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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
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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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Searching for signal smashes battery for sure..especially on 4G
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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
Alright I have grown beyond angry at how crapy my battery life is...... I go into school with 100 percent battery and everything off except texting and calling (which I send like 5 texts all day) and I come out with less than 70 percent. I have low signal in the building though, and my phone is set to the lowest speed on power save and I hardly ever turn the screen on. I would like for you guys to share your battery life's here with screen shots if you have them and your whole setup. Thanks beforehand!
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You know.., there are some threads made showing/asking battery life. Here's one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1834634
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Well seems like your phone does not deep-sleep very well? 30% drain doing hardly anything seems much even if the reception is low. I have excellent idle-drain on my Nexus as seen in my attachment.
What does your battery stats show you after a day at school?
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Alright I have grown beyond angry at how crapy my battery life is...... I go into school with 100 percent battery and everything off except texting and calling (which I send like 5 texts all day) and I come out with less than 70 percent. I have low signal in the building though, and my phone is set to the lowest speed on power save and I hardly ever turn the screen on. I would like for you guys to share your battery life's here with screen shots if you have them and your whole setup. Thanks beforehand!
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How long is school? What ROM/Kernel, if any, are you running? Is this the stock battery?
I am losing about 1-2%/hour while I sleep but I feel I get acceptable battery life. I am running Affinity with default Franco r249 kernel. I also have an 2100 mAh battery. Using WiFi almost the whole time this is my most battery life. I would recommend an extended battery and connecting to the school's WiFi if it's available.
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For me turning off data helps lots
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I bet you have weak signal when in school building. What helped me is turning off 3g
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There is nothing on except calling and texting while I'm in school which is 7 hours long I am running cm10 with its kernel at the moment.
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There is nothing on except calling and texting while I'm in school which is 7 hours long I am running cm10 with its kernel at the moment.
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What does your phone say is using your battery? Try clean flashing the ROM, or maybe a different ROM, and see if that helps. How often are apps set to pull data? Look at your battery stats after school and see where it's leaking from.
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Do you leave your GPS on? Turn of data if you know your not going to be using it for a while.
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There is nothing on (gps-data-etc.) i have only calling and texting enabled.
If you have a weak signal inside the building, and mobile network enabled for receiving calls, your phone will expend a lot of battery just trying to constantly find and reconnect to the mobile network. May even get warm. This is especially true if you also have automatic data-sync enabled and your phone is trying to sync a lot of apps over a weak signal. You could test this out by leaving your phone in airplane mode for a few hours. If you get no battery drain then, it's probably a weak signal causing the problem.
Above post is True. When I was in school in a full concrete building I drained heavely. At 10 hours I drained 2 full batteries with my S2.
Try turning in the airplane mode and you'll see a big diffrence. Turn it off When u have a break and are outside.
Btw 30% battery usage on 7 hours isnt bad..
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I am at lowest cpu usage when the screen is off which is 90% of the time.
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I am at lowest cpu usage when the screen is off which is 90% of the time.
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Even with the phone completely unused and idle and the screen off, if there is a weak signal the radio will be working overtime trying to stay connected to the mobile network, causing battery drain.
I don't know what happened with the 20120914 CM10 nightly, but I've been getting incredible battery life since flashing it (dirty flashed from M1).
Where I usually got something about 2h 50min of screen on time, I'm now getting 4h+. This is with 3G data, GPS, BT (no connected devices 99% of the time), WIFI, automatic backlight and screen rotation on, CPU at 1350 MHz and GPU at 384 MHz. Good times :good:
I have great battery life running stock with kernel, VZW leak that is, apologize if you're on another carrier
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Hey guys, has your battery life improved at all since 4.2?
check wakelocks with better battery stats
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Hey guys, has your battery life improved at all since 4.2?
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Have not noticed anything remarkable.
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Background: Rooted, stock rom.
- Just bought the phone on Saturday, charged it fully and played around with it on Sunday literally just moderate texting, making short calls, and taking a couple of pictures and the battery pretty much dies by 2 PM. Will the battery life improve over time?
This is with the settings tweaked to maximum battery conservation (15% screen brightness, NFC/S Beam off, No motion controls, battery savings on, the works.)
- Also, in that time the phone seemed to be fairly hot, I cannot recall the temperature, but it was hot to the touch. And when I tried downloading the OTA update from T-mobile, the bottom half of the phone (everything below the battery) became drastically hot. But the battery remained relatively cool. Is this something I should worry about?
I'd just like to know so I can exchange the phone while I still can.
I just got mine on Friday and I noticed the same issue. It seems to get hot whenever its doing something data intensive live streaming a youtube vid or downloading a app.
Thanks for the response.
I used it for about 15 minutes this morning reading a web page on Chrome and it seemed to get warm.
Also streamed HD YouTube as well as Spotify for about 15 minutes and it's still warm.
The thing is, these are the first really data-intensive things that I have done so far.
I'm going to go through a whole day just to see what happens.
Forgot to add that I even reduced my CPU through SetCPU to 1.2Ghz the since I rooted it
It's at 87% after 2h 20m 46s on battery.
With only 42m 23s of screen time.
It should calm down after a couple of charge cycles. For battery. Also make sure auto brightness, auto sync is off, gps, motIon control, voIce cmd, etc.
I dont use the battery saving feature and get great life. But I remember a few times it getting hot after a fresh flash but it always calmed down for me. Getting warm is normal, especially if on the charger while using.
Theres a lot of features I like but dont use much so for me its worth the few extra seconds to turn it on/off.
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I am having the same issues. I got acwhite one last week and it is constantly hot near the home button. I am probably gonna revert to stock and return for another. My s2 did not do this.
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khoikn said:
It's at 87% after 2h 20m 46s on battery.
With only 42m 23s of screen time.
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13% drain for almost 45mins screen time.
Sick
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So I have completed my school day.
11h 25m 45s on battery
Battery percentage is at 57%.
I barely used the phone however.
Sent about 10 texts, went on Chrome and searched the web for about 15 minutes, took 8 pictures, instagram for 3 minutes.
Also kept getting e-mails (probably like 10 of them)
I turned on Power Saving mode as well.
Screen is the highest with 1h 32m 24s using 38% on my battery.
Would this be normal on the stock T-mobile rom with no updates?
I've never had an Android phone before so I wouldn't know.
But after researching, some people managed to be at around 70% usage by the end of the day. While doing more intensive tasks.
It's probably the service when you're inside buildings. If it's bad service it'll drain your battery.. if it's constantly trying to connect 4g you're going to have a short time *insert ski instructor meme*
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I suggest you guys flash Exajoule. His ROM is insane on battery & its really fast as well.
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I had the heats issues and ot turned out to be a borked phone. I returned for a swap and the new s3 is worlds apart from the last. Less heat and better performance
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You should check to see what's consuming CPU... (long press the home button, and go into the task manager...) should see something consuming cpu...
(when my phone's warm, it's generally because something's gone psycho on cpu use...)
scifan said:
You should check to see what's consuming CPU... (long press the home button, and go into the task manager...) should see something consuming cpu...
(when my phone's warm, it's generally because something's gone psycho on cpu use...)
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Or better yet in dev options turn on Show cpu Usage. In the top right corner of your screen it will show whats running.
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Teo032 said:
It's probably the service when you're inside buildings. If it's bad service it'll drain your battery.. if it's constantly trying to connect 4g you're going to have a short time *insert ski instructor meme*
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At home, I literally get 0-2 bars. But at school I can consistently get anywhere from 1-4 bars.
This could possibly be it, but I am not too sure how much my signal fluctuates throughout the school.
Britannia, troklwit
belial20xx said:
I had the heats issues and ot turned out to be a borked phone. I returned for a swap and the new s3 is worlds apart from the last. Less heat and better performance
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I had given my local T-mobile store a call and they said that smartphones should be regularly heating.
It's strange to me how I can do a task a simple as texting and it heats up though.
How long did you have the borked S3 for?
I 2nd the bad carrier coverage notion. Just as a test, I put my phone into airplane mode while watching a video. I watched the same video while out of airplane mode. The battery drained faster while on the carrier's network than not. I noticed the signal meter was at 3 bars before I played the video.
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Or better yet in dev options turn on Show cpu Usage. In the top right corner of your screen it will show whats running.
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I haven't tried that... though most of the time my phone's running cool...
Better Through Time
I decided to instal CM10 on my phone and it really did help.
I just got home from school/finished most of my day and here's the update:
63% left
9h 45m 29s on battery
1h 21m 33s screen on time
This makes me feel so much better considering that I actually used the device more today than ever before.
(HD YouTube videos, streamed Spotify, lots of internet browsing, more calls/texts.)
Even with the added usage CM10 seemed to have improved my battery life by a lot!
Not sure if I can totally attribute it to CM10 or just more charge cycles, but everything seems to be working better for me.
Thanks for all of the help!
The phone still runs hot sometimes but it has decreased over the last couple of days.
I have noticed on my phone that since installing Liquid Smooth rom has resulted in much better battery life than on the stock rom. However, ever since I have owned the phone, if i have the screen on for more than 10 minutes or so the screen gets really warm right above the home button. Anybody else experiencing this?
trimble83 said:
I have noticed on my phone that since installing Liquid Smooth rom has resulted in much better battery life than on the stock rom. However, ever since I have owned the phone, if i have the screen on for more than 10 minutes or so the screen gets really warm right above the home button. Anybody else experiencing this?
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Same problem. I just assume that's where the processor is? It doesn't bother me. Its quite funny because the top of my screen is cold. And it doesn't get hot when I'm using it for browsing, texting, the usual. Not unless I play a game.
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trimble83 said:
I have noticed on my phone that since installing Liquid Smooth rom has resulted in much better battery life than on the stock rom. However, ever since I have owned the phone, if i have the screen on for more than 10 minutes or so the screen gets really warm right above the home button. Anybody else experiencing this?
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I'm assuming that Samsung's stock TouchWiz isn't as optimized as the ROMs that the devs make on here.
Which is a definite plus to having a device that has a strong community of developers behind it.
That happens to me as well. I have kind of gotten used to it. Just slip on a case so when you hold it your hand doesn't get sweaty and you should be fine. I would assume that's where the processor lives, but I am not too certain.
Alright first of all, i want start off by saying that i LOVE this phone, both in terms of hardware and software, however, theres is a HUGE problem that i just can't get through and its the battery of this phone...
It is simply unbearable.
I have posted the screenshots. This screenshot is taken after 1 whole night of charging. In 5 hours or so time, I've use the music app for about 1 hour, talked on the phone for about 5-10min and sent about 10 text messages. I didn't do any web browsing/videos/gaming. I have also disabled LTE and turned my brightness to minimum with eco mode on. These small things drained my battery from 100% to less than 10% within 5 hours which i find to be completely unacceptable.
Last night, with me browsing the web on the bus for about an hour or so, it drained my battery from 85% to 3% by the time i got home...
I've looked at the battery life thread and it seems like im the only one experiencing this issue. Also not only does it drain SUPER fast, it takes a good 4 to 5 hours to recharge this thing. Which means it takes longer to charge than to use up even with minimal use...
Do I have a faulty phone and should I get it replaced???
Something's amiss. The only time that I've gotten less than 10 hours, is when I had my work email connection set up to "always connected" and wifi was turned on. Even then, I got 9+ hours of battery life.
Disabling lte is part of the problem. When the phone is in 3g, it uses fast dormancy which LG did not implement very well and it runs the CPU constantly. I encourage you to contact LG and your carrier and complain. don't let them tell you about background data or applications running the battery down. With the same apps running, this does not happen on lte. This can easily be verified by enabling debugging and then capturing a logcat from adb with lte both enabled and disabled. It will show fast dormancy trying to set network states every second. I spent a lot of time trying to get this issue recognized, but they kept saying that it had not been reported and was not a known issue. Let's make it a known issue so they will fix it.
How about actually showing us what you used instead of screen shots of %.... would be helpful...
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Have you considered that maybe you have a faulty unit.
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I'm also getting about 5ish hours on a charge. And, when I recharge at the office with the usb cord, it's a "trickle charge" that's so slow it's ridiculous.
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I'm also getting about 5ish hours on a charge. And, when I recharge at the office with the usb cord, it's a "trickle charge" that's so slow it's ridiculous.
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you definitely want to return this thing.
Don't know about you...but I let my phone die twice then fully charged it but my battery life is amazing
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Yeah, I've been quite impressed with my battery life on this thing. I made it from 6:30am spent about 2 hours tweaking it and setting it up, then messed around with it through the day. By supper time I plugged it in and it was at 63%.
I don't have the phone, but right off the bat i'd say it was whatever was causing your mediaserver to go nuts. Either some media app, YouTube, gallery etc, wouldn't say its a faulty unit, just mediaserver gone rogue
And damn i want this phone...
Looks like a widget or live wallpaper is going crazy
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Well, a little update to this thread, i've disabled every different kind of syncing possible and i've been able to pretty much double my battery life from before, which is a lot better but i still wouldn't consider this to be good battery life.
I've been reading many posts regarding battery life, and it seems like there is some issue within the software that prevents the phone from going into deep sleep which is causing the lack luster battery life. This issue is on both the optimus g and the nexus 4, so i hope the devs may look into this issue when they are building custom roms for these two devices!
waaw Optimus G
I just got my optimus yesterday and had a full charge this morning. Been using it for almost 12 hours pretty steady. Have 16% battery left. I would say my battery is pretty amazing.
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Get a replacement that's what I did with my first one. I was getting 6-7 hours with light use.
Got a replacements and was able to get 19_14 hours battery.
Also today I left my cell at home and it was unplugged at 100% after 9 hours I came home and saw it at 95%.
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You definitely seem to have some weird issue's. My Optimus is great for battery life. My previous phone was an Xperia Arc and this has significantly better battery life without even running it in "eco mode". The only time I have noticed less then stellar battery life was when I had some app's running in the back ground that would keep refreshing/updating which kill's the battery.
Androids usage readings are inaccurate. Please consult this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
From what the picture shows I would guess its your 4G connection. A Hardware fault is improbable. And forget these things like "eco mode". Even if they underclock your cpu it won't give you a real benefit,
I've had great battery life on mine. Even when I've been geeking out on the device for several hours during the day.
Perhaps you are on the cusp of LTE coverage? If so, then the radio can kill your battery while looking for a signal.
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I've had great battery life on mine. Even when I've been geeking out on the device for several hours during the day.
Perhaps you are on the cusp of LTE coverage? If so, then the radio can kill your battery while looking for a signal.
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I also have amazing battery life IMO, coming from a Galaxy S. I have no LTE in this area so am using only HSPA. Using the phone with casual use, I can easily go a full 24 hours on a charge. With very very heavy use I can go from 8 am till around 11 PM. I am very happy with the battery life overall. I'm running on "eco mode" FWIW.
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
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.