iPhone 4s Battery Life?

I'm in the same situation as most others, so I decided to register to voice my concerns and my frustrations. The iphone 4s was my first iPhone purchase, I've been so unhappy with the battery life. I've recently update the iOS to 5.01 and have not seen any improvements in the battery life. I find myself charging this phone 3 times a day just to do some basic things. This experience has been so fustrating, I may be one and done with apple. I hope they take all these complaints serious enough to find the root cause asap.

hi, I bought the iphone4s and i had same problem the maximum use was 3h30 min , i tried to disable all thinks notification icloud spotlight push mail and so others to know what the max use i can have. unfortunatly nothing better after all try.

I gave back the phone and i'm waiting for a change.

The problem is that i updated my old iphone 3gs to 5,0 and the battery charge also drop so quickly 😟 i can't use it more than 3 hours with just a little surf on 3g. and few min voice call mail ... it's catastrophic i never thought that apple can have this kind of problems.

my iphone 3gs is charging 3 times a day 😟 and before the update to 5,0 my phone use to work 2 days with normal use (3g mail push game etc...)

i Update to 5,1 and no any change 😟

jimmmy wrote:

Try deleting contacts and reinstalling them, it does work.

I listed that in my list i.e. contacts. Thanks for your suggestion but I don't own an Iphone, I was summarizing the issues vectors for everyone's benefit and advocating for a consolidated document made by Apple support.

Not to sound stupid...how do I delete all contacts and reinstall? Do I have to do that one by one?

Try deleting contacts and reinstalling them, it does work.

I dont have a Sim cards for my phone. It is Sprint and they don't use Sim cards. Should do you think switching from my SNC account to maybe a Gmail account would help?

Chris_Germany wrote:

Hi there,

what you propose to do? Togo to the provider and order a change of the SIM card? Please wxplain because Idon't understand your intention?

My only intention is to report this fact: I spent 2 weeks in unnecessary reinstall

fresh IOS5 then do not restore, no exchange account etc..as you can read here,

and i never get a real improvment until this morning with the new sim card.

I don't say you should ask for a new SIM of course. but

I had reported that to Apple may be could be usefull for them, .

The good thing is that now i am sure, the problem would be solved by software update

because i thought my phone defective and now i saw it can work fine.

You go to settings of ICloud, you switch the setting of contacts to off and then to on again.

It may also be that just reactivating the phone with the carrier's tech support will do the trick...

I have to say that I am very disappointed with the 4S. I had the old dinosaur 3G (not even the 3Gs) and I thought that battery was bad. But my battery for the 4S is TERRIBLE. I've turned off almost all notifications, reinstalled my contacts and it still drains within 3-4 hours of minimal use. I was overjoyed to install the iOS 5.0.1 update becasue it was supposed to fix this issue, well that was a big fat FAIL. Now it seems to be worse. I hope they get their sh*t together soon or else I'm returning mine and won't be purchasing in iPad.

gsuzanne1 wrote:

I dont have a Sim cards for my phone. It is Sprint and they don't use Sim cards. Should do you think switching from my SNC account to maybe a Gmail account would help?

I have no idea.Anyway, again i never said that changing the Sim card is the

way to solve the problem. Just i mean that we can now understand why

using devices wich are supposed identicals some users are satisfied

and others angry and the screen captures shown here are sometime

so different.

Percentage 10%

Usage: 5 hours, 0 minutes

Standby : 10 hours , 24 minutes

Is this good/normal ? I've never had an iPhone before , so I have nothing to compare it to .

10% used? or 10%?

When you want an opinion on usage stats, you must qualify your type of use because at one end of the spectrum is 40hrs audio and at another end is 6hrs 3G internet...

Ducati most likely meant 10% used or 10% left...

10% as in the battery