The battery seems to be draining even faster after installing 5.01 than with 5.0. Is there some sort of hard reset or other voodoo I maybe missed in this process?
I'm seeing the same thing...it's dropping like crazy and I have nearly everything turned down. Hope they fix this quick!!
I'm also noticing that my phone's battery life is dropping too! i had 100% this morning and everything is turned off or at least on low settings and an hour after i got into work it was down to 70% and i had only opened up my email once!!! that's not right! what's going on???? Please fix this ASAP!
mine is actually getting better.. sorry you are having problems
yes 1% every minute you browse. so sad. thought this upgrade will fix this but getting worst 😟
I agree - I updated this morning and the battery drained 15% in an hour - worse than before. It was previously 10% per hour.
What's going on?
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I agree. In four hours, after updating yesterday, I am down to 66% and have done little to nothing except checking for email. I have everything turned off that I can possibly turn off. What goes with this. Thought the upgrade was supposed to fix the problem.
I too have had problems after the update. Before on 5.0 battery life was great. Now, by 4pm its less than 30%. I should have never updated.
Same problem here. Did up date last night ,left for work 5;ooam did not use phone after 2hrs looked at it and it had 30min usage,2hrs standby and 80 percent .Really crazy I only get about 5hrs usage a day until the update witch made it worse. 1st time iphone and really very disappointed
Yup, my iPhone4 drains at a ridiculously high rate since 5.0, and exactly the same if not worse on 5.0.1 ... I've done a full DFU restore and everything and even without restoring from a backup, completely fresh... with ALL options off.. even basic things that apple turns on.. and it still drains battery like NOTHING, doing the simplest tasks like texting.
My iPhone4 battery was incredible before 5.0 ... Best battery for a phone I've ever had. So mad.. Went from the best to WITHOUT QUESTION the absolute worst battery I have ever seen. It literally drains right infront of my eyes, 1% by 1% by 1%... Within minutes. =/
Mines been draining too - not so much in standby but with light use my usage stats have gone down significantly since the update ! Is there anyway of downgrading back to 5?
Thanks
Yup, mine got even worse too. Iphone 4 and its draining really bad. Its far worse then IOS5.
5.0.1 didnt fix my phone either, took it off the charger under an hour ago and i'm down to 86% already and havn't used it yet at this rate i will have to charge it again in 5 hrs, hope i'm not in the desert!!!!!!!
This is not good!
Last week I broke down and reset all my settings and restored from a backup. This seem to help standby time a little, but not a real fix. Last night I restored the phone as a new phone (not from a backup). It was quite a pain but something is definitely different. For 9.5 hours my standby has only drained 3%. This is much better! I'll have to see if the drain is any better during normal use.
I would never say this a cure for all ills (your mileage may vary) but it's an interesting start.
Also, if you plan on a wipe and restore as new, one thing made the process a little easier. I took screen shots of all my home pages before the wipe. That way when I started adding back my apps and folders I could mimic the locations of where they were before. I even opened folders and made screen shots of those so I would remember their content. Very helpful.
Updated earlier on, lost over 70% in a few hours, disgraceful.
Over the weekend Apple called me up directly to help me fix my battery life problem. (I was quite surprised and pelased that they were very proactive on this!) I had to install a program that monitored my battery life for a 24hr period. Then on Sunday they called me back to get the report and to uninstall the program so that my phone wasn't being monitored anymore. I have to admit that after i did a hard reset (turn off the phone using the top right button AND the home button) i did notice a huge difference in my battery life. I could play games, use apps and even in standby the battery life was good!
I'm sure this isn't the case for everyone but thank you Apple for being proactive in this issue!!!! Customer Service is the #1 tool in this new age and in my eyes this was a huge reason why i went to Apple in the first place. So thank you Apple for doing a great job! Hopefully my battery report that i gave you will help your engineers figure out what was going on.
5.01 made iPhone 4 battery life worse
