5.0.1 update--even worse battery life

Encrypted11 wrote:

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.

Hey Encrypted11,

Yep iphone is telling me IOS 5.0.1.. Under normal setup it is only running 3G, siri and location services and half bright screen when I was having issue.. but when I try to drain the battery, i speed up the process but turning on wifi and brightness of the screen to full until it conk out..

Will get the screen shot up later, going out for dinner and I'm in a rush.

I see that someone mentioned after my post that they drain it down to 5% and do a full charge but didn't see significant improvement.. So far for me after 19 hours it is at 88% which is significant improvement over yesterday after the update..

I think iphone just need to 'realign' itself sort of speak.. try it out and let me know how it goes

I'm having the exact same problem, dropped 70% in less that 10 from hardly any use

Barely had any battery issues for a full 24 hours' use with everything turned on and since the 5.0 and 5.0.1 update I drop 50% of battery in about 90 minutes just sitting on my desk. Good thing I can charge in the car and at work but I can't use this for travel - no way.

My battery is lasting less than 5 hours unplugged and I barely used it today. This update is terrible. I call shenanigans.

After doing the over the air update to iOS 5.0.1 my battery went from BAD (on 5.0) to much WORSE!

I can actually watch the percentage drop with nothing running, connected to Edge only, no Bluetooth, no music playing, And this is a 2 month old iPhone 4 replacement, so it should have a very healthy battery life right? Well

I guess now with these last 2 updates it's shortening my battery's full

Capacity drastically

Can Apple really give us another update so soon again? I doubt it.

I agree. I wasn't dissatisfied before with the battery life but I installed the upgrade anyways what the ****, it couldn't hurt.

WRONG!!!!!

If I set up as a new phone to deal with this battery issue, will all my apps and contacts be saved in iCloud? The other stuff I don't care about.

iPhone 4 8g using an iMac, but things are backed up to iCloud, not computer.

I actually received my 4S the day the 5.0.1 was released and updated immediately. My initial charge was from about 20% to 100%. I unplugged the phone the next morning at around 6am and by about 4:30pm, it was down to 0% and shut itself off. That was a lot shorter battery life than my 2+ year old Motorola Droid so I was worried. I let it run down to 0% because of a suggestion I found elsewhere stating that this should improve battery life. I recharged to 100% and unplugged last night around 7pm before heading out. That battery is at 89% after 21 hours of moderate usage. That usage includes photos, videos, tweets, and Facebook posts while at a concert last night and light-moderate usage throughout the day today.

The full discharge/full recharge seems to have worked for me.

Adding my complaint... Got a replacement iPhone 4 the day before iOS 5 release. Battery on previous iPhone 4 was great. 12+ hours on weekends (I'm home, wifi, alerts only). Upgraded to iOS 5 and noticed degraded battery life. Not horrible, but still not as before update and I had my previous phone since February. Updated to iOS 5.0.1 and quick drain of battery. I'm donw to 70% yesterday before 10:00 a.m. Phone in use unplugged since 7:30 a.m. and using 3G as always when I am away from home. Phone drained to 40% by 3:00 p.m. yesterday. Usually don't see that until 5:00 or a bit later if I don't plug in right away after gettng home. Today at home I unplugged my phone at 7:30 a.m., I'm on wifi, my phone drained to less than 20% by 2:30 p.m. It appears to be draining faster on wifi! Seriously, Apple, fix this!

Just got my phone a week ago. Had pretty darn good battery life.

Then a update was installed on Thursday.

Now the battery life *****

I want to go back to the old version.

The latest version is eating my battery life to death !

I don't mean to pile on here, but it's important that Apple hear from its users. I downloaded the version 5.01 of IOS and my battery performance has dropped off dramatically. With extremly light usage it's not lasting even 2 full days. Before the upgrade, I was getting 3 days of use with moderate use. Ouch.

My battery life wasn't all that great prior to the update, but now after updating, add me to the list of those whose battery life is worse. I'm a big fan of Apple products, but waiting for a fix on this issue is getting a bit ridiculous. I know that there are significant differences between the iPhone 4 and 4S, but my 4S's battery charge is dropping like a rock in a pond compared to my wife's non-updated iPhone 4 and that's with both phones just sitting on a table for several hours and not being used. Judging by the number of people with the same issue, I'm wondering if Apple should stop looking at a software fix and start considering that perhaps the batteries are defective.

Oh boy, I have the same issue after upgrading to 5.0.1, the 4s never fully charges to 100%, a few days ago, I was getting 93%, then today (this morning) it was 92%. Whereas, before the upgrade, it would charge to 100%.

I was happier without the upgrade. Apple needs to fix this for too!😟

I have an ipad2 and can confirm tat the 5.0.1 update is a complete disaster.

Since updating last night I clearly see my ipad drpping 1% by the minute or so while doing nothing othercthan browsing and emails.

With 5.0 I had no major problem and in fact I could go on for at least a couple of days w/o recharging.

How can I revert back to 5.0 or even earlier?

I know there are 24 pages of comments already, but thought I'd add my two cents. iPhone 4, with iOS 4 it ran for two days with location, bluetooth and lots of usage. iOS 5.0 killed the battery power, even with location services, notifications, wifi and time zone switched off. Upgraded to 5.01 after completely deleting all information (twice), restoring, hard resetting, etc. and still with only a few location services and no notifications, I'm losing 1% about every 10 minutes. Agree with earlier poster - how do I go back to iOS 4?