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iPhone 5 battery life [Merged]
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My god you ARE a heavy user. I read your post and feel sorry for you having to look at a smartphone screen all day, thats awful. Id suggest a laptop. I can only imagine the condition of your poor eyeballs
This is what I am getting. Similar to what I used to get on my iPhone 4, although this one has LTE. I am happy with 27 hours between charges.
My god you ARE a heavy user. I read your post and feel sorry for you having to look at a smartphone screen all day, thats awful. Id suggest a laptop. I can only imagine the condition of your poor eyeballs
I know, but i cant fit a laptop on the train (there is barley enough room for a smartphone on my daily commute, talk about sardines)
I am hoping the iPad mini Retina in the new year to fit the bill for me
Hello,
I am still observing around a 2-3% dropoff overnight since exchanging iP5's. This is nothing short of astonishing as prior I would drop around 20%.
J
I am still observing around a 2-3% dropoff overnight since exchanging iP5's. This is nothing short of astonishing as prior I would drop around 20%.
J
This absolutely, 100% made a huge difference for me!
Since my last full charge (which was yesterday morning) I still have 39% battery left, the usage indicator is showing that its been in use 5.5 hours since then and I have had the phone on a mix of LTE, wifi, 3G+ and several phone calls.
My only question is what specifically do all of those system services do and are any of them something I would want turned back on?
Great find though and this should be stickied right at the top of this thread for folks to try first if they're having issues.
yup, I'm in the same boat as you. it was pretty good at first now it's just pretty crappy
Check out my post above yours and the stuff another poster suggested turning off. Made a huge difference for me.
No matter what, I'm still getting same battery life. Tried restoring, starting from scratch... and no difference.
At 58%, 1h50m usage (mostly browsing over LTE, listening to music 20mins, Simpsons Tap game for 15 mins), about 15 texts.
8 h 50mins standy.
I give up on trying to get better than this....
At 58%, 1h50m usage (mostly browsing over LTE, listening to music 20mins, Simpsons Tap game for 15 mins), about 15 texts.
8 h 50mins standy.
I give up on trying to get better than this....
Yes, the apps that I granted ocation access to are still working. After doing some digging I came upon these descriptions of the System Services:
Based on this, I have turned back on Cell Network Search, Compass Calibration and Traffic for now. We'll see what impact that has.
I have the same setup. I do not see how Traffic would be negative towards battery life if you do not use it often.
This absolutely, 100% made a huge difference for me!
Since my last full charge (which was yesterday morning) I still have 39% battery left, the usage indicator is showing that its been in use 5.5 hours since then and I have had the phone on a mix of LTE, wifi, 3G+ and several phone calls.
My only question is what specifically do all of those system services do and are any of them something I would want turned back on?
Great find though and this should be stickied right at the top of this thread for folks to try first if they're having issues.
Glad it worked for you!
To me, there are only three important ones - cell n/w search, compass & timezone settings, but I am doing ok w/o them so far.
Cell n/w: I've noticed i am seamlessly switching from WiFi to LTE when i go out of my home, from LTE to 4g when i get into my office and from LTE back to WiFi when i get back home. I think this may matter when you are in a weak signal area where it may search a closer tower or something - just a guess, but luckily the signal strength here is not that bad. So no problem for me.
Compass: I did check my phone from icloud.com with this switched off and it still shows me the exact corner of the home I am in. So i am not sure where else this plays a part as i do not see any difference here.
Time Zone: This might matter when you travel internationally often or different time zones here in the US where it recognizes the zone you are in and displays the appropriate time there. I may scratch my head if i don't remember that I turned this off when i land in Pacific Time for example(I am in EST now), but hopefully i'll remember this option to turn it back on to get what i need.
Everything else: I do not have any second thoughts to turn them off.
Let us know how your battery life is doing now that you've turned back on a couple of these options.
What the hell?
I lost 20% over night... this is the second day in a row.
It happened after I made some changes reading from this thread.
I also downloaded 2 apps. Could there be a bug in one of them to cause this?
Thanks.
I lost 20% over night... this is the second day in a row.
It happened after I made some changes reading from this thread.
I also downloaded 2 apps. Could there be a bug in one of them to cause this?
Thanks.
Siri shouldn't make an impact unless you have "Raise to speak" on.
If you're not using Siri, it shouldn't be draining your battery.
My experience--had terrible battery drain on two iPhone5, one iPhone4S, and an ipad3.
I wiped everything and set-up as new. This fixed the battery problems for all the devices. Usage stats are through the roof again without sacrificing convenient settings.
I wiped everything and set-up as new. This fixed the battery problems for all the devices. Usage stats are through the roof again without sacrificing convenient settings.
I'd love some help with my phone. I've tried everything. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bbcsleu6mc8bz7i/2012-11-16%2019.21.00.png