iPhone 5 short battery life?

I dream of those figures. It died one minute after I took the picture, and would not restart until 10 minutes of charging.

I know people are stating have low service can wreck havoc on your battery as the device is constantly searching for the towers..

I would bring yours to Apple, have them run the hardware battery test to see if its fine.

Should LTE with a continuous 2 bar signal consume twice as much battery power as 3G with 3 bars?

I ask because that is what seems to be happening to me. Seems a little drastic for a phone that is supposed to have the same usage times on both LTE and 3G.

Just an update. I tried all of the battery sparing strategies to no avail. I took my phone in for a replacement, and this phone is getting 6-8 hours (sometimes more) on one charge with plenty of standby time.

Well im now down to 28% for the day! I just watch my phone not doing anything with it location off, push off, brightness about 50% auto lock off so the screen stays on it loses 2% every 10 minutes that defiantly doesn’t sound right at all!!

Update -

Just done the same as above wacked the brightness right down so i can just about see the battery nipped into a meeting come back 50 mins later and battery has dropped 5%!!

Can you explain your setup? What settings you have on/off?

Daymouse,

what is your Usage time? I am wondering if there is an app or something "phoning" home.

My latest battery test yielding great results;

Usage: 7 hours 55 minutes, 19 seconds

Standby: 1 Day, 11 hours (35:35:33 to be exact)

- LTE Off

- Safari Sync Off

- WiFi On all the time

- BlueTooth Off

Havent got that as half way through the day i closed all apps down and rebooted then tried the above but didnt make any difference at all!

Trying to see what else could be causing that much usage.

Are you in a low signal area? I am in a 2G only half the time because of work. (11 hours of the day).

Do you have iCloud back up on?

Any programs using extensive GPS tracking?

On three (UK) which only have 3g network and have between 4-5 bars

iCloud is on for contacts, calendars, reminders only

and nothing is using gps (no gps sign in the title bar at the top)

Whitewater, I have turned off LTE, Icloud, all push services are off and I've done every single thing I can think of. The phone still wants to drop my wifi and put me on 3g randomly which my 4 never did AND the battery life is not very much improved. I also have gps off. I was only getting 2 bars on LTE and when it was on my phone was hotter than ashphalt in the summer time and eating battery like crazy. I am in an area where the LTE never went over two bars and kept switching to 3g. So I guess keeping LTE off is going to be permanent. I do feel as that was one of the advertised featuers of this phone it's a bit of a rip off not to be able to ever use it. Along with the other issues which I do hope Apple attends to very soon. I can't justify spending this much on a new phone that comes out of the box with this many problems. I need my phone so will try to "fix" I'm running this battery down to zero to cycle back up for the third time.

There's a lot of speculation here for now as I've reset and then added everything back on through Itunes manually and that did not help I'm going to be very interested given all the suggestions here what the issue is. I have not ever launched Safari, just adding that as some seem to think Safari is part of the problem. I have not used imessage but, turned that service off anyway. :S

I understand your frustration. At this point, Apple store visit, have them do the hardware test to see if it passes.

I pretty much use the crap out of my phone and have good results. Just trying to share some of my insight and findings. As soon as LTE is available in my area, I will have it on. My buddy has LTE on in Colorado, got 2 days 2 hours standby, 5 hours + usage. He has everything on...

Others thoughts/rumors

Safari- Whether you use it or not, the sync portion still syncs back to the server if its on..

Facebook Messenger people have reported as being a problem.

iMessage- seems to drain the battery a lot to me.

Well, the Apple Store is an hour and a half from where I live hence the frustration. There's a "Jump" store here and hopefully they are authorized to deal with helping me. Thanks for your input.

I know it stinks that its not closer but at this point, it may be the best option for piece of mind. Obviously make an appointment ahead of time.

International Business Times has an interesting article about this battery issue with the Iphone 5. The article was published after I ordered my iphone 5. Wish I'd seen it as I'm with Virgin Mobile Canada and it seems they think the battery life is related to your cellular carrier and LTE in some ways. Their tests also showed the 4S getting better battery life over all from what I gather in this article. One of the sentences says "The iphone 5 is not an all day phone." YIKES!

My battery life improved somewhat with LTE off as I was only getting 2 bars and about five hours of battery time over all with LTE. So that's not a feature available if your carrier isn't getting a strong signal. That's not what the advertising said though right?

Here's a link to the article. http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-iphone-5-features-battery-life-may-be-affected-cell ular-signal-strength-796725

If the link doesn't post just go to International Business Times website and find the article. I will wait for Apple to address this. If they don't I'll be taking this phone back for a full refund as you either have to turn off half the functions or have a really quick battery drain or both. Iphone 4 worked a lot better for me and I was happy with it. Will give them a few weeks to sort it and after that I'm done. I do feel somewhat duped. Virgin never said a word on the phone and any issues with LTE when I spoke with them.