Battery Drain 3.0 Push

[jpkaplan]

My battery drained very fast today which is the first day I have used Beejive on 3.0 with Push. Prior to this my battery on my new 3GS has been great.

Is the Auto Away setting the best way to preserve battery life? Please let me know, my phone in 3-4hrs of usage showed over 400mb of cellular network data received which has to be what brought the battery down.

Thoughts/Suggestions????

[jpkaplan]

Also, I have session timeout set to 20min. I would like to make this 24hrs but afraid this will also drain batter????

[benjitek]

Any decrease in battery power due to Push being used would be related to using Push in general, not Beejive. Push is a feature of the OS, you can turn it completely off, or per application, in the main iPhone settings screen by selecting 'Notifications'.

Having Push turned on will, of course, tax your battery a bit more than having it turned off -- a connection to Push-servers uses your internet connection to poll for notifications. Keep in mind though that it uses a lot less battery power than if Beejive were running as a background task.

[jpkaplan]

I understand but if it is going to drain the battery in 4 hrs that is not normal. I would assume there is an issue there. As mentioned, within 3-4hrs my phone showed 400mb + of cellular network data received. This is huge and can only be attributed to Beejive/Push.

[MercuryGlitch]

I understand but if it is going to drain the battery in 4 hrs that is not normal. I would assume there is an issue there. As mentioned, within 3-4hrs my phone showed 400mb + of cellular network data received. This is huge and can only be attributed to Beejive/Push.

It's likely something else is draing your battery. I'm on a 3g S as well and I've seen no battery loss since updating beejive. It is also unlikely that push would be responsible for around 100mb/hour of data transfer. Unless you are getting thousands of push notifications in that time.

[jpkaplan]

I would hope that is the case but I have done nothing different but use Beejive and push. Also, I turned push off recharged the battery and all is good now.

[PHOTEX]

I found the same with my mine and it was a mail loop type error.

Delete email accounts reset phone the add accounts.

It worked for me!!

[jpkaplan]

Not sure why I would do that since all is fine once I turned off push. If it had to do with mail I would still have the problem.

[daveishere]

i have noticed a slightly decrease battery life since Beejive with Push was installed. But who cares? push is awesome! I have a kensington battery pack i keep close to me at all times just incase my iPhone 3G dies.

[jpkaplan]

I think the question is, why was the Network Data Received so high? What could have been causing this from the Beejive side? Push get caught up???