I need opinions on my battery life

sfchky03 · Oct 12, 2012, 02:11 PM

So basically this is my battery life with a full reset settings done. I also try to drain the battery completely and charge it. Let me know what are your thoughts?

My usage.
Mild text and calls
Facebook browsing
Words with friends (Game)

chrisrosemusic1 · Oct 12, 2012, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by sfchky03

So basically this is my battery life with a full reset settings done. I also try to drain the battery completely and charge it. Let me know what are your thoughts?

My usage.
Mild text and calls
Facebook browsing
Words with friends (Game)

Mine is typically 8 hours usage, 12 hours standby.

Music all day at work, Simpsons Tapped Out every 2 hours (

), Other games on and off, Facebook, internet, email and texts/calls.

Over night charge will usually do me until about 8pm in the evening from a 7am unplug.

About the same as my 4S tbh.

STiNG Operation · Oct 12, 2012, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by chrisrosemusic1

Mine is typically 8 hours usage, 12 hours standby.

Music all day at work, Simpsons Tapped Out every 2 hours (

), Other games on and off, Facebook, internet, email and texts/calls.

Over night charge will usually do me until about 8pm in the evening from a 7am unplug.

About the same as my 4S tbh.

Wow you both have better than reported battery life....

I'm lucky to get 3 1/2 to 4 hours usage and 7-8 standby with moderate usage. I don't even listen to music on it at work. I check one game every hour and that's it.

sfchky03 · Oct 12, 2012, 02:23 PM

just a thought, my iphone 4 lasts 2 days without charging, and usually middle of the 3rd day i'll be charging it. for iphone 5 usually i charge once a day.

ZipZap · Oct 12, 2012, 02:32 PM

Cant answer unless you describe your use.
I got 5hour37min usage, 2 days 20 hours standby, 1% left.
I have MCell, WIFI at home, BT on, LTE on, Brightness at about 40%

chrisrosemusic1 · Oct 13, 2012, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by STiNG Operation

Wow you both have better than reported battery life....

I'm lucky to get 3 1/2 to 4 hours usage and 7-8 standby with moderate usage. I don't even listen to music on it at work. I check one game every hour and that's it.

Mine is being exchanged next week though so I'm hoping the new one has equally decent battery life!

erratikmind · Oct 13, 2012, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sfchky03

Let me know what are your thoughts?

Does it really matter what we think? More importantly, are you enjoying your new phone? I trust you are.

jlake02 · Oct 13, 2012, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ZipZap

Cant answer unless you describe your use.
I got 5hour37min usage, 2 days 20 hours standby, 1% left.
I have MCell, WIFI at home, BT on, LTE on, Brightness at about 40%

That's pretty crazy.. I also use MCell, Wifi, BT... brightness 50%. I only get ~ 12 hours standby, 6.5 hour usage.

I do, however, get emails pushed all day and push twitter notifications.

james92se · Oct 13, 2012, 04:29 PM

Here's mine as of right now (and coincidentally my best ever iPhone usage time):

This was on LTE all day yesterday (work), and on wifi all day today. I was a bit under 5 hours of usage time yesterday evening. This usage time consists of about 5 minutes of phone call time, about 25 minutes music playing this morning on my run, and all the rest iMessage/texting and web browsing/email. Set at 50% brightness with auto brightness off, push off, fetch manually. I continue to be impressed with this phone. I'd usually be charging my 4S by lunch time during the work week, and on the 5 I haven't even had to charge my phone once at work yet.

Bahroo · Oct 13, 2012, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sfchky03

So basically this is my battery life with a full reset settings done. I also try to drain the battery completely and charge it. Let me know what are your thoughts?

My usage.
Mild text and calls
Facebook browsing
Words with friends (Game)

Thats not bad battery life.

The settings I have off on my iPhone 5 to maximize battery life are:

-Limit ad tracking
-email and icloud set to manual instead of fetch/push
-bluetooth off
-location services off
-Apple diagnostics results thing to Dont Send
-set automatic time zone off
-notifications off for most apps i dont want to be notified for

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Originally Posted by chrisrosemusic1

Mine is typically 8 hours usage, 12 hours standby.

Music all day at work, Simpsons Tapped Out every 2 hours (

), Other games on and off, Facebook, internet, email and texts/calls.

Over night charge will usually do me until about 8pm in the evening from a 7am unplug.

About the same as my 4S tbh.

Pretty amazing considering the phone has LTE and a bigger screen with basically the same exact sized battery as the previous iPhones

ddehr026 · Nov 20, 2012, 03:09 PM

Mine seems really bad compared to you guys. Wonder if I should go get it checked out....

vastoholic · Nov 20, 2012, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ddehr026

Mine seems really bad compared to you guys. Wonder if I should go get it checked out....

Jesus. Yes you should. That is one of the worst battery life stats I have seen. What are you doing on your phone?

LittleGwen · Nov 20, 2012, 05:11 PM

Yeah thats not normal~ Get it checked out and ask them to swap it out for you at the genius bar

cfs112 · Nov 20, 2012, 05:36 PM

For moderate usage 6 1/2 seems normal. I'm getting closer to 10-12 hours though. Lots of emailing, checking stocks, Tiny Towers, lots of text messaging, taking photos, checking news and 1 or 2 phone calls. I probably un-lock and use my iPhone once every 10 minutes to do or check on something. What helped preserve battery life was changing the brightness setting to low, turning bluetooth off, and disabling some of the location services. That should give you at most another 2 hours. For the user that only gets 1-2 hours, yeah, that sounds like a faulty battery, take it to the genius bar and bring that screen shot of the usage.

pyroza · Nov 20, 2012, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by sfchky03

just a thought, my iphone 4 lasts 2 days without charging, and usually middle of the 3rd day i'll be charging it. for iphone 5 usually i charge once a day.

Same, but of course I'm using LTE with the 5 which drains the battery a lot quicker. If I used only 3G, it would probably be a bit better than my 4 simply because it hasn't gone through nearly as many battery cycles.

ddehr026 · Nov 20, 2012, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by vastoholic

Jesus. Yes you should. That is one of the worst battery life stats I have seen. What are you doing on your phone?

Nothing out of ordinary. Checking emails, hardly any web browsing. Couple phone calls.....

vastoholic · Nov 20, 2012, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ddehr026

Nothing out of ordinary. Checking emails, hardly any web browsing. Couple phone calls.....

Get the thing into apple now. That definitely sounds like a faulty battery.

Oct 12, 2012, 02:11 PM	#1
sfchky03 macrumors newbie Join Date: Sep 2012	I need opinions on my battery life So basically this is my battery life with a full reset settings done. I also try to drain the battery completely and charge it. Let me know what are your thoughts? My usage. Mild text and calls Facebook browsing Words with friends (Game) Attached Thumbnails
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cfs112 macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2012	For moderate usage 6 1/2 seems normal. I'm getting closer to 10-12 hours though. Lots of emailing, checking stocks, Tiny Towers, lots of text messaging, taking photos, checking news and 1 or 2 phone calls. I probably un-lock and use my iPhone once every 10 minutes to do or check on something. What helped preserve battery life was changing the brightness setting to low, turning bluetooth off, and disabling some of the location services. That should give you at most another 2 hours. For the user that only gets 1-2 hours, yeah, that sounds like a faulty battery, take it to the genius bar and bring that screen shot of the usage. __________________ 2012 non-retina MBP (16GB RAM, SSD + HDD combo), iPhone 5, iPad Mini, 2007 24" iMac
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Oct 12, 2012, 02:23 PM	#4
sfchky03 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Sep 2012	just a thought, my iphone 4 lasts 2 days without charging, and usually middle of the 3rd day i'll be charging it. for iphone 5 usually i charge once a day.
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ZipZap macrumors 68030 Join Date: Dec 2007	Cant answer unless you describe your use. I got 5hour37min usage, 2 days 20 hours standby, 1% left. I have MCell, WIFI at home, BT on, LTE on, Brightness at about 40%
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james92se macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Dallas, TX	Here's mine as of right now (and coincidentally my best ever iPhone usage time): This was on LTE all day yesterday (work), and on wifi all day today. I was a bit under 5 hours of usage time yesterday evening. This usage time consists of about 5 minutes of phone call time, about 25 minutes music playing this morning on my run, and all the rest iMessage/texting and web browsing/email. Set at 50% brightness with auto brightness off, push off, fetch manually. I continue to be impressed with this phone. I'd usually be charging my 4S by lunch time during the work week, and on the 5 I haven't even had to charge my phone once at work yet.
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Nov 20, 2012, 05:11 PM	#13
LittleGwen Banned Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: USA	Yeah thats not normal~ Get it checked out and ask them to swap it out for you at the genius bar
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