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What is Normal Battery Life for iPhone 4s

I typically end my dad at around 35% battery life for my usage which I would rate to be moderate.

wake up @ 7 AM
25 or so text messages
15-20 minutes talking
1 hour safari
1 hour games
3 hours podcasts/music
1 hour bluetooth for car
wifi always on and brightness at 50%
sleep @ 11 PM.

I am very happy with the battery life compared to other modern day smart phones that I have used for about 4 months each. I tried two Android phones (HTC Inspire 4G/Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket) and neither made it to 11 PM with my usage.
 
CubeHacker said:
Check my above post. Its normal usage, used everyday. Nothing crazy heavy, but it is being used.
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if you are making calls, receiving calls, emails, texts, and listening to music 3 hours everyday? ... it is just not possible for your battery to last 5-6 days
 
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I've noticed none of the above posts mention if you have notifications turned on for all your apps, and I'd so, how many, and which types. Same with Location Services.

My phone's battery life was so bad, I could literally watch the percentage drop in real time. After turning off Notification Center for just about everything, I now at least get close to average battery life now.

It's a real shame, though, I have to basically cripple my phone just to be able to have average battery life. Not at all what Apple advertised.
 
cubehacker, that's incredible battery life. I'm not one of the ones calling you a liar. I'm just curious of a few things to help me better understand how you're achieving such good battery life:

1. Do you have any email accounts syncing? If so, how many and are you using push or fetch?

2. Do you have any location services turned on?

3. What version of iOS are you running?

4. What's your brightness set at?

5. It looks like you have an excellent signal. Is it always that good?

Again, not doubting you, just trying to better understand so I can achieve better battery life. I'm happy with mine right now... but any improvement is much welcome!
 
CubeHacker said:
Sorry, but you should not make such presumptions. Nor should you call other people liars when you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

This is normal usage - about 30 minutes of calls a day, dozens of txts, and the occasional email, website, etc.
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Never said you are a liar. I said it didn't last that long. You may be mistaken. No one else I have ever read gets that amount of time from a standard battery. It defies physics.

150 minutes of talk time PLUS 120 - 144 hours of standby plus texts, emails, web surfing. Unless your name it Marty McFly, it didn't happen that way.
 
Leonard1818 said:
cubehacker, that's incredible battery life. I'm not one of the ones calling you a liar. I'm just curious of a few things to help me better understand how you're achieving such good battery life:

1. Do you have any email accounts syncing? If so, how many and are you using push or fetch?

2. Do you have any location services turned on?

3. What version of iOS are you running?

4. What's your brightness set at?

5. It looks like you have an excellent signal. Is it always that good?

Again, not doubting you, just trying to better understand so I can achieve better battery life. I'm happy with mine right now... but any improvement is much welcome!
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1.) Gmail is turned on, but its not set to fetch. I check it manually 2-3 times a day.

2.) Location services is turned on for maps and my GPS app.

3.) Running 5.0

4.) Brightness is approx 35-40%

5.) Always full bars at home, and same for most places that I go to, including at work.
 
You're charging the phone at short random intervals correct? The last time you gave it a full charge was 5 days ago, no?
 
CubeHacker said:
1.) Gmail is turned on, but its not set to fetch. I check it manually 2-3 times a day.

2.) Location services is turned on for maps and my GPS app.

3.) Running 5.0

4.) Brightness is approx 35-40%

5.) Always full bars at home, and same for most places that I go to, including at work.
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Interesting. Thanks for the info. Do you use any icloud services like photostream or find my iPhone?

SprSynJn said:
You're charging the phone at short random intervals correct? The last time you gave it a full charge was 5 days ago, no?
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I doubt it... usually it will say something like "this phone has been plugged in since last full charge"
 
SprSynJn said:
You're charging the phone at short random intervals correct? The last time you gave it a full charge was 5 days ago, no?
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No, I always let it run down until it gets in the red zone (below 20%), and then charge it to full. I don't charge it daily.

For the record, this usage is nothing new. I've had the iPhone 4 since its release back in 2010 and its always had this same battery life. It MAY have gotten slightly worse with iOS 5.0, but that might just be in my head.
 
CubeHacker said:
1.) Gmail is turned on, but its not set to fetch. I check it manually 2-3 times a day.

2.) Location services is turned on for maps and my GPS app.

3.) Running 5.0

4.) Brightness is approx 35-40%

5.) Always full bars at home, and same for most places that I go to, including at work.
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i wonder what does HOME at the signal bar means?
 
This is my average battery life of my Ip4 after updating to 5.0.1: 1-2hrs of music, 1-2hrs on the web, a few games here and there, 50 text messages, email set to fetch every hour. wifi usually on. It's been like this since the update release. Hasn't really changed much. Still satisfied.

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hmm on an average basis for every 1 hour of standby CubeHacker only used 4 minutes of use, therefore for 1 day of standby the usage time will average at 1.6 hours. so at 5days he will have used for 8 hours...

this means that the iPhone has good battery life, and its prolonged with occasional usage at that moment and left to rest, then use again after a few hours...

It really depends on how you use the iPhone, last time i got a 2days standby and 8 hour usage this shows I'm using it more often and i do play games as well.

if there is a problem i would suggest doing a restore, the few common causes are iCloud contacts, and some rogue app running that is constantly on a crash loop, and if all else fail take it up with the apple "geniuses" =)
 
It depends on the uses of iPhone 4s.It is possible if in iPhone 4S running more application during stand by then possible it takes more battery power. If you spend more time on Internet than possible it take more battery power.
 
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It depends on how you use the iPhone 4S. If the iPhone 4S is running more application during standby mode, or if you spend a lot of time on the Internet, then it may use more battery power.
 
Hi,

I unplug at 6am and use my iPhone 4 when and where and how i need to.

I then plug in at 10pm and charge overnight.

Thats all i need.

If you check on other forums for android and apple etc you'll find the same threads ongoing.

Realising what these smartfones do its awesome that they last out the full day !

The best thing i ever did was turn off the battery %.

I support the occasional tweak to the settings to help conserve battery usage but when alls said and done, enjoy using it !
 
SBacklin said:
Something isn't quite right with the 4S battery though. I went to bed with 95% left and only TWO apps listed in the background and that is messages & email. That was about 1230am-100am. I woke up about 530am and had 77%, which quickly dropped to 75%. So basically, it dropped 20% in about 5 hours. The 4 was A LOT better. :-/
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That could be cause someone was trying to send you a MMS but your 3G was turned off. Thus, your iPhone was continually trying to fetch the message, but couldn't. You can tell this is the case of you look at your usage and standby times and they're the same or very close (has to be multiple hours though). That has happened to me two times before and it drains your battery even on sleep. However, normally my battery only goes down 1-2% during the night.



I get about 7 hours usage and 1 day 9 hours standby with 6% remaining. Pretty happy with my battery life. I mainly text, use safari, play games, and listen to music. Safari and games=70% texting and music=15% each. I have most notifications turned on but all location services disabled except for the essential stuff (maps, compass, weather, etc.) Don't really see why other apps lIke photobucket would need my location anyways. I also have setting time zone and diagnostic and usage, and location based IAds turned off in the advanced menu.
 
Here is what I've been getting. It shows it's plugged in. This is right after I had just put it on the charger after the battery died.
 

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What carrier are you on? My wife and I noticed improved battery life when switching to ATT. Either the GSM side is more efficient than CDMA, or Sprint's signal was so bad where we are that the phone had to be at high power all the time.
 
I'm on AT&T. Brightness about half way. Wifi on most of the day. Push off. ICloud backup off. Wifi sync is off and most of location services are off.
 
CubeHacker said:
Sorry, but you should not make such presumptions. Nor should you call other people liars when you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

This is normal usage - about 30 minutes of calls a day, dozens of txts, and the occasional email, website, etc.
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I was about to ask whether your phone was a 4 or a 4s (because those times are normal for a 4) when I saw you post that it was a 4. Notice how in the thread title, the OP is talking about the 4S. A comparison with the older 4 does not help him gauge whether his 4S battery life is normal. But yeah 5 days isn't too surprising for the 4 since all I ever hear is how amazing the iPhone 4's battery was compared to the new 4S. Many people said they could go a week without charging. There's a drastic difference because the A5 is dual core compared to one core, among other things.


RedburnIV said:
I'm on AT&T. Brightness about half way. Wifi on most of the day. Push off. ICloud backup off. Wifi sync is off and most of location services are off.
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Are you using a 4 or 4s? If you're using a 4S that's pretty impressive battery life. Having 8 hours usage and 2 days standby is very uncommon for a 4S, as far as I'm aware. If its a 4S mind sharing your settings (what you have on and off) and how you were using your phone?
 
Mine is pretty good. I took it off the charger at 3 pm Saturday afternoon.

Went out did some light web browsing, fair amount of texting, browsed on tapatalk for a while, took dozens of pics, brief facebook, and a couple phone calls. I'd say overall light to moderate usage. All on Verizon 3G.

Got home at 1 pm today (Sunday) and I was down too 56%. So 44% in 22 hours.

Brightness is mid way and auto. Location services are on for things that need it to function properly. Notifications are on for mail, messages, and fb.
 
No prob. It's a 4S. I reset the phone and set it up as a new phone in iTunes. I have bluetooth off but wifi on for most of the time. Brightness is half way. Location services are on but all the extra like diagnostics and traffic are off. The only one I keep on is the cell network search. iCloud back up is off and push is off. I manually fetch email when I remember to check the inbox. That was some lighter usage than usual. Just texting and playing music over a stereo. Some web browsing and instagram.
 
iphone 4s battery life

iphone 4s is associated with a very poor battery. Forget about the standby time, but the actual is your talk time. For me, being on a continuous call for 2 hours the battery goes dead. i have to charge it again. i don't know if anything is running on the back ground or if there is any bug.
I have read some where that ios 5 is surrounded with many bugs, It seems to be true. :eek:
 
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