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gone in 8 hours?
I just got it today. and it is already for sale. Android is so crappy compared to WinMO. I dont even know how to sync that thing with a PC
Sent PM's to both of ya!
would it work with t-mobile??
Nightmate. 3 hours with the GPS on and it died. Had to find my way home with blind luck.
3 hours with a gps on is not to bad. Wifi, bluetooth and GPS are all extremely power hungry and will all kill your battery if left on. This is the same with any device.
A brand new battery will not give you much life. You need to use it a while -- after several cycles, it will give you much better results.
Obviously, you work for microshaft and your job is to spread lies in order to boost sales on a product that is clearly getting spanked due to extreme inferiority. NOTHING is worse than winmo, and right now, NOTHING is better than android.
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I just got it today. and it is already for sale. Android is so crappy compared to WinMO. I dont even know how to sync that thing with a PC
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I get 1.5 days with with WiFi off and 1 day with WiFi on.
about the same as the iPhone, slightly better than the WinMo phones I have owned
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3 hours with a gps on is not to bad. Wifi, bluetooth and GPS are all extremely power hungry and will all kill your battery if left on. This is the same with any device.
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After being fully charged, I can listen to music for four hours straight with my Nokia 5800, have the GPS on for two hours, and surf the web with 3.5G for an additional hour - and it still has 90% of the battery left Compared to the X1, which runs out of juice in a day pretty much regardless of what you do with it... I was going to buy the Magic when it gets released here in Sweden shortly, but if the battery is crap, I might wait for the Samsung I7500.
lol.
90% on the nokia battery scale, which is really about 5% in reality....
Honestly, nokia are well known for fecking with their battery indicators. Was doing something similar with the N95 and from it showing only 1 bar missing, it went down to 0 bars in under 30 minutes....
As for this magic, i've been lucky enough to have one since an early FW and HW revision, back in February. Have no problem getting over 1 day on it regularly with the way i use it, but yes, Wi-Fi on, or GPS for any length of time, and it drops quickly. These are power hungry and use the same power, if not more power than talk time, and having more than one on will drain the battery very quickly.
no better and no worse than any other smartphone available at the moment, and it definitely gets better over the first few weeks as a few cycles get into the battery...
Hi,
In my case, 2 - 3 days. Details of my HTC magic job;
- 3 or 4 calls every day but short duration , totally, 10 min
- wifi 20 min every day
- play music 10 min in the metro
Nothing else, this is a lowest job for it and in my case, i think the duration is according to this use. Anyway, i have not got any data price and my htc magic has not got too much network traffic, only by wifi.
regards,
Hi guys,
I work for a mobile operator and we can choose one of the following (HTC) mobiles this year:
HTC Diamond II
HTC Magic
HTC Touch Cruise II
Overall I find HTC's battery life not really impressive (had a touch dual before) but the Magic really looks like a great phone and I'm willing to give it a try over my Nokia E51 and accept the fact that I might need to charge it daily...
So I had a question about charge time (using the normal charger, so not the USB one): how long does it take to charge the phone to 100% if it's on let's say 20% for example?
Cheers
B
Approx 3 hours from 0% to 100%
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Approx 3 hours from 0% to 100%
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Depends on how much u fiddle with it u wanker.
If Im just taking incomming calls it's and texting some it lasts 2 days.
If im synced, got wlan on, dling all the new apps, gps, kamera etc. Its like 6hrs.
mines like the energizer bunny
it lasts a good day and a half for me..and im constantly texting youtubing, playing games and listening to music..im very happy with its battery life especially compared to the g1 batterlife which was awful
HTC Magic: Approx. 1 hour
3 hours to charge for me.
That's quite a variety - I think if you have the vodafone version with less ram it might last a little longer too
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Depends on how much u fiddle with it u wanker.
If Im just taking incomming calls it's and texting some it lasts 2 days.
If im synced, got wlan on, dling all the new apps, gps, kamera etc. Its like 6hrs.
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D00d...he wants to know how long it takes to CHARGE not deplete the battery.
Mine charges from 75%-65% to 100% on the USB Macbook cable in like 35mins. I leave it plugged in while I'm home.
This is a Google ION same as Magic/G2.
I haven't really done anything different, but my battery life in the past few weeks has just gotten better and better.
Right now it's 3pm. I put in a fresh battery at 9pm last night. Batt level: 55%. I was asleep for 7 out of those 18 hours, but I've had wifi and BT on the whole time. I've read and replied to 15 emails, maybe 10 texts, 15 min of calls, surfed the web for 2 hours, played about 30min of games, and had music streaming for 1.5 hrs. I've easily been making it through long work days (8am-8pm) of moderate/heavy use, whereas before I would need to recharge after 6-8 hours.
Anyone else noticing better battery life after the first few weeks? (of course, it might have to do with the fact that I'm playing with it less, but there are days when I play with it constantly and it's still doing better than 12+ hours)
I'm still on the first week with my current vibrant and I have noticed a slight improvement in battery life since I first got it--the fact that my life is pretty consistent day to day (phone-wise) helps me track it. Maybe the hardware and software need to be 'broken in' per-se?
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... I've easily been making it through long work days (8am-8pm) of moderate/heavy use, whereas before I would need to recharge after 6-8 hours.
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Yeah, it does get better, but 12 hours is not good enough nowadays -- if you go to dinner after work, the battery will be dead before you get home.
This is my biggest gripe about the Galaxy S -- compared to my old iPhone 3Gs the battery life just sucks.
I am hoping that the efficiencies that come with Froyo will squeeze a few more hours and make it usable for a full day.
If Samsung gets off its lazy (or incompetent) butt and upgrades us to Froyo soon, of course.
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Yeah, it does get better, but 12 hours is not good enough nowadays -- if you go to dinner after work, the battery will be dead before you get home.
This is my biggest gripe about the Galaxy S -- compared to my old iPhone 3Gs the battery life just sucks.
I am hoping that the efficiencies that come with Froyo will squeeze a few more hours and make it usable for a full day.
If Samsung gets off its lazy (or incompetent) butt and upgrades us to Froyo soon, of course.
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I can get close to 36 hours from mine, not sure what you guys are doing.
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I can get close to 36 hours from mine, not sure what you guys are doing.
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The question is, what are you not doing? We can all get it to last the long, but this is a smart phone. I cannot afford to treat it like if I was stranded on an island.
Before I get into my post I just wanted to say I'm running stock out of the box with no root/ROM/etc. Just plain ol vanilla Eclair...with the JI5 via Kies.
I'm getting about 32 hours myself. I do use tasker to set up profiles only to turn things on when I want them. Such as sync will only be enabled for specific apps when I run them then off when I close them. GPS is only on when I run Maps/Yelp/any geo-aware app then it turns itself off. Turn on silent mode/vibrate when I'm at the office by recognizing specific cell towers...stuff like that.
I also disabled "Use Wireless Networks" under Location & Security since Google says it will use it even when the phone is off. I don't know why but it's been saving on battery too. I also don't use any task killing app such as ATK since I think the phone should be smart enough to manage the memory by itself.
edit: Oh, I use automatic brightness settings too with manual brightness control on the browser (usually on low-med setting)
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The question is, what are you not doing? We can all get it to last the long, but this is a smart phone. I cannot afford to treat it like if I was stranded on an island.
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Everything enabled except brightness. i turn off wifi and bluetooth when sleeping, and have sync set to once an hour for social contacts and such. For facebook etc i manually update my feed when i want to check on it, or it auto updates every hour.
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I haven't really done anything different, but my battery life in the past few weeks has just gotten better and better.
Right now it's 3pm. I put in a fresh battery at 9pm last night. Batt level: 55%. I was asleep for 7 out of those 18 hours, but I've had wifi and BT on the whole time. I've read and replied to 15 emails, maybe 10 texts, 15 min of calls, surfed the web for 2 hours, played about 30min of games, and had music streaming for 1.5 hrs. I've easily been making it through long work days (8am-8pm) of moderate/heavy use, whereas before I would need to recharge after 6-8 hours.
Anyone else noticing better battery life after the first few weeks? (of course, it might have to do with the fact that I'm playing with it less, but there are days when I play with it constantly and it's still doing better than 12+ hours)
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I'm at a point of consistent battery life of about 13 hours of moderate to heavy use. Been this way since about the middle of August. The longest I've pushed it was close to 21 hours but i'm normally in the 11-12 range.
Glad your phone is leveling out though
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I haven't really done anything different, but my battery life in the past few weeks has just gotten better and better.
Right now it's 3pm. I put in a fresh battery at 9pm last night. Batt level: 55%. I was asleep for 7 out of those 18 hours, but I've had wifi and BT on the whole time. I've read and replied to 15 emails, maybe 10 texts, 15 min of calls, surfed the web for 2 hours, played about 30min of games, and had music streaming for 1.5 hrs. I've easily been making it through long work days (8am-8pm) of moderate/heavy use, whereas before I would need to recharge after 6-8 hours.
Anyone else noticing better battery life after the first few weeks? (of course, it might have to do with the fact that I'm playing with it less, but there are days when I play with it constantly and it's still doing better than 12+ hours)
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Nah it's not any different from when you first bought it, you're just using it less, even though you think you are using it the same.
Trust me, when people buy a new phone, the first few days or couple weeks they can't take their fingers off the phone, and it appears battery sucks. As you get over your new toy phase, you don't play with it as much, and magically you think the battery has grown new cells.
bye.
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Yeah, it does get better, but 12 hours is not good enough nowadays -- if you go to dinner after work, the battery will be dead before you get home.
This is my biggest gripe about the Galaxy S -- compared to my old iPhone 3Gs the battery life just sucks.
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There are easy ways to take care of this if you really need better battery life. First, call T-Mobile and complain that battery life is shorter than advertised. They'll walk you through a script and send you a free spare battery. Second, get an external battery charger. They're all over ebay for about ten dollars, and most come with generic spare batteries.
I've now got a charger and three batteries, so I can pretty much make it through an entire work week without worrying. (You couldn't do that with a 3GS!)
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There are easy ways to take care of this if you really need better battery life. First, call T-Mobile and complain that battery life is shorter than advertised. They'll walk you through a script and send you a free spare battery. Second, get an external battery charger. They're all over ebay for about ten dollars, and most come with generic spare batteries.
I've now got a charger and three batteries, so I can pretty much make it through an entire work week without worrying. (You couldn't do that with a 3GS!)
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Are you serious?!
You really like carrying a pocketful of spare batteries?
I have 2 spare batteries, but I pack them only when I travel.
The damned phone should be able to last throughout a full day (meaning 16 or so hours) without having to worry about turning features off or limiting your calls and mail checking).
I never had to even think about the battery with my iPhone 3Gs.
you must really be glued to your phone if you can't make it a full day
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you must really be glued to your phone if you can't make it a full day
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Uhm, I am actually using it exactly the way I used my iPhone, and the way I need to use to do my work.
It just has crappy battery life
What are you comparing it to? A WM6 phone or something?
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I can get close to 36 hours from mine, not sure what you guys are doing.
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I get nice battery life but I use it too much, then "a day" is from 5am to 10pm, it's just too useful, and when you check usage, it's 75% display.
36 hours would be easy if I limited my screen on-time....while I would like a UV kernel it's likely not helping enough. My display is on lowest, yet I'd love a lower setting.
Aside, the more background services check stuff while screen is off, battery life hours down.
Overall, I am VERY happy with the battery life.
Sent from my Vibrant.
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Are you serious?!
You really like carrying a pocketful of spare batteries?
I have 2 spare batteries, but I pack them only when I travel.
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Um, the batteries are pretty small and skinny. Are you wearing pants with no pockets or something? Seriously, the thing can almost fit in the coin pocket of some jeans.
The damned phone should be able to last throughout a full day (meaning 16 or so hours) without having to worry about turning features off or limiting your calls and mail checking).
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Should? Says who? The phone is pretty average for its class. You can either complain that things are not the way you want them, or you can adapt by carrying around a diminutive spare battery.
I never had to even think about the battery with my iPhone 3Gs.
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You must be one of the few 3G/3GS users to never worry about battery life. Most of the users I know have (or had) to recharge mid-day, a pain in the butt since the battery is not removable. Your 3GS has a much slower processor/GPU, and a smaller screen with a quarter of the pixels; but even then, google "iphone 3gs battery life" and you'll get page after page of reviewers and users complaining about the abysmal battery life.
(of course, someone here claims that his Vibrant can go 40+ hours, so maybe your iPhone is a similar outlier.)
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Nah it's not any different from when you first bought it, you're just using it less, even though you think you are using it the same.
Trust me, when people buy a new phone, the first few days or couple weeks they can't take their fingers off the phone, and it appears battery sucks. As you get over your new toy phase, you don't play with it as much, and magically you think the battery has grown new cells.
bye.
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Its exactly what the problem is. When I flash a new rom I spend 30minutes getting back to the way I like it and my battery suffers from it. When I actually use my phone like its intended to be used I get great battery life.
Are you using any kind of ROMs? I think some ROMs greatly improves battery life.
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Should? Says who? The phone is pretty average for its class. You can either complain that things are not the way you want them, or you can adapt by carrying around a diminutive spare battery....
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Only a true nerd....
I wear skinny jeans.... ))
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...You must be one of the few 3G/3GS users to never worry about battery life. Most of the users I know have (or had) to recharge mid-day, a pain in the butt since the battery is not removable. Your 3GS has a much slower processor/GPU, and a smaller screen with a quarter of the pixels; but even then, google "iphone 3gs battery life" and you'll get page after page of reviewers and users complaining about the abysmal battery life.
(of course, someone here claims that his Vibrant can go 40+ hours, so maybe your iPhone is a similar outlier.)
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Dude, I've had one iPhone 2G and two iPhone 3Gs. I also have two Galaxy S variants (international and a Vibrant).
There is no comparison between the iPhone 3Gs and the Galaxy S in terms of battery life. With the same kind of usage, the iPhone 3 Gs would last about 32-37 hours, while the Galaxy S would last about 12-13.
Even the iPhone 2G lasted about 18-20 hours. Now, compared to my previous HTC WM6 and WM6.5 phone, the Galaxy S does have longer battery life, but that's nothing to be so proud of.
The Galaxy's screen is certainly better than the 3Gs's, but the Super AMOLED is supposed to be more efficient than the LCD on the iPhone. Plus, in real world use, the iPhone 3Gs certainly feels smoother than the Galaxy S, even with the lag fix, and scrolling on the iPhone is smooth as butter, while the Galaxy S is choppy.
And it's not just the OS, because the EVO scrolls noticeably smoother than the Galaxy S.
I consistently get 20+ hours out of one charge. I can't really use my phone at work, but during breaks and lunch I'm always getting on it and checking mail/feeds/youtube or whatever and still have about 70% by the time I go home. I usually have more than half by the time I go to bed unless I've been doing some tethering or heavy audio/video streaming.
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Nah it's not any different from when you first bought it, you're just using it less, even though you think you are using it the same.
Trust me, when people buy a new phone, the first few days or couple weeks they can't take their fingers off the phone, and it appears battery sucks. As you get over your new toy phase, you don't play with it as much, and magically you think the battery has grown new cells.
bye.
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lol...thats so true...
Just got the phone 2 days ago and the battery life does not look very promising. Phone can only last about 15hrs after a full charge with light wifi/3g usage and no auto sync. Quite disappointing.
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Just got the phone 2 days ago and the battery life does not look very promising. Phone can only last about 15hrs after a full charge with light wifi/3g usage and no auto sync. Quite disappointing.
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I remember my X10 having the same problems when I got it, give it a a few weeks and it should start giving you better battery life. If that doesn't solve it, I remember a firmware update for the x10 that came out that improved the battery life a lot, so maybe they could do that for the Arc.
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Just got the phone 2 days ago and the battery life does not look very promising. Phone can only last about 15hrs after a full charge with light wifi/3g usage and no auto sync. Quite disappointing.
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The battery should improove, I got mine on Monday.
I charged mine on Wensday morning and it lasted until Friday morning, with backround
sync on, 2G the first day, 3G on all second day, some sms, listning to music and a call
both through skype over WiFi and normal, both calls lasted over an hour.
I read somewhere this phone doesn't have "Auto brightness"? maybe this is why battery is poor.
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I read somewhere this phone doesn't have "Auto brightness"? maybe this is why battery is poor.
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It does, it's just subtle. You have to actually be looking for it, and there's no way to disable it.
Does anyone know if there gonna be released a battery for arc with higher mAh?
Which battery does the model includes?
Also I saw BA750 with 1500 mAh.
I'm having a similar problems with Battery life, gets to 7% within 14 hours - not what I expected since the battery seems fairly large.
I have wifi on, GPS off, bluetooth off, Push email on, a number of calls through the day. Very disappointing at the moment.
I remember somewhere reading about how to charge the battery properly, I did it on my HTC Desire, it probably gave me like another 20% after doing it - if anyone knows please let me know... I think it went something like:
1. Charge the phone whilst the phone is off
2. When fully charged pull the power and turn on
3. connect the power again until fully charged
4... can't remember the rest or even if the above was correct?
If you want longer battery life for the times when going near a electric socket is not an option, just do what I did whenever I went travelling somewhere - buy an additional battery, charge it and keep it in your bag or whatever, and then just pull it out when your battery dies.
As for battery life of smartphones in general, I had pleasure of toying around with x10 and my x8, the battery life fluctuated at times. In the start it barely lasted a day or two without usage, now my x8 can usually go for like 5 days without charging.
It's deffo very weird, but whatever.
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If you want longer battery life for the times when going near a electric socket is not an option, just do what I did whenever I went travelling somewhere - buy an additional battery, charge it and keep it in your bag or whatever, and then just pull it out when your battery dies.
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That's a good suggestion - however it isn't really what I am after, I need my phone to last until bed time before I charge it.
Now I know this is a new phone and we all go a bit nuts when we get them, using them heavy, seeing what they can do etc - buy yesterday I made a point of using my phone exactly how I normally use my phone (once the novelty has worn off) and the battery life is POOR!
Yeah well, in my experience, battery tends to start being a lot better after a week of owning a device, at least when it comes to mobile phones.
I'm not the type of guy who acts like a little child when he gets his new toy ( in this case, a mobile phone ), so I'd like to believe my experiences can be used as sort of a benchmark in these cases.
As I said, both x8 and x10 batteries lasted very little for me in the beginning, gradually expanding later on - x10 could last 2-3 days without charging with just moderate usage ( SMS, maybe a bit of web browsing + few phonecalls ), while x8 would last 3-5.
Just report back a bit later if the battery life improved a bit.
When I get my Arc after it gets released here in Croatia, I'll do my own review of it.
Im usually really positiv about anything I buy (since I inform myself about possible disadvantages) but the battery life sure is not good at all.
Its ok, but cant call it good.
Still the device itself is quite astonishing.
Edit: switching to GSM only has given me quite a boost in stamina !
and that my dear friends is another reason why i want a neo 23% smaller screen ... more pocket friendly lol.
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and that my dear friends is another reason why i want a neo 23% smaller screen ... more pocket friendly lol.
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and thats the reason why I got myself an Arc, larger screen and not chubby ;-)
Sent from my Xperia Arc.
I'm finding the battery life better than my X10 so I'm more than happy with it!
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and thats the reason why I got myself an Arc, larger screen and not chubby ;-)
Sent from my Xperia Arc.
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touche.
that chubbyness of neo aint no chubbyness its 13 mm thick in the fattest place which is still not much. my mom uses P1, now THATS chubby xD
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touche.
that chubbyness of neo aint no chubbyness its 13 mm thick in the fattest place which is still not much. my mom uses P1, now THATS chubby xD
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Well compared to the Arc, it feels chubby in my opinion. Im very sensitive about that
I've got 35% battery after 13 hours use. Thats texting, few phone calls, fb, twitter and a few games and wifi. I'm more than happy about that.
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I can't complain about battery life. I've had wifi on since I turned it on, data on, skype on, bin on fb and twitter, internet etc, played a few games and still battery is on 51%. Considering the phone is brand spanking new, I am very happy with it.
Btw, has anyone else noticed the stream of iphone apps now appearing on android. Back in the day when I had an Ipod touch, I had a game called Tap Tap Revenge. N you'll never guess what I just found
Like the x10 it would take some time for the battery to work well, as the phone is quite busy in the background when you start using it for the first time. Give it a couple of days and report if your lifetime starts improving.
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I agree with everyone here.. even with P1i being chubby ( I miss those days )
as everyone said give it some time and it will improve a lot...
at first my battery lasted like 14 hours ( constant usage everything on, 3G, auto-syncing... you name it )
However, I tested my phone yesterday and found out that for the first two hours it lost 2 percent with just 10 minutes whatsapp chatting, everything on, GPS wifi... etc.... So its stand by is very good.... 9 hours chatting using whatsapp, browsing and checking XDA app and I still got 60% to go
I have owned my SGS for around 9 months now, and have been downloading roms and tweaks from xdadevs for around 8 months for my SGS. There have been countless times where I have seen claims of batter life extending to 2-3 days, I have even seen claims of 4/5 days!
These claims are ridiculous, particularly if you utilise you smart phone as a SMART PHONE, and these claims are also hugely misleading to newbies. When I first started using XDA and read about 2-3 days battery life I was worried about my phone or battery being faulty. After using the phone for a few weeks and flashing countless roms I realised that around 7 to 10% is NORMAL if you utilise your smart phone for what it is.
The people who do get 2-3 days battery life why do you own a £300 phone and use it like a £10 nokia 1100?
A smart phone has so many features for a reason - they are to be used.
My day to day use on Juwe's Smart Edition v4.3.1 XWJVH Based On Official 2.3.3*
3G/H on
about 1 hour of calls
push email for three email accounts
live wall paper
a couple of widgets which download data every 3 hours
some gaming
approx 30-50 texts a day
whatsapp
liveprofile
1-2 hours music
automatic brightness
This sort of use will give me 10-12 hours battery life.
Can anyone who do claim heavy use and get 2-3 days battery life detail their use and set-up to justify claims of heavy use and make it clear to newbies what REALLY to expect from their smart phone.
Remember, this phone has an array of brilliant feature which have been made to be utilised.
I'm a similar user and i have to say I've never had more then 13hr max and i use my phone all day every day for everything so I agree with you 13 hr is about right and i thank you for putting my mind at ease
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I have owned my SGS for around 9 months now, and have been downloading roms and tweaks from xdadevs for around 8 months for my SGS. There have been countless times where I have seen claims of batter life extending to 2-3 days, I have even seen claims of 4/5 days!
These claims are ridiculous, particularly if you utilise you smart phone as a SMART PHONE, and these claims are also hugely misleading to newbies. When I first started using XDA and read about 2-3 days battery life I was worried about my phone or battery being faulty. After using the phone for a few weeks and flashing countless roms I realised that around 7 to 10% is NORMAL if you utilise your smart phone for what it is.
The people who do get 2-3 days battery life why do you own a £300 phone and use it like a £10 nokia 1100?
A smart phone has so many features for a reason - they are to be used.
My day to day use on Juwe's Smart Edition v4.3.1 XWJVH Based On Official 2.3.3*
3G/H on
about 1 hour of calls
push email for three email accounts
live wall paper
a couple of widgets which download data every 3 hours
some gaming
approx 30-50 texts a day
whatsapp
liveprofile
1-2 hours music
automatic brightness
This sort of use will give me 10-12 hours battery life.
Can anyone who do claim heavy use and get 2-3 days battery life detail their use and set-up to justify claims of heavy use and make it clear to newbies what REALLY to expect from their smart phone.
Remember, this phone has an array of brilliant feature which have been made to be utilised.
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I have pretty much the same usage but I only switch to 3g when I need it (and not using live wallpaper because i find it distracting). 1.5-2 days battery easy.
48 hours of battery for me
Juwe's 4.3.1 based on JVH
3g/h on 24/7
wifi, gps, auto rotate on 24/7
2 hours of calls at least a day
30 to 50 sms daily
no widgets, i prefer a slick apearance
no live wallpaper
4 accounts with push from 9am to 6pm auto check every 15 minutes the rest of the time
1 hour of FM radio everyday
at least 30 minutes gametime everyday if not more
lots of internet usage
twitter : sync's every 1o minutes
facebook : sync's every 4 hours
sms/call log backup every 6 hours
watchdog software running 24/7
sync to dropbox of apps/sms/calllog/camera pictures every 12 hours
Nice post...
In total agreeance with you. I am also a user of the phone and find it silly to have to turn stuff off or go into airplane mode at night, etc. I want to use my phone and not make it an exercise in restraint.
I've also noticed that, for my use, the battery life is pretty consistent. I get about 2 days with everything on, and fairly light use. There is no 'magic' tweak that will double it and stuff like calibrating and erasing battery stats make little difference. What makes the difference is how you use it... Overclocking, bright screens, games... the more you use the less battery life you have. Use the phone, that's what it's for.
Half a day with that much use is OK... for the people who don't want to risk hooking to a charger often or on the move, I suggest buying a rechargeable portable battery pack which when plugged into the phone can recharge without AC mains; so you have a portable charger always around to fill up the phone juice whenever needed.
+1 - I've checked a lot of roms and kernels. Max I had - around 16 hours. But usually it's around 11-12 hours.
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v88p said:
I have owned my SGS for around 9 months now, and have been downloading roms and tweaks from xdadevs for around 8 months for my SGS. There have been countless times where I have seen claims of batter life extending to 2-3 days, I have even seen claims of 4/5 days!
These claims are ridiculous, particularly if you utilise you smart phone as a SMART PHONE, and these claims are also hugely misleading to newbies. When I first started using XDA and read about 2-3 days battery life I was worried about my phone or battery being faulty. After using the phone for a few weeks and flashing countless roms I realised that around 7 to 10% is NORMAL if you utilise your smart phone for what it is.
The people who do get 2-3 days battery life why do you own a £300 phone and use it like a £10 nokia 1100?
A smart phone has so many features for a reason - they are to be used.
My day to day use on Juwe's Smart Edition v4.3.1 XWJVH Based On Official 2.3.3*
3G/H on
about 1 hour of calls
push email for three email accounts
live wall paper
a couple of widgets which download data every 3 hours
some gaming
approx 30-50 texts a day
whatsapp
liveprofile
1-2 hours music
automatic brightness
This sort of use will give me 10-12 hours battery life.
Can anyone who do claim heavy use and get 2-3 days battery life detail their use and set-up to justify claims of heavy use and make it clear to newbies what REALLY to expect from their smart phone.
Remember, this phone has an array of brilliant feature which have been made to be utilised.
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Oh, come on, how difficult is for people to understand this?. You have a device with a 1 GHz CPU, a 4" AMOLED screen, 3G, Wifi, bluetooth radios.. Everything uses power, the more things you use, the more power it takes.
Of course if you have the screen off, WiFi off, 3G data off, bluetooth off, no data sync, not make phone calls... the phone can last one week on standby.
If you're USING the phone, the standard battery will drop 20% every hour or so. I've seen the battery gone down to 10% in a few hours. Battery hogs are in approximate order:
- Screen (even on low brightness)
- 3G data traffic
- Wifi traffic (wifi ON but no traffic has low impact)
- GPS on
- GPU (3D games)
- Voice traffic (screen is off during calls, does not take much power)
Smart using the smartphone
3-4 days for me.
And no, I'm not using it as a Nokia 1100.
Have wifi turned on all the time so it automatically connects to home & work wifi when in range. I check the news every morning for about 10-15min @home when drinking my cafe and have a smoke before leave to work. Sync is ON, k-9 mail checking emails, GO Weather and other apps using data from time to time.
Couple of calls everyday, 5-10min total (I don't say stories on the phone).
I don't listen music from the phone (if I wanna do that I'll use the mp3 player which is built for that and can run 6-7h with a single AAA accu. Also I have a car radio and winamp on the work computer so why use the phone for such?)
Yes, it's a smartphone and I use it as a smartphone. Wonder if some users are as smart as their phone to use it properly.
as mentioned a few times before, for what the phone is capable of, amoled screen, wifi, gps, 3d gaming, mp3 player and so on. you can expect the battery to drain quick.
battery life dont bother me, ive always got a place to charge if needed, and i do abuse my phone, so its expected,
the makers are trying to cram all these goodies into a small compact phone, leaving not much room for a huge battery to power it all.
there are replacement batteries on ebay 3000Mah really big, and they come with the SGS back case to fit it, it doesnt look too bad really. and if battery is a big issue for you, invest in one. they are not too expensive and will give you juice when its really needed.
probably would work out cheaper than paying for apps to monitor and improve battery life....
if the SGS came with a battery the size of your fist, you would be complaining at that too.... even if it lasted a month on 1 charge lol
EDIT: 3500mah battery - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3500MAH-EXTRE...ltDomain_3&hash=item2eb38b347a#ht_2326wt_1139
Thanks