Q: 5.0.1 update--even worse battery life

Well pitchymaroc.. the reason i bought this phone is to use those features. I travel a lot, need location services to find restaurants, directions. need wifi turned on so that i can connect to wifi if available and save on my data plan. Need push notification because again since i am travelling a lot need weather alerts and flight timings.

If you are really not going to use those features, then why buy an iphone, rather go with a simple candybar Nokia model and that should serve the purpose.

I have been and always will be an Apple fan. I am frustrated by the fact that they give such a solid device but failed, atleast this time with ios5.0.1, miserably. My 4s was fine before the upgrade to 5.0.

A comparable Android phone with all those features turned on has a better battery life than 4S after ios 5.0.1 upgarde. So if Android can, why cant iPhone?

yes, i agree on this as i met the same problem.

Why, after updated with ISO5.0.1 , the battery will be down1% every 3-4minutes.

Is this OK?

Aykay,

The 'miniature world' has its limitations. Intensive usage...moderate usage...light usage...there are all kinds of users and all kinds of usage patterns.

I agree with you that there are differences between Apple and non-Apple functionality. We have choices. Isn't that great?! I am a recent convert to the Apple fold. And at a ripe, old fifty-three, I'd venture to say somewhat of an oddity. Within the last few months I've gone Apple in computing (an '06 MacBook) and a 3GS iPhone. Sure. There are pros & cons either way. In some ways, I'd say that the Android to iPhone comparison is valid...in other ways, not so much.

I'd say that if I were a prolific traveler, like you, I'd look into a piggyback battery case. Since I restarted my iPhone (yes, I know it sounds simply goofy) after the 5.0.1 upgrade, I am able to use many of the services to which you refer for the entire day.

I'm confident that this battery thing wil be resolved. Advances in technology, especially when such an enormous number of people are involved, come with attending difficulties. Such is life.

I'd say that if I were a prolific traveler, like you, I'd look into a piggyback battery case. Since I restarted my iPhone (yes, I know it sounds simply goofy) after the 5.0.1 upgrade, I am able to use many of the services to which you refer for the entire day.

 

I'm confident that this battery thing wil be resolved. Advances in technology, especially when such an enormous number of people are involved, come with attending difficulties. Such is life.

Perhaps your experience is different with flimsy 'resets', but mine is not good. I had posted earlier on this forum that by simply doing a hard reset and setting up my phone as new, then configuring as it was before, that perhaps my battery drain problem was solved. It was not. Note that by doing a hard reset, I have gone two steps further than just restarting (with the assumption that by 'restarting' you mean holding down the power and home buttons to reboot the phone - I didn't read).  My phone still drains like it did before I performed the hard reset (iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0.1):

• Using iPod w/ bluetooth in Airplane mode, no cell reception: 14% battery drop per hour
• Using iPod w/ bluetooth NOT in Airplane mode, with no cell reception: 15% battery drop per hour
• Doing nothing (standby) NOT in Airplane mode, no cell reception: 8.5% battery drop per hour
• Doing nothing (standby) in Airplane mode, no cell reception: 0.5% battery drop per hour

Based on this, the problem is obviously network related, not necessarily related to iCloud, as I've seen speculated here.

Personally I have a problem with the concept of paring down all the network services so I can sustain battery life. The phone is sold as a device that accomplishes 'all these great things', not as a device that accomplishes 'all these great things' as long as you turn them off.  (Yeah, if I was in a life or death situation I'd just turn off the phone to maintain battery life.)

Agreed.

And I'll add 'flimsy' to my qualifiers when describing my apparent success with the (goofy, simple, flimsy) restart.

Like I said...if it helps a few, it's better than nothing. I do not doubt that there are numerous causes for numerous issues. I am not proposing that my 'fix' is universal...just saying it helped me.

@misterbs1

And I'll add 'flimsy' to my qualifiers when describing my apparent success with the (goofy, simple, flimsy) restart.

 

Like I said...if it helps a few, it's better than nothing. I do not doubt that there are numerous causes for numerous issues. I am not proposing that my 'fix' is universal...just saying it helped me.

Not an issue.  I read this forum in the hope that someone will post the wooden stake needed to kill the battery vampire (someone else's term), but so far it doesn't exist - just want to make that clear.   For God's sake, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Same here, battery life is worse than ever on my iphone 4. 

I find that battery life has gotten worst by at least %30.

Battery life was amazing on iOS 5.0

ios 5.0.1 has made my battery siutation worse.  it lasts not even a full day.  Before the update i had NO battery problems.  Apple needs to fix this ASAP!!!

APPLE techs...  can someone just confirm that you are aware of the issue before half of us return the iphone....   tell us anything...    working on it - what problem? - update coming....      how about some customer courtesy..... 

I owned almost every Apple product starting with an Apple 2e ..  this is by far my biggest dissapointment...  with Jobs now gone.. is this a sign of things to come under the new management?  hope not.... 

A variation on this problem - had my iPhone 4 plugged into my iMac to charge 3 nights ago, and a Software Update box came up on the Mac giving me the option to upgrade the iPhone to IOS 5.0.1

I declined the upgrade to 5.0.1, but ever since then the iPhone battery has been draining at a rapid pace, similar to the problem everyone else is describing!

Has anyone else experienced this?

Let's just all stop worrying about battery life.

The more we worry, the more we think our iPhone is ******.

I am playing music, Facebook, and on Safari just to keep checking up this forum.

Assume all your heavy usage, when it runs down, just charge.

It is pointless complaining, when we are already know they are doing something to help us.

Let's just all wait.

Resume*

Continue all the heavy usage. Stop complaining.

I am doing so, and I intend to run it down till it is dead.

Keep using, worry nothing.

Dead? Then, charge.

Since it is already like that. Play music, or do whatever **** to drain it down 0%. Use 3G.

Turn on everything.

You will feel that it is at least something despite the real problem.

Stop complaining, we are all on the same boat after iOS 5.0.1 update.

I think the phone is trying too hard to get things connected once the network is bad.

@8am unplug the charging. Use fb for a min. Still 100%

@9am turn off wifi, turn on data and Bluetooth before driving my car, reached after 15mins, change another car which do not have a Bluetooth connection, after 25 mins of driving, the batt have gone down 8%, the phone was in idle all the way.

@1015am my Batt was 90%, not a phone call or browsing was made.