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Batterygate??
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Very strange. I noticed my battery going down really fast yesterday so decided to monitor it more closely today. Took it off charge at 11am (100%) and by 6pm it was down to 19% and I haven't been using much, maybe 20 mins browsing and 20 mins calls. I have come straight from a 4 and battery issue was never a problem.
Will keep an eye on it over the next few days and hopefully things will improve as there are plenty of people out there who aren't having any problems.
Will keep an eye on it over the next few days and hopefully things will improve as there are plenty of people out there who aren't having any problems.
Usage was just under an hour (58min), standby was 2hr 14min
Phone is sitting at 88% now from my overnight charge and I unplugged it 6.5hrs ago
You, Sir, do not know what you are talking about. Peoiple like you are what confuses people into doing dumb things to their battery. You can do as you wish to your battery but most here will tell you that you are very wrong.
I don't know what else to tell you. I'm just telling you what happens on all of my iOS devices. Keep a couple large games open and let me know how responsive your phone runs.
I don't care what Apple's "intentions" are because it's not working out as they "intended"
It brings my phone to a grinding halt.
Just a quick update if anyone can help - checked the stats for usage/standby since last full charge and it is saying the usage is 7 hours and standby 10 hours - what do they classify "usage" as, because as I posted above I have hardly used the phone since last charge.
You, Sir, do not know what you are talking about. Peoiple like you are what confuses people into doing dumb things to their battery. You can do as you wish to your battery but most here will tell you that you are very wrong.
Seriously, its good for batteries to know their "upper" and "lower" limits....doing a charge to discharge ~1 a month....thats the advice you should have added to your post.
I completely agree. I play a heavy game like Infnity blade or SF4 and the phone gets real slow. Speeds up when I remove from multitask bar.
I agree with you. I wouldn't say a grinding halt, but I can definitely notice the performance degrading as more apps are opened.
So whats the consensus? I know its both, but is this MORE a hardware (dual core) or software (iOS5, Siri) problem because im at the point of doing a hard reset and starting from scratch. Ive reset network settings, turned off most non-essentials and im still dropping about 15-20% an hour so maybe starting over and putting less apps will help me get through a work day.
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35% in 4hrs and 30mins.. With average usage, is this normal?
This battery life is ridiculous..
Going to let it drain and fully recharge.
35% in 4hrs and 30mins.. With average usage, is this normal?
This battery life is ridiculous..
Going to let it drain and fully recharge.
Mine syncs when I press the power button.
If lots of stuff needs to be synced to the iCloud, this could be the issue?
I agree. I guess it wouldn't be such a big deal if Apple and early reviewers hadn't touted the battery life as normal (i.e. on par with previous iPhones).
Also, seems as if some people are experiencing the battery drain issue and others are not. If it was widespread and consistent, then at least we know that's the standard, but it doesn't sound as if that's the case.
That's funny. This list sounds like most of the complaints you get about Android phones.
Now it's ok to do all this crap because it's an "iPhone". iTunes WiFi Sync. I plugged the phone back into the computer, unchecked the sync over WiFi box, and since then it's been suddenly drastically better.
I ran my battery down yesterday until my phone shut off and then charged it fully overnight and it seems much better today.
I think like some others have posted, that it needed to calibrate the battery with the percentage indicator, so it's showing a more accurate reading today.
I think like some others have posted, that it needed to calibrate the battery with the percentage indicator, so it's showing a more accurate reading today.
This doesn't sound good My iP4 is fine on iOS 5 though. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bad batch of 4S batteries out there. There's always something isn't there, my my.
My iP4 is fine on iOS 5 though. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bad batch of 4S batteries out there. There's always something isn't there, my my.I'm completely confused by the battery situation. I just set it up as new and noted pretty quick drain while using WiFi (though maybe that's where the 9 hours down from 10 is showing through). But while on a run using Nike+GPS and Pandora with the screen off, I only lost about 8% in a 40 minute run, which seems completely reasonable considering the constant 3G use and GPS use.
Also, still can't get Siri and Dictation working..."network error"
Also, still can't get Siri and Dictation working..."network error"
I still don't get it, wifi sync only works when its plugged in or when you tell it to.
I don't get it either. I did notice sometimes I would come back to my computer and iTunes would have an error up saying something about unable to find iPhone, or could not sync with it for some random reason, even though it wasn't plugged in, and I had never told it to sync. I think it's trying to locate it for some reason that I don't understand.
Either way though. I woke up this morning, and within a couple hours battery was down to like 85% and I hadn't even done anything. I unchecked sync over wifi, and over the next several hours the phone has only gone from 85% down to 82% with me checking things periodically.