Even as frustrated iPhone owners complain that Apple’s iOS 5.01 update didn’t actually fix the iPhone 4S’s battery problems, users are reporting a whole string of new complaints against the iPhone 4S and the new update. Will it ever stop?
Batterygate isn’t over and now a string of reports claim that users are experiencing performance issues aching for their own gate-based neologisms. We haven’t confirmed any reports of crappy reception (again?), erratic Wi-Fi performance and microphone problems, but if you’re having them please let us know. It appears that the issues are linked to the update and specifically to the iPhone 4S.
[PCWorld]
Damo
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 4:12 PMGot one. Use every feature possible and find the battery great (for a smartphone).
Don’t doubt some people have real problems but I imagine it’s a vast minority.
Ozoneocean
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 5:00 PM-You mean “small” minority :)
Damo
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 8:53 PMYes, yes I do. A gentleman would have looked the other way!
Vron
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 11:29 PMIts an iPhone what do you expect ? lol
Uncle Chopper
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:57 AMOh Vron, you’re hilarious! I think you got off at the wrong station….
jacob
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 4:29 PMAnother problem volume changes itself and cannot edit contacts or add contacts inside the contact app.
Andrew
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 4:31 PMI’ve updated. Never had battery problems to begin with (mine is so much better than my old 3GS) but I have noticed my phone reception and Internet performance is a little worse than usual after the update. Not sure if that’s to do with Telstra, or the update though
richard
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 4:44 PMi have one. and must admit that since the new update i have been having wifi issues.. seems to drop out for a short while for no reason and only way to get it back on is to turn it on and off again in settings.. i have a developers licence and i must say i reported that to apple but it seems they haven’t fixed that.. the battery for me has always worked reasonably well however on the odd occasion it seems to drain quickly . other days it doesn’t so i have yet to work out what causes the drain and i have all location services switched off too so i don’t believe thats the cause.
Matt A
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 4:52 PMYea i have a new problem since 5.0.1. Screen came in contact with the bottom of a chair leg. Hope they can fix this issue with upcoming software updates.
Rick
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 12:12 AMI have a smilar problem since I updated to the new ios, I’m sitting next to my router and only get 2 bars, I walk to rthe room next door and dissapears :(
Sun rama
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 9:16 AMI fully agree with you. I am a new IPhone 4GS User. The battery drains suddenly by more than 10% with in 30 minutes even when I am not using, and then it becomes normal again.
Gabriel
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 10:35 AMYeah since updating to 5.0.1 i have been diagnosed with diabetes. I have emailed Apple but no response yet. I hope they release an update soon to fix this
james
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 3:17 PMMy Grandma died, no matter how many times I reset the phone the problem still remains. This is becoming a joke Apple!!!
Simon
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 5:26 PMI haven’t had any problems with 5.0.1 on a 4S, but my friend’s Siri stopped working when she updated
Vince
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 6:51 PMI’m getting network issues. Invalid sim. SOS only. Have to swap back and forwards with wifes sim to get it to connect. Had the problem when i first got the phone but i figured it was because it had not registered with Apple. Once i did that all good until this upgrade. Next step new sim from optus and then if no joy off to Apple genius bar. Battery not as good as iphone 4 befor or after update to 5.01. Drains very quickly for the first 20% then ok for a while then drains quickly again.
Emil C
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 7:14 PMturn airplane mode on and off, I got that with my 3GS since 3.0 and now with my 4S, I think it’s Optus.
Aido
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 10:04 PMI had the same invalid sim issue with my iPhone4 after doing a wireless update, After much yelling and punching the phone I connected it to my computer to restore it and then it suddenly worked…
Alex
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 1:32 AMYes, for the first time ever I have had an iphone, i get SOS only while i have 3G and can still send texts and calls. After updating ios5 i found that the ipod app doesnt run as smooth as it used to and most apps now take 3 seconds longer to load. For the first 3 days it ran quite well. Now nah. See how this progresses
Joe
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 7:17 PMIts true, since 5.0.1 I have experience headaches, arthritis in my knee and I have got my period 2 weeks early! Not good enough Apple :(
JonBOY
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 7:22 PMHaven’t noticed any new problems, but my battery performance is still terrible.
Adrian
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 7:51 PM3% of battery gone just to read this article and to write this comment. I did not notice any differences with iOS 5 in terms of poor battery life.
Adrian
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 8:30 PMThe music quality through the iPod app is terrible :(
Angus
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 10:01 PMNever had any battery issues.
Scott
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 12:06 AMI have never had any problems with the 4S before or after the update!! no battery issues, no wi-fi issues, no app issues and the sound through iPod is great
Deshan
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 1:28 AMThe update fixed the battery issue on my 3GS but I have microphone problems on it now
Nate C
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 8:00 AMTested battery life on my iPhone 4 (updated) vs my girlfriends new 4s (not updated) yestoday, we only spoke/SMSed each other the whole day, the battery drain was very similar, except mine was slightly worse, technically I should expect it to be slightly better considering she had no update at all.
I’ve not noticed any improvement to my battery life since the update. No additional bugs to report though.
Dan
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 8:15 AMBattery issues, wifi issues, SOS only while on full 3G reception, slow. I could go on. Jobs would be turning in its grave the company is going downhill already.
Benji
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 8:16 AMIf you’re seeing an iPod app, you ain’t on IOS 5.
Scott
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 8:35 AMyour right thank you Benji, I should have said the music app!!
Michael
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 8:59 AMI am still losing 10-15% batter per hour! Not a happy camper.
z3d
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 9:50 AMAt home, I have an iPhone 3GS, 2 iPhone 4′s, an iPhone 4S and 2 iPad 2′s. All get a lot of use each day and all running iOS 5. I’m not experiencing any probs. I did have problems with push email on 5.0 not working reliably but 5.01 fixed that.
Antonia
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 10:28 PMLast week I bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 and I’m very happy with it. When it gets upgraded with ICS I’ll be ecstatic.
Peter
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:36 AMFragmentation, friend and foe. If it means anything to the iMates, my Asus Transformer had a fun wifi disconnect/reconnect loop issue that drained the shit out of the battery, turned out to be a location services bug. Something on your phone us probably doing the same thing and taking the battery with it.
BenDTU
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 9:52 AMThat’s nice.
Greg
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 10:04 AMI’m on iCrapPhone4 and everytime i open an email, the app closes!
Started with 5.0 and 5.01 aint done crap to fix it.
most annoying.
Joe
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 10:45 AMAfter updating my 4S everything is working great. I left the phone off charge all night and the battery was still at 95% after sleeping 7 hours. It used to get as low as 50% in the morning.
dan
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 10:47 AMim on ios 5 on 64gb 4s and I have problems with loss of phone speaker and have to turn on loud speaker and back to normal to get it working.
Douglas
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 11:37 AMBattery is much better on my 4s. ^_^
Marco
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 11:44 AMI’m experience echo in some calls.