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Ok, how bad is your battery life?

I know there are a million threads on battery life here and on other forums. But I am curious before I take the dive into the EVO (buying outright without an upgrade).
How bad is the battery life?
and
How wide spread is the screen separation issue?
I intend on buying the EVO and then trading to the EPIC when its released then deciding which to keep for the next year until I do have an upgrade.
Battery life will probably be the key determination for me between the 2, I need every last second of power I can get.
Captivate guys are saying 5% an hour under moderate use 2% under light- I can tolerate that. But its a GSM phone and they typically have better batter life anyway. No one can really tell what the Epic will do until we get one.

If I don't touch my phone and idle it I can get 24+ hours. light/moderate I can get 8+, heavy I pretty much have to keep it plugged in.

I got 2 days on a single charge last weekend, barely used and was basically on a 2 day drinking binge. Probably could have gone a bit longer but I plugged it in first chance I had. I can easily get through a day with medium use. Maybe light in the morning, more medium - heavy use in the afternoon but can still make it home knowing I have some charge. Or if I get sidetracked for a couple hours at the local watering hole I know I'm still safe.
I feel a lot of people want to best their last battery time though, sometimes after a decent day of use I need to juice it for a while before I go out that night. Any decent phone these days, with the things they can do, can be dried out pretty quickly with heavy use. But once you get more into the regular use of the device it is more than suitable, IMO. Not to mention other steps can be taken to make sure you get the best performance out of the phone, battery included.
I've been leaving my GPS on lately, keeping sync constantly on, just to see how big of a hit it will really deal during the day. It's not really noticeable yet. One thing I have noticed though, honestly, is that in the beginning when my phone was off it seemed to really use a lot of battery. But now when not in use it's almost as if the battery takes a very minor hit, if a visible one at all. Went to sleep last night with 70% left and woke up it was reading the same. Responded to emails, sent some texts, checked the weather for no reason, and left it idle for an hour. Still sat at that 70% mark, even though that is a slight estimate in terms of battery charge meter. Might have been nearing more to the 60 but still showed 30% as used.

this is a screen shot from when i had cm6 7.27 build. i'm running the 8/2 build right now and its about the same.
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Is this normal battery life?

Or is this a bad unit?
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Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA App

Oh yea this is totally stock only 3 days old
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I was getting life like that until I upgraded my ROM to Calkulin's 2.0. Heres a screen shot.

BlStboy your battery life is normal for sure. Im am totally obsessed you could say with battery life. I was getting 5+ hours on stock rom with stock kernel and then tried out star burst and it went to 3 1/2 average. On caulkin's its the same but with much better performance and reliability. Idk why stock gave me such good life. But i know i. Like caulkin's the best because his is a bit smoother over stock and allows more tweeks. Ill upload my current this. Minute battery screenie's for you buddy. One sec

Here are the pics i promised. Almost exactly the same as yours. ICS should increase battery life some i imagine as its all hardware accelerates and new OS's always provide better battery tweaks. Hope thia helps, if it does dont mind hittinf the thanks button
EDIT- the only reason it shows my battery life at 24% is because i stuck my gf's battery in because my battery was at 4% and i didnt want it to die while i uploaded the pictures to you

im currently on 35hours and at 18%. i am runnning Calkulin's 2.0 (not bare) and ek02 modem. also right after installing 2.0 i charged my battery with wall charger to 100%, then quickly plugged into my PC until it said 100%. then i pulled the battery out for 100 seconds then rebooted. i am currently still on that cycle.

Thanks for the replys guys as soon as I get my jig im installing culkin 2.0 :-D I wanted to wait for an official ota so I wont get stuck like the eg31
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bluefire808 said:
BlStboy your battery life is normal for sure. Im am totally obsessed you could say with battery life. I was getting 5+ hours on stock rom with stock kernel and then tried out star burst and it went to 3 1/2 average. On caulkin's its the same but with much better performance and reliability. Idk why stock gave me such good life. But i know i. Like caulkin's the best because his is a bit smoother over stock and allows more tweeks. Ill upload my current this. Minute battery screenie's for you buddy. One sec
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5+ hours? I watch netflix with 30% brightness for 6 hours and then my phone dies. But i get at least 14-18 hours out of my phone with heavy usage. Blazing ROM EG31 Modem.

Wipe battery stats and calibrate.
It's a good day when I get over 12 hours w/ ~2-3 hours of screen on time (calk's rom). Quite disappointing, but better than the 6-8 hours I used to get on stock before calibration.

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I've only had the phone for about 2 days now. With just a few short calls and quite heavy wifi use (customizing!), I think I got around 5-6 hours? I could be wrong though..

I've honestly been getting different results fairly regularly. I spent about two weeks on Calkulin's 1.5a, and during that time I had days where I would go twenty-six hours before getting to 10%; today, I'm at just under five hours and sititng at 73%. I cannot get consistency from it.

Battery is ****ed up.

I was always unsatisfied with my battery life, but now it's gone too far!
1. No matter how long I charge it, at the very second I unplug it it goes down to 99%.
2. It doesn't even go down correctly, one moment it's 65% and the other it's 58%. Always.
3. It drains soooooo fast even though I do nothing with it!!!!
Here are some pictures
1. This is 17 minutes after unplugging it, all I did was to put music on [earphones] and check if my girlfriend was online on Whatsapp.
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2. That's after a minute and a half, 2% less, doing nothing but listening to music with my screen off!
3. One minute later..
4. Sixteen minutes later, phone is idle and untouched [not even music, I started my shift]
5. Again, idle.
It lasts 3 hours tops!!!! What the hell do I do.

MaorSwan said:
I was always unsatisfied with my battery life, but now it's gone too far!
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This app already told you the culprit! Your getting wakelocks so an app you installed is keeping the device awake all the time. The rest is for you to figure out partner . Use the search function on XDA and you will find all the info you need.

Tw1tchy said:
This app already told you the culprit! Your getting wakelocks so an app you installed is keeping the device awake all the time. The rest is for you to figure out partner . Use the search function on XDA and you will find all the info you need.
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Ok might be but to the level where the phone doesn't last 3 hours? That's not cool. It should be lasting more even with heavy using.

MaorSwan said:
Ok might be but to the level where the phone doesn't last 3 hours? That's not cool. It should be lasting more even with heavy using.
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yeah you're right, it should last more anyway! maybe it's the rom.. what rom are you using? or maybe the battery failed. it happened to me with another phone, basically i was in the seaside with about 38°C the phone was boiling hot, the battery was fully charged but in about 20 mins it was at 5% without even using it then it died. since then that battery never worked again and i had to buy a new one. do you remember if you had a similar situation or if your phone overheated for any other reason (maybe while charging or near a heat source)?

fireblade said:
yeah you're right, it should last more anyway! maybe it's the rom.. what rom are you using? or maybe the battery failed. it happened to me with another phone, basically i was in the seaside with about 38°C the phone was boiling hot, the battery was fully charged but in about 20 mins it was at 5% without even using it then it died. since then that battery never worked again and i had to buy a new one. do you remember if you had a similar situation or if your phone overheated for any other reason (maybe while charging or near a heat source)?
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I use Android Revolution HD.
It got heated a few times but not too hot, and besides, I read that it happens to everyone..

Strange battery issue

Sometimes my battery is awesome, and sometimes it just sucks.
This was 7 hours overnight, zero use. No wakelocks, and yet the battery drained really fast. Usually it's about 1% of drain per hour and a half of idle.
Any ideas?
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And the awake times are for Twitter, Facebook, email, weather updates, etc.

1. well twitter and facebook are battery hogs.
2. I have had battery issues with email (only exchange accounts)
3. which firmware are you using?

Nk3,
And it isn't always like this. Some days are fine, some days are awful.

And I use tweetings for Twitter, no the actual twitter app, if that makes a difference.

My battery is terrible has been since I got it

Battery Issue
Well, I see no reply on this thread for a long time. I have been facing some battery issues as well. And this issue was there since before the 5.0.1 OTA update which I received 3 days ago. I will post some screenshots, but here are the usage statistics. I have been struggling to get a full day of battery with very moderate to low usage. The general amount of screen on time I get has been about 2-2 1/2 hours at max. I make some phone calls over the day and since that uses the radios, I take that as a reason too. The general call time I use my phone everyday is about 1-1 1/2 hours. Other than that, its not much usage. I am posting the most recent screenshots here. I unplugged my phone from charging at a little over 1.30 PM and have lost 11% in about an hour. In that duration, the only thing I used my phone for, was 43 minutes of voice call. Is this normal for this duration of calling? The screen has been on for a maximum 5 minutes at best.

sidsden said:
Well, I see no reply on this thread for a long time. I have been facing some battery issues as well. And this issue was there since before the 5.0.1 OTA update which I received 3 days ago. I will post some screenshots, but here are the usage statistics. I have been struggling to get a full day of battery with very moderate to low usage. The general amount of screen on time I get has been about 2-2 1/2 hours at max. I make some phone calls over the day and since that uses the radios, I take that as a reason too. The general call time I use my phone everyday is about 1-1 1/2 hours. Other than that, its not much usage. I am posting the most recent screenshots here. I unplugged my phone from charging at a little over 1.30 PM and have lost 11% in about an hour. In that duration, the only thing I used my phone for, was 43 minutes of voice call. Is this normal for this duration of calling? The screen has been on for a maximum 5 minutes at best.
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Oh yes, and I forgot to mention. I do not put the screen on auto brightness. I usually keep it at a very low level, say about 20-25% and only increase it manually if I am outdoors.

Normal SOT?

Good day, just got a refurbished from Amazon and getting lousy 2 hr of SOT, I decided to replace it myself a week ago. Now my SOT is around 4 hr.
Now for my question, is this the normal SOT for Pixel XL OG? What are you guys getting with new battery?

I can go beyond 4 hours SOT on a full charge over a full day of 17 hours on a freshly replaced battery with my OG 5", the XL could reach 6 IMHO.

It all depends on your usage and those silent internal updates being pushed to your device which keeps changing a device's output oftentimes. Just few weeks ago I was getting 5-6 hours of SoT normally on my marlin (3 month old phone), hit 7 hours few times, but last few days barely reaching 5 hours! Usage obviously has not changed for me. 4.5-5 hours SoT now. From 90-10%.

i get 3 hours, android 9 august patch

Thank you everyone this is Interesting. I can't seems to get pass 4 hours no matter how hard I try. Stuff I've tried: Factory reset, battery saver, no FB, no games. Guess my new battery is busted.

Does this mean my battery is dying already? Stats don't look good at all
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I bought my Pixel XL used about 18 months I'm so I have no idea how it was used by the first owner. I'm not a heavy user, mostly texts, calls, and web surfing. No games and only occasional YouTube videos. I can usually go 2-2 1/2 days between charges and rarely let it get below 40%. My battery health shows 93% and Accubattery says 3:41 for estimated SOT.

I was getting around 4h sot with my pixel XL. Accubattery shows 96% health on it. My OnePlus 5 I'm using now gets closer to 5-6 hours with health showing 90%.
Both phones can go several hours longer if used for reading a book on a black background, or just heavy browsing or YouTube videos indoors where screen brightness is low.

Luminoux said:
Does this mean my battery is dying already? Stats don't look good at all
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79% isn't that good for a newly bought phone. That's what users expect after using the device for like 18-24 months or something.

My first one was down to 83% after almost 2 years of use. I hadn't really noticed a decrease in battery life so I assumed software updates had actually improved it offsetting the battery wear.