Battery life in the iPhone 5

I have a used iPhone 5 that I received from a family friend, and I noticed right away that the battery life was almost non-existent. Throughout my time with the phone I’ve realized that I virtually cannot use the phone while on 4G. If I try to use snap chat or any app while on data the phone will die no matter how charged it is, and it will take up to fifteen minutes to turn back on once on the charger. Is there anything I can do besides pay full price for a new phone?

MaddeeBrown wrote:
I have a used iPhone 5 that I received from a family friend, and I noticed right away that the battery life was almost non-existent. Throughout my time with the phone I’ve realized that I virtually cannot use the phone while on 4G. If I try to use snap chat or any app while on data the phone will die no matter how charged it is, and it will take up to fifteen minutes to turn back on once on the charger. Is there anything I can do besides pay full price for a new phone?
Lithoum Ion & Lithium Polymer batteries has a normal life of 500-1000 charge cycles. If the phone is "over heated" during charging or use, it will reduce that life span even more. The way the batteries tend to work is that they show the max voltage available until the battery is nearly depleated and then it will suddently drop to 0% remaining. This is why you see phones showing 20% (or 40% or 80%) one second then shut off the next.
As was already mentioned, Apple had a recall on some iPhone 5 batteries, so you might be covered under that (unless it has expired). I believe that some Apple stores offer battery replacements for around $79 depending upon the phone and parts avaialbility. You may find someone else to do it cheaper, but if they break your phone, will they replace it for you? That is your call though.
One other option to consider is to get something like a Mophie Juice Pack Air. It is an external battery built into a case. When you use that, your iPHone thinks it's connected to external power while the Mophie is turned on and has power. That might be enough to carry you through until you're ready to replace your phone too. When my iPhone 5 was my primary device, I used a Mophie, and it would run empty in the evening, and I would still have about 60% battery on my iPhone itself when I would plug it in overnight. BTW, I still have great battery life form my iPhone 5 using it without cellular service and it's about 3 years old now.

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