I just upgraded to the 5 from 4s. And the main reason I did so, was to take advantage of LTE, since 3G is terrible most of the time. Between LTE and wifi, I am doing well now.
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Getting Stellar battery life on iPhone 5 on iOS 7!
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I just upgraded to the 5 from 4s. And the main reason I did so, was to take advantage of LTE, since 3G is terrible most of the time. Between LTE and wifi, I am doing well now.
Yes, even the essential things. How about turning off the phone instead of complaining?
Wow, you turned off two whole apps (weather and stocks) and now the battery life rivals IOS 6. I am running IOS 7 too.
I had trouble with battery life after the initial install, but after a settings and network reset, I have no trouble at all. I might actually be getting better battery life than iOS 6. Either way, its not different enough that it's noticeable.
Haven't encountered crashing / major glitches myself. No battery drain - of course, I've set up the device as a brand new one (no backup restoration).
If you do a clean install of iOS 7, it shouldn't matter whether or not you did a clean install of iOS 6.
Yup - just received a new iPhone 5 from Apple after my old one's battery getting dead with 6.1.4 on it with completely new, non-activated 6.1.4. The first thing I did was installing 7b1 on it.
Ok so I'm gonna go back to ios6 clean install and then go to iOS 7 clean install we shall see
I have had awful battery life on my 4s since updating. I just heard that turning off automatic app updates helps battery life, and it helped mine tremendously.
Try doing a restore to iOS 7, instead of updating to iOS 7. Might make a difference for you.
Oh no, I mean in regards to how the App Store automatically updates your apps. I turned off auto updates in settings and I think it helped my battery life.
I was going to make a post on this as well. My battery life on 6.1.2 Jailbroken was just horrendous. I would charge overnight, wake at 6-8am and phone would be at 20% by noon-1pm at the latest.
Since 7, I've been reaching nearly 8-9pm before I hit 20%, incredible news for a beta!
I had one time where the phone did the normal beta run hot and drain fast, but I did a few hard resets and charged and haven't had an issue since.
Since 7, I've been reaching nearly 8-9pm before I hit 20%, incredible news for a beta!
I had one time where the phone did the normal beta run hot and drain fast, but I did a few hard resets and charged and haven't had an issue since.
I also had 6.1.2 with JB with several hacks (all purchased) like Call / Audio Recorder (my version without the warning). No excess battery usage.
That is, you've installed the wrong tweaks.
I had quick reply and springtomize 2..... Doubt they drained the charge that much
I too use Springtomize 2 on my iPad 3. No excess CPU usage.
Did you try finding out the culprit with top -u?
Nope. I just dealt with it, never really bothered me too much. Figured I just got a crappy battery.