iPhone 5 battery getting stuck at 100%

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iPhone 5 battery getting stuck at 100%

I recently got an iPhone 5 16GB as a gift, and I love it. I have only charged it 5 times and the lowest I've let the battery get so far is 14%. However the one problem i've been having is that two of the five total times i've charged it, the battery percentage will be stuck at 100% for about 2-3 hours even after moderate to heavy use before it starts to show that it's going down. The only conclusion I have for this is that the lowest I've let the battery get is 14% and not completely drained yet. Would charging the phone to 100% then letting it get so low that it turns itself off fix this issue?

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.2

Posted on Jan 2, 2013 7:41 PM

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GeekBoy.from.Illinois

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Jan 2, 2013 7:46 PM in response to bpl0807

Depending upon what you consider to be "moderate to heavy use" what you are seeing might be normal. I charge my iPhone 5 every night, many mornings, it goes 1-1.5 hours before it drops form 100%. I don't use my iPhone all the time, but I do tend to use it to look at emails in teh morning beofer I get to the office. In the 1.5 hours after I unplug it, it may have 10-15 minutes of "screen on time" before the battery meter shows it dropping from 100%. I suspect that there is nothing wrong with your iPhone or battery, it is just that you might not be sued to the battery efficiency the iPhone 5 has in comparison to older iPhone models.

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Jan 2, 2013 7:50 PM in response to GeekBoy.from.Illinois

Well, by moderate to heavy use, I mean't I actually got frustrated a bit by this and decided to test it the second time and turned the screen brightness very high and played a game for 10 mins and it still showed 100%. I seriously wish the iPhone's battery life was this awesome, but I highly doubt it cause it only did it those two times, with the most recent being today. I also should menchin that I tend to leave the phone plugged in for quite awhile after it's fully charged.

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brad805

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Jan 2, 2013 7:56 PM in response to bpl0807

To reset battery meter, Reset iphone, hold both home and power buttons until the iPhone restarts itself, ignore the "slide to power off" let the iPhone restart itself. To calibrate battery let it run down all the way until it shuts OFF itself, then charge all the way to 100%. Do this maybe once every month or so when convenient for you, if you can.

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bpl0807 Author

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Jan 2, 2013 8:01 PM in response to brad805

Tried to reset the battery meter by resetting the iPhone and that did nothing but restart the iPhone, which is what leads me to believe that it's due to the fact that I haven't let the battery run all the way down til the phone shuts off by itself. I'm going to do this tonight and then charge it to 100% tomorrow and see if that helps.

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Apr 27, 2013 1:46 PM in response to bpl0807

Having the same issue. Battery indicator stuck at 100%. I've tried every battery recalibration technique suggested anywhere online. Any other ideas for fixing this? Did bpl0807 get theirs working?

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