iPhone 4s Battery Life?

I am an other disappointed customer of iphone 4s. Battery life is not good at the moment draining quickly, can't get a full day use with very light use at this point. Phone gets warm and seems locked in a loop or something. no apps running. not sure if this is ios5 related or battery related.

I posted earlier and I had the same issues. I went from 100% at 7am to 18% at 6pm with very little use.

Since then I made a lot of changes to the phone.

I turned off reporting to Apple/Diagnostics, I turned off everything in iCloud and reset and readded the items. I turned off unused calendars and email items. I don't use Fetch, but I turned that off as well. I turned off Pinging. I removed items from the new Notifications Board that I am not wanting to use anyway. I used battery magic to do a full recondition charge of the battery.

I started using the phone at 7am today for various stuff, and it is now 1pm 6-hours later and I went from 100% this morning and now am at 96%.

I don't think it is a hardware or iOS direct issue, but a configuration issue.

Update after 2 hours, 15 minutes.

After the first hour my phone was at 100%, no mail/calendars/notifications (other than text messages).

I did receive 3 text messages during that time.

I then configured Apple Mail and First Class mail and setup notifications for the latter (and I get probably 15-30 messages/hour during work). I'm at 94% right now. Next step is to setup all my calendars and address book shares to connect to our SLS 10.6x iCal and Address Book servers.

my battery is dropping even worse than the 3gs - at least on that i had a way to switch of 3G thats draining it badly. i only ever switched it on when i need it ..

Having same problem...in fact i have to recharge almost every 36hours. I used mostly voce and text and still have battery issues. I will have to go complain to apple

Mine dropped 5% in 12 minutes of usage. As a right now 2:30 minutes of usage and 8:14 minutes of standby, it eat 49% of battery. It will maybe give me 4 hours today. And I'm not doing much on it, so far no call, one text, and few emails. Try using Siri couple times and reminder once (unsuccessfully).

That's my update.

I called up Apple and they said they would be willing to send me a new phone. I explained that my buddy and I each got the 4s this past Friday and his battery life is amazing compared to mine ( the only difference is he has sprint). He suggested I call a local Verizon store to see if they had any iphones available (they didn't). I would have to wait 5 days for a new phone to arrive from Apple (which would leave me without a phone) and I'm not close to an apple store. I just wish Apple would make a public statement about this and get the ball rolling on a fix.

Hi everyone, I had the exact same problem, and following the below steps has solved my problems. My 4S battery life is now amazing (i.e. in my case, the email account was the issues). Here is a quick list of things to try:

• Reset Network Settings: Tap on “Settings” > Reset > Reset Network Settings
• Disable Bluetooth: Settings > General > Bluetooth > “OFF”
• Disable unwated Notifications & apps: Settings > Notifications > Turn OFF for anything you don’t need
• Disable Location Service: Settings > Location Services > Disable selectively for services you don’t use
• Disable Timezone Adjustment: Tap on “Settings” > “Location Services” > ‘System Services’ > Setting Time Zone to OFF
• Disable Ping: Settings > General > Restrictions > Enable Restrictions > Ping > OFF
• Disable Diagnostic & Usage Reports: Tap on “Settings” > General > About > Diagnostic & Usage > Don’t Send
• Disable Email accounts by heading to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Account Name > Delete Account. Once done, reset network settings (the first tip up there) then reboot your device and re-add your accounts back from Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account.

Well after all the changes, mods, redos and full charge with trickle, I have been using the phone on and off for 8 hours and am at 91%. Still not as good as the iPhone 4, but I can certainly live with 10% to 15% a day compared to yesterday when I needed to charge it every 6-8 hours.

Well I figured it out (at least for me). After wiping the phone out and doing a factory restore, things were doing great until I added my calendars. I subscribe to 5 of them all hosted on our Snow Leopard Server running iCal (and AddressBook) services.

After I added the 5 calendars and set them to retrieve at 15 minutes (same interval as my iPhone4), I started losing power like crazy - 30% in 90 minutes.

@ Jon.... that is wrong. You shouldn't experience poor battery performance just because you're refreshing calendars. Especially if your previous iPhone didn't do this. I think we need to hear from Apple on this situation. They need to issue a statement and let us know what's being done to correct this. I didn't even make it 6 hours through the day before mine died. Using WiFi and talked 27 minutes on the phone.

APPLE can you hear us?

That would be great. I think Apple is working on a possible solution. It seams that every major iOS release battery is an issue among users. I might get 5 hours today, and I think my problem is reminders working on location, it might be better to set reminders to use time/date instead. Although lots of app can use notification as well, I changed some of my setting, will see tomorrow test. Today is pretty poor.

I've done all of these solutions. I basically have my phone to where I can just text call use Siri and some apps I downloaded. I always turn off my apps every time I use them. My usage says I've used it for 7 hours which I haven't just a couple texts 1 min phone call and this post.

So you suggest doing a full restore from iTunes , then doing a reset to restore an iCloud backup?