Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

ashsimmo wrote:

 

As I stated in my previous post I have taken all the precautions and 'Battery Saving Tips' that are out there at this very moment. I don't really like the idea of iCloud anyway, I prefer to do everything from my laptop, I'm old fashioned that way. In fact I would say I've taking more precautions because in the 'System Services' bit I only have ONE thing  set to on. Yes just one, which it Mobile Network Settings (I think). I am not using push. I fetch every one hour or so. Most of my notifications are off apart from some of the obvious ones like mail, messages etc. So I pretty much think I got it covered.

Oh one more thing Ashsimmo, on the email fetch another observation is most folks dont really need the device getting email automatically every 10 min or even hourly so its sitting in the mail app ready for you to view it.  If set to manual it will download quickly whenever you open the mail app to view so that stops all the unnecessary fetching of messages until you actually are ready to read them. I have 3 accts and believe me I get a lot of email but i certainly dont need it just sitting on the iPhone waiting for me  to view. When I am ready to check mail I open the mail app and in a sec or three I have all mail to read through from all accts.

Zooomy wrote:

 

Off topic - but if you are trying to ditch the email notification here and keep getting blank emails despite answering no to all of the email preferences, scroll to the top of this page and on the right hand side is a link to stop receiving emails for this topic....   Hoping this works.

 

On topic.   After upgrading to 9A406 my standby seems more in line losing about 1/2 percent every hour (probably from the constant stream of email notifications coming from this thread).  However, when I use my phone for very casual twitter/facebook and web it still eats the battery super fast.    Consistently getting about  5 hours of light usage (texting, wifi, no cell calling) and about 3/4 of a day standby.

 

Been an staunch iPhone supporter but the lack of response to this issue has me questionning that.

Yay, So not everyone hates Apple here   Kidding guys! Anyway, you may want to look at your display brightness and set to auto and maybe 50% to 60% or so. (If you haven't) Looks like your stdby times are normal so maybe display level may be the cause of fast drain when using the phone. Thats the biggest drain on about any smartphone. You will notice at first but will get used to the lower brightness soon, Just throwing that out there. Interesting that 9A406 helped, it has for a lot of posters.

[agreed about Apples silence on the issue]

Zooomy wrote:

 

ashsimmo - from myinterpretation of the app, the slider is for you to adjust as your battery ages and the times are an estimate of what you have remaining...

 

Charge your battery 100% and you will see.

Yeah I think maybe that is correct. First I would not sweat those apps too much as they are estimates. Actually looking it the stats all the time will further use the battery and take away from important stuff you want to do like listen to music or make a phone call (imagine that, make a phone call on a phone) novel idea these days huh.

Well looks pretty good to me actually. Remember guys usage is a BIG variable. Some may be listening to music and some may be surfing the internet. Big difference in the type of usage as far as battery drain. So cant really compare apples to apples (pun intended haha)  unless all folks sharing their screen shots also share what type of usage it was. No one really knows this either i would guess. I dont really, I just use the phone and some is calls, some email, some web, some music etc. Dont really know how much of what.  I would guess the more important item would be the standby time. If you can achieve .5% drain while in standby and no other use then you are getting what you should be as far as not having the excessive drain issue being reported. Then the tweaking of your particular usage and needed features verses how often you want to charge your battery becomes your object to figure out.

BUT if then you have every notification and location on and all possible features the phone CAN do then you will have a fast drain. Period. I am of the impression that Apple like all other companies, states best possible results under ideal conditions in their specs. Like your last car you bought the MPG sticker in the window said "32 mpg" but I would guess that no one gets that in that particular car. But under ideal conditions the car may in fact get that so they report it as such.

I think it's pretty clear that this needs to be corrected by the Apple folks.  I purchased my phone two weeks ago.  I have to charge it a minimal twice a day which is super inconvenient as I rely heavily on it when I leave the office.  For instance today it was fully charged when I got on the train for a one hour commute.  I used it during that hour and for a 15 minute phone conversation by the time I arrived home it was virtually discharged.  Forget about adding music, or games or anything that can potentially use more of the battery.  That kind of defeats the purpose of owning one as far as I'm concerned.  Even using it strictly for business it's totally unrealible due to the faulty length of the battery life. 

There are loads of us complaining about the same issue.  Has anybody had any resolution?  Total bummer, I was really hyped about the new iPhone.  What now?

Happy New Year......

You are correct. Apple needs to address the remaining folks with issues and supposidy is working on it with iOS update.

Yes a LOT of people have followed the deleting of roque apps,and reset of settings and other items posted in these forums and have solved their issues. So its not all on Apple to resolve. Although one may say that we should not have to reset the settings etc to get it working but.............new iPhone new iOS. And if someone installs an app from a 3rd party that  causes severe battery drain well again not entirely Apples fault there either.

Other issues such as faulty battery or other hardware or iOS bugs , YES totally on Apple to resolve.

And Happy New Year back!

The best advice I can give is that if you don't use Siri much, despite how fun it is, turn it off entirely. The setting time zone/iAds is also a given, as are Bluetooth, but everyone would turn those off anyway. I went from having terrible battery life to this:

Sorry about your iPhone 4S problem, but as I said "Just keep updating!" So, maybe they won't fix it with 5.1, but they will have to fix it sometime, even if Apple won't admit it. They are still aware of the problem. Good luck!

Saludos, Luis.

Con respecto al drenaje de la batería la verdad es que no me tiene -muy- preocupado. Por lo que he leído acá, veo que algunos sí tienen serios problemas. A mi me drena, pero considero que es bastante "aceptable" (tampoco es 0,5% como dice Apple).

Lo que sí he notado es que con WiFi el dispositivo tiene muy buena duración. La cosa es diferente cuando se está navegando sea con 2G o 3G (aquí ya es fea la cosa). Lamentablemente, el 5.0.1 no me trae la opción para deshabilitar el 3G, y eso me parece realmente grave. Viendo que esto es así, tengo seguridad de que el problema es de software y no de hardware, por lo tanto mantengo la esperanza de que pronto se vendrá una actualización que resuelva este problema.

Lo que me sorprende (y supongo que a tí también) es que somos muchos los que nos quejamos. Por lo tanto no es un caso aislado. Yo aún no conozco alguno que me diga que se encuentra contento con el rendimiento de su 4S. Por acá he visto muchos que logran un buen rendimiento, pero me atrevo a afirmar que navegan poco con el iPhone. Porque al menos, lo que yo he notado, es que la navegación es lo que más afecta.

I'm pretty sure that the problem is software, not hardware.

As I said to @luis144: if the problem was software, then the battery would not have good performance when using WiFi. The problem is with 2G and 3G browsing (especially 3G).

My retailer has a policy that allows fundamentally flawed devices, such as the iPhone 4S, to be returned for a full refund. No problem for me! Intrigued to see if Apple actually ever get round to acknowledging issue, or better still, fixing it.

@salvagoxo

salvagoxo wrote:

 

I'm pretty sure that the problem is software, not hardware.

 

As I said to @luis144: if the problem was software, then the battery would not have good performance when using WiFi. The problem is with 2G and 3G browsing (especially 3G).

iPhone 4S has hardware problems too (e.g. SIM card, static noise, MDM6610 chipset) not only software problems. The hardware problems might affect undirectly the battery life if there are faulty eletronic components. For example a faulty chipset which handles the cellular data over 3G probably would affect the battery life of the iPhone 4S (because it would take longer to transmit the same data and correct the errors during the transmission).

@geoking66

geoking66 wrote:

 

The best advice I can give is that if you don't use Siri much, despite how fun it is, turn it off entirely. The setting time zone/iAds is also a given, as are Bluetooth, but everyone would turn those off anyway. I went from having terrible battery life to this:

 

That still looks pretty bad battery life compared to iPhone 4!!!!

I find so strange that ~1.5 days is considered a good battery life for a new iPhone 4S with a lot of settings off (email is set on fetch, Location services off, Raise to speak off, most of notifications off, etc.). From hardware point of view iPhone 4S is not that much different than iPhone 4.

In a year from now when the battery of all iPhone 4S will be worn down (for those who bought the iPhone 4s this year) the iPhone 4S will not last even one day with a lot of settings off!!!! Then it will be very painful phone to have!!!

What did you do to get that battery performance? (In my opinion it's not bad).

the reason why the iphone 4s has bad battery life is that the battery has to used its power to power the dual core which is huge for a small batter and the iphone 4s i have always gets hot when i play graphic intensive games