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I know there's another thread SOMEWHERE on battery life but I can't find it!
Anyway, I have just looked at my phone today after it coming off charge last night at midnight (12 hours ago).
I have Facebook, Twitter and a few other apps running in the background (twitter set to refresh every 5 mins)
I have not lost ANY battery as yet! very impressed so far but today will be the real test as we're off out and will be showing friends...etc.
Yup, same here. I've been fondling the phone, tearing it away from my friend's grubby hands, done wifi, lots of youtube, some music, and it's still going strong!
And how are you checking the battery status?
I hope you're not looking at the standard Android battery in the top right corner because it isn't really accurate.
Use a widget to get the battery's %
efeltee said:
And how are you checking the battery status?
I hope you're not looking at the standard Android battery in the top right corner because it isn't really accurate.
Use a widget to get the battery's %
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Well, just the sheer fact it's lasted morning to night and is still going strong despite all my playing, SMS, calls...
Good enough guide for me.
Have you got a live wallpaper running out of interest...?
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Have you got a live wallpaper running out of interest...?
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Yup. Galaxy.
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Yep, Starfield.
Looking at the stats it is now 15 hours since charge and it's at 74%.
NICE.
This really surprises me as my battery life has been pretty abysmal. This morning I took it off charge and left it. It lost 5% just sitting there – doing nothing at all. I didn't have WiFi or GPS or anything active either.
Something odd is going on here...Does anyone know if it is going to make a difference charging from the USB cable as opposed to a mains adapter? I can't for the life of me think of a reason why it would.
I am not finding the stellar battery life that others are reporting. It is too early to tell, but I dont think it is quite as good as my Hero.
I assume those with very good battery life generally have good signal strength. What about widgets? I am running a number of things including Digital Clock widget and a weather forecast one etc, but nothing seemingly out of the ordinary.
Share your secrets please
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I assume those with very good battery life generally have good signal strength. What about widgets? I am running a number of things including Digital Clock widget and a weather forecast one etc, but nothing seemingly out of the ordinary.
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Yes, the signal strength makes a huge difference. While I am at home, my phone is constantly trying to find signal (I live just on the other side of a small mountain from the cell tower...) - I vary in and out from 1 bar and none. Doing nothing on my phone for the whole day except replying to the odd text message brings me down to about 20% battery left by days end (6am-6pm.. so, twelve hours).
Now, move me to the other side of town for work. I will use Wifi, play some games(I am at work afterall..), reply to texts and take a few calls. In the twelve hour time period I will be down to about 50% battery life instead. I get 4-5 bars of signal and 3G coverage the whole time.
Okay I'll be completely honest here.
My phone SOMETIMES loses signal at home but not too much, maybe 5 times a day?
I have Flip clock and weather widget on my main screen.
Left hand I have Twitter and Facebook widgets
Right hand I have News and weather stock widget running
Starfield wallpaper
At the time of writing this I have 72% battery.
Rooted with Bacon add on and Theme X.
Signal strength is a huge factor, especially if you are around 1 bar/drifting in and out your radio will be using 2-4 times(dependig on how much searching it is doing) as much juice than full bars.
Nedlinin:
Have you looked into a signal booster for you home? They run about $50 for good ones that support 3G and all, they are powered antenas you put on a house window, and while they won't take no-bars and make it full bars, it will give you a constant signal and probably boost you up to 2-3 bars of 2G, and get you 1-2 of 3G(if there is any 3G signal to be grabbed).
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Yes, the signal strength makes a huge difference. While I am at home, my phone is constantly trying to find signal (I live just on the other side of a small mountain from the cell tower...) - I vary in and out from 1 bar and none. Doing nothing on my phone for the whole day except replying to the odd text message brings me down to about 20% battery left by days end (6am-6pm.. so, twelve hours).
Now, move me to the other side of town for work. I will use Wifi, play some games(I am at work afterall..), reply to texts and take a few calls. In the twelve hour time period I will be down to about 50% battery life instead. I get 4-5 bars of signal and 3G coverage the whole time.
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I understand exactly what you are saying. I am in the desert surrounded by mountains and always dropping signal so it is killing my phone within 6 hours. I continue to condition my battery so hopefully when I finally go back to Detroit my battery life will be excellent.
My experience is exactly the opposite. My N1 has only 15% left after 12 hours of very minimal use. I only made 1 call today, no browsing/playing. The phone was in standby mode 90% of the time. I have task manager to kill all the unwanted apps. Screen brightness is set to the lowest.
When I first got the phone I thought the battery life was very good. After a while now, it's ok. Maybe it's because I have all these other things setup right now. Since I'm on Fido, I have it set to only use 2G.
If I barely use the phone and just check emails and send a few messages, it'll run down to about 60% after 12 hours off the charger. If I heavily use it, such as wifi browsing and playing some games or something, I can get it down to 20-30% after 12 or so hours off the charger.
To me it's fine, it lasts the day no matter what I really do, but I don't see it lasting 2 days on a single charge.
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My experience is exactly the opposite. My N1 has only 15% left after 12 hours of very minimal use. I only made 1 call today, no browsing/playing. The phone was in standby mode 90% of the time. I have task manager to kill all the unwanted apps. Screen brightness is set to the lowest.
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Been excellent for me! Much better than my iPhone. Im not using using a task manager to kill apps but I did go through a lot of the apps and disable a lot of the auto updating. Like for Facebook, Twitter, News, Weather etc and lasts me all day with a few calls, texts, browsing/playing
I too, have noticed less than stellar battery life with my N1. I wouldn't call it abysmal, but considering I'm only running four Widgets set to update no sooner than every hour, have GPS turned off unless I need it, have good coverage the vast majority of the time, don't force stop apps any more, and have for the most part stopped messing with the phone, and it will still drop around 8-10% battery power/hour. The most my battery lasts is around 12 hours, and that's pretty much leaving the phone alone all-day.
I'm not terribly disapointed, but I'm not terribly impressed either.
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I too, have noticed less than stellar battery life with my N1. I wouldn't call it abysmal, but considering I'm only running four Widgets set to update no sooner than every hour, have GPS turned off unless I need it, have good coverage the vast majority of the time, don't force stop apps any more, and have for the most part stopped messing with the phone, and it will still drop around 8-10% battery power/hour. The most my battery lasts is around 12 hours, and that's pretty much leaving the phone alone all-day.
I'm not terribly disapointed, but I'm not terribly impressed either.
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This described my battery life until a few days ago. I called HTC support, and they convinced me that it was worthwhile to let my battery die and charge it up again to 100%. So, I let it die, left the battery out for maybe 10-20 minutes and charged it again overnight. I was really surprised to see that it helped a lot. My battery percentage no longer drops as I watch it - with moderate use in a bad coverage are, I'm down to 40-50% over a 9 hour workday.
It would be interesting to see if people fully charged their battery before first use?
I FORCED myself to with the Nexus and it's the ONLY phone I've ever done that with!!
It seems to have helped I think I could easily go a day and a half without charging.....
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This described my battery life until a few days ago. I called HTC support, and they convinced me that it was worthwhile to let my battery die and charge it up again to 100%. So, I let it die, left the battery out for maybe 10-20 minutes and charged it again overnight. I was really surprised to see that it helped a lot. My battery percentage no longer drops as I watch it - with moderate use in a bad coverage are, I'm down to 40-50% over a 9 hour workday.
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Yes, raise your hand if the first time you charged your N1 you ran the battery all the way down, turned the phone off(battery pull is best) then put it on the charger and let it get a full charge with the power off?
If not, you didn't properly condition the battery meter and the battery itself. It can be saved, not to worry, just run it all the way down(and I mean the phone shuts itself off all the way down) turn it back on, if it boots all the way up let it go until totally dead again. Then, pull the battery, put it back in after 30 seconds or so, put it on the charger without turning on the phone, and let it charge for a couple hours/overnight to get a full 100% charge on it. Take it off the charger, then turn it on, tada!
It is at 50% more than it usually is now. Weird.
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It is at 50% more than it usually is now. Weird.
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To be honest not that weird. Nexus one never had battery issues the main problem was the network jumping from 3G to edge all the time. That was the major battery hog. The update has fixed that to a certain extent so we were bound to see a performance hike.
Cheers.
Mine's gone down really fast today, first day after the update. No obvious drains in the battery usage page... I'm at about 40 percentage points lower than usual right now.
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Mine's gone down really fast today, first day after the update. No obvious drains in the battery usage page... I'm at about 40 percentage points lower than usual right now.
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Mine seems to be doing better, usually I am at about 60-65% by this time, and I am at 77% right now with the same usage... 1hour of WiFi, 2 push email accounts, some video playback from the SD card, couple phone calls and txt msgs... actually might have used it a little more than usual since I downloaded some youtube videos, and I don't usually do that.
I will find out for sure later tonight when I get home and use it non-stop on WiFi for a couple hours.
Well one thing I noticed is that cell standby battery use has gone down dramatically (was nearly on par with display, sometimes even more). But I will report back tomorrow to see if this is still the case.
Mines definitely better today, not sure if it is because of the update or because of not running altered ROM's anymore. I seemed to have good battery life before rooting and installing roms and it seems to be back to about the same with the factory update so I might stick with this now instead of installing the ROMS and themes.
62% after 8 hours on WCDMA preferred.
Last time I tried that....it lasted about 13 hours total.
My shop(where the phone resides most of the day) has shoddy coverage for both edge and 3g.
I can confirm cell standby battery use has decreased dramaticallly after update. Gj google!
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It is at 50% more than it usually is now. Weird.
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My battery life has drastically improved since the new radio. this phone gets better by the day, it seems!
Today, for me is the first day after the update and I noticed this morning that it was getting hot in my pocket. Took about 17% of the batter in a 40ish minute period... kinda odd.. did a pull and its been fine.. other than that, I'm on att so battery is always well.
mine randomly got pretty hot too.
I've seen a huge improvement, over 14 hours unplugged and I was at 79%. Before I would be at 50% within 12 hours.
My house 3g signal sucks, so I lost and additional 8% over the night, but at least it keeps a stable 3g signal here now (my G1 flip/flopped 2g/3g at my house since they put up the new 3g tower). I'm pretty pleased with the update, just wish they would have extended multi-touch to the keyboard.
I've been unplugged for 20hrs now. I used the phone yesterday as normal with calls, a couple of games, some browsing, downloaded a 14mb video and checked twitter at least a dozen times. My battery is at 54% so i'm VERY pleased. I'm going to try and go through the rest of today without recharging.
50% battery left after 8.5 hours uptime, so yeah, quite an improvement from the initial ~12 hours battery life.
Hi everyone, I'm new to these forums and the DVP, I just got mine Thursday.
I seem to have every issue under the sun with this phone. Wifi crashes, buggy marketplace and constantly changing signal. With all of these issues I wasn't sure how to judge battery life. What has everyone been getting? I can only get about 3-4 hours of life with no wifi, bluetooth or any web browsing. I was running zune the whole time and playing music as well as having location active.
2-3 Hours of internet usage with wifi and bluetooth off.
7-8 hours standby time. Went to sleep at night; woke up in the morning and battery died.
Issue with constantly changing signal from 0G to EDGE to 3G, Dropped a few calls.
I use this phone in the New York City area, so the signal from Tmobile should have full bars. Also, my apartment is the on the highest level and the highest building of the borough.
I easily get through a full day with a single charge, including maybe around 60 minutes of talk time on weekdays. I've had days where I did not charge the night before, had around 40% battery and made it well into the afternoon without an issue.
So the life you're seeing sounds exceptionally poor to me based on my experience (or mine is uncommonly good)
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Hi everyone, I'm new to these forums and the DVP, I just got mine Thursday.
I seem to have every issue under the sun with this phone. Wifi crashes, buggy marketplace and constantly changing signal. With all of these issues I wasn't sure how to judge battery life. What has everyone been getting? I can only get about 3-4 hours of life with no wifi, bluetooth or any web browsing. I was running zune the whole time and playing music as well as having location active.
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That sounds short to me. I leave my WiFi on all the time (too lazy to turn it on and off), but Bluetooth off since I don't have anything that uses it. The heaviest use I ever had was Xbox Live games for about 3 hours (don't judge! I was in the car headed to visit family!), Kindle for about an hour that night, and probably about 60 minutes of talk and text. I don't really browse the Web on the phone. It was off the cord from 6 am to 10 pm, and I put it back on the cord with the barest sliver of battery left.
I'm getting just over a full days charge with about 2-3 hours of XBox Live + Zune, plenty of emails and texts (probably 50 a day? I've never really counted). I don't really get the signal problems reported by a lot of users, and I rarely use WiFi (every once in a while to start a game download because it makes me, but then I just flip off WiFi and finish over the "4g" in my area).
I also surf probably an hour or so. Exchange is set to as items arrive, gmail every 30, live mail manual.
My battery life isnt so good, but my phone isnt always in 3g it bumps to Edge a lot in which i think affects the battery life. The battery life is so-so
I received my VP this past Thursday the 12th. So, have had it for 4 days. I decided to test the batt life out yesterday. I took it off the charger at exactly 9AM my time.
I talked on the phone (not sure how long total, an hour or so, I think), sent text messages (maybe 20+), shot just over a minute of 720p video, took two pics, used the internet extensively, played a few games for about 30 minutes, downloaded some apps.
Wi-fi stays on, location is on as well.
My battery died at approximately 9:48p.
So, 12:30 hours with pretty extensive use. I'd say that's pretty good for a smart phone.
So, maybe your case is an exception. Incidentally, I've only had one crash since I had it. Hit the wifi toast message at a friends house when that popped up and then hit back real quick because I didn't wanna do anything with wifi. Phone locked up and I cycled the power on then off.
Otherwise, I haven't had a single issue with it.
I also have wifi at my house and never turn it off on the phone.
So, keeping fingers crossed.
Been using it for 3-4 days straight in NYC so far, to me the battery life is pretty bad even compared to the developer phone I previously had. Generally i'm out about 8-12 hours a day. Moderate picture taking, not more than 20 mins of game playing and very light phone use. It does get better if you remember to turn off the music when you power down the phone into standby mode, but for the most part this thing struggles to make 8+ hours. If I was going out into the wilderness, I would not be relying on this phone, a $100 android phone would probably be the sweet spot between data capability and battery life in that case.
The developer phone I used to have that I used more heavily could easily get into the 12 hour+ range. The Dell does pack a better screen and keyboard however, with the screen probably being the bigger factor there. If anything the ****ty blurry camera is my biggest issue at the moment
I think we should set up a test to see how peoples batteries perform. I will start a new thread with a poll
Yesterday was my first day of having this phone. I took it off the charger around 530pm and it was close to dying around 11pm.. I only did some light browsing and texting through Google a Google voice app..maybe the app itself is what drained my battery who knows.. I hope it continues to improve over time.
My battery life has been fantastic - literally the best I've had on a phone in years (including brief stints with the Samsung Focus and HTC HD7). I easily get through the whole day on a charge with moderate usage, whereas my HD2 needed some mid-day juice to make it through.
i can barely get through a day on a full charge. I'm not complaining because this phone does a heck of a lot, but my one year old Touch Pro 2 could easily go 2 full days with moderate use.
however if i'm in airplane mode i'm sure i can go 2+ days. when i'm in weak 3G coverage areas I see the signal indicator bounce all over the place from G/EDGE/3G, i'm guessing this is what is causing the battery drain. hopefully a software patch/upgrade will address this later on?
Hey all,
I've had my 6P for about a week now and I love it. That being said I'm extremely jealous of the 4-6 hour SOT's I've been across the internet. I've been averaging 2-3 hours a day. Now that being said I think you could call be a "business power user." By that I mean I'm constantly checking emails, texts, on the phone a decent amount, etc.
Over the past few days I've tried to get better SOT but I still wind up charging my phone around 8pm every night (not bad but I hoped better). What I've tried for better SOT:
Location set to battery saving - not a noticeable difference as its hardly ever used
Battery optimization - didn't seem to matter at all
Disconnect android wear - also unnoticeable
Turn off bluetooth - nada
Turn off ambient - Didn't matter a bit
Which leads me to cell service. Mine sucks. I have ATT and at home and at work are coincidentally two spots with horrible service. Is this the reasoning for my horrible SOT? I'm always on wifi at both locations. Its the only thing I can think of at this point. Any insight?
I attached a pic of my battery stats from today around 3pm EST. Pulled phone off charger around 7:00-7:15am this morning.
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Hey all,
I've had my 6P for about a week now and I love it. That being said I'm extremely jealous of the 4-6 hour SOT's I've been across the internet. I've been averaging 2-3 hours a day. Now that being said I think you could call be a "business power user." By that I mean I'm constantly checking emails, texts, on the phone a decent amount, etc.
Over the past few days I've tried to get better SOT but I still wind up charging my phone around 8pm every night (not bad but I hoped better). What I've tried for better SOT:
Location set to battery saving - not a noticeable difference as its hardly ever used
Battery optimization - didn't seem to matter at all
Disconnect android wear - also unnoticeable
Turn off bluetooth - nada
Turn off ambient - Didn't matter a bit
Which leads me to cell service. Mine sucks. I have ATT and at home and at work are coincidentally two spots with horrible service. Is this the reasoning for my horrible SOT? I'm always on wifi at both locations. Its the only thing I can think of at this point. Any insight?
I attached a pic of my battery stats from today around 3pm EST. Pulled phone off charger around 7:00-7:15am this morning.
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Could be the bajillion wakelocks when your screen is off.
Rogue app most likely.
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Could be the bajillion wakelocks when your screen is off.
Rogue app most likely.
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Hmm maybe a factory restore is in order then. I cant really think of what else.
Cell service or mobile signal here in the UK does hit the battery but no where near as much on this phone as others ,I work in a particular bad signal area and it used to kill my HTC one M7,but not the N6P.If you bread the battery thread I done tests on just WiFi, WiFi and mobile signal and mobile signal only.On mobile signal only and being at work I still got 4h 50 m with 17% still left on the battery,So although it hit the 6hr plus I was getting on WiFi/mobile or the 7 hr + I got on WiFi only ,it still was great battery stats for mobile only .I have been tracking my stats today for a mix of WiFi and mobile and will post them once I'm down to about 3%
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Cell service or mobile signal here in the UK does hit the battery but no where near as much on this phone as others ,I work in a particular bad signal area and it used to kill my HTC one M7,but not the N6P.If you bread the battery thread I done tests on just WiFi, WiFi and mobile signal and mobile signal only.On mobile signal only and being at work I still got 4h 50 m with 17% still left on the battery,So although it hit the 6hr plus I was getting on WiFi/mobile or the 7 hr + I got on WiFi only ,it still was great battery stats for mobile only .I have been tracking my stats today for a mix of WiFi and mobile and will post them once I'm down to about 3%
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Wow thats impressive. I'm no where near those numbers on cell + wifi. I too have been closely monitoring mine, I think I may have a wakelock issue.
Here's my stays from today off charger 2.00 am nearly 20 hrs off charge ,and again 6h+ on SOT and a mix WiFi and mobile signal with varying degrees of signal quality
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Here's my stays from today off charger 2.00 am nearly 20 hrs off charge ,and again 6h+ on SOT and a mix WiFi and mobile signal with varying degrees of signal quality
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Even just comparing our graphics you can see where doze seems to kick in. On mine it seems like things are always in a steady decline.
Yes seems doze is not working as it should on yours,do you use chrome browser,a few reported it was affecting battery,I don't use chrome ,I also have Google now on and listening all the time so I can search when screen off,in WiFi / advanced I have it set never to keep WiFi on during sleep,I have ambient display on and adaptive brightness with screen britness set at about 60%.
So I got the Mate 9 Pro. First off it was updated to b185 update. So I charged it to 100% on a friday at 7pm, downloaded 100+ apps, maps for GPS app etc. used the phone for normal use (surf, Facebook, photos, reddit etc.) for a SoT of 4½ hour and sunday at 10pm, I put it on the charger, and it had 15% left. Wifi had been on, NFC, cellular, though no bluetooth. That was pretty darn good battery life!
So monday I take it off the charger at 5.30 am, I commute to work, real bad cell reception, but I use it for about 30-40 minutes regardless. During the day I use for maybe an hour more and then I commute home again, crappy reception and all, yet it's still at about 60 % when I get home. Eventually I manage to drain it to about 35% while gaming some intensive games.
Tuesday (today) I take it off at the same time. I commute to work pretty much the same, power now at 75% when I get to work. I use the phone only like 20 minutes at work and now at before I commute home, it's at 50%! I don't get it. I have had the standard power saving option turned on, location service to medium precision, everything has been the same, but today I am at about 2 hours of Sot with 50% left. What could cause this?
I mean, I know that the really crappy reception during my train commute drains a lot (comparatively), but the two working days have been wildly different. What am I missing? There doesn't seem to be any rogue apps.
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So I got the Mate 9 Pro. First off it was updated to b185 update. So I charged it to 100% on a friday at 7pm, downloaded 100+ apps, maps for GPS app etc. used the phone for normal use (surf, Facebook, photos, reddit etc.) for a SoT of 4½ hour and sunday at 10pm, I put it on the charger, and it had 15% left. Wifi had been on, NFC, cellular, though no bluetooth. That was pretty darn good battery life!
So monday I take it off the charger at 5.30 am, I commute to work, real bad cell reception, but I use it for about 30-40 minutes regardless. During the day I use for maybe an hour more and then I commute home again, crappy reception and all, yet it's still at about 60 % when I get home. Eventually I manage to drain it to about 35% while gaming some intensive games.
Tuesday (today) I take it off at the same time. I commute to work pretty much the same, power now at 75% when I get to work. I use the phone only like 20 minutes at work and now at before I commute home, it's at 50%! I don't get it. I have had the standard power saving option turned on, location service to medium precision, everything has been the same, but today I am at about 2 hours of Sot with 50% left. What could cause this?
I mean, I know that the really crappy reception during my train commute drains a lot (comparatively), but the two working days have been wildly different. What am I missing? There doesn't seem to be any rogue apps.
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Your battery is drained mostly by the bad signal, no matter if you use the phone or not. The phone has a pretty good consumption when you are using it, and that's why you are getting those results.
Have you tried to change to 3G?, in my case, most of the time I'm on 3G, because I don't need super fast speeds and it helps a lot with battery life.
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Your battery is drained mostly by the bad signal, no matter if you use the phone or not. The phone has a pretty good consumption when you are using it, and that's why you are getting those results.
Have you tried to change to 3G?, in my case, most of the time I'm on 3G, because I don't need super fast speeds and it helps a lot with battery life.
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You mean I should try switching to 3G while on the train? I haven't tried that, could help. I mean, I usually don't need 4G speeds while commuting.
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You mean I should try switching to 3G while on the train? I haven't tried that, could help. I mean, I usually don't need 4G speeds while commuting.
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Try to change to 3G whenever the signal is not good, and you will see a big improvement. As for me, I'm on 3G 90% of the time, because Wi-Fi is always available in the places I am.
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Try to change to 3G whenever the signal is not good, and you will see a big improvement. As for me, I'm on 3G 90% of the time, because Wi-Fi is always available in the places I am.
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That's pretty good advice. Thanks! I'll try that. I can always turn on 4G if I feel the need for speed
Huawei mate 9 Pro 8 months old .
Till last update LON L29C636B233 battery life was excellent and i used to have with Dual sim and WIFI on at around a day and half under my normal use.Since the update which according to the change log is dealing just with patching security issues the battery is holding for 8 hours only.
Does someone is facing a similar issues? I am open to all sUggestions.
Thank you.