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No music, just phone calls, texting, email, words with friends, weather, web surfing, and fantasy football.
yzjustdatguy
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MetalLord
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I am jealous
I'm jealous, not getting anything like that.
Phone is less than 2 years of use.
I'm jealous, not getting anything like that.
Phone is less than 2 years of use.
Jambalaya
macrumors 6502a
That's double what I get, 4S 18 months old lucky to get 4.5 hours. Phone has started to do the random shut down at 40% and needs to be put on charge at which point it switches back on with 40% battery. Wether it's a iOS or hardware problem I could't tell but it's an Apple product and I pretty disappointed with this.
I would be disappointed if mine started doing that
Have you tried a restore to see if that fixes the issue? If yes then I would take a trip to the Apple Store.
sbailey4
macrumors 601
That sounds like a bad battery to me. I would have Apple run diagnostics on it to determine for sure. Apple will replace it for like $79 I believe. If you want you can always use one of those 3rd party battery repair sites as well for less.
Jambalaya
macrumors 6502a
@bbfc and @sbailey - Thanks, I will try the restore and Apple store visit - I also feel its a hardware issue, seems to happen when phone is cold and it's damp outside (not uncommon in UK at this time of year). Having to replace a battery potentially at my cost on a phone still under contract (original was 24 months, 7 to go) doesn't sit well with me though.
I'm calling BS on this.
There's no way it can last that long with the screen on every time. No way.
1. HW problem. Get it exchanged.
2. Apple don't necessarily use quality component. Actually, in cases, just the opposite:
- the battery in the first batches (Sep...Nov 2012) of iPhone 5
- the battery in MANY 3G S'es: see for example my own photo gallery of two (!) company 3G S'es I've serviced this Summer and have taken photos of their ridiculously swollen batteries:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33448355@N07/sets/72157633931601917/
Also, google for "swollen iPhone 3GS battery" (without the quotes) for more examples.
Jambalaya
macrumors 6502a
Thanks, I'll try but as it's via a Phone company contract with just a few months to run I suspect that will be troublesome
Well call it what you want, that's my battery life, I've always gotten good battery life on my 4S.
Nah, it just depends on what you are doing. I've gotten more then that streaming netflix at an airport once on their wifi. Screen was obviously on.
MarcusCarpenter
macrumors 6502a
(Registered Apple Developer 5 years) iOS 7.1 beta 2 has amazing battery life on an iPhone 5 here 9hours usage with 3G 12hours standby @ 3%. Got nowhere near that on 7.0.4 or 7.1 beta 1.