Batterygate??

[Stealthipad]

Who here has fully charged their new iPhone's? It takes several charge and discharges for lithium ion batteries to achieve their peak.

This is BS. At the most you might get a few more percent but expecting it to jump 25 to 40% more is dreaming. Nothing you do to your battery is going to make a huge difference.

These 4S battery complaints are not much different from when the 4 came out. Some will claim they can go 5 days between charges while others will only get a couple of hours! LOL!

 

[Champcar]

Apple clearly posted a 100 hour loss of standby time in the specs page when the 4s was announced a few weeks ago..plug it in.

 

[vitzr]

Lithium ion batteries need a few charge cycles to reach maximum capacity that could be the problem.

This is simply not true.

What _is_ true, is the fact that most complainers fail to educate themselves about how to treat these batteries. They fail to use common sense.

One visit to Apples stellar web site and they'd find sage advice on batteries.

 

[randystand]

Battery is at the moment at 88%. Usage: 54 Minutes. Standy: 3 Hours, 50 Minutes.

Is that alright?

Used it heavily yesterday. 100% ran out from 8:30am to about midnight.

 

[fjrabon]

Just use and charge the thing for like a week and it will be fine. All that's going on here is that the battery meter isn't properly calibrated yet. Use it until it dies, charge it fully. Repeat a couple of times. It will be fine then.

If you're still having this problem a couple of weeks from now, then maybe it's a legit battery issue. Right now an uncalibrated battery meter is passing Occam's Razor.

 

[myrtlegirl2]

I was having a battery drainage problem yesterday and then I figured out how to stop progams from running in the background and that has helped tremendously.

From you home screen double click the home button. Apps that are running in the background will show at bottom of the screen. Touch and hold any one of them and they will start to wiggle and a red minus sign will appear on each. Tap them minus sign on each and this will stop them running.

 

[torbjoern]

I had a drainage problem until I switched it off holding the two buttons down (no swipe or anything, just holding for about 10 sec). When I switched it back on, the problem was gone.

 

[Hutch1]

Boy it's a good thing they didn't come out with a 4G LTE iPhone, you guys would have lost your minds.

1. Plug your phone in at night

2. If you can carry a charger with you and use it when you can

3. If you drive have a car charger and use it when you can

4. Get an external battery


I'd much rather do some or all of the above rather than disabling the functionality of the phone, after all that's what you buy it for.

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This is BS. At the most you might get a few more percent but expecting it to jump 25 to 40% more is dreaming. Nothing you do to your battery is going to make a huge difference.

These 4S battery complaints are not much different from when the 4 came out. Some will claim they can go 5 days between charges while others will only get a couple of hours! LOL!

Not much different than the 3 and 3GS complaints either.

 

[gforce216]

My standby and usage time matched each other overnight. Something must be running. I don't know if the find my friends app is or not. It appears that it is not but I wonder how else it keeps a locatin lock.

 

[brazil5376]

went to bed with 70% and woke up 7 hours later with the alarm with 67% with everything on except BT

 

[jkozlow3]

I was having a battery drainage problem yesterday and then I figured out how to stop progams from running in the background and that has helped tremendously.

From you home screen double click the home button. Apps that are running in the background will show at bottom of the screen. Touch and hold any one of them and they will start to wiggle and a red minus sign will appear on each. Tap them minus sign on each and this will stop them running.

You should NOT have to do this. Apple designed multitasking in a way that apps *should* simply pause when you go back to the home screen (except apps like Pandora, etc which run in the background). That's not to say that there isn't an occasional hiccup where a rogue app still uses CPU when it's not active, but you should definitely not have to shut down apps manually. Apple has made that very clear.

 

[Nikhil72]

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Lost about 20% overnight while sleeping. Left it unplugged as a test, I usually charge my phone overnight. Went to sleep at 100%, and 8.5h later, it was at 79%. Going to try setting up the phone as new today.

 

[Karenl39]

Is this normal for the Iphone 4S or is this phone defective? It's been draining my battery like crazy. This morning, alls I 'm doing is normal stuff like texting, facebook, checked email and asked Siri a couple of questions. I have notifications, etc. turned off and have done all the stuff to make my battery last.

At 7:38, my battery was at 95%. At 9:10am, it is now at 67%. Seems like it's draining quickly! I am not on my phone typing this.

Thanks!!!

 

[SOLLERBOY]

My battery is holding up well but I noticed on the apple battery pages that the battery is rated to hold 80% of it's charge after 400 cycles, it used to be 1000 like the iPad and macbook pro didn't it??

 

[TheNinjaJedi]

I noticed in Beta that if you set a reminder with a location it really drains the battery. I think it is because GPS is always on.

Yup..
I wish it would ping every 10 min or so rather than being always on.

 

[hakr100]

I was having a battery drainage problem yesterday and then I figured out how to stop progams from running in the background and that has helped tremendously.

From you home screen double click the home button. Apps that are running in the background will show at bottom of the screen. Touch and hold any one of them and they will start to wiggle and a red minus sign will appear on each. Tap them minus sign on each and this will stop them running.

I'm not sure I understand this. If you use a program and then tap on the home button, the program doesn't stop running...it keeps running in the background?

 

[Nikhil72]

Yup..
I wish it would ping every 10 min or so rather than being always on.

With Location-based reminders, it's not actually the GPS that's on. The location services icon indicates that it's detecting your location based on a number of things, one of which could be GPS. What Apple predominantly uses, however, is cellular triangulation (i.e. A-GPS). Using this, the phone gives a rough idea of where it is based on the cell phone tower it's registering to, which is a regular function regardless of the activation of LS. This is why you don't get a reminder exactly when you arrive or leave at a location, only when you're in the vicinity of it (i.e. if I'm two blocks away from the hospital, I get my reminder to do x at work)

 

[nebo1ss]

I was having a battery drainage problem yesterday and then I figured out how to stop progams from running in the background and that has helped tremendously.

From you home screen double click the home button. Apps that are running in the background will show at bottom of the screen. Touch and hold any one of them and they will start to wiggle and a red minus sign will appear on each. Tap them minus sign on each and this will stop them running.

Apps shown on that screen are not really running and does not affect battery life unless they are GPS type apps that need to be alive. This is suppose to be the benefit of apple approach to multi-tasking as opposed to others where they are really running.

 

[BoxerGT2.5]

Is iCloud the culprit? Is anyone comparing 4 vs. 4s with iOS 4.3 and the 4s with iOS 5? Or does someone have both with iOS 5 and the 4 still wins? Either way what may be evident is as apple tries to catch up to the android based phones, they are seeing the battery issue is something that can't no longer avoid. Good luck if you add a bigger screen and LTE in the 5.

 

[lnferno]

I think the iTunes option "Sync this iPhone over WiFi" has a lot to do with it. I've noticed that several times this evening, iTunes will open up automatically and connect to my iPhone. I'm going to turn this option off. I don't anticipate that will need to sync that often.

Yup. This was the culprit for me. Tested this overnight. Changing this option made all the difference.

 

[helix21]

I'm at 69% right now. I have had, since my last charge:

2 hours of Usage
3 hours and 42 minutes of Standby.

I've been using Twitter, iMessage, Facebook, and Siri for the majority of that usage time. I do have iCloud enabled for Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Bookmarks, Find My Phone, and Backup (although I think I'm going to turn this off).

That's scarily accurate to what I have!

71% with 2 hours 17 minutes usage and 3 hours 48 minutes standby.

iCloud, Wi-Fi, Siri... the lot... enabled.

It's not too bad and definitely better than the last time (last charge cycle I believe drained a lot faster) and whilst I'm not getting the magic battery life some people claim, it's not too bad and I'm convinced it'll only get better. I think I remember my 3GS doing the same.

 

[Maverick1337]

Just to put my stats in the mix:

Usage: 4 Hours, 5 Minutes
Standby: 1 Day, 14 Hours

Used Internet, Twitter, Alarm, Calendar Appointments, Pictures, Video (Cal Poly beat UCSB in Soccer Friday night woot woot!!), Weather, Google Maps, Siri (A lot lol), Texting, and Calling very regularly. Pretty much everything on my phone to be quite honest. It hasn't just been sitting here I guess is what I'm trying to say.

I bought my iPhone, was third in line, brought it home at 8:30AM and charged it until about 6:00PM that same day. I'm in the process of letting the battery recycle. I'll report back final statistics.

 

[Radnor]

Is this normal for the Iphone 4S or is this phone defective? It's been draining my battery like crazy. This morning, alls I 'm doing is normal stuff like texting, facebook, checked email and asked Siri a couple of questions. I have notifications, etc. turned off and have done all the stuff to make my battery last.

At 7:38, my battery was at 95%. At 9:10am, it is now at 67%. Seems like it's draining quickly! I am not on my phone typing this.

Thanks!!!

Check Settings -> Location Services -> System Services. Does anything have a purple arrow next to it? Try turning off things like Location-Based iAds, Setting Time Zone, and Traffic.

 

[nebo1ss]

Yup. This was the culprit for me. Tested this overnight. Changing this option made all the difference.

If this is really the problem then it is not working as it should. WIFI sync is not suppose to work unless the phone is plugged into a power source.

 

[wordoflife]

You should NOT have to do this. Apple designed multitasking in a way that apps *should* simply pause when you go back to the home screen (except apps like Pandora, etc which run in the background). That's not to say that there isn't an occasional hiccup where a rogue app still uses CPU when it's not active, but you should definitely not have to shut down apps manually. Apple has made that very clear.

I disagree.

My phone runs like garbage if I have too many things open.