How's your iPhone 5 battery?

faceman

Hows the battery life on your iphone 5 doing? I'm seeing no improvement from my iPhone 4.

My phone was fully charged at 9:30am today and its now at 43% (6:20pm). I have had a few phone calls and texts, but moderate mobile internet usage.

How does that compare with your experiences?

It seems poor to me?

Gumbo

Charged to 96% at 10pm last night. (Don't like leaving stuff charging while I'm asleep).
Used all day for email, texts a d phone calls. Decent bit of browsing, twitter and Facebook.
Posting on it now.

Wifi on since 5pm.
Bluetooth on 24/7 for the car connection.
Notifications all on.
Email on push and auto check every 30 mins.

At this moment I'm at 22%.

faceman

kceire wrote: »

Charged to 96% at 10pm last night. (Don't like leaving stuff charging while I'm asleep).
Used all day for email, texts a d phone calls. Decent bit of browsing, twitter and Facebook.
Posting on it now.

Wifi on since 5pm.
Bluetooth on 24/7 for the car connection.
Notifications all on.
Email on push and auto check every 30 mins.

At this moment I'm at 22%.

Hmmm sounds like we could be similar types of user. I guess this kind of drainage is normal.

Gumbo

faceman wrote: »

Hmmm sounds like we could be similar types of user. I guess this kind of drainage is normal.

1% now.
Letting it drain before charging tonight.

Zapp Brannigan

kceire wrote: »

Charged to 96% at 10pm last night. (Don't like leaving stuff charging while I'm asleep).

Always charge the battery fully.

Don't worry about charging overnight, iPhones now use trickle charging. So if you leave it charging over night once it hits 100% it will only give the phone enough power to maintain that charge, so it uses barely any extra electricity.

Gumbo

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

Always charge the battery fully.

Don't worry about charging overnight, iPhones now use trickle charging. So if you leave it charging over night once it hits 100% it will only give the phone enough power to maintain that charge, so it uses barely any extra electricity.

Not worried about thye electricity end of things, more worried about stuff going on fire while im asleep :eek:

Blazer

kceire wrote: »

Not worried about thye electricity end of things, more worried about stuff going on fire while im asleep :eek:

I wouldn't worry about it.. if it ever did short out think of the payout you'd get from Apple
Of course you'd probably be hideously scarred or dead but your family would be filthy rich

Joking aside I used to always have my iphone in an audio dock so it will be fully charged in the morning.

guil

Always leave my 4 plugged in over night

Gumbo

Blazer wrote: »

Joking aside I used to always have my iphone in an audio dock so it will be fully charged in the morning.

guil wrote: »

Always leave my 4 plugged in over night

Actually done it last night
Let it completey drain to the point where it shut itself down and wouldnt let me power back on.

Plugged it in over night and was at 100% at 7.30am.
Opened all my email this morning, done a few mins browsing, the mandtaory facebook checking and now at 99%.
Will update how the battery goes through the day.

Elessar

I took mine off charge at 4am this morning and now, at 10am it's at 78%. I'll update later on. Light to medium use for email, texting, web browsing and Facebook.

unclebill98

Iirc your meant to let the phone completely discharge its first charge. This allows the battery to calibrate properly.

This was advise given when I got the 3GS and mac air etc.

Mine arrived yesterday, turned on at 3pm with 87% batt. Lots of use inc wifi use via the iPad. As of now it's on 5%. Waiting for it to drain before charging up.

RVN10

light to moderate usage , checked fb , skysports and email took off charge at 7:55 down 83% , not sure whether auto brightness is working correctly

FutureGuy

My initial charge was a disaster. Phone lost 100% charge after 7 hours with minimal calls and internet use.

Since I let it drain completely the battery has been much better. Used it quite a bit this morning, still on 83%.

CathalDublin

I'm happy enough with the battery, definitely lasts longer than my 4 did

faceman

unclebill98 wrote: »

Iirc your meant to let the phone completely discharge its first charge. This allows the battery to calibrate properly.

This was advise given when I got the 3GS and mac air etc.

Who have you this advise? It contradicts what apple have on their website

unclebill98

faceman wrote: »

Who have you this advise? It contradicts what apple have on their website

Just double checked. Its in the manual I got for the mac air and even in the manual for an old PowerBook. Can't find 3GS box.

Never bother seeing if things are different these days with newer tech. Ws not aware it's not recommended now. I did it regulary with my 3GS and up until i got my new 5, I could get a full day with a 3GS.

faceman

unclebill98 wrote: »

Just double checked. Its in the manual I got for the mac air and even in the manual for an old PowerBook. Can't find 3GS box.

Never bother seeing if things are different these days with newer tech. Ws not aware it's not recommended now. I did it regulary with my 3GS and up until i got my new 5, I could get a full day with a 3GS.

Ah I thought you meant the iPhone batteries. They're different to that ones used in the laptops

Gumbo

100% @ 7.30am
68% @ 5.00pm

Zapp Brannigan

Here you go, all the battery info you need.

http://www.apple.com/batteries/

Elessar

Elessar wrote: »

I took mine off charge at 4am this morning and now, at 10am it's at 78%. I'll update later on. Light to medium use for email, texting, web browsing and Facebook.

At 8pm it's now at 10%. Im Heading to bed.

Use is as above plus about an hours worth of playing the dark knight rises game on and off throughout the day (very graphically intensive).

Overall I'm very happy. Over 16 hours of battery life with regular use.

Unfortunately the besel and chamfered edge is badly scratched after a week of use

My case can't come soon enough!!

Gallant_JJ

100% at 8:30
72% at 20:20
Low to medium use.

Was very worried when I first got the phone, around 6 hours from a full charge. Since then I have let her drain completely a couple of times followed by a full charge, very happy with it now.

Gumbo

kceire wrote: »

100% @ 7.30am
68% @ 5.00pm

51% @ 10.16pm

WiFi on since 4.30pm
Bluetooth on.
Notifications and push on.
Light useage in fairness between 7pm and now.

stick-dan

Woke this morning at 6am and took it off the charge, light use and it was still at 97% at 2pm. Brilliant on standby anyway. I haven't drained the battery yet really and I only bought it on Saturday. Definite increase compared to all the workmates who have the 4s.

unclebill98

Use iPhone Regularly
For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).

From link above.

Dades

Didn't plug it in during yesterday to test it:

100% at circa 8am.
30% at about 11pm.

Did about 2 hrs of podcast/radio app listening, and light/medium usage and messing about.

Gumbo

Elessar wrote: »

Unfortunately the besel and chamfered edge is badly scratched after a week of use

My case can't come soon enough!!

Where are you based?
I bought a cheap cover in Dublin City centre to get me by until my case comes from amazon.

White phone is still perfect since the day i bought it, and i had it a week earlier by going to Belfast

Please god i didnt jinx myself now

faceman

Some of you doing better than me

Took my phone off charge at 10:50am. It now at 90%.

grizzly

last night I still had 34% charge after starting at 8am on 100%.

Light use internet, 3 hours podcasts/music. A few calls (no more than 10 mins altogether.

I have the brightness way down and bluetooth off. Everything else including WiFi I leave on. I have email set to push.

conor06

Havent noticed any difference in battery consumption from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5

Davexirl

I have my iphone 5 two weeks this Friday, I think the battery life performance is ****e, the other day I was coming home from work on the train, just browsing the internet, facebook, twitter and sent a few texts and the battery went down 10% in 25 mins. Is there anything I can do? Should I contact apple?

I have most of the location services off, Siri off, birghtness way down.

On my iphone 4 I could have all these on (no siri) and my batter was never this bad.

faceman

Ok I'm seeing some dreadful battery life today.

I did a full cycle charge today, unplugged the phone 15 minutes ago. I logged into Skype to send some IMs I also had the Simpsons "tapped out" game open. 15 minutes later its down to 90%.