My iPhone 4s battery is messed up. care of it

I charge my battery to 100% but as soon as I take my iPhone off the charger
It immediately goes to 95%
Is there something I can do to fix this or should I
Just let apple take care of it? I also have AppleCare.

Reset iPhone, hold both home and power buttons for about 10 seconds until the iPhone restarts itself. Ignore the "slide to power off" let it restart itself. See if better. If it still bothers you, make Genius reservation and take to Apple for evaluation.

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Thank You

Found the answer to my question you were right gdgmacguy
Here is what i found:
iPod Owners
Your one-year warranty includes replacement coverage for a defective battery. You can extend your coverage to two years from the date of your iPod purchase with the AppleCare Protection Plan for iPod. During the plan’s coverage period, Apple will replace the battery if it drops below 50% of its original capacity. If it is out of warranty, Apple offers a battery replacement for $49 (iPod shuffle), $59 (iPod nano and classic), $79 (iPod touch) plus $6.95 shipping, subject to local tax. Apple disposes of your battery in an environmentally friendly manner.
iPhone Owners
Your one-year warranty includes replacement coverage for a defective battery. You can extend your coverage to two years from the date of your iPhone purchase with the AppleCare Protection Plan for iPhone. During the plan’s coverage period, Apple will replace the battery if it drops below 50% of its original capacity. If it is out of warranty, Apple offers a battery replacement for $79, plus $6.95 shipping, subject to local tax. Apple disposes of your battery in an environmentally friendly manner.
iPad Owners
Your one-year warranty includes replacement coverage for a defective battery. You can extend your coverage to two years from the date of your iPad purchase with the AppleCare Protection Plan for iPad. During the plan’s coverage period, Apple will replace the battery if it drops below 50% of its original capacity. If it is out of warranty, Apple offers a battery replacement for $99, plus $6.95 shipping, subject to local tax. Apple disposes of your battery in an environmentally friendly manner.

Does anyone know if portable battery chargers or car 'super fast' charges damage iphone 4 battery?

How do I know if I should use these devices without 'damaging' iphone's battery? I heard from a friend that battery finished much faster after she used ' Best Portable Charger from Marware' and also a faster charger in the car, PowerBolt Duo from Kensington. Thanks for any information; I wanted to knw what I would have to look into in case I would like to try one of these or both.

if the charger don't provide more then the 5volts it can never ever ever ever damage the ios device

Is anyone else having a problem with the iPhone 4s Battery Life? My 1 year old Iphone 4, which I gave to my wife, is holding a charge better and she has been using it far more than I've been using my 4s

My wife preordered a white iPhone 4s for our anniversary and even though it is preloaded with the ios 5, i am a little disappointed. The battery doesn't seem to hold a charge well at all. I have had every other iphone except the 3gs and have never had such a poor battery life. I owned the iPhone 4 for a year, and already know all the tricks to hold on to battery life, I have adopted the habit of closing out any apps that weren't being used, my mail push notifications are set for hourly, wifi and bluetooth are turned off when they aren't needed. I also stay away from any car chargers, use only the apple brand supplied cables, and only charge when the phone is dead. I only would sync when the phone was about to die as well.
When I saw how fast I was burning through the battery, I turned off Siri, which is kind of the purpose of the new iPhone, and turned off the backing up to iCloud. I barely used my phone today and the battery kept ticking down. My wife, who has been stuck with an iPhone 3g for years, has been fascinated with my old iPhone 4 and has been browsing and playing games and her battery has been holding a better charge than my new phone. I even tried turning the phone off for an hour when it was at 18% and when I turned it back on, it was at 15%. My iPhone 2, which is only being used as a touch iPod now, still has better standby time than a brand new iPhone 4s.
To be honest, I am usually a heavy phone user. Throughout the day I will make and receive at least 50 calls, I browse and check websites daily and watch videos sometimes during my downtime. But this weekend, I haven't even had the chance to put this phone through the same abuse my other 3 iPhones have had to endure.
I just want to know if anyone else has this problem, or if I should just return this one.

I had major issues with the iPhone 4s battery, however it’s resolved.
The tech who set the phone up at the Apple store did so with little training.
if you have a mobile me account. First go and move all your data to the cloud by going on your computer and logging in at me.com/move. The cloud has replaced mobile me, so there is no need for those two accounts
Also make sure that for any of your email accounts you set them up to fetch, not push. My tech person set them all to have the email servers push data to the phone. The new iphone4s antenna is extremely strong so it will continually try to access stuff that is pushed–***** a lot of battery life doing this. It makes it worse if you have exchange 2010 accounts. Something about changes made to exchange really suck battery life from devices that access such accounts.
turning of locator and the push notifications from facebook--they have a lot!

Want to Fix iPhone 5 Battery Drain? (A Workaround)

iPhone 5 (US - AT&T GSM - MD634LL)
iOS 6.0.2 (10A551)
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.
So, long story short...
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"

Hello,
I am currently an owner of an Ipod Touch 4th generation.
I have had battery drain problem on the Ipod Touch 4th generation.
But, I found a solution that works for me:
Do the IOS update (the one that is the latest, or if you already did, then proceed to step 2)
Reset All Settings: SETTINGS>GENERAL>RESET>RESET ALL SETTINGS
Use it until it dies (automatically shuts off)
Plug into Charge
Leave it 1.5 hours or longer after it reaches 100% --> Undisturbed (preferably overnight)
Give it a few days to Calibrate
This has helped me on my Ipod Touch 4th generation, running IOS 6.0.1
The battery seems to give me 2 days 30 hours of standby, and 10 hours and 15 minutes of usage.
Thats pretty good!

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Me too.
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I know people are suggesting turn off features... but eff that, 5 days ago I'd get through an entire day without any issue, under much heavier useage. I don't want to have to turn on bluetooth everytime I get in my car and back off when I get out, I just want it to work when I turn the car on... I don't want to manually check for emails, I want it to tell me when an email comes.

How to fix iPhone 4s battery drain on iOS 5.0.1

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!!!!
Re: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

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
- disable location services
- use the phone only as a phone and nothing else.
I will come back to tell how much the battery lasts.
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Will my iphone 5s battery performance still be at maximum (full performance and capacity) if I charge it at any percent like 57%? I always thought charging it any time will weaken the battery life so i'll have to charge it more frequently as time goes by.
Also, is charging my iphone 5s in the car and/or through a computer the same thing as charging through an outlet?

JCHAAAANG wrote:
Also, is charging my iphone 5s in the car and/or through a computer the same thing as charging through an outlet?
No. The iPhone wall adapter supplies 1 amp. Most computers and built-in car usb ports only supply 1/2 amp. So it will take twice as long to charge using those. And, if the iPhone is actively being used (such as using it as a GPS in a car) it won't charge at all, because the battery will be draining as fast as it is charging.
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i just uses mail application and facebook for some time
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For the error, see this... http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3221. Also, Google the error for more info.

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Hello xTaffy,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Since the issue occurs after restoring your phone as new, please look into getting the iPhone serviced.
iPhone Repair - Battery & Power
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/repair/battery-power/
Take care,
Alex H.

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My iphone is having a lot of battery issues lately (it's just 10 month old). It's draining super fast in less than 12h even when i am not using it. Other times i'll still have about 14% of battery left and it just shuts itself down as if it had 0%. Then i try turning it on again, and it tells me to charge my iphone but if i try it more than once it turn itself on and a 14% battery percentage is still shown. But then i try actually using the phone and it shuts itself down again. I am not from the US and i don't have apple care but i do have an iphone insurance with my carriage and i could take it to their tech service but i was wondering if an iphone's battery is replaceable or am i just going to have to get a new one?

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Manufactures and programmers set full Lithium battery charge at 85% (such as General Motors with their Volt electric car, in order for the battery to last the length of the warranty). End users; such as, ourselves, need not worry about the upper and lower most charging ideal of lithium battery usage. It should be anywhere between 100% and 1% then auto shutdown, with low battery warnings of course. What the iOS 6 User Guide link to the Apple website regarding the explanation of how MOST lithium battery systems quickly charges does not alter how iPhone users should charge their phones. Charge it to 100%, if you have the time. I have a iPhone 3G and 4 that was and is always charged to full 100% charge. The original iPhone batteries continue to be good after 4.5 and 2.5 years. Maybe it's still good because I never let my iPhones freeze in winter and cook in summer when outdoors.

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