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The Game 161

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Dec 15, 2010
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Seeing as apple will be bringing out an update to help fix battery issues...will you update as well or do you think updating to this may hurt you currently usage? will it be worth downloading if you already have great battery life?
 
Yeah, I've thought about the whole update thing as well. My 4s battery life has been great and that old saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" has been popping into my head, but as previously stated, I'll have to update eventually.
 
Sooner or later we will all update. I am not the first and let others experiment with their device but I have never had a battery problem with my 4S or any problem with updating any of my iPhones and do not expect one after this update.
 
Yup I am going to upgrade. It's not going to make it worse, at least I don't think it will and I am going to have to upgrade at some point in time so might as well do it now.
 
I thought my battery was fine until I updated to 5.01 beta. I've seen enough of a difference to believe there was an issue after all.
 
my battery was fine before the betas. i cannot say that is has improved after the update tbh. i drop about 10% at night, and this is on beta 2... all location services off except for cell network search. just wifi is on.
 
my battery was fine before the betas. i cannot say that is has improved after the update tbh. i drop about 10% at night, and this is on beta 2... all location services off except for cell network search. just wifi is on.

10%? thats quite bad...
 
On 5.0 I turned off time zone location updating,iad's, and traffic and battery was all good.

On 5.01 b1 battery seemed a little worse.

On 5.01 b2 battery seems better than 5.0.

Of course this is not scientific and personally I think it is very hard to bench battery performance unless someone wants to sit there and all do the same tests...which i don't have time to do :p
 
Everyone that is old enough:p, needs to remember how the iPhone 4 was when it was introduced. Everyone was screaming about poor battery life. Over a bit of time Apple fixed it as they will here, too!
 
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