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Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

My iPhone 4s battery seems terrible! Almost equivalent to my 3GS and it's terrible battery life. When I got my iPhone yesterday and restored from backup I noticed nothing really changed with minimal usage and standby! Is this normal or should I consider setting it up as a new phone because maybe something is running in the background that's causing it to drop a percentage every few minutes under light usage? Input would be great!

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 7:14 AM

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  • by houshang,

    houshang houshang Nov 16, 2011 9:49 AM in response to Bill37
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    Nov 16, 2011 9:49 AM in response to Bill37

    The Last update on Iphone 4s operating system  has solved my Battery Life  problem.

    Thank you APPLE

  • by lisenz,

    lisenz lisenz Nov 16, 2011 9:55 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 16, 2011 9:55 AM in response to Scarface.

    I got a replacement handset last Saturday, still had issues.

     

    1. I did a complete restore to NEW PHONE

    2. turned on location services for maps and photos

    3. turned on siri

    4. added no new apps

    5. turned on two email exchange accounts on push (becuase that is what I want, I don't want to fetch) and this wasn't an issue with iphone 4. 

    5. no icloud backups on.

     

    I am still having drain issues - this is ridiculous - I can't even use my phone like a normal phone.  I'll wait a couple of days to see if apple responds and then I'm returning it.

  • by gordonfrommoreno valley,

    gordonfrommoreno valley gordonfrommoreno valley Nov 16, 2011 10:05 AM in response to gordonfrommoreno valley
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    Nov 16, 2011 10:05 AM in response to gordonfrommoreno valley

    From my post yesterday to now I have been to the Verizon Tech support that did not help. Went to the Verizon store and they basicly said that Apple will fix the problem but in the mean time he turned a bunch of stuff off and said hope this helps till Apple gets their SH---t togather.  I took it home and it continued to run down. I called the Apple Tech support. The first tryed to sell me a extended warenty policy and a phone tech support policy. My phone is 98 days old, they quickly informed me that my 90 free tech support had exspired! I then exsplained that the problem is Apples falt not mine and they reluctantly agree to let me talk to a Tech. She went through several more setting changes to help the problem till engeneers come up with a fix but the bottom line they cant or wont set my phone back the os 4.8. She gave me a case number so I can call back if I still have a problem. Looks like I will be needing the case number. I unpluged the charger at 0600 this morning at a 100% it is now 1000 I have not made a call or used data time and is currenty at 68%. little better than yesterday but not even close to what is was with the os4.8. Keep in mind that every thing is shut off. Before Apple screwed up my phone I had all the location sevices on, Wi Fi on etc.

  • by Dirtbound4Max,

    Dirtbound4Max Dirtbound4Max Nov 16, 2011 10:06 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 16, 2011 10:06 AM in response to Scarface.

    ATTENTION EVERYONE,

      Reference the statement "I'm going to get to the bottom of this", I did exactly that!  After going through all of the same troubleshooting, diagnosing, fault isolation, and "Capability Canceling" steps as everyone else on this forum, I took my phone to the Apple store and confirmed that this is an IOS problem, a hardware problem, AND a battery problem.  The "Fix" you're all looking for is the combination of a new phone (shipped overnight from AppleCare) AND the IOS patch from Apple (installed via iTunes).  I've now had my new 4S off the charger and in operation for well over 36 hours................AND I've still got 41% of the battery left to play with.  

     

     

     

    In case anyone from Apple is looking at these postings, my  Repair ID Number was D54993588 and the defective phones SN was C39GJFLDTDK.  HOPEFULLY the fix and lessons learned from my case will help out the rest of these folks!

  • by beo_ap,

    beo_ap beo_ap Nov 16, 2011 10:11 AM in response to Dirtbound4Max
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    Nov 16, 2011 10:11 AM in response to Dirtbound4Max

    I've done everything I was asked to do. Update, turn off all the ususal suspects. I'm down about 25% from full charge all for the privilege of having the device on, receiving (not answering) a couple of calls, texts, and about 2 dozen emails in the last two hours.

     

    I guess the solution is to return the device, and try my luck.

     

    BTW - Sprint data speeds are terrible!!!

  • by parish_chap,

    parish_chap parish_chap Nov 16, 2011 10:11 AM in response to CharlesJanssen
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    Nov 16, 2011 10:11 AM in response to CharlesJanssen

    CharlesJanssen wrote:

     

    Hi parish_chap.

     

    Currently I am testing to see if you can select , sync and reselect sync the wifi sync option again to see if this would 'reset' something in iTunes/IOS/iCloud . You would then be free of the battery bug and still have wifi sync.

     

    Like mentioned before : this bug shows when migrating from a previous iPhone save. If you have the wifi sync option enabled in your save, it will be enabled in your new setup as well. Then the bug shows up.

     

    Results will be online in a few hours here : buxbusters

     

    OK, I've disabled Wi-Fi Sync in iTunes so I'll wait and see what happens.

     

    One thing that I find odd. In Settings->iTunes Wi-Fi Sync the screen is still the same; it still says "Sync will resume when my MacBook Pro is available". I've rebooted my phone but it is still the same - although my MBP is on with iTunes running and it hasn't connected yet. Is this normal? I would expect that option to show "Disabled" or something.

  • by hngrstrk7,

    hngrstrk7 hngrstrk7 Nov 16, 2011 10:18 AM in response to Hotphil
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    Nov 16, 2011 10:18 AM in response to Hotphil

    Hotphil wrote:

     

    To repeat something I've added in one of the other many threads that may be useful

     

    Well, I've done what someone else suggested:

    - hard reset

    - restore from backup

    - restore as new iPhone

    - full charge

    - let it full discharge

    - full charge using Battery Doctor app

     

    And now my phone's reporting 100% battery still after 25 minutes of not being connected to a charger. It was previously losing 1% a minute whilst idle. Will see how it goes overnight.

     

    hi, im a new iPhone 4S user. having it for just one day, i started experiencing the battery-drain problem. the leakage was dreadful (as you say, something about 1% a minute). iOS 5.0.1 did nothing to correct it.

     

    i followed the first 5 steps that you mentioned, and now the problem is gone. my battery lasts all day with normal usage, and ALL functions activated (locations & data, push, fetch, iCloud, Date and Time set automatically, apps running in background, etc.). the only one deactivated is Bluetooth, because i never use it. but i had it turned on twenty minutes ago, to see if there was any problem with that... and i don't see any.

     

    so, thanks for the advice. i hope it works for everyone... it worked for me

  • by notero,

    notero notero Nov 16, 2011 10:23 AM in response to hngrstrk7
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    Nov 16, 2011 10:23 AM in response to hngrstrk7

    Rumour is that another patch is coming soon:

     

    www.appleinsider.com

  • by UserfromGrantville,

    UserfromGrantville UserfromGrantville Nov 16, 2011 10:57 AM in response to Dirtbound4Max
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    Nov 16, 2011 10:57 AM in response to Dirtbound4Max

    Thank you for the information.  I just switched to an iPhone from many years as a blackberry user!  I wish I still had my blackberry.

  • by Hoyatech,

    Hoyatech Hoyatech Nov 16, 2011 10:57 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 16, 2011 10:57 AM in response to Scarface.

    My battery life has gotten worse since iOS 5.0.1. iPhone 4s 32 GB, sprint.

  • by Bailante,

    Bailante Bailante Nov 16, 2011 11:16 AM in response to Dirtbound4Max
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    Nov 16, 2011 11:16 AM in response to Dirtbound4Max

    Hey - did you restore from iCloud or iTunes or did not restore when you got your new phone?

  • by Vc7,

    Vc7 Vc7 Nov 16, 2011 11:26 AM in response to notero
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    Nov 16, 2011 11:26 AM in response to notero

    I was having the same battery issues as everyone else.

     

    I started monitoring my battery life and found just on standby if I left the house with a full charge it would go from 100% at 8 am to 78% at 9:30 am without me using.

     

    I tried everything I read on the boards but nothing seemed to improve it. I went to the Apple store and they did a scan of the battery and they said nothing was wrong with the battery physically. Then the store employee told me to do a full restore of the phone and upgrade to ios 5.0.1 through itunes (and do the full 800 mb update). Previously I had done the 44 MB OTA update. He also said it was very important to restore as a "New iphone" and not restore from backups.

     

    The last 2 days I have kept a log from when I pull the phone and take it to work.

     

    Day 1:

    6:50 am 100%

    10:24 am 96%

    12:22 pm 93%

     

    Day 2:

    8:20 am 100%

    10:20 am 98%

    12:18 pm am 86%

     

    I used a bit heavier in Day 2 obviously, but there was a noticeable improvement in battery life.

     

     

     

     

  • by The Masked Marvel,

    The Masked Marvel The Masked Marvel Nov 16, 2011 11:38 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 16, 2011 11:38 AM in response to Scarface.

    Well, after trying the update, reset, and drain fix, I'm now not only seeing the same battery drain issues, but my battery only charged to 94% overnight. 

     

    If we got the phone from AT&T, can we still take it to the Apple stoer for a diagnostic/fix?  The AT&T B&M people here are idiots...

  • by gaborfromgreen bay,

    gaborfromgreen bay gaborfromgreen bay Nov 16, 2011 11:48 AM in response to Vc7
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    Nov 16, 2011 11:48 AM in response to Vc7

    Hi,

     

    I've discovered something that can be usefull to figure out what's going on with this battery issue.

    Have anybody checked the entries named log-aggregated-2011-XX-XX-XX-XX?

    These are generated midnight every day and contains informations about usage and power related items. This values are posted to Apple every day, so they are collecting those results.

     

    I do not experience any critical draining issue, but if somebody having problems posting his values we could make an interesting comparison. We could figure out what is running in the background, what programs are used during wakeup, what was the wake up reasons etc.

     

    There are very interesting things e.g:

    appActivationCount.com.appadvice.appsgonefree

    1

    appActivationCount.com.apple.AppStore

    6

    appActivationCount.com.apple.Maps

    1

    appActivationCount.com.apple.MobileSMS

    19

    appActivationCount.com.apple.MobileStore

    2

    appActivationCount.com.apple.Preferences

    20

    appActivationCount.com.apple.camera

    1

    appActivationCount.com.apple.compass

    1

    appActivationCount.com.apple.iBooks

    1

    appActivationCount.com.apple.mobilemail

    23

     

    or

     

    appActiveTime.com.apple.Maps

    40

    appActiveTime.com.apple.MobileSMS

    443

    appActiveTime.com.apple.MobileStore

    78

    appActiveTime.com.apple.Preferences

    796

    appActiveTime.com.apple.camera

    288

     

    or

     

    appBackgroundActiveTime.com.apple.AppStore

    15

    appBackgroundActiveTime.com.apple.Maps

    0

    appBackgroundActiveTime.com.apple.MobileSMS

    0

    appBackgroundActiveTime.com.apple.MobileStore

    1

     

    or

     

    com.apple.MobileBackup.service.backup.retryCount.hardError.300

    1

    com.apple.MobileBackup.service.backup.retryCount.hardError.total

    1

     

    com.apple.NANDInfo.NumLogicalWrites

    15404319

    com.apple.NANDInfo.NumPhysicalErases

    12659

    com.apple.NANDInfo.NumPhysicalReads

     

    com.apple.power.backlight.usersetting

    51

    com.apple.power.state.asleep.average_length

    222

    com.apple.power.state.asleep.average_power

    -46

    com.apple.power.state.asleep.count

    167

    com.apple.power.state.asleep.duration

    37169

    com.apple.power.state.asleep.energy

    -477

    com.apple.power.state.awake.average_length

    133

    com.apple.power.state.awake.average_power

    737

    com.apple.power.state.awake.count

    195

    com.apple.power.state.awake.duration

    25940

    com.apple.power.state.awake.energy

    5311

    com.apple.power.state.charging.average_length

    782

    com.apple.power.state.charging.average_power

    -1665

    com.apple.power.state.charging.count

    29

    com.apple.power.state.charging.duration

    22694

    com.apple.power.state.charging.energy

    -10500

    com.apple.power.state.overall.average_length

    2253

    com.apple.power.state.overall.average_power

    275

    com.apple.power.state.overall.count

    28

    com.apple.power.state.overall.duration

    63109

    com.apple.power.state.overall.energy

    4833

    com.apple.power.state.screen_off.average_length

    45

    com.apple.power.state.screen_off.average_power

    373

    com.apple.power.state.screen_off.count

    336

    com.apple.power.state.screen_off.duration

    15239

    com.apple.power.state.screen_off.energy

    1580

    com.apple.power.state.screen_on.average_length

    74

    com.apple.power.state.screen_on.average_power

    1255

    com.apple.power.state.screen_on.count

    143

    com.apple.power.state.screen_on.duration

    10700

    com.apple.power.state.screen_on.energy

    3730

    com.apple.power.wake_reasons.baseband

    78

    com.apple.power.wake_reasons.other

    4

    com.apple.power.wake_reasons.rtc

    38

    com.apple.power.wake_reasons.user

    39

    com.apple.power.wake_reasons.wlan

    9

    com.apple.power.wakecount

    167

    com.apple.springboard.DiskUsageUserBlocksFree

    2229

    com.apple.springboard.DiskUsageUserTotalBlocks

    15120

    com.apple.springboard.numThirdPartyApps

    148

  • by rs1n,

    rs1n rs1n Nov 16, 2011 11:50 AM in response to Bailante
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    Nov 16, 2011 11:50 AM in response to Bailante

    Bailante wrote:

     

    Hey - did you restore from iCloud or iTunes or did not restore when you got your new phone?

    Don't restore your phone... instead, do you Reset All Settings (only resets things like background picture, wifi access points, etc. -- apps and data are left untouched). If you had problems and it was because of corrupted internal configurations, a restore is just going to copy the bad configuration back to your phone. Make sure to do the reset and set it up as a new phone.

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