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Since I got the Nexus One over a month ago, I've realized that its battery life is somewhat problematic. However, it lasted long enough to go about my day, especially considering that I always had a charger at my disposal.
I use it chiefly for listening to music, so I naturally brought it with me when I did the annual NYC Century Bike Tour. I wanted to record a GPS track of my ride (I rode the 100 mile path) but knew it would probably kill my battery really fast, so I used my G1 and RMap as my GPS device.
The Nexus One had NOTHING except for phone service (on EDGE), TouchDown (Exchange email push) and music (with Mixzing, recommendations off, equalizer on) on for the ride. The G1 only had its GPS radio on, nothing else. Both devices spent most of their time with the screen off.
The G1 was dead in about three hours. The Nexus One was dead in five. FIVE hours! Brand new device! That's not bad battery life; that's just unacceptable. My iPhone 3GS certainly lasted longer than that. Even my old Windows Mobile HTC Raphael outlasted the both of them!
What can I do about this? I'm willing to get a bigger battery at this point, but I don't want to buy one and realize that the OS is really at fault here (like I think it is).
cnunez1987 said:
[Cross posted at Android General]
Since I got the Nexus One over a month ago, I've realized that its battery life is somewhat problematic. However, it lasted long enough to go about my day, especially considering that I always had a charger at my disposal.
I use it chiefly for listening to music, so I naturally brought it with me when I did the annual NYC Century Bike Tour. I wanted to record a GPS track of my ride (I rode the 100 mile path) but knew it would probably kill my battery really fast, so I used my G1 and RMap as my GPS device.
The Nexus One had NOTHING except for phone service (on EDGE), TouchDown (Exchange email push) and music (with Mixzing, recommendations off, equalizer on) on for the ride. The G1 only had its GPS radio on, nothing else. Both devices spent most of their time with the screen off.
The G1 was dead in about three hours. The Nexus One was dead in five. FIVE hours! Brand new device! That's not bad battery life; that's just unacceptable. My iPhone 3GS certainly lasted longer than that. Even my old Windows Mobile HTC Raphael outlasted the both of them!
What can I do about this? I'm willing to get a bigger battery at this point, but I don't want to buy one and realize that the OS is really at fault here (like I think it is).
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The problem? You're using the wrong tools for the job. Want/need a GPS? Use a GPS. Want a mp3 player? Use an mp3 player.
You'll have to look and see what's actually using CPU/battery, but I suspect Touchdown was a large part of it. And might watch to see what CPU Mixzing is using, perhaps it's using an inordinate amount.
Were you streaming the music? I listen to podcasts, and every now and then I have an easy day at work where I probably listen to 6 hours or so to get caught up, but I don't stream them. This is over a 9 hour work day and with moderate email, web, SMS and phone use, I still have 30-40% left at the end of those marathon podcast days.
Hmm, how was your signal? When signal is low, the n1 uses a ton more battery.
EQ on Mixzing kills the battery, also...
Sent from my Nexus One by magic electricy-bubbles flying through the air...
khaytsus said:
The problem? You're using the wrong tools for the job. Want/need a GPS? Use a GPS. Want a mp3 player? Use an mp3 player.
You'll have to look and see what's actually using CPU/battery, but I suspect Touchdown was a large part of it. And might watch to see what CPU Mixzing is using, perhaps it's using an inordinate amount.
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So then I guess by this logic, I should sell my Nexus One and get a RAZR.
The point is that I should be able to do most of those things and not have my phone die five hours later. The iPhone I used nefore didn't.
No, not the Razr. You just said it, get the iPhone
OT: I think you will get a longer playback time if you use the default music player. The quotes 20 hr audio playback I think is when you turn off all radios and use the phone for music playback only.
My phone was purchased May 21, 2010, so it's not new, still on the original battery. Daily, I stream Pandora to my bluetooth headset for 6-8 hours while at work (streaming + bluetooth) without attaching the phone the charger... Granted, as soon as I get home, I will have to plug it up, I still consider this to be pretty good battery life. That's on 3G + I have my Exchange (Push) email, occasional phone call or two and some minor browsing.
For example, today, I have been streaming to A2DP since I got to work at 7:30am ET... I have 58% battery left at 12:58pm ET...
Sounds like something else is killing your phone especially since you aren't even streaming music...
cnunez1987 said:
[Cross posted at Android General]
Since I got the Nexus One over a month ago, I've realized that its battery life is somewhat problematic. However, it lasted long enough to go about my day, especially considering that I always had a charger at my disposal.
I use it chiefly for listening to music, so I naturally brought it with me when I did the annual NYC Century Bike Tour. I wanted to record a GPS track of my ride (I rode the 100 mile path) but knew it would probably kill my battery really fast, so I used my G1 and RMap as my GPS device.
The Nexus One had NOTHING except for phone service (on EDGE), TouchDown (Exchange email push) and music (with Mixzing, recommendations off, equalizer on) on for the ride. The G1 only had its GPS radio on, nothing else. Both devices spent most of their time with the screen off.
The G1 was dead in about three hours. The Nexus One was dead in five. FIVE hours! Brand new device! That's not bad battery life; that's just unacceptable. My iPhone 3GS certainly lasted longer than that. Even my old Windows Mobile HTC Raphael outlasted the both of them!
What can I do about this? I'm willing to get a bigger battery at this point, but I don't want to buy one and realize that the OS is really at fault here (like I think it is).
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Were you streaming the music?
If so, I don't think the iphone is going to outlast the N1 battery-wise by much.
If it was local music, the performance is simply unacceptable.
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The quotes 20 hr audio playback I think is when you turn off all radios and use the phone for music playback only.
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That is just ridiculous!
inneyeseakay said:
My phone was purchased May 21, 2010, so it's not new, still on the original battery. Daily, I stream Pandora to my bluetooth headset for 6-8 hours while at work (streaming + bluetooth) without attaching the phone the charger... Granted, as soon as I get home, I will have to plug it up, I still consider this to be pretty good battery life. That's on 3G + I have my Exchange (Push) email, occasional phone call or two and some minor browsing.
For example, today, I have been streaming to A2DP since I got to work at 730am ET... I have 58% battery left...
Sounds like something else is killing your phone especially since you aren't even streaming music...
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I wasn't streaming music; just playing from SD card. I would use the default music player, but it having no equalizer makes it hard for me to do so.
I think TouchDown was the culprit here, but I have nothing to prove that it was. I'm going to do another century ride soon, so I'll be able to re-test then.
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Sounds like something else is killing your phone especially since you aren't even streaming music...
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What he said. My phone doesn't drop even 10% an hour when I'm listening to local MP3s.
If you generally have very bad battery life - either look for a process that's killing the battery, or check your battery capacity - it might have deteriorated.
cnunez1987 said:
[Cross posted at Android General]
Since I got the Nexus One over a month ago, I've realized that its battery life is somewhat problematic. However, it lasted long enough to go about my day, especially considering that I always had a charger at my disposal.
I use it chiefly for listening to music, so I naturally brought it with me when I did the annual NYC Century Bike Tour. I wanted to record a GPS track of my ride (I rode the 100 mile path) but knew it would probably kill my battery really fast, so I used my G1 and RMap as my GPS device.
The Nexus One had NOTHING except for phone service (on EDGE), TouchDown (Exchange email push) and music (with Mixzing, recommendations off, equalizer on) on for the ride. The G1 only had its GPS radio on, nothing else. Both devices spent most of their time with the screen off.
The G1 was dead in about three hours. The Nexus One was dead in five. FIVE hours! Brand new device! That's not bad battery life; that's just unacceptable. My iPhone 3GS certainly lasted longer than that. Even my old Windows Mobile HTC Raphael outlasted the both of them!
What can I do about this? I'm willing to get a bigger battery at this point, but I don't want to buy one and realize that the OS is really at fault here (like I think it is).
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I would ask for a replacement battery because and hour of music should nottake 20 percent of your battery
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nexusdue said:
Were you streaming the music?
If so, I don't think the iphone is going to outlast the N1 battery-wise by much.
If it was local music, the performance is simply unacceptable.
That is just ridiculous!
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Hey, a dedicated music player like the ipod nano has ~24hrs of audio playback. So I think that's about right.
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I would use the default music player, but it having no equalizer makes it hard for me to do so.
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There you go. That is the problem. Others have already said in this thread that the equalizer is horrible on battery life. It is just a software hack to modify the sound before playing it. So it uses a lot of CPU. Run without it, or maybe try the built in one on CM6. But that one still may be just as bad.
Ok, so what happenned on the 2 instances that this happenned was all of a sudden I lost cellular signal and the phone made a sound and the signal bars switched to a circular sign with the line across it. I put the phone in airplane mode but nothing happenned, within a min phone restarted it self...
The phone is stock. No root or anything like that.
Ps... using the keyboard to type this, and its much easier compard to my old droids kb.
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Weird. Haven't experienced that before myself. I have had it lose signal and display the circle with a line through it but it's not very often and only for a second or two.
Just did it again when I went into pandora. I realized its actually not resetting, but the phone freezes up and everything reloads. Including signal and 3G... the screen shutz off and you can't turn it back on until it reloads
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I had the same problem with mine. I exchanged it for another one and have had no problems since
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Damn. Just when I get it the way I wanted it... Ugh...
What exactly was yours doing big jim?
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Your second thread mention "problems" you have with your phone. Go to a Sprint store.
I agree exchange it urs must be defective. A couple others have hd same issue.
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I had the same problem on my original Epic. I had three problems in total on that phone.
Samsung's crap coding that caused the phone to not sleep. (fixed after 2nd update)
The phone would randomly restart itself
During calls, the screen would freeze while illuminated. The call wasn't interrupted, but aftwards I had to pull the battery.
In the end I had to exchange the phone for another. Only problem was, the new phone had that couple millimeter gap with the slider. Sprint said it wasn't enough for third exchange though.
Man, this sucks... Just when I put all the apps I wanted on it and got it running the way I want it...
I'm gonna give it 1 more week see what happens, then return perhaps for another epic. I'm pretty sure I'll be sticking to the epic though, i really like the camera capabilities of the phone.
I'm actually going to run 4 tests this week
I'm going to leave the phone untouched from 10:00 to 21:00 and note the percentage in battery with juice defender on/off and also noLED on/off, see what happens... to make it even, i'll just leave the phone in my car, and it won't be used except it's usual email checking/texts/missed calls etc.
my droid unused for that period of time usually was around 80%. it was running a custom rom with 1 ghz kernel as well, so same power requirements i'd say. except epic has a bigger battery.
Battery is pretty bad with the Epic but Im not surprised at all about that. I have about 50% right now with heavy texting, a few phone calls, and listening to music. 8hrs unplugged. I think it would make it to 14-15 hrs easy with heavy use.
Phone calls kill the battery the most I believe.
And I'm using Juice Defender.
Mine was dying with heavy texting, some GPS and browsing within 6-7 hours, no phone calls....
I did a little test today.
When I'm at the police academy my phone is in my car from 1000 to 2100. My rooted 1ghz droid would be at 80% by 2100. it'd get it's regular share of texting/emails and all that I couldn't look at until 2100.
I did the same thing today with the Epic, with juice defender, it was at 79%, so pretty much exactly the same...
tomorrow I'll do the same test with JD off and see if it makes a diff
HI
razorseal said:
Man, this sucks... Just when I put all the apps I wanted on it and got it running the way I want it...
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Use titanium backup and u can restore all ur apps n settings in a jif
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I have just installed Juice Defender (free version) and using it as installed. I'll see if it helps. I have a question about the status of TRAFFIC, it is listed as "Leave Data/WiFi enabled while >50KB/15s", what does this mean? I can guess that JD will leave the Data connection ON, even if it is scheduled OFF, if the phone is sending/receiving data at a rate greater than 50KB/15s. Is this close?
Thanks
arewin
othan1 said:
Weird. Haven't experienced that before myself. I have had it lose signal and display the circle with a line through it but it's not very often and only for a second or two.
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Mine has been doing this every once in awhile. Even in a good signal area, its like the radio randomly decides to reset. I'm currently trying to see if its a software or hardware thing.
Sadly the modem was backported from the samsung moment. It has only partof it power managment system in it it will befixed swhen froyo comes
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I am having the same problem with my phone suddenly. If I have multiple apps open, such as radio, browser, and facebook at the same time, it seems to cause it to reset itself. It's not a full hard reset, but more of a soft one, screen goes black and everything starts up as if the phone was just turned on.
Maybe it's time for a replacement?
Hi all,
Now I've not tried this myself however a friend of mine who recently got a DHD said he was lucky if the battery lasted a day on a full charge however by turning "Data roaming" off (even though he is not roaming) he is now getting anything between 2-3 days on one charge
Data roaming was turned off by default on mine and still the battery drained pretty quick.
Using data of any kind will affect the battery badly. Notes Traveler on my device is the cause of it needing charging every day.
Same as any phone, the more you disable the longer the battery will last.
If everything was implemented correctly by HTC, turning off Roaming should have no impact on battery life at all (provided you don't use Roaming).
I believe that your friend experienced the typical warm-up phase. For some (a lot?) people the battery life is terrible when they first use the DHD, but it gradually gets better.
Your friend probably attributes the increase of battery life to the disabled Roaming, while it is just a "natural" process.
I'm roaming all the time, and my battery is actually pretty good. If i don't use it much it can easily survive two days. My record is three days with light usage. (That was with the stock 1.72 ROM)
What is data roaming anyway???
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Data roaming is set off by default. And data roaming controls data transfer when you are not on your home operator/network, i.e when traveling.
are your friend meant data connection?
MarkieSA said:
Hi all,
Now I've not tried this myself however a friend of mine who recently got a DHD said he was lucky if the battery lasted a day on a full charge however by turning "Data roaming" off (even though he is not roaming) he is now getting anything between 2-3 days on one charge
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He probably means "3G" off? I've had mine since the end of October and got into the habit of charging the phone every night. But then wondered about the effects of turning off wifi and 3G as, currently, I'm at home most of the time and have a PC with 24" screen to play with. Anyhow, with 3G and wifi turned off most of the time I get 3 days or so from a charge. I haven't investigated turning just one or the other off as life's too short ....
HTH
Dave
PS: and someone will say, well what's the point of a smart phone if you're just using it like a dumb phone? Well, the "smart" bit here in this case is me ....
Yeah, 3G uses a bit, so the first thing i did was to disable it. No point for me using it actually, since it's WiFi all over the place here i live. If i need it, i'll simply enough just toggle it on.
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BazookaAce said:
Yeah, 3G uses a bit, so the first thing i did was to disable it. No point for me using it actually, since it's WiFi all over the place here i live. If i need it, i'll simply enough just toggle it on.
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You're roaming all the time and then in the next post you say that the first thing you did was to disable 3g... Are you just posting in order to follow others opinions or what?
And btw 3g doesn't actuality use much more power when compared to wifi, if you always use it somewhere where the signal is always poor then it's another thing.
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dvhttn said:
He probably means "3G" off? I've had mine since the end of October and got into the habit of charging the phone every night. But then wondered about the effects of turning off wifi and 3G as, currently, I'm at home most of the time and have a PC with 24" screen to play with. Anyhow, with 3G and wifi turned off most of the time I get 3 days or so from a charge. I haven't investigated turning just one or the other off as life's too short ....
HTH
Dave
PS: and someone will say, well what's the point of a smart phone if you're just using it like a dumb phone? Well, the "smart" bit here in this case is me ....
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If I meant 3G then that's what I would of said. So just to be clear, there is an option "Data Roaming" that when turned on will enable a data connection when you are in another country. My friend claims that while on his home network he has turned this option off and he has seen a big improvement on battery performance. If this is true or not I'm not sure, I just simply thought I would share his thoughts with everyone else.
I did this, once i remembered where it was and I got my old battery life back. So thats a bonus, not having to take my charger to work!
Vispe85
And btw 3g doesn't actuality use much more power when compared to wifi said:
Using System Panel graphs to monitor battery drain I'd concluded that 3G drains battery at about twice the rate compared to wifi.
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hi everyone
i am going this phone in 2 days but first i wiould like to know something.
First for now i have a samsung galaxy ace, is a very nivce phone but i want more, i want overclock i want differents rooms i want a new kernel so this is what is making me change it.
So have we a new rom for this phone, a finish one and stable, and kernels, what is the best for battery life?
If someone could help with this i would be very greatfull
thanks to all
vlc_marcos said:
hi everyone
i am going this phone in 2 days but first i wiould like to know something.
First for now i have a samsung galaxy ace, is a very nivce phone but i want more, i want overclock i want differents rooms i want a new kernel so this is what is making me change it.
So have we a new rom for this phone, a finish one and stable, and kernels, what is the best for battery life?
If someone could help with this i would be very greatfull
thanks to all
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Hello, and welcome the U8800 group I guess?
Well firstly you shall know that we have lots of different firmware for our phone.
To get access to the new firmwares visit.
http://wiki.modaco.com/index.php/Huawei_Firmware_U8800
If you wish to have user friendly guide, visit.
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...om/341011/ultimate-guide-to-the-huawei-u8800/
For custom roms with huge tweaks and optimizations.
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...rom-for-the-huawei-u8800-with-online-kitchen/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152240
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068766
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1147103
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059753
And to use these roms it's good to have recovery for the phone...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130524
Lastly, the battery life is pretty decent for a smartphone, to be correct with the matter. Every smartphone have "bad" battery life against none "smart"phones(dumbphones).
Hope this helps you !
thanks so later i will read something about this
vlc_marcos said:
thanks so later i will read something about this
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If you happy with it hit the funny looking "Thanks" button, makes me happy
i have a question, for what is the thanks button?
vlc_marcos said:
i have a question, for what is the thanks button?
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Nothing much just to say thanks by a meter way.
what rom are you using and why?
vlc_marcos said:
what rom are you using and why?
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I am using, B137 custom rom by Fibblesan from modaco.
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...rom-for-the-huawei-u8800-with-online-kitchen/
Reason.
Works flawlessly, can do normal calls,browsing the network, flash works perfectly and no shuttering lastly battery life is great, holds quite long. I would also point out that when questions are asked most help when they can @modaco.
I would say hearing opinion is a small reason to try a rom, biggest would be to experience the rom then see if its really good.
cirnocirno said:
I am using, B137 custom rom by Fibblesan from modaco.
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...rom-for-the-huawei-u8800-with-online-kitchen/
Reason.
Works flawlessly, can do normal calls,browsing the network, flash works perfectly and no shuttering lastly battery life is great, holds quite long. I would also point out that when questions are asked most help when they can @modaco.
I would say hearing opinion is a small reason to try a rom, biggest would be to experience the rom then see if its really good.
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Can I ask what you mean by "no shuttering lastly battery life is great, holds quite long" ? How many hours/days? And what sort of usage?
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katu2006 said:
Can I ask what you mean by "no shuttering lastly battery life is great, holds quite long" ? How many hours/days? And what sort of usage?
Thanks
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With 3g, wifi on and light web browsing I get around 11 hours of usage until next charge. If I do not play around for such long time it can hold for 3 days in sleep doing nothing. But if I do normal activity, which involves, music,web,3g,sms and some calls + games. I will have 20 % left from 08:00 to 23:00 and thats no problem 20% is fine enough for a night sleep, and charge in the morning !
so is like my galaxy ace, form 08:00 to 23:00, i use 70% of the battery, with the sincro on all the time, using my emal like sms, it means that i send a lot during all day, wifi turn on during 8 hours and some games and web.
i still dont have the x5 but iam waitting for it, but i thought that the battery could be longer
vlc_marcos said:
so is like my galaxy ace, form 08:00 to 23:00, i use 70% of the battery, with the sincro on all the time, using my emal like sms, it means that i send a lot during all day, wifi turn on during 8 hours and some games and web.
i still dont have the x5 but iam waitting for it, but i thought that the battery could be longer
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Why would it be longer?
First thing you need to understand, the concept of why smartphone battery sucks. They don't evolve as fast as the smartphones itself. No one seems to wish add more power into their small batteries for the smartphones, thus making it look stupid.
ok i understand and i know, but the software could improve the battery life in some way
vlc_marcos said:
ok i understand and i know, but the software could improve the battery life in some way
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Yeah, software can only make sure a certain amount won't go to waste, for example stopping useless workload.
I don't mean to upset anybody, but I think that battery consumption is 80% related to the hardware and the rest to software. I used to have Wifi, bluetooth, 2 e-mail accounts with push on non stop, on my old Iphone 3G and battery used to hold for at least 2 days. Now, because this battery is 3 years newer, wouldn't you think that there should be improvements? The fact that you get 3 days out of this phone's battery, makes me think that you're lucky...I never got more than 2 days, with all sorts of ROMs, including FLB.
The rule "what you pay is what you get" reflects the reality here, quality hardware makes the difference, simple as that. I like the U8800, but to be able to get more life out of the battery, the quality of hardware needs big improvements.
As an example, the bluetooth on the Iphone use to work in the proximity of my car, but with the U8800 it disconnects while I'm in the car... not to mention the wifi, that's flaky as...I'm not bagging the U8800, for $300 brand new, it's definitely worth buying, but if you want a bit more quality, pay the difference and get the Desire or something.
katu2006 said:
I don't mean to upset anybody, but I think that battery consumption is 80% related to the hardware and the rest to software. I used to have Wifi, bluetooth, 2 e-mail accounts with push on non stop, on my old Iphone 3G and battery used to hold for at least 2 days. Now, because this battery is 3 years newer, wouldn't you think that there should be improvements? The fact that you get 3 days out of this phone's battery, makes me think that you're lucky...I never got more than 2 days, with all sorts of ROMs, including FLB.
The rule "what you pay is what you get" reflects the reality here, quality hardware makes the difference, simple as that. I like the U8800, but to be able to get more life out of the battery, the quality of hardware needs big improvements.
As an example, the bluetooth on the Iphone use to work in the proximity of my car, but with the U8800 it disconnects while I'm in the car... not to mention the wifi, that's flaky as...I'm not bagging the U8800, for $300 brand new, it's definitely worth buying, but if you want a bit more quality, pay the difference and get the Desire or something.
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First: No one who needs 3+ day battery should buy a smartphone! If you want a super battery, go to a dumbphone with a xpto 8+ days battery. I my opinion, a smartphone with a 24h battery (wifi on, 3G on, network data on, good brightness, some gps, etc) is the perfect deal. I couldn't 100% test the battery duration of the Huawei because it's still network locked, so I've done any calls and any sms/mms, but with wifi on, auto-sync, FB sync, tweetdeck sync, google account sync, some internet browsing, lots of social network browsing and good brightness, there's now 25h uptime and 32% remaing. Is this bad? I don't think so...
Second: Go ahead, compare a 500€ iPhone to a 150€ Huawei
BTW: It's network locked but I'm using the original SIM and it's working properly. I've done any calls or sms but it's not in flight mode, it's completely operational... Except for the fact that I aint no friends using TMN ahah SO, the battery duration isn't much affected by this fact.
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Second: Go ahead, compare a 500€ iPhone to a 150€ Huawei
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Iphone is more than 3 years old and worth less than $100...Not sure what you're talking about. Or do you still think that Iphone 3g is worth 500??
The topic here was to decide if to buy U8800 or not. If you think that a "smart-phone"s battery should last 24h, then you deserve this phone... I'm thinking, "no go". You can get a whole lot more from a Desire.
In my view, the specification says 370h in standby, with wifi on, you should still get 100h...not 24h.
BTW, can you give me an example of an $300 "dumb-phone" ? )
só tiago, I can see that you are Portuguese, I'm to. so with a lot of using you can get one day of battery, with an extreme use. because for me I will use a lot the email because I use it like sms to.my girl that is out of the country so it should e on all the times. the rest us a normal use with calls something like 2 hours of phone calls.
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Iphone is more than 3 years old and worth less than $100...Not sure what you're talking about. Or do you still think that Iphone 3g is worth 500??
The topic here was to decide if to buy U8800 or not. If you think that a "smart-phone"s battery should last 24h, then you deserve this phone... I'm thinking, "no go". You can get a whole lot more from a Desire.
In my view, the specification says 370h in standby, with wifi on, you should still get 100h...not 24h.
BTW, can you give me an example of an $300 "dumb-phone" ? )
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Sorry, I thought you have the 4G... I take back what I said about 500€ iPhone.
370h only if it's sleeping all the time without data, syncs, wifi, etc... With a full smartphone use, 100h are impossible to get otherwise I think the user is not using it with full capacities... Like I said, with all-day wi-fi, sync, notifications, data transfer, good brightness, some GPS, browsing, sms, calls, etc etc (full smartphone use), get 24h+ battery is very hard... My 2 cents.
$300 dumbphone? A "dumbphone" is a phone for those who don't need a smart one, so I don't see the point of your question... If anyone is thinking on spending $300 on a phone, I doubt a dumbphone will do the needs.
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What I meant was that you can't really find dumbphones any more, in less they are $20 or something... Anyway, the whole idea is that I think the battery should hold longer than 24h, with wifi and minimal usage. With this phone, you can barely achieve that...
If the initiator of this thread wants more battery life, he should reconsider.
This is not a question per say but more of wondering. I see the specs are fantastic for this and boasts an amzing batt life. I am able to upgrade and don't need a tablet sized phone. Already have a rooted nook tab!!
So for all you that have this, is this what you expected and what are your experiences? And how are the smart actions?
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Using it daily like how I using on my DX with 1900mAh battery. My DX last no more than 7 hours like how I'm using this. You will see it charged for short time cuz I was transferred some saved files to my RAZR SDcard. But, it last me pretty damn good.
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I love the Razr M so far in every way *except* the battery life. I've been off charge since around 9:30am -- it's 2:30pm now and I'm already down to 50% with light to moderate use.
Then again, I am coming from the Razr MAXX, which would still have 30-50% battery left when I hit the sac.
After they made the MAXX, I don't get why they'd ever make anything else with less battery than that. Who doesn't want more battery life?
I'd easily and gladly like with the added phone thickness. It was barely noticable on the Razr, and the Razr M would still be perfectly sized even if it was 25% thicker with MAXX-like battery capacity.
For the size of the battery and the internals, I'd say it's solid. Not "out of this world", but definitely good for what it is. Signal strength in your area obviously plays a part (which, signal strength appears it could be an issue... possibly). It also idles really well.
Thanks for all the input. I am coming from a droid incredable..the first one. Just want to make it a day or so on a batt and not have to charge it all day. Plus from what I read you can really customize when it uses and not uses data.....
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cosmic06 said:
Thanks for all the input. I am coming from a droid incredable..the first one. Just want to make it a day or so on a batt and not have to charge it all day. Plus from what I read you can really customize when it uses and not uses data.....
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Yeah it has Smart Actions - which is basically like a more intuitive, better integrated version of Tasker.
jntdroid said:
Yeah it has Smart Actions - which is basically like a more intuitive, better integrated version of Tasker.
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Llama is way better than smart actions. Smart Actions does not even 10% of what Llama can do. check it out on Google (Play) App Store.
They seem to do the same thing actually smart actions can do all the things that were listed if you set them up for a profile. Looks like a good alternative if this phone didn't come with smart actions.
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Speaking of Smart Actions, at the risk of hijacking the thread...:
There's one for "Connected to WiFi" but there isn't one for "Disconnected from WiFi" so I can make a rule to shut off Mobile Data when I connect to WiFi but I can't make one to reactivate Mobile Data when I'm *not* connected to WiFi and it won't do it on it's own without a reverse rule for it.
Anyone have a way around this?
Any help appreciated - thanks!
reyxlp said:
Speaking of Smart Actions, at the risk of hijacking the thread...:
There's one for "Connected to WiFi" but there isn't one for "Disconnected from WiFi" so I can make a rule to shut off Mobile Data when I connect to WiFi but I can't make one to reactivate Mobile Data when I'm *not* connected to WiFi and it won't do it on it's own without a reverse rule for it.
Anyone have a way around this?
Any help appreciated - thanks!
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There's no need to shut off mobile data when WiFi is on... Android does it automatically. No need to use a smart action for it. If you stop doing it I can virtually guarantee you will not see any hit to your battery.
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I don't understand how people are having issues with the battery like at all? Unplugged since 7am with one charge for like 10 minutes (which made it go up 5%) with heavy usage (texting, social networks, forum app, wifi) and I'm at 31% its 1030 pm right now...
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melo563 said:
They seem to do the same thing actually smart actions can do all the things that were listed if you set them up for a profile. Looks like a good alternative if this phone didn't come with smart actions.
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If you're comparing smart actions to llama, yes they do the same thing but llama is far superior.
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phositadc said:
There's no need to shut off mobile data when WiFi is on... Android does it automatically. No need to use a smart action for it. If you stop doing it I can virtually guarantee you will not see any hit to your battery.
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You don't think it uses battery? I take your word for it but it does seem strange it wouldn't save battery to turn off the data radio. Even a little. It still tracks the signal strength and shows the icon. Not trying to pick a fight..
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You don't think it uses battery? I take your word for it but it does seem strange it wouldn't save battery to turn off the data radio. Even a little. It still tracks the signal strength and shows the icon. Not trying to pick a fight..
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I don't think it does. I used to test it on various devices because I too figured it must save battery life, but ultimately I could never detect any battery improvement at all.
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reyxlp said:
You don't think it uses battery? I take your word for it but it does seem strange it wouldn't save battery to turn off the data radio. Even a little. It still tracks the signal strength and shows the icon. Not trying to pick a fight..
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No such thing as an exclusive data radio... if you're on 4G, 3G, or whatever... that very same radio signal is also used for voice and text... so yes the phone needs to track the signal strength and connection to the tower just to keep you reachable for plain old ordinary phone calls and text messages.