Iphone 5 battery dies too fast, bought in Feb 2013

Hi,
Recently Iphone has invited customers to get their battery replaced who have purchased the iphone 5 between Sept 2012 to Jan 2013. I have purchased my Iphone 5 on Feb 2013, however my battery doesn't hold a day (and quickly goes to 30%->0% in no time). I have checked on the apple page and my Serial number is not suggested to be affected by the fault that the company is admitting. Is it possible that the lot that I have purchased the phone in could also be faulty similar to its predeccars. I am facing the battery issue from almost beginning of this year now. That suggests my phone battery was fine only for an year. I am wondering if this is the average age of Iphone battery or my phone behaved exceptionally bad.
Cheers,
abhi134

that's still a relatively young phone 5 if you bought it in February 2013. but if you are near an apple store, try to see if they will let it in under the free replacement program anyways. they might say yes even if the serial number comes up as not affected. when you go there, they will help diagnose your iphone to see if maybe it's just some settings or apps on your iphone draining your battery. or you can try your own bit of diagnosing it yourself after reading articles about battery drain on iphone. this is one article you definitely what to read by a former apple genius technician person:
http://www.scottyloveless.com/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-to-solving-ios-batter y-drain
my own experience is that Background App Refresh can really drain the battery (go into settings, general, background app refresh to turn that completely off or only turn off what you don't need). you may also want to go into settings to check on apps that do location gps stuff and leave location turned on for only what you need. for apps, the facebook app could be a big battery suck. also my experience is that apps sponsored by advertising could be a source of battery suck if they check your location or do background refresh even when they are off. LTE could be a possible battery suck (you can switch this off in settings to only get 4G), although many people will disagree on this, but my experience is it could be another battery suck if you find your iphone always alternating between LTE and 4G.
there is one app you might want to try "Normal: Battery Analytics" in the app store. this can help to tell you which apps may be causing problems.
if you want the battery replaced, you may want to ask your local apple store how much they'll charge you if out of warranty. news was they are doing battery replacements in the store nowadays. but they may also suggest you buy a replacement iphone 5 which of course will cost more. otherwise, if you really want to change the battery, then search on yelp for a good repair shop near you that works on iphones to get a better price. but keep in mind that is outside the apple store, and afterwards you won't be able to get apple to do any future hardware repairs on that particular iphone. but since you're out of warranty anyways, you may end up being like me and either doing it yourself for whatever you are not afraid to do, or, better yet, going to a reputable outside repair shop for iphone repairs that are beyond your skills.

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