Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Working with iPhone 4S Owners to Address Battery Life Issues
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Because you don't need to dial with the Iphone 4S. So you can play with your Ipad and at the same time say to Siri that you want to call your friend.
Mine has the problem on the first day I got hold of it. Did the reset and clean install but still same battery issue, depleted in 4 hours or less. The body gets warm and doesn't cool down even when in standby mode.
I called Apple. They had it replaced in no time. I bought it online so they pick-up the defective one and gave me the replacement on the same day.
Cheers Apple!
NB: Try network reset setting. It helps too.
I called Apple. They had it replaced in no time. I bought it online so they pick-up the defective one and gave me the replacement on the same day.
Cheers Apple!
NB: Try network reset setting. It helps too.
Last edited:
Amen!
This is the biggest culprit! If you look at the specs on the ATT iPhone, from Apple, the battery life spec is almost DOUBLE if you turn off 3G. If you have Wi-Fi at home and at work, you really don't need 3G. Getting emails will take a couple of seconds more on Edge, but usually waiting for the network takes longer than the actual email download.
Wi-Fi is MUCH faster than 3G or even 4G, even on a slower network.
Another reason to stick with ATT. Verizon doesn't give you this option, and I don't think Sprint does either.
This is the biggest culprit! If you look at the specs on the ATT iPhone, from Apple, the battery life spec is almost DOUBLE if you turn off 3G. If you have Wi-Fi at home and at work, you really don't need 3G. Getting emails will take a couple of seconds more on Edge, but usually waiting for the network takes longer than the actual email download.
Wi-Fi is MUCH faster than 3G or even 4G, even on a slower network.
Another reason to stick with ATT. Verizon doesn't give you this option, and I don't think Sprint does either.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)
Did a clean install, don't have exchange and location services yet. Don't have anything sync, it seems to be fine now. Just have to add everything manually now.
Did a clean install, don't have exchange and location services yet. Don't have anything sync, it seems to be fine now. Just have to add everything manually now.
3G vs Edge
All iPhones since the 3G appear to do this also. (You don't see the 3G symbol, you see the WiFi symbol).
However, when TALKING on an iPhone with 3G on, you are using the 3G network, and your battery drain is double that over using Edge towers.
The other reason I normally leave 3G off is it seems I get less dropped calls. I figure if everyone is on the 3G towers, I'm less likely to get "bumped" if I'm using Edge.
All iPhones since the 3G appear to do this also. (You don't see the 3G symbol, you see the WiFi symbol).
However, when TALKING on an iPhone with 3G on, you are using the 3G network, and your battery drain is double that over using Edge towers.
The other reason I normally leave 3G off is it seems I get less dropped calls. I figure if everyone is on the 3G towers, I'm less likely to get "bumped" if I'm using Edge.
I'm also having the issue on my iPhone 4. After sitting on my desk at work for a couple of hours, the phone is really warm and the battery has drained considerably (30%). Before iOS 5, I would *easily* get through the day on 1 charge. Now, I need to charge the phone by late afternoon, otherwise my phone will be dead by 5 or 6 PM..
David
David
Here is my story and researches:
I had iphone4, and never had battery drain issues even after updatind to ios5.
Now i use 4s, i restored data from backup from iphone 4. And its battery life is horrible - 5% drain every hour in stand-by.
Researches:
- battery is back ok if i remove SIM card, or enable airplane mode, or insert sim card but not type pincode.
- the following steps did not help: disabling localization services, disabling cellural data, bluetooth, icloud, sending logs
- i inserted sim card into my old iphone 4 with ios5, and still no problem with batter on iPhone 4
I'm still working on this.
Sylwester
I had iphone4, and never had battery drain issues even after updatind to ios5.
Now i use 4s, i restored data from backup from iphone 4. And its battery life is horrible - 5% drain every hour in stand-by.
Researches:
- battery is back ok if i remove SIM card, or enable airplane mode, or insert sim card but not type pincode.
- the following steps did not help: disabling localization services, disabling cellural data, bluetooth, icloud, sending logs
- i inserted sim card into my old iphone 4 with ios5, and still no problem with batter on iPhone 4
I'm still working on this.
Sylwester
And now we see a reason for a replaceable battery.
This kind of problem can be managed with a phone that has a replaceable battery, just pop out the battery, pop in a fully charged one and recharge the empty battery.
With a phone that won't allow you to remove the battery, the phone ends up being glued to the charging station...
(I guess you could buy two phones, but then you'd still would have to swipe the sim cards...)
Maybe the new feature of the iPhone 5 will be a replaceable battery?
This kind of problem can be managed with a phone that has a replaceable battery, just pop out the battery, pop in a fully charged one and recharge the empty battery.
With a phone that won't allow you to remove the battery, the phone ends up being glued to the charging station...
(I guess you could buy two phones, but then you'd still would have to swipe the sim cards...)
Maybe the new feature of the iPhone 5 will be a replaceable battery?
My iPhone 4 battery after upgrading to iOS5 died twice overnight. Think I have narrowed it down to Reminders. I get EMAIL via an Exchange server and reminders for Exchange is on, the battery drains, but not with other services on. I do see a higher than normal usage rate with Facebook notifications on too.
No probe on 3GS
Updated to iOS 5 on day of release and have had no battery issues. Also noted a significant speed increase of all functions since the upgrade. Battery probe seem to be related to the 4S on the whole!
Updated to iOS 5 on day of release and have had no battery issues. Also noted a significant speed increase of all functions since the upgrade. Battery probe seem to be related to the 4S on the whole!
I leave my BT on all the time but rarely use wifi and at first the battery was crap but once I reset/cycled the battery it has been just a good as my old 4 if not better which is acceptable for me.
Last edited:
Knowing it's Apple it won't be soon. They are only quick to respond to patching jailbreak exploits. And even then, it takes at least 2 weeks. They were also very slow to respond to the antenna issue last year (and Steve Jobs still thought it was a ploy by Google. lol.). However, I have more faith in Tim Cook than Jobs. He seems more caring and less arrogant.
Apple always does this with new iPhones !
They release a "defective" product
The Jailbreakers release their exploit
and one day later........
Apple MAGICALLY has a Fix and a new update to "Fix"
Its so obvious, they do it every year
Duhhh !!!
Wow. I couldn't have said it any better. This release plan of release now, fix later is getting tiresome. Especially for a phone that has basically been in "testing" for over 2 years. What exactly is Apple testing during all this time anyway?
There must be some very strange variables here.
I have a 64GB 4s, I use the living snot out of the phone, all my phone lines are forwarded to the 4s. My BlueTooth is on, but off on the headset (While I'm at home) Phone, Wifi is on and I run on Wifi while I'm at home, Mail and Message apps running, and ICloud is on. on a normal day of use, my 4s has about 40% at bedtime, that is tons better than my Droid Incredible, that sometimes I had to charge by noon!!
Maybe some of you are running too many apps or there is something different. It's hard to tell without testing side by side.
So far, I'm very pleased with my 4s battery usage compared to my previous Droid Incredible.
In general, battery life is significantly worse with the 4s compared to the 4, but on two occasions it went into some kind of loop (presumably...I couldn't detect what it was) and drained in about 5 hours (became warm during that time period). In the first case, I did a restore and the problem went away for awhile. In the second I discovered the drained iPhone after it had shut down, recharged it, and it's back up with its normal (relatively poor by comparison) battery consumption.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)
Interesting, I had it on airplane mode for over 2 hrs and the difference between standby and usage time only differed by about 30 minutes. Yes, it was in my pocket the entire time.
Interesting, I had it on airplane mode for over 2 hrs and the difference between standby and usage time only differed by about 30 minutes. Yes, it was in my pocket the entire time.
