iOS 5.01 fixes battery issues

My 4S was at 67% after sitting in Standby for 9 hours overnight after updating to 5.0.1. It had a full charge when I went to bed. Using 5.0 it would have less than 50%after 8 hours. It's not great but it is an improvement.

My 4s is at 37% after being off the charger for at least a day. After the update I drained the battery enitrely and recharged it and my battery life has been better than before for the most part.

That's not good. Try system app lite and see what your idle CPU % is.

Something must be running to use all that power.

my idle is 3-5%.

I'm going to try complete drain of battery and full recharge.

Turning ping restriction off doesn't seem to save much battery.

Yeah,the update is pretty bad. I feel like my phone now drains power faster then before. I woke up and unplugged my phone from the charger and automatically lost 2%. Now the drainage seems 1-2% every 10-15 mins with light use.

Well, I have definitely noticed that my battery life is ONLY affected when I am actually using the iPad. So, my issue is not as bad as some who's battery drains while in standby. However, while using, I can watch my battery life drain 5% in about 20 mins of use. So, 6hrs and 40 mins to drain a battery. Is that normal?

Since "upgrading" to IOS 5, I now call my my 32 GB iPhone 3GS my iCrash 3GS-ucks. Battery life is dismal and it crashes constantly (5 to 20 times per hour during use) for what appears to be lack of memory. Even when running only one program free memory is as low as 40 K! and many times its down to 2.3 K! I'm sure when it crashes that even that last 2.3 K is used up. I tried shutting off then turning it back on, I reset it by holding the Sleep/Wake button & Home button simultaneously and finally did a Reset and Restore as new. All I got for my trouble was the loss of all new data (contacts, notes, emails and more) since my last computer sync and all pictures that were on the phone. It doesn't matter what I'm doing when it crashes. It crashes during phone calls, while reading or writing texts, watching YouTube videos, when I'm checking the settings and more. For all the Microsoft bashing Apple & their supports do, they' actually have all the problems they accuse Microsoft of but two-fold. Support from Apple is worthless. They created the problem with their product but they want to charge me money if I want their help. BULL!!!!!!!!! Besides those problems, Apple neutered the 3GS w/ IOS 5 by preventing Siri from working on it now. Again, that's BULL!!!!!!! Apple is obviously trying to force users to spend more money and change phones to the 4S. I've got news, proprietary garbage like that that Apple pulls all the time will cause users to change phones all right, change to a different provider altogether. Don't get me started on their non-user-replaceable battery, lack of USB or HDMI ports and no SD card slot. Chrysler tried the proprietary path along with planned obselence on great products and it forced them into bankruptcy. Apple will eventually hit the same wall. Android is looking better all the time. I can get a good Android phone with an UNLIMITED Internet/Data/Text plan from Virgin Mobile @ $30/month or Republic Wireless for $19/month! Then I'll just cancel my iPhone's $80/month AT&T plan and tether it through the Android phone by WiFi for Internet access for free so Apple doesn't get any more of my money. Then once I get Android apps to replace the iPhone apps, I'll use my iPhone for target practice and say good by to Apple forever.

I am happy the update so far. The battery life is better then before, but I am still testing.

5.0.0 was great for me now with 5.0.1 its dead before lunch where before it had no problems going into the next day. Anyone know how to get back to 5.0.0??? Help this *****!

Sorry to say, iOS 5.0.1 battery issues om my iPhone 4 are worse for me. With iOS5, I could shut down background apps and limit location services and keep problem at bay. iOS5.0.1, even with those fixes is burning through 1% per hour -- and that is with making no calls or calling no data. Give me my old OS, please.

0:00 - 7:30 full recharging off-line - 100% battery

RESET IPHONE (power + home)

7:30 turn on-line iPhone 4S, localization on, wifi on.

7:30 - 21:30:

20 min conv.UMTS 3G

10 min conv. Viber,

15 min playing Asphalt 6 adrenaline,

60 min web,

driving 120 km 20 min navigation GPS Waze,

5 min Sky news 24 web-tv,

reading all that mail,

some photos and much other!

21:30 - battery 19%.

NOT BAD, I think!

N.B. Before upgrade, the same using, after 2 hours power on 80-85% and less than 20% at 19:00

Day 1 of 5.01

On stand by since 8.00 am so 14.5

45 texts 15 of which are long

Half a dozen email received

Active notifications on three formula 1 apps, 4 news apps, 4 social network apps, weather app and a couple of other apps all receiving notifications.

All location services on

Auto brightness on and set to just over halfway

1.45mins of audio book through Bluetooth car kit

61 minutes of talk time,

Wireless and BT on all the time

15 mins of face booking and 28mins of browsing.

Writing this post another 15 mins

Battery level now just reached 20%

5.01 successful!

By the way it's a 4s and that time using audiobook is 1hour 45mins

I remeber the same problem one year ago with upgrading my iphone 3g to ios 4.

And now its my IPhone 4 with ios 5.0.1 and the battery is much worser than the 3g with ios 4...

Apple doesn't learn anything and offers buggy updates for immature devices.

My next Phone wont be an apple, its to dangerous and unreliable?..

Day 1 of 5.01 UPDATED

On standby since 8.00 am and is now 2.05 am so that is over 18 hours

72 texts 23 of which are long

Over a dozen email received and four sent

Active notifications on three formula 1 apps, 4 news apps, 4 social network apps, weather app and a couple of other apps all receiving notifications.

All location services on

Auto brightness on and set to just over halfway

1.45mins of audio book through Bluetooth car kit

72 minutes of talk time,

Wireless and BT on all the time

35 mins of face booking and 28mins of browsing.

Reading this forum, Writing and updating this post another 28 mins

Using the torch app for 6 mins to find something in the car.

10 mins playing Doom on full brightness to try to run down last couple of percent of battery.

Battery level now just reached 1%

5.01 successful! I'd say it's a huge improvement.

FUrther more the same can be said for my iPad 2 3g which I have been watching iplayer and TV on for over 6 hours and I'm at 66% of charge now!

I ran the update on my iPhone 4 yesterday and have been glued to my charger for the last 2 days. I was so happy with my iPhone since I have had it but it is useless when it becomes a paper weight after only a couple of hours. For the reputation Apple has it is very upsetting that this has happened! There is obviously a problem Apple! FIX IT! Why should I have to stop running everything and turn off services when this wasn't an issue before! Please Apple get it together!