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So basically I've had the nexus for 2 days now, and battery life is bad for my standards. I had the Note for 2 weeks and averaged 6 1/2 hours of screen on time before the battery went dead, that includes browsing mostly on the web and the xda app. The only thing on was data and bluetooth, no wifi. On the nexus, with everything off except data, I only average 3 hour screen time. Is this what other folks are experiencing on their nexus?
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mike2518 said:
So basically I've had the nexus for 2 days now, and battery life is bad for my standards. I had the Note for 2 weeks and averaged 6 1/2 hours of screen on time before the battery went dead, that includes browsing mostly on the web and the xda app. The only thing on was data and bluetooth, no wifi. On the nexus, with everything off except data, I only average 3 hour screen time. Is this what other folks are experiencing on their nexus?
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The note's battery is one and a half times the size as the galaxy nexus battery..
2500 mah compared to 1750..
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I was denied a Nexus last week so waiting until tomorrow now. I have a Rezound atm and on this thing it lasts about 2 - 2 1/2 hours(constant use).
just last night I played a game called Sentinal 3 on it. phone was in CDMA mode(LTE off), bluetooth & wifi disabled, and brightness all the way down. when I started playing the battery was at 93%... played 2 levels, took a break & then the battery was at 34%.
granted, each level took about 20min... but still...
I get about ~4 hours of screen time before my battery is dead. Really depends on what I'm doing, and how spread out those 4 hours are.
I'm getting about 3/12 on a work day. With about 25% left. Which is pretty damn good considering the screen. My gpu is 384 mhz and my undervolt's are 250mv+ for each frequency. This weekend i'm seeing if i can get 5 hours screen time with wifi. I know i can get 4 hours plus already and that was before patching my kernel for upping the gpu and undervolting.
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rashad1 said:
I get about ~4 hours of screen time before my battery is dead. Really depends on what I'm doing, and how spread out those 4 hours are.
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I should have mentioned that those hours I was talking about were spread over 12-14 hours each day. Btw, would changing kernel and ROM improve battery?
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I get about ~5 hours of screen time before my battery is dead
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I should have mentioned that those hours I was talking about were spread over 12-14 hours each day. Btw, would changing kernel and ROM improve battery?
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It's possible, depending on the ROM and kernel.
mike2518 said:
So basically I've had the nexus for 2 days now, and battery life is bad for my standards. I had the Note for 2 weeks and averaged 6 1/2 hours of screen on time before the battery went dead, that includes browsing mostly on the web and the xda app. The only thing on was data and bluetooth, no wifi. On the nexus, with everything off except data, I only average 3 hour screen time. Is this what other folks are experiencing on their nexus?
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Note has pretty much the same screen as the Nexus (exactly the same except 1280x800 vs 1280x720), but a massively larger battery. That will allow higher screen on times.
martonikaj said:
Note has pretty much the same screen as the Nexus (exactly the same except 1280x800 vs 1280x720), but a massively larger battery. That will allow higher screen on times.
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The Note's screen is over half an inch bigger..
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I should have mentioned that those hours I was talking about were spread over 12-14 hours each day. Btw, would changing kernel and ROM improve battery?
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Mine was 3 hours too over 12 hours. Not 3.5. This is before i patched my kernel for undervolting. Also my workday is strictly cellular data with many high rises so my cellular is constantly switching radios beause of reception and congestion. I am very very pleased with how well it does. My standby drain is ridiculously good. I get about 1% drain an hour at work and about 1% drain every 2-3 hours at home. I still haven't tested light flow because it is not playing nice with ics yet. I'm sure that will affect my drain. I think people's expectations were/are too high for display time. People that are social nuts and have a live ticker feed on their homescreen so they know when their friends are picking their nose should get the s-lcd version of the nexus. Lcd power drain is a lot more linear compared to amoled screens.
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joshnichols189 said:
The Note's screen is over half an inch bigger..
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The note's battery is a third bigger too.
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joshnichols189 said:
The Note's screen is over half an inch bigger..
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Same panel same resolution though. Its pushing relatively the same number of pixels as the Nexus, but with a bigger battery.
voxigenboy said:
I was denied a Nexus last week so waiting until tomorrow now. I have a Rezound atm and on this thing it lasts about 2 - 2 1/2 hours(constant use).
just last night I played a game called Sentinal 3 on it. phone was in CDMA mode(LTE off), bluetooth & wifi disabled, and brightness all the way down. when I started playing the battery was at 93%... played 2 levels, took a break & then the battery was at 34%.
granted, each level took about 20min... but still...
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Ahh u trader.....I'm telling...LOL..I'm grabbing mine tomorrow as well bro. Hopefully there still available in the afternoon and they don't sell out. I'm hoping the batt life is a lil better than this
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The note's battery is a third bigger too.
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I already mentioned that..
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Mine was 3 hours too over 12 hours. Not 3.5. This is before i patched my kernel for undervolting. Also my workday is strictly cellular data with many high rises so my cellular is constantly switching radios beause of reception and congestion. I am very very pleased with how well it does. My standby drain is ridiculously good. I get about 1% drain an hour at work and about 1% drain every 2-3 hours at home. I still haven't tested light flow because it is not playing nice with ics yet. I'm sure that will affect my drain. I think people's expectations were/are too high for display time. People that are social nuts and have a live ticker feed on their homescreen so they know when their friends are picking their nose should get the s-lcd version of the nexus. Lcd power drain is a lot more linear compared to amoled screens.
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Your standby drain makes me so jealous. I am in the same camp as many, seeing about 3-4% drain an hour with the screen off. That's also with Juice Defender shutting down wifi and data when the screen is off. This leads to my screen/total stats ending up around 2/12, which is frustratingly bad given the numbers I know this phone should be capable of.
I've tried 3 different ROMs, 2 different kernels, 2 basebands, multiple battery calibrations and charge/discharge cycles, but things never improve. So annoying.
I'm pretty happy with my nexus's performance.
It depends what you're doing, keeping wifi on seems to be a killer, im assuming that's because it's constantly scanning. I get ~5 hours screen time with 25% left at the end of the day.
I take off charge @ 7.30am
Goes back on charge with 20-25% at about 11pm
I use auto brightness
I listen to internet radio during my commute for about 30minutes each way over 3G, read my rss feeds and regularly using gtalk and gmail throughout the day. I rarely make phone calls.
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I'm pretty happy with my nexus's performance.
It depends what you're doing, keeping wifi on seems to be a killer, im assuming that's because it's constantly scanning. I get ~5 hours screen time with 25% left at the end of the day.
I take off charge @ 7.30am
Goes back on charge with 20-25% at about 11pm
I use auto brightness
I listen to internet radio during my commute for about 30minutes each way over 3G, read my rss feeds and regularly using gtalk and gmail throughout the day. I rarely make phone calls.
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I would be ecstatic with this performance. I would say though that I am lucky to get half of that screen time, with brightness set at about 15%.
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keeping wifi on seems to be a killer, im assuming that's because it's constantly scanning
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not true, specifically during standby. Keeping wifi on during standby and keeping sleep policy to always on has dramatically saved my battery life. I too was @ 3-4% an hour when wifi was off. Now I keep it on and I average 1% an hour. 3g/4g radio towers use more juice on standby than does wifi. There is countless articles about this on the web.
I get about 3:30 hours of screen time on a full charge. But I think this question is very relative. For example I could get more screen time if I wasn't streaming 30-45 minutes of music and didn't have 1:30-2:00 hours of voice calls.
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Same panel same resolution though. Its pushing relatively the same number of pixels as the Nexus, but with a bigger battery.
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Pixels aren't necessarily what matter when talking about battery life. It's important, but since both are pushing, generally, the same number of pixels...it comes down to screen size. Screen size makes a much bigger impact on battery life (nonlinearly).
There aren't enough already. I get great battery life. How about you?
Crazy world, ay?
Thanks for the constructive thread. My battery life is awful.
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How dare you.
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14h and still have 70% remaining.
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6 hours and I have 66 percent remaining, light usage.
Placebo effects are interesting.
I bought the extended battery, and placed the old one on my desk. After charging it up I noticed a decent gain in battery life. The next day, bored I picked up the old battery laying on my desk and noticed it was 2100mah according to the sticker. Confused I was like "woooah my phone must had come with an extended battery" then I decided to check what my phone had in it....1850mah *head slap* somehowI mixed them up when I installed it.../sigh
Good standby time (gotten up to 18 hours with light use), but about 3 hours screen on time. Disappointed.
7hours and im at 55% power... right on track for my average usage between 12-14 hours per charge
The unit does not charge. In the beginning before the issue with it dying after the first two seconds began it wouldn’t charge unless it was turned off. There are cases opened about both of these issues on the android website and the only problem is I can’t try any of these solutions because the phone won’t even boot up. Not even into fastboot mode. I tried charging all night and it still will not go past the colorful boot screen sequence and sometimes I can’t even get it to turn on to say Google. And when it does turn on, it only stays on for 2 seconds and then it just dies. That’s the reason why it won’t let me flash the factory images. I tried the USB charging unit that came with the phone on my international Samsung galaxy s2 and it charged just fine.
Anyone have any ideas?
after about 8 hours i burned thru 60% of my battery. meaning I had 40% left over. I would say this is with moderate to heavy use. downloading/updating apps, surfing the web, going on facebook, texting, emails. etc.
Today i had almost 8.5 hrs off battery and just under 3 hrs display time with 39% which is about par for me. I don't have any sync on but i check my mail constantly, check xda, read news and surf the web and occasionally light gaming but not today. At lunch i'm on it about 40 mins on average. And i have spotty signal throughout the day, especially during lunch. It really boils down to realistic expectations and actual usage. A lot of peeps that compare to me wonder why their battery is so terrible but i don't have anything serious going on when i'm not actually using the phone. I don't do social networking. I don't have my phone constantly polling for data on top of the constant polling for signal on top of the constantly checking my battery stats wondering why I'm not getting 6 hours display time. I think some of the battery rage is wasted on that alone. Motorola Droid phones have historically done well on battery because Motorola's usually have great radios on top of the usually great reception Verizon brings. Also, we demand much of our phones, a lot more than last year and the year before. Faster data speeds demand more juice also. Verizon 3g is slow in comparison to T-Mobile/atnt hspa but better efficiency, better architecture and smaller chip sets have helped cancel out a lot of that on hspa radios Lte is still early generation tech and those speeds are ludicrous for a mobile device yet some Verizon folks wonder why they cant pull down 4 hours display time much less 3 when hspa is far more efficient and adequate for the time being. If Verizon wasn't so crooked i more than likely would be an lte nexus owner. I think more people really need to consider what light, moderate and heavy usage really is. Today was realistically heavy moderate use for me. A heavy day for me is tanking the battery in less than 10 hours with 4 hours display. Some of you are light users but your phone is working while you are actually working and you only get 2 hours display time because you had to have your phone tell you bobby cussed out his boss today because of no Xmas bonus, sally cheated on bobby, and bobby is getting sloshed tonight all waiting for you as soon as you pick up your phone and while you're catching up with the on demand soap opera your phone is downloading all your emails in the background. And while it is doing all this your phone is heating up and making electrons have more resistance in the circuitry. The cooler your phone is the less demanding it is on the amperage. Anyways, hopefully this weekend i will get to see if the screen can 5-6 hours display on wifi on one charge. With hspa on.
Crazy world, ay?
14 hours 7 min. Light usage, only one hour on wifi... 57%.. So ya, battery life is just fine
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Im on official 4.0.4 IMM76D yakju rooted with radios xxkl1 no lag on lock screen, no signal lost on iddle, cpu Set to 350 on min and this its my battery after several hours
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Dont know whats wrong the screenshot is not uploading at the moment.. will try later but the battery after 6 hours its down to 95% only
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Bull****...
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msedek said:
Im on official 4.0.4 IMM76D yakju rooted with radios xxkl1 no lag on lock screen, no signal lost on iddle, cpu Set to 350 on min and this its my battery after several hours
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I want to complain about the majority of the gnex users here want to create a new thread and say "HAY LOOK AT ME AND READ MY THREAD CAUSE I DONT SEARCH". k bye.
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this its my battery after several hours
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Most specific battery life report ever.
I've gotten around 16hrs, with 3hrs of screen time.
wifi on gps on auto sync on
brightness 100%
i'd say it's pretty good.
stock 4.0.4 yakju rooted.
Battery threads seem to be the new modern day equlivent of a 'Look at my e-penis' contest
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Battery threads seem to be the new modern day equlivent of a 'Look at my e-penis' contest
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Didn't know. There wasn't a thread about it.
zippity doo da.
msedek said:
...but the battery after 6 hours its down to 95% only
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that's typical standby drain, but how many hours of ON SCREEN time are you getting? 6 or 7 hours like an iPhone or 3h like the rest of us?
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EP2008 said:
that's typical standby drain, but how many hours of ON SCREEN time are you getting? 6 or 7 hours like an iPhone or 3h like the rest of us?
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i got once 9 hours .....but i was reading kindle ebooks with inverted pages (white text, black background)
so batterylife is not that bad
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i got once 9 hours .....but i was reading kindle ebooks with inverted pages (white text, black background)
so batterylife is not that bad
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But that's not "typical use". When apple rates their battery life, it's using perimeters which would be similar to what the average consumer does with their device. Web browsing, listening to music, etc. Our Galaxy Nexus phones don't even compare with the Iphone when it comes to doing things other than reading an inverted ebook. LOL.
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We are all tickled that Apple has certain procedures for testing their batteries and their TINY little screen can go for 6-7 hours. My life is complete knowing this...on an Android forum.
How does Apple judge normal use I wonder? My aunt uses her iphone then puts it away. She certainly doesn't use it for 6-7 hours straight. I guess those people are wealthy and bored, or unemployed.
See, this is what normal people do. They don't count their screen time in hours and minutes. They use their phone, charge it, use their phone, charge it. I haven't had above a 35% charge in three days because I toss it on a charger until I need it and leave. Just like I don't top off my gas tank, I also don't do the same with my phone. I don't know anyone who uses their phone and refuses to charge it until its dead. They charge it when they go to bed, or they do not need it. They see it needs some topping off, they toss it on a car charger, etc. If a phone makes it until you go to bed...who cares if the screen stays on for 2 hours, or 20? If you have a need for 4 hours of screen time a day...consider a hobby. Or a job.
Wonder why I get an error from upload a screenshot... With xda premium app
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That's the best I can get, non stop music, not a whole lot of browsing... just music.. and messing around with the phone
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adrynalyne said:
We are all tickled that Apple has certain procedures for testing their batteries and their TINY little screen can go for 6-7 hours. My life is complete knowing this...on an Android forum.
How does Apple judge normal use I wonder? My aunt uses her iphone then puts it away. She certainly doesn't use it for 6-7 hours straight. I guess those people are wealthy and bored, or unemployed.
See, this is what normal people do. They don't count their screen time in hours and minutes. They use their phone, charge it, use their phone, charge it. I haven't had above a 35% charge in three days because I toss it on a charger until I need it and leave. Just like I don't top off my gas tank, I also don't do the same with my phone. I don't know anyone who uses their phone and refuses to charge it until its dead. They charge it when they go to bed, or they do not need it. They see it needs some topping off, they toss it on a car charger, etc. If a phone makes it until you go to bed...who cares if the screen stays on for 2 hours, or 20? If you have a need for 4 hours of screen time a day...consider a hobby. Or a job.
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adrynalyne said:
We are all tickled that Apple has certain procedures for testing their batteries and their TINY little screen can go for 6-7 hours. My life is complete knowing this...on an Android forum.
How does Apple judge normal use I wonder? My aunt uses her iphone then puts it away. She certainly doesn't use it for 6-7 hours straight. I guess those people are wealthy and bored, or unemployed.
See, this is what normal people do. They don't count their screen time in hours and minutes. They use their phone, charge it, use their phone, charge it. I haven't had above a 35% charge in three days because I toss it on a charger until I need it and leave. Just like I don't top off my gas tank, I also don't do the same with my phone. I don't know anyone who uses their phone and refuses to charge it until its dead. They charge it when they go to bed, or they do not need it. They see it needs some topping off, they toss it on a car charger, etc. If a phone makes it until you go to bed...who cares if the screen stays on for 2 hours, or 20? If you have a need for 4 hours of screen time a day...consider a hobby. Or a job.
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Bravo. You use your smartphone as a "phone" and have access to outlets all day long. Congratulations. You aren't like some of us.
If you worked as a sales person or had any kind of important job that keeps you moving, you'll have to use your smartphone for more than just calls and a desk clock.
Text messages, company emails, PDF's, office documents, remote desktop, the camera, file management apps, cloud storage apps, the calendar app, the contacts app, the damn weather app! They all need to be used with the screen ON.
Show a little understanding for the rest of the 6,999,999,999 other people on this planet. If someone says they need more than 2 hours on screen time, they probably do. We are all so glad you don't have to worry about this problem.
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Important? Are you one of those peeps that don't know what to do when an elevator or escalator is broken? And get more dumbfounded when you get told where the stairs are? But who am I kidding. I am nobody. Gotta love first world problems.
zippity doo da.
I put around 6-7 hours of screen time yesterday and still had battery left. Also it looks like the radios they are using are very efficient with very little battery drain.
Nothing scientific to report, but this morning I've used 3 hours of screen time and still have 66% battery left.
Love it!
I am happy to report similar findings. 4 hours screen time and im at 30% battery with 20 hours without a charge.
I don't know why but the radio's are definitely doing better than my S3. I'm picking up Lte more often and its not jumping back and fourth either. So far showing the same as far as battery, maybe even better.
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Even with all the bloat? That's pretty great
-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss
The Note is known for great battery life. I've seen some people even get 10hours.. I get 5 hours screen time on mines and 14-17 hours of usage
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Unbelivable battery on any phone ive come across. No wifi at all and use nothing but 3g and lil 4g to stream movies/drama at my rate im looking to get 5+ screen on time. Thats to me is unbelivable. So far 2:40 hr screen on and still have 58% left. Total time is at a lil over 7. Betterbatterystats say 6% per hour.
3 hours of heavy usage only down 10% with screen brightness halfway up. I feel like its too good to be true... someone is finally getting something right!
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Got my Note 2 yesterday and used it most of the day then charged it overnight. Used it off and on today and still sitting on 77%. So much better than my OG EVO was. Im really loving this device!
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Got my Note 2 yesterday and used it most of the day then charged it overnight. Used it off and on today and still sitting on 77%. So much better than my OG EVO was. Im really loving this device!
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Don't get me wrong OG Evo was great at the time but battery on that thing is horrendous. I have to carry a case with 4 extra batteries, lol.
Yeah I bought mine on day 1 and was trying to wait till the next nexus device came out but I sat on my evo and cracked the glass. Anyway very happy with my purchase and I've been riding this phone hard and still at 58%. I know its a 3100 ma battery which is double the evo but I never expected it to do this well on the battery. Very pleased thus far.
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Common guys show yor screenies of battery
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Common guys show yor screenies of battery
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Here you go!
Almost no wifi at all accept maybe 5 mins when I came home from work. This was all watching online flash movies, games and surfing.
This battery is definitely beast.
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i got 4 and a half hours of screen on time yesterday and that was with moderate use...hope my screen time gets better..before i got the phone i read articles about the reviewer getting 12 hours of screen time with moderate use
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i got 4 and a half hours of screen on time yesterday and that was with moderate use...hope my screen time gets better..before i got the phone i read articles about the reviewer getting 12 hours of screen time with moderate use
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I believe that. My 6hrs of screen time was me trying to put it through the ringer.
I can't wait for roms with battery tweaks. We might see 2days of screen time.
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So far I'm at 1 day 6 hours, (2 hours screen on) and I'm down to 56%. I'm really impressed, and this offsets the sourness I feel with the crippled SIM/wireless charging. Heck, who needs to even charge this thing with battery life like that!?
What really impresses me is the fact that I've been out several times today - yet the battery graph is perfectly steady. Whereas every other phone I've had immediately starts plummeting when I'm on the go and it has to switch towers, etc. I can always take one look at a graph or SystemPanel and know exactly when I was out, but not with this phone. :good:
Samsung really must have done something good with the radio in this thing.
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So far I'm at 1 day 6 hours, (2 hours screen on) and I'm down to 56%. I'm really impressed, and this offsets the sourness I feel with the crippled SIM/wireless charging. Heck, who needs to even charge this thing with battery life like that!?
What really impresses me is the fact that I've been out several times today - yet the battery graph is perfectly steady. Whereas every other phone I've had immediately starts plummeting when I'm on the go and it has to switch towers, etc. I can always take one look at a graph or SystemPanel and know exactly when I was out, but not with this phone. :good:
Samsung really must have done something good with the radio in this thing.
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Hey man good to see you. I remember you from the OG Evo days. Hope we can get this place crackin like back in the og time.
ffolkes said:
So far I'm at 1 day 6 hours, (2 hours screen on) and I'm down to 56%. I'm really impressed, and this offsets the sourness I feel with the crippled SIM/wireless charging. Heck, who needs to even charge this thing with battery life like that!?
What really impresses me is the fact that I've been out several times today - yet the battery graph is perfectly steady. Whereas every other phone I've had immediately starts plummeting when I'm on the go and it has to switch towers, etc. I can always take one look at a graph or SystemPanel and know exactly when I was out, but not with this phone. :good:
Samsung really must have done something good with the radio in this thing.
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Hey! I remember you too! Lol
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On wifi quite a bit of the time, but still very happy with the battery. Includes gmail email sync, default mail client syncing an imap account every 15 minutes, about 2 hours of podcasts and music, 20 minutes of voice calls, and other misc stuff. No video.
I picked up my Note 2 on Friday, and charged it that night. Saturday morning at 10:00am I disconnected it. I have turned off wifi and SCO so it was running on 3g all day, I decided to not charge it Saturday night to test the battery to see how long I could go without charging. I went a full 48 hours on one charge and still had 11% at 10:00am on Monday. I didn't have heavy use on it, but spent a couple hours browsing the internet and Facebook, as well as 2 hours of Draw Something off an on. Very impressed. I didn't think to take any screenshots, sorry.
Is it normal that my battery goes down a percent every 3-4 minutes, just by doing simple things like web browsing?
No. Something is wrong on your end. Check for any apps running the background that shouldn't be running at all.
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Open the battery utility to see what is consuming the highest percentage of power.
The display is one of the biggest power consumers. What level is your brightness at? The new N7 can achieve almost 600 nits. That is ridiculously high. The ipad 3/4 and Mini max out around 400 nits. I've found 200 to be a good compromise between battery life and ease on the eyes.
I have. I even factory restored. The standby time is great but once I start using it the battery just drains like that
I would let the device die completely and charge it up to 100% and use it intensely for a bit and track it. My experience with Android is to let the first few cycles of battery settle in the kernel and all that. Sometimes Unix takes a few days to get acquainted with it's space in my experience.
noxxle said:
Open the battery utility to see what is consuming the highest percentage of power.
The display is one of the biggest power consumers. What level is your brightness at? The new N7 can achieve almost 600 nits. That is ridiculously high. The ipad 3/4 and Mini max out around 400 nits. I've found 200 to be a good compromise between battery life and ease on the eyes.
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My brightness level is at about 25%
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I would let the device die completely and charge it up to 100% and use it intensely for a bit and track it. My experience with Android is to let the first few cycles of battery settle in the kernel and all that. Sometimes Unix takes a few days to get acquainted with it's space in my experience.
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I've done like 5 cycles already. It just sucks cause I see people getting 8-11 hours of screen time and I only get 4-5.
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I've done like 5 cycles already. It just sucks cause I see people getting 8-11 hours of screen time and I only get 4-5.
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I have about 5 hours on actual screen on time right now and I'm at 38% and 13h since I pulled it off the charger. Mine tends to drop a lot when using Facebook and playing games, cause they're memory hogs. I can listen to music and go on reddit for probably an entire day and it'll get 10 hours.
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I've done like 5 cycles already. It just sucks cause I see people getting 8-11 hours of screen time and I only get 4-5.
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I got battery issues as well only 5 hours of on screen time........ You can get "Better battery stats" free from Xda, but I can tell you I've checked and nothing is running in the background, deep sleep is good but it dies after about 5 hours of using it. It's looking like some units are shipping with a defective battery. I don't see a lot of people reporting this though.
Here is the link to the free battery stats
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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snipe2nite said:
I got battery issues as well only 5 hours of on screen time........ You can get "Better battery stats" free from Xda, but I can tell you I've checked and nothing is running in the background, deep sleep is good but it dies after about 5 hours of using it. It's looking like some units are shipping with a defective battery. I don't see a lot of people reporting this though.
Here is the link to the free battery stats
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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I've already done that and nothing is running in the background. This sucks I guess I'll go return it tomorrow for a new one.
It just sucks because other than the battery issue this device is perfect no light bleed issues or nothing
Also does your battery sometimes skips percentages? Because mine does
Steven2197 said:
I've already done that and nothing is running in the background. This sucks I guess I'll go return it tomorrow for a new one.
It just sucks because other than the battery issue this device is perfect no light bleed issues or nothing
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Yep exactly, no other issues on mine. I really don't want to get another one with all kinds of other issues......... At least you and me know the other issues to look for, kinda sad......
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snipe2nite said:
Yep exactly, no other issues on mine. I really don't want to get another one with all kinds of other issues......... At least you and me know the other issues to look for, kinda sad......
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Most of the battery issues I've seen have all had the 5 hour screen on time problem, I don't know I just find that really weird but oh well
I'm also getting average of 5hrs screen on time. Nothing is draining the battery as far as I can tell. Today for instance I took it off the charger and went out. 7hrs later it had 96% with 6 minutes on screen time. It's at 13hrs on with 5 hrs on screen time mostly chrome, Twitter, instagram, Google+, quick games of words with friends and draw something 2 five minutes each game max if that. I would kill for anything close to 7hrs let alone 9hrs. Also the touch sensitivity goes bonkers often with my Nexus registering touches pretty far from where my finger is. I think I might just try and exchange it. Brightness at 20% maybe.
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I have a battery drain issue with my new nexus 7. it cost 25%-30% battery overnight while i was sleeping. so i decided to factory reset it, and not installing any apps to test its standby time. it still cost ~20% battery overnight. Is it a defective product or it's a software issue? Maybe i should return it for a new one
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I have a battery drain issue with my new nexus 7. it cost 25%-30% battery overnight while i was sleeping. so i decided to factory reset it, and not installing any apps to test its standby time. it still cost ~20% battery overnight. Is it a defective product or it's a software issue? Maybe i should return it for a new one
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Return it. There's no way you should be draining that quickly just in standby.
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I'm also getting average of 5hrs screen on time. Nothing is draining the battery as far as I can tell. Today for instance I took it off the charger and went out. 7hrs later it had 96% with 6 minutes on screen time. It's at 13hrs on with 5 hrs on screen time mostly chrome, Twitter, instagram, Google+, quick games of words with friends and draw something 2 five minutes each game max if that. I would kill for anything close to 7hrs let alone 9hrs. Also the touch sensitivity goes bonkers often with my Nexus registering touches pretty far from where my finger is. I think I might just try and exchange it. Brightness at 20% maybe.
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I almost have the same exact usage as you and have that touch screen problem too. I guess we don't have defective units
Battery Test
I pulled my new N7 off the charger thsi morning and decided to test the battery because it seemed to be draining too quickly for my taste. I streamed two movies, Star Trek (2009) from Google Play and The Apostle from Showtime Anytime. that is only 4 hours and 20 minutes of movies. My tablet died before the Apostle finished. Had about 20 minutes left on it.
I am not satisfied with this paltry battery life. Google website said it would run 9 hours of movies non stop. 4 hours isn't even close. There are several "comparisons" out there but they only compare what the company said. I am not sure the battery is all it is cracked up to be. I am going to do some further testing but right now it looks like I will forego the New Nexus 7 and pick up a Kindle Fire HD. That battery life does last for hours and for what I need it will suit me fine.
I welcome your comments.
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I pulled my new N7 off the charger thsi morning and decided to test the battery because it seemed to be draining too quickly for my taste. I streamed two movies, Star Trek (2009) from Google Play and The Apostle from Showtime Anytime. that is only 4 hours and 20 minutes of movies. My tablet died before the Apostle finished. Had about 20 minutes left on it.
I am not satisfied with this paltry battery life. Google website said it would run 9 hours of movies non stop. 4 hours isn't even close. There are several "comparisons" out there but they only compare what the company said. I am not sure the battery is all it is cracked up to be. I am going to do some further testing but right now it looks like I will forego the New Nexus 7 and pick up a Kindle Fire HD. That battery life does last for hours and for what I need it will suit me fine.
I welcome your comments.
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Yeah the battery is terrible for some. There's a chance our nexus 7's are defective but maybe a software update will fix it? Who knows
I have same problems. Only about 5 hours screen on time, and it drains quick if I am streaming especially with Netflix.