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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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Jul 27, 2012 12:19 PM in response to Scarface.

When is everyone going to realize we never had any of these battery issues before the 4s? Your turning off wifi and push notifications and full cycle charges never had to be done before the 4s came out. This mess is all because of defective batteries. Once you swap your battery for a newly produced one, your problem is solved. I've fixed this issue on more then one iPhone 4s as well. One battery actually would not come out it was so defective. By the time we got it out the insides of the battery were showing! That phone had to be charged multiple times a day. If you guys want to keep buying into all these extra steps shutting this and that off go ahead, just remember we never had to do that with any other model iPhone unless it was old. I've also fixed hundreds of iPhones so I know what I'm doing. Please trust me on this you have nothing to lose besides battery life ;) cheers

Jul 27, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Italia411

Italia411 wrote:


When is everyone going to realize we never had any of these battery issues before the 4s? Your turning off wifi and push notifications and full cycle charges never had to be done before the 4s came out. This mess is all because of defective batteries. Once you swap your battery for a newly produced one, your problem is solved. I've fixed this issue on more then one iPhone 4s as well. One battery actually would not come out it was so defective. By the time we got it out the insides of the battery were showing! That phone had to be charged multiple times a day. If you guys want to keep buying into all these extra steps shutting this and that off go ahead, just remember we never had to do that with any other model iPhone unless it was old. I've also fixed hundreds of iPhones so I know what I'm doing. Please trust me on this you have nothing to lose besides battery life ;) cheers

Really? I suggest you do a search on this forum because there have been battery issue threads since the first iphone came out and new threads with every new phone so don't even lie and say there were no battery issues before the 4s. Also all the things you mentioned have been said as well since the first iphone came out to reduce the battery drain.

Jul 27, 2012 1:29 PM in response to Italia411

Italia411 wrote:


I work in an AT&T store and never saw rapid battery drain like I did with the 4s. Please don't call me names because from we're I'm standing you seem like a fan droid!

Where in my post did I call you any names? You have some serious reading comprehension problems. All I said is that you lie because the forums here state otherwise. Being a sales person at an AT&T store does not make you and expert on batteries or the iphone for that matter.

Jul 27, 2012 1:40 PM in response to KC7GNM

You called me a liar and now you say I have reading comprehension problems. Well I have a degree in electronics and I fix broken iPhones on the side soooo you have no idea what you are talking about. News flash AT&T has been selling the iPhones for years and I have never seen rapid battery drain issues on any other new iPhone. You dont think customers come back with their issues?? Why don't you do all of us a favor and go back to your little wack android sites and troll their.

Jul 27, 2012 1:47 PM in response to Italia411

Italia411 wrote:


You called me a liar and now you say I have reading comprehension problems. Well I have a degree in electronics and I fix broken iPhones on the side soooo you have no idea what you are talking about. News flash AT&T has been selling the iPhones for years and I have never seen rapid battery drain issues on any other new iPhone. You dont think customers come back with their issues?? Why don't you do all of us a favor and go back to your little wack android sites and troll their.

No you listen liar, I have had the iphone since the 3G came out and now own the 4s and it works just as good if not better than the 3g and 3GS I had before them. You are the troll and you have no clue about fixing a broken iphone because the only thing you can fix is the glass and not much else because of the SMC parts on the motherboard. You are completely wrong about the battery issues prior to the 4s. I look at your level in these forums and understand why you don't see it because you probably don't know how to do a simple search on battery issues. Why don't you go troll somewhere else because you don't have a clue what you are talking about. BTW I also fix and build electronics but I am not bragging about it here. I also hold an FCC license and have built several radios of my own.

Jul 27, 2012 1:51 PM in response to Scarface.

you can try this simple thing , atlest their is no harm in trying it , might help ., just drain your iphone completely till it switches off itself then charge it to 100% it might help , i did not know about your problem but it definately increases battery life in normal cases and as a last resort you must even consider restoring your iphone to factory conditions and then once done just restore with backup to get all the data back.

Jul 27, 2012 3:31 PM in response to KC7GNM

Cool story bro!! Yea I know the least bit about capacitors and resistors lol..I never once said the 4s wasn't as good as the previous models so you learn how to read!! If you had any sort of brain in your head like you claim you would know that apple used different suppliers for the same parts hence why their was a quality issue. When you hold iPhones side by side and one screen looks like it was dipped in a toilet bowl you can tell their is a problem with their parts suppliers. New screens and batteries have since fixed those issues. You obviously got ether extremely lucky and got one of the good ones near launch or you got one of the newer ones. Unless of course your believing that glue drying theory. Keep drinking that cool aid because 9 months later that glues still drying ;)

Jul 27, 2012 4:33 PM in response to Scarface.

Wow, you guys can be entertaining...


Unfortunately we'll never really know exactly what happened with the 4S because Apple is not really about disclosing their issues. Surely there was a percentage of the phones with hardware issues. On the other hand I remember some people going to 4-5 exchanges and still having issues - which pointed out to problematic configuration because of old data maybe, or some apps which were behaving weirdly under 5.0. Then the devs patched their apps most likely, while Apple solved some of their manufacturing/quality issues, and updated iOS. There most likely must also have been carrier issues i.e. what this person discussed a couple of pages ago - most likely some carriers had some low level provisioning issues with some customers etc. Finally, the phone is set up agressively in terms of configuration, which didn't help.


So most likely you guys are both right and both wrong. But in the end who cares? I think in the end the advice would be to never buy smartphones when they come out... it's good practice to wait some months before buying. The same applies to non-Apple products.

Jul 27, 2012 5:04 PM in response to 1AppleADayNoWay

Early adaptors will always purchase the day a new product comes out but that is their right. Battery issues can be managed but regardless of smart phones it will vary by usage. There is no right or wrong here just management for how you use the phone for yourself. Eventually we all figure out how to make it last the way we want and how to use the phone to manage the battery life.

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