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Batterygate??

Well most of us have had the phone for a week now. I wasn't getting good life at first, and it seems to be okay. I have drained and recharged twice and turned off all the system services in locations except the cell one. After 24 hours of turning that off check out my usage. Half of that is from streaming music over 3G. The rest is wifi browsing, texts, and hangs with friends :). Looks good so far.....

4 hours usage
9 and a half hours standby
Just hit 50 percent
 
BFW122083 said:
Well most of us have had the phone for a week now. I wasn't getting good life at first, and it seems to be okay. I have drained and recharged twice and turned off all the system services in locations except the cell one. After 24 hours of turning that off check out my usage. Half of that is from streaming music over 3G. The rest is wifi browsing, texts, and hangs with friends :). Looks good so far.....

4 hours usage
9 and a half hours standby
Just hit 50 percent
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that is pretty good
 
Was having battery issues at first but done a restore & set up as a new phone this morning and it's been excellent since!!

Also deleted the Facebook app, notices it was causing a lot of logs in the diagnostic data.. Gonna give it a day & I might reinstall and compare
 
Most of my logs are BTServer crashes. I have Blue Tooth turned off and only turned it on briefly a handful of days ago to pair the phone to my headset which I haven't used since then.
 
was able to swap out for a new phone. gonna charge it up all the way and run it down one cycle and report back.
 
This may be a stupid question, but has anyone tried (or is it even possible) to downgrade to IOS4 on the 4S? Could be a good test of how the OS is affecting battery life.
 
thomasec said:
This may be a stupid question, but has anyone tried (or is it even possible) to downgrade to IOS4 on the 4S? Could be a good test of how the OS is affecting battery life.
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I don't believe it will let you downgrade.
 
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Went to Verizon store (ordered online from them) and they hadn't heard of the problem & directed me to apple store. I have an appt with them tomorrow. Would they replace the phone since I didn't get it directly from apple?
 
YoungJordan said:
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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
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Wow that's right where mine is at. Also no BT or stocks, almost 18 hours standby & 2h10m usage. 69%
 
clarkgriswold said:
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Went to Verizon store (ordered online from them) and they hadn't heard of the problem & directed me to apple store. I have an appt with them tomorrow. Would they replace the phone since I didn't get it directly from apple?
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Yes, they'll replace wherever you got it from. Apple want to generally handle all warranty stuff themselves.
 
It might be too early to call, but my replacement phone is so far looking good:

after 2 hours standby, still reading 100%, with everything I had on 4 turned on, location services, push, email, etc.

and only 9 minutes usage showing, rather than the 1hr+ I would have had on last phone.

C39
 
Can we get a running tally of fixes, there is enough people at this point showing they have worked to stop the OMG MY PHONES DYING thing. The phones. Sa, the softwares new, if u can't deal wait a few months til after we all, and apple has figures out real world use issues.


My fix - was based on the crappy tint on my work windows limiting the service I got. If u google "apple battery" you will see how that works. The data switch in the general network settings can be set to off, if all u need is txt and call. Used to be called the 3G switch but now it just allows u to receive calls and text while taking advantage of wifi without the drain. This will allow maximum call and text time without the data drain.
 
pittster said:
I've drained the battery down to 2% today and am charging to 100% via the wall plug.

will see how it goes this evening/overnight.

if location based reminders are on and GPS is used, surely they are inactive when the phone is in 'sleep' mode overnight? or am i wrong??
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Are you simple? There is ZERO point in draining until 2% to calibrate. iPhone must shut off on its own before recharging to 100%.

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Almeuit said:
Its only good to charge if it needs it. Alot of people don't realize its not good to keep a battery at high % ALL the time. Its def a good idea to drain the sucker to 0% (let the phone shutoff from no power) then to keep it always at like 50%+.

On my iPhone 4 i would say about ... 90% of the time i will always run netflix or something on it when its low like 20% ish (on 3g .. due to more battery drain but i have unlimited data so that depends if you have this) to kill the battery to 0% (phone shuts off) then charge it.
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You're 90% incorrect. Li-Ion is 'happiest' between 20% and 80%. The moment you hit 79% it is healthier to plug the iPhone in.
 
iMacDragon said:
It might be too early to call, but my replacement phone is so far looking good:

after 2 hours standby, still reading 100%, with everything I had on 4 turned on, location services, push, email, etc.

and only 9 minutes usage showing, rather than the 1hr+ I would have had on last phone.

C39
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how do you get replacement? what happend to your old one? :confused:
 
I guess I am wondering what 'good' is supposed to be? Should we be seeing 10 hours usage?
 
Got a replacement from Apple today, let's see how it fares. Charged it up to 100%, restored from a backup that was of an iPhone 4S that had been set up from scratch, and turned off all systems location services except for Cell Network Search; kept all my locations services on, all notifications on, WiFi off. Running the battery down from 100% by streaming a Netflix movie on loop. Looks like it should be about 4h15m-4h30m of constant 3G streaming from 100% to dead, which seems perfectly reasonable. Big question is whether I will see the large standby drop (i.e. like people are seeing overnight)
 
benjamin9876 said:
based on what reason ? bad battery life?
do you need a appointment to do so?
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Yes, based on bad battery life and showing phantom usage data. Made appointment on website.

Actually starting to wonder now if it's reading right, it's still showing 100% after nearly 3 hours standby. I would have expected it to drop to 99% by now!

edit: speak of the devil, it dropped to 99% finally a couple minutes after.
 
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