iPhone 5 battery life is way worse than iPhone 4

Tested the battery drain with standby again. The results were horrible!

Charged phone to full 100% at 12:15am

6.1beta4

Wifi on

Lte off

Bluetooth off

Mail set to fetch every 15 min - 8 imap accounts

Push off

Location services on

iCloud on

Brightness 45%

Notifications on

At 8:30am the battery was at 46%!!!!! The phone was never touched.

One thing I noticed, is that even though wifi was on and connected, when in standby the phone goes back to using cellular. Once the unlock the phone for 1-2seconds, the wifi kicks back in.

So, all night it was using cellular data even though wifi was supposed to be on.

Usage stats showed:

Usage: 3hrs, 45min

Standby: 8hrs, 30min

Not cool!

You mentioned your using Beta software so you must expect some sort of faults

and I have posted before and i am posting again now

iPhone 5 running IOS 6.0.2, Wifi On while at home, LTE on when out, Bluetooth Off, Mail Push, Location On, iCloud On, Brightness Auto, Notification (driving me crazy) ON

I am currently getting around 1&1/2 hours usage and 2 hours standby (every 10%)

As i have pointed out before - I also was having the problems until I ask Apple if they could replace the battery only.

Since then I get great usage mostly. and yes i still get crap results when my signal is low, but that happens on all phones.

Around how long did the process take for them to replace the battery?? Where u able 2 c the replacement battery b4 it was installed?? Did u have a screen protector on your phone and if so, did they have to take it off b4 replacing your battery???

Good questions,

Firstly I asked them to exchange the battery when they wanted to exchange the phone and I was luckly to have got a nice lady in the store who checked they had one, (it was the first one the store had been sent and she had it in her hand when she came back out of the back)

Secondly yes I have a Zagg (front+back) protector (the reason for me asking for the battery to be replaced) as they would not refund me the £21 for the protector

Yes the battery had been replaced, because they had forgot to glue the bloody thing back in, as i was walking out of the store i was checking for scratches on the sides and could feel something inside moving, i went straight back to the genius bar and asked what was going on and they said "we will check it out", they came back a few minutes later stating they had not put enough glue on the battery to told it in place, and if anymore problems to come back, since then everything has been running fine

Email confirmation of replacement battery (full details removed for obvious reason) -

Battery Issue was same as you guys, fast drain, and mine also would not fully charge to 100%

Picture here shows how the phone can work

Finally gave my phone for replacement. I will get my replaced one next week. They take 5 days here as there is no Apple retail store in India. I am optimistic that I will get a better phone this time - now that I have already lost my money on the screen protector and peace of mind. 😠

PS: If I do not get a good phone again I am planning to sell it off and bye - bye Apple.

There is solution for battery draining.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4649777?tstart=0

Too much turning off of features that I bought my iPhone to use..... iPhone 6 will hopefully have a battery that is large enough to power all the stuff they have packed into the phone. The i5 is clearly underpowered. Huge design error on APPLE's part.

ovunc wrote:

There is solution for battery draining.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4649777?tstart=0

I even lose battery life even in airplane mode it a major bug in this latest firmware.

Who ever tested this firmware probably haven't even tested correctly.

Well,

I decided to change some settings on my phone yesterday and to my suprise, I finally got a day of normal battery. I was on wifi most of the time, but was connected to LTE for 4.5hrs and 4G for about 3 or more hours during this usage.

I am not really sure what settings I changed that may have helped things though. I was just fed up with the battery problems after all this time, and was just switching settings on and off blindly lol. I did remove a lot of unused apps from notification center though.

I think it's a fluke and I got a lucky day, but we will see how tomorrow goes.

So, here is my full setup in case anyone would like to replicate and see if they notice a difference.

Brightness - 40%

Do Not Disturb - OFF

Sounds:

Vibrate on RIng - ON

Vibrate on Silent - ON

LTE - ON

WIFI - ON

Bluetooth - OFF

Siri - ON

iTunes Wifi sync - yes

Spotlight Search - ALL Checked

Auto lock - 1min

Passcode Lock - OFF

Restrictions - OFF

Lock Sounds / Keyboard Clicks - OFF

Privacy - Location Services ON - Only apps set to on are Camera, Find Friends, Google Maps, Maps, Safari, Siri, Weather, Find My iPhone, and Status Bar Icon set to ON

System Services(within location services) Cell Network Search - ON, Compass Calibration - ON, Status Bar Icon set to ON. Everything else is OFF.

iCloud - ON:

Mail - OFF

Contacts- ON

Calendars - ON

Reminders - ON

Safari - OFF

Notes - ON

Passbook - OFF

Photo Stream - ON

Shared Photo Stream - ON

Documents & Data - ON: Use Cellular Data - OFF

Find My iPhone - ON

Mail, Contacts, Calendars - 8 IMAP Accounts, 1 POP Account

Fetch Every 15 Min

Push - OFF

iCloud set to Manual under "Advanced"

iMessage - ON

Facetime - ON

Safari use cellular data for reading list - OFF

iTunes & App Store

iTunes Match - OFF

Auto Downloads - Both OFF

Use Cellular Data - OFF

Music:

Shake to Shuffle - OFF

Sound Check - OFF

EQ - OFF

Volume Limit - OFF

iTunes Match - OFF

Notification Center:

Weather Widget - ON

Share Widget - ON

Phone - ON

Messages - ON

Calendar - ON

Mail - ON - ALL Acounts

Reminders - ON

Photos - ON

Chase Bank App - ON

Facebook - ON

Instagram - ON

Talkatone - ON

eBay - ON

Paypal - ON

Find Friends - ON

Facebook Pages - ON

LogMeIn - ON

myAT&T - ON

Register - ON

Google Maps - ON

Battery Doctor - ON

M&T Bank App - ON

Poke - ON

That about narrows it down. 🙂

I have given up. I bought the 64 gig version on the day it came out, I have replaced the phone 4 times and am currently on #5. Each phones battery has been terrible. That being said, I think the problem is that apple simply produced, released and sold us all an inferior product. No software can fix it.

That great battery mines was like that in 6.0.2 but now I couldn't even get three hours usage at all. It's becoming a joke now.

Say guy.. Apple care here in the states r sayin that your post is a fraud. They claim that the battery replacement kit/process is not avaliable and is still pending or waiting for approval or some ****.. Thats what i was told yesterday when trying to get my battery replaced in my iphone 5. They r more than happy to give me another phone tho..

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Well I believe the point is when you unplug it from an overnight charge it immediately goes to 98 or 97%. Not that how you charge it makes the battery life better. I agree with you that flip the cable on either side or use usb isnt gonna do squat for battery lilfe. However, if its not starting with a full charge to begin with then............

I have a 4s and for whatever reason if I unplug in the AM its on 98% or 97% and steadly drops from there. But what I have found is if I shut down the device, then plug in the charger and let it power on and never log it back in (passworded) it ALWAYS is on 100 % and remains that way for several hours (if on standby) and even with some use will remain charged longer. Like you I am on wifi most of the time and I get great battery life, I have a few tweaks done but not missing any features. 1 day10 hr std by and 3 hr use with 60% remaining or 15 hrs stdby and 7 hr use with 5% remaining are some typical times. Anyway if I dont do the turn off then it doesnt start out at fully charged and I get less. Guess that is the point.

Maybe you guys should try that with the 5 and see if it matters. I cannot figure out whats running causing mine to behave this way (close all apps, turn off wifi, etc) but 100% of the time if I shut down first then plug in and let it power on and not log back on it starts with a full battery 100% and lasts a long time. I gave up trying to figure out why and just do that process and it works.

Dont get to hung on on battery life for beta software. Its typically never like it will be for the final release due to changes and other logs and such Apple is generating for debug etc. While some reports are currently positive if you are running beta and not getting great battery life it doesnt mean its not fixed or wont be when final is released.

Well actually you are correct about the 4s. iOS 5.0 was BAD and the thread about battery life approached a million. (you were there too 🙂) However 5.0.1 then 5.1 then 5.11 all got better. I am running 6.0.1 currently and it has better battery life now than it did when it was new over a year ago with iOS5. The best yet. So yes the iOS/software CAN and does make a difference. My 1 yr 2 month old battery lasts WAY better now than it did when I first unboxed the phone with iOS5 and only thing that changed was iOS (and the battery got older) Wonder if I had a new battery and iOS 6.0.1 if I could get even better? hmmm just thought of that,

Jameson! wrote:

Ummmmm... iPhone 5 is the FIRST model to utilize LTE.

THE 4s also had terrible battery life as was evidenced by a thread larger than this one when that phone was released. On top of that, iOS 6 has the dual antenna management issues, even in those older version phones.

Now you can talk like you know what you're talking about all you want, but the proof is in the fact that 6.1 is in its 4th beta release and nobody is seeing better battery life. Do you think if there was a firmware fix to be had, that the most valuable company in the world would not have come up with it after 6.0, 6.01, 6.02 and 4 beta versions of 6.1????

Give us a break, ok? The iPhone needs a bigger battery. Period!