Comments on: Polls: Did iPhone 3.1.2 Fix Your Battery Life, “Coma Mode”?

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By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:17:52 +0000

Hi all, just thought i’d share my latest iphone symtoms and fix with you all. I have a 3GS at 3.1.2 unlocked and jailbroken with blackrain. All has been working well until i did a sync with itunes. Battery life was poor, it lasted about 5 hours and the phone was always warm to the touch. I tried switching off functions (locn services,join wifi networks, etc, etc), removing all apps, rebooting, forcing shutdowns. Nothing worked and having to charge twice a day wasn’t ideal, but for some odd reason only took about an hour to do each time????. My last resort was to do a complete firmware restore to 3.1.2 but apple being the way they are wont now allow restores of 3.1.2 so fortunatly i had the “make my life easier” option with cydia. The iphone is now back to its normal self and the battery life is excellent. I guess from time to time we all need a good clear out.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:07:49 +0000

GOT MINE FIXED!!! after doing many downgrades and upgrades, none of them worked. Found this website, and after using winscp changed my power management files and it worked. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=548160 << CHECK IT OUT

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:41:41 +0000

Recently got an iphone 2g and it has this white screen problem whereas when i put it in sleep mode it comes back with a white screen but if its plugged in to my laptop and is out in sleep mode it comes up normal without the white screen. Anyone knows what could be the problem.. i’ve tried updating to the 3.1.2 but that does nothing for the coma..

By: Valik

Valik — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:39:40 +0000

Excuse me what is coma mode and polls mean in iPhone ?

By: Smile

Smile — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:45:28 +0000

How’s the battery life on the first generation iPhone OS 3 or 3.1.2 ? My current version is 2 , just wondering if I should upgrade it or not …

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:02:42 +0000

Hello all

Iphone 2G(8Gb)Firmware 3.0.1 Jailbroken with Cydia

I had the "COMA" bug appear after i installed bejewelled2. I tried absolutely everything to get the bugger to wake up from sleep, but to no avail.

Solution........ :)

I upgraded to 3.1.2 and yes, it STILL was suffering from COMA! After much fannying about, i discovered the following fix:

Backup iphone on itunes
Restore as a NEW phone on a DIFFERENT computer, using a new name.
Backup from Itunes.
Rinse and repeat a couple of times.

I now have no more COMA !!!!,

I think what did it for me was restoring as a new phone on a different computer. I am also VERY wary of jailbreaking the phone..........

By: JaJa

JaJa — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:18:37 +0000

Upgraded from 3.0.x to 3.1.2 and just noticed the my iPhone 3G S battery drain to an unacceptable level even with normal usage (Location Service off, Manually grab mail, WIFI turn off).

By: savanah

savanah — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:35:50 +0000

Well, can you than let me know how can you get back to the old OS? I would go back to the one before the older one…

By: kristin

kristin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:04:08 +0000

3.1.2 has killed the battery life on my iphone. i never had a problem with any aspect of my phone in the year and a half of owning it. now, it doesn’t even last two hours. i am not running wifi. i am not running bluetooth. i have no apps open. it’s literally just on standby, and it dies within 2 hours. i did a clean reinstall, and that didn’t help. i am looking online to find work arounds to go back to the previous OS because this is not acceptable.

By: Ricco

Ricco — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:44:28 +0000

Well, I'm telling this to everyone. I proofed that iPhone's battery could be last longer after you updated to 3.1.2 by the "Setup new phone".

I was hearing music and browsing for 3 hours non-stop by using wifi, and my battery still 75% from 100%.

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:02:33 +0000

No, 3.1.2 did not fix the coma problem. Nor the apps starting and immediately closing problem. But things are slightly better in that I can at least get the thing running again with a full two button shutdown, ten minutes rest, and a restart. Very frustrating problem, and the worst part is Apple not owning up to it.

By: Savanah

Savanah — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:20:16 +0000

Just updated to 3.1.2. and after a 2min usage and 1 and a half hr standby, my battery life went down for 90%. Crazyyy. I thought it’s gonna get better from the new software… Arrrr..

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:45:13 +0000

MIKe- what does your usage shows now ? How many hours does it last on 3.2.1 , my max has been 7 hours

By: C3PO

C3PO — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:47:40 +0000

i updated to 3.1.2 last week. just had a coma today. whaaaaaaaaaat

By: mike

mike — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:55:32 +0000

my battery started out bad, got worse with 3.1, but 3.1.2 incredibly fixed the problem. At least a 30% increase in battery life. I don’t know what was wrong, but I’m glad it’s fixed now.

By: Andrew Rouse

Andrew Rouse — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:15:32 +0000

before 3.1 came out.. 3.01 was ‘zombie’ mode http://movie1.iPaperWeight.info for a video of iZombie mode.. 3.1 introduced coma and no voicemail and 10% chance of phone calls… so i put on 3.01 (very tedious to do)… then i accidentally put on 3.1 (doing research on exactly what the EULA says about the ‘your backup you just did is worthless) during a firmware upgrade); answer; NOTHING. so.. after my last coma, i bit the bullet and put on 3.1.2; got rid of coma and brought back iZombie; which is far worse than an occasional coma. If you had or have the coma or ZOMBIE bug; go check out my website and ‘fill lin the blanks’.

-awr

By: mr.ross

mr.ross — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:22:33 +0000

coma mode finally gone since the upgrade…thank JOBS.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:29:33 +0000

I never had the comma mode or battery issues since 3.1 upgrade, but i did have the network issues where it would drop off w/o notice. Since 3.1.2 no network issues and a little better battery life so all is good. With mms and this newtork fix, my iphone is running strong and easily the best phone i’ve ever had. Looking forward to more updates and great apps. Get on that Backbreaker, awesome football game!!

By: Sopralto

Sopralto — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:53:29 +0000

Never had a “coma”, but it locked up during the upgrade installation and I had to do a restore. This is the first problem I’ve had since purchased in August. Battery seems to drain a little faster than before.

By: abdul

abdul — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:54:49 +0000

I have a new 3GS 3.1 officially unlocked out of the box , and i had the "Coma" all the time , update to 3.1.2 with clean install , didn't Help at all ! gave it 2 days , played with settings , "Coma" still on .

The coma came immideatly after the phone gos to sleep mode , it was so frustrating . i decided to do a jailbreak cause i have nothing to lose and nothing is gona make matters worse ( having a dead phone ) .

My iphone now working perfect, free of coma . Thanks to jailbreak (blackra1in) , i installed an app called insomnia 3.0 . it prevent the phone from going to sleep mode after i lock it .

By: Garrett

Garrett — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:52:29 +0000

I was having connection issues where I would suddenly lose service without knowing. I would have 5 bars and a 3g icons, but wouldn’t be able to send or recieve texts/calls until I reset. This seems to fix that and my battery life seems a little better. I got home with 25% battery instead of 4%

By: visi

visi — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:20:55 +0000

Iphone 3g here. Updated and clean install. No coma mode anymore and battery life has increased at lest 20%

By: b73

b73 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:27:26 +0000

Still having battery issues here. I know some is due to leaving WiFi on throughout the day, but this issue was not apperent prior to 3.0 upgrade.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:03:27 +0000

Batt life is terrible since 3.1.

By: SpiceRak2

SpiceRak2 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:59:20 +0000

Several times I have seen posts advising to restore as a new iPhone...this should stabilize battery life.

My question: do you sacrifice all application data when you do this? I know I can reinstall apps but, for some of them, I have running records/data that can be backed up but not reinstalled.

By: RON JEREMY

RON JEREMY — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:33:08 +0000

RON JEREMY’S BATTERY IS STILL RUNNING STRONG AND HARD LIKE RON JEREMY HIMSELF BACK IN MY MOVIE DAYS….

By: Gregory Foster

Gregory Foster — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:53:22 +0000

No coma since upgrade. I’ve never had battery issues.

By: whsingleton

whsingleton — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:15:24 +0000

I experienced ‘comas’ with 3.1. Not as bad as some… removing the headphones seemed to make it happen mostly on demand… plus there were a few times where it ‘just happened’ without headphones. Anyway, I rolled back to 3.0.1 and at that time set up as a new phone… and I wanted for 3.1.2. About 2 days in (after I saw some positive results), I jumped in and can say that 3.1.2 solves these problems. Oh – I also saw the problem where it was losing connectivity with the network and calls would go to voicemail with 3.1. It did happen with 3.0.1, but the chance was much less. 3.1.2 does solve this as well.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:24:12 +0000

Upgraded to 3.1.2 , items were fixed but my wifi slowed. Appox 10 seconds to load a page. Not bothered about the upgraded stuff so reverted back to 3.1 within an hour. Same pages now load within 2 seconds and I love my phone again. Anyone else?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:56:34 +0000

I hate people that say '1st"....

Battery problem is the same or worse. Nothing's changed!

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:45:16 +0000

My battery still sucks! At 7am had 100% & by noon was at 40%. My phone also developed 3 hairline cracks on the bottom as well as my Bluetooth doesn’t stay connected. apple is actually sending me a new phone so hopefully it’s better.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:58:22 +0000

Never had a problem with coma mode. Have had major problems with battery life, but since the upgrade to 3.1.2 my battery is much better. Took iPhone off charger at 7:45est at 100%, now at 4:58est I’m at 87%.

By: Wnard

Wnard — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:51:28 +0000

I had read that 3.1 made 2g and 3g phones incompatiable(sp?) with Outlook thru MicroSoft Exchange. Was this true/has it been fixed in 3.1.2? I haven’t upgraded because of that.

By: icebike

icebike — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:55:37 +0000

@Andre:

Run your battery all the way down till your phone shuts off. (Guess you already did that, but do it again). Then charge it fully.

Then make sure your email accounts are working properly, because push OR pull on an account that is not set up properly will keep the radios trying and retrying, and burning battery.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:49:16 +0000

I’m with Duncan, all my 3rd party apps didn’t respond either. First problem i ever had. SO i had to do a reset as new phone. Pain in the A$$ !

By: Such beat

Such beat — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:48:35 +0000

@killer I think your iPhone is fucked it must be the white version take it back bro walla

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:38:42 +0000

This actually did worse for my phone. 3.1 seemed to shorten my battery life a bit, but 3.1.2 seems to be doing it even more so. Yesterday my phone didn’t display the correct amount of battery (said it was about 70-80% full) and suddenly shut down. Now today it drained down to what appears to be able 25% by 2:15pm. Not cool.

By: icebike

icebike — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:16:30 +0000

@Duncan: Restore as a new phone and it will work. Then you can sync your apps back on.

By: dailymobiles

dailymobiles — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:00:40 +0000

wow this blog is amazing

By: Killer

Killer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:52:54 +0000

No! Made it worse walla

By: Ferrigno

Ferrigno — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:42:43 +0000

Yes…. My wife’s 3GS is not having these coma modes anymore… Before it was three times a day…

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:41:31 +0000

3.1.2 broke my iphone. Now none of my 3rd-party apps will start. I’m not the only one: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10389175

None of the “fixes” described there in have worked for me. Grrrr.

By: petaf

petaf — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:41:22 +0000

My 3g seems snappier somehow after upgrade. Was really sluggish after 3gs intro.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:58:53 +0000

Haven’t had battery trouble with 3g since I exchanged it a month ago at the Genius Bar.

By: Coach Brown

Coach Brown — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:55:21 +0000

Never had a battery life problem, but the damn podcast sorting issue is so damn annoying.

How about a fix!

By: Clay C

Clay C — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:46:44 +0000

I was having the “coma” problem! Thus far seems to be fixed! Battery seems a bit better as well, although it might be my imagination

By: D

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:40:25 +0000

Oh and my battery life bl0ws 3g non j/b os 3.1.2

By: D

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:39:04 +0000

I haven’t had the coma mode but it has just shut off on me 3 times since the upgrade to where you hit the sleep/ wake button and get an immediate apple boot logo… I used to have to do a hard reset in order to boot from coma mode

By: Weylin

Weylin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:37:31 +0000

I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but the battery life didn’t seem to change after the 3.1.2 update, however, after making it ra1n, I’ve actually seen a significant improvement and I don’t understand it. As I said, it doesn’t make sense. It might even be impossible. But it’s true.

By: Keith Wainauski

Keith Wainauski — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:03:54 +0000

The upgrade definitly got rid of the “coma-mode” and I am now able to turn “Push” back on and everything seems to work great!! Still disappointed that there is still no teathering??

By: DustinAe

DustinAe — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:01:05 +0000

Amazingly i have not had one problem with my iphone 3gs. Battery has been solid(i dont have 3g and i keep wifi off when i dont use it) and no coma. It has glitched on me once but a simple reset fixed it. Fewer problems than the crackberrys ive owned. I must just be lucky i guess. Maybe 3g service causes more problems.

By: Josel

Josel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:49:32 +0000

my battery seems better, but the most important thing: the coma-mode or random shutdown has never happened since i upgraded to 3.1.2. hopefully its gone forever.

thank you, apple.

By: fassy

fassy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:47:28 +0000

No coma since the upgrade, but I have seen the same number of (or perhaps increase in) forgetting a Wifi network setup/password. Battery life seems about the same to me.

By: Tygger

Tygger — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:27:10 +0000

@JeremyS (not that one)

I've noticed the same thing too... definitely a jumpy scroll through the podcasts. Based on the stuttering that it does, it seems the problem has to do with the loading of the screen capture/graphic that appears for each podcast. Once they are all loaded, the scrolling seems to smooth out a bit.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:23:04 +0000

My battery seems a little better, but I still notice the battery doesn’t read correctly all the time. Sometimes I will restart my phone and it will have about 20% more battery or if I plug it into the computer it will jump up 20 or more percent. I have done it all restarts, resets, restores and restore and setting up as new phone still the problem persist.

By: Larr

Larr — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:22:34 +0000

I have a 3g… Induced coma, gone. Battery life seems a little better. I’m glad the living hell of a brick phone is over. Just wish it didn’t take so long for apple to get a fix out…

By: Gork killer

Gork killer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:21:19 +0000

19th….. U geeks

By: mike

mike — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:21:06 +0000

My battery life seems better. I am not jailbroken and just moderate use.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:10:52 +0000

[Knocks on wood] Comma mode has not happened since I updated. Restored from back up. Never noticed any difference in my battery from one version to the next so can’t comment on that.

By: BLiNK

BLiNK — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:10:14 +0000

No coma since the upgrade as well. Battery life still reliable as before the update.

By: Seolioa

Seolioa — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:01:12 +0000

@Draino

I’m not quit sure dude.

By: JeremyS (not that one)

JeremyS (not that one) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:00:01 +0000

@icebike

No, I'm not jailbroken, nothing in the background and I haven't used up all the memory on my 16G 3G, either. I've seen comments from others that they have the same issue, and it's a bit better since the iTunes 9.0.1 update (probably because podcasts are in order), but still choppy when I try to scroll.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:43:42 +0000

@icebike: added the "new iphone" wording, may take a few minutes to update polls.

NB- Since iPhone 3.0, iTunes no longer gives me the option to "set up as new iPhone". If I want to clean install, I have to manually go and move/delete the old backups. Only then am I prompted to set up as new.

By: icebike

icebike — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:43:21 +0000

@JeremyS (NTO):

Are you jail broken and have something running in the background?

I've not seen that, but then I don't have that much in the ipod.

By: Kickstar13

Kickstar13 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:37:55 +0000

Battery life a little worse than 3.1 on my 3GS but maybe that’s cause I jailbroken it and I’m using backgrounder.

By: ich bin ein iPhoner

ich bin ein iPhoner — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:37:44 +0000

Never had either of these issues, but it did help my network connectivity problem. It used to be that every morning (since 3.1.1 update) I would get a pop up from when my phone lost the network from being in the elevator. Since the 3.1.2 update this has stopped and my phone maintains its network connection while in the elevator.

By: icebike

icebike — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:36:03 +0000

The other thing not fixed is dropping your WiFi passwords on the LEAST difficulty connecting.

If standing at the edge of the range, and you get the can't connect popup, if you hit retry even once, it will retry and if that fails it will drop your password. If you hit cancel, it will keep it.

Often it can't connect simply because it is busy checking mail on 3G. (The iphone is really stupid that way. Can't manage more than one IP interface).

By: Al

Al — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:34:48 +0000

Battery still drains pretty fast, I might make an appointment at the genius bar and see if I’m able to get a new one.

By: JeremyS (not that one)

JeremyS (not that one) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:24:27 +0000

Any word if Apple plans on fixing the slow/stuttered scrolling through the iPod function (especially with podcasts) on the iPhone? I was hoping that the 3.1.2 update would do it, but, alas, it did not.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:23:43 +0000

I wasn’t having these problems, but my volume lock didn’t work. Now, it seems to work 50% of the time. Thanks apple…

By: icebike

icebike — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:12:24 +0000

No coma since the upgrade.

I wish the wordings of the questions made sense.

Clean Install? Well it went cleanly for me.

Upgrade? It must have been an upgrade, after all the point number changed.

How about Normal install vs install as a new phone. Those are the terms used by iTunes.

By: Draino

Draino — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:09:48 +0000

@Seolioa….Really? Didn’t notice. Do you want a treat?

By: Ben Gillam

Ben Gillam — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:57:54 +0000

oh yea forgot to mention 3.1 battery wise hasnt been a problem, will see what 3.1.2 brings

By: Ben Gillam

Ben Gillam — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:57:19 +0000

i never had coma mode until saturday afternoon, reset phone and thought nothing of it. But it appears it killed my ipod database and set everything as being “other” in the capacity bar. Ipod app on phone was empty but the music was still there (verified using ihonebrowser). Also got itunes 13019 error which is supposedly fixed by syncing with another blank library (under another account) then back to yours but this didnt work. End result was that i had to reload my pwned 3.1 firmware and has been fine since, im keen to upgrade to 3.1.2 as soon as the dev team can get the pwnagetool update out so i can reduce the risk of this happening again

By: BBYM

BBYM — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:55:07 +0000

My battery doesn’t seem to drain as fast. I upgraded yesterday and made it ra1n….