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Battery life issue DEFINITELY FIXED!

MBHockey said:
13 hour shift including 7 hours of usage on your iPhone? Must be a pretty intense job.
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I was in triage today. Further, a lot of that is Netflix and iHeartRadio. Also, our hospital is undergoing a complete rennovation and 40% of our rooms are closed down and the entrance doesn't even look like we're open and patients have to walk in through the ambulance bay. Basically it's a big cluster and our 200+ patient a day trauma center's volume has been cut in half for the past week so it's not quite as life destroying as usual. Thanks for the critique, though. ;)
 
I find it odd that I can leave the house with 100% and after 12 or so hours of regular use I still have 50% or so remaining. Regular for me is a couple calls, a couple texts, lots of safari and facebook.

But when it's at 100% at bed time it literally drains overnight without me touching it once. This has happened a few times both before and after the update. Three times it drained completely and shut off, which sucks for me because I use it as my alarm. Several times I would wake up and there would be maybe 6% or so remaining. I should note that I NEVER get 8 hours of sleep. I count myself lucky to get 6 and I often don't even get that. In the morning I might have a few notifications on my screen, but nothing excessive. I now have to just leave it plugged in to ensure my alarm will go off.

How is it that 7 hours of standby drains the battery quicker than 12 hours of my "normal" use? I'm loving my new phone but I never expected these weird battery issues.
 
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I find the battery worse.
Never had an issue with my battery but now its dropping faster than before.
 
b166er said:
I find it odd that I can leave the house with 100% and after 12 or so hours of regular use I still have 50% or so remaining. Regular for me is a couple calls, a couple texts, lots of safari and facebook.

But when it's at 100% at bed time it literally drains overnight without me touching it once. This has happened a few times both before and after the update. Three times it drained completely and shut off, which sucks for me because I use it as my alarm. Several times I would wake up and there would be maybe 6% or so remaining. I should note that I NEVER get 8 hours of sleep. I count myself lucky to get 6 and I often don't even get that. In the morning I might have a few notifications on my screen, but nothing excessive. I now have to just leave it plugged in to ensure my alarm will go off.

How is it that 7 hours of standby drains the battery quicker than 12 hours of my "normal" use? I'm loving my new phone but I never expected these weird battery issues.
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My best guess would be that when you're home (assuming your'e on wifi) the phone is constantly backing up to photo stream and iCloud, meaning even after all things are sync'd it's still passing data back and forth which burns up more battery.

This is only a guess though, I have no proof of anything.
 
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is this user turn off all setting and leave a phone a side to get this result
i don't think iphone 4s battery could catch up this much
 
iBreatheApple said:
It's hard for me to explain how much so because you don't know how I use my phone but let's just say by this time in the morning it's usually down anywhere from 96 - 94%! I know it's not gotten much usage yet, but like I said, it would have already dropped six or so percent by this time every morning. I'm stoked!

I never turn wifi off (ever.)
Screen stays at 60%.
Bluetooth always off.


Anyone else already experiencing a definite improvement?
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You can't say it is fixed until you have more than a few hours usage doing many different tasks.
 
r2shyyou said:
Of course, that's why he's been on a call for 34 minutes...
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sometime user using 2 hour then plug a phone charge to 100 % then used again , hour and minute will add continue during last time charge , my iphone 4 sometime work that way ,
 
iphone4s16gb said:
sometime user using 2 hour then plug a phone charge to 100 % then used again , hour and minute will add continue during last time charge , my iphone 4 sometime work that way ,
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If a user did that, there would be a note below the Usage and Standby times stating the following:

"iPhone has been plugged in since the last full charge"

That note does not appear in that screenshot.

In any case, there are many different ways to "use" an iPhone and some of those ways consume more battery than others. I think it's entirely plausible for that user to have experienced the battery life that they noted.
 
Battery life is amazing on wifi but on 3G lost about 10% in 4 hours doing nothing but push was on and had 5 emails. Maybe having fetch on for hourly is the best option

Currently

3 hours, 50 minutes usage
23 hours, 25 minutes standby

38% left
 
The Game 161 said:
Battery life is amazing on wifi but on 3G lost about 10% in 4 hours doing nothing but push was on and had 5 emails. Maybe having fetch on for hourly is the best option

Currently

3 hours, 50 minutes usage
23 hours, 25 minutes standby

38% left
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this result is ok not good enough

38 % left i dont think you could catch up to 5/6 hour
 
iphone4s16gb said:
this result is ok not good enough

38 % left i dont think you could catch up to 5/6 hour
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Well will post my results when it dies but usage wise it was great before going out for 4 hours. Maybe putting it on push and getting 5 emails was the issue but still odd how much I lost.

Still think at least 6 hours usage and 1 day in standby should be achieve able
 
No screenshots for me but I can say that I have noticed a definite improvement the first full day after the update.
 
i hople iphone 4s could handle 5 hour with those setting below

wifi on = all time
application = 80
music = 5 gb
notification = on
game = 1 hour play
touch = 1 hour play
internet = 1 hour play
video = 1 hour watch

if these setting 5 hour on iphone 4s , thanks apple
 
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Am I the only one finding the opposite effect? I had no problems with the original 5.0 software. My battery was great. Stupidly, I decided to upgrade thinking that maybe it would get better. I went from losing 5% battery in an hour to losing 15% battery in an hour. Frustrating, Hopefully after a few more charge cycles, it will improve.
 
b166er said:
I find it odd that I can leave the house with 100% and after 12 or so hours of regular use I still have 50% or so remaining. Regular for me is a couple calls, a couple texts, lots of safari and facebook.

But when it's at 100% at bed time it literally drains overnight without me touching it once. This has happened a few times both before and after the update. Three times it drained completely and shut off, which sucks for me because I use it as my alarm. Several times I would wake up and there would be maybe 6% or so remaining. I should note that I NEVER get 8 hours of sleep. I count myself lucky to get 6 and I often don't even get that. In the morning I might have a few notifications on my screen, but nothing excessive. I now have to just leave it plugged in to ensure my alarm will go off.

How is it that 7 hours of standby drains the battery quicker than 12 hours of my "normal" use? I'm loving my new phone but I never expected these weird battery issues.
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DollaTwentyFive said:
Am I the only one finding the opposite effect? I had no problems with the original 5.0 software. My battery was great. Stupidly, I decided to upgrade thinking that maybe it would get better. I went from losing 5% battery in an hour to losing 15% battery in an hour. Frustrating, Hopefully after a few more charge cycles, it will improve.
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I'm facing situations like the both of you. I let my iPhone die and then recalibrated it before I went to bed. It went down to 83%! Not as bad ast the 75% or so from the first night I got it but still pretty bad. If I do anything lightly, it drains 1% every few min. And by lightly, I mean checking sites such as MR. No YouTube, no music/video etc. I'm not an engineer so don't quote me on this, but it seems that the scale of a battery percentage is no longer linear. Or at least, that's what it feels like.
 
jcorbin said:
has anyone turned everything back on?

i turned off all the system services in location services. i'm curious if the time zone setting bug was fixed at all. i haven't turned mine on to test because its not really necessary.
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It's really useless if your not travelling
 
macingman said:
You can't say it is fixed until you have more than a few hours usage doing many different tasks.
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The reason for the thread was because my routine is the same each Fri, Sat, Sun, and it (the 4S) has never ONCE stayed at 100% by the time I arrived to work and it was the day after the update. I'm wondering if they just tweaked the settings like they did with the signal issue. Instead of losing bars right away (live), it waits to see if the signal is actually going to remain that low, I wonder if they have it hover around 100% for a while with this update. It seems as if it would make no sense to do so but we have no idea if this is a major internal problem and they are just wanting to put a band-aid on the issue or what. It doesn't seem quite as bad though, esp. when it's close to a full charge (it doesn't dwindle quite as much).
 
iphone4s16gb said:
this result is ok not good enough

38 % left i dont think you could catch up to 5/6 hour
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Well I did in the end.
My stats for my first round on ios 5.1 after it died

6 hours, 40 minutes usage
1 day, 2 hours standby

I'm happy with this... Very much so
 
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MrXiro said:
My best guess would be that when you're home (assuming your'e on wifi) the phone is constantly backing up to photo stream and iCloud, meaning even after all things are sync'd it's still passing data back and forth which burns up more battery.

This is only a guess though, I have no proof of anything.
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Backup is only supposed to happen when the phone is plugged in. I turned off my photo stream last night to see if that helps the battery a bit. Turned off "raise to speak" this morning. Currently at 90% w/ 58 min of use, 2:49 of standby.

Right after the update to 5.01 (before turning off photo stream), my battery was down to 20% after 7:36 of use & 11:20 of standby. It's not awful but not great either.
 
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