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Iphone 5 arrived with no charge on battery

LFSimon

LFSimon

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Jun 13, 2010
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Has anyone else received a new phone that had no charge in the battery?

Reason I ask is: Received two iPhones today. One showed almost a full charge the other one was so low that it wouldn't turn on until after it was plugged in to charge for a 5 min or so.

It's fully charged now but I wanted to wait and see how long it will hold the charge before activating it as I don't want to deactivate old phone and then have the new one need replacement. So I'm wondering if my problem is unique - if so it might indicate a defective phone.
 
Well, when I received a launch day iPhone 4 it also had no charge on the battery. And guess what? It was bad and needed replacement. I hope that's not true with yours, but you won't know until you try.
 
jbachandouris said:
Really? That's what Apple tried to tell me with my iPhone 4. It would lose 50% battery life overnight even when powered off. He's asking for advice not smart alec responses,
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Well loosing 50% battery overnight is different from my phone came without a charge now isn't it?

I gave him an accurate response, no charge on the battery doesn't mean anything other than it came with no charge.

Now after the battery is broken in if he has issues that is another matter entirely.
 
darngooddesign said:
Well loosing 50% battery overnight is different from my phone came without a charge now isn't it?

I gave him an accurate response, no charge on the battery doesn't mean anything other than it came with no charge.

Now after the battery is broken in if he has issues that is another matter entirely.
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If you read my first post, mine was totally dead , like his, and Apple had to charge it before it would even activate. I hope the OP's is not messed up, but mine was.
 
jbachandouris said:
Really? That's what Apple tried to tell me with my iPhone 4. It would lose 50% battery life overnight even when powered off. He's asking for advice not smart alec responses,
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That still doesn't mean his phone is bad just because yours was. He still needs to charge it and find out if there's an issue or it simply got shipped without a charge.
 
You have to remember, one might have been made 2 months ago and been sat doing nothing, the other one could have only just been made.
 
Nothing to be concerned with. Charge it & enjoy!

I've had every iPhone, never follow any battery do's or dont's & always get great battery life.
 
I was merely trying to determine if this was common or not.

So far the responses indicate only one case of a phone arriving totally uncharged like mine and that one ended up defective.

My only objective here was to see if this happened to others with a good phone. Since it hasn't my plan will be to test out the battery for a day before deactivating the old phone - which I will now do. That's all.
 
Follow Up

After fully charging the phone yesterday afternoon and evening it held a full charge all night. So I now feel safe in activating it and deactivating our old phone. I guess the discharged battery was just a fluke.


SonnyDickson said:
Any Factory Test Photos in the Camera Roll?
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There were some really cool explicit factory test photos on the phone, however I can't show them to you as doing the restore from backup routine wiped them. Sorry :rolleyes:
 
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