iPhone 5 drains dead in less than 10 hours in mostly dormant state
It's just garbage. I've grown accustomed to carrying my charger around with me now because I get maybe a half day out of my iPhone 5. And yeah, phantom usage. I could not use my phone all day and I'd still see 3-4 hours of usage under battery usage.
This is pretty much the same situation for me now. My iPhone 5 drains dead in less than 10 hours in a mostly dormant state (i.e; I essentially haven't touched it) By this point, I've done every power saving step I could find on recent internet searches. Got rid of Facebook app. Turned off background refresh on all other apps. Turned off blue tooth and WiFi. Close all apps when not actually in use. Wiped all data from phone and reset as a new phone setup with new backup. None of these measures had the slightest positive impact on battery life. In fact, every time I tried something new, the battery drain actually got worse!
To illustrate, Here's the latest scenario:
Phone was fully charged at 100% when I went to sleep.
Having only set the phone's alarm clock, woke up in 6 hrs. to 86% remaining battery.
Spent about 15m reviewing apps and settings which resulted in 64% remaining battery.
Later in the A.M., listened to some music on the phone for about 40m (in two 20m sittings)
An hour later, the phone was at 1% remaining battery and drained dead within 2m.
I basically haven't put any other kind of usage on any iPhone I've had and I'd basically be able to get 2 1/2 to 3 days out of each charge on earlier models. My iPhone 5 is less than a year old. Battery life seemed fine, even without power saving measures, up until a couple of months ago. I can't isolate the change to any one factor like an app or IOS "upgrade". I was on 7.0 when the problem began but had already been on it for some time without any issues. When I reset the phone the other day, I began using 7.1
Extremely frustrating. I will end up having to go to the Apple Store where some geek will probably tell me I just need to try the power saving tips I've already done or reset my phone from a backup which I've already done. Since Apple deliberately designs its devices so that the consumer can't even resolve an issue like performing a simple battery replacement, I'll have to leave it there and be without my phone for at least a week plus delete all my data and restore from a backup again before I can use it again. And, if you don't want to be "phoneless" for 7 days you can rent a loaner for $30.00 and eat up some more time setting that up.
This is just the latest in a long line of time wasting frustrations with just about every Apple product I've owned. The best concepts, product design and quality out there but when it comes to actual execution, it's quite often an EPIC FAIL. All the quality is in the hardware and product design. Operating systems and applications are another story, entirely. Why release an updated operating system and design all these great features and options if using them results in the battery not lasting beyond 5 hrs.? Their quality control is extremely lacking. With every new version of OS X or IOS users are increasingly reluctant to "upgrade" due to the increasingly real risk that things they depend on that were previously fine will "blow up", causing a huge amount of work to restore, cease functioning without fixes and workarounds or outrightly become incompatible. People invest huge amounts of time and money buying into the whole seamless ultra compatible Apple products suite concept and they just seem to almost completely ignore that fact as they change apps, systems and features in a haphazard manner often removing popular and essential features without replacing them with new and improved ones. Or, not entirely removing a function but changing its location and burying it elsewhere where it's not clear that it's there or is otherwise difficult to locate. A good deal of this type of "change for the sake of change" or no real functional change, just cosmetic change exists. They should be mindful of their existing customer base and build on what people have already invested their time and knowledge in. There's no point in having the most fantastic computer or smart phone in the world if you have to spend inordinate amounts of time and energy doing research and chasing down fixes for things that are supposed to work but clearly don't. I guess this isn't a real concern for them as most people can't easily walk away from this level of learning, time and financial investment in a system, there's no real competition for this type of synergy/whole product suite and there seem to be a never-ending supply of customers so hooked on the whole Apple concept that they're willing to blindly accept anything Apple puts in front of them with all its inherent faults and frustrations along with the "built in obsolescence" mentality that keeps them buying the same products over and over again every few years whether they need to or not and of course, the inherent promise of the "next big thing.