Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

iPhone 4, ipgraded to ios5, battery life was fine for a week, after that started to go from 100% to 20% in 8 hours, didn't add anything new, can't figure out what happened.  Am hoping that 5.0.1 will fix it!!

BUT THIS IOS 5.0.1 FIX WONT BRING US THE UMTS/3G SWITCHER BACK, which ich by far the most power drainer!

Marc Posner wrote:

 

Personally, I think the root of the battery issues is the phone's (and iOS 5's) persistence in trying to accomplish a task - when it really should just give up and move on. Bad contact? Stop trying to import it. Bad calendar reminder? OK, put up an error message and move on. Can't connect to the network? Fine, give it a few seconds instead of a millisecond. ...

Sounds reasonable.  I discovered that problem on my old iPhone 3G years ago when it tried downloading a big email attachment (via 3G cellular) over and over (while failing) all afternoon.  The battery died quickly.  After that I changed my POP settings to manual/manual and all was well.  I still use Exchange with Push, and haven't had a problem.

I've been getting great battery life on my 4S but I wondered if it was due to my WiFi connection.  So yesterday I switched off WiFi and let it run, with a new full charge, on 3G overnight.  Little use, but considerable standby, and lots of battery left (91%), all on 3G:

The settings are all the same as in a previous posting I made on page 179 of this thread:

Notifications - all on (not only in the Notification Center, but also for badges, lock screen, etc. including stock market and weather)

Location Services - On are camera, compass, find my friends, maps, siri, find my iphone.  System services - all on except Time Zone and Traffic

iCloud - on for contacts, calendar, reminders, photostream, find my iphone.  Off for bookmarks, notes, documents and data

Mail - two accounts:  Exchange Server for mail with push.  A POP account set to fetch-manual and advanced-manual

Bluetooth off

iTunes WiFi sync - on

Siri raise to speak - off

The phone was activated at the AT&T store where I bought it, and then I added apps and music via iTunes. I did not "restore" it, I don't think.

All I can say right now is that this is completely ridiculous.  I've tried to read many of the postings/hints by other discussion board members (which I do appreciate).  However, I've had to spend time turning off this setting and that setting and this one and that one...and changing this one and that one.  It's crazy that I have to have a device with 75% of the functionality turned off in order for the battery usage to be at a semi "normal" level.  There is NO WAY ON THIS EARTH that my phone would get nearly 1/2 of the time that Apple advertises this phone should last.  I've turned off notifications, I've turned off the feedback, I've turned off location, I've turned off calendars, I've turned off wi-fi, I've deleted things, I've drained the battery and recharged it all the way.  Bottom line...  The battery life still *****.  For a phone sitting on standby in the locked mode, my battery should not continue to drain the way it does (and I have good network strength where I am).  Besides shutting off data and phone service, or just shutting off the phone completely...I don't know what more I can do.  I feel like I have purchased a device which is MAJORLY FLAWED.  I will try to be patient until this "fix" is released by Apple...but my patience is really wearing thin.  I don't think I would be half as annoyed if I could buy a replacement battery to have as a back-up.  Since Apple's devices are sealed, I need to make sure I have an adequate charge AT ALL TIMES.  Any other phone, you can easily swap-out batteries and have a fully-charged one ready to go as a back-up. 

I install the beta 5.01.

Last 3 hours in stand bye lost 20%. I dont think this problem is fixed.

Change all settins is bull ****, i buy this 4s to use all of them. If this drain the battery, leave the options away.

Hope there is a good fix  for it. And i still hoop the button use 3g comes back.

Come on apple

I have seen better results since I upgrade my IPhone 4 to OS 5.0  In fact this morning after 6 hrs in standby my battery was at 99% I used to wake up and be at around 85. I have had to restore my phone like it was new and then re synce everything I wanted because the upgrade screwed up my music player. I even turn on mor location services.

I would suggest to everybody restore your phone but not from backup.. treat it like its new.. First get all your camera roll pictures off the phone because they will be gone. You can put then in a folder on your computer and sync them back in. Also as soon as you finish using the phone hit the on/off button to turn off display

I dont know what apple says is the stand by battery life but I guess its like when Dell tells you if you by the extra battery or bigger battery it will last up to 10 + hr or more.. Thats BS no matter what battery you have you 4 hrs tops.

I find it odd that everyone is having such varied results. No consistency in this problem. I have 2 4s 16gb that were shipped direct from China. Both units have all options turned on and avg about 3 hrs of talk time daily. Both phones are able to last 3-4 days between charges w/o dying. One thing we did do was before we even activated the phone we allowed the batteries to run completely out and then charged overnight. We activated the next morning and have been enjoying battery life of 3-4 days.

****... charged the iphone to 100% before I sleep at 10pm.  Set the alarm to wake me up at 5am.  The **** phone battery got drain during the night.  ***?

Apple finally acknowledged and said they're releasing a patch in the coming weeks

I too have had a horrible experience with my iPhone 4s's battery. Upgrading from the 3Gs to the 4s has been amazing in every respect with the exception of the **** battery life. I have chosen the path less traveled and have purchased for about $100 a Mophie case for my phone. Though it makes the phone a little larger and heavier I have been able to keep my phone on using all its features, brightness at 100% etc, for the entire day / night. So far no complaints! I do hope that 5.0.1 helps but I am not too optimistic. 

I also had serious problems with my battery. When I used my iPhone for the first time, I restored all the settings of my all 3GS. After thatn the battery loss was about 10% / hour.

I called Apple support and they said me to restore my iphone as a new phone. I did it. Now, the level of battery decreases slower than before but I still have to charge it everyday...

     I support multiple iPhones on 2 carriers, so I have experienced these issues many times.  Calls to the carrier's tech support teams shows the phones are connecting and then dropping off the carrier networks.  When the phone drops off the network, the radio runs constantly killing the battery..  I believe that's the root cause with the phones.

     It would be interesting for users to contact their carrier to check their connection logs.  If we can verifiy the connection issue, we may get closer to a possible resolution.

I have found that the Bluetooth radio was on by default but the status icon was not displaying. I've shut it off and it seems to have been my solution to the battery drain. Hope it helps.

I am having loads of issues with most things 4S .

Battery not charging .

when i arrived at my shop i plugged it in .that was around -> 09:00 it's been on charge all day. it's now 16:00 that is 9 hours and it has charged only 22% WTH ?

Battery drains faster as a rabit can run while using the phone.

i have turned everything off . push , location etc .  still the same  problem  = DRAINING QUICK !

WHY should i turn everything off when they advertize all these wonderful things about the 4s . it can do this and that and so on .. i dont want to have a phone that i have to constantly go into the settings and turn off and on things as i need them . i want them to be ready when i am .

I just dropped an Android phone for this . That was a mistake . i had a cheapo Android that just worked perfectly . For my business i thought , well . why not get the new awesome iphone 4s for business and have life a bit easier .

Unfortunately this has been nothing but problems .

but i am sure a lot of you feel just the same ,

i switched over to MAC almost 2 years ago . now we have a few macs at home . but we didnt think about the iphone until recently  . After the mess with the iphone 4 's antenna troubles etc . we were not interested

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Now this new improved 4S will rock out worlds .

well  it hasnt for me .

Has there been any press release about a fix from the Engineers ?

This battery issue is horrible! Please fix soon!! I had to travel last weekend, and tried to use google maps for directions on my 4S and almost cried when I was in the middle of nowhere and the 4S went from 30% to 10% in 20mins!!!!!!