How to fix iPhone 4S battery drain?

Usage: 4 Hours, 44 Minutes - NOT TRUE!
Standby: 7 Hours, 54 Minutes
Battery percentage: 20%
iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1

sajith5 wrote:
I have recently brought an iphone 4s and the battery is draining even without much use. please advice if any one is able to fix it with some patches or updates iOS 5.0.1
I have personally seen the problem and corrected it on numerous models now including the 4S, 4, 3GS and iPad 2s. Corrupt system level settings created by an iOS 5 bug in the original release that caused battery recalibration issues, etc. Just installing the update does not fix the issue in most cases (sometime it initially can be worse). You need to clear out those settings and recalibate the battery. For those still having the "standby battery drain" issue follow the procedure below in order. It does fix the problem in most cases.
Go through these steps to address the battery after updating to iOS 5.0.1:
1. Reset all settings (settings app-> general-> reset)
2. Go through initial setup steps (lang, wifi, siri, enable location, etc) and choose setup as new phone (don't worry your apps, data, contacts, mail will still be there). At this point, Do NOT restore from iCloud or iTunes (It can copy back corrupt settings)
3. Turn off system location services timezone and iAd
4. Fully discharge battery (till it shuts off with the spinning wheel)
5. Fully recharge battery (overnight if possible)
In my experience this improves the standby battery drain issue significantly in most cases. It reduces drain from 2-4% or more per hr to 0.5% or less. It has worked for many, many users now... not all, but most. If it does not work after a few try's you may have a real battery or hardware issue and should contact Apple. Good Luck!
More details on my thread here if needed:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3484755

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Please Read this entire post for my fix
FIRST OF ALL I MUST SAY THAT THE BATTERY THE 4S IS A BEAST!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to add two steps to this. I am a pure believer davidch you are unto something. I did all your steps and i went from 100% to 81% in two and a half hours...I was saying to myself "this mess don't work!" lol....BUT I decided to do a little investigating on my own.
I looked at my usage meter and realized that the actual USAGE TIME and STANDBY TIME were only 13 mins apart. However i knew for a fact the phone was sitting on the couch WITH THE SCREEN TURNED OFF next to me for 2 and a half hours. I may have picked it up once or twice after receiving a text and perhaps sending a text or two but that's it! My approximate REAL usage was around 5-10 mins.
Even tho I looked up in the top right corner and did not see the gps symbol, I was still curious. So i pulled up my multitasking menu (double tap home button) and noticed that after the reset there were multiple apps still available to be selected from. Not a surprise because we did a settings reset and not a complete content reset. My whole idea was to selectively remove app by app from the list until i found the culprit that was running in the background causing this fiasco (our fiasco).
IT WORKED!! I narrowed it down to the camera app. Which happened to be the last one that I eliminated. Then i started seeing the difference between my usage and standby meter grow larger and better even tho i was checking frequenly (about every 15 mins). I CLOSED THE CAMERA APP AT 12:30PM TODAY. At this time my battery has dropped down to 77%. AT 2:00 MY BATTERY LEVEL IS AT 76% What an improvement!!!!!!!! But was the camera app the problem??? NO NO NO NO NO
My guess is after the settings wipe all apps that were running ended up in a crash loop. Because after that i opened up all the apps that were running previously plus some extras and as of 2:41PM THE IPHONE IS STILL AT 76%. With approx. 3hrs of usage and over 5hrs of standby now. With about 20 apps running including the camera app!
I also did turn off siri raise to speak and did a reboot. Because after turning off RTS the infrared sensor on the front stays enabled until a reboot is executed. So here are my steps mixed with davidch's that worked for me.
For anyone new to the thread be sure to go through these steps to address the battery after updating to iOS 5.0.1:
1. Reset all settings (settings app-> general-> reset)
2 a. Go through initial setup steps (lang, wifi, siri, enable location, etc) and choose setup as new phone (don't worry your apps, data, contacts, mail will still be there). Do NOT restore from iCloud or iTunes (It can copy back corrupt settings)
2 b. If you do not get the complete new setup screen with language setup and setup as new phone or restore from iTune/iCloud backup, be sure to go back to #1 and reset all settings again (it should happen the second time)
3. Turn off system location services timezone and iAd (settings -> location services -> system services)
4. Fully discharge battery (until you get the spinning wheel and it shuts off)
5. Fully recharge battery (overnight if possible)
6. Go to General->Siri....turn raise to speak off
7. Hold power and home together for a few seconds until the apple logo shows up. (Reboot)
8. Double tap home button exit all apps running and you should be good to do...
i didnt reboot after step 8 but maybe you should if you have a sprint or verizon iphone. 2:55 AND I AM STILL AT 76% I think i am in love all over again!!!!
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I have IPhone 4 and I updated the IOS to version 5. After the update the battery lasts about a day. After the update to 5.0.1 the battery lasts a day and a half. It is an improvement, but not as I expected.
The next step is to disable configuration options like:
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- disable Data services
- disable automatic clock
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Note: What I will detail/propose below is the implementation of a workaround to make do with what we have until Apple provides the solution.
The hard truth to swallow for loyal Apple customers and device users is that the hardware Apple used in the iPhone 5 is power-hungry, services provided via iOS are not optimized to reduce resource consumption, and if Apple did not also include a bigger battery with the iPhone 5 then owners would be even more upset.
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Over five nights, I did some simple tests.
The first night, I left my phone in Airplane Mode overnight - some drain while idle.
The second night, disabled Spotlight Search indexing and left my phone in Airplane Mode overnight - minimized drain while idle.
The third night, I turned off wifi - small amount of drain and I noticed that my cellar data usage (sent and received) increased by just over a couple of megabytes in total. Strange...
The fourth night, I enabled logging on my router. Since all of my wireless devices are assigned static addresses, I can narrow down data hogs pretty easily and see where they are going to get data and how much data was sent/recevied. With wifi left on, many hundreds of requests were sent to push*.apple.com servers by my iPhone 5 and a couple of megabytes worth of data were sent/received. Why? Because I had push enabled for iCloud (I always set my email accounts to Manual data fetching). It seems to me that push is still not push and that iOS will check to see if updated data in iCloud needs to be fetched. Push in the iOS world is another way of saying "try to fetch data much more frequently than the periodic fetch data settings." I also looked at my OpenDNS stats since I got the iPhone 5 in early December and these servers made up a hugely massive chunk of all my internet traffic at home. It is fair to note that my wifi-only third-generation iPad makes many hundreds of requests to those servers as well, but I am guessing that the hardware used for it is not as power-hungry and I do not have BT enabled and I do not have any battery drain while idle issues with it.
The fifth night, with both push and fetch disabled, all notifications disabled, as many location services as possbile disabled, all cellular data services disabled, Spotlight Search not indexing anything, I left wifi and cellular on and noticed that my battery drained only a couple percent while my iPhone 5 sat idle on my nightstand and only a minimal amount of cellular data was used (for what I do not know...).
So, until/if Apple decides to do something, if you want to maximize your iPhone 5 battery's charge, then I recommend implementing the following:
High Prority Settings
If you do not use it, turn off Spotlight Search completely by deslecting all of the items that it can index. As with newer versions of OS X, services related to Spotlight Search indexing seem to run quite often and for extended durations of time.
Unless you are a doctor or a very important person in another profession that must know when you get a new email, turn Push off and set Fetch to manual for all iCloud and all mail accounts. You can also go one step further and set each account to "Manual".
Unless you connect to a very underutlized 4G LTE network, turn off LTE. I tested this change and the difference between standard 4G and 4G LTE on AT&T network in Denver metro area is negligible.
Turn off ALL iOS System Services for Location Services. They do nothing but track you for your Apple's location-based advertising platform. For most, setting the time zone is done when the phone connects via celluar or wifi, and, my car has a navigation system with traffic data and I use Google Maps if I need navigation or traffic data when not in my car. Not a single Apple iOS System Location Service is absolutely necessary and will drain your battery.
Medium Priority Settings
Disable using cellular data for everything if possible. I still choose to leave it on for "iCloud Documents" and that doesn't seem to hurt things.
Disable Location Services for as many apps as possible/reasonable. Do at least leave "Find My iPhone" enabled. Note that some other apps may require that they be able to use your location (e.g. SiriusXM).
Disable as many Notifications (everything about Notifications - banners, alerts, badges, sounds, etc.) as possible.
Low Priority and Typical Settings
Reduce screen brightness as much as possible. Approximately 33% seems to suffice. Auto brightness can be left on since it seems to never really be used anyway.
Turn off Bluetooth when you do not need it enabled.
Turn off any automatic downloads for iTunes and App Stores, and Podcasts.
So, yep, a total PITA. But by doing all of the above, a full battery charge lasts several days with 10+ (or more) hours of actual usage. I hope this helps anyone else that attempts to do the same. Screenshots for those unfamiliar with the key settings above are included below (everything is done via the Settings - aka Preferences - app with a "gear" logo).
Disable Spotlight Search Indexing
Push and Fetch for iCloud and Mail Accounts
Turning Off LTE
System Location Services
Celluar Data Settings
Notifications
Automatic Downloads (apps, music, iBooks and podcasts) for "iTunes & App Stores" and "Podcasts"

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