iPhone 5 battery draining very fast

I purchased my iPhone 5 64GB today, I used it for about 2 hours and a half. The battery was 98% when I purchased it. Is anyone having this difficulty as well? Please let me know....

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 9:59 PM

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Oct 15, 2013 4:03 AM in response to mhabashy

Good morning - I just replaced my Iphone 5 with a new or refurbished device - I noticed in the "old" one the e-mail app - native iphone mail app connected to both Gmail and my exchange server - set on PUSH - was constantly checking for new mail - you could actually see the line in the bottom of screen jumping like crazy - trying to check for a new mail constantly - so could this have been the result of the drainage and the over heating ??!!!


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Hanani

Oct 15, 2013 8:04 AM in response to Hanani

Hanani wrote:


Good morning - I just replaced my Iphone 5 with a new or refurbished device - I noticed in the "old" one the e-mail app - native iphone mail app connected to both Gmail and my exchange server - set on PUSH - was constantly checking for new mail - you could actually see the line in the bottom of screen jumping like crazy - trying to check for a new mail constantly - so could this have been the result of the drainage and the over heating ??!!!


Almost certainly. There is a flaw in the ActiveSync protocol used by MS Exchange. If a connection to the server is broken the server creates a new connection. But the phone does not "know" that the old connection is broken, so it keeps trying to use it and failing. This condition can be caused by an iOS update that interrupts a connection in process, a crash of iOS, or just an interrupted transmission for other reasons. If this happens several times you have the phone trying and failing on several connections, which consumes battery and causes the phone to get hot from all of the data usage and battery drain.


If you suspect this has happened the fix is simple - go to Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendars. Tap on the MS Exchange account and turn off all of the switches. Reboot the phone (hold HOME and SLEEP until an Apple logo appears), then go back to Settings and turn the switches back on. This process kills all connections between the phone and the Exchange server, so it starts up clean.


As an alternative, run the battery all the way down until the phone shuts off, then charge to 100% with a wall charger. The shutdown for low battery also kills all running processes on the phone.

Oct 17, 2013 5:57 AM in response to ronjay09

I'm thinking this is a little untrue. All betteries have what is called a 'memory' so I've heard, and I've heard this way before the iPhone and such were created and is why you should run your battery down right to the end and charge to 100% every so often, just to refresh everything. But just because it has a memory, this doesn't by all means mean it's 'smart' and can get viruses in it because I don't think it is possible to get viruses in batteries.


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Oct 17, 2013 6:48 AM in response to Jlawson118

Let's be clear, for those who are confused. There is a symptom of certain (not all) battery technologies called "memory". That refers to the battery chemistry acting in a different way in the future depending on how it was treated in the past. That's why it's called "memory." For example, the problem is seen when one keeps a battery fully charged all the time, never letting it discharge. The chemistry of the battery changes so that after a long time like this, the amount of power that can be had from the battery is lessened. Cycling the battery through monthly complete discharge/charge cycles helps ameliorate this problem, and you get more life out of the battery.


That "memory" is very different from a computer's memory of bits, bytes, and gigabytes, which are digital storage units capable of holding a program. Computer viruses are programs.


Battery "memory" cannot hold programs.

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