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[Mr.OmegaMan]

Anyone having trouble with battery life on the 5?

By that I mean huge battery drain while browsing. Even after turning other features off. 6 hours of web use. I don't remember that on the 4. 

I wasn't going to say anything encase I was the only one but yes

[Mr.OmegaMan]

I feel as the iPhone 5 has been worse on battery since the last software update (worse than usual) odd 

[Doctor Gollum]

Anyone having trouble with battery life on the 5?

By that I mean huge battery drain while browsing. Even after turning other features off. 6 hours of web use. I don't remember that on the 4. 

I wasn't going to say anything encase I was the only one but yes

With all the features on, its quite horrific just on stand by, and gets extremely hot with maps and safari etc open. Its like its doing everything at once.

Battery doctor helps, but only up to a point. Ime.

6.1(?) was the start of it iirc.

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Anyone having trouble with battery life on the 5?

By that I mean huge battery drain while browsing. Even after turning other features off. 6 hours of web use. I don't remember that on the 4. 

I wasn't going to say anything encase I was the only one but yes

With all the features on, its quite horrific just on stand by, and gets extremely hot with maps and safari etc open. Its like its doing everything at once.

Battery doctor helps, but only up to a point. Ime.

6.1(?) was the start of it iirc.

Possibly cant remember exactly, I'm Currently on 6.1.4 version..

It was better than my previous 4/4S up to a point and now makes the 4/4S good 

Yea I've been using battery doctor does help a little, Hope this issue gets resolved whenever the next update is released.

[Doctor Gollum]

Actually, mine jail broken. So isn't on the latest version... 

[Iain]

Actually, my 4S uses the battery pretty quickly if browsing

[Doctor Gollum]

Where's as my ipad, I can be on it all day on various forums. 10hours battery life, no problem. Ipad 1 and ipad mini both the same.

[TheBoy]

iOS really, really, really needs a big overhaul.

For its intended audience, I'm not convinced. Simplicity is everything. What's there works, and works well, without being bogged down by dross.

[TheBoy]

Anyone having trouble with battery life on the 5?

By that I mean huge battery drain while browsing. Even after turning other features off. 6 hours of web use. I don't remember that on the 4. 

Not got any geofenced apps installed? I've found they butt-rape the battery. In fact anything using gps does, but geofenced ones will always use gps.

I don't spend all day stroking mine, so I get a couple of days off a charge, bit more if I don't use the old fashioned features (speaking to people).

[TheBoy]

Where's as my ipad, I can be on it all day on various forums. 10hours battery life, no problem. Ipad 1 and ipad mini both the same.

Although they have bigger screens to sap power, they also have big batteries. Not the poxy little thing in gayphones.

[Doctor Gollum]

Where's as my ipad, I can be on it all day on various forums. 10hours battery life, no problem. Ipad 1 and ipad mini both the same.

Although they have bigger screens to sap power, they also have big batteries. Not the poxy little thing in gayphones.

Proportionately equal...? No?

[TheBoy]

Where's as my ipad, I can be on it all day on various forums. 10hours battery life, no problem. Ipad 1 and ipad mini both the same.

Although they have bigger screens to sap power, they also have big batteries. Not the poxy little thing in gayphones.

Proportionately equal...? No?

No.

Gayphone battery is about the size USB Memory stick. Gaypad one is about the size of a gayphone.

When I used the gayphone 3GS, and have to go out on site to build servers, the battery used to get hammered, as I used to tether laptops, and make loads of calls. So I had one of those gay jackets that continously charged it from the jacket's battery.  Not found anything for the gayphone 5 yet, other than chinese tat.

[Doctor Gollum]

...in area and volume to the power and screen size of the device its fitted to. With functions and usage equal, the battery life is, or has bern broadly similar, when comparing roughly the same era of manufacture.

Until...

Ios6.1 arrived(or whatever one it was). Where by new functions and notifications where added. Non of these apply to ipad 1, as it is running at full capacity already. Some of these apply to ipad mini. All of them apply to iPhone 5.

As you can probably guess, the battery life is directly proportionate for each device, in that the functions drain the battery more and more until the latest version of the software is used.

UNTIL...

The extra functions of the 6.1 are turned off. Notifications being a main one, where it is constantly scanning numerous apps for updates. Most of these appa are rarely used. Email, push notifications can be minimised, data retrieval minimised etc. the list goes on.

Standby time drastically improves. That's fine. Except browsing is still killing the battery. Why is that?

[Doctor Gollum]

Along with the positioning apps mentioned of course.

[Mr.OmegaMan]

...in area and volume to the power and screen size of the device its fitted to. With functions and usage equal, the battery life is, or has bern broadly similar, when comparing roughly the same era of manufacture.

Until...

Ios6.1 arrived(or whatever one it was). Where by new functions and notifications where added. Non of these apply to ipad 1, as it is running at full capacity already. Some of these apply to ipad mini. All of them apply to iPhone 5.

As you can probably guess, the battery life is directly proportionate for each device, in that the functions drain the battery more and more until the latest version of the software is used.

UNTIL...

The extra functions of the 6.1 are turned off. Notifications being a main one, where it is constantly scanning numerous apps for updates. Most of these appa are rarely used. Email, push notifications can be minimised, data retrieval minimised etc. the list goes on.

Standby time drastically improves. That's fine. Except browsing is still killing the battery. Why is that?

I'd also like to know and if anything can be done in the settings to try and improve the battery life, Other than this battery life issue the iPhone 5 has been a good replacement to the 4/4S.