Comments on: Is your iPhone 3GS battery draining too quickly on iOS 4.3.1?

By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:55:43 +0000

My Apple 3GS battry drains in 4-5 hrs
I never USE wifi, Cellular data is OFF, 3G OFF,
I dont use for mails also…What i use is Facebook ( Application downloaded) that also for 20-30 mins in a day
but still not happy with the way it is resulting….
If I am using Apple i Phone 3GS min expectation is battery should work for min 10-12 hrs
Please help and reply back on my mail id its really URGENT

By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:53:32 +0000

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 04 May 2011 03:49:46 +0000

In reply to Mirza. Depends on whether 3G is on or off, but I'd say that my 3GS can last a good 16-20 hours if I use it for regular surfing/texting and music playback (walking 40m to and from school), so that's about 5% per hour? It can really vary, so the point is to try and measure it against your own perceived norms

By: Mirza

Mirza — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:19:29 +0000

What is the battery rate? I mean like how many percent per mintue? stamdard?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:48:52 +0000

In reply to JD. I haven't used it myself, but iOS 4.3.2 was released just moments ago. Maybe that will help you out because those sound like some pretty major batt issues :(

By: JD

JD — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:49:08 +0000

Note that the movie I was watching was on TV, not through using my iPhone.

By: JD

JD — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:47:26 +0000

Yes. It was happening to my 3GS which had worked quite well up until I performed update 4.3.1. In fact, my whole phone was riddled with errors (the screen would freeze, touch would be unresponsive and apps would crash constantly) after the update. Then, I noticed while watching a movie that my battery would go from 60% to completely dead and off in 2.5 hours of being on standby. It was absolutely absurd. At the time, I did not realize it was the update that was causing the problem.

I thought it was due to the phone’s age (although I thought it was too early at first) as it was 20 months old or so I just bought the iPhone 4.

However, after doing 4.3.1 on iPhone 4 yesterday, I’m having the same battery life issues. Just this morning (7:30am) my phone was at 100%. It’s now 9:30am and the battery is at 74% and it’s been on stand-by the whole time. My screen brightness is all the way down, auto-brightness off, all my push notifications are off, I kill the apps in the bottom bar when I’m not using them, wireless is off and even turn off 3G when I am in areas with good service. I put my phone on airplane mode about 15 minutes ago to kill all wireless activity and even then, the battery continues to drop now 3% less.

Something is seriously flawed with this update and it’s extremely frustrating to find that the problem was due to Apple’s update the entire time. I am going to do my best to retain my composure at the Apple store today.