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I am getting ridiculously good battery life

aDRock1154

aDRock1154

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I am at a loss for words... I have had the 4,4S, and now the 5, but I have never had anything like this... This is my 2nd iPhone 5 (earpiece went dead in my first handset) , but even my first 5 wasn't this good.

I know there are many threads out there with similar themes, but anyone else shocked at how good their battery is?
 

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Me too! I'll post my screenshots later.

3rd week of my iP5! It's best battery life so far ...

Yesterday

32% left
Usage 11 hours, 26 minutes
Standby 1 day, 9 hours

Right now (did lot of multi-tasking vs. yesterday)
47% left
Usage 6 hours, 34 minutes
Standby 15 hours, 5 minutes
 
I'm not and a ton of others aren't as well. I beginning to wonder if there was a batch of bad batteries?

You're getting twice what I am. Does that include any music listening?
 
I've listened to music and streamed some Netflix.. Mostly Facebook, Twitter, and web browsing today though. I haven't been on WIFI all day, but most of it..
 
Brad02 said:
I'm not and a ton of others aren't as well. I beginning to wonder if there was a batch of bad batteries?

You're getting twice what I am. Does that include any music listening?
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Yesterday was all Pandora and some web surfing day!

Today pretty much the same thing plus more non-stop multi-tasking.

Combo of wi-fi and throttled 3G & airplane mode.

Listening to Pandora = long battery life?
 
I am definitely keeping this power-charged, flawless beauty (a Verizon)! Thought about swapping it with AT&T version.
 
iPhone 5 is extremely power efficient if its not doing anything. It consumes much more power the heavier it is taxed. It is a small battery.

Bottom line, you'll see large variability depending on what the phone is doing. "Usage" isn't descriptive enough to get an idea what its doing.

Major things that affect it include:
  • display brightness
  • signal strength
  • type and number of radios in use, ie GPS, LTE, WiFi.
  • CPU load. The CPU is very powerful so its harder to tax it vs. previous phones.
  • GPU load.
 
dmelgar said:
iPhone 5 is extremely power efficient if its not doing anything. It consumes much more power the heavier it is taxed. It is a small battery.

Bottom line, you'll see large variability depending on what the phone is doing. "Usage" isn't descriptive enough to get an idea what its doing.

Major things that affect it include:
  • display brightness
  • signal strength
  • type and number of radios in use, ie GPS, LTE, WiFi.
  • CPU load. The CPU is very powerful so its harder to tax it vs. previous phones.
  • GPU load.
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It sounds like my iP5 battery broke in really good as in my first 2 weeks of non-stop use or doing pretty much the same thing I never get those spectacular usage or battery life - 6 hours of usage at most with almost 0% left, under the same settings.

I guess let's ...

1st two weeks ... Totally drained it or 1% ... On 3rd week, now am charging when it goes under 40% or 20%!
 
Dennis187 said:
Does it do that good when your using gps?
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I've had 4 full charges so far. Nearly all notifications off, email pull every 30 minutes, brightness at 25%, LTE off and location services off unless I need to use navigation. 95% of my use is to check email or brief website lookup.

The 3rd charge was pretty good lasting 6 hours of use and 48 hours standby. The 6 hours of use isn't true screen use though, actual use was more like 1 hour.

My other 3 charges have been lousy, on par with my iphone 4 battery that was going bad after 2 years. At one point I turned on location services to test turn-by-turn navigation for 10 minutes and it dropped 10%.

I don't think the problem is the battery or hardware, more likely software bug causing excessive usage when there shouldn't be.

Some people said a DMF restore of the phone fixed their problem. To those that did this, did you then restore your setup from icloud or manually reinstall all apps?
 
What am I doing wrong? I only get 4-6 hours of usage with no Bluetooth, no GPS, and no push email, etc. same usage times as my 4S.
 
batting1000 said:
What am I doing wrong? I only get 4-6 hours of usage with no Bluetooth, no GPS, and no push email, etc. same usage times as my 4S.
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Keep in mind I used WIFI for most of the day.. I have EVERYTHING turned on, but haven't gotten anywhere close to these stats in my previous iPhones.
 
Right now I'm at 60% charge. with 13 hours stand by and 3 hours usage. I have to say this is the best battery life I have had on a phone in awhile. even with heave usage it would last me the whole day. I have had the phone about 2 weeks and I have only received the low battery warning once.
 
aDRock1154 said:
I am at a loss for words... I have had the 4,4S, and now the 5, but I have never had anything like this... This is my 2nd iPhone 5 (earpiece went dead in my first handset) , but even my first 5 wasn't this good.

I know there are many threads out there with similar themes, but anyone else shocked at how good their battery is?
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I went from a Verizon Galaxy Nexus (LTE model) to an iPhone 5... and such a big difference.. but then again it's widely known the Galaxy Nexus' battery life is atrocious. I had a Galaxy S3.. it's battery life is good, the iPhone 5's is better though.
 
Tvp125 said:
Right now I'm at 60% charge. with 13 hours stand by and 3 hours usage. I have to say this is the best battery life I have had on a phone in awhile. even with heave usage it would last me the whole day. I have had the phone about 2 weeks and I have only received the low battery warning once.
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Loving the battery! It looks like 2 weeks break-in period of the battery.
 
I'm also very impressed with the battery life. My best times are 9 hrs 28 minutes usage with 13 and a half hours of standby. I didn't always get good battery life though. When I first got my 5 I restored from my previous iPhone 4 backup and was getting about 4 hours total. Starting from scratch and redownloading all my apps/data might be a pain to do but it has really been worth it. Other things I've done include lower the brightness, turned off most location services except for maps and Siri, and disabled notifications.
 
I just did a restore as new today on my phone to test out my less than stellar but still decent battery life. Before I was typically getting 6-8 hours usage time with about 11-13 hours standby on a full charge. So far today after getting it all setup the way I had it before I'm pretty sure I already see improvement. I'll let it drain all the way before I get my hopes up though. I would love to get the battery life some of you are posting.
 
Here is my battery life. Pretty decent, I must say, for being in an LTE area!!!
 

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Jealous, I'm getting terrible battery life w light use. Took it to Apple store and apple geek told me it was 'normal'.
 
Yup, battery life seems to be much better on iPhone 5 than it was on all my previous models, but only after doing a restore as new, and installing everything manually except for iCloud restore of photos and mail.

After about 2 weeks of use from my iPhone 4S's restore I was getting average battery life of about 5-6-7 hours use after a full day. Now, since restoring as new 3 days ago I'm getting over 8 hours each day and I have screen at 40% LTE and Bluetooth on all the time.
 
Mine is really good 27% for 9+ hrs usage
19+ hrs stand by, I think I have the best battery life than anyone in this thread? :)
 

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