Still no success on my 4S after an update to 5.0.1 last night.
1. I performed a clean install of 5.0.1, setting up as a new phone.
2. Turned off location settings for "setting time zone" and iAds.
3. Turned off iCloud for e-mail, photostream and documents & data.
4. Turned off "Ask to Join Networks" under Wi-Fi as specified in Apple description of settings during battery life tests for the 4S.
5. No installed third-party Apps.
6. No e-mail servers or other 3rd party servers set up (iCloud only).
7. Set "battery percentage" to On.
After a couple hours, I then charged the phone up to 100%, then placed it down on the table overnight, with the screen off, about 3 feet from my WiFi router.
After 15 hours with no use whatsoever, the battery is at 20 %.
Paradoxically, under "usage" in general settings, I have "standby" time of 15 hours, 3 minutes, and "usage" time of 13 hours, 7 minutes. So, once again, if you look up Apple's definitions of "standby" and "usage", this phone has not really been off overnight, despite the fact that it has been sitting on the table doing nothing.
It's been "in use" the entire time. Doing what? Expending batteries, one would presume.
Looking in "diagnostics and usage data", I have what looks like thousands of entries titled approximately "awdd_2011-11-10-17-51-39_9…" with the last 9 digits different according to the time of entry. These appear in the log approximately 3 times per minute (once every 20 -30 seconds). They look something like this (an example):
deviceid: "…"
isAnonymous: True
deviceConfigId: 101
triggertime: 1320969099175
triggerId: 589831
profileId: 10105
investigationId: 0
wifiMetricIPv4DHCPLatency {
dhcpLatencyMilliSecs:1527
securityType: 2
timestamp: 1320969099174
}
Using Google, I tried looking up the triggerId (which seems invariant among the many log entries), but this was not helpful.
Stopped by the Apple store today, and the Geniuses were not very helpful -- did not think that the entries in the data log were anything needed any addressing (which may be true).
I'm just about fed up. I will turn off the rest of iCloud and turn off sending diagnostics and usage data to Apple, then I'll try one more time. But it looks like I will end up returning this phone at the Apple store and go back to my old phone. The store offered to switch out the phone with one that could be either new or refurbished, but I was told that would mean that the phone could no longer be returned. Given so many posts from people telling me their phone was switched out but the problems remained, I will probably return it. At this point, I have no indication that I will end up with a phone that works satisfactorily.
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Jason L
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