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iPhone battery problem

Weird problem today — I was watching a bit of video on my iPhone, then stopped & went away for a while — it had more than 50% charge left when I walked away. When I came back, it was dead — felt warm to the touch. No buttons would work, black screen, nothing. Rebooting wouldn’t work at all. I plugged it in for a while and after an hour or so it showed that it was charging again, but at about 5% — now, after charging most of the afternoon, looks like it’s up over 90%. Not sure what happened, but will be watching it.

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Preed 1 year ago 1 point
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Not three hours after I read this, I had the same problem. I used my iPhone to listen to a couple of songs around... oh... maybe 9 or 10 pm tonight (I was at the office), and I only have a couple of albums on there, so I only used it for a little bit (no more than a half hour). When I put it to sleep, it had 75+% battery left (because I didn't use it much today).

When I got up to go home about a half hour, it was dead.

Did you have your headphones in it? I left them plugged into the jack; I wonder if that causes it to do something that drains its power.

I did some searches at the first few iPhone forum sites Google brought up, and I read complaints in general about the battery life, but nothing like this. :-/

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Fred 1 year ago 1 point
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Oh, isn't it fun to be an early adopter ;)

Hope it's nothing permanent, though.

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Drained 1 year ago 1 point
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Same thing just happened to me. When I put the iPhone to sleep last night, it was showing a full charge. First thing this morning I go to use my iPhone, only to find it completely drained. The phone didn't feel warm to the touch.

I am bummed.

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Drained Too! 1 year ago 1 point
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I just had the same problem as Drained. I charged the battery fully before I went to bed. I set my alarm to wake me up, but it didn't. Only to find out that it was completely drained. I woke up just a lil late but couldn't call the office to let them know. Then I ran into traffic. I couldn't make a single call.

I need to find out how to effectively report this.

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steve 1 year ago 1 point
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Same problem yesterday. I was casually using my iPhone through out the work day for music, calls, email, etc. This to me is normal use to compared to every other day. The only difference was that my battery was like half, then dropped to 20%, then dropped to 10% and then I was screwed...had to mid day charge. I had it plugged in and it wasn't really charging that well, so I held down the top off button and the circle button to do a full warm reboot.

I did notice that I had bluetooth on, but I dont think that was causing the problem. Could it be an application getting in a loop? Maybe like Safari or email...I know if you let he camera that will drain the battery real quick! Anyway, hope we can track down the problem.

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Nick 1 year ago 1 point
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Similar problem to preed....Had iphone playing thru BMW stereo via aux. connection. (Thanks apple, for helping me hone my MacGuyver AND whittling skills!)Went into store, left car running, music playing. Come back 2 mins. later, iPhone has become iPaperweight. Had a full charge- charged thru the night, this happened this am.

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Nik 1 year ago 1 point
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Yea- today I had about a %75 charge- bluetooth and Wireless were off- even the sound toggle was off- slept 6 hrs and when I got up it had no charge left- had to charge it a while to use it- no calls or alarms- sound off anyway- was warm also.

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Michael Josh 1 year ago 1 point
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Worse happened to me. I knew the power was running low, I had finished watching a video podcast. The iPhone was indeed hot to the touch. When I came back to it later it had died. Could not even see the connect to power screen. Have tried everything and cannot bring my iPhone back to life. I think it could be gone for good.

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Greg 1 year ago 1 point
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Me too. Went to bed with 75% charge left, set alarm and put the phone to sleep. Woke up late and phone was completely dead. Today, I used the wall charger and tried 3 different outlets, and the phone would not charge or show that it was even getting power (no charging icon). Sometimes it does work, but 25% of the time it does nothing.

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Mikey 1 year ago 1 point
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Hmmm well guys I'm having the exact same problems as you all. I went to bed last night, I had just finished watching some movie trailers on my iPhone, on Safari at apple trailers.com. Plugged in my iPhone to charge as I normally would, I had about 70% of power left. Went to bed. I made sure to turn off wifi and BT, as I normally would. Now I wake up about 6hrs after only to see my battery level is at 20%, and the iPhone is hot to the touch (but not scorching). I was like What Tha _ _ _ _. Anyways I said hhmmmm plugged it out, tried a different socket in my house. The battery level now fell to 10% and the device was still hot. Finally I power off the device, and left it to charge. The device now feels normal to touch (no heat) upon checking I notice that the battery is finally charging its at about 40% now....will be observing keenly over the next few days...because I have this device for less than 3wks now...and if it dies on me I'll wait on the 2nd Gen iPhone to be released..I want a complete refund..

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Mikey 12 months ago 1 point
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After keen observation, I realised that it was an Application that got stuck in a loop, so that process is what caused the device to run hot and drain the battery. The culprit here is Safari. After closely inspecting the crash.log file. iPhone running perfectly now. What I recommend is to do a reboot of the device to kill any apps that may be running in the background before you go to bed and leave it to charge....

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deny 11 months ago 1 point
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same issue. my iphone was hot and the battery went quick. i've reset and plugged back in now. my battery icon doesnt show that its charging but I'll leave it in awhile and see what happens.

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R. Heileman 11 months ago 1 point
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I've had my iPhone since July 7. All was well until the 3rd week in October when the battery began to drain very quickly. Normally, I only have to charge the phone every two days. I don't use WiFi, bluetooth or have any power draining apps turned on. But now I'm having to recharge every night. Something's definitely gone wrong!

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Mike 11 months ago 1 point
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I have been having the same problem for the last week, The battery going from 60% to 10% in a matter of minutes with the top of the phone (by the lock button) getting extremely hot. I had just been ignoring it thinking I had just used it a lot that day. Today, take it off the charger at 11:00am. I make no more than 5 mins of phone calls. Check 4 emails. No Safari, No iPod, Nothing other than phone and email. Go to make a call at 7:30pm and nothing. Totally dead. Sits on the charger for 35 minutes before it would let me do anything.

Has anyone come up with a fix or any sort of solution to this problem other than the reboot everynight?

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randall 11 months ago 1 point
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similar issue here. have had no problems with battery life until 10/27. Now I go from 100% to about 50% in approx 3 hours. Had to recharge the phone 3 separate times yesterday...

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Mike 11 months ago 1 point
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I talked to apple support about my problem today. I am sending to apple tomorrow (they tried to charge me $30 for a loaner... I spend 600 and they want another 30 out of me) to see if they can figure out what is wrong. I will post what comes out of it.

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Mike 11 months ago 1 point
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I just checked my status on apple's support site and it says they have replaced it.

Step 1 - Request
Product received by repair center (31-Oct-2007)

Step 2 - Service
Product Replaced (31-Oct-2007)

Must be something really wrong and not just our imagination.
Now I'm pissed that I have to buy a new screen protector.

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Allen 11 months ago 1 point
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I've had my iPhone since early Sept., but never any battery problems until yesterday. Yesterday, battery was about 3/4 full, so I put on charger to bring to full charge. When I returned an hour later, the green was LESS than it had been before charging. In a matter of minutes, got so drained, the red appeared and nothing seemed to be happening. Just left it and returned 2 hrs later and saw that it was FINALLY beginning to charge. Then after about 4 hrs total, got to full charge and has been normal since last night. Makes me wonder if it'll happen again. Don't know the cause. Maybe it's what one post above said, an application that got stuck in a loop.

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Mike 11 months ago 1 point
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Well the replacement that Apple sent me is doing the same thing. Took it off the charger at 7am. Checked an email at 1pm when it popped up and said 'less than 10%' So I looked at the usage and it showed 56 minutes of use. Then it died. This is getting a bit out of hand.

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Mike 11 months ago 1 point
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If anyone is having this problem still, try to change how you charge it. I was charging with the block and cable that came in the iPhone box. I talked to apple and they are sending a new block and cord. So last night I charged my iphone with an old ipod cable and my computer. I am past the point where it died yesterday and still have 100% charge.

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Uggh.. 11 months ago 1 point
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This is happening too and I'm not exactly sure what I can do about it...

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Randy 11 months ago 1 point
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The same thing is happening to me. I do not believe it has anything to do with the charger. My phone was fully charged this morning when I went to work at 8am. By noon, the battery had fully depleted itself, and I wasn't even using it for anything. I did notice it was hot at around 11:30 and the battery showed at 20%. Within 30 minutes, the phone is now dead. There was one poster above that said he thinks the problem has to do with Safari getting stuck in a loop. I will reboot my iPhone the next time I notice this, but they need to patch this FAST!

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Mike 11 months ago 1 point
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Uggh and Randy (what is happening to you is exactly what I was experiencing). Charge it off your computer for a night and see how it does the next day. Just make sure your computer doesn't go to sleep or standby overnight. Apple sent me a new charger and I am still nearly fully charged at the end of the day. Give it a shot (can't hurt) and post your results.

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