Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

If I do a reset to erase all content and settings, the phone goes back to original state. I think that's what was done to help luis144 out. How do you go about getting all your contacts, notes, music and photos back in your phone without doing a restore from back-up? Input all that manually? What ashame!

You can restore your data back by using iTunes or iCloud, just like you had a new iPhone with no backups saved.

But I would wait a few hours (at least) with the iPhone with no apps or data at all just to check if the battery starts behaving well (0,5%/h aprox)

If it still gets drained then you have a hardware issue, if not, then it is just a software issue.

Thanks for the advice sbailey,

But I never go into the e-mail app unless I get a new e-mail message. I want to be notified when I get a new e-mail, is part of my normal use.

Greetings,

I agree with you,

I only had everything off for test purposes. Now I have the services I normally use turned on and getting a very good battery life.

Before the reset, with everything turned off, I wall still getting a 5%/h battery drain.

I roughly lose around 15% after an hour of use its horrible! I would restore but i simply can't afford to lose my texts! :/ and I'd hate if I did the restore, and it didn't even work and the only thing id get out of it is lost texts! I don't know what to do.

turbn8r wrote:

 

If I do a reset to erase all content and settings, the phone goes back to original state. I think that's what was done to help luis144 out. How do you go about getting all your contacts, notes, music and photos back in your phone without doing a restore from back-up? Input all that manually? What ashame!

Well the " reset all settings" I mentioned does not erase. The one you are referring to does. So you would have to save your info somewhere. iCloud-contacts,calendar, Or Outlook on your computer, Gmail whatever. I actually had all contacts and calendar in Outlook prior to iPhone (had BlackBerry and sync). When brand new I sysc'd with iTunes and all email acct,contacts,calendar came over to iPhone within moments. That's different than a backup.  So it really depends on how you are setup. If you use outlook you set iTunes to use it to sync and you are good to go. OR you can backup those items to iCloud before you  erase and reset, then they will automatically come back once you are up and running (no backup restore). Your apps (without data) will reinstall/resync with iTunes again not a backup restore but a sync. Music in iTunes can either sync OR the new 10.5.2 iTunes keeps your tunes in the cloud so in iPhone app store you simply download  the ones you want back to iPhone. Soooooooo lots of options actually but all depends on how you are setup.

Now important, IF you restore an old backup, say from iPhone 4 or 3, the "reset all settings" and setup as new afterwards will most times fix it. In Luis case it did not so he had to take it a step further. But there have been a LOT of people that that process fixed.  Some of the problems are with 3rd party apps so the full blow out is most likely why that works better.

Bottom line, I would expect a new iPhone set up as new out of box and contacts transferred by carrier  or synced via iTunes and current apps installed fresh would yield the best results every time. Even thought that may be a lot of work. I would guess most folks don't actually use 1/2 the apps they have downloaded and installed over the years anyway so just installing the ones you really need may be a good time to start fresh with a new device.  Either way is better than suffering from poor battery life.

luis144 wrote:

 

You can restore your data back by using iTunes or iCloud, just like you had a new iPhone with no backups saved.

 

 

HAHA Yeah what he said.  

Sylar2011 wrote:

 

I roughly lose around 15% after an hour of use its horrible! I would restore but i simply can't afford to lose my texts! :/ and I'd hate if I did the restore, and it didn't even work and the only thing id get out of it is lost texts! I don't know what to do.

So try the "reset all settings" process documented in this thread and follow exactly. It will keep your data intact. Of course make a backup forst just to be safe.

Really? I thought it meant you couldn't get texts back, sorry I haven't been keeping up with the thread, how exactly does the "reset all setting" procedure go :P

My wife and I were close to returning the 4S phones we got in early December and going back to the 4 because of the extremely short battery life experienced by many other users (fully discharging in 8 to 10 hours with light use).  We had tried most of the suggested fixes and nothing had any effect. Then, a few days ago, I updated about 16 apps and suddenly the battery life became extraordinarily long.  After 12 hours, I still have a charge of about 88%, even with all my location services on and using wi-fi.  My wife continued to have the battery problems until she updated her apps the following day, and since then her phone has had a similarly long battery life.  I'm not sure how it was fixed, but I assume that there had been a glitch in one of the apps that caused the battery to discharge.  It's been five days since I updated the apps, and the battery continues to work well.  Our carrier is ATT.

I had requested a new 4s when my first one had hideous battery life after the IOS 5 upgrade.  I'm just wondering when the new update is supposed to come out.  Syncing contacts is a nightmare!

I'm typing right now on my iPhone 4S and it seems that I've solved the problem whith the battery life issues.

The problem is iCloud service. Turn off all the stuff that you don't use and you will have a great Battery life.

Me personally, I don't use all the iCloud services...

Im must say after my battery was rubbish I can see improvement. I haven't done anything to it and yet my battery is getting better and better

Wondering if this is happening to you? A very very good new year for all of you.

I don't agree that it's one specific thing because I use iCloud for everything except music, and I also use Siri, and I don't have any battery issues now.  But I did get a replacement phone awhile ago.

My battery on my iphone4s is gettin better every full charge now and im turning things back on now hmmmm.....