4S battery issue is crap

[zflauaus]

For those that have a hard time with this...I will post screenshots later tonight....about the same time I started this thread. That way it will have been off the charger for about the same amount of time. I will make sure that Pandora has been streaming for 3.5 hours before I post the shots.

Cool. Story. Bro.

Every phone is made differently. Some work perfectly, some don't. Obviously yours works just fine so please, enjoy your phone. But don't try and say that the rest of us are full of it because there is obviously something wrong with our phones.

 

[verwon]

Apple in their wisdom may use multiple suppliers for various parts of the battery, or the battery itself or any other device anywhere in the phone. I suspect that the layer of arbitration between the different suppliers has a bug leading to an interchangeability issue which I'm hoping can be resolved with a firmware update.

I personally have an iPhone 4 and a 4S and the latter has noticeably poor battery. I've hardly used my phone today at all and it's now (5:37pm) at 20% having been fully charged this morning. My iPhone 4 (which is now my Wife's) used to still have 60-70% left with similar usage and iOS5.

Having moved recently I don't currently have Wifi so I can't update and test the new Firmware.

You can still update using iTunes.

 

[SeamusCA]

There's always some clown who posts a variation of 'It's not happening for me, so the problem doesn't exist.' Welcome to that exclusive club, Blendedfrog.

FWIW, my 4S loses about 10%/hour in standby with Push off, GPS off, and all radios on.

 

[VeNoMiZeD]

I must be a SUPER POWER user because I average about 4-5 hours on a full charge even after yesterday's update I'm on 23% at 3 hours and twenty minutes. The other day before the update I was 1% left at 4 hours 22 minutes.

 

[TM WAZZA]

I must be a SUPER POWER user because I average about 4-5 hours on a full charge even after yesterday's update I'm on 23% at 3 hours and twenty minutes. The other day before the update I was 1% left at 4 hours 22 minutes.

Well what do you do on the phone? Most of my 7 hour usage was Internet browsing. 20 minutes YouTube. 30 minutes music.

 

[bydandie]

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I've found that mine has been getting better all week, I'm wondering if there's tweak on apple's servers as well as the update. I have Bluetooth and Ping switched off and that's it.

 

[Dolphinesian]

You can still update using iTunes.

I've moved house, I have no Internet and I'm not prepared to download the update on my mac using Internet tethering.

 

[icewing]

Had pandora streaming for a total of 3.5 hours last night. Lost 3% battery on it.

Say what you want but I am quite happy with my battery life. I continue to say that this battery issue is way overblown.

That's pretty difficult to believe.

Had Pandora streaming for 1 hour, dropped from 100 to 97%. 5.01 on iPhone 4.

 

[iMacUser1001]

So I got question for everyone, since the problem is with the 4S and the new update hasn't really fixed anything (which I think its still to early to tell about that), what's the chances of this not being a software problem with the phones and it being a hardware issue? actual baterry in the phone.

I've been following and reading up on all these posts and I am in no way smart enough to understand how a phone is deisgned but to me the more this goes on the more it sounds like the batteries used in the 4S are not very good?

Are the batteries in the 4 and the 4S still the same?

I'd like to see a 4S with a different type,make, model in it and see if this the issues still continue.

My thought would be also is that if it's software related, then why would this problem only affect the 4S? The 4's can run the newest version as well. So if it was truly something in the software then I would think it would be a problem across the board? and not limited to the one devicce.

Just my 2 cents worth, I wish everyone with a 4S best of luck, hopefully a fix will be out there soon, otherwise a massive refund may be in order.

 

[rocknblogger]

Had Pandora streaming for 1 hour, dropped from 100 to 97%. 5.01 on iPhone 4.

I was curious and decided to test it also and I got the same exact result on my 4S. I can easily go all day from about 9am until around 6pm and still have 50 % to 60% left.

I would consider myself a moderate to heavy user.

 

[AndrewR23]

Eagerly awaiting the photos that prove the OP is not lying.

 

[darster]

For those that have a hard time with this...I will post screenshots later tonight....about the same time I started this thread. That way it will have been off the charger for about the same amount of time. I will make sure that Pandora has been streaming for 3.5 hours before I post the shots.

There is a huge difference between streaming via wifi and streaming via 3G. Streaming via wifi consumes very little battery. Try 3.5 hours via 3G with no other apps, no texting and no phone calls and watch your battery drop at 15 to 20% an hour. And 3 to 4 hours of talk and a few hundred texts is not what I would call heavy use. A 4G phone would last all day with that type of usage.

 

[PaulieORF]

I just played Pandora over wifi for 4 minutes, and my battery went from 68% to 65%.

Update: 10 minutes and it's gone down a total of 4%.

 

[jkozlow3]

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what's the chances of this not being a software problem with the phones and it being a hardware issue? actual baterry in the phone.

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So if it was truly something in the software then I would think it would be a problem across the board? and not limited to the one devicce.

There are plenty of people who upgraded their 4 (not 4S) who are having significantly worse battery life under iOS 5 than they did with iOS 4.x. I think this proves it's largely a software related issue.

 

[BlendedFrog]

Screenshots of my usage:

Streaming of Pandora for the last 6 hours. The phone has been off the charger for almost 11 hours. I have 19 apps running in the background and have 3G/BT/Wifi running.

I think that only a 20% drain in 6 hours is great.

 

[bcbryanc]

Screenshots of my usage:

Streaming of Pandora for the last 6 hours. The phone has been off the charger for almost 11 hours. I have 19 apps running in the background and have 3G/BT/Wifi running.

I think that only a 20% drain in 6 hours is great.

How did you update through iTunes or your phone? Also if you did it through iTunes was it a restore or no?

 

[AndrewR23]

Screenshots of my usage:

Streaming of Pandora for the last 6 hours. The phone has been off the charger for almost 11 hours. I have 19 apps running in the background and have 3G/BT/Wifi running.

I think that only a 20% drain in 6 hours is great.

Wow...I stand corrected. That is awesome usage, WIFI or not. Great phone you have there! I would never replace it.

 

[openendstraight]

Screenshots of my usage:

Streaming of Pandora for the last 6 hours. The phone has been off the charger for almost 11 hours. I have 19 apps running in the background and have 3G/BT/Wifi running.

I think that only a 20% drain in 6 hours is great.

Proves nothing. You could have had it on a charger for a bit during that time, as only a full charge resets the usage and stand by numbers. So again, your pics prove nothing.

 

[rocknblogger]

Proves nothing. You could have had it on a charger for a bit during that time, as only a full charge resets the usage and stand by numbers. So again, your pics prove nothing.

Why do you assume he's trying to run some scam? I get very similar battery life. Just like our experience doesn't mean that everyone else's should be like ours, your experience doesn't mean that everyone else's must be like yours.

 

[bossxii]

My battery would grain down nearly 20% overnight and I had turned off lots of notifications. The work day would nearly drain my 4S to 15% or under with light usage, but since the update a huge improvement. Normal day with a few calls, texts, plenty of email and came home with 65%. The patch helped my 4S in a huge way, clearly different people will get different results but I don't for a second doubt there is a real issue.