My last Android phone was the Desire. (The first one)
It's battery life left alot to be desired in all honesty.
Phone after that was an iPhone 4 which had a far better battery life. Onto pastures new after my iP4 got smashed, I picked up a Samsung Galaxy S II as a replacement.
Had it three days now and I am really not impressed with this things battery life. Unless your camped near a charger it just feels like such a pointless device. What's the point in having all these features if it's going to be dead by lunchtime? Really?
Got hardly any apps installed, have closed down social hub and everything inside it, no notifications or syncing apart from Gmail and contacts. (Whoopy doo!)
I took my phone off the charger around 2pm at 100%.
Now it's showing as 6h 48m usage (doesn't sound right)
Display 44% - 1h 47m use
Internet 13% - CPU total - 19m
Cell Standby 11%
Android System 9% - CPU Total 3m , CPU foreground 1m , Stay awake 4m
Android OS - 8% CPU total 11m
Voice calls - 3% - 2m
Battery now at 48%
So over 50% battery and I have got 19 mins of checking football scores and 2 minutes of calls.
This phone is not worth £500. Not in the slightest, just based on this. What good is a dual core powerhouse if it's going to be dead before you've had a chance to use it?
It's a serious issue that needs looking at, and no , it isn't the Android OS bug. That only accounts for 11 minutes of nearly 7 hrs of being on.
I use to charge my iPhone 4 up about once every 3-4 days, it never seemed to ever die or drain this quickly. You put the phone on the side and goto bed, usually lose about 1% of battery for the entire night.
This just isn't good enough for the price being paid.
From what i've seen here at XDA is that every phone (even the same model) performs differently. My SGS II can sit on my nightstand all night (7-8hrs) and only lose 3-4% battery. I can go through my entire work day of 8hrs with email sync on, sending text, making calls, checking XDA and Twitter, etc and still only use approx. 30% battery.
This is with the stock ROM. With a custom ROM that will improve and I can count using a maximum of 3 fingers the last time I was away from a charging source for more than an hour so i'm content.
You must be the only one I've heard of that only charges their iPhone4 every 3-4 days, everyone that actually use the phone has to charge it at least every day (that I know anyways).
And 19 mins checking fotball scores and 2 calls? Your screen was on for nearly 2 hours so I hope you got to do more than that.
I can usually get a solid 5-6 hours of _active_ use time out of this phone and that's better than any phone I've had before at least. But one must remember batteries are batteries and the one in SGSII only has those 1650mAh to work with, it isn't magic.
And if you're getting much more than 1% battery drain per hour you have a bug or a program eating your battery somewhere.
Oh and if it isn't good enough for you just return it or sell it, it's not like anyone forced you to buy it or like it. I would never tolerate having a phone I didn't like, it would go straight in the bin.
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You must be the only one I've heard of that only charges their iPhone4 every 3-4 days, everyone that actually use the phone has to charge it at least every day (that I know anyways).
And 19 mins checking fotball scores and 2 calls? Your screen was on for nearly 2 hours so I hope you got to do more than that.
I can usually get a solid 5-6 hours of _active_ use time out of this phone and that's better than any phone I've had before at least. But one must remember batteries are batteries and the one in SGSII only has those 1650mAh to work with, it isn't magic.
And if you're getting much more than 1% battery drain per hour you have a bug or a program eating your battery somewhere.
Oh and if it isn't good enough for you just return it or sell it, it's not like anyone forced you to buy it or like it. I would never tolerate having a phone I didn't like, it would go straight in the bin.
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Honestly, there isn't much choice is there. It's this thing , or the iPhone 4.
Blackberrys are rubbish, other mainstream phones are all Android based and have battery grievances aswell.
Battery life is such a limiting factor with these modern phones, the old nokia bricks use to last ages. I know they can do alot more, but I figured disabling all of the sync features and what not should atleast improve it a fair bit.
Doesn't seem to make any difference.
Going back to carrying spare batteries again, just for daytime use. lol
Arthur Hucksake said:
Honestly, there isn't much choice is there. It's this thing , or the iPhone 4.
Blackberrys are rubbish, other mainstream phones are all Android based and have battery grievances aswell.
Battery life is such a limiting factor with these modern phones, the old nokia bricks use to last ages. I know they can do alot more, but I figured disabling all of the sync features and what not should atleast improve it a fair bit.
Doesn't seem to make any difference.
Going back to carrying spare batteries again, just for daytime use. lol
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today my screen has been active for 5 hours on my one year old galaxy s and i still have 29% left on battary. So i aint suffering from same issues as u
I didn't really use it much since i was carrying my BB most of the day yesterday
Complete opposite from OP's observation
I've said it from day 1 that battery life on this is great.
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So over 50% battery and I have got 19 mins of checking football scores and 2 minutes of calls.
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19 mins of CPU usage doesn't mean you was checking scores for 19 minutes, but it took summarily 19 mins of 100% CPU usage. Plus if I look at display time then I think you was checking these scores for about 1:40 hrs and now you're surprised that it took ~50% of battery. Also I think you have brightness set to high, because display should not drain so much power.
Mine was up to 1 day 6 hours then I had the charge message on screen this was with a few hours of phone calls, maybe 35 texts, watched a bit of a video, web browsing, I am very pleased with the battery so far.
I get at most 15-20 hours out of my battery, limited use.
As many stated before, the phone is almost useless due to the bad battery. I dont know if I can see an entire Mkv 1080p movie in it. Only seen a few CSI 720p mkv videos, and they drain the s**t out of the battery.
Looks like we have to buy the big battery pack thats going to be released soon. Then it wont be so thin, or light though...
Here is a pic of my stats, phone is about to go dead in a couple of hours. That means Ill get about 15 hours out of it today.
First of all, your display was on for 1hr 47min, 13min of scores doesn't cause that....
Second, there are ways to get better battery life out of the phone.
Turn down brightness
Turn off auto sync
Turn off radios if they can't get signal
Dont stream videos/music
But why have a top of the line device if your going to do all that?
I turn my brightness up, I love the sexy giant screen. I auto sync 4 email accounts. I have 7 screens filled with power wasting widgets. I constantly stream pandora and watch espn at work, tvshowstream on lunch and in car. I overclocked also.
Lets say I use my phone to its fullest. All I did was buy some cheap hong kong batterys on ebay for $11 and switch them out as I need them. I can do anything and everything on my phone with confidence I won't run out of power.
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As many stated before, the phone is almost useless due to the bad battery. I dont know if I can see an entire Mkv 1080p movie in it. Only seen a few CSI 720p mkv videos, and they drain the s**t out of the battery.
Looks like we have to buy the big battery pack thats going to be released soon. Then it wont be so thin, or light though...
Here is a pic of my stats, phone is about to go dead in a couple of hours. That means Ill get about 15 hours out of it today.
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What did you install on your phone? I'm still running full stock
Its not the best battery but it ain't that bad as many others, iphone 4 is good on battery and lasts a day or 2 with some use but ios is nothing like android interface so they carnt be compared that easy, i think there's room for improvement weather its a android update or custom Rom.
corb06 said:
As many stated before, the phone is almost useless due to the bad battery. I dont know if I can see an entire Mkv 1080p movie in it. Only seen a few CSI 720p mkv videos, and they drain the s**t out of the battery
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:firstworldproblems:
I used to have an iphone 3 and I had to charge that baby every day...
While I would certainly like more standby time... Having an awesome computer in your pocket is way cooler than a dumb phone that's battery lasts four days.
I think this was one of Nokia's major miscalculations... That users wanted better battery life over phone features.
Not going to waste too much time with this, you picked the wrong phone to begin with, Samsung has this goal, to be in every pie. Their products have great reviews, but so research first and find a company that does better, one that actually takes the time to develop the product they primarily specialize in, and who have been around doing it (reliably) for awhile. I.e. Motorola, Htc
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Shadowzerosix said:
Not going to waste too much time with this, you picked the wrong phone to begin with, Samsung has this goal, to be in every pie. Their products have great reviews, but so research first and find a company that does better, one that actually takes the time to develop the product they primarily specialize in, and who have been around doing it (reliably) for awhile. I.e. Motorola, Htc
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I actually went by reviews, they all point to this phone being the best alternative to the iPhone 4. Comments were generally that battery life was good.
Think their reviews were all based on ten minutes of use.
Arthur Hucksake said:
I actually went by reviews, they all point to this phone being the best alternative to the iPhone 4. Comments were generally that battery life was good.
Think their reviews were all based on ten minutes of use.
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i've had mine since the fourth of this month and battery life is just as good if not better than the first week. That screenshot was taken earlier today
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Not going to waste too much time with this, you picked the wrong phone to begin with, Samsung has this goal, to be in every pie. Their products have great reviews, but so research first and find a company that does better, one that actually takes the time to develop the product they primarily specialize in, and who have been around doing it (reliably) for awhile. I.e. Motorola, Htc
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Which samsung phone do you have? I would have to agree with HTC but motorola for smartphone? HAHAHAH
I dont't think 19min of checking football score and 2min of calls will even affect your battery life. 6hours and your battery down by 50%, not sure what you did to your phone. Just watched live football stream for 2 hours, everything else syncing etc, I never off background data, wifi constantly on, lots of widget and now after 19hrs I still left 28%.
If this phone were not good enough for you why don't you return it and exchange back for an iPhone4?
ps: My gf ip4 need to charge every 2 days (with light usage) but when shes playing lot of games and browsing, she will need to charge it at night before going to bed.
If you don't like the phone return it and get something else. That's some free revolutionary advice for you. No need to create another thread for this, you could have just made a new post in one of the others. Now have a good day.
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I got my Vibrant a few days ago and as of today i can only get 4-5 hours max out of the whole battery and thats with heavy to moderate use.. does anyone else seem to have this problem.. im gonna return the phone and get a new one but does anyone else seem to have this?
I really dont understand why this is so bad..
4 or 5 hours of heavy use is about all I get. That is if I'm constantly messing with it. E.g. web, email, facebook,ect. However I think this phone has excellent battery life when I'm not constantly playing with it. Wifi definitely drains it quicker. And stupid apps like facebook. I periodically mess with my phone throughout the work day and by the time I get home I usually have about 75% battery remaining. I think that's pretty good.
ElChibo said:
I got my Vibrant a few days ago and as of today i can only get 4-5 hours max out of the whole battery and thats with heavy to moderate use.. does anyone else seem to have this problem.. im gonna return the phone and get a new one but does anyone else seem to have this?
I really dont understand why this is so bad..
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THE BATTERY IS TERRIBLE. thats why i returned it, and the slow acrolling from screen to screen with stock software
I think you can only expect about 4 hours of awake time use on this phone. I haven't had much trouble with mine, I get about 13-14 hours per charge. But my phone its idle 9-10 hours of the day.
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THE BATTERY IS TERRIBLE. thats why i returned it, and the slow acrolling from screen to screen with stock software
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Then why are you still in the vibrant forums... move on...
I would think by now people would be use to the type of battery life you get with these types of phones. With heavy usage your not going to last all day just how it is until battery tech catches up to phone tech. I use mine a above moderate usage and some days heavy usage. From when I unplug it at 7:00am the battery is down to about 10 to 15% by the time I leave work at 4:00pm. Thats a lot better than my HD2, Cliq, MT3G and G1.
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Then why are you still in the vibrant forums... move on...
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I agree 100%. Im seeing a lot of this. One thing I dont see is the "Vibrant Complaint" forum. Can't understand why ppl feel the need to come back in here if they dont like, dont have or feel they need to bash the phone from their experience. Get rid of the phone or keep it and be patient, its that simple... or am I missing something?!?!?
speoples20 said:
I would think by now people would be use to the type of battery life you get with these types of phones. With heavy usage your not going to last all day just how it is until battery tech catches up to phone tech. I use mine a above moderate usage and some days heavy usage. From when I unplug it at 7:00am the battery is down to about 10 to 15% by the time I leave work at 4:00pm. Thats a lot better than my HD2, Cliq, MT3G and G1.
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Im almost in the same boat, much better battery life then my G1! I can get from 8-8pm with moderate usage and music palying for the last hour. I was experiencing horrible battery life (8-2/3pm) when I was running notifications with Bloo 1.5.apk, auto brightness on, and Advanced task manager running. Now that I have cut the notifications from bloo (got gmail for this anyway), set brightness to manual setting, and got rid of the task manager I am regularly seeing, after bering unplugged since 8(its now 1245) and im @ 85%. Try trimming down the services you have running in the background and by an extra battery or a car charger.
Id like love to try mine out when i get it tomorrow because with
Mytouch Slide, i had Facebook, Gmail and all the usual stuff syncing and it lasted me close to 8-12 hours of Web, texting and just playing around with it throughout the day.
The Nexus One Was the same lasted me some good 10-14 hours a day syncing the usual stuff along with the weather and such. So Id expect the vibrant to be the same, or Else im returning it and thats the end of it. That also goes for lagging issues as well. And most likely get a different android phone or go back to the N1 and Switch Forums....
Have you ever owned a Smartphone before? Thats normal if you are using it heavily.
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Have you ever owned a Smartphone before? Thats normal if you are using it heavily.
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no its not normal.. ive used my MT3G with heavy use gives me at least if not more than 7-8 hours use.. what i dont understand is why the hell it takes so long for my battery to charge.
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no its not normal.. ive used my MT3G with heavy use gives me at least if not more than 7-8 hours use.. what i dont understand is why the hell it takes so long for my battery to charge.
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I get 6-8 hours.
I think 5 hours of juice is really good relative to your heavy usage. I always get 15 - 18 hours a day. That's with moderate use. Even playing a game of Armored Strike for an hour. This is the best battery i've had on a phone. I can easily get over a day and a half or even more once I settle down and stop using it so much more than I need to [ because I just got it.... ]
If this is what you consider to be terrible, I don't mind how terrible my battery life at all. I made a few calls, used GPS a few times, always listening to music.. some market downloads, pictures taken. SetCPU at 1000MHZ 100% of the time.
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Disable Google Talk. My battery life was excellent (typically all day on full charge with heavy use). I signed into google talk one day and was lucky to get 4hrs before charging was needed. I deselected the auto sign in option and killed it in the running services section. Battery life has gotten so much better 70% after 4.5hrs.
i think the battery life for my vibrant is pretty epic. when i went to cm5.0.8 and cm6 on my g1 i calibrated the battery and thought i was getting really good battery life. then i got the vibrant. i could probably make it two whole days without a charge with how i use my phone (probably moderate-light compared to most on here).
but one thing i do agree with is this phone takes FOREVER to charge.
Hmm.....
Ok.....well I consider myself a moderate-heavy user...
On that note, I actually use my phone for work calls, emails, plus personal calls and emails as well....and i'm an avid gamer and already have many games on my Vibrant and use it to play them regularly.....then there is the fact that I travel for work....a lot, so I constantly using google voice search and maps to find where i need to go (never use the gps though)....I used the internet all the time, especially on WiFi (higher battery drain)....and don't get me started on the movies, music and youtube....plus while at work I have Pandora running from my phone throughout the day....
So how is my battery life? I unplug my phone every morning at 9am, with all that use I don't need to plug it in again till 10-11pm (12-14hrs!!).....by that time of course the battery level is at 5-15%.....But I'm definitely not complaining....
I do however disable the auto-brightness feature....AND turn down my brightness to about 30%....50% brightness cuts about 2 hours off of the battery life....
But a GREAT PHONE!!! Loving my new Galaxy S Vibrant
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i think the battery life for my vibrant is pretty epic. when i went to cm5.0.8 and cm6 on my g1 i calibrated the battery and thought i was getting really good battery life. then i got the vibrant. i could probably make it two whole days without a charge with how i use my phone (probably moderate-light compared to most on here).
but one thing i do agree with is this phone takes FOREVER to charge.
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yeah, i feel the same way. As far as phone taking forever to charge, are you using the usb-computer charger or usb-wall? The usb-computer can be very weak depending on your system.
Charging from pc, i would wake up only to see 65%. That's pretty crazy. On the wall charger, it takes less about 4-5 hours every time.
Anyone loosing like 6 percent in the first 15 minutes after a full charge? 15 minutes ago i was 100% now im at 94....
I get better battery life than i got on my G1.
These are not cell phones... they are tinny laptops that you can press against your face and make phone calls.
This thing has more features than the $1200 gaming PC i built 2 months ago.
I had bad battery life the first day. Turned the phone off late at night and let it charge full. Battery has been wonderful since then.
I use an external battery charger and switch out between two batteries. I rarely ever use the USB to charge it. I always get 18-26 hours of use before I switch out. 18 hours is after all day in the car with the GPS going.
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One hour and I'm still at 100% I had to share that. When ever I use the USB charger, it drops to 97% within a few minutes. : ) I had just gotten off the phone with my wife. A 20 minute call.
I recommend a second batter to everyone. Way better charge externally.
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a454nova said:
I use an external battery charger and switch out between two batteries. I rarely ever use the USB to charge it. I always get 18-26 hours of use before I switch out. 18 hours is after all day in the car with the GPS going.
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One hour and I'm still at 100% I had to share that. When ever I use the USB charger, it drops to 97% within a few minutes. : ) I had just gotten off the phone with my wife. A 20 minute call.
I recommend a second batter to everyone. Way better charge externally.
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I can get 18 hours too, if I don't touch it ONCE all day. Too bad that's not how a phone is usually used.
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I can get 18 hours too, if I don't touch it ONCE all day. Too bad that's not how a phone is usually used.
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Then you have your phone set up inefficiently. If I didn't touch my phone, it would last for about 4 days.
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Then you have your phone set up inefficiently. If I didn't touch my phone, it would last for about 4 days.
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Well how do you have your phone set up? I just charged to 100% and lost about 20% in under 2 hours. Trying to calibrate battery since I just changed ROM's even though that never seemed to help me before. No matter what ROM/KERNAL I use, my battery seems to be the same.. (About 10 hours if even that with medium usage)
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Well how do you have your phone set up? I just charged to 100% and lost about 20% in under 2 hours. Trying to calibrate battery since I just changed ROM's even though that never seemed to help me before. No matter what ROM/KERNAL I use, my battery seems to be the same.. (About 10 hours if even that with medium usage)
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I set up my phone to lose as little battery life as possible when I am not using it. I have it set to underclock the CPU when the screen is off. I have juicedefender turn off the wifi and data when the screen is off, with a schedule set to 5 mins every 2 hours so that I can receive emails. I have autostarts disable the DRM services upon reboot. I have tasker auto toggle the airplane mode upon reboot. I run Pheonix 1.43 kernel because I get the best battery life with it. If I leave my phone sitting for an hour without using it, it loses under 1% of battery life. This allows me to send 50 texts a day and take about 30 minutes of phone calls and play about an hour of angry birds and check a few emails and browse a few websites and still get 18 hours of battery life.
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I set up my phone to lose as little battery life as possible when I am not using it. I have it set to underclock the CPU when the screen is off. I have juicedefender turn off the wifi and data when the screen is off, with a schedule set to 5 mins every 2 hours so that I can receive emails. I have autostarts disable the DRM services upon reboot. I have tasker auto toggle the airplane mode upon reboot. I run Pheonix 1.43 kernel because I get the best battery life with it. If I leave my phone sitting for an hour without using it, it loses under 1% of battery life. This allows me to send 50 texts a day and take about 30 minutes of phone calls and play about an hour of angry birds and check a few emails and browse a few websites and still get 18 hours of battery life.
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Tried Juicedefender & didn't seem to improve anything, also use autostart to disable DRM + unnecessary apps from starting up, I tried the airplane mode trick & used phoenix kernels up until yesterday. I even stopped everything from syncing such as Facebook & Google accounts (manually updated) I even disabled background data & didn't seem to improve battery life.. I must have a bad battery?
I got my EVO going 20+ hours when I had it with a few tricks, which I cant seem to do with my EPIC (not saying evo is better or anything so plz dont take it the wrong way) just trying to figure out what I can do to get my EPIC battery life better.
Why don't people just get the 2 battery on ebay for $10 and call it a day. That's what I did. I no longer worry about battery life, cause 3 is more than enough.
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Tried Juicedefender & didn't seem to improve anything, also use autostart to disable DRM + unnecessary apps from starting up, I tried the airplane mode trick & used phoenix kernels up until yesterday. I even stopped everything from syncing such as Facebook & Google accounts (manually updated) I even disabled background data & didn't seem to improve battery life.. I must have a bad battery?
I got my EVO going 20+ hours when I had it with a few tricks, which I cant seem to do with my EPIC (not saying evo is better or anything so plz dont take it the wrong way) just trying to figure out what I can do to get my EPIC battery life better.
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Really depends on your juicedefender settings. If you have it checking data every 5 minutes or choose not to turn data off with the scree, it wont do anything for you. If you set it up like I did, it will double your battery life.
shook187 said:
Why don't people just get the 2 battery on ebay for $10 and call it a day. That's what I did. I no longer worry about battery life, cause 3 is more than enough.
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This doesn't really have to be said but:
1. Swapping batteries is annoying.
2. Some people are too busy during the day to sit there and worry about it.
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This doesn't really have to be said but:
1. Swapping batteries is annoying.
2. Some people are too busy during the day to sit there and worry about it.
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complaining on a forum about battery life is annoying but they still find time to do it.
shook187 said:
complaining on a forum about battery life is annoying but they still find time to do it.
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Well here is how I think of it. I spent $250 on this phone + the monthly bill. Now why should I have to go out and buy an extra battery in order for me not to worry about my phone dieing when I am out.
My fiancée has a 1cent phone and always makes fun of me because I have a $250 phone that cant even last a whole day, and hers last 2+ days without even charging.
My point is I should not have to go out and spend more money when I spent as much as I did on the phone itself. I am not complaining about battery life, i am trying to get tips on how to help improve it.
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Well here is how I think of it. I spent $250 on this phone + the monthly bill. Now why should I have to go out and buy an extra battery in order for me not to worry about my phone dieing when I am out.
My fiancée has a 1cent phone and always makes fun of me because I have a $250 phone that cant even last a whole day, and hers last 2+ days without even charging.
My point is I should not have to go out and spend more money when I spent as much as I did on the phone itself. I am not complaining about battery life, i am trying to get tips on how to help improve it.
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Im sure her phone doesn't have a 4" display a hummingbird processor. Its doesn't run android operating system or runs on 4g. One should know all that comes with a price. Price being battery life and $250 ;-)
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complaining on a forum about battery life is annoying but they still find time to do it.
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Maybe if I was here everyday complaining about it, 365 days a year then I'd agree with you.
One thing to think about also is that not all batteries are created equally. I have 3 Samsung OEM batteries and one of the Ebay knock offs. One of the Samsung batteries gets me close to 30 hours with moderate to heavy use on my current setup. The second one usually gets about 25 hours. The third gets me around 18 hours and I'm lucky if it doesn't lose 10% of its power sitting on my nightstand before I put it in the phone. The Ebay knockoff battery is good for 20 hours most of the time.
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Im sure her phone doesn't have a 4" display a hummingbird processor. Its doesn't run android operating system or runs on 4g. One should know all that comes with a price. Price being battery life and $250 ;-)
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but... what I was saying anyways, I got my EVO to run 20 + hours with some tweaks (no extra battery needed) which has bigger display and almost same processor, also runs android operating system. I'm not going to mention 4G because I don't even get 3G in my area let alone 4G.
I am just trying to figure out why a lot of people on here can do certain tweaks and get their battery life to be excellent while mine wont even last a day. I'm trying to figure out other tweaks I can do or if I just have a bad battery (not complaining)
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This doesn't really have to be said but:
1. Swapping batteries is annoying.
2. Some people are too busy during the day to sit there and worry about it.
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1. Ya right!
2. ah, Ya right
3. It takes 20 seconds, less if you don't have a case around it
4. It takes about the same amount of thought and effort to plug in the USB
5. Charges it way better.
I've never sit there and worry, hell its made my life faster. I'm always doing something and get caught with a dead phone.
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Well here is how I think of it. I spent $250 on this phone + the monthly bill. Now why should I have to go out and buy an extra battery in order for me not to worry about my phone dieing when I am out.
My fiancée has a 1cent phone and always makes fun of me because I have a $250 phone that cant even last a whole day, and hers last 2+ days without even charging.
My point is I should not have to go out and spend more money when I spent as much as I did on the phone itself. I am not complaining about battery life, i am trying to get tips on how to help improve it.
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You probably live life by that motto huh... lol
Alright so, I know people frequently post pictures of their battery life "Unplugged for" screenshots.
So I'm wondering, whats the longest we've seen, with atleast 2 and a half hours of display on-time?
And what ROM/Kernel were they using?
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5% Battery remaining according to Battstatt.
Display time is 2 hours 26 minutes
Time without signal is 86% (Horrible service here)
Voice calls is 21m 13s
You didn't post what rom/kernel you are using.
I'm running the stock rom and getting fed up with the terrible battery life...so I'll be monitoring this thread to see what my best options are.
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You didn't post what rom/kernel you are using.
I'm running the stock rom and getting fed up with the terrible battery life...so I'll be monitoring this thread to see what my best options are.
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Oh my bad man.
I'm running Baked Snack 1.5 ROM with HeroSpecial#2 kernel right now.
Its still at 5% and currently 2d 19h 14m. Could prolly get 3days to read on there if I felt like it.
I have to say I'm getting amazing battery life with Baked snack 1.5. I had the phone running for one day and 18 hours, I spent about 3 hours on the phone and using it constantly to check messages. I'm very happy with my phone.I'm installing 1.6 now, it should make it to two days. I had WIFi on all day.
2 hours of display on time over 3 days? Anyone could get ridiculous battery life if they never use the phone.
The ONLY way to compare battery life semi equally across various roms/kernels/settings and setups is to restart the phone, turn off the display, leave it for several hours without using it at all, and measure what the %loss per hour is for a completely idle phone with no use. The longer you leave the phone idle, the more accurate the measurement of % loss per hour will be. We can then compare how much power various setups are using in idle as a baseline.
Anything other than that is open to people messing with their phone or turning on airplane mode or never using it and claiming amazing battery life.
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2 hours of display on time over 3 days? Anyone could get ridiculous battery life if they never use the phone.
The ONLY way to compare battery life semi equally across various roms/kernels/settings and setups is to restart the phone, turn off the display, leave it for several hours without using it at all, and measure what the %loss per hour is for a completely idle phone with no use. The longer you leave the phone idle, the more accurate the measurement of % loss per hour will be. We can then compare how much power various setups are using in idle as a baseline.
Anything other than that is open to people messing with their phone or turning on airplane mode or never using it and claiming amazing battery life.
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First, that was my normal use for those two + days, didn't have time to use my phone other than for texting and such. And if your a texter, than you know it only takes 20seconds TOPS to reply a text message, and texting is a majority of what I did with those two+ hours. so we'll say 1:45min of it was texting.
20seconds of on screen time per text = about 315 text messages, which is about what I did.
To me that is great battery life, if I can get that much battery to do that than I'm happy.
As for the way you stated, I guess this counts:
When I slept, I slept for 8 hours and some odd minutes and lost 3% the first night and slept I believe 6 hours and lost 2% the 2nd.
I guess that would mean 3hours idle = 1% battery drain judging by your method? Idk. Lol.
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First, that was my normal use for those two + days, didn't have time to use my phone other than for texting and such. And if your a texter, than you know it only takes 20seconds TOPS to reply a text message, and texting is a majority of what I did with those two+ hours. so we'll say 1:45min of it was texting.
20seconds of on screen time per text = about 315 text messages, which is about what I did.
To me that is great battery life, if I can get that much battery to do that than I'm happy.
As for the way you stated, I guess this counts:
When I slept, I slept for 8 hours and some odd minutes and lost 3% the first night and slept I believe 6 hours and lost 2% the 2nd.
I guess that would mean 3hours idle = 1% battery drain judging by your method? Idk. Lol.
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Ummm I don't even see why you need this phone if all you are going to do is text with it. There are so many other phones that are smaller, lighter and way better on battery if that is all you do. The LG rumor 2 comes to mind.
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Ummm I don't even see why you need this phone if all you are going to do is text with it. There are so many other phones that are smaller, lighter and way better on battery if that is all you do. The LG rumor 2 comes to mind.
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Meh, I guess since Baked Snacks thread got closed, none of you saw my post in it before it was, stating why I wasn't using my phone much -.-
I was back and forth to the hospital all this week, no time to worry about charging my phone and no time to use it much other than quickly texting. My grandmother is in there but thats a personal note and doesn't relate to any of this.
Anyway, point is, I wasn't able to worry about charging my phone much, and I was impressed that it made it through all that without dying on me, I was planning on not having a phone for a day because I knew I wouldn't be charging it. Thats why I was impressed.
But thanks for the suggestion of yours. I'll be sure to write it on the next piece of toilet paper I use.
And can we please get back to the original reason I posted this thread..?
Nobody has mentioned the best battery life they've seen on the epic.
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First, that was my normal use for those two + days, didn't have time to use my phone other than for texting and such. And if your a texter, than you know it only takes 20seconds TOPS to reply a text message, and texting is a majority of what I did with those two+ hours. so we'll say 1:45min of it was texting.
20seconds of on screen time per text = about 315 text messages, which is about what I did.
To me that is great battery life, if I can get that much battery to do that than I'm happy.
As for the way you stated, I guess this counts:
When I slept, I slept for 8 hours and some odd minutes and lost 3% the first night and slept I believe 6 hours and lost 2% the 2nd.
I guess that would mean 3hours idle = 1% battery drain judging by your method? Idk. Lol.
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Well that seems like some good battery life if you only lost 1 percent every 3 hours. Airplane mode? juicedefender?
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Well that seems like some good battery life if you only lost 1 percent every 3 hours. Airplane mode? juicedefender?
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Whats the normal drainage for idle phones?
Neither, I just turn 3G off and force roam it at home with Roam control because I get 1-bar while roaming and 0 bars with Sprint coverage at home so roaming helps the Time Without Signal a very little bit, on sprint it runs at 99% without signal at my house and on roam it runs at 80-90% without signal.
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Whats the normal drainage for idle phones?
Neither, I just turn 3G off and force roam it at home with Roam control because I get 1-bar while roaming and 0 bars with Sprint coverage at home so roaming helps the Time Without Signal a very little bit, on sprint it runs at 99% without signal at my house and on roam it runs at 80-90% without signal.
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I get a little under 1% an hour when idle usually. I would have to check it again tonight to see what I am currently getting. I am using phoenix 1.43 and EE 1.2.03. I use juicedefender and disable drm and toggle airplane mode and all that nonsense.
i'm curious what most people are getting for % battery loss with screen on. i feel like mine tends to be high across several ROMs and kernels. its varied somewhat of course, i've used AOSP magic, EE, Syndicate and on baked snack 1.6 now. my numbers show approx 1% battery loss for every 2 minutes of screen on. so that would only be 3hrs 20min of screen on time total which is junk, lol. anyone else got reports?
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First, that was my normal use for those two + days, didn't have time to use my phone other than for texting and such. And if your a texter, than you know it only takes 20seconds TOPS to reply a text message, and texting is a majority of what I did with those two+ hours. so we'll say 1:45min of it was texting.
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First, there's just way, way, WAY too much pissing and carping that goes on around here between people about their different usage models.
We each use the phone the way we use it. If you hardly turn it on, you'll get awesome battery life. If you use it like a combination phone/PSP/iPod/Nuvi all day long, you'll get horrible battery life.
I fall in the latter category. I use my phone for business, so I talk hours a day on it. I use it for navigation in the car. I watch probably 2+ hours a day of video on it in the evenings. I listen to music while I'm out and about. I play games when waiting around (like in the doctor's office).
I do all of this usually with wireless bluetooth.
So, I'm happy if I get 6-8 hours out of a full charge, which is rare. However, it's not because the Epic has a crappy battery or sucks juice... It's because I use it to it's full capability throughout the day, every day.
That said, muyoso's point is spot-on when it comes to comparing battery hog/waif in terms of ROMs and kernels. The only thing that matters is non-use. A setup should be very stingy and sip electrons when nothing's happening. Under interactive use, there's little to nothing a dev can do to squeeze more life out of 1500mAh than, well, 1500 mAh.
I've been running Syndicate 1.2 for 24 hours now, and I can say that when the phone is idled, it's far more stingy with power than the stock ROM. The latter drank milliwatts like it was weightlifting when it was asleep and nothing was going on. Syndicate seems to barely be breathing at all when the phone's asleep -- just how you want it to be.
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First, there's just way, way, WAY too much pissing and carping that goes on around here between people about their different usage models.
We each use the phone the way we use it. If you hardly turn it on, you'll get awesome battery life. If you use it like a combination phone/PSP/iPod/Nuvi all day long, you'll get horrible battery life.
I fall in the latter category. I use my phone for business, so I talk hours a day on it. I use it for navigation in the car. I watch probably 2+ hours a day of video on it in the evenings. I listen to music while I'm out and about. I play games when waiting around (like in the doctor's office).
I do all of this usually with wireless bluetooth.
So, I'm happy if I get 6-8 hours out of a full charge, which is rare. However, it's not because the Epic has a crappy battery or sucks juice... It's because I use it to it's full capability throughout the day, every day.
That said, muyoso's point is spot-on when it comes to comparing battery hog/waif in terms of ROMs and kernels. The only thing that matters is non-use. A setup should be very stingy and sip electrons when nothing's happening. Under interactive use, there's little to nothing a dev can do to squeeze more life out of 1500mAh than, well, 15 mAh.
I've been running Syndicate 1.2 for 24 hours now, and I can say that when the phone is idled, it's far more stingy with power than the stock ROM. The latter drank milliwatts like it was weightlifting when it was asleep and nothing was going on. Syndicate seems to barely be breathing at all when the phone's asleep -- just how you want it to be.
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Absolutely spot on! And thanks for the plug.
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i'm curious what most people are getting for % battery loss with screen on. i feel like mine tends to be high across several ROMs and kernels.
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Because of how an AMOLED screen works power usage will vary greatly depending on brightness setting. So, taking care to adjust the brightness to suit viewing conditions regularly can make a big difference -- or use auto brightness.
I don't think the latter does a very good job, and I don't like it surprise changing/adjusting while I'm using the phone, so in all my anal retentiveness I constant adjust it manually to suit me.
Thank God for the nice notification-bar-finger-slide-brightness feature that Sammy added.
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I forgot to mention that I also surf the web an hour or two a day too
It's a great ROM, once I learned not to try and be too lazy about restoring my previous setup
Hey, if you guys can engineer a fix to the incredibly stupid non-mixing, single-audio-source idiocy of Android's audio subsytem, I'll give you a very generous donation. I love almost everything about my Epic and Android, and haven't looked back wistfully to my WM Omnia II until I noticed this... Can't believe Google botched something as tecnically simple and unchallenging as this.
I mean, really... there's public domain, GPL code out there that could have just been plopped in to make a barely decent sound subsytem. It's a crime that my music mutes every time I get a notification about an email, SMS, etc.
The only solution is to disable sound notifications, which I've done. I can easily live with that, but I shouldn't have to.
One thing the ACS team might consider is adding an option to disable sound notifications when certain apps are running, like media apps playing music or video.
I think for most, if you just root the phone, disable the DRM, and run a program like Setcpu it will make a dramatic difference. It did for me. I just set SetCPU to throttle down when the screen is off.
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One thing the ACS team might consider is adding an option to disable sound notifications when certain apps are running, like media apps playing music or video.
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We'll have a look at it, thanks for the suggestion!
Can any one confirm if this is good battery life?
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Can any one confirm if this is good battery life?
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can u tell us approximately how long ur display was on since it does say 72%..
Yes, according to this guy.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/galaxy-tab/44768-bettery-life-results.html
Anyone feel the same way?
its better than i expected, but i doubt its better than sammys tests
Same here it seem way better than I expected but I haven't tested the battery life thoroughly yet but indeed it is very good.
Tomorrow I will be flying back home. I'll be in the air for about 6 hours. I have 2 movies to watch, plus I'll be playing games and will listen to music. I am planning not to charge my tab until I get home. Let's see how it goes. I will update.
Being that my battery use is ~80% display, i should probably consider turning down the brightness. Still, I have been playing with it here and there throught the day (about 7 hours away from the charger now) and the battery level is still 75%
Somebody needs to find a way to mod the autobrightness to have a few options...I like the feature, but it is just a bit too dim for me.
beestee said:
Being that my battery use is ~80% display, i should probably consider turning down the brightness. Still, I have been playing with it here and there throught the day (about 7 hours away from the charger now) and the battery level is still 75%
Somebody needs to find a way to mod the autobrightness to have a few options...I like the feature, but it is just a bit too dim for me.
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My tab lost 10% battery for one hour medium usage (display on, 30% brightness, reading mainly). Dose it mean I have a battery issue here?
raymentchen said:
My tab lost 10% battery for one hour medium usage (display on, 30% brightness, reading mainly). Dose it mean I have a battery issue here?
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no. it just depends on what your doing. Wifi signal strength, Cell radio strength. the position of the moon and sun, etc.
BTW, battery life does not decrease linearly. so the numbers in that post are ridiculous.
the discharge curve will look something similar to this in most cases
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(red line, also note phones cut off the extreme ends of the scale with regards to voltage to promote cell life)
it takes a few days for the battery (more specifically the charging circuitry) to get into a 'groove' when it comes to properly charging the battery and displaying the correct percentage.
if you want to know more about the Batteries in our phones and Tablets look at RCcar and RC plane sites. they use the same batteries as phones do so pretty much everything you learn there will apply here (except our phones don't draw 20+amps! )
http://www.fmadirect.com/lipo_handbook/fma_lipo_handbook_section2.htm
Mine can easily last and day and a half, very impressed with the battery
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no. it just depends on what your doing. Wifi signal strength, Cell radio strength. the position of the moon and sun, etc.
BTW, battery life does not decrease linearly. so the numbers in that post are ridiculous.
the discharge curve will look something similar to this in most cases
(red line, also note phones cut off the extreme ends of the scale with regards to voltage to promote cell life)
it takes a few days for the battery (more specifically the charging circuitry) to get into a 'groove' when it comes to properly charging the battery and displaying the correct percentage.
if you want to know more about the Batteries in our phones and Tablets look at RCcar and RC plane sites. they use the same batteries as phones do so pretty much everything you learn there will apply here (except our phones don't draw 20+amps! )
http://www.fmadirect.com/lipo_handbook/fma_lipo_handbook_section2.htm
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Well, I understand you saying here. But 10% (90% to 80%) per hour for reading ebook only is far away from having a good battery at 4000mah. I will give it a few more days to check.
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Tomorrow I will be flying back home. I'll be in the air for about 6 hours. I have 2 movies to watch, plus I'll be playing games and will listen to music. I am planning not to charge my tab until I get home. Let's see how it goes. I will update.
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Well? How did that go?
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Well, I understand you saying here. But 10% (90% to 80%) per hour for reading ebook only is far away from having a good battery at 4000mah. I will give it a few more days to check.
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That's 10 hours at that usage, give or take, and right around what I'm seeing, 10% per hour of actual usage as an ebook, about 2-5% per hour if it's just sitting there connected, and about 15-20%/hour with heavy surfing or game playing.
I expect if I'm careful and keep the connectivity to a bare minimum, I can stretch 12 hours out of it when travelling.
Oh, and everyone...let the battery run down to zero at least once, preferably twice. We're talking total discharge to the point the phone turns itself off, then charge to 100%. This doesn't hurt or help the battery, but it does help make the actual battery monitoring more accurate.
honestly im not too impressed with the battery. i think the standby time sucks too. the iPad doesnt do a lot of things right, but the one thing it seems to do is to last for days. i realize the battery is close to twice as big but i was just use to that. i mean sure i dont use my ipad anymore, but it seems to last forever. anway, when i first got my tab, i managed to drain it in less than 6 hours. that was right out of the box (so it proly wasnt full all the way, but close to it). i was mad when that happened. that was with the brightness on auto and everything turned off except wifi. i could be just expecting too much. i thought conditioning the battery would be good for it. so i let it die all the way and recharged it to full. today, i wouldnt say i used the tablet like i usually would (i am a HEAVY user) and its been less than 12 hours and its already at 21%. this time it was running on 3G and brightness on low (not all the way, but about 30% or so). i dont even set the brightness to the highest cuz its too bright, auto seems to work the best. maybe im just being a tough critic. i mean my nexus only lasts like 5 hours now a days cuz i just use it too much. but im so use to just picking up another battery and moving along.
been having a good battery life after draining the battery to 3% twice then charging it to full again and now it almost last me 2 days better than my old nexus one using it primarily for comic book reading and bluetooth stereo music almost 6hrs. per day and a little gaming of angry birds and a little video and youtube + browsing calling and texting really don't like games too much
@croak
i've read a forum sometime ago that it's bad to drain li-ion to 0% so i think its better to drain it to near zero before charging again as i've read it may damage the cells if you drain it to 0%
how often should we condition the battery? (let it drain near 0 and charge up)
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@croak
i've read a forum sometime ago that it's bad to drain li-ion to 0% so i think its better to drain it to near zero before charging again as i've read it may damage the cells if you drain it to 0%
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Doesn't hurt a lithium ion battery much at all, it's just another charge cycle.
But if you don't go down to the point that the device shuts off at least once, your battery meter can and often will be off by a good bit. There's never any confirmation. When yours was reading 3%, it might have actually been 8%, or it may have been 1% or less, but until you zero it out, you'll never know, and neither will the device. It'll still know when it's at 100%, but any reading below that can be inaccurate.
And keep in mind, this is NOT zero charge, it is not completely drained (the device does the auto-shutdown specifically to AVOID a complete drain).
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how often should we condition the battery? (let it drain near 0 and charge up)
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Lithium Ion batteries don't need to be conditioned. But if you want to calibrate the battery meter, you'll need to do it at least once.
Using my Tab as a 3rd device, with my 1st being a HTC Evo and my 2nd being a Motorola i890, i am very impressed with the battery. Even treating my 1st and 2nd devices as red-headed step children and my Tab being in my hands more then them, my battery is yet to go below 50% in a day, the week i have had it. Even with checking 7 different email accounts every 5 min. Also, my Tab is on Wifi a majority of the day, which i would think puts more of a drain on the battery.
i was a little worried when i found out that the battery was not accessable to be able to swap it out at some point of the day. I have (6) batteries for my Evo, 2 red and 4 blacks. Before my tab, if my evo didnt touch a charger during the day, i would use atleast 4 of those batteries during the day. Yea, the size difference between the Evo and Tab battery is different, so i figured i wouldnt need 5 more Tab batteries, but atleast 1 or 2 extra.
My only complaint with regards to Power/Charging is the length of the USB Charge/Data cable. It is super short. i bought a 6ft extention @ Staples for about $5!
The fresh Tab battery is only spoiling us and will get worse as time goes by. I have been looking for other options in the mean time. Here are a few options i found:
ZAGGsparq 4000 mAh $90 @ fommy
Mophie - Juice Pack Powerstation 3600 mAh $99 @ BestBuy
ClearMax External Battery Pack 5000 mAh $39 @ eBay (questionable)
eGear UB-181 1800 mAh $19 @ eBay
eGear S220 (3-way charge: Solar,ac&usb) 2200 mAh $39 @ eBay
Yoobao YB-602 Power Bank (White or Black) 4800mAh $49 @ eBay
Personally, i think i am going with the Yoobao or Mophie or ZAGG.
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the ZAGGsparq is 6000 mAh, NOT 4000 like i stated above...
Yoobao has only 800 mA of output, too few !
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The ZAGG has 2 x 1000 mAh. i wonder what the output is @ 1? I doubt very much that it is 1 x 2000 mAh...
Im impress with the batterry , way much better than my Ipad that I just sold ...
Hey guys, I'm using the iPhone 6 plus now and I'm seriously thinking about switching back to android. Just can't stand iOS. My only concern is the battery life since I got excellent battery life on the 6 plus. From the reviews every reviewer says it's very good battery life but I need to hear real experience from actual users here. How is the standby time? Screen on time? Please stock rom only and please post screen on time and overal battery screenshot. Thanks!!
Standby time? Lol I've been on it too much for that. Battery is excellent don't sweat the move from iphone.
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Standby time? Lol I've been on it too much for that. Battery is excellent don't sweat the move from iphone.
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My iPhone 6 plus has exceptional standby time so it gives me a feeling that the battery is endless. For example, how much juice does the note 4 lose overnight? (7-8 hours)
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Bluetooth and wifi always on, pebble connected, poor coverage area. I keep it set to pick up lte when available, but I only have edge where I live. I travel a lot though and still get good life when I actually get lte. I haven't tweaked anything (yet). Be warned that my first charge gave abysmal life. It wasn't until the second or third charge that I started getting decent life, so don't worry when your first charge runs to nothing after 8 hours.
Amen. I use powersaving, and you could always use the ultra power saving in a bind.
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My iPhone 6 plus has exceptional standby time so it gives me a feeling that the battery is endless. For example, how much juice does the note 4 lose overnight? (7-8 hours)
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Around 0 to 1 percent. Maybe 2 if I get a bunch of notifications. My fiance has the iPhone 6 plus, trust me my note 4 destroys her iPhone in battery. With light to moderate use I'm easily getting 2 full days ( I send roughly 500-600 texts, maybe 20 emails, at least 20 phone calls, navigate to appointments and I'm always on pandora....also I have a moto 360 connected all day). When I'm doing heavy usage I get about 24 hours or so. But my heavy usage is actually HEAVY. I can almost guarantee you don't use your phone more than me. You will be fine with battery life.
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Around 0 to 1 percent. Maybe 2 if I get a bunch of notifications. My fiance has the iPhone 6 plus, trust me my note 4 destroys her iPhone in battery. With light to moderate use I'm easily getting 2 full days ( I send roughly 500-600 texts, maybe 20 emails, at least 20 phone calls, navigate to appointments and I'm always on pandora....also I have a moto 360 connected all day). When I'm doing heavy usage I get about 24 hours or so. But my heavy usage is actually HEAVY. I can almost guarantee you don't use your phone more than me. You will be fine with battery life.
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Thanks for the info!! I glad it does well with Bluetooth since I might buy a smart watch later. I intend to let Bluetooth and gps on,plus streaming a lot of spotify. Time to ditch the 6 plus.
Brightness at 50%. GPS on, Sync on, MultiWindow on.
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Excellent battery life. I use my phone almost all day and night. FB, messaging, music, texting, phone calls, camera, reading, photo editing, youtube. I use it extensively on a daily basis during the week. On weekends I don't use it as much so I have more than half charge by Monday.
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I turn on power saving mode at 100% when i go to bed, and when I wake up 5 hrs later I'm usually at 99% or 98%. Without power saving mode, I wake up to 96%.
I can easily get through a full day at Disney World (about 8 hrs) with light usage - mixed use of wifi and 4g, checking the disney app and checking my farmville farm, and checking feedly. I usually leave Disney with about 50% juice left. Brightness on auto, wifi on, bluetooth off, gps on.
I've tested streaming as well. On 4g, starting at 100% charge, I can stream about 4 hour long episodes on Netflix, on Plex it's usually a little longer than that before it hits 50%. At home on wifi, I can stream about double that amount before hitting 50%.
I'm pretty happy about the battery life, and the best part is I can always remove the battery if this one goes bad, or bring spares on trips. I can live with Touchwiz if it means I can have removable batteries, sd card, and the pen.
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My iPhone 6 plus has exceptional standby time so it gives me a feeling that the battery is endless. For example, how much juice does the note 4 lose overnight? (7-8 hours)
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I've done multiple tests on this. I will charge it up at night 100% then leave it off charger for the night, look in the morning. I'm averaging 3-4% discharge per night which is not too bad. My Nexus 5 was a ridiculous 10-15%. Still nothing close to iPhone that just doesn't go down if you don't use it.
I leave all things on. Don't really want a phone that acts like a 2002 device.
Hey all,
Ok So My battery is at 23% with 4 hours 45 min of screen time and it's been of the charger for 1 day 20 hrs 15 min and 20 sec
The phone charge so fast and it is amazing. I dont know if I want to do that in the long run bc fast ch arging is bad on battery!
I have a nice battery charger and it says charging the battery slow will last longer per charge and longer life cycle itself too.
So what do you do?
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The phone charge so fast and it is amazing. I dont know if I want to do that in the long run bc fast ch arging is bad on battery!
I have a nice battery charger and it says charging the battery slow will last longer per charge and longer life cycle itself too.
So what do you do?
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I returned the iPhone and have used the Note for 2 days now. Battery is... Well, not as good as I expected. At least not comparable to the iPhone 6 plus. But I don't sweat on this since it does take quote some time for Android battery to kick in. I kinda wish Samsung didn't push the pixels since it's truly a battery drain. Also the GPS drains battery too. These 2 functions on the iPhone are very efficient.
And yes fast charge is wonderful. I say don't worry about the battery since it's fairly cheap.
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I returned the iPhone and have used the Note for 2 days now. Battery is... Well, not as good as I expected. At least not comparable to the iPhone 6 plus. But I don't sweat on this since it does take quote some time for Android battery to kick in. I kinda wish Samsung didn't push the pixels since it's truly a battery drain. Also the GPS drains battery too. These 2 functions on the iPhone are very efficient.
And yes fast charge is wonderful. I say don't worry about the battery since it's fairly cheap.
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Simple fixes.
1.) Make sure you screen brightness is on auto
2.) Put on a background that is dark, or mostly black
3.) Set your location to device only (GPS only)
4.) Turn the run time to ART
You will easily see an increase in battery life.
Below is my normal battery life. And an example of a good background to use.
Had about 5.5 hours of screen on time.
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I actually switched from GPS only to power saving. I have quite a few email syncing tho. One interesting thing... Are you sure we should be on art? I heard its not fully compatible.
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I actually switched from GPS only to power saving. I have quite a few email syncing tho. One interesting thing... Are you sure we should be on art? I heard its not fully compatible.
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ART bogs down my phone so I don't use it. Also during boot up, it take forever to finish as it tries to optimize some apps every time. About 39 on mine. This makes my phone super hot and there's no way to bypass this process. I say ART is a bad idea.