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How's your iPhone 5S battery life

I'm still averaging around 5-5.5 hours. I'm kinda bummed. I only do simple things like iMessage, a couple calls, check email, some web etc.

I'd settle for at least 6 hours but 5 is kinda lame IMO. Should I try taking it back?
 
jonnyb098 said:
Did you restore from new? I streamed about 15 minutes of Audio in my car and lost 2%. Restoring fresh is just a pain.
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Nope, I restored from backup. I have been using the same backup since iOS 6 was released, and I upgraded through all of the iOS 7 betas.
 
When you first buy your iPhone 5s, do you charge it right away? Or wait till it reaches 0% and charge to 100?
 
3lite said:
Just know that whatever you getting on the iPhone is a lot more than what you would be getting on an Android. Have solace in that and try not to examine too much into it.
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Whoa now. I have a iphone and like it a lot but androids have come a long way on battery. I know of 3 phones that will kill any iphone on battery. I have one of them right now also.
 
macno0b said:
Does it kill the 5s battery if I charge it using the iPad charger?
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Should be fine. The phone pulls only what it needs. I swap the chargers all the time. Especially for trips, just bring the one that supplies enough amperes for the most power-hungry one (iPad).
 
dictoresno said:
whoa whoa whoa......9 hrs use, 14 standby and only at 58%?????????????
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aapplephone said:
wow.. how much time you spent on calls and iradio in that 9 hours?
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eric3312 said:
Can you please tell me what settings you are using? lol
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Yes I was surprised too ... the next cycle got only 4 hours total ... :p

so something wonky in the hardware i think

Normal things off that most people have off like Wifi Networking & Frequent Locations , etc ...
 
jonnyb098 said:
Yeah not sure why everyone's battery is so all over the place. Some are getting 5 hours. Some get 6 or 7 and some are getting 9 or 10. I know it's subjective but still we are all on new iPhone 5s so.....
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I think it totally depends on type of usage and signal strength .I got 5 hours of usage with 40% left yesterday mostly on Wifi (more than one hour calls and speaker phone/screen on). I was getting max 5-6 hours battery life before that if i am not totally on wifi.
 
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My battery is at 44% with 5hours 18min usage and 1Day 1hour Standby.

Just make sure your reduce motion is on which will turn off the parallax effect- unless you can't live without the slight motion it gives your icons.

Plus go through and turn off any apps from constantly refreshing in the background especially the ones you dont need or use often- Stock, mail (pull updates not push), whatever else.

here is a list of more options, I keep my wifi on so to save data but it might help some http://ipod.about.com/od/iphone3g/tp/iphone-battery-life.htm
 
Personal experience ..

IPhone 4 - running IOS 6 - really great battery life, more than a days worth. Never run out. One of the many, but a main reason I use Iphones and not Android phones.

IPhone 5C - running IOS 7 - much worse than the iphone 4 running the previous OS. This is with all the settings, bluetooth, graphics settings and background app location refresh set to OFF, and other recommendations to save battery life.

IPhone 5S - running IOS7 - seems a little better than the 5C so far, but to be honest, hard to tell for certain right now, I've only used it for a day.

My observations - The better processors and graphics cards on the new phones, will require more energy. And IOS7, which is clearly a more demanding, graphic intensive OS will also require more. So even though the batteries on the new phones have been improved in terms of capacity, this gets very quickly swallowed up by the hardware and software demands. And battery life very sadly, doesn't seem to be the main priority for Apple or any other smartphone manufacturer.

For these reasons, at this point I'm thinking that its unlikely I'm going to get the same kind of battery life I got with my iphone 4.
 
I'm really impressed with the battery performance.

This is with bluetooth on, location services on, app updates on, and equal mix of wifi and LTE.
 

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How's your iPhone 5S battery life

justiny said:
I'm really impressed with the battery performance.

This is with bluetooth on, location services on, app updates on, and equal mix of wifi and LTE.
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Lol u charged it and u know it. Ur usage says it all.

Edit: I guess even then looks like it's still decent on ur end lol
 
justiny said:
I'm really impressed with the battery performance.

This is with bluetooth on, location services on, app updates on, and equal mix of wifi and LTE.
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Get this BS outta here, you know this isn't legit usage unless you literally just played music from it with the screen of 80-90% of the time.

I'll never understand why people feel the need to lie about such trivial things like this, like we're gonna respect them ever so much and collapse at their feet.
 
spazma7ik said:
I'll never understand why people feel the need to lie about such trivial things like this, like we're gonna respect them ever so much and collapse at their feet.
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You should collapse at my feet... Clearly, my iPhone's battery is more intelligent than you.

And while you're at it, waft me with palm branches and feed me grapes. :D
 
How much screen on time are you guys getting?. I don't have an iPhone. I have the S4 which gets about 3.5 to 4 hrs of screen on time.
 
What I don't understand is how people can have battery usage of 4 to 6 hours (seems like the average on this thread) and yet review and analysis sites (e.g, Anandtech) show 8+ hours of internet or video usage.

Some people on here don't even have location services or background app refresh turned on.
 
SJism23 said:
What I don't understand is how people can have battery usage of 4 to 6 hours (seems like the average on this thread) and yet review and analysis sites (e.g, Anandtech) show 8+ hours of internet or video usage.

Some people on here don't even have location services or background app refresh turned on.
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I think the 4-6 hrs is YOUR average; not everyone else's. If you look back, the norm seems to be 8 hrs. It's either...the way you're using your phone or you have a faulty battery.
 
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