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derrick2005

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Oct 8, 2011
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I had great battery life pre 5.0.1 but post update it was really bad so I was advised to to a restore via itunes which I did last night.

This morning I unplugged the phone at around 9 and except for around a minute when I plugged it into itunes it has been unplugged.

It being a Sunday, and me wanting to see how much I could use the phone I used it quite a lot, but not excessively. I went on you tube quite a bit, played games quite a lot, safari quite a lot, texting one person for over an hour - i really tried to push it. Ironically I didnt make any phone calls!

So it is now almost midnight an my usage stats are: Usage 6 hours, 39 minutes, Standby, 15 hours and 31 minutes with 2% battery left.

Is this good? And if so, good for 4s or as god as 4? And taking into account that I did do youtube, games, and safari - if I had used it to make calls would my usage and battery been worse?

I hope I'm not offending people with these questions, I just want to figure out if my phone is "normal"!
 
It's never easy to quantify usage and you don't mention if you were on wifi or 3G, but I'd say your battery is reasonably good.

We are all hoping to eek out even more but compared to some other reports on the forum I think you did as well as expected.

Just curious, what were you getting pre update?
 
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