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My battery is terrible

Don't know what is going on. In one hour I lost 50%. Attempted to charge the phone with the USB charger and it read as if it were charging but the battery was still dropping.
Edit: I think it is slowing down now that it is at 50%. Sort of like it had a memory of being at 50%.
Keep getting a error when I try to add my screenshot from tapatalk.
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Coming from a rooted evo, I'm having excellent battery life.
seems like it takes forever to die.lol

Great life so far. Took off charger at 6:30 pm (now 7am) from 6:30 to 10pm moderate to heavy use. then sleep. Up at 6am and now sitting at 65%.
You may have a bad app that is causing it. I decided when I got the new phone that I wasn't transferring anything over (wanted a fresh start) also I install a few and then wait 30min to a hour. Bad apps show up now and then.
Just fyi the Google Music -beta app is one that on my EVO was a battery killer. Has to always kill it when I was done listening.

I wasn't doing anything out the normal. Task manger didn't see a problem with any apps staying open.
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Maybe a bad battery?
Either that or you have too many/ evil.apps or widgets running.
It also could be a problem with the built in power management malfunctioning.
If possible do a factory reset, if the problem persists take it/send it back so your not stuck with a borked phone.
my battery life has been great after 12 hours of heavy usage I was down to 10%.
I then charged it and left it unplugged for 8hrs and dropped from 60% to 49% battery.
Pretty spectacular if you ask me.
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Calibrate that *****... or go to sprint
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Also looked like you played a game a decent amount, games chug battery life on all devices.
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It is much better now. Still isn't any near as good as other devices here.
It might be related to my signal being weak at times.
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Widgets
On sense I saw a place to set how often the news and weather widgets would sync. I don't see a place for that on this one.

If you're in a bad signal area the battery gets pounded, but that's pretty much how it is on any other phone. I was in a bad signal area on Friday when I got it and the battery drain was a lot. Now that I'm in a good signal area, the battery drain is almost nothing. I have about 3% battery drain/hour right now, when I'm not using the phone. I also run skype in the back ground all the time. I'd say that's pretty damn good. Oh and skype is amazing on this thing, especially if you are on wifi!

this battery is phenomenal. Loving it

Silent25r said:
It is much better now. Still isn't any near as good as other devices here.
It might be related to my signal being weak at times.
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Searching for signal smashes battery for sure..especially on 4G
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JohnCorleone said:
Searching for signal smashes battery for sure..especially on 4G
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I don't even use 4g anymore. And this phone's 3g is plenty fast. I hate to say it but sprints 4g is looking like a gimmick.
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i use it all the time but i work in downtown pittsburgh... i get speeds in excess of 6mbps so im cool with it

AMAZING battery life!

I am completely amazed at the battery life I'm getting on this phone! Considering what a powerful device it is I would have been quite happy with getting about 12-15 hours out of it but ever since I loaded in the ROM and recent OTA update I have consistently got 2+ days of what I'd consider to be light use.
I'm running Calkulin's 2.0.1a ROM+included kernel, EK02 modem, and I also have Tiff's Nothin but the Honey v5.0 theme.
I attached an image of the battery stats page so y'all can see I aint lyin'!
Anyone else get this kinda battery life out of their E4GT?

Yeah I am getting pretty amazing battery life after calibrating properly and running blazer from 2.0. When i leave it on standby at 100 it only drops to like 80% after 24 hours. Love this phone!
Brought to you by the Samsung galaxy s2

My phone goes directly to 99% after i plug off the adaptor.. it's kinda annoying..
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You barely used your phone so amazing can mean many things. Next time click on display and show on screen time then we will really know if its amazing or not. I mean stand by time is great but unless I'm lost in the woods it won't help me.
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zelduy said:
My phone goes directly to 99% after i plug off the adaptor.. it's kinda annoying..
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Mine too.
This seemed to start after one time the phone got blazing hot while charging.
It was just sitting on my bed. It was so hot the processor was throttling and
everything was jerky.
It's never happened again, but now I never see > 99% on my battery. :-\

I agree. Running Calk's 2.0.1a with Rogue 1.3 kernel, I get great battery life
10 hours on extreme use during workday with tons of calls...GPS...tons of texts...lots of emails...on screen time of 3 hours+.
On light weekend use WiFi I get 30 hours easily.
My buddy has the new Nexus and is lucky to get half my battery life.
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zelduy said:
My phone goes directly to 99% after i plug off the adaptor.. it's kinda annoying..
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That is by design. Not going to go into the details, but it is part of the way they prevent overcharging of your battery.
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My wife went from epic 4g to gs2 epic touch and the battery life is fantastic. Couldn't be happier. Its on stock ek02

zelduy said:
My phone goes directly to 99% after i plug off the adaptor.. it's kinda annoying..
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If you think about it logically, the instant you being using your battery, its NOT 100% charged anymore.

display screenie please ;D

Fataldesain said:
You barely used your phone so amazing can mean many things. Next time click on display and show on screen time then we will really know if its amazing or not. I mean stand by time is great but unless I'm lost in the woods it won't help me.
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This
10 char
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My wife's uses her phoned the same way:
Epic 4g w anker 1800
15 hrs Max. 8 hrs 3g, rest wifi.
Epic touch gs2 stock
15 still 35% to go.
Same use. Great phone!

zelduy said:
My phone goes directly to 99% after i plug off the adaptor.. it's kinda annoying..
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That is the true battery life being displayed... It is impossible for the battery to be 100% full after pulling the battery out it would immediately drop to 99.9% it makes sense to me and is actually something I've wondered about on all of my other phones
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I'm barely getting 8 hrs with light use, not very happy to say the least.
Running EpIc VeNuM Rom Fast and Lean.
Any suggestions?

I am getting amazing battery life with unnamed rom . still at 50%

EK and EL releases helped a ton IMO. Even if I didn't use my phone all day on EG I might end with 40%. On EL I can go with no use and still be above 80.

Fataldesain said:
You barely used your phone so amazing can mean many things. Next time click on display and show on screen time then we will really know if its amazing or not. I mean stand by time is great but unless I'm lost in the woods it won't help me.
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That isn't a clear indicator either. I could have Pandora and GPS running over BT in my car which uses a lot of battery and that wouldn't help.

You guys should post screen shots of the screen on time. That is what will decide whether you're getting great battery life or not using your phone.

tenaciousj said:
You guys should post screen shots of the screen on time. That is what will decide whether you're getting great battery life or not using your phone.
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I don't have her phone in front of me but on 3g and wifi (half and half but barely used it at home) yesterday at 16 hrs it was at 65% w 1.5 hours screen on. Completely ****s on her previous phone

I have been unimpressed with the battery life. it will "NOT" last 1 day. heck sometimes I have to charge it twice
I might have a bum battery?? I just ordered the samsung charger with extra battery brand new. will see how that goes.
for now I use the 3950mah extended battery (lasts a full day) that I got off ebay.
I tried to let it update over the air but it always fails at clock widget and won't install the update?

When did your battery life start to get better?

I have had the phone for 5 days and with fairly light usage, I am still not getting good battery life. I turn off all data and wifi when not using it and screen on time is below 2 hours.
Below is a screenshot of my battery life.
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It doesn't get better...get used to it until its fixed in an update , along with the other big issues.
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By about the 3rd day it seemed better. But it's also difficult to gauge because the first few days you're bound to toy with it constantly.
Until there is an empirical way to gauge usage, like an amp meter attached to the phone - it's all perception imo.

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In the top left you have three things running in the background, im assuming constantly. Uninstall them, especially the battery percentage since you can look that up easily on your phone
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GalaxynexusVZW said:
I have had the phone for 5 days and with fairly light usage, I am still not getting good battery life. I turn off all data and wifi when not using it and screen on time is below 2 hours.
Below is a screenshot of my battery life.
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Do yourself a favor and try aokp milestone 1 from rootzwiki , and also download lean kernel 1.1.1 on xda. Use interactiveX governor for kernel. This is the exact setup I am using now, and have been for a few days and have been getting insane battery life. Hope everything works for you.
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Last time I checked lithium ion batteries don't get better after a few days and yes there are software fixes for battery life and bugs..
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Reality. And a week. And getting a gsm version might help
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cvbcbcmv said:
You really have no idea what you're talking about. First of all, it will get better, I won't bother explaining the science behind it considering you can do your own research, but it will, also, it can't be "fixed." Just like they can't make it an 8 mega pixel camera in an OTA. You can get it much better by doing custom roms and thigns of that nature.
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Oh stupid me and here I was hoping for a 15 mp camera
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It got better when I turned off vzw backup and google +.

Best I got is 16 hours bone stock just an extended battery. Worst I got was 4 hours(screen was on the whole time) watched 2 movies before I plugged in. I average around 12 hours from 100% to 20%.
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GalaxynexusVZW said:
I have had the phone for 5 days and with fairly light usage, I am still not getting good battery life. I turn off all data and wifi when not using it and screen on time is below 2 hours.
Below is a screenshot of my battery life.
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First off, it's hard to tell by your screenshot how good or bad your battery life is. You're burning approximately 10%/hr, but maybe you had your screen on or were surfing the internet for a portion of that time. Anything that involves data transfer will kill your battery faster.
I got my Galaxy Nexus on Wednesday, and I've had great battery from the start. I calibrated it by letting the phone's initial charge die down to zero, and then charged it all the way up to 100%, and then used the Battery Calibration tool. I drain between 2-3% hour with light use, but can obviously drain much more depending on what I'm using the phone for.
That being said, for those on this board who think an OS upgrade is going to fix the problem, I highly doubt it. I have a reasonably poor cell signal (averages around -95 dbm), but still get solid battery life. Given that we were all issued phones with the same software, if you're experiencing incredibly bad battery life, I'm going to point my finger at the hardware. It just doesn't make sense that some of us with 4.0.2 get great battery life, and others do not. You probably have either a bad battery or a bad phone. Now, I'll probably get called out for saying this, but watch all the posts that follow when the update releases, when people still have poor battery life.
This is my 3rd Android phone (Incredible, Charge, GN), and every one of these phones has had poor battery life. On average, if I'm playing around with the screen on, I'm draining upwards of 10%/hr, if not more. But if you properly calibrate the battery - which is VERY important - you should easily be able to get a full day's charge out of your phone.
There is a post on XDA about the 13 steps to proper battery calibration. Once I followed it on my last phone, my battery life went up at least 50%. You have to let the battery drain to 100%, then bump charge a number of times, then use the battery calibrator.

GalaxynexusVZW said:
I have had the phone for 5 days and with fairly light usage, I am still not getting good battery life. I turn off all data and wifi when not using it and screen on time is below 2 hours.
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Try running without JuiceDefender. Constantly toggling data on and off (or wifi on and off) actually hurts battery in almost all cases.

martonikaj said:
Try running without JuiceDefender. Constantly toggling data on and off (or wifi on and off) actually hurts battery in almost all cases.
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Your results may vary, but when I used Juice Defender or Green Power on my Droid Charge, I nearly doubled the battery life. I haven't put it on my GN yet because my battery life is much better than what I had with the Charge.

No using JD or anything like that. Just the the phone do its thing. I don't even open the multitask button unless I want to switch between apps.
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Gotta be a software issue with the battery.
Just this past weekend in Wash DC. Very strong 4 G market.
I had it fully charged off charger. After 7 hours without touching the phone even with google plus sign out, the battery went from 100% to 54%. It's like the phone was active a lot without me even touching it. No SMS/mms either. No emails either.
Know. I did same thing and put it on airplane mode with it 100% charged. After 7 hours on airplane mode it was at 98%.
So it's gotta be an operating system issue.
I tried it on wifi instead of 4G mode. And battery drainage was down to 72% after no use overnight.

Hey guys, how's my battery life?

im posting a day's usage for GS3 Tmo
can you guys tell me if the battery life is normal, bad, good?
(im posting the batt. life and top 5 usages)

the next 2 apps

What rom ?
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What rom ?
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completely stock, tmo bloat disabled, screen @ lowest brightness, sync off

With 27% left, I'd say that's about average-good.

Dear God, I get about 8 hours with average usage. Seems very good life to me. Do you have power saver and/or sync enabled?

It's exactly like mine. However, some users actually got theirs up to 5 hours screen time. How? I'll never know

Battery life good bro, cool story
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Mine's absolutely horrid, I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell's wrong with it. I'll run out of battery after about 12 hours, with the screen time at 1 hour and maybe 30 minutes if I'm lucky? The phone drinks away my battery in standby mode like a former alcoholic united with an opened beer. When I was on ICS, turning off 4G every time the screen was off with the AutomateIt app would give me excellent battery life. Ever since Jelly Bean, it doesn't seem to make a difference. I just don't even bother using AutomateIt anymore, I even uninstalled it. Useless. I check marked the option, "Restrict Background Data," but I actually had worse results with that on even. Following the thread about the Guide to good battery life, I turned off auto-sync. The only thing that seems to do for me is not get my emails in real time. No effect on the battery though. I'm guessing the battery drain has something to do with being on data (even though turning it off doesn't seem to do much) because everytime I go to school where there's little WiFi, battery's worse. Also, somehow my Messaging app takes up more battery than the screen. What's with that? I'll text every now and then, but it shouldn't eat away my battery like a fat man with the last batch of Twinkies. Enough with the dumb similes, haha, but I actually need help with this. I really don't wanna buy a battery off eBay cause the damn people are too lazy to send you the battery until a month passes, and I hate charging in the middle of the day.
I'm on 100% stock. I used to root and mess around with a ton of ROMs, but then I realized all my favourite ROMs were the ones closest to stock...

.... look at the eBay expected arrival and/or look for a seller in the USA ?
Anyway, that bit aside - have you installed something like BetterBatteryStats to be able to see what the problem is so you can fix it ?

kulzboy said:
It's exactly like mine. However, some users actually got theirs up to 5 hours screen time. How? I'll never know
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5 hours... how !?
Easy !
I'm on stock and if I'm almost all the day on WIFI, not playing too much games, and with auto-brightness,
I can get 5 to 6 hours screen time.
(but on 4G all the day, it's more around 3 hours screen time)

This is what most people get with normal use around 14 to 16 hours and 4 to 5 hours screen time. I think the biggest issue is that 4G radio that most people have on all the time. I I have wifi everywhere so most of the time I have mine off that helps a ton. Plus all the sync stuff off, I get about 6 hours over 17 hours battery life and about 30 to 40% brightness.
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14-16 is what was normal for me when I first got my GS3 (after JB update). If you want more battery life, I recommend trying juice defender (custom settings for data off while locked). If you have stretches where you don't use your phone it works really well. Just thought I would throw that out there.
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[Q] strange battery drain (updated)

I'm not complaining about battery life bit I just fond this strange how with nothing running my phone went from 20% to dead that fast. Phone was locked and in my pocket. Anyone have any ideas? It's also not the first time this has happened either just the first time I thought to get a screen shot of battery usage right after
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Now my phone is dying at random :/ it does it from 50%, 30% etc. Any suggestions (i.e. battery calibration, full factory reset) or should I make it stock again and get a replacement?
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I've found battery level to be unreliable at low levels. Even rebooting the phone when low will often yield varied results
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I know one day I will get the 14% notification and be good for like 45 minutes. Then another I'll get it and then bam phones dead
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Batteries are gauged by how much voltage they are pushing in most tests. Though from my hobbies of electric rc cars, I've learned that batteries can change their voltages simply from a temperature change. While these changes may not be significant, they do represent differences and used to play a big part in my fifteen minutes charge cycles. It's harder to receive a positive rating in a cell that is low on power than it is with one on max charge. So if I'm down to twenty percent or so, I use my phone very sparingly. Has been pretty trustworthy for me over the years.
Either way, suspicious battery drain is usually a rogue application sitting there eating resources as the phones we use do seem to monitor battery life pretty good compared to the old voltage meter methods.
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You have anything auto syncing? I know I use the nfl mobile app and that can put s drain on ny battery life.
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I found the htc-Facebook app drains funny on the battery. When I loaded bonestock, then loaded Facebook from the play store, it helped my battery. I think it's the way the htc-Facebook interacts with blinkfeed.
Could be completely of base, but I know the htc loaded Facebook is slightly different.
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charge it to 100 then bring it to down to 0. then back to 100 and youll probably be fine

mkeefner said:
I'm not complaining about battery life bit I just fond this strange how with nothing running my phone went from 20% to dead that fast. Phone was locked and in my pocket. Anyone have any ideas? It's also not the first time this has happened either just the first time I thought to get a screen shot of battery usage right after
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Now my phone is dying at random :/ it does it from 50%, 30% etc. Any suggestions (i.e. battery calibration, full factory reset) or should I make it stock again and get a replacement?
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I assume you had a good signal everywhere you went? Nothing drains a battery faster than being in an area where there is very low or no signal. It constantly tries to connect and it will KILL your levels very fast. I see this quite a bit in my work place. Employees with Sprint and many times AT&T will complain about their battery dying at work only to find out the phone was constantly searching for a signal.

mjs31 said:
I assume you had a good signal everywhere you went? Nothing drains a battery faster than being in an area where there is very low or no signal. It constantly tries to connect and it will KILL your levels very fast. I see this quite a bit in my work place. Employees with Sprint and many times AT&T will complain about their battery dying at work only to find out the phone was constantly searching for a signal.
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You know, I totally forgot about that. I used to have that issue with Sprint myself. Killing the data would eliminate TONS of battery usage when I was at work. Now that I'm on Verizon, there's never much problem. But he's completely right. If you're not getting a quality signal your phone may be searching and that can be an all day thing which just eats a battery alive.

I am in a near perfect signal. I'm pretty sure its has nothing to do with coverage. What's strange to me is the phone immediately dies. It will be at 50% and then the screen goes black and won't come back on. Once I plug it in the phone finally comes back on and is at zero.
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Exchange it. My first One had weird reboot issues. It might a bad phone.
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And another. Phone was right around 50% and then bam off
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And another. Phone was right around 50% and then bam off
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The battery is obviously defective. You need to get a replacement.
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Alright. Time to start the relock process :/
Thanks for the help everyone
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ddurandSGS3 said:
charge it to 100 then bring it to down to 0. then back to 100 and youll probably be fine
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That's bad juju for the type of batteries we have.

MissionImprobable said:
That's bad juju for the type of batteries we have.
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really? just once to recalibrate it? I only had to do it once with my S3 but it worked after that.
got a read that could give me some info? my bad ive done it in the past

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That's bad juju for the type of batteries we have.
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I'd have to search around, but taking these batteries all the way down actually reduces their effective life.
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Basically, the more you drain the power before charging, the less charge cycles the battery will have. Someone who charges at 75% compared to someone who charges at 25% will have more cycles over the life of the battery. I can't remember the exact numbers, but there's been plenty of studies on the issue. And if I'm correct charging at those numbers, the 75% will have more than twice the charge cycles over the life of the battery. The biggest battery killers though are actually higher amperage charges. One study showed more than five times the life cycle at 3.7v per cell compared to 4.3v. And the charging required to power the higher voltages actually cause more damage over time than the extra mah output is worth. The HTC one has a decent setup and the stock charger doesn't over feed the cells. But in not sure if it will make it to the 700 charge cycle that a two year contract may leave a user with.
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