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Here is a further update from previous posts.
Charged up phone yesterday after it died after 30 hours standby and 6.5 hours usage. Actually, it didn't die it was at 1%.
unplugged last night at 18:00 pst, used it for about 20 minutes calling, some texts, some email, some mapping and went to bed at 22:00 with the phone at 93%. Woke up at 06:00 pst, phone was at 89%, so eight hours and 4% drop, had about 75 emails downloaded, four ESPN updates to notification center, some imessages, 5 calendar alerts.
When i went to unlock the phone, it seemed to crash (spinning wheel center screen) but came back in about 10 seconds.
The overnight seems to be fine.
The LAST thing I turned off was the location cell tower search and bluetooth.
WHAT does cell tower search do? I have had it off now two days and calls work fine, no problems, no searching, nothing.
Here is a further update from previous posts.
Charged up phone yesterday after it died after 30 hours standby and 6.5 hours usage. Actually, it didn't die it was at 1%.
unplugged last night at 18:00 pst, used it for about 20 minutes calling, some texts, some email, some mapping and went to bed at 22:00 with the phone at 93%. Woke up at 06:00 pst, phone was at 89%, so eight hours and 4% drop, had about 75 emails downloaded, four ESPN updates to notification center, some imessages, 5 calendar alerts.
When i went to unlock the phone, it seemed to crash (spinning wheel center screen) but came back in about 10 seconds.
The overnight seems to be fine.
The LAST thing I turned off was the location cell tower search and bluetooth.
WHAT does cell tower search do? I have had it off now two days and calls work fine, no problems, no searching, nothing.
I am so mad, last night I put my iPhone on the iPad charger and woke up this morning it was only 98% charged when I woke up. I used it looking at FB and a few text still plugged in and went down to 95% it was still plugged in!!!!! My iPad has iOS 5 installed, it was 92% when I went to bed .... Woke up it was surprise 92%. Has the iCloud on it, find my friends everything that iPhone has.
What is the deal?
What is the deal?
Referring the above post. Apple seem to have acknowledged that there is a software fix on its way.
Store managers could see there are alot of battery life 4S returns and tell the reps:
"yeah... um... a software fix is being looked into! tell the customers that!" ...
... with just the hope that Apple is already looking into it.
Unless I have an actual company memo that it is being looked into I'm too paranoid to believe what any retail rep tells me.
not as good as mine, 82% from 32 minutes usage
really is terrible performance from my battery
Why doesn't anyone that has impacted with poor battery performance send an e-mail to Tim Cook? If enough emails are pushed through, might get noticed. Years back I was involved in another similar e-mail campaign to a large car manufactuer over an engine issue. After getting no where with dealerships, all of us on the forum got recall notices in the mail and e-mail responses from the company. Might be worth a shot to try it with Tim.
I have also had it off for a couple of days and noticed no change in cell service. But since I don't really know what it does, I turned it back on.
Agreed. One Apple employee stating that it's a "known issue" certainly doesn't convince me that it is in fact being worked on. I need more proof than that.
I am having the same issues with the battery in my 4S as well. When is this iOS fix going to come out?
My stats
Had my 4s for 5 days and it wasnt holding a charge. SN# DNPGxxxxDTFD
Returned it to the Apple store who stated they haven't heard of any complaints... not buying that!
Got a new phone SN# C39GxxxxDTD8 and fully charged at 8pm last night. There is nothing on the phone for apps. I added my two email accounts as fetch. I disabled everything except Siri which I haven't used. The cloud is only enabled for contacts. I made 3 calls totalling 45 seconds and there were 34 texts with 4 pics and 39 emails.
Here are my results:
Oct. 20
7:58 pm 100% (call placed for 6 secs at 8:27)
8:30 pm 97%
11:16 pm 87%
11:56 pm 80%
Oct 21
12:15 am 75%
6:01 am 69%
6:32 am 68%
7:21 am 61% (Call placed for 33 secs at 7:22)
7:36 am 58%
8:13 am 52%
8:31 am 47%
8:47 am 42% (Call placed for 6 secs at 8:57)
8:58 am 38%
9:30 am 33%
10:03 am 23%
10:34 am 15%
11:11 am 11%
Had to charge as I was leaving. On the phone with Apple iPhone support who are still claiming they haven't heard of issues. I said there are 55 pages on just one forum alone so I find that hard to believe.
He said maybe it's one of their programs running and draining it. I told him I found it hard to believe that Apple would not consider this when stating their battery times let alone let a program they have run a battery down this quickly.
They've asked me to do a full charge and then use it as I normally would until it hits 10% and then take a screen shot of my usage screen. They want to see what is going on and if there is stuff running in the background.
We'll see....
I'll keep you posted as to what comes out of this call.
Had my 4s for 5 days and it wasnt holding a charge. SN# DNPGxxxxDTFD
Returned it to the Apple store who stated they haven't heard of any complaints... not buying that!
Got a new phone SN# C39GxxxxDTD8 and fully charged at 8pm last night. There is nothing on the phone for apps. I added my two email accounts as fetch. I disabled everything except Siri which I haven't used. The cloud is only enabled for contacts. I made 3 calls totalling 45 seconds and there were 34 texts with 4 pics and 39 emails.
Here are my results:
Oct. 20
7:58 pm 100% (call placed for 6 secs at 8:27)
8:30 pm 97%
11:16 pm 87%
11:56 pm 80%
Oct 21
12:15 am 75%
6:01 am 69%
6:32 am 68%
7:21 am 61% (Call placed for 33 secs at 7:22)
7:36 am 58%
8:13 am 52%
8:31 am 47%
8:47 am 42% (Call placed for 6 secs at 8:57)
8:58 am 38%
9:30 am 33%
10:03 am 23%
10:34 am 15%
11:11 am 11%
Had to charge as I was leaving. On the phone with Apple iPhone support who are still claiming they haven't heard of issues. I said there are 55 pages on just one forum alone so I find that hard to believe.
He said maybe it's one of their programs running and draining it. I told him I found it hard to believe that Apple would not consider this when stating their battery times let alone let a program they have run a battery down this quickly.
They've asked me to do a full charge and then use it as I normally would until it hits 10% and then take a screen shot of my usage screen. They want to see what is going on and if there is stuff running in the background.
We'll see....
I'll keep you posted as to what comes out of this call.
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Turn off iCloud and i'm sure you'll see a difference, that helped me out tremendously.
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Turning off iCloud didn't help me
I'll say it again go to restrictions and turn off iTunes ping
Now now now.
I was draining 1% per minute I'm getting 1% per 3.5 min now
iTorment said:
Turning off iCloud didn't help me
I'll say it again go to restrictions and turn off iTunes ping
Now now now.
I was draining 1% per minute I'm getting 1% per 3.5 min now
From what I could see this morning it is used with location based reminders. I had inadvertently set one last night and this morning I saw the GPS icon on my screen so I immediately went into the location services screen, system services, and the cell network search was purple instead of the usual grey. Purple indicates it is actively using it, grey indicates it was used in the last 24 hours. As soon as I deleted the location based reminder the icon left my screen and cell network search turned grey.
While I agree with your frustrations & the frustrations of this 1100+ post thread, we won't ever see a memo and Apple won't directly admit to there being any problem (think about last year's little event to "prove" that "every cell phone has this issue", re: antennagate).
The best we'll see is a patch that "improves performance" (marketing terms). But to be honest, I'd be happy to see such a patch, especially if it improves battery performance.
It doesn't matter WTF they call it or who they admit the issue to so long as it is addressed and soon. I think we can bank on it being a near-silent fix especially after last year's debacle.
This makes no sense, all this does is allow you to restrict access to the features listed and they are disabled by default.