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Batterygate??

I think we can safely say this is a software issue, it is, however, Very frustrating to have to charge in the middle of the day.

Just hope Apple release an update ASAP.
 
HUGE battery improvement

I didn't want to start another battery thread.
Yesterday, I turned OFF location services for the Weather app.
Drained my battery down to 1% and charged over night.

I'm seeing a huge improvement already this morning
YMMV
 
I had the same issues may others had-however mine was solved by replacing the phone. Yesterday I got 23 hours, 16 minutes and 2 hours, 5 minutes of usage and still have 70%.

I have most of the location services off and the 4 apps using notifications.

My wife and I got the phones on the same day and hers never had an issue. Mine did. I am seeing the same life on her phone as well.
 

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Hudzilla said:
I think we can safely say this is a software issue, it is, however, Very frustrating to have to charge in the middle of the day.

Just hope Apple release an update ASAP.
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You have to wonder how some of these things make it out of QC. Problems with carrier equipment like dropped calls and stuff I could see Apple missing during the trial but not stuff like this battery thing. It's like Microsoft Xbox with the red ring of death. Surely this was not a surprise to the execs?

Now checking, with pretty much all overhead turned off, it's back to 13 and 13 again. Gonna turn radios off and see what I get then.
 
pugnut said:
I had the same issues may others had-however mine was solved by replacing the phone. Yesterday I got 23 hours, 16 minutes and 2 hours, 5 minutes of usage and still have 70%.

I have most of the location services off and the 4 apps using notifications.

My wife and I got the phones on the same day and hers never had an issue. Mine did. I am seeing the same life on her phone as well.
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Different data, different apps, settings, etc. Lots of variables could be affecting battery life between the two of you.
 
I have had a 4s for about 36 hours.

Prep:
I did a couple full re-charge cycles (depleted to 1% then did full recharge)
Setup as a NEW iphone, didn't do a restore from backup

Settings:
I don't have more than 4-5 push notification apps
bluetooth is off
3g exclusively (wifi is off)
3 push email accounts.
Location services on (of course!)
Diagnostic reporting to apple is off

Results:
Overnight the battery declined about 7%
Constant use during the day for ~6 hours got about 33% drain.

Conclusion:
Battery seems great to me. :D

EVERY single iphone release a group of people proclaim a) Screen is defective b) Battery life is terrible.
Basically, I think this is caused by apple's lousy restore which carries bad settings and other gunk over to your fresh phone. Never use restore for major software and hardware upgrades.
 
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DFU restored the phone last night, set up as new and did not sync over any apps, did not set up any mail, turned off icloud (i did turn it on to get the contacts back, then deleted the account on the phone) and all system location services besides the cell tower search.

full charged to this morning. right now it shows 93% left with 35 min usage (safari on wifi) and 2 hr standby...seems pretty crappy to me for a completely bone stock phone, with no extra apps, no push notifications, no icloud...

will keep monitoring it throughout the day...

...just dropped to 92% now...=(
 
cababah said:
Different data, different apps, settings, etc. Lots of variables could be affecting battery life between the two of you.
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Read prior posts- before exchanging the phone I mirrored both phones to match and watch my battery deplete at a rate of 2-3% per 15 minutes. When used, ie making a phone call, it would drop 4-5%. The other thing I noticed with my phone was that every now and again the single would drop and the it would have to search.
 
6 hours 1 min use... 1 day in stand by. let it drain completely and fully charging now.
 
Deleting my iCloud account and turning off most of the location services that I don't use on a regular basis, plus turning off Siri raise to speak and auto time zone, then restoring my iPhone 4S and then after that restoring from backup that I did just before the restore cured my battery woes.

Currently on 91% with 34 min usage and 7 hrs and 20 min standby.

I would have been below 80% by now.
 
I'm going to try turning off some of these features. Right now my battery sucks.

From 5AM with 100% to 11:30AM I'm at 56% and I have yet to do much.
 
itsmemuffins said:
Deleting my iCloud account and turning off most of the location services that I don't use on a regular basis, plus turning off Siri raise to speak and auto time zone, then restoring my iPhone 4S and then after that restoring from backup that I did just before the restore cured my battery woes.

Currently on 91% with 34 min usage and 7 hrs and 20 min standby.

I would have been below 80% by now.
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You are getting the same usage as me WITH all of those features on. Granted turning them off helped, but probably not as much as you may believe, and the root cause might be something else.
 
I just completed my first rundown of the battery.

Removed battery from charger on Monday at 4:00 AM (100%)
Hit 0% today at 8:30 AM.

Recharge to 100% took 3 hours (ish).

WIFI on for part of the day 3G the reset (50/50)
Bluetooth on all the time.
All system locations services off

Seems reasonable to me.
 
I had this problem and it seems to have improved after I turned off many of the features listed around the web as battery killers (there is a huge thread on Apple support). I drained the battery to 0 and did a hard restart.

Seems much improved. Overnight in my house it drained 10% with wifi on and 3G - so still something is wrong with my standby. Not sure what is going on there. But my phone was getting hot before and does not seem to be anymore.

Hope they figure this out because I absolutely love this phone. The retina display is amazing, I just stare at emails and look at the text. And I love the glass. Anyway, hope they get it sorted out.
 
Something I just noticed -- under mail you can set your fetch new data to hourly. I did that and thought I was fine. BUT! If you hit advanced, you'll see only one account was changed and the rest are set to push.

In my case it's doing icloud, exchange, and yahoo as push and only my gmail was set to fetch. That's been corrected.

Now I don't use icloud but I'm wondering if it's pinging away at it anyway. I have no means of monitoring outbound traffic that I know of but that's something I'm suspicious of.

So, time to throw on the charger and test again. Sucker loses about 10% of battery an hour at this rate.
 
95% after 18 minutes of usage and 19 minutes standby. Using whatsapp, and nothing more. not even a heavy conversation, 5 posts or so.

Is that normal? I also don't have the contact/iCloud problem mentioned in the links posted earlier.
 
jollyreaper said:
Something I just noticed -- under mail you can set your fetch new data to hourly. I did that and thought I was fine. BUT! If you hit advanced, you'll see only one account was changed and the rest are set to push.

In my case it's doing icloud, exchange, and yahoo as push and only my gmail was set to fetch. That's been corrected.

Now I don't use icloud but I'm wondering if it's pinging away at it anyway. I have no means of monitoring outbound traffic that I know of but that's something I'm suspicious of.

So, time to throw on the charger and test again. Sucker loses about 10% of battery an hour at this rate.
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Didn't notice that!! Thanks!
 
Has Apple acknowledged there's a problem yet? Only 4 hours of regular usage before your batter is dead is a pretty big deal and should be corrected.
 
no battery issue with mine.

100% at 11pm and woke up to see it at 96% at 6am.

by the end of the day it'll be 12% left.
 
NoHo said:
Has Apple acknowledged there's a problem yet? Only 4 hours of regular usage before your batter is dead is a pretty big deal and should be corrected.
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I am willing to bet most of these "low battery capacity" claims are due to user configuration issues. iOS has gotten quite complex, and typically are configuration based --- such as the above poster not understanding that iCloud would drain battery during the first uploads to the cloud of data.
 
I disagree. This isn't my first iPhone. I have done multiple full charge cycles and did a full factory restore. Loaded nothing on it and didn't open a single thing. Left it run over night and wake up with 70% battery left! Look at the usage and find that my usage is very high. Even though the phone had never even been unlocked after a factory restore.

Some real issues here for some. Trust me.

WannaGoMac said:
I am willing to bet most of these "low battery capacity" claims are due to user configuration issues. iOS has gotten quite complex, and typically are configuration based --- such as the above poster not understanding that iCloud would drain battery during the first uploads to the cloud of data.
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