Q: Battery life/iOS 5.0.1

wickedme91 wrote:

 

I hate this phone. Didn't use gps, email, just plain browsing on wifi with screen brightness at quarter. How much worse can the battery be?

What are you complaining about?  Your stats work out to a battery drain of 1.46% per hour.  That is well within Apple specs for phone use.

I wish i had stats like that!!

What???  Well within Apple specs?  8 hours talk time or 200 hours stand-by.  200 hours is over 8 days!!!

Honestly, my IPhone 3 or 4 would never have gotten that on their best day, but they both lasted 3-4 times as long as the Iphone 4s.

But I'm getting less than 8 hours checking email a couple of times and stock prices once or twice--no calls.  I unplugged the phone this morning at 6:30AM and by 1:30pm battery was down to 15%.  This leads me to believe that the phone is using the battery in stand-by similiar to the rate of a phone call.

Power and Battery5	Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM) Standby time: Up to 200 hours Internet use: Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi Video playback: Up to 10 hours Audio playback: Up to 40 hours

Drain your battery down to 0%, then do a full charge to 100%. turn off everything under iCloud in settings (apart from Find my iphone), make sure 'push' is off if you have mail accounts set up. finally do a network settings reset. This worked for me

Also got into system services in location services and turn off all options apart from 'diagnostics and usage'

good luck

This is bullcrap, Why would Apple deny us the possibility to downgrade our iphones to previous firmware versions? I feel like I was led into a trap. I can barely use my phone, 'coz it drains dead half-way through the day.

Apple: Please resign previous versions!! at least until 5.02 is out (If that even fixes it).

Strangely, my iPad 1 battery seemed to do better at first after the upgade to 5.0.1, but then got worse the past 5 days or so.  Apple, pls dont forget us iPad 1 owners with the next fix.

I also went from great battery life on 5.0 to terrible android like battery life on my 5.0.1.  This annoys me as a former android owner who made the jump to the iphone partly because of battery reliability and life.  Its so annoying and my battery life needs to be fixed pronto.  At least they should provide an easy way to go back to 5.0.

In the amount of time it took to read through all the post on this discussion (approx. 20 min), and not using my iPhone 4 except to check battery life, the battery went from 37% to 28%. A 9% drop in battery life and not even touching my phone is crazy. No wifi connection, email sent to manual, and I won't go into the complete list of things that I am not allowing my phone to do. When I was using the ios 5.0.0 upgrade my phone was working better than ever and I actually enjoyed the new updates that came alone the 5.0.0 upgrade, but then I decided to give the iCloud upgrade to 5.0.1 a try and since my battery is dying quicker than ever. Over the past 3 nights my phone is averaging exactly a 40% drop in battery life. This is crazy for a phone that is just sitting on a shelp. I want 5.0.0 back or an upgrade to 5.0.2 now.

It seems that, although there is a legitimate issue with some phones, there may be some confusion about how battery life is supposed to function under ideal conditions.

• Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM) - equal to 12.5% and 7.14% per hour, respectively
• Standby time: Up to 200 hours - equal to 0.5% per hour
• Internet use: Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi - equal to 16.6% and 11.1% per hour, respectively
• Video playback: Up to 10 hours - equal to 10% per hour
• Audio playback: Up to 40 hours - equal to 2.5% per hour

None of these estimates are meant to be read in conjunction with one another.  Meaning, you don't get 8 hrs of 3G calling, PLUS 200 hrs of standby time, PLUS blah blah blah.  These numbers represent the maximum amount of time you could expect to get for each task, if that ONE task was performed for the full battery life of the phone (under ideal testing conditions, which are described on the Apple website). 

With mixed use, including calls, wifi browsing, email, texting, etc, the best I have been able to do is 39 hrs standby with 11 hrs of mixed-use included (standby time includes ALL the time the phone has been on, or used).  This works out to an average of 2.54% per hour.  Given the percentages above for each task per hour, I think my phone is well within Apple specifications (for mixed use).

I finally have the battery issue under control. I have done a number of tweaks any of which may have worked. The one that made the most Difference is resetting network settings. Go to Settings than General than look for Reset at the bottom. Then select reset menu settings.  This has made the most difference for me. 

Other tweaks I did were to location settings and email bit they did not do very much. I have wifi and Bluetooth on always.

i took att iphone 4s but returned it as i wanted to move to sprint. My att phone had ok battery life but now when i got my sprint one my battery drains like 1% every 4-5 minutes without doing stuff...dont knw if this is with certain hardware or the new 5.0.1 update as old phone was 5.0..man i hope its a software problem and they resolve it soon.

I have the same problem! I never had any issues with my Iphone in the last year on the old operating system. I started to notice that the charge was a little worse with the new operating system, but now it horrible with the latest update! I fully charged my phone, and just by sending maybe 50 texts and using one app, my battery life was down to 10% in three hours. Please fix this!!!