iPhone 5 Battery Life

[eventidephoenix]

Hmmm battery life seems to be going okay for me...

my personal settings:
-LTE off
-email sync every 30 minutes
-brightness 1/3, autobrightness off

25% down after 6 hours of usage

usage pattern:
-1/2 hour podcast
-downloading couple of new apps lol and deleting them
-1/2 hour net surfing
-exchanged about 50 text messages
-50-50 on Wifi/3G

Will give more feedback on battery after giving it several more charge cycles

 

[doctordoo]

Here's my experience with the battery thus far:

Friday:
Bought it on launch day and had 90+% and tested/play with it till left with about 50% when I got home. Did what the Singtel person said to charge it 8 Hours plus on the first use.

Saturday:

Woke up happily brought out my iphone, left house at 11am with 100% battery. Went to nice places test the camera, keep snapping away. Drained to 65% by the time it was 2-3pm. Starting to get worried switch off 3G data when not in use etc and only use it when neccesary. TO MY DISMAY it keep decreasing by 1-2% every few minutes. Dropped steadily even with so many things switch off even worse than my gf's iPhone 4S!!! By the time it was 6pm it was dead.

Very disappointed, went back home and charged it. Kept hoping to myself it will get better.
Once it reached 100% battery life, left my iPhone alone with 3G data off for the rest of the night while i went to sleep, see whether got battery leak anot.

Sunday:

Woke up, look at my iPhone AND THANK GOD still at 100%, surf the internet awhile with 4G on for 1hour + dropped to 92% (Finally it is behaving like the iPhone 4 battery life and I felt relieved).

Charged it back to 100% and left the house for the day. For the entire day I left 4G on, Location service on (for instagram and twitter) and guess what! At the end of the day reach home around 8.30pm only drop to 71%

Chose not to charge my phone for the rest of the night as I want to see how it goes.

Monday:
Woke up and saw that the battery dropped to 69% (still very good) Went to work and till about after lunch time I decided to charge it. (was about 35%)

I am VERY impressed with the iPhone 5 battery life thus far!

Let it fully drained once, and charge it one time good one for about 8 hours.

Note: (I will off the data when I go to bed, and switch the Do not disturb mode on)

Sorry for the long post. Hope it could my experience could be of assistance!

 

[DQUEK123]

I would say ip5 batt is good.
Phone on standby 8hr and LTE on and tethering to iPad.

Been on phone calls, whatapps and turn by turn map usage today. Now battery still at49%. Batt still not cycle thru and already performing quite impressive. Unplug since 830am.

 

[camoguysg]

Do you guys find the phone warm after some usage, like 10-15mins.
I don't experience that with Iph4s

Yes I do too. Can feel the heat especially when put into my pants pocket

 

[Hitokirii]

9 to 6. From 100 to 35 percent.

 

[DQUEK123]

9 to 6. From 100 to 35 percent.

LTE on or not

 

[fantasticfox]

Here's my experience with the battery thus far:

Friday:
Bought it on launch day and had 90+% and tested/play with it till left with about 50% when I got home. Did what the Singtel person said to charge it 8 Hours plus on the first use.

Saturday:

Woke up happily brought out my iphone, left house at 11am with 100% battery. Went to nice places test the camera, keep snapping away. Drained to 65% by the time it was 2-3pm. Starting to get worried switch off 3G data when not in use etc and only use it when neccesary. TO MY DISMAY it keep decreasing by 1-2% every few minutes. Dropped steadily even with so many things switch off even worse than my gf's iPhone 4S!!! By the time it was 6pm it was dead.

Very disappointed, went back home and charged it. Kept hoping to myself it will get better.
Once it reached 100% battery life, left my iPhone alone with 3G data off for the rest of the night while i went to sleep, see whether got battery leak anot.

Sunday:

Woke up, look at my iPhone AND THANK GOD still at 100%, surf the internet awhile with 4G on for 1hour + dropped to 92% (Finally it is behaving like the iPhone 4 battery life and I felt relieved).

Charged it back to 100% and left the house for the day. For the entire day I left 4G on, Location service on (for instagram and twitter) and guess what! At the end of the day reach home around 8.30pm only drop to 71%

Chose not to charge my phone for the rest of the night as I want to see how it goes.

Monday:
Woke up and saw that the battery dropped to 69% (still very good) Went to work and till about after lunch time I decided to charge it. (was about 35%)

I am VERY impressed with the iPhone 5 battery life thus far!

Let it fully drained once, and charge it one time good one for about 8 hours.

Note: (I will off the data when I go to bed, and switch the Do not disturb mode on)

Sorry for the long post. Hope it could my experience could be of assistance!

did you disable any system location services,

 

[patrickgoh]

Unplug at 9am, phone dead at 4pm. Bluetooth, Wifi, LTE, Location services, Exchange mail all turned on. Light usage with a bit of web surfing, check emails, whatsapp, video, games and 5 phone calls.

Trying without LTE tomorrow.

 

[Jumpman23]

For me the biggest battery guzzler is the Exchange push mail sync.

 

[ccyip80]

for those having battery problems, does your phone have almost the same standby time and usage time? That is what's happening to me. My iphone is warm even it is on standby and when i checked the usage on the general tab, the usage time is almost the same as standby time. The battery is draining really fast. Some apps are running in the background but the weird thing is i disabled all the push and location function.

Since i just got out of my hse today at 11am with a 100% full charge until now, 35% is gone. And this is only by using minimal texting on whatsapp and 1 phone call.

Me too! Guess it's really the LTE...

 

[ryanseah]

Really quite jia lat. From 100% this morning at 730am to 26% now at 730 pm. Phone was used today for checking email, facebook and whatsapp. Pushmail off, Location services off.

 

[szeli]

my wife's usage. charged to about 98% b4 left e hse.
looks alright to me.
LTE/wifi data, music.
location services on
1x push mail acct

 

[deep3lue]

For those who don't use Siri, turn it off as well.

 

[bryant_16]

Really quite jia lat. From 100% this morning at 730am to 26% now at 730 pm. Phone was used today for checking email, facebook and whatsapp. Pushmail off, Location services off.

Did You restore your phone or setup as a new phone?

 

[kityip]

iOS 6 also battery eater. Even I on 4s, before the update. My battery could last longer. Now has to charge twice a day, previously just once a day.

 

[ryanseah]

Did You restore your phone or setup as a new phone?

Setup as new phone

 

[bryant_16]

Setup as new phone

Seems like the battery draining for those who restored.. Setup new phone should be alright..

 

[mdindin]

Seems like the battery draining for those who restored.. Setup new phone should be alright..

But then if i setup as a new phone, how i put all my pic in camera roll and messages back to it's original place. I also want my whatapp conversation to be as it is when i left it.

 

[palmtungsten]

I do not restore from my previous iPhone backup and setup as new phone..

And for whatsapp, the message are somehow stores at whatsapp server.. All the messages are restored once u configure phone for whatsapp.. As for Imessage, all the messages will be lost..

For pictures, I copy all the photos from old iPhone and then created photo album in new iPhone.. For videos in old iPhone, i can only copy to the third party video player like rush player, etc..

 

[ekardo]

Seems like the battery draining for those who restored.. Setup new phone should be alright..

looks like it...for me...100% when I sleep..

wake up 6hrs later..92%

lunch time around 2pm 40%

by 6pm, 5%.....

wtf...