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iPhone 5 Battery Life/Usage Screens [MERGED]
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I am lucky to get 4.5 hours when I hit 1% with 11 hours of standby.
At this moment I am sitting at 84% with 57 mins Usage and 4 hours, 19mins standby. This with LTE, BT Off as well as Diagnostics and Usage, Genuis for Apps, Location-Based iAds, Setting Time Zone and Traffic in Location services.
And all I did was check Tweetbot every once in a while, No Games.
I am seeing alot of posts mentioning restoring from an iCloud backup. All that is restoring for me with iCloud is my Contacts, Notes, Reminders, Safari and Documents and Data. Would that have any affect? I am not restoring apps with iCloud.
At this moment I am sitting at 84% with 57 mins Usage and 4 hours, 19mins standby. This with LTE, BT Off as well as Diagnostics and Usage, Genuis for Apps, Location-Based iAds, Setting Time Zone and Traffic in Location services.
And all I did was check Tweetbot every once in a while, No Games.
I am seeing alot of posts mentioning restoring from an iCloud backup. All that is restoring for me with iCloud is my Contacts, Notes, Reminders, Safari and Documents and Data. Would that have any affect? I am not restoring apps with iCloud.
I had everything off except the necessities and I was still getting lousy battery life. Then someone on here said something about turning the Push off on my email. For some reason I had not done that. Since then my battery life is awesome. Almost on par with my 4. Not sure if that is what did it but that is when I noticed a significant change.
Idk if this will help with battery life, but on my 3GS and 4 when I restored from backup, after it was done I would go to settings>general>reset and select "reset all settings". This doesn't delete anything, it just resets ur brightness, volume, spotlight search, ringtone and alert tones(except personalized ones, they stay set) back to stock, all easy stuff to change back. I'm not sure what the significance is aside from that, but I know that everytime I did it after restoring from a backup it would make my phone really snappy. I think it gets rid of a lot of place-marker cache/sync backup markers or whatever u wanna call it from the previous phone/install/iOS version/etc. I know I did it on my iPhone 5 after restoring from my iPhone 4 back up and I have had zero battery problems after I calibrated it. So it's worth trying!!!
Getting Better with Use
My battery life appears to be getting better with use, so those with issues may want to wait a bit.
My battery life appears to be getting better with use, so those with issues may want to wait a bit.
This is after running the battery down to 0 today and after I plugged it back in to check the stats. My phone was hardly ever actually in standby mode completely today, screen was off, but I kept things running during the first half of the day. No LTE in my area, and in the city I go to school I have full bars. It switches to EDGE partway on my commute to home for about 10 minutes and then in my home town I have about 3-4 bars of "4G" regularly.
Break down of usage:
Tried to do my daily routine and added a few things that I don’t do every day like games and movies. Turned on the Music App for my commute to school, but had to make a detour to the Apple Store today. Total time with music playing today was probably about 2 1/2 hours, usually with the screen off. Phone is hooked up via BT to my car so BT is active as well during this time. On the way back from school I used Siri to set a reminder and then to also “take me home” so I could use the Maps app today. Again, I left the screen off during the drive, and it would only come on when the next set of the directions came up (I love this feature). Used this in conjunction with music during this time for about an hour since I used it again in town to get somewhere else. I also purposefully took a couple of alternate routes or stopped at a gas station off the route to see how well it rerouted. Once I got home I got a chance to actually fiddle around like normal on it, and that’s when the battery started taking a hit pretty fast. After about an 1 1/2 hours of Safari browsing, Facebook, texting, browsing pictures and sharing a photostream, 10 minutes of video playback and 15 minutes of playing NOVA 3 and a round of Dice, I went all the way from about 70% down to 25%. Current usage at this point is 5 hours 13 minutes and 7 hours 32 minutes of standby. During the last 10% I stopped the heavy usage and just used it for texting and bit of Facebook. It seemed to go down pretty fast from there, but then the last 1% went on forever. I tried to kill it off by playing a 6 1/2 HD video. That didn’t do it. I think I will try this test again with out BT and Wi-Fi on except when I’m actually using it. At home though I’m always connected to it so I don’t know how to fix that. These results seem somewhat normal for all the things I have running.
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After a clean restore and draining the battery I'm at 70% after 1 hour 30 minutes of use browsing on 4G, not even LTE... This sucks
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Would turning off my LTE improve my battery life? And I'm curious because my city only has 4g and not lte so can I turn it off or will my phone dl slower then having LTE on ??
If there's not an issue with your battery, yes, turning off LTE, especially when in areas of no coverage, will increase your battery life.
It's not bad I'm at 72% and 2hours 10 minutes usage I was just curious if that would help at all and how about Siri I never use her would that affect battery or not unless opened??
Ok, so I made a Genius appt and went to the Apple Store yesterday. They looked at the phones usage and immediately knew what my problem is, and the steps to take to rectify it. If your usage and standby numbers are basically tracking the same (they don't have to be identical but generally the same, then you have a problem where your phone is not going to sleep when the screen is off. There are two ways to address this, one in Software the other is that you have a bad piece of hardware that the software uses to sense sleep mode. To address the software part of the problem, you need to go into DFU mode and completely reinstall iOS6. From there, setup your phone as new and then start re-adding apps manually. DO NOT RESTORE FROM BACKUP. You have something in your backup that is screwing up your sensing of sleep mode. You will lose all of your previous text messages etc. Sucks. If your contacts are all backed up in iCloud, you will get those back. If this procedure does not fix your problem, as it did not fix mine, then you have problem #2. There's a hardware line that the software uses to sense when the phones in sleep mode. You will need to get a new phone. So, after going through process number 1 in the apple store with the genius, we waited 10-15 minutes to see hoe my battery life was, without running or installing any apps. In that time, my battery life dropped 5%, with the phone being restored from DFU mode and not a single app installed form iTunes, just the stock apps that come with the phone.
Another clue is how fast your phone charges when you're connected to your computer. I had my old phone connected for 2.5 hours yesterday after I got down to 2%. In that 2.5 hours, the phone only charged to 31%. It could barely keep up. My new phone came out of the box with 60% charge. After I went to the gym, and got home, I was still at 49%.....But I had used Pandora for the hour that I worked out. From there, I plugged in ans started the process of getting my apps, music and videos back on. That took approximately an hour. In that hour, the phone had fully recharged back to 100%. So, where 2.5 hours only went up 29%, I was able to get the battery up 51% in an hour.
The genius that I worked with was very knowledgeable, and helped me out quite a bit. I'm a hardware/software engineer, so troubleshooting what was going on is right down my alley and something I love to do.
As of right now, with my new phone, I'm at 91% battery with with 50 minutes of usage and 3 hours and 22 minutes of standby. This is significantly better then what I was experiencing with the other phone.
Another clue is how fast your phone charges when you're connected to your computer. I had my old phone connected for 2.5 hours yesterday after I got down to 2%. In that 2.5 hours, the phone only charged to 31%. It could barely keep up. My new phone came out of the box with 60% charge. After I went to the gym, and got home, I was still at 49%.....But I had used Pandora for the hour that I worked out. From there, I plugged in ans started the process of getting my apps, music and videos back on. That took approximately an hour. In that hour, the phone had fully recharged back to 100%. So, where 2.5 hours only went up 29%, I was able to get the battery up 51% in an hour.
The genius that I worked with was very knowledgeable, and helped me out quite a bit. I'm a hardware/software engineer, so troubleshooting what was going on is right down my alley and something I love to do.
As of right now, with my new phone, I'm at 91% battery with with 50 minutes of usage and 3 hours and 22 minutes of standby. This is significantly better then what I was experiencing with the other phone.
Oh yeah. Forgot - that was just seconds. I promise
I was just getting some photos over there. Forgot .. dayum. Well, I have to show you next time then.
Get on my level.
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Don't have the standby time like you do (basically used it without putting it down for the first 15 hours) but beat the usage.
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Don't have the standby time like you do (basically used it without putting it down for the first 15 hours) but beat the usage.
You have the problem with the phone not properly going into sleep mode. I had numbers exactly like that. To fix it, try a DFU install of the iOS 6 and setup as a new phone. If your battery level is still like this, you need to take your phone into apple and get a new one, as you had the hardware issue that I had with the sleep sense line.
Why would I want to replace my phone that is getting 12 hours of usage?
I was using my phone for 12 hours straight within a 15 hour standby period that day. There would be an issue like you're describing if the usage and standby times were the same, but they're not. That would indicate that the phone is still operating while in sleep mode.
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Don't have the standby time like you do (basically used it without putting it down for the first 15 hours) but beat the usage.
That 1% ended up taking me to just shy of 12 hrs usage, but it shut off before I could snap the screenshot. Thankfully it kept the stats lol.
So I'd say my usage coupled with the standby gives me the slight edge here, then again who cares, neither of us aren't doin' too bad
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Don't have the standby time like you do (basically used it without putting it down for the first 15 hours) but beat the usage.
So, what your saying is that you literally used the phone non stop with the screen on for 12 of the 15 hours. I highly doubt it. That's exactly what my phone said, yet I was using only the iPod to listen to music. In that scenario, you should get 40 hours of usage, not 12.
The Standby time is how long the phone has been on since you unplugged it from a full charge. The usage is how often the CPU is active. Yesterday at 11:30am I was at 2% remaining battery and had 7.5 hours of usage and 8 hours of standby. Today, at 1pm, having used the phone exactly like I did yesterday (minus the 30 minutes of Nike+) yesterday with the replacement, Im at 7 hours on Standby, 3 hours 30 minutes on usage with 49% battery left. And it's 2 hours later right now. If you think your batteries working fine, keep it. You shouldn't have to plug in your phone mid day with the battery that's in this phone, period.
That 1% ended up taking me to just shy of 12 hrs usage, but it shut off before I could snap the screenshot. Thankfully it kept the stats lol.
So I'd say my usage coupled with the standby gives me the slight edge here, then again who cares, neither of us aren't doin' too bad
Just out of curiosity, maybe you said it before, but what did you do? Did you use iCloud and set up the phone like that? Set up as new and then restore an iTunes backup? Set up as new and reconfigured everything manually?
I just did that latter hoping to get stats like this and noticed very little change, so I am a little disappointed.
Well considering this was my first iPhone (long time Android user), I set it up as a brand new device and from the looks of it it's the only way to go.
