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So ive had my phone for a couple months, and im not a big talker so i havent made many phone calls. today was probably my longest amount of time talking at ~30 minutess. 13 hours since my phone was plugged in i am at 10%. 41% of battery use was from voice calls! How can 30 minutes of talk time be 41% of a 13 hour battery life? what can i do?
Do you use headset? Bluetooth? Nothing? Check proximity sensor.
i do use bluetooth occasionally, but not on this day. brightness was at 0% all day.
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What phone is it? Use task manager ( exactly that name )and see what's running on your phone, you should auto kill memory hogs. If you have social apps or news widgets they constantly need updates from online, especially widgets. I doubt your call drained that much it was probably a combination of sorts. So again what device are you using?
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ive noticed phone eats alot of my battery as well .. screen stays off for majority of call so idk what causes it . . . . was this thread moved from a dif sub forum ?
There is a way to refresh your battery life, I learned with my g1, drain the battery until it turns off, then charge fully while its turned off assume it takes an hour to charge, give it two hours, or over night, do this twice in a row, that's a refreshed battery. If you can't charge whilst off, then sorry.
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How is everyone's battery life... I think I came in overhyped by some reviews like engadget's praising the battery life of this phone but in reality haven't been too impressed.
I have to change how I use my phone in order to make it through the day... I did cone from an iphone 4 though...
Give it a day or so. My initial full charge barely lasted a few hours. My next one, though, lasted 12+ hours with pandora running, and the screen on half the time.
Give it a little time. Battery and phone both need to calibrate their readings. I got ~7 hours with display on today (1.5 hours browsing, 5+ hours movie).
Got my phone a few days ago. Last night I went to bed at 12 and didn't plug in my phone, it had 50% remining. I woke up at 11 am and the phone was dead. I charged it to full, now its reporting 30% at 11 hours later. This is with night mode on and I barely touched the phone today, maybe 20 texts max. The thing using most of the battery is phone idle.
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mchimney said:
Got my phone a few days ago. Last night I went to bed at 12 and didn't plug in my phone, it had 50% remining. I woke up at 11 am and the phone was dead. I charged it to full, now its reporting 30% at 11 hours later. This is with night mode on and I barely touched the phone today, maybe 20 texts max. The thing using most of the battery is phone idle.
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This I too noticed. Uses too much battery when idle. I will charge to 100% and see how it fares while I sleep.
I plan on leaving mine unplugged for the night as well. I wonder why this phone idle is using so much battery though.
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1) this is like the 10th battery thread. Many answers can be found in the others.
2) Yes. Your battery needs to calibrate over time.
3) Android users more battery when on because of all the things it syncs with in the background: weather, mail, maps, etc.
4) again due to it's syncing it uses more in the background. To find out what dial *#*#info#*#* and look at the battery stats of what had been running. Look at Other Usage especially.
What size does your battery say on the actual battery? I thought it is advertised with 1930 but mine says 1850.
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Im 19 hours unplugged and still at 15%, this phone is a beast
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What size does your battery say on the actual battery? I thought it is advertised with 1930 but mine says 1850.
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Mine says 1880/1930 mAh (min/typ).
My battery seemed on the lower side of average when I first got it and then it got a lot better after a couple days.
Download Green Power in the Market. Insane improvement. I've used it on my Nexus One (Atrix is coming tomorooow!! for a month now and I've gone 50-60% plus on duration.
I have been running slacker and just web browsing for approx 1.5 hours and am down from 100% to 70%... This is after about four days of nightly charging. I am running green power too with no wifi managment. I have gps etc off. The battery analysis shows that the display is using 80% of the juice. Is any of this normal or is something wrong here?
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The Atrix's battery is the best battery in an Android phone I've used to date. I just left Sprint and thought the Epic 4G's battery was decent. After using this for a few days, I realize that the battery in this thing is AWESOME!
While we were with Sprint, my wife had the EVO 4g and now has the Inspire 4G. NONE of these phone hold a candle to the battery life of the Atrix.
So i left mine unplugged over night again, just tried to turn it on and i got "Modem did not power up (0). Starting RSD protocol support. Battery is too Low to flash.
battery info and network searching
First post here and I'm not a developer but have some feedback for this. Couldn't share without registering first. Won't be a pest.
Had the battery issue with the atrix and called att. The suggested a microcell booster as i was only getting one bar here (H+) at home. The store in San Diego gave me one for free and I installed it and have been off the charger for well over 24 hours now and at 50%. granted I'm not using it much as I have computer at home too. However, just sitting on the table before the booster and it would be at 50% in 4 hours.
Went to the laguna mountains in the middle of nowhere two days ago and it had edge network only. The battery lasted all day and night. The drive out there had H+ and edge in the middle of the cleavland nat forest.
If the atrix is searching for networks it uses battery like crazy.
Also tech support said there was no way to force edge connectivity on the atrix. There has been a code suggested here (I don't recall it now) that is supposed to do it but it is only for international use.
Vangelis13 said:
Download Green Power in the Market. Insane improvement. I've used it on my Nexus One (Atrix is coming tomorooow!! for a month now and I've gone 50-60% plus on duration.
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Another vote for green power. Worked wonders on my Cappy.
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I have been running slacker and just web browsing for approx 1.5 hours and am down from 100% to 70%... This is after about four days of nightly charging. I am running green power too with no wifi managment. I have gps etc off. The battery analysis shows that the display is using 80% of the juice. Is any of this normal or is something wrong here?
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I have Green Power on "Managing wifi & mobile netwotk". Does wonders..
Where you browsing on Wlan or Mobile? If your signal isn't good enough it'll obviously eat the battery much faster.
battery life much better than EVO or Epic and EVEN the Droid X. Better than my cousin's iPhone 4 as well. Really great.
I have been using the mobile connection. Havent used gps or wifi. I do only have 2 bars in my house. Can low signal really account for this massive drain. Display still says over 80% use. Now I have been unplugged for 3 hours and I am down to 40%. This cant be right...
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I have been using the mobile connection. Havent used gps or wifi. I do only have 2 bars in my house. Can low signal really account for this massive drain. Display still says over 80% use. Now I have been unplugged for 3 hours and I am down to 40%. This cant be right...
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Of course!! Your phone is constantly looking for stronger signal & you're browsing at the same time, that certainly accounts for big portion of your battery usage
Wow! Did some minor surfimg over the last few days, used the nook app alot. I always remember to use airplane mode before I put it to sleep.
%44 percent battery left. 4 days 12 hours and 57 minutes. I personally feel that is a strong indicator of how good the battery is on this device...just thought i'd share.
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I leave it on standby with airplne mode off - being lazy
seems I'm getting a good solid two and half days before I need to plug in - the level of water on the live wallpaper is getting low...
I always wondered why some SGS3 users seemed to have great battery life and others didn't then I found out why for myself. I had my S3 for maybe 5 days then managed to crack the screen from a short fall (the screen is really too delicate) so had it replaced through my insurance. I returned the broken device but kept the accessories including the battery of which I now have two...yeah! The battery from the replacement device always drained entirely too much on standby time and gave me roughly 12 hours on moderate use. The original battery routinely gave me 17+ hours on moderate and had exceptional standby time. I subsequently returned to using my original battery and enjoying great battery life on my replacement phone.
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I always wondered why some SGS3 users seemed to have great battery life and others didn't then I found out why for myself. I had my S3 for maybe 5 days then managed to crack the screen from a short fall (the screen is really too delicate) so had it replaced through my insurance. I returned the broken device but kept the accessories including the battery of which I now have two...yeah! The battery from the replacement device always drained entirely too much on standby time and gave me roughly 12 hours on moderate use. The original battery routinely gave me 17+ hours on moderate and had exceptional standby time. I subsequently returned to using my original battery and enjoying great battery life on my replacement phone.
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ya i'm with you there cause a lot of people complain about battery life but mine seems to be great yes i can drop my phone from 80-60% in 2 to 3 hours but thats extremely heavy use where if i don't use my phone at all i find i will go through about 20% of the battery for the full day and that is with light use as well
Mainly due to signal if your in an area where your signal is bad, your phone constantly polling for signal if you use WiFi the whole time then yes you would get long battery life. That's why I don't trust any screen shot in "post your battery life" with WiFi signal. I use my phone as it comes with my plan, I don't constantly seek out WiFi spot to hook up to. It's dangerous for security reason and defeat the whole purpose of owning smart phone with data plan. If you can't afford a data plan than don't get a smart phone.
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I can't figure out the battery on this thing.
Some days I get excellent battery. Some days it will drain on standby. I unplugged it last night at 100%. I woke up this morning and it's completely dead.
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Oh well. Then posting battery life is irrelevant.
That's not necessarily true I use Wi-Fi a lot and I have 10gbs of data I only do this at home mind you cause my internet speed is a lot faster but still
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So since my battery life sucks, i should ask samsung for a replacement untill i am satisfied with battery life?
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Here are my screen shots. This is with wap.cingular apn, cpu sleeper, rooted stock rom, juice defender ultimate, battery fully charged and discharged more than 10 times, 4g on the entire screen on time, settings optimized, gestures off, battery saving mode off, gps on, web browsing most of the time, 2 push mail accounts, 1 mail syncs every hour, brightness at 35-40%, and all bloatware disabled, anything else, just ask me. Anyone with knowledge on this please let me know if this is acceptable, or ill go get a replacement unit tomorrow. This is an ATT unit.
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That's not necessarily true I use Wi-Fi a lot and I have 10gbs of data I only do this at home mind you cause my internet speed is a lot faster but still
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thats understandable but some people go out constantly looking for a place with wifi so they can get online.
Ya I see your point and I agree if you can't afford a data plan then don't get a smart phone is not worth it even 512mb plan is okay if you know how much use you are getting out of the
you don't need to buy a new phone just try and get a different battery as much as a pain in the ass as that may seem but usually that's the cause of the problem not the phone itself
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Juice defender kills batteries more than it helps I strongly recommend you stop using it. Battery saving maps don't typically work because it uses a lot of energy to re enable 3g/4g/lte and to turn them off. I disable everything I don't use. Have Bluetooth in everyday all day, GPS, and sync. I have about 60 apps.
Today I'm at 62% with 1 hour 10 mins of screen time. 8tracks for 30 minutes. And about a half hiur of calls. Not bad battery life IMO. I browse tapatalk a lot on various forums.
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agreed, ever since ics i've stopped using battery apps
I'm ordering a new battery and hoping it's going to be the fix...
Ya if I'm not using my data I turn it off but I'm at 54% and I've been on the net a lot and Wi-Fi tethered for 2 hours.... I love this phone
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My phone is stock. GPS, gesters and location are enabled. 4g LTE blazing... I can push this thing 24 hours. My 2 exchange accounts are push from [email protected] to 8P .. I have 5 google accounts on push as well
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So would the solution be going back to att and asking for a new battery? I've had the phone for about 3-4 days so im still under that 30 day warranty thing.
I have 2 batteries and 1 does seem to last longer than the other. Ima test this a few more days.
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So would the solution be going back to att and asking for a new battery? I've had the phone for about 3-4 days so im still under that 30 day warranty thing.
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Shouldn't matter about 30 day warranty, manufacturer warranty SHOULD get u a new battery beyond those 30 days. Anyone else had any luck exchange battery this way?? Also once exchanged was the battery better??
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Proof of battery life
Approximately 30 mins of call time and 2 hours of talk time... 44 hours later my phone was about ready to die! Clearly this was light to moderate use but this gives me great hope that I should be able to last more than the 12 hours I was getting on my other battery with moderate usage. I credit the longevity to the use of CPU tuner, Juice Defender, the build in power saving mode (everything checked except CPU), and applying the cell standby tweak (though its utility is debatable).
I have had my S4 for 5 days, battery lasts me only 5-6 hours at best. Moderate useage. Disabled all bloatware and apps I am not using. Not having the Maps issue, also turned off all the air gesture stuff and etc. Should I get it replaced?
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Is your screen at max brightness? When you click on your screen in that screen what kind of on time are you getting before it's dead? I get 3-4 hours usually
Its all the way down and on auto. And it says 1 hour and 45 mins
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What does betterbatterystats say?
I have the same problem, but I get around 2:30 screen on. About 6-8 hours usage, I've been trying different ways of charging to see if it will extend life, I might try to use power saver mode next if I can't find a way to get better life.
I have same problem too. This is day 7 for me since I acquired the device. The first day I thought the drain was from the amount of usage during my setting up the device. But now even after a full charge. It will be down to 92% just sitting in my holster in about an hours time. The battery would drain in about 8 to 10 hours.
The only massive usage in the battery status page I see is the screen and I have set that at lowest brightness and then auto. Im using battery saver as well. Im thinking about taking this to AT&T store tomorrow to see about battery or device replacement.
We shall see.
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...But now even after a full charge. It will be down to 92% just sitting in my holster in about an hours time...
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That is definitely abnormally high battery drain. I get less than 1.5% drain / hour when the phone is idle. So your drain seems to be more than 5 times higher!
It may be a misbehaving app.
BetterBatteryStats, is good because it gives you detailed info on what is consuming your battery.
This is what mine looks like
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If you are in a building with pretty thick walls that could drain your battery also due to the phone using more power to acquire a signal. I work in a building that house a lot of servers and notice it uses more battery than when I'm not at work.
electrogiz said:
I have had my S4 for 5 days, battery lasts me only 5-6 hours at best. Moderate useage. Disabled all bloatware and apps I am not using. Not having the Maps issue, also turned off all the air gesture stuff and etc. Should I get it replaced?
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I see you're using slacker radio, most streaming services will eat battery up. If you click that what's the run time on it?
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If you are in a building with pretty thick walls that could drain your battery also due to the phone using more power to acquire a signal. I work in a building that house a lot of servers and notice it uses more battery than when I'm not at work.
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This i can agree with, when i visit my parents in the middle of nowhere my battery on any phone every has always died in 3 hours looking for a signal so this might be relevant if you're in a porr signal area.
If you're curious about where you sit for coverage try this app RF Signal Tracker - Play Store Link
Typical battery life. Auto brightness. Poor signal also and on wifi.
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I'm having this problem too, I don't understand BBS but here's a screenshot of the screen.
I'm tired of this, how can a new and expensive cellphone's battery lasts like 8 hours without even really using it.
My drain was resolved. Android battery stats indicated the screen was draining the battery. BBS indicated my WIFI use was. But neither usage seemed too much.
A visit to the local AT&T store got me a new battery. Albeit some arm twisting occured trying to convince them of the hardware issue.
Yesterday, after overnight charge the previous night, I ended the day with a 72 % battery.
Did a quick charge to 100 percent this morning and my charge dropped 1% in 1 hour. With heavy usage, I sit currently at 72%.
Much better results and happier.
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