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Samsung Galaxy Nexus Unboxing & Hands-On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ne8eaaGTdg
My unboxing of the Galaxy Nexus. Really liking this phone so far! Coming from an iPhone 4S and Nexus S, the GNex is unlike anything I've ever used. It definitely has the best display I've seen so far, slightly beating out the iPhone 4S. Hope you guys enjoy! If you want to see any specific videos let me know on here or on the video comments!

nice vid!.
thanks for posting

Love to see some battery results, especially battery drain while idle over a few hours (simulate a work day, gmail going, wifi off, 3g connected)

I took the phone off the charger when it got to 100% about 45 minutes ago. Now its at 80% but I had force hardware acceleration on. I really hope the battery adjusts and gets better because a 20% drain that fast is a little ridiculous.
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Arcadia310 said:
I took the phone off the charger when it got to 100% about 45 minutes ago. Now its at 80% but I had force hardware acceleration on. I really hope the battery adjusts and gets better because a 20% drain that fast is a little ridiculous.
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The first few charges/discharges on Samsung batteries work wonders for battery life.
My Nexus S and SGSII had terrible battery life on the first few charges. Was concerning. After those initial cycles, the life was so much better. Got 2 days 16 hrs on my SGSII just prior to my GNEX arriving this Friday morning.
The GNEX is on 11 h 50m now and has 25 minutes left. Charged it when FedEx delivered it at 11am mountain today. I'd say that's pretty great as I've been using the hell out of it since it arrived. I expect subsequent charges to add to the life and am not worried one bit about getting a full day out of it (par for the course - it's not a flip-phone).

ericshmerick said:
The first few charges/discharges on Samsung batteries work wonders for battery life.
My Nexus S and SGSII had terrible battery life on the first few charges. Was concerning. After those initial cycles, the life was so much better. Got 2 days 16 hrs on my SGSII just prior to my GNEX arriving this Friday morning.
The GNEX is on 11 h 50m now and has 25 minutes left. Charged it when FedEx delivered it at 11am mountain today. I'd say that's pretty great as I've been using the hell out of it since it arrived. I expect subsequent charges to add to the life and am not worried one bit about getting a full day out of it (par for the course - it's not a flip-phone).
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Is your Galaxy S II on the stock kernel/rom? I can't wait to install a custom kernel on this bad boy. Developers are saying the stock kernel really isn't that good. I'm also noticing a good bit of heat generating from around the camera during normal usage.
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Haha! nice video, I'm actually subscribed to your channel and, saw it earlier. You said you had to manually turn on hardware acceleration, is that done in developer options in the settings?

Arcadia310 said:
Is your Galaxy S II on the stock kernel/rom? I can't wait to install a custom kernel on this bad boy. Developers are saying the stock kernel really isn't that good. I'm also noticing a good bit of heat generating from around the camera during normal usage.
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@nikolaittt TI's spec says anything up to 83 (celsius) is okay for normal operation (according to commits in the kernel). These things run very hot.
http://twitter.com/#!/coolbho3k/status/140314936239849472
That's 181 degrees Fahrenheit!

qnet said:
Haha! nice video, I'm actually subscribed to your channel and, saw it earlier. You said you had to manually turn on hardware acceleration, is that done in developer options in the settings?
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Yup, it's in developer options.

Arcadia310 said:
Yup, it's in developer options.
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Is it the "Force GPU rendering...Use 2D hardware acceleration in applications" setting? That doesn't sound like hardware acceleration...it sounds like a setting to force apps that aren't ICS coded to run faster. Or maybe the OS is hardware accelerated but apps aren't?
Why would hardware acceleration be disabled out of the box? That's one of the most anticipated features of ICS...

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Is it the "Force GPU rendering" setting? That doesn't sound like hardware acceleration...it sounds like a setting to force apps that aren't ICS coded to run faster.
Why would hardware acceleration be disabled out of the box? That's one of the most anticipated features of ICS...
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It isn't disabled by default. The entire OS and all ICS optimized apps are hardware accelerated by default. Older apps that haven't been optimized for ICS may not have hardware acceleration, so there's an option to force it until the developer optimizes the app for ICS.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ne8eaaGTdg
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You can`t even insert battery or put cover back, LOL Is this your first ever phone?

rbs_uk said:
You can`t even insert battery or put cover back, LOL Is this your first ever phone?
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Well the man does have a Nexus S! And I remember him over from the G2 forums

Arcadia310, I really liked your video! I just got my galaxy note like a week ago, and love it. I was deciding between this and the nexus as they were about the same in price. Anyways, you mentioned toward the end of your video a comment about the hue you noticed on whites on the display. My note has this slightly greenish hue when looking at whites anything but straight on. Is that what you noticed?
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rbs_uk said:
You can`t even insert battery or put cover back, LOL Is this your first ever phone?
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Its not very easy to operate a phone while looking through a 2 inch display on a camcorder.
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mike2518 said:
Arcadia310, I really liked your video! I just got my galaxy note like a week ago, and love it. I was deciding between this and the nexus as they were about the same in price. Anyways, you mentioned toward the end of your video a comment about the hue you noticed on whites on the display. My note has this slightly greenish hue when looking at whites anything but straight on. Is that what you noticed?
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Thanks! On medium to high brightness, whites look okay. I want to say mine have a slight reddish tint but its so faint that it won't bother me. All displays have some kind of tint. On low brightness whites tend to look a little grainy but its nothing to stress about.
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Arcadia what u prefer the nexus or iPhone 4s in our opinion that u have booths

x.Orville.x said:
Arcadia what u prefer the nexus or iPhone 4s in our opinion that u have booths
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Right now the Galaxy Nexus, mainly because of the screen and ICS. It'll come down to battery life though. If I can't make it through a full day on the GNex I'll have to use the iPhone 4S.

GSM Nexus Battery Life. Worth leaving SGS with CM9 for it?

So I currently have a Vibrant that has CM9 installed and the thing rocks! My battery life is pretty good for moderate to heavy use, and gets me through at least a full work day.
As we all know the Galaxy Nexus GSM is now on sale for $399 straight from google, and I am very tempted to get one. I have read ALL OVER the net that the battery life sucks, I have seen tests done that show it only gets 3 hrs MAX of surf time, gets a decent 8 hrs of talk, and about 6 hrs of video, each tested with a fully charged battery.
SO my question is, is it worth it? Is the battery life as bad as they say? Or will it be better than what I have on my SGS?
Also, how do the picture quality compare to say... and Iphone 4s, etc.
Thanks for your feedback, I am sure it will help more than just me

jzero88 said:
So I currently have a Vibrant that has CM9 installed and the thing rocks! My battery life is pretty good for moderate to heavy use, and gets me through at least a full work day.
As we all know the Galaxy Nexus GSM is now on sale for $399 straight from google, and I am very tempted to get one. I have read ALL OVER the net that the battery life sucks, I have seen tests done that show it only gets 3 hrs MAX of surf time, gets a decent 8 hrs of talk, and about 6 hrs of video, each tested with a fully charged battery.
SO my question is, is it worth it? Is the battery life as bad as they say? Or will it be better than what I have on my SGS?
Also, how do the picture quality compare to say... and Iphone 4s, etc.
Thanks for your feedback, I am sure it will help more than just me
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Do you need a 4.6 inch screen or not? If so, you gotta deal with the consequences of powering such a screen.
For what it's worth, I went from Captivate > Nexus S > Galaxy Nexus and I feel as if the battery life were all the same ball park.

Enhanced said:
Do you need a 4.6 inch screen or not? If so, you gotta deal with the consequences of powering such a screen.
For what it's worth, I went from Captivate > Nexus S > Galaxy Nexus and I feel as if the battery life were all the same ball park.
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True, it does seem I wouldn't see much of a difference either way I go. The bigger screen is nice, plus the HD display, and the better camera and added flash, front facing camera, and the major factor is the PRICE POINT!
That is a perfect price point for this phone, I have that itch!!

Standy by time is great. Better than my old sensation 4g. Which had decent battery life to begin with.
My battery can last more than a full day, with the screen on for 4+ hours with a couple hours of streaming music, email, etc.
I think most of the complaints are from the LTE version, and pre software updates that may have helped.

Compared to my sgs4g I get about the same on stock battery. With a qcell 2050 mAh battery I get about an extra 2 hours give or take.
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bobdelt said:
Standy by time is great. Better than my old sensation 4g. Which had decent battery life to begin with.
My battery can last more than a full day, with the screen on for 4+ hours with a couple hours of streaming music, email, etc.
I think most of the complaints are from the LTE version, and pre software updates that may have helped.
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Sweet because I just bought one XD
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i never considered the gsm gnex to have bad battery life even on stock
you can get much better battery life with a custom kernel installed. i can get 2 days of what i consider normal use (phone calls, losts of sms, some mms, facebook, twitter, games on the ****ter ... ) using GLaDOS kernel.
as previously mentioned the majority of the battery woes come from the battery sucking lte antennas ... all lte phones have this issue and really require new battery technology imo

I upgraded from SGS running CM7.1 to GSM GNex in November..
With my Galaxy S I rarely went a full day without having to plug it in for a charge.
With my GNex I have never plugged it in for a charge during the day, and usually have 40-50% battery left before bed (2h screen time). SGN rocks!

blowtorch said:
i never considered the gsm gnex to have bad battery life even on stock
you can get much better battery life with a custom kernel installed. i can get 2 days of what i consider normal use (phone calls, losts of sms, some mms, facebook, twitter, games on the ****ter ... ) using GLaDOS kernel.
as previously mentioned the majority of the battery woes come from the battery sucking lte antennas ... all lte phones have this issue and really require new battery technology imo
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That's true too. I'll see how long I can go before I have to flash, whether I have to or not, I can't go long without a flash regardless
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gabster21 said:
I upgraded from SGS running CM7.1 to GSM GNex in November..
With my Galaxy S I rarely went a full day without having to plug it in for a charge.
With my GNex I have never plugged it in for a charge during the day, and usually have 40-50% battery left before bed (2h screen time). SGN rocks!
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That's good news for me then. Still waiting for my tracking number...
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Me too. Ordered an hour ago and can't wait to get it. The og epic has been great though. I'm going to miss it.
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I have a Vibrant with CM9 and a Galaxy Nexus GSM. I don't have complaints of battery life on either. Both get me through a full day. I definitely get more than 3 hours of web surfing time on the Galaxy Nexus. It's been good enough that I really don't pay attention to battery life.

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For what it's worth, I went from Captivate > Nexus S > Galaxy Nexus and I feel as if the battery life were all the same ball park.
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Almost my exact journey, I just had a different variant of the galaxy s. And I agree with overall battery life being the same. I got the 2000 mah OEM battery and it now outlasts all my previous phones
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Battery life for my friend is great and he got a gsm version personally sucks on sprint, camera is better in iPhone 4S for sure since I got both devices but it doesn't take such a bad pictures, is just mm idk for some reason the lense seems to be better on the iPhone 4S so far I'm undecided in which device should I stay with x

In my usage streaming audio seems to use less battery. Other uses use similar juice.
I had a SGS Captivate before with CM9.
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ics leak rom (CWM flashable)

I know I'm new here but I just got a nitro HD but the battery life is disappointing me (came from a Vibrant) I'm running CM9 7/8 with the HO!NO! kernel V5 right now. I wanted to try the ICS leak by HO!NO! because some say they have better battery life there but the download link isn't working for me.
Does anyone have a mirror? or tips to get better battery? (without the extended battery, that's my last resort)
Thanks in advance

Battery life has been disappointing me too. I'm using ICS Leak non HO!NO! but hopeless.
Won't stand a day without charing.
I have to carry charger everywhere I go.
Extended Battery is the best idea. But I have to sacrifice my Ballistic Case.
I got an extended battery two days ago from Ebay for $15 but unfortunately I got a defect one. Waiting for a replacement.

Dang that sucks... thanks for the reply man. I have a ballistics case too (came with the phone b/c I bought it off Craigslist), good thing I don't use it.
I guess I'll have to invest in an extended battery then. Might go with the Hyperion one, seems like it has decent reviews

Have you tried running CM9 without HO!NO!'s kernel? Though I appreciate his work, I've been just using the built-in kernel lately (mostly out of laziness) and I don't have any battery life complaints really, although I admit I'm not the most active user.

Oh damn, seriously? I'll give that a try. Thanks for the tip. hope it works =)

Honestly, you should get a second battery and/or external charger. These large, beautiful screens and LTE radios are power hungry. There's not a ROM or kernel for any high-end phone that will go a day with heavy usage. You need cpu spy and better battery stats to weed out wake locks, but even then there's no magic pill. I've found screen on time is the best metric for knowing how long you can last. With this phone it seems to be 3-4 hours. IPhone 4S and Windows aren't much better.
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Dang. Sadly youre right. The default kernel seemed to help battery a bit but its not enough. That extended battery isn't a pain right? It makes the phone pretty fat from what I've seen
Thanks for the reality check btw haha
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mast3rvo said:
Dang. Sadly youre right. The default kernel seemed to help battery a bit but its not enough. That extended battery isn't a pain right? It makes the phone pretty fat from what I've seen
Thanks for the reality check btw haha
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It almost doubles the weight and thickness.
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I used SetCPU and set it to not go over 1026mhz. I also turn off GPS when I'm not using it. My battery life has almost tripled.

If you're using CM9, there are a lot of tweaks you can do to help with battery. Take a look at HO!NO!'s Full throttle post as he makes some suggestions. In my experience it's generally been the screen that eats all of my battery. You can tweak the brightness settings to be slightly dimmer to see if that helps.
You could also look into Juice defender. Never used it myself but I've heard people have great success with it
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You could also check out this post for Battery life tips for the ICS leak. It looks like underclocking + CPU Sleeper + tweaking screen brightness will help improve your battery the most
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1781762

In the past few weeks I've ran the ICS Leak, stock CM9 RC1 and CM9 RC2 with Juice Defender. For me, the best battery was the ICS Leak, RC2 w/JD being second best but not as stable. RC1 is essentially an unplugged drain when it comes to preserving battery life. Out of the blue the phone would be hot to the touch and shedding battery, just sitting in my pocket.
I also just got the extended battery, its bigger and heavier but you get used to it pretty fast, I don't mind it at all. In fact, the new back cover is of better quality than the one that came with the phone. It fits better and feels more sturdy. That plus the added weight actually gives it a better feel, for me at least.

thanks for the responses everyone
Nitro battery got better for me after a week or so of usage on the stock (I'm guessing it took some usage for the rom to calibrate the battery readings properly) but I ended up getting the extended battery anyways (hyperion) and I love it
At first it was kind of bulky and big to me, but like some of you say it was easy to get used to. Battery life is amazing now on CM9 RC2. I'm at 1 day and 3 hrs with airplane mode on, wifi on (wifi phone for me), and 2hrs and 32min screen time. Battery is now at 53%

Mugen battery for S3

I bought a Mugen battery for my S3 and am currently testing it out. Rooted, stock ROM.
I charged it and then discharged it until the phone stopped. The put it on charge again with the phone on - as recommended by Mugen - for about 9 hours (as recommended).
I supose that it hasn't be an especially heavy usage day but still, after 9 hours of very light use the battery still show 88%. Amazing.
Battery usage wasn't a real issue for me anyway. On a standard battery with heavy use I could get through a whole day quite easily - which compared to my HTC desire HD was fantastic. The HTC realy needed a Mugen battery. Anyway, I decided to fork out the price - $44 -ouch! and it looks as if it will be a very good battery indeed.
I'm going to do a full discharge again and then long recharge. At this rate, I expect it to take at least a couple of days - maybe three to get it to 0%.
After a few cycles, I may even have a four day battery - certainly a 3 day battery.
We'll see.

30 hours later - light use - reading papers, some email, some calls - 65% left

Can you put here screenshots with battery usage and screen-on figure ?

My regular battery was on 87% after 16 hours of very light use yesterday.
Need battery stats, screen stats etc. as everyone's definition of light use changes!
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matttye said:
My regular battery was on 87% after 16 hours of very light use yesterday.
Need battery stats, screen stats etc. as everyone's definition of light use changes!
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Sure - attached.
In fact, a bit less than 30 hours.
Screen is at 100% brightness all the time

is this battery the same size as the original

lejars1 said:
Sure - attached.
In fact, a bit less than 30 hours.
Screen is at 100% brightness all the time
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wth happened to your screen?

Diaze said:
wth happened to your screen?
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Yeah his screen looks scratched to **** lol or could be the camera he is usings lens is scratched to ****

Screen is perfect - but the protector has had substantial use. I've just changed it.
Battery is possibly just a smidgeon larger than a standard battery - but it's just an impression. The battery is 2300ma and fits without any problem under the standard cover.
I don't know why, I lost root and couldn't use a screen grab so I had to take a photo instead.

Can you provide a screen-on time shot? How many hours was the screen on for?

You scared the life out of me.....for one horrible minute I thought I had wandered into "accessories".....then I realized I was indeed in "general".....and everything was ok

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I don't know why, I lost root and couldn't use a screen grab so I had to take a photo instead.
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S3 doesn't need root to have screen grab.
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Arsaw said:
S3 doesn't need root to have screen grab.
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It does with the app I'm using - screencast

What do you guys class as light use?
I left work 1 hour ago with 100%. Been listening to music, checking facebook, xda and news site and now at 81%.
Is that heavy use?
I'm not complying because compared to my old i9000 that's good!
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I consider 1 hour's use as light use.
My light use over a much longer period was "light" compared to a heavy use when I might be checking and writing emails several times an hour, checking my twitter account and posting in my forum several times durring the day.
Whatever "light use" means - the new Mugen battery is very much better than my standard battery with mr normal light use.
I don't think that it is worth this thread getting into discussion about what is "light use".
I shouldn't have used the phrase.
What I want to say is that the Mugen battery is substantially better.
I still don't know if it was worth the $44 - because that is really very expensive for a battery - especially for me when battery usage wasn't a particular issue - unlike the DHD which was badly spoiled by the poor battery life

Thank's for this information.
Can you post one picture showing the back and one side of the phone. I think the Mugen Power Battery is fatter than the genuine one.
What looks like the galaxy s3 now ?

sorry - I don't have time t do that. It is a standard size and fits complet;y under the standard cover.
I think that ther is amore powerful Mugen battery which does need a special cover - but mine is a standard size 2300ma

1 hour 20 mins use and 65%? That's really not very impressive at all. That equates to about 4 hours screen time which is quite easy to achieve on the stock battery. It's certainly not worth the inflated price.
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For comparison a cheap $15 4500 mah battery gives me 45 hours with 7 hours screen time. Here are some screenshots

lejars1 said:
sorry - I don't have time t do that. It is a standard size and fits complet;y under the standard cover.
I think that ther is amore powerful Mugen battery which does need a special cover - but mine is a standard size 2300ma
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No problem. If it has a standard shape and size, it's perfect.
I've already seen Mugen battery with high capacity (more than 4000mAh) which added 5mm on each side.

Battery life

Perhaps I'm crazy but I see no real improvement in battery life from ICS to Jellybean. Perhaps I am crazy, but that seems to be true. Thoughts? Anyone else experiencing the same?
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Not crazy at all. Many people have reported the opposite... that Jelly Bean actually reduced the battery life. If you are seeing no change then I would call that a good thing.

Stock everything.
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I'm pulling about 7 hours of battery as of now. Gonna run Juice Defender and see if I note any change.
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xTMFxOffshore said:
Perhaps I'm crazy but I see no real improvement in battery life from ICS to Jellybean. Perhaps I am crazy, but that seems to be true. Thoughts? Anyone else experiencing the same?
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Ah, another Photon refugee. Hope to see you have the same impact here as you did in the Photon forum. I am at 33+ hours with 71% battery remaining and Zdbox says that I still have >50 hours left (I sure as hell don't believe that). That being said, I am running a Hyperion 4200mah battery that has been great. I also have 54 frozen apps (including TouchWiz - I use ADW) and that has to help. Yesterday I downloaded Easy Battery Saver and am running it in intelligent mode and that seems to have had a large impact. We all know that battery life is a fragile thing and personal usage has the biggest influence. I don't use the phone alot, I am not on any social media and I'm usually on wifi. I'm sure that is a factor even though I'm on the Web a lot. Frankly, I' so happy with the setup that I'm currently running that I have not found a compelling reason to install a custom ROM.
Also, I don't auto update anything just to make sure that I update only on wifi.

Dschoms, I have no doubt at all this has a huge impact on it. I am always on my social media and what not. So again, sure that plays a role.
As for the battery, is that one of the thick ones? Like the extended one for the Evo?
And I was quite active on the Photon forums mostly testing and some aiding. Though most of that was working on kernels with Joker. But I'll help where I can.
And thanks for everyones input thus far. Appreciate it.
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xTMFxOffshore said:
Dschoms, I have no doubt at all this has a huge impact on it. I am always on my social media and what not. So again, sure that plays a role.
As for the battery, is that one of the thick ones? Like the extended one for the Evo?
And I was quite active on the Photon forums mostly testing and some aiding. Though most of that was working on kernels with Joker. But I'll help where I can.
And thanks for everyones input thus far. Appreciate it.
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Yeah, it does approximately double the thickness of the phone, but the replaceable battery was the determing factor for getting the S3 over the HTC. I use the GPS a fair amount and the larger battery was more desireable. Actually there were two things that I disliked about thd S3. One was the thinness and the other was the slickness of the case. I think the thicker battery gives the phone a better feel in my large hand. As for the slickness, I went to Home Depot and purchase an aerosol can of Plasti-Dip and coated the battery cover with a rubberized coating. Now I have a heftier phone with a non-slip surface and insane battery life. (2 days and two hours on the current charge with a THEORETICAL 55% and 32 hours lefT, LOL)

That's super rad. I may have to look into that non slip grip idea. Sounds like a good plan. Thanks for the info.
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So I ran Juice Defender and got a extra hour and fourty mins worth of battery life.
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Battery life is going to vary by user. EVERYONE uses the phone for different things.. So the person who occasionally text, looks something up may get extensive battery life, but a user who's online quite a bit.. Syncing FB, Emails constantly, will kill battery quicker. So it's a matter of making adjustments to conserve if that's what you prefer... Screen brightness to dimmer setting, Screen off at 15 Secs inactivity, Email sync to longer duration between, FB sync off, Little things like that will increase the life overall. Programs like Juice defender work awesome as well. leaving the network connected when not in use is a huge battery drain.. send to airplane mode or turn off data will help. I've done these things on all my Galaxy (EPIC). Do a search, you'll see some tips around here..

Yeah I'm akways on my phone. Sending e-mails and texts and all that jazz. Thanks.
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xTMFxOffshore said:
Yeah I'm akways on my phone. Sending e-mails and texts and all that jazz. Thanks.
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I use juice defender to help when i have my screen off, it'll disable data. (Can still get text messages just no email sync and such) turns back on with screen on. But it's all on the usage.. Can always invest in an extended life battery if you feel the urge. Makes the phone a bit thicker.. but gives ya longer battery life.

Yeah. I'm not super worried about the battery life and what not. Was just curious.
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