Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

rphunte42 wrote:

 

Some people subscribe to the current way of thinking about things in general:  "I want what I want, and I want it NOW." 

... you're right. Like vendors. When you want to buy something from them they want their money now. I don't see why they'd be entitled to deliver later on the goods, or the value they promoted alongside. Or is Apple and the app store devs doing some financing on the devices and software that I'm unaware of?

It goes both ways. And life is short.

You'll have to excuse 1Appleadaynoway, he's the resident, hypersensitive troll who thinks he's the next iPhone savior.

He's been here since the beginning, and in the early 100's of pages i told him he'd still be here into the mid to late hundreds of pages still dealing with the same issues and NO FIX.

He flipped out of me for writing in upper-case letters too, he's hyper-emotional, it's OK, he'll eventually get over it, or perhaps not and one day he'll wind up on a waned poster in the post office somewhere.

Don't let him get to you, I find it HILARIOUS that he spends so much time here that whatever he does for work must be suffering, or perhaps he's in his mom's basement and it really doesn't matter.

I haven't been on here since the mid 300's pages of posts and he flipped on me again, told him he'd STILL be here misleading people and BAM, here he is! Way too funny.

Anyhow, like you I'm ****** at Apple, unlike you I've been a hard core Apple user for 25 years... and Apple REALLY dropped the ball on this iPhone, in a HUGE WAY.

You're NOT wrong for being upset, even my friends who work at Apple are upset, so iApple has NO CLUE what he's talking about.

Either way, 1Apple seems to think it's "normal" and "acceptable" that a company like Apple put a product as lackluster as this iPhone version out and expects it's users to whittle their phones functionality down to almost ZERO just to keep it charged for  day, which goes against EVERYTHING they claim about their products.

NOBODY should HAVE to do that to ANY product and when something liek that does happen, you DO have the right to be ****** off.

Look, I've been in devleopment for many year of my life and this is clearly a complex problem, my guess based upon my experience is that it's a slew of problems, buried deeply in the OS, or a hardware issue and Apple is trying to do everything that they can so that they don't have to eat dirt on recalling millions of iPhones.

Chances are, with a fix not having come yet after this long, it's something serious. Otherwise they'd have found it by now.

But don't let 1Apple beat you down, he tries to do that toeveryone, denying every bit of fact and getting hyperamotional.

It's amusing.

You're so pathetic. If you had read anything of what I posted, you would have seen that I was actually quoting Apple's PR as a counter argument in asking that those guys tone it down on asking people to use their devices differently. Obviously you're a clueless guy who can't even read. ts;cr I guess. What you don't tell those people is how YOU came here a long time ago telling people to enjoy life and to stop doing anything while they should wait like sheeps for Apple to bring further value to them. That I don't like Apple so much has been known since the beginning of time. But what ensued is that you got put down by quite a few people and you're holding a little grudge against me. Proof of that is that when other people advise others, you don't come to post your frustrated rant, but when I do, which is quite less often now, then you are. But you and me know who you are really. I'm quite happy I got to you in so many ways. Your resentment is praise. Tough luck.

What's really amusing is that a two-bit developper like you can't grasp that sure there is a complex problem but that not all users' problems are that exact problem. Someone who's into haskell and such should get that. Which is why a simple reset and going through a charge and such simple things can help when you unbox the device in some cases. I mean it's reasonsable to figure out if someone has an actual problem with his setup or not. Some people don't have the symptoms once they do certain things, or get some acceptable usage for their needs. Plus there's Apple's own page about their own suggestions to save some battery life. I didn't write that, they did - and so many things here were spinoffs on those. We've discussed all that before. Support is not only about solving the most complex of issues, it's also about intermediate solutions. Which is why devs don't get to do support - as they can't make the forest from the trees in front of them. If I helped even one guy disabling the mail notifications from this page, it'll be way ahead of any thing you've accomplished aside from bragging about your skills, devices or power to make people redundant in life.

I'm laughing AT you. You're way too pathetic to "get to me", as you claimed.

Ignorance and stupidity make me laugh, and you've given me PLENTY of laughs thus far.

Just the fact that you're STILL HERE, EVERY DAY, here let me bold that for ya, EVERY DAY, acting as thugh you're the Apple God, reprimanding people, just like I said you'd be...

that and that alone keeps me laughing, add in all the other pathetic things, it's a laugh riot.

Oh, but keep telling yourself that you one-upped me, say whatever you have to to make yourself feel better.

Good luck to you in life, you'll need it.

Oh, and see you in another 500 pages or so! bwaaahahaaaaaa!

Ok so after the battery issues, my phone's started suffering from Audiogate as well now.

It was working absolutely fine. Then I go into music to play some music through the bottom speaker while I'm driving and wham! no sound. I reboot the phone and realize ALL sounds including phone lock unlock, keyboard clicks, and the speaker at the top have no sound. It doesn't ring when I receive a message but it rings when someone calls me. I also can't hear the person on the other line but they can hear me fine. I can hear them when I turn on external speaker though.

Has anyone here been suffering from audiogate as well?

I just own you, and all other ids you used to pull your stunt. There is no claim. It's just fact. Whether it was on my thread or here, every single time I put you in your place with some credible argument and you were left trying to show some kind of laughing figure, as you head back alone to your little world. I'll reprimand a condescending snob like you any time of the week. See you anytime.

kj789 wrote:

 

Ok so after the battery issues, my phone's started suffering from Audiogate as well now.

 

It was working absolutely fine. Then I go into music to play some music through the bottom speaker while I'm driving and wham! no sound. I reboot the phone and realize ALL sounds including phone lock unlock, keyboard clicks, and the speaker at the top have no sound. It doesn't ring when I receive a message but it rings when someone calls me. I also can't hear the person on the other line but they can hear me fine. I can hear them when I turn on external speaker though.

 

Has anyone here been suffering from audiogate as well?

Well let's see, HMMM 

You're phone is paired to a bluetooth device and it happens to be in your car ???

When paired, ALL sound will be routed to that device.

I'd check that one.

Re: usage time/standby time

I have had my 4s for some weeks, still on iOS 5.0 (waiting for 5.1 before I update). I did not experience huge battery problems, but then I seldom use location based services, and turn on wi-fi etc when I need it. Usage time is typically some 6-10 hours on a charge depending on the mix of use (internet browsing on 3G or wi-fi, manually cheking of mail, games, music) and standby time 1,5 to 2 days. However, after installing Onavo (an app which routes the mobile data traffic through a server and compresses it or something to decrease the traffic of megabytes) I suddenly had a higher battery drain AND the usage and standby times were suddenly identical. I have allways killed my apps manually, as I am not sure whether they are active in the background or not. Onavo works by changing my internet setup profile from the one of the service provider, and even though the app was not active (not set up to compress or save data), it "used" the iPhone all the time.

I removed the app (uninstalled) and set back the original internet setting of the service provider - battery life back to normal.

Are you sure you have not installed an app which "infiltrates" your setup?

How do you set the Internet setting back to original ? My 4s has been great on battery life running 5.0 so have not updated it yet, but one of the apps I have installed has killed my battery life grrrrrr I am going to remove each app but unsure how to reset the Internet settings

Upgraded to a shiny new 4S a few days ago and whilst the phone itself is excellent, battery life has been disappointing.  I think the main issue I'm having is that the battery is draining significantly during standby. 

Last night I tested this by charging to 100% before bed.  7 hours later the battery was at 77% with no usage whatsoever and minimal features enabled + background apps closed.

You need to ask your service provider what to enter under APN, MMSC etc ( in Settings, general, network, cellular data network)  in order to set up your phone for mobile data and mms traffic again. Perhaps the information is given on their website/customer service?

For nearly two months I had been suffering from terrible battery life and phantom usage (usage always approx half of standby). Just before Christmas I updated to the 9A406 build of ios5.0.1. After that I was getting brilliant battery life. 4+ days with light usage and no signs of significant Phantom usuage. However, over the past week all my previous problems have returned. I'm back to 3% drop an hour and lots of Phantom activity. I had not changed anything on the phone since installing 9A406 and had not synched with iTunes.  Has anyone else experienced the same with 9A406?

Well let's see, HMMM

You're phone is paired to a bluetooth device and it happens to be in your car ???

When paired, ALL sound will be routed to that device.

I'd check that one.

 

 

Unfortunately pal I don't have a bluetooth headset, or a bluetooth enabled car. So there is NO bluetooth issue at work here. The external speaker refused to work alongwith the earpiece.

I later identified the problem. It seems as if the phone was stuck in the earphone's plugged in mode. How that happened is anybody's guess but it was a hardware issue because I restored the firmware from scratch and the problem persisted.

After 4 hours it magically vanished. No clue how it happened, and no clue how it un-happened. After the restore the battery has so far dropped 2% in 14 minutes with WiFi connected but all push notifications off.

You can try installing "Process Killer", an app that remove apps from RAM. You can tell what app keeps running in the background without you opening it.

I perform the kill process once in a while. And it seems to help me a lot.

Also, I perform reset all settings after installing 9A406.

It helps me to reduce drain to around 1% per hour in standby.