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How long does your 5S need to charge?

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Poly

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Starting from 0-1% until 100%.
How long does yours take to fully charge? Mine does somehow feel much faster than my old 4S. 5S battery somehow only lasts 7-8hours since 7.1, while with 7.0.6 it almost always gave me 8-10hours usage.
 
I typically just charge it overnight, but I guess the times that I have charged it in the middle of the day it took an hour and a half of so.
 
T5BRICK said:
I typically just charge it overnight, but I guess the times that I have charged it in the middle of the day it took an hour and a half of so.
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duaneu said:
Mine seems to charge roughly 1% per minute, so 0 to 100% would be about 100 minutes.
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Seems reasonable and it feels like that for me too.
Is your usage also something around of what i get?
 
Imagine if the iPhone charged from 80 to 100 just as fast it does from 0 - 80. That'd knock off a good bit of time.
 
T5BRICK said:
Depends on usage. Usually I get 15-18 hours between charges.
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Well i did not include standby time. I usually have it in standby for 48h and 7-8h usage. But as i said pre-7.1 i got much better battery life.
 
Poly said:
Starting from 0-1% until 100%.
How long does yours take to fully charge? Mine does somehow feel much faster than my old 4S. 5S battery somehow only lasts 7-8hours since 7.1, while with 7.0.6 it almost always gave me 8-10hours usage.
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It actually depends (Very sure)
because i bought a new 3rd party charger a few months ago and it is working like wind!😀 it is about 20 minutes to charge to 0-100
But the charger gets really hot and sometimes burns out. D:
But i think with the legit ones from apple are probably an hour or so
 
Poly said:
Starting from 0-1% until 100%.
How long does yours take to fully charge? Mine does somehow feel much faster than my old 4S. 5S battery somehow only lasts 7-8hours since 7.1, while with 7.0.6 it almost always gave me 8-10hours usage.
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If you feel that the battery is defective, take it to Apple and they will confirm it but it sounds to me like you are using you phone alot.
 
duaneu said:
Mine seems to charge roughly 1% per minute, so 0 to 100% would be about 100 minutes.
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There's usually rapid charge from 0% to about 80% and then a slower charger from 80% to 100%, so the timing between those two groups can and does differ.
 
DCIFRTHS said:
I use the iPad charger 100% of the time. This isn't a bad thing, for battery, or phone, is it?
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Not really. It's a higher amperage than the iPhone charger but I still use it. Apple lists as it being comparable so I don't worry too much.
My iohone 4 did die when I was charging it with the iPad charger. It just wouldn't turn on anymore. Maybe it's cuz of the iPad an charger. Maybe not who knows.
 
I have never check to see how long. I just plug it in before I go to bed and am ready to go the next day. Never done anything special like running down to 10%, just used it and do not worry about how long it take for it to charge.🙄

I do not think there is anything you can do to greatly increase your battery life. You can harm the battery and shorten it's life but doing complete discharges.
 
I really don't know. I put mine on the charger every night when I go to sleep and it's charged up when I awake.
 
I haven't really timed it, but I do remember it being reasonably fast at about ~1.5 hours or less. Of course, it has a lot to do with the current charge prior to charging. I did notice, however, that it charges really fast to around ~95-99% and takes a lot longer to actually reach 100%
 
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