iPad 2 battery goes down 1% every 4 minutes

I m haveing same problem with my iPad 2 after update of iOS 5.0.1 ...there is problem of battery draining specially when you are browsing....watching videos for half n hours caused only 1% battery loss but while browsing for 14 minutes caused 4% loss of batery...there is some serious problem in this update...

You could try the following:

1. Let the battery run to zero, to the point where the iPad won't run at all. Then recahrge it fully, using the iPad charger (i.e. not an iPod or iPhone charger, which generate less current. That should recalibrate the battery percentage diaplsy, just in case that's the problem.

2. Do a restore. Ideally, restore as a new iPad, but make sure you have a full backup first (connect to iTunes, right-click the iPad and choose Back Up).

Apple has said there are still some battery issues in 5.0.1, and that there's workin going on to fix them

I feel your pain. After the update to 5.0.1 I'm using almost 8% an hour just reading a book in iBooks with nothing else running, location services switched off and the brightness turned down.

I know, it's Apple, they'll fix it, but it's still pretty annoying.

I'm not sure what you guys are complaining about here. That is normal battery usage. You should get about 8 to 10 hours of use from your iPad, so 10% to 13% per hour is about right, and 8% is very good!

Yes, I do mean to 100%, to reset the indicator. The charging and restoring are addressing 2 different issues:

The charging is to recalibrate the internal calculator that powers the percentage display. This is the less likely problem, but it's sensible to clear it.

The restore is to ensure that any "rogue" process is cleared out. It gives you a clean system wit no possible crud left from the previous installation.

If you prefer, do the restore first - it's not important in which order they're done.

1% every 4 minutes is 15%/hour, i.e. about 6 hours. Unless there's a lot of continuous online/graphic activity, that does seem high to me.

8%/hour seems OK in normal usage - that's 12.5 hours, which is good. Unless it's 8%/hour with no activity, in which case it's a little high.

Of course, one person's excessive drain is another person's normal usage.

I suppose you're right guys. My point was mainly that pre 5.0.1 my battery life was far superior to what it is now but going by other people on the forum's I am lucky with 8% an hour (which, everyone has advised is actually rather good). Noob = Shot Down!

So, why on earth do you quote usage as over 4 minutes? Bizarre. It's impossible to say that it goes down exactly every 4 minutes unless you are doing the exact same thing every minute of every hour of every day!

I say again, you cannot measure battery use over a 4 minute interval. Normal use gives 8-10 hours of battery, your getting 6-7 hours on your '4 minute' measure. If it was 1% over a 5 minute measure it would be 'normal'.

If you are that concerned, take it to an Apple store. There is no point in ranting any more here, as Nick has given you the only advice necessary here.

Battery usage has not been a problem at all on the iPad. Nick has offered you advice on battery maintenance, and I have suggested you go to an Apple store to have it checked. There is nothing else anyone can do.

BTW, using abusive language is against the rules here and is unlikely to endear yourself to other users.

Brothers don mess with each others..we are trying to point out a problem ..If some one feels that he is having issue then let us not discourage him...Personally me too feel this battery drain issue is true for me ..mostly while browsing web..please avoide blaming each other...

Look, no-one's blaming anyone for anything here.

The fact is that battery is not an issue for the huge majority of iPad users. It's just not an issue. Go back over 20 or 30 pages on this forum and see how many battery issues there have been. Apart from you and the OP, I haven't seen any.

I say again, there is nothing anyone can do here for the OP apart from from what has already been recommended.

If the battery maintenance steps don't work, then take it to an Apple store.

Take a deep breath. Count to ten. Ignore posts that you don't like.

There hasn't been a wide-scale battery porblem reported on the iPad - the big issue has been on the iPhone. There are occasional cases (yours might be one), but there's also been and awful lot of emotion around battery life.

Down the years, I've seen complainst about battery life after evyer single iOS update, and I've had iPhone and iPad since they came out. Most (not all) of the time, it's been people, dare I say it, obsessing a bit. That's probably why igmackenzie's pushing for a more "relaxed" approach.

My view is that 15% an hour is abnormally high. A restore will remove the possibility that it's a holdover issues. The discharge/recharge will eliminat the battery counter. If they don't work, there will be 3 possibilities ;left:

1. You have a hardware fault

2. You have a rougu app that you use a lot and taht has an issue with iOS5 (there are quite a few of these)

3. You are worrying over nothing.

After the restore/recharge, if the issue persists, we can look at these possibilities.