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For me, much much better
For me, much much better
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iOS 5.1 Battery
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its not better but a very lil difference, in night at 1 am the battery was 78% and now at 10 am its 71%, before 5.1 it was worse
well take a look:
Updated to 5.1 yesterday by doing an OTA update and then just used my phone normally. I charged it today from I'd say about 30% all the way up to 100%. As of writing this I am down to 61 percent with just 1 hour and 14 minutes of usage and 5 hours and 30 minutes of standby. I haven't even used my phone to do anything but text and then I started to research others' battery life over WiFi.
I really hope that my battery indicator is off, otherwise I am extremely upset over this. I rarely broke 5 hours of usage before (but I did get about 25 hours of standby so I was content), and with the usage I'm getting now it's almost useless unless I'm able to have my phone plugged in.
I'm going to let it fully die and then charge up. I'll post later with my result, hopefully it's better!
I really hope that my battery indicator is off, otherwise I am extremely upset over this. I rarely broke 5 hours of usage before (but I did get about 25 hours of standby so I was content), and with the usage I'm getting now it's almost useless unless I'm able to have my phone plugged in.
I'm going to let it fully die and then charge up. I'll post later with my result, hopefully it's better!
Drastic improvement for me. Went back to school and got home with slightly more than 90% left. With 5.0.1, the number would be from 60% to 70%. I use the stock music player for about an hour, whatsapp and text. There was also some Instagraming and Facebooking.
But I was jailbroken with a range of tweaks + themes on my 5.0.1 and now I am basically on a stock iPhone with the only 3rd party apps being Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Manager and SmartSync. Nothing else. So that probably plays a part too. I can live without a pretty looking phone. Battery is more important to me. Made the decision to go to 5.1 and I do not regret it.
But I was jailbroken with a range of tweaks + themes on my 5.0.1 and now I am basically on a stock iPhone with the only 3rd party apps being Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Manager and SmartSync. Nothing else. So that probably plays a part too. I can live without a pretty looking phone. Battery is more important to me. Made the decision to go to 5.1 and I do not regret it.
Battery threads really annoy me. Excuse my French but people are so full of ****** when it comes to gauging their battery usage. It's almost impossible to judge battery drainage with any degree of accuracy, since there are literally hundreds of factors which affect battery life, and no matter how similar you think your usage is from day to day, there are a myriad of differences, including such things as push notifications connecting to temperamental servers, proximity to radio towers and quality of signal strength etc (which can change all the time).
Yet people still insist on reeling off times and percentages like it's some watertight scientific experiment: "Today I browsed for 3 minutes, read 4 emails, checked the weather twice, played Scrabble for about 6 minutes, took 3 phones calls and sent 8 texts, and my percentage is down to 73% by 2:41pm. Yet this time last week, I did exactly the same and my percentage was down to 85% by 2:56pm. Something is definitely not right!"
Jeez. My battery longevity seems to fluctuate wildly from day to day, even though I appear to use my phone the same amount. There is no freaking way I'm making an accurate gauge of battery life after one, two or even three days. Some of you people remind me of dieters who insist that they've "lost a pound since last week," even though a person's weight fluctuates by 3-4lbs over the course of a day. Idiotic.
Yet people still insist on reeling off times and percentages like it's some watertight scientific experiment: "Today I browsed for 3 minutes, read 4 emails, checked the weather twice, played Scrabble for about 6 minutes, took 3 phones calls and sent 8 texts, and my percentage is down to 73% by 2:41pm. Yet this time last week, I did exactly the same and my percentage was down to 85% by 2:56pm. Something is definitely not right!"
Jeez. My battery longevity seems to fluctuate wildly from day to day, even though I appear to use my phone the same amount. There is no freaking way I'm making an accurate gauge of battery life after one, two or even three days. Some of you people remind me of dieters who insist that they've "lost a pound since last week," even though a person's weight fluctuates by 3-4lbs over the course of a day. Idiotic.
I don't know how about usage time, but the standby is a lot better. 1% through the night with wifi on. That's great. I know that it drains slower from 100% to 99% but even if it were 3%, I think I could get the 200 hour standby.
Before 5.1 When I left home at 10 in the morning the battery would go down to ~60% by the afternoon with almost no use of the 4S. Today I see it only lost 5% of it's charge. Thanks for the fix Apple! Too bad it took you guys 6 months to fix it!
Big improvement on standby. Took it off the charger at 6am this morning - it's now about 4pm, so 10 hours since a charge with light web browsing at lunch time for about 40 mins, and relatively regular checking of email and/or sending emails throughout the day. Current battery 93%.
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What's idiotic in trying to measure the battery and cOmparing to different previous known results? Battery for the iPhone 4s for me is very bad. Every iPhone before (and I havehad all 5 of them) used to last me at least 1.5 days. With the iPhone 4s I can't make it through 16 hours. Same settings and all. Tried restoring and new and nothing fixes it. That's ****** battery life for me, weather you like it or not
What's idiotic in trying to measure the battery and cOmparing to different previous known results? Battery for the iPhone 4s for me is very bad. Every iPhone before (and I havehad all 5 of them) used to last me at least 1.5 days. With the iPhone 4s I can't make it through 16 hours. Same settings and all. Tried restoring and new and nothing fixes it. That's ****** battery life for me, weather you like it or not
A very marked improvement having had time to test it, I think Apple have finally got a grip on it. I went to charge mine last night thinking it would be down around 15% or so....It was on 72% big improvement.
after leaving it overnight
2 hours, 12 minutes usage
12 hours, 9 minutes standby
74% left
i lost about 11% overnight but that was because i had 11 ESPN alerts and 1 e-mail. I say thats pretty good.
Just noticed though that my 3G is on which is odd as i switched it off yesterday. wonder if it came on when the phone died and was charging?
2 hours, 12 minutes usage
12 hours, 9 minutes standby
74% left
i lost about 11% overnight but that was because i had 11 ESPN alerts and 1 e-mail. I say thats pretty good.
Just noticed though that my 3G is on which is odd as i switched it off yesterday. wonder if it came on when the phone died and was charging?
Except many of us are the dieter insisting they've lost 30lbs since last week, not just one pound.
Sure, there are a nearly infinite number of variables that can effect the battery drain, but when it's usually dead (or within 10%) by a certain time in the day and, after an update, it still has 40%, I think it's safe to say something has changed for the better.
Of course we'll all get a better idea of how dramatic a change it is over the next few days, but, for some of us, the difference is already above the usual expected variations so should be safe to make such claims.
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Mine seems to be doing much better with 5.1. I didn't have to charge it at lunch (I always used to) - it's only down to 55% and I'm on my way home. So, big improvement here.
Mine seems to be doing much better with 5.1. I didn't have to charge it at lunch (I always used to) - it's only down to 55% and I'm on my way home. So, big improvement here.
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3G comes back on if you switch phone off/on
Early signs my battery is way better. First thing I did was turn off 3G and saw my signal meter hit 5bars. It usually only did this when I made a call. Guess it switched off 3G.
7hrs 59 minutes usage
1day 10 hrs standby
Battery 12%
Getting ready for first calibration
Phone was on charge when updating to 5.1
Was over 90% when it installed so let it finish. Unplugged. Used for a while. Left wifi on over night but switched off house wifi. Lost about 4%
Used next day for iMessage tons of wifi surfing. iMessage on cellular data. Remote control apps. Some music. A little of nano studio. Words with friends. Twitter. App store. Emailing (2 on push). That sort of thing
At night this time switched off wifi in phone.
Seems good. Thanks apple.
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3G comes back on if you switch phone off/on
Early signs my battery is way better. First thing I did was turn off 3G and saw my signal meter hit 5bars. It usually only did this when I made a call. Guess it switched off 3G.
7hrs 59 minutes usage
1day 10 hrs standby
Battery 12%
Getting ready for first calibration
Phone was on charge when updating to 5.1
Was over 90% when it installed so let it finish. Unplugged. Used for a while. Left wifi on over night but switched off house wifi. Lost about 4%
Used next day for iMessage tons of wifi surfing. iMessage on cellular data. Remote control apps. Some music. A little of nano studio. Words with friends. Twitter. App store. Emailing (2 on push). That sort of thing
At night this time switched off wifi in phone.
Seems good. Thanks apple.
My battery life seems much improved!
Judging by what people are saying, it seems that the people who did the OTA update are not getting very good battery life.
I downloaded the full 800-900 MB install file and restored through iTunes.
My phone is lasting longer on standby and also on standard reading tasks (mail/news/twitter).
Judging by what people are saying, it seems that the people who did the OTA update are not getting very good battery life.
I downloaded the full 800-900 MB install file and restored through iTunes.
My phone is lasting longer on standby and also on standard reading tasks (mail/news/twitter).