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iPhone 5 - battery replacement

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Krzysztof

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Dec 8, 2013
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Hello,
last days i observed a very annoying issue with my phone. My iPhone 5 battery started turning off at 20-30% battery. Well, I tried not to get into this and live with it, but my phone now says it has now battery power at 40 and even 50%! Well, obviously it shouldn't be ike that, so I have a question. Since I bought my phone over 1,5 years ago through a carrer, I have no chance for a replacement. I saw on the internet that replacing the battery yourself is very easy. Here are my questions:

1. Will buying this and replacing my battery with it resolve the issue? http://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhone/iPhone-5-Replacement-Battery/IF118-001

2. Would you recommend doing it at home by someone with no huge fixing-stuff experience? I mean, has anyone done this? Is it really that easy? I'm a bit worried that I'll break something, even though i replaced RAM in a MacBook like a thousand times and exchanged and optical drive with a hard disk once.

Thanks everyone for your help, I'm really worried because of this situation. iPhone itself is such an expensive device that stuff like this shouldn't happen.
 
Try a couple of battery 'calibrations' per Apple recommendations.

Several people have reported this with iOS7. See if 7.1 solves.
 
Thanks for a quick reply :) I tried doing what they recommend. Even tried to restore a couple of times. Worked for a day or two and then started getting even worse. Is 7.1 expected in the next days?
 
Also, does anybidy know if theres going to be a problem if I buy it and use it in a couple of months? can it lie in a drawer for that long?
 
Exact same has been happening to my iPhone 5 the last few weeks. Power draining 2-5% after each time I spend a few minutes doing basic tasks on the phone, and turning off when the battery gets to 20% :confused:
 
Isn't that just super annoying? As I'm typing i noticed mine dropped 30% in 15 minutes of listening to music. What are you going to do about it then? Really waiting for someone that has dobe the battery transplant himself here.
 
If you have warranty - go to the Apple Store or where you bought it, let them check it. I had the same problems. iPhone 5, battery draining fast, percentage jumps by 20% and 10%, so I took it for a checkup. What do you think happened? They told me that there was a problem with charging and then gave me a new phone.
 
As I said before, I don't have a warranty. That's what i would've done if i had it, but it has ended about 6 months ago, so I think the only option is to get the battery replaced ;/
 
Can you say something more? If the battery works like crap isn't it the thing to be replaced?
 
Krzysztof said:
Can you say something more? If the battery works like crap isn't it the thing to be replaced?
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My battery was crap too, but technically it was fine, it had 1180mAh remaining out of 1440mAh. But I couldn't get more than 4 hours of VERY light usage.

Also, they could've had just replaced the battery, but they gave me a new phone instead. And believe me, they would NEVER give me a new phone if they could just replace the battery. In the paper, that I got back they've just wrote "Charging problems. Phone replaced, *serial number*."
 
That's a good point. But if I have no other options, would you recomment trying to do this? It costs just 30$. Worth a shot?
 
Thanks for your help. It was very helpful indeed. If anybody wants I can let you know how it went afterwards. Waiting for the shipment :)
 
Krzysztof said:
Thanks for your help. It was very helpful indeed. If anybody wants I can let you know how it went afterwards. Waiting for the shipment :)
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It's been a while, but for the OP -- how did it go? Thanks!
 
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