Coming from AT&T and a carrier branded GSII (i777) followed by an international note (N7000), I'm evaluating Verizon and the galaxy note. If the service is better, I'll jump from AT&T... otherwise, I'll go back to AT&T and my note.
However, this isn't about the service - but about the phone. I understand that some of this stuff might be CDMA/LTE specific (hence the reason for the title)
The biggest thing I see as an issue with this phone (so far) is the (stock) battery life. It completely sucks. 6% battery drain an hour with the screen on only 3 minutes? That's beyond horrible. I don't have anything loaded on here thats a "known" wakelock issue (such as skype, facebook, etc.) As a matter of fact, it's configured (mostly) the same as my GSII and GNote, so it's easy to notice the horrid battery drain. In the same 1 hour period, syncing the exact same exchange server (push email) account, but with 10 minutes display on time, the gnote drained 1%. (I realize that the note has a much larger battery [and display to drain it], but it's useful to compare anyway.)
If I actually use the gnote (display on), the battery drops much faster. With actual light usage (such as for reading email), I get about 6-8 hours of battery life total. If I use it heavily, I'll be recharging so often I might as well hard wire to a wall outlet.
I'm using the AOKP (m4) firmware - first with the kernel it comes with, and I installed the latest STABLE "lean" kernel last night hoping to resolve the battery drain (so far, it's not.)
BetterBatteryStats isn't showing me anything unusual other than a "modem_usb_suspend_block" kernel wakelock (5 min of 1 hour)
Is this what verizon galaxy nexus users typically deal with? Is the battery life on this device really THAT horrible?
Did I miss a "FABQ" (frequently asked battery questions) thread somewhere? Surely the "google experience" isn't only a quickie...
Thanks
Gary
Battery drain while off should be between 1-5% per hour (From what I have noticed). Try enabling AOKP battery saver which will drop from 4G to 3G while the screen is off which should help with the screen off battery.
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disable LTE, and you'll watch your battery life double.
Or just return the Verizon version and buy the GSM version instead.
miketoasty said:
Battery drain while off should be between 1-5% per hour (From what I have noticed). Try enabling AOKP battery saver which will drop from 4G to 3G while the screen is off which should help with the screen off battery.
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Drain should be 1-5/hr with 4G enabled or disabled?
I'm kind of in shock at the battery drain on this thing. I'm pretty fluent with android devices, and I generally avoid any of the normal battery blackholes (such as social networking, skype, etc) I also know how to PROPERLY configure exchange so it doesn't drain battery/data. (make sure the IP number of the exchange server doesn't change when switching to/from internal wifi networks.)
However, this is my first experience with using a verizon android device - and first with LTE. My SGSII (GSM) could get 2days on a charge (2%/hr was normal when not on wifi.) and the Note (international version) could go for 3 days on a single charge.
With the LTE GNexus, 6%/hr drain with nearly no usage would give me about 15 hours of usage before 10% turn off. If I actually want to read my email messages or make a phone call (it IS a phone, you know), I might drop to less than 12 hours. I can't imagine that this is normal - or that google, verizon and samsung would endorse something like that.
(Okay, maybe samsung would... they seem to be going downhill lately.)
Surely I'm doing something wrong and the phone doesn't suck this badly. (I really hope I'm doing something wrong, as it will completely destroy my opinion of google if a "google experience" is a phone that lasts only 15 hours/charge when just left in standby.)
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Gary
the problem with battery life is LTE... its a double edged sword: you get insane speeds at the cost of battery life. every CDMA phone takes a huge hit when LTE is enabled which i think is the reason that apple has been reluctant to release an LTE enabled iphone thus far until the tech matures. im using a GSM gnex (i9250) and i can use the phone all day and still be over 30-40% at the end of the day
even with franco kernel 121 on my miui gn, i still need to charge 3 times a day... this is android.
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even with franco kernel 121 on my miui gn, i still need to charge 3 times a day... this is android.
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its not android, its LTE.. as you can see both of you are on verizon
my older HTC sensation actually got over 2 days of constant use easily (dual core snapdragon running ICS) since it was GSM.. my galaxy nexus while not getting 2 days, easily gets 1 day no problem on GSM
AFAIK there is no LTE iphone which is why you see on average the insane battery life on those devices
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the problem with battery life is LTE... its a double edged sword: you get insane speeds at the cost of battery life. every CDMA phone takes a huge hit when LTE is enabled which i think is the reason that apple has been reluctant to release an LTE enabled iphone thus far until the tech matures. im using a GSM gnex (i9250) and i can use the phone all day and still be over 30-40% at the end of the day
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I've made the change mentioned in another reply (turn off LTE when the screen turns off.) I'm charging the phone back up and will see how things go then.
With both wifi and LTE disabled, I won't be happy with drain higher than 2%/hr (assuming the screen stays off and I don't get a massive influx of email.)
For the person who said that's just the android is, you are VERY wrong. As I mentioned earlier, I'd get 2 days on a AT&T branded galaxy SII (i777) and I get 3 days on my galaxy note (international version.)
I don't know, it has to be something with your apps or your signal. I mean, 6% is fairly high in my opinion, even on LTE. I never turn LTE off unless I'm out of town (which is hardly ever). I usually get anywhere between a total of 15-20 hours of total time, and 2-3 hours of screen-on time. This is with auto brightness enabled, no GPS, no BT, just LTE. All my notifications are push as well. Make sure your signal is always a light yellow-green color (in the battery settings menu), otherwise that will definitely be the big battery eater. May I suggest trying different radios, or flashing a 4.0.4 rom? I think the new radios/4.0.4 roms have substantially increased my total and screen on time.
garyd9 said:
I've made the change mentioned in another reply (turn off LTE when the screen turns off.) I'm charging the phone back up and will see how things go then.
With both wifi and LTE disabled, I won't be happy with drain higher than 2%/hr (assuming the screen stays off and I don't get a massive influx of email.)
For the person who said that's just the android is, you are VERY wrong. As I mentioned earlier, I'd get 2 days on a AT&T branded galaxy SII (i777) and I get 3 days on my galaxy note (international version.)
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Definitely not just Android as my girlfriend on her Droid 2 with 2.3.3 easily get's a days use out of her phone with tons of Facebook/Twitter/Etc (On Stock Motoblur/Rooted).
Llama
If you use llama to configure auto actions for areas and screen off time, I get a whole day out the the lte version. Like 6am to 1 am.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5rZWJhYi5MbGFtYSJd
I have LTE Galaxy nexus and I get 1 day 20 hours of battery life normally. About 3-4 hours of screen on time. I am using AOKP Beta 31 and have all syncing off. I have a weather widget that syncs every 2 hrs.
He I use JuiceDefender ...
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theherodrownd said:
I have LTE Galaxy nexus and I get 1 day 20 hours of battery life normally. About 3-4 hours of screen on time. I am using AOKP Beta 31 and have all syncing off. I have a weather widget that syncs every 2 hrs.
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What size battery?
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theherodrownd said:
I have LTE Galaxy nexus and I get 1 day 20 hours of battery life normally. About 3-4 hours of screen on time. I am using AOKP Beta 31 and have all syncing off. I have a weather widget that syncs every 2 hrs.
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Which kernel are you using? Which radios?
I just updated my radios to use the 4.0.2 for CDMA and 4.0.3 for LTE. Not sure if that will help battery life, but my LTE d/l speeds jumped from about 6mbps to 24mbps (as reported by the speedtest.net app.)
Gary
kbohinski said:
If you use llama to configure auto actions for areas and screen off time, I get a whole day out the the lte version. Like 6am to 1 am.
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I'm very familiar with llama, but I hope you realize that your message is kind of useless with more information. Perhaps if you tell us what types of auto actions you are configuring...
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Gary
garyd9 said:
Which kernel are you using? Which radios?
I just updated my radios to use the 4.0.2 for CDMA and 4.0.3 for LTE. Not sure if that will help battery life, but my LTE d/l speeds jumped from about 6mbps to 24mbps (as reported by the speedtest.net app.)
Gary
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Imoseyon lean kernel 3.1.0 (I have used JameBond Kernel with similar results). I have the stock 4.0.4 radios (I515 V.FA02). Stock battery.
I also keep my screen brightness pretty low.
anton2009 said:
I don't know, it has to be something with your apps or your signal. I mean, 6% is fairly high in my opinion, even on LTE. I never turn LTE off unless I'm out of town (which is hardly ever). I usually get anywhere between a total of 15-20 hours of total time, and 2-3 hours of screen-on time. This is with auto brightness enabled, no GPS, no BT, just LTE. All my notifications are push as well. Make sure your signal is always a light yellow-green color (in the battery settings menu), otherwise that will definitely be the big battery eater. May I suggest trying different radios, or flashing a 4.0.4 rom? I think the new radios/4.0.4 roms have substantially increased my total and screen on time.
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No reason to turn your GPS off. It only gets used when needed so will not hurt you battery.
On lte with everything else disabled, sync disabled, cm9 with lean kernel 3.1.0exp1, I get just about a day of usage with about 2 .5 hours of screen life, I think it is possible o get decent battery life on lte.
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removing the "my verizon" app (and the associated "data usage" widget) seems to have helped the battery a bit. Now at about 4%/hr on LTE with BT/Wifi off, GPS on (but unused.) Perhaps changing the LTE radio to 4.0.3 also helped. Using that same "lean" kernel that seems to be popular in this thread... whatever he has flagged as "stable" as of this post.
The only thing that runs beyond exchange syncing is beautiful widgets (home screen with hourly weather and time.) No other widgets, weather turned off in AOKP.
Take care
Gary
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Hi,
I just got my Galaxy Nexus, flashed with AOKP build 18 and i gotta say that the battery life is unacceptable. It drops 10% in less then 1h while the phone is sitting there doing nothing. Wifi, bluetooth, location services, GPS are off. All background apps closed.
It lasts about half the time my iPhone 4 does and it is a year and half old.
I see some people showing examples of how their battery last for more then 20h but all these are BS tests as they leave the phone on standby all day or have some very light usage.
Is there a real fix for this? Am i forced to drop another 50$ and buy Samsung's 2100mh extended battery?
btw i tried setCPU also to lower CPU to minimum when in standby but doesnt do much. I want a solution that will enable me to use my phone, not something that makes it last 40h in standby and then kills it in 2h when i use it.
please help!
So everyone that posts four hours of screen on time is bullshitting? Did you know the first 10% isn't even that accurate? If you're on Verizon turn off LTE. If you're on GSM and you don't get three hours of screen on time you have an app that is killing your battery. It is as simple as that.
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Try toggling Bluetooth on and then off, then grab CpuSpy from the market and check out if the CPU is pegged at a certain speed.
Some builds of ALL the custom ROMs have had issues where the phone wont sleep correctly, high %-age of Android System process, etc.
I disagree that its silly to talk about idle time on battery, because idle time is the closest we can all get to apples to apples comparison. We all USE our phones differently, the closest we come to using them the same is when they are just sitting there idle (not quite exact because some people sync data, some people only have 3G, etc, but a lot closer than person A playing games for 3 hours at a clip vs person B browsing for 3 hours)
I *still* havent seen anyone come up with a template like setup to report battery life. Like you said it does me no good to know someone dropped 3% "overnight" without knowing how long "overnight" is, if they had 3g/4g/Wifi enabled or even disabled completely, sync on/off, etc.
Personally, Ive seen 1.5%/hr drop with my phone idle. Running AOKP b19, LeanKernel, interactivex governor, undervolted (-75 mA at each level from 180 mhz to 1200 mhz), 4G on, BT on, GPS on, sync on (1 gmail account).
I imagine with all that stuff running 1.5%/hr isnt half bad. Screen on time isnt incredible but its not bad, but again my screen on activities can (and probably will) be different than your screen on activities so take that with several grains of salt.
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So everyone that posts four hours of screen on time is bullshitting? Did you know the first 10% isn't even that accurate? If you're on Verizon turn off LTE. If you're on GSM and you don't get three hours of screen on time you have an app that is killing your battery. It is as simple as that.
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It's not the first 10%, it's all the time.. it drops for about 10% or more every hour. Less then 3h of screen time.
I'll give cpuspy a try and see if some app is killing my battery.
I used AOKP rom because most of the people in the thread were saying that rom fixed their battery issue but for me it made no difference.
angeluszero said:
It's not the first 10%, it's all the time.. it drops for about 10% or more every hour. Less then 3h of screen time.
I'll give cpuspy a try and see if some app is killing my battery.
I used AOKP rom because most of the people in the thread were saying that rom fixed their battery issue but for me it made no difference.
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Yea somethings not right. Off charge at 8am and its 4:30pm now. Got 61% left at time of this writing and been using it quite alot. Typically have about 75% left about this time.
I just use an AOKP like yourself and a custom kernel. I'm on the phone like every 15min reading emails, SMS, word feud, twitter news, Facebook, Gmail.
LTE EX Galaxy Nexus - AOSP KANG
Asus Transformer - 3.2.1 OC/UV
It's actually 2000 mAh not 2100 mAh.
You can use a custom kernel such as Franco Kernel. New version came out today and includes more battery improvements (according to changelog!)
My phone essentially sits idle unless my screen is on...
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Powell730 said:
My phone essentially sits idle unless my screen is on...
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Just a word of advice. Whites consume more power on AMOLED screens. You'd probably maximize your battery a lot more if you went back to a "Ice Cream Sandwich" feel or at least apply a black themed MIUI.
angeluszero said:
It's not the first 10%, it's all the time.. it drops for about 10% or more every hour. Less then 3h of screen time.
I'll give cpuspy a try and see if some app is killing my battery.
I used AOKP rom because most of the people in the thread were saying that rom fixed their battery issue but for me it made no difference.
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I had something similar and it was recommended to me on these forums that I log out of Gtalk.
Before people come out and say it makes no sense - it doesn't really matter if it does or not - it worked for me. I get a full day out of a charge now, which doesn't really matter because as someone said above it's all relative. What DOES matter is that my phone is now sleeping properly, so the battery doesn't drain when the phone is idle. That's the part that wasn't working on my phone.
If you feel so inclined, give this a try and see if it works for you. Just log out of all Google talk accounts and see how your battery life is - you'll know within a day if it's helping.
Have you flashed the new radios yet?
You can also try different kernels and see which one works best for you.
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Just a word of advice. Whites consume more power on AMOLED screens. You'd probably maximize your battery a lot more if you went back to a "Ice Cream Sandwich" feel or at least apply a black themed MIUI.
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Yeah I just installed this today, giving it a trial run. It's OK so far.. I think just growing pains so far. Also, I don't think themes work just yet.. At least last I saw.
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Yeah I just installed this today, giving it a trial run. It's OK so far.. I think just growing pains so far. Also, I don't think themes work just yet.. At least last I saw.
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Ah okay.
I think MIUI is pretty much at the same state as CM9. Just lots of work needing to be done since ICS revamped Android in so many ways.
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It's actually 2000 mAh not 2100 mAh.
You can use a custom kernel such as Franco Kernel. New version came out today and includes more battery improvements (according to changelog!)
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not quite.
can i preface by saying that there are two types of Gnexus's out there? the SCH-i515 (CDMA/LTE Verizon) and the GT-i9250 (HSPA+, AT&T).
The 2000mAh is for the HSPA+ version
The 2100mAh is for the LTE version.
i see a LOT of bad advice on these forums here.
my best advice to you (from one Verizon Nexus owner to another), is to keep at stock 4.0.2. Root it, and apply a custom kernel. Only apply custom kernel if you feel that you're still not getting decent battery life for a whole day on 4G stock ROM/kernel.
As far as I know, Verizon Nexus owners' max on-screen time with 4G enabled all day is about 3 hours MAX, and thats if you disable everything else but LTE, with very low brightness settings, and on extended battery.
imo, the next 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 update hopefully will mitigate some battery consumption issues.
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As far as I know, Verizon Nexus owners' max on-screen time with 4G enabled all day is about 3 hours MAX, and thats if you disable everything else but LTE, with very low brightness settings, and on extended battery.
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Are you talking about 3 hours MAX browsing or just being POWERED ON?
If you are talking about just being on for 3 hours, you are GROSSLY incorrect.
angeluszero said:
Hi,
I just got my Galaxy Nexus, flashed with AOKP build 18 and i gotta say that the battery life is unacceptable. It drops 10% in less then 1h while the phone is sitting there doing nothing. Wifi, bluetooth, location services, GPS are off. All background apps closed.
It lasts about half the time my iPhone 4 does and it is a year and half old.
I see some people showing examples of how their battery last for more then 20h but all these are BS tests as they leave the phone on standby all day or have some very light usage.
Is there a real fix for this? Am i forced to drop another 50$ and buy Samsung's 2100mh extended battery?
btw i tried setCPU also to lower CPU to minimum when in standby but doesnt do much. I want a solution that will enable me to use my phone, not something that makes it last 40h in standby and then kills it in 2h when i use it.
please help!
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See my screen on time?
4 hours screen on time including 21 minutes using gps for Sygic Navigation is not bull****. Stand by for up to 61 hours, easy.
And I was using the phone extensively for web browsing, facebook, gplus, xda, games, etc.
All with stock rom and stock kernel, extended battery 2000mAh, gsm.
No BS
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gogol said:
See my screen on time?
4 hours screen on time including 21 minutes using gps for Sygic Navigation is not bull****. Stand by for up to 61 hours, easy.
And I was using the phone extensively for web browsing, facebook, gplus, xda, games, etc.
All with stock rom and stock kernel, extended battery 2000mAh, gsm.
No BS
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You were on wifi the entire day.
You are using the HSPA+ version of the Nexus. HSPA+ version gets better battery life.
Try being on HSPA+ the entire day with wifi disabled. you will not be getting 4 hours of battery life on-screen time.
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Are you talking about 3 hours MAX browsing or just being POWERED ON?
If you are talking about just being on for 3 hours, you are GROSSLY incorrect.
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Please reread what i wrote. MAX ON-SCREEN TIME.
it is not possible to go 4 hours of on-screen time with LTE enabled all day.
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You were on wifi the entire day.
You are using the HSPA+ version of the Nexus. HSPA+ version gets better battery life.
Try being on HSPA+ the entire day with wifi disabled. you will not be getting 4 hours of battery life on-screen time.
Please reread what i wrote. MAX ON-SCREEN TIME.
it is not possible to go 4 hours of on-screen time with LTE enabled all day.
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Most of the time I was on wifi, but not all.
But fair enough, I will test on 100% without WiFi. However, we don't have HSDPA+ unfortunately. Only HSDPA or 3G.
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You were on wifi the entire day.
You are using the HSPA+ version of the Nexus. HSPA+ version gets better battery life.
Try being on HSPA+ the entire day with wifi disabled. you will not be getting 4 hours of battery life on-screen time.
Please reread what i wrote. MAX ON-SCREEN TIME.
it is not possible to go 4 hours of on-screen time with LTE enabled all day.
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I went 13 hours yesterday with LTE on all day and had almost 4 hours of screen on time. I'm running stock ICS unrooted and all of my sync stuff is enabled. I'm also using the extended battery.
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johnbibbs said:
I went 13 hours yesterday with LTE on all day and had almost 4 hours of screen on time. I'm running stock ICS unrooted and all of my sync stuff is enabled. I'm also using the extended battery.
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would like proof. afaik, its impossible to get 4 hours of battery life with LTE enabled all day.
sounds dumb, but are you sure you have Verizon's GNexus? Your profile shows an AT&T carrier... otherwise you should probably update it.
player911 said:
Yea somethings not right. Off charge at 8am and its 4:30pm now. Got 61% left at time of this writing and been using it quite alot. Typically have about 75% left about this time.
I just use an AOKP like yourself and a custom kernel. I'm on the phone like every 15min reading emails, SMS, word feud, twitter news, Facebook, Gmail.
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I think the Kernel is what makes the difference. It seems to be the only difference i see between myself and the people like you have a reasonable battery life.
which one do you recommend? And i'm a noob at this so could you point me to a thread the explains how to flash it? If u cant its ok im sure i can figure it out.
In your opinion, would this be considered good battery life?
2 days and 12 hours on battery with a total of almost 2 hours of screen on time.
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I think it's pretty subjective to be honest.
Are you able to get what you need to do on the phone done without having to worry about the battery?
If you mean in terms of comparison to others, then it is about average. I'd guess you're running a LTE Nexus - with the extra radio, you'll have worse battery life compared to GSM users. Some GSM users have reported 4+ hours of screen on time, which I would assume needs a few of the right tweaks here and there to achieve that. I doubt a LTE Nexus will be hitting those numbers though.
Well a phone like that and using it less than an hour a day for actual use defeats the purpose of having a smartphone.
So it's really impossible to say if it is considered 'good' battery life or not, since 99% of us use it frequently for e-mails, chat, browsing and gaming.
Krijs said:
I think it's pretty subjective to be honest.
Are you able to get what you need to do on the phone done without having to worry about the battery?
If you mean in terms of comparison to others, then it is about average. I'd guess you're running a LTE Nexus - with the extra radio, you'll have worse battery life compared to GSM users. Some GSM users have reported 4+ hours of screen on time, which I would assume needs a few of the right tweaks here and there to achieve that. I doubt a LTE Nexus will be hitting those numbers though.
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I keep LTE disabled most of the time even though LTE is plentiful in my area. I get 250 kilobytes per second on Verizon's 3G 95% of the time and that's plenty for browsing webpages or streaming music.
Another thing I should mention is that I am on GummyNexus 0.7.0 with LeanKernel 1.7.1 and I wanted to test how long I could make the phone last, with light to very moderate usage while on Wi-Fi. Brightness was at 50%.
I have made it to 3 hours and 50 minutes of screen-on time before when I had brightness at 25% with LTE disabled and connected to 3G.
I am aware that LTE drains battery, and the only reason I'd need to use it is if I wanted to download a large file. I get anywhere between 10-to-20mbps download and 8-to-10mbps upload, which is faster than my aunt's AT&T HSPA+ connection. She has trouble hitting 6mbps download and 2mbps upload.
kristovaher said:
Well a phone like that and using it less than an hour a day for actual use defeats the purpose of having a smartphone.
So it's really impossible to say if it is considered 'good' battery life or not, since 99% of us use it frequently for e-mails, chat, browsing and gaming.
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how he uses his phone is his thing.
to the OP:
did you get all the use out of it you wanted in a days time without having to charge it? if so, then you're good to go.
I've seen screenshots of people getting 5 hours of screen-on time. Is anyone here getting that? If you are, please post screenshots below of your setup, and be VERY specific on what you are running, and how you are doing it. Please share the knowledge. Oh, and please don't bother posting if you're using an extended battery.
I'm running Liquid Smooth 1.4 and the (supposed) 3800 mAh Trexcell battery that I bought for $20 on Amazon.
With the standard battery the most screen-on time I ever got was 2:30 hrs. Now I get 3:30-4:00 hrs of on-screen time. Not quite double, but an improvement.
Frankly I don't know how anyone is managing 4 hours of screen-on time with the stock battery.
As an addendum: Even when I was running stock, I was getting equal-to or worse values for screen-on time.
95% of the people getting 4-5 hours of screen on time are on the GSM version. 2-3 hours is typical for Sprint and Verizon users.
Setups don't make a huge difference. What makes the difference is usage while the screen is on.
Depending on the usage, i can get 4 hours screen time on stock 1750mAh battery.
Just occasionally surfing the web using WiFi, no 3G connection, occasionally pressing the power button to check the time and 30% brightness.
I use AOKP + Franco (both latest), and always get around 3h - 3.5h. Half the time I'm using wifi, and I never use data. I don't have cell service 25% of the time, and usually have weak cell service.
Most of them are on wifi... like me I can get 5hrs of display time over wifi but only about 3hrs on my terrible 3G speeds and connection.
With the stock battery.
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When I was running AOKP build 36 with Franco Kernel 166 I was able to get 3:55 with the stock battery. I did underclock to 1036MHz with some slight undervolting. I never use WiFi and my data is only on when my screen is on. I also played games for about an hour and a half.
Now I'm on AOKP build 38 with Franco's Milestone 4, and I usually average 2-3 hours of screen on time.
Unless the spring and verizon versions are so wildly different, I'm going to ask for screenshot proof if this. I bet you're mistaking "awake" time for screen-on time.
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Unless the spring and verizon versions are so wildly different, I'm going to ask for screenshot proof if this. I bet you're mistaking "awake" time for screen-on time.
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They are wildly different. They use different cellular technology.
But you just said at the top of the thread that Spring and Verizon have comparable times, now they are wildly different? They are both CDMA. In the case above its WiFi only.
absoluteparanoia said:
Unless the spring and verizon versions are so wildly different, I'm going to ask for screenshot proof if this. I bet you're mistaking "awake" time for screen-on time.
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No problem...
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absoluteparanoia said:
But you just said at the top of the thread that Spring and Verizon have comparable times, now they are wildly different? They are both CDMA. In the case above its WiFi only.
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I thought you were talking about Sprint/Verizon and the GSM model, that is my fault.
BUT, Verizon has LTE for the majority of people, which will suck the battery dry faster than EVDO Rev A on Sprint.
joshnichols189 said:
I thought you were talking about Sprint/Verizon and the GSM model, that is my fault.
BUT, Verizon has LTE for the majority of people, which will suck the battery dry faster than EVDO Rev A on Sprint.
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I concur... usually if you have good LTE speeds and connection.. your battery life will be better same goes for 3G... i've seen people with full bars on 3G pull almost 4hours with the stock battery, yet with a 1-2 bar connection and a .50mbps speed... i can almost get 3 hours. I would assume that LTE would be less of a battery drain unless you have terrible connection to it.
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I concur... usually if you have good LTE speeds and connection.. your battery life will be better same goes for 3G... i've seen people with full bars on 3G pull almost 4hours with the stock battery, yet with a 1-2 bar connection and a .50mbps speed... i can almost get 3 hours. I would assume that LTE would be less of a battery drain unless you have terrible connection to it.
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LTE is more of a battery drain than EVDO I believe. Unless you have full signal. All the time.
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LTE is more of a battery drain than EVDO I believe. Unless you have full signal. All the time.
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hmm doesnt make sense, i figure the faster speeds would help... then it wouldnt have to struggle to pull something up through, lets say the web browser. I mean if you have 1bar of LTE then yeah thats gunna drain faster or similar to 3G. But 3-4 would be optimal.... i assume im terribly wrong but.. these are just my thoughts and assumptions
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hmm doesnt make sense, i figure the faster speeds would help... then it wouldnt have to struggle to pull something up through, lets say the web browser. I mean if you have 1bar of LTE then yeah thats gunna drain faster or similar to 3G. But 3-4 would be optimal.... i assume im terribly wrong but.. these are just my thoughts and assumptions
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In terms of data transfer, sure but I believe just getting and holding onto an LTE signal, especially for a CDMA-based phone causes a lot of the problems.
HOW!!!!! What are you running, what apps you have, etc.
Like I said over all wifi. Skanwich and Samurai Kernel. I don't have anything that syncs. I dont use any "battery" apps and this is just Xda and various other games and YouTube... it just doesn't show up... for some reason. Also its undervolted but stock frequencies. Using the on demand governor.
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LTE is more of a battery drain than EVDO I believe. Unless you have full signal. All the time.
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I can vouch for this. When I am at home I drain battery as slow as EvDo when on LTE. But I have a better signal than most people out there.
Whatcha running?
Hi,
I'm sure this type of question has been posted here before - I've seen a lot of the posts. However, I'm having lots of trouble finding a good answer for my problem.
I'm using a Verizon Galaxy Nexus with a custom JB ROM and the latest radios. My problem seems to be that Cell Standby takes up a ton of my battery. This problem existed in ICS (stock and custom roms/kernels) and with JB (several custom roms/kernels). I've noticed if my WiFi is left on, the problem is immensely better. It's 3:20PM and I'm sitting at 87%. I'm on about 6 hours standby and that's all on WiFi, no use. If I'm on WiFi, that'll be about 60%.
It varies of course depending on what I'm doing. I've noticed that phone calls use a ton of juice and the screen obviously uses a bunch, too.
Also, it doesn't make too much of a difference if I'm running on 3G or 4G. I prefer 4G as it seems a lot more consistent in staying connected, but I've opted for 3G to keep my battery at a decent level.
OH! And the only thing I have running on my phone right now is an Exchange account, Gmail and Google Voice. Google Now is turned off.
Has anybody experienced this sort of thing? I just can't understand how the iPhone can sit idle for days and my phone can't make it past 24 hours unless it's on WiFi.
Thanks,
Jack
I have my Galaxy Nexus and I have noticed the battery has just been complete crap lately. Today for example my phone was at 50% and after a 2.5 hour long movie, my battery was down to 19%, and within 10 minutes from that I was down to 14%.
I can easily kill 40% of my battery in one hour driving to work by streaming pandora. I have tried:
CM10, Stock Roms, AOK
Different Bootloaders
Newest radios, older radios, hybrid mixture of radios
Different kernels with hotplug CPU (LeanKernel, FauxKernel)
I might as well walk around with a car battery in my back pocket. I have tried turning off LTE and its better but damn 3G is slow. The thing that pisses me off the most is my Wife's Droid RAZR (not MAXX) has a 1780mAh battery running an OMAP 4430 cpu at the same speed and running LTE all day and she gets a day of use almost out of her device.
BrokenWall said:
I have my Galaxy Nexus and I have noticed the battery has just been complete crap lately. Today for example my phone was at 50% and after a 2.5 hour long movie, my battery was down to 19%, and within 10 minutes from that I was down to 14%.
I can easily kill 40% of my battery in one hour driving to work by streaming pandora. I have tried:
CM10, Stock Roms, AOK
Different Bootloaders
Newest radios, older radios, hybrid mixture of radios
Different kernels with hotplug CPU (LeanKernel, FauxKernel)
I might as well walk around with a car battery in my back pocket. I have tried turning off LTE and its better but damn 3G is slow. The thing that pisses me off the most is my Wife's Droid RAZR (not MAXX) has a 1780mAh battery running an OMAP 4430 cpu at the same speed and running LTE all day and she gets a day of use almost out of her device.
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That's normal battery life on this phone lol. Get an extended battery
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Fire n mage said:
That's normal battery life on this phone lol. Get an extended battery
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My Nexus S was a great phone with great battery, and hell even my HTC Sensation was a great phone but I felt weird with roms that were not true AOSP because of kernel sources having to be patched for newer versions of roms. So I switched and got a GNex when it came out.
So the new Google Nexus Experience is walk around with a charger in your ass, its sad that Google honestly let this device out like this, When and you can look at the S3 or One S/X and that Snapdragon S4 dual core is much better on battery then this OMAP
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My Nexus S was a great phone with great battery, and hell even my HTC Sensation was a great phone but I felt weird with roms that were not true AOSP because of kernel sources having to be patched for newer versions of roms. So I switched and got a GNex when it came out.
So the new Google Nexus Experience is walk around with a charger in your ass, its sad that Google honestly let this device out like this, When and you can look at the S3 or One S/X and that Snapdragon S4 dual core is much better on battery then this OMAP
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Verizon LTE man. Owns batteries on this phone. Radios aren't the greatest either, which doesn't help.
The GSM model of the Galaxy Nexus actually gets quite respectable battery life.
martonikaj said:
Verizon LTE man. Owns batteries on this phone. Radios aren't the greatest either, which doesn't help.
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Im about to just fess up and switch to AT&T, at least if you disable LTE you still have great speeds on HSDPA+ to stream pandora and surf the internet. I really only need LTE for Netflix, its even worse when your device uses more power than you are able to provide it while charging.
Turn LTE one and Stream Netflix while on a good car charger, it will just slow your battery drain, im about to drop the money on the 2100mAH battery on Amazon, the one that comes with the replacement door that makes the phone just slightly thicker. Anyone have battery recommendations
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Im about to just fess up and switch to AT&T, at least if you disable LTE you still have great speeds on HSDPA+ to stream pandora and surf the internet. I really only need LTE for Netflix, its even worse when your device uses more power than you are able to provide it while charging.
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Issue with switching to AT&T is losing your Galaxy Nexus if you want LTE. AT&T's HSPA+ is plenty fast enough for Netflix honestly. Much faster than Verizon's 3G.
But thats up to you. Battery life on the LTE Galaxy Nexus just isn't that good.
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Issue with switching to AT&T is losing your Galaxy Nexus if you want LTE. AT&T's HSPA+ is plenty fast enough for Netflix honestly. Much faster than Verizon's 3G.
But thats up to you. Battery life on the LTE Galaxy Nexus just isn't that good.
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I rather not drop the huge money on another phone right now. Think I am going to go with This Samsung 2100mAH battery for now and see if we get a new Nexus Product this year. If not that new RAZR MAXX HD is looking quite nice
There must be something else going on. What is your per hour standby drainage like? I'm on vzw and have the 2100mah batt. But Pandora consumes bout 6~8% an hour if I don't wake the device up to much checking emails and such. My idle sleep drain is about 1% an hour with gmail sync on. I don't have any other apps i.e. Twatter, Face****, G+ and so on. My last 11 hours in the caps.
good day.
I used to get great battery but not recently. I don't load my phone down with anything crazy because it is a work phone. I disable 4G and have WiFi always on. A typical day at work:
8am off charger
push exchange, gmail, twitter and Facebook widgets.
Before I used a Winner00 kang. At 1:30pm, I would normally have about 75% left.
Seems with JB I'm lucky to have 30% and 45minutes screen on time.
Its bad. I've changed kernels, ROMs, super wiped, radios. Nothing seems to fix it. I'm wondering if its Google Now or some app update. I've done battery monitoring stats and I'm getting deep sleeps and nothing unusual.
I have VZW 2100mah battery BTW.
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Yeah I've been getting worse battery life...another thing you can look at is how good the signal is wherever you are. The weaker the signal, the more juice it uses. I realized this once I started attending a university.
I've started to bring my charger wherever I go now.
The CDMA Gnex are notorious for having terrible battery life. I personally can barely get a full days worth of juice from the stock battery, so the 2100 could probably get you by the day without much battery anxiety. But YMMV; I also don't use BookFace cuz I'm too cool for such silliness
I do use Google Now and its nice, though its not as helpful as Google made it sound, though being able to access it for other things like phone commands or searching is nice.
I have Exchange Sync for work, Two IMAP email accounts that are on Push via K9 Mail. Play store set to auto update.
I have a total of 42 apps on my phone, most of which are the default apps like calendar, people, etc. I will be trying out a new rom later today once I get my phone charged back to 100% and now that I think about it, battery has gotten worse after JellyBean.