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

Ca1eb -

I'm not sure you are being realistic in your expectations.  Using TomTom GPS will drain your iPhone extremely fast.   You cannot compare it to the Galaxy S3, which has a huge battery, by comparison.   If you intend to use your phone as a GPS, a car charger is in order.  

I use TomTom on my iPad-3 when in my motorhome and it ***** so much power that even the car charger cannot keep the iPad charged.   The APP just uses a lot of power.

Ca1eb wrote:

 

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

I see your point

But if u read the whole lot of what i wrote,you will actualy see that my old iphone4 used to take me twice as far,and back without any charging at all.so blaming the poor old 3rd party app,does not make sence to me mate

My conclusion is(im not expert in any way,by the way)that apple developed better phone,with twice more powerfull CPU,with bigger screen,twice the RAM,and an extra antena or 2,and kept the same battery

So something dosent quiet fit in that enginering

But then again,im not expert

At the moment im at 4:50 usage,6:30 standby and with 30% left(i charged it at lunch time to full and play simcity a bit+ youtube+emails and a bit of safari)

All silly things are off appart from basics

You hit the nail right on the head Ca1eb!   Not enough battery capacity!!!!   We agree 100%

i can agree that it does appear they have fixed the issue with severe drain on standby. but using the phone still is using far more then it ought to.

currently at 83% battery

Usage: 1 Hour, 55 Minutes

Standby: 7 Hours, 8 Minutes

I haven't really been doing much on the phone today though, little bit of email and imessage only. 3G only

right now at 28% battery with 3h47 minutes usage on cellular and 14 hours of standby.still a huge improvement

I've definitely noticed improvements as well, particularly with battery drain on standby. I haven't left my phone unplugged overnight yet, but with all previous versions of iOS6, if I left my phone on a table for 20 minutes or so untouched and then woke it up, I could see the battery drop one percent. Pretty much every time I woke it up after not being used for a while it would drop one percent. With previous versions of iOS6 I would lose at least 10% overnight if I left it unplugged. And that was with iCloud turned off, mail set to manual, and connected to wifi all night.

However, I'm still losing 1% every two minutes on LTE. I'm curious to know if anyone is getting better LTE numbers? I'm not really bummed about it because I'm connected to wifi 90% of my day, and the improvements in battery life while asleep have helped to the point where I can make it through the day without charging.

I'm overly happy with my battery now.  I am down to 7% with over 40 hours standby and 6.5 hours of usage.  I was at 50% exactly when I woke up this morning with just under 23 hrs standby and 2 1/2 hrs usage.

So, I did my overnight standby battery test on 6.1. Unbelievable!

Charged the phone to 100%. Unplugged charger at 12:24am and went to bed.

iCloud on

Push off

Mail fetch 15min

Only apps backgrounded: settings, mail chimp, Facebook, Pinterest, Talkatone

Didn't touch the phone once and at 9:36am this was my usage stats:

Usage - 4hrs, 2min

Standby - 9hrs, 11min

How is there 4hrs of usage when the phone isn't being used at all? What could be causing this? I'm losing my mind lol

And forgot to mention, the battery was at 54% when I woke up

Wait for your second charge. Mine is right back to pathetic. 18 hours of standby to 0% from 100%. No push no apps running.

Only apps backgrounded: settings, mail chimp, Facebook, Pinterest, Talkatone

I'm guessing that one or more of these apps is causing your problem.   Maybe disabling them all, then re-adding them one at a time mught uncover the culprit?

Jameson-

When I installed 6.1 is did a complete restore, so those apps have already been installed fresh. I just don't get it.

do you get a lot of mail? you should set the push to manuel? so i would only updte when you use the app. icloud has the the tendency to always back up your phone, so that can be the reason you have a high usage overnight.. my usage is is always low if not 0-5 mins when i wake up or when unplugged..

I hear you, but the reality is that you are still having serious battery drain, while most other folks are reporting significant improvements.   I would think there has to be something in your configuration that is causing it at this point.   Those apps you listed, if running in background, are the first place to check.  There aren't so many of them that it should be that big a deal to test out.   Hopefully, you can pinpoint the problem to one of them and then see the same improvements everyone else has........

cocktail5555 wrote:

 

Jameson-

 

When I installed 6.1 is did a complete restore, so those apps have already been installed fresh. I just don't get it.

Hi everybody. I've posted on this thread back on September & October. Things were very messy with iOS at that time. I updated my 3 sets of i5 into iOS 6.1 5 days ago. Me too like a lot of others on this thread have noticed a dramatic improvement on battery life on all my i5 sets. I'm now at 65% with 3:33 hrs usage and 8:24 hrs standby. I'm very happy with my i5 now and happier since my guessing back in October that it was a software issue was 100% correct.

I'd have posted snapshots but I just couldn't figure out how to do it from the iPad.

Thanks apple and of course late Steve Jobs for such valuable products.