Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

My iphone 4s battery life has diminished significantly over the last few days. I have the ios 5.0.1 update. What can I do to increase the battery life? I drains by 1% every few minutes, even when I don't use the phone.

Actually Drob90 I think your usage or lack of usage is good. With 21 minutes of usage and 4 hrs standby, (still reading 100%) not bad imo. I have been reading these posts for quite a few days now and it amazes me that we are up to 552 pages already. I think by now most everyone on here has tried to conserve or prolong their iphone 4s battery life using most or all of the suggestions read over these many pages. I have basically turned my 4s into a 10 year old "flip phone"...turning off just about everything that makes it a "smartphone." That is pretty sad to say the least. I have even gone to the YouTube site and plugged in "battery life" and have seen most all the same posts on there as here. To sum things up a little on my phone to date:

Version...5.0.1 (9A406)

Notifications...Off

Location Services...On for Siri and Weather

Brightness...about 1/3 On with Auto Off

Cellular Data (3G) Off while at home on Wifi

Mail..Fetch Hourly...Push Off

iCloud...Deleted

Any thoughts or recommendations are appreciated...

As you can see I haven't used the phone much, but with 3G off I think the battery % doesn't drop like a rock.

I love my iPhone 4S. The battery life is much better than the 3 android phones I went through. So far my battery usage is down to 1/4 from 2.5 days ago. YAY!!! Time for a charge!

After a while i noticed my 4S was only fully charging to 97%.  The battery life had never been anything special, on par with my 3GS which struggled to stay on longer than my 8 hour shift.  When i fully charged it next i turned the charger off and on when it said it was charged to see if it would get that extra 3%.  It worked and has always got to 100% ever since.  The battery life has greatly improved since this and can now last well over a day before needing charging again.

What do you mean when you say you turned the charger on and off? Do you mean you unplugged it and plugged it back in?

Yes sorry, i took the charger out then put it back in.  It then charged up to 100%

Then you are suggesting that the main problem is the antenna switching, and that this should only affect CDMA users?  Is that true?  Are ATT users not seeing battery problems?  If so, then going to 'airplane mode' should reduce the battery use to minimal.  Anyone out there want to test this?

I am thinking mostly GSM customers are having the issues not CDMA. At least from this thread thats how it appears. I will let Mac-Assist answer since it was posted to him but everyone I know who has iPhone are not having any issues at all and all are Verizon (CDMA) customers. Also I have seen a lot of folks here who use airplane mode and seems to fix drain. However a phone is not much good if you cannot make or receive calls.

Are you referring to iPod nano battery problem, in which Apple admitted it is battery problem and offer one-to-one replacement only after 5 years later?

So in other words, if the battery draining problem is indeed due to the hardware, Apple will replace a new one for me when they are selling iPhone 10.

Cyberman04 wrote:

 

I love my iPhone 4S. The battery life is much better than the 3 android phones I went through. So far my battery usage is down to 1/4 from 2.5 days ago. YAY!!! Time for a charge!

Most likely you're more and more into status and less and less into real usage. I mean, 2.5 days is 60hrs... x 0.5%/hr standby specs means 30% + 25% (1/4 charge left) = 55%... so you used 45% of the battery over almost 3 days... that must mean you use that phone about 1 hour per day for phoning and browsing. Join the status phone club I guess. I don't mean that in a personal way mind you. Just something I notice and I couldn't help but comment here, as the New Year starts. I wish I had more kindness. The fact is I use a computer for much MUCH more than 1 hour per day. I basically use it every evening for a few hours - with one of those being either intense gaming or movie streaming - and if I was younger I'd be adding 1-2hrs of phoning/messaging on top a day. If I was using my phone for business, I'd be adding at least one hour of mail/calendaring per day to that, plus calls of course, and roaming, maybe GPS also.

Those smartphones, and I don't mean to single out Apple here, I mean all current smartphones, are just useless for "non-status" people i.e. real computer users. That's why you need an iPad and a MacBook to tag along with the phone (to show off) and when you add the usage those devices bring together, you're up for a day. If you try to do it all on a phone then you're charging everyday, sometimes twice. It's a costly paradigm.

There's nothing wrong with all that mind you. Just seems an ultrabook with some detachable touch screen maybe and a bluetooth headset can do it all for less money and less hassle. But the phone in the shirt pocket lifestyle prevails. Smartphones are overrated.

I wish maybe as the New Year begins, some of you might reflect and assess your true needs for such trivial status toys and surrounding ecosystem. I mean, if Apple would sell an amazing phone with long lasting battery life, some decent screen real estate, and HDMI out, standard usb for keyboard and mouse, and sd card slot for real storage, or maybe an iPhone with a real huge electro-mechanical hdd, then how could they sell you an iPad or MacBook or AppleTV box afterwards? What about the "dollar-store" app store concept? It's about making people forget how to download and install software/music to fight piracy (that's quite a good thing though)... plus of course developers risk less making little 2-10$ apps than full fledged apps, they can make upgraded versions to sell more, and all can be updated without toying around with an installer or variation in the install base so maybe their support costs go down. But where in all that is it about you? What you want, or need, or even deserve because you don't know what you want or need anymore - you just want to be like this other guy who "thinks different"? Well one should ask. Is this the device I need. Is this the social networking I want? And why do I want it? Am I a man or just an ant? Can I do 10 pushups or do I find a credit card sized phone heavy to carry around... should I film my back in 720p to see if I look like a hunchback?

Often I'm treated with this new communication era metrosexual paradigm bull. People communicate more, know more about their friends in real time, there's more "cohesion", it's pratical, useful for collaboration etc. Yeah right. People can't write proper english anymore so why even give them a keyboard at all, nor can't they understand more than 140 chars of text (thanks Twitter for both), they're more comfortable hearing about their "friends" on FB than being in the same room with them, they can't read a book proper because it's "just text" and there's no video - using an eBook or iPad they want color magazines - they can't tell their family what they like or don't like and instead resort to selling the stuff they didn't want yet still got for Christmas on Ebay behind everyone's back because they can't stand up for what they like and dislike in life. People lie more on messaging than anywhere else in life. And social network users become depressed as time goes by - new study show both of these facts. A world of depressed liars. It's all about "personal awareness" and most people are highly specialized in their field yet totally ignorant of the world in general - but they've seen the pictures and can search wikipedia and forget about it 2 mins later as they're all plagued by ADD and can't wait for the tube or the bus without jittering and touching their little devices. A world of insecure people who hide behind pointless chatter on the their phone when they pass by strangers they're afraid of, hoping if they get mugged they'll still make a recording for their posthume FB page, or maybe they get the time to forward it to their Tumblr feed if they like to pretend they're not into social networking. A harsh world where people walking on the sidewalk not paying attention because they're texting bump into me and fall to the ground as I'm no longer concerned about their last text they need to send rambling about something to make their miserable life somewhat intereting for someone else. A world of people following GPS indications to the point of being stuck with their car on some lost mountain cliff in the middle of nowhere because they can't carry a real paper map with them - then they'll need onStar to figure out how to change a freakin tire and such. A world of tards who play games like Angry Birds as if it's the latest stage of gaming evolution, or similar punishing retentive s&d games, being in such awe over amoled pixels and other pointelss specs their eyes can't even detect. You have to grasp that the whole paradigm is really just a little lifestyle maze to collect samples of you, what you like, what you talk about, what you download and how much you use what you download and all - those businesses just don't want to pay no more for market analysis or PR - why would they if they can have you work for them for free, and make you love them so much you'll help them sell their products and even hide their shortcomings and take the blame after - so they build a little lifestyle trendy world for you to walk into with triggers for cues on what to produce and sell. Enter targeted ads on your FB feeds. FB and Twitter and all is not about information, it's just about peeping, exhibitionism, and a constant dumbing down of anything that could be interesting. It's just a freak show.

This is what you'd get if you had the battery life to get it all...

I want a long lasting phone with pristine call quality, mass storage behavior and 4'3 display with compatibility with every audio and video format I want - yes even oog/vorbis. Further do you think I'll let any of those lifestyle businesses employing these lifestyle ant guys host my personal data and photos and such? The only way they can parse my data is to take it from the hashes of my microSD cards in my cold dead hands after cremation. They're simply undeserving of my trust.

Hopefully some of this rant can steer your mind off from what setting you should disable to gain 1 hour more of access to thrashy content. Maybe not. But who cares, I had to say it. To follow up my last post, I think not only smartphones are overrated - but so are smartphone users and their tiny lifestyle and content. But to each his own, as one of my real non-fb friend would say!

In any case, hope you'll have a Happy New Year!!

Umm can you repeat that please?

Yes. Thank you.

exactlly how this troll has continued to hang up this thread with all of his drivil is beyond comprehension! Obviously not moderated.

My phone has been stable for the last few weeks getting 2 days between charges with light use and a day with heavy use. I have been scanning the thread from time to time to see if anything new was gleaned but all I see is troller mctroller spouting off on BS about why people buy iphones.

I bought 4 because I can affored them and have 3 other people who use them.

stick that in your metrosexual pipe and smoke it

spyder2004 wrote:

 

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I bought 4 because I can affored them and have 3 other people who use them.

 

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Exactly sums up what I said. You can never buy intelligence, ideas, arguments, proper english or manhood for that matter. You can buy what you can afford and do like others. I remember your bragging. You may have money but you have no spine