I almost want to say that some of y'all should think about getting your device checked out if your iPhone 5 is severely having battery issues. Even my "ancient" (in tech years it's almost there) iPhone 4 lasts a full day of browsing on 3G, playing heavy games, and even a little GPS. Yet an iPhone 5 can't last 3 hours doing that? Yep is get your device checked out. I've never heard of (and all I do is visit tech sites as a tech nerd) anyone have terrible iPhone 5 battery life even power users.
Come on mophie gives us the lightning connector, stop messing around with microusb.
'Lasted a full 9-5 work day', 'last a full working day' and 'last a full day' are meaningless terms.
Based on how I use my phone, my i5 lasts me two, 'full 9-5 work days'.
Tactfully charging the phone through out the day is probably a better approach for 95% of people.
but if the phone had been designed correctly to begin with you shouldn't need to do this, it should have been built with a battery that had the legs to last a full day of use, if this meant that it would have to be half again as thick and a third again as heavy, so be it.
Apple has anorexia when it comes to its devices, they are perfectly functional as either works of non-functioning art, or tethered device.
First you said this.Nightarchaon said:Apple, get your act together, whats the point of a Smartphone, that you have to treat like a dumb phone and not use to get it to last a full a working day on a single charge ?
Now this.As soon as you start using this phones features, to play games, stream video, watch movies, listen to music, browse the web and more, your battery life plumets, so much so that 3hrs "use" a day can put you at the point of needing to charge midway through the day.
Exactly! Maybe I'm in the minority, but I personally wouldn't mind a phone that's even twice as thick as the current iPhone 5 if it meant double the battery life. I think Apple's taken the "thinnest phone on the market" competition a bit too far, and I'm sad to see that sacrificing features such as battery life was even a consideration for them.
Dude, you're wrong.
I've had each and every iPhone from the first to the current. They all perform essentially the same. I have a couple times had them replaced in hopes of the battery improving, but it never makes any difference. So that's like 7-8 iPhones in 5 years, and they all perform the same as far as battery. Still think there's a problem with my phone?.
That's ludicrous! .
Question: how's the phone signal where you are? Have you been using your phone in the same places this whole time? A weak signal could be part of your problem.
The reason I ask is that there's one place I go regularly, a theater, that's in a basement and has really marginal phone reception. Every time I go there, my iPhone (and indeed, other phones I've had before it), will churn through battery like crazy trying to seek and hold onto a signal. The phone will actually get warmer from energy use. Again, this is across multiple, different types of phones and occurs nowhere else I go, so it's definitely the location. I can lose 30% of my battery in a couple hours down there.
I've been using this case for a couple of weeks now and seems to work fine.
http://www.i-blason.com/powerglider-slim-fit-rechargeable-battery-case-for-iphone-5-lightning.html
Not pimping them, just curious if htis is better, worse or about the same as the Mophie.
FWIW
DLM
Can you buy this in a Best Buy or order them? I'm looking into one of these, just worries me about licensed and non-licensed stuff.
Steve Jobs was always obsessed with thin & light at any cost. It's about pretty products at Apple. Nothing new.
First you said this.
Now this.
It's nice your employer allows you to 'play games, stream video, watch movies, listen to music, browse the web and more'.
But he was also obsessed with revolutionary products, not evolutionary like the current management seems to be.
i do all that on the way TOO and FROM work, on the train, on my 1hr 30min each way commute.. during the working day i need email, calls and web access frequently whilst MOBILE, cant be tethered charging all day.
Perhaps Apple should offer different battery capacity just like they offer different storage capacities. Then people could choose the standard model the whole way up to the Nightarchaon model that will last at least 11 hours. Of course, that'd mean designing the phone to accommodate the largest battery, but people who don't have a 3 hour commute wont mind that compromise.
Good luck.
At the moment, im using a jailborken ipad mini as a phone.. you should see the wierd looks i get on the train
Better to design the battery size and the performance of the phone around the need to run for 12 to 16 waking hours.\
Samsung just announced the Galaxy Note 8, which will be sold as a phone, unlike the iPad Mini. Why Apple doesn't let you use a cellular iPad as a phone is beyond me to understand.
What jb apps do you use to use the Mini as a phone?
Couldn't agree with you more. I'm using a Mophie battery case for my 4S and it adds so much more bulk than would be necessary to accomodate a larger battery inside the phone itself. I'd rather add 5mm to the device than turn my phone into a big plastic mess. Even the best of these external cases still adds a TON of bulk.
Here's hoping some breakthrough in battery tech makes the thinness vs. battery debate irrelevant.
Eh... you know what will happen - the phone makers will up the power usage to whatever extent necessary to get to the same "one day" battery life.