iPhone VoIP App (Bria) is Draining my Battery!

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Easy Office Phone

It seems that the iPhone VoIP App Bria (sip client) is still draining the life out of my iPhone. Last night I was waiting for a phone call and so I switched it to “background mode” which is located in the preferences. This runs the Bria VoIP app in the all the time, even if its not the active program. The benefit of this is that it can receive incoming telephone calls no matter what else I am doing on my iPhone. The drawback it seems is that this really is draining the battery life. My iPhone was half charged last night when I went to bed, and by the time I woke up the battery was dead and the iPhone was off. I had some of the engineers in the office try a side by side comparison with and without the background mode enabled on Bria and the results all pointed to poor battery life when background mode is enabled. I noticed there is a new version of the Bria iPhone VoIP app available from the app store today, perhaps I will give that a try and see if there is any difference.

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  • Eric Cunningham

    Did that help? u00a0I noticed the same thing. u00a0I think it gets worse when you have more then one account enabled (like your home phone and your office extension).

  • http://www.bilalmohammad.com bilal

    they do have the tips on their website to reduce the battery drainage. but i dont think they help at all. they only way really to get this to not drain battery is perhaps to ask your voip provider to enable tcp transport.

  • http://www.bilalmohammad.com bilal

    they do have the tips on their website to reduce the battery drainage. but i dont think they help at all. they only way really to get this to not drain battery is perhaps to ask your voip provider to enable tcp transport.

  • http://www.bilalmohammad.com bilal

    they do have the tips on their website to reduce the battery drainage. but i dont think they help at all. they only way really to get this to not drain battery is perhaps to ask your voip provider to enable tcp transport.

  • http://www.bilalmohammad.com bilal

    they do have the tips on their website to reduce the battery drainage. but i dont think they help at all. they only way really to get this to not drain battery is perhaps to ask your voip provider to enable tcp transport.

  • http://www.bilalmohammad.com bilal

    they do have the tips on their website to reduce the battery drainage. but i dont think they help at all. they only way really to get this to not drain battery is perhaps to ask your voip provider to enable tcp transport.

  • http://www.bilalmohammad.com bilal

    they do have the tips on their website to reduce the battery drainage. but i dont think they help at all. they only way really to get this to not drain battery is perhaps to ask your voip provider to enable tcp transport.

  • Ross Morley

    Seems like Bria’s not the only app that drains my devices. I’ve gotten into the bedtimeu00a0habit of plugging all my devices in to charge overnight – that way I’m never stuck part way through the day, always have a full charge to start.