iPhone 5c plagued by same battery defects as iPhone 5?

As much as I absolutely hate battery life threads, unfortunately I am posting one.
I got my iPhone 5c in March last year. The first few weeks were great battery life (7 hours, 8 hours usage on a great day) but recently my battery has been pretty bad.
I've just thought that it's because I use my phone a lot and it's getting to be an older phone at this point.
I have background app refresh off, location services off, no mail accounts, contacts and calendars set to fetch data manually. I have auto brightness on, Bluetooth off 90% of the time, wifi on when I'm using it and I turn wifi off when I'm not connected to a wifi network if I remember. And I have service 99% of the time.
And I'm getting maximum 3 hours battery life. 3 hours is a good day.
I'm wondering if my battery is plagued by the same issues that the iphone 5 was having?
I don't get how home and lock screen uses such a big portion...
This is really annoying me. This battery life is worse than I was getting on my iphone 4. I shouldn't be getting this battery life when im just out of the warranty period. I'm pretty sure if I took my phone to the Apple Store they would just tell me it's normal.

MH01 said:

Are you sure one one of the apps is not draining it? that battery life is not good, something is wrong. Have you tried restoring it?

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I have not tried restoring it. I don't really want to because It's set up perfectly for me now. I have a lot of stuff I don't want to lose...

MH01 said:

Does the phone get warm?



Also check your notifications and only turn on the ones you need



I would also close any apps you are not using.



Try that.

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Doesn't usually get warm unless I'm on FaceTime for a few hours.

This is my current battery usage.
On a side note, that 2 meter lightning to USB cable is amazing.

Tubamajuba said:

On your iPhone, follow the link below, clicking on the options that mention the battery. Eventually you'll be taken to a page that will help you download a diagnostic program that will let you know if your battery is bad.



https://www.apple.com/support/iphone/repair/battery-power/

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Didn't find anything related to a program but then again I'm not near wifi can't can't perform an extended test. Interesting!

cambookpro said:

Do a backup and then restore - it's a little time consuming, but you won't lose anything and I find that sometimes it can help issues like this.



Do you ever find the phone shuts off at ~15%? That's what my defective iPhone 5 used to do.

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Phone shuts off at around 2-3% normal percentage.

Tubamajuba said:

Weird... was there actually a link to "Quick Test" or "Extended Test"?

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I hit quick test and it said it sent info to Apple then gave me a link about sending the device into Apple.
Will a genius still look at it even if it's out of warranty?

Tubamajuba said:

Did it say that it recommended a battery replacement? If so, you can definitely get it looked at and fixed, I think a battery replacement is $79.

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Yes, it did. I'm not willing to pay $79 dollars though. It's not worth it to put any money into a 5c now. A new phone would be a better option for me.
I guess I can only hope there's a defect and eventually there's a recall on them.

Traxinv said:

Its hangouts. That app is constantly polling gps position and other nonsense. Uninstall it and see...

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Well the problem is that we are having a hard time figuring out what to use as an alternative....

And I'll try coconut battery.