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Batterygate??

Is this poor, average, good, or excellent?

4S
5.0.1 JBen

Time since last full charge:

Standby: 5 days
Usage: 4 hours
2% left

#s are rounded off.

Few disclaimers:

Standby is everything off except for Edge (so i can atleast get notifications)
Bacgrounder and Remove bacground has everything quit when minimized
Stanadard culprits (gps, 3G etc). All off


When using, just safari and mail on 3G or wifi
 
Just received my replacement 4S a few days ago. So far usage seems acceptable (it was rapidly declining before, ~4 hrs - Dead)

6 Hrs, 36 Minutes Usage

2 Days, 14 Hrs Standby

This is first charge, haven't done a recal. cycle yet.

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Everything is on (WiFi, 3G, Siri, Location Services etc.) except some of the non-needed system location service toggles, and auto-time set. Brightness ~75%, and using 3G mostly.
Also jailbroken with ~20+ tweaks! :D

Weird thing is, it's build date is august last year, and it's not a refurb, also came with an AT&T sim when it's supposed to be an unlocked Canadian iPhone. Suppose it'll come in handy when travelling to the states. Weird.
 
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There is no battery issue with my 4S. It has the best battery life of any iPhone that I've owned so far.

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Irish Rose said:
There is no battery issue with my 4S. It has the best battery life of any iPhone that I've owned so far.

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I bet 3-4 hrs of that is listening to music or some other non-intensive task... The standby is impressive though. But just cause you don't have a problem doesn't mean other people don't.
 
kas23 said:
Well, there we have it guys. There is no battery issue. Close up shop and move on now.
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I NEVER said others didn't have a problem. What I said was this; "There is no battery issue with my 4S." Next time read my post before jumping on it! :rolleyes:

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Burton8219 said:
I bet 3-4 hrs of that is listening to music or some other non-intensive task... The standby is impressive though. But just cause you don't have a problem doesn't mean other people don't.
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IF you took the time to read my post you would have noticed that I didn't say others don't have a problem with their battery life. I said there was no battery issue with my 4S. That's it. Also you are wrong, I only listen to my music for 1 hour a day while I am working out, not 3-4 hours has you say here.
 
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I NEVER said others didn't have a problem. What I said was this; "There is no battery issue with my 4S." Next time read my post before jumping on it! :rolleyes:

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IF you took the time to read my post you would have noticed that I didn't say others don't have a problem with their battery life. I said there was no battery issue with my 4S. That's it. Also you are wrong, I only listen to my music for 1 hour a day while I am working out, not 3-4 hours has you say here.
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I'll go out on a limb here, but this thread's title is "batterygate", a hint that its subject pertains to people's iPhones having poor battery life. Of course there are people with perfect battery life, but I'm sure their experience is likely worthless to those trying to obtain better battery life, unless their post offers some type of solution. Otherwise, such posts are usually just inflammatory in nature. I'm sure you understand.

And, no, I'm not having any battery problems either, but I feel for those that are. For me, I have most features disabled on my iPhone 4S.

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Irish Rose said:
I NEVER said others didn't have a problem. What I said was this; "There is no battery issue with my 4S." Next time read my post before jumping on it! :rolleyes:

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IF you took the time to read my post you would have noticed that I didn't say others don't have a problem with their battery life. I said there was no battery issue with my 4S. That's it. Also you are wrong, I only listen to my music for 1 hour a day while I am working out, not 3-4 hours has you say here.
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I'll go out on a limb here, but this thread's title is "batterygate", a hint that its subject pertains to people's iPhones having poor battery life. Of course there are people with perfect battery life, but I'm sure their experience is likely worthless to those trying to obtain better battery life, unless their post offers some type of solution. Otherwise, such posts are usually just inflammatory in nature. I'm sure you understand.

And, no, I'm not having any battery problems either, but I feel for those that are. For me, I have most features disabled on my iPhone 4S.
 
There's definitely something amiss, but I just use a Juice Pack Air and move on with it. I would say 4 and 4S battery life is absolutely horrible in my experience but if you keep chargers every where and use a battery pack case you should be OK. I'm not about to turn off features.

PS how do you guys run at only 20 or 30 percent brightness? That looks like crap. I have to be at 60% minimum and I'm not willing to lower it. I do use auto brightness but 60% is the default main setting.
 
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kas23 said:
I'll go out on a limb here, but this thread's title is "batterygate", a hint that its subject pertains to people's iPhones having poor battery life. Of course there are people with perfect battery life, but I'm sure their experience is likely worthless to those trying to obtain better battery life, unless their post offers some type of solution. Otherwise, such posts are usually just inflammatory in nature. I'm sure you understand.

And, no, I'm not having any battery problems either, but I feel for those that are. For me, I have most features disabled on my iPhone 4S.
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I can read what the thread is and if you bothered to read any of the other posts in this thread you would have noticed that I am not the only one who posted that my battery was fine. I'm not going to debate this with you any more. Don't like what I post, don't read it and move on, or report it to the mods. Now kindly **** and leave my posts be....
 
Irish Rose said:
I can read what the thread is and if you bothered to read any of the other posts in this thread you would have noticed that I am not the only one who posted that my battery was fine. I'm not going to debate this with you any more. Don't like what I post, don't read it and move on, or report it to the mods. Now kindly **** and leave my posts be....
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Wow. Touchy one.
 
Irish Rose said:
I can read what the thread is and if you bothered to read any of the other posts in this thread you would have noticed that I am not the only one who posted that my battery was fine. I'm not going to debate this with you any more. Don't like what I post, don't read it and move on, or report it to the mods. Now kindly **** and leave my posts be....
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Wow someone got their feathers ruffled... also just to point out, the my in your post wasn't bolded until after the fact. But that's not the point... the point is you came into a thread meant for people with battery problems to say nothing other than you aren't having any problems. What's the point of doing that? Obviously people know that some people aren't having problems... if that's you then why are you even posting in this thread?
 
iCloud - all features on and syncing in background
gmail and google voice on non stop and on push
2 pop accounts & 1 mobil me on push
wifi on non stop and connected to local wifi
reminders in queue
siri on and used somewhat frequently
5 alarms every morning with vibrate and max ringer volume

Overnight battery drain for me is not bad at all maybe 2-5% , and I tend to sleep through the first 2-3 alarms, and snooze the last 2 a few times.

Normally that would about kill my old sony x10a's battery, but so far the 4s has been great in this area.

Daytime battery efficiency is pretty good as well, especially with heavy voip usage through isip, maybe 25% usage at max, which is amazing considering all the services running.

I wouldn't be surprised though if there was a battery defect, my xperia x10 had horrid battery life even though it ran less stuff, I had to plug it in for a charge nightly for at least an hour or two, and it would randomly drain overnight sometimes 80-90%.
 
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Yea how's that possible? Are new phones different? Maybe fixed battery's?
 
Richardgm said:
That's excellent battery life. What are you doing with the phone?
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Hmmm... to achieve that I did almost anything but navigation and streaming radio. Those two things really badly kill my battery. Typically, I'll use (in order of use):

-- Texts. My wife and I communicate this way 99.9% of the time.
-- Music
-- News (CNN app/USA today/pulse/flipboard etc. streaming video; watching 80% of all videos)
-- Phone calls.
-- Safari
-- tapatalk forum app

I couldn't tell you EXACTLY how much of each thing I do. Some days I don't listen to any music but I'll watch every CNN video and will look at a LOT of stuff on the web. Some days I listen to music for 4-5 hours if I'm testing something. Brightness is always just a tad below half way. When I'm home I'm always on wifi and when I'm at work we don't have it so I'm always on 3g (with 3 bars). It's all extremely variable and extremely dependent on what you use, your connection type (wifi vs. 3g) and how often you use it, obviously.

I just looked and right now I'm sitting at 63% with 3h 7min of use and 1day 9h standby... I will probably reach stats like the ones in my screenshot by the time I'm around 50% this time around as well. The other day I streamed pandora cauase I was sick of trying to find something to listen to. My battery dropped horribly (15-20%) in a matter of an hour or so -- wasn't paying extremely close attention.

GPS (waze) gobbles battery life as well. so when I use either of those apps, it's game over for my battery life. I don't really let that stop me from using them though... I don't stress about it too badly. I monitor it and when I get really good results I know my battery is still good and when I get really poor results I know I've done something to consume more.

I'm not of the mindset to "turn off the percentage and forget about it". That's like saying "My car may be burning oil off so I'm just not going to check it at all". I think it's important to monitor things for something out of the norm that could alert you to a problem before it comes back to bite you. I just know how to not stress about it unless it's necessary and I am perfectly content doing so.
 
I'm not sure about mine but i guess its gets better with time.
 

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Sulten said:
I'm not sure about mine but i guess its gets better with time.
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iPhone's been plugged in since last charge.
 
will re post a new pic, i did plug to computer to load a image but not more then 2min
 
Let's keep this thread alive for keepin track of the battery usage. I find it highly interesting.
 
Question on what a good battery vs bad battery

Hi guys:
Can i ask you folks what results would indicate a good battery vs. a bad battery?

The constant is WiFi Youtube on a 4S.

Battery is going down 1% a minute...is that poor, average, or good?
What would be good?
What would be bad?
 
vartanarsen said:
Hi guys:
Can i ask you folks what results would indicate a good battery vs. a bad battery?

The constant is WiFi Youtube on a 4S.

Battery is going down 1% a minute...is that poor, average, or good?
What would be good?
What would be bad?
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Sounds like a defective phone. Return it.
 
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