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iPhone 5 battery life [Merged]

As my previous post I'm still waiting for the battery to die. I thought I had a problem with this too. I've been on Safari since the last photo. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1374881007.198167.jpg
Obviously not that bad after all :)
 
iPhone 5 battery life [Merged]

I have to say I had amazing battery life today. I have Dark Sky's and Storm Shield Weather Radio using my location constantly. Here is my battery life today. I also used Waze for and hour today.



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What do you guys think of this?
 

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This is my second replacement phone and I seem to have noticed that the battery is somehow draining faster than the phone I had before this and I came seem to understand why since I'm using this phone the same way I have used the other one. I mostly text, play candy crush for like five to ten minutes, and some light browsing and I listen to music only when I'm on my way to work. Nothing too extreme. I also noticed the percentage going down by one every two or so minutes upon each use. I took his snapshot about ten minutes ago and the percentage is already down to 9%. Is this normal or do I need to make an appointment at apple?

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DiCaprioAngel said:
This is my second replacement phone and I seem to have noticed that the battery is somehow draining faster than the phone I had before this and I came seem to understand why since I'm using this phone the same way I have used the other one. I mostly text, play candy crush for like five to ten minutes, and some light browsing and I listen to music only when I'm on my way to work. Nothing too extreme. I also noticed the percentage going down by one every two or so minutes upon each use. I took his snapshot about ten minutes ago and the percentage is already down to 9%. Is this normal or do I need to make an appointment at apple?

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How long ago did you get your replacement?
iPhone batteries need a few cycles until they last as long as they should.
 
I figured. I never had this problem with either of my previous phones, so I noticed this pretty quick since it's a big difference in battery drain. I don't expect the battery to be excellent, especially for a smartphone, I'm just hoping for it to not drain so fast. It's preventing me from using the phone as I should because I'm afraid of contributing to the drastic battery drain. Hmm, I've calibrated about a week after I got it, maybe I should try that again and see if it would fix it? If not, then I'm definitely gonna have to bring it into apple and have them test it.
 
DiCaprioAngel said:
I figured. I never had this problem with either of my previous phones, so I noticed this pretty quick since it's a big difference in battery drain. I don't expect the battery to be excellent, especially for a smartphone, I'm just hoping for it to not drain so fast. It's preventing me from using the phone as I should because I'm afraid of contributing to the drastic battery drain. Hmm, I've calibrated about a week after I got it, maybe I should try that again and see if it would fix it? If not, then I'm definitely gonna have to bring it into apple and have them test it.
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Yes try to make it 0% to 100% 5 more times. If their is no change, try for a replacement.


My battery is great:)
99% with 50 min of usage. I have never had 100% last so long.
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Yeah, I've done it a few more times and the problem still exists. I made an appointment at Apple for tomorrow so we'll see how that goes
 
Got mine replaced not because of battery but a rattly mute button which it turned out to be the camera lense. He said they all do it. My replacement does it too so a bit if a waste going to Apple. Anyway the new phone straight out the box at 60% was charged to 100% then it gave me 8hrs 33 mins useage and 1 day 4 hours standby. I've cycled it twice now and it's quite stable. On safari I'm using 1% every 5 mins so I think this is good so far. I was dreading the swap over because my other 5,s battery was good.
 
I don't know if this is much of an improvement but I still feel like my previous phone was able to last much longer than this. I went to the apple store and they said that the cause of my battery drain was because of certain apps crashing so I deleted said apps and did a hard restart. It made the battery drain a minute or two later than before but it's still draining and my battery is 100% healthy according to their diagnostics. I even did a restore and it's still the same.

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I'm on this at the moment. Don't know if this phone is any better?
The usage is mainly on 3G in a poor signal area (as pic). 2hours and now at 55% is this better?
I'm sure my other 5 was better :(.
 
stormchaser said:
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I'm on this at the moment. Don't know if this phone is any better?
The usage is mainly on 3G in a poor signal area (as pic). 2hours and now at 55% is this better?
I'm sure my other 5 was better :(.
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I would say this is pretty normal

I was in Devon recently, 3G only for the week. Full screen brightness and lots of 3G usage and 5 hours was about what I achieved.

At home with wifi and lower brightness it easily managed 8-9 hours.

5 hours higher brightness 3G and GPS is about right.
 
I'm on a quarter brightness.
10 text messages. 30 minutes on this forum. Bit on safari on wifi and the rest on Facebook wifi /3G.
No other things are on and I fetch email.
Also done 4 cycles of the battery.
EE is the carrier and they've gone downhill now for signal :( so that doesn't help.
 
stormchaser said:
I'm on a quarter brightness.
10 text messages. 30 minutes on this forum. Bit on safari on wifi and the rest on Facebook wifi /3G.
No other things are on and I fetch email.
Also done 4 cycles of the battery.
EE is the carrier and they've gone downhill now for signal :( so that doesn't help.
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If it makes you feel any better, I get around 5 - 5 and half hours on EE when using 3G only.

I get 8-10 hours when using WIFI only on a charge.

That is about right i'd say.
 
Thanks for that :)
Anyway I took it to Apple yesterday and he tested it and as usual it showed as being fine. He changed it for me as he could tell I was unhappy.
Lets see how number 3 phone does.
 
stormchaser said:
Thanks for that :)
Anyway I took it to Apple yesterday and he tested it and as usual it showed as being fine. He changed it for me as he could tell I was unhappy.
Lets see how number 3 phone does.
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It's just EE lately. What use to be 3 bars signal, is now 2... 4 ..now 3 and so on. It all adds up over a day.

I've been in a full 3G signal area for an entire day and got 6 and half hours.
 
Damolee said:
It's just EE lately. What use to be 3 bars signal, is now 2... 4 ..now 3 and so on. It all adds up over a day.

I've been in a full 3G signal area for an entire day and got 6 and half hours.
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Yes I agree with you. EE are killing these batteries fast with they're very poor signal all the time. 1 or 2 bars whereas Orange used to be 4 or 5 bars.
 
stormchaser said:
EE is the carrier and they've gone downhill now for signal :( so that doesn't help.
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love the way they make out that everyone is an isolated case. Every store I go into, and thousands of people all over the UK are complaining about EE now. Fine when it was Orange. If you're in the UK and are contemplating them, please do yourself a favour and stay well away. They are abysmal and I've had no signal/3G at home for 4 months now, where I'd had full signal for 15 years on Orange.
 
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