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Battery life iPhone 5
- Thread starter wesk702
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My battery life, for the most part, has been terrible. I took it off the charge about 5 hours ago and it's dropped to 60% with only light usage. I don't know if it's because the signal around here is crap or what, but it's bad. I even turned off LTE to see if it would help but so far nope.
I'm gonna try to do a full restore as a new phone to see if that helps but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm gonna try to do a full restore as a new phone to see if that helps but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm at 38% right now. 4 hours, 29 minutes of usage. 7 hours, 20 minutes of stand by. Not sure if that's good or bad - never paid attention to what mine was on the 4.
I was in the Apple store and mentioned that my battery life wasn't great. The Apple rep suggested that since Denver doesn't have LTE up yet it seems to be draining faster than normal. He stated that he switched his off and it made a big difference. YMMV.
I don't see how these posts are accurate. When I left the house this morning, I was at 80%. That was at 7:30am. I am on LTE only, as I wanted to test speeds in downtown Chicago. I've used it quite a bit, and I am now at 38% and it is 2:15pm.
Using WIFI would improve battery life, I know, but as stated, I wanted to put LTE to the test.
I am very pleased with these results.
Using WIFI would improve battery life, I know, but as stated, I wanted to put LTE to the test.
I am very pleased with these results.
Coming from a crappy ZTE-Blade (Android 2.2) which would last a max of 5 hours (in STANDBY!), its amazing.
Also, compared to a 3Gs - amazing.
Put it this way. Bought the iPhone at 1pm today. Home by 2pm and have been using it near constantly since. In that time I've had spotify running for 1 hour, whilst tethering to a macbook air. Also had loads of app downloads running, taking photos, watched about 30-40 mins of TV (Youtube and TV catchup).
At the moment the battery is at 54% (it was at 98% when I first turned it on).
One thing to note - there is no LTE in the UK yet, so this was on 3G (or whatever 'Three' runs).
Also, compared to a 3Gs - amazing.
Put it this way. Bought the iPhone at 1pm today. Home by 2pm and have been using it near constantly since. In that time I've had spotify running for 1 hour, whilst tethering to a macbook air. Also had loads of app downloads running, taking photos, watched about 30-40 mins of TV (Youtube and TV catchup).
At the moment the battery is at 54% (it was at 98% when I first turned it on).
One thing to note - there is no LTE in the UK yet, so this was on 3G (or whatever 'Three' runs).
Did you guys restore from a backup or setup as a new phone? AT&T rep told my wife to setup as a new phone when she purchased hers and not restore from backup to avoid potential battery issues.
The battery draining 1% every couple of minutes definitely calls for setting it up as a new phone.
The battery draining 1% every couple of minutes definitely calls for setting it up as a new phone.
I've dropped from 80% to 44% in an hour on the road. Turn by turn was so bad I had to shut it off until I get a car charger. Anyone else seeing drops this bad?
Got my phone yesterday and it had about 95% battery.
I have used 124 megs of data in the last day and I'm just now about 15% without a charge.
Battery life dreadful, similar to the first 4S I had before replacing it and Apple releasing the first few iOS 5 fixes. Currently getting 4 hours 30min Usage before I hit 0%. That's simple usage too, no hard gaming, graphics etc. just reading, checking mail, music listening etc. This is nowhere close to the quoted 8 hours! I will be getting mine replaced next week and then going back to the 4S if that doesn't help.