5.0.1 update--even worse battery life

Have iPhone 4, since update to 5.0.1. battery drops faster than before! Not so significant but a little bit faster.

Apple,,...we asked an upgrade, not a downgrade! So, go back to work an solve that problem, we are waiting!

Anyone contacted apple regarding this update....... Anyone know the email address for tech support... My 4s dropped to 38 percent.... After 6 hours of light usage not even a single video played.....

lau1247 wrote:

Mine worked fine again (So far), I originally posted on first page of the thread.. I have to get to work so only manage to read up to page 11 of this thread.. If someone already have the same solution then happy days..

I just drained the battery completely flat by turning everything on and then just plug it in to charge until full (Don't think it matter if the phone turn on because when you drain it completely it turn on when you get to certain charge like 3%)..

Anyway 8 hours and 30 mins later with location services turned on, it is at 97%

Could you elaborate your setup? Are you really on iOS5/5.01?

Probably some screenshots on ur phone would be nice. The usage page.

The timer did not reset because I haven't full charged it. So the statistics seemed overblown.

I think it'll be great if people with iOS5/5.01 start posting their usage screenshots for community reference.

Just in case anyone wants to know how the telco is hidden, I've turned on airplane mode.

===Just in case people who do not know how to screenshot wanting to try this====

Hold power button, followed by home button.

Tested my 4S today. Charged to the absolute maximum using Battery Doctor ap.

Light usage - 3 short phone calls (total time about 10 mins), a bit of surfing with safari and anout 20mins of a game. Most of the time I was just checking the usage screen. I closed down all aps completely after use.

End result:

Apple stated battery life:

Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)
Standby time: Up to 200 hours
Internet use: Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 40 hours

Actual.
Iphone 4S with Ios 5.0.1

Total: 8hrs 41mins
Usage: 3hrs 10 mins.

That means that the battery drained 1% in just under 2 mins of screen time.

The last 15 mins I watched drain with only the system tab open (closed all the other aps). It did not seem to make a difference as it was still dropping at the same rate.

Same here... very disappointed...

OK how about this then. When I got home last night I took the following screen shot before I updated to iOS 5.0.1 :-

Now this is the screen after being on charge all night after updating :-

So on charge all night and yet somehow I've managed to use 6% battery even when still plugged into AC!!!!

Come on Apple who tested this update cause it's rubbish.

It was bad enough after ios5 now it's terrible, if my car had the same problem the garage would fix it but apple just send out buggier bug fixes ,wish I'd never bothered updating to this crock of crap, come on apple, fix it or replace it

I upgraded to 5.0.01 on my 3Gs last night. Rubbish is all I have to say. SO bad in fact that I did a clean install and set up as a new phone. I then turned off all location services , bluetooth etc and left it in standby at 100% until the morning. Woke up and the battery was down to 92%. What is going on here. I had no problems with 5.0 and nw regret supposedly upgrading to a this fix.

Apple, you are seriously loosing the faith of your customers.

IP4S, no significant battery problem before the update. Fully chanrged and updated last night. Woke up this morning and found battery dropped to 94% with 10hr standby.

Whatsapp my wife who is overseas and tell her about not to update to IOS 5.01. Then she called and facetime me and try to understand what happen. Here is the BEST part.

After 5 mins of facetime, battery dropped to 86%, a 8% dropped.

Mr Jobs would CRY if he were still here to see his team pull out this rubbish update.

I am "lucky" to find there are many people like me having the same issue. So hopefully a 5.02 will come out soon. Enough said.

😐 Wow that's pretty sad

GingerNinja wrote:

OK how about this then. When I got home last night I took the following screen shot before I updated to iOS 5.0.1 :-

Now this is the screen after being on charge all night after updating :-

Also if you were to look at the diagnostics and usage logs you could send to apple, theyve actually added more of these battery performance logs. Hope they really can devise a fix out of this. I never had a phone with such poor battery life...

Hoping that more replies equals after response. Just saying " me too" when it comes to horrible battery life on 5.0.1.

Was 40% last night at 10pm. Put it down, picked it up at 7:00 and had 6%. Had nothing running, all apps closed. This is unacceptable.

Btw, it's an iPhone 4

Dare I wade into this conversation? 🙂

I've noted the controversy in various media outlets, and thought I would share my experience.

I don't know if there is a particular problem with the iPhone 4S or not. I am using the iPhone 4. Since iOS 5 came out practically at the same time as the iPhone 4S there seems to be some confusion as to whether the battery drain problem is a software or hardware problem.

I can't speak to any special iPhone 4S hardware problems, but when I first installed iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 it became immediately obvious to me there were battery drain issues. I thought it might have to do with "all this iCloud stuff" and then saw the various media reports pop up.

What I experienced before iOS 5 was a typical "Usage" time of between 7 and 8 hours over a "Standby" time of 1 or 2 days. Testing it to max one time I got 8 hrs 2 minutes of Usage over almost exactly 48 hrs of Standby.

After iOS 5 was installed I noticed this immediately dropped to around 5 hours of Usage over the course of less than a day and I was having to charge the phone more frequently, and noticed the battery dropping during Standby even when I wasn't obviously doing anything.

Many media outlets (CNet, etc.) posted a work-around to what seemed to be an iOS 5 software bug, and it seemed to make common sense to me, so I did, what many other people did:

1. Inside Settings > Location Services > System Services I turned off the last three (most useless to me) settiings: Location-Based iAds, Setting Time Zone and Traffic.

2. I also glanced through the individual location services itself and turned off those which didn't seem important to me, such as Safari and PayPal, etc.

After that, with no iPhone resets or restores or other fancy stuff, I saw my battery usage pop right up again. At the moment, my Usage reports 4 hours 33 minutes and Standby 22 hours 30 minutes. The battery is at 35%, so that multiplies out to an expected Usage at this rate of 420 minutes = 7 hours at a Standby of 1 day 10 hours. That was also fairly typical for me before iOS 5. If it were over just one day, it would probably be closer to 8 hours of Usage.

And I should add, I see very very little drain when the iPhone is just sitting there doing nothing. Overnight while sleeping it might drop just a couple of percent.

So anyway, to me, so far, it seems the culprit are those Location Services > System Services settings.

But, as I mentioned, I am still using the iPhone 4, so can't speak to whether there is, additionally, some special hardware problem with the iPhone 4S.

doug

p.s. A postscript - after writing this note I used the iPhone 4 some more and the battery has gone done from 35% to 34% but the Usage from 4 hours 33 minutes to 4 hours 50 minutes. So that is a drain of just 1% after 17 more minutes of Usage. That multiplies out to 7.25 hours of expected Usage at this rate. So it doesn't seem to be draining excessively.

I would strongly recommend that anyone whose iPhone 4s was reasonably ok with Os5 hold off updating. I just went from 3s to 4s phone and was looking forward to better battery. Initially, it was ok (still faster drain than expected). I called apple and they gave me some tips to improve and told me to wait for update. I did it late last night. Now, instead of 100 percent charge it only goes to 97. Phone was hot after I unplugged - and 2 1/2 hours later it's still warm. Most troubling- after this little time, and just minimal web surfing, no videos, and no phone calls - and on wifi, not 3G- my battery life is now 65 percent. Not sure what to do- unbelievable!