iPhone 4s Battery Life?

kopec: Search & read my posts & the replies to mine above in this forum to resolve your battery issue & have all your features TURNED ON too.

I charge and discharge from 0% to 100% from abaut week - it is not that. As soon as put my sim card into the phone at once saw that battery was running too fast. After a week is not better.

I guess I could give the iCloud restore a try, but keep in mind I completely wiped the phone and was able to replicate the problem by just adding my 5 shared calendars. Nothing else, no restores, no other configuration.

I'm probably going to setup a Genius bar appt next week. Heck, I'll even let the guy login to my calendars with a Phone that supposedly has no issues.

Kopec & NC Kishore, how many shared calendars do you have? What are your fetch intervals? Are they Exchange, Apple Server or iCloud?

I have shared calendars on outlook exchange & iCloud. So just 2. Fetch interval is 15min.

Even the pure clear phone after restore, without restoring the backup and setting anything outside internet 3G and WiFi, droping 1% in 10 minutes. What more can I disable? Notking...

Guys remember this phone just came out. The battery is still learning so I'd say give it some time to improve and do at least 5 full discharge and charge cycle to break it in. I'm sure with any phone you got the first few weeks of battery life was terrible then it got better.

Give it some time. We shouldnt have to turn everything off yet.

kopec wrote:

Even the pure clear phone after restore, without restoring the backup and setting anything outside internet 3G and WiFi, droping 1% in 10 minutes. What more can I disable? Notking...

1% in 10 min is good. Now is that usage time or standby time because you don't make that clear. If it is usage time then it is good.

I write before, it is in standby - so, 1hour = 6%, 10 hours (one day autside home) = 60% of battery go away for nothing. iPhone is now like Android phone.

When you say "back up iPhone" to iCloud, are you referring to just iCloud-based apps like my mac.com mail account (and its contacts and calendars) or is there something more? For example, I don't back up documents because I don't have any on my iPhone, but I need to turn it on for the restore process, then I'll do so.

Secondly, will a restore also bring back my various mail configurations? I have several Exchange accounts. Will I have to recreate them separately?

Thanks

Did you do a reset on the network settings? Try that. It fixed my problem.

I did everything possible from restore, after disabling every possible option and reset settings - does not work. Phone no power is consumed only as it is in airplane mode, turn off WiFi and cellular data also does not work. It looks as if the same connection to the mobile network energy drained. I also have OK coverage - full 3G.

Visited the Apple store last night. The gentleman that helped me out did a Apple Sotwear check on my iPhone and founded out that my battery shows no know issues. Interestily, the diagnostic showed that I had 8:10 minutes of usage and 1 day and 17 hours of standby; however, my phone showed that it had been used for 4:37 minutes and standby was 1 day and 17 hours, very strange result (I wonder if the iOS is NOT showing usage as it should). He also told me that no one needs to worry about calibrating the battery, I DONOT beilve on this, as Apple recommends on its website. As far I'm concern, batteries need to be calibrate, but I'm open to learn otherwise. Anyhow, the diagnostic also showed that MOBILEME and PayPal apps were quitting unexpected. I did notice PayPal quitting, but not MobileMe; however, I cannot get emails or notifications via push, I need to go into the mail app and refresh it in order to receive messages.

Anyways, he said the samething already posted on this discussion, turn off locations and things that's is not necessary. Also, the technician suggested that it might be a glitchy in this new iOS; however, he was blaming apps for it, when on my case only one developer app showed problem, PayPal (which I deleted) and Apple's MobileMe.

Currently, my usage is 5:53 hours and standby 1 day and 19 hours. Much better then my first usage. Apparently, the battery can improve overtime. And if Apple fix this "glitch" we will experience much better results with this new iPhone and iOS.

Hope it helps.

And I have 9% left on this current usage (sorry I forgot to add the percentage).

Some of you may be experiencing heavy battery drain on newly restored and set up as new iPhones. If you switch off wifi, location services and bluetooth, the phone shouldn't be using any power at all maybe 1% every couple of hours at the most. With my iPhone in this state, I was experiencing roughly a 1% drop every 18 minutes. Which was insane. I literally swapped my SIM card for my girlfriends SIM card and reset the network settings. After the reset the phone took about 2 hours to drop 1%.

My SIM came with my original iPhone 4 a year ago. Hers was brand new. It sounds silly but it made a difference.