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Batterygate??
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As best I understand it, the "standby" time is the total amount of time since the phone was removed from the charger, including the usage time.
3% battery left, Unplugged at around 8 or so in the morning.
4 hours 52 minutes of usage
14 hours 40 minutes of standby
Full screen brightness, 3G the entire time, all location services on, etc. Essentially running the 4S at full throttle.
Does this seem good/bad/average to y'all?
It is so much better than the 3GS I upgraded from, which would be dead by 1 or 2 pm.
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4 hours 52 minutes of usage
14 hours 40 minutes of standby
Full screen brightness, 3G the entire time, all location services on, etc. Essentially running the 4S at full throttle.
Does this seem good/bad/average to y'all?
It is so much better than the 3GS I upgraded from, which would be dead by 1 or 2 pm.
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The phone is working harder to maintain service this is not unusual. My CDMA iPhone does this when its in an area of low signal(my work). If your are in an area of poor signal (1-2 bar) or in a city like New York you should expect your battery to drain faster because the phone is jumping towers, or boosting its signal to try to maintain a weak connection.
Tomorrow I will try half screen brightness for the entire day and see how much time/usage I get out of my battery.
My usage times. This is my second 4s. Exchanged a 16 gig that was getting about half this battery life for a 32. Now I am getting 7-8 useage hours consistently. Almost all wifi web browsing, games, Siri, texting, pandora, etc.
I dont use iCloud, have most notifications on, email set to push. Turned off Diags & usage, location based ads, and setting time zone in system services and also ping under restrictions.
Edit: ^^^ wow exact same usage times above!
did you do a restore from your previous iphone or is this a new setup?
I think 8 hours usage is pretty good.
I think 8 hours usage is pretty good.
My brightness is set to about 45%, auto off. I restored from my previous phone. Yes, I agree it is good. Especially compared to the 4 hours I was getting on my first 4s!
Are the Low Memory reports related to the horrible battery life?
Every time I check the Diagnostic thing in Settings I get about 10 of those Low Memory reports.
Every time I check the Diagnostic thing in Settings I get about 10 of those Low Memory reports.
I guess I'm getting decent battery life using it... I turn off Photostream and iCloud features most of the time and WiFi is on for 12 hours every day with about 2 hours of CTR and Angry Birds. I would blame iOS 5 for that. It is still buggy(look at the Coverflow in Music App).
Impressive
fact is it's how to use the phone and letting it charge it says alot...there may be some bad phones but not all
The whole point of having a smart phone like this is using all the great features so it seems pointless to me turning these off because of battery life....if i wanted amazing battery life i wouldn't buy a smart phone.
Even though my battery life is worse than my iPhone 4's was I can't really complain after seeing some of your guy's.
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Whats your daily usage?
Push email? Location Services? Notifications?
Well I am glad I stuck through this and didn't return it. Who knows what kind of unit I would have received as a replacement (maybe a yellow screen or some other defect).
Just by waiting things out I am getting better batter life. Yesterday I made it all the way from morning to night with very heavy usage. Ultimately I got almost 7 hours of life out of the battery. That is with most things turned on, 75% brightness, heavy web surfing, RSS reading, mail, phone calls, GPS tracking for my 1 hour work out (while streaming Pandora over 3g), texting and listening to MP3s at work for an hour.
Just by waiting things out I am getting better batter life. Yesterday I made it all the way from morning to night with very heavy usage. Ultimately I got almost 7 hours of life out of the battery. That is with most things turned on, 75% brightness, heavy web surfing, RSS reading, mail, phone calls, GPS tracking for my 1 hour work out (while streaming Pandora over 3g), texting and listening to MP3s at work for an hour.
Over the last 3 days my battery has gone dead with my 4 before I returned to the hotel. I've been blaming the camera. Normally my camera on the phone has just been for occasional shots on vacations so I could email pictures, or ensure that an occasional GPS fix is made with a picture. But this week my camera battery went dead one day so I had to switch to the iPhone. Another day I couldn't take a camera into a white house tour so my only camera that day was the phone.
I'm definitely not used to the phone dying before the end of the day. Today my regular camera is charged so I hope it goes better. Had to buy a new charger since I took the wrong charger with me
I am going back to the apple store today. I have multiple issues with my 4s. I also have major battery issues. Tried every fix, turning almost everything off, calibrate the battery and restored as a new phone. Also my phone keeps restarting itself once or twice a day. Its not like its hot or over heated, just random restarts. And finally my sleep/awake button is kind of like stuck in. Its hard to push and sometimes registeres as pushing it twice. I am concerned about getting a replacement with the yellow tint as well. But i am going to compare the two before i leave. Also from what i have read, a lot of people with the yellow tint issue are seeing it resolve itself.
Disabling iCloud helps a lot
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New to the whole iphone thing. Got the 4S, really horrible battery life. Like I pull it off the charger and in five minutes I've lost 2% off the charge. Looking at the CPU usage with a third party tool like "system status," I see that the user use is bouncing around 2 to 10%. Not sure what typical is. Nothing is running in the bacgkground.
Usage and standby times used to be identical. After turning off everything I'm seeing 26 usage, 31 standby. This is with leaving it off and not even popping up the screen except to check the status after the wait.
Things I've tried:
keeping screen pretty dark unless I'm outside
multiple hard resets
turning off wifi, bluetooth, wifi sync for itunes
disabled location services
cleared out everything from the notifier
disabling/reenabling email accounts
full discharge/recharge no interruptions
email set to 1 hr polling
cleared push notifications on everything I can find like facebook
Putting the phone in airplane mode seems to give it excellent standby time so I'm suspecting the problem lies with data usage.
Things I'm suspicious about:
1. exchange. I have it tied to my work account. Several people have said this could be an issue.
2. Words with friends. Even though I've taken it out of the update center, I don't see any way under the settings to tell it to not check automatically. Notifications seem to come up in realtime which makes me think it's still doing push which makes me think it might be sucking down the battery. It doesn't appear under settings like facebook.
3. Imessage. As I understand it, SMS should not be a major drain since those messages come down with the control signals the phone is already receiving for being on the network. It's not the same sort of drain as being on push for email. But imessage has enhanced features, right? And if that's the case, it might not be straight SMS and could have a drain more like email. And I believe it's operating in push mode.
Now I'd expect the phone to drain like mad if I were keeping the screen on the entire time. If I remember the stats right, the screen is the biggest power drain on the device followed closely by the radio. Listening to music for an hour with the screen locked isn't all that strenuous but streaming a video off the net is pretty much as taxing as playing one of the fancy games. Even web use is about as bad as that with the screen always on, radio pinging away like mad. An audio phone call is less strenuous than that since the screen will be off.
Usage and standby times used to be identical. After turning off everything I'm seeing 26 usage, 31 standby. This is with leaving it off and not even popping up the screen except to check the status after the wait.
Things I've tried:
keeping screen pretty dark unless I'm outside
multiple hard resets
turning off wifi, bluetooth, wifi sync for itunes
disabled location services
cleared out everything from the notifier
disabling/reenabling email accounts
full discharge/recharge no interruptions
email set to 1 hr polling
cleared push notifications on everything I can find like facebook
Putting the phone in airplane mode seems to give it excellent standby time so I'm suspecting the problem lies with data usage.
Things I'm suspicious about:
1. exchange. I have it tied to my work account. Several people have said this could be an issue.
2. Words with friends. Even though I've taken it out of the update center, I don't see any way under the settings to tell it to not check automatically. Notifications seem to come up in realtime which makes me think it's still doing push which makes me think it might be sucking down the battery. It doesn't appear under settings like facebook.
3. Imessage. As I understand it, SMS should not be a major drain since those messages come down with the control signals the phone is already receiving for being on the network. It's not the same sort of drain as being on push for email. But imessage has enhanced features, right? And if that's the case, it might not be straight SMS and could have a drain more like email. And I believe it's operating in push mode.
Now I'd expect the phone to drain like mad if I were keeping the screen on the entire time. If I remember the stats right, the screen is the biggest power drain on the device followed closely by the radio. Listening to music for an hour with the screen locked isn't all that strenuous but streaming a video off the net is pretty much as taxing as playing one of the fancy games. Even web use is about as bad as that with the screen always on, radio pinging away like mad. An audio phone call is less strenuous than that since the screen will be off.