[zkyevolved]

Hey everyone, I read somewhere that jailbreaking and installing apps will actually leave the apps open and running in your memory (killing the battery.) is this true? Is there another app out there that will allow me to see what's open and kill the processes?

I have a ton of cydia and installer apps installed, and maybe a cracked app or 2... Lol. For example, I bought iRealSMS and it's only available through cydia, and htne you pay for it. But since it's installed via cydia, does it stay open in the memory and drain my battery?

When I didn't use it as a phone, and only as an iPod (in airplane mode) I could get multiple days, using it for hours and hours every day. But now that it's jailbroken and I have apps that I use ... I could barely get throuugh a day! I have fetch every 1 hour, too. Brightness low, wifi is mostly off and no BT.

So... are my apps killing my phone? lol.
Thx!

[hartphoto]

I have both a 2G 8gig (new Sept 07) and a 3G 16gig (new Nov 08). Battery life is extremely subjective to what you are doing at the time, and not withstanding what you may have loaded and/or running.

I can easily kill the battery in either in less than 1-2 hours (watching movies, games). But....the norm is that I charge them in the evening (7-8pm), then can listen to music all night, and then use the phone all the next day (averaging about 5-6 hours of usage) and still not hit the 20% reminder mark by the next charge time. Rinse and Repeat for over a year on the 2G.

My wife's 2G will easily go 2-3 DAYS without needing to be charged. It's more used as a phone than a internet/email/game/business gadget like my use.

FWIW. YMMV.

[zkyevolved]

Originally Posted by hartphoto

I have both a 2G 8gig (new Sept 07) and a 3G 16gig (new Nov 08). Battery life is extremely subjective to what you are doing at the time, and not withstanding what you may have loaded and/or running.

I can easily kill the battery in either in less than 1-2 hours (watching movies, games). But....the norm is that I charge them in the evening (7-8pm), then can listen to music all night, and then use the phone all the next day (averaging about 5-6 hours of usage) and still not hit the 20% reminder mark by the next charge time. Rinse and Repeat for over a year on the 2G.

My wife's 2G will easily go 2-3 DAYS without needing to be charged. It's more used as a phone than a internet/email/game/business gadget like my use.

FWIW. YMMV.

But are they jailbroken?

[Poseidon79]

This article should answer all your questions.

iPhone battery | iPhone News, Help and Guides

[hartphoto]

All 3 are jailbroken, and have Winterboard loaded. My 3g has some things from WB and mail fetching info fro the net often.

[zkyevolved]

Hey poseidon! I've got a question, I installed TOP and I didn't find anything running (besides normal stuff like bash and mail and such), but TOP was eating 10% CPU. When I close the terminal, does it still eat CPU or does it close?

Thanks

[461am]

Nah top closes down if you exit out of terminal properly.

[zkyevolved]

Now how do yo uexit out of terminal. I tried a few times to type exit, but it didn't. So I just did a home press and forced it to shut down.

Thanks in advance

[461am]

Well, while you're in top, you press q, then enter. Then type in 'killall Terminal'.

Does pretty much the same thing that force quitting does.

[Argelius]

I was going to post about the same question. Admittedly, this is very subjective, but it seems to be that post-Jailbreak of my 3G (on ATT) my battery seems to drain very quickly. I barely get a day's worth of use (using primarily email and the Internets -- minimal voice use and no movies...)