Did you turn off all location services or just some of them?

About half and half.
Turned off the following:
AP Mobile
imdb
Kelly Blue Book
Edmunds
NASA
Yelp

Kept on for the following:
Compass
facebook
fandango
goodle earth, mapquest, and maps
Red Laser
Safari
Tag
Weather channel & Weather app
& some other apps

Also under location services --> systems services, I turned off Location based iAds and compass calibratoin, and traffic.

Also turned off as many push and notifications - for non-important stuff as well.

Well the good thing is that with all the tweaking I've done, I've leared more about the ins and outs of iOS...

-Z

Looks like my changes did work -- 12 hours later, and I'm at 92%. Shew.

Now -- anybody know how to add the camera icon to the lock screen?!? :eek:
-Z

Double click the home button on the lock screen and voila.... itll magically appear next to the slide bar.

Cool. I turned off location services for almost everything, except maps and Siri. I also turned off notification for everything except email, text, and calendar and reminder.

Got my OtterBox Defender case. This thing certainly is protective. Comes with a clip-in holster, Blackberry like. I haven't worn my phone on my belt in years. Anyone do that any more?

yup

Everyday.

I have a Defender and really don't like it, it's too bulky.

I really like my Otterbox impact better than the defender (wife has one of those). Carry it in my back pocket or in my jacket, no issues with a 4 foot drop.

Wow - what a difference my changes finally made. It's two and a half days since my last charge, and the phone is holding steady at 36%. What a difference...

As far as cases go, I have an Agent 18 Hipstamatic case:
http://assets.hipstaweb.com/product_...jpg?1305871332

http://assets.hipstaweb.com/product_...jpg?1305871337

The nice thing about this case is the tripod adapter -- if I'm on facetime or watching something on the iphone, I have a mini-tripod that I put the phone on and don't have to worry about propping the phone up. Very slick case, well designed, and it always gets people talking about it - it is, retro in a 70's cheezy sorta way...

-Z-man.

I like that Hipstamatic case. Not sure about the defender case, for this bulk I could have an extended-battery case.

Trying the location reminder, but looks like draining battery faster

Come on guys, cell phone clipped to the belt? Don't be that guy.

I had a defender for my 3GS, but I preferred the commuter, but I got a reflex on the 4s and I really like it.


My mom has one of the case mate barely there cases, not much protection, but it sure is sleek.

Timely thread - my battery life on the 4S with iOS5 is horrible - I'm going to try turning-off more location and iCloud services. Everything else is set the same as it was on my 4.

I'm liking the voice keyboard. Speaking your texts or even your forum posts is easy.

Ha - I am not going crazy! Apple confirms bug in iOS 5 causing battery drain issues:

Apple confirms bug in iOS 5 causing battery life issues

I guess the 'small number' of people are those who use location and notification services...

With my tweaks, I'm still getting about 2 days of battery life with moderate use. Still, good to know that it's not just me! :)

-Z

Mine was behaving after I killed syncing my work calendar to notification center.

I killed a bunch of dead recurring events and turned notification back on and all was good.

Couple of days ago battery went back in the crapper and sure enough I'd run into another batch of events that was causing calendar to get stuck in a sync loop.

Turned it off and back to normal.

After fiddling with location services and notifications mine hasn't been that bad...

I found time zone setting in location services/system services was constantly using gps. It's been back to normal since I disabled it.

Is this just 4S? It didn't seem to be affecting my 3S.

I think the issues are more user/usage than hardware based.

They are announcing security problems with Siri on our local news. Must be pretty bad, or well known, if our local news is covering it.

You can use Siri when the phone is locked. Easy fix, set the appropriate slider to "OFF" in Passcode Lock settings.

Apple: iPhone battery issue due to iOS 5, fix coming | Apple Talk - CNET News

Interesting.

Update is out today...

Will it improve battery life on the iphone 4 as well as the 4S?

Anyone had issues with Bluetooth headsets sounding muffled?

On a 4 here.

Updated this morning while at 97%.

8 hours later I'm at 91%.

Will see how tommorow goes.

I have a 4S and after the update, Im showing 14 hours, 53 minutes of standby and 4 hours, 12 minutes of usage and I'm at 61 %

my 4s battery is great, even before the update. after the update, i am not noticing anything different. i have been very careful with my settings and so far have been very impressed compared to my 3Gs

streaming radio or playing modern combat 3 runs that battery down to 50% in a very short time but thats to be expected so i dont do those things unless i have access to a charger

I've held off on the update, as I wasn't having any problems that needed fixing. Would like to hear some more reports from you guys.

am now at 25 hours standby and 4:30 usage and am at 45%..

Same here. I always wait for the .1 version.

Well version 5.0.1 came out and I took the plunge. Installed on iPad 2 and iPhone 3GS. Took about 10 minutes on each one and the install was without drama. So far no degradation in battery time.

My battery life on the 4S seems better after the 5.01 update; however, I haven't been able to get the phone to sync to iTunes in 2+ weeks. It seems like an iTunes prob vs the phone but who know. iTunes on Windows is a complete turd and freezes constantly. I've tried WiFi and USB. Ideas?

Maybe try uninstall and reinstall. The current iTunes 64 on Win 7 works better than ever. Actually opens up in a reasonable time these days.

maybe just to ease your mind a bit, ive not had any such trouble and i use windows. i had an iphone 3GS and 4S synched to my windows 7 and XP laptops for several years.

do you reboot your iphone ever? or your computer? is your memory stretched to the limit on your computer? any slow or freeze behavior with itunes on my windows systems usually stems from low memory and space

also, i notice over the years that if you fail to update itunes to the latest version, itunes itself will become problematic after several weeks...could be in my head but ive noticed this for 5 years now with each update

so, update itunes, IOS, reboot computer and iphone and reconnect and see what happens...

I did the update and the first day had terrible battery life then did some tweaks and a reboot and getting 48 hours + on a recharge. Very pleased with the battery life on my iphone4. I'm going for the 4S in April when I can upgrade.