iOS 5.0.1 - Made my iPhone 4S battery performance worse!

Of course, tried with no SIM card too with everything else set as usual (some location services off, some system services off...regular stuff). In 9 hours standby/sleep my iPhone 4S 5.0.1 (9A406) spends less than 1% battery overnight, still 100% the next morning. That's superb battery as an iPod.

i forgot to tell, im using 5.1 beta to turn off 3G. The problem with 5.0.1 is that you cant turn 3G and 3G eats the battery out.

We must wait for the 5.1 final

Here's some of the things that may be happening:

- The "small" number of devices they're saying is affected by battery life issues is not that small;

- The devices have faulty hardware, not acknowladged by the company (they can keep dragging the "patch" talk on and on and on, while in fact they might be rewritting software to make it lighter (they're calling it "patch", hence adapting the software to the hardware limitations);

OR

- It might indeed be a problem in software (I want so badly to believe so), and they're in fact doing everything they can to solve the malfunctioning of this device.

I am not trying to start any conspiracy theories, but I' ve come think about these possibilities... What do you think?

just bought 4s 2 days ago, the first 2 days was **** day for my 4s cause it drains so fast, after reading some tips , on the 3rd day i charged my fone for 4hrs and the battery life prolong a littke, after i charge my fone 100% , ive used it several times, before i sleep ive checked the battery it was 71%- when i woke up 68%,,

as of now

60% BATTERY LEFT

USAGE : 3 HOURS, 31MINUTES

STANDBY : 16 HOURS , 7MINUTES

IS THIS GOOD OR NOT?

IM HAVING A BATTERY TROUBLE IN THE PAST 2 DAYS

Replaced my first 4S on warrenty due to speaker static issues my second 4S battery life was horrible! 5.0.1 made it worst! the real inconvenient but 100% succsessful souliotion was switching off automatic time zone + disabling the loacation services, The other convienient and 100% effective soulioution was the Samsung Galaxy S2 i paid less for more! I love it!!!!

Um well not exactly true. A couple of different instances to consider. If wi-fi sync is enabled it does seem to stay connected even while sleeping. But if that is disabled, you will see it drop from the router, also when you press the wake button you will briefly see 3G then quickly change to wi-fi and see it pop up on the router.

So it does drop wifi when it goes to sleep mode when wi-fi sync is disabled. Probably why some users see better battery when wi-fi is off . I suspect they have wifi and wifi sync on or off as a pair. Or of course if they are never near a wifi source and the phone is always looking for a connection and never finds one.

grikster wrote:

You can be sure that iPhone wifi doesnt drop when standby or sleep. Thats why you all should use the services that you need or turn them off to save battery.

I cant tell you that standby with all off just normal signal phone ON. In 9 hours standby/sleep my iphone 4s 5.0.1 spends 7/8 % battery, 1% for hour +-

Hi,

the best way to fix battery issue is to plug your phone in itunes and click restore. Yes it's going to remove everything but if you make a backup, you can get your things back easily, even more easily since iCloud exist.

In most of case, battery issue happens when you update your iPhone without restoring it.

This is my first I Phone, I have the 4S 16gb. I am not impressed at all. The battery life is beyond poor. I complained to AT & T and Apple with in the first day after I bought it. I was told there were NO problems. I complained so much they gave me a new phone. Same problem!!!

I went to Apple again................I was told to let the battery drain all the way down then recharge it. Doesn't do a thing....last night I had 100% charge...everything is turned off and when I got up 7 hours later,....the battery was down to 37%!!!

I can't see being able to do a thing with this......I bought it so I didn't have to carry my IPod....with a battery like this.....I have to what a waste!!! I hope Apple does something.

They fixed the issue in the version 5.1 Beta 3. I guess all we have to do is to wait until they releass it for everyone

One would think if they fixed it they should have released it immediately.........one would think.

Again I suspect that a software update will fix this problem, After getting my iPhone 4S I gave My old iPhone 4 to my brother it was running iOS 5 now 5.0.1 and it has no battery issues whatsoever.

Ok, well I confirm: iOS 5.1 Beta 3 really fix the battery issue, I just updated.

Yesterday when I went to sleep it was 91% and when I woke up still 91%.

I just SMS + Facebook + Facetime for 2 hours right now and my battery is 81%

look's great :D

Count yourself lucky. I only got 4 hrs of usage and 11 hours standby. How's that for bad? 4s iOS 5.01 bought last year nov. Brought it down to M1 Singapore and they said the battery's like that... :(

Hey guys, just checking to ask what are the first impression using iOS 5.1 release today.

Thanks

Battery life- the same, or even worse. 50%, 2hr usage and 5 hour standby. Still very bad :(