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

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.

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:59:35 +0000

I Have iPhone 3GS and I guess I need to check with apple store for exchanges as the battery life is horrbile even with minimum apps and services on/off.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:43:32 +0000

I had battery problems since I bought my 3G S on the 3rd day after they went on sale. Even if I charged the phone overnight, sometimes, it would only charge up to 89%, and with light use of about 5 minutes, the battery also dwindled down to 93% from 100%. I went to the Apple store twice, and they told me to turn all non-essential services off. I agree with one the guys who wrote that it makes no sense to have to keep all of these, including 3G, turned off, when we pay for the services to AT&T. When my phone started to turn itself off, and I had to do a reset to start the phone back, I finally went to the Apple store, complained to no avail. However, when I called the support number, they finally agreed to send me a new phone. The new phone is considerably better in terms of battery life, and with the same apps and same services turned on/off, my battery stays fuller for a longer time. I think I had a bad battery. You can try comparing it to other iphone 3Gs with similar apps loaded and compare. If yours consumes considerably more battery than others, go to the Apple store to get them exchanged. Persistence (although very irritating) solved my issue.

By: iphone3gsSuxx

iphone3gsSuxx — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:46:53 +0000

I have had all three iphones as well.. and pay a two hundred dollar iphone bill every month to have two iphones one for me and another for my sister. My iphone 3gs has been the worste iphone i have have yet. With the exception of having the video and opening and closing screens faster and having more memory which I barely used the memory on my 3g 16 gig … I always buy the most expensive one they have… this one has been a huge dissapointment I would say with just checkin my myspace and facebook sending a few texts and maybe one or two calls within two hours my phone will go from 100 percent to 60. HORRIBLE battery life… my reception is the worste of any phone i have ever had… it drops calls always it bounces from 3g five bars to E one bar to 3g 1 bar in my living room in the same spot and will do the same while driving. the camera will lock up a lot… but when it works the video is nice. I will be honest about it all my 3g was pretty rockin before the 3.0 operating system update. I had it jail broken and could tether the net and do about anything i wanted along with video and everything anyone has ever wanted on an iphone.. payin for this shitty iphone that is supposed to be soo much better has been the biggest dissapointment I have ever encounter with apple. And I had never been an apple customer until the iphone was realized..

By: iheartapple

iheartapple — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:47:06 +0000

i am a lover of all apple products and yesterday i finally made the switch to an iphone after having a razor flip phone for about 3 years. the phone was charged for a short amount of time while activating my service. i then played around with it a couple times (maybe for a total of 45min to an hour but no more) and then fully charged it about three hours later that night. the next day i turned off 3G and wifi and set the lighting power to lower than 50%. i had push mail turned on and used the phone a moderate amount mainly to check facebook and emails. by 8pm that night my phone was at 20%. whats the deal? i checked the usage stats and it only showed 4hrs of usage and 14hrs of stand by. these stats dont come anywhere close to the ones that apple advertises. this is very dissapointing for someone who considers apple to be a luxury brand of electronics. there has to be some way to get a replacement battery or phone due to the fact that the advertised battery life is not anywhere near what a customer gets when paying $200+ just for the phone itself. Apple, please take care of your loyal customers who want nothing more than to support the company and have new innovative technology.

By: Javier

Javier — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:25:31 +0000

Yep…4 days of action with Nokia N86 8MP…