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iPhone 5 battery life [Merged]

My battery life is still not great on light usage. Mostly wifi. No games very little talk time.
 

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How is usage calculated?

I used the phone (by I meant screen turned on, looking at it) for 3 minutes since full charge, but usage is 1h, 20 minutes.

Does the network timeout between screen activations count as usage? I believe the network timeout is 5 minutes. That would mean if I turned on the screen 6 times in an hour to check the time, my usage would register as 30 minutes?

I'm getting 5 hours of usage & 15 hours standby but actual (real usage) is maybe 30-45 minutes.

My iPhone 4 would last 48 hours standby with 6 hours of actual screen usage.
 
LTE no wifi, Normal usage. Lots of texting, facebook, twitter. All push. About and hour of calling.
 

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Holy crap, I think turning off auto set date and time works! This type if usage used to be around 80-85% for me. I'm also noticing every percentage drop to be much slower. It was very noticeable before. I will update later once drained to 1%.

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evorc said:
Holy crap, I think turning off auto set date and time works! This type if usage used to be around 80-85% for me. I'm also noticing every percentage drop to be much slower. It was very noticeable before. I will update later once drained to 1%.

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You can not jump to such a conclusion after so little time has passed. I've seen people post screenshots of their phone after it's gone down to 99% battery, and extrapolate on that. That kind of logic is horribly flawed.

4% and 4 hours standby implies it would last 99 hours, which is not going to happen.

Terribly inaccurate experiment.
 
iamthekiller said:
You can not jump to such a conclusion after so little time has passed. I've seen people post screenshots of their phone after it's gone down to 99% battery, and extrapolate on that. That kind of logic is horribly flawed.

4% and 4 hours standby implies it would last 99 hours, which is not going to happen.

Terribly inaccurate experiment.
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The usage on my IP5 after 95% was normally only about 20 mins. That was before having my Date & Time setting to automatic.

Turning that darn thing off gave me an extra 3+ hours at the end of the day, and my percentage dropped very slowly consistently. I do believe his assumptions are validated...at 95% with almost an hour of use is a good sign that he's on his way to getting better battery mileage, at least that's what I experienced with mine.

Here's my latest usage stats after turning automatic off:
 

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donster28 said:
The usage on my IP5 after 95% was normally only about 20 mins. That was before having my Date & Time setting to automatic.

Turning that darn thing off gave me an extra 3+ hours at the end of the day, and my percentage dropped very slowly consistently. I do believe his assumptions are validated...at 95% with almost an hour of use is a good sign that he's on his way to getting better battery mileage, at least that's what I experienced with mine.

Here's my latest usage stats after turning automatic off:
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Thank you! I'm seeing dramatic improvement.
 
iamthekiller said:
You can not jump to such a conclusion after so little time has passed. I've seen people post screenshots of their phone after it's gone down to 99% battery, and extrapolate on that. That kind of logic is horribly flawed.

4% and 4 hours standby implies it would last 99 hours, which is not going to happen.

Terribly inaccurate experiment.
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So you telling me I can't tell a difference? How are you going to tell me what I've known about my battery performance so far? Stop trolling this is dramatic improvement for me. So yes I can jump to a conclusion because of the drastic improvement so far. Hate all you want but this stat right here I have never experienced before:

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My first charge.

All push on, 5 email's push every 15mins on, bluetooth off, location on every app, screen about 20% for about 2hours and then rest of it 100%.
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Has anyone toyed with Bluetooth on/off to see the difference?

I leave it on all day because my car has it built in and I use Jawbone for calls from my home office.

I've never really turned it off for a day to see the difference, but I suspect Bluetooth eats up lots of battery life.


Anyone experimented?
 
evorc said:
So you telling me I can't tell a difference? How are you going to tell me what I've known about my battery performance so far? Stop trolling this is dramatic improvement for me. So yes I can jump to a conclusion because of the drastic improvement so far. Hate all you want but this stat right here I have never experienced before:

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You are correct for sure. Turning off the auto time set has been known to save battery life.
 
my battery sucks. 2 hours of use today, down to 45% Mostly Facebook and crap like that, some browsing, no music or anything. I have all notifications turned to fetch, brightness down to 30-40%. Im backing up to my computer and im about to restore as new, not an iCloud backup.
 
Lol turning off the auto-set date time works wonders. I can't believe what I'm experiencing today. No way it was this good before and this is without iPod music listening.
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I got mine yesterday received out of the box with about 80% charge. I charged it to 100% last night and this has been my usage so far. Bluetooth turned off only but this has been on wifi like the whole time. I ended up plugging it in shortly after this to sync music so I disregarded all usage after that.
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With my Iphone5 (received it on the release date. Hence, I already did many full charges) I have to recharge it during the night and again around noon.

Worst battery life ever!

And I'm using it as I used my Iphone4. This latter could stay on for the whole day.
 
Well I just got back from Apple about my iPhone 5. The genius ran a diagnostic and determined my battery was fine but that my antenna was faulty because his iPhone had full bars where mine had one. He said that could account for the battery discharge if my antenna was working harder than it needed to and replaced my iPhone. It came out of the box with about 60% charge so I'm going to run it down and charge it fully before I see anything but so far it seems to be draining less than my previous phone.
 
My stats after a first re charge

8 hours, 30 minutes usage
1 day, 2 hour standby

2% left

Never gotten usage like this before. Same apps, sites, email as normal. Great battery life with the 5 to the 4s which on average was around 6 hours, 30 mins usage.

Lets see if it keeps up similar battery time but so far great
 
Oddly enough, I had my iPhone 5 (locked to Rogers) unlocked last night, so I decided to back it up, and do a restore in iTunes to confirm the unlock.

Since last night's restore, the battery on my iPhone 5 is MUCH MUCH better. I'm not sure why, since I restored from a backup. But as of now (almost 1pm), my battery life is at 88% since being unplugged at 6:30am.

Yesterday, with very similar usage (music app, some emails/texting, and a bit of Facebook and browsing), I would be at around 65-70%.

What gives? LOL

So, for anyone with horrible battery life, trying backup up your phone and then doing a full restore, and restore from backup. I don't know why, but my battery life is TEN FOLDS BETTER!!!
 
Hey guys I know this is going to sound strange but today I started closing out the 'Settings' app (in the task switcher) each time I use it, and my battery has been draining a lot slower. Try it out and let us know your results.
 
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