Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Here's mine. Wifi is off, BT is off,, brightness is about medium. Have made maybe 5 text messages, 3 words on words with friends, 6 pictures, NO phone calls, a few articles on 3 news apps, and 3 rounds on Machinegun Jetpack. Looking at about 4.5 hours of battery life with light usage.

I'm on 5.0.1, had similar issues with battery before the update, but I think it's a little worse. This is disgusting. A big reason I left Android was for better battery life without needing a massive extra battery, but this is about 1 less hour of usage time than my old Samsung Fascinate.

If any admins/moderators/Apple engineers are looking at this, I'm willing to test anything for you, I'll try annything to get this battery life at least acceptable.

My iPhone 4S baterry is the worst iPhone battery I have ever experienced. Yesterday I charged it fully at 100% at 6:43pm, at 1:49am it was almost completely drained at 3%. So it lasted full 7 hours!! WOW! Out of that it shows the usage of 4 hours and 53 minutes which I'm not sure if it's correct or not, but I played with it all day on purpose to see how fast I can drain the battery. I texted, checked email, facebook, watched a few you tube videos, made a few calls, etc.

What's interesting though is that the usage shows 4 hours and 53 minutes and standby 7 hours and 14 minutes. I am not sure how this adds up to a total of 7 hours and 5 minutes since the actual 100% charge.

More info about the phone, it's a 16GB iPhone 4S. Restored from backup when originally purchased from Apple. Updated to 5.0.1.

Notifications - mostly all on

Location Services - all on

iCloud - on for contacts, calendar, reminders, bookmarks. 

Mail - six accounts, push is on.

Bluetooth off

iTunes WiFi sync - off

Siri raise to speak - off

Settings > General > About > Diagnostics and Usage - Don't Send

These are the same settings I had on my iPhone 4 which seemed to have had an amazing baterry life compared to this piece of ****.

I am thinking about wiping the phone clean and setting it up as a new phone and see if that fixes anything. At this point I am just frusturated that I have to waste my time dealing with this crap.

Before the recent iOS 5.1 updates my battery was draining 10% on continues use ( I did some qwick to get that result) but now with this recent updates my battery draining 15% per hour with continues use . Is there way to go back to 5.0 ? I was happy with 10%

For me, this whole battery problem is with Apple's new antenna system. It's now a world phone that uses both CDMA and GSM networks. When I put my 4S on airplane mode, the battery seems to not drop at ALL. Even using Wifi with the cellular connections turned off, I managed to watch 6 hours of movies, do an hour of web browsing, and play a game for another hour before the battery went into the red. It may sound silly, but I suggest trying the airplane mode solution to see if any of that works for you. Even with notifications off, location services off, and Bluetooth off, but my cellular service on, my phone was still draining it self within 8 hours of no use. Good luck to all!

Sorry for any re-posts and topics that have already been touched in this thread, I don't feel like reading 300+ pages of posts.

Well, your standby (non-usage time) is about 20 hours, which is 10% of the 200 they say you can get. So, 2 hours of usage time has decreased your battery by 34%. That's not very good. I'm about in the same boat, but mine is closer to 40% every 2 hours. My iPhone 4 on 4.2.10 lost only about 25% every 2 hours of usage time. I'm annoyed that I spent money on a new phone, and am getting about 30% worse battery life. I hope they fix it soon.

Well, I was very excited about Apple's new update, thinking it would be a quick fix for the battery problem, but no go on that!  My battery life still *****.  I charged it to 100% last night before bed around Midnight and didn't touch it til this am.  At 7am it was at 92%.  Now I know that's not a big drain, but my last two phones only drained to about 98% in the morning.  I barely use it all day long at work and now I'm always afraid it's going to drain completely before I can get to an outlet.  I've been charging it up twice a day which is unacceptable.  Once a day should be more than enough.  I know everyone is shutting all their apps down, but we shouldn't have to do that.  The phone was made to do many great things and the battery should hold up. 

Are they recruiting testers off here for software fixes?

We have had iphones since the 3G. We picked up our three 4s phones on Oct 14th. My son noticed the reduced battery life as compared to our old iphones immediately. After about a week my phone got really hot and shut off, wouldn't start for about a half hour, and the usage data was gone when it did start. I took it back to Best Buy, and they gave me a new 4s that seemed to work pretty good. I did not restore from a backup, and loaded apps to it one a day to pinpoint if it was an app causing my problem on my first phone. I could get two days between charges with light to moderate use. Then I updated it to 5.01 and my battery life went downhill fast. The day after I updated, the replacement phone got hot and shut itself off. In addition to this problem, Momma was having an intermittent problem with her 4s where she could not hear anything when she would make a call, it would connect, but she could not hear the other party. Well, enough was enough, We went back to best buy and traded our 4s phones for the Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. It's our first Android adventure, and it seems to be a different experience, more bells and whistles to mess with. I will continue to follow this issue, and if Apple does come up with a solution during our trade in period, we will consider going back to the iphones, but I couldn't take the chance of ending up with 3 phones that could not be counted on, as you never knew when the battery was going to go into rapid discharge mode. Good Luck to all, and I hope Apple takes care of you ...

No way to, unfortunately. I'm jealous, I would love 10-15%. Im going about 22% per hour, which is awful in my opinion. My iPhone 4 went through about 10% per hour, Fascinate was about 15-20% per hour.

HiBuddys,

pleaselet me tell you something. We bought with my wife 2 iPhones 4s.

Inoticed in both phones the battery draining problem. Overnight there was a dropfrom 100% to approx. 70%. And this was by both phones. After the famous 5.0.1. updatefrom Apple was only worse. 1% drop per minute! I wanted to throw this sh* thrumy open window J

I couldn’tbelieve that such a company like Apple can do it to his customers, butanyway....

Then I’vemade a couple of adjustment etc. nothing has helped since I have made thereproducing of the iPhone system via iTunes. ( ~800MB download and install viaiTunes)

Afterthat I have adjust the time zone, cellular data and Wi-Fi when it is needed. Normallyoff and it is much better. My phone was in standby modus 28 hours / Usage wasabout 8 hours. I am quite sure that this action will help many users.

Afterthat I am still waiting for next Apple update. I pretty sure, that they work onit.

Best regards from Germany.

yes some of us have been called to run dignostics on their phones

The way apple reports standby time is completely misleading. It should be labeled time since last full charge or something. The standby time is not the time the phone has been in standby, it's just the amount of time since unplugged from a charge. It's been like that since at least iOS 4, but I didn't have an iPhone previous to that so idk beyond 4.

And my iPhone 4 got almost twice the usage time than my 4S is getting.

indy200687 wrote:

 

Double tap the home button them prees the icon until it wiggles. Then click the minus sign to close it out.

I have to admit that I had no idea that programs continued to run in the background.  I even reset the phone and they still were running.  I shut them all down and the battery is still at 100% after an hour of standby.  I will let you all know how well it works. 

I thought I would upload a photo of my iPhone 4S in discharge mode: Here it is at 97%, after having been in the charger and fully charged. It dropped down to 97% pretty rapidly after having been at 100% and still plugged in. My 4S seems to cycle between 97% and 100% on a random basis.

(And, of course, I don't know what it does when I'm sleeping or otherwise away. It may also be getting lower than 97% and I might not see that because I'm not monitoring it all the time while the phone is plugged in. Before the iOS 5.0.1 update, it cycled between 100% and 93% while plugged in.)

here is a video that shows how you can improve th ebattery with restoring sttings!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcyybho5gQ