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Worst battery life ever.
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Ever since I bought my 4s when it was released I've never been susceptible to the battery issues you read about here
However with iOS 6 I'm getting better battery life.
After heavy usage, by that I mean using maps and waze which both use GPS. along with calls, push email push photos with geotagging, music and loads of browsing I'm at 7h 30min with 9% left and 1day 2hours standby
Brilliant
However with iOS 6 I'm getting better battery life.
After heavy usage, by that I mean using maps and waze which both use GPS. along with calls, push email push photos with geotagging, music and loads of browsing I'm at 7h 30min with 9% left and 1day 2hours standby
Brilliant
Make sure Siri raise to speak is off. Even if its off, toggle on then off and then do a hard reset. Seems to have worked for me.
I haven't read all the replies, so someone may have already mentioned this, but you should tweak your settings: brightness, location services, etc.
I was on my phone literally all day long yesterday, including LTE, using turn-by-turn, etc., and my phone didn't get down to 10% until about 2am.
I was on my phone literally all day long yesterday, including LTE, using turn-by-turn, etc., and my phone didn't get down to 10% until about 2am.
When my 4S battery life starts dropping , sometimes 5% in one hour after charging, I turn the phone off and then back on. That seems to work every time.
As I've posted in other places, once I upgraded my battery life was the same as it was with 5.1.1 (lousy). However after a full reset and clean restore and FULL discharge/charge my battery is phenomenal!! 70% still after 2hrs usage and 12 hrs standby. With the 4S on 6.0 I can now easily go two days without charging.
Thanks - looks like IO6 turns Bluetooth ON by default when previously I had turned it OFF!! Nice to see some sensible measures suggested too..
I got 4 device including Iphone 5 got a mediocre battery performance. And the other 3 devices. iPhone 3gs, Iphone 4 and Ipad 2. All from clean install, set as new device option.
IOS 6 need update real quick
People are up in arms because for people using the same apps and same functions they did with iOS5 expecting the same battery life are getting crazy BAD battery life.
I could dig it if I were using new / more apps or whatever, but my battery life totally blows after the iOS6 upgrade. I used to laugh at people with Samsungs who were forced to carry batteries around.
Now for a lot of us, we're in the same boat, but can't carry extra batteries!
I'm hanging out for an iOS6 update that hopefully addresses this and many other problems with iOS6 - such as the mail swoosh before send issue. You got no idea if the mail was accepted by the smtp server or not.
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iOS 6 has a lot of initial bugs. I got the App Store to work properly on my iPhone 4 (after it crashed 5 times) and somehow got around the whole OS crashing when I moved a folder to a specific location, and there are no more bugs for me, thankfully.
My battery life has always been great, though, even on iOS 6. I guess I got lucky with iOS 6.
How does this, in any way, justify Apple's horrible operating system update? I shouldn't have to switch my phone because Apple ruined my phone.
Thinking of updating my iP4 to iOS 6. Me thinks I better stay with iOS 5 not only for battery life but for potential JB.
Advice? (minus the JB)
Advice? (minus the JB)
That's funny because my phone is on silent all day. (I don't really talk on it). If there is a problem with email you'll get a returned email. Plus you can still get a swish without the message arriving. I don't need a swish sounds, typing clicks or anything. They all just use up battery life.I'm hanging out for an iOS6 update that hopefully addresses this and many other problems with iOS6 - such as the mail swoosh before send issue. You got no idea if the mail was accepted by the smtp server or not.
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You get a returned email, but it's a time after it's sent. The swoosh sound should sound when the transaction with the smtp server is completed. There's no point to have it when you press the button. I #know# I pressed the send button. What we don't know was whether the mail client contacted the server. This brings up a point. If the server was not contactable, you would not get a returned email.
I consider this to be a serious bug.
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Not entirely accurate. To get a bounce back, your sent message must make it to your mail server. If an email is stuck in the outbox, there will be no NDR in your inbox.
The battery life on my iPhone 5 seems like it's gone down compared to what it was on my 4S. I had three classes this morning, using my phone lightly in between 10 minute gaps to surf the web, check email, text, etc and by the time I got home my phone was about 65%.
That's odd. For me bounced messages are returned to me before I even exit the mail app. Seriously, it's that fast. Maybe it's Softbank's servers here in Japan that are really fast.
Why wouldn't it make it to my carrier's server? Never had a problem in years. I have had a message stuck in the outbox though because my photo was too big.
Your call...I've installed iOS 6 on 2 iP4's and both are running much better than before. I do miss street view and a few other things...bot OS performance is FAR better. My phone constantly lagged...and that is completly gone now.