Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

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I really don't want to be rude or anything but i would love to get the iPhone 4S to reach my iPhone 4 performance

Just bought Iphone4s IOS 5.0.1, 4 days ago

and I have the same Issue... I have read many comments regarding the poor battery life

fully charge at 11 PM ... at 9 AM the battery dropped to 76%... this is ridiculous

unlike my Ipad 2 wi-fi IOS 4.3.3 , it is normal, and have a good battery life

I have tried to turn the iphone on airplane mode, and turn off most of the settings including the network cellular data, time zone, location services, wifi, bluetooth, ... even reset all settings >> set as a new phone .... reboot a couple of times and its still the same 4-5% battery drop on every hour,

and now I got the "usage" and "standby" (time since last full charge) under settings>general>usage, by:

usage -- (Its Blank)

standby -- (blank) What the???

instead of hours

is it normal?

and this is the last try, I'm trying to turn off all the settings that ***** the battery, reset all settings, and wait till the battery fully depleted, and take a full recharge... and let's see for tomorrow

if this ain't got any better, I will ask the store to replace me with a new iphone

thats pretty good for an iPhone 4.. the best i have ever gotten on my iPhone 4S is

Usage: 5hr10min

Standby: 23hrs23min at 1% with most settings on with the exception of bluetooth

it gets me through the day, so it doesnt bother me that much, but i would love to have that battery life

how much does your battery last?  I have everything off, and it doen´s even last 24h..  I don´t see the point in spending hundreds of dollars in a phone so advanced in tech, if you can´t make use of anything, cause you don´t have time to do it, the battery doesn´t last...

Very disapointed  with iphone 4s, and specially cause in ios 5.1 they removed home screen shortcuts, that would cut time to turn on and off services..

How can apple release a phone lke this? it´s like a beta version except you won´t get the money bac for the testing.. It seems that quality isn´t a priority for them anymore, unfortunately :S

jeethro wrote:

 

Just bought Iphone4s IOS 5.0.1, 4 days ago

and I have the same Issue... I have read many comments regarding the poor battery life

fully charge at 11 PM ... at 9 AM the battery dropped to 76%... this is ridiculous

unlike my Ipad 2 wi-fi IOS 4.3.3 , it is normal, and have a good battery life

 

I have tried to turn the iphone on airplane mode, and turn off most of the settings including the network cellular data, time zone, location services, wifi, bluetooth, ... even reset all settings >> set as a new phone .... reboot a couple of times and its still the same 4-5% battery drop on every hour,

 

and now I got the "usage" and "standby" (time since last full charge) under settings>general>usage, by:

usage -- (Its Blank)

standby -- (blank) What the???

instead of hours

is it normal?

 

and this is the last try, I'm trying to turn off all the settings that ***** the battery, reset all settings, and wait till the battery fully depleted, and take a full recharge... and let's see for tomorrow

if this ain't got any better, I will ask the store to replace me with a new iphone

The first thing I would suggest is updating your OS to 5.1 as this seems to have resolved the battery problem for many users.  Prioe to IOS 5.1, this forum would grow by two or three (or more) pages each day.  Since, it is taking two days or more to get ONE page of messages.  

Second, comparing the iPhone with  a 1450 mAh battery to an iPad with a 11,000 mAh battery is not exactly comparing Apples to Apples.  The only component of the iPad 2 that is markedly different from the iPhone 4S is the screen size.  And to offset that, the iPhone must monitor 3G cell towers for incoming phone calls, if your iPad even HAS 3G connectivity.

While you are doing those resets, make sure the update to IOS 5.1 takes place, then continue.

strikemode wrote:

 

how much does your battery last?  I have everything off, and it doen´s even last 24h..  I don´t see the point in spending hundreds of dollars in a phone so advanced in tech, if you can´t make use of anything, cause you don´t have time to do it, the battery doesn´t last...

 

Very disapointed  with iphone 4s, and specially cause in ios 5.1 they removed home screen shortcuts, that would cut time to turn on and off services..

 

How can apple release a phone lke this? it´s like a beta version except you won´t get the money bac for the testing.. It seems that quality isn´t a priority for them anymore, unfortunately :S

What 'home screen shortcuts' are you missing?  I having noticed anything missing.

I could at least solve part of my battery drain problem with a new Micro SIM Card. An Apple Genius told me to replace my pretty old SIM card (I cut the micro SIM card out of my old SIM card) with the latest available micro SIM card. This improved my standby time quite a bit (it almost doubled it). The overall battery consumption is still worse than with my old iPhone 3G but it's way better than before.

Hope this might help at least some of you!

The shortcuts i´m refering to, are the ones that where available using some applications on appstore, that allowed you to create an icon like brightness, wireless, flight mode, 3g and others, directly on home screen.

It was very usefull, you could change any of those options just in one touch, instead of going to 2 or 3 menus,

but they removed it on ios update 5.1, so it seems like they are making our lives more difficult.

It seems the only solution is to have a bigger pocket and allways carry a charger :S  LOL...

Unfortunately, even with the update i haven´t noticed many difference, but one advantage is you can disable 3g to save power, but as i said, i´ve disabled all that i can and even then.. not even 24h, it light usage..

Let´s hope apple fixes this somehow :O 

Regards

Ya mine too that iOS 5.1 did nothing for the 4s battery I see no difference?? It drops 3/5 percent in less than ten mins!!

Hi Davidch,

I followed your guidance.  Perfect!  The phone is back to normal....actually, it is better than ever.  Now I can use it for ~1/2 day on a single overnight charge.  I have a very few apps installed though....I did not want to risk it.  I have WIFI, Bluetooth, location services, etc turned.  I am back again out of the country roaming on a GSM network (I have a Verizon phone).  The batt life is still as good as when I am on Verizon.  Thank you.

After 2 full bat drains in 5.1

The use was very soft, and 3G used just 20'

Some wassap

Read Mail

1 8' Call

Some app updates

Since updating to iOS 5.1 I have had mixed results with battery life.

Overall there is an improvement but I could not understand why some days the battery drains in 12 hours and other days it goes for 2 full days.

I have eventually figured out what it is that I do that is different and it comes from a suggestion that comes from a post much earlier in this thread from another user.

When your iPhone battery dies and your phone turns off, your natural instinct is to immediately go plug it in and start charging. Everytime I do this my battery life is not so good after that charge cycle has completed.

Instead when the phone powers off, leave it off for around 30-60 minutes before plugging it in again and let it sit at least an hour more on the charger after it shows 100%.

I have done tests with this over the last two weeks and sure enough everytime I don't do the above I get poor battery life.

Last night I was down to 5% and instead of trying to run it down to 1% and let it shut down, I manually held down the power button > slide to power off and then left it off for around 35 minutes before I charged it overnight. This morning I am at 42 minutes usage, 5 hours 13 minutes Standby and still have 96% battery remaining.

As for my phone setup / services that I use:

- Location Services OFF

- iCloud (ON) - Contacts, Calendar, Bookmarks, Photo Stream, Documents & Data

- iCloud Phone Backup over WiFi (OFF)

- 3G (OFF)

- Cellular Data (OFF unless I leave home / office)

- Brightness (AUTO)

- Mail (PUSH OFF / Collect Every 15 mins - 2 IMAP Accounts)

- FaceTime (ON)

- Music/Video (Home Sharing ON)

- WiFi (ON) Ask To Join Networks (OFF)

- BlueTooth (OFF)

- iTunes WiFi Sync (OFF)
- Siri (OFF)

As you can see I do not turn OFF all the wonderful features of the iPhone as is sugested by so many people, I actually can't get on board with suggestions like that because it makes the iPhone pointless to me. I have proven to myself I can run all the things I want and still get good battery life. I have been using the above settings since day one and it's been 3 months now and there is a marked improvement in my battery life using the above approach to recharging.

2 Bugs I have picked up on iOS 5.1:

After ever restart of the iPhone, 3G is ON and BlueTooth is ON, not sure why Apple cannot make these switches stick? Check your phone everytime after reboot / restart and make sure your Bluetooth and 3G (if you have the toggle) are turned off so they don't chew your battery.

today .. the battery test

usage 31 minutes

standby 13 hours, 28 minutes

battery 87%

blue tooth off

wifi off

no 3G

only GSM network

pure standby mode , I didn't run any apps but I wonder why my usage is up to 31 minutes ... dunno what is going on, and dunno what apps are running... I have turn off all standby apps on background.

I know this is silly but, have any of you tried a "soft restart" yet? Its when you hold down "Both" power buttons at the "same" time.  Power it down and then power it back up.. It helped my 4s alot!!!!!!   hope it helps you too