Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Didnt you return yours already? Seems I read you did and went for a Nokia? BTW I have not turned every function off and my phone works just fine as do everyone else's I know who has one. I think that is part of the problem, there are too many of the 37/50 million iPhones sold that are not having issues so Apple is struggling to determine why the few do and under what conditions and how to fix. If it were ALL of them or ALL devices with iOS5 it would be a lot easier to say "faulty battery, faulty xyz chip, whatever. But since its not all or even the majority it just doesnt add up that the design was flawed.  Call me what you want mindless, troll, worshiper, whatever makes you feel better about yourself. The fact is my phone works and so does everyone i have personally seen, know or talked to. Even I have a friend who does IT support for a company who use iPhone throughout the company and he says they have no issues with battery. So I know for a fact that they are not all faulty or designed poorly or whatever. Thats why i remain here and deal with posters like you and a handful of others trying to bring everyone else down, to try and help the folks who come here looking for options that may help with their device not a bedtime story about the Big Bad Apple Wolf and how they designed this master plan to screw everyone over.

Vomgottsland wrote:

 

This would  all be very hilarious if it were not for the fact we all spent big money for these faulty phones. You have a few Apple worshipers on here wanting you to reset all this and that turn all this off and use your phone as a paper weight and be happy so you can say I have an IPhone 4s4. If this had been any other companies problem there would be suit after suit popping up for knowingly selling faulty products. Apple doesn't even have the common courtesy to admit he error of their ways and offer a solution, a buy back , whatever. But no they remain silent hoping the 5 will come out soon and they can sell millions more.  I know of no one who buys a phone hoping they have to turn every function off to get through the day with it. After 669 pages of complaints on here and numerous other sites its evident Apple could care less and you have a few mindless trolls who are glad to turn everything off so they can carry around the newest phone Again PT Barnum was right. Return your phones while you can get your money and run...

from 4 hours 40 minutes comes: 30 minutes talk, 1 hour of imessage, and 10 minutes of safari. the rest 2-3 hours I spent with setting the Settings etc. no games, no music, no videos. Yes, I tried the restore thing and many others nothing helped! in standby is pretty steady, but if I am using for something, my battery losts 1-2% in 3 minutes. that's not okay at all... and this is my 2nd phone.

sbailey4 wrote:

 

What sort of usage is the  4 + hours? Not quite a 3310 as you can do a lot of things with the phone. Looks like you can go more than a day at least. Guessing here that you have run the reset and battery calibrate etc thats posted all over the place? Those 2 items help a lot. If you havent certainly I would try that. Your usage dont look that bad depending on what kind of usage. Folks here with the "battery bug" cannot get through a day without charging again. Also if your device is brand new it will get better after a few recharges and drains.

snipp wrote:

 

i'm thinking the same way...

 

my last charge: (at 1% battery)

usage: 4 hours 40 minutes

standby: 1 day 5 hours    

 

that's not good at all! and the funny thing is that this is my 2nd iPhone 4S. Got replaced with a NEW one. Still doesn't work... I am 22 years old, and I bougth my phone from my own money, worked hard for it... I paid 800 dollars to have a nokia 3310. (we need to switch off everything to save battery life)

 

shame on apple.

mine is just like you

it's okay on stand-by with everyhting turned off , but when browse for few mins or listen to music it drains very quickly . i have recieved it  only 6 days ago !

Pay NO attention to sbailey4 He is an Apple troll who is constantly singing the praises of the 4s thinking the untold thousand with problems are crazy, He is a JOKE he is an Apple worshiper who sings the praise of the 4Sh** phone.....He thinks all of these problems are acceptable....

I don't believe anyone is saying anyone else is crazy but there are opposing points of view.

In this instance I have to side with sbailey4.

I bought an iPhone 4S just before Xmas and I have no issues with it at all.

I have everything on except location services.

With normal usage, I get about 4 days battery life.

That is about 30 mins phone use per day, some SMS and MMS, a little web use, occasional email and using Siri for notes etc.

The battery drains at slightly less than 1% per hour.

Am I just lucky?

Apparently you are the joke because I AM able to get my phone to perform as it should and have helped others here get theirs working as well. I am not sure I have seen anything of any merit or constructive coming from you.  Also you can also call me troll, worshiper, whatever makes you feel better about yourself as well. I remain here to offer solutions and help that's all my intent is. But thanks for thinking I have the kind of power to influence folks. I appreciate the complement!  BTW I don't think everyone here is crazy and do not have problems. I have never stated that there are no problems or never stated there were no bad devices or anything of the such.  I have stated that not ALL iPhone 4s are having a problem and I will stick by that 1000% .So if you can prove me wrong there I welcome the challenge. Clearly either you cannot read or just choose to pick out what you want to say. I find it ashamed that folks like you come here and bash folks like me who are here to offer help or assistance to others that come here looking for it. All you offer is "Apple is the devil, run, take back your phone, they are all bad. blah blah, really?!?!?

However I am a big boy and I don't sweat it to much when people like you come here to call me names. I have already proven my worth here in the fact that a lot of users now have iPhone's that they enjoy using. What have you contributed constructive here?

Dogman24701 wrote:

 

Pay NO attention to sbailey4 He is an Apple troll who is constantly singing the praises of the 4s thinking the untold thousand with problems are crazy, He is a JOKE he is an Apple worshiper who sings the praise of the 4Sh** phone.....He thinks all of these problems are acceptable....

@hotphil & sbailey4 re: new against refurbished - Well, personally I think it's unacceptable to get a refurbished phone instead of a new one, if only because of the bacteria - what is their procedure in this respect? Anyways, in the first 30 days, it should be a brand new one always no questions asked, otherwise people should get into the habit of claiming a full refund/credit and buying a brand new one in another store. In the case of someone with Apple care who contributes to breaking the device, I find this justifies a refurbished phone if they can't change a component or what not. But within the 1 year warranty term, outside the contributing factors, I fail to understand the refurb logic. It's the richest business in the world, they know the meantime before failure, they know how their phone should behave, and if they can't deliver they should bear the burden - the complexity of the ecosystem is their achievement and their burden at once. Often in the hardware world, for instance hard drives, when it fails before the warranty expires, not only do they give you a new one, but often they even update it to the current model - they don't say that you should have put less data on it, installed less OSes etc. I can find no justification for Apple not doing this - they should be proud of giving away a brand new device, exceeding the user's expectations in this lame world, and the subpar devices should be disassembled and the functioning parts should be used for servicing. This is one area where users should be very demanding - full value. But sometimes love is blind.

@snipp re: you got a Nokia 3310 because features are off. I understand your point and the analogy to the feature phone, yet it's not even sure that the iPhone or current Android phones best the Nokia's 3310 call quality and reception of yonder - I wish someone could test this. Yet I sympatize.

Ok quick update from me from a couple of days ago!

Phone was dying in less than 15hrs with little to no usage with all features turned OFF. A day old. I have taken back to the T-Mobile store and complained. They swapped the phone with no hassle in store.

The new phone i have has lasted nealry two day with all features turned ON. Much happier now.... feel as though the product is doing what it should be life wise.2% battery drain overnight compared to 44% on the other. Although this will be down to putting into Airplane mode of a night.

One gripe, T-Mobile didnt have another 32GB iPhone 4s in White, so had to take the black one, meaning both myself and partner both have the black!

Same here. Not even close to half-day with normal usage. Tried every settings, SIRI Off, Location Off, Notification Off. So annoying!!!

On this forum, if you don't have a battery life issue, you are going to be called an Apple lover, liar, and troll.  It's all upside down.  Lots of frustrated people here.  Some seem to think that energy is free, and that you should be able to use the phone for a week without recharging.  Others take a more rational approach.

zyfert wrote:

 

I don't believe anyone is saying anyone else is crazy but there are opposing points of view.

In this instance I have to side with sbailey4.

I bought an iPhone 4S just before Xmas and I have no issues with it at all.

I have everything on except location services.

With normal usage, I get about 4 days battery life.

That is about 30 mins phone use per day, some SMS and MMS, a little web use, occasional email and using Siri for notes etc.

The battery drains at slightly less than 1% per hour.

Am I just lucky?

Hint.  If you plug your phone into the charger overnight, it will be fat and ready next morning, and you won't have to put it into airplane mode.  It amazes me how many people don't seem to see the logic in this.  Glad yours is working properly now.

Mark_SRi wrote:

 

Ok quick update from me from a couple of days ago!

 

Phone was dying in less than 15hrs with little to no usage with all features turned OFF. A day old. I have taken back to the T-Mobile store and complained. They swapped the phone with no hassle in store.

 

The new phone i have has lasted nealry two day with all features turned ON. Much happier now.... feel as though the product is doing what it should be life wise.2% battery drain overnight compared to 44% on the other. Although this will be down to putting into Airplane mode of a night.

 

One gripe, T-Mobile didnt have another 32GB iPhone 4s in White, so had to take the black one, meaning both myself and partner both have the black!

Why?  It's not a baby, its a PHONE.  It is likely that they would have done a reset settings and data, anyway, so if you get a working phone, what's the problem?

Hotphil wrote:

 

megakai132 wrote:

 

I think a refurbished but it Looks New ;)

That's the problem with returning the handset - you get a refurbished rather than a new one.

 

To my mind, if I return a faulty product I want a new replacement, not one that's been returned by someone else as being faulty and then repaired.

What a shame.  Now you will join me and Sbaily4 at being called trolls, liars, and Apple Fanboys.

Glad you are happy.

Mark_SRi wrote:

 

Ok quick update from me from a couple of days ago!

 

Phone was dying in less than 15hrs with little to no usage with all features turned OFF. A day old. I have taken back to the T-Mobile store and complained. They swapped the phone with no hassle in store.

 

The new phone i have has lasted nealry two day with all features turned ON. Much happier now.... feel as though the product is doing what it should be life wise.2% battery drain overnight compared to 44% on the other. Although this will be down to putting into Airplane mode of a night.

 

One gripe, T-Mobile didnt have another 32GB iPhone 4s in White, so had to take the black one, meaning both myself and partner both have the black!

@rifqi

rifqi wrote:

 

Same here. Not even close to half-day with normal usage. Tried every settings, SIRI Off, Location Off, Notification Off. So annoying!!!

I agree with you. It is really sad that one buys a super expensive phone like iPhone 4s just to use it like a fix phone.

The battery life of iPhone 4s is miserable compared to iPhone 4!!! The vast majority of iPhone 4s are affected by the battery life issue and/or static noise issue! It looks like the battery life issue is due the the 3g chipset especially when is used on GSM/UMTS networks! iPhone 4s is already last-year-phone and now Apple is busy working on iPad 3 and iPhone 5 and the issues of iPhone 4s have been long forgotten.

Most of the suggestions here do not work and also most of them do not fix permanently the battery life issue. I strongly suggest that if one suspects and thinks that he or she is affected by the battery lilfe issue to return the iPhone 4s or get a refund!

Here are plenty of fixes like turn off this setting and that setting because the authors try to convince that they are not needed (even though that Apple set them on by default). What is the point of of having an iPhone 4s if one has for example Cellular Data off (and the email set on manual fetch)? Really?

This forum is about complaining about battery life issue of iPhone 4s. On this forum if one does not have a battery life issue then he or she should not try to convinve people here that the battery life issue does not exist and that it does not affect a lof of iPhone 4s.