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SOLVED THE 4S Battery Issue!!! I'm 99.99% Sure I have uncovered it!!! Need Testers!!!

This has been my experience with the 4S Battery, currently I am on my 4th physical iPhone 4S unfortunately.. or FORTUNATELY?! Because I may have the answer?! I hope my solution I'm posting fixes the problem and helps everyone out there! btw this my first post too! I saw an article online about this still not being fixed... hopefully my 2c helps everyone out maybe this fix problem.. would that make me iPhone hero for day? oh boyeee.. 😎


Actually, I came to this conclusion about a month ago when I got my iPhone replaced yet again at AppleCare for having a "Faulty Battery".. I even mentioned this fix I'm writing out to the Genius and actually worked!! My iPhone with the once "Faulty Battery" I took to the Genius's is currently functioning as it should, my battery now last longer than my old iPhone 4 =P ..Too think I was going to downgrade too back to a 4 over this if this "fix" didn't work.. Siri listened to my frustration.. but she didn't understand... as usual... Siri a joke? I hate her, she's ******** and always "out of the office" to put it when I give her a request... That's another thread..


The bug is somewhere in the restore process from a past Device Backup, I haven't tested nor do I want too because my battery works and "if ain't broke..".. but I "Believe" both iCloud and iTunes backups are affected? I could be wrong, it may be just iCloud but I never tested this theory. I do not have the battery issue now but another theory I have is if I do restore my iPhone completely and pull the backup from the clould in theory aquire the "Battery Bug"?


I'm not a programmer/engineer but this has gotta be a simple fix? I was experiencing HORRIBLE drops in battery life with my replacement iPhone 4S, literally up to 10% would just drop just sitting there unplugged.. This only happened AFTER I restored my iPhone back from the iCloud Backup from my stolen 4S. - Which BTW I will be getting that stolen phone back, someone activated it with a new line of service with AT&T, just waiting for the police to give me that call they picked it up from the address AT&T provides! YAY, Justice WIN 😀


Think about it, really what are the chances I would go through 3 new phones with the same "Faulty Battery" issue when my 1st iPhone had NO Problems and had EXCELLENT battery life. It's the backups, period. There's a glitch in the backup Matrix, hopefully Apple or someone smarter than myself can patch this without making it complicated fix like I'm posting... If this doesn't fix your phone you all have defective phones and Apple needs to recall em all..... jk jk😝


Steps 1-3.


First - Manually Back all your important stuff up!

- When you Setup your iPhone 4S for the 1st time did you create a "Brand New" Device/iPhone and NOT restore a backup made to iCloud? The only thing lost is old text messages by following this method but there's a screenshot feature for those important "must save" texts or 3rd party apps.....


Second - Do a complete Restore of your iPhone to the 5.0.1, I'm going to suggest you download the slightly modified 5.0.1 if you don't have that IPSW handy. If your unsure, find it, delete it and redownload it.


- Personally I backed up everything prior too my mac and the iCloud. I really like that fresh clean OS install feeling ALOT and knowing I didn't bring any potential "bugs" or OS slow downs with me onto my new shiny device.


Third - Spend some love time with your iPhone again.. setup it up with love and connect your life to iCloud. Know that this time things are going to be better time around... I hope for your sake this does work and helps untether your phone from the Wall/USB port it


BATTERY BUG UNCOVERED! Now Step 4 (Optional) - Give your phone a lil kiss and a nice lil squeeze... wisper to it, "it's all going to be ok from now on..." hahaha 😉

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1, I'm using the slightly newer 5.0.1

Posted on Jan 16, 2012 6:37 PM

17 replies

Mar 13, 2012 7:56 AM in response to Nanis23

I never even used iCloud, ever, I have the battery problem.


I think I've traced the battery drain to location services. One of the services, not sure which one, runs constantly when turned on. I'm going through all of them, but shutting down location services stops the battery drain, and the battery heating issue.


I also noted with 5.1 that Apple allows ads to use location services, and this can be toggled off. This is tracking, and Apple should not be supporting this.


Boo to Apple for 5.1 -with a common hardware standard, there is no excuse for releasing an update with these bugs, and expecting paying customers to do the beta testing.


Fortunately, I only have a 12 month corporate contract on this phone, and only 8 months to go.

Mar 30, 2012 10:32 PM in response to CDNCellguy

I am very disappointed with the 4s lots of great apps and a wonderful phone to use but as a mobile almost useless you must be near a mains plug as the battery life is rubbish and i am running the latest software. Hopping for another upgrade at some stage that will turn off whatever is running in the background and using all the power. A mobile phone is of no vaulaue if you cannot take it out for more then a few hours without the battery running down. Being all Apple i love Apple and the apps but this phone is a real pain and no good if you work outside and cannot charge it again over lunch.

Come on Apple turn of the spy ware or whatever is doing the damage to the usefull mobile life of this phone

SOLVED THE 4S Battery Issue!!! I'm 99.99% Sure I have uncovered it!!! Need Testers!!!

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