iPhone Question: battery life

I have a simple question regarding my phone. I have the iPhone 5, just 5. Not 5s or c or xyz, just 5. Its the black 16gb model and i have verizon, idk if that matters or not.

Whats normal battery life for people's phones, iPhones or any phone?

I charge my phone overnite, its at 100% when i wake up. Before work i'll spend a half hour or so on my phone on FB/Youtube/forums, on my wifi. When i leave for work it'll usually be at like 96-98%. I get a 15min break and a 30min lunch break, so i'm usually on my phone for most of my break, sometimes not always, it varies (on 4g network, not wifi). I get out and will spend maybe 5-10min in my car on my phone before i go home (yes im slightly addicted to my phone lol :p). I get home and my phone is almost always freaking below 50%. I got home today and it was at 39%. I never had this problem with my iphone 4 and cant really rmbr having this problem before with my 5. It seems sorta recent... I may just not have noticed though. So, is this supposed to be that bad? Like 2hrs total, not even, of internet surfing uses 60%+ of my battery? That seems ridiculous to me.

Ok and before people turn this into a huge Apple vs Android vs Poundcake debate, i LIKE my iphone. I'm NOT tech savvy. I tried a galaxy s3 for 2 weeks when i was due for my last upgrade. I could not get used to it at all. I'm used to iphones all the way back from when i bought my first itouch wayyy back when. Like i said, im not tech savvy, the iphone is just more user friendly for me. Just figured i'd throw that out there before someone comments "oh just get an android phone". I tried it and really didnt care for it.

Thanks for anyone who can help me out!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...martphone.html

These suggestions really helped me. Some of the "default" settings are real energy drains. I love my iPhone as well, and wouldn't want to switch. Hope this helps. Good luck!


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I have the s3 and usually charge once a day, it really depends on how much I use it. Using the internet kills my battery, probably not so much the internet but the fact that the screen is on.

Some thing that may help would be dimming the screen as much as you can or using auto dimming if that's available, I also shut off wifi where it isn't available or your phone will continue to search for a connection which drains the battery.

It kinda sounds like your battery may be going bad, I read the iPhone6 should be out in May.

There are a huge number of possible causes for battery drain on any modern smart phone. The 2 largest are how often/bright the screen is is on and how often the phones antennas are active.

What iOS version are you on? If you have upgraded to iOS 7 then you should be able to change a few settings and get much better battery life. In my experience the Facebook app is one of the biggest battery killers. It constantly is using the phones antennas to pull down data even when you don't have the app running. these background updates can be disabled in the phones settings.

Do you actually turn off Wi-Fi or are you just not connected to it? If you leave Wi-Fi on all day when you aren't connected to a Wi-Fi network your phone will use up lots of power trying to find one. The same can be said for the cell service.

I have an iPhone 5 as well (black 32GB) I run the screens backlight at 60%, and have all app background updates disabled. I turn off Wi-Fi when I leave my house and in the rare case of not having cell signal will put my phone on airplane mode. I turn on bluetooth only when I have my phone connected to my car. On average I can go 2 days without charging my phone, though I don't use my phone as much as some people do.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...martphone.html

These suggestions really helped me. Some of the "default" settings are real energy drains. I love my iPhone as well, and wouldn't want to switch. Hope this helps. Good luck!


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Thanks! I changed a few, but already have a few of those set like that. I didnt download the new ios 7 or whatever because it looked stupid and i hate change. Could that be a problem?

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There are a huge number of possible causes for battery drain on any modern smart phone. The 2 largest are how often/bright the screen is is on and how often the phones antennas are active.

What iOS version are you on? If you have upgraded to iOS 7 then you should be able to change a few settings and get much better battery life. In my experience the Facebook app is one of the biggest battery killers. It constantly is using the phones antennas to pull down data even when you don't have the app running. these background updates can be disabled in the phones settings.

Do you actually turn off Wi-Fi or are you just not connected to it? If you leave Wi-Fi on all day when you aren't connected to a Wi-Fi network your phone will use up lots of power trying to find one. The same can be said for the cell service.

I have an iPhone 5 as well (black 32GB) I run the screens backlight at 60%, and have all app background updates disabled. I turn off Wi-Fi when I leave my house and in the rare case of not having cell signal will put my phone on airplane mode. I turn on bluetooth only when I have my phone connected to my car. On average I can go 2 days without charging my phone, though I don't use my phone as much as some people do.

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Ohhh, i didnt know i should turn wifi off. Its probably sitting in my jacket all day at work searching for a signal or something. I'll do that from now on when i leave for work. I have auto dim on, i'll try turning down the brightness a bit more too.

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Thanks! I changed a few, but already have a few of those set like that. I didnt download the new ios 7 or whatever because it looked stupid and i hate change. Could that be a problem?

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iOS 7 has more options to conserve power, and is better optimized. I really wasn't a fan of it at first either, but it's really grown on me. I still prefer the aesthetic of the previous iOS versions, but functionality wise iOS 7 is worth it. (to me at least)

I use my phone all day. I start with it fully charged in the morning. Internet/forum with my coffee in the morning for awhile. Text/surf frequently during the day. Occasionally listen to music during the day. By about 2:00 it's down to about 60- 70% ish (that's without music). Sometimes a bit less. Music kills mine the fastest, out of everything I use it for.

iPhone has always had crap battery management. Many Androids aren't much better, we can only hope that Blackberry will be licensing their battery management software since they likely won't be in the phone manufacturing market too much longer.
I don't use them myself but, I do believe that you can either turn off things you don't use/need to extend battery life or, download 3rd party battery management apps. Maybe someone with more experience than me just messing with the gf's iPhone has some specific app suggestions for this.
Big touch screens eat battery power. Dimming that a few points or ensuring it stays off in pocket/holster/case etc help, as can turning off GPS when you aren't using it.

Edit: Not sure if it applies to iPhone but, I have noticed severe battery drain on several phones in fringe areas. If the cell signal is weak/blocked they seem to use a ton of juice searching for a signal.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

iOS 7 has more options to conserve power, and is better optimized. I really wasn't a fan of it at first either, but it's really grown on me. I still prefer the aesthetic of the previous iOS versions, but functionality wise iOS 7 is worth it. (to me at least)

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Ehhhhhh maybe i just need to break down and update it then lol. :/

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Ehhhhhh maybe i just need to break down and update it then lol. :/

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I think it makes a difference. I use my Facetime frequently, and that was a mess before the update. Now it works seamlessly for me. Hope it helps with your battery! Good luck.


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I got home today and was at 75%. Still kinda crappy imo, but much much better than 39% yesterday lol

just between your 4 and 5, the 5 has a 18% bigger screen and a 1% bigger battery, so just having the screen on you are sucking more juice. Keeping anything you don't need on and being in bad service area cause quite a bit of drain.

Everything else I would mention android in some way so I'll stop there, besides saying haha I get 2 days out of my s3

I tried the s3 and hated it. Couldnt get used to the different keyboard (the iphone keyboard is just faster or more responsive or something), the camera/pics weren't as good, and the phone was too damn big lol. The screen didnt look as clear and sharp to me either.

I think i may invest in one of those cases that have a full battery charge built in. Are they worth it?

They have the s4 minis now mike.

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I just keep a charger in the car, but rarely use it. My battery lasts all day. If I use it a ton, I may get down to 20% at the end of the day. I don't know anything about the charger cases. Is your phone completely dying, or just getting low to the point where you're uncomfortable?


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I also charge my phone whenever I get a chance.

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You should keep WiFi off unless using it, same with bluetooth. I don't know if apple has a screen brightness setting or not, but I keep mine darker, I have an android phone.

Also another thing is to keep your 4g off and instead use 3g. The reason being is not every place has 4g so if you're in an area without it and your phones constantly searching for 4g signal it'll eat the battery up.

I have about 100 more things I could tell you but I'm not to keen or upkept on apple phones for the simple reason I never liked their products. Wish I could help you out.

Almost forgot I bought a PowerRocks for under $40. It is a rechargeable battery that comes with micro-USB and iPhone cords. I was looking at the battery cases for my S4 but didn't want to add the bulk and, I really like my OtterBox.
It works out as a decent alternative when I am away from a power source for any time.

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

I tried the s3 and hated it. Couldnt get used to the different keyboard (the iphone keyboard is just faster or more responsive or something), the camera/pics weren't as good, and the phone was too damn big lol. The screen didnt look as clear and sharp to me either.

I think i may invest in one of those cases that have a full battery charge built in. Are they worth it?

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I'll actually agree with you about the keyboard and camera, samsung does a horrible job with both (there has been updates since then however), but you can download other software, like swiftkey with predictive word based on your previous texts/emails and swipe. As for the camera I just downloaded the stock android one, forget samsung. Ill have to disagree about the too big and on the clarity part tho :)

I have never bought one, but I have known people to buy them for other phones and never heard a complaint. I guess its just personal preference, if you don't mind the phone being heavier you can get a lot more life out of one charge. Your phone has a 1440 mah battery and is also used so not at 100% compared to new, I just googled a random battery case for iphone and it was 1700mah, so using that you should see well over double the life. Also take into account that the bigger the battery, the heavier it will be.

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I don't know if apple has a screen brightness setting or not, but I keep mine darker, I have an android phone.

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Apple's auto brightening is actually works better imo, you can select auto brightness and adjust the base brightness 1%-100%, then it will dim using that number as the base, not just click auto and your stuck at a fixed number. I keep my phone at full brightness just because I like it that way, but I still think android should have the ability to do it.

Definitely turn the brightness off on your iPhone. I only turn mine up of I can't see the screen on a really sunny day or at night but your eyes will eventually adjust to the lighting of your phone. I can leave my phone on for days with the wifi on as long as the backlight is off and it won't die. My phone battery only went all the way down once because I let it lol. Literally just turn your brightness up all the way for like 5 minutes and see how fast your phone dies. With it off the battery goes down so much slower.


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Originally Posted by Kodieh

They have the s4 minis now mike.

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Its funny you say that.

Today my phone was back to sucking again. Was at 37% by lunch break and then shut off on me. I tried turning it back on and it was telling me it needed to be charged (like that screen). I went home and researched a bit and decided that the S4 mini looked pretty good. I'm going to verizon tmrw after work to see about that phone.

Its all fun and games until i have to spend a half hour lunch break without my phone... Some people may think it sounds like im overreacting a bit, and i probably am. But this phone pissed me off a lot. Unless verizon has some secret answer to my problem, i'm forcing myself to switch to android for good this time lol.

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I'll actually agree with you about the keyboard and camera, samsung does a horrible job with both (there has been updates since then however), but you can download other software, like swiftkey with predictive word based on your previous texts/emails and swipe. As for the camera I just downloaded the stock android one, forget samsung. Ill have to disagree about the too big and on the clarity part tho :)

I have never bought one, but I have known people to buy them for other phones and never heard a complaint. I guess its just personal preference, if you don't mind the phone being heavier you can get a lot more life out of one charge. Your phone has a 1440 mah battery and is also used so not at 100% compared to new, I just googled a random battery case for iphone and it was 1700mah, so using that you should see well over double the life. Also take into account that the bigger the battery, the heavier it will be.



Apple's auto brightening is actually works better imo, you can select auto brightness and adjust the base brightness 1%-100%, then it will dim using that number as the base, not just click auto and your stuck at a fixed number. I keep my phone at full brightness just because I like it that way, but I still think android should have the ability to do it.

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i guess i'll just have to get used to the keyboard lol. And download that camera. It was all good until the phone decided to die with 37% battery left. It shouldnt have even been that low to begin with anyways, but thats besides the point. I'm not very tech savvy and i HATE change but that crap was NOT cool and pissed me off lol

Once you android, you never go back. I don't know what the size difference is but it has to be substantial to give it the title mini.

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I've never actually used one, but the moto x has gotten huge props in the tech world for being the best out of the box user experiences, worth checking out if your thinking about switching. If you don't like the keyboard, give swiftkey a try.

Come to the android world... I hate change too. But I don't know how you couldn't love it.

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I've never actually used one, but the moto x has gotten huge props in the tech world for being the best out of the box user experiences, worth checking out if your thinking about switching. If you don't like the keyboard, give swiftkey a try.

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Looooove SwiftKey.

Which camera app did you get?



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I've never actually used one, but the moto x has gotten huge props in the tech world for being the best out of the box user experiences, worth checking out if your thinking about switching. If you don't like the keyboard, give swiftkey a try.

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It says online its 4.7". Too big. People look at me funny when i complain but really the #1 reason i got rid of the s3 was bc the screen size was too big. I hated it.

The iphone 5 is 4". The s4 mini is 4.3". I can handle that much extra. Once it start getting closer to 5", the phone is just too big of a screen for me.

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Looooove SwiftKey.

Which camera app did you get?



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I got the stock 4.3 android camera, 4.4 doesn't work well on the s3.

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It says online its 4.7". Too big. People look at me funny when i complain but really the #1 reason i got rid of the s3 was bc the screen size was too big. I hated it.

The iphone 5 is 4". The s4 mini is 4.3". I can handle that much extra. Once it start getting closer to 5", the phone is just too big of a screen for me.

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It would be a tad smaller than the s3, but not much. I can comfortably use the s3 with one hand, once I cant do that then I'd say it's too big. Which I'm thinking might be somewhere around 5in for me. But that's the great thing about "fragmentation", plenty of flavors to choose from.

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I got the stock 4.3 android camera, 4.4 doesn't work well on the s3.




It would be a tad smaller than the s3, but not much. I can comfortably use the s3 with one hand, once I cant do that then I'd say it's too big. Which I'm thinking might be somewhere around 5in for me.

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I just put slimkat (slimrom android 4.4) on my phone and like it so far. Haven't taken a picture yet.

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I got the s4 mini and am getting used to it. Battery life shouldn't be an issue anymore lol

I like it 100000x better than the s3 already bc it's smaller. This screen size is awesome and the screen itself is sharper than the s3 was.

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

This screen size is awesome and the screen itself is sharper than the s3 was.

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I would hope so, a year n a half difference between them. :p

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I would hope so, a year n a half difference between them. :p

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shut up OWAL, you know I'm not a techy person hahaha :p

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I just put slimkat (slimrom android 4.4) on my phone and like it so far. Haven't taken a picture yet.

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theres what we need to be teaching mike now, start him off flashing roms

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theres what we need to be teaching mike now, start him off flashing roms

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Yep! So much more ram speed on slimrom.

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theres what we need to be teaching mike now, start him off flashing roms

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Last time I flashed anything I ended up with a Urinating in Public charge!!
Lol but really, if you guys tell me how to do it, I'm sure I could figure it out. I'm not a "techy" person by choice. If it's something worth it to me or something I give a crap about tho I'll actually make an effort to understand lol

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Last time I flashed anything I ended up with a Urinating in Public charge!!
Lol but really, if you guys tell me how to do it, I'm sure I could figure it out. I'm not a "techy" person by choice. If it's something worth it to me or something I give a crap about tho I'll actually make an effort to understand lol

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roms are custom operating systems, its not difficult if you have to know how (well depending on the phone), but it can be tedious, roms can be buggy, and sometimes you can mess it up so bad, your phone is toast. It's normally reserved for the people who really like playing with that kind of stuff. You can still download launchers and custom lock screens and drawers that basically change the entire part you interact with, without going through flashing roms (roms can however do much more). I do flash roms at times, but currently I am actually running oem os, reliability trumps everything else, not there isn't reliable roms out there, but still. My droid x2 I saw a huge boost in performance running a rom so it was silly not to use it, but with the gs3 I haven't had anything overly impress me, but I haven't flashed over anything in quite a few months now, been busy and quite happy with the phone now, but sometimes I just get the itch to play with it.

But if you get bored of your phone or theres something you might not like, launchers are my suggestion for a first step, there are many to choose from all with different features and what not. For example here is my setup: nova prime launcher, it allows me to swipe up to bring up my dock and i can swipe down for notifications. I use one home screen full of everything I could want to see at a glance, nova also allows me to stack widgets and also change their size, so I can position much more on one screen. I also have an app to get rid of the lock screen, I hate lock screens. everything I use is on the home screen, on the dock, or in a folder on the dock. Then I started using loopr for quick multitasking, it allows me to hold my finger in a certain spot and it brings up all my active windows so I can quickly change between apps.

My screen turns on this is what I see
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...3-15-27-53.png
dock with folders, the headphone icon is my media folder
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...3-15-46-03.png
Stock notification, but song control from notification bar are always nice. normally I have auto brightness off since I think it sucks on android lol.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...3-15-47-57.png

My phone doesn't resembles an out of the box phone, but still oem OS, the power of customization, enjoy it sir. You might even be able to make your phone look like a replica of iOS.

I'm running slimrom which has a lot of the Google and Samsung stuff removed. More room on my phone and I've noticed a it increase in apps opening and closing smoother plus games run smoother too.

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Yep too much for me lol. Maybe once I get more used to the phone haha, not now tho

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