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My iPhone 4s battery seems terrible! Almost equivalent to my 3GS and it's terrible battery life. When I got my iPhone yesterday and restored from backup I noticed nothing really changed with minimal usage and standby! Is this normal or should I consider setting it up as a new phone because maybe something is running in the background that's causing it to drop a percentage every few minutes under light usage? Input would be great!
Just checking in again. Restoring my iphone to factory and then grabbing my contacts from icloud and then syncing my iphone as a new phone for my music and apps seems to have bettered my battery life... that is until i turn on my calendars. This still seems to be a huge huge problem for me, so for now I'll leave them off and enjoy my phone until more light possibly gets shed on the subject.
I do want to share too that I just read the iPhone return policy for a full refund is *30 days*. I know that myself and a few other people in this thread thought it was 14 days. So this gives us a bit more time to figure it out and try to see if its going to be usable or not.
osho741 wrote:
We shut everything off except weather in location services and it still did nothing for the battery issue.
Yes but did you go into system services, as there are more location services in there which are normally hidden
You mean like where time zone is turned on? yes that was turned off too.
BoomStreet wrote:
I do want to share too that I just read the iPhone return policy for a full refund is *30 days*. I know that myself and a few other people in this thread thought it was 14 days. So this gives us a bit more time to figure it out and try to see if its going to be usable or not.
Just a minor warning - Apple does give you 30 days to return the phone, but as their returns policy mentions, your plan limitations are between you and your carrier. So if your carrier only gives you, say, a 14 day trial period, and you return your phone after 20 days, Apple will be fine with it, but your carrier may stick you with a service/plan ETF.
Hey everyone, I think I solved the problem of the battery drain issue for my 4s when its sleeping.
I followed various solutions
So I ran a test last night. I charged it full to 100% and put it to sleep for about 8 hours. Woke up this morning the and the battery was 98%. I think one of the solutions above solved it for me. I think the culprit maybe the use cellular data option is on while sleeping and causes the 3G antenna to constatnly talk to iCloud. That may explain why everyone who upgraded to iOS 5 is having this battery issue.
Hope that helps
My current settings
Thanks for sharing your info and experience! can you tell me how did you back up stuff on icloud? where is that option?
Hmm, for some reason, my battery life is much improved today (Thursday,Oct 20). I haven't been trying many tweaks. Either the battery is breaking in or there have been some changes to the network, I guess.
I am having the same problem...think i have tried everything now...still no go. I also have another strange problem. When i charge my phone over night and unplugs it in the morning the battery icon still shows that the phone is charging. The percentage goes down but the icon still have the little "plug" in it. I have to reboot the phone. This have hapend the last two mornings. Anyone else with the same prob?
Left 64 white 4s plugged in last night to make sure alarm would wake me. Alarm set to playlist. Had it set for 3 different times. Happened to wake (not via alarm). No
Music was displayed.
I refuse to turn all features off. However, I went into each app that was using location & turned those
Off. Surprised to see how many unnessarily use location. Left location on in settings & on GPS navigation. Also, left find my phone enabled. I do not have mail set to push. Substantial improvement for battery by disabling apps location & letting phone drain & recharge. But, not near what is expected of battery.
You can do this from your iPhone. Go to Settings | iCloud | Turn On all the options you see there. ( mail, Contacts, calenders, reminders ..... etc). Then scroll all the way to the bottom & hit "Storage & Backup". If you didnt have a iCloud mail set-up it will take you thru creating a name@me.com & once you set that up with a password, it will automatically sysnc you iPhone to the iCloud. If the data you have on the phone is in excess to 5GB you will have to pay for extra space. Else you can turn off some features you may not want to back up to iCloud like the reminders..etc & then continue.
Hope this helps.
Unplugged this morn at 6am, battery's at 91% after some usage, we'll see how it goes throughout the day...
Anyone find the "magic bullet" yet!?
Settings > Notifications
In Notification Center
Not In Notification Center
Settings > Location Services
System Services
Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage - Don't Send
Settings > General > Siri > Raise to Speak - Off
Settings > iCloud
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Calendars > Time Zone Support - Off
I just called, first they've heard of the problem. She told me to restore my phone and if that doesn't fix the issue they'd give me a new one.
That's a lie, I called them earlier this week about it and I would think that most people in this forum have done the same.
I love how Apple keep their secrecy surrounding product launches etc etc.... And I'm sure these last 2 weeks haven't been the easiest for Apple as a whole, but just to let their users know if 5.0.1 is coming, when it's coming and if it will provide a fix for the battery issues would be nice.
In my own experience, the first few days were awful with the battery life, I restored from an iCloud back up to a brand spanking new 4s and was getting about 4 hours, I've done about 4/5 complete discharge and recharge and setup as a new iPhone today and manually restored all my apps, this took about 2 and a half hours.
The good news now is that after doing that last night I'm now on 29% battery life showing 11hours standby and 6hrs 40 mins usage, the usage has been some texting, a 33 min phone call, lots of instant messaging and Safari use mainly over WI-FI and to add to that I even popped out to the shops (about an hour journey all round) and set myself a GPS reminder whilst leaving both WI-FI and Cellular Data on the whole time, I listened to Spotify music the whole time I was out also and I've been tweeting all day.
It's getting better, but now wondering if I should restore the iPhone back to how it was before all that hassle to see if it's still going to suffer the same problems......
Ok everyone, i hope youre all still calling Apple and letting them know whats going on. When I talked to a rep, we agreed that i should just wait a week and see what the battery does. And I have to say, my battery is lasting about an extra hour with every charge i do. If, lets say, tuesday it lasted 8 hours, yeterday it lasted 9 hours, and today it should last 10-11 hours until the battery goes into full charge.
Im at 51% right now and about to get to 7 hours unplugged, which is MUCH better than before. Ill update again tomorrow. BTW, I have a 4S and have some things turned off like bluetooth and such, not much tweeking because I dont belive I have to turn off things that are meant to be used. SIRI is on also.
i was having similar issues as well and i think i have it solved. i can't remember if it was this thread or another where i read that it could be issues with IMAP mail accounts brought over from a restore.
so i deleted my Gmail account and added it again. i also turned off Siri's "raise to talk" feature. those were the only two things i did, everything else i left the same.
charged to 100% before i went to bed last night and left it off the charger throughout the night. woke up this morning and there was still a 98% charge.
after pretty heavy use all day at work and using the iPod for about five hours, i'm only down to 55%. yesterday, i would've had to charge mid-way through the day.
so i think it's solved on my end, and it seems that the IMAP account was the likely culprit.
iPhone 4s Battery Life?
