I LOVE the Galaxy Nexus, but the rate at which the battery discharges is just ridiculous. I'll use the phone for 15 minutes doing things like Twitter or Web Browsing, and it'll discharge 5% in that time. To me, that is horrible. I'm being really conservative too. Throughout a day I try not to play videos, games, or anything else intensive because I know it'll ruin my battery life. Even on standby it discharges 5% in an hour. Typically I lose about 10% an hour and my max has been 12 hours so far.
I have auto sync turned on and keep the screen low when possible. I NEED auto sync on because of the nature of my work. Compared to my iPhone 4S battery is downright pathetic.
Today my usage consisted of one phone call, a few text messages, lots of Twitter, and light web browsing. Nothing too crazy. Again I'm being really conservative with my usage whereas on my iPhone I can do whatever I want and not worry. I'm just not seeing how people are getting 15+ hours and claim heavy usage. I'd love to believe that! The battery drains so fast during normal usage it may be a deal breaker for me.
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Edit: My battery discharged 2% just while writing this post.
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It sounds like your definition of light usage is wrong.
I wouldn't consider heaps of twitter and some web browsing light usage. I would consider it moderate usage, in which case you seem to be in line with everyone else.
I agree with you in that the battery life isn't quite what I would have liked. Ideally I wouldn't have to worry about battery at all, and I'd be able to play games and browse the web as much as I like, but for normal usage it's fine.
The next Nexus though, man, that will only have to be charged once a month. I can't wait.
Niksko said:
It sounds like your definition of light usage is wrong.
I wouldn't consider heaps of twitter and some web browsing light usage. I would consider it moderate usage, in which case you seem to be in line with everyone else.
I agree with you in that the battery life isn't quite what I would have liked. Ideally I wouldn't have to worry about battery at all, and I'd be able to play games and browse the web as much as I like, but for normal usage it's fine.
The next Nexus though, man, that will only have to be charged once a month. I can't wait.
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Twitter hardly taxes the processors at all. Refreshing it every so often should hardly take any battery life at all. Web Browsing I can understand, but my total time browsing today probably amounts to 10 minutes total.
I wonder how much of the drain is attributed to the 4.65" screen. It's a monster.
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I expect the battery life go improve within the first few cycles. I had a similar experience with the Nexus S last year.
AdamUpNorth said:
I wonder how much of the drain is attributed to the 4.65" screen. It's a monster.
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Most of it. 720p Super AMOLED HD is killing the battery. The only way to last a long time is to not turn the screen on.
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I expect the battery life go improve within the first few cycles. I had a similar experience with the Nexus S last year.
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I've had the phone for a week so far.
almost 3hours of screen from 10h standby!! mate give us a break and get back 4s. !!
heavy usage not low!
i can see low signal (coverage) what can also produce higher battery drain.
twiter running 24/7 in backround sync on + wifi + games...
i dont know what you want... you will never get anything similar from for example HTC sensation or even your favourite 4s.
dont take it on bad way..but if you dont know what to do - try to save your battery..
-lower your screen britness
-remove/disable apps that are producing the heavy drain (use betterbatterystats app)
-stop playing games - if you wanna long life for your battery.
-etc...
Best regards
People using a G2x claim to get a day and a half... I'm lucky to get out of work. Push email for work is to blame I think. I get tons of emails (100 a day) and I think its taxing. From your pics, the screen used over 50% of it. That's a lot.
Sucks.
Also make sure your aren't turning on the screen every 5 minutes to check the status. Since your coming from an iOS, are you closing apps properly (back = close, home = minimize).
I'm not saying your crazy but just saying.
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Asus Transformer - 3.7 Revolver OC/UV
rashad1 said:
I expect the battery life go improve within the first few cycles. I had a similar experience with the Nexus S last year.
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I had the same thing happen with the Nexus One. The battery wasn't that great but, got better after a few charge cycles.
I've never had a Android phone that could match the battery life of the Iphone. I can sit the iphone down at night without putting it on the charger and, if it's at 100% it will be at about 90-95% when I wake up. I did the same thing with my Mytouch 4G and, it was at 15%
To the OP, I would recommend keeping a charging cable with you when you out and about especially in your car. I've had car docks with a few of my android phones and, always keep the phone docked when I'm driving somewhere. It really helps.
What you also need to remember is this is the first release of ICS and is still in development so battery life my be improved in the next update. Like you mention iPhone4S there was massive battery leakage in the first release of IOS 5 which Apple apparently fixed in the newest update.. So maybe in the next update we can expect some bugs ironed out.
Used to only have ONLY 2-3 hours screen ON on my Vibrant so I know how SAmoled looks like.
I know iphone battery is good, but you need to consider the screen size too..
Get a spare battery with your "light usage", but I am thinking how much would it cost becoz of the NPC antenna.
Too good thing is, unlike iPhone, you can buy a spare battery and carry it with you.
3 hours of screen use is what the problem is. That is a long time. I wouldn't complain about that at all.
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3 hours of screen use is what the problem is. That is a long time. I wouldn't complain about that at all.
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exactly what i am trying to say
+1
Hunteres said:
almost 3hours of screen from 10h standby!! mate give us a break and get back 4s. !!
heavy usage not low!
i can see low signal (coverage) what can also produce higher battery drain.
twiter running 24/7 in backround sync on + wifi + games...
i dont know what you want... you will never get anything similar from for example HTC sensation or even your favourite 4s.
dont take it on bad way..but if you dont know what to do - try to save your battery..
-lower your screen britness
-remove/disable apps that are producing the heavy drain (use betterbatterystats app)
-stop playing games - if you wanna long life for your battery.
-etc...
Best regards
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I already said I didn't play any games today and my screen brightness is low. For some reason Shadowgun stays in the battery info screen. I played the game two days ago and manually closed it out. Even after rebooting the phone its still there.
I'm being 100% real, stop trying to make excuses or act like I'm an iPhone fanboy. The Galaxy Nexus combined with ICS is the best phone I've ever used! I'm just terribly disappointed with the battery life.
Twittering all day is sucking up battery because of all the data use. Dude, youre not a light user with 3 hours screen time moderate, possibly heavy depending on background stuff sycing automatically. You have some tweaking to do, not whining.
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Storm T said:
3 hours of screen use is what the problem is. That is a long time. I wouldn't complain about that at all.
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3 hours is not that much. Seriously. It shouldn't be damn near dead after 10 hours. Imagine if I decided to play a game for 15 minutes or watch 2 YouTube videos.
I bet if people were getting an hour and half with this phone, all the fanboys here would say the same thing. "Man, an hour and a half is a long time! You should be happy with that!".
pukemon said:
Twittering all day is sucking up battery because of all the data use. Dude, youre not a light user with 3 hours screen time moderate, possibly heavy depending on background stuff sycing automatically. You have some tweaking to do, not whining.
Sent from my samsung gt i9250 which is in the wrong country.
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I've tested out the battery difference by turning off auto sync. Doesn't make a difference at all. Fact of the matter is that the battery drains like crazy when the screen is on.
I'll just turn my phone on because actually using it is frowned upon here.
tylose said:
Too good thing is, unlike iPhone, you can buy a spare battery and carry it with you.
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Except they aren't out yet
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So I've had my Defy a week and I like it, more than I thought I would to be honest.
However, one thing that's bugging me is the battery life.
In their review, Engadget actually highlighted the battery life as one of the big plus-points of the Defy.
They state:
Engadget said:
In our experience, the Defy seems to have stellar battery life, which is relatively hard to come by among Android phones. Not only we were able to consistently make it comfortably through an entire day on a charge, but we were surprised to find that after putting the phone away with about 75 percent charge, it was still on with 21 percent remaining two days later. Granted, it spent most of that time in WiFi calling range (which disables the cellular radio), but many smartphones give up the ghost from 100 percent charge in less time...
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Now, I'm not using wi-fi calling but I don't think that should excuse or explain the fact that my phone barely lasts a day when at least one other handset has such significantly better battery life.
Anyway, I was just wondering how everyone else's Defys were performing.
Im coming from a vibrant and the battery on this is the best on android so far that i've ever used(g1, mytouch, mytouch 4, vibrant, etc.
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If you don't mind me asking though, how long do you go between charges?
As I said, I'm lucky if I make it much more than a day - certainly two days isn't possible.
But I'm not a particularly heavy user, a bit of internet and a few texts here and there but very little in the way of calls, so I kind of feel like I should be getting more out of the handset.
When I check the battery usage, it's quite often ~40% each for 'Mobile Standby' and 'Phone Idle'.
So the vast majority of the drain is just from the phone being on, not from anything I'm actively doing.
Is this your first smartphone? =)
I go a day and a half or so. I'm heavy on web use and playing 'slice it' all day.
for my usage, im THRILLED to have a phone that can still have 30-40% at the end of a long day.
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Just try to reboot the phone after fully charged and detached from power. There is an issue with the "suspend" process in some cases (not only on Froyo 2.2) which disappears after rebooting. Mine lasts 2-3 days with average use.
The issue at Google (I am not allowed to post links as a new user )
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11126
I can use the web steady for 5 hours, this includes some streaming video, if I start at 100% its down to 10% by then. At work it lasts easily all day but it gets little web usage and maybe an hour of talking. I use battery booster and advanced task killer, my backlight is set at 70%.
With moderate use (some calls, lots of texts, some web browsing) I get 2 days. It needs to be charged at the end of day 2, but I'm happy with it. I don't have any ot the social networking crap on so it's not constantly syncing. I think that may have something to do with it. I keep my backlight way down too.
Battery life? i got defy just a week ago and first impressions are good. You know, in the first days you make yuor phone working a lot, testing all the features, trying new apps from the market (so internet connection always on) , watching some movies, playing 3d games!
So a really heavy use, but power lasts at least 1,5 days. So i think using the phone moderately makes the battery life easily up to 3 days.
Try some task-killer app, and then test the power duration. Some softwares stay in background and keep draining power.
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Is this your first smartphone? =)
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No.
And I don't see what that's got to do with anything.
My battery life seems to be noticeably poorer than what the majority of people here are quoting.
If I were to use the web for 5 hours, there's no way I'd have anywhere near 30-40% of my battery left.
shaftenberg said:
Just try to reboot the phone after fully charged and detached from power. There is an issue with the "suspend" process in some cases (not only on Froyo 2.2) which disappears after rebooting. Mine lasts 2-3 days with average use.
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Having looked at your link, it sounds as though when that's happening, people can see the Suspend process listed in the break-down of what's using the battery.
I've never seen it listed, so I'm not sure that's the problem here.
xdaid said:
Try some task-killer app, and then test the power duration. Some softwares stay in background and keep draining power.
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I've got Spare Parts installed and it's set to 'aggressively' monitor and kill processes.
A friend recommended it over the likes of Advanced Task Killer because it's supposed to be better at differentiating between apps that are safe to kill and parts of the core software/system that could cause issues if closed.
I get what you're saying about using the phone more than normal because it's new but in the 8 days since I got it, I've spent 7 at work, so I haven't had that much scope to mess around with it.
I've switched the screen from automatic brightness control and I've disabled the background syncing for facebook, so hopefully that'll make a difference.
If not, since it's just over a week, I'm well inside the 28 days I can have it swapped for being faulty.
Quadrant: 1100 points, Linpack: 6,49 Mflops
Edit: ooops, should read the title more carefully next time.
My defy runs for about 40 hours on one battery charge.
i have to charge mine everyday at night after using it whole day, time to time. Not bad tbh.
A task killer is NOT necessary.
It seems like blur services are push rather than pull which uses much less battery (think blackberry). But im not 100%.
I've set up yahoo, corporate, facebook, and picasa just to test it out and it didn't make much difference in my battery life.
I consistently get a day and a half (unless i play games). Can push to 2 days if i put on airplane mode overnight.
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Found this on a german forum, as you can see, he was not in flight mode. I guess my desire's battery won't last that long.
I can go about one full day with moderate/somewhat heavy usage. Won't last 2 full days though.
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A task killer is NOT necessary.
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People keep saying that but I'm not convinced.
I mean, if I use my browser say and then finish using it and know I won't need it again for a while, why prevent me from actually closing/killing it?
It seems so ridiculously counter-intuitive.
Plus, if it's really not necessary, then why are so many of them being developed?
Even Samsung are producing task managers now for devices like the Galaxy Tab - if it really wasn't necessary, surely one of Google's top hardware partners would know that.
And samsung is so great at making stuff...? Touchwiz??
Also, samsung's task killer does not show inactive or background apps like most task killers do.
What is the harm in the browser being open? It uses no cpu+ this phone has more than enough ram that it doesn't need you to close apps to keep things running smoothly.
It also will not improve your battery if you arbitrarily close an app only to re-open it later and use more processes.
Just my 2 cents on this topic.
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disturkis4u said:
Touchwiz??
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Blur?
They're no Sense, either of them, that's for certain.
Yeah they're nowhere near being that bloated lol
Step666 said:
Blur?
They're no Sense, either of them, that's for certain.
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Something i already posted in a german forum about my battery life:
2,5h gaming (Zenonia),
3h mobile internet (ICQ, Yahoo-mail, web, market)
2h of activated WLAN and deactivated sleep to copy stuff from pc to Defy
1,5h music (radio)
and 1h (and 6 minutes lol) of phone calls
After that day, i still had 30% of battery.
The maximum i reached were 75 hours including MY normal use with some mobile internet, some texting and 1 or 2 calls...maybe an hour of gaming at most.
I did not charge it first when i got it, because the battery was at 80% already/still and i wanted to play around.
Current running time: 26 hours...i activate plane-mode at night from now on. Low 70s now.
Everything at minimum display brightness (30%?)
Step666 said:
People keep saying that but I'm not convinced.
I mean, if I use my browser say and then finish using it and know I won't need it again for a while, why prevent me from actually closing/killing it?
It seems so ridiculously counter-intuitive.
Plus, if it's really not necessary, then why are so many of them being developed?
Even Samsung are producing task managers now for devices like the Galaxy Tab - if it really wasn't necessary, surely one of Google's top hardware partners would know that.
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In my opinion, a task killer is absolutely necessary.
All the apps launched keep consuming RAM even if they're not in use. I brought back 106 mb last time i performed a task killing! In most of the cases less ram means worst performances / more work for cpu.
I see several threads talking about battery life but no one has shown their actual "screen on" time which is what really counts, as it tells us how long have you actually been using the phone for.
I am starting this thread in order to try to collect a more accurate representation of how long the Galaxy Nexus battery lasts, using screen on time as the biggest factor (which it is).
So, in order to find this out, owners of the GNexus, please go to the battery stats section and tap on the "Screen" line, which will tell you for how long has the display been on.
How long are you guys seeing the display last until the battery is really low?
As a frame of reference, I remember seeing about 6-7hrs max on the Galaxy S2, when used with mainly black backgrounds.
I'm interested in this too. While each person's usage will differ, a couple of figures/screenshots would help gauge how much more battery the large screen uses as compared to phones some are planning to switch from.
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From my testing using 3g browsing the phone lasts at most 4 hours with screen on. This is at manual 40% brightness since automatic brightness makes the screen too dark for me. Battery life is definitely worse than galaxy S2 in fact it is so bad that I an considering returning the phone.
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darkoroje said:
From my testing using 3g browsing the phone lasts at most 4 hours with screen on. This is at manual 40% brightness since automatic brightness makes the screen too dark for me. Battery life is definitely worse than galaxy S2 in fact it is so bad that I an considering returning the phone.
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ok..... ive had a quiet day of usage .... few calls, several texts, couple of pictures, bit of browsing and ten mins testing video capabilities. my stats are :
7h 15m on battery
screen 57%
android os 17%
phone idle 8%
mobile standby 4%
media server 4%
vplayer 3%
Android system 2%
Voice calls 2%
Browser 2%
wifi 2%
and my battery is still at 65% !!!
i never used to get this much juice out of my HTC Desire !
wilbur-force said:
ok..... ive had a quiet day of usage .... few calls, several texts, couple of pictures, bit of browsing and ten mins testing video capabilities. my stats are :
7h 15m on battery
screen 57%
android os 17%
phone idle 8%
mobile standby 4%
media server 4%
vplayer 3%
Android system 2%
Voice calls 2%
Browser 2%
wifi 2%
and my battery is still at 65% !!!
i never used to get this much juice out of my HTC Desire !
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Please go back to battery stats and tap on "Screen" to know exactly how much time has the screen been on for. That is what we really need to know.
The standby life of the phone with the screen off is fine. However, with the screen on it gobbles power and lasts 4 hours max. Here is screenshot of my usage today:
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. This is with about 3 and a half hours of browsing over 3G.
Guys, thanks for the screenshots but please tap on the Screen percentage bar to show actual screen on time. That is the statistic we need.
Here it is, it is actually worse than I thought the screen was only on for 2h 27min:
I did manually set the brightness to around 40% since as I said before auto-brightness is too dark for me.
Thanks, that's what I needed. It is indeed pretty bad, as I expected SAMOLED is still an awful choice for web browsing.
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Thanks, that's what I needed. It is indeed pretty bad, as I expected SAMOLED is still an awful choice for web browsing.
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That's the case with all screens. Until battery technology gets an update (in two to four years time) we won't see a better performance without extended battery.
That's just how it is. It never bothered me on HTC Desire. During one day I don't use the screen more than three or four hours in total. At best I use it one hour in the morning during the process of getting to work and one hour to get home and then an hour in between during calls, checking news or reading e-mail. I personally am totally fine with it, it is not meant to replace a computer or a tablet that both have much better power supply simply thanks to their size.
my screen has now been on for 1h 32 mins
(total 8h 34 and now 64% battery)
shame......we need more people to chime in. I've heard about better battery life than a few hours of screen time.
Only reason why i like iPhone....can browse internet for hours and hours and hours and GPS
I also do not usually use the phone more than 3 - 4 hours a day during a weekday. However on weekend or when travelling I do need a longer-lasting phone. I was hoping it would last as long as Galaxy S2, but unfortunately it doesn't.
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That's the case with all screens. Until battery technology gets an update (in two to four years time) we won't see a better performance without extended battery.
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Not exactly true. AMOLED and SAMOLED screens have different power requirements depending on what is showing on screen. Most websites have a white background, which for AMOLED screens means almos 3 times as much power usage as a standard LCD screen. So, technically LCD screens are better for browsing as their power usage remains constant no matter what you are looking at.
Just check out Anand's battery performance chart:
The iPhone wins because it has a smaller screen which is also IPS based and therefore very energy efficient. As you go down the list you'll see the only SAMOLED screen with "decent" performance is the Galaxy S2, and even then it's almost 3 hours worse than the Atrix, for example (granted the Atrix has a larger battery, but not by much).
What saddens me is how newer devices are targeted almost as mini-tablets thanks to their huge screens yet by using Super AMOLED screens they are limiting what you can use them for. The Galaxy Note barely lasts 3-4 hours browsing according to some tests.
I hope to see some more positive results soon, because as it stands I'm not happy with what I'm seeing from the Nexus.
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On my Nexus S, I set the brightness to 8%.
And that's enough for me.
I have auto brightness toggle ready at the home screen if needed, for example during outdoor use.
All in all, I use my phone mostly indoor. Super AMOLED at 8% brightness is more than enough
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For me it never really depend on the phone it was mostly something around 3-4 hours.
What counts as well is how good the drain in the deep sleep state is.
It wasn't a problem to survive 24h with my SGS II but with Desire, which is what I'm using now, I wouldn't bet on it.
ics just doesn't seem worth it...
this makes me sad
i've had the atrix since it's been out and i've really been hoping to upgrade to something just as solid. for all the complaints i've read about the atrix i figured many other phones were better yet i go read on other phones and find the atrix wins out all the time. i'm running cm7.1 (not nightlies) and not o/c or u/v and my phone sports screen times over 7 hours. i can play any game. the phone has very decent ppi thanks to qHD on a 4" but the pentile sucks. gps is spot on...ok i could go on forever, i guess from what i'm reading, i'll just wait till the next 720p screen comes out with maybe like tegra3 next year, hopefully it'll come with lte by that time which is really what i wanted to upgrade to. 4.0 ics just doesn't seem worth the 3-4 months i'll have to wait vs the sacrifices i'd have to make...
that's pretty bad i am considering the nexus but that battery stats damm worse than de gs2
really unsure what the concern is. id never have got this much out of my Desire-
51% battery
screen 56%
screen time 2h
and thats with a fair amount of tinkering now.
I am just curious to know what other Galaxy Nexus owners are getting out of their battery.
Let me start by sharing mine.
During my sleep or when my phone is idle or when I know I am not using it for a long period of time, I switch my phone to 2G.
Below is a screenshot of my battery usage during a long period of idle (overnight when I am sleeping)
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I only switch it to 3G when I am actively using the Internet for surfing websites, Facebooking, Youtube, uploading photos or video.
Below is a screenshot of my usage from light to moderate to heavy.
I got just over 2 days out of mine with a mixture of wifi, 3g, calls, and general use with facebook, trillian and google+
I went into the bathroom with full charge and after I did my daily deed(s) I went down to 43% with brightness turned all the way down and only running xda app. wtf gives?
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pcphobic said:
I am just curious to know what other Galaxy Nexus owners are getting out of their battery.
Let me start by sharing mine.
During my sleep or when my phone is idle or when I know I am not using it for a long period of time, I switch my phone to 2G.
Below is a screenshot of my battery usage during a long period of idle (overnight when I am sleeping)
I only switch it to 3G when I am actively using the Internet for surfing websites, Facebooking, Youtube, uploading photos or video.
Below is a screenshot of my usage from light to moderate to heavy.
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This is EXACTLY the kind of battery life that I am getting.
Quality posting. Thanks
You guys must be on the gsm versions, the only people that aren't happy are the ones on 4g
I have the lte sgn and I would say my battery life is directly related to the screen on time.
The battery is usually completely discharged once the screen on time approaches around 3 hours, regardless of the total time it has been since the last full charge.
Sometimes I can get 20+ hours total life and sometimes I can barely get 5 or 6 hours of total life. Just depends on how fast I reach the screen on time "limit" so to speak of about 3 hours or so.
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I have the 4g, and ill admit, when i got it the battery life was pretty bad. In part to newphonesyndrom, but stock is pretty bad in general
Currently running peter alfonso's bugless beast 4.0.3 and francico franco's kernel #6. Battery life has gotten wayyy better; so there is a light at the end of the stock tunnel. My phone goes into cpu sleep way more than before, and on the computer side of things, its efficient to the point that the screen uses 75% of battery compared to the 50% i used to see (more battery to screen means less everything else is drawing). And turning down the brightness, i kinda like the fuzzy whites, kinda gives it a paperlike texture
And turn off wifi if you are not actively using, it will just search endlessly. Same with turning off 4g if you are going to be in a 3g area for awhile
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Verizon LTE version with 4G turned off. I think i may have .... issues
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Verizon LTE version with 4G turned off. I think i may have .... issues
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How high is your screen brightness?
1h45m with screen on is most likely considerably longer than the time the other posters have had their screens on for.
EDIT: I'm saying this because most people with brilliant battery life tend to have LOW screen on time.
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How high is your screen brightness?
1h45m with screen on is most likely considerably longer than the time the other posters have had their screens on for.
EDIT: I'm saying this because most people with brilliant battery life tend to have LOW screen on time.
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This was at Auto Brightness. I know I had the screen on for a long time, but is this what I need to accept from now on? That after a total time of 2 hours of screen ON time, the battery will be dead? Is the only way to get good battery life to turn off 4G and not use the phone that much? I would expect the phone to be able to survive for at least 3-5 hours even if the screen was on 100%, but maybe I am just being naive.
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I am just curious to know what other Galaxy Nexus owners are getting out of their battery.
Let me start by sharing mine.
During my sleep or when my phone is idle or when I know I am not using it for a long period of time, I switch my phone to 2G.
Below is a screenshot of my battery usage during a long period of idle (overnight when I am sleeping)
I only switch it to 3G when I am actively using the Internet for surfing websites, Facebooking, Youtube, uploading photos or video.
Below is a screenshot of my usage from light to moderate to heavy.
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I am curious about your battery times. I would like to know your screen "ON" time for at least the light and heavy usage that you reported.
All the battery posts I have been reading on this forum seem to directly correlate to screen "On" time. I have a theory that the battery dies after 2-3 hours of screen on time regardless of most other factors. So some people may get 16-18 hrs of battery time, but the screen was only on for 2.5 hours or so. If you get a chance I would love to see some of your battery reports with the Display on time reported next to them.
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This was at Auto Brightness. I know I had the screen on for a long time, but is this what I need to accept from now on? That after a total time of 2 hours of screen ON time, the battery will be dead? Is the only way to get good battery life to turn off 4G and not use the phone that much? I would expect the phone to be able to survive for at least 3-5 hours even if the screen was on 100%, but maybe I am just being naive.
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Well, less than 3 hours is pretty awful.
That's around what I get if I play games like GTA or Shadowgun for more than an hour.
I have the GSM GN so if you did turn 4G off you should have similar times as me. Which are on average 8-12 hours of moderate use including a lot of WhatsApp-ing, some music, some Facebook, some browsing, some calls and texts.
However playing games literally will drink my battery life away, so I tend to keep 3D games to a minimal when on the go.
Sorry if I am stealing the thread. I put this to anyone else with some battery screenshots. Take a screenshot of your display "ON" time and put it next to your total battery on time.
I would love to see if anyone is getting 3-6 hours of screen "ON" time coupled with 10-20 hours of Total Battery Time. Anyone?
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Sorry if I am stealing the thread. I put this to anyone else with some battery screenshots. Take a screenshot of your display "ON" time and put it next to your total battery on time.
I would love to see if anyone is getting 3-6 hours of screen "ON" time coupled with 10-20 hours of Total Battery Time. Anyone?
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I seriously doubt it. That is something I genuinely miss about my iPhone 4--I could get 8+ hours of screen on time and well over a day of standby on a single charge.
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I seriously doubt it. That is something I genuinely miss about my iPhone 4--I could get 8+ hours of screen on time and well over a day of standby on a single charge.
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OOOH, we are taking that route huh? Well one reason why these lower than average battery times don't bother me that much is because I own 4 batteries for the Galaxy Nexus (2 standard, 2 extended) and can SWAP my batteries whenever I feel like it. Can you do that with your iPhone 4??? No, didn't think so.
P.S. I know you just threw in a iPhone screenshot for the fun of things. Thanks for the laugh!
Screen on time of a little over 3 hours and my battery is in the 30% range.
I definitely agree that the screen on time is the biggest factor. The battery seems to die once 3 or 4 hours of screen on time has been reached, regardless of how long the total life has been.
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Screen on time of a little over 3 hours and my battery is in the 30% range.
I definitely agree that the screen on time is the biggest factor. The battery seems to die once 3 or 4 hours of screen on time has been reached, regardless of how long the total life has been.
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At least you are getting 3-4 hours. I am barely getting 1.5 hours of screen on time before my battery is close to dead. It's alright though, I battery swap regularly and I will figure it out eventually. Just keep turning stuff off till my battery life improves a bit.
Here's mine. GSM, stock 4.0.1.
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Here's mine. GSM, stock 4.0.1.
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I think that kind of confirms it for me. Your screen on time is in the 3 to 4 hour range and your battery is almost completely discharged.
Once the screen on time reaches the 3-4 hour range, the phone dies. It just took you 2 days to reach the 3-4 hour screen on time.
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OOOH, we are taking that route huh? Well one reason why these lower than average battery times don't bother me that much is because I own 4 batteries for the Galaxy Nexus (2 standard, 2 extended) and can SWAP my batteries whenever I feel like it. Can you do that with your iPhone 4??? No, didn't think so.
P.S. I know you just threw in a iPhone screenshot for the fun of things. Thanks for the laugh!
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Whoa buddy, ease off the haterade. I wasn't trying to start an argument or anything. I sold my iPhone 4 to buy a Galaxy Nexus, and I'm very happy with my decision. But the reality is the i4 got much better battery life, and I posted a screenshot (from my device) to support that. Swapping batteries wasn't necessary, and carrying around 4 doesn't exactly help your case.
No one is attacking your mother. Chill.
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Whoa buddy, ease off the haterade. I wasn't trying to start an argument or anything. I sold my iPhone 4 to buy a Galaxy Nexus, and I'm very happy with my decision. But the reality is the i4 got much better battery life, and I posted a screenshot (from my device) to support that. Swapping batteries wasn't necessary.
No one is attacking your mother. Chill.
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If you are rooted.....install another kernel....it will improve your battery life
Sent from my 4g GUMMY Nexus
The battery life is Godly on the Galaxy Nexus (Mine's a GSM model...I have no clue about the CDMA version)
With around 10 calls made, my brightness using the power control widget at "half" (I think its something like 40%), wifi on all day, data on, bluetooth&GPS off, NFC off, and almost 2 hours of onscreen time spent texting, surfing the web and gaming I got almost 22 hours on battery with 46% remaining! Pics for proof:
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For those interested in getting this type of performance, I have sync OFF and manually sync whenever I want to check something (mail, weather widget, etc)
I have not had a phone with this great of battery since the Xperia Ray. This is unbelieveable though.
Also for those interested this is what I am running for ROM:
Android version: 4.0.3
Kernel Version: 3.0.18-imoseyon-1.9.0-04417-gcef4285 [email protected] #408
Build number: Gummy-MAGURO v0.7.6
Now how should I kill off my remaining 46%? Because web browsing, playing Nintendo 64 games, Facebook, are not cutting it! LMAO
100% WiFi use and no auto-sync or background data on, that's not surprising whatsoever.
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100% WiFi use and no auto-sync or background data on, that's not surprising whatsoever.
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Its not supposed to be a "surprise". I am just saying that the battery life is great. Oh and background data is ON...yes ON!
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Its not supposed to be a "surprise". I am just saying that the battery life is great. Oh and background data is ON...yes ON!
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Which doesn't matter if you don't have auto-sync lol.
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Which doesn't matter if you don't have auto-sync lol.
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Ah...yes. I seem to have fallen on my face. Please accept this cookie *gives cookie*
On another note, could you tell me if games are able to push background data with auto sync off? I've always wondered that.
For what it's worth, Samsung said this phone should have a six day standby time and twelve hour usage time...
Maybe turning all the features of the phone off will help, but then why have a phone like this if you limit it so much?
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but then why have a phone like this if you limit it so much?
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Its not really limiting it though.
If I want to see the weather, I touch the widget to sync. If I want to see if I got any mail, I go into the app and it will sync...I get my data when I choose to.
I don't own anything to hook up via blue tooth, and I will just turn GPS on when I check google maps, takes an extra 3 seconds.
I am not missing out on anything, I am literally getting 2 days between charges. But I charge every night anyways, so I can basically surf the web or do whatever on the device all day and still have a ton of juice at the end of the day.
hey man, if thats how u use your phone, then u have great battery life! everyone's uses are different! people can say "oh your bluetooth isnt on" but not everyone uses bluetooth, or needs their auto sync on, etc! some people like to check these things manually
you should update your kernel to 1.10, reports have said that it brings back battery of 1.7.4 but also ups the overall speed/smoothness of the phone
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hey man, if thats how u use your phone, then u have great battery life! everyone's uses are different! people can say "oh your bluetooth isnt on" but not everyone uses bluetooth, or needs their auto sync on, etc! some people like to check these things manually
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Yeah I mostly just call, text, websurf, and game. So it works for me.
In comparison, using my Xperia x10, Samsung Captivate, Desire Z, Desire S, Xperia Arc, Nexus S, and Xperia Ray I never got battery life like this. The Ray was close, but this is even better...considering the size of the screen this is really great in my opinion.
I just love this device so much, I am thinking I will just always stick to the Nexus line of devices for now on.
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you should update your kernel to 1.10, reports have said that it brings back battery of 1.7.4 but also ups the overall speed/smoothness of the phone
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Would that give me even more battery?
I think I am just impressed with this so much because next to what I was running at stock (4.0.1) this blows it away.
Having the screen on for ~2hours is not a clear representation of it's battery life.
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Would that give me even more battery?
I think I am just impressed with this so much because next to what I was running at stock (4.0.1) this blows it away.
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you are using leankernel 1.9.0, so a quick update and you can compare yourself
some reports from the thread:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13299-kernel-leankernel-minimalistic-kernel-1100-2912/page__st__280
You disable auto sync.. that means you have no life.. you can't call your phone as "smartphone"
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I too think this phone has best battery life ive had particularly idle time. Screen on is a tad high, but all averaged together gives this phone excellent battery life.
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For what it's worth, Samsung said this phone should have a six day standby time and twelve hour usage time...
Maybe turning all the features of the phone off will help, but then why have a phone like this if you limit it so much?
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Look, Samsung has NO way to give standby times when everyone uses their phone differently. I sync differently from you. This phone WILL get six days standby. My old Vibrant is rated at 16 days standby, and you know, it just about will get that. "Standby" times aren't "my screen is off". Standby times are no data/wifi/sync and my screen is off. My mother has my unlocked Vibrant on AT&T. She doesn't have a data plan. Data/Sync is off. It's used as a PHONE. After her normal use, which is about 10 minutes of talking a day, it'll be at around 40% after 6 days. At that point, she usually charges it... and that's with evil, battery draining TouchWiz! There is no way for a manufacturer to adequately predict standby times with a device connected to a data network.
Honestly, for the life of me I can't figure out why this is an amazingly hard concept for people to grasp. Just because it's a "smart phone" doesn't mean that manufacturer's test battery life with data/wifi on. Probably because unlike the majority of people in every random battery thread on the internet, manufacturer's realize that once a data network comes into play, usage/sync WILL be different. Even power consumption can vary from tower to tower.
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Having the screen on for ~2hours is not a clear representation of it's battery life.
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What do you feel is a clear representation?
I've a feeling every person has a different opinion on this.
I'm impressed
I get up at 4.30am for work
get home about 6pm
I have about 60% left
then I destroy that as its unlimited data plan inc tether is my broadband at home.
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Look, Samsung has NO way to give standby times when everyone uses their phone differently. I sync differently from you. This phone WILL get six days standby. My old Vibrant is rated at 16 days standby, and you know, it just about will get that. "Standby" times aren't "my screen is off". Standby times are no data/wifi/sync and my screen is off. My mother has my unlocked Vibrant on AT&T. She doesn't have a data plan. Data/Sync is off. It's used as a PHONE. After her normal use, which is about 10 minutes of talking a day, it'll be at around 40% after 6 days. At that point, she usually charges it... and that's with evil, battery draining TouchWiz! There is no way for a manufacturer to adequately predict standby times with a device connected to a data network.
Honestly, for the life of me I can't figure out why this is an amazingly hard concept for people to grasp. Just because it's a "smart phone" doesn't mean that manufacturer's test battery life with data/wifi on. Probably because unlike the majority of people in every random battery thread on the internet, manufacturer's realize that once a data network comes into play, usage/sync WILL be different. Even power consumption can vary from tower to tower.
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Perhaps you're giving Samsung too much credit. Apple lists the details of their battery tests on their site, and when they say "10 hours of use", it's not piddling around with sync off, location off, etc. it's actual use (calls, web browsing, video, music).
Look at gsmarenas battery tests http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-battery-life-fully-tested-results-come-out-disappointing-test/.. Galaxy Nexus is tied for second worst and all phones were tested the same way. Maybe "real world" use will affect a single device from day to day, but when a phone is compared to close to twenty other phones under the same conditions, it makes you realize how poor the battery life is. Maybe 4.0.5 will make things better... I hope so.
Sorry for a newbie question.
I've had Auto Sync ON all day and I wonder what Auto Sync does exactly ?
Can someone light my day ? Thanks
Hello everyone. I was planning to buy the HTC One X, but heard few complaints about various functions and also battery life.
My thread is mainly regarding the battery life, but please also inform me if there are other issues i should be concerned about.
My main usage of the phone EACH Day will be:
1. Playback of 720p (or less) resolution video playback, about 1.5-2 hours.
I will try to set the brightness at a reasonable level, not too high not too low. Listen through Headphones (not the speaker)
2. Music playback, about 30 mins (through headphones)
3. 30-60 mins of games (using speakers)
4. 10 mins talk time over 2G
Note: I will only use 2G network. Wifi sometimes for browsing. Almost no network data usage. No account synchronization will be used at all. So basically in standby all network Data related connectivity will be off.
My question is how long will the phone last in total after a full 100% charge?
Hope to get an answer soon.
This is very hard to answer, because it depends on everyone usage scenarios.
But I can tell you that I have never come to the end of the day so far without at least 10% left. (6:30am - 11pm)
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This is very hard to answer, because it depends on everyone usage scenarios.
But I can tell you that I have never come to the end of the day so far without at least 10% left. (6:30am - 11pm)
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Could you please specify your usages in these hours? Like how many hours of video, music, games, internet etc. Please also mention the data usage and the screen brightness level you use.
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Could you please specify your usages in these hours? Like how many hours of video, music, games, internet etc. Please also mention the data usage and the screen brightness level you use.
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Well that's hard as it varies every day... Data usage quite a lot and brightness Auto. All I can say is it will last you a day.
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Hello everyone. I was planning to buy the HTC One X, but heard few complaints about various functions and also battery life.
My thread is mainly regarding the battery life, but please also inform me if there are other issues i should be concerned about.
My main usage of the phone EACH Day will be:
1. Playback of 720p (or less) resolution video playback, about 1.5-2 hours.
I will try to set the brightness at a reasonable level, not too high not too low. Listen through Headphones (not the speaker)
2. Music playback, about 30 mins (through headphones)
3. 30-60 mins of games (using speakers)
4. 10 mins talk time over 2G
Note: I will only use 2G network. Wifi sometimes for browsing. Almost no network data usage. No account synchronization will be used at all. So basically in standby all network Data related connectivity will be off.
My question is how long will the phone last in total after a full 100% charge?
Hope to get an answer soon.
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Hey maybe I got the answer for you ! I'm an intensive phone user and my life time is about 2 days with juice defender ultimate but without just a 3 quart day so I have calculated and tested the results. You can if you wan't if you are an average phone user a max of 27 hours and a min of 10 hours .So I hope this will answer your question
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Since my last charge I've done a days work. Used Twitter/Facebook/G+ for about an hour in total. Flashed a custom rom. 1hr of music, 2hr of gaming and downloaded just Over 2gb via wireless.
Battery now @ 42%. The screen usually accounts for 60-70% of a days consumption depending on brightness.
Hope this helps
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Hey maybe I got the answer for you ! I'm an intensive phone user and my life time is about 2 days with juice defender ultimate but without just a 3 quart day so I have calculated and tested the results. You can if you wan't if you are an average phone user a max of 27 hours and a min of 10 hours .So I hope this will answer your question
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I did not quite understand you.
1.5-2hrs of video playback = 30-40% of battery (almost)
30-60 mins of high end games = 20-40 % of battery.
so it should survive a day with ease with this kind of usage.
I have installed android revolution HD (ics) on my rooted one x. The battery life has increased by like 3 or 4 hours over my stock Rom .
I use WiFi and 3g all the time and play some normal games like temple run, the battery works for 24hours.
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Hello, for your daily usage, i would just say that you will have to charge it for sure.
Just #1 will take 80% or even more of the battery for sure ...
For intensive use like THD games you won't be able to charge during playing for sure too.
For your use, think about buying a galaxy note, the only one which can handle this "heavy" use, imo.
Hox is in my opinion the best compromise between screen size and confort / lifetime. Note is way too big ... Hox screen is better than S3 for me.
Hox+ is surely better ...
thanks guys.. i guess One X wont be too bad.. if i get like from 8am till 10pm usage i will be quite satisfied.
Well i will keep HOX in my choices. Basically my choice is Motorola Razr M and Xperia V. If i dont get them i will buy this one.
For the early adopters, have you seen any improvement with software updates with respect to the battery life ?
Does anyone know how it compares with a desire S ?
I'm currently using my phone for mail, facebook, call, SMS, taking pictures,internet browsing and spotify (a lot)
No movies or heavy games.
Do you think it would last one day (16-18 hours) with such an usage ?
I charged my phone last night at around 10pm i took it off charge.
I have sent tonns of texts, made very long phone calls probably about 4 hours of calls today, played about and hour of music about 30mins on internet, took a few pics, recorded one video, played 10mins of games and the battery died around 7 30pm. also from 10pm to 1am the phone went from 100 to 86% then went to sleep woke at 8am it was still on 86%.
Battery life is totally user dependent, based on many factors including signal strength, type of data used, what's syncing, brightness and such. Generally I can get a full working day out of my phone and at times I can get it to last the whole night if I've not really used my phone through out the day.
If I think I need the extra life I'll just charge it at my desk whilst at work.
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A bit old, but nontheless:
When I navigate with this device the battery slowly looses power. This means that even with the HTC official cables the device uses more than what the cable can give: 0,5 amp!
The device gets warm and, without cooling it via the car fan, it even stops filling the battery because it just gets too hot.
While navigating, I use: Flitsmeister (in background), iGO Primo, network 3g. Brightness is not full, since that heats the device extremely fast.
I sure would like a device that uses less power beneath 0,5 amp and has a larger battery and less consuming screen. (But I don't know any device that has with enough good features like HOX)
Oh and main feature: NO glass that sits on top of the device, meaning it will break as soon as it falls on its face!
htc one x+ was released...with Standard battery, Li-Ion 2100 mAh...any dealer sell this replacement battery????
is may battery GOOD enough ?
is may battery GOOD enough ?
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is may battery GOOD enough ?
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yeah its pretty decent
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