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Batterygate??

My phone yesterday was HORRIBLE. Email is push (which I checked once), I took 1 picture, posted it via twitter app and did very light imessaging w/ wife on WiFi. Burned 30% in about 2 hours. Lunchtime till 5 when I left was 5-10% an hour burn. 8 minute phone call on the drive home took an additional 5% battery.

Today? It's burned 7% in 8 hours. No clue what's going on.
 
My launch day iPhone 4's battery has been slowly getting worse over time, but today, on iOS 5, I charged it over night, went to work, and it was at around 95% when I started. About 3 hours later, I went to have a check of my phone, and it was at 10%, only 4 apps on the multi-task bar.

Sure, I had 3G, push emails/notifications on, but it's never been this bad before?

Currently charging it and I'll see if it's better tomorrow.
 
I turned off cell data when I'm at home on wifi and it seems the drain has decreased while browsing the Internet.
 
With push..notifications...location reminders...siri..
 

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Update (again)

I'm not sure what's happening, but the replacement that was returning really great battery life, just died a few hours ago. Lucky for me, I have an Apple store just two miles from home. Although I didn't have an appointment, I just walked in and got lucky.

The genius bar was slow. They gave it to the head of the group, he's the same one that replaced the previous phone. This time he didn't even take it in the back as before. He simply replaced it for me.

Since I always like an excuse to go to the Apple store, and it's under warranty I guess I will be doing this routine until they issue a fix. :) No worries.
 
They really don't know what the hell is causing it do they? You'd think 16mos+ on a single piece of hardware you'd have these things ironed out.
 
BoxerGT2.5 said:
They really don't know what the hell is causing it do they? You'd think 16mos+ on a single piece of hardware you'd have these things ironed out.
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Seriously...where's the QC?

The whole reason I switched to the 4S is because I figured it'd be a rock-solid, noticeably faster upgrade to the 4, with great battery life and all problems ironed out by now. If they really don't know what's causing the problem as it was mentioned in that article, that's pretty sad.
The weird thing is, there are several different "fixes" that deal with completely different aspects of the software like:

gps
siri raise to speak
icloud
exchange
contacts
calendar....and the list goes on!

The most frustrating part for me is that I troubleshot every single one of those and tried all of the fixes and none of them worked on my old phone.

I have a theory for people who've shared my experience, i'm guessing it's a combination software/hardware issue, something about iOS 5 and the dual antenna setup...I'm thinking something about the antenna/dual antenna has to be the culprit as i've only heard great things about battery life from people who have iPad 2's with iOS 5.



On a side note, my replacement phone is coming off of it's first full charge and it's doing alright. It's been off the charger for 5 hours, with 2 hours of moderate usage (about 20 minutes of music, installed a few apps, made a few brief phone calls, and spent mb 15 minutes browsing the web with a dozen texts or so. Battery is at 77%.
 
I would assume Apple tests the hardware and software in concert for ample time. Hard to imagine they couldn't identify these problems or that they never arose.
 
Well my phone just died and I am on my iPad 2, glad I am getting more use out of my iPad. Not really!!!
 
When I first read about battery problems, I thought "whatever". Well, dang it, I have the problem too.

I've calibrated the battery 4 times, have given it time to be broken in, and I am consistently getting no more than 3 hours and 45 minutes to 3 hours and 55 minutes off a full charge. I have yet to break the 4 hour mark.

I'm going to give it a little time to see if Apple figures something out.
 
Is this good battery life? My serial starts with DNP. Thats without icloud account btw.
 

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I'm at 30%. 4 hours 22 min usage. 22 standby. This is after setting up as a new phone. iCloud is off. Push email is off. I also turned off cell data while at home on wifi. Much better than what I was getting before. I'm convinced it's a push and or wifi/3G issue.
 
There is ZERO POINT HAVING A SMART PHONE if you have to switch everything off for it to be good battery life. Why turn off all the features why you wanted it?

Big reason why I love IOS 5 is due to the push e-mail...notifications e.t.c...and i have seen hardly any difference from having push on to having it off on my iphone 4.

will see how it is when i get my 4s next week.
 
Phone stopped going into standby yesterday

I'm not sure if my symptoms are similar to others, but my 4S stopped going to sleep or standby yesterday, and that seems to be what's draining the battery. The screen is on bright and stays that way forever right now. I didn't change any settings . . . .

Before that I was getting quite good standby times. Better than my old 3GS.
 
so i tested out the traffic location service.

it only turns on when plugged into a car charger. no more than 30 seconds after unplugging it from the charger the service stops pinging my location. so this isn't contributing to battery drain at all

just thought i'd let you guys know
 
BoxerGT2.5 said:
Seriously, if you have to shut off everything to eek out a day, get a different phone.
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Still have my flip phone, with at least two weeks of battery life using it as a phone (Who would have thought), and only pay $29.00 monthly for a Senior Citz discount :D

Have a nice computer for the other stuff...

Will have to wait this out until things settle down a bit for version II. Real Entertaining this whole iPhone buggy threads however. ;) Reason I wait it out for some of the bugs to be fixed or at least giving me (others) a different path to take if they don't.

We pay good money and want something that works very well, specially for the all important CALLS. Not to mention you paid for all the bells and whistles to be turned on :apple:
 
I really can't complain about battery issues. I have of course turned off all of the location services in the system tab.

Turned off auto brightness for the screen. Never used it anyways.

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probably last post

So, two weeks in now, I think it is pretty much sorted. This seems to be fine battery life in my opinion. this was about 45 minutes of calling as well
 

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