An update on my battery... Ever since draining my battery completely, waiting 30 minutes before charging, charging with the phone completely off, and then deleting iCloud from my phone... my battery life has greatly improved, a lot better than its ever been. I was at least able to make it through an entire day without charging.
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iPhone 5 - Poor Battery Life
- Thread starter jw77777
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Bluetooth has always killed my iPhone. 4/4s/5
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What exactly do you mean deleting iCloud? Just disabling it?
Ya. Maybe that's it. But I can't live without that. So sweet auto syncing with my car.
Yeah, deleting the account from the phone... I know it sucks cuz I can't use the phone the way it should be, but until Apple fixes it, i'd rather have a longer battery life.
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Let me know if it works for you.
Me either man! Just so much safer driving too. When talking
Ah ok I'll have to try it out tomorrow. Going to be busy waiting for re6 to come out at midnight
Ya it's 7am til midnight. I need my phone always. But was hoping to not hAve to charge til night.
I just did the whole reset-all-settings-and-let-battery-fully-deplete thing with the 2-hour battery recharge and so far I've played around with it for 15 minutes without it dropping a single percent. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
However, in those 15 minutes I was tuning my settings -- turning off location settings for things like system diagnostics and other stuff like iAds etc etc also turned off iTunes cellular data syncing (YES I HAVE IT ON 6.0.1 .... this is an unlocked iPhone in Asia so that report about it in 6.1 ain't such a biggie... this is just like internet tethering -- the Asian phones had it all along before the ones in the States... but then again, I don't see any LTE controls in the settings -- must be dependent on the SIM card).
Let's see how it goes on Monday when I get back to work...
However, in those 15 minutes I was tuning my settings -- turning off location settings for things like system diagnostics and other stuff like iAds etc etc also turned off iTunes cellular data syncing (YES I HAVE IT ON 6.0.1 .... this is an unlocked iPhone in Asia so that report about it in 6.1 ain't such a biggie... this is just like internet tethering -- the Asian phones had it all along before the ones in the States... but then again, I don't see any LTE controls in the settings -- must be dependent on the SIM card).
Let's see how it goes on Monday when I get back to work...
You do have full signal and wifi connection so that adds to it. For me, the battery life was horrible the first month. The more I use my phone, the better it gets which makes no sense in the long run but in the short run it always works my devices the same way. I have 58% left with 2 hour talk time and 5 hour standby I should mention though that I have geo gps (w.e its called) always on due to hundreds of location alarms.
