iPhone 4s Battery Life?

@bleepingApple

Did you try to remove the calendar from the notification center?

I've posted a few times earlier with my battery stories, but I finally have good news to report. I changed 3 things and one of them worked (no sure which). I switch the notification center to organize by time, not manual. I switched to push email and left the 1hr fetch setting alone--with gmail to fetch and iCloud to push. I know that the fetch timer doesn't matter with push, but since it doesn't matter i left the 1hr setting alone. Lastly, and somehow I think most importantly, I deleted Angry Birds. No joke.

I read an earlier, very informative post, that meantioned a bug in the video card that makes the vid card run in the background all the time. Someone mentioned a connection to AB, so I deleted it too and one of the three things helped.

Others can experiment because I have good battery life again and I'm done screwing around with all the settings. I spent hours doing all the recommendation changes mentioned throughout this thread. Even with those I was getting < 3hrs usage per charge. On my last charge I got 7.5hrs and about 1.5days of standby. Anyway, give it a shot and see if I'm alone.

@enx23

Yes, my calendar is removed from NC

[I have nothing activated in the Notification Centre.]

My battery performance got a lot better after inserting a new Sim card.

When I recieved my iPhone 4s I used the Sim card from my previous iPhone and the battery would lose approximately 10% per hour. With the new Sim card the battery loses 2% per hour (no tweaks to save battery-power). The CPU load however still remains above 51% compared to 12% for the iPhone 4 (standby mode). The battery performance is not as good as the iPhone 4 but very acceptable and OK for me.

iOS 5.0.1

Carrier: T-Mobile Netherlands

Thank you RogerfromFrance, you provided the solution that works for me.

Hey All,

I went through most if not all the suggestions and nothing stood out as a cure all.

I only saw improvement when I dissabled wifi syncing on itunes & icloud services. Ever since then my stand by time has gone from @ 8% loss an hour to @ 1-1.5%. During normal to excessive use on my 4S I still am not happy with the drain but I am better off now than a week ago. I do activate icloud on a need to basis, mostly to just back up the phone but turn it off other wise. Most of the suggested fixes I did have been toggled back to normal settings. Except Settings Time Zone and Location Based iAds they are still off. All push and notifcation center info remains on.

Hope this helps.

I charged my 4s 48 hrs. ago, then just let it sit for 24 more. I didnt use it at all! I picked it up today, and it was completely dead ! My iphone 4, has great battery life, i can get 3-4 days of use between charges. I am stunned @ the miserable performance of my 4s!!! What am I supposed to do?

And yes I have the latest updates.

Is it good enough to have 12 hours of standby time, 6.5 hours of usage and drops about 6% overnight? This is just my first iPhone.

Did you keep getting new ones? They all seem very resistant to do anything and folks at the Apple Store told me this problem wasn't real and just a "couple of folks" on the net complaining. I upgraded from a 4 to a 4s with Verizon on 11/4. Battery issues popped up the 2nd week after the 5.01 update. As I went on a cruise the 3rd week I didn't get back to Verizon till 12/1. I wanted to swap for a 4 and they won't allow that--they changed their return policy this year from 30 days to 14. I then went to Apple. They won't downgrade either and wouldn't swap out since I hadn't done a FULL restore. They did that at store and sent me on my way. Battery still stinks. Hate to go back (long wait times) to just get another phone (have to set it all up) and have the same thing happen.

Many of us now are STUCK with these phones and monthly data plans but can only partially utilize them due to terrible battery life. Unfortunately Apple does not step up to the plate on these issues as demonstrated in the past. Class action suit may be the best recourse.

CodLBi wrote:

My battery performance got a lot better after inserting a new Sim card.

When I recieved my iPhone 4s I used the Sim card from my previous iPhone and the battery would lose approximately 10% per hour. With the new Sim card the battery loses 2% per hour (no tweaks to save battery-power). The CPU load however still remains above 51% compared to 12% for the iPhone 4 (standby mode). The battery performance is not as good as the iPhone 4 but very acceptable and OK for me.

iOS 5.0.1

Carrier: T-Mobile Netherlands

Thank you RogerfromFrance, you provided the solution that works for me.

glad to know i helped you.

Although i am now satisfied with my 4S, however, I continued

to read messages here and a have learned some interesting

things: Most of those who have solved their problems

using a new SIM card is because they used before

their old card may be downsized to micro Sim format.

On page 443 are displayed 2 pictures showing differences.

Someone has also explained that problem is comming

from the card reader wich could be not the same on all

4S.

Hi rogerfromfrance,

The micro sim card on the right (with the arrow) is my old micro sim card that I took from my iPhone 4 and put into my iPhone 4s. With this micro sim I experienced a 10% battery drain an hour.

The micro sim card on the left is the new micro sim that improved my battery performance to approximately 2% battery drain an hour.

You'll notice that the print lay-out on the new micro sim is different. Maybe the new micro sim card works better with the sim reader in the iPhone 4s resulting in a better performance.

Where is Apple on this issue? Why don't they post here? Everyone I know has the problem. I am getting 4 hours or less of batter time. Drains at 25-30 percent per hour. This is terrible, and it seems link Apple is just ignoring all the posts.

I have been a long time Apple user and recently upgraded to the 4S from the 4. I am easily loosing 10% battery life every hour with little to no usage. I see a lot of people looking for the magic fix and wonder why? If the options are on the phone shouldn't the phone work and the user community not be the ones to find the solution? Several of my friends who upgraded to the the 4S are experiencing battery issues as well, and this is the first time I have ever seen them contemplating dropping Apple for another OS.

@bleepingApple

Did you try to turn off the cellular data (wifi can stay on)? Does this make any difference?

@DJ.Jan

Did you try to turn off the cellular data (wifi can stay on)? Does this make any difference?