Thank you for posting this. Saved me time chiming in. I read the article and thought No S@#$T Sherlock
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iPhone 5 Battery Life May Be Impacted Greatly by Cellular Signal Strength
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Thank you for posting this. Saved me time chiming in. I read the article and thought No S@#$T Sherlock
this makes sense also that turning off the lte while im at work helps battery, because their is no lte up there in the mountains! so from now on at work ill turn off lte and save my phone battery from seraching for lte if there isnt' any there.
I do the same. That's why I want a toggle so we can do this quickly instead of the long way every friggen time.
Maybe reset the phone. I have never seen an iPhone burn through battery that fast unless some process ran away in the background (i.e.: the kernel could not kill it).
I'm currently at 2 days and 4 hours on my Android phone with 20% remaining. Not extremely hard usage, but very normal usage. I have been using it throughout the past 2 days for checking email, some browsing, listening to some SiriusXM, a few games, etc.
The key to my phone is it has a real battery packed into it.
That's horrible as far as I am concerned. You better be using it VERY hard.
Oh please. Why don't you just break out your measuring tape?
I bet you drive a big truck. With a stick shift.
I found when you first get the phone, set it as a new phone. Works all the time. Just sync the stuff that you want. My iPhone 5 battery life is good because of this.
Just a fact of LTE get used to it. It burns through battery like nothing else. Unfortunately I don't think there will be a way to switch between 3/4g in order to avoid this when on the road and you are just doing basic things such as text forum browsing and email.
It's a recurring theme here. We're so spoiled by the level of engineering in APPLE's products, that everything, and I mean every little detail about anything APPLE does or releases, is scrutinized to the hilt, to the point that we're sometimes expecting APPLE to routinely bend the laws of nature. Very few companies have to endure this kind of constant criticism. It's lonely at the top.
You realize the iPhone 4S had significantly worse battery life than the iPhone 4? What makes you think the 5S will improve it? History indicates it will get worse.
No *****. Signal strength has greatly impacted the battery life of every cell phone I've ever owned. iPhone, Motorola RAZR, Motorola V60, you name it. You can't get around basic physics.
^ THAT
i have no idea why this "study" belongs on the front page. unreal...
on a side note, i remember the days when i owned those small LG clamshell flip phones. there was a hack to enter the sub-menu system (i believe it was 00000000000* or something like that) where you could change the frequency that the phone would communicate with the tower (checking for an incoming call, checking for a voicemail or a text message). the default was 2 (2 seconds). i changed mine to a 5 (5 seconds) and saw my standby battery life more than double.
there should be an app (probably would have to be through Cydia as Apple would never allow anything to change the way the phone functions) that allows you to increase the time interval to increase standby battery life.
that's you
wife's phone is on LTE in NYC and she is saying how the battery lasts so much longer than her 4
I have been watching the battery life too with thoughts of it dwindling more quickly than my 4. Literally, I can watch the percentage drop minute by minute. It seem to happen more while I'm on wifi and weak LTE connections...which is at my house and work. Odd though, when the phone locks and I unlock it on wifi it bounces back to LTE or 4G and takes some time to reconnect to wifi. Maybe it has something to do with switching signals? The battery life isn't horrible but I would think I'd get at least 8-9 hours usage with 20 standby.
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I used to go into the programming menu of various Verizon phones and turn off EVDO on basic phones. A 1X signal is all that was needed for phone calls. It improved battery life as the phone was always searching for the EVDO signal.
Yeah I'm waiting for the iPhone 34 when they get all the bugs fix... With that logic I'll never get an iPhone. Are you tied down to a contract or something?
I would rather have an iPhone that was less thin and more battery - everyone wants and expects better battery life from the latest phones especially since we will be stuck with it for about 2 years. I would actually have preferred a 4" with the old aspect ratio - and of course more space for larger battery. But with apple the priority is always to make things thin and cool looking.
oh yeah, i would do that too. i did that with my Verizon LG VX8300. i only had EVDO on for the first 4 weeks when i was given the free promo month of unlimited V-Cast.
unless you streamed video from V-Cast, EVDO was pointless on those little flip phones
No **** this happens. The difference between really world and what Apple claims are sop by everyone