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Turn Off Time-Zone Sensing To Improve iPhone Battery Life?

I turned this off on my iPhone 4S yesterday, and now I have 81% at almost 5pm in the day after not having charged since last night. I think it helped me.
 
room237 said:
I think it might have helped my battery life a little. But something is still draining it. iOS5 sucks on battery life.

Either way, why would someone want to keep this feature on? How often do you cross a time zone?
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Sure you may not cross time zones that often but why shouldn't the phone track it? The crazy part is that it shouldn't impact battery life in the least. This should be something that can be tracked just using the normal communication with the cell towers. It'll get fixed.
 
I never used Bluetooth and turned that off, but have seen no increase in battery life. I am not going to even try this as my current battery life is great.
 
iOS 5 on iPad 2

This might be a little unrelated but ever since I upgraded my wifi only iPad 2 to iOS 5 the battery life has not been the same as pre iOS 5. Now it's not draining the battery like the iPhone 4s, but I decided to check my settings for location services and this time zone setting was on and the arrow was purple,so it was getting my location. Turned off the setting so now we will see if there is any improvement. Anyone else notice this?
 
JonneyGee said:
On my iPhone, the gray icon wasn't even on, meaning it hadn't even tried to use location services for time zones in the past 24 hours.
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Same here. I have an IP4. I also have no arrow at Setting Time Zone so, as above, I assume that GPS is not active because no arrow appears.

I have noticed that the battery drains more quickly since downloading iOS5. Not terrible, but noticeable. But, since Ihave all kinds of stuff turned on - I'm pretty sure it's my fault.
 
Shrink said:
Same here. I have an IP4. I also have no arrow at Setting Time Zone so, as above, I assume that GPS is not active because no arrow appears.

I have noticed that the battery drains more quickly since downloading iOS5. Not terrible, but noticeable. But, since Ihave all kinds of stuff turned on - I'm pretty sure it's my fault.
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Mine did and I have a 4s. Could it be that I got mine completely new, whereas you upgraded yours?
 
unfortunately mine has been off the first few days when I noticed the battery drain issue. still a problem for me =( I did however, turn off PUSH and that seems to help.

Thankful I have a Mophie Juice Pack case.
 
Yeah every blog on earth seems to think this is the magic fix. Maybe for some, but not for me.

Battery still sucks.
 
Well, pinging the wifi and or baseband every ****ing minute surely isn't a feature.

this is ridiculous, i went iPhone / going Mac BECAUSE of the stability and simplicity. and here we are, bugs galore, with the performance of a ****ing tractor.
 
i always love those suggestions:

turn off 3G
turn off wifi
turn off location service
turn off push nots
turn off weather

what u have left is a phone without any usefulness

here's an idea, turn off the phone. it saves u battery life :p
 
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FWIW, letting the battery go dead and charging it completely seemed to work for me. I haven't turned off any settings and I get "close to iphone4" battery life.
The battery % indicator is complete B.S.
I can watch a whole TV show at 1% remaining.
 
Does Not Work

Tried this all weekend. Did not help. What is weird is my Wife's 4S is not having any battery issues. Makes me worried it is a bad batch of batteries.
 
marcusj0015 said:
Well, pinging the wifi and or baseband every ****ing minute surely isn't a feature.

this is ridiculous, i went iPhone / going Mac BECAUSE of the stability and simplicity. and here we are, bugs galore, with the performance of a ****ing tractor.
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Your 4S is slow?
 
macrumors is late. I already tried this on another blog site, and worked perfectly. no battery drain. Obviously wifi/bluetooth, etc will always drain the battery, so turn off if you don't need.
 
I have not had any battery problems with my iPhone 4S, but my friend has. My little arrow icon next to it is grey, not purple. So it looks like my phone is only checking once in a while to see if it is in a new time zone.

So far my battery life on my iPhone 4S has been far better than my iPhone 3GS was.

Usually after using the iPhone 4S from 6am to 6pm I still have 50% battery.
 
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Whoever said iMessage is right... I times my phone and watched it drain 2% in about 3 minutes. I turned iMessage off and it drained 1% in 5 mins.
 
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I have everything else on btw.
 
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My battery life was HORRIBLE when I first got my iphone 4S. What really worked for me.....draining my battery completely, then charging to 100% nonstop....I have better battery life than my iphone 4 now. My phone's battery just keeps going now!
 
Worked for me

I noticed that the purple location icon came on during a flight last night, even when I had airplane mode on.

So I thuought, heck, I'll try this weird fix - I turned off the location based time setting and today my phone last the whole day with heavy usage. I am a heavy user normally and the last 2 weeks it has made it until about 3-4pm. It's 9:15 now and I just got the 20% warning.

So for me - it worked.

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I haven't had the battery issues others here are having, actually it's been about the same on my iP4, and my time zone sensing has been on since day one. So I doubt this is the issue. My bro-in-law is having problems and it didn't do a thing for him.
 
how does Apple let these piss poor bugs out of testing. I am sorry but time zone should NEVER and I mean NEVER need the GPS. That could work just fine off course location (cell tower).

This is yet another one of those piss poor errors in iOS like DST error Apple seems to be really good at doing.
 
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