Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Go to the top of the page click your name in black

on the next page mid right click manage email notifications.

Than delete it there.

In the upper right hand corner of the page, next to you user name, is the option, Stop Email Notifications. Select it.

After how nasty some of the posts have benn getting, AND redundant, I sure am.

Iv've been watching discussions on Apple, too. I'm trying one of their solutions: Full discharge and full recharge of my iPhone 4S. I'll see if this helps any of the network issues as well as the battery-related ones.

Ciao!

Thanks, K'Shanti.  I hadn't see that before.  I had already de-selected a bunch of notification options under my preferences, but I still got emails but with no content.

This should do it, thanks :)

This is after the 5.0.1 update... fail!

I upgraded to the ios 5.0.1 and definitely noticed an increase in battery life and so did six of my family and friends that own the iphone 4s

I see you have bluetooth on. Turn it off because it is constantly searching for a connection.

Actually in this thread he needs to click in the action box to stop sending email notifications. Disabling email notifications from his settings will not stop these emails from coming.

if you were replying to me, then the bluetooth was one for only couple of minutes.

I was also disappointed after my inital download of ios 5.0.1 but after a full discharge and full 100% charge the next day it was much better than my previous 3Gs

I've done a full discharge, hard reset, full restore and can still actually watch the battery indicator draining at around 1% a minute. Hope a fix arrives in the next 12 days or Vodafone Australia are getting two iPhones and iPad returned.

Finally some new good data: iPhone 4S

I just got off the phone with my XGF who incessantly talks about herself. FOR A FREAKIN' HOUR! I suffered through this for all of YOU! So I could test the actual working capacity of my battery. I hope you appreciate it!

The good news is my battery went from 51% down to 41% during that hour! That's a 10% drop in capacity and BETTER than Apple's specs. With that kind of draw I could get 10 hours of talk, Apple claims 8 hours!

This means that the battery in the 4S is most probably not defective and has adequate capacity to meet the specs.

This was the last issue after I stopped the phantom draining. I wanted to confirm that the hardware is good. It is (at least in MY phone).

This is an IMPROVEMENT even from last night's test over a 45 min conversation which used 10%.

I used the free Battery Doctor from Kingsoft to charge the battery last night. It claims to "control" the charging process to better charge the battery. Maybe it worked?

Who knows, maybe with Apple's next iOS fix it will get even better. There's always hope.

Apple will get it right, I believe in them.

Oh yeah,

And again, I'm on Verizon which is CDMA not GSM and does not use a simm card.

Most people here with the worst problems seem to be on GSM.

Maybe CDMA draws less current? Dunno.

It isn't a problem related to gsm or cdma.

It's something concerning the device configuration. Many people are resetting and restoring thru backup: I think this is completely useless, since this way you are restoring the configuration that was probably the cause of the problem.

Most people here consider resetting and restore the same as resetting to factory, but it's completely different!

I don't know even if the hard reset procedure has any sense at all.

Besides, I think that ios 5.0.1 doesn't do anything but solving some known bugs which could be related to battery usage, without actually focusing on the real problem.

The fact is, that upgrading from 5 to 5.0.1 doesn't obviously reset your configuration, which I bet is the real problem.

This is what worked for me:

1. Connect the iphone to itunes

2. Sync everything you don't want to lose ( no backup, only syncing)

3. Reset the device

4. Configure the device as new

5. Sync all your stuff

6. Disconnect the device and manually configure it

Do a restore of a suspect config made so sense to me either. But as many others said it fixed their battery draining issue I thought I'd give it a go.

The draining at 1% a minute can't be any setting I had in place before the latest update - I unboxed the device and before configuring/installing any apps or messing with any settings the update got applied.

My bluetooth was set to on in the menu, no greyed out icon, it was actively searching though and that was a restore as new. Now if i turn bluetooth on I get the icon greyed out, something was amiss there. Well this morning I have battery at 89% thats with wifi turned on and everything else turned on and after 4 hours usage with a mysterious 1 hour 56 mins of usage in the night...its definitely better. I think many people are forgetting this is a  power hungry phone now, dual core etc, and Apples 200 hours are under optimum conditions, I live in a low signal area and with no 3G which does not help I'm sure, but some peoples discharge rate is definitely way out of line I will admit