How is the battery life when you use the phone to play music?
well i had the g2 for about two weeks now and the phone is supper if u ask me i have no issue wit as of yet battery life is good while playing music its a must have hey believe it or not i droped it on a tile floor and it chiped the tile wit only a lil nic on the phone hows that! love the phone
Battery life seems good playing music, but the pre-loaded Listen app (for podcasts etc.) really sucks up the juice.
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i am planning to buy HTC DHD in a day or two......
all my friends say the battery is poor and blah... blah..
but i like the design, features, etc...
is the Battery really very poor and is there any other trouble in that mobile!!
There are roms that could help you out. They can increase your DHD's battery life If you are willing to root your phone...
I most admit... With normal ROM, the battery really suck.
I haven't tried to root and put a custom ROM on yet, but only heard good things about it!
hey dude the battery usage depends on how u use ur phone
btw, i m also buying DHD on 17th very excited for my first Android
The battery is no worse than any other HTC, infact the battery is slightly better on my DHD than my classic desire.
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I've got a standard DHD, not rooted and no custom roms and I have no problem with the battery. I can get more than 24 hours out of a single charge and that is with what I would consider heavy use.
Echoing what has already been said, yes the battery life can be quite poor. My phone will last for a "day" out of the house, by which i mean ~8am-6pm, but will be at ~20% when i get home, so will need charging.
That said, the rest of the features more than make up for that in my opinion
If you manage your data and what you actually use your phone for then you can get lots of time out of your dhd, if you slam your phone by downloading loads and streaming all kinds of videos to it and using gps on maps constantly then yea it'll go, but for the size of the battery and what the phone can do i'm amazed it lasts as long as it does.
Right now I'm at 11h and 39m with 56% left. This is with 3g on. Facebook and twitter every 30 min but its set to automatically update. Surfing, Texting, and a few calls were made as well.
Replace the stock ROM with one of the ROMs available here. I personally use LeeDroid 2.3.4 Beta 4 with an updated Radio. And I am very happy with it. It has given me a better battery life as well as removal of those useless HTC apps is a bonus. I still use sense which adds a lot of frills to stock android. Also look into the battery threads where there are ideas on what to do to optimize battery usage.
If you are getting your first smartphone you'll probably be disappointed in terms of battery. They are like little laptops and you know how much their batteries drain out. It's not that bad, but it's completly different than a normal phone.
You can drain the battery in 4 hours with very heavy usage, with semi-heavy it'll last for ~8 hours. With my use I get about 24 hours. I get up in the morning (15mins Wifi), go to school 15mins Angry Birds, 20 mins or more wifi, come home and wifi + play for 20 mins. Calls 5mins. Go to sleep phone on standby. Next day the same and after school I'll charge and it'll be at 5%. This is very light use.
I'm using Android Revolution, but I'm getting worse battery than with stock because I flashed a bad radio for Finland.
Other faults, I've only found one.
First: The speaker, it's pretty bad. Sometimes if you are in a noisy place you might even miss a call because of the silent speaker. Want to listen to music or watch youtube videos using the phone's speaker? That'll be hard...
I had the same problem with the ROM Cyanogen CM7.
Consumption of the battery far too high.
You should know that the HTC rom with sense use a proprietary driver and less greedy.
For other's rom's hacking in the kernel.
I returned on a rom with sense, Leedroid 2.3.4, I' have never eaten my battery so little.
For Rom's nosense, I wait that problems are solved
JamesBarnes said:
Echoing what has already been said, yes the battery life can be quite poor. My phone will last for a "day" out of the house, by which i mean ~8am-6pm, but will be at ~20% when i get home, so will need charging.
That said, the rest of the features more than make up for that in my opinion
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I'll second that. Mine is the same too.
Given the Pros of the device I will not mind the battery life. Its ok-ish.
I am on stock ROM and I kinda have better battery then when I was on Revolution HD. It gets better after a week usage and after a simple calibration. I get between 24 and 36 hours of medium usage and 3g and autosync aways on. I think its pretty great for this beast!
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problem solved by gingerbread 2.3.3 update
The problem is that gaming takes a lot of battery power. I haven't attempted to game for 6 or 7 hours straight but generally speaking, the Play has the best battery of all the handsets I've played with in a really long time. I jumped from a Captivate to the Play and even with little use, the only way I would get through a day is by charging while at work. No problem anymore with the Play, which always has way more charge than I expect to see when I check out my battery life. On the Captivate, you'd be lucky to get 3 or 4 hours of non-stop gaming before it was dead. My first charge, I went 36 hours on my Play with quite a lot of gaming (though not all in one sitting and probably not as concentrated as you). I can hit the promised 5 hours of straight gaming.
I've rooted and removed a few small apps here and there, nothing too huge. I don't bother with attempting to save battery life by going GSM only or just using a headset. Not sure what else you can do. Maybe your apps are more battery-hungry than mine.
Well I havnt modden not even rooted my play but I get 24 hrs or more easily with 1-2 hours gaming and moderate web browsing
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One thing I ha e noticed is if you are in a poor signal area and the phone is constantly searching for signal it will drain the battery quite fast.... just a tip to check out... I've solved my battery issues by turning the phone off when inside the office as after 2 hours of no use with no data or wireless connections the phone would lose 20% battery
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I came from the iPone 3GS to the Play and the iphone had great battery life for movies, music and web. But when you played games the battery died fast. I still need to try with my Play but I think I get more playtime from it. Download Advance Task Manager and run it when you are finished playing around with your phone each time, great little app. I also killed the widgets. Widgets are awesome and I wish I could use them but they seem to kill my battery fast. I'm going to order the charger with extra battery from Ebay soon. (Probably today)
It charges a separate battery on a stand so if you have a big game day you can swap out the battery during the day.
I love this phone for games. The iphone has a lot of games but 1 in 100 are worth the time. And the touch screen sucks for playing games. But the iphone beats the android for ease of use for thing like managing space.
Also get App to SD Pro. It is worth it and I like to buy cool tools if it saves me time of going through all my games to see which ones I can move to the SD card.
neptune said:
One thing I ha e noticed is if you are in a poor signal area and the phone is constantly searching for signal it will drain the battery quite fast.... just a tip to check out... I've solved my battery issues by turning the phone off when inside the office as after 2 hours of no use with no data or wireless connections the phone would lose 20% battery
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I hear that at work I have to put it on Airplane Mode.
For to increase battery you can put advance task killer on or something and get it to auto kill after lock like I did for my HTC Hero but with new advancements in the custom roms I didn't need it. I expect custom roms to help battery. Untill then, think about getting a new bigger battery. Look in the accessaries thread and find mugan batteries.
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Settings
Android System
Crash Monitor
com.sonyericsson.usbux
Diagnostics Tool
MtpApp
Media Server
SecureClockService
Maps
devicemonitor
Messaging extension
Music
Call log extension
Sony Ericsson Sync
Setup Guide
Get Games
Chinese Keyboard (i need this one)
Please help me.
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You have another couple in there that I would get rid of
Crash monitor, SecureClockService, SetupGuide, Sony Ericcson Sync.
If any of those make you nervous, have a look at this thread for details on each (look for the entry from "constin").
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1047689.html
As always, freeze first Oh, and kill your music service when not in use also.
I leave my house at 7 am for work with a fully charged phone.
I play with it at work for about 2-3 hours on and off. (my work place is really easy going, not much to do atm )
I get home at 4pm (which is now) and battery is 48%.
Then i play with it around 1-2 hours at night when i am in bed after 10 pm.
Normally the battery is around 15% then and i put it back on charge.
So i guess 6-7 hours worth of non-stop gaming sounds about right tbh.
For no signal situations, you might want to grab NoBars from the market. When it sees that you have no signal, it puts the phone into airplane mode to save your battery and then checks for signal again every ten minutes or hour or whatever you set it to.
hey,
this is Android, not iphone
get more batteries and a dock charger~
yanyu said:
hey,
this is Android, not iphone
get more batteries and a dock charger~
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Thank god its not an iphone, theyl forget to put a microphone on the next one lol
I've been using Juice Defender, it works great IMO. Turns off 3G and Wifi whenever the screen is off, runs scheduled data periods to let apps/widgets update, etc.
I've been having very poor battery life with my htc hd2 running gingerbread and am posting my battery usage stats to see if this is typical or something is up with my phone. The attached picture shows battery drain every 5 minutes in airplane mode and with all applications quit. My area is rated as having excelent reception and is mostly covered with tmobile's 4g network.
not typical
That's definitely not typical, in my case anyway. to get that pattern of battery usage I'd have to be constantly doing things like surfing, listening to music, playing games. That's with dominanx's high end rom, overclocked to 1.5GB.
Do you have any homescreen widgets it might be? I used Picuram for a little while but got rid after noticing it was using most of my battery.
Nothing running really... I had the 4x2 super clock and that was my only widget. I get the same kind of drain in miui based roms as well.....
Hi
I listen to a lot of music on my phone .
Previous phones
Galaxy Spica
Xperia mini pro
Galaxy nexus
music is like one of the main uses of my phone when im out im pretty much always plugged in and i none of previous i felt that i've had such high battery drain , Screen of and music with ear phones plugged in the drain used to be very very less even after a few hours of music , but on n4 the drop is significant i dont have any screen shots right now because i just charged the phone but i will update it as i get some .
Does anyone else feel the same way ? and any idea whats the reason for it ?
Thanks in advance.
I listen to podcasts all day at work on a Bluetooth a2dp headset and I can Agree with you. the battery drain is higher on this device compared to my galaxy exhibit 4g. I'm going to try another app and see if that helps. I am using pocket casts right now. I will get some screen caps tomorrow so we can compare.
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Have the same issue with podcasts, drain rate is up to 15% per hour, even when podcasts are locally stored. This is almost as muc power as the screen uses. Whenever I listen to a podcast 'Mediaserver' is at the top of my battery list.
Sounds like you have the #1 most dreaded N4 battery drain issue. This is the one and only reason I would ever RMA. Absolutely terrible.
No drain here... I stream on DC-HSPA and have normal drain.... On Wi-Fi... It drains very slow.. Almost less than 10% / hour
But off of stored music and podcasts the battery goes and goes. I use Beyond Pod
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i would'nt call it battrey drain as such , But all im saying its almost double or more than that compared to every other phone i've used when it comes purely to listening to music .
other devices it used to be only the music playing app which drains battrey here higher or equal amounts are drained by media server so if out of 40 % drained 50 % is from these 2 for about 1.5 hours to 2 hours of music listening , Whihc imo is very bad for liek 20 + % battrey drain for 1.5 to 2 hours of pure music listening with ear phones .
Not getting deep sleep at all its showing 90 percent in 384
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Do you use an equalizer? I suggest to stop using it if you are using one and see if there is any difference.
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Do you use an equalizer? I suggest to stop using it if you are using one and see if there is any difference.
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I use the inbuild DSP manager as i use apollo music player but then again i've used them on all my phones anyidea how that makes any difference ?
like i said i like music and its one of my main uses thats why i have a klipsch s4i which is about to die on and have a shure 215 on the way already , is there any reasoning behind the EQ thing ?
Alright, well, I listen to music a lot so maybe this is why, but I get like 1 hour SOT tops while listening to music for 1-2 hours ish in the background. Stock Android N and Ambasaddi ROM both suck for battery. I literally removed Facebook too and it still is very low. I use Google Play Music if it helps, maybe its just really badly optimised.
I don't recall my battery performance with Android 6 so I don't know if its just a problem with Android N :/
What can I do for good battery life? Are there any reliable daily driver ROMs, even with AOSP, that can get good SOT like 5-8 hours?
I tried disabling Nearby devices already, Bluetooth/Wifi Scanning etc, nothing helps. My phone is unreliable because it hardly lasts a day
install bbs and see whats happening- without info we can only guess (I don't have a crystal ball)