Batterygate??

[ddbemb]

First, like to say thanks to everyone on this forum. Been reading it for ages and getting great tips and advice, but i am not much of a forum poster.

My battery life has been awful like many others. On my second 4S and was afraid everything was equally as bad as the first, until, through trial and error, I apparently came up with a solution to my particular battery woes.

If you are using Exchange, try turning off the calendar notifications. I did this, and my battery has been greatly improved over last couple of days. I still get the calendar appt pop-ups, but the calendar items are no longer in teh notification center--small price to pay for finally a useable phone.

 

[bryan27]

I have an iPhone 4S (been charged about half a dozen times so far)

Siri - On but 'raise to speak' is off
Email - Set to Fetch every 15 minutes instead of pushing
Notification Settings - only enabled texts, email and weather, no calendar, no facebook, nothing
Location Settings - Only On for Siri, and Maps, with the Advanced setting set to show in the Status bar when it's being used. Turned off 'Setting Time Zone'
iCloud - Off, never turned it on in the first place

Full DFU restore 2x, then set up as new, and then restored from backup
Deleted and re-installed both email accounts

I can unplug the phone from the charger, listen to 5 minutes of podast and the battery will be down from 100% to 97%.

Any kind of straight use, like r browsing in Safari will drain the battery at a rate of appx. 1% every couple - few minutes.

For me, the battery life is not improving as time goes on, and I ranthe battery to 0% last night, and let it die, then plugged into the charger and when I woke up, the meter read 99% while it was plugged in!


Then, used the phone for literally 10 minutes right off the charger, took one look at Facebook for about 30 seconds and the rest was reading news on CNN. Lost 7% in those 10 minutes.

Since then I've been listening to a podcast for about 45 minutes and I'm down to 85%. Really starting to piss me off. Going to go into the Apple store near me and request a new one, even though im sure theyre going to release a patch shortly. The phone has inexplicably heated up a LOT at least 4x (not in a low signal area, while on standby to boot!)

Don't know how this made it through the software testing process.

 

[WannaGoMac]

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.

Sounds like it. Overnight, battery drain was about 8% last night for me.

 

[maximus96]

I have an iPhone 4S (been charged about half a dozen times so far)

Siri - On but 'raise to speak' is off
Email - Set to Fetch every 15 minutes instead of pushing
Notification Settings - only enabled texts, email and weather, no calendar, no facebook, nothing
Location Settings - Only On for Siri, and Maps, with the Advanced setting set to show in the Status bar when it's being used. Turned off 'Setting Time Zone'
iCloud - Off, never turned it on in the first place

Full DFU restore 2x, then set up as new, and then restored from backup
Deleted and re-installed both email accounts

I can unplug the phone from the charger, listen to 5 minutes of podast and the battery will be down from 100% to 97%.

Any kind of straight use, like r browsing in Safari will drain the battery at a rate of appx. 1% every couple - few minutes.

For me, the battery life is not improving as time goes on, and I ranthe battery to 0% last night, and let it die, then plugged into the charger and when I woke up, the meter read 99% while it was plugged in!


Then, used the phone for literally 10 minutes right off the charger, took one look at Facebook for about 30 seconds and the rest was reading news on CNN. Lost 7% in those 10 minutes.

Since then I've been listening to a podcast for about 45 minutes and I'm down to 85%. Really starting to piss me off. Going to go into the Apple store near me and request a new one, even though im sure theyre going to release a patch shortly. The phone has inexplicably heated up a LOT at least 4x (not in a low signal area, while on standby to boot!)

Don't know how this made it through the software testing process.

your situation seems like a direct replica of mine, with the 2x DFU restore and everything...i'm very interested to see what the apple store has to say in this situation. please keep me posted. thanks

 

[lateralus1082]

45% now at 10:09AM. Started using the phone at 7AM. This is not right, this battery is now comparable to my 2 year old 3GS. I'm going to the apple store the weekend, i am almost positive that it's the phone and not software.

 

[tivoboy]

5%

Oh yeah, my overnight battery drain last night was 5% for nine hours.

 

[whiskeyvol]

my battery life hasn't been too bad, but I did a DFU restore just for the hell of it and it really seem to have affected it in a good way. I'm on 16hrs of standby, over 1hr of use, and the battery is only at 86%

 

[Oppressed]

For those of you complaining about being at 85% with between 45 mins to 1 hour of use do the math. It ends up being about 5 hours of usage for a full charge.

 

[MaxximusPrime]

For those of you complaining about being at 85% with between 45 mins to 1 hour of use do the math. It ends up being about 5 hours of usage for a full charge.

Is that good bad or average? That is what I get most days, but today my battery is down to 70% after 45 min of usage. I can't for the life of me figure out what is different unless one of my apps went rogue.

 

[bryan27]

your situation seems like a direct replica of mine, with the 2x DFU restore and everything...i'm very interested to see what the apple store has to say in this situation. please keep me posted. thanks

I'm on the phone now on hold, I had to go to the Apple website to find the # of the nearest location and seeing the background of all the happy employees smiling and holding macbooks pissed me off even more lol.

I'm at 73% right now, been unplugged for about 5 hours, with 45 minutes of podcast/audio and 10 minutes of web-browsing. The rest of the time the phone was sitting on my desk with 4 bars of reception.

 

[futch]

not sure what to think?

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Location on for some of my apps, push on email.

That looks about right. I average 20% battery loss for every hour and 15 minutes to hour and 30 minutes of usage time.

 

[rgs3]

First, like to say thanks to everyone on this forum. Been reading it for ages and getting great tips and advice, but i am not much of a forum poster.

My battery life has been awful like many others. On my second 4S and was afraid everything was equally as bad as the first, until, through trial and error, I apparently came up with a solution to my particular battery woes.

If you are using Exchange, try turning off the calendar notifications. I did this, and my battery has been greatly improved over last couple of days. I still get the calendar appt pop-ups, but the calendar items are no longer in teh notification center--small price to pay for finally a useable phone.

This is very similar to my fix. I tried everything, nothing worked. Restored and same hot battery draining phone. I did notice that one of my notifications was blinking and acting very glitchy, so I found that reocurring appt and deleted it. Since then my phone has had unusually awesome battery life, better than my 4s.

Turning off calendar notification would have helped me as well, but it was in fact a particular event that was killing the phone.

 

[RandomBrownguy]

Right before I went to bed last night. This was phone calls, internet, espn radio, podcasts, spotify, Facebook and twitter. I did not charge it at any point during the day

What are youre settings?

 

[lateralus1082]

What are youre settings?

all notifications on for my apps

Locations services off for Camera, Facebook, twitter, weather

iCloud-on, photo stream on

Exchange on with push

Brightness at 30%, with auto on.

 

[solo118]

I've narrowed down my problem...definitely Exchange. I tried everything w/ location, Siri, etc. I was going to sleep at 100% and waking up to 30% or 40% and a hot phone. Stopped the Exchange from synching and losing only a few % at night. With location, Siri, etc. all turned back on.

Problem is...what do I do now? Is it a bad contact or something else causing a loop? Is it a software bug that needs to be fixed? I do need exchange to run on this (and it worked fine on IP4 with same settings).

I once ticked the Sent Items in "Mail folders to Push" and that fried my battery alive. I turned it off and all was good again. I now just leave Inbox checked and I have decent battery life.

I also turn off exchange nights/weekends & decrease the fetch time as I know I am not getting too many emails.

 

[Hudzilla]

If I reset my network settings will it stop my usage data appearing until I charge back to 100%?

 

[MayBee]

So...I decided to do a factory restore of my iphone... When I got the phone 4S, I had to do a restore of the iphone 3G to carry over all my apps over. I turned a lot of features off to get a 10% decline per day on standby mode only. I wasn't sure if I had applications from 3G lingering around or not, but I wanted to see what a fresh and new setting I'll get on standby mode. Before I did a complete factory restore, I backed up my current state. If I'm still getting a 10% decline on standby mode with a factory setting, then I'm going to restore it back to my previous setting and live with it.

Additional changes from factory setting:

location services = off
bluetooth = off
no wifi configured
do not send diagnostics
brightness default
icloud is not configured
siri is active

 

[bryan27]

Went to the Apple store, after explaining the issues, was offered a new phone pretty quickly.

As a test, to try and narrow down what the cause is, at least for me (since none of these “fixes” that other people have found have worked for me) I went ahead and deleted all of my email accounts. I have close to a bone stock phone, with all the same settings as outlined in my previous post. I’m picking up the new phone tomorrow, so I’ll keep you guys in the loop. Right now I have 66% battery left.

 

[ntrigue]

If I reset my network settings will it stop my usage data appearing until I charge back to 100%?

Yes

 

[ntrigue]

What do you guys think?

 

[gtmac]

What do you guys think?

I think it sucks but that is about exactly what I am getting with most everything turned off.

I am waiting for a software update.

 

[ntrigue]

I get the "saving electricity argument" but,

OMG!!!

NOT THIS AGAIN!!!

You will never, ever over charge an iPhone's battery. The Power Management within the iPhone knows when to charge and when to stop charging.

PLEASE STOP PASSING ON MISSINFORMATION!!!

+1

These are smart Li-Ion batteries. They a) trickle charge b) save themselves by falling to 97% and the trickling to 100%.

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I think it sucks but that is about exactly what I am getting with most everything turned off.

I am waiting for a software update.

Location = OFF
Siri = OFF
Mail = Manual
Notifications = OFF
Bluetooth = OFF
Used Airplane for several hours.

In other words, I stopped utilizing my "SMART" phone for battery life concerns.

 

[Stanjara]

What do you guys think?

This is my 3gs running on ios5.

I don't think it's the ios5 because for the 3gs that is a great battery life.

 

[daneoni]

So no way of telling Siri to stop it?

Unless you deny Siri access to Location Service altogether.

 

[Legionnaire]

my phone battery is ROCKING. it sucked, i tweaked all the settings, now i go to bed 100%i wake up 92% use it all day, text, music, pandora, internet, etc ALL day, 7-8 hours of use atleast come home with 40%battery.

i thought it just needs time to cycle the battery life afewtimes