Ha! I get way over 24hrs from my 4s now and it gets better every update. The 5 is astonishing, 5s with iOS 7 will last longer still.

Maybe you only get 6 hours due to downloading midget **** over 3G whilst multitasking.

 

Nah i get a couple of days out of mine whilst watching the midget **** and multi tasking
Seriously though, battery life has been the bain of ios, some dont last 10 minutes and have over heating batteries, so i doubt ios7 will fare any better tbh, Apple need to go back to the drawing board really.

 

Double post....

 

Jibberish. Android phones, especially Galaxy's can only dream of iOS battery performance. Everyone knows that.

 

jack, if you lived in the arctic i bet apple would be able to sell you ice,,, hahahaha

 

My galaxy s3 with a £6 uprated battery from ebay does excellent life. I used it on day for about 3 hours internet (no wifi) 1 hour internet radio about 15 minutes of calls and about 80 texts and from switching the phone on at 7am it was showing 10% battery at around 11pm which I think is impressive for the use it had.

 

Really ? I'm getting around 1 half days on average out of the battery on my Galaxy S3, thats pretty good going considering how much i use it. At the min i'm currently on 1 day 12 hours with 22% left, i'm more than happy with that.

 

My iPhone does more than that without an uprated battery from eBay. Uprated battery from eBay!

 

Yes really Rob. I have everything turned on, all the time, bluetooth, wifi, location services for everything and I can go that long. You may not admit how many things you have to turn off on your Galaxy to get 12 hours, but I know it's a lot, and you can forget about anything that taxes the processor.

 

My Galaxy note 2 does 2 days of that plus a shed load of book reading. You really are clueless about Android battery longevity Jack, just your usual rhetoric. Jelly Bean is very good at handling battery life. A full days use including music streaming will leave me with at least 60% battery at the end of the day.

 

Well I've been following a few posts on the apple forums trying to get the wifes 4s battery sorted but still no luck.

It clearly is an issue though (one thread on their forums has over 2.5k posts with the same complaint so at least I'm not alone!). To be fair the Apple shop did replace the phone, but the problems still there (she's lucky to get 6-7 hrs without needing to recharge it) so it's not just a hardware issue.

Hopefully when iOS 7 comes out these bugs will disappear.

 

Try a fresh install of the OS, run it for a few days then gradually add your apps again, it's obviously something you've done. Another battery killer for any phone is searching for signal, does your wife spend time in an area with a sketchy signal?

 

I've tried that (even had a new phone so that was set up from scratch), it was all working fine until the 6.1.2 upgrade, then as soon as that update was put on it started dying. I think it's something to do with the mail/location services as setting these to Off seems to help temporarily, but the issues always seem to come back.

I don't think it's a problem with searching for a signal, we both tend to be in similar areas with decent signal and I'm not having the issue on mine.

 

I had the same thing on my 4. I did a DFU reset to do a clean iOS install which seems to have resolved the issue, and also turned off notifications that are needed.

 

I don't know anyone apart from you that has wifi and bluetooth constantly enabled on their mobile phone, anyway back to the original point, one and a half days out of a smart phone battery with fairly heavy useage is pretty good imo, i could get 2 days battery life easily if i used it a fraction less.

Unlike with the iphone people on the Galaxy phones are not constantly have to reset their phone or do a fresh install and all the hassle that goes with it to get better battery life

 

That's right, they buy batteries from eBay.

 

I get 3-4 days out of my S3 easily with limited use. Still includes calls, emails, some web etc though.

 

Who cares? I get 4 months out of my iPhone with limited use.

 

The senility kicking in again then...

 

What you call madness, we find normal.

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/commen...onths_more_in/

 

Bullsh1t in my experience. I've had iphones since the 3g came out and just recently sold my iphone 4 to go to an S3. I have all the same hardware turned off on the S3 that I had turned off on the iphone during normal use such as bluetooth etc and the battery life is easily the same as the iphone and if anything i'm using the S3 more during the day than I ever did my iphones.

The S3 annoys me just as much but in different ways as my iphone did so i'm no fanboy of either but i'll say it as it is and refute nonsense claims made on here when I read them.

 

You should have bought an iPhone. The 4S would have done.

 

We? is that the Apple we? You daft twit. That thread is ridiculous it shuts off under a certain temp anyway. What's more ridiculous is you actually searched for that random piece of horsesh1t from some fanboys

 

Because they are an easy swap, not like the total disassembly you have to do with an iBrick.

 

I wouldn't have bothered selling my 4 if I wanted an iphone, the 4S or 5 have absolute no interest to me at all.

I wanted something with a bigger screen and the freedom that android gives such as being able to download files to the phone, document integration with dropbox and skydrive is seamless. The iphone couldn't even open a text file in dropbox without having to find 3rd party apps to do it which hardly made it seamless.

I still have my ipad2 which I would never replace with any other tablet but for a phone i'd had enough of iphones.

 

Just as an aside....

Anyone who values the security of the data on their handset should ditch the iPhone 4 (or first generation iPad) .... the passcode can be bypassed in seconds.

The 4S and newer (A5->) is a different matter altogether......

 

Has that not been patched in the latest update as the bug was in 6.1?

http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/49949

Or is it a different bug now?

 

Wouldn't call 2 screws a "total disassembly"

 

Thats from the standard Samsung battery that came with the phone, no upgraded battery needed when you already get excellent battery life from the Galaxy S3.

 

Fandroids, got to love 'em.