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Apple Working with iPhone 4S Owners to Address Battery Life Issues

yrsued said:
No, not that at all.

But, you are bitching about it, but you are returning it.

If you are returning it, why are you here complaining about it??

I'm not at an Android Forum bitching about how horrid my Battery life was, and it was terrible.

You are the one continuing the Bitchfest.

Let it go, return the phone you don't like and don't use the features on it and get the one you like and use the features to the fullest, that is ALL I'm saying.
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Why the attitude? It's just another cell phone, and it has its good points and its bad points. I moved over from an Android phone and gave up the ability to put a huge battery in the phone, access to controls that make use of the phone quicker and easier, and access to apps from whatever source I wanted, and, worst of all, access to the Google turn by turn maps program.
I like my 4S but it isn't the be-all and end-all. Heck, I turned off Siri because I found it annoying and not something that interested me much.

Opinions good and back backed up with specifics are handy to have.
 
yrsued said:
No, not that at all.

But, you are bitching about it, but you are returning it.

If you are returning it, why are you here complaining about it??

I'm not at an Android Forum bitching about how horrid my Battery life was, and it was terrible.

You are the one continuing the Bitchfest.

Let it go, return the phone you don't like and don't use the features on it and get the one you like and use the features to the fullest, that is ALL I'm saying.
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Read the other bitches here.......I'm not the only one...so why are you picking on me?
So something does not work as advertised and I'm at fault for discussing it!
Last time I looked this forum was for anyone to discuss problems as well as likes. Stop making this so bloody personal will you.
 
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In my case, the Solution was to disable the iCloud Reminders. All ok after that.
 
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In my case, the Solution was to disable the iCloud Reminders. All ok after that.
 
No Issues At All With My 4S

Working great on Verizon. Battery life is much better than with my 3GS on iOS 4.whatever. I pretty much have everything but Bluetooth turned on...
 
I Can Attest to the Time Zone Location Services sometimes getting stuck

lapis said:
One definite problem is the Setting Time Zone function in Locations (under system services). It never turns off location searching so it drains the battery. Turning off the Time Zone feature eliminates that particular problem.
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This has happened on my iPhone as well. If you go into Location Services, scroll all the way to the bottom and select System Services and scroll to the Bottom of System services and Turn On the Status Bar Icon you will be able to see when system location services are being used in your Status Bar.

I had one day when the Setting Time Zone location service was in non-stop use. I had to turn it off and back on to get it to reset.
Also note that location based reminders will use location services until the location is encountered, but from what I can ascertain at other sites, location based reminders API's use lower power location services, such as cell tower triangulation and WiFi Hotspot triangulation before relying upon the generally more energy hungry GPS.
 
Well last Saturday after a week of putting up with having to charge my phone twice a day I went in to see a Genius. He couldn't find anything wrong and said everything was reporting as normal with the phone and put it down to apps not being updated yet for iOS5. He did how ever offer to order me a replacement phone to rule out the phone as the issue.

I Picked my replacement phone up this morning and already seen a difference and appear to be seeing comparable life to my iPhone 4. Will see how things go over the next few days.

What I did notice though was on my previous 4S something was constantly using the phone as my usage counter was only have 1 hour behind my standby time. Where as with my replacement this doesn't appear to be the case, which I find strange as I restored my new phone via iCloud so it is configured identically.
 
My battery life has been great.

I only have my Contacts, Calendars, and Find My iPhone synced and I haven't had any problems.

Been on all day and at 71%. Connected to my WiFi too.

My Grandpa has been having issues though.
 
Try a complete charge and discharge Cycle

First few days I was experiencing generally poor battery life. In addition to finding that the System Service for Time Zone Setting under location services had gotten stuck on and resetting that, I have made sure to completely drain until it powers off and then fully charged it a few times. Not sure if this helped to "calibrate" the battery like what is recommended by Apple for many of their Lithium-Polymer batteries or whether it is an utter coincidence, but it seemed to have helped tremendously.
 
3G Drains power

I can definitely tell the battery life is not as good as my iPhone 4. When I am connected to WiFi it is not quite as bad, but 3G kills my battery life. Took my phone off the charger the other morning to answer some emails and the battery dropped 7% in about an hour!
 
Maltz said:
I had this problem, but it doesn't do it now. It turned out to be a calibration issue for me. To recalibrate:

1) Drain the battery until the phone shuts off on its own.

2) Charge it non-stop back to 100% (Should take 2 - 3 hrs)

When I first started draining the phone, I was losing about 5-7% per hour in standby. As the battery drained, the rate the percentage was dropping got slower and when it got to 1%, it sat there for almost an hour. Then it finally shut itself off. I recharged back to 100% in one sitting, and now it's got the same or better battery life my 3GS had that I was upgrading from.
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I am following your advice as I am experiencing the same issue. I ran my battery down to 1% and it also stayed there for about 50 minutes - and I played games, surfed the web and held a 5 minute conversation during that time (it died during the phone call) I was really trying to get the phone to run the battery completely down - it was tough, that last 1%!. I am now allowing it to fully charge.

I will report back.
 
hakr100 said:
Why the attitude? It's just another cell phone, and it has its good points and its bad points. I moved over from an Android phone and gave up the ability to put a huge battery in the phone, access to controls that make use of the phone quicker and easier, and access to apps from whatever source I wanted, and, worst of all, access to the Google turn by turn maps program.
I like my 4S but it isn't the be-all and end-all. Heck, I turned off Siri because I found it annoying and not something that interested me much.

Opinions good and back backed up with specifics are handy to have.
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Well, I moved from Android too!!

I'm not getting the ability to have a huge battery because..... I DON'T NEED IT!!

I don't miss:

The loads of Bloatware I can't Delete
The Bloatware I can't Make Stop, because it comes back on again and again
The Bloatware that killed my HUGE Battery in 4 hours

No, I don't miss that!!

BTW, I've been running my 4s since 0610 and it is 2050 now, I am at 51%

I don't know what some here are expecting, but I'm thrilled with the battery life, just THRILLED!! Remember, this is a tool for me, not bling, or a status symbol, IT IS A TOOL!! I run three Phone lies through it, my Home and business are forwarded to it, plus the Cell itself, my household runs over 3K Minutes a month!!, yes, we use the cell!! We run one 4s and two 4's and I haven't had an issue with the battery yet.

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oldwatery said:
Read the other bitches here.......I'm not the only one...so why are you picking on me?
So something does not work as advertised and I'm at fault for discussing it!
Last time I looked this forum was for anyone to discuss problems as well as likes. Stop making this so bloody personal will you.
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I'm not picking on you, but you mentioned:


1 that you had disconnected most of the features of the phone

2 you were returning your phone

I made a comment that if you weren't using the features of the phone, why buy it?? It made sense for you to return it.

I'm agreeing with you. It doesn't make sense to spend money on a phone you are not happy with and you are not using to it's fullest.

Right now, I'm very happy with the Battery performance, but I came from an Android phone that wouldn't give me 5 hours of service with the extended battery!!, now that is bad!!
 
Better battery life than my 3Gs

I noticed a drastic improvement in the battery life with the upgrade to 4Gs. I can make several calls before it drops from 100%. Location services, push notifications, Bleu tooth and WiFi are on too. I guess I got lucky and got a high capacity battery!
 
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Mine was fine until yesterday when I used maps for the first time. After closing the app and killing it off in the multi-task bar as well the phone was still dying on its feet and was getting warm as well. I lost 7% of my battery life in 20 mins. I've just switched off the location service, I forgot about it. Hopefully that'll help
 
Interesting...

Maltz said:
I had this problem, but it doesn't do it now. It turned out to be a calibration issue for me. To recalibrate:

1) Drain the battery until the phone shuts off on its own.

2) Charge it non-stop back to 100% (Should take 2 - 3 hrs)

When I first started draining the phone, I was losing about 5-7% per hour in standby. As the battery drained, the rate the percentage was dropping got slower and when it got to 1%, it sat there for almost an hour. Then it finally shut itself off. I recharged back to 100% in one sitting, and now it's got the same or better battery life my 3GS had that I was upgrading from.
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I have a battery monitoring App that seems to confirm this, it is reading a percenatge consistently higher than the phone's native monitor, and the disparity is getting larger as time goes on. I will try the full discharge solution to see if this improves the accuracy of the of the battery reading.
 
Yesterday before sleep, I disabled almost everything: notifications, location services, cellular data, wifi, closed all apps in background, reseted network settings, rebooted iPhone 4s.
Nothing helped, I lost about 30% of battery in next 8 hours.
Currently the only thing that helps is enabling airplane mode, or removing SIM card. So i'm waiting for iOS 5.0.1 with my iPhone 4s connected to a power source.

Slyv
 
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Update - switching off the location service for maps and the new Facebook app seems to have made a huge difference. I suspect maps more than Facebook, as Facebook was always on. I think whatever the location service for maps is doing us way over and above the other services.
 
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Update - switching off the location service for maps and the new Facebook app seems to have made a huge difference. I suspect maps more than Facebook, as Facebook was always on. I think whatever the location service for maps is doing us way over and above the other services.
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Thanks. Giving that a shot now as my location services was off for Facebook already. I lost 7% battery in standby last night alone. I hope this works.
 
Guys,
I had the same problem. I suggest trying the following in this order:

1. Reset all iPhone settings (this does not delete your data, but will re-sync your iCloud).

2. Turn off 'Setting Time Zone' location service.

3. Turn off 'Raise to speak' in Siri

4. Hard Reset iPhone (ie. Home and Hold).

5. Connect to iTunes and leave it on charge.


I had exactly the same problem (ie. battery died in 4 hours) and now I seem to get 2 days!:)
 
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My battery life has been terrible with my 4S. When I had my iPhone 4 my battery would barely be at 20% when getting into bed at around 11PM or so on work days. Now it gets that low at about 7PM. It's even worse on weekends when I use it more. This is with pretty much the same usage as my iPhone 4.
 
dego_07 said:
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In my case, the Solution was to disable the iCloud Reminders. All ok after that.
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Disabling one small part of the iCloud push technology improved your battery life enough to talk about it?

Just that one thing by itself?
 
OK, the drain the battery theory did not work in my case. Since 1130 this morning, going from 100% charge, I am down to 83%. The most I used the phone was use iBooks for about 20 minutes and check the battery just now - nothing else.

I will run the iPhone down again to see if the "Neverending 1%" occurs again. If it does, I think the issues is not the battery per se but the way the charge status is being reported by iOS.
 
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