iPhone 4s Battery Life?

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!

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 7:14 AM

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Dec 2, 2011 9:45 PM in response to enx23

I have had a battery issue with my iPhone 4s 32gb. Now it started to behave after I set up the settings as shown in one of my previous posts (wifi is always on, 3g off but when I need it I turn it on and afterwards off again, regularly killing the background apps and rebooting the phone when noticing weird batterry drain, etc.). Now I have 20% battery life left after 3 days and 3 nights with normal usage. I still get battery drain of 1% per minute when browsing with Safari on 3G and this goes on even after turning the 3g immediately after being done browsing on 3g. Ussualy I kill all the apps and reboot my phone after using 3g. To me it looks like most of the battery drains are due to software bugs in the iOS 5 and iPhone being like a computer it helps killing the apps and rebooting it when noticing periods of high battery drains.

Dec 2, 2011 9:54 PM in response to enx23

I remarked to another dissatisfied user of a 4S 32 Gb iPhone - "Have you upgraded to the latest version of the OS? I got one out of the box last Week that ran out after about 6 hours of idle non-use on my bedstand overnight. The Apple store guy suggested allowing the OS to update. While the OS version appeared to be the same (5.0.1), there was also a stealthy firmware update. One of those seems to have cured the battery drain."

Dec 2, 2011 11:59 PM in response to Scarface.

Just thought I would post my wifes 4s latest. Both are running strong since day 1. As said, Both are charged every 2 or 3 days depending on usage.

User uploaded file

I did a little test to see how long it took to drop 1% from full charge.User uploaded file

Only setting off Is Auto time zone. Everything iCloud synced + iTune wifi synced when plugged in.

iOS 5.0.1 4s 32gig x 2

Dec 3, 2011 12:04 AM in response to FiniteAffinity

FiniteAffinity, I have seen your earlier posts and have already tried three Sim cards. Unfortunetly they didn't improve matters. To change the Phone I have to go through my cellular network provider which takes five days so I have been trying to avoid this in the hope that an eventual 5.1 release will help matters. It may be I have to eventually try to get a working replacement.

Dec 3, 2011 1:56 AM in response to vincentc92

My iPhone 4, since 5.0.1, crashes from time to time. It is no more a realible phone as before. Whem I'm a few hours without calls or messages, I take it out of my pocket and I find the screen black wharever button I push, and then I have to reset it by keeping both buttons pushed for a few seconds, having to repeat this operation 3 or 4 times until I get the Apple logo on the screen and the phone back to life.

Until this problem, and the battery one (lasts less than before), are solved by apple, I have to rely on my old Nokia to be always in touch with my coworkers.

Dec 3, 2011 2:15 AM in response to enx23

I tried everything: killing all apps from multitasking bar, restart, reset (holding home and power button) - noting worked for me.

Yesterday I reinstalled iOS 5.0.1 and restored the last backup also with no effect on battery performance - still 5% drain in 1 hour...


Now I'm setting it up as a new phone completely, hopefully that will work.


(remember i never had such battery issues until thursday last week...)

Dec 3, 2011 3:53 AM in response to stephen from east providence

I'm now on my third 32gig 4s and the battery on this one is the worst yet! I have followed all the advise on the forums and still have huge issues..... Phone lasting around 6 hours standby with couple of hours usage.... Nearly tearing my hair out and considering resurrecting my iPhone 3! When will apple sort this out or recall the dodgy phones????

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