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iPhone 5 battery life has no chances
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With over 500 cycles, your battery had any right to be exhausted
And given that I could get a full day out of it if I was careful, I'm excited to see what a new battery will do
I just changed the battery in my brother's iPhone 5. It got passed down from my father who bought it on preorder. So it is as old as a battery in one can get. It was listed MFG 08/2012.
I replaced it with a Stalion replacement from Amazon for $20. I used to use iPhone4Parts but prices went up from the $8 or so they were and shipping takes a week. Can't beat prime!
So far so good! I was lasting around 4-6 hours and dying in the middle of the day. They live in a fringe area of Verizon, along with myself, and it's pretty unforgiving on the battery. But my Moto X will easily go all day (and has better reception). But 4-6 hours was a bit low, and that was mostly standby.
I changed it yesterday, so it'll be a bit before I hear back on any change. But at least it's new vs 2 years and 5 months old.
I also changed his 4s battery last year along with mine when I had it. They died at 30% without warning. They've been fine since.
Just need a pentalobe screwdriver, 00 driver, some force (dang glue!) and patience. Pry tools help a lot too if the glue is stubborn like usual. Just be careful around the logic board!
Best of luck with your new battery.
I replaced it with a Stalion replacement from Amazon for $20. I used to use iPhone4Parts but prices went up from the $8 or so they were and shipping takes a week. Can't beat prime!
So far so good! I was lasting around 4-6 hours and dying in the middle of the day. They live in a fringe area of Verizon, along with myself, and it's pretty unforgiving on the battery. But my Moto X will easily go all day (and has better reception). But 4-6 hours was a bit low, and that was mostly standby.
I changed it yesterday, so it'll be a bit before I hear back on any change. But at least it's new vs 2 years and 5 months old.
I also changed his 4s battery last year along with mine when I had it. They died at 30% without warning. They've been fine since.
Just need a pentalobe screwdriver, 00 driver, some force (dang glue!) and patience. Pry tools help a lot too if the glue is stubborn like usual. Just be careful around the logic board!
Best of luck with your new battery.
I just changed the battery in my brother's iPhone 5. It got passed down from my father who bought it on preorder. So it is as old as a battery in one can get. It was listed MFG 08/2012.
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I replaced it with a Stalion replacement from Amazon for $20. I used to use iPhone4Parts but prices went up from the $8 or so they were and shipping takes a week. Can't beat prime!
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So far so good! I was lasting around 4-6 hours and dying in the middle of the day. They live in a fringe area of Verizon, along with myself, and it's pretty unforgiving on the battery. But my Moto X will easily go all day (and has better reception). But 4-6 hours was a bit low, and that was mostly standby.
I changed it yesterday, so it'll be a bit before I hear back on any change. But at least it's new vs 2 years and 5 months old.
I also changed his 4s battery last year along with mine when I had it. They died at 30% without warning. They've been fine since.
Just need a pentalobe screwdriver, 00 driver, some force (dang glue!) and patience. Pry tools help a lot too if the glue is stubborn like usual. Just be careful around the logic board!
Best of luck with your new battery.
Please keep us posted! That's the exact battery I ordered and I'd like to hear how it does!
Yes I have an iPhone 5 since 2012 but I got a replacement two months ago because of the standby button problem.
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90 cycles. 97% capacity.
Where can you get iBackupBot for windows in the least shady way as possible? No adware, malware, Trojans, or anything of the like bundled in, please.. I'm very paranoid about this sort of thing.
Heres the official link, also I checked and no ad/malware: http://www.icopybot.com/ibackupbot_setup.exe
What % capacity does this iPhone have?
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Day three with the Stalion. Haven't really seen much of a difference. IBackipBot says the battery has a max capacity of 1440mAh. Should be 1440, but I can't imagine that a battery that's only short by 40mAh would perform the same as a battery with over 500 charge cycles. Maybe the meter just has to calibrate..... I hope that's the case.
Okay I just got iBackupBot and looked at the battery stats for my iPhone 6 that drains really fast... As I figured, it's fine.
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What's the deal? My iPad got 12 hours on a charge, pretty much YouTube nonstop the entire time, it's incredible! However, I've had it for a year, and it has 300 cycles, and is over 400 mah below the max capacity... Still works incredibly.
My iPhone has been with me since mid October, has always had battery life issues. It gets warm just from safari, checking Twitter, Instagram, checking people's snapchat stories real quick... It's at 81 cycles and is only like 50 mah below the max capacity. Yes, I have low signal listed under some apps, but that's only because I visted an area that barely has signal for almost 2 hours. Battery drained only 2% there. However, my battery drained 7% just from the 10-15 minute car ride back (I was using my phone in the passenger seat the whole way, mostly Safari) but if I am home all day with -105db to -115db, I never get low signal under apps, call drops, slow data speeds, anything. I pull 20-30mbps with LTE at these signals. Also, I am on WiFi the whole time at my house.
Both devices have pretty much the same settings with battery draining ones disabled, both are on 8.1.2 and usually have 25-40% brightness or so.
I performed a clean restore on my iPhone 6 two days ago, I have 10 apps on there, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Twitter, Snapchat, Trivia Crack, Instagram, Bible, Roku. Background app refresh is off, location services are all stripped down, nothing has "Always", I even disabled location for a ton of the "System Services". Mail is set to fetch every hour. Setting to manual made no difference.
I really don't know what else to do. I guess I will always just have to deal with 3 and a half hour to 6 hour cycles when everyone else is getting 8 to 11 hour cycles.
iPhone:
iPad:
What's the deal? My iPad got 12 hours on a charge, pretty much YouTube nonstop the entire time, it's incredible! However, I've had it for a year, and it has 300 cycles, and is over 400 mah below the max capacity... Still works incredibly.
My iPhone has been with me since mid October, has always had battery life issues. It gets warm just from safari, checking Twitter, Instagram, checking people's snapchat stories real quick... It's at 81 cycles and is only like 50 mah below the max capacity. Yes, I have low signal listed under some apps, but that's only because I visted an area that barely has signal for almost 2 hours. Battery drained only 2% there. However, my battery drained 7% just from the 10-15 minute car ride back (I was using my phone in the passenger seat the whole way, mostly Safari) but if I am home all day with -105db to -115db, I never get low signal under apps, call drops, slow data speeds, anything. I pull 20-30mbps with LTE at these signals. Also, I am on WiFi the whole time at my house.
Both devices have pretty much the same settings with battery draining ones disabled, both are on 8.1.2 and usually have 25-40% brightness or so.
I performed a clean restore on my iPhone 6 two days ago, I have 10 apps on there, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Twitter, Snapchat, Trivia Crack, Instagram, Bible, Roku. Background app refresh is off, location services are all stripped down, nothing has "Always", I even disabled location for a ton of the "System Services". Mail is set to fetch every hour. Setting to manual made no difference.
I really don't know what else to do. I guess I will always just have to deal with 3 and a half hour to 6 hour cycles when everyone else is getting 8 to 11 hour cycles.
Just thought I'd mention: turning off background app refresh will give you a better battery. The WhatsApp and Facebook usage is that high because of backgrounding. I had the same issue with Hangouts on my iPhone 6 (draining to 80% in an hour) and now with it off, the battery is excellent again.
Don't know if this has been brought up already, but a DFU restore may do the trick. Here's why I think so:
When I installed my new battery, my iPhone was running off a backup from my iPhone 4. I saw very little improvement with the new battery. I decided to take a chance and last night, put the phone into recovery mode and restored it and set it up as a new phone. Then I played N.O.V.A. 3 and Modern Combat for a few hours and ran it dead. Recharged overnight.
Now from my understanding, the DFU mode restore is more beneficial because it also resets the firmware, not just iOS. So if there was a glitch in the low-level systems, either from the restored backup or from long before I even bought the phone, it was fixed. My battery today is still at 100% and I unplugged it 4.5 hours ago. Normally it would be down to ~93% almost regardless of usage. We'll see if the trend continues.
When I installed my new battery, my iPhone was running off a backup from my iPhone 4. I saw very little improvement with the new battery. I decided to take a chance and last night, put the phone into recovery mode and restored it and set it up as a new phone. Then I played N.O.V.A. 3 and Modern Combat for a few hours and ran it dead. Recharged overnight.
Now from my understanding, the DFU mode restore is more beneficial because it also resets the firmware, not just iOS. So if there was a glitch in the low-level systems, either from the restored backup or from long before I even bought the phone, it was fixed. My battery today is still at 100% and I unplugged it 4.5 hours ago. Normally it would be down to ~93% almost regardless of usage. We'll see if the trend continues.
Seems pretty average to me. Never had more than 6 or 7 hours on any iPhone I have ever owned since the 3G days minutes the iPhone 6
Edit: nvm should have read the whole thing
In my experience, complete restores (without loading a backup) are useless. iOS just doesn't have corrupt files that mess up. Just restore your settings after a DFU restore and it's the same.
As you can see, you got a crappy battery life even after a restore as a new phone. Just doesn't work. I get up to two more hours of usage with a 2009 backup on my iPhone 5 (in wifi).
As you can see, you got a crappy battery life even after a restore as a new phone. Just doesn't work. I get up to two more hours of usage with a 2009 backup on my iPhone 5 (in wifi).
So what you're saying is...? I'm sorry, I'm just confused by "Just restore you settings after a DFU restore and it's the same"
So what you're saying is...? I'm sorry, I'm just confused by "Just restore you settings after a DFU restore and it's the same"
Settings > General > restore > settings
BUT since your device has been set up as new, it woundt fix anything. There's a problem you have to find
How much more of an improvement? Does it make a difference if you use text message forwarding a lot? I don't use it very much (90% of the people I text use iMessage) but when I do use SMS I love it.
Not a significant amount, but saved me a few percents over the day.
There are just so many routers in my apartment and on campus that sometimes the phone would be on one and the computer on another so I'd try and send an SMS from my Mac and it wouldn't work.