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iPhone 5 battery life [Merged]
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This is what mine does. I called Apple tonight and they ran a diagnostic test and immediately said it came back as "battery failure." I have a Genius Bar appt for a new phone, it is a hardware issue and under warranty.
Call Apple and have them run the test.
Yes. I had the same symptoms and had my battery replaced at the Apple Store. Go see a Genius.
iPhone 5 battery life [Merged]
Thats awesome!
I get 6-8 Hours of usage with the GPS being used by storm shield app, Dark Sky's , DataMan Pro tracking my location and with mail fetching every 30 min.
Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk 2
Thats awesome!
I get 6-8 Hours of usage with the GPS being used by storm shield app, Dark Sky's , DataMan Pro tracking my location and with mail fetching every 30 min.
Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk 2
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So, help!!!
AppleCare on the phone said I had a battery failure, so I take it to the Genius Bar. Guy sets it up and it shows it is in the green, so he can't change it even though my record says AppleCare saw a failure. They didnt get me a code for the store to override the system.
My phone battery drops from 30 percent to 20 in a minute, and often does at 7 percent. If I plug it in, in two minutes it is back at 20 percent. It drops two percentage points a minute of use often.
Today I had 3 hrs 20 mins if usage and 9 HUD standby and it died. I have notifications and locations off and close all apps completely.
I have restored - though I did then restore a backup do I didn't lose apps. Is my only option a clean restore without restoring a backup?
I have no idea if so how to get all my contacts and apps back. I don't care about texts and settings I can adjust.
Help! This phone us borderline unusable - I don't trust to use it when I'm traveling.
AppleCare on the phone said I had a battery failure, so I take it to the Genius Bar. Guy sets it up and it shows it is in the green, so he can't change it even though my record says AppleCare saw a failure. They didnt get me a code for the store to override the system.
My phone battery drops from 30 percent to 20 in a minute, and often does at 7 percent. If I plug it in, in two minutes it is back at 20 percent. It drops two percentage points a minute of use often.
Today I had 3 hrs 20 mins if usage and 9 HUD standby and it died. I have notifications and locations off and close all apps completely.
I have restored - though I did then restore a backup do I didn't lose apps. Is my only option a clean restore without restoring a backup?
I have no idea if so how to get all my contacts and apps back. I don't care about texts and settings I can adjust.
Help! This phone us borderline unusable - I don't trust to use it when I'm traveling.
So, help!!!
AppleCare on the phone said I had a battery failure, so I take it to the Genius Bar. Guy sets it up and it shows it is in the green, so he can't change it even though my record says AppleCare saw a failure. They didnt get me a code for the store to override the system.
My phone battery drops from 30 percent to 20 in a minute, and often does at 7 percent. If I plug it in, in two minutes it is back at 20 percent. It drops two percentage points a minute of use often.
Today I had 3 hrs 20 mins if usage and 9 HUD standby and it died. I have notifications and locations off and close all apps completely.
I have restored - though I did then restore a backup do I didn't lose apps. Is my only option a clean restore without restoring a backup?
I have no idea if so how to get all my contacts and apps back. I don't care about texts and settings I can adjust.
Help! This phone us borderline unusable - I don't trust to use it when I'm traveling.
Show the Genius your battery dropping from 30 to 20%.
Use this app for your contacts or just use icloud.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/easy-backup-my-contacts-backup/id545198169?mt=8
That's the funny thing, I did show him but his little testing unit showed it solidly green still. I used it for three minutes and showed him it dropped a percentage point per minute (or more).
I have contacts synced through Google (I love them through gmail); with apps that are backed up to iTunes can't I drag/drop them individually over? If so I wouldn't lose too terribly much by starting as new and not restoring from any backup.
Anybody else who has been experiencing "less than stellar" battery life (let's say between 4 - 6 hours of usage down to 1% battery life) noticing an improvement over the past several days?
My usage has improved from 4-6 hours to about 7.5 and I've changed nothing! No changes to any of the phone's settings or my usage habits, except perhaps for a bit less phone use and bluetooth use on my commute these past few days, but certainly nothing to warrant a 20-25% increase in usage time...
Bizarre? I hope this isn't just a fluke (before the 6.1.2 iOS update, I would get 7-9 hours of usage fairly regularly (if I was predominantly on wifi) and I hope that will be the case again...
My usage has improved from 4-6 hours to about 7.5 and I've changed nothing! No changes to any of the phone's settings or my usage habits, except perhaps for a bit less phone use and bluetooth use on my commute these past few days, but certainly nothing to warrant a 20-25% increase in usage time...
Bizarre? I hope this isn't just a fluke (before the 6.1.2 iOS update, I would get 7-9 hours of usage fairly regularly (if I was predominantly on wifi) and I hope that will be the case again...
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Mine varies a lot depending on what I'm doing, like most people, but my average is around 7 hours of actual usage with a day or more of standby time.
At this point, I'm about to throw the 5 away and buy a SGIII or something. Apple has refused to help and restoring has made no difference.
At this point, the phone will drain a percent per a minute or two of usage. I travel daily for work and this phone is my office connection. I can't trust it any more for that purpose.
At this point, the phone will drain a percent per a minute or two of usage. I travel daily for work and this phone is my office connection. I can't trust it any more for that purpose.
So, help!!!
AppleCare on the phone said I had a battery failure, so I take it to the Genius Bar. Guy sets it up and it shows it is in the green, so he can't change it even though my record says AppleCare saw a failure. They didnt get me a code for the store to override the system.
My phone battery drops from 30 percent to 20 in a minute, and often does at 7 percent. If I plug it in, in two minutes it is back at 20 percent. It drops two percentage points a minute of use often.
Today I had 3 hrs 20 mins if usage and 9 HUD standby and it died. I have notifications and locations off and close all apps completely.
I have restored - though I did then restore a backup do I didn't lose apps. Is my only option a clean restore without restoring a backup?
I have no idea if so how to get all my contacts and apps back. I don't care about texts and settings I can adjust.
Help! This phone us borderline unusable - I don't trust to use it when I'm traveling.
I am having the same exact problems. I am afraid to take my iPhone in for an appointment because it has two hairline cracks through the rear glass at the top. When it was jailbroken I checked the cycle count and it said 260. That was a month ago which means I am probably around 290 now.
This is mine so far on a 1 month old 5.
General texting,safari and Facebook. Everything turned off except wifi at home.
Is this good or normal?
General texting,safari and Facebook. Everything turned off except wifi at home.
Is this good or normal?
Do you have Facebook installed? Also did you try calling AppleCare instead of going to the store. I find them more receptive to replacing phones