I am going mad. Yes. Absolutely definitely incredibly mad. Not the Freddie Mercury “slightly mad” but the “running naked on the street wreaking havoc on parking meters with a chainsaw”-mad.
Guess what. Today the bat…RRRAAAAAAAHHHH… battery of my iPhone4 went dead within 10 hours again. What the F*** is wrong with that thing ? Last week I reset the iPhone and installed everything from scratch. And it worked. For a week. Now battery sucky sucky again. And between “worked” and “battery sucky sucky” I definitely did NOT change, install or deliberately damage anything.
What kind of App or software bug could cause this ? Is it possible that I have malware or a virus on the iPhone ? Have any viruses ever been reported for iOS ? Never heard of it.
Ok, plan of action.
- I charged the iPhone completely again
- I switched everything off, killed all Apps, won’t use it and read time and battery charge regularly again.
- I deleted all Apps which can be deleted. If everything is fine from now again I know that there is something wrong with a piece of software.
Your plan of action seems reasonable. A few things can cause rapid battery drainage on the iPhone: using the phone more than usual (especially 3D games), continuous GPS use (you would have noticed from the little arrow in the status bar), and continuous data use, especially when in an area with bad reception.
In fact, the last one is the most likely possibility – was your phone in an area with bad reception, and did you perhaps use it for reading Twitter or web pages? Such activities often lead to more data requests than the user is aware of, which really drain the battery quickly when the reception is bad.
Hey Nils,
thank you for the comment ! Actually I was in a building with a solid steel frame, this might have been a problem. But I did not use the phone heavily, < 5 min of calls today, no surfing or downloading.
I will take readings every now and then and see what the discharge graph indicates.