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I'm having great battery life

Hey guys I got my EVO in the mail on Thursday, and do I love the thing! I have been reading about battery life and was a little concerned at first, but that was then. Last night I unplugged my phone at 7pm and it had a 95% charge. I played with it a bit and texted until around 12am. I did not charge it and started texting and using it for a while this morning around 10am. It is now 4pm and I have 49% battery. If this is what everyone is complaining about, im happy with it haha.

Basically, it's people leaving 4G / Wifi / Bluetooth / GPS all on at the same time that kills the battery life of the Evo. My launch-day Evo has routinely done 20+ hours of usage with no problems.
The only times I've ever seen a marked decrease in battery performance, I could find that some app was hung up in the background draining the juice.

Rooted or just stock non root?
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Jackk819 said:
Hey guys I got my EVO in the mail on Thursday, and do I love the thing! I have been reading about battery life and was a little concerned at first, but that was then. Last night I unplugged my phone at 7pm and it had a 95% charge. I played with it a bit and texted until around 12am. I did not charge it and started texting and using it for a while this morning around 10am. It is now 4pm and I have 49% battery. If this is what everyone is complaining about, im happy with it haha.
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Come back after you try using data for an extended time (texts don't need data connections most of the time), having your mail sync for even every 3 hours or so and facebook, news, weather or any other auto sync feature enabled. Watch your battery die as quick as a witch under water.

My email syncs every 10 minutes, and my weather syncs as soon as it can. (not sure how many minutes). My facebook updates pretty often. And I have news updating as well.
My phone is also NOT rooted.

I get fine battery life, with WiFi connected I get much better standby than when using mobile data. Turn mobile data off when I'm out and about and the battery basically doesn't move. But I still can get 20 hours of use if I'm not on my phone constantly. I only turn off mobile data if I think I need my phone to last more than a day. Like camping or something. I have gmail pushed and weather and all that good stuff synced every hour. Been playing with juice defender which does increase battery life pretty good but you can get the same effect by toggling your mobile data with the widget. Juice defender does turn on data every 15 mins for a minute to sync which is nice but it causes a little lag when you unlock your screen because it turns on data as soon as you unlock, a little annoying.
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Jackk819 said:
My email syncs every 10 minutes, and my weather syncs as soon as it can. (not sure how many minutes). My facebook updates pretty often. And I have news updating as well.
My phone is also NOT rooted.
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I highly doubt this is possible especially on the stock battey. I personally know there is no way to have all those apps syncing at those frequencies on the stock battery and still get MORE than 9 hours of use. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783364
Unless you turned off your phone somewhere in that timeline and are not telling that bit of info. With the sync frequency you just gave, I seriously doubt your battery numbers are even the correct ones you're giving.

lovethyEVO said:
I highly doubt this is possible especially on the stock battey. I personally know there is no way to have all those apps syncing at those frequencies on the stock battery and still get MORE than 9 hours of use. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783364
Unless you turned off your phone somewhere in that timeline and are not telling that bit of info. With the sync frequency you just gave, I seriously doubt your battery numbers are even the correct ones you're giving.
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Well I am not goanna argue about it. It is what it is.

I'd like to see a screen shot of these 20 hours myself
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Quadrant: 1500+
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ROM: Fresh 3.3
PRI: 1.77

Still goin, im at 31%

Jackk819 said:
Still goin, im at 31%
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Still doubt especially with no screenshoots of awake/uptime and system load.

lovethyEVO said:
Still doubt especially with no screenshoots of awake/uptime and system load.
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It says up time
48:28
Awake time
15:54
Just found this!
23h 15m since unplug
standby 39%
idle 35%
Android system 11%
Display 7%
SMS 4%

Jackk819 said:
It says up time
48:28
Awake time
15:54
Not sure what they mean.
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According to that, it says your phone has been powered on for 48 minutes and used for 15 minutes. Go back and check the link I gave in my first response and look at the screenshot most people would want to see.
EDIT: Saw your edit and your phone has been in standby most of the time. I personally am not impressed by standby times. But if that's what floats your boat then so be it. I personally have gotten 10 hours of CONSTANT use on the stock battery with apps syncing every hour and get 1.5 days normal use on my extended batteries.

i was able to get 7 days battery life with minimal usage as a simple phone:
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html

I got 9 hours out of myn and for 7 I played music, i 5 of the 7 was listening to music on my sd card. The other 2 was streaming pandora, I was proud of the evo. Lol
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proloss said:
i was able to get 7 days battery life with minimal usage as a simple phone:
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
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Where's the fun in that? Standby most of the time except for phone calls! You overpayed if all you wanted was a simple phone.

evohack99 said:
I got 9 hours out of myn and for 7 I played music, i 5 of the 7 was listening to music on my sd card. The other 2 was streaming pandora, I was proud of the evo. Lol
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Those are reasonable numbers and I have gotten that same use out of the stock battery. This phone is a joy to play with rather than letting it sleep all the time.

my lastest its not stock but ill take it before i recharged i was 10 mins short of 20 hours
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8708182&postcount=48

Yeah, I have gotten a whole 24 hours out of myn, but that was when it was new with little on it , and its first root and rom.
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I know that people talk about losing the first 10% in like 10 minutes, but has anyone ever noticed how long it takes to lose the last 10% of the battery? That sht is frustrating, going from 90 to 70 for me takes only about an hour, but the last 10% for me can carry me another 3 hours or so. My battery is teasing me.

Ota froyo battery life

How is it?
sent from my epic 4g with no 4g

Crap
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churro7 said:
How is it?
sent from my epic 4g with no 4g
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The longest anyone has had it on their phones is like 15 hours. Give it a few days.

You won't be able to really tell for a few days when people stop picking up their phones every 10 seconds to play with it.
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styckx said:
You won't be able to really tell for a few days when people stop picking up their phones every 10 seconds to play with it.
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LOL makes perfect sense getting froyo is like getting a new phone

churro7 said:
How is it?
sent from my epic 4g with no 4g
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I fixed my gps early this morning and then set it up with a full charge to do a battery calibration. I turned 4G on to help it drain. I also used it to read xda for about 30 minutes earlier this morning (not sure why the battery stats don't seem to show everything that has been running). Here's where I'm at 8 hours later. I would say the battery life is pretty freaking great! Can't wait for some UV'ing once we get source.
Note: I have Overclock widget set to 1000/200 screen on and 400/200 screen off.

richse said:
I fixed my gps early this morning and then set it up with a full charge to do a battery calibration. I turned 4G on to help it drain. I also used it to read xda for about 30 minutes earlier this morning (not sure why the battery stats don't seem to show everything that has been running). Here's where I'm at 8 hours later. I would say the battery life is pretty freaking great! Can't wait for some UV'ing once we get source.
Note: I have Overclock widget set to 1000/200 screen on and 400/200 screen off.
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i somewhat second this i have left it unplugged all last night and i am at like 80-90 percent full with some what use..

I am still using juice defender, but my phone as been off the charger for almost 12 hours and I am probably around 75% battery left. I will be testing out turning off JuiceDefender tomorrow, but for now it looks amazing.

CRAPPPP
it some actually deads faster than 2.1

I've been having pretty fantastic battery life. So far the phone has been unplugged for 6 hours, I've been texting on and off all day, and played angry birds for about an hour. I'm sitting at 75%. Probably not fantastic but not bad.

I've noticed an improvement, but as to how much, I'm not sure. Maybe 20 to 40 percent better.
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Aterveus said:
it some actually deads faster than 2.1
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Quote of the day!
from a epic Galaxy far, far away.

excellent battery life
61 percent with some youtube , texting surfing the web angry birds and 4g on(sleep mode for 4g works really well) and apperently my gps was on all day. Its been 7 hours and 32 minutes ..I would normally be at like 35 percent

I have definitely noticed an improvement. It seems as good as baked ultimate and that says a lot.
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I am getting battery life like it's a completely different phone.
I was always rooted but with stock roms and kernels and on 2.1 my battery life was frighteningly bad. I have been on for well over 8 hours and using my phone off and on all day checking out froyo features and the battery indicator is showing still nearly full battery life. On 2.1 I would have had to pop it on the charger at around 2 pm today or earlier.
* I am going to be making a thread about LEGIT improvements that froyo gives us with this phone. There are a ton of piss and moan threads, but froyo adds a ton of features (several i'm sure I don't know about) and MUCH BETTER battery life. *

is 10% drain every 2 hours at idle normal?

I've used the phone for maybe 5 min of app surfing on engadget, sent 10 texts, no calls. no widgets other than beautiful live home. Phone has had the screen off and I'm seeing about a 10% drain every two hours...seems rather fast...

that sound better than what i am getting.
There is another threading running already on battery life
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038363

Check your battery saving mode. That sounds like you guys have some apps keep syncing continuously even in standby.

IMO seems pretty normal to me. more if you have data in background

I've noticed that your signal strength really determines how long your battery lasts. During the day when I'm getting 1-2 bars, I drain about 10%/2 hours. If I'm in an area with great service, then I'll get 3, rarely 4 hours per 10%

The battery life on grey blur sucks
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I get about 4% per hour doing just about nothing except for syncing my Corporate Sync and Gmail accounts.
Try turning off sync and see what happens.
Try turning on airplane mode and see what happens.
I'm miffed that the display uses so much battery life. Even at its darkest it seriously chews up the battery.

stewartsoda said:
I get about 4% per hour doing just about nothing except for syncing my Corporate Sync and Gmail accounts.
Try turning off sync and see what happens.
Try turning on airplane mode and see what happens.
I'm miffed that the display uses so much battery life. Even at its darkest it seriously chews up the battery.
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That battery just blows on the phone. If you are coming from an iPhone you will be disappointed. Not sure how it stacks up against other android phones, people are claiming the battery is amazing and are getting 20+ hours out of it. I bet they probably have their phones rooted and don't have motoblur on. Well I am not rooting my phone just yet.

lesonal said:
The battery life on grey blur sucks
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8 hours ... and im at 65 with grayblur

firefox3 said:
8 hours ... and im at 65 with grayblur
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I just live chatted with Motorola. They are sending a replacement battery and I've told them everything I've done. I asked them where do I send the old one back to? they told me to keep it So I now have two batteries!

tripleh3lix said:
I just live chatted with Motorola. They are sending a replacement battery and I've told them everything I've done. I asked them where do I send the old one back to? they told me to keep it So I now have two batteries!
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oh? what number did you call at Motorola? I might want to exploit this in the future near the end of the 1 year warranty

firefox3 said:
8 hours ... and im at 65 with grayblur
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What have you been doing for the part eight hours? I'm three hours in with 65 left
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If your phone isn't making 20 hours then you have a defective battery. If I don't touch my phone, running a calendar app, rss feed, weather, music widgets, pandora widget, simi clock, circle battery, and with grey blur, I'm losing 3% an hour with good signal. I can squeeze out 5 hours of display if I run it to death.

tripleh3lix said:
I just live chatted with Motorola. They are sending a replacement battery and I've told them everything I've done. I asked them where do I send the old one back to? they told me to keep it So I now have two batteries!
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I have my phone rooted but still it drains like crazy for 10% an hour even at sleep with Nightime saver ON. I've uninstall a lot of the data consuming apps such as weather widget and news feeds. It wasn't like that before.
I then called Motorola and they are sending me a replacement battery. Hopefully it solves my battery issue.

firefox3 said:
8 hours ... and im at 65 with grayblur
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13 hours still showing 60%. Just hard cycled the battery and reset the stats this morning.

12 hours and im at 76 right now.. I rarely get below 50 for the day

battery drain
xnastyx said:
12 hours and im at 76 right now.. I rarely get below 50 for the day
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10% every couple of hours sounds right and I have a ton of things and widgets running in the background. I bought THREE (3) 1930 mha batteries and a wall charger off ebay for $15 so I have plenty of power to spare no matter what.

xnastyx said:
12 hours and im at 76 right now.. I rarely get below 50 for the day
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Can you tell me your settings? I was like that before but now it's 10% an hour even sleeping! Help!

My battery drains about the same as the OP. I take my phone off the charger at 8am. By noon I'm at 80% and at 50% by 5pm. Its 8:30pm now and I'm at 40%.
Here's my day: two phone calls about 3 minutes each; three texts; about 10 min of Facebook; 10 min of words with friends; and a few min of email reading. This battery blows. I'm usually at 20-30% by 11pm when it goes back on the charger. This battery blows. Battery saver is on. What a joke.
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facetubespam said:
oh? what number did you call at Motorola? I might want to exploit this in the future near the end of the 1 year warranty
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https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/chat/chat_launch/
didn't call anyone. i just entered my info. they will be open tomorrow morning, just chat them or even call them under the call us tab and tell them that your doing everything u can to save power and it's still only getting 4 hours of juice. they can't really do anything but send another battery to you. i hope this new one helps a bit..

5days / 120 hours of battery life on Kf2

Hi i got my sgs2 working for 120 hours with one battery charge, here are screenshots
Did anyone else got too long?
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Did you even use the phone?

katsooba said:
Did you even use the phone?
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Huh, Well said. Of course he barely used it.
To all, it's not about days/months/years guys. Please post the screen on time, that's what matters.
Regards.

Good for you .... But it depends on phone set up, what apps you are using, brightness level and so many other factors.
I get around 12 to 14 hrs with moderate to heavy use. I have around 5 email accounts to sync, 2 to 3 hrs of web browsing, 1 hr of a2dp music. I'm pretty happy with it, others may get different times based on usage and set up.
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Let me see. 5 days, 8 hours. That's 148 hours. 8 percent screen-on time of 148 hours is. 11 hours.
Hmm.. that's still a pretty high screen usage no?

kirdroid said:
Good for you .... But it depends on phone set up, what apps you are using, brightness level and so many other factors.
I get around 12 to 14 hrs with moderate to heavy use. I have around 5 email accounts to sync, 2 to 3 hrs of web browsing, 1 hr of a2dp music. I'm pretty happy with it, others may get different times based on usage and set up.
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Exactly the same here,
In total I get around 4:30 of screen on time
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prodygee said:
Let me see. 5 days, 8 hours. That's 148 hours. 8 percent screen-on time of 148 hours is. 11 hours.
Hmm.. that's still a pretty high screen usage no?
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I don't believe his screen was on for 11 hours, and its a percentage of the battery, not a percentage of time, lol
This in fact concludes his screen was practically not on at all, plus he was probably using 2g as well. Using 2g only extends battery life tremendously
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I unplug at 6am, use GPS for cardiotrainer in the hour morning run, overclock to 1.5ghz and listen to music to and from uni, (about 2 hours), synced to twitter, Facebook and email, and when I'm home around 6pm I have about 30 - 40 percent left, that's a nice safety buffer) if you use this phone nomalus you should get a day, everyday
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Withe customrom => Wlan + Phone + SMS + Browsing + Camera + Gallery
at last battery drain to 1% in 2 Days. This is quiet good !
Greetings

I think we need a dedicated battery section under this forum to stop all the clutter of pretty useless threads which have no bearing on real life usage.
Totally agree it's how long the screen is on for which to me is REAL usage.

Devjam said:
Withe customrom => Wlan + Phone + SMS + Browsing + Camera + Gallery
at last battery drain to 1% in 2 Days. This is quiet good !
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edit: I misread your post. Thought you'd said you'd only lost 1% in 2 day

daleski75 said:
I think we need a dedicated battery section under this forum to stop all the clutter of pretty useless threads which have no bearing on real life usage.
Totally agree it's how long the screen is on for which to me is REAL usage.
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I agree with you matey look at how many threads, some useful some pointless, and it would be better to have a dedicated battery section, cause i think this is probably the most talked about issue, of this phone.

prodygee said:
Let me see. 5 days, 8 hours. That's 148 hours. 8 percent screen-on time of 148 hours is. 11 hours.
Hmm.. that's still a pretty high screen usage no?
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How did you do it?

kbiz90 said:
How did you do it?
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Ha ha, don't go crazy mate. 11 hours is out of earth stuff. Even 6 hours is doubted.

i can get up to 3.5 days with kf3 but..
no 3g..
brightness to zero..
no widgets apart from clock and calendar..only shortcuts..
but i use wifi for about 2 3 hours per day..web and facebook mostly..
about 20 sms per day and 1 hour phonecalls total per day..

ithehappy said:
Huh, Well said. Of course he barely used it.
To all, it's not about days/months/years guys. Please post the screen on time, that's what matters.
Regards.
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I see the battery time in the About Phone > Battery Usage. Where is the screen on time?
Edit: NM. Just clicked on Display. My battery is at 37% after being on battery usage 12 hours and screen on for 2 hours. I have some Messaging apps open in the background that take up less than 5%. Only 7 min of calling all day and probably about 15 minutes gaming. The rest was texting and web browsing. Is that pretty good for battery time on the GS II?

andyhk888 said:
I see the battery time in the About Phone > Battery Usage. Where is the screen on time?
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Probably about 10 minutes, lollol
Anyone can get tis duration by transfering to 2g only, using the phone only when needed on zero brightness, and underclock to 800mhz, hell you could even get this at stock 1.2...
All he has done is limit his use of the phone, and if you do that you might as well have a Nokia 8850
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Using KF3 seems to give me the best battery life I have had so far.
Fair usage and on 79% after 8 hours

daleski75 said:
I think we need a dedicated battery section under this forum to stop all the clutter of pretty useless threads which have no bearing on real life usage.
Totally agree it's how long the screen is on for which to me is REAL usage.
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I posted this here before, my screen-on test - it is very misleading though, but not as misleading as 5 day runtime on one charge without providing facts about what was done in those 5 days

Unless we discuss the maximum theoretic battery time, there is no point compare normal use because as already said it all comes how you use your phone.
Sorry, but this thread adds nothing.
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Battery life

What kind of battery life are you guys getting?
I was getting really bad battery life, barely getting 4 hours screen on time(100-2%). Well now that I've had the phone for a week, it seems to have settled. Today I'm going to break the 7 screen on time barrier(100-2%)! I think this is great! This is with auto brightness set around 40% I think. I dont understand the auto brightness.
This battery life thing was KILLING me. I was ready to return the phone if it didn't improve. Well the battery has settled and the improvement is almost doubled!! Once I hit 2% I'll screen shot and post!

Here's the pics!
I have to say this. Even without root or an unlocked bootloader. I'm pretty satisfied with this device. The last android I used was an S5 and this little guy is like it, on steroids! Out of any androids I've had the S5 was the only phone I kept for longer then 6 months. I had it for 14 months. I hope to do the same with this phone. Though with a locked bootloader. I dont know if that will happen. I think if this device was unlocked and undervolted. We could get another hour of screen on time out of her atleast. We'd atleast figure out wth is going on with Android systems and put a stop to it!

Any one care to comment?

I love it so far using my s7 since February 29.

Finally got my s7
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I cannot get anywhere close to this

Post some pics! Lets see what's going on!

combatmedic870 said:
Post some pics! Lets see what's going on!
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Sure... Here they are.

Have you tried disabling any of the bloat ware?

combatmedic870 said:
Have you tried disabling any of the bloat ware?
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Yea, over 100 packages disabled. I have also gone through a warranty replacement. Some others suggested debloating could hurt battery so I even tried adding it all back but recently removed it all again.

Is anyone who is getting great battery life using a gear s2? Only thing I can think of

I am not getting much over 4 hrs screen time.

I was getting 4 hours as well. I dunno. Im consistently getting 6 hours atleast. Well... My phone better then yours ?

At first i was getting 5 hours sot, I debloated and a week later it's constantly at 6:30 SOT. Used package disabler pro from app store, the made debloat packages thats on the app. Great phone by the way. I gave up the note4 and don't regret for a second. I still have the note and every time I pick it up put right back down and immediately go back to s7

The new update seems to have helped with the android system destroying the battery. Normal when I get home from work im at 61-65% I'm at 73% right now with 2 hours 22 minutes screen on time

No improvement here I don't think. 4 hours off the charger, 20 min calls and 20 min SOT, 88%. Android system and OS are lower but still high

Your usage really matters here. I have a buddy who got this phone same say and he is about to hit 2 full days with 5:30 screen on time. Which I think it's pretty dam good. Phone sleeps well. My usage is different and I get 5:30 hours but only 1 full dy (24 hrs) consistent
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I'm seeing better than expected battery life, averaging between 4 to 6 hours SOT. I will say this, what's odd is it goes from 100 to say 85 percent pretty quick and then it's a slow drain. I haven't even got it down below 10 percent yet.

0dBu said:
I'm seeing better than expected battery life, averaging between 4 to 6 hours SOT. I will say this, what's odd is it goes from 100 to say 85 percent pretty quick and then it's a slow drain. I haven't even got it down below 10 percent yet.
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Interesting observation, I get to 85% really quickly (i.e., in 30 minutes SOT).

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