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Hi,
In theory, the life of a ILithium battery is 300 or 325 charges.
I use my Athena for navigate, play music, make phone calls and send/receive emails (via pushemail).
I charge my battery all the nigths.
Is normal the compsumition of my battery?
i need to demand a battery to the noel?
I doubt?
I own 4 Windows Mobile PPC's going back at least 8 years. ALL are still functioning on their original batteries. But, just to be safe, I am going to ask the Wise Men to bring me an extra battery for my Advantage for next year. I'm afraid that the Ameo/Advantage is not going to be very popular in the USA and is likely to be discontinued next year.
Brad Miter
please,
any of the users that says your athena battery life is two or more days: explain your ameo usage !!
thanks
mine used to be 2~3 days using radio 1.42, I also was using the wired headset instead of bluetooth, I made around 700 mins of calls per month and surfed the internet alot also used satnav most days.
Now I get 1 day, using radio 1.5 plus I started using my bluetooth headset at the same time as switching to 1.5 plus I now make 900 mins of calls per month, still use sat nav lots and browse the internet lots !
When im using it during the week it can be less than one day if streaming music over bluetooth (always on) and browsing web via HSDPA / 3G but at weekends it lasts from saturday morning to sunday evening and battery is normally still @ bout 90% and thats with BT on as well never use wifi if using gps it gets charged, the only way to increase battery is to turn the screen brightness right down to 1st marker (not the 0 one butt above that)
If I dont browse or take any calls all day, it will still be @90 percent after 16 hours. Decent browsing and phone useage it will be @40 percent after 16 hours.
Hi guys, please bear with us on this one.
This is my 2nd Android phone, I used to have an Hero about 6 months ago. i really liked the front end but the screen was small so I upgraded to an HD2 which I still have. On the HD2 the screen is huge but Win Mobile lets it down a bit. The marketplace is expensive and very limited and the amount of apps for Win Mobile seem to be getting less and less, especially supproting the 800x480 WVGA screen on the HD2.
Anyway I was due an upgrade and Orange offered me the X10 for £20 which i couldn't refuse. I am trying to like the phone but the biggest issue for me is the battery. I did the usual of leaving it plugged in for 16 hours as recommended by orange etc. If the phone is on standby I seem to get around 8 hours and the battery will be down to about 40% remaining charge. That is on standby with the top button pressed and the phone on a black screen. This is really poor considering the HD2 can run almost 2 days on standby before loosing 60% of its charge.
Anybody got any suggestions on how to improve this? Would it be wise for me to do the debrand as mentioned in other threads? It is currently on build R1FA014.
Thanks for the help.
The battery will improve in time, after a few weeks of use the X10 will loose 1-2% of battery each 2 hours (at least my X10 R1FA016 and two of my friends X10 R1FA014 do). This is with 3G on, wifi sometimes on, GPS sometimes on. Just give it some time. I think the X10 is one of the best smartphones out there. There is an extensive thread on Power Usage which can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657265
In the end it comes down to:
-Give it some time
-Disable auto search for software updates (settings>about phone>update)
-Wifi seems to drain sometimes
-Streaming drains.
Thanks for the pointers Vin87, I have got wifi turned off now but I am at work for the next 7 hours and I only have about 28% charge remaining
I'm going to have a good read through the thread you mentioned all 50+ pages LOL.
I do like the phone and for the cost I am going to keep it and hopefully we will get some new updates soon?
It gets better...way better. 13 hours since my last charge, and it's at 71%. I've been using it every now and then, Facebook, sending emails ect.
Great battery life now!
From a work perspective, I miss the X10 having a dock.
With my G900 each time I returned to my desk,I would throw it the dock and so it was receiving a charge throughout the day, the X10 is more fiddly as you need to play around the the flap and then figure out which way to plug in the mini-USB cable...
I wish they had chosen a better connector than the mini-USB as the standard, as it's not that easy to quickly connect it....
I could almost throw my G900 at the charging cable and it would connect.
Basically (if you want to use the smartphone):
1. In the beginning you will use the phone a lot. Installing apps, trying apps, games, music etc. so the battery drains faster. When you will stop pushing the phone to the limit will be better
2. Wait for a week, the batter will get better.
3. Get a task killer/boot manager and set it to autokill moxier. Don't kill other apps
4. Set facebook/twitter sync at 1h (or more) if you are not a hardcore fan of this social platforms.
5. Email: if you need instant notification there is not much you can do. If you don't need it, disable background sync and sync manually.
6. Disable location using wireless networks.
7. Wifi/3G: if you need instant notifications, wifi will drain your battery pretty fast but if you don't have 3G data plan like me, there is no other choice. If you have a good 3G plan, you can set wifi sleep policy to turn off wifi when phone goes to "sleep". Also, you can use this together with Juice defender free to turn 3G on 2 min every 3min to get notifications so, you will save even more battery.
8. Enable bluetoot/gps only when you use them and keep them disabled when not.
9. Set brightness to manual and around 25% when you are indoor and "sleep time" (screen timeout) to 30sec
10. Oh, i forgot, disable search for software updates and if you didn't install too many things, try a factory defaults. Some people did a SD card format (be sure you save everything first) and reported battery improvement.
If you want to use the dumbphone inside then turn everything off (BT, GPS, 3G, WIFI, Twitter/Facebook, email, background sync, etc.) and your dumbphone will last way longer
hi
what kind of battery performance are you guys getting and how long (on avg) does it take to charge it?
any suggestions to improve it?
mine is about a day with 2 couple of hours of browsing, 5 hours last fm/zune musin, an hours of calls.
charging is not very fast i have to admit but i still love it.
is this normal?
thanks
I haven't been able to find out as I'm normally not far from a computer (Home, Uni etc.) and I take my charger cable with me, what I do know however is its much better than my HD7 was.
Hey guys, ok did a battery drain test with these settings:
•3G/data tuned off (only because my area has a low 3G signal, meaning the phone would be using more battery power)
•wifi on
•2 hotmail accounts (sync email every 15mins)
•bluetooth off
•location on
•brightness set to medium
•phone updates on (set only to use wifi and connection with home computer)
•find my phone options all unticked
The battery drain test included playing the movie Ironman on loop with volume set to 50% (15/30) using it's built in speaker.
I did not include the end credits due to alot of blacks that'd be on the screen, meaning a false measurement, due to SAMOLED's nature.
While the video did not fill up the whole screen (black strips on the top and bottom) most movies you'd be watching would most likely have similar aspect ratio anyway.
Ironman file details:
Video:
720x400
1404kbps data rate
1468kbps total bitrate
25fps
Audio:
64kbps
2 (stereo) channels
48kHz Audio sample rate
Ok now for the results:
Started watching with a full battery at 9:50am
Battery critical notification came on at 4:22pm
Phone powered down at 4:38pm
Total hours of video playback: 6hours 48mins
Mine didn't seem great for the first few days, but seems to have gotten significantly better. I'm sure that it is not just that I'm using it less, although I have turned the screen off full brightness (looks amazing!)
I comfortably get a day now with WIFI on all day and 3 email accounts (exchange set to recieve as they arrive).
Overall, I'm very very pleased with this phone - It's a truely beautiful piece of kit.
cheers,
Mickey
Battery update:
Used fairly lightly with a full battery since yesterday 6:45am.
Now at 4:02pm battery icon has gone empty (Though critical notification has not popped up yet so theres more life yet). I'm writing this now, because I've thrown it to the charger incase it shuts on me on the train ride back. And I really wanna continue playing Harvest
Conditions:
* 3G/Data on all day (3G/data turned off once I get home)
* location on
* bluetooth off
* brightness auto
* find my phone off
* phone updates set only to over wifi or computer only
* wifi off
Useage:
* wifi used for 15mins then turned off
* phonecall for 5mins
* 40 sent sms' / 39 received sms'
* 2 email accounts set to check every 15mins
* pictures and people hub updated about 10 times each
* 3 photos taken. 1 uploaded to fb
* Updated twitter, checked imdb app
* browsed marketplace for about 15mins
* 20 mins spent trying to setup work account to no avail
* about 5mins worth of browsing
* 20 min music via headphone jack.
* And the usual playing around with the UI
* No games played for this test
sorry, to bump this old thread up again, but i´m worried about my battery life being normal....
i have 3 email accounts to be updated every hour and edge internet (3G is even worse)....
with this configuration and after a 45 to 60 min of playing my battery is below 1/4 of the full capacity.
i use the phone for over 1 week now and the battery went through couple of cycles so that it should have its normal power by now..
is that normal?
I you read the messages before your post you already know the answer is no.
Charging is slow as hell, same for batter.. omnia will suck it really quickly.
after a few charges is pretty quick, and it lasts for a whole day without problems
Maybe in alternative reality. When using it (browsing, gps location, mails) it drains in two-three hours, no problem. I sold mine and bought optimus black, which is true smartphone.
maybe you don't know that in mango there's a save battery feature in settings
but now is not your problem, you can go to optimus black forums now
Save battery for sure... No auto checking email, no facebook connection and that sucks, because for that i can buy nokia 3310.
blah blah blah blah blah..9
Reasec said:
Maybe in alternative reality. When using it (browsing, gps location, mails) it drains in two-three hours, no problem. I sold mine and bought optimus black, which is true smartphone.
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In what way is that helpful? I do all that stuff and my batterys fine - maybe yours just sucked.
You can buy 2 extra batteries and a charger thing on Ebay for like £5. screw worrying about battery life, it isn't an iPhone.
I usually only get about a day's worth of battery, i can make it last probbably a day and a half if i dont use it much but since i do use it alot that doesnt happen often!
I had to buy a second battery that I keep always with me. It comes with charger that can charge the single second battery and the Phone connected via USB...
Reasec said:
Save battery for sure... No auto checking email, no facebook connection and that sucks, because for that i can buy nokia 3310.
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Your Omnia 7 battery or charger had some kind of problem for sure. Now relax yourself, enjoy your Optimus black and get ready to miss the SuperAMOLED screen of the Omnia 7.
Regards
It is amazing the much longer battery lite when I remove SIM
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Does anybody noticed that?
I wonder if that happens on others like Android, iOs or other WP7 phones.
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It is normal thing. In idle, most of the power usage is taken by GSM .
My old Kaiser with years old battery could handle week on battery and still having over half of the battery left. My HX4700 with many, many years old battery held week and still had about 70% of battery .
Hi guys, I have my omnia 7 for less then a week now and I found it's battery life terrible, the worst performance ever. It drys off in less then a half of day with general use. I fill the battery to 100% over the night and then I wake up in the morning at 5.30am and when I'm back from school sometimes it's allmost empty, sometimes is at about 20% with a usage of About 15 mins of gaming, some browsing/facebook.. few calls and sms and an hour or two of music playback.
I have wifi, bluetooh, push mail, feedback and locations off. Have also been reading on the social.answers microsoft forum about that and there were different tought. I'm wondering how is it with yours.. is it REALLY this bad or it is something wrong with my phone/battery. I don't want to take it back if all are like this as it will be at least one week on service.
uristic said:
Hi guys, I have my omnia 7 for less then a week now and I found it's battery life terrible, the worst performance ever. It drys off in less then a half of day with general use. I fill the battery to 100% over the night and then I wake up in the morning at 5.30am and when I'm back from school sometimes it's allmost empty, sometimes is at about 20% with a usage of About 15 mins of gaming, some browsing/facebook.. few calls and sms and an hour or two of music playback.
I have wifi, bluetooh, push mail, feedback and locations off. Have also been reading on the social.answers microsoft forum about that and there were different tought. I'm wondering how is it with yours.. is it REALLY this bad or it is something wrong with my phone/battery. I don't want to take it back if all are like this as it will be at least one week on service.
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mine is on par with any other smartphone ive owned. i can get 24 hours out of it comfortable. thats with about 30 mins calls, 15-20 sms, 30-40 mins gaming, wifi, bluetooth, location & feedback all turned on, windows live & facebook hourly sync & 5 email accounts syncing between every hour & every 2 hours. i have noticed battery life seems to suffer when i use last.fm over HSDPA so maybe its something related to music playback. but even with 3-4 hours of last.fm im still getting 13-14 hours.
uristic said:
Hi guys, I have my omnia 7 for less then a week now and I found it's battery life terrible, the worst performance ever. It drys off in less then a half of day with general use. I fill the battery to 100% over the night and then I wake up in the morning at 5.30am and when I'm back from school sometimes it's allmost empty, sometimes is at about 20% with a usage of About 15 mins of gaming, some browsing/facebook.. few calls and sms and an hour or two of music playback.
I have wifi, bluetooh, push mail, feedback and locations off. Have also been reading on the social.answers microsoft forum about that and there were different tought. I'm wondering how is it with yours.. is it REALLY this bad or it is something wrong with my phone/battery. I don't want to take it back if all are like this as it will be at least one week on service.
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mine is running fine.
1. exchange mail
2. google mail
3. facebook sync
4. average 10 minutes surfing
5. 10 minutes game
6. less than 20 sms
7. average 10 minutes voice call
morning 9AM full charged and at least 60% by 8PM
ok thank you guys for reply.. I'm deffinetly taking it back for a replacement on monday.
It could be some app running under the lock screen draining your battery, like a game or Last.fm... other than that, yeah, sounds like a replacement is in order
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It could be some app running under the lock screen draining your battery, like a game or Last.fm... other than that, yeah, sounds like a replacement is in order
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Nothing running in background. anyway I'll take it back in monday and ask them for a replacement if not, I'll have to wait a week or two to get it back from repair service... trought I hope to get it back till new year.
Maybe consider just buying a new battery?
you should definitely ask for a new battery first, before sending it to service. In the end all is made in China... P.s. My bat. lasts the same as descibed by the others. 1-1,5 day...
Bya said:
Maybe consider just buying a new battery?
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giving 390€ with 24 months of contract, using the device for one week and you really think I'm as dumb to buy a new battery as I have 1 year warranty on battery and other accesories ? ... Really ?
mchabr said:
you should definitely ask for a new battery first, before sending it to service. In the end all is made in China... P.s. My bat. lasts the same as descibed by the others. 1-1,5 day...
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Thanks, I'll see what it can be done..
my omnia7 leasts longer than my galaxys with data and email sync .. so no problem
Ok I was at my carrier and they said that the phone needs to be send on service (no replacement options) so I'll probobly send it after new year.
But I notice that when I'm at home (I live about 7-8km out of the city) my battery last muuuuuch longer, actually enugh for what I expect - 2h of music, about 2h web and of market browsing (connected to home wifi + mobile data enabled connected on 3g+ full signal) and when I'm in school (city centre) it drys my batery much faster. Today after 3h with 20min of music and 5 min of web browsing it fell on less than 50% and few hours later on -20% and then it turned off. (same if connected to school wifi or just 3g+ also with full signal)... I really don't get it .
And many of my school mates have the same carrier but don't have any of this problem... might it be somekind of carrier transmitor selectnig bug with windows phone 7 or what ?
Things to note - browsing with WiFi requires less power than browsing over 3G - 3G browsing will suck out your battery a lot faster. (The phone will not use your mobile data connection if you're over WiFi) Also, depending on the lighting conditions, your screen auto brightness will probably also have your screen on a lower brightness setting in your house.
That, and I don't really recommened using your phone as your primary Music/Video palyer if you're serious about battery life - that does a good job of sucking your battery too, and you'll ntoice most of the people getting good battery life aren't really using it as their primary media player.
actually I tested it with using at home with same settings (brightnes to low, wifi/3g off/on) and I can see that when I'm in the city centre it sucks the battery in only few hours with data connection on and not connected to wifi so I assume that my operator wich recently updated it's network did something wrong as my school mates have noticed this too but none of them isn't using a smartphone on this network so it isn't so obvius. I temporary solved the problem with turning off data connection when I'm in the centre and turning it on only when I need it and when I'm out of the centre.
I also noticed my battery life sucked when I had the official twitter application installed on it.
Today I left it charging for 8 hours on my laptop and the battery meter barely moved, I removed Twitter and hey presto it started to charge properly.
Back to Beezz and now all is ok
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I also noticed my battery life sucked when I had the official twitter application installed on it.
Today I left it charging for 8 hours on my laptop and the battery meter barely moved, I removed Twitter and hey presto it started to charge properly.
Back to Beezz and now all is ok
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Apps don't run in the background so it is pretty much impossible for twitter to be draining your battery if it is not open.
Maybe it was just a coincidence but as soon as I removed this app my battery started to charge.
Unless it was a one off issue with charging over usb.
my batterylife is the best ive ever had in a smartphone ... i need a custom rom on my galaxy s with android to get close to the batterylife of my omnia 7 ... i am using hsdpa with the same provider on both phones permantly and im syncing emails with them ... even with gaming (sims 3 or nfs underground) the windows phone least longer.
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Apps don't run in the background so it is pretty much impossible for twitter to be draining your battery if it is not open.
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Not at all. There could me a memory leak in the .NET/silverlight runtime - even Microsoft developers make mistakes
Tbh, I have the Twitter app installed also and my battery life is as good as can be expected with a modern smartphone: 1.5 days heavy use (Music, Twitter, Facebook, web browsing & constant SMS/e-mail)
may I ask somebody for a favor ? Under the diagnosis (call ##634#) type *#2*# (battery diagnosis) and please check what does it say on the third screen at the last line "Result". For me it's "Pass/Fail". Might this "fail" mean it's something wrong with the battery ?
PS. after dialing ##634# a shortcut for diagnosis will show up in the apps menu... just delete it if you don't need it.
And to get to the third screen use the big arrow on the top =)
I'll try to keep this short and sweet. I'm coming from a phone that was married to its charger (an overclocked-to-all-hell Pre) and I constantly micromanaged its battery by turning on data, wifi, and gps only when needed. With the Atrix's huge battery and the upgrade in phones I decided, "What the hell. Crappy battery life with this phone is still better than the best battery life with my old one. Enjoy the features." So I left Wifi, GPS, and Sync on 100% of the time. (I did, however, set all my apps to manual sync.) I have 3 homescreens and very, very few widgets. With a normal day's use this usually netted me about 14-17~ hours with about 2~ hours of screentime. Not the greatest, but amazing comparatively to the Pre.
Today I finally took the time go around and start messing with Tasker and other battery optimizing techniques. Here are a few thigns I did that have already netted me large returns:
The first is the simplest: I changed my screen brightness from Automatically adjusting to a static 15%. Though not the best, this is is bright enough for me in close to all situations and the ones where it's not I just change it back to automatic (this is done via the excellent Widgetsoid).
I use Google Voice for texts and that means I always need a data connection--this throws out things like JuiceDefender because it prevents me from receiving instant notifications. Between home and school I'd say I have a WiFi connection about 85% of the time, so i went into the Wireless preferences and turned my WiFi Timeout to "Never." In case you didn't know, a wifi connection is much more battery friendly than a 3G/4G one. Remaining always connected keeps my phone from cutting the connection and then rescanning for a network to connect to several times a day.
I used a Tasker profile I found online (it was either Reddit or Lifehacker, you can probably find it on both) that turns my GPS on only when I load an app that I've specified I want GPS on. I've known about this for a while but I was hesitant about instituting it because a luxury I wanted was to be able to open up Navigation, Yelp, or Foursquare and have an instant lock-on with my location. After testing today, between being generally located by wifi or cell-tower triangulation, and then having an exact location a few moments later with GPS, I found almost zero difference between leaving GPS on and having it enabled right when the app was opened.
Lastly, I downloaded the newest SetCPU here from XDA (it's free for XDA members. Search for it.) and had it throttle back the processor all the way while the screen is off. In addition, it will have the processor scaled back some when the battery reaches 30% and 10% respectively, and a few other instances such as the phone temperature getting too hot.
I'm laying into bed right now and according to Circle Battery Widget I have 37% battery left after 11 hours of being unplugged. Now, while this doesn't sound very great at all I want to specify that this is with my display having been on for 4 hours and 15 minutes. This is by far the largest battery hog (45% in this case) and there is no way my battery would have lasted before I changed these few things. I don't know how applicable they are to anyone else but they sure did help me and I felt I should let people know.
The battery on this phone is freaking AMAZING!! I use my phone a lot! Prior to this I had the Captivate and I would have to charge it around 3 or 4pm cause it was already at less than 15% and dropping quickly.
On 4/26 this phone lasted me 11 hours with lots of usage around 3 hours of display time.
On 4/27 I unplugged it at 10 and it died today at 1am! That to me is sick!! I charge every night so lasting a whole day of use is fine for me!
Oh and I have my brightness at a bit more than half, which I could have never done on the Captivate lol
my experiences have been rather positive as well.
4/26 unplugged at 12am.
4/27 flashed ginger-blur, restored apps, ubuntu webtop mod, all of the other mods.
@6pm i had 7 hours and 16 minutes of screen time and 1 gb of data used. I was at 15%
my only issue is that i only get battery updates every 10%. any idea why?
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my experiences have been rather positive as well.
4/26 unplugged at 12am.
4/27 flashed ginger-blur, restored apps, ubuntu webtop mod, all of the other mods.
@6pm i had 7 hours and 16 minutes of screen time and 1 gb of data used. I was at 15%
my only issue is that i only get battery updates every 10%. any idea why?
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you need the circle battery widget to get 1% updates. There may be a couple other battery apps that do it as well, not sure.
Ive got a 120 apps installed and get close to 14hrs of battery life with screen on time of 4-5hrs
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Ive got a 120 apps installed and get close to 14hrs of battery life with screen on time of 4-5hrs
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I'm pretty sure the only way I could get 5 hours of screen time is in airplane mode.
Coming from the Pre ( I still love that phone OS) I can testify to glorious battery life on my Atrix. I don't even charge it at night, I run all day long and charge it usually at my home office desk before I go to bed.
I do miss my Pre. My wife has one and it gives me sad puppy eyes every time I look over at it.