Knowing that on the iPhone (never had one, definitely never wanted one) you can listen to music and battery holds it REALLY well. What about the nexus? I'm thinking about upgrading my SD card for it to hold some music and use it as music player. Will it drain the battery?
I had a few problems with battery draining/kernels but before that and now that I've got it sorted again I can easily get 8 hours of solid music playback and texting before the battery needs charging.
I can stream music over wifi for hours at at time not to mention the stock music player. this is all while still looking around on the internet at work and such.
It seems like bluetooth, music and wifi don't affect the phone at all really when it comes to battery life for me.
-Charlie
On phonearena.com it says that music playback time will be 20 hours, but who knows if that's true. I just got mine yesterday and I love it.
Here's the page
phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-Nexus-One-phone-pa_4512.html
I seem to get about 8hr's plus listening to music.
Music bearly has a drain on my battery.
Thanks for all of your responses! It's great to hear such good news.
So, What music app do you use?
St.Jimmy! said:
Thanks for all of your responses! It's great to hear such good news.
So, What music app do you use?
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Stock.
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St.Jimmy! said:
Thanks for all of your responses! It's great to hear such good news.
So, What music app do you use?
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HTC Music App.
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Whenever im using the htc music player my battery drains around 1% a song. Anyone know any ways around this? thanks.
Depending on the average length of a song this would make about 14-15% per hour. Pretty much what I get. I think that's too much for such a basic functionality which my old Nokia handsets did with just a fraction of that batterydrainage speed and on smaller batteries. But I fear that's what we're stuck with here...
thats why im using another mp3 player^.^
and if the other player got no battery.. i still have two hd2 batteries xD..
sadly, the battery drain is normal
i've been using the LeoCpuSpeed v3, and i'm frequently underclocking my device to 384 MHz when playing music. I haven't done any tests but the battery lasts much longer, it would be interesting to see how much clock speeds affect battery life
speakers or earphones? did u try any other player?
D4rkSoRRoW said:
thats why im using another mp3 player^.^
and if the other player got no battery.. i still have two hd2 batteries xD..
sadly, the battery drain is normal
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Which one do you use?
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i've been using the LeoCpuSpeed v3, and i'm frequently underclocking my device to 384 MHz when playing music. I haven't done any tests but the battery lasts much longer, it would be interesting to see how much clock speeds affect battery life
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how much is much longer?
kenkiller said:
speakers or earphones? did u try any other player?
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headphone and not yet
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Which one do you use?
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i mean, im using a whole other device(Cowon S9, if u want to know wich), not my hd2 to listen to music..^.^
You could try Nitrogen instead of HTC Music as it is supposed to be less resource intensive and I guess that will lower battery usage. I haven't tried on HD2 yet, I used it on my Diamond. Maybe combine it with the CPU underclocking.
When my battery goes bellow 10%, I can't listen to my music or the radio. Is there anyway to bypass this?
I'm looking for something like that I want to be able to use all my battery if I want to !!!!
I aagree. If I have 10% and want to burn it on music I should be able to.
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It does that for other apps too, like the camera
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It does that for other apps too, like the camera
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And video too
I posted the same thing a while back...somewhere.
Was told that it was to protect the SD card from becoming corrupted if it turned itself off whilst playing music/video from said card.
Whether that is true or not I dont know...but, that is only with the stock music/video players.Download a 3rd party app and you can carry on playing below 10%.
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Was told that it was to protect the SD card from becoming corrupted...Whether that is true or not I dont know...but, that is only with the stock music/video players.Download a 3rd party app and you can carry on playing below 10%.
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Seconded, I use spotify as the music player and when i get below 10% I usually chill with some music until it becomes quiet and it's time to recharge.
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Since I got the Nexus One over a month ago, I've realized that its battery life is somewhat problematic. However, it lasted long enough to go about my day, especially considering that I always had a charger at my disposal.
I use it chiefly for listening to music, so I naturally brought it with me when I did the annual NYC Century Bike Tour. I wanted to record a GPS track of my ride (I rode the 100 mile path) but knew it would probably kill my battery really fast, so I used my G1 and RMap as my GPS device.
The Nexus One had NOTHING except for phone service (on EDGE), TouchDown (Exchange email push) and music (with Mixzing, recommendations off, equalizer on) on for the ride. The G1 only had its GPS radio on, nothing else. Both devices spent most of their time with the screen off.
The G1 was dead in about three hours. The Nexus One was dead in five. FIVE hours! Brand new device! That's not bad battery life; that's just unacceptable. My iPhone 3GS certainly lasted longer than that. Even my old Windows Mobile HTC Raphael outlasted the both of them!
What can I do about this? I'm willing to get a bigger battery at this point, but I don't want to buy one and realize that the OS is really at fault here (like I think it is).
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[Cross posted at Android General]
Since I got the Nexus One over a month ago, I've realized that its battery life is somewhat problematic. However, it lasted long enough to go about my day, especially considering that I always had a charger at my disposal.
I use it chiefly for listening to music, so I naturally brought it with me when I did the annual NYC Century Bike Tour. I wanted to record a GPS track of my ride (I rode the 100 mile path) but knew it would probably kill my battery really fast, so I used my G1 and RMap as my GPS device.
The Nexus One had NOTHING except for phone service (on EDGE), TouchDown (Exchange email push) and music (with Mixzing, recommendations off, equalizer on) on for the ride. The G1 only had its GPS radio on, nothing else. Both devices spent most of their time with the screen off.
The G1 was dead in about three hours. The Nexus One was dead in five. FIVE hours! Brand new device! That's not bad battery life; that's just unacceptable. My iPhone 3GS certainly lasted longer than that. Even my old Windows Mobile HTC Raphael outlasted the both of them!
What can I do about this? I'm willing to get a bigger battery at this point, but I don't want to buy one and realize that the OS is really at fault here (like I think it is).
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The problem? You're using the wrong tools for the job. Want/need a GPS? Use a GPS. Want a mp3 player? Use an mp3 player.
You'll have to look and see what's actually using CPU/battery, but I suspect Touchdown was a large part of it. And might watch to see what CPU Mixzing is using, perhaps it's using an inordinate amount.
Were you streaming the music? I listen to podcasts, and every now and then I have an easy day at work where I probably listen to 6 hours or so to get caught up, but I don't stream them. This is over a 9 hour work day and with moderate email, web, SMS and phone use, I still have 30-40% left at the end of those marathon podcast days.
Hmm, how was your signal? When signal is low, the n1 uses a ton more battery.
EQ on Mixzing kills the battery, also...
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The problem? You're using the wrong tools for the job. Want/need a GPS? Use a GPS. Want a mp3 player? Use an mp3 player.
You'll have to look and see what's actually using CPU/battery, but I suspect Touchdown was a large part of it. And might watch to see what CPU Mixzing is using, perhaps it's using an inordinate amount.
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So then I guess by this logic, I should sell my Nexus One and get a RAZR.
The point is that I should be able to do most of those things and not have my phone die five hours later. The iPhone I used nefore didn't.
No, not the Razr. You just said it, get the iPhone
OT: I think you will get a longer playback time if you use the default music player. The quotes 20 hr audio playback I think is when you turn off all radios and use the phone for music playback only.
My phone was purchased May 21, 2010, so it's not new, still on the original battery. Daily, I stream Pandora to my bluetooth headset for 6-8 hours while at work (streaming + bluetooth) without attaching the phone the charger... Granted, as soon as I get home, I will have to plug it up, I still consider this to be pretty good battery life. That's on 3G + I have my Exchange (Push) email, occasional phone call or two and some minor browsing.
For example, today, I have been streaming to A2DP since I got to work at 7:30am ET... I have 58% battery left at 12:58pm ET...
Sounds like something else is killing your phone especially since you aren't even streaming music...
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[Cross posted at Android General]
Since I got the Nexus One over a month ago, I've realized that its battery life is somewhat problematic. However, it lasted long enough to go about my day, especially considering that I always had a charger at my disposal.
I use it chiefly for listening to music, so I naturally brought it with me when I did the annual NYC Century Bike Tour. I wanted to record a GPS track of my ride (I rode the 100 mile path) but knew it would probably kill my battery really fast, so I used my G1 and RMap as my GPS device.
The Nexus One had NOTHING except for phone service (on EDGE), TouchDown (Exchange email push) and music (with Mixzing, recommendations off, equalizer on) on for the ride. The G1 only had its GPS radio on, nothing else. Both devices spent most of their time with the screen off.
The G1 was dead in about three hours. The Nexus One was dead in five. FIVE hours! Brand new device! That's not bad battery life; that's just unacceptable. My iPhone 3GS certainly lasted longer than that. Even my old Windows Mobile HTC Raphael outlasted the both of them!
What can I do about this? I'm willing to get a bigger battery at this point, but I don't want to buy one and realize that the OS is really at fault here (like I think it is).
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Were you streaming the music?
If so, I don't think the iphone is going to outlast the N1 battery-wise by much.
If it was local music, the performance is simply unacceptable.
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The quotes 20 hr audio playback I think is when you turn off all radios and use the phone for music playback only.
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That is just ridiculous!
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My phone was purchased May 21, 2010, so it's not new, still on the original battery. Daily, I stream Pandora to my bluetooth headset for 6-8 hours while at work (streaming + bluetooth) without attaching the phone the charger... Granted, as soon as I get home, I will have to plug it up, I still consider this to be pretty good battery life. That's on 3G + I have my Exchange (Push) email, occasional phone call or two and some minor browsing.
For example, today, I have been streaming to A2DP since I got to work at 730am ET... I have 58% battery left...
Sounds like something else is killing your phone especially since you aren't even streaming music...
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I wasn't streaming music; just playing from SD card. I would use the default music player, but it having no equalizer makes it hard for me to do so.
I think TouchDown was the culprit here, but I have nothing to prove that it was. I'm going to do another century ride soon, so I'll be able to re-test then.
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What he said. My phone doesn't drop even 10% an hour when I'm listening to local MP3s.
If you generally have very bad battery life - either look for a process that's killing the battery, or check your battery capacity - it might have deteriorated.
cnunez1987 said:
[Cross posted at Android General]
Since I got the Nexus One over a month ago, I've realized that its battery life is somewhat problematic. However, it lasted long enough to go about my day, especially considering that I always had a charger at my disposal.
I use it chiefly for listening to music, so I naturally brought it with me when I did the annual NYC Century Bike Tour. I wanted to record a GPS track of my ride (I rode the 100 mile path) but knew it would probably kill my battery really fast, so I used my G1 and RMap as my GPS device.
The Nexus One had NOTHING except for phone service (on EDGE), TouchDown (Exchange email push) and music (with Mixzing, recommendations off, equalizer on) on for the ride. The G1 only had its GPS radio on, nothing else. Both devices spent most of their time with the screen off.
The G1 was dead in about three hours. The Nexus One was dead in five. FIVE hours! Brand new device! That's not bad battery life; that's just unacceptable. My iPhone 3GS certainly lasted longer than that. Even my old Windows Mobile HTC Raphael outlasted the both of them!
What can I do about this? I'm willing to get a bigger battery at this point, but I don't want to buy one and realize that the OS is really at fault here (like I think it is).
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I would ask for a replacement battery because and hour of music should nottake 20 percent of your battery
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nexusdue said:
Were you streaming the music?
If so, I don't think the iphone is going to outlast the N1 battery-wise by much.
If it was local music, the performance is simply unacceptable.
That is just ridiculous!
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Hey, a dedicated music player like the ipod nano has ~24hrs of audio playback. So I think that's about right.
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I would use the default music player, but it having no equalizer makes it hard for me to do so.
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There you go. That is the problem. Others have already said in this thread that the equalizer is horrible on battery life. It is just a software hack to modify the sound before playing it. So it uses a lot of CPU. Run without it, or maybe try the built in one on CM6. But that one still may be just as bad.
I keep seeing threads on battery life and it baffles me, what exactly do people think great battery life is for a phone of this caliber? A week straight of watching 1080P movies through the tv? For crying out loud stop crowding the forum with them. The phone has great battery life for the powerhouse it is and no phone will last a month straight watching videos unless you wanna go buy a 1000000000mah battery and have a phone you need a horse and buggy to haul around. Thanks and God bless
Derek
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I would be glad if the phone could handle 4h of mixed internet browsing and gaming non stop, which it doesn't.
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I would be glad if the phone could handle 4h of mixed internet browsing and gaming non stop, which it doesn't.
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IDK why your phone does not, but mine last's just over 5 hours when streaming video/ max bright / and streaming audio to BT speakers.
And of course if I'm careful almost 2 days.
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I would be glad if the phone could handle 4h of mixed internet browsing and gaming non stop, which it doesn't.
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Something is wrong
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Best battery life I have experienced on an Android phone and I owned many phones.
Love this phone!
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Because you didn't add "browse the internet".
For some reason, data streaming is extremelly taxing on the Note's battery, specially Wifi. You can easily drain it 100 to 0 in 3 hours of browsing the web with min brightness. However, if u stick to gaming and media consuming, it should last over 5.
Yeah, don't ask...
I have tried texasice, medroid, and BCM all with really poor battery life. With minimal use, I was getting 4-5 hours with minimal use. I tried multiple wipes and calibrated the battery after every flash with no avail. After looking at the battery info I found most of my drain was from music, which was never a problem with CM7.
However, I decided maybe it wasn't ICS that was the issue but the music app itself. (I used both stock and CM music). I decided to try other music players, including winamp, poweramp, and doubletwist. Doubletwist seemed to have the best battery life.
Using the stock and CM players, my battery was draining at 13-15% per hour of playing music, but using double twist it was down to only about 10%. It's a small improvement but since I use my phone as my primary mp3 player, it made a huge difference for me.
If anyone else is having battery problems with the music app, please try doubletwist to confirm this. I want to make sure its not just a coincidence.
If battery life is a concern for you as like me i would avoid ICS and stick with gingerbread or play with your cpu settings trying to change min frequency and try different govenors like smartass.
The ICS roms with hwa enabled will always suck the battery life as its using the gpu. Double twist prob doesnt use much cpu power for the eq
Try MIUI, CM7 or im having alot of luck with runny rom v6.
I think im going to skip ICS all together as my battery the way i use it is dead in 5 hrs
I think you misunderstood my post. I am not complaining about the battery. Battery life is not a concern for me anymore. I made this thread to ask others having trouble with the music app killing battery to try using doubletwist and confirming or debunking my results. I'm just offering a suggestion based on my experience.
Like previously stated, if you use your N1 as a daily driver, especially with music (like me), then get off ICS. ICS is cool to have but absolutely worthless if you plan on using your phone in the real world. Simple.
Once again, I have been using my n1 running ICS as a daily driver, and I have been using it for music. With little to no problems. The battery life is not an issue seeing that right now its very similar to the battery life i had running CM7. The N1 never had spectacular battery life to being with, so i was already adjusted to managing the battery to make it last as long as possible.
For me, the N1 with ICS (I'm using BCM) is fine as a daily driver.
i would try doubletwist for you but im not having that terrible battery youre describing on texasic ics. mine lasts around 13 hours when listening to music with poweramp or subsonic cached tracks.
Thanks for the reply. I guess any app works better than the stock app for battery.
I find deleting dsp helps
and ICS is fine for daily use, I've had no problems with BCM