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Comparing gingerbread battery life...

I wanted to start a new thread comparing which GB roms have the best battery life....

I'm running CM7 and battery life isn't that great.
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^THANKS^^ battery life on Simply honey 3.8 was pretty good....

This thread is a great idea, but let's put some numbers down rather then, "I get really good battery life!"
CM7: I get about 13 - 15 hours with minimal use on edge network.
Minimal use for me is about 2 or 3 phone calls about 30 seconds to a minute each. Less then ten text messages, very little to no web surfing. Check weather, look at news headlines.

Well, i have only tried CM7 and MIUI, wich is CM7 based, and to be honest, battery life is the reason that i came back to Froyo...just terrible batery life...i can't be charging my phone every 5-6 hours. On Froyo im using Super DragonModz on Project V, and i havent charged my phone in two days, and still its @ 25%...average/min use. Until GB gets good battery life, i might not be using another GB rom as a daily driver...

My battery just went down 2% on a 40 second phone call with my lady. Simply honey. It drains bad. This is my 4th cycle.
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ipetloudog said:
My battery just went down 2% on a 40 second phone call with my lady. Simply honey. It drains bad. This is my 4th cycle.
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thats odd...have you tried doing a battery calibration....
anyways i get 10 hours on Revolution rom 2.0 with moderate use
moderate use -check xda couple times ,on h network always with background data ,some texting,3-4 30 second calls and ocing to 1.2ghz

Yea. I calibrated. I thought it was just a bad flash but after multiple flashes I had the same result.
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Blitzkrieg 18 to 20hrs moderate use 3-4 hrs screen time one.
Pretty good if u ask me.
Screenie attached 30% batt left. Calibrated two days ago.

With every type of battery caliberation it takes a few cycles of charges for it to actually work. I use sgs tools and apply script and that deletes battery bin files. But doing that is not gonna take effect right away i hope u guys know that.
Im on cm7 and my battery usage is better then i expected. With me using either google music or Audio galaxy streaming for a 8 hour workshift and texting and websurfing during a lunchbreak and when that shift is done i still have about 20-to 30 % left sometimes as high as 40% But if im not streaming music and just doing normal things like playing cut the rope and web surfing and emailing, texing etc i can go on all day with out a charge. So maybe u guys have a bad battery???

Simply honey 3.8 was eating up 3-4% per hour just idling and much more when actually bring used. Back to Trigger.
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simply honey 3.8 has really good battery life i get 19 hours moderate use with kb5 modem and OC'ed to 1.2 ghz

On Revolution Rom, I can get 16-17 hours of heavy use, which is flashing a new build almost every hour, going crazy on the battery life testing. But people have reported about 24 hours of battery with moderate use.

Asgard 3.0 and 3.1 Both are giving me 13-15 hours with moderate use gaming (my kid 45min-1 hour) internet use, tweeting, email and moderate to heavy phone use (20-40 calls per day) and 1 hour of tunein radio.

I got an average of 15 hours on Blitzkreig with 15-20 short (under 3 minute ) calls, 35-40 texts and an hour or so surfing.... plus a little gaming. I am at 5 hours on Asgard 3.1 and 78% battery.

ali1276 said:
On Revolution Rom, I can get 16-17 hours of heavy use, which is flashing a new build almost every hour, going crazy on the battery life testing. But people have reported about 24 hours of battery with moderate use.
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I am running the Revolution Rom RC1 also and I'm getting about the same battery life. It's about the best that I have gotten on my phone, Bionix Final 2.1 aside. Great job, keep up the good work Ali.

Revolution ROM's battery life is pretty good.
Can't compare with others since I've just started flashing GB roms now (I had tried MIUI before but back then the battery sucked so much it doesnt even count)

thanks for starting this thread, it was just what i was looking for.
i used CM7 awhile ago and the battery life was pretty terrible so i switched back to froyo. so now i was looking around again for reports of battery life now after a couple months of waiting, and looks like its still pretty bad. i guess im still sticking with froyo.
but hey i still appreciate all the work the devs do to bring GB to the vibrant

with all the MINIMUM use or HEAVY use
can you guys post the screen on time with it to shows how heavy/ minimum you use....

I've been using Blitzkrieg for a week or so and at first it seemed really good but the last few days it has been draining fast for some reason. I also have had it reboot a couple of times while on the phone the last 2 days. I'm not sure if it's related....

5days / 120 hours of battery life on Kf2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unless we discuss the maximum theoretic battery time, there is no point compare normal use because as already said it all comes how you use your phone.
Sorry, but this thread adds nothing.
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How Is the Battery Life on HTC EVO 4G?

hows the battery life on the HTC EVO 4G with bluetooth, gps, wifi, email alerts and notifications all turned off?

I find the battery life to be right on par with other Android smart phones, and I always have mobile data/notifications on. Wifi seems to increase battery life.

Its pathetic in my book compared to my previous htc phones. About 3 to 4 hours use and its dead. Pathetic.

pretty crappy. don't buy in to all these ppl saying "it lasts me 2 days etc etc" either cuz they don't actually use their phones

I have a stock 2.3.3. Yesterday, after 9 hours on battery with minimal usage (a few games of pew pew) I was about 30%. Today I used it a little more and was about 60% before lunch. Depends on your usage.

It's aiite. I get 1 day and 2 hours on my fone with moderate usage... Depends what rom and kernal your using.

If you have 4g on all day and are constantly playing games prolly 5 hours. If you use it as a phone and not an xbox then you can get a full day out of it easy. My brother leaves 3g on all day and plays a few games and still has 10% after 15 hours...
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PhxkinMassacre said:
If you have 4g on all day and are constantly playing games prolly 5 hours. If you use it as a phone and not an xbox then you can get a full day out of it easy. My brother leaves 3g on all day and plays a few games and still has 10% after 15 hours...
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That sounds right.
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like others have said...depends...
i always have all 4g or 3g on, gps, wifi, bt, and screen high brightness...
i get a few hours, but for ME that's fine, as i'm always plugged in.
if i remember to dump bt and 4g when im at home, i'll maybe get a little more.
went to nyc to walk around last week...it was dead by noon, which was an inconvenience since i couldnt charge...

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Honestly, it's terrible. There are steps you can take, however, that can get it "average" or "acceptable".
And like someone above said, don't listen to all these people saying they get 2+ days out of their phones.... they either
a) have an extended battery
b) use their phone light~moderate usage
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using a Sense ROM and chatting on my phone all day using talk, streaming music, and checking email on 3 accts, I get an entire workday and then some out of my phone. I take my phone off the charger at 7am and don't put it on again until after 10pm. At that point I still have about 20-30% left.
I keep GPS and BT off unless I am using it, the Always On Mobile Data is disabled, and I use WiFi at home and work.
As some people stated, it depends on usage.

I asked the same question the other day..60 views no replies...because everyone was raving about the awesome battery life on Kingdom_signed_062311_194639.zip but I get under 4 hrs because my screen is on alot playing the "word" game. Seems thats about right for heavy use.

My phone has been unplugged for 10hrs now and I'm at 32%, I mostly talk between 2 to 3hrs a day, check emails, facebook, play games through out the day, text, but I keep everything off til I want to use it except data is on all the time, I keep all updates turned off I do updates as I choose, I'm happy with it plus I keep a fully charged battery with me anyway
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bjb_nyj101 said:
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Honestly, it's terrible. There are steps you can take, however, that can get it "average" or "acceptable".
And like someone above said, don't listen to all these people saying they get 2+ days out of their phones.... they either
a) have an extended battery
b) use their phone light~moderate usage
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With my stock battery I can get at least 6 hours with juice defender and a good kernel and I am glued to my phone. I read alt of ebooks on it and browse the web. My extended which is only 2600 I get at least 15 hours. I also use miui.if you don't like the phone get
A different one and stop whining
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genderblurr said:
With my stock battery I can get at least 6 hours with juice defender and a good kernel and I am glued to my phone. I read alt of ebooks on it and browse the web. My extended which is only 2600 I get at least 15 hours. I also use miui.if you don't like the phone get
A different one and stop whining
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I agree with you on this one. If you dont like the evo then just get a different phone ****.

josh030181 said:
My phone has been unplugged for 10hrs now and I'm at 32%, I mostly talk between 2 to 3hrs a day, check emails, facebook, play games through out the day, text, but I keep everything off til I want to use it except data is on all the time, I keep all updates turned off I do updates as I choose, I'm happy with it plus I keep a fully charged battery with me anyway
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hi, josh.. what if i turn off everything (BT, wifi, email alerts, notifications, and reduced brightness).. and talk for 2 hours straight. listen to mp3 for 45 minutes. play a word game for 30 minutes. do you think that the battery will last 24 hours?

xlk said:
hi, josh.. what if i turn off everything (BT, wifi, email alerts, notifications, and reduced brightness).. and talk for 2 hours straight. listen to mp3 for 45 minutes. play a word game for 30 minutes. do you think that the battery will last 24 hours?
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What rom and kernal are you using?

xchompondizx said:
I agree with you on this one. If you dont like the evo then just get a different phone ****.
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With my stock battery I can get at least 6 hours with juice defender and a good kernel and I am glued to my phone. I read alt of ebooks on it and browse the web. My extended which is only 2600 I get at least 15 hours. I also use miui.if you don't like the phone get
A different one and stop whining
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*sigh*
You people need a lesson on reading comprehension. No where in my post did I say that I don't like the Evo... So why would I get another phone?
I said that the battery life sucks, which it does. Especially if your phone isn't rooted.
Also, I feel bad for you: only 15 hours with an extended battery!? LOL that's terrible. I use a Sense ROM (Fresh3.5) with netarchy-more-havs (don't know the version number) and I get at least 20 hours with moderate~heavy usage, on the stock battery.
When I'm using MIUI with Tiamat & ViperBoy's undervolt scripts, I get over 24 hours with moderate~heavy usage. I have no doubt that if I had an extended battery, I could get 2+ days.
P.S.
I will be getting another phone. Preferably the iPhone when (if?) it drops on sprint, or a mango windows phone 7 device. If neither of those happen, galaxy s II it is...

It's terrible. Heavy usage I get 2 maybe 2 and a half hours. If you don't use it much,the standby time should be enough to get you through the day. I remember streaming the world cup on Sprint Espn and it barely made it past one 2 hour game before it became totally dead. Don't know how some say they get 5 plus hours on 4g running under heavy usage. I think their idea of heavy usage is much different than mine.

I'm on kinged kingdom nightlys sense 3.0..I get 10+ hrs with heavy use!! Calkulins Undervolt script..ROM is insane fast, with moderate use I avg 1day 9-11hrs..haven't hit two day mark with moderate use thou..working on it. STOCK battery! Make sure ur SD card is partitioned correctly. Optimize your RAM..the smoother and more stable the ROM,the better battery life,cuz your phone won't be struggling to function properly!!
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Isnt that brilliant battery life!!

Impressive battery life.!!! 12 hours and xx mins,standing @ around 62% battery still remaining.
1. Full time wifi/ occaussional shift to 3G when going for lunch/walk outside etc.
2. 3 Emails sync - push
3.Twitter - Facebook Push, instant notification
4.Normal voice calls , normal voip calls.
5.few fring messages.
6. couple of app downloads.
7. No music No movie!!
8.,....and yes, lite flow!!! liteflow blinking LED @ slow rate for Phone signal and for all notifications!!
I guess thats pretty impressive. Far better than my Note/S2 and iP 4S.

Lucky cnut!
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man, the S4 chip is gonna rock so hard in this phone

12 hours is pretty nice, but it looks like you barely even used it?

There is already a battery life thread and people have 2 days +

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There is already a battery life thread and people have 2 days +
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May be! as i said, ive the same usage pattern always and infact my second phone, ip4s is struggling @ 38%

With light usage like that, I get almost 3 days on my note... But good to know battery life is good, will pick up a S3 in a few weeks...
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shouldn't you be looking at 'screen on' time rather than how many hours it lasts after you unplug ?

Didn't someone post a screenshot of 4 days light use with 5 hour 30min screenshot on the battery thread?

Please discuss your battery greatness here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681873

Battery - Your opinions

Hi guys,
Since I don't have much notion about the battery life I would like your opinion please. I think now with 4.0.4 the battery is great.
Today I used a little wifi, a little 3G, around 50 texts, 3 calls (short ones) and played a game for about 5/10m.
Let me know what you think!
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With rooted 4.0.4 with cwm I get 36.5 hrs of battery life compared to gb witch was 20-21 hrs.
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If i have a intensive use, the phone only remains for 20h but with gaming, net and bluetooth... With normal usage, can last for almost 2 days. good battery usage

Mine is the same; crappy. Lucky if I can make it through the day without a charge.
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But do you think this is good stats?
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My Arc S is rooted, with stock 4.0.4 and the battery lasts for about 36 hours. With GB it could reach ~50 hours.

after ICS Update my battery life dropped barely get thru a full day... Few short calls, about 7 SMS', facebook for 10 mins total and google and battery is dead

I think that better battery was on gb.
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I get Perfect 26 hrs of battery life with Moderate Usage & Sometimes May be Heavy.
With Doomkernel .
i have no Battery Drain.
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Crappy, especially if you use 3G + Browser.
Browser eats too much power.

chandoliasnikos said:
My Arc S is rooted, with stock 4.0.4 and the battery lasts for about 36 hours. With GB it could reach ~50 hours.
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As u can see my Signature..
I get Perfect 26 hrs of battery life with Moderate Usage & Sometimes May be Heavy.
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Really ??
How much screen time you guys get?
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Crappy, especially if you use 3G + Browser.
Browser eats too much power.
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true! I only can get 3 hours+ on 3G browsing.

If I leave my phone alone without fiddling it with, the drain is minimal. But I tend to message a lot on WhatsApp, use both Dolphin Browser (on wifi) and Opera Mini (on 3G) and then the battery comes crashing down.
I'm a heavy user so never been able to comment on battery life BUT I do feel the overall battery life on ICS is better than it was on GB.

After my arc upgrade to ICS 4.0.4
I think battery life is slightly tougher too..
Wifi always on (80% on)
Juice defender on (disable data via 3G)
Running on 3G (wcdma/gsm)
Screen used 4h
Battery life reach 1 d 1 h
Its awesome for me
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On ICS the battery is poorer than inGB
Typed down from the sky with sexy LT15i

People with battery lasting less than 22hr you must be excess using some how. I have and lt15i- rogers, an lt15i - telus and a arc s - no carrier and all of these are rooted 4.0.4 and they all reach 20 hr or more. The lt15i- rogers battery for yesterday went like this:
8am turn on.
WiFi,3g turned on and phone boot.
10am 92%
Phone flashed 4.0.4 root ready
Rooted
Flashes kernel 4.0.4
11:15am 90%
Installed cwm
Cleaned bloatware
Installed games
12:30pm 82%
Flashed ui mod
Configured phone
Restored all data via cwm
1:10pm 80%
Games
Games
Games
Games
Browser 14websites
YouTube 10 vid
Hdmi jacked into tv
Watched a 2hr movies
10:00pm 72%
Fone left off charger all night
12hr
10:15 am 67%
So I dunno guys you should be getting great power. I will do this same process with the lt15i - telus today and I'll let u know.
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ICS should give more battery life than GB theoretically coz many changes were made to optimize battery life..so if you are getting less battery then some bloatware or some app is causing battery drain..screen eats battery like hell..but still my screen brightness is around 80% coz screen is sooo beautiful but still i get around 2.5 days of battery easily

You keep your screen at 80%? I keep it at 30% and it's still bright. I actually find that to be optimal.
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xtacy! said:
You keep your screen at 80%? I keep it at 30% and it's still bright. I actually find that to be optimal.
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before my screen brightness was also 30-40%..but later thought wat will i do by saving battery when i m always nearer to plug point..so recent started keeping 80%

I think 30% brightness is enough for me, and my battery still always reach for one full day use. (from unplug charger 9am - 11pm plugin charge)
Screen always 3h ++
Signal wcdma/gsm
Wifi always on
Maybe my next post will included pic, coz now i cant insert pic (my post only 5)
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arpith.fbi said:
ICS should give more battery life than GB theoretically coz many changes were made to optimize battery life..so if you are getting less battery then some bloatware or some app is causing battery drain..screen eats battery like hell..but still my screen brightness is around 80% coz screen is sooo beautiful but still i get around 2.5 days of battery easily
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But not on my usage scenario. 3G and browser.
My usage pattern did not change, reading news, weather, browsing tech sites etc. But ICS browser really eats much power compared to gingerbread. The phone noticeably heats up faster, too.
I already removed the bloatwares, test it with stock kernel first, minimal app installs.