Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

I am ATT and I do not have it set for a specific carrier.

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Dumb question for everyone who is having the worst of the battery draining problems:

Did you activate the NEW SIM that came with the iPhone, or did you swap in an existing SIM???

SHADYZZ wrote:

 

THis is all just stupid, next thing I'm going to see on here is some fool saying you have to stand on your left foot, hop up and down, tap yourself on the top of your head while chanting an Arapahoe Indian rain dance hymn...

 

and sadly, people here will DO IT thinking that it'll work. UGH.

 

People, your phones are F--KED! STOP WASTING YOUR TIME AND OURS.  APPLE NEED TO ADDRESS THIS!

 

YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS TO GET A PHONE TO WORK CORRECTLY!

 

My god man, are people really THIS stupid?

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Well I will add my two cents. I TOO have the same problem. I have had a iphone 4 for about 3 months. It had OS4.8 somthing loaded when I purchased it.I dont use it alot and the phone has never been below 50 to 60 pecent after being on all day, 12 to 16 hours. Yesterday I pluged it in to itunes and it suggested that I update the OS to 5.0.1 so I said ok and let it do it's thing. Bad move, it now is sucking my battery dead!! At 0600 thismorning it was at 100% when I unpluged it. It is now 12:20 and it is at 28% I have made 1 5 minute call and that is all. What the F---K!!!!!!

I switched to a 4S after feeling connected to a charger by an umbilical cord with my Samsung Fascinate...I heard my wife and others rave about the battery life...now, with both of our phones on 5.01, I'm losing 25-30% of my battery in 3-4 hours of light to moderate use (email, facebook update)...unreal...I'm really disappointed

even after update still have to walk around with charger at ll times.

going back to my 3gs

what a disapointment

I feel your pain, and you probably don't want to hear this. But I'm getting around 2 days from a single charge.

I took my 4S on it's first business trip yesterday...took it off the charger around 9:30AM and had a 12:20PM flight...landed a little after 2 and drove to a Metro station (DC)...thought I would sightsee a little bit...by the time I got off the Metro at Federal Triangle, I had to look for a Starbucks to plugin and charge my phone...got it to 50% and went out to take some pics and see monuments...by 7:30PM I had 4% battery life...

NikaBrady wrote:

 

even after update still have to walk around with charger at ll times.

going back to my 3gs

what a disapointment

My iPhone 4S has been a bitter disappointment. One would have thoughtthat Apple of all companies would have thoroughly tested this product beforerelease. Most people are on the move and need a phone that would last theentire day on one charge. This is an epic problem that should have been sorted.I just bought a new Samsung Galaxy S2 that has far superior battery life and mynew iPhone 4S is on eBay at $1 reserve.

Apple, what were you thinking?

Hi to everyone who have the same problem that i had, I found out a way.. I plug my iPhone4s into my Mac and click restore it, and then wait for it to download a new iOS5.0.1 for 800++MB file and install it.. And it WORK! Before i done that it go down from fully to 85% in just one hour in standby mode.. But now It just only drop to 99% in 70mins

My battery is awful. 34% after 2 hours, 48 minuets of Usage, and 8 hours, 58 minuets of Standby. I don't know what to do. I've reset the Settings (General>Reset>Reset All Settings) and completley drained twice. I'm losing hope here.

Lleejin wrote:

 

Hi to everyone who have the same problem that i had, I found out a way.. I plug my iPhone4s into my Mac and click restore it, and then wait for it to download a new iOS5.0.1 for 800++MB file and install it.. And it WORK! Before i done that it go down from fully to 85% in just one hour in standby mode.. But now It just only drop to 99% in 70mins

How long did this take for you?

xhannan wrote:

 

My question to all the users ---

 

1. What is an acceptable battery life to you?
2. How many things do you want to do while expecting the batter shouldn't drain at all or to a minimum?

 

Can some users reply to this please so we all maybe understand what everyone is doing and why the phone might be loosing battery so quickly?

 

Again, I charged my phone 2 nights ago fully, went to bed and woke with a 2% battery chage loss.  This is when I still had some other notifications on like facebook, siri, mail, messages etc. nothing too crazy.

Well, I would say that if you leave it overnight, it should really only lose about a percent - unless you're getting tons of emails and notifications in the middle of the night.  200 hours of standby equals a .5% drop per hour. So, considering real world issues, 1% loss is acceptable.  I wouldn't be overly upset by a 2% loss, either, to be honest.

But overnight you're primarily using standby.  My real issue is with usage life.  My standby time has increased dramatically after recalibrating the battery and restoring the phone, but I do wonder about my usage battery life which seems to be significantly lower than I believe it should be.  I'm not streaming a lot of videos or music... I'm not playing a lot of graphically or cpu intensive games; I'm using email, sending texts, reading books and occasionally listening to the music I have on my phone.

I'm going to test something out soon.  After I've done my second battery recalibration, I'm going to put a video on the phone, put it in airplane mode with no other apps open and watch the video... a 2 hour movie should only drop the battery 20%.