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How is your iPhone 5 battery life?

nikkisharif

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How's the battery working for you?

This is mostly FB, Instagram, & texting. I did a restore from my 4S that was running iOS 6.

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How's the battery working for you?

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after 5 complete battery cycles I've finally got decent battery results.

This is on moderate to heavy usage: 5 push email accounts set on 15 min refresh intervals, Instagram, Twitter, Siri, camera, groupme, sportacular, yahoo ff safari/youtube

I restored from my ip4, the battery cycle was terrible the first few days.
 
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Re: How's the battery working for you?

i wish i could be getting this.. mines is 3-5hours on wifi

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after 5 complete battery cycles I've finally got decent battery results.

This is on moderate to heavy usage: 5 push email accounts set on 15 min refresh intervals, Instagram, Twitter, Siri, camera, groupme, sportacular, yahoo ff safari/youtube

I restored from my ip4, the battery cycle was terrible the first few days.

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Been working on my phone off and on all day today at work. Just to see how it would last.
 

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My battery life is not good. I rarely use it during the day except to check texts and to respond - maybe 3-5 throughout the day. It is off the charger from 7 AM to 5 PM and I have about 20% battery life by 5 PM. Does anyone else have this problem? Wondering if I should take it back and get a different one.
 

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Anyone have bad battery life that setup there iPhone 5 as new ?
If you restored from any sort of backup before thinking you have issues I would try restore and setup as new


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Mine is set up as a new device. I did not load in a back up.
 

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Mine it's better now. Yesterday I got 15 hours and 21 min standby and usage 7 hours and 45 min. I let it drain completely last night. Lets see how it goes today.
 

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I haven't charged my phone since Wednesday night. I've been on and off Wifi and LTE.
 

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1st night terrible - lost about half its battery life just sitting on my desk overnight.

I get a fairly weak ATT signal at home - 1 or 2 bars. I have no problem making calls and don't drop calls either.

I get only 4G at home. Turned LTE off and 2nd night only lost maybe 5 percent of battery life. Looks like I need to keep LTE off when home. That appears to me to be the big drain on my phone - trying to get LTE when there is none. I am only about a mile from an LTE service area so maybe they will upgrade near me soon.
 

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This is my first iPhone so obviously mine is set up as new, but battery life so for has been terrible. For texting, surfing, email over a good signal LTE I'm looking at 3.5 to 4 hours of usage.
 

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I swear the battery is getting better. I charged it the day before last and have been mainly using wifi apart from three hours yesterday when I went out horse riding. The battery is absolutely amazing!
 

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One discovery that I've made re: battery life seems to have to do with resetting network settings. Since I did that, my battery is still not perfect, but seems to be much better.

Go to Settings / General / Reset and click the middle options Reset Network Settings.
 

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you have to Drain it all the way down...I've done this 4Days Straight. It will help optimize the Batt....My Batt life is Decent to good... I can't complain...I'm always on the thing. Read Apple.Com article on Battery life
 

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I swear the battery is getting better. I charged it the day before last and have been mainly using wifi apart from three hours yesterday when I went out horse riding. The battery is absolutely amazing!

That's amazing.... I'm wondering if you are doing anything different than I am? Where do you have your brightness setting at and how many emails do you have and do you have push on?
Any other tips you can give us. I consider my battery life pretty good but never have gotten for than a day out of it.
 

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