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Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

My iPhone 4s battery seems terrible! Almost equivalent to my 3GS and it's terrible battery life. When I got my iPhone yesterday and restored from backup I noticed nothing really changed with minimal usage and standby! Is this normal or should I consider setting it up as a new phone because maybe something is running in the background that's causing it to drop a percentage every few minutes under light usage? Input would be great!

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 7:14 AM

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  • by franky932,

    franky932 franky932 Nov 3, 2011 9:58 PM in response to CTjkc
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    Nov 3, 2011 9:58 PM in response to CTjkc

    DONT TINK THAT UPDATE WILL GIVE 35% MORE ENERGY.

     

    MAYBE 5%.............THE PHONE  AS A5 CHIP  :AND BTW 1450MAH IS NOT ENOUGHT.

     

    SOME SMAETPHONE-ANDROID HAVE 1900MAH

  • by Mr. STHLM,

    Mr. STHLM Mr. STHLM Nov 3, 2011 10:35 PM in response to franky932
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    Nov 3, 2011 10:35 PM in response to franky932

    just make this work in a acceptable manner ,

     

    Give us new phones , send out  new batteries .,

     

    how about a press release ,

    that would be good

  • by iVisions,

    iVisions iVisions Nov 3, 2011 10:55 PM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 3, 2011 10:55 PM in response to Scarface.

    Agree, my battery drains so quick that it drop a lot after ten minutes I started my new iphone on 3G network.

     

    I just now turned off the network of 3G and disbaled the location service and will see how iphone 4s will perform.

  • by ayemerica,

    ayemerica ayemerica Nov 3, 2011 11:39 PM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 3, 2011 11:39 PM in response to Scarface.

    Apple will soon realize in the world of hardware, that a software patch may infact not be the solution. If it was a mere software patch to iOS5 this would have been pushed by now. I am starting to suspect that this will the first real "AppleGate". (Attenna gate was false, all phones have this problem)

  • by chilong,

    chilong chilong Nov 3, 2011 11:42 PM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 3, 2011 11:42 PM in response to Scarface.

    Same problem~ 100% to 0% only took 12 hours; Waiting IOS 5.01 to fix it~ Come on, Apple! should test it before release IOS 5.0!!

     

    Fix the problem ASAP, please!

  • by franky932,

    franky932 franky932 Nov 3, 2011 11:53 PM in response to ayemerica
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    Nov 3, 2011 11:53 PM in response to ayemerica

    ayemerica wrote:

     

    Apple will soon realize in the world of hardware, that a software patch may infact not be the solution. If it was a mere software patch to iOS5 this would have been pushed by now. I am starting to suspect that this will the first real "AppleGate". (Attenna gate was false, all phones have this problem)

    EXACTLY( and the beta 5.01. is out there for the developper , so they did not do a patch overnight lolll)   and i

     

    am sure this IPH4S -IOS5 : it will be a flop.......and they knew about the problem at the relaese of the

     

    IP4S.

     

    now they have sold 5 millions and more + the other millions at the end of the year for other country.

     

    With the patch , do you think whe will put all the features on and have more power off the battery.

     

    big joke

     

    They have their money..........but they will lose their name. People are not stupid.

     

    or they will hope that whe will  have all the money for the IPHONE 5 ,. Mine is for sale.....

  • by habraha,

    habraha habraha Nov 4, 2011 12:02 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 4, 2011 12:02 AM in response to Scarface.

    I was at Apple Store today and when I told the clerk that my iPhone 4S battery is draining faster than my wife's iPhone 4, he took my phone and run some kind of test on it and he told me that there are applications that had crashed in the last 24 hours and that is causing the battery to drain. Non of the applications that crashed are those I downloaded but Apple's own.

     

    I found it very hard to believe that the crashing applications cause the battery to drain that bad. After reading this post, I now know that, although the applications that crashed may have contributed to the fast battery drainage before they crashed, there seem to be definitely an issue with the battery life on iPhone 4S. Could it be that the faster A5 CPU is dissipating heat that was not noticed during testing. I notice the phone heating up when I use the it for more than 5 mins talk time. That heat energy should come from somewhere

     

    IOS 5 and apps that come with it? Antenna? CPU? 

  • by miless,

    miless miless Nov 4, 2011 12:38 AM in response to habraha
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    Nov 4, 2011 12:38 AM in response to habraha

    habraha wrote:

     

    I was at Apple Store today and when I told the clerk that my iPhone 4S battery is draining faster than my wife's iPhone 4, he took my phone and run some kind of test on it and he told me that there are applications that had crashed in the last 24 hours and that is causing the battery to drain. Non of the applications that crashed are those I downloaded but Apple's own.

     

    I found it very hard to believe that the crashing applications cause the battery to drain that bad. After reading this post, I now know that, although the applications that crashed may have contributed to the fast battery drainage before they crashed, there seem to be definitely an issue with the battery life on iPhone 4S. Could it be that the faster A5 CPU is dissipating heat that was not noticed during testing. I notice the phone heating up when I use the it for more than 5 mins talk time. That heat energy should come from somewhere

     

    IOS 5 and apps that come with it? Antenna? CPU? 

    Do this ... go to settings>general>about>diagnostics & usage>dianostics & usage data

    You will be able to see the list of apps that crashes.

     

    Before i restore my phone to set up as new ... i have a long long list of crashes. After i restore the phone, i have only 3 crashes, which is from me using field test function (no app for this).

    To access field test, go to phone function, input *3001#12345#* <SEND>. ... you will be able to see a lot of information of your phone, including cellular signal strength in numberic ... your carrier's IP address for data access, transmission signal strength, etc...

     

    The iOS 5.0.1 update will likely be power management update, to better regulate the usage of the processor, some bug fix, and default setting changes. Improvement to the battery,... depends on how much they tweak it. but i really hope they dont under clock the processor to give better battery life at the expense of speed. We'll find out soon.

     

    How i wish they can redeploy the heat and convert it into energy back to the battery ... just like KERS in F1.

  • by robinbruhn,

    robinbruhn robinbruhn Nov 4, 2011 12:40 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 4, 2011 12:40 AM in response to Scarface.

    My battery life has not improved at all after installing the iOS 5.0.1 beta on my iPhone 4S.

     

    Now I'm really getting worried here.

  • by Yo Bad Mama Jama Jicama,

    Yo Bad Mama Jama Jicama Yo Bad Mama Jama Jicama Nov 4, 2011 12:41 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 4, 2011 12:41 AM in response to Scarface.

    I tried turning everything off, resets, complete discharge recharge - battery still lasted 1 day of normal use. Sent mine in. Replacement lasts 3 days of normal use for me. You might need a new phone. Cheers....

  • by kelvintkw,

    kelvintkw kelvintkw Nov 4, 2011 12:46 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 4, 2011 12:46 AM in response to Scarface.

    usage = 4.5 hours

    standby = 20hours

    battery = 43%

     

    battery level dropped 8% in 7hours standby mode.

     

    is it good or bad ?

     

    i hardly used the phone. no mails, no location service, no 3g, no weather service, just games.

     

    whats da point of buying a 499 pounds iphone which u only can play games and using other will drain your battery level like **** ?

  • by Krigh,

    Krigh Krigh Nov 4, 2011 2:55 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 4, 2011 2:55 AM in response to Scarface.

    (Just want to add my reply to the 3400 replies)

     

    My iPhone 3G is was charged 16 hours ago and it's still showing a full bar.

    My iPhone 4S was charged 12 hours ago and shows 68%. And it takes abotu 3 hours to fully charge.

    What gives?

     

    My iPhone 4S wont keep it's charge for more than 24 hours. I've turned off the search indexing, set my three email accounts to manual retireval and most notifications to off. I've not been multitasking (killing the apps when i leave them) and all I've been doing with the phone is having it sit in my pocket. I am syncing with iCloud.

     

    Apple, your next iOS update better resolve this or I'm going to call your support lines until they do (and it will be the last time I buy an iPhone). photo 1.PNG

  • by dtyrrell,

    dtyrrell dtyrrell Nov 4, 2011 3:47 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 4, 2011 3:47 AM in response to Scarface.

    Has anyone heard of an update for this problem? I'm losing about 12% every half an hour. If not more. All features have pretty much been turned off ( locations, siri etc.). Have callibrated the battery, still no change. ANNOYING!

  • by flibbertygibbet,

    flibbertygibbet flibbertygibbet Nov 4, 2011 3:55 AM in response to ayemerica
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    Nov 4, 2011 3:55 AM in response to ayemerica

    So you think "Attenna gate was false, all phones have this problem"? Really?

     

    So how come on-one had EVER seen this problem on a Nokia? And how come Apple felt they had to first try to show that other phones had this problem with some ill-conceived videos, which they hastily removed, before offering all iP4 owners a free case to prevent the problem? Or did all the websites and reviewers that demonstrated that there was a problem actually get it wrong?

     

    If you really do believe that all other phones have the same problem as the iP4 then you are deluding yourself...

  • by WeiJieC,

    WeiJieC WeiJieC Nov 4, 2011 3:59 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 4, 2011 3:59 AM in response to Scarface.

    omg iphone 4S *** compared iphone 4...the slogan or advert. sentence is a joke "the most amazing iphone till now" seriously..? 

     

    I have to recharge the iphone every day twice and I got all background settings off and also siri set off, which and still a normal iphone 4 would last longer...

     

    Without siri (which is a great idea), ' which was so amazing', is the 4S nothing compared to the 4.

     

    I have my doubts now to buy iphone 5 if it releases, maybe switch to other smartphone

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