Q: iPhone 5 battery life is way worse than iPhone 4

@Bellatone

Nah the percentage gets stuck sometimes, power down your phone then turn it back on and see what the percentage reads. Also is that standby or useage percentages your giving us?

Well let's see if you're right.  That would be the first time it ever got stuck....

Ok, powered down, powered back up, still at 100% my friend, and it's 2.5 hrs after I removed it from the charger.

Combination of 75% standby, 25% usage time.

Just made a few minute phone call, still at 100%.  (4/5 cell bars, full Wi-Fi signal, brightness at 50%, auto brightness off, all apps closed except Phone)

Hi Bellatone,

Could u please post a snap shot of the usage/standby ????

Regards.

What's running? What do u mean by that? I went into apple store and showed this to him and he said that is not good!! At this point, I have 7hr 27min standby and 4 hrs usage with 13% battery left! I have been easy on it today so I could minitor this! I never had a battery go down this fast on my 4s! That's what I'm going off! Like I said I went easy on it today but I'm usually feeling like I'm constantly chasing after a power cord for this thing lol!

Charged phone back to 100%... 28 mins usage 30 minutes

Standby.. 95%. LTE on. Basic safari and iMessage use.  I am getting a refund unless Apple comes clean.

Bellatone:

Keep us updated....sounds like your phone is highly defective. 

Here's the real news trickling in.....http://www.androidauthority.com/which-test-galaxy-s3-wins-battery-challenge-heav ily-beats-apples-iphone-5-122142/

When you are not in a wifi zone, go to settings/wifi/not connected and turn off wifi. The iPhone 5 ***** up battery searching for wifi even when no wifi is avail

Dear Bellatone,

Been waitin for your snapshot of usage/standby........

Could please post it....

Regards.

Bella- please post a screen cap. Thanks

[img]http://postimage.org/image/83dm65g7l/[/img]

:/

I followed the advice to reset all settings. Now the battery drain is similar to what I saw on my iPhone 4

Guys, relax!  I was leaving work and had to make a call but I took the screenshot.  Was trying to figure out how to upload it.  It's at 99% now.

http://postimage.org/image/k8i3l81xj/

But now in the past few minutes its dropped to 97%.  Still darn good compared to how it has been.  Can't explain it either.  I'll be busy packing and am going out of town for the weekend so I'll likely be unavailable to comment for the next five or six hours.

Here's another screenshot at 96% with more usage on it and in line with their projections.  Maybe they issued a silent patch.

http://postimage.org/image/rntufpnu9/