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I have this phone and the Nexus one. I can't tell you for sure what real world use gets you, but here's what I found today.
I had a class to go to. I took my MT3GS with me to the class. I have the HTC Flip Clock, as well as twitter, my texts, GPS on and minimal use during the breaks, and Silent Time Pro keeping it silent. I got home and my phone was at 96%.
My Nexus was left at the house. It has Beautiful Widgets updating the weather every hour. It has no facebook, no twitter, nothing that will sync other than my email. GPS and WiFi were off, as was the display. The only thing running on the phone besides beautiful widgets was Silent Time Pro. When I got home, I checked my N1, and it had fallen to 69% with absolutely no usage while I was gone.
Like I said, I dunno what real world use would get you on the MT3GS, but it seems far superior to the N1 at this point. All things considered, I think the N1 even with the faster processor should have fared better, as it wasn't used and basically nothing was on, as opposed to the MT3GS having GPS, a few things syncing, a few texts, and more programs running in the background.
This (to me) either means that A) The MT3GS manages power better OR B) Beautiful Widgets takes up far to much processor and battery power. Maybe I'll test it on my MT3GS later this week when I have some time off and see.
Anyway, there's my opinion. Take it for what you will.
I'm running the HTC flip clock, a few toggle widgets, the FeedR widget, Taskiller widget, and a calendar widget, and from fully charged to the end of my work day (few songs, few youtube vids, some texting, browsing facebook, etc etc) by battery is at about 25 percent.
I hate to say it, but my old Motorola Cliq would play Pandora through my entire work shift and still leave me with as much or more battery life than the slide does.
Honestly, not impressed with battery life so far.
My battery life has been ok, not great, some facebook, some twitter, a few hundred texts. some interwebbing. I can get around 10-12 hours from a charge it seems. which in my opinion is crap lol. i had a rooted cliq before this that was running only the basics in the background(killed all the bloatware and extra crap), i could get almost 2 days outta that thing.
I thinks once we get root and kill all the bloat and stuff running in the background, battery life will go through the roof. A vanilla 2.1 or 2.2 will prolly do wonders for battery life.
just my 2 cents
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My battery life has been ok, not great, some facebook, some twitter, a few hundred texts. some interwebbing. I can get around 10-12 hours from a charge it seems. which in my opinion is crap lol. i had a rooted cliq before this that was running only the basics in the background(killed all the bloatware and extra crap), i could get almost 2 days outta that thing.
I thinks once we get root and kill all the bloat and stuff running in the background, battery life will go through the roof. A vanilla 2.1 or 2.2 will prolly do wonders for battery life.
just my 2 cents
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I almost feel like raising my hand and calling bs on 2 days with the cliq'r but i dont know you.
the cliq i used would get about 10 hours with use and 19 or so without use.
my g1 would get about 9 - 18
the mytouch 10 - 18
the old garbage samsung flip and sony flip phones 2 - 3 days.
this slide im averaging 10 - 12 with heavy use and 17 - 19 without much use.
keep in mind only had it for 2 - 3 days since release date but i did drain the battery and recharge it a few times the first day to break it in.
so far id say its about average on battery life.
i charge overnight
then either while driving, or working
then i connect to pc at home
with a full battery in the morning
and a slight top off mid day i never run out of battery life.
Hehe with my cliq I only had only the essentials running(there's a few custom roms out). So it went for almost 2 days. You can get the roms off modmymoto forums if you wanna check em out. The key to the cliq is killing motoblur =). Pm me if you want info shadow
I'm happy with battery life. First day I played with a lot, browsed a bunch and installed many apps and got around 12 hours(most I'd ever get from G1). Today I'm going on almost 24, took it off the charger at 4am after letting it fully charge, didnt start using it till around 10am and at 10am the battery still read 100% which I thought was wrong. Right now its at 17% (still havent gotten the 15% warning) at 1:30am, I'm sure it'll make it till 4. Sent around 50 text today, installed around two apps, and didnt do much voice talking or browsing but I did at least a good 30 mins worth from both. I periodically kill all with advanced task manager (except sense).
i charge overnight
then either while driving, or working
then i connect to pc at home
with a full battery in the morning
and a slight top off mid day i never run out of battery life.
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Amen. I carry a 3 in. USB to Micro USB cord that charges me at home, in my car and at work.
Those that are disapponted by the battery life are being unrealistic with their expectations. Power is too easy to come by to waste time *****ing about it. Makes you look too lazy or good to plug it in.
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I purchased mine yesterday,and it sat on the charger overnight, and read a full charge in the morning.
6 hours 42 minutes later, it gave me a "battery life is at 26%" warning. WiFi, bluetooth and GPS were all off (all day)
I have it setup to check my email and facebook, but I had my Kaiser doing that and more for 2 days at a time with a smaller battery...
Usage-
55% Display (was set to auto)
32% Voice calls (20m 21s)
9% cell standby (6h 44m 59s)
4% Phone Idle (5h 10m 4s)
This seems absurd! If tomorrow doesn't do better, I'm taking it back.
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Amen. I carry a 3 in. USB to Micro USB cord that charges me at home, in my car and at work.
Those that are disapponted by the battery life are being unrealistic with their expectations. Power is too easy to come by to waste time *****ing about it. Makes you look too lazy or good to plug it in.
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.Realistic ... I never expect an electrical device that CONSTINTLY draws power to have a great battery, I dont race my car all day or let it idle in my driveway and wonder why theres no gas in the tank. a battery holds a resorce that regardless if yo like it or not .. will deplete over time. Advanced task killer is a great tool to get rid of th7e programs rnning in th7e back grond. to save batt life.
.Sorry for any mispellings, my laptops keyboard is taking a crap on me after it got rained on last night.
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.Realistic ... I never expect an electrical device that CONSTINTLY draws power to have a great battery, I dont race my car all day or let it idle in my driveway and wonder why theres no gas in the tank. a battery holds a resorce that regardless if yo like it or not .. will deplete over time. Advanced task killer is a great tool to get rid of th7e programs rnning in th7e back grond. to save batt life.
.Sorry for any mispellings, my laptops keyboard is taking a crap on me after it got rained on last night.
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I don't think my expectations were high. Most people outside our community think "only a day" is bad battery life. I expected to be able to make it through 1 day without going dead. Being 3/4 drained after only ~20 minutes of talk time is absurd, especially since I didn't use the web or IM, etc. Just POP3 email every 30 minutes, and I uploaded 4 or 5 photos to facebook.
No Wifi, bluetooth, or GPS...
I just wanted to come back and reply now that I've had a couple days to play with the phone. I've been using it for about 16 hours straight now, quite a few texts, 5-6 short phone calls, and maybe 20 minutes of 3G usage, I'm at 66%. I haven't had this phone on the charger at all.
On the other hand, my Nexus, which has been on the charger all except maybe 2 hours in that same amount of time is already at 88%.
I think we have a clear winner in the battery life category. At least from my tests.
I am certain now that I have a defective phone.
I killed all running tasks, manually logged out of all IM clinents, etc, and then took it off the charger. I've made 12 minutes of calls today, it's only been unplugged for 4 1/2 hours and it's at ~%60 battery life.
12 minutes? Thats got to be a defect.
But, they are apparently out of stock... I might end up with a Touch Pro 2 or a HD2 after all...
Definitely not right .. I'm at 85 percent since 9am (7pm now), light use again though but its stand-by time is impeccable.. try and get another one, I can tell you the HD2 battery life is much, much worse, my father got it at the same time I got the slide and he's charging 2x a day. Mind you this guy would go the entire day with bluetooth,wifi, and gps on his G1. Oh and the usability of windows, well its just blah.. not trying to be biased at all. I have my brightness at 30 percent, syncng gmail only, and for widgets I have the curvefish battery widget, pure calander widget, power widget, and audiomanger. No bluetooth, gps or wifi on.
Have you tried going into the about phone in settings, and seeing whats draining the battery (click battery use)? See what cell standby is. Are you using 3g? May I suggest downloading anycut > new shortcut, activity, phone info. From there, open the short cut and you can adjust if you want 3g only (wcdma) or edge (gsm) only. Try setting it at one of the only settings, your phone might be dropping and picking up signal.
First post here, Hello World!
I have had mind for almost a week now. At first I was averaging about 1/2 day on a full charge. This was with Gmail syncing, no WIFI/GPS/BT on. Mild surfing, about a dozen SMS and 15 minutes of talk time.
I installed Advanced Task Killer and set it to shut off my apps on screen close. I am now able to go 17 hours ( a full day for me ) and I still have 15% left. This was with BT on for about 30 minutes of talk time, WIFI on for about 1 hour at the office, GPS on for clock/weather updates every 3 hours.
Overall, I am happy with the battery life on this device now. I am wondering if it took a while for the battery to calibrate and ATK helping with running apps.
I love this phone!
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I am certain now that I have a defective phone.
I killed all running tasks, manually logged out of all IM clinents, etc, and then took it off the charger. I've made 12 minutes of calls today, it's only been unplugged for 4 1/2 hours and it's at ~%60 battery life.
12 minutes? Thats got to be a defect.
But, they are apparently out of stock... I might end up with a Touch Pro 2 or a HD2 after all...
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Sounds about like me. I don't use my phone to call much (go figure) but I listened to 15 min. of music, logged onto facebook for 10 minutes (3g) and sent probably 15 texts, and I was at about 65% in the 5 hours I had it unplugged.
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Sounds about like me. I don't use my phone to call much (go figure) but I listened to 15 min. of music, logged onto facebook for 10 minutes (3g) and sent probably 15 texts, and I was at about 65% in the 5 hours I had it unplugged.
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Here's a question, Did you all plug it in and let it charge to full when you got it BEFORE using it?
Sure did. Ive made that mistake before, but I do that with all phones now, even though with a lithium battery, it shouldn't make that much difference.
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Sure did. Ive made that mistake before, but I do that with all phones now, even though with a lithium battery, it shouldn't make that much difference.
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Yea, I guess im just superstitious but I always do that with a new device. Have you tried recalibrating the battery? Charge to full, leave plugged in for like an hour after it says it's fully charged, wipe battery status, reboot, use normally? (if you can wipe battery status int he menu's without root) I'm picking my MYT3G slide up this weekend so I don't know if it can be done or not yet.
i think the battery life is great, i take the phone off of the charger around 9am. while im at work from 11aM-7pM i check my updates every hr or so. from 2-330 i listen to music also on my way home(7-8) and when i finally get back home round 8ish my battery is at about 58% then around midnight i get the 30% message. around 130-2am its at about 12% so i get 17hrs with medium usage
My battery life isn't too bad. 17+ hours since unplugged of moderate use (but only like 1% left): Display 41% (on Auto), Wi-Fi 25% (worked at home, kept on wifi for data instead of 3G), Voice Calls 22% (35 minutes; 14 calls), Standby 8% and Idle 4%. I think if you're more active in process management, it will help with life. I also just switched Brightness from Auto to a manual setting of about 20%. I un-synced Tweet and Weather and am running very few widgets, but keep GPS on. My K9 Mail syncs on an hourly basis and Gmail with Calendar and Contacts auto-syncs. Overall, MUCH better than G1.
Can any of you dudes that have the phone comment on your experiences with battery life? I'd imagine it would be pretty decent because of the smaller display size and lower cpu frequency, but I've read some reviews that it's mediocre.
Anyone have it last longer than a day on a full charge?
the battery life is better than the backflip I can say that much, but I dont think it will make it 12 hours without being recharged. I actually dont use the voice services that much either.
I would like it even more if the battery at least lasted thru the day.
MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT... the speaker on this phone SUCKS!!!!!!!!! it's a shame, I really REALLY love this phone.
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the battery life is better than the backflip I can say that much, but I dont think it will make it 12 hours without being recharged. I actually dont use the voice services that much either.
I would like it even more if the battery at least lasted thru the day.
MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT... the speaker on this phone SUCKS!!!!!!!!! it's a shame, I really REALLY love this phone.
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Man, not even 12 hours? I'd hate to see what the battery life on an Evo 4g is like. Is it just because of the 1200mAh battery or is this something inherent to Android?
6 hrs 57 mins talk time. frm real world testing.
i read a review on pcmag web page and the reviewer test the battery life and said it got 7 hours talk time. in real world testing. so its as good as smart phones get. better than a iphone or any other android phone thats out.
Batter Life is GOOD!
Ok....I am new to the android universe as the Aria is my first android phone. However in response to batter life it is really good. I have a friend who has the EVO can can only go about 5 - 6 hours before charging.
I turned the screen brightness on my Aria down to about 30% and I yesterday I went through an entire day of work (messing with the phone a lil) then went home and messed with it for a good amount of time (1 1/2 hrs). When i went to charge it that night it had 35% battery life left.
Today I left at 7:30 am and it is now 3:30 pm and the batter says it is full. Now this isn't a percentage app or anything but the batter on the phone says full. Granted i only have 2G where I live (Edge) and I am not using wifi or anything, plus i haven't messed around with the phone too much today, but that is pretty darn good if you ask me.
Here's what I used mine for yesterday:
Off charger at 7a.m.
During day I estimate that I used:
20 min voice, 25 or so sms, several trips and comments on Engadget, a dozen or more FB app uses, downloaded 2 entire songs via 3G, 15 min of browsing. Multiple email accts, fb and twitter accts syncing throughout the day.
When I left work at 6p.m. I was at 47% according to battery app. After some app downloads and a little surfing, 25 min of voice calls later it was at 25% when I went to bed at Midnight.
It's better than my Pre Plus and better than the Backflip for sure. I'd say that if you're a heavy user you may want a car charger and/or an extra wall charger to be on the safe side. I'd say that for any modern Smartphone though. I'm very happy with it, myself.
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Here's what I used mine for yesterday:
Off charger at 7a.m.
During day I estimate that I used:
20 min voice, 25 or so sms, several trips and comments on Engadget, a dozen or more FB app uses, downloaded 2 entire songs via 3G, 15 min of browsing. Multiple email accts, fb and twitter accts syncing throughout the day.
When I left work at 6p.m. I was at 47% according to battery app. After some app downloads and a little surfing, 25 min of voice calls later it was at 25% when I went to bed at Midnight.
It's better than my Pre Plus and better than the Backflip for sure. I'd say that if you're a heavy user you may want a car charger and/or an extra wall charger to be on the safe side. I'd say that for any modern Smartphone though. I'm very happy with it, myself.
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My experience is near identical to this.
As for today it left the charger at 9AM, only 10 or so texts today, on standby the rest of the time and it still says 100%
Hmm.. I guess it's highly dependent on how you use your device and how often you have it sync with online services.
yeah, i find it hard to believe some of these numbers. I don't use my phone much for voice. I dont use wifi or bluetooth, i will trigger the gps, and maybe my screen is too bright, I do about 20-30 text messages and yes, some downloading. I get a pretty good signal where I live so I dont think my battery is being eaten up by the radio searching and trying to connect to towers. I'm serious, if I get 7 hours out of this thing I would be super pleased.
I used to this though, I have had many smartphones over the year.. i just need to purchase all new accessories to keep the device charged as much as possible. ( additional charger, car charger..)
The battery life is not as good as my tilt2..but blows the backflip (i owned for about 3 weeks) in the water.
I think the battery life is just as good or moderately better than most smart phones. Vs the 3Gs I think it's slightly better, Vs the backflip I had for a week, it's way better IMO.
Just placed an order. Hey as long as it's better than my G1. I'm happier than a pig in mud! G1 is the worst when it comes to battery life.
Battery seems to be good. I charge my phone at work while it is on. I'm running pandora constantly at work as well. Yesturday i left work and was playing with the phone from around 6-11, using wifi, 3g, bluetooth, some gps, screen on the whole time, multiple apps open, downloaded a lot of stuff, syncing on for weather, gmail, contacts, news, facebook, and a whole bunch of other stuff. That brought the battery from 100% to 24%. I then killed all tasks that weren't needed, turned off all radios except phone and 3g, and let it sit overnight. It only dropped to 23% by 6:30am.
It seems to do really well with normal use. With heavy use the battry falls, just like any smartphone.
my battery lasted all day yesterday with what i would consider pretty heavy usage. i'm very pleased with the battery so far.
I've has mine since SUnday- now wednesday and the battery is HORRID for me.
I pull it off the charger @ 6am, and now its 12 noon and i have 40% left. I don't get on Facebook much til after 4pm, Use iMobsters sporadically for short amts of time, MAY browse the web if a page is blocked @ work, but that's it. Dont talk on it here @ work.
I dont get it!! I changed my screen brightness???
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I've has mine since SUnday- now wednesday and the battery is HORRID for me.
I pull it off the charger @ 6am, and now its 12 noon and i have 40% left. I don't get on Facebook much til after 4pm, Use iMobsters sporadically for short amts of time, MAY browse the web if a page is blocked @ work, but that's it. Dont talk on it here @ work.
I dont get it!! I changed my screen brightness???
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are you using a bunch of widgets on your home screens?
Mine came off of charger at about 7am and it's now at 72% at 9pm. I didn't use it much today as I was busy at work, but it's still checks my email, fb and twitter throughout the day. I do have the Friendstream widget up as well. Overall I'm good with the battery on mine.
My brightness is set right in the middle with auto brightness turned off.
battery life is pretty descent coming from an HTC Tilt 2. especially with 3g constantly on. i pretty much got similar battery life as the Tilt 2 (without 3g on..3g ate through the battery like a cop with a doughnut). i'd estimate you could probably last 18-20hrs if there was some way to turn 3g off...that includes wifi off, gps off, and auto backlight dimming off.
Advanced Task Killer also helps extend the battery life.
gotta say for how snappy it is, the clarity of the screen, and no lagging..this compact smartphone with it's smaller than typical smartphone battery packs some punch. VERY happy with the upgrade to Android
I wonder if there'll be an extended battery for this thing that doesn't require an enlarged back. I remember my Tilt had something upwards of like 1800mAh that was the same size as the stock battery.
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are you using a bunch of widgets on your home screens?
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is it better to put a app link on the homescreen instead of a widget?
i only have a few that run on the homescreen other than the ones that were pre-installed there.
If you plan on using the phone for anything other than an occasional phone call, you will need to charge it at least once before the end of the day. I just got mine a few days ago, so I've been spending a lot of time toying with it, listening to pandora, downloading apps etc... It's almost 3pm and I'm at 30%. I had the gps on while I played 18 on Sunday, used it with freecaddie for a half decent rangefinder. It made it through the round, about 5 hours. I had to charge it when I got home, battery was at 15%. I think it's fairly typical for a smartphone, a spare micro-usb cable at the office and in the car are certainly going to be a necessity if you are a heavy user.
The battery meter is saying 55% after 4 days without a single charge!
I have used the phone for very light phone calls, some messages and a few minutes on the internet, but very light use.
I just wanted to share with others who would like to know the battery life.
I would say excellent & a lot better than expected, best battery i've ever had in a phone so far...
what are your settings wifi on or off data connections off or on using 2g or 3g mode give us some setup samples
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The battery meter is saying 55% after 4 days without a single charge!
I have used the phone for very light phone calls, some messages and a few minutes on the internet, but very light use.
I just wanted to share with others who would like to know the battery life.
I would say excellent & a lot better than expected, best battery i've ever had in a phone so far...
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Now that is dam good, Yes please tell what your set up is regarding data wifi and such
Lol, I knew you guys would say that! I am on 2g, no data, wifi was used for about 10-15 minutes in the last 4 days, around 15-20 mins voice calls and around 10-15 sms messages.
As I said before, VERY lightly used in the last few days as I also have the HTC HD2 and use that more for voice calls/wifi...
I last charged the Streak Monday and today it's Friday.
Battery is now reading 54%
I reckon I can get a week out of it with light use!
However, if I was to watch movies, listen to music, wifi, calls then I will get max 2 days...
Lies! I have to charge mine every single day, sometimes twice a day!
The max it's ever gone is 23 hours and a bit on the "last plugged in" counter thingy...
Even over night, it'll be at 88% when I sleep, wake up and it's already on 60% or lower.
Although I do always have wifi or H/3G on...and constant use with internet/facebook/sms/calling. If I'm not using it for one I'm using it for the other or all at the same time!
It's the kind of battery life I expected with it tbh though.
@ dairy u best be trolling ... wifi on while u sleep helps get u cancer and also complainin about low battery is like goin back to the car dealer sayin it eats double as much as advertised(altho u did rev it 6000 all the time)
OT: 90% of the phones can hang out 1 week without charge since 4-5 years , its no big news
Yeah this could be true if you have no use for this kind of phone. Go back to the Moto Razr! I have to charge mine everyday. WiFi on non-stop, Bluetooth on non-stop, always on the web, texting, and watching movies in bed.
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@ dairy u best be trolling ... wifi on while u sleep helps get u cancer and also complainin about low battery is like goin back to the car dealer sayin it eats double as much as advertised(altho u did rev it 6000 all the time)
OT: 90% of the phones can hang out 1 week without charge since 4-5 years , its no big news
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Not trolling at all mate, firstly the Streak automatically turns off Wifi when you lock the screen, so nothing to worry about there while I'm sleeping it's just running 3G. And secondly, I said it's got exactly the battery life I expected!
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Not trolling at all mate, firstly the Streak automatically turns off Wifi when you lock the screen, so nothing to worry about there while I'm sleeping it's just running 3G. And secondly, I said it's got exactly the battery life I expected!
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tbh do you really *need* 3g on when you're asleep?
can't you collect your sms/emai/tweets/etc etc when you get up?
I do that, charge it, go to bed read turn off connections, read an ebook for a while and next morning it's 98%
it then takes a couple of seconds to connect and catch up with all the meaningless inanities that pass for social intercourse amongst my mates.
I think what the OP is trying to get at is what the streak CAN do..Yeah phones last a week like the razor...but thats not got a screen this big! Or this good...Thats the huge batt killer...Im sure there will be situations for example when I go abroad where I will hardly use the device and certainly not use wi-fi or 3G and its nice to know it can last a while...
Yeah phones could do this 4-5 years ago...but im pretty sure no smartphones with huge touch screens could..
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@ dairy u best be trolling ... wifi on while u sleep helps get u cancer and also complainin about low battery is like goin back to the car dealer sayin it eats double as much as advertised(altho u did rev it 6000 all the time)
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That's the response I was looking for. Getting a good few days out of the Streak is very possible.
Supposing you are a very light user, say 2-3 sms a day, 5-10 mins of voice calls a day, no music/videos or pictures, no 3g/data usage, and wifi, say a few mins a day, and lastly you turn your phone off at night so it's only used around 12 hours a day.
Should you follow the above, you WILL get at least 5 days of battery...
At first, I was to use wifi for around 30 mins a day, watch some videos for a few mins, etc. My battery would last around 2 days.
However, I last charged it the previous monday for the third time and I really wanted to see how good the battery really is.
You will ALWAYS have people saying the battery is good or it's crap.
I didn't know who to believe so I tested it out myself.
As I said previously, I am testing the battery simply by ONLY USING THE PHONE WHEN I NEED TO...
No video's, no music/pictures, no 3g, no gps, no data, etc.
Only a few minutes per day voice calls, maybe 10 minutes usage of wifi in the last few days, etc.
The Streak has been in standby mode 95% of the time and not used/touched.
It is now saturday, day number 5 and I still have 48% battery left...
Here is how it went:
Day 1 - Battery was charged 100%
Day 2 - Battery read 92%
Day 3 - Battery read 78%
Day 4 - Battery read around 64% (cannot remember)
Day 5 - Battery is 48% as of now...
I recon I will get a week out of it or more...
My HTC HD2 is around 18% and i've hardly used it, it's lasted only 3 days...
I find it amazing that Dell managed to make a 5" monster tablet pc which has such good battery.
I know som people on this forum disbelieve me, but try it for yourself and you will be amazed to see it actually does last quite a while.
Do what I said above and see for yourself...
It's standby time is excellent, especially when HARDLY used and the screen is off 95% of the time.
Wifi is the REAL killer for the Streak though, on one occasion, the battery was 72 percent, after TWO minutes of using wifi, it dropped to 68%
It is now the 6th day without charge and there is still 39% left...
I can comfortably swear by god I am telling the truth and the Streak was last charged last monday.
Today, which is saturday, day 6, still shows 39%
How cool is that? It is far better than my HTC HD2 battery which lasts 2-3 days MAX with little use...
That's doesnt surprise me. Dell Streak battery is the best one in every smart phone batteries I ever bought. But I wonder why you bought the Streak if only for light use llike that. I bought smart phones, high-end phones so sometimes (if not most of the time) I can play with it, surfing, playing games, trying apps, tweaking. If for only light use like you, I just want a normal 3G with wifi phone
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That's doesnt surprise me. Dell Streak battery is the best one in every smart phone batteries I ever bought. But I wonder why you bought the Streak if only for light use llike that. I bought smart phones, high-end phones so sometimes (if not most of the time) I can play with it, surfing, playing games, trying apps, tweaking. If for only light use like you, I just want a normal 3G with wifi phone
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I do use the streak for wifi, video's and images.
I only hardly used it this week just to test out the battery. Some people said it's good and others said it's bad.
That is why I hardly used it at all this week, just to see how the battery performs under very light usage.
It really did surprise me as I've not charged it for almost 7 days and there is still 24% left in the battery...
It should last one more day then it will need to be charged again...
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I use mine for about 4 hours a day of heavy use. I browse the web and emails and some music so 4 to 5 hours a day is a lot of phone use. Replying to 200 text messages and 30 minutes of phone calls. Wifi when I am at home and I have wifi sleep set to never and the only thing I have syncing automatically are my Google apps like mail, contacts and calendars. Even with all this use I can get 2 good days out of this phone. I do have auto brightness off and screen to lowest setting which to me is still pretty bright and vibrant.
kevinwatson5 said:
I use mine for about 4 hours a day of heavy use. I browse the web and emails and some music so 4 to 5 hours a day is a lot of phone use. Replying to 200 text messages and 30 minutes of phone calls. Wifi when I am at home and I have wifi sleep set to never and the only thing I have syncing automatically are my Google apps like mail, contacts and calendars. Even with all this use I can get 2 good days out of this phone. I do have auto brightness off and screen to lowest setting which to me is still pretty bright and vibrant.
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That's really good Kevin, since you also use it heavily for 4-5 hours constant...
I will charge my streak when I get home this evening from work as my battery is reading 23%
It will be charged for the first time in 7 days, brilliant I would say!
Reason it lasted so long was because I used my Streak for a few minutes a day, not hours!
My screen is also set to 80% brightness but was used for around 30 mins in the last week...
Crikey, I use mine varying amounts and most days its either fully depleted by 10pm or not far off. 40% is often stand by, 50% call stand by (not sure what th e difference is), and 10% others. The only way I could get 2 days is to turn it off fir one of them. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or do ihave a duff battery?
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Crikey, I use mine varying amounts and most days its either fully depleted by 10pm or not far off. 40% is often stand by, 50% call stand by (not sure what th e difference is), and 10% others. The only way I could get 2 days is to turn it off fir one of them. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or do ihave a duff battery?
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You must either use a lot of wifi/3g or videos/screen...
Most days I only touch my Streak for a few minutes, only when I need to.
90% of the time I do not touch it and it's in standby mode, that's why it lasts so long.
If I was to use wifi for 30 mins, some youtube & video's then I will also get 1 or 2 days if I'm lucky...
However, considering the size of it, great battery...
fotgot to mention
I work in a place with no wifi in the break room and I am on edge not 3g. At home I use wifi and get 3g but my primary usage is at work. Its still very fast ob edge and i have had otber smart phones not get as good of battery as this device under the same circumstances.
I forgot to mention I ALWAYS turn my Streak off before I sleep, around 11-12 at night...
Reason for this is because I get the odd idiot who call me at 5-6 in the morning and wake me up!
I do not turn it on till I get to work as I travel on the underground. There is no point to turn it on when theres no reception.
The Streak is therefore turned on only 10-12 hours a day, another good reason why it lasts so long!
I hardly talk on it too and when I use wifi, it's usually for a few mins only.
Does anyone agree that the battery life for Samsung Focus is really short?
I use my phone to check emails, browse websites and listen to music during lunch, dinner and on the road. The total hands on time per day is roughly 2hrs. But if I only charge it overnight, not anytime else, it only last until right after dinner.
It unacceptably short comparing to my ex-phone, HTC Touch Pro2.
Anyone experiencing the same thing?
Who should take care of this issue? Samsung or Microsoft?
My phone on moderate use will last me 1.5-2 days but I usually charge it at the end of the night regardless. In the first couple of days I did notice that the battery would drain pretty fast but seemed to get better after that.
Mine will typically go from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. or so while still having the battery indicator having something inside. That's with it being used all day as an mp3 player, triaging email, web surfing, and Twitter.
When you get a new phone the battery has to go through a couple of cycles charging for the phone to calibrate. Also, keep in mind things that drain battery: light theme, streaming, basically downloading massive amounts of data. Make you sure you discharge your battery to about 10% and fully charge your battery a couple of times. Try not to go below 10% not good for battery. Make sure you are using wall adapter ac to charge. Charging from a pc is very slow and generally doesn't fully charge unless you leave it plugged for a LONG time.
Light use I'd say 1.5 days
Moderate 1 full day
Heavy use 7-8 hours
With light use i get about 4 to 5 days, heavy use i get about a day or two. Check to see if you have location services (GPS) running, wifi, etc as the more parasitic things you can turn off the better the battery life of course.
Mine lasts all day for me. A long 16+ hour day with moderate usage leaves me at about 30-35% battery. I keep Wi-Fi turned off and bluetooth always on. Not bad for a smart phone. I've seen phones far worse than this (Sprint Epic anyone?).
My battery last abour 8 - 9 hours, and I'm running for a outlet by then. But I'm a heavy user. Bt headphones with the music playing, twitter constantly, facebook, text, email, IE..., pretty much all of those 8 - 9 hours.
I have just about everything that I can find turned on, and have been using my new toy as much as possible. With that, I'm having to charge about twice a day, which is roughly where I was at with my Tilt2. Your battery drainage really sounds like it's normal, and likely related entirely to how much crap you have turned on and running in the background. The biggest drainer of the battery in any phone is gonna be the radio, so if you want to improve battery life, turn off stuff that connects to the network and set your email/weather/tweets/facebook to refresh much less often. Select "as items arrive" for your hotmail and Gmail so that they push instead of pull. Check your basics first before trying to find a customer service rep to chew out.
I'm happy with my battery life. I just charge it every night like I have every phone Ive owned. I use my phones as my morning alarm clock. I have all location services active, and i activate WiFi when usable. At work I leave it plugged in to stream music and podcast.
Coming from Android and Droid Incredible, the Focus is awesome on battery. I have no problem lasting the full day. I charge my phone each night overnight.
It's a mixed bag for me. the first few days when I was just getting to know it, making calls and just goofing around with basic functionality the battery was lasting very long and things were looking great.
Once I started using the data and other apps, the battery drains very fast IMO. I mean play a 2D game for half an hour and I won’t make it through the day.
Right now I’m not digging it that if I’m out and about I feel like I need to avoid using the phone like I would like to.
I’m really looking forward to being able to do things like being able to easily disable 3g.
I'm most certainly happy with my battery life. After using a nexus one, xperia x10 and the galaxy s I have nothing to complain about with the focus....just lovin wp7 at the moment.
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It's a mixed bag for me. the first few days when I was just getting to know it, making calls and just goofing around with basic functionality the battery was lasting very long and things were looking great.
Once I started using the data and other apps, the battery drains very fast IMO. I mean play a 2D game for half an hour and I won’t make it through the day.
Right now I’m not digging it that if I’m out and about I feel like I need to avoid using the phone like I would like to.
I’m really looking forward to being able to do things like being able to easily disable 3g.
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Games are always battery killers, especially on AMOLED screens that tend to get the best battery life with black interfaces, since they actually don't light the pixels up if they're supposed to be black.
Coming from an iPhone 4 i can't complain. Battery on that was amazing. The focus doesn't Last at long but I can't say im disappointed. It's actually better than expected.
It is normal for the battery to die after browsing the internet for about 3-4 hours?? Not happy about that.
Battery life
It depends on how the phone has been used. Screen is the biggest power drain, than the radio (3G data, WiFI, location services).
With all on and moderate usage (gaming for 30 mins, a few calls, and playing with the phone for an hour) I get about 12 -13 hours.
With all off and a few TXT and calls (about 10 -12) I get about 76 hours.
Not bad I guess.
This phone is better than iPhone 3GS.
jimenez16 said:
My phone on moderate use will last me 1.5-2 days but I usually charge it at the end of the night regardless. In the first couple of days I did notice that the battery would drain pretty fast but seemed to get better after that.
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I agree, I was loosing full battery within half a day with my normal usage for the first 4-6 days... Then after a while, now I can go for 2 days without charging under normal usage...
The battery life on this thing rocks!
Zhariak said:
I agree, I was loosing full battery within half a day with my normal usage for the first 4-6 days... Then after a while, now I can go for 2 days without charging under normal usage...
The battery life on this thing rocks!
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I use my Focus heavily for reading texts off of PDFs and browse the internet using WiFi most of the day, and in my free times I listen to music so I use it quite heavily. Yesterday I ran it through my routine day and got about 14-15 hours of full operational time from 100% charge as I took off from my dormitory to university to 0% half-way back to my dorm. My only problem is the length of time it has to be plugged in to charge. Its pretty slow, but that may be because of the large battery capacity to begin with.
the battery life is just OK, hopefully like with other cellphone updates maybe battery life will be improved at least somewhat, we can hope....
I have two of these things. Mine I use a lot and while the battery lasts less than my old 3GS, I am getting used to it and end up keeping hooked up to a charger pretty often.
My wife's on the other hand is baffling. She hardly uses the thing, maybe a call every day or two. For a while there we were getting about 3 days from a charge and then it would still have around 30%-50% left.
Now in the last few days, it drains the battery completely overnight. And I mean completely its totally shut down and dead. That’s with wifi and Bluetooth off and virtually no usage. Not sure what is happening, but this really sucks as now she can’t count on the thing to just be a phone without needing to be babied.
I again wanted to say thank you to all involved in making the Fascinate the best phone it can be.
I have instantly noticed a considerable battery life improvement using this radio.
Just thanks.
And juice defender doesn't hurt either..
You must not be using your phone at all, mine only gives my around 7 hours.
Really? Only 30 hours? My white fascinate could go for 3 days with light usage and 2 with moderate. I bet you it could last for 4 days if I didn't do anything but text or call people. Oh and don't use battery apps, they don't do crap honestly. The only thing that kills your phone is games and the screen being on. But if you use your stock Froyo task manager then you're good.
I am confused a little but mostly dissapointed in how people report usage and battery life around here. I think for the most part it is simply a result of how subjective the term "use" is defined in all it's various "states". For instance what I consider "heavy usage" might be beyond what a lot of people would consider to even be reasonably expected. On the other hand you can have another person who thinks using their phone once for a few minutes every hour is heavy usage. Some seem to be reporting standby time like it is normal usage, which depending on your definition could be true. Some people seem to be obviously "lengthening" their "epeen" for some unknown sad reason which is the part that is dissapointing.
I can say, once, I left mine on after using it all day Friday, set it on a table at home and I can't remember why but I didn't touch it again till Sunday afternoon. It literally only used a few percent battery life. This is abnormal usage to me. This might be "normal" for some people.
Some people like myself are device addicts. I don't go anywhere without my phone. I rarely make calls on it. I rarely use my powerful desktop for any casual pc use like web surfing, IRC, listening to music, personal gmail and work email via exchange. I do all of that on my phone. My day consists of picking up the phone fully charged at 7:30am, at work by 7:45, and then once in my cube the headphones get plugged in and between voodoo sound and power amp I get pretty lost in the tunes. All the while I am getting constant email delivery notices. I probably look something up on my phone a few times a day. It is on wifi all day at work and home.
Once home I stay on it after dinner....once the kids are away, the wife and I sit in the living room and she on her laptop and me on my phone we kinda watch shows together while surfing or whatever. So hours of constant use in the evening. My screen is on a lot because I don't go long without doing something on it.
I have recently been getting around 14-18 hours if I run it to dead on the 2.9.2 + latest Voodoo sound enabled kernel floating around but was on eb01 radio. I flashed ec01 radio tonight hopefully to see better battery life but there's no way in hell I would be expecting anything close to 30 hours or days!? Not unless I laid my phone down and walked away for a few days, then sure. I consider myself to be a fairly heavy user.
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In my case Syn Ack is right about the screen. This past weekend I gave my phone a real test. I put EC01 on, got rid of most of the bloat and left the phone in that state. Didn't install any extra apps that would run in the background. Only had 1 home screen with nothing on it but a black wallpaper. The phone looks boring as ****. lol
From what I saw, the only things eating battery was having the screen on, a small bit of time with no signal, followed by android system and any other apps I may have used which didn't make up much compared to the screen.
I love the screen, but it's like a high maintenance girlfriend. Its sucking the life outta this phone.
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I love the screen, but it's like a high maintenance girlfriend. Its sucking the life outta this phone.
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That's pretty much par for the course. The screen is always the biggest battery drain in any phone out there, out of any piece of hardware in any phone. Trying to keep the screen's brightness as low as possible, and it off whenever you don't need it on, are probably the best things you can do to improve your battery life (followed by deleting crappy widgets like the Facebook one that keep your network up constantly).
Then again, I set my screen to have a 2 minute timeout, because the 15 or so second default way too often caused the screen to turn off on me while I was reading something and I generally use the power button to turn it off when I'm done. I figure, as long as I can make it till night, that's good enough for this phone 95% of the time (the other 5%, I can generally plan ahead).
I honestly don't see poor battery life as in issue for this phone.
Mine will last for 3 days of extremely light usage, 2 days with light-ish usage, and if I hammer on it and play some games, 14 hours or so, it'll beep at me.
IMO, this is not an issue. I have seen the battery life increase with the latest updates (OC Kernel from imnutz, SFC2.9.2, EC01 radio) - and I was happy before.
I also don;t think that you can really count on what other people see as anything but a hopeful ballpark figure. We all know that each of the phones HW is a little different. We all know that our setups vary greatly. We all know that we use the phone differently.
So, hoping that something will be a be all, end all guide as to how long your phone will stay powered depends on so many variables that you have to tweak it for your use.
FWIW, I run live wallpaper, 7 screens and use OC steps up to 1400 and I am very pleased, dare I say impressed with the life I get out of the phone. I also keep a spare battery fully charged - I guess this helps me care less and just ooh and ahh when it lasts more than a day.
Mine gets 150 hours...... Turned off.
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With the phone sleeping (screen off), my battery drops at MOST 2% per hour. I don't use but a couple of widgets, Facebook and weather. My sync time for Facebook is 1 hour and weather is 2 hours.
For me, when I was referring to my 2-3 days of battery life:
Light usage (3 days): a few phone calls a day, < 25 texts, no internet, no market, no games, no battery control apps except using Task Manager wisely.
Moderate usage (2 days): regular phone calls, < 50 texts, some internet, maybe a game or 2 but not for long, Task manager.
Heavy usage (1.5 days): regular phone calls, texting all the time, heavy internet, games, rom flashing, playing music a bunch.
Super ridiculously heavy (1 day): phone/text/internet/games/music, all nonstop heavy usage.
Super light (3+): Data (3G) off, a couple calls, light texting, using Task manager wisely. It can happen...
One thing I have come to find out is that not only your screen is the number 1 factor but if you live in an area that phases your phone in and out of 3G very often, your phone could easily drain 10% per hour. The IT building here on my campus has god awful reception and it drains at 10% per hour but when I go home I only see 1-2% not doing anything at all. Wifi is a battery drainer too.
There were a few nights where I remember hitting task manager and clearing out every single task and everything possible running, turning off data, and turning the screen off and the phone did not even lose 1% of battery over 9 hours. Perfect reception.
So if you see terrible battery, try using your screen a little less, or turn down the brightness. Try a *228 for your radio towers update. Cell standby can you get hard if you're in bad reception.
The best thing you could do to save your battery is kill all of your tasks, turn off data, turn your screen off, and change your sync intervals to 1hour+.
i'm on ec01 for about 12 hours now, sFc, in nemesis OTB kernal underclocked using volt settings gives me about a 8 hours with the amount of usage I put it through. Serious wifi, network usage, processor spiking and multi-tasking. Overall what one would expect from android.
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i'm on ec01 for about 12 hours now, sFc, in nemesis OTB kernal underclocked using volt settings gives me about a 8 hours with the amount of usage I put it through. Serious wifi, network usage, processor spiking and multi-tasking. Overall what one would expect from android.
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Heavy user, this seems about right. Your battery goes from 100% to what % before you recharge?