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Nov 12, 2011 11:45 AM in response to colsterby Dackz,Ill say this, that last night I was having terrible issue, I drained the phone till it died completely. I charged it up overnight and so far today it is doing alot better then yesterday, but like how it was 'normal' on ios5. I am currenly at 91%, 1hr 12minutes of usage, with a 10 minute call over 3g and the rest wifi/apps/imessage. Although, yesterday the phone started out strong and when it got to around 70% it REALLY started to tank. So we will see how the rest of today goes.
Normally, I see 8-9 hours usage a day from a charge, acceptable enough for sure. Yesterday it got right abotu 6 hours when it died. I had previously seen 12-14hrs on a charge right before ios5 and right after.
iphone4 16gb black, ios 5.0.1
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And now after 6 more minutes of use the phone is 89% and seemingly here is what will happen again...start strong then go really fast. My screen brightness is at maybe 10%? Its very dull, 3g on, wifi use, only location service is google maps and that app is closed. No push at all. Basically everything I can do to make it last long, and have always done so.
EDIT 2 ---------- 3 more minutes on imessage, 1% more lost. So I have lost 3% over the last 9 minutes of use. Apparently the batter starts strong and then just GOES south. Bad apple, BAD. Maybe this is why people get droids?
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Nov 12, 2011 11:33 AM in response to Encrypted11by lau1247,Encrypted11 wrote:
lau1247 wrote:
Mine worked fine again (So far), I originally posted on first page of the thread.. I have to get to work so only manage to read up to page 11 of this thread.. If someone already have the same solution then happy days..
I just drained the battery completely flat by turning everything on and then just plug it in to charge until full (Don't think it matter if the phone turn on because when you drain it completely it turn on when you get to certain charge like 3%)..
Anyway 8 hours and 30 mins later with location services turned on, it is at 97%
Could you elaborate your setup? Are you really on iOS5/5.01?
Probably some screenshots on ur phone would be nice. The usage page.
Hey Encrypted11,
Yep iphone is telling me IOS 5.0.1.. Under normal setup it is only running 3G, siri and location services and half bright screen when I was having issue.. but when I try to drain the battery, i speed up the process but turning on wifi and brightness of the screen to full until it conk out..
Will get the screen shot up later, going out for dinner and I'm in a rush.
I see that someone mentioned after my post that they drain it down to 5% and do a full charge but didn't see significant improvement.. So far for me after 19 hours it is at 88% which is significant improvement over yesterday after the update..
I think iphone just need to 'realign' itself sort of speak.. try it out and let me know how it goes
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Nov 12, 2011 11:44 AM in response to Dylan's Apple IDby Jus D,I'm having the exact same problem, dropped 70% in less that 10 from hardly any use
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Nov 12, 2011 12:05 PM in response to art_in_motionby Lee Lensky,Barely had any battery issues for a full 24 hours' use with everything turned on and since the 5.0 and 5.0.1 update I drop 50% of battery in about 90 minutes just sitting on my desk. Good thing I can charge in the car and at work but I can't use this for travel - no way.
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Nov 12, 2011 12:09 PM in response to art_in_motionby Rustybaum,My battery is lasting less than 5 hours unplugged and I barely used it today. This update is terrible. I call shenanigans.
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Nov 12, 2011 12:20 PM in response to art_in_motionby Austino311,After doing the over the air update to iOS 5.0.1 my battery went from BAD (on 5.0) to much WORSE!
I can actually watch the percentage drop with nothing running, connected to Edge only, no Bluetooth, no music playing, And this is a 2 month old iPhone 4 replacement, so it should have a very healthy battery life right? Well
I guess now with these last 2 updates it's shortening my battery's full
Capacity drastically
Can Apple really give us another update so soon again? I doubt it.
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Nov 12, 2011 12:28 PM in response to art_in_motionby Wezul,I agree. I wasn't dissatisfied before with the battery life but I installed the upgrade anyways what the ****, it couldn't hurt.
WRONG!!!!!
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Nov 12, 2011 12:54 PM in response to colsterby Barbara Hibbard,If I set up as a new phone to deal with this battery issue, will all my apps and contacts be saved in iCloud? The other stuff I don't care about.
iPhone 4 8g using an iMac, but things are backed up to iCloud, not computer.
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Nov 12, 2011 1:04 PM in response to art_in_motionby blankman2g,I actually received my 4S the day the 5.0.1 was released and updated immediately. My initial charge was from about 20% to 100%. I unplugged the phone the next morning at around 6am and by about 4:30pm, it was down to 0% and shut itself off. That was a lot shorter battery life than my 2+ year old Motorola Droid so I was worried. I let it run down to 0% because of a suggestion I found elsewhere stating that this should improve battery life. I recharged to 100% and unplugged last night around 7pm before heading out. That battery is at 89% after 21 hours of moderate usage. That usage includes photos, videos, tweets, and Facebook posts while at a concert last night and light-moderate usage throughout the day today.
The full discharge/full recharge seems to have worked for me.
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Nov 12, 2011 1:14 PM in response to art_in_motionby dionnafromohio,Adding my complaint... Got a replacement iPhone 4 the day before iOS 5 release. Battery on previous iPhone 4 was great. 12+ hours on weekends (I'm home, wifi, alerts only). Upgraded to iOS 5 and noticed degraded battery life. Not horrible, but still not as before update and I had my previous phone since February. Updated to iOS 5.0.1 and quick drain of battery. I'm donw to 70% yesterday before 10:00 a.m. Phone in use unplugged since 7:30 a.m. and using 3G as always when I am away from home. Phone drained to 40% by 3:00 p.m. yesterday. Usually don't see that until 5:00 or a bit later if I don't plug in right away after gettng home. Today at home I unplugged my phone at 7:30 a.m., I'm on wifi, my phone drained to less than 20% by 2:30 p.m. It appears to be draining faster on wifi! Seriously, Apple, fix this!
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Nov 12, 2011 1:18 PM in response to dionnafromohioby lfdorries,Just got my phone a week ago. Had pretty darn good battery life.
Then a update was installed on Thursday.
Now the battery life *****
I want to go back to the old version.
The latest version is eating my battery life to death !
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Nov 12, 2011 1:19 PM in response to art_in_motionby Robert Charpentier,I don't mean to pile on here, but it's important that Apple hear from its users. I downloaded the version 5.01 of IOS and my battery performance has dropped off dramatically. With extremly light usage it's not lasting even 2 full days. Before the upgrade, I was getting 3 days of use with moderate use. Ouch.
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Nov 12, 2011 1:28 PM in response to Wezulby PeteF10,My battery life wasn't all that great prior to the update, but now after updating, add me to the list of those whose battery life is worse. I'm a big fan of Apple products, but waiting for a fix on this issue is getting a bit ridiculous. I know that there are significant differences between the iPhone 4 and 4S, but my 4S's battery charge is dropping like a rock in a pond compared to my wife's non-updated iPhone 4 and that's with both phones just sitting on a table for several hours and not being used. Judging by the number of people with the same issue, I'm wondering if Apple should stop looking at a software fix and start considering that perhaps the batteries are defective.
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Nov 12, 2011 1:50 PM in response to healy79by apple4me2,Oh boy, I have the same issue after upgrading to 5.0.1, the 4s never fully charges to 100%, a few days ago, I was getting 93%, then today (this morning) it was 92%. Whereas, before the upgrade, it would charge to 100%.
I was happier without the upgrade. Apple needs to fix this for too!
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Nov 12, 2011 2:05 PM in response to art_in_motionby shahram in rome,I have an ipad2 and can confirm tat the 5.0.1 update is a complete disaster.
Since updating last night I clearly see my ipad drpping 1% by the minute or so while doing nothing othercthan browsing and emails.
With 5.0 I had no major problem and in fact I could go on for at least a couple of days w/o recharging.
How can I revert back to 5.0 or even earlier?