I'm getting some really good battery life with light usage so far.
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I m getting similar results, light usage I unplug at 7am and plug back in at 1am with ~50% battery left.
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WIFI seems to be much better. With my LTE on I can barely charge the phone LOL. I wouldn't trade 20 Mbps down for bettery life.
I'd say my experience has been the opposite of what's been reported. With low to medium usage, I'm lucky to get 8 hours. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. I use setCPU to put my phone in battery saving mode and underclocked all the way when the screen's off. I kill apps whenever I notice a lot are running. I dunno. Coming from an iphone, I'd say my battery life has been horrible.
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I am surprised. I actually stopped worrying about baterry few weeks ago. I can definitely get through the day with no problem.
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I'd say my experience has been the opposite of what's been reported. With low to medium usage, I'm lucky to get 8 hours. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. I use setCPU to put my phone in battery saving mode and overclocked all the way when the screen's off. I kill apps whenever I notice a lot are running. I dunno. Coming from an iphone, I'd say my battery life has been horrible.
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I've never been an iPhone fan, but since the iPhone 4 the battery has been phenomenal. Battery life is constantly improving on Android phones, but it seems like every time something new is introduced it gets significantly worse. The 720p screen and LTE radio don't seem to be helping the battery cause. In the Nitro's defense, I haven't carried it an entire day to see how it works out for me. My Inspire could charge completely in about 2 hours, this phone will have changed less than 50%. But I have 20 Mbps download!!!
Malnilion said:
I'd say my experience has been the opposite of what's been reported. With low to medium usage, I'm lucky to get 8 hours. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. I use setCPU to put my phone in battery saving mode and overclocked all the way when the screen's off. I kill apps whenever I notice a lot are running. I dunno. Coming from an iphone, I'd say my battery life has been horrible.
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This is interesting since I don't kill apps, I don't use setcpu, and have only done minimal debloating. I do have pretty decent signal at my workplace (which is 4G, not LTE) which does make a big difference.
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This is interesting since I don't kill apps, I don't use setcpu
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I wonder if it's the point? Maybe codeaurora just knows better how to undervolt SoC than setcpu does, just maybe? If Malnilion only tried to stop using setcpu could it made any difference?
Well, I'll be damned. setCPU was the problem. My battery life is lasting much longer now. With medium usage I'm at about 15 hours on a charge and have 7% left. If anybody is having a problem and is using setCPU, don't take my word for it, uninstall setCPU and see for yourself.
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Well, I'll be damned. setCPU was the problem. My battery life is lasting much longer now. With medium usage I'm at about 15 hours on a charge and have 7% left. If anybody is having a problem and is using setCPU, don't take my word for it, uninstall setCPU and see for yourself.
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my experience has been the same using setcpu on my nitro. not sure if there was a sw conflict or if the stock sw simply does the job better but this phone runs much better without setcpu.
That being said, I am currently running JD ultimate and have its cpu gov running and it works much better imo.
How about charging your phones? My phone charges like 15% after an hour. Any tips to make it faster? Should I take it back to AT&T and get a replacement?
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How about charging your phones? My phone charges like 15% after an hour. Any tips to make it faster? Should I take it back to AT&T and get a replacement?
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If you're using a USB port to charge that could be why it's so slow.
Edit: I am too, I'd say it's around 3 hours or so per full charge. Maybe slightly longer.
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If you're using a USB port to charge that could be why it's so slow.
Edit: I am too, I'd say it's around 3 hours or so per full charge. Maybe slightly longer.
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Good point. Now that you mention it, it does appear to charge faster when plugged into the wall. Well that kind of sucks. This thing takes forever to charge. I'll try with a wall adapter when I am home again and let you know what I find out.
It's kind of hard to always have a wall charger with me though.
It is not blackberry crazy short timing charges but I can charge it less than 2 hours from around 20% left using stock 1.5 amp wall charger. It definitely does not charge long.
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Wall charger made a huge difference. Charged about 55% in an hour. Thanks for the tip.
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Am I correct to assume that the 2.1amp car charger would charge better/faster than the 1.5amp wall charger? I ask because with the wall charger I still consume power faster than the charger can keep up while watching SlingPlayer mobile.
Probably so, this phone is a battery draining beast. Every review I've read says LTE phones have terrible battery life. LG should have had an option to disable it and 3G. Oh well, I'll live with it while streaming on my 22 Mbps DL connection.
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That's just it though... I'm not on LTE while using SlingPlayer. I'm on 4G out in the field. My car charger doesn't say what it is, but I assume it's 1.5amp. I download "Advanced Task Killer" app, but everything I "kill" comes right back up. I think there's too much crap running and sucking down the battery. I really need to figure out how to root and freeze bloatware crap.
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I am surprised. I actually stopped worrying about baterry few weeks ago. I can definitely get through the day with no problem.
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Same here. Battery life was a concern for me when I was first considering the phone. But I found that I can go a full day on a single charge. so I don't even worry about it anymore.
Related
http://www.amazon.com/Seidio-1750mA...ch/dp/B002USD0GQ?dropdown-selection=qpjppxint
was looking at this and would like to pick it up, but not if it will not work for the dinc
also, is it worth it? I get about 4 -5 hours of life (when I am not using my phone) if I am talking I get about 2 hours from a 100% charged battery.
its really getting frustrating, to the point where I was actually checking to see how much an iphone would cost
I know I feel awful even typing that!
http://www.amazon.com/Seidio-Innocell-Battery-Droid-Incredible/dp/B003602HIO/ref=sr_1_3?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1299616895&sr=1-3
I know this one does!
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http://www.amazon.com/Seidio-Innocell-Battery-Droid-Incredible/dp/B003602HIO/ref=sr_1_3?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1299616895&sr=1-3
I know this one does!
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perfect!
thanks this is what i needed
woo for amazon prime!!
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perfect!
thanks this is what i needed
woo for amazon prime!!
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You are welcome!
If your battery life is that low I would think that your problems likely lie somewhere other than your battery.
What is using all the juice? Have a look at juice defender perhaps?
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If your battery life is that low I would think that your problems likely lie somewhere other than your battery.
What is using all the juice? Have a look at juice defender perhaps?
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display and phone calls make up the most, everything else is like 2% at most
voice calls 45%
display 40%
i have display set on 11% most of the time, only raise it when i cant see the screen like outside or something
So did you get the battery off eBay? Wondering how it is working out.
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Is that 4-5 hours of standby? That seems crazy low. Im on a (nearly year old) stock battery, 4:41 off the charger, 2:00 awake time, largely surfing with maybe 20 minutes on the phone and at 61% battery, and I only charged to 91% to begin with. My screen usage and phone calls both account for 5% of battery usage. And I don't feel this is particularly fantastic battery life.
Running incredibly re-engineered 2.2 with lou's #8 and sense removed. Using Juice Defender.
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Is that 4-5 hours of standby? That seems crazy low. Im on a (nearly year old) stock battery, 4:41 off the charger, 2:00 awake time, largely surfing with maybe 20 minutes on the phone and at 61% battery, and I only charged to 91% to begin with. My screen usage and phone calls both account for 5% of battery usage. And I don't feel this is particularly fantastic battery life.
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well periodic use over the 4-5 hours, random text or 2 minute phone call
but usually i get off work at 5 and by 9 it is down to like 5% battery and its fully charged when i leave work
the battery off amazon is working better, I would say I get nearly double the life that I got out of the stock battery
(8 hours instead of 4)
4-5 hrs is not normal. I am glad the higher capacity battery is working for you but there is something deeper going on with your phone.
Have you done a clean install recently? Sounds like something is draining your battery in the background.
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4-5 hrs is not normal. I am glad the higher capacity battery is working for you but there is something deeper going on with your phone.
Have you done a clean install recently? Sounds like something is draining your battery in the background.
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im always doing wipes and putting ROMs on
the latest is OMFGB and it was a clean wipe about 2 weeks ago
battery issue has been with me for a long time, even on 2.2 roms
its getting worse recently though
I have had the phone for 5 days and with fairly light usage, I am still not getting good battery life. I turn off all data and wifi when not using it and screen on time is below 2 hours.
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It doesn't get better...get used to it until its fixed in an update , along with the other big issues.
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By about the 3rd day it seemed better. But it's also difficult to gauge because the first few days you're bound to toy with it constantly.
Until there is an empirical way to gauge usage, like an amp meter attached to the phone - it's all perception imo.
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In the top left you have three things running in the background, im assuming constantly. Uninstall them, especially the battery percentage since you can look that up easily on your phone
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I have had the phone for 5 days and with fairly light usage, I am still not getting good battery life. I turn off all data and wifi when not using it and screen on time is below 2 hours.
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Do yourself a favor and try aokp milestone 1 from rootzwiki , and also download lean kernel 1.1.1 on xda. Use interactiveX governor for kernel. This is the exact setup I am using now, and have been for a few days and have been getting insane battery life. Hope everything works for you.
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Last time I checked lithium ion batteries don't get better after a few days and yes there are software fixes for battery life and bugs..
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Reality. And a week. And getting a gsm version might help
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You really have no idea what you're talking about. First of all, it will get better, I won't bother explaining the science behind it considering you can do your own research, but it will, also, it can't be "fixed." Just like they can't make it an 8 mega pixel camera in an OTA. You can get it much better by doing custom roms and thigns of that nature.
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Oh stupid me and here I was hoping for a 15 mp camera
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It got better when I turned off vzw backup and google +.
Best I got is 16 hours bone stock just an extended battery. Worst I got was 4 hours(screen was on the whole time) watched 2 movies before I plugged in. I average around 12 hours from 100% to 20%.
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I have had the phone for 5 days and with fairly light usage, I am still not getting good battery life. I turn off all data and wifi when not using it and screen on time is below 2 hours.
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First off, it's hard to tell by your screenshot how good or bad your battery life is. You're burning approximately 10%/hr, but maybe you had your screen on or were surfing the internet for a portion of that time. Anything that involves data transfer will kill your battery faster.
I got my Galaxy Nexus on Wednesday, and I've had great battery from the start. I calibrated it by letting the phone's initial charge die down to zero, and then charged it all the way up to 100%, and then used the Battery Calibration tool. I drain between 2-3% hour with light use, but can obviously drain much more depending on what I'm using the phone for.
That being said, for those on this board who think an OS upgrade is going to fix the problem, I highly doubt it. I have a reasonably poor cell signal (averages around -95 dbm), but still get solid battery life. Given that we were all issued phones with the same software, if you're experiencing incredibly bad battery life, I'm going to point my finger at the hardware. It just doesn't make sense that some of us with 4.0.2 get great battery life, and others do not. You probably have either a bad battery or a bad phone. Now, I'll probably get called out for saying this, but watch all the posts that follow when the update releases, when people still have poor battery life.
This is my 3rd Android phone (Incredible, Charge, GN), and every one of these phones has had poor battery life. On average, if I'm playing around with the screen on, I'm draining upwards of 10%/hr, if not more. But if you properly calibrate the battery - which is VERY important - you should easily be able to get a full day's charge out of your phone.
There is a post on XDA about the 13 steps to proper battery calibration. Once I followed it on my last phone, my battery life went up at least 50%. You have to let the battery drain to 100%, then bump charge a number of times, then use the battery calibrator.
GalaxynexusVZW said:
I have had the phone for 5 days and with fairly light usage, I am still not getting good battery life. I turn off all data and wifi when not using it and screen on time is below 2 hours.
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Try running without JuiceDefender. Constantly toggling data on and off (or wifi on and off) actually hurts battery in almost all cases.
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Try running without JuiceDefender. Constantly toggling data on and off (or wifi on and off) actually hurts battery in almost all cases.
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Your results may vary, but when I used Juice Defender or Green Power on my Droid Charge, I nearly doubled the battery life. I haven't put it on my GN yet because my battery life is much better than what I had with the Charge.
No using JD or anything like that. Just the the phone do its thing. I don't even open the multitask button unless I want to switch between apps.
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Gotta be a software issue with the battery.
Just this past weekend in Wash DC. Very strong 4 G market.
I had it fully charged off charger. After 7 hours without touching the phone even with google plus sign out, the battery went from 100% to 54%. It's like the phone was active a lot without me even touching it. No SMS/mms either. No emails either.
Know. I did same thing and put it on airplane mode with it 100% charged. After 7 hours on airplane mode it was at 98%.
So it's gotta be an operating system issue.
I tried it on wifi instead of 4G mode. And battery drainage was down to 72% after no use overnight.
I know most of you already notice this but if you don't:
In Setting/ Power saving mode, check the "CPU power saving" then your phone will be limit to 1.1GHz max from 1.6Ghz.
I would suggest to tick on the "Screen power saving", "background color" and "turn off haptic feedback" to save some extra juice.
LTE on. 24h unplugged. 75% screen brightness. Full heavy haptic feedback. Heavy gaming and Internet use. Phone calls. Texting. 3D live wallpaper. Still 7h screen on time before the phone finally had to be plugged in.
I don't know what you use your phone for but I'm going crazy on mine and can't kill the battery. If you need more juice, then more power to ya. I can't fathom why.
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LOL I tried to kill mine but it out lasted me I woke up at 5 for work and by end of the day I went on a 2 hour gaming session to try and completely drain it and got it to 9% but it was like 10 and had work next day so gave up. I lost
I'm still suffering from battery OCD after coming from the iphone 4S. Now I feel like plugging in my note 2 whenever I'm at my desk at work.... So you guys don't think I need to?
I dont touch my charger till I hit the bed.
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UCLAKoolman said:
I'm still suffering from battery OCD after coming from the iphone 4S. Now I feel like plugging in my note 2 whenever I'm at my desk at work.... So you guys don't think I need to?
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Try a day without charging your phone at your desk. Yesterday I pulled in about 7 hours of on-screen time. That's with LTE and anything else internet intensive you could imagine. The only way you'll overcome that worry you have is to test it out yourself. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
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I run mine full cycle every time to 1% left then charge. Best way to maximize battery life
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LTE on. 24h unplugged. 75% screen brightness. Full heavy haptic feedback. Heavy gaming and Internet use. Phone calls. Texting. 3D live wallpaper. Still 7h screen on time before the phone finally had to be plugged in.
I don't know what you use your phone for but I'm going crazy on mine and can't kill the battery. If you need more juice, then more power to ya. I can't fathom why.
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I'm with you. I came from the Skyrocket and it was a struggle to get through a full weekday on LTE. In the past week with the Note 2 I don't even have to think about charging it when I'm awake during the day. It's very liberating!
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I run mine full cycle every time to 1% left then charge. Best way to maximize battery life
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I would understand this philosophy if the Note 2 didn't have an easily replaceable battery, but in a years time you could replace a poor battery for cheap. Just recently the stand with extra battery and charger was $30 on the Samsung site (it may still be that price)
I think its my ocd from my note 1. Always seeking the longest battery life possible
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I'm with you. I came from the Skyrocket and it was a struggle to get through a full weekday on LTE. In the past week with the Note 2 I don't even have to think about charging it when I'm awake during the day. It's very liberating!
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I came from worse. I had an HTC Raider (Vivid) and that battery was horrid. Stupid HTC putting a 1620mah battery in a phone with LTE and a 4.5" screen
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LTE on. 24h unplugged. 75% screen brightness. Full heavy haptic feedback. Heavy gaming and Internet use. Phone calls. Texting. 3D live wallpaper. Still 7h screen on time before the phone finally had to be plugged in.
I don't know what you use your phone for but I'm going crazy on mine and can't kill the battery. If you need more juice, then more power to ya. I can't fathom why.
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Damn, I wish I could get run times like that. I usually get HSPA signal and after 16 hrs I'm dead with 4-5 hrs of screen on time. I mostly text and do web browsing. Maybe an hour of music with wifi on all the time and auto brightness. Still lasts longer than my SGS3 did.
My first charge is 7 hours screen time for 24 hours unplugged. Now it's going down hill to 4-4:30 hours after i rooted and remove bloats. Installed couple MoDs.. Dammed i wish i can go back to 7 hours screen time
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My first charge is 7 hours screen time for 24 hours unplugged. Now it's going down hill to 4-4:30 hours after i rooted and remove bloats. Installed couple MoDs.. Dammed i wish i can go back to 7 hours screen time
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You do know to "remove bloat" all you had to do was go into the stock app manager in settings and disable anything you didn't want. That is actually a much better solution than "freezing" with TiBu or removing altogether. I'm not convinced root and mods are 100% stable yet. Most people reporting decreased battery life are those that have rooted or modded something. I'm still 100% stock with ATT stuff disabled and batt life is still 7+ hours.
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You do know to "remove bloat" all you had to do was go into the stock app manager in settings and disable anything you didn't want. That is actually a much better solution than "freezing" with TiBu or removing altogether. I'm not convinced root and mods are 100% stable yet. Most people reporting decreased battery life are those that have rooted or modded something. I'm still 100% stock with ATT stuff disabled and batt life is still 7+ hours.
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Even bare stock I wasn't getting that much screen on time. So far I've only rooted and changed the kernel. Though today my battery life is starting off good. Yesterday I ticked the power saving option for the screen. I'll post an update tomorrow.
Today I was on for 5.5 hours, screen time of 2.2 and was at 54% with Power Saving On
So I went to bell and grabbed another battery
Time will tell if that helps
I could never reach 5 hours of screen time but could have the phone on for 30+ hours
I cant wait till we get more developer support, I used Francos Kernel with my galaxy nexus and it improved battery by 30 % and made my 8 hours overnight use only 2% battery. I was using 12-17% overnight with my note 2 asleep. Aside from kernels and roms I use this phone exactly the same as I did my Nexus. wifi off, bt off, gps on, push email on, auto brightness
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I'm still suffering from battery OCD after coming from the iphone 4S. Now I feel like plugging in my note 2 whenever I'm at my desk at work.... So you guys don't think I need to?
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Lithium Ion batteries actually do better if you don't charge it constantly. In other words let it run down a bit before charging. You don't want to always keep "topping it off". But in general these batteries are much more resilient than others.
Just do some research. There's lots of info out there.
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Umm, no, it does not. You are stressing the battery out. Unless needed, dont keep the battery below 20%. Its healthier to charge the phone sporatically throughout the day.
These aren't nickel batteries...they dont need to be trained or "cycled"
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I'm a battery test engineer so I have played around with Li-ion batts.
If you can keep the phone at cool temperature and charge at 40% and stop at 80% then keep doing 40-80, your battery will last double long
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erick161 said:
Umm, no, it does not. You are stressing the battery out. Unless needed, dont keep the battery below 20%. Its healthier to charge the phone sporatically throughout the day.
These aren't nickel batteries...they dont need to be trained or "cycled"
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Agreed. Full discharges are not necessary for lithium ion batteries. Full discharges were needed for NiCad or NiMH batteries as they suffered from memory effect. LithIon doesn't suffer from this. With that said, a lot of experts do suggest discharging a LithIon periodically, maybe once a month or every other month.
Alright first of all, i want start off by saying that i LOVE this phone, both in terms of hardware and software, however, theres is a HUGE problem that i just can't get through and its the battery of this phone...
It is simply unbearable.
I have posted the screenshots. This screenshot is taken after 1 whole night of charging. In 5 hours or so time, I've use the music app for about 1 hour, talked on the phone for about 5-10min and sent about 10 text messages. I didn't do any web browsing/videos/gaming. I have also disabled LTE and turned my brightness to minimum with eco mode on. These small things drained my battery from 100% to less than 10% within 5 hours which i find to be completely unacceptable.
Last night, with me browsing the web on the bus for about an hour or so, it drained my battery from 85% to 3% by the time i got home...
I've looked at the battery life thread and it seems like im the only one experiencing this issue. Also not only does it drain SUPER fast, it takes a good 4 to 5 hours to recharge this thing. Which means it takes longer to charge than to use up even with minimal use...
Do I have a faulty phone and should I get it replaced???
Something's amiss. The only time that I've gotten less than 10 hours, is when I had my work email connection set up to "always connected" and wifi was turned on. Even then, I got 9+ hours of battery life.
Disabling lte is part of the problem. When the phone is in 3g, it uses fast dormancy which LG did not implement very well and it runs the CPU constantly. I encourage you to contact LG and your carrier and complain. don't let them tell you about background data or applications running the battery down. With the same apps running, this does not happen on lte. This can easily be verified by enabling debugging and then capturing a logcat from adb with lte both enabled and disabled. It will show fast dormancy trying to set network states every second. I spent a lot of time trying to get this issue recognized, but they kept saying that it had not been reported and was not a known issue. Let's make it a known issue so they will fix it.
How about actually showing us what you used instead of screen shots of %.... would be helpful...
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Have you considered that maybe you have a faulty unit.
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I'm also getting about 5ish hours on a charge. And, when I recharge at the office with the usb cord, it's a "trickle charge" that's so slow it's ridiculous.
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I'm also getting about 5ish hours on a charge. And, when I recharge at the office with the usb cord, it's a "trickle charge" that's so slow it's ridiculous.
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you definitely want to return this thing.
Don't know about you...but I let my phone die twice then fully charged it but my battery life is amazing
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Yeah, I've been quite impressed with my battery life on this thing. I made it from 6:30am spent about 2 hours tweaking it and setting it up, then messed around with it through the day. By supper time I plugged it in and it was at 63%.
I don't have the phone, but right off the bat i'd say it was whatever was causing your mediaserver to go nuts. Either some media app, YouTube, gallery etc, wouldn't say its a faulty unit, just mediaserver gone rogue
And damn i want this phone...
Looks like a widget or live wallpaper is going crazy
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Well, a little update to this thread, i've disabled every different kind of syncing possible and i've been able to pretty much double my battery life from before, which is a lot better but i still wouldn't consider this to be good battery life.
I've been reading many posts regarding battery life, and it seems like there is some issue within the software that prevents the phone from going into deep sleep which is causing the lack luster battery life. This issue is on both the optimus g and the nexus 4, so i hope the devs may look into this issue when they are building custom roms for these two devices!
waaw Optimus G
I just got my optimus yesterday and had a full charge this morning. Been using it for almost 12 hours pretty steady. Have 16% battery left. I would say my battery is pretty amazing.
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Get a replacement that's what I did with my first one. I was getting 6-7 hours with light use.
Got a replacements and was able to get 19_14 hours battery.
Also today I left my cell at home and it was unplugged at 100% after 9 hours I came home and saw it at 95%.
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You definitely seem to have some weird issue's. My Optimus is great for battery life. My previous phone was an Xperia Arc and this has significantly better battery life without even running it in "eco mode". The only time I have noticed less then stellar battery life was when I had some app's running in the back ground that would keep refreshing/updating which kill's the battery.
Androids usage readings are inaccurate. Please consult this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
From what the picture shows I would guess its your 4G connection. A Hardware fault is improbable. And forget these things like "eco mode". Even if they underclock your cpu it won't give you a real benefit,
I've had great battery life on mine. Even when I've been geeking out on the device for several hours during the day.
Perhaps you are on the cusp of LTE coverage? If so, then the radio can kill your battery while looking for a signal.
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DraginMagik said:
I've had great battery life on mine. Even when I've been geeking out on the device for several hours during the day.
Perhaps you are on the cusp of LTE coverage? If so, then the radio can kill your battery while looking for a signal.
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I also have amazing battery life IMO, coming from a Galaxy S. I have no LTE in this area so am using only HSPA. Using the phone with casual use, I can easily go a full 24 hours on a charge. With very very heavy use I can go from 8 am till around 11 PM. I am very happy with the battery life overall. I'm running on "eco mode" FWIW.
I'm not complaining about battery life bit I just fond this strange how with nothing running my phone went from 20% to dead that fast. Phone was locked and in my pocket. Anyone have any ideas? It's also not the first time this has happened either just the first time I thought to get a screen shot of battery usage right after
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Now my phone is dying at random :/ it does it from 50%, 30% etc. Any suggestions (i.e. battery calibration, full factory reset) or should I make it stock again and get a replacement?
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I've found battery level to be unreliable at low levels. Even rebooting the phone when low will often yield varied results
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I know one day I will get the 14% notification and be good for like 45 minutes. Then another I'll get it and then bam phones dead
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Batteries are gauged by how much voltage they are pushing in most tests. Though from my hobbies of electric rc cars, I've learned that batteries can change their voltages simply from a temperature change. While these changes may not be significant, they do represent differences and used to play a big part in my fifteen minutes charge cycles. It's harder to receive a positive rating in a cell that is low on power than it is with one on max charge. So if I'm down to twenty percent or so, I use my phone very sparingly. Has been pretty trustworthy for me over the years.
Either way, suspicious battery drain is usually a rogue application sitting there eating resources as the phones we use do seem to monitor battery life pretty good compared to the old voltage meter methods.
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You have anything auto syncing? I know I use the nfl mobile app and that can put s drain on ny battery life.
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I found the htc-Facebook app drains funny on the battery. When I loaded bonestock, then loaded Facebook from the play store, it helped my battery. I think it's the way the htc-Facebook interacts with blinkfeed.
Could be completely of base, but I know the htc loaded Facebook is slightly different.
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charge it to 100 then bring it to down to 0. then back to 100 and youll probably be fine
mkeefner said:
I'm not complaining about battery life bit I just fond this strange how with nothing running my phone went from 20% to dead that fast. Phone was locked and in my pocket. Anyone have any ideas? It's also not the first time this has happened either just the first time I thought to get a screen shot of battery usage right after
**Update**
Now my phone is dying at random :/ it does it from 50%, 30% etc. Any suggestions (i.e. battery calibration, full factory reset) or should I make it stock again and get a replacement?
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I assume you had a good signal everywhere you went? Nothing drains a battery faster than being in an area where there is very low or no signal. It constantly tries to connect and it will KILL your levels very fast. I see this quite a bit in my work place. Employees with Sprint and many times AT&T will complain about their battery dying at work only to find out the phone was constantly searching for a signal.
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I assume you had a good signal everywhere you went? Nothing drains a battery faster than being in an area where there is very low or no signal. It constantly tries to connect and it will KILL your levels very fast. I see this quite a bit in my work place. Employees with Sprint and many times AT&T will complain about their battery dying at work only to find out the phone was constantly searching for a signal.
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You know, I totally forgot about that. I used to have that issue with Sprint myself. Killing the data would eliminate TONS of battery usage when I was at work. Now that I'm on Verizon, there's never much problem. But he's completely right. If you're not getting a quality signal your phone may be searching and that can be an all day thing which just eats a battery alive.
I am in a near perfect signal. I'm pretty sure its has nothing to do with coverage. What's strange to me is the phone immediately dies. It will be at 50% and then the screen goes black and won't come back on. Once I plug it in the phone finally comes back on and is at zero.
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Exchange it. My first One had weird reboot issues. It might a bad phone.
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And another. Phone was right around 50% and then bam off
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And another. Phone was right around 50% and then bam off
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The battery is obviously defective. You need to get a replacement.
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Alright. Time to start the relock process :/
Thanks for the help everyone
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charge it to 100 then bring it to down to 0. then back to 100 and youll probably be fine
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That's bad juju for the type of batteries we have.
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That's bad juju for the type of batteries we have.
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really? just once to recalibrate it? I only had to do it once with my S3 but it worked after that.
got a read that could give me some info? my bad ive done it in the past
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That's bad juju for the type of batteries we have.
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I'd have to search around, but taking these batteries all the way down actually reduces their effective life.
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Basically, the more you drain the power before charging, the less charge cycles the battery will have. Someone who charges at 75% compared to someone who charges at 25% will have more cycles over the life of the battery. I can't remember the exact numbers, but there's been plenty of studies on the issue. And if I'm correct charging at those numbers, the 75% will have more than twice the charge cycles over the life of the battery. The biggest battery killers though are actually higher amperage charges. One study showed more than five times the life cycle at 3.7v per cell compared to 4.3v. And the charging required to power the higher voltages actually cause more damage over time than the extra mah output is worth. The HTC one has a decent setup and the stock charger doesn't over feed the cells. But in not sure if it will make it to the 700 charge cycle that a two year contract may leave a user with.
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