Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

enx23 wrote:

 

@dkalchev

 

Again, Have you checked your iPhone 4s for the static noise issue? I bet that you are affected by it and most likely is that you are not aware of it! Over 80% of iPhone 4s are affected by the static noise issue

 

TEST FOR STATIC NOISE ISSUE which affects >80% of iPhone 4s:

1) go in a quiet room,

2) turn off WIFI,

3) turn on the Cellular Data

4) load in Safari a large web-page (or do a speed test on your 3G network with SPEEDTEST app <http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speedtest.net-mobile-speed/id300704847?mt=8>),

5) while you are loading the web-page or doing the Speedtest put your ear to the back of your iPhone 4s where is the Apple logo and listen carefully.

6) if you hear some noise then you are affected by the static noise issue

By repeating this over and over will not make me do it, ok?

Even if I do this test, it will be only out of curiousity, not of any concern that it has anything to do with battery life.

Please stop misleading people here, that this 'static noise' is relevant to battery life, because it is not!

If you have any clue about electrnics, you will know that noises like this are created by those tiny transformers inside most electronic equipment that generate the different voltage levels required for the different chips to operate. Those miniature transformers make noise for variety of reasons, none of which has anything to do with battery life!

Who needs a Russian street pigeon with broken wing who can't fly very well?

Will ship the pigeon to any country. The pigeon is trained to live with cats and people and is a very pleasant bird to have!

Perhaps it can even solve the battery drain problem, its so smart :-)

It really blows me away how the hardcore apple fanboys defends apple and the iPhone, even if the latest iPhone would have a pull out antenna, flip front, b/w screen, battery life of 30min and so on they would still say that apple and the iPhone is the best thing ever! To claim that 5 hour battery use is " normal " is just plain stupid! Obviously there is an issue with the battery life on the 4s, why else do you find thousands upon thousands of articles and posts online about it??

You may call me an Apple fanboy, but no other phone comes close to iPhones on features - BlackBerry, Androids or WinPhones, and I compared them all. Unfortunately, apart from old BlackBerrys, there is no phone similar on features to iPhone that has much longer battery life. That's just reality.

I believe that has to do that the current fashion values slim phones. If you get slim, you get bad battry life, that's obvious.

And I do not mind the iPhone having a pull out antenna as this type of antenna improves reception.

How does acknowledging reality makes me an Apple fanboy I don't know. Do us a a favor, buy yourself a Samsung. :-)

I personally prefer a thicker phone that is more powerful.

Hi Swede

i used to own a samsung galaxy s for 1 year and 2 months (not to mention how many times i flashed ROMs given by samsung every 2 weeks, to make it "better" although it was until the end a really turtle flagship, wich i later trade it to a samsung galaxy s2, tadre it back within 4 days, yes the 4th days, i could't stand the voice of the caller coming from the earpiece, it was unsupportable noise.

well we should all agree, that nothing is perfect, every flagship has its own "weaks"

but really we have to also agree, that apple is different in so many many way, the amazing retina display i ever experienced (nothing to compare with amoled and amoled plus and amoled super plus)

well yes, there is indeed a battery issue with the iphone, but in a way, i personnaly get somehow rid of it, but why don't we see also, that other flagships are also that bad battery wise?

if its more than 10 to 15% better than the iphone, than its not a big deal for me, and beleive me, it will never be the double.

sincerly

iPhoneiLove: so true!

Some strange people advocate HTCs ans Samsungs, but when we compare their usage, they don't actually use the phone that much and their phones are so much less convenient. Besides, they all have similar battery life. It could be that we Apple users are so spoiled with quality products that we expect more than them, hence the moaning.

i never been a fanboy more than i was with my galaxy s, i was conencted all the time to xda developers site, waiting for new tweaks to just make my device faster a bit, or a custom roms that exlude almost everything from the phone "light roms" and finally getting a phone that really do nothing but phone calls and sms, and some devs excluded even the email app saying they don't need it and if someone needs it he can flash it thrue recovery (samsung tricks).

well i'm not saying that iphone is without issues, but what are they? that said 20% less battery? well beleive me, try any other android device, i never tried WM neither bb ( i really don't need a bb, if its for its push mail server, and the ugly display), and then you can judge fairly about iphone.

i had an iphone 4, trade it with the 4s 10 days ago, just did one upgrade thrue iTunes, did some settings (jailbroke it as well), and i found myself happy enough and more than acceptable.

i really try to be objective, but apple is and will always be the most advanced OS ever made, for a computer or an iDevice.

Hey Apple when are you going to grow a set and publicly admit you screwed up on this one and offer compensation to those that have been ripped off. No word , no fix nothing just hiding behind the big Apple laughing all the way to the bank.............To those of you that are willing to turn off all the features that this phone why not just get a phone with no features, they will give you less problems, better reception and last much longer, since turning all the functions off makes it anything but a so called smart phone....

I Russia, we have govermnent-paid bots, people who post things and flame in support of Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party. It seems that Android makers adopt the same strategy - trying to outpost Apple customers. Or so it seems, reading some comments... :-)

What features do the iPhone have that the other smart phones doesn't??

Who would have thought that for hitting 1M hits on the thread, we'd be rewarded by a bunch of condescending PR reps? I was expecting something  elevating, free vouchers or what not... But no.

"Thin is the way to go" - I heard that. Thin and gloss is for girlies. And honestly the 3.5" format is being outclassed. This world is evolving towards the 4 - 4.3" format and newer technology for displays. With a bit of common sense, you can fit a bigger battery in a slightly bigger phone, and save your users some money. They paid a lot already. In other parts of the world, people come up with new features, like Fujitsu and their water resistant smartphones... If the trend continues, the next Apple phone will be the size of the latest Nano iPod. Yes you can be proud of your postage stamp sized shiny phoney.

"5 hours is ok for picking up where amazing left off and all devices yield that" - Apple's marketing contradicts the specifications for its new device. If you say the device picks up where amazing left off, yet that is not the case in terms of battery life, and what matters to most users is having the extra battery life, and much more so than doubling the frames in a game you'll be playing a couple of hours before plugging the device to AC, then the device is subpar. Furthermore, Apple users were used to having better battery life than average. This was one key element to claiming the device was better than a Android handset, especially as Steve had painted out Android as being basically the same OS than iOS. Then if it is similar it is no longer better. Then you can't bash Android devices in that respect. You can't have your cake and eat it.

"The iPhone beats Android device in every respect" - well, some people be to differ, like your pal Steve Wozniak - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/14/even-woz-thinks-the-android-bes ts-the-iphone.html - he notes GPS/Navigation/Maps as one key element where Android does better. Of course, for grandma and grandpa, he recommends the iPhone. Plus everyone knows ICS brigded a lot of the shortcommings that OS had in comparison to iOS. There's also Windows Mobile which you would hope does better at key elements like Exchange mail and Office product integration. Also of interest is Anandtech noting that the 4S has more background noise during calls than the 4 - but for some here that may not be important because it's all about gloss, Siri and Infinity blade. Productivity and calling is not so important. Value is not important, specifications are not important, battery life is not important... so what is important in the end?

Bling is what this is called.

Same here guys my 4s out of the box tried all the possible steps over the internet still

Dropping the baterry espilecially when its connected to wifi it is just my rough estimation it

Drops baterry 1% every 1o or 15 mins. And all my apps are closed and using auto brightness siri also off having the same issue on my iphone well just all hope apple can do something about this. Do you think guys the store (smart communication)where i purchase this will replace this phone or they will just tell me to wait for an update from

Apple specially here in the philippines hard to explaim things on those frontline personel thanks guys i hope all our issues on our  devices will be over. :)

>> What features do the iPhone have that the other smart phones doesn't??

The point is not what features but that you could actually use them IMO.

>>"Thin is the way to go" - I heard that. Thin and gloss is for girlies.

Follow me, get an iPhone external cover/battery and you will have a professional iPhone. The 'girlies' don't use the iPhone features to the fullest, that's why the slim profile with a short battery lifetime is OK for them IMO.

And Wozniak is a fool (sorry, though I respect him, his an Apple co-founder).