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I get like 9 hours of usage time almost every day with my iPhone 4s.. however I'm pretty sure I don't use it more than 5-6 hours. How can this be explained?
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Everything is on, except BT, Siri and iAids/Time zone under locations. I bought it yesterday and that is its first charging, so don't you think it will get better and better every next charging?
This is one of many units I went trough and for me this seems to have very good battery life.
This is one of many units I went trough and for me this seems to have very good battery life.
I still can't understand how some people get 7-8-9 hours usage time and long standby time (awesome battery life) and others get 3 hours usage and less than 10 hours standby (bad battery life). They use the same phone and most of the times even the same carrier.
I used to have a great battery life (7-8 hours usage and 23-24 hours standby) but now I can't get pass (3 hours and half usage and 6-8 hours standby). I didn't install any app or anything, that just happened. I really don't know how this started.
I've tried everything to get my battery life back (change in settings, restoring as new, not installing any app, etc), but still get a poor battery.
I've an iPhone 4.
I used to have a great battery life (7-8 hours usage and 23-24 hours standby) but now I can't get pass (3 hours and half usage and 6-8 hours standby). I didn't install any app or anything, that just happened. I really don't know how this started.
I've tried everything to get my battery life back (change in settings, restoring as new, not installing any app, etc), but still get a poor battery.
I've an iPhone 4.
Here is what I ended up getting Friday/Saturday. Obviously the standby time is great. Usage time, I still have some reservations about, as my usage was virtually no 3G (~10 MB of data), and only 25 minutes of talk time. The rest was email/browsing over WiFi, a handful of texts, about 20 pictures taken, a video, and playing a game, messing with settings, etc. I'm interested to see what kind of usage numbers I could get over a shorter standby period. As I mentioned before, this is with all the bells and whistles turned on at all times, except some of the advanced location services stuff like time zone, iAds, traffic, diagnostics. I got about 3-4% standby drain out of the box, did a iTunes restore as new, and only installed a few apps (mainly avoided Facebook as some believe it is a standby drain culprit).
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According to my usage stats I'm getting excellent battery life (around 18hours standby wit 7-9hours usage)
The problem is, I'm not using my phone for 7-9hours; it spends the night on standby, then in the morning I check emails/read the news for 15minutes or so and then it sits in my car for 9 hours while I'm at work by which time the battery is usually between 30%-40%.
Push is off, Siri is off, location services off, timezone off etc.
What gives Apple!
The problem is, I'm not using my phone for 7-9hours; it spends the night on standby, then in the morning I check emails/read the news for 15minutes or so and then it sits in my car for 9 hours while I'm at work by which time the battery is usually between 30%-40%.
Push is off, Siri is off, location services off, timezone off etc.
What gives Apple!
Anyone with phantom idle usage and that hasn't done so already. Do a reset all settings and setup as new.
Worked for me anyway.
Worked for me anyway.
Were you then able to do a restore in itunes to get contacts and messages back or would this defeat the object of resetting all settings?
Reset all settings doesn't get rid of anything or any data. It just sets everything back to default, like wallpaper, ringtones, notifications and so on.
i don't trust reset setting will help your battery
i don't trust charge cycle will help your battery
i don't trust restore firmware will help your battery
i don't trust upgrade firmware will help your battery
all that crap is same thing , battery is battery , when you got a new iphone ,
everything is there already ... if battery no good then no good , good is good ..
So when Apple release iOS 5.1, you won't upgrade your iPhone to it, right? Since it won't help? Rrrrriiiiiight...
nope , no upgrade ... hardware issue software can't fix ...
go youtube.com watch iphone 4s reveal , they don't talk about battery section
that mean same battery on iphone 4 ....
I was having massive usage whilst the phone was sat idle. I searched and found that resetting all settings helped a lot of people. Tried it myself and hey presto, no more phantom idle usage.
I get like 9 hours of usage time almost every day with my iPhone 4s.. however I'm pretty sure I don't use it more than 5-6 hours. How can this be explained?
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Thats what I was seeing.
I got mine swapped and noticed a big improvement till I opened a picture in the Facebook app. It then started with the unexplained usage again till I rebooted the phone, the unexplained usage then stopped.
I am now averaging nearly 3 days between charges and my usage stats actually reflect my usage!
61 % not get 2 hour
so , 0 % max 4 hour
4 hour battery life ?
that good for you not for all people in this forum want ....
i bet all they want in here 7-8 hour .....
This doesn't prove anything you fool. The battery indicator or use is not linear. Enjoy your windows phone lulz
How old you are ? 10 ? Please watch your language.
By saying its not linear, you are assuming that it will drain more slowly than it currently is right ? At the same time, since you say its not linear, it could also drain a lot faster than it currently is.
Just remember there are two sides to these silly half-eaten-fruit fanboi arguments.
Do you work for Apple by the way ?