Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

I too had battery issues, could barely get through a full day without having to charge my phone. I tried the new firmware update, and followed the advice of others - after the installation I did a settings reset of the phone. That was yesterday at 1:00pm. I have not charged my phone since and the battery is at 47% with moderate use. So far the fix seems to be working for me.

<<TRACK BACK USER DUMP>>  <<<CONFIRM<<EOM 78<<>>

Please make sure that you do the following.

If you continue to have iPhone Battery Problems after iOS 5.0.1 update please perform the following:

1. First make sure that you backup you device in iTunes with Encryption on.
2. Turn off any un-necessary network services such as WiFi and Blue Tooth.
3. Make sure that you are in fact running iOS 5.0.1 by checking in General>About. It should read 5.0.1 (XXX)
4. Perform a "Hard Reset" on the device.
5. Do a reset by selecting Selecting Settings>General>Reset.
6. Setup as a new phone, all your email and APPS will still be there.
7. Use the device and let the battery drain down, under 10%.
8. Do a full recharge using the power adaptor. (Make sure all the connections are secure.)

If the problem persist only after doing all the steps above:

1. Backup and Encrypt your device in iTunes.
2. Do a factory reset on the device.
3. Perform the Update on the Device.
4. Perform a Restore of the Backup.

Users of first generation iPads have extensive improvement by do the following:

1. Selecting Settings>General>Reset.

** Depending on the device and applications installed your results will vary. Performing all of steps may not be necessary for every user. If however you hit a road block performing all the steps has proven to work.

Based on recent dump of threads users are successful doing the following. HW problems do not at this time register as the case.

PLEASE INCLUDE FULL DETAILS OF DEVICE INFORMATION.

Vist any of the links to enter your HW ID, this way it can be track.

http://www.apple.com/support/contact/

Thanks and GOOD LUCK.

Great to hear Anthony D1 <<<USER TRACK BACK CONFIRM>> <<<EOM>>>

For those late to the party, on/about page 332 drStrangeP0rk shows the steps that have brought my iphone 4 back to 4.3.3 normal performance. I would recommend you follow his steps which may take you up to 24 hours to follow.....but at 7 hours only 7% of my battery has been consumed vs 80% ++ before drStrangeP0rk's instruction.

If that fails, then you may well have an issue. But for now I'm tempting fate tomorrow AM and will turn iCLUD back on and see what happens....

rinkelk wrote:

 

I'm quite tech savvy and the first thing I did was a hard reset, added the phone as a new one, did all the things which were suggested here in this post. Nothing helped.

Many people here tried those suggestions and it simply didn't work for them.

So it's not everyone here that didn't read your suggestions, apparently you didn't read ours neither.

 

IMO, it's a problem with 5.0.1, I didn't have any problems with 5.0 on my 4s

Can't say I've read everything, but I started posting at page 128 if I remember correctly. My point was more a counter argument to James Cohen's post. I'm not saying that people don't read. But I would rather say that someone shouldn't have to read 4000 posts on 300+ pages. He should go to a knowledge base article and have the latest stuff spelled out. I also said that the update should reset the device. Friday I said that someone with no issue with his battery should have waited before installing 5.0.1. out of prudence. But I had said many of those things a long time ago. And I also speculated about the reason why it was not done - the KB article -  i.e. encroaching on merchantability. Because you cannot sell a product brag about its new features then explain that to get acceptable battery life you must turn them off. Nor can you say that you have to start from scratch or not use Twitter or whatever. Because people are expected to do those things. Anyways.

after doing a hard-reset from starting as new my phone is doing great.

James Cohen wrote:

 

1AppleADayNoWay wrote:

 

The forum was always a whine fest. And that's to be expected when people pay a grand for a phone and get flaky results...

 

Maybe so. But most ask for help and suggestions. Then, it seems, have no interest in making it better.

 

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I CAN SEE WHY APPLE IS SLOW TO RESPOND. IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME TO SORT THROUGH ALL THE WHINNING TO GET USABLE INFO!

 

Oh well, at least I know how to turn the email notification for this forum off! LOL 

Well, if this were a car or simply a desktop computer, people would simply ask for one that works or their money back and that would be the end of it. It's the worshipping of Apple that explains why a forum like this can go on, because many people simply won't let go of their "piece of magic" and Apple sells lots of its devices. Apple doesn't need this forum to solve the issue - they have some of the best engineers in the world, and privileged contacts with operators and labs and all. You would need a "form" type of posting to make any of the posts database usable i.e. answering standard questions before posting like restore type, mail, operator, serial #, city and all. I had suggested that too - nothing was done. Some people can't take the time to tweak devices... they paid a premium for this to work right away, so they come out of some instinct of what a critical mass of complaints can do - it's a psychologically empowering move for many.

Don't blame the user base for the time it takes to solve the issue. Apple is ENTIRELY responsible for the delays. Don't excuse them, it's just wrong. The delay and the fact that the issue is not entirely resolved means it's a complicated multi vector issue. This is why blind faith is inappropriate and they shouldn't get your money before they can deliver and that means that someone who's prudent won't preorder anymore nor buy before he's read about other people's experience with a product. We do such thinking for everything we buy in life. It's just important Apple users start behaving more like demanding consumers and less like religious followers. And that's been one of my main point since the beginning.

Thank you.

The reason they said that is because I was having other issues too with the screen freezing my passcode not locking and plus the battery issue, so they decided to send me a new phone.

Bella Donna is another name for deadly Nightshade lol but I did a search for an actress called belladonna and I see she is a pornstar not that famous not heard of here here lol and I could never pull that off hahaha

With the battery fully charge,  this shown on my AppBox Pro

Talk 2G    14:00

Talk 3G      8:00

Internet on 3G         6:00

Internet on Wi-Fi     9:00

Audio    40:00

Video    10:00

Game    10:00

Apps      10:00

Standby    200:00

I called them because I was having other issues too, but also because apple called me back and the lady was of now help 1. she could not understand me :s I do not have any form of accent and I was speaking slowly and clear, 2. she asked for a different number to call me back on beacse she said to do another reset on phone, and she could not understand that ( she never called back)

So I called orange and they were helpfull

On my brothers Iphone 4s

currently  it is showing

On my  personal iphone 4s

currently it is

Sorry for misposting hete, my reply was actually meant for drStrangeSomthing...

He repeats his tips and suggestions in this post, which are great, but without reading back the fact that in some cases they simply won't help.

So I have gotten an email for every post since my reply. I have had my fill of this thread and can't seem to stop the emails from coming through.  I have changed my preference to reflect that I do not want to get any further emails yet I still keep getting them. Anyone know what I am doing wrong? All my email preferences are set to NO. I have changed it back to YES and then back to NO and I still get them. Is there no way to stop the emails once you post because it's not in the Email Preferences.

Apple im very very angree i update to 5.0.1 abd my iphone 4s still got battery problem

Now its 76% with most of the service off including 3g and bluetooth is off and timezone etc is off

My iphone 4s 32gb is uk set i bought it from someone duble price cuz its not out in my country yet

So with the price i pay and now i get this 4s with useless battery and one more thing i didnt play any game , no music , etc

Only email and websurf and checking this forum and it gose from 100% to 75 bow in 2 hour with very very basic use

and 3 hour standby

Tell me what i can do Should i buy flight to uk and go fight with apple as im an apple fan

Or what i cant keep watching this happend to me im really disspointed

Apple contact me to do a phone replace

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