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Apple Continuing to Investigate iOS 5 Battery Issues

Hurda said:
Not really good sign when support-personnel knows you by name. Just sayin'. :D:apple:
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So true. It's a poor reflection on the gradual decline. After verifying each of the products I brought in was defective, they gave me a replacement.

Take home, use till it fails, return to genius bar. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Apple does things the hard way :)
 
realjerk said:
Sadly that doesn't say much - it all depend on what "Usage" was.

Playing certain video, for example, you could pretty much drain the battery in four hours. The specs say "up to 10 hours". Hard usage of the cellular interface could also do it. The specs say "up to 6 hours" for "Internet use" over "3G". Even without the battery draining bugs that some are experiencing, they can't do the impossible. The specs are here: iPhone 4 specs

If on the other hand that is the result after has letting it do nothing, it is obvious that something is not sleeping as it should and is eating up your battery time. If you would like to help getting this fixed, you could file a bug report on https://bugreport.apple.com. They will probably send you back a profile that enables power logging, and you will send them back the logs.
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I only used texting and minimal facebook. Apple's sending me a replacement, we'll see how it goes. I've had some other issues with this phone anyway.
 
5.0.1 killed my signal

This is what 5.0.1 did to a lot of customers, including myself:
- signal strength minimal, keeps going down
- data services die first
- then there's no signal
- then the phone announces SIM Failure and displays Invalid Sim in the top left carrier area
- a reboot is usually required to get to the start of this list again (nothing else helps)
- no trick helps, not removing your sim pin, not reinserting the sim, not replacing the sim, not resetting connection data, nothing

So this renders the phone unusable and actually changes it magically into a tamagotchi that constantly requires your attention. Local T-Mobile store tells me I'm the fifth customer to complain that (weekend) day (it was still morning). I see a lot of posts about this everywhere - but not Apple's official stance on this. Apple 'support' reportingly says they're investigating the issue. I hope they finish investigating before I smash my device to smithereens.

Well, as a consequence, they did fix my battery problem as I have to use another phone with better battery life instead. Oh, wait. Now I got a micro-sim, right? So I have to stick with the crappy 4S or go get an adapter. Oh cripes. Where do I claim by beta tester fee?
 
I hope they optimize the battery consumptions even more :) Had no problems on my iphone4, but it still gave me a boost (unless they just changed the battery indicator). Im at 50% after 4 hours of usage and 3 days of standby. (imessage and ping disabled)
 
Seems much worse than before for me. With my iPod Touch 4G I lost 25% during the night (8h) on standby. 3%/h.

-Manual email
-Location services: off
-Set automatically (Date & time): off
-Bluetooth: off
-iCloud: off
-Connected to Wi-Fi: on (3 bars)
 
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1 full charge later

Ok, ran my iPhone 4S till it shut down. Charged to full using mains charger and heres what I got from 100% to 0.

usage 3hrs 37 mins
Standby 1 day 23hrs

iCould ON
3 x Exchange accounts ON
WiFi ON
Cellular ON

Location services ON
Weather OFF
Time Setting zone OFF
location based iAds OFF

Everything else ON
 
kuffenbach said:
This is what 5.0.1 did to a lot of customers, including myself:
- signal strength minimal, keeps going down
- data services die first
- then there's no signal
- then the phone announces SIM Failure and displays Invalid Sim in the top left carrier area
- a reboot is usually required to get to the start of this list again (nothing else helps)
- no trick helps, not removing your sim pin, not reinserting the sim, not replacing the sim, not resetting connection data, nothing
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Who's this "a lot of customers" ?

First time I've heard of this issue. First the battery thing I haven't had (unplugged my phone friday morning, plugged it in for 3 minutes to sync it saturday night and enable wifi syncing and this morning, monday, I'm at 24% with 5 hours, 39 minutes of usage and over 3 days of stand-by time...) and now this...

Guys, do not confuse issues with your particular units or configuration with mass problems that are present in every iPhone out there.
 
After 5.0.1 my 4 has started losing data connection. Turning flight mode on and off usually solves it, but it's getting irritating.
 
I have an iPad 1, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s.

With iOS5 I had no battery issues on the iPad 1 or iPhone 4. The 4s had what I would call the most typical battery issues people were complaining about. At the end of the day I typically had 20% or less battery life where as the iPhone 4 with same amount of use had 65-75%. After installing iOS 5.0.1 the 4s is now on par with the iPhone 4. So for me it's FIXED :)
 
My iPod Touch 4G could go days without charging. After installing 5.0 it now loses its charge overnight, sitting there doing nothing. The 5.0.1 update (done OTA) hasn't helped at all.
 
Better Battery Life

I have an iPhone 4 16 gig. My battery was draining much faster when I upgraded to iOS 5. Recently ran the update to iOS 5.0.1 and then re-calibrated the battery (drained it until the phone reset itself and then charged it to 100% uninterrupted). It's back to normal for me may even be better than before, only time will tell...its only been a day.
 
i have a iphone 4 and a 4s both updated to 5.01 charged both at the same time and left them on standby after 12 hours the 4 was on 97% and the 4s was on 99% so seems ok for me brothers phone is the same perhaps its a location problem he is in the same house , i have noticed battery life gets a lot shorter if i am in a place that has a poor signal ,because networks share cell sites the bars on the menu bar are not accurate
 
5.0.1 Update WORSE

I've got an Phone 4 (not 4s), and saw a small decrease in battery life after upgrading to v5.

After upgrading to 5.0.1, the decrease was DRAMATIC. Now, I'm lucky to have a 100% charge last a day.

C'mon, Apple. Steve would be kicking arses over a failure like this.
 
I fixed my problems after updating...

I did a full restore through Itunes and it fixed every problem I was experiencing after the update including
  • Poor battery life
  • Messed up contacts list
  • Poor standby battery
  • Signal issues


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scorpsgsxr said:
i have a iphone 4 and a 4s both updated to 5.01 charged both at the same time and left them on standby after 12 hours the 4 was on 97% and the 4s was on 99% so seems ok for me brothers phone is the same perhaps its a location problem he is in the same house , i have noticed battery life gets a lot shorter if i am in a place that has a poor signal ,because networks share cell sites the bars on the menu bar are not accurate
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I am having a similar experience with my Verizon 4s. My battery drops about 25%/day with normal usage (phone calls, email, messaging, some browsing and games).
 
I've been wondering about this, so I let the wife's 4 (not S) charge full, and have been monitoring it.

My most recent check showed 43% battery, ~4.75 hours of use and ~40 hours of standby.

That's will cell on, WiFi on, BT off, most other services on (iCloud with contacts/task sync, photostream all on).
 
Even though I have no programs in the background and I've turned off practically everything (https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/13848670/) , something is still draining the battery heavily when the Wi-Fi is on now with 5.0.1. I don't think ever noticed anything with 5.0.

Btw, I did a "clean" install.
 
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Hey there everyone! I'm new to this forum and like many of you, have purchased the new 4S. I switched from my EVO 4G (Sprint) ever since they announced the iPhone on Sprint.

So far, I've love the iPhone but to be honest at first, I never really quite noticed the whole battery issue until it was being reported that it was. Since then, I've been paying close attention to my phone and have noticed that the battery indeed does drain significantly... close to how my EVO did - then again, EVO's were known for that. Anyhow, I was going to upgrade to the iOS 5.0.1 BUT... being that there still seems to be issues and in some cases far worse then how the iOS 5 was, I'm wondering... should I upgrade to the new patch or wait until a newer patch comes out? Your thoughts...
 
The phantom usage is driving me crazy. My 4S keeps registering a usage that's 80% of standby, even when I have it on lock. I've tried everything (restore, reset, drain and charge to 100%) and it's still going on.

I even restored the phone without any apps and data, with location, siri, wifi and all other settings off, and the phone still registers phantom usage.

Anyone else having this issue?
 
My wife's current battery use. Again, with cell, Wifi, iCloud with contact/task sync, several text messages, other app use, all location services on, no special "battery saving" effort.

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Reading about the imminent release of the next rev, is quite encouraging. It seems that Cook is much more responsive and better at communicating with the Apple community.
 
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