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Would this be considered good?

35% battery left.
3:34min usage
13 hrs standby

Thanks guys.
 
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Would this be considered good?

35% battery left.
3:34min usage
13 hrs standby

Thanks guys.

i say it sucks based on how i felt my old iphone 4 held up.
 
I was having a big issue with my battery the first two days. I was willing to deal with it somehow, since I love the iPhone so much, but that would not have ideal.

However, today my battery was excellent and showed very similar life to my iPhone 4. Didn't really do anything different settings wise. The only thing I did that could have legitimately helped was let my battery die completely both days and then immediately allow it to charge completely. I understand the frustration many of you are having and I hope it gets better. Hope this helps.
 
Mines at

35%

Usage - 4hrs 9min
Standby - 13hrs 1min

To be far I was in a place at work that gets a horrible signal so I imaging that it was looking for service quite a bit, tomorrow I will leave it in my office which gets great signal and give it a try.

I though about replacing it but Verizon wants me to go through their steps...also as great as Verizon has been to me their certified like new devices usually suck....so I do not want one of them.

Thoughts?

k
 
Mines at

35%

Usage - 4hrs 9min
Standby - 13hrs 1min

To be far I was in a place at work that gets a horrible signal so I imaging that it was looking for service quite a bit, tomorrow I will leave it in my office which gets great signal and give it a try.

I though about replacing it but Verizon wants me to go through their steps...also as great as Verizon has been to me their certified like new devices usually suck....so I do not want one of them.

Thoughts?

k

Brand new phone will be replaced with brand new phone if you go through Apple... screw Verizon take it to a Apple store or do a cross-ship through Apple Care and get a BRAND NEW PHONE like you paid for!
 
I mean I get around 6 hours but I feel like thats dookie personally. My serial starts with DNP.
 
I'll post this here also.

I have a 3GS and immediately noticed the battery drain after iOS 5. I fixed it by turning off just iCloud and its mail account after testing all kinds of things. I still sync to my exchange server and hotmail accounts with push email and get 2 days per charge at about 40% burn a day. Oh I disable 3G since its not at my place. Finally note I use wifi iTunes sync and leave location services on.

With iCloud on I was burning a full charge in a single day.
 
Brand new phone will be replaced with brand new phone if you go through Apple... screw Verizon take it to a Apple store or do a cross-ship through Apple Care and get a BRAND NEW PHONE like you paid for!

That's good to know especially that they will cross ship, the nearest apple store is about an hour away, I tried to call the store directly today to talk with someone and they said to come in....I would if it was not so far.

I might have to give Apple Care a call if it does not get any better in the next few days and set up that cross ship. Thanks.
 
All,

With all the reports of people completely power cycling their batteries seeing improvements, I decided to gamble .99 on one of those battery App's per recommendation of a friend.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battery-doctor-pro-max-your/id340171033?mt=8

Today I let the phone get to 1% and then I started the program as instructed (it says just under 20%) and then plugged in the phone... we'll see how that goes tomorrow.

I am going to just completely kill the battery 4-5 times and see where I'm at... if that doesn't do the trick by Monday then it's replacement / refund time.

FYI - I have no affiliation with that App, just the one I chose based of recommendation from a friend IRL. You get the idea though... worth $1- to find out after all this frustration for me at least.
 
I'll post this here also.

I have a 3GS and immediately noticed the battery drain after iOS 5. I fixed it by turning off just iCloud and its mail account after testing all kinds of things. I still sync to my exchange server and hotmail accounts with push email and get 2 days per charge at about 40% burn a day. Oh I disable 3G since its not at my place. Finally note I use wifi iTunes sync and leave location services on.

With iCloud on I was burning a full charge in a single day.

I may turn off iCloud after I do a full charge tonight and see if that helps tomorrow, and turn it on when I need to sync up my contacts. That's actually the main thing I use if for anyway
 
This will die down as we all stop playing with our phones so much!!!

Mine was much better today!!
 
Mine has been very good, today at 1% right before it died it said 9 hours 35 minutes usage, and 1 day, 10 hours standby. I have a ton of stuff on, location services, siri, push mail to two accounts, icloud, etc. I don't know why there is such a difference in people's battery lives.
 
I'll post this here also.

I have a 3GS and immediately noticed the battery drain after iOS 5. I fixed it by turning off just iCloud and its mail account after testing all kinds of things. I still sync to my exchange server and hotmail accounts with push email and get 2 days per charge at about 40% burn a day. Oh I disable 3G since its not at my place. Finally note I use wifi iTunes sync and leave location services on.

With iCloud on I was burning a full charge in a single day.

Can't disable 3G on the 4S unfortunately. :(
 
I might add that mine was very frustrating and we didn't see this til we all had a full day of work Monday. Mine drained a battery and half a mophie and I figured out why. The dual antenna thinks low service is a
Reason to switch back and forth to get a better connection. The same night( monday) I used the final 50% until midnight in use since 4, so recap 8 hours crappy service took a iPhone 4s battery and a mophie, 6 hours after that to use the remaining 50% battery. It's the antenna lol. Standing by for optimization of this feature apple.
 
Mine just died at 11pm after being fully charged at 7am. It showed maybe 3 hours usage. I made a few calls, checked email. Nothing out of the ordinary. I would thing that the 3 hours should have been more like 8-9 based on the combined talk / browsing numbers. I only talked for about 1.5 hours total. I used to be able to run my phone from 7am until midnight and have maybe 40% left that would get me through the next morning. I just turned off wifi sync and will give it another go tomorrow.
 
At first I didn't get overly concerned with less battery life as compared to the iPhone 4 in my side by side test over a two day period.

Then today was the company lunch. Many bought iPhone 4S models (over 25 users) it was a nearly equal split of Verizon vs AT&T users. After much conversation we collectively came to the conclusion that the 4S really does suffer quite a reduction in run times.

That's not to say we think it's a problem since we all have similiar experiences. We came up with a decision to just take a wait and see attitude since the phone is so new. The majority decision is to watch the consistency and wait to see if Apple acknowledges the issue.

That aside, the one thing everyone is impressed with, is how Apple finally built a phone that makes good calls. The new baseband chip & revised antenna finally fixed Antennagate.
 
Apple takes a step forward (new hardware) but then takes two step back (battery life). They need to acknowledge and fix this asap...

A smartphone without amazing battery life is no real smartphone.
 
I had posted on here with a battery issue with my 4S, and compared it to my wife's that seemingly had the advertised battery usage. After trying just about every trick listed in this thread, I ended up going through the Genius Bar and got a replacement. It's still early, but all my testing seems to show this phone is behaving normally.

After thinking about it, I recall having some issues setting up the phone through iTunes the very first time, and it was related to Wi-Fi Sync. I also got some strange notifications in iTunes of detecting a phone and not being able to connect to it. My current line of thinking is that maybe something corrupted in the first installation, possibly hardware connected, that wasn't being erased or corrected with factory restores.

One thing I noticed late today...my usage and standby times stayed increasing off charge despite the phone being in sleep mode, with no e-mail accounts, no iCloud, no location services, no Facebook, no Twitter, etc...in other words, nothing connecting to the internet. Now, I tested with both WiFi on/Cell data off and vice versa and it did it both ways. Therefore, it seemd like some background process was constantly trying to connect to something, keeping the phone in use even in sleep mode.

At any rate, instead of burning 1%/10 minutes on standby, my new phone appears to be holding up at solid numbers. The Genius Bar guys were really helpful and I suggest that anyone who is at their wits end with Batterygate consider swapping it through Apple.
 
Apple takes a step forward (new hardware) but then takes two step back (battery life). They need to acknowledge and fix this asap...

A smartphone without amazing battery life is no real smartphone.

well, something may or may not be up with certain generations of the new iPhone 4S..but, from what I'm seeing in various forums, letting battery reach zero, charge to 100%, zero, 100% and so on a couple or 3 times seems to set the problems straight. For many, at least.

That and, of course, turning of the System Services.

despite the iPhone 4S's battery...It still is much better compared to my classmate's Samsung Galaxy S2...he has to keep it plugged in during class and he just bought it last week.
 
I wake up at 7:30 am with full charge. By 2 pm I had 35%. terrible isn't the word. This is quite simply atrocious.
 
Here is my usage for the day and the end result:

Unplugged at 7 AM
1 hour 20 minute phone call
2 hours Pandora streaming over bluetooth in my car
Lots of web browsing/text
Couple <5 minute phone calls
1 Hour playing iPod at full blast
Multiple E-mail checks from 2-3 pm (SPamming check mail every 5 minutes to see what I got on one of my mid-terms), along with e-mail set to push/Fetch every 15 minutes.
50% usage in area w/ 5 bars, 50% in area w/ 3 bars

Edit: I guess its worth mentioning that I always let my phone get down to <3% before plugging it in. Once at 100% I reboot the phone while it is still plugged in.
 

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Hmm the calibration theory might be right. I have been surfing the net for 3 hours after I got my less then 10% battery warning. Usually my old iPhones would turn off in about about 5 minutes after getting that warning.
 
19 hr standby
2hr 30 min usage
48 percent.

I'd say thats about average, well by comparison to my 3GS...but I never had a 4...but i've heard great things about the 4's battery life
 
My usage is excellent today in my opinion for a change. I'm at 22%, unplugged at 8 am, it's almost a half hour past midnight. I used the phone a lot today. Unfortunantely I don't have any usage stats for the day. They got deleted somehow. I never plugged into power or turned the phone off so I'm not sure why.
 
Mine's at 5 hours 3 minutes, 15 hours 21 minutes. 23% battery.

WIFI mostly off ( BT on, notifications ON etc ). Web browsing, playing a few games ( which devoured the battery ), AppStore, running a few applications, a few SIRI commands!. IM Client running in the background. Around 10 minutes of phone calls. Without the game playing, add on 15% at least.

Fetch email 15 minutes.

iCloud for syncing address book and contacts only.

During the night, my battery loses around 8% if not less.
 
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