But if you do this, won't that render any app that needs location services,
such as a GPS app useless?
Andy
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From: David Chittenden
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:04 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Battery draining
The only way I am able to get location services to disappear from the status
bar is to completely disable background app refresh. I attempted it again
last night with the same result after a reboot and a warm reset.
Go to settings, general, background app refresh.
Again, this appears to only affect VO users, so expect it to take more time
before the error is resolved. Apple only rushes fixes for critical
situations that affect significant numbers of users, and VO users are less
than 1% of the user base. Every email to
accessibil...@apple.com
helps because more emails about the same issue means they know more people
have the problem, so they will increase the resources directed toward fixing
the problem.
As for those who complain that Apple should fix it now, please remember back
to the wonderful days of the extremely expensive specialised note-taker. It
usually took the manufacturer between six months and a year between updates,
and we always had to live with the problem until then, if the problem was
even fixed. Oh, and let's not forget, some devices could not be upgraded
without sending them back to the manufacturer. Finally, the annual upgrade
fee was usually rather significant.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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On 17 Mar 2014, at 1:53, Eileen Misrahi <eileen.misr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi David,
The battery draining problem is getting worse, so yesterday evening before
going out I charged the phone as much as I could and timed the drainage.
It dropped 35% in a 3 1/2 hour period of time. Hence, I will place my
complaint to Apple accessibility. The phone was completely drained and
dead as a doorknob when I just got up. Where can I find the background
refresh to turn that off? I didn't totally turn off location services, but
turned it off in apps that I didn't need to have it on. What else do I
need to do to save on battery? Thanks.
Best,
Eileen
On Mar 16, 2014, at 4:16 AM, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I turned off all background refresh. It looks like location services gets
switched on. This causes 15-20% battery drain per hour, and the GPS
antenna is the only thing that is this power demanding.
Also, it looks as though this is only happening to people running VO.
None of my sighted friends are having the battery drain problem.
So, turn off background app refresh. Also, very regularly close apps from
the app switcher. Finally, email accessibility so they will hopefully
soon test this and find the problem.
One thing we do know, Apple does repair these sorts of problems when they
figure out what is going on. Unfortunately, they usually don't role out
an update when the problem is only with VO, so we will most likely be
waiting a few months before the problem is resolved.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 16 Mar 2014, at 17:10, david gross <david.dgro...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sent from my iPhone
I am using an iPhone for S. I wrote previously while I'm Wi-Fi and
streaming radio I am using 16% battery per hour. I called Apple tonight
they have me doing iCloud restore. It made it worse I'm now using 20%
per hour. I am curious what other folks are finding in a similar
situation. Apple is suggesting a new restore from the computer. I do not
want to do this. Suggestions are appreciated.
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