I'm seeing different than you. I'm seeing a lot of info regarding Apple is looking into fixing problems with iOS5 battery issues. NOT iPHone 4S battery issues.
But I could be wrong. Just sayin'
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Apple Releases iOS 5.0.1 to Address Battery Life Issues [Updated]
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I'm seeing different than you. I'm seeing a lot of info regarding Apple is looking into fixing problems with iOS5 battery issues. NOT iPHone 4S battery issues.
But I could be wrong. Just sayin'
this time yesterday i installed the update, i went to bed at 53% remaining on iPhone 4S 16GB, woke up with 21% remaining.
My battery levels seem tolerable, but my Contacts and Messaging are not displaying properly (no names, just the numbers with no spacing. i.e. 5552345678 instead of 555-234-5678).
Wasn't really having any battery issues, but went ahead and updated to 5.0.1. When I went to bed my battery was 98% full. Woke up this morning to a dead battery!! 
Wasn't really having any battery issues, but went ahead and updated to 5.0.1. When I went to bed my battery was 98% full. Woke up this morning to a dead battery!!
Isn't it fun to be a beta tester for Apple's software?
thought i'd post again, after I charged up 4 and a half hours ago, i rebooted the phone and since then I've only used 5% battery, 2 SMSs and a couple of other things since. Seems I have improvement.
Well I can confirm that I've been having poorer battery life on my 3GS since upgrading to 5.0 and since downloading 5.0.1 there has been only the most minuscule of improvements that might be some sort of placebo effect. Too early to tell. The Australian accent thing still doesn't fix voice control on my 3GS - not sure if that was only for Siri and the 4S but voice control still can't understand a word I say.
cha-ching!
Or perhaps the "fix" for BatteryGate is to buy the Iphone 5 - just like the "fix" for AntennaGate was to buy an Iphone 4S.
Apple knows how to separate the sheep from their money.
Or perhaps the "fix" for BatteryGate is to buy the Iphone 5 - just like the "fix" for AntennaGate was to buy an Iphone 4S.
Apple knows how to separate the sheep from their money.
Good point. We were told time and time again the iPhone 4 antenna issue was a software problem by Apple. No, it really was a hardware design issue, Apple just didn't want to admit it and be faced with a recall. The antenna issue was never fixed really, but I notice everyone around here stopped being mad at Apple about it as soon as the iPhone 4S was released.
"Why should I care about this phone I spent hundreds of dollars on being defective? I'm planning to get rid of it anyway now, and rewarding its maker by giving them even more of my business!"
I'm doing the update through iTunes and its 732M. Not a small update but doing the on-air update from my iPhone took 45 minutes! I figured that updating the old fashioned way might be quicker.
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My battery life has become worse after this update!! If any apple engineer is reading this then please fix the FIX!
Does anybody else have the same problem?
My battery life has become worse after this update!! If any apple engineer is reading this then please fix the FIX!
Does anybody else have the same problem?
Yes!
My battery is worse also!
I did a restore from backup to see if that would help along with other possible fixes posted in this thread, and nothing has helped.
I have consistenly only been getting 5.5 hrs usage on a single charge.
Last night I went to bed and it was on 62%. When I woke up 8 hours later it had lost 14% overnight sitting idle. I used to only lose 2-3% overnight.
This is not acceptable.
I had something weird happen to my 4S yesterday, if I tried to send a SMS, the progress bar went up near the end and then sat there for a long time then tell me it couldn't send, I had plenty of signal. So i tried to ring that person, there was no ringing sound after i dialled the number, after you dial a number you would get a ringing sound, but I got nothing, so I used another phone to ring my phone, it was ringing on that phone but my phone wouldn't ring, i was rather in a panic because it was weekend, nothing open for help, so i restored my phone back to factory and all is ok again (suppose that would be first thing to do), I don't know if it was the update, or what.
As for the battery, I'm gonna turn the phone off over night to save on battery, when you think about it, it is a little pointless having it on whilst you're asleep. Any message an whatever will come through when you switch it on again.
As for the battery, I'm gonna turn the phone off over night to save on battery, when you think about it, it is a little pointless having it on whilst you're asleep. Any message an whatever will come through when you switch it on again.
A lot of people have eliminated landlines for mobile phones. I need my phone on at night for emergency call purposes. I usually have it charging overnight but I have been leaving it off to watch the drain cycle. 14% drain overnight is not neither normal or acceptable.
THat's just what I'm doing, if you can't turn for phone off over night whilst you sleep then that's what you gotta do, I don't normally turn it off over night, but until the battery issue is sorted.
i charge first thing of a morning, I thought one wasn't to leave their phones plugged in for a period of time like that.
I don't think "the battery issue" is going to be "sorted" to where those having serious problems with drain will get satisfaction. In standby, with 3G network and most of the silly stuff off, the phone shouldn't drain more than a few percent overnight. My now departed 'droid phone with "network" off but Wi-Fi on drained about 1/2% an hour while in standby. If I went to sleep at 10 pm on a weeknight and woke up at 6 am, the phone typically was at 96-97% battery remaining.
