Q: 5.0.1 update--even worse battery life

o meu também, depois que atualizou está gastando mais bateria.

Yeah I spent about 2 hours on the phone with them. They told me my battery was faulty, we went through some troubleshooting and it didnt help. So its back to Apple it goes, they are giving me a new one.

56,000 views and over 1,000 replies. Thats a lot of bad phones. Must be the phone. But it isn't. Phone was fine on 5.0.

yeah. mine was OK on 5.0 but I restored and I think its better now so

It is a syncing error loop. My contacts are syncing flawessly again between my devices and iCloud, and yes, the battery stopped draining, which is the main topic here.

I followed instructions from buxbuster (look for his workaround in the thread link below) and an additional BIG step to restore contacts and syncing, as seen in a MacRumors forum.

This is what I did:

1. Make a backup of your Address Book, using the vCard option (or both, it doesn’t hurt). Save it for later.

2. In your iPhone, delete iCloud account. When it asks, accept both: delete AND delete from my iPhone.

3. Reset network settings. The iPhone will restart, then will ask you to unlock the SIM card.

4.Turn Wi-Fi on.

5. Add the iCloud account again.

That’s for Buxbuster’s workaround. For some, it might work just like that. My iPhone repopulated from iCloud after step 5, but I still had that “server error” on iCloud. I had to do some extra steps, since my Mac was not syncing to iCloud and couldn’t edit anything on my Mac or iCloud. Syncing back had to be fixed, too. If not, the syncing loop would continue from my iPhone, and the battery would drain awfully again.

1. In System Preferences -> iCloud, I turned Contacts off. I chose “keep on My Mac” those contacts, but I got an empty Address Book after a while. And a few minutes later, iCloud contacts were empty and my iPhone also. It is scary at first! Now, before importing that vCard backup…

2. Turn Wi-Fi off. This is important, since your contact-empty iCloud will attempt to wipe your Address Book from your Mac in seconds after importing.

3. Import your vCard backup to Address Book. Just drag it to your blank Address Book window; it asks if you want to import “x” number of cards. Of course, say yes.

4. Turn Wi-Fi on, and then iCloud contacts on again (System Preferences -> iCloud). It will offer to merge your newly populated Address Book with iCloud (which is empty at this point). It should upload every single contact to iCloud, and then to your iDevices. If not, a fifth step would be to import the vCard file to iCloud, but it shouldn’t be necessary.

So, with iCloud syncing working correctly, there is no battery draining! Again, that was my particular issue.

I can’t tell if this is the single answer to the widely spread battery draining problem, but it sure can be fixed with these workarounds, and yes, Apple should address the problem with a future update, for we affected customers don’t need workarounds in the first place

This is the MacRumors discussion:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1256807

And the other thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3391947?tstart=0

Dont’ forget to check buxbuster’s fix, video, and THANK him!

Best of luck!

Ok so I called apple. Before I did that I got a app called battery doctor. You find process in systems I think it is and check if an app called mobile mail is running if it is do a hard reset. It gets rid of it and fixes the prob.

I find it hilarious how everyone seems to have a home remedy to solve this issue BUT Apple.

5.0.1 has been a disaster yet the company chooses to stay silent.

I don't get why people keep ********, just go and do as I did, RETURN THE PHONE.

Loved my 3GS and loved even more my iPhone 4S before the latest update.

Now I'm the happy owner of a Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket LTE. Yes, a phone that belongs to the future with a bigger screen and new faster network.

Android doesn't compare to Apple. Regardless of what is going on with this OS. And we have this OS problem. But at least the fix is software. There is no fix for an android sucking battery life.

Just a little idea, give them time. If you just bought that phone you wasted your money because eventually its gonna get fixed. Be patient, i know its frustrating but jeez. At least we are trying and not sooking. We are just trying to help it until it gets fixed

Bingo! I'm due an upgrade in February and it won't be wasted on a 4S. Even when the battery is fixed, the 4S is little more than a moderate upgrade to my rapidly aging 4. Given the choice between another phone with a dinky screen and a "last gen" network or a spec-heavy Android, it's hard to fathom why anyone would opt for the Apple.

Apple blew it with the behind-the-curve mess that is the 4S. This battery issue is minor compared to the safe, uninspired iPhone update released into a very competitive market. The loyalists will stick with Apple, but the top-level Android stuff is getting too attractive to ignore.

Of course, the fact my aging, wheezing 4 now features rotten battery life hasn't exactly made me charitable toward Apple. The company is every bit as bad as Microsoft these days in terms of R&D and customer support. The only difference is that Apple makes more expensive stuff.

sgibs40 wrote:

 

Just a little idea, give them time. If you just bought that phone you wasted your money because eventually its gonna get fixed. Be patient, i know its frustrating but jeez. At least we are trying and not sooking. We are just trying to help it until it gets fixed

The problem is that many people like me bought their first iPhone and expected to be able to get at least a working day of light use out of it.

Saying "give them time" doesn't help when Apple won't even acknowledge there is a widespread issue. And for people like me who seem to have ended up buying a 5 hour pocket-warmer rather than a device they can actually use, there's the "cooling off" period of the retailer to consider. Somehow I can't see Vodafone saying "that's OK, hang on to it for a bit longer just in case Apple acknowledge there's a problem and possibly release a fix - you can get your money back in a few months if it's still unsuable".

Sorry, Apple screwed up on this one. Mainly on the communication front. You'd have thought they learned from RIM's outages on how to handle situations like this.

Still, I hope whoever ends up with my returned iPhone 4S's and iPad 2 as "recertified" devices gets more than a few hours of life out of them!

Agree with all the posters. I can't believe a multi billion company like Apple would screw up so badly. Half heartly saying only a small number of users are affected is a pathetic way to hide the fact that they screwed up.

Now with them going all quiet since the deplorable 5.0.1 update, pretending the problem doesn't exist and continuing to ignore this wide spread problem is just unnaceptable.

No one is saying anything against those who are trying, it's actually commendable that they are. What is disgusting is that Apple keeps its mouth shut.

It's even worse when you go to the store or call Apple care and they give you the round-a-round like they never heard of such issue before.

"Give it time" bwahahahhahahahaahahahha, thanks for the laugh, I paid $540 for my 4S + Apple care. I don't need to give it time to see IF they might fix it.

I don't know most but I know that I need a reliable phone. Guess what, if I needed to use my Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket heavily and my battery got low, I can just swap a battery and keep using it! It's that simple. It works.

I wish you luck to those stuck without being able to return the phone or with a previous version.

I paid more than you so... Im only saying give it time because if we push too hard they are just going to bring out more crappy updates. I rang apple again and they have acknowledged the problem so... they are fixing it.

sgibs40 wrote:

 

I paid more than you so... Im only saying give it time because if we push too hard they are just going to bring out more crappy updates. I rang apple again and they have acknowledged the problem so... they are fixing it.

Not sure how you reckon you paid more than me. But that doesn't matter.

What matters is that with no press release/statement on their website for over a week, I'd not say they've "acknowledged the problem". Being told by one first-line callcentre dude that it's being looked into isn't something I'd trust.

And all the previous pages here where people claimed to know that a 5.0.2 would be out by today made me laugh too.

It's frustrating and I'd love an iPhone 4S that worked. But with seemingly no interest from Apple in dealing with a widely-reported issue affecting a very large percentage of their users, I'll steer clear of them from now on.

I only bought my first iDevices after recommendations from friends. I'll now be recommending friends and family stay well away from Apple.