Tag: iPhone

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.