iPhone 5 battery life..

[kornchild2002]

There won't be an app like that for stock iOS as Apple block app developers from accessing that type of information. There are a few other things to check:
1. See how email is being retrained. See if it is automatic at every 15, 30, or 60 minutes. You can also set it to manual.
2. You can try disabling Facebook from within iOS, same with Twitter as one of those services might be going rogue.
3. Ensure you have fully closed every app including Music if you sync your iPhone through iTunes Match.
4. Try restarting your iPhone by holding the power switch until you see the option of "slide to power off."
5. If all else fails, restore the iPhone through iTunes and sync from a backup. If that doesn't work, restore through iTunes and don't sync from a backup. Then start to slowly puts apps on it, maybe 2 a night. This will help narrow down any problematic apps.
6. If nine of that works, take it to Apple for service/replacement. These devices do come off of assembly lines (just like EVERY electronic device) and some of them are going to be lemons. It is just a scientific fact and side affect of using assembly lines. It doesn't matter if its a $200 iPhone or a $100,000 Ferrari, some of me will be lemons due to the assembly line process.

[Sparkee]

3. Ensure you have fully closed every app including Music if you sync your iPhone through iTunes Match.
4. Try restarting your iPhone by holding the power switch until you see the option of "slide to power off."

These 2 steps have fixed high battery drain on all my iOS devices at least once. I used to recommend holding the Home and Sleep buttons till it powers down but I have found in iOS 6 on my iPad the recently used apps will appear back in the list once it has restarted. Doing a controlled shut down by sliding to power off works much better now. Once the device is powered back up I recommend double tapping the Home button to ensure the recently used apps are still closed.

In this case I suspect either an app or iOS is causing the processor to work hard even though nothing should be running. Closing the apps before you restarts ensures a runaway process is stopped.

[thisismetcalf]

thank you for the tips, i do appreciate it. i'll try what you said but thought i'd point this out as well to maybe raise a red flag to any of you

so, last night i turned AIRPLANE mode ON. now, theoretically, that should eliminate pretty much ALL communication between the iPhone and cell towers, gps satelites, etc. etc. ... correct?

well. went to bed at 70%, woke up, looked at the phone...45%

25% battery drop in 6 hours ON AIRPLANE MODE

such a sad face ensued. i may be forced to try the backup/restore option but i dont know how to do that effectively. will have to google. i do not use itunes at all (yet) for my iphone. so doing it through there i heard is easy but i've never done it.

if in fact i do that route, and it still does not work, i may in fact take it back to the store (sigh)

[cjmnews]

The restore process is fairly straight forward. Apple has an article on it: iTunes: Restoring iOS software

I have done it a few times. No problems yet.

As for battery life I usually recommend that people turn off Siri Location Services.

[thisismetcalf]

i can look into restoring the software for sure but...i'm more curious if anyone had a mental red flag go up when i described how i still dropped 25% even with airplane mode ON

like, isn't that a straight up indicator for something serious? or something very direct and specific that is wrong?

[Sparkee]

Already posted my thoughts as have the others. Even with the radios turned off a runaway process will cause excess power drain. The same thing can happen to computers where a runaway process will push the CPU up to 100% causing it to run sluggish, and if it is a laptop cause excess battery drain. You can spend hours trying stop the runaway process or restart the computer which normally will fix the runaway program.

The reset already outlined here is a straight forward, non destructive fix to try and takes little time to perform. Restoring may be a little more destructive and time consuming although also painless when properly backed up with your media files on your computer. Once you have tried this and suspect hardware issues you can tell Apple you have already tried all the software fixes.

[thisismetcalf]

i get it. just thought it had more substance with the airplane mode but you are right to compare to the cpu of a pc and how with networking off a rogue program could throttle the cpu still.

any way, when you talk about how a reset might work, are you basically talking about turning the phone off and on again? is that your version of reset? or is there something else to do when someone says "reset" your phone?

because what im getting out of this is that there are two things you can try and do to a phone software wise: reset and restore

reset being off/on
restore being a complete wipe of data and restore through the itunes example

correct?

[Sparkee]

Pretty much, the Reset and Restore terminology come from Apple's original troubleshooting steps between iPods and iTunes on a computer but have pretty much boiled down to these 2.

1. Reset - which is basically turning it off then on again.
2. Retry - on a different USB port
3. Restart - which referred to restarting the computer.
4. Re-install - which refered to iTunes
5. Restore - which refers to re-installing the iPods software.

iPhones are simply hand held computers so you can crossover many typical fixes. A Reset is similar to restarting your computer, although with an iOS device if you want to clear the recently used apps you must close them first. As with a computer, if it starts acting flakey a simple restart can get it running good again. It has been stated even though the apps in the recently used apps list are not running, it has been many peoples experience some apps may still be operating or didn't properly close where Restting it may not fix an issue. Some apps may aslo be able to run limited back ground processes which can have an impact on the battery. This is why we recommend closing them before powering the iPhone off during a Reset.

Also if a computer continues to run flakey after resetting it you may have to reinstall it's operating system and software to get it working properly again. In Apple's iOS world they call it a Restore. Restore, if done from a backup in iTunes can re-install the devices operating system but return it back to the it's previous settings and data. For the most part all your media should be in iTunes which is not in the iOS backup file but iTunes will re-sync it again.

If you still experience problems after Restoring with a backup as a last resort a Restore as a new device is in order. This would be just like a brand new iPhone fresh out of the box software wise. If your iPhone is still not working properly chances are pretty good at this point it has hardware issues since you would have pretty much ruled out the software.

Many may blame these types of issues on iOS 6, but the fact is there is still many, many more people with working devices. As you can see not all the 5Rs are relevant with all devices anymore and pretty much boil down to a Reset or Restore.

[thisismetcalf]

just as an update to my personal experience, i am an idiot.

i was using an alarm app that monitors how you sleep in order to attempt at waking you when you are in a "light sleep". Sleep Cycle is the name of the app.

anyway, of course this is what was draining my battery! duh..............used the built in alarm clock and my battery drain was only 2% over the course of the night.

but it sucks, because i loved the sleep cycle app but not if it is going to drain my battery 30%+ in 6-7 hours ><

[kornchild2002]

You could always just plug your iPhone in overnight (this won't hurt the battery), use the app, and then close the app when you wake up.

[Jack-the-hat]

Right across the whole smartphone industury battery life is short at best. Its because they just havnt got the technology yet to make small batteries last a long time. basically the development of power hungry apps and hardware is moving faster than the development of battery

[kornchild2002]

I'm easily able to get a solid 8 hours of use out of my iPhone 5. That includes a minimum of 2 hours of audio playback through bluetooth, another 5-6 hours of audio playback through headphones, heavy texting (I usually send ~40-50 texts a day), heavy surfing, and using apps that consume data (Facebook, the weather widget in the notifications area, uploading my photos to my iCloud photo stream account, YouTube, checking e-mail about once every 30 minutes, and surfing various other websites). That is pretty solid for a phone as small as the iPhone 5 and a whole lot better than what I was ever getting out of my Droid X as it would last about 3 hours when doing all of those activities.

If anything, Apple is ahead of the curve when it comes to battery technology in their iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and iPods. There are some Android smartphones that can match the iPhone (and even beat it) but they are much larger or not as powerful.