Comments on: iPhone 3GS owners complain about the battery life

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By: Lorita Kalpakoff

Lorita Kalpakoff — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:49:17 +0000

A Waste of their time. When the battery is usually dead, I use a couple small side cutters for you to open the old power supply case and use battery terminals for making connections on various battery power operated items. It’s less expensive than buying them with Radio Shack. Lorita Kalpakoff

By: David

David — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:26:01 +0000

How did you go with this??? my 3gs has a sticky battery meter too.. on firmware 3.1.3

By: Vedran

Vedran — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:47:00 +0000

I upgraded my 2G (EDGE) iPhone to the 3.1.2. FW the other day and I’m quite surprised as to how fast the battery is drained. Prior to the upgrade (my iPhone is 2 years old) the battery would last up to 4 days (a few exceptional 5 days stints), but never less than 2 full days.

I will go back to the 3.0. FW to see if this fixes the problem as I ended up having to charge the iPhone at home, in the car and in the office…

By: jamain johari

jamain johari — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:46:31 +0000

My iPhone 3GS 3.1.2 battery problem. I found it too ovious after reading email. It’s seems like Mail application eating my battery.

I have 6 mail server setup on my iphone.

Apple, please investigate

regards

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:26:33 +0000

I bought a 3GS two weeks ago and have been having battery problems similar to the ones above. After doing some testing, I found that the battery meter sticks. It may stick at 40%, it may stick at 60%. I found that when I reset the phone yesterday, the battery indicator came back at 87% from 52% before the reset. I believe the problem is a faulty battery indicator. I’ve reset it twice since when the indicator stuck with true battery indication returning each time. I even gave it a time test. The phone ran well over 7 hours where it was only doing 3 at the most before. If it doesn’t stick, it will give you the 20% warning when you probably still have 60-70% in your battery. This also explains why the battery charges so fast. It’s already mostly charged before you begin. I believe the problem is not hardware but faulty software when it comes to battery level indication.

By: micro

micro — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:35:44 +0000

I have had my new 16g iphone 3GS for only 4 days and the battery does not even make it through a whole day even if I do nothing but make two or three short phone calls and text messaging. The first time the battery died and i fully charged the battery, within five minutes the battery life was at 95%, my iphone 3G lasted three times as long as this phone, I would have it on 24/7 and constantly web surf and use applications and it would last for at least two or three days. I am absolutely appauled by the new changes considering I pay nearly $1500 a year on this phone.

By: brionfi

brionfi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:33:46 +0000

This 3Gs sucks! False advertising!.
Why advertise all the cool app’s, when using them chokes your battery!
What they should say is “this phone is So fcuking cool it will use up your Battery in an hour!” yea!

APPLE WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, A GIANT RECALL?, REPLACE?, I am on hold w/, waiting to speak to, at&t apple support now, and I have a feeling I am about to get Strewed!, “Sorry customer, thats your fault for for choosing at&t and the new 3GS!”

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ok spoke with apple support, they made and appt for me at an apple store, they will run a diagnostic, and if they see a problem with the phone they will replace it on the spot,
So if they do that, their not Soo bad!!

By: petite

petite — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:00:09 +0000

I do have a problem with the batterry my 3Gs is only few weeks old and I noticed that ihave to charge my battery veery night i just do few web search not evevn listening to music but it seem s the battery doesn’t last longer i have my charger with me all the time.

By: URAL

URAL — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:50:02 +0000

YESTERDAY I BOUGHT MY 16 GB 3GS. I DID ALL THE THINGS THEY SAID FOR SAVING BATTERY BUT IT STILL DRAINS. I AM A MAC LOVER BUT IPHONE IS NOT A MAC. SO THIS IS GOING TO BE MY LAST ONE. ON THE OTHER HAND I AM FROM TURKEY AND IN EUROPE WE BUY THE IPHONES DOUBLED PRICE WHICH MAKES YOU FEEL DOUBLE RIPPED OFF.

By: Stefano

Stefano — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:09 +0000

There is definetely something dodgy about the 3GS batteries. I had a 3G and that had such a better battery life. And I’m not a faker. I’m writing this on my 3GS, which, after a day of maybe an hour and a half of internet and half an hour calling and 2 hours of gaming is now at 13% of battery, I don’t get it. I will probably call the apple helpline and tell them. I was really looking forward to the better battery life from my 3G but now it’s worse. And it tool me for ever to save up for the 3GS as I’m only 13 and my contact hadn’t finished so I had to get it on pay and go!

By: JO

JO — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:04:12 +0000

I have problems with the same black 32 gig 3Gs phone only days out of the box. Very strange behavior as other posters have mentioned. Performing more tests now, but I would not be surprised if there I have to replace it because of a defective battery. Also for all people freaking out, relax.. These engineers aren’t idiots, and there are a lot of things that can go wrong that are difficult to predict or control.

By: Lamar

Lamar — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:16:37 +0000

I too have bad battery life on my 3GS. I go into work with phone in my pocket fully charged, don’t use it at all, and when I come outside for break after 3 hours of work my battery is way down. I plug it in to recharge. Don’t use usb and it doesn’t help.