I know this is another battery topic, but specifically I am getting a drain of about 3% every 5 minutes while browsing the web on data. I am getting this drain at both 50% and 20% brightness. This drain seems high to me. I mean, during that 5 minutes, I am mostly just browsing one long page, so there is not much data activity going on in any case. Bluetooth, gps, and wifi are all off. I would like to hear other folks' experience.
Edit: my old hd2 with a small 1250 battery is running android and is only losing 1% every five minutes while doing the same thing!!
Possibly. Screen white or black factor. Type and speed of connection. Background processes. Battery temp. But that is a little higher.
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If your on LTE that's your problem. Try to use wifi as much as possible.
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Same for me. I'm not on LTE, I'm on 3g in Sweden. Just tried it myself and it drained 3% in 5 min of surfing with the stock browser.
And 2% more while writing this reply, that took 2 minutes.
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The battery seems to drain ridiculously fast when you're using the device.
X-Ter said:
The battery seems to drain ridiculously fast when you're using the device.
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Well the solution here is obvious
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Well the solution here is obvious
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I went out to do some Boxing Day shopping in the morning and used the phone quite a lot. Came back with 48% battery about 2 hours ago, haven't used the phone since and it still has 48% battery lol.
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The battery seems to drain ridiculously fast when you're using the device.
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Your not supposed to use it, just keep it in your pocket.
Its probably down to bad battery calibration. This is a lot less to do with 'conditioning' the battery - which you don't need on Lithium based batteries - and more to do with Android understanding what level is 100%, 99%, 98% 50% and 0% etc.
Until you've been through a few real cycles from full to empty, the % is pretty inaccurate. Most people recharge at around 20 to 40% just because a charger is near by or its bed time, and that usually results in the levels being even more inaccurate at the higher end.
For example my battery will drop from 100% to 70% very quickly, the next 30% even slower and the last 40% seems to last forever :/
If you're rooted wipe your battery stats, do a full charge and let it drain to 0. The type of usage probably isn't that important, so play a game for 4 hours if you want . If you're not rooted, doing the same will still help make it more accurate, but of course previous usage will mess with those results.
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EDIT: In fact try this.. turn off the screen timeout temporarily, and leave it on the web page. Check the % every 5 minutes and keep a note of them. You should see that its not 3% over 5 minutes once you get past the first 10 to 20% of the battery.
Here is my overnight battery drain test. My phone was idle the whole time. Only on 2G mode and no wifi, no gps and no bluetooth.
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Try uninstalling Facebook for Android app and also Sign into Latitude, select Do Not Report My Location, and then sign out of Latitude.
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If your on LTE that's your problem. Try to use wifi as much as possible.
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Should have mentioned that its a GSM model.
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Silly GSM users commenting on LTE device. tsk tsk... they just don't understand the immense power + battery drain of LTE.
LTE drains battery much much faster then GSM/3G. That's how it is on ALL LTE phones & the fact that the GN also has the biggest screen helps rape the battery. Sadly, what you are experiencing is normal for LTE. Im on my 2nd Nexus & calibrated both of the ones i had. Same exact issue as you and regardless of what apps/settings you adjust/disable, it's not going to help with battery much at all unless you turn off "mobile data"/LTE(or go into airplane mode).
When i have LTE on and am actually using the phone it seems like it's going through 1% battery every 1-2 minutes.... yet if i turn "mobile data" off it goes through 1% every 8 - 10 minutes instead. oh and all you weirdo "look how long my battery lasted NOT using my phone!" freaks... if i activate "airplane mode" & turn off the screen the battery will last 2 days. wee!!.. (why even have a phone lol)
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Silly GSM users commenting on LTE device. tsk tsk... they just don't understand the immense power + battery drain of LTE.
LTE drains battery much much faster then GSM/3G. That's how it is on ALL LTE phones & the fact that the GN also has the biggest screen helps rape the battery. Sadly, what you are experiencing is normal for LTE. Im on my 2nd Nexus & calibrated both of the ones i had. Same exact issue as you and regardless of what apps/settings you adjust/disable, it's not going to help with battery much at all unless you turn off "mobile data"/LTE(or go into airplane mode).
When i have LTE on and am actually using the phone it seems like it's going through 1% battery every 1-2 minutes.... yet if i turn "mobile data" off it goes through 1% every 8 - 10 minutes instead. oh and all you weirdo "look how long my battery lasted NOT using my phone!" freaks... if i activate "airplane mode" & turn off the screen the battery will last 2 days. wee!!.. (why even have a phone lol)
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I had both the LTE and GSM models. While both are terrible on battery, they lasted about the same. I did have the extended battery in the LTE, so I take that in consideration when saying they lasted about the same. No huge difference on the LTE.
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I'm on Stock 2.2 US and Battery Life is HORRENDOUS. I have the Moto Charge app that displays actual battery in the status bar. I charged to 100%, wiped battery stats, turned it on and after 6 minutes of no use, I'm at 97%. What am I missing here?
Are there any apps constantly running in the background?
Do you have bluetooth/wi-fi/gps switched on all the time?
Are you using your phone somewhere that's unusually hot, cold or humid?
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Are there any apps constantly running in the background?
Do you have bluetooth/wi-fi/gps switched on all the time?
Are you using your phone somewhere that's unusually hot, cold or humid?
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No, no, no, no, no
How long have you had it?
Has the battery always been this bad?
Has it only started recently? Is there some sort of cause, something that happened that has brought about this poor performance?
I just got the phone from a friend but I do not believe it to be an issue directly related to this specific handset.
Having GPS "on" all the time will not drain your battery as it is only being made "available" when an app needs it (mine is always checked and has zero effect on the battery until actually used). Did you do a factory reset after installing 2.2? On the Moto forum many issues are resolved with a reset.
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I'm on Stock 2.2 US and Battery Life is HORRENDOUS. I have the Moto Charge app that displays actual battery in the status bar. I charged to 100%, wiped battery stats, turned it on and after 6 minutes of no use, I'm at 97%. What am I missing here?
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Lithium-ion batteries have a big drop off at the start of the discharge profile.
They will then maintain a fairly steady state between about 80% - 40%.
A 3% change, therefore, from 100 to 97 is not equivalent to a 3% change from 80% to 77%.
I'm pretty certain it is specific to your handset - most Defys have very good battery life.
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At that rate, it should last ~5 days.
There are always something running in the background. Install a cpu monitoring application and see if the cpu is running wild.
In my case, 1% power lasts for 3~5 minutes usage (game, movie, surfing etc), or 2 hours standby (wifi off), or 1 hour standby (wifi on).
I checked Battery Use, there is nothing crazy. I've also checked Battery History and nothing is using the CPU or keeping it awake. I actually wiped the phone last night, didn't have a sim card in it and left it on over night and it lost 14% in 7 hours. It shouldn't have even lost 2% given that it wasn't connected to a cell tower. I have wiped it twice.
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I checked Battery Use, there is nothing crazy. I've also checked Battery History and nothing is using the CPU or keeping it awake. I actually wiped the phone last night, didn't have a sim card in it and left it on over night and it lost 14% in 7 hours. It shouldn't have even lost 2% given that it wasn't connected to a cell tower. I have wiped it twice.
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I am of a differing opinion.. I think these android devices have terrible battery life.
That being said, invest in a few of the cheap Hong Kong 1800mAH batteries on ebay.
I had a good experience ordering from "farmerseller". Curiously, I ordered 1500mAH batteries but received 1800 mAH batteries..... it took a while to arrive, but they work great and the charger is nicely designed.
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I am of a differing opinion.. I think these android devices have terrible battery life.
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Compared to what?
What's your frame of reference?
I'm not aware of any other smartphone with specs similar-to or better-than the Defy's that gets anywhere near the battery performance my phone does.
Everyone I know with Galaxy Ss or Desires charges basically every day, one friend with an iPhone4 can get a couple of days out of it but most are only a day, friends with Blackberrys get a couple of days or so.
I regularly surpass 3 days of what I would call normal usage - web browsing, texting, a bit of gaming and the odd call here and there.
Are there any ROMs known to get better battery life? On both my N1 and NS, certain ROMs performed LIGHTYEARS better than other ROMs in the battery department. This is a well known fact that Android is inconsistent on battery life.
So I wiped, re-wiped, flash the beach update.zip, wiped, re-wiped and I'm not confident the wipe is working. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988036
Regardless, I also find it odd that my battery was at 85% and, after the flash/wipe, it charged to full in <10 minutes.
Give it a few days of usage and see the results afterward. Basically it needs some cycles to re-create the battery stats after wiping.
You can also install Powertutor to check what apps are "consuming" the battery.
From my experience: with light usage I made once 3 days but normally 1-2 days is all I get (3g, some talks, 30 min browsing, some ebook reading). It was the same with my past 2 Android phones and some 4 Win Mobile phones...
When you are in a really tight spot do the usual tricks: 2g only, disable APN, don't play too much with the phone. You will probably get 3-4 days in one charge
I updated to 2.2.1 also, and battery life went right down the tubes. I lived with it for two days, and then did a factory reset, and now I have better battery life than with 2.1. I really didn't want to factory reset because of all the fine tuning I did, and not to mention re-downloading all the apps and setting them back up, but I must say it was worth it. After 13 hours I'm at 30%, and that is with heavy use. I started at 100% and in 10 hours without using it much at all, it only dropped 10%, so 1% an hour I can live with. Once I started playing game it went fast, but that is to be expected.
Ahhh!!!!! You guys are killing me from laughter. Don't take this the wrong way....but read more items on these forums...they are a welath of information. First off.... battery stats are wiped. It will take a few days of charging/discharging for the phone to get an accurate idea of actual use. It needs a baseline created. Don't worry yet. It can take up to a week to get really good stats. As for the horrible life on 2.2....did you wipe battery stats before flashing? If not thats your problem. You have to wipe the stats when you go to 2.2. Different profiles and usage. It's mentioned in a number of the roms. With steady hard usage I'm averaging about 2 days between charging. On standby with no use the best I have gotten so far is 6 days. RTFM.... Hope this helps out.
Last night I restored my phone using the factory image. For some reason I anticipate an OTA soon so I wanted to be ready. Anyhow, before I suffered from the battery drain bug. I forgot to charge my phone last night, and didn't realize it until I got in my car and put it on the car charger and it said 89%. My first thought was that my battery drained over 10% in the hour I was getting ready and not using it! Then I went into battery settings and found out I never charged it.. then I found some pleasant... well, I'll just show you.
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As you can see, I lost less than 5% battery during the 6+ hours my phone was unplugged. I had the phone in the living room charging while watching a movie. Then I unplugged and used it for about 20 minutes in the bedroom which accounts for the first rapid drop in battery. But after I set it down, the phone went into a coma. And I can't see exactly, but it looks like it was only 2 or 3% which is great!
Not sure what changed, I still have the same apps installed, even Facebook. I did, however, NOT disable VZ backup assistant like I normally do. Maybe that is what causes the OS to go bonkers? Thoughts?
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I got about 20 hours out of mine yesterday (extended battery) with moderate usage (texting, ebay, facebook, web) This is after unlocking the bootloader and rooting. Unlocking the bootloader resets the phone to factory state. I've read a few other posts around the web where battery life is greatly improved after a factory reset. Android OS is still the main things devouring my battery, but I almost don't care with the performance I'm getting. I should also mention that I wiped battery stats from CWM and then calibrated the battery on first charge.
I'm no dev, so I don't know why a reset would help. Then again, maybe it was wiping battery stats and calibrating that helped me. Just my $.02
How did you calibrate the battery?
There's a free tool in the market that will calibrate for you. Have to be rooted though. Just search for calibrate.
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Surprised this isn't getting more acknowledgement. Any one else experience the same after a reset?
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Guess maybe I'm one of the lucky few...I've always had this type of battery life. The phone just sips power while the screen is off.
While it is on...well that's different. I keep the brightness high and get about 2-2.5 hours of screen time before it powers off.
The interesting thing here is that it seems that you have the Android OS constantly waking up the phone but yet it still barely uses battery.
Do you have location services turned on or off?
Turned on. I noticed that too but the overall awake time is low. Usually it would be over half of the entire time on battery, sometimes 100%.
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I used 50% in about 3 hours on my extended battery.
fml.
Great battery life, but you didnt really use your phone much.
Your "Screen on" is only about 15% of those 6 hours. Which ends up being about an hour.
Still, none the less, great battery life/power consumption.
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Great battery life, but you didnt really use your phone much.
Your "Screen on" is only about 15% of those 6 hours. Which ends up being about an hour.
Still, none the less, great battery life/power consumption.
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I think you missed the point. I said this was done while I was sleeping. Many people are experiencing extreme battery drain even when they aren't using the phone, as was I. After restoring from the factory image, my issue seems to be gone.
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I think you missed the point. I said this was done while I was sleeping. Many people are experiencing extreme battery drain even when they aren't using the phone, as was I. After restoring from the factory image, my issue seems to be gone.
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I unplugged my phone at 11:30 pm with 98%, woke up at 7:30 am today and it dropped to 76%. So a 20% drop in 8 hrs with the phone just sitting there with wi-fi on and no apps running. It'd be very interesting to see if a factory restore would help.
How's the battery life now that you're using it?
Im thinking of unlocking and rooting mine tonight. havent had a moment to read the walkthrough just yet.
i noticed this too last night/today. i went to sleep after installing bugless beast 4.0.3 cdma, left it off the charger, and today i saw the chart was pretty much a flat line. i don't recall the exact times, but i'll try to time it out. about 8 hours
i wonder if all the initial extreme battery drain reports are due to the 'wowanewphone' effect, where you are molesting your phone 24/7, as opposed to the typical day-to-day use you'll eventually fall back into
This is irritating me immensely...my Galaxy Nexus has yet to last me a full day on a charge. I bought a Hyperion 3800mah battery and I believe it really did extend my battery life. On Sunday, I was home all day and my phone was connected to wifi. I used it quite a bit and the thing had 80% when I went to bed.
Today and yesterday, going to school, my phone is just about dead when I get home, at 2:30. I did use my phone, but not heavy at all. Spent the most of the day in my pocket. I had nothing on both days. No bluetooth, GPS, I had sync off when I went to school today, then I turned it on around 1 o clock or so. I used full screen brightness when I was outside for a few minutes, otherwise it was on low. The thing is warm to the touch like its been running frantically. I'm lead to believe that its something to do with the LTE radio. But what??
Took some screen shots of my battery page, had 4% left.
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Please please please help me. I've read people getting 2 days on a charge with a 3800mah battery...I'm drooling for that ability.
Thanks!
It looks like your spending lots of time in area's with bad reception. I'm using the sedio 3800mah and I have no problem going several days on one charge. Only time it drops faster is when I have crappy reception and the radio's are pulling more juice. On heavy days I have wireless tether running all day, and a couple hours of games and still have 40+ percent at the end of the day.
there is also some crap app installed that keep ur phone awake..
ur phone should be awake only when the screen is on (or so)..
your high % of cell standby should give it away.
look at your signal the red is all the times with no signal meaning that whole time the phone is searching for signal. plus 49 %of screen on time that looks to be half of 7:49 so almost 4 hours of scren time is good just need to fix your signal problem plus draw something kills your battery as well
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It looks like your spending lots of time in area's with bad reception. I'm using the sedio 3800mah and I have no problem going several days on one charge. Only time it drops faster is when I have crappy reception and the radio's are pulling more juice. On heavy days I have wireless tether running all day, and a couple hours of games and still have 40+ percent at the end of the day.
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plus 49 %of screen on time that looks to be half of 7:49 so almost 4 hours of scren time
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is not like that..49 % is the power consumption of the screen in relation to the other things that drained the battery..with easy word, you cant know the screen on time if he doesn't say u
True...well he needs to do a factory reset and see if it helps
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Wow, poor to no reception, high awake times, high screen on times...it's a miracle your battery lasted as long as it did.
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True...well he needs to do a factory reset and see if it helps
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Factory reset doesn't help bad signal...lol.
Turn off LTE, bad signal will drain you fast but bad signal on LTE will drain you twice as fast.
Looks like you have a rogue app. See how much your phone is awake when the screen is off? That combined with bad signal=dead phone.
I see what you guys mean about awake mode. Yea my phone feels like a warm coal all day. I uninstalled "Words Free" because I've heard bad thing about battery, I stopped using the beautiful widgets weather app, stopped sync with soundcloud, and I got an airplane mode widget for the bad reception area. We'll see how long I can stretch my battery tomorrow.
I read up on how Light Flow light might drain the battery. The LED light has remained stuck on a lot, so I uninstalled it. I'll post a battery stat tomorrow night. Fingers crossed.
I can vouch for bad reception draining the battery.. that should clear up your problem.
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I had the same problem but get this app called "2X Battery", my batter lasts the whole day now! Get the PRO version, its actually worth it and it works wonders!
I have the extended battery also
yep bad reception... once time i left my phone one in my bag while on an airplane... not in airplane mode or anything... battery went dead in about 2 hours due to no signal
Pretty sure the bigger problem is the phone waking up while the screen is off. You should run your phone for another day and look at the list of apps that are draining your battery.
A few good things to look for? Google + or other programs constantly checking for messages your location, or updates, e-mail being pushed to your phone automatically, Wifi on while in sleep, and widgets.
My battery is **** also on GSM version my galaxy s2 would have 2-3% drain per hour most time less Nexus seems to drain 2-3% in 15mins its terrible wish i never changed.
Is this normal, an hour of web-browsing with screen on auto-brightness and phone drops from 100% to 71% ? Wifi was off, bluetooth on but not connected to anything. I have Better Battery Stats too, shall I post up? On stock ICS.
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with my experience with ics the first discharge is usually terrible but after a few charges battery life becomes better.
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are you using wifi? if so yes
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He said the wifi was off, please read people.
not sure if "insane" means bad or good. But it looks about average. The average screen on time ranges from 3.5 to 4.5 hours. Mine is dead center of that.
Bluetooth not connecting to anything still drains a lot because it is constantly scanning for other bluetooth devices.
BTW your reception is in the YEllow. that means that also leads to battery drain.
So if you have better reception and your bluetooth is off then your battery would last longer.
Note: I use bluetooth a lot and I find it to be one of the biggest factors for draining. more than GPS and Wifi. Although, using wifi with strong signal actually saves battery.
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The average screen on time ranges from 3.5 to 4.5 hours. Mine is dead center of that.
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I really doubt that, because I did the same battery test Techradar* does, which is:
screen on full bright
Wifi on
Gmai, FB, etc all set to update as often as possible
Run a 1.5 hour long HD video full screen
At the end of that test I was at 84%. (the Video was on my SD card, not streaming)
In the video they have a graph of their stats for different phones using this test. GS2 and GS3 are top 2.
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/ph...laxy-s3-1078667/review/page:14#articleContent
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I really doubt that, because I did the same battery test Techradar* does, which is:
screen on full bright
Wifi on
Gmai, FB, etc all set to update as often as possible
Run a 1.5 hour long HD video full screen
At the end of that test I was at 84%. (the Video was on my SD card, not streaming)
In the video they have a graph of their stats for different phones using this test. GS2 and GS3 are top 2.
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/ph...laxy-s3-1078667/review/page:14#articleContent
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You're doubting that our phone doesn't last that... Uhh.. Short? I've had this phone since December and had many discussions with others on here about it and we agree that 4 hrs is about right.
So with that test you're saying that our phone can get over 6 hours throughout the say with normal use? Highly doubt it. You have to realize a couple things.
1. Wifi consumes less battery than 4g
2. You should factor in a normal days use that means including idle time i would say about 2% per hour maybe less.
3. Watching a movie means no "touch" interactions which means it consumes less battery than Web browsing or playing games.
So yes if you just leave the phone on the entire time without touching it. It'll last a long time. But with actually interacting with the phone and using 4g data. Most gets 4hr. Screen time in 17 hours of use ( you guys do get 7 hours of sleep right?)
I don't really believe that test. I know that the 4s battery sucks balls. Our phone lasts longer with our 4g on. It is saying that the one x is shorter?? One x and s lasts longer than our phone. So yeah.
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Very normal to me.
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Is this normal, an hour of web-browsing with screen on auto-brightness and phone drops from 100% to 71% ? Wifi was off, bluetooth on but not connected to anything. I have Better Battery Stats too, shall I post up? On stock ICS.
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You obviously haven't met the DARKSIDE...
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You're doubting that our phone doesn't last that... Uhh.. Short? I've had this phone since December and had many discussions with others on here about it and we agree that 4 hrs is about right.
So with that test you're saying that our phone can get over 6 hours throughout the say with normal use? Highly doubt it. You have to realize a couple things.
1. Wifi consumes less battery than 4g
2. You should factor in a normal days use that means including idle time i would say about 2% per hour maybe less.
3. Watching a movie means no "touch" interactions which means it consumes less battery than Web browsing or playing games.
So yes if you just leave the phone on the entire time without touching it. It'll last a long time. But with actually interacting with the phone and using 4g data. Most gets 4hr. Screen time in 17 hours of use ( you guys do get 7 hours of sleep right?)
I don't really believe that test. I know that the 4s battery sucks balls. Our phone lasts longer with our 4g on. It is saying that the one x is shorter?? One x and s lasts longer than our phone. So yeah.
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well i guess that test is to show the efficiency of the screen.
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with my experience with ics the first discharge is usually terrible but after a few charges battery life becomes better.
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I have to agree. Mine did exactly the same. After the 3/4 day battery life started to improve very noticeably. :good:
Hi guys, I'm a happy Nexus 5X owner, except for one thing: battery autonomy.
I had a true hope that Nougat would change my perception, but I got no improvement at all. After that I tried ElementalX kernel running every profile, including the newest GlassFish 1.2 and HawkTail 1.2. I also use Greenify and don't have facebook app installed.
I unplug my phone everyday at 7:30 AM and it can't get past 2:00 PM. My use is *only* web browsing (chrome) and whatsapp. Nothing like youtube, netflix, gaming or listening to music. I get only 2h30 SOT.
I've been using this charger for about 4 months: http://www.gearbest.com/chargers-cables/pp_350509.html
My question is: could my battery have been damaged?
Thanks!
Probably just the usual combination of Usage, Settings and Signal. We could only guess without some screenshots though, there's a battery life thread in General where you can post them and get advice.
The one thing I can suggest to evryeveryoneone is to use Developer Options > Running services and see which of your 3rd party apps are running 24/7 in the background. These are using your phones resources even if you never launch the app.
Nothing special is needed to get good battery life on this device, I typically see 5-6 hours SoT over 24-48 hours with stock 7.0. No root or loss of features.
quera said:
Hi guys, I'm a happy Nexus 5X owner, except for one thing: battery autonomy.
I had a true hope that Nougat would change my perception, but I got no improvement at all. After that I tried ElementalX kernel running every profile, including the newest GlassFish 1.2 and HawkTail 1.2. I also use Greenify and don't have facebook app installed.
I unplug my phone everyday at 7:30 AM and it can't get past 2:00 PM. My use is *only* web browsing (chrome) and whatsapp. Nothing like youtube, netflix, gaming or listening to music. I get only 2h30 SOT.
I've been using this charger for about 4 months: http://www.gearbest.com/chargers-cables/pp_350509.html
My question is: could my battery have been damaged?
Thanks!
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Most probably your battery is damaged after using cheap charger.
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myawan said:
Most probably your battery is damaged after using cheap charger.
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That was my first impression.
How likely is this battery LG Original? http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-LG...963915?hash=item2ef4e2404b:g:nbQAAOSwLnBX6QsX
I'm afraid of overheating because I sleep with the phone charging beside my bed.
Honestly, whats your brightness? Do you use bluetooth? Is NFC turned on? Location? Are you running 2G/3G or LTE? WIFI? Do you have wakelocks? I can make my nexus have 3 hours SoT ober a day also. But I can also make it have 5. Its all usage dude, unless you see a lot of heat, or drops of 5% over 5 mins, id say you battery is fine. Maybe its just the charger that doesnt fill it right? Why do you use that charger?
Sinistersky said:
Honestly, whats your brightness? Do you use bluetooth? Is NFC turned on? Location? Are you running 2G/3G or LTE? WIFI? Do you have wakelocks? I can make my nexus have 3 hours SoT ober a day also. But I can also make it have 5. Its all usage dude, unless you see a lot of heat, or drops of 5% over 5 mins, id say you battery is fine. Maybe its just the charger that doesnt fill it right? Why do you use that charger?
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I use auto-brightness (usually 50%). No bluetooth, no NFC, location battery-saving. I run half time 3G, half time WiFi. I use this cheap charger at work. The original I use at home. My wakelocks from yesterday are the following:
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Thats actually normal considering you have auto brightness and half the time on 3g. However, your whatsapp usage is huge. Try running withouth it for a day. And do you really need location? How is your signal strength?
Sinistersky said:
Thats actually normal considering you have auto brightness and half the time on 3g. However, your whatsapp usage is huge. Try running withouth it for a day. And do you really need location? How is your signal strength?
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Auto brightness consumes that much power? What's your recommendation?
Signal strength is always strong. I'm turning off location from now on.
quera said:
Auto brightness consumes that much power? What's your recommendation?
Signal strength is always strong. I'm turning off location from now on.
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Hell yea. If you have it on 50% and use your phone anywhere outside or somwhere where the phone determines that you cant see it clearly, it will crank up the brightness, and that consumes a lot of battery. Try running it on 10-15% manual mode inside, and 20-25% outside or more if you really cant see, but keep the brightness mostly to 25%. The screen consumes a lot and plus 3g, no wonder you have such bad battery life :/ On 10% brightness, you can pull off 4 hours for sure. At least I can
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Hell yea. If you have it on 50% and use your phone anywhere outside or somwhere where the phone determines that you cant see it clearly, it will crank up the brightness, and that consumes a lot of battery. Try running it on 10-15% manual mode inside, and 20-25% outside or more if you really cant see, but keep the brightness mostly to 25%. The screen consumes a lot and plus 3g, no wonder you have such bad battery life :/ On 10% brightness, you can pull off 4 hours for sure. At least I can
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Thanks! I'll try it for a couple Days and report it here!