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What kind of battery life are you guys seeing with constant usage

I know using the phone constantly drains the battery alot faster but I think mine is abnormally fast.. right now I'm at 4 hrs and 25 mins and I have about. 15 % battery left.. that seems kind of drastic. It shows my screen draining at 53%.. does that seem normal or is that bad..
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Stock or root? Stock thats waaaaaaay too fast. Rooted thats the issue I was having

Stock..
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Since I rarely take it off charger, pretty good.

I can go 15 hours and have 50% at the end of the day with like 2 hours or more of screen usage..
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I Should also add that I have poor reception in my area and my airave isn't playing nice with my touch.. its a little under 5 hours and I'm at 10 % now. I've been one my phone pretty much that whole 5 hours listening to music for about 2 hrs straight. And checking tapatalk constantly.
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My first full charge lasted me about 13 hours with moderate to heavy usage and I still had about 40% left when i plugged it in. I was on WiFi for about 8 of those 13 hours but I also had 4G and Bluetooth turned on with my Jawbone connected.
Every day since then has been just a tad different but nothing too drastically different than that. This phone is awesome with battery compared to any other Android phone I have had.

jok3sta said:
I know using the phone constantly drains the battery alot faster but I think mine is abnormally fast.. right now I'm at 4 hrs and 25 mins and I have about. 15 % battery left.. that seems kind of drastic. It shows my screen draining at 53%.. does that seem normal or is that bad..
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I feel your pain. The other day my phone was dead in 6hrs with 2hs screen on time
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20-30 hours

I've been trying to get people to rate their usage in percent per hour (%/hr) makes waaaay more sense.
For example, with data always on, wifi on and off through out the day, I'd say light to moderate usage- I'm pulling in 5-6%/hr. Which is pretty good for stock. My Evo pulled down about 8%/hr stock.
With CM7, and Tiamat or SavagedZen kernel on OnDemand with the Evo I averaged 2.2%/hr. Just waiting for the E4GT to get all up to speed in the mean time.

With 3.5 hours of constant data use yesterday, my phone was at 63%, so constant use all the way would be about 7-8 hours. I'm talking about surfing, pandora, in a crappy signal area pretty much all the time (I have ALOT of downtime at work). That puts my EVO to shame. It would be dead in 3.5 hours, lol

17.5 hours on time.
1hr 15 minutes screen on
70% battery left
I also use Data Switch to shut off my 3g connection when not in use so I typically have pretty decent battery life.

tenaciousj said:
17.5 hours on time.
1hr 15 minutes screen on
70% battery left
I also use Data Switch to shut off my 3g connection when not in use so I typically have pretty decent battery life.
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Oh man, with data turned off my Evo would last Days. With data off I averaged bout 1.1%/hr.

You also have to take into account that the batteries need to be "broken in" by charging and discharging several cycles to be able to tap into the full capacity of the battery.

I have noticed that my battery gets sucked down if I am in a low signal area otherwise I get about 10 hours.
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I'm not doing too bad this time around.. I'm at almost 7 hrs and I'm at 49% not great but not terrible either
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OP, the issue is network related. Your phone has no reception so it's either roaming or searching for signal. Unplug you Air rave if its not working with the phone because all that will do is make the problem worse. Use JuiceDefender to control your data networking and as far as cell reception goes (calls/texts) either use airplane mode or just leave it on and try it out. See if that helps you. Some users have been complaining of signal issues with the ET4G, you may want to try a Photon (I know this phone I'd far superior) but Motorola gets the best reception!
anyhow, goodluck and post your findings plz
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cbpagent72 said:
I have noticed that my battery gets sucked down if I am in a low signal area otherwise I get about 10 hours.
Same here i thought it was only my device for a minute.
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17-20 hours of moderate use

I got to 33% after 6 hours, so it looks like 9 hours for me, listening to podcast while getting ready and listening to Pandora for 30 minutes during the commute over 4G. Then wifi the rest of the day at work, checking emails and making calls.
I tend to think that if not for Exchange Active Sync, I'd probably get more like 12-15 hours.

viper rom battery life

I am getting amazing battery life with viper rom and exp lostkernel.
I am so happy right now!

+1 my set up also with ics theme
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This is the battery life I'm getting on starburst rom with stock kernel
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mauricehall said:
This is the battery life I'm getting on starburst rom with stock kernel
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not sure what to say about that,because im using starburst and am getting no where near that much
your screen isnt on that much,but i do see a lot of awake time, so the day is impressive. but i have to assume your brightness level was at like 5% or something? and seems like an 8hour period where you had no wifi or radio no?

Screen is on auto Wi-Fi was off while at work and while sleeping everything else was just texting and brief calls and some status updates via twitter Facebook and G+
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Nice. My display on Starburst seems to take most of my battery life, but i haven't had the chance to really test it

You need to show on screen time. That is the most important part of how well battery is......If you do not turn your phone on, who cares if it lasts all day.
I am not rooted and have gotten 4 hours of on screen time being unplugged for 15.5 hours and plugging in at 5% battery left.
Those are the numbers that interest me and I don't think you can get much better then that even after rooting but I would love to see some stats to prove me wrong.

[email protected] said:
You need to show on screen time. That is the most important part of how well battery is......If you do not turn your phone on, who cares if it lasts all day.
I am not rooted and have gotten 4 hours of on screen time being unplugged for 15.5 hours and plugging in at 5% battery left.
Those are the numbers that interest me and I don't think you can get much better then that even after rooting but I would love to see some stats to prove me wrong.
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agreed,impressive stats

[email protected] said:
You need to show on screen time. That is the most important part of how well battery is......If you do not turn your phone on, who cares if it lasts all day.
I am not rooted and have gotten 4 hours of on screen time being unplugged for 15.5 hours and plugging in at 5% battery left.
Those are the numbers that interest me and I don't think you can get much better then that even after rooting but I would love to see some stats to prove me wrong.
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For me this is pretty Impressive, I'm coming from the samsung vibrant and I'm used to getting 9 hours tops with out doing anything on the phone so me getting a full 24 hours out of it doing things that I like to do for me is a big deal. if it doesn't impress you sorry but I'm pretty darn excited about getting this kind of life out my phone for my day to day use!

mauricehall said:
For me this is pretty Impressive, I'm coming from the samsung vibrant and I'm used to getting 9 hours tops with out doing anything on the phone so me getting a full 24 hours out of it doing things that I like to do for me is a big deal. if it doesn't impress you sorry but I'm pretty darn excited about getting this kind of life out my phone for my day to day use!
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Yeah bro you need to click on display and snapshot that. The most I got out of it was 5.5 hours of on screen time. Which is pretty good. There are other phones, (gay iPhone), that can get like 8hours of display time until dead. That would be amazing for Android. I give it another 1-2 years and we will have Androids that embarass iPhone. This phone definitely kicked up the performance and added a bigger battery, so it will get easier as we go along.
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My - Battery Sucks -

I have to charge it twice a day, and my use is for only couple of hours talking and few browsing.
I tried that with stock as well as
[ROM] cwm-Phantom-X-
is anyone else also experiencing the same?

a few hours being like 10 hours straight talking?

You're crazy. This battery is the best I've seen in a long time.
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im getting 12 hours with normal use and 8-9hours with very very heavy use(basically on my phone all day non stop)

I can drain a battery in 6 hours or less. I can't make it through a 8 hour work day without charging it. I guess you guys that go 12+ hours on a charge aren't power users. I tried every rom and kernel and my results are exactly the same.

Maybe the people who are complaining about battery life came from a flip phone or a blackberry. As far as smartphones go, this is the best you'll find for the features and enormous screen we have. Don't believe me then get an Amaze, Sensation, myTouch 4g Slide or G2x.
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jessejames111981 said:
I can drain a battery in 6 hours or less. I can't make it through a 8 hour work day without charging it. I guess you guys that go 12+ hours on a charge aren't power users. I tried every rom and kernel and my results are exactly the same.
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this is exactly what I am talking about.
Before I had HTC G2 and same amount of use it last for whole day (around 12+ hours) but this one hardly goes upto 7-8 hours with one charge...
I did the battery wipe with full charge, if that makes any difference.

jessejames111981 said:
I can drain a battery in 6 hours or less. I can't make it through a 8 hour work day without charging it. I guess you guys that go 12+ hours on a charge aren't power users. I tried every rom and kernel and my results are exactly the same.
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I drain mine in 6. But i'm on it constantly. That's damn good for a phone like this.
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Deebo took your bike too?

Getting 24 hrs+ with a custom rom, juggernaut....
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I dont know bout anyone else... but the only battery problems ive experienced is the fact that ive become so damn lazy on keeping the phone charged.
The battery lasts so long that i forget to charge it, and then i run out of battery

I'm a heavy user literally all I do is watch 1080p movies and plays games on my phone. I get twelve to fourteen hours every day. I also get at least a text every fifteen minutes if not more. Maybe the developers didn't remove career ciq which bogs down performance and drain the battery. You can also try a different kernel.
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don't forget that in areas where you have crappy signal, you phone pumps up the power to try and compensate. you may notice your phone heating up in your pocket too. If you have no signal at all, i weep for your battery life.
go into airplane mode to save juice.

I too get 24 hours or more from light to moderate use with juggernaut.
Heavy use still nets me at least 10 hours. Although I toggle things off if I remember and don't need them. Like wifi, data, auto bright, sync, etc. although WAY lead important with this phone than it was with vibrant running cm7.
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I had some weird battery drain with the stock rom. I couldnt get more than 5 hrs with light usage or heavy usage. I flashed streamlined (a mostly stock rom) from teshxx and im back to having 9-10hrs of battery life with moderate to heavy usage (3hrs of on screen time)
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I have a 12-14 hour work day and I have 25-35% battery life left when I get home, heavy usage. Best stock battery for Android I've ever had. This is my 8th Android phone.
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shyboy1 said:
this is exactly what I am talking about.
Before I had HTC G2 and same amount of use it last for whole day (around 12+ hours) but this one hardly goes upto 7-8 hours with one charge...
I did the battery wipe with full charge, if that makes any difference.
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Why don't you try adding another core to your G2 and see if you can even get 6+ hours!!!
Cmon man, this is a dual core phone...it's just common sense that it will use twice as much battery power to get it to run smoothly.
But honestly, I was able to get 21hrs out of a full charge. With heavy use but i had it UC'd @ 1.2max and 192min. Still ran pretty smooth tho.

I get about 18 to 20 hours from a full charge. Stock. Non-rooted, and no modifications of any kind. I have all my apps auto-sync every 4 hours, and my usual display "on time" is around 4 to 5 hours. Here are some screen shots. This is the best battery life I ever had.

Just to add. My brightness is at 40%

is it better to use autobrightness on our device or a set brightness setting to save battery?

immunityx said:
is it better to use autobrightness on our device or a set brightness setting to save battery?
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I'd say set it to certain level. Having the phone constantly adjust I would think would use more battery.

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ok so i watched another video about someone else saying he got 29 hours of power on a charge. im still getting about 8 with heavy usage. not rooted yet. is this normal battery life? screen is on 3/4 wifi is always off as is gps.

Wifi uses less power than 3g. 8hrs of screen on time is reasonable at stock imho.
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With avg use, and counting that I do sleep 8hrs/day... I have 2 li-ion poly batteries & never tether to a wall... I generally get 24hrs, with about 10% or more remaining. I swap, read a book, until I am sleepy, go to sleep. The battery usually is about 95-97% when I wake up.
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Skripka said:
Wifi uses less power than 3g. 8hrs of screen on time is reasonable at stock imho.
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I don't think the op said that he/ahe is getting 8 hours of screen time. I think it's 8 hours total and if that's true then that's pretty bad battery life.

Something seems wrong
gorelow said:
ok so i watched another video about someone else saying he got 29 hours of power on a charge. im still getting about 8 with heavy usage. not rooted yet. is this normal battery life? screen is on 3/4 wifi is always off as is gps.
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I have had the phone for a month now and have yet to kill it in under 24 hours (ok fine I got it to die in 23 hours and 36 minutes). I usually get about 1 day and 6 Hours. Of course, I am sleeping for a good portion of that... Typical screen use time is about 3 hours for me (inside that 24 hour phone use time) but I have done as much as 5 Hours of screen time. Im assuming that you could kill the phone faster if you really tried, but i have a hard time believing it would die in 8 hours unless you were doing everything you could to kill it..

ok thank you guys can i ask are you all roooted? im still on the fence about rooting this phone like i have my others. can not being rooted effect battery?

gorelow said:
ok thank you guys can i ask are you all roooted? im still on the fence about rooting this phone like i have my others. can not being rooted effect battery?
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I'm rooted, running UltraLight1.5 with Perseus kernel. Rooting aside a big battery killer is the wireless network locater in Settings/Location Services. That stupid service kills battery with thousands of pointless kernel wakelocks. I used to disable Maps entirely, but that ain't needed.
I leave GPS &WIFI on all the time with screen brightness on auto, power saving turned on on the screen and cpu. 8hrs of screen on time easy...overnight at idle there's minimal eating of battery while I sleep.
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my brother got 2 days and 8 hours. he uses wifi when at home. not sure about work. he has a live wallpaper. he is stock rooted.

Obviously heavy usage is relative. I definitely get over 24 hours worth normal use. I'm pretty much on it constantly. I would imagine if you are gaming or watching videos then your battery is going to die much quicker.
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Being rooted doesn't give better battery life is just an access for to things you couldn't unlock before like admin rights.
However if you freeze a few apps you don't use and close any apps after your done with them you'll get better results.
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Im pretty sure those ppl who get 2 days on their phone barely use this device as far as watching videos, games, n etc. ive seen those screenshots and barely or never is video or gaming usage seen. What's the point in having this beast if not being used but left idle so the honor of the longest lasting battery is displayed for the world to see. Lol smh. Btw 8 to 10hrs for me heavy usage..
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[email protected] said:
Im pretty sure those ppl who get 2 days on their phone barely use this device as far as watching videos, games, n etc. ive seen those screenshots and barely or never is video or gaming usage seen. What's the point in having this beast if not being used but left idle so the honor of the longest lasting battery is displayed for the world to see. Lol smh. Btw 8 to 10hrs for me heavy usage..
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I'll post a few screenies later of mine. And once its done charging I'll try watch Netflix and play games to see what I can pull being stock.
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Hey guys, how's my battery life?

im posting a day's usage for GS3 Tmo
can you guys tell me if the battery life is normal, bad, good?
(im posting the batt. life and top 5 usages)

the next 2 apps

What rom ?
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What rom ?
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completely stock, tmo bloat disabled, screen @ lowest brightness, sync off

With 27% left, I'd say that's about average-good.

Dear God, I get about 8 hours with average usage. Seems very good life to me. Do you have power saver and/or sync enabled?

It's exactly like mine. However, some users actually got theirs up to 5 hours screen time. How? I'll never know

Battery life good bro, cool story
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Mine's absolutely horrid, I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell's wrong with it. I'll run out of battery after about 12 hours, with the screen time at 1 hour and maybe 30 minutes if I'm lucky? The phone drinks away my battery in standby mode like a former alcoholic united with an opened beer. When I was on ICS, turning off 4G every time the screen was off with the AutomateIt app would give me excellent battery life. Ever since Jelly Bean, it doesn't seem to make a difference. I just don't even bother using AutomateIt anymore, I even uninstalled it. Useless. I check marked the option, "Restrict Background Data," but I actually had worse results with that on even. Following the thread about the Guide to good battery life, I turned off auto-sync. The only thing that seems to do for me is not get my emails in real time. No effect on the battery though. I'm guessing the battery drain has something to do with being on data (even though turning it off doesn't seem to do much) because everytime I go to school where there's little WiFi, battery's worse. Also, somehow my Messaging app takes up more battery than the screen. What's with that? I'll text every now and then, but it shouldn't eat away my battery like a fat man with the last batch of Twinkies. Enough with the dumb similes, haha, but I actually need help with this. I really don't wanna buy a battery off eBay cause the damn people are too lazy to send you the battery until a month passes, and I hate charging in the middle of the day.
I'm on 100% stock. I used to root and mess around with a ton of ROMs, but then I realized all my favourite ROMs were the ones closest to stock...

.... look at the eBay expected arrival and/or look for a seller in the USA ?
Anyway, that bit aside - have you installed something like BetterBatteryStats to be able to see what the problem is so you can fix it ?

kulzboy said:
It's exactly like mine. However, some users actually got theirs up to 5 hours screen time. How? I'll never know
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5 hours... how !?
Easy !
I'm on stock and if I'm almost all the day on WIFI, not playing too much games, and with auto-brightness,
I can get 5 to 6 hours screen time.
(but on 4G all the day, it's more around 3 hours screen time)

This is what most people get with normal use around 14 to 16 hours and 4 to 5 hours screen time. I think the biggest issue is that 4G radio that most people have on all the time. I I have wifi everywhere so most of the time I have mine off that helps a ton. Plus all the sync stuff off, I get about 6 hours over 17 hours battery life and about 30 to 40% brightness.
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14-16 is what was normal for me when I first got my GS3 (after JB update). If you want more battery life, I recommend trying juice defender (custom settings for data off while locked). If you have stretches where you don't use your phone it works really well. Just thought I would throw that out there.
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