Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

That's a fair and valid point.

I currently have the 4s running on a clean install, new SIM card (which affects things for me), locations services are all enabled, Siri is on, mobile data and WiFi are both on and it's only using 1% an hour at the moment if that.

I've just set up an exchange account, syncing mail, contacts, calendars and reminders every 30 minutes on fetch.

Let's see what happens.

I just had an instance that my iPhone 4s all of sudden getting hot in my shirt pocket while idle (no app was runnig at all). The only thing I noticed was it switched from wi-fi to 3G when I took it out from my pocket to check. Maybe it was caused by switching back-and-ford between 3G and wi-fi due to the weak 3G and Wi-fi signals where I am at. Does anyone have the same issue?

the theory on sim cards only really would apply to those who have a carrier that uses them.  my wifes iphone 4 does not have a sim card because sprint does not use them.  only option we havent tried is a full restore.  myy wife would rather wait for a proper update though but right now im not feeling very confidenti bout that even happening as apple has yet to even acknowledge there is an issue.

he aint trolling.. you are...

OT, i did a full restore last night and then setup the phone as New, not a backup.

conparing it to the wifes 4S which has a great battery out of the box.

also seeing Apple tonight so might push for a new handset if its still bad today.

This is my very last post today I'm afraid. It's 12:50 am and I off to bed.

I added the exchange account and the battery didn't even use 1% in an hour. The only thing I have left to add to the iPhone to get it back up and running is the iCloud accounts. Surely it can't be that though ;-)

I'm going to put the original SIM back in over night and monitor drainage.

Night all.

I am having the same problem on my white 64GB 4s.

I am not sure how it's possible to leave out 4G LTE and still have such horrible battery life. Last year it was the antenna, this year its the battery. I swear, they bill these flaws in so people will be hungry for the next upgrade.

Edit: Also, how are you supposed to obtain 40 hours of music time without turning everything off? If that is required then I consider it to be false advertising.

Check out what CNet.com wrote...

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20122665-233/iphone-4s-delivers-on-talk-tim e-battery-life/?tag=cnetRiver

I beg to differ...

I don't know how the battery life is, I am scared to use my iphone, what if I need it at a later point...

Seriously, this better be fixed soon, otherwise, hello Galaxy SII,  then I will sell my Ipad for a a Samsung Tab and everything else, I like to keep it one platform....

FIX IT! Fix what?  IT!!!!

The battery could actually be stronger. That would reinforce the point that the battery drains we have been documenting are software based rather than the new battery type. Now it's just a matter of figuring out if it's the individual iPhone's settings, the configuration of the phone (new setup v. backup), or something in iOS 5 that is causing the drain.

Verizon 16 gb black iphone 4s

I have been noticing that my battery is draining approximately 20 percent every hour after a full charge for the past 5 days. I have done calibrated my battery twice and it hasnt changed much.

All the settings that people say to turn off on forums i have done and the battery life still drops 20 percent every hour. Im not a heavy app user i just text frequently. Location is off, notifications are on manual, bluetooth is off, wifi is off, brightness is on auto and lower than 50 %, icloud is all turned off, fetch data for mail is off,.. etc.

I dont understand why i have to turn all these features off when thats what a phone is used for but yet the battery life is crap. Apple needs to fix this problem before my two weeks is up to return my phone

Another user who has noticed the horrible battery life, used to I could unplug at 6/7AM and not have to plug back in until 9/10PM...

I haven't done a 100% to 0% uncharge/charge yet...will try that.

But something is draining our battery lives.    

Hi guys i'm new here and like many of you have have been troubled quite a bit by the poor battery life of my new iPhone 4s. Last night I decided to find out just how much power my new (Verizon black 16gb) iPhone 4s was using up while on standby. I fully discharged and charged my iPhone for the 3rd time, since I've had it, last night. It was done charging a few minutes after 12am and I decided to not use my phone until after work the next day. I carried it with me all day without using it once, which was so hard to do. I received one call all day and since it wasn't important I let it go to voicemail. I received no texts, emails, nothing. If you want to count the phone call I didn't answer then I guess you could say I had 1 minute of usage all day. Before I post my results let me just list my current settings.

Wifi:On

Notifications: Weather, Phone, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, Mail (the ones I'm listing are set to on)

Location Services: Camera, Maps, Safari, Settings, Siri, Weather, Find my iPhone

     System Services:Cell Network Search, Compass Calibration, Traffic

(Note: After my test I checked settings and none of these services have used my location within the last 24 hours)

Brightness: Auto-Brightness is on but I turned it down a little from default

General: About: Diagnostics & Usage: Don't Send (I thought doing this would help a little but it doesn't seem like it has. Should I turn this back on?)

     Bluetooth: Off

iCloud: Contacts, Calendars, Photo Stream, Documents & Data, Find My iPhone

Mail: Fetch every 30 min, two yahoo accounts

And everything else remains unchanged. Also, I made sure to close all my running apps which I've always done since first getting my Blackberry Storm 2 which I'd like to add would give me 1 1/2 - 2 days battery with light use. This is my first iPhone so the thing about restoring from old iPhone doesn't apply to me. I've also mentioned that I'm with Verizon so there is no sim I could be changing out. Here's what my phone reports.

As mentioned earlier I have not used my phone this whole time and yet somehow I'm up to almost 1 1/2 hours of usage time. I have no clue why its saying that.. any ideas?

Same deal... first time here and first iphone. Just curious but does Apple ever resolve things like this or do they just keep everyone twisting in the wind untill they release a new product? My only point of reference is the antena issue with the 4.

Same problem here. Using WAY more battery than my 4. Contacted tech support and he suggested that there is probably a corrupt something or other that is running in the background that needs to be fixed. He recommended that I do a restore. He likened the corrupt whatever to being like moving and losing a box. Since i moved all of my data from the 4 to the 4S something got whack. He also said that it is not so uncommon. I'm in the process of doing restore now and I'll tell you what happens.

On another note, I have to say that I have never been disappointed with support. It sounds like they are willing to replace handsets if you insist, but in all reality it is probably not a problem with the device. Hopefully I'll still feel the same tomorrow morning.

Update.

So I did have better battery life after doing what the Apple Support guy told me.  But...I also used my phone way less and the settings are not to my personal liking.  I was very busy at work today and therefore played way less on my phone.  At this time last night I was down in the low 30s high 20s. 

Tonight I'm going to run down the battery again and start fresh again tomorrow with MY settings. 

I still don't think my phone should have used this much battery when I didn't even "USE" it for more than four hours....

I have the 16GB White iPhone on Verizon.  I started it as a fresh phone. Did not use backups, simply synced my contacts, and added my apps thru iTunes.   Tomorrow is my day off...I might just run out to the closest Apple store if I have time.  I'll keep updating.