Yea that is pretty bad...sorry to say. Maybe letting it die will improve it.
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Yea that is pretty bad...sorry to say. Maybe letting it die will improve it.
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Anybody have push email on? How is that affecting your battery?
I let my battery drain all of the way down last night, recharged it back to 100% this morning and did a hard reset. My battery went down from 100 to 97 in 45 minutes in the sleep mode and with almost everything off except wifi. Since Apple just announced to AllThingsD that 5.0.1 didn't fully address the issue and they're still working on it, I guess everyone just has to sit it out until 5.0.2.
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As soon as I checked the location reminder (even though expired weeks ago) the location icon in the status bar went away. Hoping this works for the battery
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As soon as I checked the location reminder (even though expired weeks ago) the location icon in the status bar went away. Hoping this works for the battery
It's 3:30 in the afternoon and I've responded to a few emails, sent a few texts, no voice calls, I'm at 48%. Good job apple!
is this battery drain is a real issue or only affecting few people (based on their settings like Push, iCloud setup, streaming)?
very concerning.
the main reason for me to chose iOS over andriod
1. Battery life
2. Stability
that looks like in jeopardy.
very concerning.
the main reason for me to chose iOS over andriod
1. Battery life
2. Stability
that looks like in jeopardy.
I can personally attest that it's a very real issue. I have NOT had some of the extreme drains that others have claimed (e.g. going to bed with 50% and waking up with a dead phone), but iOS 5.01 is still far worse than iOS 4.x when it comes to battery life. I've not done much with my phone since topping it off to 100% last night (no voice calls, a few texts and emails, checked facebook a couple of times, etc) and I'm at 54%. That's a 46% battery drain just by sitting in standby with 4-5 bars of signal strength and letting some emails get pushed to my phone.
I installed 5.01 as a clean install (not from a backup) just as I always do with iOS updates. After using iOS 4.x for well over a year, based on the usage I've done since I charged the phone to 100% last night, I'd predict that my current charge would be around 80% under iOS 4.x - not 54%. That's a real issue for sure, but it's not as bad as what some have claimed their experiences to be, so I guess I'm one of the "lucky" ones.
Not trolling or tryna be funny, but the person with the 3hour usage Overall 8 hours joint is kinda krazy.
Virgin iPhone 4 with OG iOS 4.0 everything on except wifi. I know its not a 4S but you should at least get a day and a half out that joint with just 3h usage.
Virgin iPhone 4 with OG iOS 4.0 everything on except wifi. I know its not a 4S but you should at least get a day and a half out that joint with just 3h usage.
iPhone 4S
iOS 5.0.1 (not beta)
-Brightness 50%, Auto Brightness ON
-Siri ON + Raise To Speak ON
-iMessage ON
-iCloud ON (everything enabled in it except photostream)
-Location Services ON for the following: Maps, Nike+GPS, Siri, Speed Test, Trailers, Find My iPhone
-WIFI Sync ON
-BlueTooth OFF, Ping OFF
-I have the following disabled in System Services: Diagnostics & Usage, Setting Time Zone, Location-Based iAds
I have 3 accounts in Mail. One is just a normal Gmail account, another is iCloud, and then an Exchange account. I don't use PUSH/Fetch. I only check my mail manually.
USAGE:
I did a lot of streaming off of Pandora and Slacker with the high quality audio options enabled in both those apps and I had the screen ON at times to change stations, like/dislike songs and skip songs. Volume was either at ~30% or ~60% depending on whether I was using Pandora or Slacker. About 50 texts (sent/received combined). 1 short call (no more than a minute probably). Safari for like an hour at the very least. I checked my email manually 10-12 times. Watched 3 youtube videos (they were about 2-3 minutes each). Played Lane Splitter for 10 minutes. Played Virtual Table Tennis for like 5 minutes.
Everything was done over 3G from 100% down to 20%. Then from 20% to 0% I was on WIFI. I lost 3% in standby from 3AM to 8AM while I slept.
That's about as detailed as I can get.
iOS 5.0.1 (not beta)
-Brightness 50%, Auto Brightness ON
-Siri ON + Raise To Speak ON
-iMessage ON
-iCloud ON (everything enabled in it except photostream)
-Location Services ON for the following: Maps, Nike+GPS, Siri, Speed Test, Trailers, Find My iPhone
-WIFI Sync ON
-BlueTooth OFF, Ping OFF
-I have the following disabled in System Services: Diagnostics & Usage, Setting Time Zone, Location-Based iAds
I have 3 accounts in Mail. One is just a normal Gmail account, another is iCloud, and then an Exchange account. I don't use PUSH/Fetch. I only check my mail manually.
USAGE:
I did a lot of streaming off of Pandora and Slacker with the high quality audio options enabled in both those apps and I had the screen ON at times to change stations, like/dislike songs and skip songs. Volume was either at ~30% or ~60% depending on whether I was using Pandora or Slacker. About 50 texts (sent/received combined). 1 short call (no more than a minute probably). Safari for like an hour at the very least. I checked my email manually 10-12 times. Watched 3 youtube videos (they were about 2-3 minutes each). Played Lane Splitter for 10 minutes. Played Virtual Table Tennis for like 5 minutes.
Everything was done over 3G from 100% down to 20%. Then from 20% to 0% I was on WIFI. I lost 3% in standby from 3AM to 8AM while I slept.
That's about as detailed as I can get.
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This is my first iPhone, so I have no comparisons and wanted to see if my usage is good or bad.
Right now i have
Usage: 51 mins
Standby: 7 hours, 20 mins
Battery at 86%
I have push on for 1 mail account. Notifications and Location off for almost everything except an app or 2 and my usage today was only for texting, calling and very light app use.
How does this stand up?
Right now i have
Usage: 51 mins
Standby: 7 hours, 20 mins
Battery at 86%
I have push on for 1 mail account. Notifications and Location off for almost everything except an app or 2 and my usage today was only for texting, calling and very light app use.
How does this stand up?
Nice try at the ever so fashionable "Let's blame it on AT&T" .. but you are wrong. Ever so wrong.
And I'm not even sticking up for AT&T. I couldn't care less, it's just a carrier. I've been using Verizon AND AT&T for years. They both deliver what one pays for. It's just a service.
Yikes, my battery life on 5.0 sucks arse. Seriously 98% to 68% in a matter of 3 hours.
I'm trying to hold out on the 5.0.1 update because of jailbreak. But I think I'll rather have a better battery life than wait on a jailbreak that we don't know a date for.
Happy to have my iPhone back though.
I'm trying to hold out on the 5.0.1 update because of jailbreak. But I think I'll rather have a better battery life than wait on a jailbreak that we don't know a date for.
Happy to have my iPhone back though.
So after a day with 5.0.1, it seems better, at least for my 4S. Listened to music constantly at work, email checks (actually had to re-add an account) did that over 3G, downloaded one app, some light browsing, two episodes of Law & Order: SVU over wifi via Netflix. I am noticing however that it really does start to drain once it goes below 20%.
Sorry to trivialise the matter, but the answer to the original question surely should be 'no one'. Really, everyone should wake and their iPhone's should be at 100% each day without fail.... why? Because overnight is the perfect time to plug in and recharge, how hard is it?
So far
3 hours usage
19 hours, 10 minutes standby
55% left
Got to admit I think this is very good battery life
3 hours usage
19 hours, 10 minutes standby
55% left
Got to admit I think this is very good battery life
I have had poor battery life from day 1 and was featured in the Guardian article after an Apple engineer contacted me to gather info from my phone. Last week I decided to get a replacement phone and it has solved the battery issues. What I found really strange was that I used a cloud backup to restore the phone which suggests that I may have had a hardware fault all along. Maybe there are some 4s phones with a fault and this is being conflated with a software issue for some users?
The Apple engineer called back again when he saw I had replaced my phone and was really interested to find it had solved my problem.
The Apple engineer called back again when he saw I had replaced my phone and was really interested to find it had solved my problem.
Apple seems they dont want to admit/realize that the absence of the "Enable 3G" is one of the main culprits behind these battery drains. The iphone 4s is constantly changing bands trying to get the best signal possible. All this switching back and forth consumes battery life. Experienced this first hand in an area where ony 2G was available. My battery life was almost identical to that of my iphone 4. Why this option was removed is beyond me. Perhaps it has to do with the new radio chip but whatever the reason this is unacceptable. Even on earlier phones below the 3g option it said " May load data faster but it may also decrease battery life". Apple in an efford to have one single sku for the 4s may have ended up screwing everything. I get it one sku is convenient for them as well as for the customer but please make sure it works before realising to mass market. I am fairly certain that the return of the 3G switch will be accompanied by the much-desired longer battery life
I never used the disable 3G feature on my 3GS or 4 and was always pleased with my battery life. But I think you make a good point in that the 4S has two antennas and is constantly switching back and forth to find the best signal. When I am in areas with lower signal my battery drains significantly faster than when I am in strong signal areas, even when compared to my two previous iPhones.