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Battery draining too fast?

brayhite said:
Does it? I guess after I checked the listed specs on Apple's website, it said "Up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi", and at that rate if I stayed on Wi-fi, I'd be good for about 8 hours. Maybe just because I expect it to be a do-all, be-perfect type of phone I expect the battery to last pforever.
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From the two iPhones 4s I've used it seems about average. You have about 3 hours of standby and almost 2 hours of use so that's about normal I would say. Just like the poster above me said, it seems that some parts of the battery drain faster than the others. I would do a full charge and use it untill it's almost dead and see what numbers you get. I had 16 hours of standby and 6 hours 40 minutes of pretty heavy useage streaming music, watching videos, surfing, using gps, etc. If you get around those numbers with similar usage I would assume your good.
 
Rooftop voter said:
From the two iPhones 4s I've used it seems about average. You have about 3 hours of standby and almost 2 hours of use so that's about normal I would say. Just like the poster above me said, it seems that some parts of the battery drain faster than the others. I would do a full charge and use it untill it's almost dead and see what numbers you get. I had 16 hours of standby and 6 hours 40 minutes of pretty heavy useage streaming music, watching videos, surfing, using gps, etc. If you get around those numbers with similar usage I would assume your good.
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I got this from last night. I intentionally watched YouTube on 3G (even though I have Wi-Fi) and streamed music from Last.FM until it got down to 1%, then I just started taking screen shots till the phone shut off. This was the last one it took before shutting itself off.
 

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Typically with all new iPhones I've had to give them a few days to stabilize, and the first couple cycles were lower than usual.

Just got my iPhone 4 last night and I used it today until I got down to 10% at 2PM. That's a WAY faster drain than on my 3GS and the usage is about the same. So I plugged it up and let it charge to 100% and now it seems to be draining much more slowly.

Just wait a few days, I bet it will get a lot better. If not I would go see a Genius.
 
Dont know if this answer been offered but I had bad battery also, Called apple and they had me do a reset to original rather from back up from my old 3gs. This fixed my problem. Made a HUGE difference.
 
I had battery problems to, but the solution was a replacement. I would lose 50% battery life while powered off. NONE of the above suggestions did anything. Luckily, the Genius Bar agreed that was a problem. They replaced it and I get at least 2-3 days battery life with light-moderate usage.

Odds are if you have a problem with the battery, your battery is BAD.
 
Mine takes forever to drain.. I always have around 40% left by the end of the day of normal use. Love the new battery.
 
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