There is one thing to suffer a poor battery when using your phone, but it is an entirely different matter when you main sim is in the Lumia 820 and you notice the iPhone 5S battery life dropping like a bomb.
It was off the charger at 7am and by 8am it was at 81%. At 1pm it was down to 19%. So last night, I put a call in to Apple Support. First they remotely ran on my device a full battery diagnostics. This then got sent back to Apple and a discussion with a technical support agent continued.
He explained, that some Apple services, 3 in total, had been left running by either the operating system or by an app(s).
The only way to confirm exactly what was happening was to hard reset the iPhone, and setup the iPhone as a new device. No apps installed. From fully charged, then monitor the runtime of the battery.
I explained to the Apple advisor that obviously if you have no apps installed the battery will last longer. He said that they would need to do this, to see whether it was a fault with the iPhone.
My issue is that to restore the device isn’t difficult, but just will take a lifetime as I have 260 apps installed. Not only will I have to redownload all the apps from the cloud, but then enter all the user names and passwords needed for many of the apps. This is a laborious task and not one I really want to do.
So what would you do? Wipe, run as fresh. Or accept crap battery life?
For the record Apple state 250 hours standby time and 8 hours talk time, 10 hours internet browsing via wifi. My view is no way in a million years.
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That’s the trouble with a tightly locked down system….. It’s great when everything is working fine but the second it goes wrong boy oh boy it goes wrong badly.
Give me android with its problems any day. At least I can find out myself and sort out a stubborn App without having to resort to doing a root (jailbreak) or ultimately a reformat.
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It wouldn’t be so difficult to do, but with 260 apps installed the above becomes a real nightmare.
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Surely it’s simple to do as they ask, and run it for a couple of days with no apps. Always have option to hard reset and restore anyway.
And really, 250 apps in everyday use? No way? Slowly add apps as you need them?
Or, take it to Apple store with intermittent fault on centre button and get a new one?
Or, maybe this is the start of justifying ditching and getting something else 😉
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120 apps are games.
But the rest are apps are use in different moderation. About 20 daily the rest as and when needed.
So what phone would you suggest then 😉
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So, as suggested on Twitter, if this is recent, simply take off last 10 or 20 apps, and only add back once battery life OK again.
In fact, do you even know if it’s still a problem after rebooting?
At this time, for me, there is no other phone 😉
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Not sure if recent though. Instead of using car charger all the time I decided to see how battery would last, or in my case not last.
As you said the options aren’t overwhelming and even the Note 3 may not last as long as expected according to what I’ve read.
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In general I have never found Note 3 to last much longer, and given how quickly 5s charges compared to other phones, simply no real difference in real world use.
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That is a good point. So long as you have access to charge the 5S , a fast draining battery doesn’t matter as much.
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No matter how you pay, devices will fail. But if had only paid £99 for my Moto G from Tesco and found I had a faulty battery I wouldn’t feel too bad. The battery will be similar in technology to the one in the £600 iPhone.
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My Note 3 lasts all day no problem at all. It is on 4G and I do have good coverage in most places. But I also have a spare battery. I don’t charge mid-day but at the weekend use the wireless charging a few times to keep it topped-up. Can’t see how you can compare the Note 3 to the iPhone as they use very different technologies and OS.
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Easily. They are both flagship smartphones. And user expectations for a top dollar phone are always high.
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Sure, my Note 3(s) all lasted a full day as well, as does my 5s.
We compare them because they basically do the same job surely?
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No. Similar job. My Note 3 has a high res Wacom digitiser and S Pen for note taking. I also have a Gear which is connected over BT all day. These are just examples of tasks the iPhone cannot perform. Don’t use NFC but that could be another task.
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Oh I see, you want to make this an Android vs iPhone thing.
How odd that some people see this sort of crap everywhere 😦
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All phones can do the above tasks if required. As to the exact method(s) these may vary.
Eg most phones can take notes, a Pebble watch connects to android and iOS.
The user perception is always which method suits them better and or which solution they like the most.
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Don’t encourage the trolls Gav 🙂
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Jah is ok. Loves his tech like all of us, and in particular really loves the Note 3 since he bought it, as is fairly obvious 🙂
He also likes iOS and windows phone and other stuff.
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Gavin, thank you. Not a troll, just pointing out differences. Own Symbian, Web OS, Windows Phone, Android, IOS devices (and use a MBA for my work) and Jolla is in the post. Watching my wife use her iPhone and I see what I do- we are very different. If I did not want hand writing input and large screen I would have bought a HTC One (sorry did have one but sold it!). I watch people all the time on the Tube and at work – they use their devices very differently. My colleagues with Iphones always have GPS on, which I wouldn’t. The devices have many overlapping similarities, but we are all different and we have different habits for caring for batteries. A few of us even load 250 apps!
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Jolla , now I would love to hear your views on that. Apparently the OS has just received today a large update improving a lot of things.
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Gavin should have time over the Christmas break to give you some information on Jolla for your site.
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Nice one Jah 🙂
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It was a very tongue in cheek comment Jah, and Gavin told me you were not a troll 🙂
I just wish more people tried more stuff on iPhone. It really can do most things these days.
Kev
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Note 3 sales (shipments) hit 10 million in 60 days. Not far behind the S4 for the first 2 months. Impressive for a device not seen as mainstream.
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Assuming you believe Samsung, who have given several good reasons lately to be at least cautious of that 😦
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