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So I've done my searching around. I really want a definite answer. My HTC Droid Incredible has ****ty battery life, to put it nicely. I can manage AT MOST 2 hours screen on time with no wifi (this is because I have unlimited data with Verizon). Battery life is a big priority with me when it comes to phones.
For the LTE Galaxy Nexus, what's the most screen on time you can get with 4G? And how much longer can you get if you disable 4G?
Also, if you were a Droid Incredible owner, how do they compare?
The incredible was my previous phone and I actually thought the battery life was pretty decent. I can get between 2.5 - 3.5 hours of screen on time with my Nexus. I usually keep 4G disabled as I don't need a 20 meg connection to sync my Gmail. On 4G you will probable get the same screen on time as the Inc.
**** Ripple said:
The incredible was my previous phone and I actually thought the battery life was pretty decent. I can get between 2.5 - 3.5 hours of screen on time with my Nexus. I usually keep 4G disabled as I don't need a 20 meg connection to sync my Gmail. On 4G you will probable get the same screen on time as the Inc.
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Are you using the regular battery or extended?
I get at least 11 hours if battery a day with 3-4 hours of screen time on the stock battery. The incredible got horrible battery compared to this phone. I usually only turn on mobile data when i use it and I'm always using LTE.
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Smokeey said:
I get at least 11 hours if battery a day with 3-4 hours of screen time on the stock battery. The incredible got horrible battery compared to this phone. I usually only turn on mobile data when i use it and I'm always using LTE.
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That's a relief I'm eligible to upgrade tomorrow, can't wait to get this phone!
TeeRom said:
That's a relief I'm eligible to upgrade tomorrow, can't wait to get this phone!
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Good, when you first get it the battery is gonna suck, you're gonna wanna be using all the time, but once you get used to it you start doing battery saving stuff and it gets good.
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I'd say without much tweaking the usual benchmark is 3hours screen on time.
YMMV
TeeRom said:
So I've done my searching around. I really want a definite answer. My HTC Droid Incredible has ****ty battery life, to put it nicely. I can manage AT MOST 2 hours screen on time with no wifi (this is because I have unlimited data with Verizon). Battery life is a big priority with me when it comes to phones.
For the LTE Galaxy Nexus, what's the most screen on time you can get with 4G? And how much longer can you get if you disable 4G?
Also, if you were a Droid Incredible owner, how do they compare?
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I just upgraded from the incredible. It's much better than the stock incredible battery (which quite frankly was unusable)... not as good as the seido extended battery I used for most of the time I had my incredible (that battery was actually overkill.. when new I would get almost 3 days.. lol)
I have no problems making it through the day with moderate usage (which I was not able to do on the stock incredible battery)
its funny with the extended battery i get around 10 hours, maybe 11 and the original battery is giving me around 13-14 hours, 3G on both, don't know what is going on.
yesterday i got about 7 hrs screen on, I'm unemployed at the moment, and i was playing ceramic destroyer for 3/4 of the time the rest was web surfing i still had 15% left. I'm on gummy latest using lous v3 kernel. i didn't get a screenshot but i was impressed. was on 4g the whole time. i don't really use 3g so i can't comment on that aspect. my old phone was an incredible as well. i would say they're pretty close but I'm much happier with the nexus
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pete_kowalski83 said:
yesterday i got about 7 hrs screen on, I'm unemployed at the moment, and i was playing ceramic destroyer for 3/4 of the time the rest was web surfing i still had 15% left. I'm on gummy latest using lous v3 kernel. i didn't get a screenshot but i was impressed. was on 4g the whole time. i don't really use 3g so i can't comment on that aspect. my old phone was an incredible as well. i would say they're pretty close but I'm much happier with the nexus
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7 hours screen on...... jeez. That's amazing.
Yeah...if it sounds too good to be true...
My phone can burn 10-15% of battery juice an hour with heavy use. You could call that mostly screen on.
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7 hours screen on...... jeez. That's amazing.
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When i read my ebooks i can get 8 hours screen time. Black color, non cpu intensive, and after 1 hour its still at %90.
Theres a thread here where someone did screen tests, and they got 10 hours screen time on black, and 5 hours on white. So this phone is definitely capable.
My two Brothers just picked up the unlocked GSM Nexus off the Play/Market store last week. One has it running on pre-paid T-Mobile, the other on Straight Talk ATT, and their battery life is ****ing unbelievably better than what three of us get on the Verizon Nexus, and we are not using 4G/LTE at all.
Both my Brothers use their phone at work, no Wifi just the 3G signal, and they both text me this week telling me battery life %. Right now after 4+ hours unplugged they both around 85%-90%, not using it except sending several texts and reading websites. And after a work day unplugged for like 10 hours they both have like 70%-75% left.
Now myself, my Wife and buddy have the Verizon Nexus, my Wife barely uses her phone at all, and at lunch time will be at like 70% battery left, and after getting home still unplugged for 10+ hours she's at like 45%. Where my Brothers with same use would be at 70%.
My buddy has the same as my Wife's usage, no WiFi wither, not using phone much and his phone is at like 40% after 12 hours or so. Both of them have 4G/LTE off and GPS off, and no sync on.
I use my phone a lot for work sales calls, and I am in the red by like 4:00pm, I get maybe 7 - 9 hours of use on a busy workday.
My Brother on the GSM T-Mobile, said after 23 hours his phone was at 45% battery life, and that was him using it quite a bit, dozens and dozens of texts, lots of websurfing, tons of e-mails. Our Verizon Nexus would never get that kind of battery life.
It is known. What really matters though is screen on time.
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It is known. What really matters though is screen on time.
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I agree screen time is crucial. But my Wife uses her Verizon Nexus very little at work and by time she comes home is at like 45% battery after about 12 hours or so. My Brother on GSM Nexus after 12 hours and using it a bit more would be at 70% battery.
That is a HUGE difference in battery life with very similar use.
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Zorachus said:
I agree screen time is crucial. But my Wife uses her Verizon Nexus very little at work and by time she comes home is at like 45% battery after about 12 hours or so. My Brother on GSM Nexus after 12 hours and using it a bit more would be at 70% battery.
That is a HUGE difference in battery life with very similar use.
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do they work in the same building?
if your wife works in a place with not as good of a signal, i expect her battery to drain faster as the phone is trying to get more signal.
I installed AOKP 5 on her phone last night. Her battery seems much better. Unplugged for 7 hours at 80% battery now. That is a major upgrade. But again she barely uses her phone at all during work, pretty much just sits there. Where my Brother with same use today is at 90%.
I am running CM9, unplugged for 6 hours at 35% battery, but I use my phone a lot during work. Have 2.5 hours screen time. Tons of texts...lots emails...several phone calls....web surfing.
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With GSM you can expect around 3 hours screen time and tons of standby time.
The standby time is great, but the screen time is somewhat mediocre to me.
Some days my battery just gets ate and others (like today) I'm having good battery. Usually I'm finding that apps are open in the background even after I hit back to "close" them. So if I keep up on the "Recents" menu and swipe it all away, I see an improvement.
I'm waiting for the MIUI styled "X" that closes ALL recent apps in one strike. Every little bit helps. An older version of Gummy (x.8) I had insane battery life. From 8am-3pm I would still have like 75%. I'm running LiquidSmooth right now and at 3pm I am at 60%. This was with 40 emails and 2 20min calls. No texting today
But LiquidSmooth has more options and is much faster then Gummy, so IMO the small battery difference is a good trade off. Later Gummy versions seems to consume more battery while lacking in the features.
AOKP never ran well for me in either the performance or battery department. Seemed to be laggy AND battery lousy. However I haven't played with it in a few weeks.
I too keep 4G disabled but I also have WiFi on all day (I never turn it off). I also use "Bluetooth On Call" which enables my bluetooth while on a call, so I can use a wireless headset. It automatically disables bluetooth, but I'm sure it consumes more battery then a normal call.
I only have 40minutes of screen ON time too. Mostly quick checks of emails. A few turns of WordFued and DrawSomething. I do work in a dungeon with little/no signal, which I suspect eats it up.
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But it depends what you do in that screen time. If you do a lot of gaming and browsing with 3 hours it's great. If you just swipe through the home screen and send a couple text message with 6 hours of screen time, not so great.
A cool test would be to turn on airplane mode and play a movie. I'd be interested to see if it has something to do with programming vs hardware.
Then the same test with 3G.
Both really need to be setup similarly, same wallpaper, apps, etc, to really get a good measure of comparison
This isn't a news flash. Its been pretty well known.
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But it depends what you do in that screen time. If you do a lot of gaming and browsing with 3 hours it's great. If you just swipe through the home screen and send a couple text message with 6 hours of screen time, not so great.
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Well, yes and no. Gaming does use more cpu and such than just flipping through your home screens so I see where your coming from and agree to an extent.. But also consider that display is almost always the biggest battery consumer in battery stats, regardless of what you are using it for.
If you switch the 4G off then it will be a different story.
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I installed AOKP 5 on her phone last night. Her battery seems much better. Unplugged for 7 hours at 80% battery now. That is a major upgrade. But again she barely uses her phone at all during work, pretty much just sits there. Where my Brother with same use today is at 90%.
I am running CM9, unplugged for 6 hours at 35% battery, but I use my phone a lot during work. Have 2.5 hours screen time. Tons of texts...lots emails...several phone calls....web surfing.
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If you really want to compare the battery on all those phones, at the end of the day have your wife, your buddy, your brothers, etc...send you a screen shot of their battery stats. There are so many reasons why your battery life can change, and unless you are following someone all day then you really won't know the full picture.
And yes I usually say screen on time is a better "quick" comparison of battery life. Someone who has a display timeout of 1 min compared to someone with 5 min will have significantly different battery results, even with similar usage.
LTE is a *****.
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If you switch the 4G off then it will be a different story.
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This.
player911 said:
A cool test would be to turn on airplane mode and play a movie. I'd be interested to see if it has something to do with programming vs hardware.
Then the same test with 3G.
Both really need to be setup similarly, same wallpaper, apps, etc, to really get a good measure of comparison
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CDMA radio technology is a bit worse on battery than GSM, I'm betting that's where most of the difference comes from (LTE excluded obviously). With my screen on constantly, I've gone over 5.5 hours of screen on time before on my VZW GNex with about 50% 3G/50% WIFI usage. Again though, that was almost constant screen on from 100% to 0% battery. I've also watched the entirety of LOTR: Return of the King Extended Cut (4:20 minute run time) with my phone while also having 2 or so hours of standby on one charge, but I was in airplane mode for the majority of the movie watching. The screen is absolutely the worst battery killer by leaps and bounds and that will hold true no matter the variant.
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Well, yes and no. Gaming does use more cpu and such than just flipping through your home screens so I see where your coming from and agree to an extent.. But also consider that display is almost always the biggest battery consumer in battery stats, regardless of what you are using it for.
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True, it always is the biggest battery consumer as anything you do on the phone requires the screen to be on. But it also depends on what kind of users we are. If you use your phone mainly for calling and texting and emails, then 4+ hours of screen time with a total of 16 hours should be good and doable. But if you do a lot of gaming, browsing web, tasks that are heavy then 3hours+ on screen time with a total of 10-12 hours on the chart is pretty good I think.
I agree with a previous poster, screen on time is all that matters. That's why I got an ugly humpbacked Trexcell 3800 battery. Now I get 5 1/2 hours of screen on time on my Verizon GNex. Great when compared to my old time of about 2 hours.
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None of us on the Verizon Nexus have 4G on. We all leave LTE off.
So why is the GSM version getting substantially better battery life ? Seems to be at least a 25% difference, if not 1/3rd better battery life on the GSM Nexus.
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None of us on the Verizon Nexus have 4G on. We all leave LTE off.
So why is the GSM version getting substantially better battery life ? Seems to be at least a 25% difference, if not 1/3rd better battery life on the GSM Nexus.
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See my post above. CDMA radios are slightly worse on battery than GSM radios.
Like I said, I've seen 5.5 hours of screen on before once and 4+ many many times. I highly doubt the difference in battery between my VZW Nexus and a GSM Nexus under constant use from 100% charge would be more than +/-5% in either direction so the difference is somewhere in the standby times of the two devices ie. GSM vs. CDMA radio.
So I 've been wanting to really test how long my battery could go with minimal use.
This included...
about 45 minutes of 3G tethering
and about 13 hours on 3G. 4G was disabled the whole entire time
As you can see it was idle a lot, but I almost got 2 full days on stock battery. So no complaints.
Part of me feels like if it was not for that 3G tethering maybe I could have got 4 more hours+
Not bad indeed.
Would rather use my phone and have to charge when I get home then leave it in my pocket all day.
Also your wifi was toggled on the whole time... that would have saved some battery.
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my gnexus can only last 1hr and 50mins of screen time and i have to charge it ~2 or ~3 times per day.
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my gnexus can only last 1hr and 50mins of screen time and i have to charge it ~2 or ~3 times per day.
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That sounds pretty dire....are you running at full brightness with Wifi and bluetooth and the GPS on (happens e.g. if you enable GPS for apps and then open Facebook) and no screen timeout while running the camera?
I've had an hour of screen time, and about 9 hours of screen off; I've not had it on to charge at all today, and I'm at 60% battery.
If you go into settings/battery, what else is keeping your phone awake? In other threads, people suggest installing 'Better Battery Stats' (nb, cheap, not free) and posting screen shots of the kernel/partial wakelocks. I can't interpret them myself, but others can...
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my gnexus can only last 1hr and 50mins of screen time and i have to charge it ~2 or ~3 times per day.
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How is the signal strength where you spend most of your time?
When I'm at home, it's crap, and I'm about in the same boat as you.
You can get the better battery stats for free if you can locate the guys thread here on xda. But I recommend at least donating to him for such a useful app.
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The only complaint I have with this phone is the massive difference between hspa and lte versions in battery life. Other than the razr maxx no late phone has acceptable battery life including the nexus. To get 5-6.5 hours screen time on my nexus versus friends 2.5-3 on an lte version is just crummy. I know some people just have extra batteries but that short of usable battery life is just too much of a hassle for me when I'm out and about. I would be forced to get a huge ugly seidio battery if I needed to move to Verizon. Even with 4g disabled the Verizon/sprint versions don't get the screen time I get with my hspa nexus. I really hope lte radios get more efficient and battery tech gets better. Removable or not, all phones can be made as sleek with a huge battery if manufacturers wanted. The maxx is proof of that.
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I am giving my machine a hard time every day. Usually it ****s up after something like 4 hours. That is much better than the old machine I had. However, it is not good enough cause I work for 8 hours. So after the midday break in the canteen there is no more angry birds for me. I think of getting a second machine, one for the morning and one for the afternoon.
Yay, another super 1337 battery thread.
Check out my super 1337 battery savings with a stock battery!!!
/Facepalm.
I'm lucky to break 2 hours screen time on my GSM phone before I have to recharge. How the hell you guys managing such spectacular battery life?
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I'm lucky to break 2 hours screen time on my GSM phone before I have to recharge. How the hell you guys managing such spectacular battery life?
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what's your signal strength during that time? At work I get horrible reception, and leave work probably around their percent. Weekend I could away without charging
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CoronaDelux said:
I'm lucky to break 2 hours screen time on my GSM phone before I have to recharge. How the hell you guys managing such spectacular battery life?
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Lol, how's this for on screen time on a stock battery? I just managed to get the screens before I had to charge it up, It's the longest I've gotten with my ROM and kernel combo. Last screen shows it's the ~1800 mAh battery, the third line down reads 35/1750 mAh.
*Edit* Hold the phone, 1400 mAh is stock, right? My 'stock' battery is 1750mAh... How does that work?
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How did you manage that?
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How did you manage that?
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Wifi and conservative use... well kind of I probably could have gone long... but couldn't stop using the phone.
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Is everyone else getting strange battery drops? When the battery is at 19%, it drops directly to 15%, without going through 18,17,16. Is this happening to you or is my battery screwed up? It's been doing it for weeks now so I don't think it's about lack of battery training
This is with a genuine 2000mah extended battery, minimal use over a long weekend. This is also with emails, facebook etc all polling at 30 min intervals, wifi on but not always connected and screen on auto brightness. I had also conditioned the battery by fully charging and discharging about 5 times when the battery was new.
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This is with a genuine 2000mah extended battery, minimal use over a long weekend. This is also with emails, facebook etc all polling at 30 min intervals, wifi on but not always connected and screen on auto brightness. I had also conditioned the battery by fully charging and discharging about 5 times when the battery was new.
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Screen on time?
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Screen on time?
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Looks like 35mins...
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I like the VZW GNex a lot after trying a lot of different devices. Reason is because the Verizon Nexus is as close to vanilla Google.
What I don't like about it is the battery life.
Is there a solution?
Not really.
VZW GNex is pretty atrocious when it comes to battery life. The best you can do is fiddle with kernels, but don't expect miracles.
Before you ask, every phone is different and each responds to kernels differently. You'll have to personally try each one to find the one that gives you the best results.
Its only bad when using mobile data extensively. Its perfectly fine on WiFi or using data in a strong signal area. Its still better than the majority of the 2011 lte phones on mobile. The s4 phones do a lot better on mobile though. I personally have had very few issues making it through the day with battery to spare. I have found that it drains very little during idle which is not the case with a lot of phones which seem to wake lock quite a bit.
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I couldn't believe how bad the VZW Galaxy Nexus was with battery until I got my GSM Nexus. I have easily over double the battery life with a smaller battery.
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Tonight, I set my phone to Airplane mode, on full battery, played Vice City for about an hour and a half and my battery died. No wifi or bluetooth was on.
I'm on stock, no root. I love this phone but the battery sucks bad. Next phone will definitely have to have a beefy battery.
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Tonight, I set my phone to Airplane mode, on full battery, played Vice City for about an hour and a half and my battery died. No wifi or bluetooth was on.
I'm on stock, no root. I love this phone but the battery sucks bad. Next phone will definitely have to have a beefy battery.
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GTA vice city drains battery really much because of its graphics, etc.
Vice city drains battery something 10% when playing it 20min... It drains much more battery than liberty city.
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GTA vice city drains battery really much because of its graphics, etc.
Vice city drains battery something 10% when playing it 20min... It drains much more battery than liberty city.
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Oh okay, that makes sense. I'll try it again with a less intense game and see what happens. Thanks for the info.
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All phones battery pretty much suck when playing any type of 3d game. They have to run at full power mode during it so power management isn't doing anything. I can get around 4 to 5.5 hours of web browsing on wifi.
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The_other_ray said:
Tonight, I set my phone to Airplane mode, on full battery, played Vice City for about an hour and a half and my battery died. No wifi or bluetooth was on.
I'm on stock, no root. I love this phone but the battery sucks bad. Next phone will definitely have to have a beefy battery.
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That's where a Nexus 7 comes in handy
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The Gnex has amazing battery life compared to the Rezound. I had the Rezound for a year and the battery life was abysmal. It lasted a whole 4-5 hours even with it being underclocked to 384 while the screen was off and with a screen on time of about an hour and brightness anywhere from 50-75%, it also came with a 1650 MAh battery. I got my Gnex about a month ago off of ebay and it came with the 2100 MAh battery and I've been using that and it easily lasts throughout the whole day. I have it underclocked to 192 when the screen is off and even with about 2-3 hours of screen on time I get easily 8 hours out of it. I would stream pandora over LTE for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening and intermittent usage in between, by the time I would get home about 9 hours later I'd be at like 20%.
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The Gnex has amazing battery life compared to the Rezound. I had the Rezound for a year and the battery life was abysmal. It lasted a whole 4-5 hours even with it being underclocked to 384 while the screen was off and with a screen on time of about an hour and brightness anywhere from 50-75%, it also came with a 1650 MAh battery. I got my Gnex about a month ago off of ebay and it came with the 2100 MAh battery and I've been using that and it easily lasts throughout the whole day. I have it underclocked to 192 when the screen is off and even with about 2-3 hours of screen on time I get easily 8 hours out of it. I would stream pandora over LTE for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening and intermittent usage in between, by the time I would get home about 9 hours later I'd be at like 20%.
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Yeah, mine is pretty horrid too, after a year of use it has gone downhill bigtime with updates/use.
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The Gnex has amazing battery life compared to the Rezound. I had the Rezound for a year and the battery life was abysmal. It lasted a whole 4-5 hours even with it being underclocked to 384 while the screen was off and with a screen on time of about an hour and brightness anywhere from 50-75%, it also came with a 1650 MAh battery. I got my Gnex about a month ago off of ebay and it came with the 2100 MAh battery and I've been using that and it easily lasts throughout the whole day. I have it underclocked to 192 when the screen is off and even with about 2-3 hours of screen on time I get easily 8 hours out of it. I would stream pandora over LTE for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening and intermittent usage in between, by the time I would get home about 9 hours later I'd be at like 20%.
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I too went to the GNex from the Rezound, was night and day, the GNex battery is twice as good as the Rezound's was, remember that everyone, there is worse.
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I too went to the GNex from the Rezound, was night and day, the GNex battery is twice as good as the Rezound's was, remember that everyone, there is worse.
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I have to agree with this. I have/had the rezound with the extended battery, and I could barely make it a day. The Gnex has between 50 and 75 % when I get home. The rezound would be between 5 and 40 %
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Hey everyone,
My battery life is at 65% with only 3H "on battery" time.
The screen has used up 52% of my battery life -_-
It's on Automatic settings...
Any advice.. this is a HUGE battery drain.. should i turn off Automatic and just set it to something lower?
computermilk said:
Hey everyone,
My battery life is at 65% with only 3H "on battery" time.
The screen has used up 52% of my battery life -_-
It's on Automatic settings...
Any advice.. this is a HUGE battery drain.. should i turn off Automatic and just set it to something lower?
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I am having the exact opposite. Did you fully charge it overnight?
Received my s4 last night. Fully charged over night. been using it for all morning adding apps over 4g, spotify, screen display, etc
5h/1m on battery with screen on alot etc, and 66% still
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I am having the exact opposite. Did you fully charge it overnight?
Received my s4 last night. Fully charged over night. been using it for all morning adding apps over 4g, spotify, screen display, etc
5h/1m on battery with screen on alot etc, and 66% still
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my advise to yall is turn off wifi, gps, bluetooth and sync wen not using them
Yeah, I had the opposite yesterday. Charged to full, screen on 50% brightness for 3+ hours, benchmarking, all sensors on, etc.
Today its still going strong. Bad battery maybe?
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seems like its just you. i have everything on and im currently at 50% with 6 hours mid-heavy use
Here are my results after 6 days of use.
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Here are my results after 6 days of use.
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Damn! That looks impressive. Are you using the i9500 or the i9505? Also, what did you have enabled/disabled and how heavy were you using your device? It looks like you could last an entire 24 hours on one charge.
if someone can tell me the button combo to take a screenshot ill upload mine
I was shocked my battery lasted all day with wifi and bluetooth on. Something must be wrong with your unit. I am just now charging it - 14 hours later after HEAVY use of texting and internet all day today. I even use the face recognition to unlock the screen.
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if someone can tell me the button combo to take a screenshot ill upload mine
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its power + home
btw yeah; the battery life in the s4 is exellent.
i have no problems like the OP
Heavy usage.
50% brightness
WiFi on
Download a ton of apps that I had on old phone. That's took forever. Seems better then galaxy s3.
1st charge
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computermilk said:
Hey everyone,
My battery life is at 65% with only 3H "on battery" time.
The screen has used up 52% of my battery life -_-
It's on Automatic settings...
Any advice.. this is a HUGE battery drain.. should i turn off Automatic and just set it to something lower?
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To cure your problem. ....
New device for first time comes to life doesn't have calibration set by OP system. .....
So first charge your phone to full and go beyond warning to charge and go down to 3-4 % remaining charge then plug to charge and charge without stopping to 100%
And do 2-3 times like this then your battery discharge will show properly
Also good habits are to use .....
Hold home button for 2-3 second and open little bottom screen click on bottom left and choose ram.....then clear ram....any time you going to idle and each time you going to charge. .....to find more about what this do search XDA .....
Also there is many hungry apps on market that runs under ground all the time. ....so learn and discover how to take control of your phone and make it run like champion
#2 you can use ES task manager to do some fine tuning to get the most juice of your battery
#3 Better battery stats
#4 Battery booster
#5 Juice defender. .....are some alternative to top of the iceberg on your solution. ....or you can take time and learn to do all this by yourself manually
Sent from SGH-S959G
I'm pretty happy with my battery life
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People saying the battery life is a small bump from the S3 are insane... Its a HUGE bump!
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Only used the S4 for two days so far, but the battery life is only slightly better than or equal to S3 for me.
Is everyone who posted on LTE or just hspa+, 2g etc?
I notice a big improvement ( like another person mentioned in another thread) when lte is off. My speedtest results between lte and hspa were the same download speeds but lte had better upload by two megabit.
battery life for me is great, then again im coming from an htc amaze lol. That battery suuuucked.
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I did a few more tests w speed test.net and noticed that when on HSPA plus and not on LTE I actually get faster download speeds. On LTE it was 8 to 10 megabits the last 24 hours and now HSPA plus I'm getting 18 to 21 megabit down. Anyone know why this might be?
P.s. live in Manhattan NyC.
criticalchild said:
Is everyone who posted on LTE or just hspa+, 2g etc?
I notice a big improvement ( like another person mentioned in another thread) when lte is off. My speedtest results between lte and hspa were the same download speeds but lte had better upload by two megabit.
battery life for me is great, then again im coming from an htc amaze lol. That battery suuuucked.
update
I did a few more tests w speed test.net and noticed that when on HSPA plus and not on LTE I actually get faster download speeds. On LTE it was 8 to 10 megabits the last 24 hours and now HSPA plus I'm getting 18 to 21 megabit down. Anyone know why this might be?
P.s. live in Manhattan NyC.
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Depends when you do the test because more people may be on the network at certain times. But I thought lte wasnt launched in nyc yet...
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I was considering picking one of these up if the battery was better than what I'm getting with the One but sadly this seems worse. I'd like to see more results before concluding that it's any worse.
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xXchrizhurtyXx said:
Depends when you do the test because more people may be on the network at certain times. But I thought lte wasnt launched in nyc yet...
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app
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you could be right.
the representative told me LTE was in New York City but as we know they know nothing... its still weird that when the phone is set to LTE auto he gets slower speeds than one connected on HSPA plus.