iPhone 4 heat and battery issues

Here's the thing. If you take a look at the Bank of America fiasco when they tried to nick everyone five bucks...or even the NETFLIX gig where they raised their rates...it takes a village to shut this stuff down. I happen to work for one of the major TV networks. The need a wave of complaints and some bad PR. Beleive me when I tell you that I am emailing links to all of the people that count in the news department. Sure...it's not an earthquake or another natural disaster....but it sure as heck could be considered a technological disaster. You are correct...sad but true...our smart phones have become part of our everyday lives. It stinks to see this happening with a compnay that has been riding at the head of the wave for so long.

My phone has been heating up like crazy and the battery will fully drain in 6 hrs with very limited use. Updated to iOS 5.0.1 and no change as of yet. The phone is useless at this point. The 10% battery message once popped up and then when dismissed the phone actually showed 1% and shut off imediately after that... uhhh, yeah.

Like many posts prrevious, this is not something a forum should be figuring out how to solve. Seriously considering an Andriod phone at this point. At least with Android system upgrades the battery life increases!

Whilst browsing through the comments I stopped at this thread as I have suffered with excessive heat in phone, battery on lasting 3 to 4 hours if not used. All the stuff related previously. I turned everything off, reset settings etc. All to no avail.

In the end I simply connected phone to iMac and opened iTunes. Frome there I restored factory settings. Once back to a clean phone I had the choice of adding my previous backup. I took this option (thinking I can't do any worse). Well after a while, as there was quite a few things to copy over, all was done. Then it was just the wait to see if it heated up agaain or ran out of juice. Nothing untoward happened and I can say that the battery life is now longer than I have ever had an iPhone battery last. No heating issues.

I can now say that as of three weeks ago iOS5 is working and working very well.

Go on give it go - it worked for me and I was thinking of taking the phone back. Greater satisfaction to fix it yourself though I can assure you of that.

Traveller858

Just restart your iPOD, iPHONE and iPAD. by pressing power and hold button at the same time for 5 seconds.

I happens to me last 2 weeks after I update to 5.01 battery is overheating and battery last for a short time. and this morning suddenly it is not charging anymore. my friend advice me to restart my phone.

- Elmer

Message was edited by: elmerfrommetro manila

I have a 64GB 4S.

The battery lasts 5-7 hours. I have had a few occassions when the phone has heated up. I typically turn off all other programs besides phone and messages.

I hope this gets fixed soon.

I want to know why I didn't start having severe battery drain until 2 weeks after upgrading to iOS5. Everything was great for two weeks then all of a sudden one morning I unplugged my phone and it was dead in 5 hours and all I did was check the time once. I also don't understand why my wife's iPhone has a battery life that most of us would kill for when she also upgraded to iOS5 AND she is a much heavier user than I am. She runs her business off of that thing. Out of everyone I know who has an iphone, I am the only one with this issue.

Just a heads up to anyone reading, dont forget if you double click on your home button, the circle on the bottom of the phone, it will show you the apps used recently, in order of what you used. these are all apps that are running in your background. so when you double click it and you have 35 apps running in your background, there is some extreme draining going on. simply hold your finger down on the the apps just as you would to move them or delete them on your home screen. then just delete them from that list. it does nothing to your app itself, except close what you are doing. try this, deleting every app in that list save for the one yyou are using, and after a couple hours you will see a major increase in your battery life. hope this helps, it did for me.

This is not exactly accurate. Most apps don't truly run in the background as far as I know, instead they just use a sort of save-state system where they go to sleep so to speak until you run them again.

Hello, i fixed my problem i think i have much more battery after doing that, I put of useless notifications, put off location, and send diagnostica off too but the most problem caused is icloud sinze i deleted my account i have so much battery life. Thanks for read.

Guys there is another post in these forums that that has helped a LOT of people with battery issues. Its a simple process and it does not delete your data. Take a look here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3484755

[Credit Davidch for this fix]

For anyone new to the thread be sure to go through these steps to address the battery after updating to iOS 5.0.1:

1. Reset all settings (settings app-> general-> reset)

2 a. Go through initial setup steps (lang, wifi, siri, enable location, etc) and choose setup as new phone (don't worry your apps, data, contacts, mail will still be there). Do NOT restore from iCloud or iTunes (It can copy back corrupt settings)

2 b. If you do get the complete new setup screen with language setup and setup as new phone or restore from iTune/iCloud backup, be sure to go back to #1 and reset all settings again (it should happen the second time)

3. Turn off system location services timezone and iAd (settings -> location services -> system services)

4. Fully discharge battery (until you get the spinning wheel and it shuts off)

5. Fully recharge battery (overnight if possible)

In my experience this improves the Standby battery drain issue significantly in most cases. It reduces drain from 2-4% or more per hr to 0.5% or less. It has worked for many, many users now. If it does not work after a few try's you may have a real battery or hardware issue and should contact Apple. Good Luck!

I found if I use the 'Maps' app to locate a spot, have a route calculated then close the app, it ***** up battery life. I assumed if I closed the app it would shut down until I opened it again. My phone got hot until I went back into the app and took it off "directions" which displayed the route. My phone then cooled down. Evidently when I leave the app in "route" mode it actively maintains my current position relative to where I would be going even after I closed the app. I don't believe the app worked that way under older operating systems. When I closed the app before it wasn't active and would have to reestablish my position when I reopened the app. This seems to have solved my battery issues. I don't know if the app changed or if the operating system changed how the app is used.

Does anyone else think it's ironic that with page upon page of complaints and "tin foil hat" suggestions on how to get your Iphone up to expectations laid out by Apple in their extensive marketing claims...that NOT ONE representative from the company responds to any of these posts?

This forum is like a virtual "cat scratching post". The company put it up here so we can all claw at the post and feel better about taking the points off our claws. Is anyone out there from Apple that can make some suggestions or fix the dang phone???

I am away on Holidays and can't wait to get back to my Apple Store to drop my iPhone 4 that could have burnt my friends house down. The phone was too hot to hold without a case and it smelt like something was burning, all the while plugged in and charging and yet still dropping charge?!?!?!

Dealing with product issues reveals a lot about how much spine a company has vs greed.

An apple Techie told me to turn my off for awhile each day or so to prevent overheating. If it doesn't come-on after overheating, just hold down the "off button" and the "indented button with the small white squarte" (at the same time) for about 30 seconds or until you see the white Apple logo appear.

Hazel that's typical techie bull s**t. Something in the iPhone is draining the resources which is causing it to overheat while it's on so obviously if you turning your phone off will then stop the problem, through my personal experiences there are a several problems, certain location settings were causing my phone to overheat and turning them off solved the issue. Then something else caused the overheating issue and a phone reset solved that.