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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 James Cohen,

    James Cohen James Cohen Nov 17, 2011 7:25 AM in response to rogerfromfrance
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    Nov 17, 2011 7:25 AM in response to rogerfromfrance

    Hah. Well I'm not too worried. I think the drain would have come back anyway. There's obviously something that demands more battery attention than it should.

     

    I am now convinced that this is a software problem since it did go away. Also, my tests (as in my previous, and ignored posts) the battery seems to be giving me talk time better than Apple spec.

     

     

     

     

    rogerfromfrance wrote:

     

    James Cohen wrote:

     

    New UPDATE: The drai n is back!

     

     

    So, after almost a week of being free from drain, it has come back. Only a day ago there was NO loss of battery life on idle.

     

    Today, suddenly I'm losing 3-4% per hour.

     

    At 3am I uplugged my now 100% charged phone. By 8am it was down to 83%, sitting on the night table. It's gotten worse from then.

     

    There were NO changes to my set up. Notifications are off.

     

    HOW FREAKIN' ANNOYING IS THAT??? IT WAS FINE BUT REVERTED BACK!

     

    HELLO? CALLING APPLE?

    You worry me. I also had the battery drain problem 3 to 4 % per hour

    of unused . This lasted for a full week while i did

    many settings and IOS5 reinstalls with no good results.

    As i already mentioned , suddenly from yesterday morning

    when i decided to activate and use the new sim card went

    whith the IP4S instead of my usual one activated one year ago

    on my IP4, battery drain has disapeared.

    I dare not touch anything now for fear the problem come back

    again..

  • by Saxennnnnn,

    Saxennnnnn Saxennnnnn Nov 17, 2011 7:27 AM in response to unlockediphone4s64gb
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    Nov 17, 2011 7:27 AM in response to unlockediphone4s64gb

    I have the same problem with you. Any bare usage or just playing around with the phone without using 3g or siri will decrease my battery level by 1% around every 4 minutes. Btw mine is an unlocked iphone 4s 16gb.

  • by James Cohen,

    James Cohen James Cohen Nov 17, 2011 7:30 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 17, 2011 7:30 AM in response to Scarface.

    Here's another issue that may be connected with the battery drain problem:

     

    Yesterday, my iPhone seemed to suddenly lose most of it's settings. My 60 apps droppe to 20, and all the stored info like passwords and fav radio stations disappeared.

     

    I synced with my iMac and restored the apps, but the info was gone.

     

    This is not the first time this has happened, and I have NO CLUE why it's happening.

     

    I will take this up with Apple and in another forum, but I thought I'd mention it here as maybe a symptom of a bug that is also causing the battery drain.

  • by Woodenbits,

    Woodenbits Woodenbits Nov 17, 2011 7:35 AM in response to prkgs982
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    Nov 17, 2011 7:35 AM in response to prkgs982

    Yes, he is Russian, and lucky one at that - his iphone's battery is performing to Apple's specs.

     

    I am not so lucky. When I purchased my 4s a week ago, it's battery performed OK - worse then my original 3-years old iphone 2g, but within Apple specs. For example, overnight batter usage dropped only couple percents. I decided that it was not stellar, but good enough to tolerate.

     

    But... after installing 5.0.1 update couple days ago, this have changed completely. Phone loses about 15% of battery life overnight (less then 10 hours) instead of previous 4-5%.

    That means that battery consumptin in idle mode TRIPLED after installing 5.0.1 update.

    And it was supposed to fix battery problems... how ironic...

    My case may be atypical because I live in an area with low signal, but this is still not an excuse for devouring that battery.

  • by manilla1,

    manilla1 manilla1 Nov 17, 2011 7:38 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 17, 2011 7:38 AM in response to Scarface.

    >>>>You can't do that. As soon as you go to flight mode the Phone menu withing settings greys out and you are >>>>not able to change SIM PIN code...

     

    >>Are you referring to remove the SIM card and then introduce again?

     

    I didn't check it out myself, but

    the Apple support guy asked his colleges for this battery problem and additionall said that Apple is working hard on this problem! He said that this info about flight mode solution also circles in the internet, and in the moment they do not know why this steps brings a good result.

     

    1) switch Flight Mode on

    2) remove SIM pin code

    3) switch Flight mode off

  • by Jameson!,

    Jameson! Jameson! Nov 17, 2011 7:46 AM in response to manilla1
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    Nov 17, 2011 7:46 AM in response to manilla1

    Today's new devlopment ---- Encouraging!

     

    I noticed a whole slew of APPS updates were released last night.   I did the updates first thing this morning.   As of right now, I'm at 6 hours (5:15 standby and :45 usage) and am at 91% remaining battery life.   This is better than I have seen for the past weeks, but I have never been quite as bad as some other reports in here.   I've always been able to get through a full day with reasonable usage........

     

    Makes me wonder if some of the APPS I have were having issues with iOS 5???????

  • by James Cohen,

    James Cohen James Cohen Nov 17, 2011 7:48 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 17, 2011 7:48 AM in response to Scarface.

    As I sit here reading everyone's posts something occured to me.

     

    Maybe what fixed my drain problem was a combination of the update, the reset from the update, and draining my battery till the phone shut off.

     

    Maybe all that fixed the drain problem more than shutting off pushes and notifications.

     

    But whatever the software bug is has come back and I'm pretty confident that Apple's next update will fix it.

     

    BTW while the drain has come back, it's about half what it was BEFORE the update, etc. At least it was an improvement.

  • by prkgs982,

    prkgs982 prkgs982 Nov 17, 2011 8:01 AM in response to Woodenbits
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    Nov 17, 2011 8:01 AM in response to Woodenbits

    Have you tried anything like other posts here? You can read Russian? Wow.. that is cool. I know the language but it doesn't know me . Anyway, my iPhone was so horrible. I did two hard resets, drained it completely to 0%, then recharged. Turned off everything. No email, no location service, no iCloud, ect. My phone was still extremely hot when I used it just like 1 or 2 texts, you could feel the heat coming out from the phone. I had to charge 3 times perday. That  was totally crazy. I returned it to the store (Sprint) where I bought it and told the representative. He took it back. I still use my old phone.  I will wait a little. I heard somebody said there would be another SW update coming out soon.

    I can feel your pain. It is totally mad to watch the phone sitting idly in front of you and the battery just decreasing every minute.

  • by rs100811,

    rs100811 rs100811 Nov 17, 2011 7:55 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 17, 2011 7:55 AM in response to Scarface.

    My Battery life is horrible after upgrading to ios 5.0.1 on iphone 4S.

    Battery is draining about 15% every half an hour only used for texting and browsing.

     

    Started my day at 70% battery and in an hour it is 54%

     

    Very disappointed with new update. I did not had problem before the update. My battery problems started after the update.

  • by mwrobel1974,

    mwrobel1974 mwrobel1974 Nov 17, 2011 8:29 AM in response to Jameson!
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    Nov 17, 2011 8:29 AM in response to Jameson!

    I fully agree with the notion of some apps having issues with IOS 5.

     

    I have a 3GS and immediately after the IOS 5 and IOS 5.0.1 update, I too was experiencing battery drain issues.  I then skimmed this forum for suggestions.

     

    I did the following in the last 24 hours:

     

    Disabled the following:

    In Settings>Location Services>System Services>

         Compass Calibration

         Diagnostics and Usage

         Location-Based iAds

         Setting Time Zone

    In Settings>General>About>Diagnostics & Usage I checked Don't Send

     

    On a separate note...I was also experiencing equal Usage and Standby Time as well...which got me to thinking.  Since I was doing all this tweaking I figured I would get rid of some apps I had installed that I simply was not using.  After this, I did a hard reboot.

     

    My Usage/Standby problem was fixed...and my battery drain issue vastly improved.

    I run with Location Services on all the time (Camera/Compass/Facebook/Maps/iMapMyRide)

    Notifications: Phone/Messages/(Facebook)Messenger/ScoreCenter/Reminders(Love this BTW!)/Facebook

    I throttle off Wifi when I'm not home.

     

    In total, I had a almost a days worth of Standby time with just about 7 hours of usage time. I use the IPod feature ALOT while at work and the car; some txting maybe 30 minutes web browsing, and a couple calls maybe totalling 20 minutes call time This drained down to %25 from a full charge in the morning.  I consider this pretty decent for a smartphone; if I manually throttle Location Services On only when needed...I'd expect an improvement.

     

    As another side note...lets be reasonable; are all these complaints re: battery drain on "bone stock" devices? (i.e. only have a handful of apps installed on them and they upgraded to 5.0/5.0.1?) or are the majority of the complaints from many people that I see with 1/3 of the app store installed on their phone?  If the latter is the case...then I'd have to guess that the main issue is with app compatibility.  I've been in the database and software business for a while...I know there is a difference between saying the ABC will work OK with version X vs. ABC is fully compatibile with version X.  Something that works OK may keep all functionality but will not necessarily retain its efficiency.

  • by W. Raider,

    W. Raider W. Raider Nov 17, 2011 8:47 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 17, 2011 8:47 AM in response to Scarface.

    I ran another test and charged my iPhone 4S to 100%, reset Cellular Usage then went to bed.

     

    7 hours later...without touching the phone or receiving any calls, voicemails, texts or anything...

     

    Battery is at 94%.

     

    Cellular Usage shows 19.0 KB Sent and 20.0 KB Received.

     

    Time since last charge now reads

     

    Usage 23 Minutes (I absolutely did not "use" the phone for 23 minutes. I haven't touched it for over 7 hours)

     

    Standby 11 Hours, 9 Minutes which is also wrong. I charged it and pulled it from the plug just over 7 hours ago.

     

    The mystery is what's causing the usage meter to go to 23 minutes when the phone is untouched.

     

    Message was edited by: W. Raider

  • by mshan61,

    mshan61 mshan61 Nov 17, 2011 9:29 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 17, 2011 9:29 AM in response to Scarface.

    Today i checked my phone while it was plugged  in for charging

    The battery indicator was showing 100 % full charge.

    as soon as  i disconnect the  usb power adaptor . Battery indicator showed 99% LOL

     

    So just by unplugging the phone from charger i lost 100 %. what a  crappy battery

  • by prkgs982,

    prkgs982 prkgs982 Nov 17, 2011 10:16 AM in response to mshan61
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    Nov 17, 2011 10:16 AM in response to mshan61

    Maybe there is something wrong with the battery indicator too. There are so many apps that have not behaved efficiently as somebody here mentioned. So the battery indicator might be one of them.

  • by mkris101,

    mkris101 mkris101 Nov 17, 2011 10:17 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 17, 2011 10:17 AM in response to Scarface.

    How exactly are you to interpret the battery usage?

     

    Mines says Usage 1 hour and 1 minute

     

    Standby 6 hours and 4 minutes

     

    It has been off the charger since 7:10 this morning. its now 1:12 pm est  (6 hours)

     

    the standby time seems correct but the usage time puts it way off.. I thought you comebine the 2 which is 7 hours and 5 minutes but thats not right. I dont beleive that i have used the phone for 1 hour

     

    When I unplugged the phone I checked usage and the standby were both at 0. seems that  there may be a  calabration problem in IOS 5.0.1?

  • by constantinfromсанкт-петербург,

    constantinfromсанкт-петербург constantinfromсанкт-петербург Nov 17, 2011 10:39 AM in response to Scarface.
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    Nov 17, 2011 10:39 AM in response to Scarface.

    Ребят, я конечно плохо понимаю английский язык, пользуюсь переводчиком, но прекрасно понимаю вашу проблему

    я считаю, что вся проблема так же скрывается в прошивке 5.0.1 !!!!!

    У нас в России официальных продаж пока iphone 4s нет и неизвестно когда будут, я пользуюсь серым телефоном из Finland!!!!!

    Просто у нас арендная плата в Москве и Санкт-Петербурге стоит больших денег!!!!!!

    А так же быстрая разрядка так же идет из-за двух антен!!!!!

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