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Is it me or does the iPhone 5 battery life deplete fast?

nfl46 said:
Battery is pretty darn good for me! I was telling one of my friends about it. Maybe it was a good idea that Apple didn't come out with LTE last year. The battery life would probably been horrendous. Also, I set up as a new phone and not from a backup. New phone = New Start
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I restored mine from my iPhone 4 because i wanted my old messages. I think im going to have to set it as new.

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CiFi said:
I'm pissed everyone is saying they have awesome battery. I came from an iPhone 4 and my battery would last from 7AM till 11PM easily, doing Facebook/twitter/texting throughout the day.

I get this iPhone 5, fully charged at 7AM, its now 10:30AM and its at 65%. Wtf gives.
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Did you restore from a previous backup?
 
On vzw, I went from 100-82 in just 30 minutes using GPS and iheart radio. About as bad as my gnex. Was using LTE the entire time. Not sure if it should drain that quick.
 
taedouni said:
Never do a restore from an old device. Restores keep old settings etc.
My iPhone 5 finally died off with 20+ hours of standby and 7-8.5 hours of usage time. That was part of my calibration
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But I have so many apps that I have set up a lot of folders. Also I want to keep my bookmarks, whatsapp history, etc.
 
great battery life for me as well

dont have stats from yesterday
but from even today 3 hours 30 min stand by and hour and 21 min usage and im at 89%. Very happy with it so far. Thats with all push enabled and auto brightness (wish it had a slider or something in notifications like my old androids tho, hate going all the way into settings to adjust brightness)
 
Aimetti said:
great battery life for me as well

dont have stats from yesterday
but from even today 3 hours 30 min stand by and hour and 21 min usage and im at 89%. Very happy with it so far. Thats with all push enabled and auto brightness (wish it had a slider or something in notifications like my old androids tho, hate going all the way into settings to adjust brightness)
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You haven't restored anything from backup?
 
As a follow-up to my above post, today will be more of a test. I'm in NYC with great AT&T LTE coverage and I did actually restore from my iPhone 4S backup; that backup, though, was created after I had done a fresh install of iOS 6 on that phone about 2 weeks ago. I do agree, the best way to optimize a device is to do a fresh start.

But so far, it seems fantastic.
 
My battery is sucking.

Full charge at 4:30am, 48% at 7:55. I've done nothing but read online. I'm coming from an iPhone 4. All I've heard is people raving about battery life. This stinks.

I have AT&T, 4G turned off, push and location services are the same as iPhone 4.

I immediately charged it for 4 hours after opening the box. I restored from iCloud backup. I let it drain until it shut off. Then let it charge until at 100%.

I'm going to let it drain until 0 again and then recharge to 100%.

I'll keep researching and if I have to I'll restore as new.
 
I did a restore from my 4s that was on iOS 6 too. I don't think that's making an impact on battery life versus if I would have set it up new
 
Mine was at 99% last night at 10:00 PM. At 8:00AM this morning it was 94%. I think I am doing OK.
 
iregret said:
My battery is sucking.

Full charge at 4:30am, 48% at 7:55. I've done nothing but read online. I'm coming from an iPhone 4. All I've heard is people raving about battery life. This stinks.

I have AT&T, 4G turned off, push and location services are the same as iPhone 4.

I immediately charged it for 4 hours after opening the box. I restored from iCloud backup. I let it drain until it shut off. Then let it charge until at 100%.

I'm going to let it drain until 0 again and then recharge to 100%.

I'll keep researching and if I have to I'll restore as new.
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Have you been reading online since 4:30? If so, that's decent life. That's 3.5 hours of usage.
 
pragmatous said:
turn crap off. You don't need bluetooth, wifi, and gps on all the time.
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The thing is if we shouldn't have to turn those off. I have bluetooth in my car and wifi in the house. I don't want to keep having to scroll through a bunch of menus and submenus to toggle them on and off every time (whole other issue). The point is, I had all of these running on my 4 without a battery issue. I didn't do a restore when I set up my 5, and I'm having battery issues.

I don't know how much of an impact this may have had, but I didn't let it drain out of the box. I charged it full. I'll let it drain today and then recharge it. Hopefully this helps.
 
Yesterday my battery was pathetic, but I let it drain last night and kept it charging overnight and it's much better today. Been off the charger about an hour and a half with some light wi-fi usage (checking email, making a few posts to twitter) and I'm still showing 100%.
 
I backed up my iPhone from my old iPhone 4's settings, so that probably has something to do with it, but just as a data point, my phone had 98% battery life at 12 midnight, and I woke up to 57% battery life at 10 AM today.

- LTE and WIFI on
- Bluetooth off
- Received maybe 3 text messages while asleep
- No phone calls
 
in my six hours of sleep, the phone dropped from 100% to 82%. 3%/hour seems a bit steep for me; the 4s would have dropped a total of maybe 1 or 2% in that same time. i set the phone up as new. it's a bit of a bummer considering everything else about the phone is so awesome.
 
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