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Batterygate??

I recommend that those having battery issues (I'm included) try setting your 4s up like your 4 or 3G.

Start with a full charge.
Reboot!
Turn off all the new iOs5 stuff.
Turn on what you needed with your old phone.
Add new features one at a time.

I'm testing this today to see if it truly is a crap battery or just so many new network, GPS, Mail, iCloud activity that the phone is working a lot more and thus using more juice.

I'll report back.
 
ZBoater said:
I'm sorry, but I'm turning everything on.

I want my iPhone to automatically lock on to the nearest WiFi source.

I want my iPhone to automatically connect to my car.

I want to use Find my Friends.

I want to be able to enjoy a nice, bright screen.

I want to Photostream my pictures.

I want to backup to iCloud.

I want to tether my MacBook Air.

I want to get my emails NOW. And I want to hear Worf say "Captain, incoming message" every time I get an email.

Why else did I get an iPhone? If I can't get it to do all that and I need to start turning things off, I might as well get two tin cans and a string.... :cool:
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I completely agree. I'm not turning stuff off. I did a full restore and started as a new phone. Let's see how that works out.
 
melman101 said:
I completely agree. I'm not turning stuff off. I did a full restore and started as a new phone. Let's see how that works out.
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Be very interested in how this goes.

I'm charging from 55% back to 100% and will then see how it does this afternoon. As I said, I have disabled the locaiton GPS thing, and deleted and recreated my email accounts, and enabled iCloud backup which was previously disabled.
 
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Just unplugged my iPhone after a night's worth of 100% charging.

All I did was read Twitter..
1minute in.. 99%

Now I'm at 95% with 20minutes of just Twitter reading. And the right side is already warm..

I'm definitely getting mine exchanged. Going to local Apple Store.
 
No trouble with the battery here. I drained 20% or so in 6 hours with every app I'd opened running in the background (I came from a 3G and hadn't realized that hitting the home button wouldn't automatically close the app, so every app I'd opened since Friday was still open yesterday at noon).

Today I've not dropped below 100% on an hour of standby time.
 
DB2k said:
Its an option but I would lose years of messages wouldn't I, so that would be quite an annoyance. I will monitor this thread and keep trying things but I've made a Genius Bar appt for Sunday just in case.

thanks
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would it really hurt you if you lost a text message from 2008?
 
fins831 said:
I had a 3GS and decided to not use my previous sync/backups, and just saved my music/pictures and apps through itunes and set it up as new. I am thoroughly using my phone, prob about 500 texts a day (about half dictated, love that feature), phone calls up to 30-40 min a few times a day, leaving wifi on at home and at work, and I am using about 60 percent of my battery each day.
... I ask Siri or I can open my Weather Channel or Accuweather App...
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Wait, you have Siri on a 3GS?
 
JTausTX said:
No trouble with the battery here. I drained 20% or so in 6 hours with every app I'd opened running in the background (I came from a 3G and hadn't realized that hitting the home button wouldn't automatically close the app, so every app I'd opened since Friday was still open yesterday at noon).

Today I've not dropped below 100% on an hour of standby time.
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You do realize that not EVERY app you see when you double click the home button is still running. (and actually none of them are "running"...the first few may still be loaded in memory). The icons in the task switcher accumulate over time. If you have 50 apps and use them all one by one, icons for all 50 will appear in the task switcher area.
 
nishishei said:
iCloud and Locations are definitely the two biggest power drains.

With both turned off (deleted iCloud account), I get same battery drain as my wife's iPhone 4.

I have Exchange sync with Google turned on, with push enabled.

iCloud is a joke. This is what, the third iteration and Apple still can't get cloud right.
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The trick is finding a balance. I have iCloud turned on, however I don't do wireless syncing, and I don't backup to the cloud. I backup to iTunes on my iMac. I also don't let it backup my documents and settings over cellular. I am getting great battery life.

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lateralus1082 said:
would it really hurt you if you lost a text message from 2008?
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Yes I don't understand people who save all their text messages for months on end. Is that text message really that important? I delete mine at the end of the day. Is your self esteem that low that you need to save that text from the fat girl at the bar saying you were cute back in January?
 
Why dont you guys charge the phone while you sleep? I charge it every other night, and I have always enough power, even with wifi always on, gps a couple of times each day, and quite a few calls and a lot of texts.
 
spiffers said:
Why dont you guys charge the phone while you sleep? I charge it every other night, and I have always enough power, even with wifi always on, gps a couple of times each day, and quite a few calls and a lot of texts.
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you've not really read the thread. A lot of us ARE doing that and are still having huge battery drains with minimal use.
 
DELTAsnake said:
WiFi sync only works when you are plugged into power, it's a non issue.

Anyway, my battery goes down about 3% every 20 minutes while it's in sleep mode. I'm going to try and restore it, first using an iCloud backup so no apps get restored, if that doesn't work I'll restore to factory default. But I will be pissed cause I'll loose my Peggle and PvZ saves.
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There must be some kind of bug with WiFi sync that doesn't let the wifi radio go into sleep mode even though it's not plugged in. This of course is just my theory :D
 
DB2k said:
Probably not, but I'm pretty sure I've received some in 2010 and 2011 which I would like to keep. What a stupid comment...:eek:
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Wait, which is the stupid comment, his or yours? You have "years" worth of text messages? What exactly do you plan to do with them? In case you haven't noticed, there's no way to physically save them outside of your phone, unless maybe you jailbreak. And there's no meaningful way to organize or search them. So what on earth do you do with them? Or are you one of those people who keeps useless stuff just because you like to "have it around"? I think there's a TV show about that...
 
I'm at 93% right now. I got up at 6:15am (it is now 7:51). First thing I did was check Facebook and it dropped to 99%. By the time I left the house (6:35am), it was at 97%. On the way to work, I received 2 emails through push and a calendar reminder. Checked twitter during the morning meeting and here I am. I'm at 25% brightness with auto brightness enabled.

I have Push on
I have locations turned off for my camera, twitter and facebook
iCloud is turned on
Not sure how to turn off iTunes sync, but the last time it was synced was on Friday :confused:



I just hope my battery life gets better.
 
spiffers said:
Why dont you guys charge the phone while you sleep? I charge it every other night, and I have always enough power, even with wifi always on, gps a couple of times each day, and quite a few calls and a lot of texts.
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Clearly you don't have a 4S. I charge mine every night, not every other night, and with very light use, starting at 9am, including a few texts and some web browsing, my phone would be dead by 5-6pm if I didn't charge it at work too.
 
I read a post somewhere -- whether this thread or another I don't know -- about a user who went to the Genius bar about battery drainage issues. The Geniuses ultimately did a clean restore of the user's phone, set up as new, and the drainage issues supposedly were much improved.

My phone had been losing 7% an hour without me using it. What harm could a reinstall do right? So I did a DFU reinstall of iOS 5 , setup the phone up as new and reinstalled my apps and settings by hand.

After the reinstall I went to sleep. The phone was at 100%. 4 hours and 54 minutes later I woke up, hit the home button and it was briefly still at 100% then dropped to 99%. There was 8 mins of usage.

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I was hopeful. This was a hell of a lot better than the 7% per hour I was losing just yesterday but I had a feeling it was too good to be true.

I didn't use the phone this morning except to plug in my earbuds (which have a mic) and drive to work. Along the way I only used Siri a little bit, asking time and weather, sending a twitter update or two via text. 87 mins of standby (which includes 24 mins of usage) since first hitting the home button this morning, the phone dropped another 6%. :confused:

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For what it's worth, my setup includes 2 push email accounts (MobileMe and Exchange, both of which sync contacts and calendars as well), 3 fetch email accounts (fetch set to 30mins), all Location Services turned on except Find my iPhone, Diagnostics & Usage and Location-based iAds, brightness at about 50% (auto-brightness on), Wifi on, BT off.


PS -- in 41 more mins of standby (19 mins usage) it's down another 5%. Clearly there has to be some service running on the device that is started up (perhaps Siri related?) that is chugging along eating resources.
 
DB2k said:
Probably not, but I'm pretty sure I've received some in 2010 and 2011 which I would like to keep. What a stupid comment...:eek:
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Go find one from January 2010 in one of the longest threads that you have on your phone. Hopefully you find it by the time I get out of work.
 
I did make it to 15% yesterday at 9PM with close to 6hrs of use. That included a few 20 min phone calls, 2 hours of online radio, texts, facebook and twitter.

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mcdj said:
Lol. POTD
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he wanted to show his friends that wearing Steve Jobs' outfit really does get the ladies.
 
I turned off a bunch of stuff on mine, including wifi, and this morning my battery was at 97%. Much better than the 77% it was at the previous morning.

However, as soon as I start texting on it, the battery goes down. And I use regular texting more so than iMessage.
 
I've found turning off the following has drastically helped my battery life:

'Ping' in General -> Restrictions (need to turn restrictions on)
'Setting Time Zone' in Location Services -> System Services
'Daignostics & Usage' in Location Services -> System Services
'Location-Based iAds' in Location Services -> System Services

Then set 'Don't Send' in General -> About -> Daignostics & Usage Data

Hope this helps someone else.

Still dropping about 1% per hour on standby but I'd consider that 'acceptable'.
 
My battery has definitely improved since recieving it on friday, today its only gone down about half of what it did on saturday with the same useage
 
redmamoth said:
I've found turning off the following has drastically helped my battery life:

'Ping' in General -> Restrictions (need to turn restrictions on)
'Setting Time Zone' in Location Services -> System Services
'Daignostics & Usage' in Location Services -> System Services
'Location-Based iAds' in Location Services -> System Services

Then set 'Don't Send' in General -> About -> Daignostics & Usage Data

Hope this helps someone else.

Still dropping about 1% per hour on standby but I'd consider that 'acceptable'.
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Good tips. I have these setup like this too.
 
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