Q: 5.0.1 update--even worse battery life

Re: 5.0.1 update--even worse battery life

Nov 17, 2011 7:10 AM (in response to CDFreet)

I had tried all of the fixes that have been suggested with no success. Being a compulsive problem solver, I tried once again by resetting  all settings, draining the battery until the phone shut off and recharging to 100%.

In Notifications, I have phone, messages, reminders, hanging with friends and twitter turned on. 

In Location Services, I have Siri and Find My Phone turned on.

ICloud is off for all but Find My Phone.

Push is off.

Email is Inactive.

I am now 3 hours in Standby and still at 100%, whereas yesterday I had lost 20% in that amount of time.

I am going to turn email and push on, and will report back :)

UPDATE:  After a full day, this where I am at.

Usage: 2 hours, 34 minutes

Standby: 14 hours, 15 minutes

Battery at 43%

A lot better than yesterday for sure, but good?  I don't think so!

Thanks for that info. After 24 Hrs on standby, with Battery Percentage reading turned ON, my battery was down to 30% and falling quickly. I recharged yesterday afternoon and turned OFF the percentage reading - now approaching 24 Hrs and I have 85% capacity. (There is also a free app to show battery capacity but I won't be leaving that on permanently - just in case.)

Big difference.

iphone 3gs is MUCH worse on ios 5.0.1. Come on, Apple - fix it!!!

I think a lot of people in here are really missing the point. I (along with many others it appears) had a phone that worked perfectly fine. Apple put out an update that stated it improved battery life. Well this update did anything but. It my case, it has made my phone almost unusable as it drops 10-15% per hour. And this is when it's not being used. If I am using my phone it drops even quicker. I find it amazing that people are so quick to turn off features of their phone, and find this an acceptable fix to this HUGE mistake by Apple. I am sure many people in here didn't spend $700 on a phone to turn off the features that make it worth that money.

TPev wrote:

 

I think a lot of people in here are really missing the point. I (along with many others it appears) had a phone that worked perfectly fine. Apple put out an update that stated it improved battery life. Well this update did anything but. It my case, it has made my phone almost unusable as it drops 10-15% per hour. And this is when it's not being used. If I am using my phone it drops even quicker. I find it amazing that people are so quick to turn off features of their phone, and find this an acceptable fix to this HUGE mistake by Apple. I am sure many people in here didn't spend $700 on a phone to turn off the features that make it worth that money.

Bump.

Not acceptable to me at all!  It is pathetic.  I have turned things off in order to have a functional phone, albeit not anywhere like it was before I installed the disaster of an update, 5.0.1.  But acceptable?  Not hardly!

While I totally agree with your sentiments, I think it is helpful to users to know of hopefully, short term fixes until Apple get their act together. The 4S has I think 400 charge cycles before the battery needs to be replaced - and you can't just buy a replacement on eBay and fit it yourself. Another sad Apple fact.

My iPhone 4 has the same problem.  The battery life is now less than half what I saw before upgrading to IOS5.0.1. Is there a way to go back?

My iPhone 4 battery is getting drained faster on ios5.0.1 just five min of 3G data Internet used and now my battery has drained from 100%to 92% apple pls solve this issue I never had this problem on ios4.3.3

So I made an appointment with the local Genius' and here is what he did:

1. Asked me very specific questions about what and when

2. Ran some quick diagnostics that said the hardware was fine

3. Since I have an Exchange account for work he had me delete this account, add it back, then power off and back on again.

4. He had me switch all my email accounts to Manual update instead of Push and Fetch.

5. Sent me on my way to see how it performed (as well as recorded what we had done in my file).

He did NOT have me turn off Location services, iCloud, or iTunes Match.

Since then, I am happy to say, my 4S is not warm/hot to the touch and has been holding its charge like a champ.  In the last 8 hours it has only used 10% of its charge.  And I can't say I am suffering at all with Push and Fetch on my email...they update as soon as I open them.  It's not the final and best solution but it is working for me now.

I talked to Apple two days ago and they told my that maybe my SIM Card is failing. They told me to fully load the battery and remove the sim card and leave it like this over night and in the morning it just droped from 100% to 98%. But as soon as I put in the SIM card again, the battery starts dropping 10-15% per hour. So I contacted my provider and they told me that they know about this problem and they will send me a new SIM card. I hope this will solve the problem, if not I think Apple has to research the problem with the SIM card slot.

After 2 iPhone 4s cell phones, the second using iOS5.0.1... and having a worse battery drain than under iOS5, I have given up on the iPhone.  Returned the second unit during the 30 day "buyers remorse period" and will (most likely) be switching over to the Samsung Galaxy IIS skyrocket.  I'll wait for the iPhone 5 rather than waste any more time with Applecare+  advisors on this issue (latest case #263348531).  During the case discussion the advisor admitted having recd several complaints from iOS5.0.1 users with the same "worsening" battery drain issues. My sense is that this issue is much worse than Apple is admitting to, and may really be a hardware issue.

marcusfromzweibrücken wrote:

 

I talked to Apple two days ago and they told my that maybe my SIM Card is failing. They told me to fully load the battery and remove the sim card and leave it like this over night and in the morning it just droped from 100% to 98%. But as soon as I put in the SIM card again, the battery starts dropping 10-15% per hour. So I contacted my provider and they told me that they know about this problem and they will send me a new SIM card. I hope this will solve the problem, if not I think Apple has to research the problem with the SIM card slot.

Only a 2% drain overnight would be excellent. But as there was no SIM in it at the time it presumably wasn't doing any cellular stuff at all. A replacement SIM will just allow it to do that cellular stuff again - unlikely then to fix the issue.

I suspect issuing a new SIM does not much more than buy the various support dept's a few more days to work on the issue.

100% Battery yesterday at 8pm.

60% this morning at 8am.

wifi is off, GPS is off.

Didn't use my iphone at all.

cl_gary wrote:

 

After 2 iPhone 4s cell phones, the second using iOS5.0.1... and having a worse battery drain than under iOS5, I have given up on the iPhone.  Returned the second unit during the 30 day "buyers remorse period" and will (most likely) be switching over to the Samsung Galaxy IIS skyrocket.  I'll wait for the iPhone 5 rather than waste any more time with Applecare+  advisors on this issue (latest case #263348531).  During the case discussion the advisor admitted having recd several complaints from iOS5.0.1 users with the same "worsening" battery drain issues. My sense is that this issue is much worse than Apple is admitting to, and may really be a hardware issue.

Bump^(1/0) on this. 

I'm a huge fan of Apple and my iPhone, but I'm a bigger fan of the free market. For one, I am waiting for the mythical 5.0.2 solution, and if this doesn't work I too will put my investment in the iOS environment on hold until the next version - I only recently upgraded and switched carriers so, thankfully, the 'grievance return' option is open to me.