Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Oh great, you're back are you?

Can't wait for your next insightful pearl of poorly written, shouty wisdom... Yay.

If resetting a phone and going through a few charge cycles, reinstalling iOS when you have unstability, toning down on mail, and trimming some settings as per http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html and similar things are not best practices, then you and I don't come from the same world - I come from the real world. You're so full of it. It's not about what position you've been, it's about common sense and their own best practices that they do spell out and that obviously you've never read about. This changes nothing from Apple doing its job. "To simply sit back and relax" - you can't even be honest about how you go... but people can read back in the thread... you said that Apple would never take any clue from a bunch of people who can't even build an iPhone. Well, I like normal people, and I have more respect for a waitress than for the likes of you or Steve.

I don't envy being like you. I know what you're about. I'm here to take out the thrash and insults are limited by the terms of use you know. But I'm sure you can hear me, pal.

I am really really unhappy now.

I have an iPhone 4 and, until last weekend, the battery life has been fine. All of a sudden it drains battery power in standby from full charge to zero in less than 6 hours. I have been reading every page of this thread all week long. Believe me when I say I have tried EVERYTHING suggested on these pages and still the phone waves back at me with another few % battery lost. I am so annoyed, why can't I just have a phone that works!?

I am one year and 13 days into a two year contract and I don't have an iPhone that works anymore. I can't afford to get it fixed and it might just be ios5 anyway (I.e. there is no fix).

Apple, if you are reading this, once my contract is up I will get a droid and never use iPhone again. Utter shambles really.

perhaps droid might not be as good as you think....

http://www.mobileinquirer.com/2011/why-i-now-hate-my-samsung-galaxy-s2/

The multi-task management issue persists in iPad2 as well. I went throught the process of clearing the graveyard of process in my iPad2.

Also, since I started actively managing the multitasking (killing process after moving away from an app) the battery life has improved ever so slighltly.

So, I guess that is my glimmer of hope

robrobedin wrote:

 

I received my iphone 4s yesterday and have restored it via icloud and my account. everything is as per my 3gs.

 

i charged it up over night and today i have used it for 25 mins and the battery is already at 91%.

 

I have used siri for about 7 mins

maps for about 2 mins

safari for about 1 min and the rest just playing around.

 

I also asked siri to create a reminder for after i leave work - i notice that the location icon is always on and wondered if this was the problem as to why battery is draining at a rediculous level.

 

 

This should not be the case apple as its part of the phones function -

how are you going to fix this.

 

its not great so far.

Aloha andrew,

#1 thing you needed to do is a FULL discharge cycle in order to calibrate the NEW LIPO battery. This will get it to full capacity.  Any new lipo battery in ANY new device comes with only a storage charge. This is not a full capacity activation charge. This needs to be done by the end user by using the phone till is shuts down (Black screen) then pluging it in for a full 12 hr deep charge.

Full lipo capacity will now occur in the lipo.

For what you noted as usage I will only drop 1-2% ( on 3g not wifi). Now what you need to understand is If you loaded ALL OLD iPhone 3gs apps- they may not work correctly with an A5 chip setup with iOS5.

But from the #s you just noted, Your Batt is OK, You Need to do the Proper charge calibration.

Battery life is ridiculous. Im after paying alot of money for a phone that i've to turn off all the applications. Whats the point.

Sort it out Apple, please.

Here is my latest stats:

3hrs on 3g web and EBAY app shopping, 48 min calls,text and system usage.

25min of the 3g I was streaming music from my fav Hawaiian radio station plugged into my cars interface.

(Note the plugged in since last full charge: This only topped off 5%charge while streaming 3g web)

As far as % use per hr I was pacing at about 1.5%/hr use + standby

I can actually go one more day before full charging. But this is were I usually plug it in % wise.

I don't have any batt issues EVER since 14th release enabled.

1Apple hope this is a little more info than my previous.

Mahalo

I am also having some really good battery life. My iPhone was fine until the update then it went by the way side, but it just started having some really good battery and I'm not sure what it is that I did but coming from an android I'm very pleased now. Well I can't get the picture up but my usage is 5hrs 35 mins of usage and 2days 17 hrs. In my opinion this is great considering I was only getting 5-6 hrs with my HTC 3D.

Yeah the battery is just incompatible with my iPhone 4,feel like changing back to it. Terrible battery life!

(1 thread about battery life X 465 pages about it) X (many other threads X many other pages) = Much bigger issue than "Antenna-gate"...

I love iPhones, but this is bad.

No hope and no end in sight as how/when/if will it be resolved? What solutions do we all have? Class action lawsuit to obtain a full refund from our carrier and a void of contract renewal based on gross failure for reasonable performance expectation?

Has anyone been able to to return their 4S to their carrier? I doubt it. As usual, we all get screwed at the end.

I have had my iphone 4s replaced by the apple store thinking the battery was bad.. It would last no longer than a day which is horriable for what I use it for. I plug it into the charger at night and take it off around 7am and it wont last past 7pm with moderate usage. So apple has won on the sorry battery life. I have broke down and bought a mophie juice pack and i dont like the different charging cable and the extra bulk it adds. I cannot switch to another phone because iphone is the best! lol. I recently bought the ixtreme t6 battery case and i can say its the best I have owned. Its a very nice looking case without adding bulk to the phone. It last me about 3 days without a charge with moderate usage. I figured I would share it with everyone that is having battery problems with the iphone 4s. I posted a picture from the website http://www.ixtreme-accessories.com

hope this helps.

This will probably void your guarantee. Reminds me somehow my Nokia, 20 years ago, the only difference my Nokia still works three days after a full charge;-)

Today i've done two opposite tests, trying to use so much energy as possible from the battery:

1.

- everything off (also apps)

- set display to never off

- enable directions

- start maps, the app ask to enable WLan for better accuracy

- enable WLan

- drive with the car 30 minutes

Result:

Drain of 12% and a warm Iphone (button sides).

2.

- everything off

- set display to 1 minute

- enable directions

- enable bluetooth

- start tune in radio (over 3G)

- start runtastic pro (a data logger for running)

- run 40 min

Result:

Drain of 14%.

I think this issue will be hard to correct by software, i can't believe it is only software.

I don't understand some things:

- the problem ist so serious, i think in the beta test they had to saw it, but why nothing happend? There has to be a difference between the hardware of the preliminary series and customer series.

- if they saw it and there is no difference between the hardware series, they accepted it - and that is very bad, the hardware changes will take a lot of time and doesn't help anybody which has already buyed.

It is on Apple to break the wall of silence - and i'm preparing to return both 4s.

3dmac wrote:

 

robrobedin wrote:

 

I received my iphone 4s yesterday and have restored it via icloud and my account. everything is as per my 3gs.

 

i charged it up over night and today i have used it for 25 mins and the battery is already at 91%.

 

I have used siri for about 7 mins

maps for about 2 mins

safari for about 1 min and the rest just playing around.

 

I also asked siri to create a reminder for after i leave work - i notice that the location icon is always on and wondered if this was the problem as to why battery is draining at a rediculous level.

 

 

This should not be the case apple as its part of the phones function -

how are you going to fix this.

 

its not great so far.

Aloha andrew,

#1 thing you needed to do is a FULL discharge cycle in order to calibrate the NEW LIPO battery. This will get it to full capacity.  Any new lipo battery in ANY new device comes with only a storage charge. This is not a full capacity activation charge. This needs to be done by the end user by using the phone till is shuts down (Black screen) then pluging it in for a full 12 hr deep charge.

Full lipo capacity will now occur in the lipo.

For what you noted as usage I will only drop 1-2% ( on 3g not wifi). Now what you need to understand is If you loaded ALL OLD iPhone 3gs apps- they may not work correctly with an A5 chip setup with iOS5.

But from the #s you just noted, Your Batt is OK, You Need to do the Proper charge calibration.

I don't believe there is any recalibration occuring when you discharge the phone to zero.  I see that many people keep on publishing this information but iPhones batteries are precalibrated and there isn't anything that consumers can do to change that calibration.  I have let my battery drain to shut off because I think it terminates some rogue processes and may extend the capacity a small amount but that is it.  Regardless of what people are reporting, I doubt user's battery problems are being fixed through this discharge process.  Li based batteries do not have memory so they do not need to be reconditioned or fully cycled.  In fact you cannot drain the battery to zero because the phone has a protective circuit to shut down when the battery reaches a low enough level.  If the battery gets too low, you can actually cause damage.  The best thing is to charge the phone whenever possible and not to let it sit unused for long periods so you always have electron activity.  Just my 2 cents.