********** The all new "Official" iPhone 4S thread - Keep all the iPhone 4S stuff in here **********

[photoshop]

My battery has dropped 7% in the last 4hrs 23min.
Usage of 13min.

I think thats pretty good....

 

[Belloni]

If they don't sort this issue out, Nokia Lumia here i come!

 

[Nick1881]

My battery has dropped 7% in the last 4hrs 23min.
Usage of 13min.

I think thats pretty good....

Sounds good. My replacement phone has dropped 10% after 4 hours with 37 mins usage.

My original phone was dropping twice as fast.

 

[Martynt74]

Got mine set up last night. Compared to my old 3GS its very quick, especially loading web pages in Safari.

Battery life seems to be about the same though unfortunately

 

[charltonfan1]

Sounds good. My replacement phone has dropped 10% after 4 hours with 37 mins usage.

My original phone was dropping twice as fast.

What did you say to the Genius to get them to swap it?

 

[Nick1881]

What did you say to the Genius to get them to swap it?

Just told them it dropped 5% per hour without me using it, Bullring store said they would replace it straight away but had no stock, so I went to Solihull a few days later, the guy there wanted me to try for another week or so, saying the battery needed to bed in, I complained that Bullring had already agreed to replace, he then gave me the replacement.

It was clearly faulty as this battery is instantly better.

 

[Rilot]

Install netstat. Have you disabled ping, location based time services, iads and logged out of itunes store?

Do you have find my friends running?

any Siri location bases reminders?

Will install netstat later.
Ping - off
Location based time services - On
iAds - off
Logged out of iTunes - yes

No location based reminders.

I've just turned off the time one and the mobile networks selection one.
We shall see how we go.

 

[photoshop]

Sounds good. My replacement phone has dropped 10% after 4 hours with 37 mins usage.

My original phone was dropping twice as fast.

BUT, my phone hasnt been replaced. Im using the same one i got on launch day.
As of now the stats are as follows:

Usage: 51min
Standby: 7hr 4min
Battery Level: 83%

So on average, im loosing 2% an hour.

I dont think its the phone but the iOS. Think people are expecting too much from it aswell. As long as you get a days good use i dont see an issue. It is a smartphone after all.....

 

[Burned_Alive]

How you get that I will never know.

I got 3 h 53min usage

1 day 12 hours standby

With 1% left

Do you do full charges overnight then drain right down or small charges more often?

At the minute, I have been doing full charges to 100% and then using it normally until its almost drained to try and compare different settings. The life has extended slightly in that time I think, but I think this is more down to tweaking settings. Ill be charging ad-hoc from here on in, now that im happy with battery life. It is always on flight mode overnight.

Final pic from this today:

 

[v0n]

At the minute, I have been doing full charges to 100% and then using it normally until its almost drained to try and compare different settings.
( img of 3 day niceness)

No push or auto mail retrieval I take. Any exchange mail accounts?

 

[Burned_Alive]

Yep, manual mail. Whatsapp and Words with Friends on push. No exchange.

 

[Guest2]

At the minute, I have been doing full charges to 100% and then using it normally until its almost drained to try and compare different settings. The life has extended slightly in that time I think, but I think this is more down to tweaking settings. Ill be charging ad-hoc from here on in, now that im happy with battery life. It is always on flight mode overnight.

Final pic from this today:

Is that it at night? Whats the E?

On mine thats emergency calls but you also have full network signal

 

[Robbo]

E is Edge. Slower than 3G but faster than 2G.

 

[Raptor]

As long as you get a days good use i dont see an issue. It is a smartphone after all.....

Understand what you are saying, but you have to remember some of us were not getting a days use out of it. In fact we were not getting 12hrs standby out of it.

 

[dannyjo22]

Couple of set up questions. Just started using my 4S. Set it up from a back up from my 3G. I did this so I could back up my contacts to Icloud. All I've set in icloud to back up is my contacts, why is this taking 25 minutes?

So to do this fresh install people are talking about, I then using Itunes start again from new and use icloud to restore my contacts?

Then sync my apps?

I take it I don't lose any game progress doing this?

Thanks, new to all this stuff.

 

[Burned_Alive]

Is that it at night? Whats the E?

On mine thats emergency calls but you also have full network signal

That's from lunchtime today. As above, E is Edge.

 

[v0n]

Just started using my 4S. Set it up from a back up from my 3G. I did this so I could back up my contacts to Icloud. All I've set in icloud to back up is my contacts, why is this taking 25 minutes?

You shure you don't have "Documents & Data" on in iCloud menu.

 

[dannyjo22]

You shure you don't have "Documents & Data" on in iCloud menu.

Yeah positive, all done now. Fresh install, contacts back from the cloud, gutted I lost all my progress on cut the rope etc but oh well.

 

[Nemesis379]

I recent bought an iPhone 4S in white from three and a tiny bit from the front, top-right bit has chipped, ive been so carefull literally im afraid to put the phone on the table, is there anything i can do i purchased it on tuesday.

Edit: Talked to apple, they said to go in-store and check out.

 

[Guest2]

Yeah positive, all done now. Fresh install, contacts back from the cloud, gutted I lost all my progress on cut the rope etc but oh well.

Dogs balls, i have lost all my progress on cut the rope too. I thought it would be saved online in game centre but its not. I had completed everything with 3 stars upto valentine box!

Does having the phone filled up with music / videos / make it use more battery?