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How much backup do you guys are getting from the phone? I have to charge everyday.
And another question- The OS is very unstable,sometimes screen gets freezed. Is their any other Official ROM available for this phone which will not create those bugs?
Thanks in advance.
Umm, a whole day for the phone is pretty good; on 3G I get less.
And I have not a single crash yet, running the stock UK Rom; TouchFlo 3D has crashed on me, but I don't consider that the ROM's fault as I added that...
2-3days with two email accounts checking every 30mins and bluetooth on half the day.
guru_fordy said:
2-3days with two email accounts checking every 30mins and bluetooth on half the day.
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2-3 days !! oops. then whats wrong with me? i am somehow getting 1-1/2 day maximum. I just installed 2 extra apps,they are -1.Battery status indicator and 2.Xperia Tweak. That's it. What's the prob? Please post some idea..
My battery was better for the first few charges, when I got 2 - 3 days between charges with heavy usage. Now I get down to 40 percent in a day, with moderate usage (3 hours MP3, a few texts and calls, some RSS reading. It's good enough, but I gather some people get more. Perhaps it's the apps in the background.
for me its up too two days with email checked all over the day, some web browsing but little call time
3/4 days (till it comes to the red). Constantly on 3g/h. E-mail, sync, weather update+stock once in a hour/2.
Hi guys, just as a suggestion, someone could stick a thread regarding battery life, with tweaks or recommendations of what to do to improve this. I'm sure it is the major drawback of our wonderful device and I'm always trying to find something that could help, but I never find anything that really helps.
After several tweaks from this forum, the only thing I think that have really improved my battery life was to disable the HTC sense. It really works. Somehow, the Sense drains the battery so fast, the change is very visible.
But of course the Sense is one of the best things of the HD2
What do you think guys?
I have the same problem as well, power management cab didn't help in 1.48 ROM, in 1.43 everything worked quite well
I'm subscribing to this thread in the hope someone can do a good summary.. fingers crossed!
yeah the only solution is not to use sense, sense drains alot of power.
After I installed spb mobile shell the problem is solved..
Using spb and not sense has made my battery last alot longer, at night the battery would drain 50-60 % when I was at sleep using sense, but with spb it only drains 5-10% for a whole night.
I am using Sense and my battery drains about 5% over night. I found 2 things that helped a lot.
1. Turn off Settings/Location and automatically decline the service to HTC apps.
2. Turn off Settings/Personalise/Vibration.
Since yesterday 7am my battery now is 48%
the following services are running:
-bluetooth handsfree
-email check every 15 minutes
-approx 1hr of calls a day
- synchro over bt activesync with pc
- installing some apps
i think its not to bad on the stock phone with some tweaks from xda
I have no idea how long that is for you, but it is 0920 am here now so.. 52% in two hours?
bakskj said:
I have no idea how long that is for you, but it is 0920 am here now so.. 52% in two hours?
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check the config, switch off twitter/facebook to manual update, use edge instead of hsdpa, etc
another thing that helps is to disable the animated wallpaper. You can do so by chosing from the album
email check every 15 minutes
lol what do you expect.
I download weather ever hour, and just check for mails when i want to, average use i drop 10% - 15% in a day with sense on.
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email check every 15 minutes
lol what do you expect.
I download weather ever hour, and just check for mails when i want to, average use i drop 10% - 15% in a day with sense on.
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I get similar. sense does not seem to drain battery for me. weather update every hour, Facebook every 2 hours, email every hour. I get 2 - 3 days use.
Got a question about Hotmail, I got it set to "As items arrive" now.
Does this mean it's scanning for email 24 hours/1440 minutes/86400 seconds a day?
If so, that would probably eat alot of battery?
Or does it work somehow else? Can somehow tell me please
Thanks
Hi Guys! and Gals..
Wondering hows your battery life?? Can you make it through a day Ok? I have a touch pro on Sprint and battery life stinks in the worse way.
Last time I checked, it went 13hrs until 31%.
I usually use it for around 90minutes continously reading or web browsing during my commute. There is also 4-5hrs (or more daily) during which I only get 1-2bars of receptions, so it drains battery faster. There was probably also a 30-40minute phone call using bluetooth.
I can go an 10-12 hour day with light use:
45 mins of phone and text (no bluetooth)
20 mins phone (bluetooth)
30 mins misc.
30 mins games.
20 texts.
Data on about 8 hours without Wifi and 4 on (N enabled)
1 hour browsing, emails etc.
30 mins with Microsoft Reader.
Probably a little more.
Also syncing a lot with calendars.
Not bad, but I feel like it could be better.
t-mobile usa.
I have 75% by end of the day
Adjust your PEAK TIMES for ActiveSync, that way your device isn't consistently trying to allocate resources to collect data such as emails.
Screen brightness, system volume, hibernating times, etc.
ALL OF THOSE are key factors in how quickly your battery will be drained. Anything involving the on-screen display is what will quickly deplete available battery life on a single charge. That may seem very "cliche" to say, but the fact is, this device has a 4.3-inch screen, so it's a power hog.
For today, it's been 17.5hrs since I unplugged and the phone has been mostly sitting except for a few occasional brief checks of the phone, 30minute email syncs, and a 15 minute phone call. It's at 40% battery after the 17.5hrs.
It did drop around 20% in the first 6hrs since the phone was in an area of horrible 0-1 bar reception. The rest of the time has been 2-3 bar reception.
17.5 hours @ 40%... are you serious?
My TMOUS HD2 has never gone more than 8 hours on a full battery charge. This is with "normal" usage. Regular email checks, activesync with direct push.
Comming from the Blackberry Bold II with 13-15 hours of battery under normal usage patters, the HD2 is VERY WEAK!!!.
I'm contemplating sacraficing the sleak look of the phone for the extended battery.
Anyone have the ex battery? How's your battery life?
Canecraze said:
My TMOUS HD2 has never gone more than 8 hours on a full battery charge. This is with "normal" usage. Regular email checks, activesync with direct push.
Comming from the Blackberry Bold II with 13-15 hours of battery under normal usage patters, the HD2 is VERY WEAK!!!.
I'm contemplating sacraficing the sleak look of the phone for the extended battery.
Anyone have the ex battery? How's your battery life?
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If you need direct push in your life, then I suggest changing 3G to EDGE network.
Difference is quite noticeable.
It sucks,and if you want better battery life don't use it.I returned mine after 48hrs.
All the advice is great,but....
-If I have go from 3G to EDGE.
-Lower the brightness almost to the minimum.
-Set activesync up.....What is the point of having so much technology? if I can not use because the phone dies.
I need real time email and 3G to work,plus all the stupid menus that windows mobile still has made me change my mind.Microsoft has been in the market for a bunch of years and winmo still sucks.
Do not get to impressed with the HD and the movies,cause the thing dies in no time.
Don't buy it and stick with android.
I end the day with about 60% battery life left with mild-medium usage. A few phone calls, some maps/gps, active sync every 4 hours, facebook every 2 hours, weather every 3 hours.
VERY happy with battery life on this phone
i went all day yesterday (my first day with it) so i used it alot, took it of the charger, at 7:30am, and plugged it in last night at 10:00 and it was at 39%. that was BEFORE i turned off 3g(i dont get 3g in my area) so this hd2 blows the iphone battery out of the water....IMHO
my last device was blackberry 8900.
that thing lasted 3 days with moderate use. compared to that, 15 hour limit does suck, and there are times I don't want to use the phone to conserve the battery, which makes rage, but oh well. now I always carry an extra battery in my pocket, so that's a bit better. but that doesn't make it okay.
with the 3g off, wifi off, auto back light,running the energy rom apr 9. unplug on 9 am use about 100 sms and 10 minutes phone call with all the auto data off,just manual check weather and email twice still have 80% after 3pm.
turn off voice commends - this will help
Its getting better
I have recently done a few things to help the battery. I adjusted the the screen brightness to a comperable setting that a friend of mine has his set to on his iphone3gs I did not do anything to the 3g settings or anything like that. I set me email to sync every 4 hours. But my hotmail I just click send/receive and sync it myself. I play music all day on my phone. Check twitter internet facebooks while music is playing and a lot of texting over a hundred sent and recieved daily. Before I made a few tweeks it would kinda die quickly but now it appears to be a lot better.
My batter DOES NOT LAST FOR CRAP!!!!! I took it off charge at 8:13 and at 10:30 i checked my phone, it went from 100 percent to 81 percent. HOW DOES IT GO DOWN 19 percent in 2 hours when i didnt even USE the phone, i just hit the backlight to check the time, this battery is unacceptable everytime i check the phone the percent has dropped
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My batter DOES NOT LAST FOR CRAP!!!!! I took it off charge at 8:13 and at 10:30 i checked my phone, it went from 100 percent to 81 percent. HOW DOES IT GO DOWN 19 percent in 2 hours when i didnt even USE the phone, i just hit the backlight to check the time, this battery is unacceptable everytime i check the phone the percent has dropped
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Do you leave 3G turned on? Do you have your e-mail and/or weather checking themselves automatically?
The phone can certainly be doing things that consume the battery, even if you're not manually handling it at the time.
I don't understand why battery life seems to differ so much from phone to phone. My battery life is excellent and I use it a lot. I do have to charge it every night but I expect that from a smartphone. It always lasts me throughout the day with music, videos, calls, texts and web use on 3g. I couldn't be happier with the battery life of my phone.
PLEASE give me good tips how to save battery? BTW im using ENERGY's latest rom with cookie 1.7. i dont understand why i have to stop my email and turn off 3g when this phone is MEANT for these features. theres no point of a having an excellant phone when you cant use its features to its full potentiol without having it die within 10 hours( with moderate use)
Battery is weird
The other day i charged my hd2 fully then got on an airplane all connections were watch from paris with love which looks great on the phone landed after an hour and a half and my battery life was down to 15 percent i think i might have a bad battery when i am in the car i leave it on the charge and when i am in the hotels that i stay in it stays on the charge or plugged into my laptop and thoughts??
The following thread on the XDA Desire forums was pointed out to me on androidforums by marabuchi. I did what was recommended and everything seems good so far.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=666404
"UPDATE APRIL 28 2010: PERMANENT SOLUTION FOUND?: Remove Flickr Sync. Go to Settings>Accounts & Sync>Flickr. Then press remove account at the bottom of the screen and reboot the phone - Please report back in the thread if successful! "
I don't have Flickr sync on anyways haha.
after a week of haveing it I stopped messing with it every 2 seconds... and dont have your accounts update every 15 minutes all it does is eat away our battery... I have all mine set for every2 hours and my battery lasts just fine unless I'm playing a game or something ... I even use slacker radio for over an hour a day and it barely used up 2% of my battery for the day
I realize that not everyone is having this issue specific issue, but this sure helped my battery life.
I am now at 31 hours uptime, 2 hours awake time since the last time I charged my battery. My updates are at 4 hours (I'll normally go into the app and refresh), GPS is enabled, Always Connected is on, and I use the phone pretty regularly throughout the day. I have 5 battery bars currently.
Anyway, helped me, figured someone else might be in the same boat.
Thanks
Didn't change anything for me, my calender was normal.
I get probly like 14 hours max on my battery, gps off, always data off, wifi off, screen low, only thing updating every hour is weather. I mostly text and do some web surfing, seems quite a bit low of battery life.
Gmail or Exchange?
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I realize that not everyone is having this issue specific issue, but this sure helped my battery life.
I am now at 31 hours uptime, 2 hours awake time since the last time I charged my battery. My updates are at 4 hours (I'll normally go into the app and refresh), GPS is enabled, Always Connected is on, and I use the phone pretty regularly throughout the day. I have 5 battery bars currently.
Anyway, helped me, figured someone else might be in the same boat.
Thanks
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roninld, do you sych your email? (gmail or MS exchange or both?) thanks
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roninld, do you sych your email? (gmail or MS exchange or both?) thanks
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I have Google set to sync gmail, but not contacts/calendar. No exchange, and have Hotmail setup with manual refresh.
As a quick update, battery life for me has still been great with pretty much everything turned on. Going about 2 days before having to charge.
Hi, everyone ı bought s4 but ı didn't like its battery.İnternet is connecting everytime , and ı look my social network every 15 minutes,ı play 30 minutes totally in a day.And waching video on youtube but battery run-out 12 hours.İs it normal ?
Lastly I'm sorry for my English.
Thank you
These phones suck up the juice. Search for other posts on battery drain there are a bunch, and they have good info in them.
I shut off everything I don't use and still had issues getting 24 hours with light use. I ended up getting an extended battery and I get 2 days with no issues now. Google services was killing my battery.. Look in settings under battery and see what's using the most battery.
Samsung Galaxy S4 battery life
Stock 4.2.2 I337MVLUAMG1 Rooted. Using JuiceDefender Ultimate.. Pretty good thou..
Just sharing with my experience..I'm happy about it..
Battery is great.
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Both TouchWiz and CyanogenMod gave me around a whole days use (about 3-5 hour screen on time). It all depends what you do with your phone throughout the day. If you browser the web, text and call you should last the whole day. But if you play games, text, call, etc and use your phone heavily, expect it to die out at around 12-15 hours.
The best option in my opinion would be getting extra batteries. Not extended batteries, if you don't want the extra bulk. Hyperion and Anker are excellent 3rd party battery manufacturers, you can carry the extra batteries around with you, in your backpack or even your pocket and use them if you need them.
I like to use GREENIFY and hibernate all but essential apps
*messaging, Whatsapp, phone and weather widget
I also use WAKELOCK DETECTOR to see what is running when the phone is "asleep"
I can "play hard" with the phone for about 14 hours
--games, texting, pictures...and typical phone calls
However I do still charge it up at night and I have a car charger so I keep the battery topped off..I never know when I will be 14 hours away from a charger
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Stock 4.2.2 I337MVLUAMG1 Rooted. Using JuiceDefender Ultimate.. Pretty good thou..
Just sharing with my experience..I'm happy about it..
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How in the hell did u get 3 days? I cant get over 26 hours, and thats with like maybe 2-3 hours screen on time and really limited usage of games, maybe like 10 minutes
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How in the hell did u get 3 days? I cant get over 26 hours, and thats with like maybe 2-3 hours screen on time and really limited usage of games, maybe like 10 minutes
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Just a regular usage, FB, Email, Weather, Remote of my few devices at home. Not much Call and text specially games. Restart phone when your about to go sleep in the end of the day and just let it go. Let juice defender do the trick for you. I kinda like the app. 2nd or 3rd day charge phone when ever necessary. I have S3 as wel b4 this phone so I just use that for my games and etc.
I used to go 2 days with my 5200 battery, but the last set of google updates have cut me down to 17 hours.. I was very happy with the S4 battery life before that
I had the same issue with my S4. Id seem to be losing a percent per minute while using the phone to do simple things like sending texts with wifi, air gestures, gprs, bluetooth off. I 'd leave the phone on standby over night and by morning losses of up to 30% of the battery wold be seen. I fixed the issue by reseting the phone and disabling location finder in google seen on initial setup. Try it. My battery nowlasts much longer despite frequent usage. eg. I umplugged from charger yeaterday at 9am and used the phone all day. At 9 this morning my battery was at 35%.
I just got my phone 2 days ago and I can say this is the best battery I ever used (at least for now)
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willieamm said:
I had the same issue with my S4. Id seem to be losing a percent per minute while using the phone to do simple things like sending texts with wifi, air gestures, gprs, bluetooth off. I 'd leave the phone on standby over night and by morning losses of up to 30% of the battery wold be seen. I fixed the issue by reseting the phone and disabling location finder in google seen on initial setup. Try it. My battery nowlasts much longer despite frequent usage. eg. I umplugged from charger yeaterday at 9am and used the phone all day. At 9 this morning my battery was at 35%.
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ekotim said:
Hi, everyone ı bought s4 but ı didn't like its battery.İnternet is connecting everytime , and ı look my social network every 15 minutes,ı play 30 minutes totally in a day.And waching video on youtube but battery run-out 12 hours.İs it normal ?
Lastly I'm sorry for my English.
Thank you
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seaham358 said:
These phones suck up the juice. Search for other posts on battery drain there are a bunch, and they have good info in them.
I shut off everything I don't use and still had issues getting 24 hours with light use. I ended up getting an extended battery and I get 2 days with no issues now. Google services was killing my battery.. Look in settings under battery and see what's using the most battery.
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Hi all,
I realize a bad Wifi connection /congested wifi can cause Battery drain.
Some background services will get stuck there and consume 3-4% per hour. If that happens can try to disable Wifi or set it to disable during sleep and monitor the battery usage again. Hope this will help