Iphone 5 Battery Drain ****FIX****!!!!!

eraendrinal wrote:

I had this iPhone 5 from my relative in Japan and told me that it has some battery issue I thought that it was just a simple issue that I can solve but I was wrong. I did all the possible solutions such as turning off location services, Siri, notifications, iCloud almost everything also the itunes restore, manual reset etc but nothing has changed. I also went to an apple service center but sad to know that they are not fixing iPhones came from abroad (here in the Philippines). For my last option I replace the Battery but again nothing has changed. Every time I go to bed I have to connect the phone to the power bank so that I can use the phone when I woke up and don't have to wait for almost half an hour for initial charging after being drained. I think it's a matter of issue in the board of the phone, hope you do action regarding this.

I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH YOU APPLE! first iphone first big disappointment in a phone! I will never purchase iphone. I better go with samsung!

1st off you're not even an Apple customer, you bought a used second hand iphone from your relative in Japan, who stated that there was a battery issue with the phone and you still bought it.

2nd we user in this technical forum can care less if you choose to go with Samsung. There is no Apple here to read your rant, threating to leave to a different company doesn't mean squat here.

3rd you should be disappointed in yourself for buying a lemon, had you bought a brand new iphone I doubt you would have this issue.

HI all,

SO ever since iOS 7.1 my iPhone 5 battery had pretty much reduced it's self to about 4-5 hours no matter if I was using it or not. Same problem as the rest of you I think.

Any ways after trying EVERYTHING apart from restore as new everything was getting worse. I gave in and followed the instructions as posted by toneaikue. Really didn't think it was going to do anything but after a week now my battery is back to normal. Gone from 4-5 hours with little to no use all the way to 12 hours with heavy use an today managed 23 hours with little use.

I Did run into ine problem in the restore though. I used iTunes and backed up to my computer as well as iCloud. i could just not restore data from my computer to the phone. It would say it's doing it but nothing would happen. Just get stuck in preparing to copy items.

i managed to save myself by just restoring directly from iCloud.

MY biggest thanks thanks go to TONEAIKUE!!!!!!

THANK YOU!

Bottom line, after loading ios 8 my battery life went from 2 to 3 days to 1/2 day. I tried every suggestion posted here, no positive results. I contacted apple and they finally set me up with a supervisor who took the case. They kept telling me: (1). my battery was 2 years old, it was 2 years old with 7 and worked fine. (2) Turned everything off, still no luck, their response was to go through a check list (I had already done everything) and suggest I turn everything off, what good is the phone then. (3) Then ran a script remotely and stated the phone usage suggested it was still running while asleep. But it could no way be connected to ios 8, apple does not make mistakes.

SO: I started using the top power button to put it to sleep instead of just closing the cover. WOW battery lasted 3 days.

THEN I turned everything back on: still lasting 3 + days on one charge.

Reloaded all my apps: still hold strong.

Been several days now and I use the phone on a regular bases.

Does seem to drain the battery a little faster when used; I attribute that to the 2 weeks of draining and charging - took a little life out of the battery.

TRY putting your phone to sleep manually, worked wonders for me.

BEFORE: The usage indicated 80 to 90 % "home and lock screen".

NOW: The usage indicates 10% for "home and lock screen"

Hope this helps

Good luck

i have heard doing a firmware reboot will fix this. i will try to post a link to the info tomorrow. seems to work wonders on the phones that have problems. my first iPhone 5 worked perfectly. i so loved that phone. after switching providers from sprint to at&t this phone will die at 25% then after plugging back in it will jump to 64% and after a sec of charging i can go another hour or two. I don't know i am checking on this DFU or something like that firmware reboot. before i make my choice.

Hi, I have the same problem, I used a fake charger and after that my phone is draining very fast, I thought it affected my battery, so yesterday I changed my battery and it did not help, it might be a motherboard damage..

ok. from what i have gathered (now mind you i am no expert, and do not claim to be) i have only worked hard at this because its a major problem on my end so i have done major research. this problem only seems to affect a small certain number of users. at first i thought it was a random set of users that was using 3rd party providers like straight talk cricket etc. yet i have recently seen a sprint customer with said problem. i do believe that this problem is occurring from a "jailbroke" firmware problem. (i do not know this for sure) the research that i have done is stating that when you bring your phone back to life "un jailbrake" your phone it still has a attachment to the firmware. some users have had success with the firmware reboot. (REMEMBER TO BACK UP YOUR PHONE) that said not all have had luck with this process. i have a link on my phone i will post it here in a second. WARNING: I've heard that if your phone has water damage before doing a firmware reboot may render your phone useless. so if you do not know the complete history of your phone you may wish to skip this and seek a different route.

http://www.payetteforward.com/why-does-my-iphone-suddenly-turn-off-even-though-s till-have-battery-life-remaining-heres-the-real-fix/

Regarding #3 you are not quite right.

I bought a brand new iPhone 5 from apple store, and had this same problem i.e. after some time the battery started draining very fast even if you didn't use the iphone. I changed the battery hoping it will solve the problem, as apple stated they had battery issue, but the problem didn't go away it was a bit better the first 1-2 months and the problem started again.

I bought brand new iPhone 6 earlier this year, I hope I won't experience anything similar with this device.

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