as i get home from work. have to charge mid day now. Also i noticed my Device gets a little hotter at times. And yes , I drop to Edge a LOT now. it rarely happen with 3.0. This needs to be addressed ASAP. lets hope apple hears these complaints

By: krisman

krisman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:56:10 +0000

my iphone 20 days old has the same issues.battery lasts 8 hrs max.and i dont listen to music,or play games.just make and recieve maybe 10-12 calls a day very disappointed

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:01:55 +0000

When I push the button to use the iphone it takes up to 15 seconds for the screen to come on. Then I swipe the screen to enter and it takes another 10 seconds to get in. Does any one else have these delay issues?

By: OutlawZZ

OutlawZZ — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:23:52 +0000

Well I am still on 3.01 with a 32GB 3GS which is JB. I am going to stay on 3.01 for quite some time until this gets ironed out. I am not exactly happy with battery life but there's no way I want to upgrade and make this even worse. Whats the point of this phone if we have to turn off 3G, Push notifications, Push Mail? May as well get a damn blackberry if we have to turn all this off. At least my blackberry lasts days and days at a time albeit being on Edge all the time.

By: wmferguson

wmferguson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:19:27 +0000

I had a problem that my iPhone failed in the upgrade to 3.1 and I had to use my backup to restore. Now the battery burns faster than ever and I get a lot of Edge in areas I got full 3G. Whats going on?

By: Scott Chandler

Scott Chandler — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:27:52 +0000

I use to have a At&T Nokia cell phone. And a AT&T USB AirCard for connecting my Laptop to the internet while out in the feild. I also had a Zune for listening to my MP3 books while I cummuted.

I traded it all in for an iPhone. Less devices and saved money.

Now I have to always charge my iPhone which means I have had to buy and carry chargers and external batteries, etc.

OS 3.1 turned off my Teathering so now I'm going to have to get my AT&T USB AirCard turn back on which means more expence.

The iPhone is cool and all but they didn't give us the strait scope on it's battery and AT&T & Apple are playing games about allowing Teathering. It's allowed with an AirCard or a Blackbery but not allowed on an iPhone even when they're sales forces says it was and even set it up for us.

What's next? On every other Tuesday it will be illegal to use our Facebook app, or what.

By: Scott Chandler

Scott Chandler — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:16:39 +0000

My AT&T sales person told me how to Teather my iPhone when I was shopping. He said if you want an iPhone versus a Blackberry let me show you something cool. So he showed me how to Teather the iPhone. Not only did that allow the iPhone to do what I needed it cost less than the Blackberry's Teathering. So I bought the iPhone.

Now after OS 3.1 has come out and destroyed my Teathering I find out I have been a criminal and that Teathering is not "legal" or some sort of issue with Apple trying to get protection from the U.S. goverment against us that ever do this.

Heck I'll pay for it if they would only offer it like they do with their Blackberry phone. I bought the iPhone because it had it. If it didn't I would have bought something else.

Now I feel like a crook, I also feel ripped off. And I have lost a lot of respect I have had for years for Apple and At&T.

Man I wish I had my old darn phone back. I hate being jerked around.

By: Scott Chandler

Scott Chandler — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:06:16 +0000

My wife and I both got our iPhone 3Gs at the same time. She has gone though the Coma issue which scared her. Me, well I have to consistantly charge mine. For instance if I drive 1 hour commute in the mornign using iPod app to listen to a MP3 book I can lose as much as 40 to 50 percent of my phone's charge. I love the device but as an All-in-One device I think it doesn't have the battery for it.

By: Jon Biddell

Jon Biddell — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:40:23 +0000

Firmware 3.1 is seriously broken in other ways too. Smart Playlists, for example, are not synched properly - the play order is IGNORED. Worked fine with iTunes 9 and firmware 3.0.

Spoke to Apple Australia on Monday about this and their solution (from 2nd level support !!) was "downgrade to 3.0 and see if it fixes things".

Um... guys, HELLO ?? You removed the ability to do that when 3.1 came out ??

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:31:37 +0000

Does anyone have ipod on their iphone and the songs are stuck on shuffle?? I can't seem to find out how to get them off of shuffle after updating my phone!

By: Phillip

Phillip — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:31:06 +0000

I have iphone 3GS. With fw 3.0.1 (original), I had battery drain issue. I turned on everything and battery only last 5 hrs before 0% reach. But after calibrating the battery (easy, all you have to do is drain the battery completely and recharge it to 100%), the battery life improve significantly, I could easily go through a day without charging and I am very happy. But when I accidentally upgrade to fw 3.1, battery life gets worse than 3.0.1. Doing anything will suck up battery life. Even standby, it will suck up 10% easily. Playing iTune, battery suck up at least 1% for 2-3 songs. Apple need to take a look at the issue and fix it quickly. Re-calibrating battery might help? I don't know I haven't calibrated with the new fw 3.1. I will do it today and give you guys update. Btw, I am an average user.

By: Oklahoma

Oklahoma — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:45:38 +0000

I went a week without any problems and now my iphone is dead just an hour after a full charge. This is bizarre. No warning, just won't start up. Last time I had to wait overnight for it to decide to work again.

By: Stephanus Malaihollo

Stephanus Malaihollo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:55:29 +0000

I have been having really poor battery life as oppose to my regular 3G. I have both side by side and turned off Wifi and bluetooth and let it sit there, the 3GS batter goes dead 30-45mn before 3G in the two times i've tested. then i used them under some load, i ran IHEARTRadio on both phones tuning to KFI.. once again within 3 hours my 3Gs is at 20% alert, 3G still in the green zone. 3.5 hours and 3GS goes dead 3G still holds strong for about 45minutes.

Anyhnow hopefully apple fixes this.

on another note i'm going to invest in one of those solar chargers ..

-Steph'

By: Rolston

Rolston — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:24:28 +0000

AAAGGGHHHH!!!! Getting so sick and tired of AT&T..My Iphone and my wifes have been freezeing up on us, AT&T is offering no help what so ever and i cant take out my battery and replace it because Apple in there so call wisdom decided to seal the damn thing in which there is no accesss!!! WTF APPLE!!!!!!Should have stuck with my Blackberry Bold on Verizon!!! Plus while playing golf i used the golfshot app which by the way is great!!! but by the 15th hole my battery was almost drained..come on apple, take the time and effort to do it right and stop putting out a new iphone,itouch,ipod, etc. every friggin couple of years, the stores do not take trade ins and the late models are just there laying wherever..

By: Børge Konstmann

Børge Konstmann — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:06:49 +0000

I have had the problem too. In app. 2,5 hour the battery goes from full to 0. I have had the problem in 3.0 and 3.0.1 too, usually after a restore, and a couple of times I have had another SIM-card inserted in the phone. My problem was solved by typing the APN-name in Settings -> Network -> Mobile Datanetwork. With tish I also got the GPS-module to work again...

My phone is unlocked from the carrier, and the information is not inserted by default.

I hope this can help others to solve the problem..

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:16 +0000

i do use my iphone quite alot.. but mostly for texting..

its the only phone where i have had to carry the charger with me. if i charge my battery to 100% then go a few streets away to my mates the battery will be at 90% within 20mins!!

been carrying my old phone around in case mine runs out of power.

i turn off all the 'power eating' "features".. ..but whats the point of turning them off in the first place!?

why is the batterylife so short?!?

global warming has probably increased due to the sheer amount of people constantly charging their iphones!! lol

By: Pearl

Pearl — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:02:44 +0000

Ever since I had downloaded the 3.1 version on my iphone, my phone only last max 6 hours per day. And if I don't carry my phone charger in my bag wherever I go, I have to change to another mobile phone. I had followed all instruction to turn off application that says it might drain battery, but it's pretty useless. This phone is hardly a year old.... where is the justice to this? Apple better come up with solution soon and compensate all iPhone users who are encountering the same problems!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:07:21 +0000

My iPhone 3gs has worse battery life than my laptop. My iPhone will only run about three hours till it dies and that's with wifi disabled and on min brightness and now to keep power all day I need to use my laptop as a power source.

By: Derik

Derik — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:46:40 +0000

Same issue here. Installed 3.1 about two weeks ago and have had nothing but issues with battery life. I can take the phone off the charger, not use it and it still drains at an alarming rate. I used to only have to charge it every 2-3 days. Not its 2-3 times a day.

By: Cambo

Cambo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:43:21 +0000

I have had mine for a week. I have calibrated the battery and it runs down in under four hours without me using any apps or making phone calls. I charged it last night and it dropped 10% in 7 minutes. With two hours it was at 15% where it stayed until it then dramatically dropped to 0%.

I am very disappointed with this and hope that Apple does the decent thing and rectifies this within days. It is not good enough.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:33:50 +0000

I just installed 3.1 on Sunday. Two hours after I pulled my phone from my charger my battery is down to 66%. This is crazy!! I wish I hadn't upgraded as well.

By: Chris Bartow

Chris Bartow — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:07:29 +0000

My battery meter stays at 100%, but the phone complete dies in about a 1/4 of the time it use to.

Apple, please fix!

By: David Beaty

David Beaty — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:38:45 +0000

I've had a mix of results that don't leave me with confidence in the battery meter. Yesterday, whilst reading a few RSS news items on my way home (30mins), my battery dropped from 70% to 8%, then switched off, dropping 1% every 30seconds or so. Today, after fully charging, it's stayed at 100% for the past 3hours, with some light usage. Strange

By: scott c waring-writer/teacher

scott c waring-writer/teacher — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:39:02 +0000

I bought a new 3GS just 2 weeks ago in TAIWAN. It only stayed charged for 3 hours before dyeing! Then I read around that Apple messed up something making them suck dry the battery life and it recommended (internet article) that I do two things. 1. turn off LOCATION SERVICES 2. turn off ENABLE 3G

Now my iphone will stay charged for 2.5 days, but to use it I have to switch these two things on. VERY INCONVENIENT. I tried rebooting the entire thing, reinstalling the software and instead it only wasted many hours of my time and still was not fixed. and I will twitter my complaints 20-100 times a day till they are addressed!

Scott Waring