Battery usage varies widely based on the type of usage, whether you're on wifi, etc. My iPhone 5 rarely got more than 4-5 hrs usage, ever. I brought it in to Apple several times, they checked the battery status and it looked normal.
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6+ looses 1% every ~4 minutes
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Battery usage varies widely based on the type of usage, whether you're on wifi, etc. My iPhone 5 rarely got more than 4-5 hrs usage, ever. I brought it in to Apple several times, they checked the battery status and it looked normal.
I suggest deleting it altogether and just using the web version so you can have landscape mode.
Depends on what you're using it for. That may explain the drainage. But 1% every 4 minutes on a new phone is pretty fast. I would check on it and return it if you're not satisfied.
Exactly.
It's not like I was expecting iPad battery life, but I'm loosing 10-15% an hour on barely any usage
Have you checked out battery usage stats to see what's been using the most? Also, try to let it drain out completely so that it shuts off and then charge full. I used to do that with previous iPhones every few months. Seemed to help.
I'm testing mines now, since full charge: usage 10hrs 46mins. Standby 1 day 1 hr. With 24% left.
Yep,
My safari is at 20%
Home/lock screen at 19%
Messages at 11%.. Not high at all.
Also I've done two full cycles already and did soft resets after each of them. It made things marginally better, but I'm still draining a lot
Yes, I only have messages open besides Safari. Weird.
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Mine lost 8% while I slept for 6
Yeah, that's not much. I would try a couple things before heading for an exchange but it could be a bad battery.
Try resetting all networks settings. This seems to fix a lot of weird random problems. If that really doesn't do it, I'd go for a full restore. If that really doesn't do it, I'd say take it in.
Take some screen shots the battery usage. Maybe someone can provide insight?
At first I thought you made a typo, because in an earlier post you typed "lose"--the word you are looping for is "losing".
Did you do the cloud restore from a previous phone? If so it is the back up running that is draining your battery, once that is complete you should see a big difference.
Nope I set up as a new iPhone. No cloud backup running!
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OP, have you done any of the suggestions, suggested to you yet ?
Yeah:/
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I'll give those a try, thanks.
I have a screenshot but for some reason it's not uploading. But I'm guaranteeing you, my app usage is barely anything
Been using it heavily on its third day. 2 hours of heavy usage and I'm at 86%. Battery keeps getting better every day.
haha. I wasn't doubting you but rather maybe someone can see something that you don't.
Depends on what you at doing with it. If I am downloading Apps then I go through battery a lot faster however I've use my phone for 45 minutes and I've only lost 5% power. This is with using the phone to check email Facebook and these forums. Check to see how many apps are looking for notifications. That will definitely drain your battery faster. I wouldn't mind to bare essentials. I don't want Facebook in me every time somebody post up something.