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Iphone 4S / IOS5 Battery Life and Standby / Usage Stats!!!
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You also need to factor in how you use your phone, but that looks like decent batt life.
how you manage to get 1 day worth of standby time? do you use iCloud to sync and back up?
Don't use iCloud to backup/sync, and in System Services, i have everything turned off, except for Cell Network Search and Compass Calibration. As well as most apps have location services turned off, except for things like weather apps, navigation, and things like that. Twitter, games and everything else is off.
I've found it also depends on how good a signal you get, where i live, my O2 signal is pants, but at the girlfriends place, it's great.
Over the Christmas period, i was at her place, and had a Standby of 3 Days, 1 Hour, with a usage of 7 Hours and 57 Minutes. I plugged the iphone into my car for 14 minutes to play music, and that was it.
iCloud doesn't backup unless plugged in and on WiFi.
While I guess that nails the problem, somewhere, this doesn't really pinpoint the cause, which would be useful.
Totally correct, i'd prefer it if there was a better solution by Apple, so that we could use all the features of the phone, without sacrificing battery life, but till they do, little tips and tricks from people always help.
I have a Verizon 4s 16gb iCloud turned on for things I don't want to lose and location services turned on for things that require it.
I unplugged my phone at 130am moved to the couch and slept. At 630am I was still at 100%.
I'm on the phone quite a bit using tapatalk, words, fb, then a little safari. I don't stream too much at work. Im on the phone quite a bit. I usually get home with 20% battery left if I've been in a good service area. If not its about dead.
I unplugged my phone at 130am moved to the couch and slept. At 630am I was still at 100%.
I'm on the phone quite a bit using tapatalk, words, fb, then a little safari. I don't stream too much at work. Im on the phone quite a bit. I usually get home with 20% battery left if I've been in a good service area. If not its about dead.
Not sure if it's a permanent fix but....
I just found this post today, I wondered why my iphone 4s that is 9 days old was sucking juice like crazy. When I checked my usage stats my active and standby numbers were identical. I turned off notifications, location for some things and some smaller tweaks like turning down my screen brightness a little. I did a re-install through itunes and when I reloaded things the ONLY change I made was choosing not to re-install the FB app. Previous to doing a wipe I had turned everything off and watched to see if my battery drainage would change (it didn't-2.7% per hour while "sleeping", 1% every 5 or so minutes of use) but leaving it completely off of my phone seems to have fixed the usage meter. I left it sitting idle for 2 hours after a full recharge to 100% and with 2 checks for time and battery level it now has my standby at 2 hours something and my active time at 2 minutes. I don't know if it was the FB app that was causing the problem but removing it and doing a reset sure seems to have fixed it for now. It makes me wonder if having the omnipresent social media apps causes something to constantly run in the background and causes the phone to go wonky and think it's working as well as sleeping...no clue, just thought I'd toss this out there.
I just found this post today, I wondered why my iphone 4s that is 9 days old was sucking juice like crazy. When I checked my usage stats my active and standby numbers were identical. I turned off notifications, location for some things and some smaller tweaks like turning down my screen brightness a little. I did a re-install through itunes and when I reloaded things the ONLY change I made was choosing not to re-install the FB app. Previous to doing a wipe I had turned everything off and watched to see if my battery drainage would change (it didn't-2.7% per hour while "sleeping", 1% every 5 or so minutes of use) but leaving it completely off of my phone seems to have fixed the usage meter. I left it sitting idle for 2 hours after a full recharge to 100% and with 2 checks for time and battery level it now has my standby at 2 hours something and my active time at 2 minutes. I don't know if it was the FB app that was causing the problem but removing it and doing a reset sure seems to have fixed it for now. It makes me wonder if having the omnipresent social media apps causes something to constantly run in the background and causes the phone to go wonky and think it's working as well as sleeping...no clue, just thought I'd toss this out there.
Do realize that the indicated times concern 'usage'. This means that you just used the phone a lot, compared to at least some others. This has nothing to do with how much juice you have left.
Having issues since editing Launch Daemons...
Usage and standby stats almost identical. Trying to assess what the issue is. Restored daemons to default but still seem to be having an issue. Lost 14% in standby overnight compared to the usual 1%.
No option to restore due to JB but reset settings, hard reset and rebooted, switched off notifications, switched off locations, uninstalled recently installed apps, delete and re-install email accounts, delete FB app.
All to no avail.
Then this morning for the 1st time this weekend I'm on data as opposed to wifi and for the 1st time usage and standby totals are differing.
Warrants further investigation but a little confusing at the mo.
One Launch Daemon I did accidently delete was the one handling push notifications but restoring default Daemons resolved that.
Thoughts....??
Usage and standby stats almost identical. Trying to assess what the issue is. Restored daemons to default but still seem to be having an issue. Lost 14% in standby overnight compared to the usual 1%.
No option to restore due to JB but reset settings, hard reset and rebooted, switched off notifications, switched off locations, uninstalled recently installed apps, delete and re-install email accounts, delete FB app.
All to no avail.
Then this morning for the 1st time this weekend I'm on data as opposed to wifi and for the 1st time usage and standby totals are differing.
Warrants further investigation but a little confusing at the mo.
One Launch Daemon I did accidently delete was the one handling push notifications but restoring default Daemons resolved that.
Thoughts....??
You plugged in your phone, so that image isn't a true representation of a single charge run-down..
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iPhone 4S Battery
Just an update, seems my usage stats are coming down as they should and on wifi. Whatever seemed to be the issue appears to be resolved now.
That's very true, my phone was plugged into the car to listen to TuneIn radio, whilst i drove to the girlfriends
Since I originally posted that, things have changed to about a days usage, but again, this depends on where I am. If i'm at her place, I get more out of the phone, even though she lives in a rural area. At my place, where it's all built up, I get a really pants usage time out of the phone.