Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

I received my new iPhone 4S on Oct. 14th. I have been getting a day out of my phone with what I would call light to moderate useage. I'm NEVER on Safari and I have everything turned off. SIRI, Location, Bluetooth, WIFI, and push is set up for every 3 hours. At the end of the day, I still have about 25% according to the battery monitor at the top. I have Microsoft Exchange set up on mine as well. From what I'm reading I should be happy, but I'm use to my Blackberry going 2 or 3 days without a charge.

Here's my complaint, what's point in having a phone like this if one must turn off all of it's features to get decent battery life.

I agree with all the battery issues. Mine is horrid and I rarely touch it. I turned off all notifications or location services AND turned off the Time Zone has done nothing either. I hate that i am being told to turn off all of the applications, notifications, & location services as well because what the heck good is a SMART PHONE without any of the applications etc... They better fix this quickly.

I am new to iPhone I migrated from the Berry and if this is a bug I am thrilled. The battery on the Berry could last for 3 days and even more if I didn't talk too much. On my new 4s I have to have it plugged all day or at least recharge twice per day. I really hope this issue gets fixed ASAP.

tt92618 wrote:

 

I'm annoyed by this statement. Obviously we are not a SMALL number. It's quite large.

 

There are less than 4000 comments on this thread.  They've sold easily over 4 million phones ths far (and likely ore). 

 

4000 / 4,000,000 = 0.001 percent of users.

 

That's a small number.

This isn't the only forum complaining about the battery. It is many more. This is just a small number of users that know about the apple forum and post here. Don't think it is just what you see here. I don't think apple would have released that story if they didn't have a significant number of users complaining. I have never had battery issues with any of my phones, and I have had the 3G, 4 and now the 4S. The only one I have had issues with now is the 4S. My GF still has the 4 and is on ios5 but she is on AT&T where they only have Edge service here. I switched to Sprint and have 3G now. I do believe it is an issue with the 3G. Maybe it stays connected to Siri too much. I don't know but I do know that my battery only lasts about 5 hours of usage when on 3G but I can get up to 11-12 hours of usage on wifi only.

I've been having battery problems with my iPhone 3GS since upgrading to iOS5. The battery sudenly goes dead and won't recharge. Restoring the phone in iTunes corrected the condition but it was a pain getting allmy apps back onto the phone and organized. the second occurrence eventually permitted re-charging after a lengthy connection to the charger.

This is the truth, but if 0.0001% of 4S has problems, I think that the issue is not a bug in IOS 5 but a batch of bad batteries....... if the problem is a bug in IOS the percent should be Higher.......

Alex69eyes wrote:

 

This is the truth, but if 0.0001% of 4S has problems, I think that the issue is not a bug in IOS 5 but a batch of bad batteries....... if the problem is a bug in IOS the percent should be Higher.......

Again you are not seeing the big picture. If you go by the number of regular posters on this forum it is way higher than normal. There are not 6 million forum users here. I would say it is probalby around 3000 regulars maybe a little more but I see a lot of new people complaining too which leads me to beleive that there are way more out there that don't post here that are having problems. Do not go by the amount of people you see posting here. It is not anywhere's near an accurate number.

This isn't the only forum complaining about the battery.

I know that, and I myself have had battery performance issues.  That said, I think it is ridiculous to argue that the majority of iOS 4S users are having these probems.

By the way, your usage doesn't seem that far off point for what the phone's specifications say it will do.  Have you even read the specs?

3G internet use is only 6 hours.

WiFi is 9.

Watching a movie is 10.

If you are managing 11 - 12 hours of usage on WiFi, you are ahead of the curve.

What is at issue in many complaints are the expectations of what the phone should be able to do vs. what it is actually rated to do.  That doesn't mean there is no problem; it means there is the problem, and there is the perception of the problem, and they don't completely overlap.

I reduced my iPhone 4s e-mail accounts to just my MobileMe (Mail) account (turned off AOL and gmail, which I hardly use--just left those for my computer) and turned off wifi.  Now I get two days out of one charge.  Big difference from before.

Just received this article from my wife.  Apparently, the next iOS update will aim to solve the battery-life problem:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/iphone-battery-life-ios-5-update_n_1072 661.html?ir=Canada

tt92618 wrote:

 

This isn't the only forum complaining about the battery.

 

I know that, and I myself have had battery performance issues.  That said, I think it is ridiculous to argue that the majority of iOS 4S users are having these probems.

 

By the way, your usage doesn't seem that far off point for what the phone's specifications say it will do.  Have you even read the specs?

 

3G internet use is only 6 hours.

WiFi is 9.

Watching a movie is 10.

 

If you are managing 11 - 12 hours of usage on WiFi, you are ahead of the curve.

 

What is at issue in many complaints are the expectations of what the phone should be able to do vs. what it is actually rated to do.  That doesn't mean there is no problem; it means there is the problem, and there is the perception of the problem, and they don't completely overlap.

No you missed the point. I have a lot of stuff turned off that I normally have on and getting way less than normal. Yes I read the specs but I was getting way more battery life on my 4 than the 4S. Now my GF's 4 with ios5 is also draining battery faster than it was before. When I say 5 hours of usuage time that is down to 0% battery. That time also includes not using the network but on the phone itself. I think the problem is something is stuck on the radio and it is draining faster than it should. The specs say 6 hours of 3G internet usage. I would understand if I only used the internet for all of those 5 hours but I am not. Also my wifi doesn't get past 5 hours unless I turn off Cellular data when on wifi. Something again is not working right with the 3G.

You just joined this forum a couple of days ago so you obviously have not seen any of the battery threads for the previous versions of ios. Maybe if you went and did some research you would find that in previous versions it was fixed pretty easy but this one there seems to not be a good fix and it is a bug with ios5.

the barttery went down almost 20%,even still charging.....there must be some problem going on. and i have to charge eveyday....

Also do you know the numbers of folks that have traded in their phone at the Genuis bar yet? I don't think apple will release those numbers so maybe they are pretty high right now because apple admits there is a bug in the os that is causing a battery issue.

Apple has confirmed bugs in IOS 5 and will release an update.

http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/02/apple-releases-ios-5-0-1-to-developers-here-are-th e-changes/

Your point of wiew is correct, also on websites here in Italy a lot of people complain about the battery life issue, I've read everithing and more about time zone, notifications every kind of setting, but I think that only thing that we can do now is wait for the official 5.0.1.

I've not bought a 4s anymore, but I've serious doubts about this purchase.........

You just joined this forum a couple of days ago so you obviously have not seen any of the battery threads for the previous versions of ios. Maybe if you went and did some research you would find that in previous versions it was fixed pretty easy but this one there seems to not be a good fix and it is a bug with ios5.

Again - i'm not arguing that there is no problem.  And by the way, i'm one of those people that turned my phone in at the genius bar and got a replacement.  And my battery life is better on the new device (and my screen is no longer yellow - bonus).  So I'm not convinced this is solely a software issue.  It is obvious, however, that there are software components that contribute to the problem.

What I'm arguing is just this: in the grand scheme of things, this problem probably is impacting a small number of users - those who use their devices a lot.  MOST users probably aren't even noticing, and that was the point in Apple's communique.

I've been in the developer program for a long time and I've had every device since 3G.  And yes, I agree that in many respects battery life on the 4S has gone backwards.  I agree that needs to be addressed.  I simply disagree that it impacts the majority of users the way it impacts the geeks (of whom I count myself).