Interesting...after seeing which of my friends and colleagues have battery issues, I was able to drill it down to people having multiple push email accounts. In particular, people having GMail sync turned on (GMail set up as a Microsoft Exchange account and not a regular GMail account in mail settings) seemed to have worse usage levels than anybody else. I have two GMail Sync accounts set up and also a work Exchange account. I never had battery issues with the iPhone 4 with the same settings so I'm wondering if iOS5 is handling these account differently.
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The Battery on the iPhone 4S is Totally Unacceptable
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I don't think that's normal, although as someone mentioned, it could be because of a combination of configuration+network.
Anyway, in my case, I'm "happy" with the 4S battery's duration. Not completely happy, because on weekends I often have to charge the phone in the middle of the day to make sure that it lasts enough (It could be my fault though, sometimes I use it a lot...). During the weekdays that's no problem because I'm at work most part of the day and don't have that much free time.
Right now I have 68% of the battery, after 3:30 hours of usage and 14:21 of stand by. I've used mostly for music (maybe 1:30 hours), and then I played around with different services (twitter, mail, a short call, a little bit of gaming...).
I usually reach about 7 hours of usage on average, with the same kind of usage (well, I should add quite a lot of FaceTime usually). I have all of the services activated, except bluetooth. I use iCloud, Siri, location, 3G, wifi, wifi sync, push...24/7 on.
I even reached once 11:29 of usage. I was surprised myself, that's not normal at all. I guess I listened a lot of music with the iPhone on sleep mode.
I think that something's wrong there, definitely
Anyway, in my case, I'm "happy" with the 4S battery's duration. Not completely happy, because on weekends I often have to charge the phone in the middle of the day to make sure that it lasts enough (It could be my fault though, sometimes I use it a lot...). During the weekdays that's no problem because I'm at work most part of the day and don't have that much free time.
Right now I have 68% of the battery, after 3:30 hours of usage and 14:21 of stand by. I've used mostly for music (maybe 1:30 hours), and then I played around with different services (twitter, mail, a short call, a little bit of gaming...).
I usually reach about 7 hours of usage on average, with the same kind of usage (well, I should add quite a lot of FaceTime usually). I have all of the services activated, except bluetooth. I use iCloud, Siri, location, 3G, wifi, wifi sync, push...24/7 on.
I even reached once 11:29 of usage. I was surprised myself, that's not normal at all. I guess I listened a lot of music with the iPhone on sleep mode.
I think that something's wrong there, definitely
I was so disappointed that I went back to the iPhone 4 (among other reasons). The 4 has the best battery life of all the iPhones and overall isn't really much worse than the 4S.
Not that that's a solution, of course...
I just hope that the iPhone 5 is like the iPhone 4 was (how it had considerably better battery life than its predecessor).
EDIT: I was just thinking that the 4's ability to disable 3G contributes significantly to its ability to last a lot longer. I leave it switched off most of the time, especially at home where I don't get 3G reception.
Not that that's a solution, of course...
I just hope that the iPhone 5 is like the iPhone 4 was (how it had considerably better battery life than its predecessor).
EDIT: I was just thinking that the 4's ability to disable 3G contributes significantly to its ability to last a lot longer. I leave it switched off most of the time, especially at home where I don't get 3G reception.
Also- if Apple is struggling so mightily to obtain even average battery life on the 4S with 3G, I'm really concerned about the battery life on their first LTE device.
Bluetooth can use up quite a bit of battery life.
I charge my iPhone 4S every other night, just like when I had my iPhone 4.
Hold on, your iPhone is lasting you THE WHOLE DAY for usage + standby.
image 1: 20 hours
image 2: 19 hours
image 3: 20.5 hours
image 4: 17 hours
What's the problem? Do you sleep fewer than 4 hours per day? iPhone would still charge in under 4 hours anyway.
I charge my iPhone 4S every other night, just like when I had my iPhone 4.
Hold on, your iPhone is lasting you THE WHOLE DAY for usage + standby.
image 1: 20 hours
image 2: 19 hours
image 3: 20.5 hours
image 4: 17 hours
What's the problem? Do you sleep fewer than 4 hours per day? iPhone would still charge in under 4 hours anyway.
I think that the stand by measurement includes any usage. It's like the total amount of time that the phone's been alive.
The usage time is included in standby...you don't add the two together to see how long the phone has been on for a day. Also, I've been noticeably restricting my usage b/c of the sh**y battery.
The skyrocket is a LTE phone, it is not going to get better battery life than the GSM Galaxy Nexus. That being said, the battery life on the GSM GNex is just fine.
GSM GNex battery is fine.
I lose between 4-7% overnight which is 6-8 hours. That is with espn sportscenter alerts during the night too. Will get more alerts during the night when the NBA starts.
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I'm at 4+ hrs usage and 1d, 8hrs standby and got my 20% warning a few mins ago. I don't have anything turned off and I use my phone for a mixture of video, web, maps, phone, txt, email with push, etc.
I dunno whether that's considered good or bad, but of its "ok" then hopefully it gives people confidence that battery issues are not a foregone conclusion and hopefully a software fix or hardware swap can help your issues!
I'm at 4+ hrs usage and 1d, 8hrs standby and got my 20% warning a few mins ago. I don't have anything turned off and I use my phone for a mixture of video, web, maps, phone, txt, email with push, etc.
I dunno whether that's considered good or bad, but of its "ok" then hopefully it gives people confidence that battery issues are not a foregone conclusion and hopefully a software fix or hardware swap can help your issues!
So I'll ask this because I'm concerned slightly.
If I update from 5.0 to 5.0.1... am I chancing it actually fixing my battery or is it just "some devices it helps, and some it doesnt do anything"..
Because I'm still trying to jailbreak..
If I update from 5.0 to 5.0.1... am I chancing it actually fixing my battery or is it just "some devices it helps, and some it doesnt do anything"..
Because I'm still trying to jailbreak..
My battery life on the iP4S has been good and improved since I reset settings.
But it doesn't work for all. A smaller percentage, but still significant.
I agree with this poster. We all keep asking Apple to give us more features, more and more features. And they do: iMessage, iCloud, iTunes wireless synching, notifications improvements.
Apple gives us more features...but doesn't say that we can USE all of them, and expect the same battery life as our older iPhones. It is up to us to manage what level of features to use and balance that with loss of battery life.
We have been empowered!
If you don't need iMessage, turn it off. Being a data connection it will use more battery, as someone else posted. These are just facts of life, and one cannot complain that we shouldn't have to turn off all these features...you do, if you wish to get phenomenal battery life. Texting a lot, i.e. with screens on always eats power. and the iMessage data connection (just like WhatsApp) eats more power than plain SMS.
Just one thought, among others.
Having said this, with fetching 1 hour, I have all turned on, and my battery life is better than the OP's: at the end of the day, I may get 3-4 hours of usage, but still have 50% battery left.
Pure BS
New nexus 4.6" screen, heavy use:
And light use:
Both are miles ahead of what the OP is getting.
Sorry not BS as we have pretty much all flavors of Android phones in our business since Android has been around. And all of them have been BAD battery life. Yes the screen may pull more, but Android itself has always been bad on battery life period.