Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Yuri - Excuse me, I'm not a dumb person who doesn't know how to tinker with a phone. In fact, I make art for games for a living, and this involves a lot of technical knowledge, more than you think. But what do you know about me, right? So again, it's not like I'm stupid and have every possible feature on, like you seem to be insinuating. Like I said, everything is already OFF, everything is optimized to save all the power that can possibly be saved. But still, it drains 5% per hour on standby.

Duckgirl722

What's your Waiting time/Usage Time?

My phone dies after 20 hours standby. No usage at all.

Duckgirl: it seems to be solved for some people here. Why invest your time in optimizing the phone, you time is probably more expensive than a fee to the guru. Let HIM read this thread and spend your time on something else :-)

Sorry if it seemed like I consider you not smart enough. My advice is really for other reasons. If I can't figure something out, I go to the guru. Sure I maybe can finally do it myself, but its only $30 and besides there are plenty of entertainment venues nearby, so its a win-win.

But does it shows similar Waiting time/Usage Time values? (like mine does)

Did you see my list of changes?

- Auto-Screen brightness Off, with dimmed screen (20% maybe);

- Location Services/system services ALL off;

- Notifications set to Manual, only having "phone and text messages" on notifications centre;

- Wi-fi off (only turned it On for 5 minutes);

- Cellular Data off;

- Network Auto-detection set to off;

- iCloud off/erased account from the iPhone;

- Erased all e-mail acounts and set Push to off/Fetch set to Manual;

- "Diagnosis and Usage" set to "Don't Send";

- Bluetooth off;

- Restrictions on (disabled Ping, iTunes and Facetime - already tried leaving as it is by default and made no difference);

- No SIM lockout;

- Auto lockout set to 1 minute;

- Closed ALL pages openned in Safari before exiting the app;

- All apps mannualy closed in multi-task bar;

- Siri/"Speak to raise" off (after turning it off, turned the phone off and on because there was a known bug that kept the sensor working even after ticking it to OFF - checked with a camera - it's off);

- Vibration ON, only in Silent Mode;

- Local Weather turned OFF with no Cities in the list;

- I've done several restores (some in DFU Mode, some not in DFU, you name it...) and already let the phone drain the battery to 0% several times (more times than I wanted!!)", ALWAYS setting it "As new";

- Had the two builds installed (405 and 406) and made no difference - Usage time is always going up, even if I don't touch the phone;

- Added my contacts ONE BY ONE, from scratch;

- Did an experiment without the SIM Card - the battery lasted for 6 days!

- Only have the native apps of the builds installed...

Is your configuration similar? With this I can only get 1day and 6 hours (with pretty much NO USE AT ALL)

EdiMC - Thankfully that is one thing that is not my problem. The Usage/Standby values seem to be correct on my phone. Goodluck to us, lol

1 day and 6 hours - you are lucky. On no use at all, my phone dies after 20 hours.

lol that's only a difference of 10 hours...not to much time if you think of it

BUT, I've also experienced only 20hours of battery lifetime, just like you, using the same settings, with no use at all! It's not linear! And that is why it's driving me (almost) to madness! There isn't a pattern!

BTW:

This is just pathetic!

I have a friend with an iPhone4 and we were looking at the apps and talking a little bit about "what's this" and "what's that", bla bla bla.

He has EVERYTHING turned on and I saw a totally different behaviour from his phone...I just couldn't help feeling almost ashamed of having a phone behaving so weakly compared to an older version of itself!! Made me want a 4!! Would have spent less money and wouldn't be so freaking MAD right now!!

@EdiMC

EdiMC wrote:

 

lol that's only a difference of 8 hours...not to much time if you think of it

 

 

This is just pathetic!

I have a friend with an iPhone4 and we were looking at the apps and talking a little bit about "what's this" and "what's that", bla bla bla.

He has EVERYTHING turned on and I saw a totally different behaviour from his phone...I just couldn't help feeling almost ashamed of having a phone behaving so weakly compared to an older version of itself!! Made me want a 4!! Would have spent less money and wouldn't be so freaking MAD right now!!

I agree with you that iPhone 4s has a horrible battery life compared to iPhone 4!!!! The irony of this is that iPhone 4s is cheaper than iPhone 4!

In my case it wasn't gonna be, because I bought from the company I work for...and the 4 was 100€ cheaper!

Jeeeeez...lol

@Gyuti Moscow Russia

Yuri Moscow Russia wrote:

 

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Are you joking? This is a forum about the battery life of iPhone 4s and it is for people tocomplain about the battery life issue. If one does not like to read complains about his or her iPhone 4s then one should not be on a forum about issues of iPhone to begin with!!

 

I mean it makes sense to solve the problem rather than merely complaining you're having trouble with the battery.

Obviously Apple has failed to fix the battery life issue of iPhone 4S. Also in the same time Apple is ignoring the issues of iPhone 4s and its customers. The only thing left is to complain and get the issue to media outlets so Apple starts to take the matter serious. As it looks to me Apple makes confusiton betweens its workers in China and its customers which now are in the same box.

@dkalchev

Please stop spreading FUD!

 

One should first stop himself spreading FUD by pretending that the vast majority of iPhone 4s are not affected by the battery life issues! The battery life issues of iPhone 4s are due to the faulty Qualcomm chipset MDM6610 which produces also the static noise and also draws more energy when using the UMTS networks than it was designed!

You seem to have absolutely no clue what you talk about, especially the 'static noise' you keep throwing in here.

The static noise issue is a proven fact of iPhone 4s and it affects 80% of iPhone 4s!!!

Please, also prove your statement that I have not clue!

Check it out here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3393647?start=810&tstart=0

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2123488/users-furious-iphone-4s-static- bug

By the way, did you check your iPhone 4s for the static noise issue?

Yuri Moscow Russia wrote:

 

duckgirl: true, I checked, its $99. Thought developer resources are free. But in the end it doesn't matter as you don't need any betas anyway. Its all about your settings, so if you're unable to figure out what to change by yourself or here with the help of others, go to some iPhone guru and have him do it for you, it should be quite cheap. Again, if you were in Russia, I would gladly buy your phone as I can handle such situations.

I suggest that one should not upgrade his or her iPhone 4s to iOS 5.1 beta 3 because:

- it is insane to spend another 99$ on defective iPhone 4s when it is clearly Apple's fault and not of the buye, and

- iOS 5.1 beta 3 is known that it does not fix the batery life issue (for example see this:<http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/01/16/battery-ios-5-1-b3/>)

- every beta/release of iOS 5 was supposed to fix the battery life issue but they didn't,

- the battery life issue is a hardware issue which cannot be fixed by software updates (iOS 5 on iPods/iPads has not battery issues; there has been over 8 betas/upgrades/releases of iOS 5 which were not able to fix the battery life issue even that they were supposed to).

@Yuri

Duckgirl722 wrote:

 

Yuri - Excuse me, I'm not a dumb person who doesn't know how to tinker with a phone. In fact, I make art for games for a living, and this involves a lot of technical knowledge, more than you think. But what do you know about me, right? So again, it's not like I'm stupid and have every possible feature on, like you seem to be insinuating. Like I said, everything is already OFF, everything is optimized to save all the power that can possibly be saved. But still, it drains 5% per hour on standby.

I agree with you Duckgirl722 that it is very rude for people here (like for example Yuri) to assume by default that the people here are dumb just because Apple makes the best phones ever!

One always should keep in mind that people spend a lot of money to buy a super expensive phone like iPhone 4s and they complain about its issue it is because those issues are real and not imaginary issues.

enx23,

I am even more confident now that you have no clue what you talk about. Let me ask you a simple question:

How have you confirmed that the issue with applications running in background and draining the battery is a hardware problem, that is, related to that Qualcomm chip?

Unless you prove your claims, you are spreding FUD!

Go ahead, be as technical as you can. I can handle it. Mind you, my profession requires me to deal with all sort of schematics, hardware AND software.

PS: I tried to reproduce your 'static noise' phenomenon, but apparently either:

- My phone is of the rare species that does not have this hardware problem.

- My GSM operator is better than Verizon or wherever people experience this 'hardware' problem.

- I can't apparently find quiet enough place to hear this 'static noise'.

- You are barking at the wrong tree.

Also please exaplain why if I did not have this 'static noise' phenomena I still had short battery life, until I got rid of the background tasks?