Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Moggers wrote:

 

I have to say I find the lack of progress on this a big black mark on apple. This is clearly a major shortcoming on the offer. No one could be happy with the battery life on the new 4s and for me personally it is the first time I be had to re assess my purchase of an apple product.

 

If apple was a car manufacturer there would have been a re call . As it is I feel I have wasted 500 bucks on a substandard device.

 

Occupy Cupertino I say

Need more information.  I would have expected IOS 5.1 before now, but otherwise, I am more than happy with my 4S.  Siri can be a bit rude, now and then, but otherwise, it works quite nicely.

My stepfather have this issue too. Apperently it was replaced 3 times until he got a new unit.

Conclusion: It's a hardware issue that needs to be corrected.

Some people are just too stubborn. Why keep settings you don't want on? There is no point at all. Do you want Angry Birds to check your location? No one does. I am not one of those users and I have some settings turned off, not all. Even Apple said turn off some settings you don't use to conserve battery and people insist on keeping on settins they don't use.

Your method of conserving battery is great: plugging in the iPhone in car during GPS tracking & when playing 3D games at home. This way, your battery won't die fast. I hope some people stop complaining about their battery when they have 3G on and open large websites & download games from the App Store, all from 3G. This has to drain the battery and it makes sense. Out of hundreds of apps I have on iTunes, I only have Twitter, Facebook, and Temple Run. I used Twitter and Temple Run but still didn't open Facebook at all (didn't set up) - I'm not a Facebook addict. I totally agree with you, rphunte42.

rphunte42 wrote:

 

AliAR wrote:

 

I don't think Apple will be able to fix the battery problem on the iPhone 4S. More than 3 months passed and there's still no official reports by Apple stating the fix. If they fix the problem, they're gonna f u ck up something else on the 4S. Looks like we'll have to bear with this for about a year or so. Apple f u cked up this time.

 

I think it depends on what you consider 'fixed'.  If the problem with users on fringe (or poor coverage) 3G areas, can be fixed with software, even if only a toggle to let the user select 2G, then I think that one will be fixed.  I don't see an OS change fixing the heat/static problem, as it is hardware.  And NOTHING they put in an OS update will account for users who aren't smart enough to turn off power using features they don't need, or won't use, just because they stubbornly contend that 'it should meet the specs'.  As for the main problem, that of having everything turned ON by default, I don' t think they will change that either. 

It seems that most users have enough sense to use a smartphone, and know that they need to tailor the phone to their needs by making changes to settings to accomodate they needs, while conserving battery power.  As long as the phone will run from the time I get up (2AM) until the time I go to bed (8PM), and allow me to use the phone as I wish without needing to recharge during the day, I am more than happy.  Also, were I planning to use the GPS features in a tracking mode, I would plug it into the car's power.  If I were at home, and wanted to do 3D gaming, I would also plug it in the AC power.  This is just reasonable, and rational.  Feel free to disagree.

I have to say I find the lack of progress on this a big black mark on apple. This is clearly a major shortcoming on the offer. No one could be happy with the battery life on the new 4s and for me personally it is the first time I be had to re assess my purchase of an apple product.

If apple was a car manufacturer there would have been a re call . As it is I feel I have wasted 500 bucks on a substandard device.

Here is Europe the 4 s is getting a very bad name - apple will suffer reputational damage because of this . They need to come out publicly and say what they are going to do

Occupy Cupertino I say

i purchased my iphone 4. 3 month ago

rphunte42 wrote:

 

xenocea wrote:

 

Simply atrocious, so sick of the pathetic battery life.

 

 

You got through a whole day, with pretty heavy usage, and you still have 22% remaining.  Just what are your expecations?

It still falls short compared to my old iphone 4. Under similar circumstances of use, my old phone could go a day with between 13 to 15 hours of usage.

Call me cynical but please understand my disapointment as a consumer to see inferior battery life from a new product compared to a previous generation. 

I was having the same prob! It was pathetic! i googled battery problem on iphone 4s and followed a couple of differant tip lists to better the battery life, the two things that might have really helped were resetting network settings and removing email accts, rebooting  then resettig/reinstalling settings and email accts. Also icloud sync is probably a real drain. Hope this helps!

You have another 22% left and I think you can pull another hour or 2, averaging your usage with the percentage drop....You are very close to the specifications....

An Apple a day no longer keeps the doctor away it just keeps your dollars you spend on the 4s**t away. Call Apple and keep asking to talk to supervisors and finally get to an engineering super and they will tell you like they told me(there is a problem but it's still a great phone and on and on but never did any of them offer a fix or when asked about a fix in the future they were honest and stated that not to their knowledge, but kept saying it was a great phone anyway) Lets face it look at the thousands on here and the other tens of thousands at other sites with this problem and no word from the gutless Apple Co. Other than the stupid Apple trolls on here singing the praises of Apple and wanting you to be proud to own a Smart Phone paper weight no one else is saying how great the 4s is. This Apple for sure is riddled with worms and rotten to the core.

I found a solution for my Iphone 4S. I disabled Siri and turned off the phone. After i turned on the phone and Siri. Since i haven't phantom usage.

Upload you phone stats' screenshot when its at 10 percent....

Pavan Kulkarni wrote:

 

Upload you phone stats' screenshot when its at 10 percent....

how do I upload the usage screenshot to this board like other do?

Hi Everyone!

I'd like to see data like these (taken from my 2 years old 3GS with iOS 5.0.1), but my 4S is just lightyears away in battery life. Wifi was on during the whole period, I've made calls, wrote messages, mails on the 3GS, other battery sucker things (like GPS, BT, mobile data) were off. Applying the same settings on my 2 months old 4S, its battery lasted about 20 hours. I'm waiting for a REAL solution given by Apple, but I'm losing faith now if there will be any. I looked up iOS version history on Wikipedia and realized, that after the iphone 4 launch the basebands' version number didn't grow for a while, and taking a look at iphone 4s basebands: it even got an own NEW one with 9A406! I bet, the problem is with the BB. Getting back the 3G toggle, and the fact, that the jailbreak community failed to solve the battery problem tells it too...

@Bestco: In the text box, where you are typing there is a camera icon on the top, click on it, and you can browse the photo you want to upload...

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Sincerely, 

"Stupid Apple Troll"

PS. For the record I dont care if you own a phone period. Just here to try and help others who are asking for help to get the most of their iPhones.

Vomgottsland wrote:

 

and no word from the gutless Apple Co. Other than the stupid Apple trolls on here singing the praises of Apple and wanting you to be proud to own a Smart Phone paper weight no one else is saying how great the 4s is. This Apple for sure is riddled with worms and rotten to the core.

Moggers wrote:

 

I have to say I find the lack of progress on this a big black mark on apple. This is clearly a major shortcoming on the offer. No one could be happy with the battery life on the new 4s and for me personally it is the first time I be had to re assess my purchase of an apple product.

 

If apple was a car manufacturer there would have been a re call . As it is I feel I have wasted 500 bucks on a substandard device.

 

Occupy Cupertino I say

Not so.  I an quite happy with my battery life.  My phone is at 75% after average (for me) usage, and has been off AC since 3AM.  It's currently nearly 6PM.  I would be able to get through at least one more day, and probably two.  For those who have problems, see some of the suggestions in previous messages.