I-Phone randomly running battery down very quickly
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Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I recently jailbreaked it, but I can't say for absolute certain that it's been since then.
Now I know this is probably weird to most people, but I actually use the ipod function of my iphone overnight to help me sleep, because of our lass snoring, she always gets to sleep before me, and if she starts to snore, thats it, I won't get to sleep.
A couple of weeks ago, I was fairly sure I'd charged it before bed time, yet I woke in the middle of the morning to find it flat.
Ever since then I made sure to charge it each night before bed.
Then last week it did it again, it was definitely charged fully.
A few nights later, I woke up, and noticed that after just about 3 hours of playback, the battery was down to 50% after being charged. I tried restarting the phone and then put the music back on. This seemed to help. From then on, I've also restarted the phone each night before bed.
Then last night? It did it again. Fully charged and freshly restarted.
This behaviour seems quite random, and doesn't seem to make much sense. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the battery because I use it all day and the battery lasts fine, doing web browsing, music, the odd game.
Any ideas?
TBH, this is really putting me off the phone now. This is now my 3rd iphone in 15 months, they all seem to develop faults, and it's been the least reliable phone I've ever had. Nice enough to use when it works, but that isn't as often as it should be. The fact the battery can't be replaced, the phone is out of warranty, and the fact it still has some resale value whilst on the face of it, still working fine the majority of the time is making me have thoughts of getting rid - I wasn't sure I wanted to get rid this early, but I could be tempted to that HTC desire... but would like to get to the bottom of this if possible.
Now I know this is probably weird to most people, but I actually use the ipod function of my iphone overnight to help me sleep, because of our lass snoring, she always gets to sleep before me, and if she starts to snore, thats it, I won't get to sleep.
A couple of weeks ago, I was fairly sure I'd charged it before bed time, yet I woke in the middle of the morning to find it flat.
Ever since then I made sure to charge it each night before bed.
Then last week it did it again, it was definitely charged fully.
A few nights later, I woke up, and noticed that after just about 3 hours of playback, the battery was down to 50% after being charged. I tried restarting the phone and then put the music back on. This seemed to help. From then on, I've also restarted the phone each night before bed.
Then last night? It did it again. Fully charged and freshly restarted.
This behaviour seems quite random, and doesn't seem to make much sense. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the battery because I use it all day and the battery lasts fine, doing web browsing, music, the odd game.
Any ideas?
TBH, this is really putting me off the phone now. This is now my 3rd iphone in 15 months, they all seem to develop faults, and it's been the least reliable phone I've ever had. Nice enough to use when it works, but that isn't as often as it should be. The fact the battery can't be replaced, the phone is out of warranty, and the fact it still has some resale value whilst on the face of it, still working fine the majority of the time is making me have thoughts of getting rid - I wasn't sure I wanted to get rid this early, but I could be tempted to that HTC desire... but would like to get to the bottom of this if possible.
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