Battery life issues?

[BiG BaLLA 923]

iPhone 4s Battery Issue

Hello everybody, this is my first post and my first iPhone as I moved from a long history of blackberry to the iPhone 4s.

Anyways this brings me to my problem, which is that my battery on my iPhone 4s is pretty awful! I have used it for 5 hours and am at 30% and took it off the charger this morning. (I didn't browse the internet, use any apps, closed all apps, turned off wifi, screen brightness is at about 1/4th and haven't played with it all today) I played with it yesterday and had to do a midday charge. Is this normal? I sent very few texts and thats about it.

Thanks for any help! I would love some suggestions, stories, whatever! Anything to help out me and the community!

 

[tut00]

It's odd for me to see this happen, because the 4 had one of the best batteries I have ever seen. I hope it gets better. Will try again tonight to see how it does. Maybe it's just a fluke.

 

[Manchild Pr0digy]

My battery hasn't really been particularly good or bad. It seems better than my 3GS, but then again I used it right out of the box with whatever charge it had. I'm sure it'll be better when I actually start from 100% charged. Of course, I use the phone mostly when I'm at work and my reception is awful, so my battery life is never as good as it could be.

 

[ame]

That is DEFINITELY not normal...check to be sure wifi is off, and that you don't have location on other than a few apps...Hmm. I can get DAYS from a charge.

 

[BiG BaLLA 923]

Thanks for the reply! Can you please tell me how to see which apps are using my location?

 

[BuddhistGirafe]

Mine seems the same as my iPhone 4. These batteries take a couple charges to work in. And I have my brightness at full, push, wifi, location services etc. You name it. It's on


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[sprocket2107]

I haven't had particularly good battery life but I noticed that when I plug it, it charges super fast. I plug ,y phone in last night when battery was at 30%, went outside for a cigar, came back in an hour later and it was charged back up to almost 70%. I guess that's a positive.

 

[Kylazin]

I'm hoping that after a few battery cycles it may get better. I also thought about restoring the phone, but I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make.

 

[Fausty82]

SETTINGS / LOCATIONS

This will show you a list of all the apps you have installed... and a slider to turn location services on/off for each.

 

[rstark18]

My battery is definitely worse than my iP4. I gave that one to my wife. Clean installs on both and her battery is WAY better than mine halfway through the day. Hopefully it's break-in thing.

 

[BiG BaLLA 923]

Thank you so much! Hopefully this helps. I really never knew this could contribute to battery life. Thank you so much!

 

[Manchild Pr0digy]

I haven't had particularly good battery life but I noticed that when I plug it, it charges super fast. I plug ,y phone in last night when battery was at 30%, went outside for a cigar, came back in an hour later and it was charged back up to almost 70%. I guess that's a positive.

I thought it charged it up awfully quick, as well. Definitely faster than my 3GS every did.

 

[SMELTN]

Keep in mind as well, as with many other devices, it takes a couple of charging cycles to get the battery conditioned. It "should" get better over the next few days..

 

[evorc]

My battery life so far is a joke!! Charged at 3pm and at 55% 7pm barely used the phone. WTF?

 

[Dark_Blu]

yeah and reminders too, if i remember correctly the batteries in these phones take a couple days to get into a groove i could be wrong though.

That's what I was thinking. I'm coming from an EVO with an extended battery, so it seems to use more, but I have a car charger and I've noticed that the 4S charges up really fast. So it's not a big deal yet but am interested to know if it changes in a few days or what.

And then there is that case with the external battery, that the Apple Store employees use...

 

[Dark_Blu]

I thought it charged it up awfully quick, as well. Definitely faster than my 3GS every did.

I noticed that too.

 

[pilsbury]

I don't know, but I had a full charge at 3pm yesterday and still had 53%at 9pm, and that was continuous use, hard use. Mine seems to be 15% better than my i4.

 

[eurofocus]

I honestly think this is an IOS5 related issue... my iphone 4 has terrible battery life since i've upgraded to the new ios, and I have yet to find a resolution.

 

[D2TSHR1439]

Also, double click your home button. It will show what is running. You can cancel out of them too.

 

[Premium1]

I honestly think this is an IOS5 related issue... my iphone 4 has terrible battery life since i've upgraded to the new ios, and I have yet to find a resolution.

It may be an ios5 issue. Maybe they will address it in an upcoming update.