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Is this normal battery life for the Galaxy Nexus?

Hey everyone,
I'm barely getting any juice out of the Galaxy Nexus and I was wondering if this is normal. I'm on Android Revolution HD 2.1.2 on the Jame Bond kernel oc'd to 1.4GHz and heavily undervolted. I mean I know its overclocked but that little battery?
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Overclocking runs the battery down faster. That's just life.
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That's worse than a non rooted gnex lol
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gfsincere said:
Overclocking runs the battery down faster. That's just life.
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Why would you want to oc anyway? There's nothing bogging the GN down.
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As you are on a custom rom it could be down to a few factors.
1. overclocking is generating more heat and your battery is dying faster
2. bugs or issues with battery life on the rom you flashed
3. kernel is causing the cpu never to go into sleep mode
4. badly written application causing the phone to stay awake much more than it should.

Two hours screen on time isn't the worst I have ever seen..
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What does the solid blue line under the graph represent?

mohitrocks said:
Hey everyone,
I'm barely getting any juice out of the Galaxy Nexus and I was wondering if this is normal. I'm on Android Revolution HD 2.1.2 on the Jame Bond kernel oc'd to 1.4GHz and heavily undervolted. I mean I know its overclocked but that little battery?
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I would think that since Google plus and Facebook account for 14% of that part of your problem is there. And your kernel. Undervolting probably just offsets the GPU @ 384 mhz. And overclocking seems unnecessary if that is your typical usage.
I was getting 4+, almost 5 hours display time on cellular data earlier this week in 8-9 hour rundown and my kernel is completely stock. If I had uv'ing I probably could've cleared 5 hours display.
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That battery life is nothing to sneeze at. It's pretty good considering the OC settings and running apps imo... As long as you have a charger handy I wouldn't worry about the battery that much. You have the phone equivalent of a Porsche - no need to drive it at 25 mph to save on gas mileage
Terminators run on Android...

[Q] Graphics Performance

What are the most suitable games that i can test my gnex's cpu and gpu performance? Thanks.

Y not use a benchmarking app like quadrant?
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Conservative governor. Strangely good experience with Franco kernal

I've had a strangely smooth and good experience on Franco's kernel on cm9 with the conservative governor on the stock frequencies. Scrolling seems less jittery and the battery is excellent. It must priorities the threads differently than other governors.
I am on 196 512 gpu. Easily getting over 4 hours screen on time close to 5 on my vzw nexus.
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blackhand1001 said:
I've had a strangely smooth and good experience on Franco's kernel on cm9 with the conservative governor on the stock frequencies. Scrolling seems less jittery and the battery is excellent. It must priorities the threads differently than other governors.
I am on 196 512 gpu. Easily getting over 4 hours screen on time close to 5 on my vzw nexus.
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What size battery?
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Franco kernel on CM9
I was trying Franco kernel on CM9, but I noticed that System settings would FC when I went into Storage. Thought maybe they aren't compatible. If you've been using that combo for a while with no other problems, maybe I'll give it another shot. Are you pretty confident with it?

I Am Marino said:
What size battery?
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The 2100 OEM extended.
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Best processor ever

I have to say I am very imppressed by this phones processor out of every phone I had exynos is the best.I had the lg optimus g and couldnt deal with the random force closes and laginess. Best processor ever leave your comments on thid beast ass processor
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Hmm. I have the Optimus g too but I feel that it is a lot more faster than the note 2 I also have. Funny how everyone's experience is different
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Maknora said:
Hmm. I have the Optimus g too but I feel that it is a lot more faster than the note 2 I also have. Funny how everyone's experience is different
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Your spell checker seems to be better as well

funnycreature said:
Your spell checker seems to be better as well
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more better

Haha thanks. I really just like the Optimus g.
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This phone has been silky smooth and gobbled up everything I've thrown at it. I was shocked at how much faster it is than my Nexus 7, and certainly faster than my Skyrocket.
The only thing that drives me nuts about the processor is the wake lag every time I turn it on from deep sleep. I'll learn to live with it, but this phone would be almost perfect if that were fixed (not including software tweaks).

Jrockttu said:
This phone has been silky smooth and gobbled up everything I've thrown at it. I was shocked at how much faster it is than my Nexus 7, and certainly faster than my Skyrocket.
The only thing that drives me nuts about the processor is the wake lag every time I turn it on from deep sleep. I'll learn to live with it, but this phone would be almost perfect if that were fixed (not including software tweaks).
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Yea well reducing the processor to that low of a clock speed is partly responsible for the crazy ass battery life of this phone. I'd rather have another millisecond of unlock time and gain several hours of battery life. Fine with me.
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i dunno about that... the Snapdragon S4 Pro is quite a beast... it's technically faster than this exynos...
i bet it comes down to software and how well it works with the hardware

ShadowVlican said:
i dunno about that... the Snapdragon S4 Pro is quite a beast... it's technically faster than this exynos...
i bet it comes down to software and how well it works with the hardware
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Look at the Engadget review of the Nexus 4. The note 2 (exynos) beat the snapdragon s4 pro in 4/6 benchmarks and they felt like the exy was better in normal use and battery efficiency. Just look up Nexus 4 review on engadget- Nexus 4,Optimus G, note 2 are all compared. Look at the benchmark table. Note 2 wins 4/6.
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I love the power and speed of my note.... But seriously, benchmarks mean nothing to me. It's real life usage that matters. . Not an app that measures potential.
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I've never seen any huge advantage of the Exynos processors over any others, mainly because they are just stock ARM designs. If Samsung wanted to impress me, they would pay for an architecture license. The A6 is pretty hard to beat, given the performance AND battery life, and I really like my S4 Pro, although it is a bit of a juice hog.

The exynos is a heavily modified arm design, and apples a6 is very very similar to it.
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ShadowVlican said:
i dunno about that... the Snapdragon S4 Pro is quite a beast... it's technically faster than this exynos...
i bet it comes down to software and how well it works with the hardware
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That's why you see iphones perform very well despite the specs looking like they are lacking. The iphone 5 after playing with it is just as fast as my Note 2 but it's only dual core and clocked much lower. RAM is also lower.

Pretty sure the reason the a6 is as smooth or smother with lower specs is due to software optimization and the fact it uses 3 core gpu ( which everyone seems to leave out when they make these statements). That is where apple has done good.
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Jrockttu said:
...The only thing that drives me nuts about the processor is the wake lag every time I turn it on from deep sleep. I'll learn to live with it, but this phone would be almost perfect if that were fixed (not including software tweaks).
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How long of a lag are you talking about? Are you sure it's not the home button lag from S Voice being enabled?

Mad383Max said:
Pretty sure the reason the a6 is as smooth or smother with lower specs is due to software optimization and the fact it uses 3 core gpu ( which everyone seems to leave out when they make these statements). That is where apple has done good.
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One area Apple has excelled in is GPU performance. I'm surprised Samsung doesn't push the limits in this area harder. I don't play games much myself but as you said it goes beyond just playing your favorite games on a phone.

Nexus 4 <3
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exynos is king right now (i'm ignoring apple, since it's not apples-to-apples, excuse the pun). exynos 5 is going to be ridiculous. actually it already is, inside the samsung chromebook.

Normally id say cant wait for the note 3 with the quad xenyos 5, but im happy with the note 2, and I hope they wait a year before releasing it. No more 6 month life cycles please
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jackxlj said:
The exynos is a heavily modified arm design, and apples a6 is very very similar to it.
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No, not even close. A6/A6X are heavily modified ARM, and Exynos is just tweaked stock. Samsung doesn't have the architecture license, last I checked. Apple does.
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Nova 3

Anyone know if this game works on this device? Don't wanna buy it and have it not work.
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Last I checked Google Play allows returns within 15 minutes of purchase, in case it doesn't and you have the misfortune of finding out first hand.

it does but id reccomend using m kernel to help boost performance, definetly is not optimized for tegra 3

works fine for me!

Lag made it unplayable for me - so I uninstalled it.
Willing to wait for a Tegra 3 version.

its not laggy well certainly after the first mission

rmm200 said:
Lag made it unplayable for me - so I uninstalled it.
Willing to wait for a Tegra 3 version.
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You'll be waiting till the end of the world bud.. thats never coming. Lameloft doesnt optimize their games. I tested it once and it was laggy to the point of unplay-ability. But i got it for 10cents

I have modern combat 3 and dead space.....when you then play nova 3 you notice the difference. It played better on my evo 3d!.......I'm running smoothrom and motleys kernel on me nexus 7
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I've played about an hour of it and at two points I experienced lag once was about 20-30 seconds of really stuttering unplayable lag but it passes, the second was only a couple of small stutters, it didn't really effect play much.
I have flashed faux123's kernel. I don't know how much of a difference that will make to game play just thought I'd mention it.
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I beat it, there is some lag when a lot of enemies are in the screen. I usually restated before playing. 95% of the time it was fine for me. Your milage may vary.
Thought that Nova 2 was a much more interesting single player campaign.
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Yeah it works but its $hit.
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I redownloaded it for testing. And it still runs like poop. It lags every time a few enemies populate. Which is the whole premise of the game... Making it completely unplayable. Used fps meter and the average fps was 20.. Which would be nice... But that's not constant. Once enemies are done it shoots up to 35fps.
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Its runs OK 2-3/5 stars I would rate it.
DO NOT USE THE GYROSCOPE. It is terribly inaccurate and slow, and make it lag even worse.
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