I have posted previously about problems with the battery life on the Android Samsung Galaxy S2 after an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich and by the sheer amount of visitors this is by no means a problem that affects only myself.

My efforts to try and get it resolved have been shot down at practically every turn, the final solution I have now been offered is a downgrade to the last version – but no acknowledgement that anything is even wrong!

So, for whatever little this may be worth, I would be very interested to gather feedback from others with the same battery problem. Not much detail is required, all I am really interested in is your name with some detail on your phone model details, if it was bought with ICS or an upgrade from the last version and some bits on your battery life and support experience. Please fill in the below as I hope to take this forwards to try and get some sort of detail or more coherent response on the problems afflicting ICS. The fact that I cannot make it 6 hours without needing to put my phone on charge is frankly ridiculous.

Update: Read here for an update on how to fix the battery draining problem!

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Ok so my new battery arrived from Samsung and would you believe it, its the same battery I already have. Obviously I was skeptical about if this would have any impact on the poor battery life I’ve been experiencing on my Galaxy S2 since the Ice Cream Sandwich update but I gave it a try, which only went to prove my skepticism right.

It made no impact to the battery life. So instead I have monitored my phone for a while and found that the sudden battery drain is intermittent. At some point the

Android OS doesn’t go to sleep properly and it appears to be related to the Wi-fi and/or a data connection. Today for example, I had my Wi-fi on all morning and there was no issue with the Android OS only keeping alive for about 25% of the total time since charge. Yesterday however, my battery lasted until about 2pm and the keep alive time of Android OS was about 80-90% of the total time since charge.

Samsung have now asked me to do a factory reset, which I always hate doing as no matter how many backups you do there is always some setting lost somewhere. If anyone else has any thoughts, experiences or if you are having the same problems then please leave a comment below. It would be great to hear the experiences of others (and from my visitor figures it appears a lot of people are having the same problems).

Update: Read here for an update on how to fix the battery draining problem!

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