My former iPhone 5 is used by a colleague, with iOS 8.1.2 installed, and it still goes above 5 hrs, with a two years old battery.
I'm speaking about 3G usage.
What kind of usage?
My former iPhone 5 is used by a colleague, with iOS 8.1.2 installed, and it still goes above 5 hrs, with a two years old battery.
I'm speaking about 3G usage.
No. I started the thread because I had a theory. At the same time I was asking you guys for a think, about two things:
1) the theory itself, which is: iOS 7 is a special version of iOS, completely rewritten. So I guess that every phone which came with an older version is automatically cut off and covered of manure by Apple.
2) what usage do you get out of you iPhone 5? Is my usage (which I had with two different models) normal?
As we get into the topic, I am starting to notice that my theory finds confirmations.
I think this theory has been confirmed many times over. Two year old phones on the latest ios don't last as long as they did on the version of iOS they were designed for. Still, the numbers you are seeing aren't bad.
What kind of usage?
He's speaking about 2-3 hrs of usage .... That's not normal
Indeed I will. I was just trying to understand if it's frequent on iPhone 5 (so the only solution is to change phone) or a specific unlucky case. The fact is that I got this terrible battery life on two different iPhone 5s. The first one was good with iOS 6, and decent with iOS 7 for what I remember. iOS 7.1 started to kill it, iOS 8 gave the coup de grace. I'm pretty sure it was not immediate, but gradual. So same battery life on the first days with the new OS, worse and worse over the weeks.This thread was annoying to read.
If you think you are getting bad battery (which you have been told a few times now that you might be) go to an apple store and have them test it, end of.
They might replace it free - great customer service.
2 hrs is absolutely not normal.
3 dots aren't a strong signal. On the contrary is barely usable for data connections (it's good for voice and sms).
What town is it ?
Here in Rome the 4G network is very spotty, while in Milan is quite solid.
Are 3 dots really that bad? It works pretty good for data actually, jumping around pages and all. 3 dots (-108 db) of LTE got me 20 Mbps on Verizon, perfectly sufficient for basic browsing, especially smaller mobile pages (my 3 mbps 3G signal, yes, 3 dots (-88 db), was only slightly slower on this website).
Are 3 dots really that bad? It works pretty good for data actually, jumping around pages and all. 3 dots (-108 db) of LTE got me 20 Mbps on Verizon, perfectly sufficient for basic browsing, especially smaller mobile pages (my 3 mbps 3G signal, yes, 3 dots (-88 db), was only slightly slower on this website).
I never have more than 2 or 3 dots at home/work and get awesome battery life.
I never get more than 2 or 3 dots and I get horrible battery life, but nothing EVER says "Low Signal" or "No Cell Service" in the battery usage list. So I am still just quite skeptical that 2 or 3 dots of service in my area is really causing such horrible battery drain, especially when the service is pretty good quality when actually being used.
Oh and I just wanted to add that I used parenthesis inside parenthesis before and didn't realize it until now, feel kinda of stupid now haha.
I never have more than 2 or 3 dots at home/work and get awesome battery life.
Look at this 3 hours wifi usage! Come on XD
Something wrong with your battery
Yeah, I will ask apple to replace it again. I hope it works.
Before you replace it. Did you try restoring with clean software (i.e. not from a backup)? If you never actually did a factory restore or if you did but then put your backup back on to the phone you didn't go through all of the troubleshooting steps that are available before getting another replacement.
If you already did a restore, try to remember if you had used a previous backup and if you didn't and already set it up as new then yeah definitely head to the store to find out what's going on.
What I did many times was:
1) DFU restoring the phone
2) loading the backup
3) erasing all the settings to default (everything)
I can't set it as new without a backup because I have some very important data I can't loose.
I never had problems with this backup, it's all about iOS 8.1.2 I guess. I clearly remember it was ok with 8.1.1.
I may try to restore it as a clean iPhone and see if it improves, but it would not be the same thing without apps because I may encounter the same problems later after redownloading apps and data (even without loading the backup).
If it worked, it would be even worse because it means that I can't use my backup on a 839€ phone. Seriously.
This is the problem, you'll never know if your issue is because of a corrupted backup because you never set it up as new. Apple can replace the phone for you 100 times but if you continue to restore from a backup that issue that is affecting your battery life will continue to come back on each and every iphone. I understand that it's a HUGE inconvenience to have to start over from scratch but if you really want the issue resolved or at least to troubleshoot properly, you're going to have to wipe that data.
Now, what you can do seeing as that data is obviously very important is that you can make a local backup on iTunes so that data is saved, then restore the phone to factory settings and SET UP AS NEW so that you can actually test the unit with clean software. Don't worry this is only so you can test out the phone for the next few days to monitor the battery life. If it seems to be functioning normally then that means your backup was corrupted and you need to figure out how to save anything meaningful from that backup and DELETE it because it's not doing you any good. If it does continue to have the same battery life issues then definitely get the phone replaced and now you know that the software wasn't the issue.
From what you're telling me though and the fact that you already recently got the phone replaced the issue looks like it's in your backup.
Yes, I will try. I really hope it's not the backup because it would be a catastrophe. I have a lot of important data from apps which can't be saved otherwise. I would lost my messages, too. Not even talking about how much time I would spend to load everything up again. Wow, man. I almost prefer the battery problems to this.
I'm sure there are plenty of ways to recover at least most of the information that you'll need saved in that backup. There is third party software out there that lets you dig into your phone's database and save certain information. http://www.copytrans.net/ is one that I know of.
Software corruption is one of the most annoying issues to have because it seems like the hardware is malfunctioning but it's really not and the only way to resolve it or even test it is to wipe the data.