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How's your 4s battery life with 5.1?

BLiNK

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Personally,I do not think 5.1 increased anyone's battery life substantially. From what I can tell, Apple seemed to have made adjustments for when the phone is in standby, reducing drain at idle.

There are examples of people going a day or two without charging, showing high usage and having excellent battery life remaining since, the update.

However, the key is, how is the device being used? If I use my iPhone strictly to playback music guess what, I can show extremely high usage and can easily go almost two days before having to charge again. Conversely, if I use my iPhone primarily for making calls and a little surfing, with a usage of around 5 hours then, you can bet the battery will be almost fully depleted (by days end). I would factor in a reasonable standby time of 12 hours to be fair. But not even close to a day or more. This I think is more the norm.

I feel the overwhelming majority of people under mixed usage, calls, email, surfing, messaging, facebooking, tweeting, etc will get through most of the day (14 hours?)) before having to charge.

Again, I feel Apple tweaked the idle drain, and not, specifically, the phones features. For example, if the talk time for the phone was 8 hours (on 5.0.1), I do not think the update (5.1) made it 9 hours so on and so forth.

To really know if battery life changed dramatically (as proclaimed by some), a controlled test would have to be done. Two phones with the different softwares being utilized exactly the same way. That's the only way of knowing for sure.

This is solely my take on things...

agreed. standby, for me and for most i am sure, is not as important as actual usage. one thing users are not posting along with their "fantastic" battery performances is their 'Call Time' and 'Cellular Network Data' usage details. here is where we get to the meat & potatoes, yet nobody does it. i also feel that some people are to worried about how, what and where they use their device due to them trying to get the most out of one charge. this has to ruin "the experience". if im having a heavy usage morning i'm not afraid to slap it on the charger for an hour

at the end of the day if i can get through a day of work, whatever at night and then need to charge late evening/night i feel i'm doing well
 

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So after a few days usage my battery life is very solid on the 4S. I drained the phone down all the way and recharged it to 100%. Yesterday I had over 8 hours of usage that included about 1 hour of navigation, calls, texting, web browsing iPod usage and 17 hours stand by.
 

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It seems im getting better battery performance on my iPhone 4s since the 5.1 update. Battery is still poor if im on 3G however if i disable it lasts me the whole day with about 5-6 hours of usage.
 

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Figure I give it another try.This is with location Services and Siri turned ON. Battery life is great.....


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I do have to say, when connected to wifi my battery life is awesome.

However when connected only to 3G, my battery life seems to struggle now. I will give it a few more powder cycles.
 

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Ever since I enabled baseband logging yesterday, it has gone slightly lower. After a few days with 5.1, performance is generally the same since 5.0. Still, 5.0 beta 6 was much superior to what is out now...at least for me.
 
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Here's mine I synced a couple albums earlier but other wise it's been fantastic


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Haven't noticed a significant change either way. Although it does seem like there maybe a slight improvement when connected to Wi-Fi for what it's worth.
 

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Didn't notice to much of a change, but then I got my iPhone 4S the day that 5.1 came out so it's really hard to compare

what the hell? did they load 5.1 as soon as you bought it? i would have figured there'd be plenty with 5.0.1 left for a while
 

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My battery life was already pretty good, but I can't deny that I've noticed an definite improvement in battery life with both my iPhone & iPad.


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I'm in the same boat. I've had my 4S since day one of release & it's all gravy ;). The only things that drain my battery fast is gaming for a few hours & streaming (videos, radio etc...). Since the update my battery life is actually a bit better when streaming. I've only stream for an hour max when out and about.
 

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Kinda hard to tell still, but I feel mine's just a little bit better. I don't seem to lose as much on standby overnight as i used to
 

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Kinda hard to tell still, but I feel mine's just a little bit better. I don't seem to lose as much on standby overnight as i used to

An obvious increase in standby time is where iOS 5.1 shines brightest. As I aforementioned, my battery usage has been great and still is, but the standby time I am getting now is out of this world! Very nice. ;)


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