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What's your battery life like?

And can anybody compare it to the Galaxy Nexus, or an iPhone 4/4S (a 4S WITHOUT the battery issue that was going around)?
I'm really interested in switching from 4 to either a 4S or the a Note or Nexus... Battery life is an important thing to me though.
Also, just how much does having blacks on the screen help? How much does that help? If you just wanna answer my first question "How's your battery?" then that's fine. That's what's more important here.

Compared to the iPhone 4, I am getting almost twice the battery run time. I have not changed my habits during my normal day, and use the same apps that are available for both platforms by the same authors. The black home screen does help if you are starring at it all the time, but how often are we doing that?
I am also rooted and using FM kernel. Love the Open Source community.

Yumunum said:
And can anybody compare it to the Galaxy Nexus, or an iPhone 4/4S (a 4S WITHOUT the battery issue that was going around)?
I'm really interested in switching from 4 to either a 4S or the a Note or Nexus... Battery life is an important thing to me though.
Also, just how much does having blacks on the screen help? How much does that help? If you just wanna answer my first question "How's your battery?" then that's fine. That's what's more important here.
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Some site did a comparison of 3g talk time with a Note and an I****.
The Note got a whopping 14 HOURS of 3g talktime.
The i**** 4s got 8 hours.
So phone vs phone, thr Note wins.
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cadavar said:
Compared to the iPhone 4, I am getting almost twice the battery run time. I have not changed my habits during my normal day, and use the same apps that are available for both platforms by the same authors. The black home screen does help if you are starring at it all the time, but how often are we doing that?
I am also rooted and using FM kernel. Love the Open Source community.
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Holy cow! What's your screen-on time? Are you underclocking or anything? I'm guessing your good battery life was because of the kernel?

even @ stock ROM and Kernel, the NOTE is impressive in terms of batt life except if you're browsing a lot (since we all know that AMOLED consumes more juice in showing white shades compared to other display technology) ... Some ROMs and Kernels have battery saving scripts embedded and you can also find a lot of tips on how to improve batt life on our Note...
In my case, my Note can last 22hours+ of moderate to heavy usage; im using Rocket v6 ROM and FM Kernel (undervolted and underclock to 1200mhz)... I set my Wallpapers to the darker ones, customize goSMS with pure black background and themes, disable fast dormancy, turn off GPS and wifi when not in use, use minimal widget as possible, set the brightness to lower level that suit you, set to GSM mode mostly, disable background data when not needed, delete some unimportant processes in the system, manage startup application, disable task manager, and etc...

Yumunum said:
Holy cow! What's your screen-on time? Are you underclocking or anything? I'm guessing your good battery life was because of the kernel?
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Yes, the FM kernel did help significantly. The reasoning being that the author disabled the heavy logging Android does for debugging purposes. Other than that, everything in the kernel is stock. No undervolting or underclocking. I also keep away from any app that overclocks the CPU, they usually mess with the phones ability to go into deep sleep.
Screen on time: 4:29m

regarding deepsleep and unwanted processes in background; you can install CpuSpy, Watchdog or Wakeclock monitor app if you're having an abnormal battery drain...

jaytana said:
regarding deepsleep and unwanted processes in background; you can install CpuSpy, Watchdog or Wakeclock monitor app if you're having an abnormal battery drain...
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CPUSpy is a wonderful lil app. That is how I determined that SetCPU broke the phones ability to go into deep sleep, even after uninstalling it. I had to flash the ROM all over again.

Compared to iphone 4 gnote battery is less... the reason is bigger battery.
However even with heavy usage my battery last till night every day.
battery life has got better with time.

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CPUSpy is a wonderful lil app. That is how I determined that SetCPU broke the phones ability to go into deep sleep, even after uninstalling it. I had to flash the ROM all over again.
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true... the apps i posted are all essential IMO... wakeclock monitoring is also very helpful in finding faulty apps running...

I'm getting glorious battery compared to my GSII.
Granted it's relatively light usage for now because of work and such, but I'm impressed. Almost always have the brightness at 25%, never need any more.
The sudden drop was from a restart.

My battery life was fine until Google started selling apps for 10p, I downloaded Jelly Defence and I became addicted to playing it...

Did anyone manage to have 40hrs++ battery lifetime?

Dear People,
I am posting this out of big ENVY from my friend's story of his iPh*** 4 battery life with 40hrs ++ of usage (social network on, moderate usage, data always on, bla bla bla) and he still got 20% left of his battery!!!
I was just wondering did anyone managed to experience 40hrs ++ of battery lifetime? My best achievement with my nexus s battery life is
1 day 3 hrs with
MIUI Rom JB 2.8.17
Marmite Kernel 4.3
SmartassV2/deadline
100/1000
Automatic brightness on
Could we EVER achieved 40hrs ++ battery lifetime??? Since Iph*** 4 has practically same specs with Nexus S
It has 1Ghz procs, 512mb ram, 1500mah battery, bla bla bla
Any comments?

A very big advantage of the iphone is the very dim (to my opinion) screen backlight. If you change that to default 1 min instead of 20 on a custom rom, and then change your auto brightness values as well to lower ones your lifetime should increase alot. At least mine does. Also I use Llama to close mobile data after 5 minutes of sleep and then instantly turn it on on unlock. Anyway..we will never be able to win versus apple at some things. They have one operating system made for one device. We got one operating system for like..1 milion devices? That's the same story of console vs pc games.

andrei.voinea93 said:
A very big advantage of the iphone is the very dim (to my opinion) screen backlight. If you change that to default 1 min instead of 20 on a custom rom, and then change your auto brightness values as well to lower ones your lifetime should increase alot. At least mine does. Also I use Llama to close mobile data after 5 minutes of sleep and then instantly turn it on on unlock. Anyway..we will never be able to win versus apple at some things. They have one operating system made for one device. We got one operating system for like..1 milion devices? That's the same story of console vs pc games.
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Never used iOS devices before...So they have those kind of things hey..
I agree with you with the point that their OS was made for one device, while us is for millions
Thanks for the comment

I've been getting pretty excellent battery life lately, will put up a screen shot but got almost 52hrs battery life with wifi and 3g on until it got to about 15% with about 2h 24m screen on time, although this was pretty light usage to be fair.
Using codename 3.3.2 with standard kernal, I turned NFC off and this seemed to help massively although I've also heard the new Maps app has solved some battery drain so not sure which has contributed the most.

cptblubear said:
I've been getting pretty excellent battery life lately, will put up a screen shot but got almost 52hrs battery life with wifi and 3g on until it got to about 15% with about 2h 24m screen on time, although this was pretty light usage to be fair.
Using codename 3.3.2 with standard kernal, I turned NFC off and this seemed to help massively although I've also heard the new Maps app has solved some battery drain so not sure which has contributed the most.
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52hrs?????? Cant wait for your screenshots man!

You may think the specs are the same, but the hw in the iPhone and power management is still superior. They get a push notification, even while the 3g radio is in idle and almost off (in which it saves more power). It's hard for Android to optimize the power management specially because of that many hardware variations, it's not only the CPU that counts.

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You may think the specs are the same, but the hw in the iPhone and power management is still superior. They get a push notification, even while the 3g radio is in idle and almost off (in which it saves more power). It's hard for Android to optimize the power management specially because of that many hardware variations, it's not only the CPU that counts.
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Well, thats good to know, but since its the software differences (meaning coding and stuff), surely (i assume and hope) that we could also applied it (somehow) in our devices through tweaks, can we?

IMHO not much is possible since this is older hardware already and a question for how long will Google bother with it. It might be alot of work needed and you gain some insignificant amount of savings.
Would be nice to see some kind of power management tweaks in coming version of Android though.

well its halfly because android works differently and half way because of the hardware.
yes, the hardware is similar, but the nexus screen takes up more power, the processor is not very efficient, and nfc takes up power... also, the 3g radios are honestly HORRIBLE on the nexus s and that might have something to do with it.
but, the software side does make a major impact. iPhones do not multitask like android, which saves power on slower devices like the iphone 4. thats only half of it though, for instance, the iphone 4S has much worse battery life than the nexus s (by far). ROMs make a big difference also, I am very picky when choosing a ROM- if it doesnt have great battery life then I immediately replace it by another ROM that does.
I get on average about 16-20hours pretty consistantly if you are wondering, and I am OK with that as long as it makes it to the end of the day... I wake at 3:30 and normally it does. My advice is to experiment with different ROMs, I would suggest some, but I use an S 4G...

I don't really believe it. My friend has an iPhone and he uses it quit a bit and seems to have to keep it plugged in as much as I keep my phone. I think he said he usually gets about 8 hrs out of it. And the screen is pretty dull compared to mine so that might make a difference to
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The iPhone screen is a lot smaller too and that's a big tradeoff.
I always get a chuckle at the iHerd people I see on the bus holding their tiny screen 6 inches in front of their face so they can read it.
If battery life is really a concern get a couple of spare batteries and a charger.
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heccubusxda said:
The iPhone screen is a lot smaller too and that's a big tradeoff.
I always get a chuckle at the iHerd people I see on the bus holding their tiny screen 6 inches in front of their face so they can read it.
If battery life is really a concern get a couple of spare batteries and a charger.
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Or an extended battery...
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heccubusxda said:
The iPhone screen is a lot smaller too and that's a big tradeoff.
I always get a chuckle at the iHerd people I see on the bus holding their tiny screen 6 inches in front of their face so they can read it.
If battery life is really a concern get a couple of spare batteries and a charger.
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Thats a good point too, smaller screen

Use this as yours to shut him up apples wack i got this oc to 1400 on stock with air kernel 186
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nucleor1989 said:
Use this as yours to shut him up apples wack i got this oc to 1400 on stock with air kernel 186
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Whoaaaah! What rom and settings? Awesome!
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Data was on all the time ? Ive got 33 hrs once but this is insane

I have achieved 50 hours on cna ... yes codename android but dang I forgot to take a screenshot of it I didn't have data on that time though
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Lasting 40+ hours is easy if you don't use the phone much...
The screenshot was taken on a long weekend a while ago. I was busy during the weekend and didn't use my phone much apart from listening to music for no more than 2 hours.

Si_NZ said:
Lasting 40+ hours is easy if you don't use the phone much...
The screenshot was taken on a long weekend a while ago. I was busy during the weekend and didn't use my phone much apart from listening to music for no more than 2 hours.
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Thats true, but from the iphone their data was on all the time, mid moderate usage.
But, just like some people said, power managwment chip, the os, makes big differences
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Post your battery life here!

I've been noticing and reading many many posts regarding how bad or optimized our battery life is.
I had this phone little more than 24 hours now. And I feel like it hasn't fully when through the battery cycle. Thus killing my phone in less than 10 hours. This is with very light usage as well!
I've also turned off gps and wifi.
I have turned on stamina, along with various other battery saving features.
Now I am coming from galaxy s3, note 2, and iPhone 5. (my iPhone has this same issue and cleared when I've started using the phone and going through few charging cycles)
I just wanna make sure that our phone isn't plagued by the software, hence this phone is only available via t-mobile or Sony (unlocked as well).
Please post your battery life photos.
Including rooted or not.
Also post which rom / kernel you are using.
Mine: stock from t-mobile. And not rooted.
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We already had/have a similar topic in the Q&A section, no need to open a new one.

I see a lot of wake events. Check what's keeping your phone from deepsleeping with wakelock detector.

Yup you have a lot of wake events, I had this problem too. I reseted, reflashed firmware multiple times and still experienced problems until I sent it to Sony and somehow now there is barely any awake entries at all. Only screen entries appear (blue line on screen) and no lines on awake.. I do still get *backup* wakelocks and some qcom_RX_wake lock though
Xperia Z Vanilla

Dsteppa said:
We already had/have a similar topic in the Q&A section, no need to open a new one.
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Just report this unnecessary thread. Thanks!

Just use the tips in my thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2382712

i get about 20+ hours of stand by and around 3-4 hours of screen using it normaly not playing games

The phone was horrible initially and on 4.1.2 then after the 4.2.2 update it has been brilliant. It lasts me just over 24hrs on normal us with screen time between 5-6hrs. I'm very pleased as by 17h00 it is normally at around 55%. So it lasts me a full active day.
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After 4 months my Xperia Z barely lasts a day with just 1,5h of screen on time. Sony said the battery is good. Restored different firmware, tried 4.1, 4.2, CM - nothing helps. I'm very unhappy...

The media server keep draining my battery...
But when I switch my sd card to a empty one or just remove it the media server nolonger drain my battery.
So I only keep a small amont of pic and musics in my sdcard and that makes the battery can last more the one day

the battery life was improved from 4.1 to 4.2 . That being said, the battery life is still much to be desired.

yamadamaha said:
the battery life was improved from 4.1 to 4.2 . That being said, the battery life is still much to be desired.
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Tbh I was really worried about the battery life on the Z, I have had my phone nearly 24hours and I am not concerned by bad battery life so far. The battery seems very good actually, its no S4 but the S4 does have a bigger battery and uses a AMOLED screen. Iirc LCD/TFT use more battery or maybe I have got that wrong.

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Tbh I was really worried about the battery life on the Z, I have had my phone nearly 24hours and I am not concerned by bad battery life so far. The battery seems very good actually, its no S4 but the S4 does have a bigger battery and uses a AMOLED screen. Iirc LCD/TFT use more battery or maybe I have got that wrong.
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I'll assume you are not a heavy user of some sorts? The frequency of usage i mean.
I'm not sure about the screen part though but it does make sense if AMOLEDs screen uses less battery than LCD/TFT screens since they actually off the black pixels.

yamadamaha said:
I'll assume you are not a heavy user of some sorts? The frequency of usage i mean.
I'm not sure about the screen part though but it does make sense if AMOLEDs screen uses less battery than LCD/TFT screens since they actually off the black pixels.
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Well since I have charged the phone I haven't played any games on it
16hour 1 min 22secs since off charge and 58% remaining
1hr 44mins 29secs phone calls
1hr 50mins 18secs screen on
16h 1 mins 17secs cell standby
13mins 40 secs android system
7 mins 31secs media server
14hr 11mins 4 secs phone idle
1min 36secs phone
1min 42 secs walkman
7mins 7 secs android os
4 min 15secs dolphin browser

JB 4.3 Sony stock

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JB 4.3 Sony stock
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No wifi /3g?
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No wifi /3g?
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Wifi was on 70% of that time.

Don't we already have a Thread and lots of results for Battery life here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2185362

Stock rooted 4.3. No undervolt, no nothing, just stamina mode on. This is the best update I ever had on a phone in terms of battery life.
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Terrible battery life.

Hey everyone. Without further a do, I am saying that my N4 battery suuuuucks really bad. Started on stock rom, flashed Chroma w/ latest franco kernel. Nope. Still lots of drain (slightly better overall, but nothibg major). Then flashed hells doctor kernel. Nope. Lots of drain when screen is on, but stable with screen off.
Honestly, I've seen people getting 6h on screen time. And everyone says that these kernels and rom can increase battery life by a margin, while mine stays the same.
Oh and there is a thing. Ive recently broke my stock charger and now using apple's ipad charger. Mine was 1.2 A and the one from apple is 1 A. Is this is an issue we are looking for?
Or its just a 2years old battery running out of its life cycles...?
Thank you!

Seall said:
Hey everyone. Without further a do, I am saying that my N4 battery suuuuucks really bad. Started on stock rom, flashed Chroma w/ latest franco kernel. Nope. Still lots of drain (slightly better overall, but nothibg major). Then flashed hells doctor kernel. Nope. Lots of drain when screen is on, but stable with screen off.
Honestly, I've seen people getting 6h on screen time. And everyone says that these kernels and rom can increase battery life by a margin, while mine stays the same.
Oh and there is a thing. Ive recently broke my stock charger and now using apple's ipad charger. Mine was 1.2 A and the one from apple is 1 A. Is this is an issue we are looking for?
Or its just a 2years old battery running out of its life cycles...?
Thank you!
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Nexus 4 battere sucks really no matter what you plus your network coverage may impact vastly on performance. Anyway given the battery is 2 years old, I would say it's gone even if it says it's good but again it depends on your usage like continuous tethering or other heavy activity that makes the phone run hot

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Nexus 4 battere sucks really no matter what you plus your network coverage may impact vastly on performance. Anyway given the battery is 2 years old, I would say it's gone even if it says it's good but again it depends on your usage like continuous tethering or other heavy activity that makes the phone run hot
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Well my usage can be heavy surfing on FB, Instagram and definetely FB messenger. I often use chrome and mainly everything is done under Wifi.
According to my screenshots, you cannclearly see that shes (battery) is ok when screen is off, no drain and etc. As soon I start using it it drains A LOT. Almost 90° angle on diagram It's crazy.
Plot twist: To prevent spam on the XDA forums, ALL new users prevented from posting outside links in their messages.

Yes, i have a new battery which was working well, but I flashed factory image 5.1.1 xxx47v and the batt life is really horrible now.
It's easy to replace the battery, I recommend taking out the sim card tray before taking the back off though.
I haven't been on here for a long time, whats the best rom, for batt life. I'm willing to go back to kit kat if I have to .

Also note that some of the screenshots with 6+ hours of SOT the user has handicapped their devices (disable 2 cores, lower max cpu/gpu frequency, etc).

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Also note that some of the screenshots with 6+ hours of SOT the user has handicapped their devices (disable 2 cores, lower max cpu/gpu frequency, etc).
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Yes, I've seen people underlocking, undervolting etc. But that's not what I am planning to do with mine N4. Neither I'm hoping to have 6 hours SOT. 4 would be SUPER COOL. And that seems impossible for my device

PSA for T-Mobile Priv users

Hey guys! I hope you're all enjoying your new Priv! I got mine on release day, so I've been tinkering with it since I got it. A few things bothered me about the device: the battery would take forever to charge, even using a Qualcomm certified quick charger, and the battery would drain abnormally fast. Even with no apps running, Antutu would only score 40,000 to 50,000 and 800/2500 in Geekbench.
I found out that the T-Mobile MyAccount app was always running in the background and took up 6% of my phone's battery, just above android OS. After I disabled that app, I found that a full charge would only take about an hour, versus the 2 hours it took before. Battery life also skyrocketed from about 8 hours to 14+. Antutu scores went up to 60,000 to 67,000 (I tested several times) and Geekbench now consistently scores 1200/3500 for me. The phone also doesn't get NEARLY as hot as it used to.
One other thing I did was to change all my accounts in the hub to sync every 15 minutes instead of push, which also seemed to help with the battery life. Hope this info helps you turn your Priv into the best phone it can be!

Zer0.exe said:
Hey guys! I hope you're all enjoying your new Priv! I got mine on release day, so I've been tinkering with it since I got it. A few things bothered me about the device: the battery would take forever to charge, even using a Qualcomm certified quick charger, and the battery would drain abnormally fast. Even with no apps running, Antutu would only score 40,000 to 50,000 and 800/2500 in Geekbench.
I found out that the T-Mobile MyAccount app was always running in the background and took up 6% of my phone's battery, just above android OS. After I disabled that app, I found that a full charge would only take about an hour, versus the 2 hours it took before. Battery life also skyrocketed from about 8 hours to 14+. Antutu scores went up to 60,000 to 67,000 (I tested several times) and Geekbench now consistently scores 1200/3500 for me. The phone also doesn't get NEARLY as hot as it used to.
One other thing I did was to change all my accounts in the hub to sync every 15 minutes instead of push, which also seemed to help with the battery life. Hope this info helps you turn your Priv into the best phone it can be!
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I heard that some people on Blackberry forums were reporting that T-Mobile My Account app could/is causing battery drainage. I didn't like my account app showing me notifications and went to options in that app and remove all the check marks from the there. I had no issues with battery, but as a precaution I always disable apps that I never use.

Thanks for the heads-up. Finally picked one up today and felt that it did indeed heat up quicker than it should and definitely wasn't charging as fast as I thought it should be. Hopefully this helps!

My Priv's battery has been an utter nightmare - gonna give this a shot. Have you noticed any adverse effects from disabling the app? My main concern is if BingeOn will still work. I'm okay with not being able to disable it (not a big video guy) but free music streaming is super important to me - streaming music at work constantly during an 8hr shift, in the car during my commute... yeah, I need that.
And, before anyone says anything, it's not the music streaming doing it. In fact, the battery seems almost better when I'm doing that since I've just got the phone sitting in my pocket. Wakelocks are an absolute nuisance though - "awake" time is well over 10x SoT.

Trevorq243 said:
My Priv's battery has been an utter nightmare - gonna give this a shot. Have you noticed any adverse effects from disabling the app? My main concern is if BingeOn will still work. I'm okay with not being able to disable it (not a big video guy) but free music streaming is super important to me - streaming music at work constantly during an 8hr shift, in the car during my commute... yeah, I need that.
And, before anyone says anything, it's not the music streaming doing it. In fact, the battery seems almost better when I'm doing that since I've just got the phone sitting in my pocket. Wakelocks are an absolute nuisance though - "awake" time is well over 10x SoT.
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BingeOn doesn't require any T-Mobile bloat to run. It's handled on the network side, not on the device itself. Also, unless they recently changed something, you don't need BingeOn enabled to get free music streaming. Music streaming is free regardless.

Thanks for that. So far the Priv is doing a fine job keeping itself alive now that app is gone. Nice to know I won't be blowing past my data allowance. I'm new to T-Mobile and so far, so good. Well, other than their app destroying my phone of course.

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Thanks for that. So far the Priv is doing a fine job keeping itself alive now that app is gone. Nice to know I won't be blowing past my data allowance. I'm new to T-Mobile and so far, so good. Well, other than their app destroying my phone of course.
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You'll get all that bloat with any carrier
I do want to point out that the Priv does an awesome job of standby. It makes sense that a 2K screen could drain the battery quickly, but I've gone 9 hours with only 40% drain when I barely use it, so it stays alive well when you aren't actively using it. I was also streaming music the whole time, but since the screen itself was off it saved my battery.

Zer0.exe said:
You'll get all that bloat with any carrier
I do want to point out that the Priv does an awesome job of standby. It makes sense that a 2K screen could drain the battery quickly, but I've gone 9 hours with only 40% drain when I barely use it, so it stays alive well when you aren't actively using it. I was also streaming music the whole time, but since the screen itself was off it saved my battery.
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Yep, that's been my experience. On for ~16 hours with 3hrs SoT. Not bad, really. I wouldn't mind a little more longevity but hey, that's what power banks are for.

Here's my own battery experience. I only removed the t-mobile apps and using Facebook on chrome and not the app. I'm a moderate user 2.5 hrs of on screen time!

cronojay said:
Here's my own battery experience. I only removed the t-mobile apps and using Facebook on chrome and not the app. I'm a moderate user 2.5 hrs of on screen time!
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The screen is a killer on this device, but it shouldn't be quite that bad. Are all your BlackBerry apps up to date? Some people have to manually check for updates for some reason.
Also, I disabled every T-Mobile app except visual voicemail. No idea if that'll help or not but it's worth a shot.
Finally, how long have you had the device? Phones always seem screwy battery-life wise during the first few days, regardless of system health.

I disabled all bloatware, this phone dies WAYYYYY to fast compare to my prior note 5.
I really dont, but i'll need to trade back in this phone if I don't get this solved. A man needs a phone with a battery!

Trevorq243 said:
The screen is a killer on this device, but it shouldn't be quite that bad. Are all your BlackBerry apps up to date? Some people have to manually check for updates for some reason.
Also, I disabled every T-Mobile app except visual voicemail. No idea if that'll help or not but it's worth a shot.
Finally, how long have you had the device? Phones always seem screwy battery-life wise during the first few days, regardless of system health.
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How about this one for a little bit over 2 weeks and so far it's been phenomenal for me 1 degrees in love with a good battery life is I disabled Facebook and I just use the web to look at Facebook so that save my battery by at least 20%.

techprint said:
I disabled all bloatware, this phone dies WAYYYYY to fast compare to my prior note 5.
I really dont, but i'll need to trade back in this phone if I don't get this solved. A man needs a phone with a battery!
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Other than battery life, how are you liking the switch? I like but don't love my note 5. I hadn't had a note since the original version, but I'm finding again that I just don't use the spen. I'm thinking about jumping back into a blackberry with keyboard.
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Other than battery life, how are you liking the switch? I like but don't love my note 5. I hadn't had a note since the original version, but I'm finding again that I just don't use the spen. I'm thinking about jumping back into a blackberry with keyboard.
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I'll take back what I previously wrote, as of yesterday I managed to get 24 hours on phone battery. at standby this phone doesn't use any sort of battery, I killed 20 percent in 40 mins on youtube though..
Going to give it a solid week, if not i'll return it and hopefully pick up the new s7 if release by then. I was on the same boat as you, got tired of the note and just wanted a switch. I'll keep checking back leaving my reviews here

techprint said:
I'll take back what I previously wrote, as of yesterday I managed to get 24 hours on phone battery. at standby this phone doesn't use any sort of battery, I killed 20 percent in 40 mins on youtube though..
Going to give it a solid week, if not i'll return it and hopefully pick up the new s7 if release by then. I was on the same boat as you, got tired of the note and just wanted a switch. I'll keep checking back leaving my reviews here
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I'll second this - screen off, next to zero battery used. Screen on, battery tanks like crazy. I think I'm gonna stick with it though I'm tempted to give the V10 a shot - I need a tough phone and this most certainly is not.