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Battery life is starting to piss me off.

iFiend said:
Stopped reading after tunein radio.

You have to know that streaming services weigh heavily on your battery, right? Especially in a poor signal area.

There's nothing wrong with your battery.
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so this should of happened with my iphone 4? Never noticed 30% drop in under an hour in the same building.
 
I think the reason behind why your battery life is so poor is because of your reception. By looking at your ss, you only have 1-2 bars of signal. Thus it will eat more battery to stay connected to a tower.
 
Swap it man. If you've tried a battery calibration, and a clean install, that battery life is complete bullshet.

i get about 7 hours with brightness on 80% LTE on always etc etc.

My sister in law had battery issues, and before she swapped it i told her to try to fix it before she has any headache. I set it up for her, exactly how mine was, and she couldnt come close to my usage.

She swapped it, BOOM. all gravy now.
 
OP, no use getting your phone replaced. Your biggest issue is the terrible reception. I have between 1-3 bars at my house, and getting about the same as you, if not worse.
 
FYI; I typically get 5 to 6 hours too. Almost all of my use is in what I would call "moderate drain" category, which is safari and mail, ald almost all via ATT instead of WiFi.

I almost never listen to music, which is in the low drain category. (And if you REALLY want to drain, it run a GPS like Navigon)
 
x-evil-x said:
this is location services off brightness under half. facebook not on push. only using tunein radio is dropping my phone 20%
screen is shut off the whole time also. im getting on average 5hr 30min and this isnt using the phone much. Set up from new also.
return phone?
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Restore the OS. If that fails return the phone. Not sure why you are waiting.
 
Like others have said... considering your have *1* bar of service your battery is just fine.

Get into an area with 3+ bars all day and test it then. Your cell radio is sucking through juice in an effort to get you a signal.

All cellphones drain like crazy when you're on 1 bar all day.
 
Id return it,

I stream google music on my way to work and home every day (45 min each way)

I get completely awful service at work 1/2 bars all day. Location settings on / brightness halfway / wifi on at work/home , push gmail etc.

I average about 10 hours total usage 30 hrs standby on a full charge. Usually browsing / plenty of texting / small amount of calls.
 
It's starting to piss me off too.

With the following conditions:
- 3G only, always 4/5 bars
- Bluetooth disabled
- 1 Gmail Push (exchange)
- Location services disabled
- notification mostly disabled (only facebook, whatsapp, and mail)
- icloud disabled
- fixed brightness to 30%
- set up as new. Reset done, calibration done (1 time)

It lasts me 5.5 hours of light use (mostly browsing, no streaming, no 3d or graphic intensive games) and 23 hours stand by. In 7 hours stanby (no notifications) it draws 8-9%.


It's really starting to piss me off too :mad: my IP 4 after 2 years and under the same conditions lasts 2 to 3 hours of usage more!
 
Yeah... I sat in my car when I got home Monday night and previewed new music via bluetooth and watch it drop 1-2% per preview! That's with LTE off too.

Also, with my 4S I would get up at 0500, unplug my phone, stream iHeartRadio until about 5:45, and still be on 98-100% by the time I get to work at 0600. Now, I'm 92-94% by the time I leave the house.
 
OP:

Do you have LTE off?

since you barely have a H+ signal, if you have LTE on, it will drain the battery faster since its trying to lock on H+ and its also trying to find a LTE signal.
 
I got this tip off of another forum here, it might work for you. I restored my new iPhone 5 from a backup of my iPhone 4S. After two weeks, I noticed that I wasn't really noticing a huge improvement in battery life -- the phone was basically on the same charging schedule as my 4S.

I read a thread here that said the battery charge settings have been known to carry over from the backup of a previous phone model to the new phone, and that the poster had seen a dramatic increase in battery life after he did a "Reset All Settings" on his phone. I figured it couldn't hurt, so I tried it (about two hours ago).

Before the reset, my phone would drop 2% from 100 to 98 within a few minutes of being removed from the charger. Since I reset the phone a few hours ago, the phone didn't hit 98% until after about an hour of moderate use (downloaded a 50 minute podcast, listened to the whole thing, checked facebook compulsively every 10 minutes or so, sent/received about 20 text messages, synced about 1500 emails).

Obviously I won't know what the full improvement will be til I run out the battery, but initial impression is the reset all settings has helped improve battery life. It only took about 5 minutes to reset all of my settings (wallpaper, alerts, privacy, permissions, etc...) to what they were before the reset, so I wasn't too concerned about that minor inconvenience.
 
Auto brightness.
WiFi on all the time (I wasn't connected to WiFi at work for about ~8 hours).
Bluetooth on all the time.
Location services on all the time.
Went for a half an hour run using RunKeeper (uses GPS), listened to music throughout.
Few texts, emails and calls.

Usage: 4 Hours, 10 Minutes
Standby: 15 Hours, 21 Minutes

45% remaining.
 
A lot of people disagree with me but my explanation for bad battery life on the 4s and 5 is the new A6 chip. My mom's 4 has great battery life (A5) but my 4s and my girl's 5 (A6) has equally as bad battery life. That's my 5 cents.
 
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