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iOS 7 Beta 5 Improved Battery Life

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emckai

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Anyone else experiencing better battery life?

What I did today:
Took it off the charger at 6:30am and went to my university for summer school (used LTE) the whole day. A bunch of texts, little gaming and a lot of internet browsing.
 

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emckai said:
Anyone else experiencing better battery life?

What I did today:
Took it off the charger at 6:30am and went to my university for summer school (used LTE) the whole day. A bunch of texts, little gaming and a lot of internet browsing.
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was it a fresh install?
 
It was not a fresh install. Went from Beta 4 to Beta 5. I did a fresh install for beta 4.
 
Beta 4 was the best batt performance I've ever seen on my iPhone 5. Quite surprised..

So beta 5 should be good, but I haven't had enough time with it to tell.
 
So far the battery life on beta 5 has been almost stunning!

Standby 12hrs, 36min
Usage 5 hrs, 8 minutes

50% Battery life left. I used the phone the same way I always do throughout the day: email, twitter, surfing. Normally I would be around 35% at this time (8:34pm)
 
For some reason I've been getting worse battery with beta 5. I updated OTA, and I have tons of features turned off. I'm getting less than 7 hours of usage. I think I'll do a clean install for beta 6.
 
Evan23 said:
For some reason I've been getting worse battery with beta 5. I updated OTA, and I have tons of features turned off. I'm getting less than 7 hours of usage. I think I'll do a clean install for beta 6.
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6 hours of usage is already a lot more than most android handsets get :)
 
People are complaining how they get less than 7 hours of usage when during b1-b4 I would get less than 3-4 hours of usage. Fantastic improvement.
 
This was with beta 4 used LTE, 1 hour walk with iTunes radio and runkeeper tracking via gps, also texting and toget stuff
 

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Jakimo said:
Beta 4 was the best batt performance I've ever seen on my iPhone 5. Quite surprised..

So beta 5 should be good, but I haven't had enough time with it to tell.
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I found that as well. B4 was amazing.

B5 is not so good though :(
 
I had to turn of parallax during beta 4, which improved my battery life 5 times. I'm afraid to turn it on again but I suppose the effect does automatically drain the battery no matter the beta build.
 
Beta 4 gave me worse battery life and now in b5 it seems to be back close to b3. B3 was ridiculously good for me!
 
It's gotten worse here. Quite a bit worse :p I'm at 58% at 11am, when I wouldn't reach that until late afternoon with b4.
 
way worse here.

Beta 3 has still been my best on an iPhone 5.

with Beta 5, i woke up at 7am with 100% charge (charged it overnight), by the time i got to work it was at 57% at 8:30am

edit: clean install btw, did an OTA on Monday, a clean install yesterday
 
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Mine has been quite well after the following.

-OTA update to beta 5 from beta 4
-Hard reset(Power + Home button) - took about 2 minutes to boot back up
-drained battery to 19%, did full recharge last night
-This morning, I'm at 20 minutes of light use(with LTE on), and 3 1/2 hours of standby. Still at 100%! :)
 
I can't really tell because lately my LTE signal has been bouncing around between 2 dots and 3 and it's auto-switching to 3G at times. Freakin Verizon needs to fix their tower that's nearby. :mad:
 
pazgb said:
Mine has been quite well after the following.

-OTA update to beta 5 from beta 4
-Hard reset(Power + Home button) - took about 2 minutes to boot back up
-drained battery to 19%, did full recharge last night
-This morning, I'm at 20 minutes of light use(with LTE on), and 3 1/2 hours of standby. Still at 100%! :)
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I'm getting the same kind of performance. :)
 
Yep, something's really weird: battery went directly from 19% to 3%; plugged it to the wall charger and it jumped back to 17% :p
 
Yeah there are still some bugs with the battery indicator.
 
kinda questionable. ive been getting the infamous 1% drop per minute when in use. i played a few minutes of words with friends and then checked facebook. this took no longer than 5-6 mins and i went from 85% to 80%. thats horrible. when at idle with nothing going on, i can get it to sit at the same percentage for awhile though. god forbid i start using it, the battery tanks immediately.
 
Battery performance has been getting better and better after each beta. But I started noticing in this Beta 5, Apple has been monitoring the power level as you can see diagnostic logs starting with PL and it shows detailed information on the battery.
 
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