How many hrs of movies/music? - Desire General

Ok, i've heard about the battery performance of desire. I'm planning to get one anyway, but I wonder how many hrs of movies/music can I enjoy before the battery runs out.

Up (until I get some answers).
Nobody watches movies on desire? C'mon!

RockPlayer is not doing very well
On my 3 previous WinMo HTCs, I could watch several movies before the battery was depleted.
I've installed RockPlayer and after 90' of watching the same type of movie files, I lost 60% of a fully charged battery and that is way too much.
I'm going to look around for another player and see how well it does.

After 130 views, at least somebody replied. Thanks man, I really appreciate it. Is that coming from a 100% charge? It seems galaxy s is the way to go for heavy multimedia.. it's the desire however that I want in my pocket.

Max BrainBox said:
I've installed RockPlayer and after 90' of watching the same type of movie files, I lost 60% of a fully charged battery and that is way too much.
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DivX using Rockplayer is definitely not as battery efficient as H264 - I can get 4/5 hours out of H264 encoded video, with some battery to spare.
Regards,
Dave

Depends really, with the radio turned off I get maybe 4-5 hours maximum.

I watched a XviD movie on my Desire 90 minutes and was at 71% when the movei was over.

Well I have encoded some Tom and Jerry movies and a lot of the pixar stuff, but I encoded it to low mp3 quality.. But the quality is still very good. My son can watch two full dvd movies and I an still on eighty percent..... I use act to watch them. The low quality is extremely battery friendly.....

3G off, Screen Brightness maximum.. 4 hours and used up only 20%! I dont really know but I seem to be getting very good battery life compared to others! I love my Desire!
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4h of movies and still on 80%...? Hard to imagine how that could be possible... never saw a phone that would make up to 20h of movie playback...

!PANDA said:
3G off, Screen Brightness maximum.. 4 hours and used up only 20%! I dont really know but I seem to be getting very good battery life compared to others! I love my Desire!
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Woah. Well, he himself wonders why. So, on the average everyone can seem to watch at least 2 movies. Not bad.

Please include your player with your posts
Those that claim > 4 hours of playback, what player do you use?
I use RockPlayer, which I find inferior to the TCPMP player I used on my WinMo phones.

I use ACT for playback and recoded files. The files are recoded on purpose in a low quality (but still very watchable) and during playback I had only 15 to 20 % processor activity. Wich is very low. That's how I get the good numbers.
I suspect that when i play a full 750 MB MP4 my proc would eat a lot more power giving me less playback time. But since they average from 180 to 230 MB in size only, the proc does a lot less processing and thus uses up less juice.......

Well I only have 250-350 mb movies as I convert them to mkv or rmvb cos they take up less space too much music :/
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Travel a lot. So watching movies on my Desire is very more or less mandatory.
I am able to run 6-7 hours, but battery after is 10%, just enough to make some calls and be on standby before charging.
And that is now after battery calibration and applying POWERSAVING MODPACK. Maybe placebo, but before I was able to handle max 3.5-4h hours and actually had to buy a spare battery to cope with my travel requirements.
I am using RockPlayer, auto brightness. Playing video without any conversion, just download from torrents unzip and play on phone and only SD videos, no HD (I do believe RockPlayer is not able to handle it).

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How long will the battery last when playing .mp4 files?

I've got a 10 hour flight coming up soon and the in-flight movie selection is just awful. As such, does anyone know if I could get 10 hours mp4 playback out of a fully charged phone when it is is airplane mode?
Many thanks
Spud
I wouldn't like to say that you would definitely get 10hrs out if it, but I'm sure you'll get 5+. I often watch say 2 to 3 hours of video on my Desire at the end of a full day (all radios on etc, medium usage) and then charge up before I go to sleep.
For a long flight though, I would suggest getting an external battery pack or second battery anyway just to be sure.
Regards,
Dave

Video and Battery

Will be taking a flight over the Summer for Holiday/Vacation - Yippee....
Anyway I was wondering how long could I expect the Desire to last when playing Videos, what factors affect video and Battery use (Codec, Bitrate, AMOLED backlight) and also how long have you guys played video before a fully charged battery gave up?
Obviously you will be in the plane and your phone will be in airplane mode so your radios won't be sipping power all the time... this will add to the power life dramatically anyway.
As for bit rate you have only a few options. It comes down to the compromise of video quality and pixel H/W. You may be able to convert your videos to a lower resolution and save some more juice. I would, if wanting to save battery, also leave the backlight on half brightness as to not compromise the watch-ability.
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How long has anyone watched videos on their desire - 4hrs, 5hrs, more ?
sounds about right, 4-6 hours i'd say if fully charged with airplane mode on
without airplane mode i'd say about 2-3 hours max
Additionally, it'll depend on the rest of the gazillion phone settings you've chosen too. So there is no fixed number we can give.
Lower brightness, H.264 vids, ACC 44KHz aud, and lower bitrate overall = lower power draw
Lower than fullscreen res (like VGA) also has lower power draw.
128Kbps aud and ~700-1000Kbps vid is the lowest I use.
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cgrec92 said:
sounds about right, 4-6 hours i'd say if fully charged with airplane mode on
without airplane mode i'd say about 2-3 hours max
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Actually, I've had 4 to 5 hours out of my Desire with the radios on, and still had some battery to spare. The video was encoded to iPod Touch standards.
Regards,
Dave

AROMA Installer Kernel for CM10 & MTP FLAC Support?

Hi I wanna get something out of this waste of money so far it's really not too good.
Only 5MP camera and as soon as you start using it sometimes I'll lose 10-20% in 5-10 minutes of use on battery.
Is it capable of more than 5MP?
Can anyone point out a customizable kernel with very effective DEEP SLEEP?
It appears to never go to sleep so when the screen is off the battery drains very quickly. Battery usage says idle 0% and it spends most of the time screen off. So the factory kernel is just a huge pile of crap. My HTC ONE has been on for 15 days NOW!!! Use it doing the same tasks with it's equal 2GB Ram, Quad-Core it loses 5% in 25minutes of use. It also is only down to 5% now at 15 days and counting...
I'd like to listen to FLAC audio on my SAMSUNG 64GB MicroSD Card yet it won't put up with it at all... LG's like no no you people don't need more than 320kbps... I have more FLAC than MP3 for a reason.
So I'd like to load some music and videos on there like .mp4 1080p videos/ movies & a bunch of FLAC AUDIO. I mean that's why I bought the 64GB MicroSD Card...
Any advice or do I need to just buy a SAMSUNG?
THANKS

Is there a way to test my Note battery to figure if its more or less normal?

Hello!
So I got the Note 10.1 but I am not sure if my battery life is good or if it needs to be replaced.
For example first time I tried it it seemed to go from like 50 to warning levels all of the sudden. I know the guy was not using it for a while so I am not sure if it needs a few full charge discharge cycles.
I did a couple and tried playing a bit of Riptide then one movie and a half on youtube and overall made it around 4 hours of usage like that.
I was wondering if you guys have any test or maybe some steps I can recreate to compare my battery life results to yours.
Thanks!
I have up to ten hours surfing the net via wifi, Email, Tapatalk, news apps and only occasional video clips. Lasts even longer when just reading locally stored docs or watching photos. Gaming is of course the worst condition.
Check for some old reviews. Easiest to reproduce would be a gaming session, with a game similarly to that used in some review. Then the battery will probably last 2-4h, if it's still okay.

Screen on time

It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Sony Xperia XZ Premium before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Got 6hrs @ 50%
karrouma said:
Got 6hrs @ 50%
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that is amazing !!!
how did you reached this time?
please answer these
-screen brightness
-stamina use or not
-airplane mode
-how was your usage ( heavy or medium or ....)
-do you charge your phone with fast charge or not ?
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ashkan.t said:
that is amazing !!!
how did you reached this time?
please answer these
-screen brightness
-stamina use or not
-airplane mode
-how was your usage ( heavy or medium or ....)
-do you charge your phone with fast charge or not ?
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Screen brightness @40%
No stamina
Wifi and mobile data are on
Using heavy some time and medium usage
I used original charger in the box
Rooted with storm fix
karrouma said:
Screen brightness @40%
No stamina
Wifi and mobile data are on
Using heavy some time and medium usage
I used original charger in the box
Rooted with storm fix
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(Rooted with storm fix)
so that is the reason for your high screen time
what is your charger model ? UCH12 ?
if it is uch12 so you are using fast charge
ashkan.t said:
(Rooted with storm fix)
so that is the reason for your high screen time
what is your charger model ? UCH12 ?
if it is uch12 so you are using fast charge
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yep
im getting 8-9 hours with 3-3.5 hours of asphalt 8 gameplay on high graphics, one or two movies on youtube, full low brightness (35% on movies in YT), heavy facebook usage. and a lot of other things like video editing, whats, HG,G+ etc etc.
uninstalled all useless system and user apps. added play services in doze mode. reduced background activity and background data on all user and system apps.
using 1890x3360 resolution (to fix touch issues).
Im on oreo (.51) with storms DRM Fix/kernel, I used serajrs debloat script to get rid of all the useless apps, 8.45 hours with 13% left, this phone is a beast! Mobile data all day, stamina on performance, some YouTube, lots of browsing, telegram msg's, couldnt ask for better.
So are you guys getting these insane screen on times due to root? If so what are you doing to achieve this?
If not rooted what are you doing to get these kind of screen on times
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So are you guys getting these insane screen on times due to root? If so what are you doing to achieve this?
If not rooted what are you doing to get these kind of screen on times
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Hi,
My device isn't rooted and this is what I do to get the most out of the battery...
1. I try to never allow the battery to get hot in order to prolong its excellent performance. If you're charging your phone, don't run heavy draining apps as this will greatly increase the battery's temperature. When charging my phone, I usually set stamina mode to always on and if I'm not expecting important phone calls I sometimes activate airplane mode. If you want to make and receive calls just turn off Bluetooth, wife, data and GPS while the phone is plugged in to keep the battery temperature down.
2. I used to love the Juice Defender app which was able to automatically turn off Wife/Data whenever the screen is off but sadly it hasn't been updated in so many years. Now I just manually turn off WiFi and Data whenever the phone is not in use.
3. If you're watching an offline film or reading a book, turn off your WiFi and Data. Again, if you're not looking to make calls activate Airplane Mode as this tends to lessen the battery drain especially when watching 4k movies.
4. Delete any apps that you don't use. Especially the power hungry apps!
5. I only tend to set brightness to the lowest setting when I'm in a very dark room. There's no point in always having it so low in broad daylight like a disorientated cave-dweller.
6. When you go to bed, activate stamina mode (if you want to save more juice then also activate Airplane Mode) and just make sure that it won't affect your alarm in the morning. ?
That's pretty much it for me I guess. Rooting voids the warranty and that's not something I want to do so I'm happy with my current usage and performance.
Hope this helps!
SNOOPLAYAN said:
Hi,
My device isn't rooted and this is what I do to get the most out of the battery...
1. I try to never allow the battery to get hot in order to prolong its excellent performance. If you're charging your phone, don't run heavy draining apps as this will greatly increase the battery's temperature. When charging my phone, I usually set stamina mode to always on and if I'm not expecting important phone calls I sometimes activate airplane mode. If you want to make and receive calls just turn off Bluetooth, wife, data and GPS while the phone is plugged in to keep the battery temperature down.
2. I used to love the Juice Defender app which was able to automatically turn off Wife/Data whenever the screen is off but sadly it hasn't been updated in so many years. Now I just manually turn off WiFi and Data whenever the phone is not in use.
3. If you're watching an offline film or reading a book, turn off your WiFi and Data. Again, if you're not looking to make calls activate Airplane Mode as this tends to lessen the battery drain especially when watching 4k movies.
4. Delete any apps that you don't use. Especially the power hungry apps!
5. I only tend to set brightness to the lowest setting when I'm in a very dark room. There's no point in always having it so low in broad daylight like a disorientated cave-dweller.
6. When you go to bed, activate stamina mode (if you want to save more juice then also activate Airplane Mode) and just make sure that it won't affect your alarm in the morning.
That's pretty much it for me I guess. Rooting voids the warranty and that's not something I want to do so I'm happy with my current usage and performance.
Hope this helps!
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You can also try to turn off the phone, this will bring excellent battery life :cyclops:
Just kidding :silly:
By the way, root seems to improve a lot the phone, but I have Amazon warranty and would be a shame to lose it for rooting the phone
alexs784 said:
You can also try to turn off the phone, this will bring excellent battery life :cyclops:
Just kidding :silly:
By the way, root seems to improve a lot the phone, but I have Amazon warranty and would be a shame to lose it for rooting the phone
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Hahahahaahahhaha
Yes that's one of the reasons why I'm not too keen on rooting. Rooting the device will also cause some issues that currently have no fix available so I'm good for now.
I can capture excellent stills and beautiful 4k footage. I get around 9-10 hours of screen on time with moderate to heavy use. Everything works as it should so I'm very happy with that.
3.5 hrs loosing 40%
I think for normal daily usage xzp got between 7-8 hrs
The seco d day reached [email protected]% of battery
Well, by my own experience, going out to work at 7:00, getting home at about 18:30 (plus commuting, as I was doing it in the bus too), I was reading an EPUB the whole day (Moon Reader+), black background with white text, the app prevents the screen from turning off, and I hardly had any reason besides lunch break to turn it off, I noticed I had forgotten the cable at the end of lunch break and took out brightness to about 35%, enough to be readable for me, it was on auto until them, no stamina mode either.
I got home with about 40% of battery left. I was quite surprised with my results.
Can get more than 20 hrs of SOT now
Look @The screenshoti taked after long day
5.5 hrs of SOT and 47% battery remaning
I get an average of 6 1/2 hours SOT with heavy gaming and brightness set to around 30%
Otherwise 2-3 days standby with medium to little use. I am impressed.
Ps. When gaming, is the screen running in 1080P or 4k?? How can we tell?
kanej2006 said:
I get an average of 6 1/2 hours SOT with heavy gaming and brightness set to around 30%
Otherwise 2-3 days standby with medium to little use. I am impressed.
Ps. When gaming, is the screen running in 1080P or 4k?? How can we tell?
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It is 1080p
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It is 1080p
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Thanks for clearing that. This means that we only get 4k when viewing 4k movies? However, by default we are getting 1080p which includes gaming.
It would be nice if we could run games in 4k. Why have a 4k screen which is only running 1080P?
Same as buying a 4k TV/Monitor and gaming at 1080P. :crying:
At least we should have an option to change resolution like a PC when gaming, would make sense.Even gaming at 1440P would look amazing. Some games have visible jagged edges which would be eliminated if running at resolutions higher than 1080P...
kanej2006 said:
Thanks for clearing that. This means that we only get 4k when viewing 4k movies? However, by default we are getting 1080p which includes gaming.
It would be nice if we could run games in 4k. Why have a 4k screen which is only running 1080P?
Same as buying a 4k TV/Monitor and gaming at 1080P. :crying:
At least we should have an option to change resolution like a PC when gaming, would make sense.Even gaming at 1440P would look amazing. Some games have visible jagged edges which would be eliminated if running at resolutions higher than 1080P...
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hey could you please us all how much you paid for the PC that lets enjoy 4k gaming? and how much room it takes.
I'm not trying to underestimate the power of Snapdragon 835, but you surely don't understand that even GTX 1080 doesn't play all the games flawlessly in 4K
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hey could you please us all how much you paid for the PC that lets enjoy 4k gaming? and how much room it takes.
I'm not trying to underestimate the power of Snapdragon 835, but you surely don't understand that even GTX 1080 doesn't play all the games flawlessly in 4K
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Then you must not heard of GTX 1080 TI?? 30% better performance than the standard GTX 1080. I am able to play any game fully maxed, ultra settings at 4k with an average of 80-100 fps thank you very much...

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