Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Calendar notifications was my main culprit.  I can't have them in my Notifications Center or the battery goes terminal.

here is my latest iphone 4s battery status, after 3 complete charges from 0 to 100%

everything off except siri (raise to speak off) and wifi when needed

but dont get too excited : i had 1 full day in airplane mode, just to check if drainage was network related but listening to music for these last 3 days during work

most usage is music , some texting, whatsapp, checking facebook, litle browsing, sending 2 emails, and around 4/5 calls nothing major

wish this usage was whit airplane mode off for that day i turned on

what really looks normal drainage is listining to music, the rest it just ***** battery, everytime i check facebook 1% is gone, sometimes when i awake the screen i see another % droping

OzziesMAC: Can you explain more about this "bad app" thing?  I think this is what is going on with my phone but I'm not sure how to resolve it.  I have Words With Friends and I think it may be doing the same thing.  Any help would be appreciated. 

Thanks!

Despite turning off all the location based "stuff", I notice that my battery life only suffers when I'm on the move.  I spend most of my day in the office or at home and the battery drain seems pretty decent even when I'm not connected to wifi.  But once I hit the road, that battery drains a bit quicker. 

In standby, I'll observe about 3 minutes usage an hour while in the office or at home.  On the road, that usage increases to about 12 minutes an hour.  Not sure why i'm reporting this, Apple will fix it and it barely affects me.

After one full charge cycle, this is what I have:

Battery: 56%

Usage: 5:24

Standby: 1 day 6 hours

I've turned off siri, iCloud, and locations. I have deleted the email as well. So it definitely has to do something with their new antenna design and iCloud sync. Stay cool folks, apple will fix it. Make sure you do 3-4 complete charge-discharge cycles ...

Adding my name to the list.  I have to charge my phone at home, at the office, and even bought a portable charger so I can charge on the go!  Only been 3 hours and I'm at 40%, down from 100%.  Yay, really hoping this gets fixed soon, as it's kind of terrible.

My iPhone had horrible battery life. When I first had it and ran the app or data connection, I noticed that the phone was so warm even though just 4 minutes watching you tube.

I did everything I could. Turn off everything as any other articles suggested. I reset my phone twice. Turn off everything again. Put it full charge to 100%. I have no email account push, location service turned off, no iCloud, Bluetooth off, practically nothing at all, turn off any app at the background, no iTunes, ect. Then I did the test by just logging in one email account and replying emails. In 2 and a half hours, I ran from 100% to 29%.(No other using service except checking emails)

I constantly charged the phone at least 3 times per day to have it keep up.

I am considering return my iPhone and wait a little for Apple to fix the problem. I am just afraid of the amount of charging like that will kill the battery before 2 years contract finished.

If I turn off everything to reverse the battery, what good is the phone to me anyway?

Pretty happy with mine...

Battery went down to 20% after 31 hours with location services on, a couple of location-based reminders for a few hours, 5 e-mail accounts pushing every half an hour.

Like to add my name to the list. My phone currnetly losing at 20% of battery per hour with simple browsing. Applied all the setting suggested on the suport site.

i like to add my voice too

my battery is the worse battery ever , i cant belive that , i have iphone 4s 32gb white color uk set

and the battery cant stand even for half day , dont ask me to of this and that  i bought this phone double the price cuz its not in my country market yet , and now i have this problem , im an apple fan and i sold my iphone 4 to buy an iphone 4s but seen this problem now from the firstday i open the box untill now make me very angree , i wish that i didnt sold my iphone 4  , apple its better to fix this problem , and if its hardware i will send this phone to uk i have friend there and do a replace set or bring me back the money that we lose

same thing here but can't seem ot narrow it down to a particular app or function. two pushing email accounts removed, notifications, location, and wifi off, no music, no browsing, no videos, no game play, and I still watch the percentages drop.  I turn a few things back on, because i need to make use of some features (after all that is why i bought it in the first place), and the drain doesn't seem to be as strong.  Being stationary makes a difference too, probably the biggest difference in my experience.

I've tried the resets and a single full power drain and will probably try another drain tonight although I'm not expecting a big difference if any.  So patiently I wait... and charge...

I want to add my voice to this thread. I get lousy battery life too.

I get about 3.5 hours of talk, email, and wi-fi internet. Two battery power apps Battery Magic and Boost Magic are CONSISTANTLY off by 1/2. Interestingly they use the Apple power logarithims to estimate remaining battery use. They are not even CLOSE!

I really don't see how Apple's iOS bug fix will make a big difference here. I cannot see getting 8 hours of 3G talk time—ever.

pubcrawler13 wrote:

 

For what it's worth (and I know I'm hardly the first to say this), I installed the 5.0.1 beta yesterday and have seen absolutely no improvement whatsoever, even after making the alternations that the update was supposed to have made unnecessary. Having said that, it *is* technically still a beta release, so it's entirely possible that it will be tweaked for the official release in a couple of weeks.

Looks like they just released a second beta version:

http://www.macrumors.com/

Thanks for the heads-up! I'm grabbing it now and will report in later with any findings.

I loose about 1% of battery per 3 minutes of talking on the phone (not on speaker phone).

Another time I noticed that I had unplugged the phone, it was at 100% charge, then about an hour later, without me using it AT ALL, not even lighting it up to check the time -it just sat in my pocket- it had 21 mins of "usage" and 2% battery loss.

Before this iPhone I had an old motorola Razr (model v.1, my thrid cell phone ever) which lasted for a week without needing charging even with normal use (it couldn't even do email or web browsing). Since this is my first iPhone I thought maybe it was normal to only get a couple of hours of use but I can't make it through half a day of occasional talking without it draining to about 10% left or less.

It's infuriating. I have to keep a charging cable and adapter with me, and use one in the car when I go places which psychologically feels like carrying an old slung-over the shoulder cell phone from the early 80's.

I've tried all the tips here and I've been keeping up with what people say works and doesn't and I've seen, overall, very little performance difference. The one thing that helped slightly, was rebooting the phone because "Compass Calibration" was stuck on literally all day and after rebooting it turned off.

I've drained the battery at least 3 times until the phone shuts off and then charged it fully, toggled everything off in halves (like in the old Conflict Catcher days with OS9 extensions) and nothing made any perceptible difference. Not even backing up and restoring it. Keep in mind, this was a new iPhone without having one prior to restore to.

A friend and I compared streaming netflix on his iPhone 4 compared against my iPhone 4S and for every percentage drop in battery he saw, I saw 2 to 3% and as time went on it became more disparate eventually hitting 4% loss to every one of his 1%. Same network, same movie and streaming right next to one another.

I've been keeping an eye on the iPhone console logs and while there are many things (and errors) logged, nothing jumps out as a battery draining problem; certainly nothing repetitious enough to cause such a drain.

I've also sat and watched the CPU % for 5+ mins straight while no apps were running (nothing in the Multi-Finder thing under the dock) and didn't see any significant spikes in CPU usage; it just hummed along between 1% and 7%.

Not toggling Set Time, iCloud, Raise to Talk, or anything else really helped which is making me think it could be a hardware problem.

I noticed that my iPhone 4S charges appreaciably faster than my friends well used iPhone 4 and it occured to me that maybe the battery isn't recieving a full charge, like there's a bad cell or two in it (even though there aren't really "cells" in there to begin with.)

Maybe there's something wrong with the batteries in a batch of iPhone 4S's that don't fill up all the way and before they fill up they announce they're full when in reality they're not. Now, that could be a software-charging issue I guess but I get the distinct impression that either the battery isn't really reaching full charge or it or the charging managing software is reporting a full charge before one's achieved and possibly preventing a full charge.