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

What is THE lightest browser that we can use on our iphones as far as battery drain goes?

Just tested Chrome i got 7 minutes per 1% battery drop on wifi usage

Much better compared to Safari....

Can other test also and post results

It is possible 2 go back 2 ios 6. When doing a DFU restore, hold shift while clicking the restore button on the summary screen. This will open the option 2 choose a desired firmware. With the i5, ios 6 will b ur only option. With the 4s i believe u can go back 2 ios 5.1..

http://www.webpronews.com/iphone-5-rumor-new-iphone-facing-battery-problems-2012 -06

Post results with 3G or 4G... Thanks!

I think i just go back to the iphone 4 with a ios 5

I think ios 6 is a pos

I don't think going back to 5.1.1 is that easy. It has to be verified through apples servers on iTunes. I think when it gets to that point in the installation, it will reject it. But try it!

You cant

I tried to go back to 6 but i could not

JustAboutAverage wrote:

 

I'll try Chrome as well... Used to use it all the time before upgrading to iOS6. Still though, just in the time it took to write this, I'm down 2%.... I'm gonna hate it but, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do a complete DFU reset tonight. Sounds like some of you have had success with this.

Please let us know if you do the restore. I'm considering doing one myself in a couple days.

I'm now on my 3rd iPhone 5 and nothing has changed as far as battery performance.

I just completed teh full restore and set up as a new iPhone. I've got most of my settings and email accounts back, and went through and downloaded all my old apps as well. I'm recharging to 100% and will let you know how it looks.

One curious problem: iCloud tabs (and chrome tabs too actually) all still register the open pages on my "old" iPhone, ie pre-reset. Any thoughts how to purge the servers?

Chrome isn't helping.. I'm at 55% 1 hr 53 usage ... 3 hrs 20 mins standby.  I mean you can't tell me that this is normal And that I should accept this usage as "the norm".. There's no way. The screen is literally on zero, 4g the whole time, fetch ... It's just not right. Oh well.. We will see what the NEXT replacement holds.

I think i found another reason for bad battery light

In the dark the auto brightness goes all the way to the left

In bright light will go all the way to the right

Now i have been using  chrome wifi in the dark and only dropped 1% in 10 minutes

So as it gets brighter in a room or outside so will the brightness

Ios 4 was not like that

Once you set the brightness say at about 25% on the sliding bar that it was were it was going max brightness and it was not going beyond that

Now in ios 6 it will keep going all the way to 100% brightness by doing so draining the battery

Apple designers have no clue of real word usage

Ios 6 is already a disaster in my book.

If one consider the absolute continuous draining of battery on LTE usage then ios 6 is a complete failure.

You can tell that Steve Jobs is dead, he would have noticed this things

Tim Cook is not a replacement for Steve Jobs, he is just riding on his reputation

The position Tim Cook inherited from Steve Jobs made him the luckiest man in the world and my worst nightmare, iphone5 and ios6 that is

I'm on 6.0.1

Not sure if u guys aware that in crash log, there is this FreeTUBE-GUI keep crashing on background,  Not sure if this is the root cause of this batt draining issue

Well, initial results are not especially impressive...

•LTE drains at about 2.5 minutes/percent

•AT&T's '4G' drains at about 3.5 minutes/percent

I'm looking at no better than 6.5 hours under realistic usage conditions, and forgoing LTE. Directly comparing 4G on the iPhone 5 to the 4S could give us a solid case for this being a hardware problem.

Also, thoughts on why it takes 15 minutes to get to 99% and then just drops every 2mins thereafter?