Any feedback about iOS 5.0.1 update?

I updated mine & it was at 90% battery when I was finished updating. I read some emails, sent a few texts, talked a few minutes & in 2 hours it was still at 90%. Normally it would be at 82-84% by then. So it seems it fixed my battery life. I'll test it more today, playing games & listening to Pandora Radio.
 
I updated OTA as soon as I found a wifi spot. Experienced absolutely no issues, as a matter of fact I was a bit surprised that it only took about 19 minutes from start to finish, sitting in the parking lot of a hotel using their wifi connection. As far as a battery fix, I'll find out today. I didn't really monitor the battery after update because I wanted to go ahead and let the phone go ahead and "die". So I could have a 0-100 charge.

Special K, cause I'm special, duh!!!
 
So far seems to be MUCH better.. At least for me.. It seems to be better than my 3GS which was quite bad .. I would say my usage today has been normal, sitting at 85% although I will do a full cycle test tomorrow as I didnt update till around 9am this morning..

Certainly when in standby the battery does not seem to drop by much at all which is what you would expect ..


Chris
 
Mine seems worse. Unpluged for 2h 13 m used for 52 min and is at 88% already. Before I could unplug at 7:30am and almost always be at 80-84% by noon with same usage as today. For me the update is a fail to date. Hope things get better. Going to let it run dead then do a full charge and go from there.
 
OK I'm going to jump in here about instructions for charging the battery. I have an iPhone 4 and my hubby has one also. We read ALL of our instruction book that came with phones. NOTHING is said about proper way to charge battery.

So, we went to the iPhone user guide located in Safari to get help, and clicked on link apple.com/batteries. No where can we find that you need to completely discharge battery.

Wish Apple would make this more clear if we are missing something.
 
Want to add, we did find where it says to let battery run down at least once per month; but nothing about conditioning the battery in the beginning.
 
Same here....updated last night and battery lost 4% just sitting on the table. So far every night the battery had never lost a single % since I got it. I have used the exact same data today as yesterday and I'm already at 9% vs 60% yesterday. Worse now for sure =(
 
Mine is worse as well. Went down to 88% on my way to work this morning with no use. Now at 6pm I am at 18% and I usually have much more battery then that.
 
Same here.. I updated yesterday. Now it's much worse. Looks like mine is using 3% per hour on standby! I'm going to leave it on tonight to check it out further.

Is there anyway to restore back before the update?
 
Well, there seems to be an improvement, I left my streaming radio on all night and in the morning I have 67% left, but I will have to monitor that along some more days.
 
I upgraded yesterday about noon. I never really had any battery issues but i feel if there is an update then im gona install it cause there must be something that neeRAB to be fixed in software. OH yeah im thinking microsoft again LOL anyway back to the phone. After the update i have seen no changes.. maybe a little longer battery life in standby but thats about it.

For those who have battery charging and discharging questions you should look at the website Batteryuniveristy.com Under the learn about batteries section They have a ton of information under the charging methoRAB and discharging methoRAB for lithium based batteries. I don't go by what other people say on how to take care of your battery. The people behind battery univeristy knows what they are talking about on how to take care of your batteries, this is what they do.. In there information they say to never fully discharge a lithium based battery, and partial charges are better then full charges. These are the methoRAB i follow and i have never had a problem in many years of having cell phones. Of course this is my opinion and feelings about the subject. I just think that listening to a website dedicated to batteries and for the amount of information they are giving you that they know a little more then Joe Shmoe over in know it all city half way around the world telling you what to do about your battery.
 
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