iPhone 4s Battery Life?

I have terrible luck so I think I'll wait till I get home to update. It would make me crazy if I did the OTA update and got the OK now hook your phone up to iTunes to complete your OTA update message.

In fact I may wait a day or two to see if the fixes actually work. Although it looks like from the beta reviews it has helped some people.

Please people use minimal logic i.e. install the update and revert the phone settings to their default/factory reset, restore from your backups, configure your mail as you did prior, and have your normal set of apps, go through a full charge cycle and pay attention to usage and standby afterwards.

Always laughable to see the guy commenting after 17 mins of use - "ok, things are looking good" lollll.

Hopefully it all works, as I'm running out of things to say!

Good luck to all!

5.0.1 is a bust! I was one of the lucky ones getting two days out of a charge, albeit with a lot shut off. After updating I am seeing my power drain at a much quicker rate. Nice.

Same here. Updated about 1.5 hours ago, battery has drained 20% since then with no usage! This is awful!

Roughly the same numbers here.

@geezerdave:

just as i predicted....... i got my phone

Don't rely on immediate numbers when you've had mixed pre/post patch usage. Most likely you need to reset the network/device itself and discharge/recharge! It's not magic! Enthusiasm is normal but Apple users have to learn to be methodical.

Thank you.

Upgraded to 5.0.1 this morning. Still draining at the exact same rate. Unplugged with a full charge 2 1/2 hours ago, and already down to 80% with light usage. Just lost 2% during a 15 minute shower. I see no difference at all.

I'm a new Apple user. Seems I've had to learn a lot of things since Oct 14. Keeping fingers crossed.

Updated (via iTunes) and charged to 100 %. Killed all Apps, pulled the cable off. Did *nothing*. After one hour ~30 minutes of phantom-usage and 97 %. So it looks like 5.0.1 fixed nothing.

I started iStat and looked at my running processes. iStat has the PID 1364 - after just 2h23m uptime of. It looks like something is contantly crashing in the background? For example there is afcd with PID 1361, atc with PID 1359 and SCHelper with PID 1307. There are now CrashReports... Maybe its some background processes crashing all the time?!

So how are your numbers looking. Better? Worse?

New update is no help at all.

I opened the safari and lost 2 % just by opening the safari browser...This really *****

Looking forward to hearing anything positive. These jokers just put this out to calm the restless? It's gonna get ugly if this thing doesn't pan out.

Learning is the way of life. You can bet there's a lot to learn for Apple too. I'm meditating on that - yet I'm not sure a post mortem is in order for the moment.

As I'm not using the Iphone, it think it's really up to the real user base to demand changes to Apple. Including better monitoring/debugging facilities, logging, and greater control over the 3G component/network policies amongst others. In order for the usage specs to mean anything i.e. 8 hrs call, 40 hrs music or 10 hrs video, one has to be able to turn the device into a monolithic call device, music or video player because mixed usage will steer the device towards 6 hrs. Boot profiles may be an option if Apple doesn't want to give its user full control over what runs in the background. It is all very interesting. I hope some humility comes out of it. Contrary to what some people might think, I believe the Iphone is a very good device. I just believe full control over the experience (by Apple that is) might not be the way to cater to a diversified user base and might lead to chaos in the end. Food for thought.

By the way can't someone post the Release Notes?

To all those folks who say the update does not help -- have you tried resetting your phone? If the configurations were problematic for the previous builds, then you should probably start fresh.