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Offline JulesS3

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4S Battery Advice
« on: 25 October 2011, 08:47 »
For those of you with the 4S who are concerned about the battery i have some tips

I am on 17% battery with plenty of use at this moment in time, no that impressive but then i took it off charge on sunday at 9am  :cool:

Go to
settings>Location Services>System Services
and do this


Also turn down brightness a bit and switch off data other than wifi while at home

Enjoy  :wink:
« Last Edit: 25 October 2011, 08:50 by JulesS3 »

Offline Dan34

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Re: 4S Battery Advice
« Reply #1 on: 25 October 2011, 09:45 »
Nice! Have just done it on mine! See how I get on.

Also you were right about Chrome.  :grin:

Offline JulesS3

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Re: 4S Battery Advice
« Reply #2 on: 25 October 2011, 09:58 »
 :cool:

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Re: 4S Battery Advice
« Reply #3 on: 25 October 2011, 10:17 »
Siri was scoffing my battery and it's crap too  :angry:

All good now just like my old I4  :smiley:

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Re: 4S Battery Advice
« Reply #4 on: 25 October 2011, 11:46 »
Yeah i tus off siri lol it was drinking my battery! All good now, and as you say, as good as my 4

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Offline JulesS3

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Re: 4S Battery Advice
« Reply #5 on: 25 October 2011, 11:47 »
Siri is perfect for me. I take it you have an accent? Its in beta and wasnt designed for anything other than english spoken clearly (i.e. no northen tones, dodgy vowel sounds etc)  :wink:

It uses none of my battery unless i use it either. These 3 days i have had it on the whole time  :cool:

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Re: 4S Battery Advice
« Reply #6 on: 25 October 2011, 11:49 »
wasnt designed for anything other than english spoken clearly (i.e. no northen tones, dodgy vowel sounds etc)  :wink:

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Offline JulesS3

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Re: 4S Battery Advice
« Reply #7 on: 25 October 2011, 11:55 »
 :grin:
Although i had a little bit of sarcasm in that post, it is true. Its in Beta and if you dont speak similar to the voice spoken back to you it will struggle to understand you.

Could try changing the language and going for american or australian, the american gives you the female voice too  :cool:

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Re: 4S Battery Advice
« Reply #8 on: 25 October 2011, 15:40 »
Turn your 3g off when not using the web will greatly improve also

Offline Dolly

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Re: 4S Battery Advice
« Reply #9 on: 25 October 2011, 18:18 »
the same applies to most phones, turn off the sh!t you dont need when its in your pocket and your not using it. i could get the galaxy S to around 3 days just doing the normal calling/texting.

i know people who have everything on all of the time (wifi, GPS, bluetooth, ect ect) and complain about battery life  :tongue: