I bought an iPhone 4s on friday, but the battery doesnt last... I dont use it and my charge fades. what can i do?
iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1
been all over the net for 6 weeks about it
they are making a fix, one way was to stop the location time thing, google it
all the notifications and this stuff are disable!! but what happened? all the iphones are like this now? O_O and well, thank you.
There are numerous threads on here with regards to the battery life. You might find some of them useful but there is no definite fix for everyone. If you do a search on here you will find all the threads. 😉
ok then, thank you... really!
Also have a look at this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3447962?tstart=0
No, most iPhones have no problem, and it's also wrong to think it is just a 4S problem. Even Consumer Reports recently said they could not duplicate the problem. But more people than usual have shorter battery life than they think they should get. Some of this is expectations; if the iPhone is your first smart phone you may be comparing it to a more primitive phone that could go for a week between charges. It's a different world; don't think of the iPhone as a phone; it's a very powerful, pocket-sized computer that can also make phone calls. And it gets battery life comparable to a computer, not a phone. Even if you don't think you are using it the iPhone is doing things in background. If NOTHING is running on the phone battery will drop about 1/2% per hour. This is normal. If you have streaming music apps that you forget to turn off (just exiting to the Home screen does not stop them), you have News apps that update (NY Times, AP, USA Today, etc), you have social networking apps (Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Messenger, etc) the phone is never idle and will use both battery and bandwidth against your allowance.
But there are also things that can go wrong. At least some of the posts in the threads below describe them, and a few have suggestions on fixing them.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3391947?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3484755?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3481668?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3518760?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2755090?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3507356?tstart=30
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3482083?tstart=60
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3492588?tstart=60
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3397244?tstart=90
Then there's the historical issue:
Battery Meter/Life Problems with 4.0.2
4.0.2 guzzling my battery. Your's too?
Battery runs out very quicky in iOS 4.0.1
Battery nearly nonexistant after 4.0 upgrade
Dead battery after few hours on standby using 4.0 software
3.1.3 upgrade - shortened battery life?
Battery life cut after 3.1.3 update on iPhone 3G
3.1.3 Firmware is a battery killer - how do I back out this upgrade?
Poor battery life with iPhone 3G running 3.1.2
3.1.2 EXTREME battery drain - what gives?
iPhone 3GS with fw 3.1 – battery life gets even worse
upgrade to 3.0 drains my battery
Battery Drain after Update 2.2.1
Battery Life Radically Decreased after 2.2.1 Firmware Update
this thing of battery run alone 1/2% per hour, mine its spendig this alone in half hour, sometimes much less. and i have applications like twitter, facebook or messenger, but with all notifications disabled and unused al the time... and well, its my first smart phone.. i have an ipod 4 and the battery is more resistent than the iphone! i know that are different things..... i dont know how lont it taked for the first charge.. i gave up when the "stack' was green. i think that was my mistake... but thanks, i'll read the threads.
You may need to calibrate the battery gauge. Run the battery all the way down until the phone shuts off and doesn't restart, then charge for 4 hours with the wall charger (not with a computer).
i did this last night... i let the battery run all the way down.. the phone shuts off.. i didnt restart... and plug to the wall charger, but for 6 hours... ahaha and the battery still fading!!!!!!!!! 😟
Click the button bottom center twice this will bring up all the apps you have used touch the first one and hold it X's will appear touch the X this will close the APP thuse saving some BATTERY. Hope this HELPS
I'm at the end of my rope. Yesterday I wiped my iphone 4s clean and started over, hoping something was running in the background that I could control/fix. To no avail. This morning I had 100% battery and now, two hours later and having not used my phone at ALL, my batter is at 70%. This phone ***** and the fix is needed now. Seems Apple was a little quick out of the gate to have something to sell in 2012. HELP!
When you restarted "clean" did you reload your backup? Did you add your apps back? Did you add your email accounts back?
Yes to all of your questions Lawrence.
If you restore your backup you restored whatever was corrupted in it that was causing the problem. Try a restore WITHOUT reloading the backup. You will probably find that battery life is just fine. Then add your email accounts and test again, and it will still probably be fine. And likewise with apps.
As you can see from the threads I linked to earlier, this is not a 4S problem and it is not an iOS 5.x problem. It has occurred on every model iPhone and every version since the first.
iPhone 4S battery
