iphone 4 Battery Problem

UKMEDIASTORE · 17 Jun 2011 at 22:46

upgraded from 3gs 16gb to iphone 4 & noticed a big problem with the battery.

my 3gs needed charging approx every 3-5 days, my new iphone 4 needs charging every day :mad:

Could the battery be faulty?
usage patterns have not chaged.

Mr Spew · 18 Jun 2011 at 03:50

Depends how much you use it..

Sam · 18 Jun 2011 at 11:42

Its either faulty or you are using it far more, the iphone 4 battery is better than the one in the 3GS

e36Adz · 18 Jun 2011 at 12:12

UKMEDIASTORE said:
my 3gs needed charging approx every 3-5 days...

Were you actually using it? To last that long the most you'd be using it, is just switching it on.

J1234 · 18 Jun 2011 at 12:38

Sounds normal, mine has to be charged daily, sometimes twice daily depending on what I use it for. It's pretty crap.

MrMoonX · 18 Jun 2011 at 14:51

the 4 has a better battery so your either playing with it more or something is running in the background or its broken

Kol · 18 Jun 2011 at 15:10

UKMEDIASTORE said:
my 3gs needed charging approx every 3-5 days

That must be a record! My 3GS and most of who had one were charging it daily with only light use :/

Mattus · 19 Jun 2011 at 17:03

Could be a problem there. When you first got it, did you set it up as a new phone or restore it from a previous backup?

UKMEDIASTORE · 20 Jun 2011 at 19:10

I use it much less as it just kills the battery all the time, bought it, got it home & synced my back-up, thinking of taking it back to the 02 shop.

scratch · 21 Jun 2011 at 08:32

To be honest it sounds like you were getting abnormally long battery life with your 3GS and as such your expectations are set way too high! I've had 3x 3GS handsets and they've all lasted around 1.5 days tops and I'm not a big phone user either. I always have 3G data turned off and my screen brightness turned down quite low.

Try turning the brightness down on your screen and 3G off and see if that helps. If not then I'd suggest taking it in to an Apple store rather than O2 as Apple have much better diagnostic tools.

PaulyD · 21 Jun 2011 at 09:06

Yep, i'm amazed you were getting 3-5 days on a 3GS, seems far too long and way out of what you would normally expect

Tilluss · 21 Jun 2011 at 09:38

I had exactly the same problem with my 4 when I first had it (launch day last year), you could literally see the battery ticking down as you was staring at the home screen. I took it to the apple store and they said there wasn't a problem with it and tried turning off notifications, push etc which I had already tried myself and still the problem persisted. I decided that I would give it a few weeks and see if it got better.

After a few weeks of annoying daily charges the battery seemed to improve dramatically and now I only charge it once every 3 days or so and that's with push etc turned on. I don't know if the battery has to bed in or something but if you give it time it will improve.

Mattus · 21 Jun 2011 at 17:34

I'd say you have three options:

* wait and see if it improves
* try and blag a replacement from the Apple store
* restore it and set it up as a new phone, to rule out any configuration issues

PaulyD said:
Yep, i'm amazed you were getting 3-5 days on a 3GS, seems far too long and way out of what you would normally expect

I could get 4-5 days with my 3G (on the older OSes, and before the battery wore out!) That was with fairly minimal usage, though.