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Battery life iPhone 5
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you don't say?
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i believe this is an iOS 6 issue; all of my iPhones (4, 4S) are also draining fast like my iP5 ever since they were upgraded to iOS 6
It's actually pretty good. Wife is at 20 percent with 6 hours screen time and 1 day stand by time using whatever the phone arrived with charge wise. Will report back when she goes through a full cycle, think it was delivered with a close to full charge.
I get 9 hours screen time and the same 1 day total but with a 4200mAH battery on my sgs3. So it's better out of the box than mine was.
I'm very impressed with it.
I get 9 hours screen time and the same 1 day total but with a 4200mAH battery on my sgs3. So it's better out of the box than mine was.
I'm very impressed with it.
I was getting some pretty nasty battery usage in my opinion, I had 2 1/2 hours of usage with about six hours of standby and I was already down to 60%. That 2 1/2 hours of usage doesn't seem accurate to me, I don't think I used it for more than one hour realistically so I don't know how it came up with 2 1/2 hours. I'm wondering if something was going on in the background on my phone causing the battery drain. I even tried restarting it but it didn't seem to help at all.
So what I ended up doing is I erased all data and settings on the phone essentially putting it back to factory settings In hopes of it correcting the issue but I was already pretty low on battery power so I don't think I can properly judge whether or not it's helping until I fully charge it overnight and check it tomorrow.
But if this does not help, this phone to me has significantly worse battery power than my iPhone 4, which is a shame. After all the craziness goes away, I might actually take it to Apple and try getting a replacement.
So what I ended up doing is I erased all data and settings on the phone essentially putting it back to factory settings In hopes of it correcting the issue but I was already pretty low on battery power so I don't think I can properly judge whether or not it's helping until I fully charge it overnight and check it tomorrow.
But if this does not help, this phone to me has significantly worse battery power than my iPhone 4, which is a shame. After all the craziness goes away, I might actually take it to Apple and try getting a replacement.
Yes, I know it was plugged in for about 1 minute to check and see if the lightning connector would work with my ford sync for another thread. Other than that i was on LTE for about 5 hours at work.
Here is where I ended up before bed. I even used navigation for about 20 minutes. My 4s could never do this!!!! This alone was worth the 650$. Lol ok maybe not.
Here is where I ended up before bed. I even used navigation for about 20 minutes. My 4s could never do this!!!! This alone was worth the 650$. Lol ok maybe not.
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After more that 14 hours off the charger and with a good deal of use all day, I'm still at 56%. So far better than my 4S. I'm pleased with the battery life.
It's the bad reception that's killing your battery more than anything. Same here with only twitter, safari.
I can confirm I had terrible battery life I was at 60% in 3 hours after a full charge, I restored from a back from my iPhone 4 , I have now restored it and set up as a new phone and now seems to be great so far I also charged at under 10% and let it fully charge
Don't know what's up with other people's 5's, but my 5 is definitely better than my 4S for sure. I don't have data other than it was around 40% when we got home at 7 or so from a full charge this morning. My 4S battery would have been 15% by that same point, my 4S always seemed likes battery hog, so the 5 feels much better to me. I dunno, I could be wrong.
My phone just hit 0%. It sat at 1% for about 30 minutes, and my full day's usage was about 5 hours 30 minutes of Usage, 10 hours 30 minutes of Standby.
I do indeed hope that my 5 mirrors yours. When using my 4S phone for things like browsing, playing music, etc, I lose 10% every 10 minutes. Though I would consider myself a heavy user, I have to charge 3 times a day normally...
Consider yourself lucky - I pull my 4S off charge at 8am and have to charge normally by 11am-1pm.
Same here.. last 2 nights it sat at 1% for 20-30 minutes of use. All our phones are still calibrating. Nobody should panic.
I'm not saying the i5 battery is great.. just saying it's still too early to tell.