Ios 5 caused awful battery life. HELP!!

Hi, so i updated my iphone 4 to ios 5. However, now the battery life is absolute abysmal. Playing 'crime city' for one minute made me lose 5% battery. But more importantly, even when i'm not using it at all i lose around 20% an hour. I fell asleep with 100% battery life, yet woke up to a dead phone. It also takes ages to charge my phone up. Why is this?!?! My iphone is virtually unusable with the ios 5. Any tips, at all??

I've had the same problem since upgrading to iOS 5. I did a Google search and came across a post by someone that did some troubleshooting to find the source of the problem. The issue appears to be with iCloud. For some reason it runs a constant data stream to the phone and drains the battery at the same time. I had to turn off my cellular data connection because iOS 5 somehow burned through 90% of my 200mb data plan in 2 days. I deleted the iCloud account from my phone this morning, so we'll see if that has any effect next time I'm on wi-fi.

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Make sure you are force closing your applicaitions on a regular basis. Since the phone has multi-tasking your apps and anything you open on your phone is constantly running in the background untill you go in and force close them. This slows the phone down and causes the battery life to deplete greatly. Going in and force closing the apps on regular basis helps alot.
You can do this by going to the home screen and double tap the home button, tap and hold on the first application that pops up untill it starts to shake, then press all the red circles that come up, that is how you force close the apps.
This works on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches.

"Since the phone has multi-tasking your apps and anything you open on your phone is constantly running in the background untill you go in and force close them. "
Not true. Very few apps run in the background and those that do are managed by the iphones software.
"You can do this by going to the home screen and double tap the home button, tap and hold on the first application that pops up untill it starts to shake, then press all the red circles that come up, that is how you force close the apps.
All of those apps are not open. Most are not. This is the recently used apps bar. These apps have simply been used recently, they are not open as a rule.
iOS multitasking explained, again | When Will Apple?
Fraser Speirs - Blog - Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking
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HT6154 After updating to IOS 7.1 my battery life has gone bezerk.

After updating to IOS 7.1 my battery life has gone bezerk. I just finished a 6 minute call with my bank and the battery life went from 93%-23%???? Then i pkugged it into the charger and the battery insicator went right to 48%. Found this article and followed it to the T to no avail.:
Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain http://iClarified.com/39722
Please I cannot think of a better phone to use, and this is where apple will make or break me.

Please be more specific. What have you tried already? Please follow the below steps as described also in another topic by Nathan.
1. Hard reset hold both buttons until Apple logo appears.
2. Restore from an iTunes sync and backup. This made a difference for a lot of peopel, battery life got much better.
3. Limit push notifications (apps and e-mail accounts - set e.g. e-mail to fetch once an hour) to those you really need.
4. Limit location services to those you really need, and watch to see if the indicator comes up.
5. Get the app System Activity Monitor to look for a runaway process that is using a lot of CPU.
6. Suggestion by others to reset all settings.
7. Suggestion by others that iCloud may be involved, and to try to turn off some iCloud settings.
8. Limit or turn off 'background app refresh'.
9. Add apps back in carefully to identify an offending app that is causing CPU or network activity that kills battery life.
10 Also make sure that e-mail is fetched (e.g. every hour) or set to manual instead of pushed.
11 Do you have a good carrier reception? Have you tried to manual set your carrier within your iPhone instead of the 'automatic'?
12 Have you checked if the timezone is set to manual instead of automatic and see if this makes a difference in battery use?
In my case it was a bug with an app that caused the battery drain. I also noticed that the use and stand-by time were exactly the same which is ofcourse not correct. This was all caused by this app which was using GPS tracking all the time. Unfortunately an app such as System Activity Monitor did not indicate that in my case but someone posted this solution on a Dutch forum that the previous version of the app 'Scoupy' had a bug and caused this battery drain.
If you haven't tried every single one of these, please do not post that battery life is terrible.

Does transferring data from prior phone 3G to new phone i5 cause poor battery life?

Does transferring data from prior phone 3G to new phone i5 as a part of phone activation cause poor battery life?

No

Here's the solution to awful battery life on ios 5.

After updating my iphone 4 to ios 5 my battery would drain from 100% to dead in around 4 hours with no use and would constantly be warm to the touch - especially on the left side of the phone where the battery is. However after resetting network settings i only lost 20% battery after 5 hours and is now a normal temperature. To do this go onto settings/general/reset/reset network settings. You will get the screen you get when restoring for a minute or so but when it boots back up just put your wifi code in and everything should be back to normal with a good - if not better - battery life.
Hope this helps, regard.

I am going to make it as brief as possible my 1 month experience with my brand new Iphone 5
-Januarry 11 - I purchase the Iphone 5
-First day the phone battery lasted on stand by for more than 24 hours
-Second day, I upgraded the software for IOS 6.1
-Battery issies begun. Battery on stand by last 4 - 6 hours
-I took the Iphone to Apple Store, they say everything is OK, that I had too many apps or that I should have make the restoration process from "New Iphone" instead backing up.
-I do the New Iphone thing and the battery now lasts more than 24 hours on Stand By
-Then Comes 6.1.1
-Battery drain problems are back
-Restoring the Iphone as NEW does not works this time. I have to charge 3 times a day my Iphone 5
-Yesterday 6.1.2 addressing to fix this bug
-I do the upgrade. Worst than before, battery drains 10% in 10 Minutes in Stand by!!
-I cant make the battery to fully charge to 100%, no matter how long I plug it, even overnight, after 8 hours, I was expecting a 100% charge, but it was at 97%!!!! With all apps closed, WIFI and Bluetooth OFF
-I do the whole restoring process from NEW again. - NOTHING!! - It has been only 3 hours since i Umppluged it and now I have 33% and thats because I charge it on my car on my way to Work, about 30 minutes.
-6.1.2 its even worst that 6.1.1
WTFF!!!!!!! IS APPLE DOOMED?

I need help with IPHOne 4s IOS 7.0.4 battery life not improving

Alright, I Ned help with my iPhone 4S battler life, it is horrible, it will drain in about 12 hours. All I do is check my email, text a few people, and check a few apps. When I may school, it is a hundred percent, then I check it during school etc, when I go to bed it is about 20-30% battery life. Need help. Any suggestions? I tried a hard resets and restoring to a new iPhone etc, nothing worked.

I"m not at all sure what is the problem when you are describing your battery as holding its charge for 12 hours???
How long do you want your device to hold its battery charge???
Please see this article for tips on conserving battery charge. But PLEASE if you are looking for a device to hold its charge for LONGER than 12 hours I would suggest an android.
http://mashable.com/2013/10/11/ios-7-battery-life/
Good luck!

5 days old iPhone 5 iOS 6.1.4 battery life please help

My phone is 5 days old and i am so fed up with battery life. I disabled all data settings and location services and i have nothing in notification center for any push notification. But still i lost 40% of the battery in half a day with just 5 mins of voice call and 15 mins of texting. Phone was idle the rest of the time and when i used i had brightness at around just 10-15% this is my first iPhone and totally disappointed as i saw battery to last a full day of normal usage in the internet. I am totally fed up with apple. What should i do now ? I am a student and invested an year's savings of mine to get this phone. I am totally fed up. Someone please help me.

You have to tell us what your usage pattern is like, what your reception/signal strength is, and what network type you are using (E/3G/4G/LTE)
To note, the more the screen is on (in long intervals 2+ minutes) the shorter the battery life is.
Streaming music over 3G will last 6 hours if the screen stays off for most of that time.
Email, messages, web browsing will last most of the day.
Since you have GSM, your phone should last 10 hours with light usage.

Awful battery life after latest OTA update

I've owned my Bionic for about 16 months now, and up until recently, have been very pleased. After the initial Jelly Bean update, I was enjoying the best battery life I had ever experienced, up to 20+ hours with moderate use throughout the day. However, the latest over the air update (I remember hearing my phone restart itself after the update in the middle of the night), my battery life has suffered dramatically. At first, I thought the battery was bad, so I ordered a new one, but the problem persisted. I searched online and discovered others were experiencing similar issues after updates. I have tried various solutions, included wiping the cache, deleting apps one at a time to determine a culprit, and eventually even a FDR, but none have helped.
I am almost positive the issue is stemming from "wakelocks" and other things waking my phone up again and again, even with the display off. My battery will drain from 100% to 40% as I sleep at night, even with WIFI and data disabled. The battery stats show Android OS and/or Display (they alternate) as the leaders for my battery usage, usually around 40-50%, which is much higher than it used to be.
I have become increasingly frustrated with this issue, as there seems to be no known solution other than getting a new phone. I find it almost inexplicable that an update could go out that causes such problems. My phone has basically been rendered to a tethered device, as I can't go more than 8-10 hours without recharging. If there are any known solutions, or if I can possibly receive a new Bionic, please let me know.
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After the Google logo appears and I try to go to step 5, I get the green
little robot on his back, 'tummy' open with a red triangle and exclamation
mark in it....and it stays there for a long time???
Then the phone reboots....problems stay.
I do not know who you are Kevin but I was at the Verizon store on Friday
and I was told to call customer service as they are not responsible for the
software...it's Samsung's problem!?
I am a +$300 a month client and this is the service I get!
I will close my account, pay whatever it takes and go someplace else if
this doesn't get fixed fast...this did not happen on my request and I'm
stuck with it.
Respectfully,
Steve <Personal information removed per the Verizon Wireless Terms of Service.>
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I updated both iPad and iPhone to iOS 7.06. Battery lif goes extremely fast, maybe a tenth of what it was.

I updated to the latest version of the iOS. My battery life on both iPad and iPhone have dropped to nothing. My phone goes dead by noon. I have turned off every "push" locator, everything I can think off. Is anyone else having this trouble?

On my iPad 3, I noticed with the update to iOS 7.0.6 that it turned on features by default that I had previously turned off, such as Bluetooth. You might want to check to see if active features are now turned on that you previously turned off. Some of them, like Bluetooth, will cause an additional drain on the battery.

Will apple fix the ios 5.0.1 battery life soon?

Yesterday when I did the Update to IOS 5.0.1 it was the worst thing to do..... when I had IOS 5 it worked great! Since I did the update the issue was the battery life. I would charged up my ipad1 to 100% and every min it would lose one percent. Every minute until it died. Apple please fix this problem. Your getting me worried.How soon could you guess fix this problem. I wont have to wait 2 weeks or more will I?
Durring my observation I notice i had my ipad sideways and turned on my ipad and i heard a camera sound out of knowhere. Ipad 1 dosent have a camera and i dont have any apps that deals with camers? Just wanted to put that out there.

These are user-to-user forums, they are not monitored by Apple (there are too many forums/threads/messages for that to happen). If you want to leave feedback for Apple then you can do so here : http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
I haven't noticed any battery issues on my first gen iPad with iOS 5.0.1 (nor on 5.0 before that). Have you tried a reset to see if that helps (press and hold both the home and sleep buttons for 10 to 15 seconds until the Apple logo appears), and/or gone through a charge cycle (charge to 100%, run it down so that it powers off, and then re-charge to 100%) ?
In terms of the camera sound, if you briefly press both the home and sleep buttons then a screenshot is taken - if you look in the Saved Photos album in the Photos app you should find a shot of whatever was on your screen at the time.

One User's Story: iOS 7.1 and Battery Life on iPhone 5

I've been reading the messages from folks that have experienced shorter battery life after upgrading to iOS 7.1. It does appear that there is a real problem with some iPhone 5S models. Some of those users are reporting a shorter battery life along with warm iPhones (when the iPhones weren't doing anything) and repeatedly "coming to life" with the lockscreen slider multiple times after being put asleep.
In my case, the day after upgrading to iOS 7.1 I noticed that my iPhone 5 (not 5S) went from about 90% battery to 55% battery overnight--with no apps open. And since iOS 7, I've disabled background app updates, disabled location services for all but about 4 apps, disabled motion, etc. I also tend to never leave any apps open when I'm done for the day. Anyway, during the second night, my phone went from 40% to about 35%. I suspected that iOS 7.1 may have affected the battery calibration but perhaps not the actual life between charges.
I then turned on the phone, set it to not sleep, and let it completely use up the battery charge and to turn itself off. It took a very long time--more evidence of a calibration issue. I then completely charged the phone. Since then, it appears that not only is the battery calibration correct again, but the actual battery life might be a little longer after iOS 7.1. I'm now seeing about an 8% to 10% drop in battery charge overnight which is what I had before iOS 7.1.
I'm not saying that users who are reporting decreased battery life are wrong. I can only report my own experience.

I love all the Tips out there to save Battery life, turn this off turn this down when the bottom line is you shouldnt have to turn anything off or down because those things are why you bought an Apple iPhone, how about Apple fixes there crap right the 1st time instead of ripping us off,
And another thing Apple should reveal there iPhone 6 on what the heck there going to release , whats with all this bullcrap all the time that its a big secret....
Im really getting sick of this Company...

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is it tru that this version has battery problems cuz iam scared to upgrade it
tell me

I've read a lot of whining about iOS 5 causing problems, but so far I have not seen one piece of empirical evidence to support any of those claims.
With that being said, I upgraded my 32gig 4th gen to iOS 5 and to date I have not encountered any problems.

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Hi All,
This one is a true case of a phone with zero potentail (electrically)
OK, I've done the rounds on this one, whereby I'm just adding to the list of complaints so that (hopefully) the powers that be, or not, in my phones case, might listen.
Since updating my just over 12 month old 5s to 8.1.2, it has turned into a bag of spanners in respect of its battery life. Its literally gone from 24 or so hours between charges to less than 8 !!
I have tried shutting all the apps down and even had it sitting in full airplane mode, where i've left it alone with the screen off, yet its dropping around 1% every 3 to 4 minutes, blinding!! Checked battery usage in settings after 30 minutes, guess what standby 29 minutes usage 1 minute
Also tried the full restore, but to no avail, still a bag of spanners!
Does anyone on here remeber the good old days of a fixed land line, where the phone actually had to be plugged into the wall before you could actually use it?
Nothing like a bit of retro ay, but some how I cant see this one catching on Mr Apple. Thanks

There is no Apple here to read this.
If you want Apple set up an appointment with the genius bar and take your phone and have it looked at.

It's not my imagination. iOS 6 is depleting battery life at a much faster rate

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