Batterygate??

[ToddH]

How were you able to get your contacts back on the phone. I can put the apps back on through iTunes really fast but I am worried about my contacts.

Well as I remember, my computer/iTunes came up and asked "automatically sync email & contacts" I clicked yes. You can also open the tab in iTunes, the one next to summary and make sure the boxes for contacts, etc are checked so iTunes will sync with them. But mine did it automatically. Yours should as well. You can push them in, chances are it will do it automatically. If not, wait until your iPhone is seen in iTunes and click on your phone to see the stats for your phone and go through all of the tabs and make sure the little boxes are checked so iTunes will sync your contacts, photos, apps, etc. no worries, it's easy.

 

[Alonzo84]

45 minutes of normal usage (check email, safari etc.)
4 hours 7 minutes standby
Battery is at 89%
I recall getting a LOT more usage out of my iPhone 4 prior to iOS 5 with the same settings. I only used the new OS on my 4 for a couple of days so I don't remember how the battery was.

 

[impulse462]

I received my 4S on Thursday, and I fully charged it too 100%, and then unplugged it at 12:30 am (so technically Friday) And it just died this morning after being a short call.

My usage is as follows:
45mins-1hour gaming (angry birds/cut the rope)
~30 minutes of music
tons of wifi-browsing, didn't really measure that time but was a lot
about 20-30 mins of watching youtube videos
30-45 total minutes of calls on 3G.
Sporadicly using Siri for actual use and to just screw around with (I'd say 30 minutes total as well)

I have all my email accounts set to manual.
All those location based system services were on during this first drain.
Gotta keep in mind also that being in Miami, I rarely have less than 4-5 bars which is a definite factor.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with this battery, I'm sure it'll get better with time, as these numbers remind of my iPhone 4 a few weeks after launch day.

EDIT: also forgot to mention numerous iMessaging/texting during that time as well.

 

[Lone Wolf]

22 min of usage this morning and I went from 100% to 95%...looked up 3 web pages...sent 3 iMessages...seriously Im trying not to obsess over it but thats really ridiculous

 

[xraytech]

22 min of usage this morning and I went from 100% to 95%...looked up 3 web pages...sent 3 iMessages...seriously Im trying not to obsess over it but thats really ridiculous

You're nt trying hard enough to not obsess.

Settings > General > Usage > Battery Percentage > OFF

You're welcome.

 

[Lone Wolf]

settings > general > usage > battery percentage > off

you're welcome.

..lol

 

[Ori]

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I've posted earlier, but apple store tested my phone and found a fault with the battery. Obviously replaced it. Hopefully that sorts my problem.

 

[jerjoe]

Suffering the same phantom usage here so have been doing a little digging. If I take the phone off charge and sit it unused on the desk beside me and then check usage after 1 hour; the Phone will have racked up 28-31 mins of usage for every hour of sitting on the desk.

So something is causing this usage,

First clue is visible under Settings -> General -> About -> Diagnostics & Usage -> Diagnostics & Usage Data...
In here an awdd metriclog is being generated every 30 seconds when in standby, this contains a wifi latency metric.

Second clue required the purchase of an App that gave access to the phones System Log.
Checking the syslog for a period of time the phone was in standby shows the device waking up wifi every 30 seconds an running for a number of seconds before sleeping to restart again at the next 30 second wake up.

Third clue was to check the syslog on a 3G iPad running iOS 5
This also wakes up wifi but every 15 mins not every 30 secs!

Looks like an iOS bug to me so hopefully we'll get a software fix soon.

THIS -- just for fun I charged up my old iphone 4 --- has no service. Checked my phone and I had 18 minutes of usage --- something is running in the background !!!!!!

 

[Tmelon]

Turning things off in my location settings made the difference for me. I unplug in the morning at 6:30 and I plug back in at 11:30 when I go to bed. The battery is definitely not an issue (at least for the Sprint model)

 

[Nikhil72]

Pulled out my iP4 last night and compared it with my 4S overnight. The iP4S lost 20% of its battery overnight, while the iP4 lost 2%. Settings are identical, including fetch every 30 minutes, iCloud off, the system services location services off except cell network, etc. With WiFi enabled on both. I just don't get it...mostly the inconsistency that's driving me nuts.

 

[RollTide1017]

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I thought I had fixed my battery issue by drainning until the phone cut off and charging to 100%. After that it worked great for almost 32 hours. Last night, it was at 18% so I placed it on the charger when I went to bed. This morning, my battery problems have returned.

I unplugged it from the charger, checked to make sure it was at 100%, then placed it on the mantle. About 2 hours later I looked at my phone at it was down to 91%! I didn't touch it for 2 hours and it lost 9%! What worris me more is my usage and standby data is exactly the same again. That wasnt the case before this most recent charge. This is ridiculous, I shouldn't have to drain the battery until the phone dies every time just to get good battery usage. My iPad, old 3GS and my wife's 4, all on ios5, do not have this issue.

I'm starting to regret this upgrade. While typing this, my phone has dropped another 8%, from just typing. Can an AT&T store do an exchange or anything if you bought it on apple.com? Closest Apple Store is 100 miles, so that is not an option.

I could go almost 3 days without charging my 3GS at times. Kind of wish I had gotten a 4 now, or waited for the 5. Siri is not worth having to charge your phone once a day, sometimes twice.

 

[French]

What I find most annoying about this issue is that there is no definitive "fix" and there is also no formal acknowledgement from Apple. At least if Apple acknowledged it and said they had identified the issue(s) or were working to identify them, I feel I could try to patiently wait.

With Apple not having done this I am leaning strongly towards returning it and then if Apple does manage to fix it, maybe I'll buy it again. Without the acknowledgement I have to assume they think it's fine and working as it should.

 

[BrightCanon]

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What I find most annoying about this issue is that there is no definitive "fix" and there is also no formal acknowledgement from Apple. At least if Apple acknowledged it and said they had identified the issue(s) or were working to identify them, I feel I could try to patiently wait.

With Apple not having done this I am leaning strongly towards returning it and then if Apple does manage to fix it, maybe I'll buy it again. Without the acknowledgement I have to assume they think it's fine and working as it should.

I actually just returned mine and went back to my 4. I tried every possible fix. Mine would drop 2% points every 15 min in standby with the screen off. I may pick one up later if the fix this but for now it wasn't worth it to me.

 

[Andylar]

I'm having much better battery with Facebook notifications off and after a dfu restore, it's been on 100% since I took it off charge

Usage 10mins
Standby time 1h 19 mins

And this is with all iCloud features and all system services in location settings turned on

 

[sgrrsh26]

Ill keep saying it, my phone was great- 2% standby loss the first 2 nights.(At normal factory settings with cloud enabled!). The only strange thing was the phone was at 1% for about 20 minutes of heavy use. Dropped some settings to increase usage drain and things went downhill from there. constant 30% drain overnight. not to mention massive usage drain.

after dropping ALL settings- (location services, cloud, wifi, itunes ping, push notifications, etc.etc.etc) things have not gotten any better. I dont care what idea you can come up with- (diagnoistics, compass calibration, auto time set, stock ticker,iAds ) NOTHING is making it normal again.

I just did a full restore to new phone Ill get back to you guys but at this point I believe there is something wrong in the settings thats bugged.

My system status system log keeps showing "Unable to cancel system wake for 2011-10-21 09:20:12 -0400. IOPMCancelScheduledPowerEvent() returned 0xe00002c" this is strange as well.

Also there have been instances with my phone becoming warm while its in standby

 

[Alonzo84]

I'm having much better battery with Facebook notifications off and after a dfu restore, it's been on 100% since I took it off charge

Usage 10mins
Standby time 1h 19 mins

And this is with all iCloud features and all system services in location settings turned on

I apologize, but is a DFU restore setting up as new phone as opposed to restoring from back up? I restored my 4S from back up and am experiencing terrible battery life. If restoring as a new phone helps the issue, I'll give it a shot.

 

[tim0409]

It's not getting any better for me - charged my 4S right up and unplugged it at midnight and switched everything off (locations/icloud ect) and checked it at 10am this morning and it was down to 60% yet my usage figure was high even though I hadn't touched the phone.

Will wait till my 14 days are nearly up then return it if there is no fix on the horizon.

 

[sgrrsh26]

From Apple forums
Dont know how credible this random joe is but..

"I'm a sofeware developer and been working on iOS for 4 months. We had the same problem with beta 1 and 2 on the iPhone 4. But now the 4/S is out no software developer has work on the 4/S. Apple doesn't want to show the world till it came out. Now found its a management battery problem which you have no idea what I'm talking about. I know what the problem is and have talk to Apple and they agree that the case.

Their going to be a update from Apple. So everybody just wait. It's going to be fix."
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16486259#16486259

 

[Smoothie]

Here's my data point. It lasted a little longer than shown here before shutting down. So far, my battery life seems OK. It definitely lasts me through the day and then some. It loses very little charge when in standby. That's as much as I need from a phone. I wonder if there's a difference between the AT&T, Verizon and Sprint phones with respect to battery life. As you can see, mine is a Verizon flavor.

EDIT: I just saw the post from the guy above who's on AT&T, and his battery life is similar to mine, so there may not be much difference between carriers.

 

[jcorbin]

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3.5 hours of standby and 13 minutes of use. My battery just went from 100% to 99%. Only thing I did different was charged it with the phone off. Turned it on. Then back off for a few minutes. And didnt have wifi on at all. Did have bluetooth on for most of it though

 

[kilidar]

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I thought I had fixed my battery issue by drainning until the phone cut off and charging to 100%. After that it worked great for almost 32 hours. Last night, it was at 18% so I placed it on the charger when I went to bed. This morning, my battery problems have returned.

I unplugged it from the charger, checked to make sure it was at 100%, then placed it on the mantle. About 2 hours later I looked at my phone at it was down to 91%! I didn't touch it for 2 hours and it lost 9%! What worris me more is my usage and standby data is exactly the same again. That wasnt the case before this most recent charge. This is ridiculous, I shouldn't have to drain the battery until the phone dies every time just to get good battery usage. My iPad, old 3GS and my wife's 4, all on ios5, do not have this issue.

I'm starting to regret this upgrade. While typing this, my phone has dropped another 8%, from just typing. Can an AT&T store do an exchange or anything if you bought it on apple.com? Closest Apple Store is 100 miles, so that is not an option.

I could go almost 3 days without charging my 3GS at times. Kind of wish I had gotten a 4 now, or waited for the 5. Siri is not worth having to charge your phone once a day, sometimes twice.

Reset network settings

 

[YoungJordan]

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Right now after 2 hrs and 8 mins of usage and 17 hrs of standby my phone is at 70% the only thing I have turned off is bluetooth and stocks

Edit: phone has been off the chargers since 8pm yesterday, its now 1:26 pm

 

[Jayv1717]

Here's my data point. It lasted a little longer than shown here before shutting down. So far, my battery life seems OK. It definitely lasts me through the day and then some. It loses very little charge when in standby. That's as much as I need from a phone. I wonder if there's a difference between the AT&T, Verizon and Sprint phones with respect to battery life. As you can see, mine is a Verizon flavor.

EDIT: I just saw the post from the guy above who's on AT&T, and his battery life is similar to mine, so there may not be much difference between carriers.

Im on sprint and right before my phone died i was at 20hrs and 12 min on stand by and 7hrs and 57 mins of usage

 

[Alonzo84]

Im on sprint and right before my phone died i was at 20hrs and 12 min on stand by and 7hrs and 57 mins of usage

This is what I used to get with my iPhone 4. My 4S doesn't come anywhere close.

 

[Dave2084]

Suffering the same phantom usage here so have been doing a little digging. If I take the phone off charge and sit it unused on the desk beside me and then check usage after 1 hour; the Phone will have racked up 28-31 mins of usage for every hour of sitting on the desk.

So something is causing this usage,

First clue is visible under Settings -> General -> About -> Diagnostics & Usage -> Diagnostics & Usage Data...
In here an awdd metriclog is being generated every 30 seconds when in standby, this contains a wifi latency metric.

Second clue required the purchase of an App that gave access to the phones System Log.
Checking the syslog for a period of time the phone was in standby shows the device waking up wifi every 30 seconds an running for a number of seconds before sleeping to restart again at the next 30 second wake up.

Third clue was to check the syslog on a 3G iPad running iOS 5
This also wakes up wifi but every 15 mins not every 30 secs!

Looks like an iOS bug to me so hopefully we'll get a software fix soon.

I have a ton of those errors in my diagnostics. My old iphone 4 has maybe 20-30.. My iphone 4s has probably a few hundred. Something's definitely up.

This definitely is the case. I checked my wife's iPhone 4 (which was mine until the 4S launch) and compared the logs. Bear in mind both phones were set up around the same time with the same apps an configuration. I've turned a bunch of stuff off in the meantime and she hasn't here battery life is what you'd expect mine isn't, but has improved by turning things off but still drains overnight when sat in a drawer!

Her iPhone 4 (16GB Black) has just three items in the log all relating to a crash by an app she downloaded this afternoon.

My 4S (32GB Black) has hundreds and hundreds of the awdd log errors (see attached picture).

This log seems to be sorted alphabetically. When I get to the bottom I also see errors for "LowBatteryLog" which appears to be a log entry for then the iPhone shuts down due to the battery being exhausted.

This is interesting as it logs the usage stats at shutdown. The first couple of days I plugged it in a3% or so so I don't have them but here's the ones I do have:

17 Oct 2011 17:21
AwakeTime: 04:45:44
StandbyTime: 08:53:55

18 Oct 2011 14:49:35
AwakeTime: 05:24:44
StandbyTime: 15:01:34

20 Oct 2011 16:54:22
AwakeTime: 00:00:00
StandbyTime: 00:00:00
(No stats here as the phone was rebooted after charging)

22 Oct 2011 16:32:45
AwakeTime: 04:26:20
StandbyTime: 42:31:32

Now it's getting better, but the fact it still drops 10-20% overnight when it sat in a drawer is plain wrong!

Can people with AND without issues report if they have a bunch of awdd log errors?