Best ROM for battery life - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

My phones is currently plugged into the car charger and has been for the past hour I've been using it. It's gone from 69% to 55% during that time and the only real thing using any juice according to the stats is the screen. This is unacceptable. I'm on an older version of gummynex but I have nothing tweaked as of right now. My screen on time is typically about 14 hours a day and as of now I have to be plugged in pretty much all day. If I could somehow get my phone to last 4 hours without a charge that'd be amazing. I don't think it's possible but maybe someone can help me. Please don't just tell me to search, I want to know every single step I can take please. Thanks in advance.
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14 hours a day of screen on time? WTF?
So I'm assuming you have an LTE Galaxy Nexus? Most car chargers will barely put out enough juice to charge the LTE device. You have to up to a higher quality charger.
No ROM is going to help you if you're literally keeping your phone's screen on 100% of the time. It doesn't matter at that point.

you can definitely get 4 hours with stock battery.
AOKP + Franco. Look around forums there are many threads on battery

zephiK said:
you can definitely get 4 hours with stock battery.
AOKP + Franco. Look around forums there are many threads on battery
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AOKP Milestone 3 + Franco's kernel are pretty good. But I can have around 3 hours on screen. Maybe it depends on how you use your GNex.

heo_con184 said:
AOKP Milestone 3 + Franco's kernel are pretty good. But I can have around 3 hours on screen. Maybe it depends on how you use your GNex.
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I get around 4-6, I have the extended GSM battery.
pro tip: It's also a good idea to keep your refresh intervals for various apps to a high amount or to a manual refresh

AOKP plus IMO+ Leantweaks
Great combo 5hrs on screen time. Great sleep as well.
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I bought a Motorola Car Charger off Amazon for 5bucks and I have verizon Galaxy nexus and it charges my phone even when im using 4g and GPS at the same time. Im also using GummyNex 7.6 rom. So it is possible to get it to charge while on in your car.

sang0ku999 said:
I bought a Motorola Car Charger off Amazon for 5bucks and I have verizon Galaxy nexus and it charges my phone even when im using 4g and GPS at the same time. Im also using GummyNex 7.6 rom. So it is possible to get it to charge while on in your car.
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Is it this one?
Motorola-Vehicle-Adapter-micro-USB-Charger on amazon
did it work with the galaxy nexus? I thought it had a different kinda micro usb.

sang0ku999 said:
I bought a Motorola Car Charger off Amazon for 5bucks and I have verizon Galaxy nexus and it charges my phone even when im using 4g and GPS at the same time. Im also using GummyNex 7.6 rom. So it is possible to get it to charge while on in your car.
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+1 I got this same one! Can play music and record a 1080p video for 10min while still being charged. Very nice buy
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Paul's ROM and Franco's kernel... Manhatten IC112 is pretty good ROM too.
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14hrs of onscreen time is pretty damn nuts!
You sure that's not a typo?
I probably average about 3-4 hrs a day in an average working business week...
Anyways, to answer your questions, from my personal experience ARDH 2.1.5 as well as Manhattan IC112 give me the best battery life.
ARHD probably just tops it.
Cheers

u guys have to read it twice, its 14 hours of screen time WITH the car charger plugged in

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When did your battery life start to get better?

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.
Below is a screenshot of my battery life.
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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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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.
Below is a screenshot of my battery life.
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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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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.
Below is a screenshot of my battery life.
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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.

[HOW TO] So I'm getting awesome battery life...

13 hours and only down to 60%. My calculations that's possibly up to 30 hours over a whole charge!
No extended battery, normal college student use. The big kicker is having wifi connected when possible, but even so I was also listening to spotify for awhile and texting. Currents was up there as well.
Here's what I have:
CM9 kang (1/5/2012)
Jdkernel 1.1.2
Use no-frills CPU to set governor to smartassv2 (no locking up on wake, always loved this governor)
That's it! Hope this works for you guys.
I have screenshots in my rootzwiki post, I don't feel like going through the process of downloading them from my phone and uploading them to another website and embedding them.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14480-how-to-so-im-getting-sick-battery-life/
Your screen on time is negligible.. not trying to be an ass but most GSM users can get battery like that the kicker is trying to get over 3.5 hours screen on time with the stock battery.. I can get over four on wifi but no more than 3.5 on cell usage.
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I have the LTE version, and know that spotify while I'm walking home is no slouch on battery usage, even of the phone screen's off. I do use desksms, so a lot of texting went on without the screen turning on.
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I know what you mean though.. LTE is a silent killer when it comes to Verizon phones.. your stats are much more impressive knowing you are on the Verizon version
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+1 .... screen on time is very low. I never understand with this battery threads since usage patterns vary from person to person. I burn my charge in 10 hrs on gsm model, but im happy since im using my phone around 80 % of time meaning screen on most of the time.
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joshnichols189 said:
Your screen on time is negligible.. not trying to be an ass but most GSM users can get battery like that the kicker is trying to get over 3.5 hours screen on time with the stock battery.. I can get over four on wifi but no more than 3.5 on cell usage.
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Funny, you say that. I got well over 4 hours twice on hspa+ data only. But then the congestion came back over the holidays and now I struggle to get over 3 at work. Damn, atnt and special treatment to iPhone users
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joshnichols189 said:
Your screen on time is negligible.. not trying to be an ass but most GSM users can get battery like that the kicker is trying to get over 3.5 hours screen on time with the stock battery.. I can get over four on wifi but no more than 3.5 on cell usage.
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Ya, i get about the same on my Verizon version. (LTE off of course). Between 3.5 and 4.
If the screen is off, I loose just under a % an hour.
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How much spotify did you listen to? It is under my impression that listening to music still keeps the phone awake, but yours is barely awake in your screenshot.
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Sigh..
Another thread spouting awesome battery life with **** for screen on time.
Until you are getting 3 hours of screen on time and still 50% battery life, stop having delusions that mods will improve your battery life by anything other than small %.
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Sigh..
Another thread spouting awesome battery life with **** for screen on time.
Until you are getting 3 hours of screen on time and still 50% battery life, stop having delusions that mods will improve your battery life by anything other than small %.
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Stop reading these threads if they bother you so much then.
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Also I noticed wifi was on for majority of the time. I always get better battery life on standby when wifi is connected but I don't have access to wifi when at work.
It could still be better. The Android OS should not be that high on the list, it is consuming CPU time and awake time.
Melhouse said:
It could still be better. The Android OS should not be that high on the list, it is consuming CPU time and awake time.
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My android OS is usually second or third on the list and my battery life is awesome and standby even better. Don't know what the big deal is with android OS. We need a blacked out rom to get screen percentage even lower.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
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My android OS is usually second or third on the list and my battery life is awesome and standby even better. Don't know what the big deal is with android OS. We need a blacked out rom to get screen percentage even lower.
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That's already here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1381238
Not a ROM but a theme.
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That's already here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1381238
Not a ROM but a theme.
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I am running stock 4.0.2 and it is too early for me to try a theme. I am running very very stable right now. Thanks though.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
My battery life has improved significantly in the past week. I now average 16-22 hours between charges.
I'm using the extended battery, and I've been "conditioning" it by letting the battery run to 4% before charging it completely to 100%. My phone sees mild to heavy use (mostly podcasts with the screen off), always on LTE, never wifi.
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My battery life has improved significantly in the past week. I now average 16-22 hours between charges.
I'm using the extended battery, and I've been "conditioning" it by letting the battery run to 4% before charging it completely to 100%. My phone sees mild to heavy use (mostly podcasts with the screen off), always on LTE, never wifi.
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I wouldn't run it down that far often. I personally try not to let mine run down past 20%. It hurts your charging cycles. Some people recommend higher. It is true though keeping charged and not at 95%+ helps longevity of battery.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
Yikes, is that true? I went to 4% because I thought it was healthy.
Thanks for the heads up.
PolyOlefin said:
Yikes, is that true? I went to 4% because I thought it was healthy.
Thanks for the heads up.
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If you're calibrating or just end up in that situation, you're fine. I wouldn't do it all the time. Keeping the charge up keeps the longevity of the battery up.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
wonshikee said:
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Another thread spouting awesome battery life with **** for screen on time.
Until you are getting 3 hours of screen on time and still 50% battery life, stop having delusions that mods will improve your battery life by anything other than small %.
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Well, are you under the impression that one day some one is going to come out with an uber awesome mod that makes SAMOLED consume 50% less power? Because that would delusional.

Another battery life thread...

So I've done my searching around. I really want a definite answer. My HTC Droid Incredible has ****ty battery life, to put it nicely. I can manage AT MOST 2 hours screen on time with no wifi (this is because I have unlimited data with Verizon). Battery life is a big priority with me when it comes to phones.
For the LTE Galaxy Nexus, what's the most screen on time you can get with 4G? And how much longer can you get if you disable 4G?
Also, if you were a Droid Incredible owner, how do they compare?
The incredible was my previous phone and I actually thought the battery life was pretty decent. I can get between 2.5 - 3.5 hours of screen on time with my Nexus. I usually keep 4G disabled as I don't need a 20 meg connection to sync my Gmail. On 4G you will probable get the same screen on time as the Inc.
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The incredible was my previous phone and I actually thought the battery life was pretty decent. I can get between 2.5 - 3.5 hours of screen on time with my Nexus. I usually keep 4G disabled as I don't need a 20 meg connection to sync my Gmail. On 4G you will probable get the same screen on time as the Inc.
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Are you using the regular battery or extended?
I get at least 11 hours if battery a day with 3-4 hours of screen time on the stock battery. The incredible got horrible battery compared to this phone. I usually only turn on mobile data when i use it and I'm always using LTE.
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Smokeey said:
I get at least 11 hours if battery a day with 3-4 hours of screen time on the stock battery. The incredible got horrible battery compared to this phone. I usually only turn on mobile data when i use it and I'm always using LTE.
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That's a relief I'm eligible to upgrade tomorrow, can't wait to get this phone!
TeeRom said:
That's a relief I'm eligible to upgrade tomorrow, can't wait to get this phone!
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Good, when you first get it the battery is gonna suck, you're gonna wanna be using all the time, but once you get used to it you start doing battery saving stuff and it gets good.
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I'd say without much tweaking the usual benchmark is 3hours screen on time.
YMMV
TeeRom said:
So I've done my searching around. I really want a definite answer. My HTC Droid Incredible has ****ty battery life, to put it nicely. I can manage AT MOST 2 hours screen on time with no wifi (this is because I have unlimited data with Verizon). Battery life is a big priority with me when it comes to phones.
For the LTE Galaxy Nexus, what's the most screen on time you can get with 4G? And how much longer can you get if you disable 4G?
Also, if you were a Droid Incredible owner, how do they compare?
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I just upgraded from the incredible. It's much better than the stock incredible battery (which quite frankly was unusable)... not as good as the seido extended battery I used for most of the time I had my incredible (that battery was actually overkill.. when new I would get almost 3 days.. lol)
I have no problems making it through the day with moderate usage (which I was not able to do on the stock incredible battery)
its funny with the extended battery i get around 10 hours, maybe 11 and the original battery is giving me around 13-14 hours, 3G on both, don't know what is going on.
yesterday i got about 7 hrs screen on, I'm unemployed at the moment, and i was playing ceramic destroyer for 3/4 of the time the rest was web surfing i still had 15% left. I'm on gummy latest using lous v3 kernel. i didn't get a screenshot but i was impressed. was on 4g the whole time. i don't really use 3g so i can't comment on that aspect. my old phone was an incredible as well. i would say they're pretty close but I'm much happier with the nexus
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yesterday i got about 7 hrs screen on, I'm unemployed at the moment, and i was playing ceramic destroyer for 3/4 of the time the rest was web surfing i still had 15% left. I'm on gummy latest using lous v3 kernel. i didn't get a screenshot but i was impressed. was on 4g the whole time. i don't really use 3g so i can't comment on that aspect. my old phone was an incredible as well. i would say they're pretty close but I'm much happier with the nexus
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7 hours screen on...... jeez. That's amazing.
Yeah...if it sounds too good to be true...
My phone can burn 10-15% of battery juice an hour with heavy use. You could call that mostly screen on.
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7 hours screen on...... jeez. That's amazing.
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When i read my ebooks i can get 8 hours screen time. Black color, non cpu intensive, and after 1 hour its still at %90.
Theres a thread here where someone did screen tests, and they got 10 hours screen time on black, and 5 hours on white. So this phone is definitely capable.

GSM Galaxy Nexus screen on time?

I had a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and was very disappointed at the battery life. I was only getting about 3 hours of screen time with the 2100mah battery.
Now I'm using the T-Mobile $30 plan, so I'm looking for a GSM phone.
How many hours can the GSM Galaxy Nexus last? I heard 5-6, which sounds really good!
I've ran a search, but haven't really found what I needed.
Thanks!
Havent fooled around with wakelocks yet but getting about 2-3 hours on screen with AOKP M4 and Franco M1.
I'm on AOKP M4 and Franco r89 and am getting above 30 and a half hours battery life with the normal battery, not the extended ones. If you have much problems with the battery, try undervolting it a bit.
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I'm on AOKP M4 and Franco r89 and am getting above 30 and a half hours battery life with the normal battery, not the extended ones. If you have much problems with the battery, try undervolting it a bit.
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He's looking for display on time.
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guyhoang said:
I had a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and was very disappointed at the battery life. I was only getting about 3 hours of screen time with the 2100mah battery.
Now I'm using the T-Mobile $30 plan, so I'm looking for a GSM phone.
How many hours can the GSM Galaxy Nexus last? I heard 5-6, which sounds really good!
I've ran a search, but haven't really found what I needed.
Thanks!
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Its the same around 2-3 hours. I get about 3 hours on my LTE Nexus. GSM or LTE the screen is power hungry.
Its about 4 hours of screen time for the gsm version, sometimes higher. It is higher than the lte version for some reason.
I'm on stock 4.0.2 on my GSM model and I can get about 3-3.5 hours of screen on with a full charge, depending on what I'm doing of course. Total time is about 12-15 or so hours, depending.
I leave my brightness at 65% though. I could get more if I lowered that down.
I'm on stock 4.0.1, unrooted, locked. I get roughly 3.5 - 4 hrs of screen on time per charge (stock OEM battery).
Edit: I should add that I keep it at about 40% brightness.
I got 4.5hrs stock yakju 4.0.2 then moved to 4.0.3 AOKP M4 and franco M1 and get 2hrs so ibplan on going back to stock tonight.
I get around 4 1/2 hours running aokp with the stock kernel. Using auto brightness and no other adjustments.
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I get around 4 1/2 hours running aokp with the stock kernel. Using auto brightness and no other adjustments.
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I get around 2-3 hours with LTE on 24/7, push notifications, everything synced, and auto-brightness.
Thanks all! Im on my way to pick one up. 4.5 hours would be good.
With my stock 4.01 yakjuux galaxy nexus I get 2-3 hours screen on time although 3 hours is rare. I have my data on 24/7 and push Gmail on the whole day, screen brightness is at 20%. How are you guys managing 3-4 hours screen time?
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Thanks all! Im on my way to pick one up. 4.5 hours would be good.
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it's unlikely that you would get 4.5 h over the course of one day (or working day).
4.5-5h is achievable only on wifi and with very low idle time.
I'd say aim for 3.5h and wish for 4h
I couldn't understand how everyone was getting these ridiculous screen on and life battery times.
Then I saw how little you spend on cellular data connectivity. I crank out almost 1:30 screen on with about 8-9 hours, screen dimmed, gps off, auto sync off, LTE on. Now I don't feel as bad trying to underclothes every mv.
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anton2009 said:
I get around 2-3 hours with LTE on 24/7, push notifications, everything synced, and auto-brightness.
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Thread is about GSM...
ArmanUV said:
it's unlikely that you would get 4.5 h over the course of one day (or working day).
4.5-5h is achievable only on wifi and with very low idle time.
I'd say aim for 3.5h and wish for 4h
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Pretty much. Without tweaking and Very light usage you shouldn't expect much over 3 hours.
nosit1 said:
I couldn't understand how everyone was getting these ridiculous screen on and life battery times.
Then I saw how little you spend on cellular data connectivity. I crank out almost 1:30 screen on with about 8-9 hours, screen dimmed, gps off, auto sync off, LTE on. Now I don't feel as bad trying to underclothes every mv.
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Again, thread is about GSM. But what you have to realize is everyone's usage pattern is different. "Light" and "heavy" usage mean completely different things to different people.
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martonikaj said:
Again, thread is about GSM. But what you have to realize is everyone's usage pattern is different. "Light" and "heavy" usage mean completely different things to different people.
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I think the take home of my post was more the fact that most use wifi at some point in the day.
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2-4h screen time means what? from 100% charged to 0% charged?
ArmanUV said:
it's unlikely that you would get 4.5 h over the course of one day (or working day).
4.5-5h is achievable only on wifi and with very low idle time.
I'd say aim for 3.5h and wish for 4h
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After owning both the GSM and LTE models, I tend to agree with this.
when reading my google books i get significantly higher screen time, around 7 hours screen time. Black screen with low cpu usage gives excellent results.

Battery of the Gnex

So I bought a gnex a while ago, and the battery doesn't last very long.
Since I'm new in all of this I don't really know if it's normal and if it is what can I do to make it last longer?
My phone lasts about 10 hours with 3G and less than 2 hours of screen on..
It's the Google one which comes with 1750mAh standard battery. I thought of buying 2100 one but it seems very expensive unlike the bigger ones..
It costs around 35$ on ebay..
Also, can I use the Verizon or sprint batteries? From what I understand the official Samsung extended battery for Google nexus is 2000mAh? Why isn't it 2100 like Verizon?
So.. What should I do?
Thank you for your answer in advance!
My battery sucks as well I'm blaming the 4.2.1 update for making a bad battery even worse. Also the Verizon nexus is LTE enabled so its battery is even worse hence the bigger extended battery and even at stock the Verizon version has a bigger battery, the Verizon extended battery is not compatible with your Gsm nexus.
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I can get between 10-17 hours on my verizon nexus with always about 2hrs screen on time. I think that is plenty, but im always near a chrager. I came from a tbolt, so this nexus seems like it lasts a week.
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Yesterday it died on me for the first time..
I unplugged it at around 7am and it died at around 5pm.
I want my phone to stay running even if I don't have access to a charter at the moment.
How much more battery time would the 2000mAh extended battery give me? Is it worth the 35$?
If not, what should I do?
User217 said:
Yesterday it died on me for the first time..
I unplugged it at around 7am and it died at around 5pm.
I want my phone to stay running even if I don't have access to a charter at the moment.
How much more battery time would the 2000mAh extended battery give me? Is it worth the 35$?
If not, what should I do?
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Get a different phone. My battery life has sucked on 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2.
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User217 said:
Yesterday it died on me for the first time..
I unplugged it at around 7am and it died at around 5pm.
I want my phone to stay running even if I don't have access to a charter at the moment.
How much more battery time would the 2000mAh extended battery give me? Is it worth the 35$?
If not, what should I do?
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I ha e a sprint gnex with a Verizon extended battery... I think its 2200. I get about 1 1/2 hours screen on time with cm10. My galaxy note 2 should be here Friday... I can't wait for 6 hours of screen on time.
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I don't want a different phone right now.
Aren't there any options that won't be cost me 400+$?
Places to buy and order cheap and qualitative battery extension or extra batteries with wall charger or charging case or power bank?
roms kernels apps themes usage reception wakelocks wifi 2g/3g are many of the factors for battery life, why don't u try one of those avenues or all and see what u get or upload some screen shots and use better battery stats and cpuspy to narrow it down
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I'm using juice defender ultimate, original rom and kernel.
3G always on besides when jdu closes it.
I will upload screen shots when I get home.
DualSportDad said:
I ha e a sprint gnex with a Verizon extended battery... I think its 2200. I get about 1 1/2 hours screen on time with cm10. My galaxy note 2 should be here Friday... I can't wait for 6 hours of screen on time.
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I have the one from Samsung (2100 mAh i guess) and it's doing great...i mean about 3.5 hrs screen time and 1 hr talk time. I must say i don't listen to music, only youtube videos, games ans browsing.
I have CM 10.1, 4.2.1...so far so good.
Cheers and happy holydays !!!
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Forknout the money and get a note 2. The battery life is unmatched.
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b1337 said:
roms kernels apps themes usage reception wakelocks wifi 2g/3g are many of the factors for battery life, why don't u try one of those avenues or all and see what u get or upload some screen shots and use better battery stats and cpuspy to narrow it down
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try changing kernel first (Franco's is one of the best...)
The battery is the weakest point of this smartphone: yesterday I used it only in 3g with all accounts sync on and it has drained 46% with only 1 hour and 5 screen on.I know that 3g sucks a lot, but LOL xD
bigcignus said:
try changing kernel first (Franco's is one of the best...)
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Plus : Lowering brightness , disable Bluetooth + GPS +WiFi if not used , Uninstalling useless apps if not needed and using the phone in 2G has always the biggest impact in improving battery lifetime
tarekh020 said:
Plus : Lowering brightness , disable Bluetooth + GPS +WiFi if not used , Uninstalling useless apps if not needed and using the phone in 2G has always the biggest impact in improving battery lifetime
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Using the phone in 2g? Poor guy
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I bought a 1980mah battery for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus on eBay and just keep it with me in my wallet if my phone ever dies. Never had to go through two whole batteries in a single day.
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Using the phone in 2g? Poor guy
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Its good to switch to 2g when you turn off the screen so you can still receive emails and such..
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3g is actually better with battery then 2g, but if there are both available with good coverage. 3G switching down and up is worse, but that's because of switching, not the 3g itself.
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tarekh020 said:
Plus : Lowering brightness , disable Bluetooth + GPS +WiFi if not used , Uninstalling useless apps if not needed and using the phone in 2G has always the biggest impact in improving battery lifetime
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Ok, so we can all buy an old Nokia 3310 xDxD
runhappy said:
I bought a 1980mah battery for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus on eBay and just keep it with me in my wallet if my phone ever dies. Never had to go through two whole batteries in a single day.
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If I use at 100%, I can use easily 2 batteries xD
is it normal ?
50% battery drain in 1hour47mins(Screen ON completely), with BT n WIFI turned off, least brighntess, no background apps, background data off. Running on stock 4.2.1 rooted and hardly any apps installed. Used only whatsapp and was on xda via opera mini.
The battery sucks :/ Maybe its time to switch over to note2.
Waiting for ubuntu, if it can do anything to the battery life. Or, i would switch.

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