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Why does it matter if you start from new?
Is your GPS being used at all times?
This is my second battery post. It getting a little better. I haven't used Wifi for anything other than 1-2 min iCloud backups. The rest has been LTE since its release. Picture shows 4G but I had just turned cellular setting on and back off again really quick. I am using, spotify, safari, Netflix for an episode or two, iPod, and speed tests. Loving the battery life. Much better than my 4s was at holding a charge! 
I used to only reach around 6 hours browsing time on LTE, but that was with wifi scanning in the background. Today I left the house and turned off wifi and just stuck with LTE browsing and so far I am almost at 3 hours usage with 70% left. I suggest turning off wifi when not needed.
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j-a-x
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I thought I'd post my battery story in case anybody is interested.
I turned WIFI OFF all day today to see what would happen in a worst case scenario if I was traveling and didn't have WIFI (normally I have wifi 90% of the working day).
My phone lasted the whole day at the office just fine until about 9:30 pm. Not bad considering I transferred 1.5 GB of data during that period (downloaded all of my Navigon maps).
Keep in mind, this is with WIFI OFF and only LTE service. With WIFI on I'd expect to get significantly more battery life. I had a good LTE signal most of the day except for an hour at lunch when I was underground and had very little signal. Actually everybody with iPhone 4Ss at lunch had no service but I had a few bars and was able to transfer data in a place that was previously a dead zone... pretty cool.
I think it's important to post the data usage when you post a screenshot of your usage page on here. 1.5 GB of LTE data is a lot different than a day when you use 50 MB of LTE data...
I think this sort of uptime is avery good considering the amount of cellular data that was used.
I turned WIFI OFF all day today to see what would happen in a worst case scenario if I was traveling and didn't have WIFI (normally I have wifi 90% of the working day).
My phone lasted the whole day at the office just fine until about 9:30 pm. Not bad considering I transferred 1.5 GB of data during that period (downloaded all of my Navigon maps).
Keep in mind, this is with WIFI OFF and only LTE service. With WIFI on I'd expect to get significantly more battery life. I had a good LTE signal most of the day except for an hour at lunch when I was underground and had very little signal. Actually everybody with iPhone 4Ss at lunch had no service but I had a few bars and was able to transfer data in a place that was previously a dead zone... pretty cool.
I think it's important to post the data usage when you post a screenshot of your usage page on here. 1.5 GB of LTE data is a lot different than a day when you use 50 MB of LTE data...
I think this sort of uptime is avery good considering the amount of cellular data that was used.
JohnGregorio
macrumors member
My battery is absolutely terrible. In a 1 hour bus ride, with slacker radio streaming via 3G (LTE, WiFi disabled) I'm at 83%
Here's my scren grab. 100% charge at 7:00PM, with slight web browsing and slacker radio.
Here's my scren grab. 100% charge at 7:00PM, with slight web browsing and slacker radio.
When I first got my phone I restored from a backup, and was only getting 3-4 hours of battery usage with 8-9 hours of standby. I restored as a new phone and battery is A LOT better!
Breakdown:
LTE ON, 50-60% Brightness, Notifications: Phone, Messages, Calendar
Mail: Manual (No PUSH), Location Services OFF, Siri ON
2 hours LTE internet browsing while listening to music
1 1/2 hour Netflix
3 hour wifi internet browsing
30 minutes music
30 minutes texting, phone call usage
Breakdown:
LTE ON, 50-60% Brightness, Notifications: Phone, Messages, Calendar
Mail: Manual (No PUSH), Location Services OFF, Siri ON
2 hours LTE internet browsing while listening to music
1 1/2 hour Netflix
3 hour wifi internet browsing
30 minutes music
30 minutes texting, phone call usage
fortunecookie
macrumors regular
Can you compare your new battery life results with your previous experience? What exactly is "solved completely" how many hours in improvement?
Previously I was watching the battery percentage drop by one each time I opened a web page or started typing an email. Usually at this time of day (10:23 am here) I'd be down to about 85% battery from moderate use since 7:30am.
Right now I'm on 99% battery since 7:30am after HEAVY use (I wanted to hammer it to see if the set up had changed anything battery wise).
WindowsTraitor
macrumors 6502
if you restore as new how do you download all the apps you had?
I am considering restoring, because when I first got the phone, I had to drive for about 2 hours, and I used maps. The battery lasted almost 8 hours that day. (Streaming, maps, calls)
Soon after I restore from back up the battery has lasted at most 5 hours.
Yesterday I played Batman. Started with battery at 93%, after one hour of playing the battery was at 16%.
SO I cannot even wathc a full movie on a charge this is dumb
I am considering restoring, because when I first got the phone, I had to drive for about 2 hours, and I used maps. The battery lasted almost 8 hours that day. (Streaming, maps, calls)
Soon after I restore from back up the battery has lasted at most 5 hours.
Yesterday I played Batman. Started with battery at 93%, after one hour of playing the battery was at 16%.
SO I cannot even wathc a full movie on a charge this is dumb
megapopular
macrumors 6502a
playtillyadrop
macrumors member
If you guys are having battery issues I highly suggest doing a restore from iTunes. It will complelety do a fresh install by downloading iOS 6. My iPhone 5 had a battery drain issue, I would take it off the charger at 6am and by 11am it would drop down 12 or 13%, not doing anything. Last night I backed up my phone on iTunes and did a restore to factoring settings this wipes the original firmware that comes with the phone, and not just erases everything if you we're to do it on the phone itself. I then did a restore from the back up I made on iTunes. So before I went to sleep I took the phone off the charger at 3:45am and when I woke at 9:45am I was 99% battery. I always leave everything brightness at 40% with auto, push email, Bluetooth on, lte on, wifi on. Hope this helps someone out there.
applefanDrew
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Battery has been great for me. For this particular day(s), I made 3 phone calls, texted constantly, used 40 minutes of turn by turn navigation, was on LTE for about 5 of the 10 hours, took pictures, used FB, Twitter, Instagram, Flipboard, Prismatic, Mail, Safari constantly. In other words, I used it like I do everyday. I've been consistently getting about 10 hours usage.
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here's my story, hope it helps:
I wasn't having the 1 1/2 - 2 hour usage problems i have seen here, actually i didn't even start checking the usage stats until yesterday after reading through this thread. I was having the battery drain 1% every 3 minutes or so - seemed mostly to happen when browsing while on AT&T LTE with or without a good signal. The thing that was most troubling was that i was losing 1% every 5 or 6 minutes while on wi-fi as well - a lot poorer life than on my previous iphone 4, although i did notice that the 4's battery life wasn't as good after upgrading to ios6 as well.
What i did was sort of a compromise to a setup as new phone by resetting via General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings. I'm still discovering which settings this resets to factory defaults but it didn't erase any media or app settings - just the OS settings. Be warned that it does reset wifi passwords, wallpaper settings, all the stuff in "general", etc. Mail accounts remained intact. I basically did this after reading this macworld article seeing i didn't want to have to reinstall all my apps, mail accounts, etc. I noticed the battery didn't seem to drain as fast after doing this overall (on wifi mostly) - but still drained quickly on LTE (1% every 4 minutes or so).
So last night i had about 4% battery at midnight and i left it off of the charger as i wanted it to fully drain. This morning at 8:30 it still had 1% and finally died when i used it for about 10 minutes. Final usage stats were 9 hours, 3 minutes and 1 day, 1 hour standby time.
I'm going to see if a couple of cycles improve the battery indicator - i'm starting to think that as mentioned earlier in this thread, the battery indicator and/or battery itself takes a few cycles to get up to speed.
I wasn't having the 1 1/2 - 2 hour usage problems i have seen here, actually i didn't even start checking the usage stats until yesterday after reading through this thread. I was having the battery drain 1% every 3 minutes or so - seemed mostly to happen when browsing while on AT&T LTE with or without a good signal. The thing that was most troubling was that i was losing 1% every 5 or 6 minutes while on wi-fi as well - a lot poorer life than on my previous iphone 4, although i did notice that the 4's battery life wasn't as good after upgrading to ios6 as well.
What i did was sort of a compromise to a setup as new phone by resetting via General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings. I'm still discovering which settings this resets to factory defaults but it didn't erase any media or app settings - just the OS settings. Be warned that it does reset wifi passwords, wallpaper settings, all the stuff in "general", etc. Mail accounts remained intact. I basically did this after reading this macworld article seeing i didn't want to have to reinstall all my apps, mail accounts, etc. I noticed the battery didn't seem to drain as fast after doing this overall (on wifi mostly) - but still drained quickly on LTE (1% every 4 minutes or so).
So last night i had about 4% battery at midnight and i left it off of the charger as i wanted it to fully drain. This morning at 8:30 it still had 1% and finally died when i used it for about 10 minutes. Final usage stats were 9 hours, 3 minutes and 1 day, 1 hour standby time.
I'm going to see if a couple of cycles improve the battery indicator - i'm starting to think that as mentioned earlier in this thread, the battery indicator and/or battery itself takes a few cycles to get up to speed.
