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Battery life? and other possible things

I was thinking about switching to the GN from my atrix once the ROM development picks up so I have a little bit more of a choice, but I was wondering right now how battery life is. How long does the battery last for and how heavily do you use it? Also it might be helpful if you post any gripes about the phone too. I've heard it has a yellowish tint, but people said that about the atrix as well and I never saw it.
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whatsaqazza said:
I was thinking about switching to the GN from my atrix once the ROM development picks up so I have a little bit more of a choice, but I was wondering right now how battery life is. How long does the battery last for and how heavily do you use it? Also it might be helpful if you post any gripes about the phone too. I've heard it has a yellowish tint, but people said that about the atrix as well and I never saw it.
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I dont have the nexus yet, but dont expect atrix battery life. Thats for damn sure. I just hope it can make it through a whole day, though realistically ill prolly be charging at the end of my work day on my way home from work and i can live with that. I just the sound chip is on par with the wolfson on the atrix. I didnt realize how good it was til i did some comparisons last night.
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So far I've been getting around 20 hours I think, with moderate use.

whatsaqazza said:
I was thinking about switching to the GN from my atrix once the ROM development picks up so I have a little bit more of a choice, but I was wondering right now how battery life is. How long does the battery last for and how heavily do you use it? Also it might be helpful if you post any gripes about the phone too. I've heard it has a yellowish tint, but people said that about the atrix as well and I never saw it.
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There are a few threads on battery life already.

Depends entirely on the usage.
With relatively light usage including some browsing and some media playback + twitter/facebook/email/tweetdeck sync I got this after 1 day:
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If you use high brightness levels and lots of screen time you can expect a lot less.

martonikaj said:
There are a few threads on battery life already.
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Sorry for making a new thread, I was in a hurry and didn't want to forget to ask.
But does anyone have anything bad to say about the phone? Besides quadrant being low, I don't care about that.
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[Q] Battery issue?

Here's a screenie from my battery screen, I know the battery is a common problem, but when I see shots from others battery screen their screen and OS percentages seem much lower. My screens set at about 20-30%. Just wondering if I'm doing something wrong, or any suggested apps/roms you have. Rooted CDMA.
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Te longer you have the screen ON and are using the device then the more power it uses over a period of time

Tap on the screen % to see your screen on time. This device currently sucks a lot of power through the high pixel display. You can switch to manually adjusting seen brightness to save some battery.

irb123 said:
Here's a screenie from my battery screen, I know the battery is a common problem, but when I see shots from others battery screen their screen and OS percentages seem much lower. My screens set at about 20-30%. Just wondering if I'm doing something wrong, or any suggested apps/roms you have. Rooted CDMA.
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Looks fine to me. My android os is usually around 15% or so depending on how much I use the phone and I get great battery life.
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@rbiter I am curious how long has your Galaxy Nexus been running before it turns off? I have gotten about 8.5-9 hours the one time i ran mine all the way down. That is with auto brightness on and lots of browsing and no games and some calls.
Frankly I have been disappointed with the battery performance so far. I love the phone of course, but just wished they would come out with replacement stock batteries so I can go as long
as i need, without having to swap out the backs etc.

@rbiter I am curious how long has your Galaxy Nexus been running before it turns off? I have gotten about 8.5-9 hours the one time i ran mine all the way down. That is with auto brightness on and lots of browsing and no games and some calls.
Frankly I have been disappointed with the battery performance so far. I love the phone of course, but just wished they would come out with replacement stock batteries so I can go as long
as i need, without having to swap out the backs etc.
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You could always just use the extended battery w/ the extended battery back cover. That cover works also fits pretty well with the stock battery.

Ics battery life is kinda poor

Is anyone else having poor battery life with there current ics roms? Just took it off the charger and about an hour later I'm at 86 percent
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Is this another April Fools joke?
They are LEAKS you're never gonna have the best battery life on a leak till the devs can get the source code for the OFFICIAL release.

blackdragon79 said:
Is anyone else having poor battery life with there current ics roms? Just took it off the charger and about an hour later I'm at 86 percent
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They are leaks after all but my battery life has been great make sure you check whats draining your battery i bought the better battery stats app since im going to be flashing a lot, also if u go to "settings" then "battery" check for " android os " its usually cpu usage tap on it and you will see you cpu awake time.

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Cmon Korey this was posted earlier
Your slippin
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iSaint said:
Cmon Korey this was posted earlier
Your slippin
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:'( I actually didn't see that thread til after this one haha

Korey_Nicholson said:
:'( I actually didn't see that thread til after this one haha
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Also speaking of battery life
I just bought this...
... from he Apple store
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Hmm running Calkulins v1.2, with light to medium use (never turning mobile data off, wifi on and off all day, moderate web use), I get between 3.5-5.5%/hr. Better than the CM7 alpha, not quite as good as First run of Venum's modified stock..
I've actually been impressed on how good the batt life is considering a Leak.
That being said, I know a kid that flashed Calkulins and consumes like 20%/hr... Every phone is different.

[Q] Galaxy Nexus LTE Battery Life

So I have the Incredible 2 and I get pretty damn good battery life. I am 90% sure I'm getting a Nexus in May, and I would like to know how good the battery life is. From what I've read AOKP with franco kernel and 4.0.4 radios gives good battery life. Can some of you guys post some screenies so I know what I'm getting into? Thanks.
P.S. I know there's a GSM battery life thread, which doesn't help me.

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Hey Friend!
Not able to post pics (new here) but I can tell you with normal use (occasional texting, website browsing, fb, email, and llama) and the normal battery I last from 7am to 6ish pm.
With the extended battery (same use, if not more) I can go from 7am to 11pm.
I've played with app background data restriction (to keep my gb cap) and after using it I found you can squeeze 2-4 more hours out of it if done correctly
Hope that helps!
Kev

There are enormous amounts of posts saying the lte nexus gets substantially worse battery life, about 2-2.5 hours of screen on time for the Verizon, and 4 hours screen time for the GSM version. But I don't own the lte just what's been posted.

SoooooooOoOoOOoooo many threads on this. People listing their usage and screenshots for dozens of pages.

Yeah there are so many threads about this we should have a "battery life" sub-forum lol. But to answer your question it sucks, around 2 hours screen on time.

This was today...
Sometimes it's better, but this is about average.
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Notice I still have %10 as well.

That's what I get on my Inc2 lol.
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What Rom and kernel?
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Coming from the original DInc, even undervolted with IncrediKernel, I find my GNex gets a bit better battery life and actually gets better signal (here in Boston anyway).

Battery calibration

I recently purchased a seidio 3800mah extended battery. Currently I'm only on the first few cycles and I found an app that is supposed to read the battery may but it is reporting it the same as stock. Do I need to calibrate the battery or do anything to get the phone to fully take use of the extra power currently the battery life feels about the same as stock. Thanks in advance for any advice you might have to offer.
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Battery calibration doesn't do anything. Well documented.

I also have this same battery and use Battery Monitor Widget Pro. While the app allows me to set up a custom battery, with a different capacity, the app has never been able to show a "estimated capacity" larger than 2048mAh. Rather disappointing considering that on my EVO 4G, while it never read the 3500mAh that it was supposed to be, it would reflect something closer. I think it was usually around 3300mAh. I never even bothered with the stock battery on this phone, and I have been in horrible reception areas whilst roaming the entire time I have had the phone. Should be going home in a couple weeks, if I can get the same 2 1/2 days out of it there then I won't worry any more.

Okay. So if there is no need for calibration that means I shouldn't need to do anything after the installation of the larger battery correct?
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So, if I understand you own the battery that I do? If so I'm going to take a screen shot of its life when its near empty, I would like to compare them if possible.
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This is the one I have:
BACY38SSGNLN-BK Seidio Innocell 3800 Extended Life Battery with NFC for Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Not sure what it is you want to compare? I will not be in a decent signal area until after the 18th. Once I get home, I can run a full charge/discharge cycle on it a take screenshots, until then i probably won't be of much help. I'm roaming 100% of the time with an average time without signal of 45% right now so I don't get good life out of it.
MHHubris said:
So, if I understand you own the battery that I do? If so I'm going to take a screen shot of its life when its near empty, I would like to compare them if possible.
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bbv203 said:
This is the one I have:
BACY38SSGNLN-BK Seidio Innocell 3800 Extended Life Battery with NFC for Samsung Galaxy Nexus
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