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tkwlee

macrumors regular
Dec 18, 2010
103
11
I am wondering why some people saying that the battery life is amazing while some other saying no.
 

redb4n

macrumors member
Sep 12, 2012
35
0
Took me 6 hours and 30 minutes of straight game playing, picture taking, and iMessaging to go from 90% to 0%
 

darster

Suspended
Aug 25, 2011
1,703
1
I am wondering why some people saying that the battery life is amazing while some other saying no.

Depends on how you have it set up. If you have email set to push often, and a lot of syncing to icloud, battery will drain faster.
 

yep-sure

macrumors 6502
Sep 21, 2012
495
564
Melbourne, Australia
RE: Battery life. It's awesome, much better than my 2 year old iPhone 4.

I had it plugged into the Mac yesterday while setting it up, was plugged in copying music, etc, while I was playing with it.

Has been unplugged ever since, used it for a few hours last night, several hours today. Been connected to Wifi, browsing, Flipboard, Facebook, a few texts/iMessages, a couple of short (1-2 minute) phone calls, a few games (Words With Friends, SocialChess, etc...), BlueTooth to speakerdock for 30 mins.

Currently at 14% remaining:

"Time Since Last Full Charge" stats:
Usage: 7 hours 41 minutes
Standby: 20 hours, 47 minutes

Will run it down to 0 and do another full charge, but yet another aspect that I'm very impressed with.
 

-Knight-

macrumors 6502a
Jun 25, 2010
602
0
Miami, FL
I'm starting to notice the battery life draining a little quicker then the iP4 for sure on my 16gb iP5. And what sucks is i'm gonna have to take the charger with me to work and back since I can't get another one for 2-3 weeks lol.
 

HowardSmith

macrumors 6502a
Sep 13, 2012
863
0
The battery life on my iPhone 5 is better than my 4 or 4S. Could to be more happy. Give it a few days and RELAX.
 

magicbrain

macrumors regular
Feb 8, 2008
123
0
impresive

although my 4S would get 1/2 day while jb'd and "a day" of moderate use

i'm truly impressed with 5: out of box, 12 hours of almost constant use and 5 hours standby over night!
 

zbarvian

macrumors 68010
Jul 23, 2011
2,004
2
RE: Battery life. It's awesome, much better than my 2 year old iPhone 4.

I had it plugged into the Mac yesterday while setting it up, was plugged in copying music, etc, while I was playing with it.

Has been unplugged ever since, used it for a few hours last night, several hours today. Been connected to Wifi, browsing, Flipboard, Facebook, a few texts/iMessages, a couple of short (1-2 minute) phone calls, a few games (Words With Friends, SocialChess, etc...), BlueTooth to speakerdock for 30 mins.

Currently at 14% remaining:

"Time Since Last Full Charge" stats:
Usage: 7 hours 41 minutes
Standby: 20 hours, 47 minutes

Will run it down to 0 and do another full charge, but yet another aspect that I'm very impressed with.

My god, this makes me think something is wrong with my phone.
 

CiFi

macrumors newbie
Sep 18, 2012
20
0
RE: Battery life. It's awesome, much better than my 2 year old iPhone 4.

I had it plugged into the Mac yesterday while setting it up, was plugged in copying music, etc, while I was playing with it.

Has been unplugged ever since, used it for a few hours last night, several hours today. Been connected to Wifi, browsing, Flipboard, Facebook, a few texts/iMessages, a couple of short (1-2 minute) phone calls, a few games (Words With Friends, SocialChess, etc...), BlueTooth to speakerdock for 30 mins.

Currently at 14% remaining:

"Time Since Last Full Charge" stats:
Usage: 7 hours 41 minutes
Standby: 20 hours, 47 minutes

Will run it down to 0 and do another full charge, but yet another aspect that I'm very impressed with.

What the heck?!? I'm at:
Usage: 1 Hour, 44 Min
Standby: 4 Hours, 14 min

I'm at 65%!!!
This phone is a joke compared to my iPhone 4
 

zbarvian

macrumors 68010
Jul 23, 2011
2,004
2
What the heck?!? I'm at:
Usage: 1 Hour, 44 Min
Standby: 4 Hours, 14 min

I'm at 65%!!!
This phone is a joke compared to my iPhone 4

Exactly my case. I'm curious, what is your carrier? Did you start as new?
 

zbarvian

macrumors 68010
Jul 23, 2011
2,004
2
AT&T LTE....I set it up as new on my Macbook. but sync with icloud to get my contacts back..

This occurrence seems to be most common with LTE. It seems alarming. Someone should do a poll or something.
 

theking79

macrumors 6502
Apr 28, 2009
400
0
My battery life is dreadful, this is from light browsing on 3G and using the twitter app. How bad is this?

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bmik33

macrumors member
Sep 17, 2012
31
0
Been over an hour of just texting(most of what I do) and hasn't dropped at all. Very happy so far.
 

esploded

macrumors regular
Jul 3, 2011
100
1
My battery life is awesome so far. The phone seems to charge very quickly as well (now on 2nd charge).
 
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