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im not sure if it's just me or everyone else (who has a htc evo) but my evo runs out of battery sooo fast
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im not sure if it's just me or everyone else (who has a htc evo) but my evo runs out of battery sooo fast
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Are you leaving 4G on the whole time, or turning it off when needed? Are you playing videos the entire time? Give some more info please...
i dont have 4G turned on at all, and no just simple handcent text messaging!
its not just you. im also having trouble getting the phone to last all day from 8 an to 5 pm. my cell standby gets close to 50% battery use without me doing anything and I think that kills the battery. I'm trying advanced task killer to see if it makes a difference in battery life
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oh oh htc hero allll over again!!!! once we get this rooted we should fix some of these problems... also... I am positive companies will produce higher capacity batteries.
See what this guy did and maybe you can increase your battery life.....
http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/85497-tip-trick-61-hours-24-battery-remaining.html
how much better does the battery get over time? does it typically take about 10 recharges or so to see improvement?
Chris
The other day I was at 36% after 14 hours of moderate use. I found that heavy use will drain it fairly quickly, however. Yesterday after I had been off the charger for 2 hours with 50% awake time (browsing xda and other things) my battery was down to like 80%. I did notice that the battery charges really quickly, though.
some good tips here too:
http://www.androidcentral.com/keeping-your-charge-how-improve-battery-life-your-android-phone
i bet using the wifi never sleep trick, as also noted in the link a few posts up, will net a large increase in battery life for most people. interesting to note if it will have an effect on receiving/sending MMS as one of the commenters noted; can someone test?
There are FOUR applications built into the Evo that will use data even if you never turn them on:
Stock
Weather
News
GTalk
Turning these off will add several hours to your battery life. Lowering the frequency of Email updates and GoogleSync will add a little more, and be wary of Live Wallpapers. They use ultralittle processing, but oogles and more of battery life!
thanks for the heads up!
Make sure when you download an app that you go into the settings menu and see if it does background updates. If so, try and set them to the lowest settings. For example, the Weatherbug app took my battery to 50% in two hours because it was running in the background trying to get my location. I went in and changed to settings to only verify my location when I open up the app.
i think i read somewhere in androidforums.com the handcent app kills battery life... i'm not sure but its something you can check on.
No it doesn't. Been running it on my Vogue for months and can go greater than 24 hours no prob. It's made no difference.
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I think I have thoroughly conditioned my battery, today with have my brightness set lower.
I am at 47% with just answering texts emails and web browser. I might add i have to use my google voice till the 4th so I have it push to me as soon as someone sends me a txt
But one thing that will drain your battery is homerun battle 3d, that game is f'ing sweet
Just another tip for those experiencing poor battery life...what's your signal strength in the area where you spend most of your day?
When you have poor signal strength, most devices will try to boost their internal radio's power to get a better connection. Have you noticed your device is warm, as if you had just been on a long phone call, even though it's just sitting on your desk?
Poor signal will drain your battery very quickly. I have seen the battery on my TP2 go down to 50% on a full charge after only 4 or 5 hours, without use (other than Exchange sync); where i have great signal strength, my device can sit idle for an entire day and be down to only 75-80%.
Not sure if it's the case on EVO but on my Nexus the Twitter app was set to update every 15 minutes and it was a big drain on the battery. Changed it to every hour instead and it made a noticeable difference.
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There are FOUR applications built into the Evo that will use data even if you never turn them on:
Stock
Weather
News
GTalk
Turning these off will add several hours to your battery life. Lowering the frequency of Email updates and GoogleSync will add a little more, and be wary of Live Wallpapers. They use ultralittle processing, but oogles and more of battery life!
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how do you alter the frequency of email updates?
thanks
joey3002 said:
how do you alter the frequency of email updates?
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Open your mail>hit menu>more> settings> send & receive
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Open your mail>hit menu>more> settings> send & receive
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I do not have that option in gmail
I just order this phone online yesterday and was wanting to get a general consensus on the battery life on the phone... Coming from an HD2 and a nexus one before and a G1 before that I am tired of using smartphones with horrible battery life... I'm hoping to get battery life similar to that of the blackberry 9700 (I had that between my G1 and Nexus) which i was ver impressed with it's battery getting up to 2 days out of it sometimes... Is the battery anything close to that? or is it another fail for smartphone batteries?
mauricehall said:
I just order this phone online yesterday and was wanting to get a general consensus on the battery life on the phone... Coming from an HD2 and a nexus one before and a G1 before that I am tired of using smartphones with horrible battery life... I'm hoping to get battery life similar to that of the blackberry 9700 (I had that between my G1 and Nexus) which i was ver impressed with it's battery getting up to 2 days out of it sometimes... Is the battery anything close to that? or is it another fail for smartphone batteries?
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The battery life on the Vibrant is right up there with the best of a powerful smartphone with a large screen. It will not be like the BB however.
I love the battery life on this phone I have only charged it twice sense last Thursday I seem to be getting 24 hours of normal use or more off this battery. Normal use for me is lots of testing and browsing the net I also been showing off avatar been using the battery for that.
I am very happy with the battery on this phone.
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G1 to Vibrant
I too recently ordered this phone, and if the battery alone is better than then G1 I'll be happy. So far alot of good reviews. So hopefully a charger in my back pocket wont be necessary. I'll repost once I get it on Monday or Tuesday!
My nexus one got me about 4.5 to 5 hours heavy usage. This gets me 6 hours of heavy usage (straight internet). My n1 lasted a day of moderate usage, I noticed standby wasnt to great on it, but the vibrant I bet I could get 2 days light to moderate usage as I can already tell the Standby time kicks the arse off the n1....
Happy so far..
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I too recently ordered this phone, and if the battery alone is better than then G1 I'll be happy. So far alot of good reviews. So hopefully a charger in my back pocket wont be necessary. I'll repost once I get it on Monday or Tuesday!
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I once had a G1, worst battery ever! You will be pleased with this one!
I haven't been overly impressed with the battery life. I might have something installed that is sucking it dry but 8-10 hours is all I get from a charge (Of course this is during the initial "wow" period of getting a new phone).
Did my 1st battery test yesterdy. Unplugged it from the charger at 11am. Sittin at the throne browsing fb & twitter, email, xda (legs ended up falling aslep lol) Used camera & video for about 30 mins on the biggest resolution. Daughter was on youtube for about an hour in the car (Weird Al Yankovic's trapped in the drive thru on repeat smh). Surfing the web for a good 45 mins while wifey & daughter shopping. Watchng avatar. Get home at around 10pm and battery just now dopped to 50%. Best battery ive had since my bb8700! hopefully a higher mah stock size battery is in the work so my vibrant can go on beast mode!
Lol I had the 9700 no smart phone would have the battery life that thing has unless a new form of battery technology emerges that thing best point is to live
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FYI just got mine and it is charging now. At the store I checked out the battery stats on the demo unit (in theory it has had a good deal of play time from customers) and it was at 32% and unplugged for 2 days and like 5 hours. That is damn GOOD. If we get custom kernels on this thing, that would be intense.
I think it's pretty bad. I only have exchange email on it and nothing else syncing. Even when I'm not using it much the battery is down to 70%. What's worse is that the battery meter will appear to be 100% even when it's downto 82%. I have to charge it after about 8 hours and keep in mind I have a 9700 that is my #1 for email and messaging via bbm. I could only imagine if this were my only phone. I'd probably need to find a charge after 6 hours. It's better than the hd2 however but I go 2 days without charging my blackberry so I hope that's not what you're looking for.
I will however any that for a super android device it probably had the best battery when compared to the evo, incredible, droid x etc
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You can get a good 10 to 12 hours out of it with heavy usage, which is great for a smart phone .
In terms of fast, large screen smartphones, the battery life is slightly better than average in my opinion. It's a 1500mah pack as compared to the 1150mah pack in my G1. It's definitely not to the point where I would like it to be, but there isn't a phone on the market that can really provide me with that capability (unless some type of new battery tech comes out).
You can just go into your settings, then about phone and then battery usage and you'll see a breakdown of what your usage was since the last time it was plugged in charging. For me the screen is still dominating the power usage. That should be pretty typical of any large screen smartphone. Since the AMOLED is 20% more efficient than LCD it should translate to slightly better overall battery life.
Remember guys, this is also battery life with the stock kernel. I'm sure once we get a dev team working on uv/oc kernels, we'll see some significant fluctuation in the battery life, much like we saw with the N1 almost doubling battery life with the right kernel.
I have to say, my battery life has been rather mediocre at best so far. Yesterday got down to 30% in about 8 hours, and all I did was send maybe 10 text messages and make two calls. I turned off Facebook and Twitter syncing in hopes that it would help. I barely used the damn thing and it ate through the battery. It's syncing my Gmail account and two Hotmail accounts (checking every hour). I hope that I'm just not noticing using it more. In cases when I do sit down and use it heavily, battery runs down incredibly quickly. I'm rather concerned.
I believe Froyo is better on battery
Thanks for all the info guys... Hopefully the phone will be in tomorrow so I can form my own opinion *crosses fingers*
Not good. Battery lost 30% overnight in 9 hours with SetCPU set and it set to GSM Auto PRL... :-(
Condition your battery.
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Condition your battery.
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Conditioning is a myth... LiOn batteries don't need to be conditioned. The phone needs to be conditioned to properly report the battery, but it shouldn't be this bad.
Only thing I did different was turned on google talk and my battery went from 100% down to 24% in 4.5 hours. Could google talk really take up that much battery? Prior usage I would get over 18 hours, thats with texting, emails and a couple of voice calls. Previously under the battery use the screen was always at the top but now the Android system is at the top.
Guess my main question is could google talk hit the battery that hard?
Did you recently root? Mine seems much worse since rooting.
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No root, just turned on google talk
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No root, just turned on google talk
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There you go. Gtalk must be accessing the internet often which is causing the drain in battery.
I have noticed if I leave a page open on Google Buzz, the GPS radio can drain the battery quick.
Another reason why I want to have a development ROM with all those nice troubleshooting tools to catch these problems quicker. Like before the battery is dead.
I have similarly awful battery life on the Vibrant, and I've been running GTalk 24/7 since I purchased the phone. Going to run it with no GTalk today to see it affects life. I'll post my results here later.
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Did you recently root? Mine seems much worse since rooting.
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I'm rooted and I still have 23% battery after 29 hours unplugged. Any other apps you got running in the background killing your battery?
After I rooted I didn't add back the Facebook and other accounts that keep the contacts updated with their status and whatnot. I get a full 24 hours out of a charge now so I am really pleased with the battery life.
I am running mine rooted, gTalk on, google sync and one exchange push sync always on, "Twitter" twitter app updating @ 30min., LauncherPro, live wallpaper, gps on standby, and I have to say coming from G1, 3G Slide, HD2, this has the best battery life so far. Not playing any games on it, nor any media streaming aside from the occasional few minutes.
Now, it has only been two days running it that way, but one can hope it stays like this! Running it unplugged from 7am to 1:30am (next day) and still having 45% battery left after a day of medium heavy use is pure bliss!
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I am running mine rooted, gTalk on, google sync and one exchange push sync always on, "Twitter" twitter app updating @ 30min., LauncherPro, live wallpaper, gps on standby, and I have to say coming from G1, 3G Slide, HD2, this has the best battery life so far. Not playing any games on it, nor any media streaming aside from the occasional few minutes.
Now, it has only been two days running it that way, but one can hope it stays like this! Running it unplugged from 7am to 1:30am (next day) and still having 45% battery left after a day of medium heavy use is pure bliss!
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Was your phone in your pocket or out indoors on a counter all day?
mnotz said:
I am running mine rooted, gTalk on, google sync and one exchange push sync always on, "Twitter" twitter app updating @ 30min., LauncherPro, live wallpaper, gps on standby, and I have to say coming from G1, 3G Slide, HD2, this has the best battery life so far. Not playing any games on it, nor any media streaming aside from the occasional few minutes.
Now, it has only been two days running it that way, but one can hope it stays like this! Running it unplugged from 7am to 1:30am (next day) and still having 45% battery left after a day of medium heavy use is pure bliss!
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im sorry but i am every good with phones and adjusting the battery drain and this seems terribly inaccurate unless you pick up your phone once an hour and use it. There is no way you have almost 50 percent better left on this device while running all of that stuff. and you have it on 3g? or edge? is the screen bright?
overall the battery has been TERRIBLE. and it takes forever to charge. that's why i sent it back. I hate USB charger cords... seems they take loner to charge.
much love u must have an extended battery which isnt even out yet lol
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Was your phone in your pocket or out indoors on a counter all day?
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lmao lool same thing i asked loool
Well, it was google talk that was doing it. I work in a large building and get about 2-3 bars of service which isn't bad but leaving google talk on literally raped my battery.
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After I rooted I didn't add back the Facebook and other accounts that keep the contacts updated with their status and whatnot. I get a full 24 hours out of a charge now so I am really pleased with the battery life.
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Thats an awesome idea!!! Facebook sync is almost retarded to have on this phone since im not running TW or looking through my contacts to check on ppl... there is no reason why I should even have to keep the account synced. The service is still probably running in the background and dropping/retrying. Thanks!!!
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Well, it was google talk that was doing it. I work in a large building and get about 2-3 bars of service which isn't bad but leaving google talk on literally raped my battery.
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AWESOME! Thank you OP for testing and bringing us back your findings. This is how it should be done!
I've had my Vibrant since roll-out day. The battery seemed to be working well and lasting a long time. Then it began to drain rapidly going from a full charge to under 25% in about 4.5 hours. This happens with or without use. I tried disabling sync, wi-fi, push, bt, etc and I didn't see any improvement to speak of. I also set it to use 2G networks only. That was all before rooting yesterday. Today it's no better at all so rooting doesn't seem to have had any effect.
As far as charging goes- it's horrible (mains, not computer); over 4 hours from completely dead (auto-shutdown) to 100%. Even if I begin charging at 35% it still takes over 3 hours to get to 100%.
What does all this mean? Beats me. I like the phone and I am hoping it's not a hardware issue. My rooted G1 with an extended life battery running Froyo lasted all day long with constant data use, go figure.
I'll be watching the forums over the next several days with the hope that something will break loose.
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im sorry but i am every good with phones and adjusting the battery drain and this seems terribly inaccurate unless you pick up your phone once an hour and use it. There is no way you have almost 50 percent better left on this device while running all of that stuff. and you have it on 3g? or edge? is the screen bright?
overall the battery has been TERRIBLE. and it takes forever to charge. that's why i sent it back. I hate USB charger cords... seems they take loner to charge.
much love u must have an extended battery which isnt even out yet lol
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Nope, just a stock Vibrant battery. Phone lays next to me on my desk at the office all day, bounces between Edge and 3G here, currently, 2:16pm, the battery status in the phone settings shows a level of 76%, was unplugged this morning @ around 7:30. At my house I have full bars 3G. Battery use is 35% Voice Calls, 28% Display, 18% Cell standby, 13% Phone idle, 3% Android system and 2% Android OS.
I am not much into adjusting battery drain or anything like you, but those are the readings from the phone. How accurate they are or not, no idea, but this is definitely the best smartphone I ever owned concerning the battery life. And I owned a **** ton of them over the years. But I also don't complain too much, because getting through a full day is all I need.
Screen is set to auto-brightness with the application brightness thingy activated.
--Zax
Edit: Reading my original post, I guess it could be a bit confusing - I did not mean it has lasted for two days like this - I meant I own the phone only for two days, and it was unplugged yesterday from 7am to 1:30am next day (18.5h)
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lmao lool same thing i asked loool
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It is a legit question. On my N1 and this phone I see HUGE differences in battery when the device is in heat/pocket and inside just sitting on a counter.
As we all know the battery life sux...... I have tried everything replaced battery, replaced device, tried different roms. But the battery still drains like water. I miss iphone in this case. I think i will be selling this vibrant on ebay. May b i will get nexus one again
Thanks for creating an 'official' thread for this. I was worried that one of the 1000 battery threads weren't the official ones.
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Thanks for creating an 'official' thread for this. I was worried that one of the 1000 battery threads weren't the official ones.
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well now people wont have to create another 1000 because they can use this one.
Congratulations on your first post... and its a complaint. This isn't your blog :\
My battery life ain't bad.
Have fun on that nexus with that washed out smiled screen that can't properly detect mt ..
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My battery life ain't bad.
Have fun on that nexus with that washed out smiled screen that can't properly detect mt ..
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=) don't you love swype?
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you're doing it wrong.
i've been unplugged for 1 day, 6 hours... and i'm sitting at just under 30%
i've been using wifi at work a lot though, so not much 3g data being pumped
edit: and good luck getting better battery life with the nexus!
How you pulled that off?
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Try not having a bunch of apps like email running that are constantly pulling data.
Evil Apps
GMAIL
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Any IM Client
Pandora
lolcopter said:
you're doing it wrong.
i've been unplugged for 1 day, 6 hours... and i'm sitting at just under 30%
i've been using wifi at work a lot though, so not much 3g data being pumped
edit: and good luck getting better battery life with the nexus!
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what u mean i m doing it wrong
To be fair, running a smartphone without e-mail synced would sort of defeat the purpose (for many). Though to the point of this "official" thread -- I'm thankfully happy with the battery life on my Vibrant, and I have Gmail, Twitter, etc. running.
Let me guess you don't drain your phones battery either during its first use and let it completely charge up (while off) to 100%.
I did this with my wifes and mine. This has been the best battery life I've had out of a smart phone to date. I've gone up to 36 hours on one full charge. However normal is 18 hours then I charge when I go to bed and I don't even have the warning that my battery is dying.
I hate restarting my phone, it always resets my battery stats. I love seeing how long I can go .
I'm glad we have an official thread now.
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Let me guess you don't drain your phones battery either during its first use and let it completely charge up (while off) to 100%.
I did this with my wifes and mine. This has been the best battery life I've had out of a smart phone to date. I've gone up to 36 hours on one full charge. However normal is 18 hours then I charge when I go to bed and I don't even have the warning that my battery is dying.
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can i still do this? and does it matter if i charge it with wall charger or the usb?
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Let me guess you don't drain your phones battery either during its first use and let it completely charge up (while off) to 100%.
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I've read that this isn't necessary with Li-ion batteries (and in fact completely draining can be bad, though phones have a built-in protection mechanism to prevent total discharge)?
I will add that I briefly owned a Nexus One, and find the Vibrant's battery life to be much better... but "YMMV," i guess
completely draining IS bad, but our phone cuts off before this should be an issue (hence why, even if dead, you can still cut your phone on... though for not very long, this is not advised).
That said, the Vibrant has had VERY good battery life for me.... I also think the OP is "doing it wrong."
Seriously. How much do you do on the phone. The only way I drain this thing is surfing and downloading. I dont really have a lot of widgets. I guess if ur running alot of stuff you'll be burning battery life
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2012iawait said:
As we all know the battery life sux...... I have tried everything replaced battery, replaced device, tried different roms. But the battery still drains like water. I miss iphone in this case. I think i will be selling this vibrant on ebay. May b i will get nexus one again
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Changed battery, changed device, changed ROMS. Only two things I see in common, the Vibrant and you. Personally I haven't had any issues with the Vibrant.
Just checked my battery status.
70%, unplugged for 8h 7m 38s
Display - 25%
Mediaserver - 24%
Cell Standby - 23%
CPU usage for Mediaserver - 1h 15m
Approx 1 hour of music and 5 podcasts.
Applications that I'm running that sync:
Facebook
Gmail
Google Voice
Google Talk (usually intercepts the first message then focus switches to my Desktop client)
Email via personal IMAP server (synced every 30minutes)
Yahoo Fantasy Football App
Mint App
bought the phone last week, charged to 100% with the phone off then began using it non-stop. the battery wasn't that great at first, but i have since gone through about 2-3 full cycle charges, usually draining the phone until shutoff, then leaving it on USB charge overnight. charged to 100% by the morning, then i would turn the phone on and charge a bit more until it read 100% while on. since then i have charged a couple times with the phone on, here and there. my last charge was with the phone off, wall charged overnight. no top off needed.
all syncing and background data turned on
use wifi at work, set to never turn off
3g disabled unless i need it
auto brightness
settings > sound and display > DISABLE "power saving mode"
use black.png background because i like how dark it is
don't use any data grabbing widgets
it's been 32+ hours since i last unplugged and i'm sitting at 22%
two full days use off a single charge is a-okay in my book! other peoples' use may vary, but this is my personal setup. i think doing a couple of full cycle charges in the beginning really helps. i'm completely satisfied with my current battery life, even with all the speed tests, wifi/3g surfing, and goofing around with the GPS
Bought a AT&T Nexus S yesterday. I was using it last night, getting it all set up, battery drain seemed to be about normal. I put it on the charger overnight and took it off at 7:40 this morning. By the time I got to work a bit before 8 it was at 94%, when I pulled it out at 9, it was at 73%. Restarted the phone, but by 9:30 it was in the high 50s. Checked battery use stats, didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Figured one of the apps I installed last night was running rampant so I did a factory reset at this point. Checked back about 20 minutes later, it had dropped into the high 40s, so I tried another factory reset just to be sure, and when it was done resetting.....the battery was showing at 7%!
At this point I just turned the phone off in case I needed it working to make a call or something. Turned it on at lunch to check for mail/missed messages, used it for maybe 2 minutes with the battery still showing 7% and turned it back off. Tried to turn it on around 3 o'clock and the phone was completely dead, it refused to turn on at all. The only strange thing I noticed was that the back of the phone, above the google logo but below the camera was warm to the touch. Any ideas what's going on with the phone?
The Nexus will only charge to 94-98%. If you haven't done a few charge cycles yet, give it some time.
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The phone shouldn't be able to consume the battery that fast. Normally I'd recommend troubleshooting, but since you just got the thing you might as well just replace it.
Well I bought it from someone who bought it last week. I messaged him asking him to get me a copy of the receipt in case I need to exchange it and he's not sure he knows where it is so that might not be an option. I'm charging it now, I guess I'll just see how it works tomorrow.
The battery life was crap on my nexus s for about week and a half. But after that the battery life got better and better and now as long as I'm not syncing my exchange account my phone will go from 6:30am to 10-11pm and still have 30-40% battery left.
Side note, anyone know why the corporate exchange account draws so much battery?
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The battery life was crap on my nexus s for about week and a half. But after that the battery life got better and better and now as long as I'm not syncing my exchange account my phone will go from 6:30am to 10-11pm and still have 30-40% battery left.
Side note, anyone know why the corporate exchange account draws so much battery?
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Which technology is used to keep the corporate exchange acc in sync by Android/Google? If it ain't the same as gCal, gMail, gContacts etc then there's your reason.
I do think it's some kind of idling process, which takes obviously more power then a push-type of thing.
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Which technology is used to keep the corporate exchange acc in sync by Android/Google? If it ain't the same as gCal, gMail, gContacts etc then there's your reason.
I do think it's some kind of idling process, which takes obviously more power then a push-type of thing.
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Its the native program on the nexus s I'm using and I have it set to check only once an hour. But if I have it active or set to fetch once an hour it doesn't change how much more of the battery is used. But when I use it I'm lucky if I leave work with more than 50% of my battery left. Delete the account from my phone and I leave work with 80-85% battery left.
drain the battery a few times, then charge it to full. its normal seeing this kind of drain at first. it6 needs to be "calibrated".
mess with your display settings. lower the brightness and take it off auto. Turn the timeout to like 15/30 secs and see if that helps.
How hot is hot? Mine gets warm occasionally but spends most of its day in my pocket, but not hot.
Battery was much better today, still shorter than it should be, but I'd rate it as "android normal", especially since it hasn't been power cycled at all. It's down to about 25% after 10 hours off the charger, and I'm assuming it will get better, as others have said, after a few charge cycles.
For those asking how hot I was talking, it's the same spot that gets warm when you charge the phone, but it was noticeably warmer than it gets when charging, and like I said it stayed that way the whole day until it died.
Also depends on the charger, I bought a new charger, not the normal one you get with the phone, but a different one, still samsung though, and for the first time it charged to F !
Normally I would get up to 94% with normal charger
furthermore my battery life is excellent, can use it all day with 30% left. Using, cm 7.1.0 rc and matr1x 5.5 kernel
I experienced sometimes extreme battery drain, too. Fortunately I could figured out 2 reasons:
- Always: Kick Ass battery drain while logged in to Latitude, horrible!!! My full loaded Nexus S ran out of battery within 6 hours!!!! Thats not acceptable.
- Rarely, when Facebook App has problems and keeps the device awake in the background. By the Way, FB App for Android is crap!
To have I workaround, I do not use Latitude any more. A Log off out of Latitude could solve the extreme battery drain. FB problem, as I said, is very rare.
Just over a week since I received my ns4g.....been calibrating for 3 days now. Hoping to start to see some better results soon. Right now its averaging about 10% drop per hour, with moderate use. Nothing synced. No widgets. Display at 25%. Cm7 nightlies, matrix 5.5 bfs and proton uv at recommended setting.
I usually use my phone alot so I ordered an extra battery and charger just to make sure I always have enough juice. Would prefer to get an extended battery, but I couldn't find any case/holster combos that would work....
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Define "with moderate use". Because 10%/h is kinda crazy seeing you are pretty much runnig at max batt saving settings unless you doing at least 20mins of webbrowsing/actually working or playing with the phone per hour on average.
I discovered something interesting today. Charging the battery in the NS never gets past 94/95% (safety feature i've been told).
I received the 2 x battery and external charger dealio i bought on eBay ($9.99 ) and started charging one of the batteries. Fully charged i put it in the NS and the charge read 100%. So i put stock battery in the external charger and when it was fully charged i put it in NS and it read 100% as well. It's been 3 hrs on the hong kong eBay battery and i'm down to 89% (average loss of 3% / hour), definitely better than stock battery so far. Will evaluate and see which battery holds up more.
Also, the Go Launcher task manager thingy always shows a butt-load of apps just "running" in the background, stuff i haven't even launched at all, and they annoy me to no end.
rentaric said:
Define "with moderate use". Because 10%/h is kinda crazy seeing you are pretty much runnig at max batt saving settings unless you doing at least 20mins of webbrowsing/actually working or playing with the phone per hour on average.
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About 10-15 mins perusing forums, reading up on the news and reading tweets. Maybe a few texts. Have had to restrain myself from doing much more than that per hour. Usually use it more, at least I did on my last two phones ....that's why I had a 2800 mha batt for my evo and an extra batt for my optimus......
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I received the 2 x battery and external charger dealio i bought on eBay ($9.99 ) and started charging one of the batteries. Fully charged i put it in the NS and the charge read 100%. So i put stock battery in the external charger and when it was fully charged i put it in NS and it read 100% as well. It's been 3 hrs on the hong kong eBay battery and i'm down to 89% (average loss of 3% / hour), definitely better than stock battery so far. Will evaluate and see which battery holds up more.
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Sounds like the same ones I ordered today......keep up with an update! Hopefully they do the job.
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Its the native program on the nexus s I'm using and I have it set to check only once an hour. But if I have it active or set to fetch once an hour it doesn't change how much more of the battery is used. But when I use it I'm lucky if I leave work with more than 50% of my battery left. Delete the account from my phone and I leave work with 80-85% battery left.
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Polling your exchange every hour uses way more battery than setting it to push notifications. Also if you get 100 corp emails a day then its gonna be consuming more battery than if you get 5-10 emails/day. I use exchange with push and it barely registers on my battery usage.
Day 2 since my phone killed itself in less than 4 hours, battery seems to be draining normally again today so I guess it was just a glitch.
At least I think it's normal even though it seems high to me. Took the phone off the charger and the battery status read 95%. Locked the phone and checked back exactly 1 hour later and it was at 90%. Is that normal, 5% an hour just idling? The only account I have syncing is my google account, and my gmail isn't very busy. I have twitter, facebook, google+ installed but none of them are set to sync. Checked what was using the battery and the top was cell standby, followed by android system, followed by phone idle.
Get Battery monitor widget and have a look at your history. That'll give you an idea about whether it's actually going to sleep when it should. You also need better battery stats and find out if you have apps keeping it in wakelocks.