Low battery life in my iphone 4s.

I have really low battery life in my iPhone 4s. IPhone is new, a bought it 2 weeks ago.


My usage statistic for full life cycle (100% - 0%) is:


Usage: 4 hours, 40 munities

Standby: 1 day, 16 hours.


I disable cellular battery life begin many times more. I used iPhone for 5 days without cellular!!!


Now I disable all notifications and services that use internet connection (mail, advertising and stuff) but battery life still not good. Battery percentage is decrease very fast. What else does iPhone in the internet and how disable it?

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Sep 4, 2013 9:28 PM

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Sep 5, 2013 5:30 PM in response to sberman

I am sorry, but I don't think so.


There is official tech spec for iPhone 4s, and here is it battery specification:


  • Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)
  • Standby time: Up to 200 hours
  • Internet use: Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
  • Video playback: Up to 10 hours
  • Audio playback: Up to 40 hours


We can calculate percentage use for each item from list above.


  • Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G (I use 3G). 100 (battery full charge) / 8 = 12.5. IPhone has to use 12.5 percent per hour in this mode.
  • Standby time: Up to 200 hours. 100 / 200 = 0.5 % per hour.
  • Internet use: Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi. (I don't use it)
  • Video playback: Up to 10 hours (I don't use it)
  • Audio playback: Up to 40 hours (I don't use it)


And we have ~0.5% per hour on standby mode and ~12.5% per hour on talk time - SMS and I suggest 3G internet use. But this numbers for iPhone on normal mode, it's mean with internet, iCloud, email and other services. But a disabled all of these and I don't have even these numbers.


That is calculation for my battery life time:


Usage: 4 hours, 40 munities. 4.4 * 12.5 = 55%

Standby: 1 day, 16 hours. 40 * 0.5 = 20%


20 + 55 = 75%


There is 25%? And why I have much better numbers when I disable cellular if I even don't use it?

Why I can’t use full iPhone functions and have battery lifetime from official tech spec? I paid for full iPhone, but I can use full function only when IPhone on charge.


I think this is not normal. Do you think so?


For example, my New IPad has no problem with battery and I use full function on it with normal battery lifetime.

Sep 5, 2013 8:43 PM in response to iFATUM

First of all, there is a math issue here:



iFATUM wrote:


That is calculation for my battery life time:


Usage: 4 hours, 40 munities. 4.4 * 12.5 = 55%

Standby: 1 day, 16 hours. 40 * 0.5 = 20%


20 + 55 = 75%

Actually, 40 minutes are 2/3 of an hour, so the first calculation should be:


Usage: 4 hours, 40 minutes, 4.666667 * 12.5 = 58.33%

...


20 + 58.33 = 78.33%


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Secondly, the battery meter does not run linearly. You should expect the time to go from 100% to, say, 80% charge to be considerably longer than the time to go from, say, 40% to 20%, which will in turn be longer than the time to go from 20% to 0.


Anyway, since you purchased your iPhone new so recently, if you're displeased, you might speak to the seller about a refund or exchange.

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