iPhone 4S 5.0.1 Update Improves Battery w/ Settings Reset

imsikotic wrote:

So here's an interesting development..I'm running a 4S on ATT and after resetting all settings via the phone, none of my installed applications show up under location services. The only thing in there is siri, find my iPhone and the system settings. Weird. I've already done a reboot amd still no joy. Also no option to set up as a new phone while going through the setup pages.

Like you I've been with Apple for a long time with a lot of products and this one has got me stumped.

You'll have to go in each app, and it will ask you to use Location Services.

anna kristin wrote:

Hello. Really nice to see some advice that seems to work for many people.

I got my 4s for my birthday from my fiance, and was so bummed when the patch for ios5 did not improve my battery after e recharge cycle. I really really like apple, because of the great service they have provided me when i had ossues with not only one new macbook air three months ago, but two, and i got new ones till i had one working. After all this trouble i think i might be somewhat uncompatible with apple- products, but i keep hiving it a shot because of brilliant design and function( when working).

Anyways, i really dont see how a new phone will be the solution this time, so im looking for others. This really seems promissing, and i will try it if my attemt from last night with a hard reset of the phone (completely resetting to factory thru itunes) and a complete recharge cycle fails. Because those are two different thing right? So if this fails, there is still a possibility that it will work to do what you suggest?

I also have another question, before resetting have you guys also had the issue wih its usagetime beeing heavily exagurated? Mine has about 16 hours of standby and it has continously read pretty close to half of that time as in use, tho thats far from thw truth. I have shut of pretty much everything thats new and exciting wih thw phone, and those numbwrs seem pretty consistent.

Sorry for spelling errors and such, im new to writing on iphone and im not english either:p

High usage times have been reported in other forums. That has also been associated with the phone feeling hot to the touch. I think you should follow Davidch's steps in the exact order. Reset All Settings has to do with clearing out possible bad settings that may be causing the iphone to perform operations it does not have to. Also under location services, it was reported couple weeks back that the timezone being on was causing the iPhone to continually operate in the background. That is what 5.0.1 was to fix or at least everyone believes it should fix. Save the hard reset after you perform the battery drain/recharge.

Thanks Davidch, was looking around the web for the longest time before I found this. Basically after my update, I did a settings reset which put everything in default, so quite troublesome. I didn't get the option Set Up as New as well but the phone did ask for Siri, Location Settings etc. Then I let the battery fully deplete before recharging it fully overnight.

After 8 hours standby, 1 hour 42 minutes of usage I am at 79%. Which is a great improvement!

Thanks a bunch! Just don't like the feeling that I don't know what was actually wrong with my phone.

Go ahead. If it still doesn't work try these right after:

* Disable calendar notifications.

* If the above doesn't work, delete your mail, calendar acc,etc.. accounts,.Then perform a hard reset, and re add the accounts again.

*Disable Time Zone, in system services under Location Services.

Good luck.

ram130 wrote:

Yes that's correct. I use gmail as well but via the "other" accounts section. Once you re add the accounts then your mail should re appear.

One more thing, make sure you don't have "calendar" enabled for for both gmail and icloud. Disable one, preferably iCloud..

Ok, I'll try doing this before I reset the Settings again

davidch wrote:

sflomenb wrote:

Ok, I readded my iCloud and Gmail accounts. Now should I reset the Settings again?

hey... i am back. busy day at work today and did not get chance to log in. sorry to hear it did not work so well for you so far, but it does seem very successful for many as i expected. i can never hurt to try to reset your all settings again. the mail changes will remain. you will need to go back and turn of the system location services though (i.e. timezone, iAd). everything else i leave on. i am currently only using mail and reminders with iCloud and i also have a business imap mail account. be sure to fully drain and fully recharge after. i am on my fourth day now and it still working very good. i am at 71% remaining with 1.5 hrs usage and over 16 hrs standby. remember the fix primarily addresses a standby drain, imho. heavy usage can still pull on it, just as any iPhone i have owned. if this does not work this time i would suggest contacting apple. you may just have a bad battery or hardware which does occur from time to time.

Ok. All I need to do is reset the Settings again, then completley drain, then recharge, right?

Also, what do you think of my battery life today? I posted it on an earlier post on page 8. It doesn't seem good to me at all.

Thanks Davidch!

Device: iPhone 4s AT&T 32GB

I had decent 'battery' life before compared to others, got 7 hours of very light usage (mostly iPod and some mail) and 1 day standby and had about 7% left. Having owned a 3GS, I could go 2 days of heavy usage without charging so this was a significant drop with the iPhone 4s. Even worse, overnight I would lose 20% as oppose to 3-5% max with my iPhone 3gs. At the risk of jinxing it, I decided to go do the 5.0.1 update using your advice despite all the warnings from other users. So far I had 88% at the update around 10AM and have 50% left at 4:00PM after extensive use of iPod, emails, surfing, and using the camera. I think this is great. I will update again when I charge the phone and see how the battery acts overnight.

Here are some notes:

-After the restore as a new iPhone my iPhone couldn't find the network, so I went ahead and reset just the network settings, after that it was fine.

-The itunes update wouldn't work on my phone, says my device wasn't eligible or something but the OTA did work.

-Before the update I did cycle my battery twice which I think helps.

-I only turn on 3g when I need it, turn off location services for most apps.

Hope this helps.

I suggest you try a full restore after doing a back up, but set up as a new phone and don't add anything. Test your phone for 8 hours and see if the drain is the same, if it is then you have a hardware problem again. If not, restore your back up, if the problem continues after that then it's something in your backup thats transferring.

Try that sflomenb.

ram130 wrote:

I suggest you try a full restore after doing a back up, but set up as a new phone and don't add anything. Test your phone for 8 hours and see if the drain is the same, if it is then you have a hardware problem again. If not, restore your back up, if the problem continues after that then it's something in your backup thats transferring.

Try that sflomenb.

I might try that. That's a good idea. Thanks. I'm going to see what happens tomorrow, and then maybe I'll reset the Settings a third time. I might try the restore idea over the weekend when I have a lot of free time.

I posted a few days ago. Mine works really well now, although battery drain is faster than all of the past iPhones. Just to reiterate, it appears that dragging over info from past phones is a problem. I set up my iPhone 3, 3GS, 4 as a new phone when I got it, and set up my iPhone 4s as a new phone. This was recommended to me direct from Apple. Then I synced with iCloud. Fortunately I backed up the 4 on ICloud before the 4s came out. Bottom line, don't ever set up a new iPhone with backed up garbage. Always set up iPads and iPhones as new. I think my success with battery life are directly related to the fact that I did that with all my past iPhones. Good luck.