Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Yesterday I unpluged my phone about 6:30 am and used it all day doing various things, including getting familiar with the phones functions, surfing web, Siri, watching video, using camera, Facebook, and made calls and sent and received a few texts.

I ran my battery to 0% and it shut off at 10:43 pm.

I last checked that usage at 10:39 pm and it read:

USAGE: 6 HRS 41 MIN

STANDBY: 15 HRS 49 MIN

Does anyone think this is good, bad, or about just about right for battery life on my 4s?

I'm now full charged this morning and will track usage today and see how things go.

This thread has become totally useless for anyone who would actually like help resolving a battery problem (and yes, it can be resolved). While there is some useful information in it, the signal to noise ratio makes it almost impossible to find it.

If you have a battery problem with a 4S or iOS 5 on some other device I suggest starting a new thread asking for suggerstions rather than just complaining. Leave this thread for the whiners. I'm going to stop watching it.

Here are the specs for the phone: http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

Compare your usage to these and see if your usage meets these specs.

Try shutting down your phone completely and open your contacts.... They will still be there.  Safari isn't staying open when you kill it in the task manager. Instead, it keeps a record of your current state (which pages are open; how the tabs are arranged, etc updated in static RAM. (just like you don't loose iTunes music or photos from your library when those apps are closed down). When you relaunch safari, it will read the file containing the last known state of the app. It will then reopen the pages and tabs you were on when you killed it in the task manager.

Killing an app in the task manager will release the RAM that it is still using and allow other apps to utilize it   If you don't want any of this saved; go into settings->Safari and turn private browsing on. It will no longer keep track of where you are, and relaunching after killing the app will bring up whatever you have set as your home page (or nothing if you have not set one up)

As for replacing your phone; if it's just the battery / overheating that you are experiencing, you could replace it a hundred times. If you reinstall with your current settings / apps, you will not eliminate the problem. From the experiences of users such as myself; who received replacement phones early on (I had mine replaced last week) it's known that new handsets don't fix the problem.  It is SOFTWARE based and Apple is working to diagnose and fix whatever bug(s) are responsible.

This same type of problem came up when the iPhone 4 was released. It took a week or two for Apple to identify the cause as a bug in push notifications. It took another week or two before they had tested an OS patch and released an update to correct the problem. I suspect a similar scenario this time around; but wit a different root cause.

Instead of getting worked up over the problem; try a little patience and give AppleTechs a chance to diagnose and fix the problem.

If you are unable to cope with any early bugs / glitches; then you should NEVER purchase any product (hardware or software) until it has been on the market for a little while and see if any problems have been reported. If problems have been detected, wait until a fix is officially released and verified ... Then make your purchase.

You will always be taking some chances when you purchase the latest leading-edge products. At least with Apple; their glitches haven't led to massive nationwide outages or complete loss of a users data; like other phone platforms have.

If I do that, will I erase the applications I have? It's the only thing I really dont want to loose,m since my iphone is pretty new, and there is not a lot of stuffs inside (music, pictures, etc..)

I guess I lied, my phone is still buggered even after a complete DFU reset and restore as new phone.  This thing is my "life" my calendar reminders are always constantly missing and this irritates the **** out of me.

your pictures your music your apps your bookmarks all remain on the phone

you will lose cookies

THIS WORKS!

I upgraded and restored from backup and have tried various fixes etc that work for a bit and then stop working....

Yesterday I did this  SETTINGS>GENERAL>RESET>RESET ALL SETTINGS

DO NOT## erase all content and settings DO NOT I repeat erase all content and settings

RESET ALL SETTINGS will erase your  wifi settings as well as any personalization that you have made in settings (font size sound alarm settings wallpapers etc  and reset them all  to the default..... it took me all of 15 minutes to do and reset everything to my preferred settings and my battery is what I expect it to be (ie just like my ip4 did before the upgrade).

I did not disable ANYTHING other than bluetooth-- icloud is on siri is on location services is on everything is on. AND THE PHONE DOESN'T GET HOT

enjoy your iphones folks

I just lost 20% of battery life OVERNIGHT... while I was asleep!  Went to bed at 80% and woke up at 60%.  There is no excuse why a phone should lose 20% of its battery in 6 hours of standby.  Something is clearly wrong here.

For the record, ANYTHING that can be turned off has been turned off.  Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Diagnostics & Usage, PING, Siri Raise-To-Speak.  It's all off, and I still lost a fifth of my battery while sleeping.

Am I gonna need to return this thing, or is the 4S' battery life REALLY this bad?

OFF TOPIC!

bleepingApple wrote:

 

Michael in Ohio wrote:

 

Why am I  still getting email notifications for posts on here when I disabled them all?!

 

Yeah I'm still getting emails every five minutes from this thread and I have all email settings set to off...

 

Things not turning off when they're supposed to? What does that remind me of....?

Hi, Horribly off topic, I realise but the solution to those that are getting emails from this thread but who think they've turned off email notifications for their account is this:

• Click your own username to get to your 'account details'
• Look to right of page where the little box is with options
• The last one is 'manage email notifications', click it and turn off any threads you don't want to be bugged about.

Anyway, back to the pesky batteries...

So I had earlier posted that doing a complete wipe and backing up from iCloud improved battery life, however... I had spoken too soon. I've tried everything short of returning the phone, and it seems.. or atleast I think.. that not being on any chat interface is what actually improved my battery life. I've been in standby now for almost 5 hours and it has only gone down by 1%. If I'm connected to a chat app, like google talk, my standby percentage would not fare so well. There must be some issue with the 4S' constant connection with wifi/3G not being very optimized. This is just my guess. Clearly, if I am constantly connected with a service like gtalk, I would expect the battery to drain faster, but .. I was always connected to gtalk on my android devices and the battery NEVER drained this quickly. Well, I guess all I can do now is wait for Apple to come up with a fix and try to limit my gtalk connection.

You lost 1% in 5 hours of standby.  I lost 20% in about 6 hours of standby.  We're running the same iOS and have both optimized our settings to preserve battery life.  Sounds like a hardware issue to me.  Looks like I'm taking a trip to the Apple Store tomorrow.

Also, I've noticed a lot of dropped calls too and 3G cutting in and out more often than I'd like. I'm starting to really think the issue is somehow related to how the phone/software is using the antenna and maintaining a connection.

I'm only getting 16 hours of standby. I have turned off whichever features i can, but that seems to defeat the purpose of having a smart phone that should be able to do everything you need it to.

I have drained fully and charged 3.5 hours every charge...even still the battery only lasts 16 hours approx.

I would assume this is a problem with something running in background, similar to the issues with iPhone 4. once they releases the updated iOS, it fixed the issue. I hope Apple are going to sort this ASAP. As it stands, i cant even take my phone outside for the day as its pointless.

Come on apple, what are you playing at, this is pathetic from the worlds best tech company!

Sort it out ASAP, you annoying your loyal apple fans!

Yeah, I've turned everything off. Wifi, Bluetooth, Wireless sync, iCloud, Siri, I only have one location service on. I also turned off the automatic time zone, diagnostics and usage info..basically anything I can think of. I also deleted the facebook app today since someone mentioned that could be a culprit. I've basically stripped the phone of any good features.

Sidenote: I did notice that with the "sync itunes over wifi" feature turned ON, and my phone's wifi connection OFF, my computer showed my iphone as connected... which I found strange since it shouldn't have been. When I tried to do a sync over the 3g though, my computer said it couldn't find the phone, even though it showed it as connected. Was my iphone somehow connected to my computer through a rogue wifi connection but wouldn't actually use that connection to sync?