Thinking about switching to the 5s from android, how's battery life?

[bkends35]

Bad reception is going to kill any phone. I recommend airplane mode for where you know the phone isn't doing much.

I seem to be at 20% or so with my 5 by the end of the day, and I don't feel like I use it a lot. When I do, I need to charge during the day. This is subjective, so I won't go into details. Suffice it to say that I feel like my 5 also drains more than it should. As a comparison, I've been rocking a Moto X recently, and am at about 40% at the end of the day with that phone. I would still need to spot charge I think with heavier use, but I haven't come across that yet.

True, but my galaxy s3 drains at like 4% per hour when it's idle with good signal which is crazy! No apps running, nothing. Just sitting with the screen off. Also another thing, when you have a low lte signal, does it switch to 3G when it won't load anymore? My gs3 will keep trying to get lte signal but it won't and it never goes to 3G where it always has a signal. Very frustrating to have to go into setting and manually change it to 3G only.

 

[phpmaven]

I'm Android fan, but I'll admit that battery life is awful on Android phones.

Love the battery life on my 5.

One of the big problems with Android is that it's so easy to install apps from every Tom, Dick and Harry and many of them are poorly written and burn up battery in the background constantly. Unless you are pretty savvy you can quickly screw up your phone to where it burns through the battery like crazy.

 

[TroyBoy30]

Incorrect. The iPhone 5 currently has the best real world battery life of any phone in standardized testing. Getting a bit over the 8 hours Apple claimed it could do. If Apple's claims for the iPhone 5s are correct, this goes up to 10 hours:

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i love my iphone 5, but in no universe does it beat my note ii in battery life

 

[bkends35]

One of the big problems with Android is that it's so easy to install apps from every Tom, Dick and Harry and many of them are poorly written and burn up battery in the background constantly. Unless you are pretty savvy you can quickly screw up your phone to where it burns through the battery like crazy.

Yeah unfortunately that is true. I'm am really savvy and I know what causes battery drain at such. But there's no way to get good battery life when android eats up your battery when get device is idle with nothing running.

 

[SouravGuha]

Worth it

Shifting to the 5S might be worth it. What colour are you gonna get?
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Iphone 4 16 gb black
Iphone 5 16 gb black/slate

 

[bkends35]

Shifting to the 5S might be worth it. What colour are you gonna get?
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Iphone 4 16 gb black
Iphone 5 16 gb black/slate

Definitely space grey. I have a white Gs3 and decided I'm done with white phones.

 

[zedzded]

battery in the 5 was poor & the battery in 5s will be marginally better, but with 64bit, more resource demanding camera etc, I expect the battery in the 5S to be equally as bad.

 

[gCloud]

Not sure if any of you are too familiar with the android battery usage stats but here mine are. 1hr 40min of screen on time and 11 hrs unplugged and the battery was at 5% when I plugged it in. IMO thats pathetic.

this is much worse than the galaxy nexus I had for a coupe of months. I improved it a lot by using a custom kernel.

 

[lordofthereef]

True, but my galaxy s3 drains at like 4% per hour when it's idle with good signal which is crazy! No apps running, nothing. Just sitting with the screen off. Also another thing, when you have a low lte signal, does it switch to 3G when it won't load anymore? My gs3 will keep trying to get lte signal but it won't and it never goes to 3G where it always has a signal. Very frustrating to have to go into setting and manually change it to 3G only.

On the ipHone? It sort of depends. I am not sure how it decides. I have seen three bars (now bubbles lol) LTE drop to 3G while stationary and I have seen it hang onto one bubble of LTE. So, to answer your question, maybe both? Helpful, right?

 

[bkends35]

On the ipHone? It sort of depends. I am not sure how it decides. I have seen three bars (now bubbles lol) LTE drop to 3G while stationary and I have seen it hang onto one bubble of LTE. So, to answer your question, maybe both? Helpful, right?

That's good to know, I'd rather have it switch when it gets a poor signal than it trying to get signal when it's not able to and not fallback to 3g like it should.

 

[Darryjr]

First problem, s3, I use the HTC one and my apt is poor service, all I lose is 3% in a 8 hr sleep period. I am moderate to heavy user and get 16 hr. Us look into the HTC if hesitant about leaving android