Q: Iphone 4s ios 7 battery issues

Helped me a bit - restore network settings, battery life not as long, as one would like, however not draining as before

I'll let you know if I will experience the same thing if I upgraded my iphone. First I will go to my subscribers tech support and get advice from them wether or not I should upgrade to ios7. They gave me a headsup that ios7 consumed more battery than ios6 but we'll see.

I bought my phone lastSaturday, and the battery dropped to 17% within 6 hours of a full charge with 3G, wifi, bluetooth, location, background app refresh, push, cellular data, wallpaper parallax, EVERYTHING basically turned off.

I contacted customer support on chat who told me that my phone battery was OK, after running a diagnostic test.

They further asked me to reset my phone and reinstall the iOS. But the problem remained.

The best part is, i did not upgrade my iPhone to iOS 7... It came preinstalled.

I mean this is shameful. If Apple cannot provide battery life on their phones, then why the sham of the upgrade...?

I feel very disappointed and robbed.

I hope people at Apple are reading this thread.

Let me explain something to you guys,

Apple does not read these threads so you might not want to even mention them on here

Thanks,

Techguy33447

I will also do a little research on your issue to see if there's a fix for it :)

I tried to upgrade to 7.0.4 but my phone won't allow it. I tried it numerous times but I'm not succesful

Guess we all have to buy iPhone 5s

After receiving a brand new 5S through work and doing some extnesive testing here are the results I've had.

iPhone 4S under iOS 6.x - 7-8 hours usage time.

iPhone 4S under iOS 7.x - 3.5 - 4.5 hours usage time

iPhone 5S iOS 7.0.4 brand new with default factory configuration except reduced brightness and auto brightness turned off and reduced motion - 5 - 6 hours usage time.

iPhone 5S with my iPhone 4S backup restored iOS 7.0.4 - 5-6 hours usage time.

Conclusion: iOS 7 s_u_cks

Indeed, iOS 7 stinks. But, you gotta admit, it does look fancy. All we need is our 7-8+ usage time and we're good.

IOS 7 stinks on my 4s but I do agree that it looks nice. 

I have tried all sorts, switching things off so that it is no longer a smart phone, restoring.  The only thing that will work is turning off celluar data.  No longer a smart phone anymore.

Another good fix is to swtich off the phone and I get days of battery life, oh enough of the sarcasm. lol

So are we saying thers is nothing we can do to prolong the battery life, not even on the ne 5S??

Seems a little "Un Apple" like to me down under in Oz

As you can gather, same problem, any tricks of the trade to at least slow down the drainage?

Cheers

Peter

While I agree that's certainly plausible that Apple is purposely blowing up some percentage of older phones to "encourage" upgrades has anyone considered another possibility as to why some users experience random battery drain but not others?

http://benswann.com/nsa-has-complete-control-of-your-iphone-can-activate-your-mi crophone-and-camera-without-you-knowing/

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/12/31/nsa-has-complete-access-to-your-iphone-le aked-docs-show/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57616409-37/nsa-spyware-gives-agency-full-acce ss-to-the-iphone-report/

Just sayin'

i m using iphone 4s...and my phone takes too much time to get fully charge...

please help me...

Maybe your battery is defective?

I'm going back to my iPhone 4 where I had a 1 day on standby and over 8 hours usage compared to my 4s with 2 hours usage and 4 hours standby