Battery life jumping on iPhone 5 ?
Hello all. The battery life on my iPhone 5 doesn't go down by 1% percent for some odd reason. It will hang on a percentage say 70% and then when I've been using for about 20 minutes later I'll be using it and it will suddenly drop to 59%. Why does it do this and how can I fix it ? Yesterday walking home it had 44% and it suddenly dropped to 11% and then a couple of minutes later powered off. It did this in iOS 6 too as well as 7. How can i fix? Thanks:)
No i do not have LTE network access at home.
My cellular reception is quite good at home as well as work.
Yes i am using an exchange account, gmail.
This is what i have tried..
turning off SIRI, auto adjust brightness, push messages, notifications, blah blah blah...
Seeems like deleting and adding the mail account once again helped, as i am experiencing a better battery life today. I had read about this somewhere but weired that this could be a solution to a battery drain issue.
But still I am planning to take the phone to a store to get its battery checked.
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http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html
Take a look at this to make sure your settings are optimized to the best it can be.
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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.
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Increasing battery life on my iphone 5 (6.0.2)?
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i just bought a new iphone 5 and was really hoping to get better battery life than my iphone 5.
first couple of days i was really psyched because i would put it on a full charge over night and then i would have a full 100% at the end of the day. pretty much it would last until right through the next day.
Today i put it on a full charge, didn't use it a lick and i have 21%. If i use the phone i run out of charge around 5 or 6.
Can anyone help me figure out A if i can get better life out of this thing and B if i should expect this to get worse and C whether some of these phones are better at holding a charge than others?
it is going to be a real drag to have to carry around an additional battery pack just to get through the day when i am not even using it.
i have Fetch New Data off.
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The battery only last 6hrs complete with basic normal usage . I tried all the suggestions and nothing was helping. I finally tried switching off the 3G to EDGE and what a major difference in battery life . My phones last more than a day . I got so far 8 hrs usages And 25 hours standby . But that's phones were created to handle lte and 3 g why is it killing the battery life ?? How can I resolve this issue ?
Thanks for the replies. It took a while not hearing anything so thought I was alone. I have done many of the suggestions already. The key here is that it occurs on both phones with apps, and phones still packaged in a box.
A Genius Bar supervisor also checked his Verizon data usage log and found the same 6 hour incremental use. Suprisingly, he did not express much intrigue over that. Maybe he did, but did not show it.
I think the 6 hour incremental usage is the main issue here. I spoke with Verizon (again) and they confirmed that all they do is log exactly when the phone connected to the tower and used data. The time it records is when the usage started. I also found out that the time recorded is GMT.
What is using data, unsolicited, every 6 hours?
Why does it change?
Why does it only happen on the iPhone 5 series and not the 4?
Since no one from Apple seems to be chiming in on this, and I have not received the promised calls from Apple tech support that the Genius Bar staff said I was suppose to receive, it is starting to feel like something is being swept under the rug.
I woke up the other day with another thought ... What application would use such large amounts of data? Well ... music, video, sound and pictures of course. Well ... what would someone set automatically that is of any use to them? hmmm ... video, pictures, sound. Is the iPhone 5 succeptible to snooping? Can an app be buried in the IOS that automatically turns on video and sound recording, and send it somewhere ... every 6 hours? Chilling. I noted that the smallest data usage is during the night when nothing is going on, then it peaks during the day. The Genius Bar tech and I looked at each other when I drew this sine wave graph on the log print outs during an appointment ... -
I'll just live with the terrible battery life on my iPhone 5....
IMHO, each new iPhone has worse battery life than the one before. I've come to expect this. They claim the battery is better, but in real life use, this is simply not the case. I've given up trying to figure it out, I'll bring it into the apple store tomorrow, maybe they'll even swap out the phone for me, but I doubt it will make a difference. The battery is plain awful, but I'm never far away from a charger, whether it's in my car or office. I've grown used to it at this point. Nor am I going to do one of the 10,000 suggestions I keep seeing on here and other forums. Restore as new? No thanks, it's just the way I want it, I don't want to spend 6 hours loading everything again. Turn off location services and apps? What's the point of offering a feature if you can't just leave it on and use it? I have everything (well, almost everything) on. Wifi, brightness all the way up, location services, it's all on. Why? I like using them. That's why I bought the phone in the first place!
So, the bottom line is: I'll live with it. I'll live with having to charge it a few times a day, I'll live with the fact that it'll never be perfect. I will go to the genius bar just for the heck of it, there are issues with iCloud not backing up, and wifi not as strong as the 4S, and sometimes the usage and standby times are identical, so perhaps mine is defective, but I doubt it'll make much difference. Sure, 6.1, or 6.0.1 will be released soon to address these issues, as I'm convinced this is mostly a software issue, but at this point I'm done trying to figure this out.
DHello there, EdisonGurraj.
The following Knowledge Base article should provide you with assistance in what steps to take to troubleshoot your iPhone's battery life:
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2802
Speifically:
Battery life seems short
Click ( www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html) for tips on how to prolong iPhone's battery life.
Try turning iPhone off and then on again.
Connect iPhone to iTunes and restore iPhone.
If the screen shows a low-battery image, the battery is low on power and needs to charge for up to ten minutes before you can use it.
When charging iPhone, make sure to leave it charging until it is fully charged. You'll know the battery is fully charged when the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the screen looks like this .
Note: When charging using a computer, don't connect iPhone to a keyboard. Also, the computer must be turned on and not in sleep or standby mode. If iPhone is connected to a computer that's not turned on or is in sleep or standby mode, the iPhone battery may drain.
Cheers,
Pedro D. -
Battery life issues on iphone 5 with ios 6.1.4
I had upgraded the OS on my iphone 5 to iOS 6.1.4 and now I am facing extraordinary battery drain. I left my phone at 35% battery life while going to sleep and when i wake up, after 8 hours, it has gone down to 8% and less. This was not the case before with the earlier version of iOS or my iphone 3gs. I have tried some tips and suggestions but I dont think those are really helping. Could someone please help me out as to what should be done in this case.
Hope Apple is listening and intend to do something. My phone is brand new and not even a month old.No i do not have LTE network access at home.
My cellular reception is quite good at home as well as work.
Yes i am using an exchange account, gmail.
This is what i have tried..
turning off SIRI, auto adjust brightness, push messages, notifications, blah blah blah...
Seeems like deleting and adding the mail account once again helped, as i am experiencing a better battery life today. I had read about this somewhere but weired that this could be a solution to a battery drain issue.
But still I am planning to take the phone to a store to get its battery checked. -
I am very disappointed with the battery life I am getting out of my Iphone 5S 64G. I charge it every night, and would be lucky to make 15 to 20 minutes of calls during the day and yet I am lucky to get much more than 12 hours of life out of the battery.
I have to make a conscious decision not to use it to avoid it running out on me. I had it back to the Apple Store last week and they ran diagnostic checks on ot and said that the hardware was within specs.
They replaced the software as it was showing that Springboard had crashed on several occasions. The other problem I was complaining about was that at least 2 or 3 times a day, the phone would refuse to wake up when I hit the home button. It would take sometimes up to a minute of pressing the button before anything would light up. The guy at the Apple store said that this was caused by Springboard crashing and that this would also be what is reducing the battery life.
I did notice that after they replaced the software, the waking up problem appeared fixed for a few days, but the battery life had not improved. Now the waking up problem is starting to return.
It is very annoying and somewhat embarrassing when you are with a client and go to make a call and your shiny flashy new Iphone 5 won't even light up. Especially when you have to borrow your clients Nokia....My best bet would be to restore the phone. Back it up to itunes, and then reset it Factory settings. This way, any corrupt software will be removed, and you can start fresh. Make sure you back it up first. By the sounds of it, you are using the phone for business and probably need the data from it. Hope this helps!
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I have no batter in my iphone 5 since upgrading to ios7. I have talked with verizon techinical support and completed all suggestions to maintain the battery. And by the way, these suggestions are annoying and limit phone use as well as require you to close out each application after use, also turning off wi-fi and blue tooth. I don't need this phone if I can't use the features for which it was purchased! Any ideas? Is there a fix coming soon for the battery? Can I return my iphone for my old droid?
Help!Hi! I don't what's happened for your phone but, you can have more battery life with turning of Wifi, decries brightness, turn off location service and etc. also you shold use less Free+Much Ads apps becuase they use more battery than paid apps normaly.
for more informations about battery normal life see here.
I guess it's not a normal issue. so connect to Apple Care or wait for a better answer...
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When IOS5.0.2 coming up? I WANT A LONGER BATTERY LIFE OF MY IPHONE 4s
I am super disappointed with IOS5.0.1 or Iphone 4s?
Why there is some lucky guy that can have usage of stand by 2days plus and usage is more than 8 hours?
and I need to charge my Iphone 4s every 18-19 hours with 4 hours of usage only?
what's wrong with my iphone 4s? When IOS5.0.2 is coming out? Is that sure will solve the battery drain problem?
That is a bit troublesome if the battery is drain too fast, impossible to expect me to bring my charger together wherever i am heading to.
That's not a point to having a Handphone!!
Apple, please solve the problem ASAP.Hello xanthas
One of the things to check is to power cycle the phone, turning it off and on. If it still is having an issue, then the next step is to restore the iPhone. Set it up as new, and test the battery life.
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2802
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
-Norm G.
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