I got new GN and it is very good but one thing is ruin it and it is battery life example an hour ago I took phone from charger and it was 95 and kept it in my pocket for half an hour and just loses 3 % and then played scramble with friend 4 games and now battery is 77%.
Even my old galaxy s would use less than that
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i dont know if this will work, but test this and then let me know if it makes a difference (you'll need to spend a whole day testing this) not just an hour
go to settings -> developer options -> in the apps section at the bottom put a checkmark on "don't keep activities"
then do a comparison
one day with it with normal phone use, and one day without it with normal phone use
I will try it tomorrow
Can you take a look at this and compare it with yours cuz screen is consuming so much
Screen is on manual and lowest brightness and wireless is off and GPS off
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Pictures aren't showing up for me but the battery life is horrid on this thing. The screen is gigantic and beautiful its the trade off we all took
Edit they loaded. Looks like my usage more or less.
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why don't you go a few days and post your usage with normal full-day stats? You can't look at a couple of hours of usage and say it sucks. Also, why are you on EDGE? You're gonna burn more screen sitting waiting for things to load on EDGE than just using HSPA+.
But battery life is a well known "issue". The screen eats battery. Turn off live wallpapers and turn down brightness. Do all of your general battery saving things (turn off WiFi, BT, etc. when not in use) and you'll see battery life improve.
The most you can expect with "normal" (which is suggestive) usage is probably 18 hours total with 3.5hrs screen on. More than likely something like 13-15 hours.
What about custom roms is there any custom rom that has better battery
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What about custom roms is there any custom rom that has better battery
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Roms aren't going to affect battery life as much as kernel will. As far as kernels I love Franco kernel. I used to use faux with a good experience.
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Thanks a lot everyone will try every thing and see
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After trying everything I got a little better battery
I still got question does the official 2000 mah worth and how much more time approximately does it give ?
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After trying everything I got a little better battery
I still got question does the official 2000 mah worth and how much more time approximately does it give ?
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Well the 2100mAh battery is about 13% larger... so 13% more life.
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Well the 2100mAh battery is about 13% larger... so 13% more life.
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Is it official ?
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Is it official ?
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The battery? Yeah... They're sold from plenty of Korean eBay sellers. Official branded Samsung batteries.
And since you're on GSM, its 2000mAh (instead of stock 1750mAh). The Verizon one is 2100mAh (instead of stock 1850mAh). They are NOT compatible.
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Sure sure it's with light use, but just the fact that it can hit 6+ hours screen time after more than a day and a half... sits pretty well with me.
No games, 30% screen brightness, 74 mins of calls, quite a bit of texting & whatsapp, 30 odd mins browsing, wifi 100%, sync on, only 1 widget.
aokp, lean kernel, undervolted, K6, extended battery.
Loving this phone!!!
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Not bad at all! Especially considering 74min of phone calls.
NICE!!! Can't wait till my extended battery comes in.
Nice. I've had my extended battery for 2 days now and I am seriously impresses ed with it. It on my drive home I'm at 65% instead of 30%. I really think the extended battery should of come stock.
I got a similar 6 hour in airplane mode. I was watching a movie while roaming on vacation.
Verizon stock rom. stock battery.
Even stock SGN makes wonders with battery on Wi-Fi But still your stats are truly amazing
OP did charge the phone for a bit....like 3 times don't know for how long....but nonetheless amazing stats...
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OP did charge the phone for a bit....like 3 times don't know for how long....but nonetheless amazing stats...
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No, he didn't? Look closer on first screenshot. There is no sign of charging on those lines below the graph. Those places where graph line goes up are pretty normal and that doesn't mean device war charging.
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OP did charge the phone for a bit....like 3 times don't know for how long....but nonetheless amazing stats...
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There's no charging there.
Line is going up for a little, but that's normal and it often happens in my phone too.
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OP did charge the phone for a bit....like 3 times don't know for how long....but nonetheless amazing stats...
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Nah I didn't charge it at all, as the other guys pointed out. I remember my battery dropping to 4%, I then put down my phone and when I came back later on, it was reading 5%. I thought I was going crazy, but looking at the graph now I see it really did happen. It raised from 4% to 5% and stayed there for a bit before dropping to 4% again.
Anyway, I hope this wasn't a one off... it's not doing as well today with the same usage. We'll see...
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Not bad at all! Especially considering 74min of phone calls.
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Actually, the phone calls don't do much damage... You should be able to talk 11hours on this phone apparently...
I am very jealous. I am lucky to get 3-3.5 of web surfing.
With standard battery, you can get almost 11 hours screen on time (by doing nothing):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366878&highlight=max+battery
So, that's the limit
My experience with extended battery, 2000 mAH, GSM, I could get 4 and a half screen on time with 61 hours stand by time. For sure, it can go down to 6 hours or more screen on time if I down the standby time. All with stock ROM, stok kernel, un-locked
It is not difficult to achieve that knowing the limit, all depends on how you set it up and how do you use your phone.
Is this good battery life? Just updated to 4.04 GSM galaxy from Google play
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A single screen shot shows us absolutely NOTHING about battery life.
Your battery is also almost full...
Use the phone a full day 100% to 5%, then screenshot your overview, graph, screen on, awake, and signal times. THEN we'll be able to tell.
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A single screen shot shows us absolutely NOTHING about battery life.
Your battery is also almost full...
Use the phone a full day 100% to 5%, then screenshot your overview, graph, screen on, awake, and signal times. THEN we'll be able to tell.
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sorry i missed the first pic my question is i am 82% after 1 hour of screen time with heavy use that means i am getting 5 hour on screen time if that so its very good.
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sorry i missed the first pic my question is i am 82% after 1 hour of screen time with heavy use that means i am getting 5 hour on screen time if that so its very good.
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My first day was like this after charging it for the first time when immediately opened it. I found my brightness to be all the way up by default and set it to auto, substantially improving my battery life.
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sorry i missed the first pic my question is i am 82% after 1 hour of screen time with heavy use that means i am getting 5 hour on screen time if that so its very good.
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Still means absolutely nothing. Use it 100% to 5% and then report your usage.
I'm using liquidsmooth 1.3, just got this...is this on par or could I be doing better? Didn't browse the web much though, only lurked around xda cos I noticed chrome really sucks the juice
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battery life is definitely improved on 4.0.4 , i'm getting between 45min-1hr more screen ON time (mostly surfing and reading xda) than on 4.0.2
i use live wallpaper and autobrightness, wifi always ON, everything stock with no tweaks, stock 1750mAh battery
Can you also post the battery voltage when you almost depleted your battery?
It can let us to see if the battery is correctly calibrated to show the proper percentage value. I encountered up to 1 hour different in screen on time with a non calibrated GN.
To know your voltage, dial *#*#4636#*#* (*#*#info#*#*) (no need press call).
Go to battery info and see the battery voltage value.
The galaxy nexus will always get awful battery. I have never gotten over 2.5h screen time and.I have tried every rom, literally. I can't really get over 14h stanbdy either.
I can verify I seem to have better battery life after the 4.04 update.
I recently switched from AT&T to Sprint and have the Galaxy Nexus on both services.
My signal for Sprint is better than AT&T at my house and I just ran my first battery test to find that with 2 hours of screen time I got roughly 4 hours of battery life on the Sprint phone verses the AT&T phone which I could easily get at least a day out of it...
Is there really that huge of a difference between the AT&T version versus the Sprint version in regards to battery life?
If this is the case, and the battery life on the Sprint version is this bad, I don't know what to do because there's no way I can only go 4 hours without having to plug it in.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
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Yep pretty big difference.
LTE on the GN is a separate radio, so you have two radios running at once. Battery killer bigtime.
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Yep pretty big difference.
LTE on the GN is a separate radio, so you have two radios running at once. Battery killer bigtime.
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True but you can disable the LTE radio in advances network settings. That being said, there's still a huge difference. I can only get 3 hours screen on and thats only if I unplug at 100% and use my phone nonstop til it dies. Realistically I get 2 hours screen on a day.
I have the Verizon gnex and I get about 1.25 hours of screen time and at least 10-13 hours of life. Of course I can't live without having certain accounts syncing so I just had to suck it up and live with it. I tried many roms and different methods of trying to get more screen time and lasting the whole day... just not going to happen. Seeing that sprint is also CDMA, the likelihood of getting a impressive battery life is slim.
If you haven't yet, try rooting and putting a custom ROM. I'm running cm10 and I really like it.
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Sprint, stock OTA. 2100mah OEM battery free courtesy of Sprint.
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I need to get me one of those batteries! I guess I'll have to talk to Sprint tomorrow. Barely touched the phone today and didn't even last till the sun went down...
Thank you all for the input!
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I need to get me one of those batteries! I guess I'll have to talk to Sprint tomorrow. Barely touched the phone today and didn't even last till the sun went down...
Thank you all for the input!
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Ya just call their customer service. Theres a thread over at the accessories forum about it.
And if you turn off 4g while using at least half the battery on wifi, you might get 2 hr screen time. Thats my experience on big red
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This still makes me sad :/ Never gonna get over 3 hours of display time.
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Mine must be perfect then.
Hell, I'm lucky to get 2 hours in a charge
Yeah, the battery life for our phones is not the greatest, I've found a spare battery to be a must for longer days. I do get better battery life than what you're seeing though, an average of about 4 hours screen on per charge, with about 15-17 hours of standby using the standard 1750 mAh battery.
Getting 4 hours easy with SlimRom and Franco kernel
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Getting 4 hours easy with SlimRom and Franco kernel
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On Wi-Fi. Not 4G. And to the OP you should know better than to expect more over weak 4G. Its worst than 3G
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On Wi-Fi. Not 4G. And to the OP you should know better than to expect more over weak 4G. Its worst than 3G
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Yeah... it's crazy. It's the one hindrance of smartphones... 4G + 4hour + display time would be ideal. FCC should make a mandate about battery life... "Must exceed 5 hours with the display on full brightness with a low signal 4G"
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FCC should make a mandate about battery life... "Must exceed 5 hours with the display on full brightness with a low signal 4G"
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I'm not sure you understand what the FCC does... Vote with your wallet if you want a change, go buy a phone like the RAZR Maxx with a huge battery, complaining here won't do anything.
op, your signal strenght is very low. switch to 3g. gsm radios will always consume less power. we on maguro can get over 3h display, easy!
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op, your signal strenght is very low. switch to 3g. gsm radios will always consume less power. we on maguro can get over 3h display, easy!
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Yup, the GSM guys get much better battery life.
My VZN Gnex has less than 2 hours screen time with mixed LTE and wifi on a good signal. That said, I'm still going to complain no matter how many people say to switch to 3G. I believe consumers buy products because they should be good, not so they can make sacrifices after purchasing a product. As of yet, the VZN crowd doesn't have much of a choice for Nexus devices, so Gnex it is.
Make do with what ya got and don't let some battery life stop you from enjoying your phone. Just charge your phone if you get the opportunity and don't let it bother you.
Other phones are worse, some r better. No one says u can switch to a phone with better stats. I'm not complaining cuz I come from a droid charge where ubhad to tweak the crap out of it to get 2hrs of screen on time.
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my battery drain so fast in 1hour..
you gave us no information, no screenshots or anything. please provide before we can tell you anything.
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you gave us no information, no screenshots or anything. please provide before we can tell you anything.
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sorry for no information & no screenshots or anything...i never thought to take any screenshots.. i only open my mobile network..and its on for 24/7..when screen off yet the battery still drain so fast..
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sorry for no information & no screenshots or anything...i never thought to take any screenshots.. i only open my mobile network..and its on for 24/7..when screen off yet the battery still drain so fast..
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Post a Screenshot of your battery drain in the settings and give details about your setup. And what is fast in your opinion? 1% /hour?
Maybe you should buy the extended battery kit?
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my battery drain so fast in 1hour..
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try flashing different kernels and see which one suits u the best.every phone is different.u may also wanna underclock and undervolt. also change the rom may b if changing kernel doesnot work.ine suggestion.XenonHD rom with its stock kernel.
The stock battery is a joke at 1800 and the extended is 2100...I had both and both sucked although the 2100 was a lil better. I have the 3800 Seiko battery now and that will last me all day. Makes the phone thicker but its better then charging all day and worrying about what's killing your battery.
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Turn off features when not being used like data NFC GPS.
Also avoid auto task killers
How much does it drain in one hour? Battery drain depends on many factors. The mains ones would be what kernel and ROM you are running as well as what "features" you have turned on. For example I am running CM10.1 with the stock CM kernel and I usually get around 16-18 hours of battery life with 1.5-2 hours of screen time.. that is with all of the features (gps, NFC, etc.) turned OFF.
Refer to my post, partner
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The stock battery is a joke at 1800 and the extended is 2100...I had both and both sucked although the 2100 was a lil better. I have the 3800 Seiko battery now and that will last me all day. Makes the phone thicker but its better then charging all day and worrying about what's killing your battery.
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How on earth can you drain a 3800mAh battery in one day? Nonstop internet radio AND 3d gaming on full display brightness?
I am currently using PA rom with franco kernel. Normal day = roughly 13-15 hours ish.
By normal day I mean around 30 minutes of talk time, about 1 hour ish web browsing and like what, 30 minutes ish of youtube? Of course, sometimes I am free and end up playing games on it for couple hours lol, but the stock battery seems to be plenty enough to me.
My battery makes it about 15-17 hours,with about 1 hour gaming,1 hour browsing and talk time around 1,5 hours...Xylon + Purity Kernel!
It is what it is. This is Wi-Fi only on this charge:
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Turn data off when not using it. You can download a widget for that.
Keep screen brightness down low.
If rooted use setcpu and choose a screen off profile of 350mhz maximum - I find this a real benefit.