Category: Tech

Day 4 followed the same pattern. I let the iPhone drain down to 30% charge and then charged it with the external battery. Once again the battery did very well, but after getting my phone back up to 100% charge it gave up itself. So, 4 days and 4 charges. Not bad going I’d say. The battery was  certainly worth the money.

However, the power loss on my iPhone is terrible now, so it’ll probably need replacing anyway. Even so I think that the battery will come in handy in the future.

So, experiment over for now.

So, day three and the external battery is still going strong. It did flicker around between three and four bars or circles on its display, and after a little while it went back up to 4 bars. I guess this sort of thing isn’t too precise. Anyway, it charged the iPhone 5 again. I let the iPhone get down to 30% again and charged it back up to 100%.

So let’s see what day 4 brings.

So, day two of my experiment to see how I can get more life out of my iPhone 5. Today I let the iPhone run down to 30% before I plugged in the battery. Once again the battery charged it up with no problems at all. Neither device got hot or anything like that. It got the device back up to 100% and stayed at 4 bars, or circles to be precise.

So far so good. Let’s see how it works out tomorrow.

So, I got my external battery and decided that I would try it out each day by only using the external battery to recharge my iPhone 5 whilst out and about rather than using a mains power source or a PC or something similar.

I started the day fine. My battery was at 100% at 7am and I used the device normally. About 2:30 or 3pm it had dropped to 20% so I connected the external battery. I switched it on and all was good. I kept a close eye on both the iPhone and the battery as I’d heard about issues with overheating, but I had no such problems at all. In fact, the entire process was completely smooth and incident free.

Once the time the iPhone 5 had gone back up to 100% I disconnected the battery, which was still showing 4 bars (actually circles, but it means the same thing).

We’ll see how the process develops tomorrow.

For a while now I’ve been having issues with my iPhone 5’s. Basically the battery life has been getting progressively worse over the last few months until now it will barely last a whole day with minimal use. This is not good. I know that battery life on these devices is never ‘good’, but this is moving along a path to unusable. The device is over a year old, and I suppose you could say that I’ve used it pretty heavily over that year. So maybe it’s just to be expected. I don’t know.

What I can tell you is that my current solution is to use a portable battery for my iPhone. Apparently this battery should last me for about 4 or even 5 charges. That’s what it says it’ll do anyway. My plan is to test it tomorrow and see how both devices get on with each other.