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

Hi

I have an iPhone 4S and the wife has my old iPhone 4. We installed iOS 5.0.1 just over 2 weeks ago what a BIG mistake!! Neither of us had battery issues before the update now we are littered with them :( 6 hours and batt is pretty much done.

My wife might as well not have an iPhone as she only uses email (1 yahoo account) the eBay app and Lloydstsb. Absolutey nothing else! Not even the camera lol.

I have tried everything stated here, removed email accounts, reset all settings, restored as new, turned off push, drained the battery still no joy. She don't have iCloud setup. I'm pulling my hair out with her constant moaning!! If she fully charges her phone before bed it's dead in the morning and has switched itself off.

My phone is slightly better but I'll be lucky to get 7 hours. I have tried all the above also. Fully charged it and then not used it at all, just left on the side and it's dead 7 hours later.

I went to the genius bar and despite me showing them screenshots of 5 hours standby 3 hours usage 9% and 4 hours standby 3 h 38 min usage 16%. They fobbed me off saying battery is fine. They did a restore from DFU, re-installs the firmware or something but still the next day the same!

Total joke I was such an apple fan but this is totally ruining it for me. My smug android mates are doing my head in!!

Any ideas? Its so odd that both phones have it esp my wife's one that is hardly put through its paces.

Cheers

Andy

Andy,

I and others have had success with the email thing and/or restore as new. BUT this no longer seems to work for everyone, a lot but not all.

Anyway there is another guy that thinks he has a temp fix and it seems to be working for many. I don't remember the guys handle on here but if you do a search for word in the title - "really" - it may come up.

If you don't have luck finding it this is essentially what he says do:

Remove all applications that did not come with the phone. Go into the background manager and close all open applications then do a hard reset i.e. Hold the power button and the home button until you see the "Apple Logo" then let go of the buttons and let it boot back to the home screen.

Then he adds back (one at a time) third party apps until the battery problem comes back... if you want to go to that much effort. He seems to think it is an application or maybe a couple that initiates the problem (???).

I might be inclined to not add back any third party apps until iOS 5.1 comes out which should be in a week or so, hopefully. The reason I say maybe hold off on the third party apps is part of the stuff that Apple released to developers besides the iOS 5.1 beta was something call "Xcode". I am not sure but I think that is part of the application development package... which if it is suggest to me that there may be a glitch in the new app compiler code - That is just a guess on my part.

Anyway you might want to try the remove apps and hard re-boot just to see what happens.

501 is worse, but i still get through the days only charging over the night. aprox. 3hrs max use and 11hrs stand by a day. 2 apps know my location all day, mail and facebook push and the odd phone call... siri off.

5.1 is a bigger upgrade, and will take more work, its only just being tested by developers, of course we can never be sure and speculation is not really allowed, but I would not get your hopes up this side of Christmas and new year.

Thanks George, unfortunately I have tired this to an extent. My wife Iphone didn’t have any apps on it apart from what it comes with, after a restore as new, then adding in the email account the problem is still there.

So I’m pretty sure it’s not app related, just crap buggy software I guess

😢

2 apps know your location all day? Which apps are they? If they are continually polling GPS or Wifi to know your destination then this will kill your battery rapidly.

iphone 4s 5.0.1: apps location off, siri off,ok...everything is off

battery status: 7 hours standby 20% down, after entering 5 contacts another 20% down *** is going on?

killhippie,

You are probably right about the early release of 5.1 but for a person that is having the infamous battery problem one has to hold on to hope - or consider giving up their beloved iPhone. The iPhone battery just can not handle some of the excessive current draws that people are experiencing without shorting the life expectancy of the battery.

As far as "speculation is not really allowed", well if it was not for speculation the site "AppleInsider" would have to shut down. If you wait for Apple to announce ANYTHING you will never know what they are going to do until they do it and... well, hope would be out the window.

You are probably right, nothing personal but I sure hope you are wrong and Apple decides to take pitty on their customers and give this issue a level 1 priority.

Call me an optimist. 😉

Andy,

Well the fact that it didn't fix your problem doesn't surprise me. I actually offered that guys suggestion with my fingers crossed.that it would work for you.

Ever since this problem started for me during the first iPhone 3S iOS update and thru the first update to the 4S the only thing that has worked for me, thank God, was a "Restore as new" without restoring from a backup. Then adding back email, and settings manually.

Andy, the preson that first suggested the restore as new, said be careful you don't bring the problem back when you frestore from a back up so I have never done that. For me it has worked. The hard part about this problem and I have been dealing with it since the 3S is for many it seems to work (for me it has) - BUT not for all - "Go Figure".

Andy, I will say one more thing, not to tell you what to do but more as a caveat - heavy battery drain and multiple recharges in a 24 hour period will significantly degrade your batter life expectance. I returned my first iPhone 3S for this problem, waited about two months and ordered another hoping they had the problem resolved - they didn't but for whatever reason the restore as new and manually adding back my email worked on the second 3S. It also worked on my new 4S.

My heart goes out to you and anyone that is being forced to deal with this problem and the fact that Apple's geniuses are playing it down as normal is really troubling to me. Oh - one other comment; I believe this is the first iPhone that has multiple component suppliers and multiple companies doing the assembly work, maybe this has something to do with the "FIX" working for some but not for all.

Hi all

I just thought I'd post you a quick update I've manged to fix both my wife's and my iPhone!!

Now I went though everything I said before restore as new, del email accounts and re-adding, reset settings, running with no apps etc etc. Nothing worked. I can't believe I wasted so much time on this but the mrs was doing my head in lol

In the end I switched off push email and set it to fetch manually! That's all it took on both phones!

Now instead of 6 hours I kid you not we getting 2 days! I never had 2 days even when I 1st got my old iPhone 4!

I urge you all just to give that a try it's worked so well for both the phones that I had problems with :0)

The other thing is if I switch it back on again I see the batt draining again so it's def that.

My wife only has one email account yahoo, not sure if the email provider makes any diff but I suspect not, it's prob something to do with the apple servers.

Cheers

Andy

Andy,

First let me say I am really glad you got it working and 'polling' verses push is not a really big compromise unless you like to use 'email' like instant text messaging.

The strange thing about this problem is for some it takes the 'restore as new' or 'delete email and manually re-install it' or set the email to poll.

"Long ago in a land far away" I was chatting with a guy in the Netherlands and he did the 'Poll' thing like you did and it worked for him also. Now keep in mind this was far enough back that it was the iPhone 3S or -4- I really don't remember. I don't remember because if you read this 4S thread you will get the idea that this problem is something new and peculiar to the 4S but for clarity it is not new to the 4S.

Anyway I kept bugging this guy to try the delete his email and re-install just to see if you could go back to 'Push'. Well he finally gave that a try and it worked for him and he was able to start using 'Push' again and his battery consumption stayed low. Also he was using MS Exchange mail from his company.

Anyway I am sure glad you posted back on your solution and that you were able to overcome the problem. And I tend to agree with you that the email provider doesn't make any difference, you either have the problem or you don't, I also use the att.net mail which is a Yahoo mail server. But for some reason I was able to eventually go back to 'Push' - Go Figure !!!

But the important part of your post is not only did you fix your problem but now you don't have to deal with your wife rasing the roof about her phone being a battery monster 😉 and now you can put the aspirins back in the medicine chest (or whatever your coping mechanism "drug of choice" was).

I meant speculation is not really allowed on this forum, as for 5.1 I'm not saying a word considering todays date 😉

I've been tackling this for a few days. I think I may have found some sort of solution. For all it took was to disable iMessage and FaceTime, along with the other little setting changes.

I also turn off cellular data when at home. Makes battery life so much better.

I know it's a band aid and ***** if you dont get unlimited SMS, but it worked for me.

Hopefully it helps someone.

Cheers

My phone has similar isues. But slightly got improved with Apple's iOS 5.0.1 9A406 patch. When I got my phone in hand, I immediately updated to 5.0.1 9A405. But that dint help. The new patch will not be pushed automatically. Check your Settings->General->About to see which update is the latest

Back up your data then do a restore and update. This should essentially fix the issue if it's not a serious hardware issue. But still I am not happy with the battery consumption.

Try this it workd for me

i faced the same situation but after searching over internet i'v found the solution to fix my battery life.

I hope this wil help you and every one who faces same battery drain issue
solution:
settings>general>date and time>set automatically>turned off. that's it.
set manually your location.

it solves the battery drain issue for me now i am 2 days 3 hours standby on 3% battery indicator.

form this video i got the solution

How to dramatically improve Iphone 4S Battery Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Sc091sDbU&feature=related