If you have an iPhone5 with battery life issues…

not to mention i had to have it on airplane mode 24/7, rarely use 3G and my brightness on the lowest for it to last a whole day

i had an iphone 5 that would always die on 40 percent and eventually it completely died and no longer chargers i went to apple and they said i charged it too much and would cost $200 what utter crap! worst phone i ever had!

all iphones do that eventually 🙁

Wow, my son was complaining about this last week too and his phone just suddenly went dead . Lucky only the one son , we allowed him to have an IPhone 6 and is happy with this. The problem with the Iphones is the batteries are built within the phone ( sneaky ) , so check the prices as it maybe dearer than you think. Thank you for this thread .

I always figured my battery was crappy because I played a lot of high powered games, listen to music and used Wifi a lot but I only upgraded to an iPhone 5 in November 2014 and I have to charge mine up at least once a day.

But I’m fairly sure I screwed the battery from the beginning because when I first got it, the battery was at like 10% and I charged it up to 20% then I had to work and then I used all the battery on the bus ride home and I think I over charge it too. Especially if I put it on charge before I go to bed.

But I’ll look into getting a replacement battery. Cos I’m sick of charging it all the time and having to bring my charger with me.

Oh, another hot tip:

Save yourself a whole bunch of anxiety and remember your password when you restore your backup of your phone. For some reason I forgot mine (perhaps in the excitement of hanging out with cool Super-Craig plus getting a new phone) and I had to go through my list of passwords, hacker-style, to restore all my contacts, photos, videos, encryptions (you get the picture) on the darn thing.

Still worth it!

TUD x

Well, it goes to show what happens when you look into things, lovelies! Here I was thinking it was just me and my first-world phone issues!

I’ve just gotten back from the Genius Bar. Not only was it my battery, but Super-Craig (that’s what I’m calling him) gave my phone a complete once over and decided my on-off switch (tee hee) was behaving in an unusual manner. It didn’t help matters when Super-Craig and I were having fits of laughter over the on-off switch.

Any-hoo, Super-Craig hooked me up with a brand new phone. I got a bit worried, as my old phone had a couple of naughty photos in there (shhh, don’t say anything), which caused more laughter. Super-Craig was a gentleman, made sure the old phone was wiped clean, and gave me a new phone, straight out of the box.

So, the moral (haha) of the story is, if you have an iPhone5 and it’s misbehaving, look at the following sites:

https://www.apple.com/support/iphone5-battery/

https://www.apple.com/support/iphone5-sleepwakebutton/

Don’t tell Super-Craig it was me. He’ll know.

TUD x

Hi TheUglyDuckling,
I had the EXACT same issue with my iPhone 5 and put it down to too much Instagramming/Facebooking, so when I took it to the Genius Bar I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there were a whole heap of phones in that model that had faulty batteries and they replaced it for free – even though the phone is about 3 years old!
Carli x

I have an iPhone 5s and the battery was horrible! It would be fully charged and without even using it, it would go down to 50% and then die within 30 minutes after that. I finally made an appointment for the genius bar for them to check it out. Turns out there was something wrong with my battery. I believe it was faulty and they had to change it for a new one.

If you have any other phones with short battery lives, get a power bank (portable battery) to charge on the go. My power bank is 21000 mah which means i can charge my phone for up to 5 times before i need to recharge the power bank.