Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

alohabj73 wrote:

 

this to me sounds unbelievable. Lucky you. I am going to return mine. Standby: 1 day 3 hours; usage: 6 hours. 14% left. Closed all the apps. Wifi and data off. Location off. I've tried everything mentioned in this forum.

May want to think that through. I mean usage could be music playing  and anyone who has/had an iPod knows those thinks run forever, or any other low battery usage process. Your stats are pretty good I would say. Again it depends on what your usage consists of as well. Anyway certainly you dont have the really poor performance others here are talking about. And Apple is still tweaking iOS to further improve.  Of course its up to you to decide whats acceptable and what you can live with but a day usage on ANY smart phone is pretty good IMO.

[edit] I just saw you say wifi and data off? Cellular data? Apps prob dont matter much but with no data running at all I would think it would last longer actually. I mean no locations or notifications or anything would be working if you have all that off so maybe its not that great afterall.

Thanks. Yes, when i was using my iphone, i turned location, cellular data, siri off -- of course with wifi on to surf internet and twitter, FB, emails and some news apps like pulse. I don't have any music songs and games on my phone. With all these, my stats is still like this, and this is something I can't accept. By the way, the battery dropped 6% last night over night with my phone standby and everything off and closed.

It *****.

alohabj73 wrote:

 

By the way, the battery dropped 6% last night over night with my phone standby and everything off and closed.

It *****.

6% overnight on standby? That sounds pretty good. If "overnight" is, say, 8 hours and that represents (an indicated) 6% drop, then (100/6)*8 = 133 hours standby. That's about 120hours more than a lot of people are getting...

i fixed my battery.  i am not a poster, this is a rarity.  i restored an new.  i lost all my app info and everything else.  it was a major pain.  after loaing all my email accounts and all my apps it seems to me much better.  i just did it today.  maybe apple tweeked 5.0.1 beacuse after my restore i am getting battery life that i enjoyed with the iphone 4.  i also stopped a VOIP app from running in the backround.  in short, restore as new.  i know its a pain but it worked for me

sbailey4 wrote:

Anyway certainly you dont have the really poor performance others here are talking about. And Apple is still tweaking iOS to further improve.

I keep seeing people saying Apple are working on improving the battery life. But there's nothing from Apple to say they actually are doing so.

but i turned all the apps, wifi, data, location, siri and many others off during the standby.

It will still have been connecting to any nearby cell towers periodically.

Before I plug my device for the 3rd time, here are my stats.

Music 75%

Texting 10%

Internet 10%

Call 5%

Rough estimates.

i havent seen this tip in any threads in my search for smartphone battery life but for my last few phones i have push and fetch and everything turned right off. your phone carrier should provide an email address for your phone number that can be used as a forwarded email address from your email. when u get an email u then get a text msg and the system uses power not your battery. i also have twitter and facebook set to give me text notifications so my phone isnt always checking and burning thru battery.

I think i will give up on this already.... at 2pm 100%.... pick up a call, few sms, few notifications are in...

at 2.35pm is 89%.....

Note also my icloud is off... plus other thing that was suggested b4......

my last resort... i going to sell this and get back the 2nd hand iphone 4....... too bad !

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DJ Surfstyle wrote:

 

i havent seen this tip in any threads in my search for smartphone battery life but for my last few phones i have push and fetch and everything turned right off. your phone carrier should provide an email address for your phone number that can be used as a forwarded email address from your email. when u get an email u then get a text msg and the system uses power not your battery. i also have twitter and facebook set to give me text notifications so my phone isnt always checking and burning thru battery.

I spent 730€ for an iPhone 4S and am I supposed to turn it into a dumb phone by having the emails forwarded as text messages? No way.....

I thought that turning off Exchange Push improved my battery life.  But then I wondered whether that was coincidental. So I did a test.  I turned push on and used the phone as normal until the battery reached 1%, and then I turned push off and did the same.  Here are the two usages screenshots.

Spot the difference.  The second one is actually with Push on.  So Exchange Push is no great battery guzzler.  It may certainly use some more, but in my real world usage it made no noticeable difference.

My iPhone 4S battery issue was resolved by removing a faulty app!

I have had the worst battery drain yesterday when I witnessed the fully charged battery went down to less than 10% in 3 hours while the phone itself was burning hot. I tried to quit all the applications and stop bluetooth and WIFI. So the phone effectively was doing nothing but still the battery was drained from 100% to 10% in 3 hours.

Just by chance I realized one of the GPS sports assistant app was not functioning properly in last a few days. So I decided to remove the app, voila, that resolved the issue for me.

Overnight I had my email, browser, bluetooth, WIFI, RSS feed reader and many other apps on. The battery is currently at 70% with usage stats as follow:

Time since last full charge:

Usage: 2 hours 3 minutes

Standby: 18 hours 49 minutes

Hi everybody,

I saw that some of you posted images of how long lasted their phone..

I want to post mine too...

I have the following setting on my phone...

WiFi & Cellular Data are off... I only use them when I need.

Notifications: there is only weather, phone, messages, reminders, calendar & viber;

Locations services are On, except for siri and Find my Iphone

System services are activated only for Compass Calibration & Setting Time Zone (still I wonder if this can be deactivated)

Mail are set to manual (no fetch & no push) and I have 6 mail accounts added.

IClound is on only for mail.

Facetime off (dont use it)

Siri is off (dont use it)

Bluetooth is off (I have only the iphone...  what other devices I can use to sync/send via bluetooth)

Restrictions are not enabled

I have used the phone mostly for talking, texting, listening to music, and connected a few times internet using wifi & 3g.

So what do you think?