That's great! So, basically, it means the 4S is so fast, you'll be done using it a lot sooner, so it doesn't matter if the battery is worse!
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iPhone 4S Battery Life Worse for 3G Data and Media as Compared to iPhone 4
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Yeah. I do not understand what those idiots complain who have their iPhone 4S drain their batteries overnight. They were shooting better video and doing faster web browsing all night. What's there to complain?
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If you read the original they show the media playback stats and those are lower too.
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If you read the original they show the media playback stats and those are lower too.
I don't know what people are doing to get horrible battery life. Good god! 
From the iPhone 4 to the 4S, I'm getting pretty much exactly the same as I was getting on my 4, if it's draining quicker, it's probably because I'm using it more!
For those of you that keep having problems, backup your iPhone. Do a restore and set it up as a new phone. Voila, problem solved, so you lost a saved game or some text messages by doing this method... but it's worth trying if complaining doesn't help the battery life.
My battery life is outstanding on this thing! Even Siri agrees!
From the iPhone 4 to the 4S, I'm getting pretty much exactly the same as I was getting on my 4, if it's draining quicker, it's probably because I'm using it more!
For those of you that keep having problems, backup your iPhone. Do a restore and set it up as a new phone. Voila, problem solved, so you lost a saved game or some text messages by doing this method... but it's worth trying if complaining doesn't help the battery life.
My battery life is outstanding on this thing! Even Siri agrees!
Same standby time and usage
For those of you that have the same usage and standby time...that's NOT good.
That is a bug of some app that is still running in the background and is making serious battery drain.
Try hard reset the phone when is at full charge so that you can check the usage time when you again just plug the phone in a charger.
If that doesn't help (hard reset) than restore your phone.
For the rest of you try giving the phone a couple of days so that the battery has 3-4 full cycle recharge. The battery in you new phone is also new.
For those of you that have the same usage and standby time...that's NOT good.
That is a bug of some app that is still running in the background and is making serious battery drain.
Try hard reset the phone when is at full charge so that you can check the usage time when you again just plug the phone in a charger.
If that doesn't help (hard reset) than restore your phone.
For the rest of you try giving the phone a couple of days so that the battery has 3-4 full cycle recharge. The battery in you new phone is also new.
If you have the time, you might want to backup your current configuration, and then restore the phone to default settings. Use it for a couple days like that, and see what kind of mileage you get.
Conditioning the battery is overhyped. It doesn't actually increase the true capacity of the battery (in fact, discharging all the way usually decreases the max capacity). Conditioning just gives the OS a better picture of the real available capacity. So, it's good to do this once in awhile -- meaning every 6 months to a year.
i started the day at 7:30 AM with a fully charged 4s...by 3:30PM it was dead..and it was very light use..the problem is at work i have minimal service so if i sent a text the phone kept trying to send for about 20 mins before it would finally release...still sucks though
That is unacceptable.
Apple needs to fix this crap.
At least with Android you can back up all your app data and text messages with Go SMS and Titanium Backup. On iOS you are basically screwed. Every problem I have had with my iPhone and iPad basically comes back to iTunes and their stupid restrictions and bugs with syncing.
Can people explain to me what they have running?
Can people explain to me what location services they have running? I heard people saying siri drains the battery in a matter of hours, but this is simply not true. I went the night without charging to see the idle battery drain, it was so insignificant that I can't even note on it. I figure since people have different location services running it must drain the crap out of the battery. I'm a moderate user and I don't notice any real difference between the battery lifes.
I know this is subjective to the user (I think this is one dumbass news update from macrumors), but I was just curious on why people's battery drains so much quicker than others when they claim they aren't even using the phone and the battery drains.
Can people explain to me what location services they have running? I heard people saying siri drains the battery in a matter of hours, but this is simply not true. I went the night without charging to see the idle battery drain, it was so insignificant that I can't even note on it. I figure since people have different location services running it must drain the crap out of the battery. I'm a moderate user and I don't notice any real difference between the battery lifes.
I know this is subjective to the user (I think this is one dumbass news update from macrumors), but I was just curious on why people's battery drains so much quicker than others when they claim they aren't even using the phone and the battery drains.
has anyone noticed the stand-by battery life comparison?
http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare-iphones/
Battery Life
--4s--
Talk time:
Up to 8 hours on 3G
Up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)
Standby time:
Up to 200 hours
--4--
Talk time:
Up to 7 hours on 3G
Up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)
Standby time:
Up to 300 hours
--3gs--
Talk time:
Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 12 hours on 2G (GSM)
Standby time:
Up to 300 hours
http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare-iphones/
Battery Life
--4s--
Talk time:
Up to 8 hours on 3G
Up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)
Standby time:
Up to 200 hours
--4--
Talk time:
Up to 7 hours on 3G
Up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)
Standby time:
Up to 300 hours
--3gs--
Talk time:
Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 12 hours on 2G (GSM)
Standby time:
Up to 300 hours
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well better performance with the same size battery, you get less battery life. but sprint seems to be behind in everything
4s Batt is worse...
Moving from a 4 to a 4s, I have noticed a significant decrease in battery life. While my experience is more anecdotal, than well-documented experimentation, here are my observations:
I suspect my phone has something running on it that is negatively impacting battery life, but I pretty much have the same apps on it as I did on my 4. Otherwise, I love the 4s improvements. But I hope that a patch comes out soon... or, whatever app I have that's misbehaving, starts to behave better.
Oh, and my 4s is running noticeably hotter than my 4... what's up with that?
Moving from a 4 to a 4s, I have noticed a significant decrease in battery life. While my experience is more anecdotal, than well-documented experimentation, here are my observations:
- I seem to drain North of 5%, for every 10 or so minutes of talking... actually, I'll bet I drain more like 7%, which is certainly more than I did on my 4
- I didn't worry much about battery life with my 4, but I've now totally drained my batt 2x, already today
- Last night, at midnight, I tole Siri to wake me up at 6am. The battery was at 43%, when I went to sleep. The alarm didn't go off, because the battery was dead...
I suspect my phone has something running on it that is negatively impacting battery life, but I pretty much have the same apps on it as I did on my 4. Otherwise, I love the 4s improvements. But I hope that a patch comes out soon... or, whatever app I have that's misbehaving, starts to behave better.
Oh, and my 4s is running noticeably hotter than my 4... what's up with that?
Restore works
It has been picked up all over if you go into forums that with iOS5 update on older models and not purchased on an old device it:
A: Slows the device down to a staggering degree
B: Adds roughly 5-10GB of 'other' to the capacity.
C: Chews away at battery time
However:
A total fresh restore of the device will get rid of all these problems and improve the battery life for anyone having issues. i know because I had all the problem about. It is a pain doing a fresh restore them restore from last backup but it seems to be working.
Hope this helps
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It has been picked up all over if you go into forums that with iOS5 update on older models and not purchased on an old device it:
A: Slows the device down to a staggering degree
B: Adds roughly 5-10GB of 'other' to the capacity.
C: Chews away at battery time
However:
A total fresh restore of the device will get rid of all these problems and improve the battery life for anyone having issues. i know because I had all the problem about. It is a pain doing a fresh restore them restore from last backup but it seems to be working.
Hope this helps
It has been picked up all over if you go into forums that with iOS5 update on older models and not purchased on an old device it:
A: Slows the device down to a staggering degree
B: Adds roughly 5-10GB of 'other' to the capacity.
C: Chews away at battery time
However:
A total fresh restore of the device will get rid of all these problems and improve the battery life for anyone having issues. i know because I had all the problem about. It is a pain doing a fresh restore them restore from last backup but it seems to be working.
Hope this helps
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Moving from a 4 to a 4s, I have noticed a significant decrease in battery life. While my experience is more anecdotal, than well-documented experimentation, here are my observations:
- I seem to drain North of 5%, for every 10 or so minutes of talking... actually, I'll bet I drain more like 7%, which is certainly more than I did on my 4
- I didn't worry much about battery life with my 4, but I've now totally drained my batt 2x, already today
- Last night, at midnight, I tole Siri to wake me up at 6am. The battery was at 43%, when I went to sleep. The alarm didn't go off, because the battery was dead...
I suspect my phone has something running on it that is negatively impacting battery life, but I pretty much have the same apps on it as I did on my 4. Otherwise, I love the 4s improvements. But I hope that a patch comes out soon... or, whatever app I have that's misbehaving, starts to behave better.
Oh, and my 4s is running noticeably hotter than my 4... what's up with that?
It has been picked up all over if you go into forums that with iOS5 update on older models and not purchased on an old device it:
A: Slows the device down to a staggering degree
B: Adds roughly 5-10GB of 'other' to the capacity.
C: Chews away at battery time
However:
A total fresh restore of the device will get rid of all these problems and improve the battery life for anyone having issues. i know because I had all the problem about. It is a pain doing a fresh restore them restore from last backup but it seems to be working.
Hope this helps
3G is twice as fast...so yeah.
You guys realize that 3G is twice as fast (what other companies call 4G) on the iPhone 4S right? That would be why it uses a little more power.
You guys realize that 3G is twice as fast (what other companies call 4G) on the iPhone 4S right? That would be why it uses a little more power.
Except I never posted what you attribute to me.
Why not do some digging and post my actual words instead?
All you've done is exaggerated my posts massively (and quite inaccurately) in order to support your personal attack.
At least use my own words against me, so you can a) acknowledge and prove authorship, and b) avoid lying.
The 75 who disliked this were part of the 4 million suckered into the 4S. haha