Iphone 4s Battery life WORSE with upgrade. Anyone else seeing same?

menace690,

OK - did you do anything beside get rid of mobile-me?

Have you tried the delete email accounts and/or restore as new?

Fixing the "Mobile-Me" issue may have only taken care a modest conflict that Apple is well aware of and as I mentioned somewhere along the line while playing with my phone received a message from apple about the potential for conflict if I left Mobile-Me active on my phone or computer. I apologize for not remembering when and where I got that message but at the time I was adding iOS5 to my iPhone 4 and then the next day received my iPhone 4S the next day. So when and where is a little cloudy.

But - I will put myself in the line of fire AGAIN and strongly recommend delete your email accounts, turn the phone off and aback on and manually add back your email accounts. If that doesn't do it a restore as new most likely will but from what I am hearing most don't have to go as far as the restore as new without restoring from a backup.

I have been doing this ever since my iPhone 3S after an iOS update [there is just nothing new about this batter drain problem, it has been around for a long time after an iOS update even though Apple is acting like this is just a total surprise to them] and being an extremist at heart I do the restore as new. I suppose for me if the email trick works a clean wipe of the phone is better, you know if a little does a little good more is better. OK - did I mention my ongoing fight with OCD. Not LOL

PS - I make the claim that Apple is acting like this is some new unexpected surprise and some poster in this thread was very pleased when Apple contacted him directly and had him run some diagnostics and return the log files to Apple Tech/Eng Support. Well I will tell you they directly contacted me and several others I know requesting the same thing for the same problem back on the iPhone 3S. I am only posting this comment to make the point that they are still working on a solution for a problem that existed on the 3S now on the 4S, acting like they are surprised and have never seen this before. My point is if you don't take some action to resolve it your self... well don't hold your breath waiting for Apple to do it for you albeit I think their heart is in the right place but on this issue it appears that Apple's right hand doesn't know what the left is doing. Boy am I going to catch flak for this little piece of poetry. Ugh!

HolmanGT

I deleted the email account and install back manually plus reset all settings. Battery almost drain then full recharged. The results is below

3G is on

Battery left 35%

Usage 3 hours for games

Standby 12 hours 20mins

Before do all the steps is

Battery 17%

Usage 5 hours for video

Standby 24 hours

3G is on

Do you think is improve?

Holman,

Sorry I took forever to reply but I just wanted to give more info then "the battery is doing better"

here is what I did..

I didn't delete any of the email accounts

all I did is go under Settinges -> General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings

after that because I only had less then 15% of battery, I just let it drain and then fully charged it.

Unplugged the phone after fully charged at 3:30am

now it's 11:37am

and here is the battery stat:

Battery at 65%

Phone Usage: 4h 33

Internet: 3h 53

Standby: 195h

3G is On

Thank you very much for all your help 🙂

HolmanGT wrote:

menace690,

OK - did you do anything beside get rid of mobile-me?

Have you tried the delete email accounts and/or restore as new?

Fixing the "Mobile-Me" issue may have only taken care a modest conflict that Apple is well aware of and as I mentioned somewhere along the line while playing with my phone received a message from apple about the potential for conflict if I left Mobile-Me active on my phone or computer. I apologize for not remembering when and where I got that message but at the time I was adding iOS5 to my iPhone 4 and then the next day received my iPhone 4S the next day. So when and where is a little cloudy.

But - I will put myself in the line of fire AGAIN and strongly recommend delete your email accounts, turn the phone off and aback on and manually add back your email accounts. If that doesn't do it a restore as new most likely will but from what I am hearing most don't have to go as far as the restore as new without restoring from a backup.

I have been doing this ever since my iPhone 3S after an iOS update [there is just nothing new about this batter drain problem, it has been around for a long time after an iOS update even though Apple is acting like this is just a total surprise to them] and being an extremist at heart I do the restore as new. I suppose for me if the email trick works a clean wipe of the phone is better, you know if a little does a little good more is better. OK - did I mention my ongoing fight with OCD. Not LOL

PS - I make the claim that Apple is acting like this is some new unexpected surprise and some poster in this thread was very pleased when Apple contacted him directly and had him run some diagnostics and return the log files to Apple Tech/Eng Support. Well I will tell you they directly contacted me and several others I know requesting the same thing for the same problem back on the iPhone 3S. I am only posting this comment to make the point that they are still working on a solution for a problem that existed on the 3S now on the 4S, acting like they are surprised and have never seen this before. My point is if you don't take some action to resolve it your self... well don't hold your breath waiting for Apple to do it for you albeit I think their heart is in the right place but on this issue it appears that Apple's right hand doesn't know what the left is doing. Boy am I going to catch flak for this little piece of poetry. Ugh!

I happen to be the "poster in this thread" that "was very pleased when Apple contacted" me directly...

Im no engineer but all of the phones you mentioned with issues were all different models and ones that in each iteration allowed more and more things to be done with the handheld computer that also happens to make cellular phone calls...

Apple is not perfect, no tech company is, but the one thing IMO that they do better than anyone in ANY industry is taking care of the customer, yes we pay a premium for said service but none the less, nobody does it better...

I will deal with my battery issues until they find a fix, which I have every confidence in them doing, we all certainly have the ultimate choice, just dont buy the product(s) in question...

I for one, after being a lifelong Apple hater have been turned into an Apple customer to the point where there is practically nothing Apple makes that I dont have....I choose to buy Apple, if at the end of the day they dont make me or anyone else happy with our purchases we always have other options, but those are nowhere near the TOTAL experience Apple gives...just my two cents...

derrickljy,

Are you saying the list of item that has the 24 hours of standby time was before you did the "Delete the email acounts" trick. i.e. it is worse after the fix then before?

If that is what you are saying the is the very first time I have ever heard of the fix making things worse.

Please tell me I am reading your post backwards.

HolmanGT

Yes it is worse after doing the trick. I will try again delete email account trick then reset all settings. Do I need the drain the battery till it turn off itself then only full recharge?

Ash,

First - your numbers look pretty good to me and I hope that your current battery capabilities at least meat your minimum expectations. That said your welcome.

PS - if all that usage was 3G and not WiFi that is probably about as good as it gets. Maybe Apples 5.0.2 update will bring it up to the 10 hours usage and 40 hours of standby like the article claims. I'll admit I am a little skeptical but that is my nature. Not that I have any reason for being skeptical about these companies claims i.e. at&t advertise their 4G network and sells 4G phones, and fails to tell you there is only 6 cities in the US that they have 4G towers - Ugh! they must have learned that type of honesty from some politician.😉

Ash, have a great day.

derrickljv,

Boy that is really strange.

No you don't have to cycle the battery. Actually I would recommend you don't do that and I would also suggest that doing a reset of all the settings is not required either.

This problem generally appears to be related to email account using push and/or auto sync to the "iCloud".

HolmanGT

Ya very strange. Ok I will try again to delete email account and manually reinstall back now

10% battery life, usage 4 hours 31mins, standby 15 hours 49 mins

Recharge battery now cause left only 9%. Will monitor tomorrow

HolmanGT

For your information I already turned off the iCloud

Thanks

NyVetteGuy,

Ouch! - I must have thru my flamboyant posting style touched a nerve. Let me say if that is the case it was inadvertent.

If you look at my post in this thread you will see that I have said things like "once an iPhone user always and iPhone user", "their heart is in the right place", "the fact that they contact people directly shows they are trying", "they do monitor these posts for potential problems"... etc.

The point that I was being perhaps being a little melodramatic about was that if a person has the worst case battery drain issues you see listed here they should do something about it as soon as possible. That "Very heavy drain" that you see some people commenting on is potentially very damaging to the battery - l-ion Polymer batteries absolutely don't like heavy drains and/or excessive heat.

My comments were meant to motivate people to get the problem under control before they permanently damage their battery. And as far as Apple contacting you directly, well I think that is really great.

Sorry if I offended you.

derrickljy,

On my phone, which is doing about as well as my 3S and iPhone 4 did. I actually went into the iCloud account which was turned off and deleted it. All that background syncing seemed very hard on my battery from the days of MobileMe thur iCloud. I just sync to my Outlook and iTunes, for me that pretty much takes care of my sync needs.

Anyway - Derrick, you only have one more thing to try and not much to lose (maybe ten minutes of your time) and that is to delete your email accounts, turn the phone off and back on and manually re-install your email.

Such a simple thing and you stand an excellent chance of curing your battery problem and then be able to sit back and wait for Apple to release 5.0.2, worry free about damaging your battery.

PS - When I say curring the problem, I mean the problem, not whatever the heck it is about iOS updates that initiates the problem.

Holman,

Yes you were right. That day I was on Wifi, my bad, here is another better update on the battery stat:

I unplug the phone from the charger at 9am this morning and I was out all day on 3G listening to music, chat and playing games. It's now 8:42pm so almost 12 hours.

Battery at 50%

Phone 3h 30

Internet 3h 00

Music 20h 00

Video 5h 00

Standby 150h 00

Again thank you very much for all your help even though I didn't read the thread before posting my problem 🙂

Ash,

I couldn't be happier for you, actually I think you are getting better mileage out of your phone than I am getting from mine. One difference maybe that I never shut off WiFi or BlueTooth- I hate holding my phone up to my ear for an hour long phone call and always have my bluetooth headset at the ready or when driving I switch to my bluetooth speaker phone.

I am waiting to see it the rumored iOS-5.0.2 will give us a little more battery milage allthough I don't see how, maybe they plan on having "Penn and Teller" do the programming - I don't mind a little magic if that is what it takes.

Enjoy - and we will see you back here when 5.0.2 comes out. 😁

Ash,

Oops, maybe a little bit down the road before we see iOS-5.0.2

Apple allegedly delays iOS 5.0.2 to address memory leaks