Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

wow...........bro take nice picture

I am using the Address Book that comes with the Mac. It stores all contacts, including contact pictures, in one user-friendly application and I can sync the contacts with my iPhone whenever I want to. I will manually add each contact on my iPhone when I'm free and I will erase all contacts off the Address Book. I have about 140 contacts and some with photos. I'll try to put it on Excel or Word and reinstall it again. I'll figure it out. Thanks for your great help and check out the photo I posted above.

1AppleADayNoWay wrote:

 

Well, I had no clue if you're using built-in contacts or using contacts from external software or platform or what have you, which is why I gave this general link. In my - unrelated to iPhone - experience, passing contacts to and from different platforms is a mess. I have heard of non standard fields in a contact disrupting sync and such but couldn't tell you more really. I don't know how much contacts you have but personally I would print them all out and recreate them manually on the target platform.

Thanks bro!

Black Market wrote:

 

My 4S is horrible as well. It has the same brightness and other settings as my 3GS had (which was 3 years old), and I'm getting less battery life out of the brand new phone.

So you buy a car with twice the horsepower, seats 6 instead of 3, and has a really neat camera, front, and back, and you expect the same gas mileage?  Think about that.

Just so you know...  I have the same settings as are on my wife's 3GS, and get about the same battery life, adjusted for her much higher usage.  Is it luck, karma, or settings?  Or maybe it is in how the phone was originally set up. 

Should we guess who took the picture?

Grin

AliAR wrote:

 

For now, enjoy this beautiful photo of Burj Khalifa that I took with the iPhone 4S.

@rpunte

Ur completely wrong, the problem is not in the apps and the contacts and the settings,, the problem is that the iPhone is just looking for a trigger and/or excuse to drain the battery, let me take u back to the first 4 pages of this discussion when JohnGoldman did a factory restore and everything was good until he began subscribing to calenders and the drainage began again.

@AliAr

U are did the smartest thing by backing up ur phone before erasing settings and everything and now u are happy.

Just don't start adding loads of new contacts at the same time or u will give the phone it's drainage trigger!!!:)

No, I see a drain at the same time every day (early am) drops to 97% while on charger. Looking at some logs i saw a ton of checking for time.CDMA,getting timezone blah blah. in a system log. I have time zone location turned off so thought maybe it trying to set the time with the network was where those entries were coming from. So I turned off the set time with network as well as left time zone setting in location. Still had the events today but stated that time was not adjusted see below:

Jan 25, 2012 6:54:12 AM - timed [784] (Notice): (Note ) CoreTime: Not

setting system time to 01/25/2012 11:54:10 from CDMA because should

not set system time

Jan 25, 2012 6:54:12 AM - timed [784] (Notice): (Note ) CoreTime: Want

active time in 41.67hrs. Need active time in 125.00hrs.

Jan 25, 2012 6:54:12 AM - timed [784] (Notice): (Note ) CoreTime:

Received network time zone "CDMA" with 349185250.00 -300 DST in 310

Jan 25, 2012 6:54:12 AM - timed [784] (Notice): (Note ) CoreTime:

Searching in DST time zone map for offset -300 and MCC 310

And no cannot turn off all that can turn off battery % meter but not the rest.

1AppleADayNoWay wrote:

 

sbailey4 wrote:

 

[...]So apparently it still checks etc just doesn't not actually update the time because the user said not to when the switch is off. So I turned back on, if its going to check it may as well update.That also did not help the early morning usage. [...]

Are you actually saying that what costs battery life in the auto-set time component is not the network polling but the feeding of the results to the UI???? Or merely saying that the routine runs but just doesn't have network access?

 

That inspires the following question: can you disable displaying the time, battery meter icon, 3G/wifi icon, operator name and usage statistics from the UI and if so, does that yield better battery life?

The iphone 4s battery life is not a big deal.

When the iphone 5 comes out in a few months , everyone will be camping out waiting to buy the phone.

Apple can do anything they want and you people will still buy their product.

The news could report that the iphone 5 battery died in 1 hour and everyone would still be in line

For a iphone 5.

I see, thanks there!

That is idiotic logic.

Because I am counting the betas and not agreeing with you I have a idiotic logic. Right?

Well not because you didnt agree with me but, yes because when a new iOS is being built and does not even exist you can hardly point out any of the flaws because its not even fully created yet because its built THEN tested to see what doesnt work as expected, then recoded and tested again etc.  Until a beta is released , the same principle applies So since you are "stating facts" about something you know nothing about then well yeah..... idiotic logic.

enx23 wrote:

 

 

Yes, I am counting the betas too! That is the lamest excuse I have heard that one should ignore betas released by Apple for fixing the issues of iPhone 4s!

 

 

Really?!?!?!  again see above. So tell me why you think software is coded (written) and called Alpha then Beta then RC then RTM and tested before its released? According to you they are all the same and should just work the first time a programmer creates it. So again you are clueless about the process so your rants mean nothing.

Are you syncing with iCloud by chance? If you run Outlook you can sync contacts with iTunes. Or gmail or yahoo mail you can sync via the application in mail settings. Maybe you have a corrupt contact that is hanging trying to sync with whatever service. I would turn off any contact sync and see if  it stops. Based on what you are saying its more than likely during the sync process when its getting hosed so if you turn off icloud or mail whatever you are using to sync with that should tell you for sure. Personally I sync contacts with Outlook so it just happens whenever I manually syn using iTunes. Calendar I sync using the mail application because that changes more often.

AliAR wrote:

 

I added all my contacts and music yesterday and when I woke up in the morning, I was surprised. After about 6 hours of standby, I lost 11% battery and there were no apps. As soon as I got back home, I did a restore as a new phone and added all my contacts from the Address Book (Mac), about 10 apps (which I didn't open at all), and music. When I took it out the charge at 100%, I had phantom usage which had usage time as nearly as half as standby with no use at all and no apps in the background. After less than 4 hours of no use at all, I had 94%. and I lost about 2% every hour. I decided to erase all contents and settings from the iPhone and I connected to the laptop to add music only. I now don't have any phantom usage. It looks like the contacts are f****ng up my phone.

 

Current results:

Usage: 2 Minutes

Standby: 58 Minutes

Battery: 100%

Music: 675 songs (don't think its just 2 songs... you know who you are.)

Now it is calculating it correctly and I'm happy. Still didn't fix my credit card but as soon as I do, I will be installing the apps that I need only directly from my phone.

 

 

If you have phantom usage, try backing up all your data on the iPhone and erase all data and settings. Then install your music (I don't know about the apps) but leave your contacts (you can sync contacts whenever you want as long as you backup). Record any observations and post on this thread.

Hey most definitely the restore if a real fix. It takes care of whatever corruption the user has from faulty setting or app or whatever. Problem is to figure out what causes the fresh restore to get hosed again. Thats the $10,000 question.

@sbailey4

I count every single attempt (beta, release, build, burp, hickup, etc.) of Apple towards fixing or not fixing the issues of iPhone 4s!!! If one has a problem with my complaings about iPhone 4s and my counting please stop reading my posts!!

I see that one is really bothered that I count the betas of iOS when pointing that there is no iOS release which fixes the iPhone 4s issues. Maybe one should not be on this forum if one does not like what reads here or his/her believes are violated here!!

So, there have been EIGTH releases/betas of iOS 5.x.x which have not fixed the baterry issue and/or the static issue of iPhone 4s!!! How many more betas and releases of iOS 5 one needs in order to see that the battery issue and the static noise issue cannot be fixed by software updates? 20? Already iPhone 4s has been released last year and still even this year is no fix for the battery issue and/or static noise issue. How many years will passs until the issues of iPhone 4s will be fixed permanently? 2 years?

The vast majority of iPhone 4s are affected by the battery life isssue and/or static noise isssue which is a hardware issue. The number of posts and views inhere points towards this.

Ok Whatever you say. You can also count the ideas in the engineers heads if it pleases you and makes you feel justified.

As for how long 2 yrs? Well lets see, your math counts 3 months as 1 year so yeah if a patch is released by March that will be about 2 yrs. So you are close there!

Just so you know when new code is written, they are not trying to fix anything cause they dont know what does not work as expected yet. Thats all I am trying to get into your head. So a brand new iteration of iOS one can hardly warrant a rant stating what it didnt do when it was first written. And you dont know it had a battery problem when 1st written. Could have come in a later version or the released version. I actually heard that it did and that the Betas never had an issue with battery.

Anyway its fine clearly we will never agree on much of anything esp the programming and you are 100% correct on one subject that everyone here should adhere to. (especially me) Stop reading your posts! (really dont need to they are same the same thing over and over, 80% dont work, 80% have static, Apple will never fix it, 10 versions were released that did not fix it,should return and get money back)

You know I regret ever attempting to provide useful information to/for you. It was such a waste of time and internet bandwidth. And it ends here. Take care.

enx23 wrote:

 

@sbailey4

 

I count every single attempt (beta, release, build, burp, hickup, etc.) of Apple towards fixing or not fixing the issues of iPhone 4s!!! If one has a problem with my complaings about iPhone 4s and my counting please stop reading my posts!!

 

I see that one is really bothered that I count the betas of iOS when pointing that there is no iOS release which fixes the iPhone 4s issues. Maybe one should not be on this forum if one does not like what reads here or his/her believes are violated here!!

 

So, there have been EIGTH releases/betas of iOS 5.x.x which have not fixed the baterry issue and/or the static issue of iPhone 4s!!! How many more betas and releases of iOS 5 one needs in order to see that the battery issue and the static noise issue cannot be fixed by software updates? 20? Already iPhone 4s has been released last year and still even this year is no fix for the battery issue and/or static noise issue. How many years will passs until the issues of iPhone 4s will be fixed permanently? 2 years?

 

The vast majority of iPhone 4s are affected by the battery life isssue and/or static noise isssue which is a hardware issue. The number of posts and views inhere points towards this.

So far, they seem to be about even on wins and losses.  The confusing part is that one may win on an issue in one country, and lose in another.  The whole thing about software patents is that they offered for things that should NOT be protected.  The lawyers make a fortune, and the USERS pay, and get less.

1AppleADayNoWay wrote:

 

Thanks mate! I actually know about the whole litigation "portfolio" between the 2 divas of the smartphone industry. As the proceedings go forward we'll be able to have some intereting reading to help one fall asleep when going to bed!