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

With 6.1 I am at 79% with 3 hours 3 minutes usage, 7 hours 47 minutes standby.  I have an iPhone 5 on Verizon, location services on, wifi on, bluetooth on, ask to join networks off (under wifi).  I did a hard reset after the update - hold both buttons down until the apple appears.  So I do not believe there is a battery drain problem with 6.1.

Nothing much has changed. I still get good battery life on Wi-Fi and EDGE. The problem was and still is - 3G.

I got less than 5 hours with 3G on. That's nowhere near to their claim. While I was using Safari - for the engadget coverage of BB 10 launch today, the battery was draining by 1% every two minutes.

Very disappointing.

PS: Guys it would be really cool if you can come up with your usage on 3G/LTE. ( No WIFI)

Jamison, Don't be silly. I value your input and was completely kidding with you.    I definitely agree.  Time will tell exactly what is or is not completely fixed.

Ca1eb wrote:

 

Yep definetly improve for me

Last tim using GPS took 48% for 1:15 min,now it takes 55% in 1:30min.

Oh wait,its pretty much the same

Hopes are gone and all im gonna say is "hellooooo samsung"

My new galaxy phone will fit perfectly with my 8 series LED TV

The **** with this

5 hours of usage and im on 2%

Ca1eb

GPS is well known to be a battery drain, That said, the phone has to meet your needs so if iPhone isnt' I hope whichever you change to does.  Post an update if you do switch there are many here who might be interested

good luck!

I'm sorry, I know this is a different issue (it ties together though) - Did anyone ever find a successful way for their wifi signal to be good? I have to be in the room where the router is for it to work, and it still goes down a bar every few minutes.  Is there a way to fix this, via the router settings or another way? Thanks

It seems most folks who still have this issue after updating to iOS 6.1 are only getting it resolved with a replacement device. Apparently there are plenty of iP5's with hardware issues in the wifi area.  Other than the changing your wifi channel (if in an area saturated with other wifi routers) or making sure using N router and WPA2/AES. Unfortunately I suspect you will need to swap it from all I have read of recent. Sorry

My battery performance was good on iOS 6.0.2. But first day on iOS 6.1 I had almost 5 hours usage and 18 hours standby with over 30% battery life still left over. I am happy. 

Overnight with a Verizon iPhone 5 on a Wifi network: 20 minutes usage, 7 hours 20 minutes standby, phone at 95%

Last night, I unplugged @ 10pm fully charged.

This morning, 7 1/2 hours total - 29min usage -- 98% remaining.

iPhone 5 64gb

AT&T

3g service area - Connected to home wifi all night

Pretty much everything turned on

Did you actually use it 29min? Or was that some background process running overnight? Just curious.

Jameson! wrote:

 

Last night, I unplugged @ 10pm fully charged.

This morning, 7 1/2 hours total - 29min usage -- 98% remaining.

 

iPhone 5 64gb

AT&T

3g service area - Connected to home wifi all night

Pretty much everything turned on

I'm still getting battery drain on standby. Not as bad as before the update but still happening. I'm going to charge fully tonight before bed and leave off the charger all night and see what it's at in the morning.

I just upgraded from the 4 to the 5 and the battery drain followed.  When I was using the 4, I just assumed it was the software working too fast for the phone, so I just carried a charger with me or used one of the 500 I have in random places.
Last night the drain was at a trickle (yay) but I didn't let the phone drain completely before charging it.  This morning, on standby the battery was fine, but by the time I got to work after using a radio app and reading the news, my battery was at 67% and dropped 1% every minute while using the phone (no background apps running). Someone suggested that I take my phone back and replace it, but I'm convinved it's a software problem and not a hardware issue.  I also don't want to spend 45 minutes waiting to get another phone that could potentially have the same problem. 

I plan on letting it drain completely and re-charging it to full power but I'm not so sure that will fix it 100%.  Any suggestions as far as changing settings or disabling certain features that aren't frequently used?

day 3.battery life still much better than on previous ios versions.starting to believe they actually fixed it (4-5 months too late but hey..) lets hope it stays this way.currently at 41% where i would usually be down to less than 10%

Yes some good items to disable are as follows:

1: SIRI raise to speak (if you dont hold it to your ear to start SIRI)

2: settings>privacy>location> system services..  Turn off everything except Cellular,Compass and traffic

3: settings>general>about>diagnostics and usage..  set to dont send

4: any app  notifications or locations that you dont necessarily need that information for

5: remove stock ticker from notifications section (again if you dont really need it there)

Those are some items that most folks wont miss or need and should help with battery life. Also here are some Apple recommendations. http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

Thanks for the wishes mate,and i did had better luck

Same trip everyday

This morning the iphone drained again 48% in 1:14 min from full,using tomtom western europe

But on my way back i used the girlfriend samsung S3 with sat nav and google maps

In 1:30 min due to trafic,it lost only 29% from full

I hope you can do the math

Eitherway,i dont belive that the battery should be gone in 2:30min,in any circumstances

My old iphone 4 used to take me from london to birmingham(2:30min) and back,and i still had around 10% left in the thing

I have to admit,there is a slight improvement when im surfing over 3g,but nothing to be impressed about

But the tomtom app(£53) is gone to waste now

The droid market is looking realy tempting now,after owning 4 diferent models iphone