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iOS 4.3 Battery Consumption Problem

No operating system is perfect. iOS 4.3 brings new features, such as sharing 3G internet connection over wifi, but also brings new problems.

1) On 4th generation iPods the display flickers.

2) On both iPhone 4 and iPad1 the battery duration is greatly reduced if the operating system is updated to iOS 4.3

There is no solution for iPod flickering problem, we suggest users of iPods with Retina Display NOT TO UPGRADE till this issue is fixed.

Heavy battery use,  instead seems to be caused by continuos polling of network by PING and other network based apps. While we hopefully wait for a fix of this problem in a 4.3.1 iOS,

we suggest you turn off PING.

- from Settings -> General > Restrinctions, tap on "Enable Restrictions". You will be asked to set a 4 digit numeric code for restrictions, which you will have to confirm.

- find PING from the list of software on which restrictions can be applied.

- DISABLE PING.

This may help alleviate the problem, provided you don't leave other network programs continually polling for network or device position.

In order to find out which programs are running in the background or are in suspended state, double tap on the home button.

Once you are shown background program icons in the lower panel, you can remove a program from memory by prolonged touch of their icons, till they start "swiggling", then tapping on their cancel spot (the "x" their icon upper left corner, similar to what you have to do in order to delete an App from the springboard.