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So I'm looking at buying a EVO and wondering about battery life. I have a Hero and can usually make a day without charging. Stock rom, wifi on, not many calls, checking email/facebook frequently and some internet surfing is a normal day.
How will the EVO battery match up?
Thanks
When I first got my EVO the battery life sucked. I probably got 6 hours at most out of it. Now with the way it's set up it lasts well over a day, which is much longer than my Hero ever lasted.
My experience so far is Evo is much better except for calls. Calls seem to eat battery real quick.
d12bn said:
So I'm looking at buying a EVO and wondering about battery life. I have a Hero and can usually make a day without charging. Stock rom, wifi on, not many calls, checking email/facebook frequently and some internet surfing is a normal day.
How will the EVO battery match up?
Thanks
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It is the exact same battery and uses much more power(bigger screen, 4G, .....) But does have more ROMS in the future and updates always help battery life.
I had two Hero's on my plan, and now two Evo's...
The phone will eat more battery when the screen is on, and you are browsing the internet, (especially with 4G turned on), but otherwise, I seem to get better battery life than I did with my Hero's!
Rooting and flashing a ROM with a decent kernel will usually give better results.
I've had mine on today for a little over 13 hours, with full screen brightness, live wallpaper, and 4G on... I could never achieve these results before.
The hero got horrid battery life I had to carry 2 spares to last a day ...but I use my phone a ton my Evo lasts just thru the day ....
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Batteryleft on my Hero projects 46.47 hours under full charge. It's my daily business phone. Running 2.4.0 from flipz. OC widget under clock to 246 when screen is off.
On my EVO, I took batteryleft off the phone. It is what it is. It doesn't charge the battery right, sometimes I'll unplug and it'll drop 3 % pts. I attribute it to the supplier wanting to limit G access, wanting to hype and spin about the "First". But it does make Iphone users quiver (mostly due to their ignorance), with the big screen and Hulu.
my wife went from a hero to a evo, and battery life appears at least as good.
as a nice bonus though, the hero battery works in the evo so you can carry that as a spare while trying it out.
My older Evo hardware 0003 used to SUCK.. Im talking 6-7 hours with medium use..
Then I got a newer 0004 hardware Evo.. I don't think it changed a DARN thing with battery, but my battery surprisingly is lasting a good 8-10 hours now..
But I don't care, I got the extended RED BATTERY from ebay, for 20.00 bucks.. Comes with a new back (not the UGLY Siedio back either, its smooth and conforms perfectly, plus it has the same feel)
Now my battery lasts about 2 days.. plus you don't even notice it bigger really and IMO since a phone is for well.. A phone and not a show off toy (even though I actually think it looks better with the bigger battery) I want to have a long battery life
** Edit, just found it
http://cgi.ebay.com/3500mAh-extende...519248?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item45f66469d0
Plus this is not from Hong kong, this guy is from US
Anyone having battery problems? My wife and I have pros and can hardley get half a day out of it... does this phone need a task killer? I havent used a task killer since my hero. But maybe this one needs one. any ideas? my fascinate holds a charge more than this and it does 10 times the amount in the backround and the batterys arent that different. Thanks
Pretty disappointed with the battery life too. Barely make it to the afternoon. I just constantly plug the phone in. Considering buying the extended batt if it wasn't 50 bucks.
I also switched from the fascinate.
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who has the extendted battery
My battery life is OK, but I'm constantly fiddling with the phone: checking facebook, answering work emails, browsing the web and the Market, etc.
However, my partner's phone made it through a 16-hour day with 40% still left of battery. Granted, it was on standby for 6 hours at work, but the rest of the time was constant facebook, etc.
There are a number of "Power Management" tweaks that can be performed that will dramatically improve battery life. Things i have done include:
device rooted via z4root (this has no direct impact on battery performance but necessary for things that do...)
Screebl Pro
SetCPU (throttle down to 300 when screen off)
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer
Uninstalled or frozen a bunch of stuff i don't use via Titanium Backup (there is thread in this forum that discusses what can be uninstalled/frozen)
Changed phone radio from global to cdma
I have also added an extended battery. I can easily go 12+ hours with heavy data/email and voice use.
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There are a number of "Power Management" tweaks that can be performed that will dramatically improve battery life. Things i have done include:
device rooted via z4root (this has no direct impact on battery performance but necessary for things that do...)
Screebl Pro
SetCPU (throttle down to 300 when screen off)
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer
Uninstalled or frozen a bunch of stuff i don't use via Titanium Backup (there is thread in this forum that discusses what can be uninstalled/frozen)
Changed phone radio from global to cdma
I have also added an extended battery. I can easily go 12+ hours with heavy data/email and voice use.
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these are all great ideas. however, most of the reviews are bad on the Screebl Pro and all of its other versions.
I just received mine yesterday. Gave it a full charge last night. Now, at not even 11am, it's down to 60%. That's after three hours of light usage. Hopefully this is just a battery calibration issue or something since this is the first time it's been fully charged...
Edit: 10%. That's 90% depletion in just five and a half hours. We'll see if it's lying or not.
Edit: The Droid Pro was pronounced dead at 1:48pm, exactly 6 hours of very light usage after its first full charge. We'll see what happens on its second cycle.
Hi All
I have to say my battery is great. Can make it the entire day even with heavy usage.
However, you need to be really careful with the background apps you are running.
In my case
1) Bluetooth off
2) Wireless Off
3) Set CPU running - scaled to 300 when screen off and scaled to 300-600 when battery hits 50%
4) Running IMO messenger at boot (I tried Ebuddy and it sucked down the battery big time) IMO does not.
5) Cleared most of the default widgets and only added the few that I really use.
6) Running Go Launcher instead of default launcher (not sure if this helps battery or not)
7) Running CDMA mode only when I am in the U.S. (turned off global setting)
8) I get LOTS of emails daily (over 150) so the phone is constantly pulling in.
Hope this emails helps others.
When I first got my Pro a few weeks ago I was ready to send it back due to poor battery life. Decided to give it a little more time, and the stock battery was netting me at least 12 hours of moderate to heavy usage. Ordered the extended battery and had the same issue of it draining the battery insanely fast. Again, I gave it a few more days and now I'm finding myself charging the phone maybe once every two days. All in all, just give it some time -- it'll surely get better, just hang in there!
Day two: Seven hours in, and my phone is down to 20%. Better than yesterday (dead in 6 hours), but then again I used it much less today, and I removed all but 1 widget from my desktop.
Edit: Dead at 4:20. 7.5hrs today. This is garbage.
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Day two: Seven hours in, and my phone is down to 20%. Better than yesterday (dead in 6 hours), but then again I used it much less today, and I removed all but 1 widget from my desktop.
Edit: Dead at 4:20. 7.5hrs today. This is garbage.
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Try and hold out for a week. My Dream and Milestone took about a week before they were useful. If its not useful after that then you might have to trade it in or get a different type of phone.
Android is not known for its great battery management but you should be able to make at least a typical 8 hour work day imo.
I've stated in many threads in many forums now, the battery life with the "Out of the box" setup is just horrible. No way around it, it just sucks. The stock battery is the same one that came with the original Droid last year. The Droid 1 is a 600 Mhz stock phone. Our Pro is a 1 GHz beast. The stock battery in our phone is just inadequate.
I wouldn't be surprised to see an update in the near future to resolve some of the issues we are seeing though. It's obviously the biggest complaint with the phone. However if you are willing to root you can get the phone to somewhat reasonable battery life.
I've really only done a few things but am seeing a vast improvement. Stock settings with my usage gives me about 4 hours then I'm dead in the water. Now I get about 7 hours and I'm literally doing something on my phone all the time so I'm completely pleased with that.
My main things:
Root and remove the bloat. Play with the phone a couple of days, find out what apps you'll never use then get rid of them.
Get a different launcher, either Launder Pro or ADW.
Buy SetCPU and set profiles for:
Screen off = 300 MHz
Battery < 70% = 800 MHz
Battery < 50% = 600 MHZ
Change wireless mode from Global
That's it for me. If I used my phone like a normal productive Human I could get a full day easy, but again its literally always in my hands, so 7 hours I am very pleased with. That's about as long as my old Curve got me. After that I just slap my spare battery I always have in my back pocket in and I'm good to go with only 2 minutes downtime, as opposed to the 15 minutes down with any Blackberry battery swap.
That's my 2 cents, take it for what its worth. My biggest battery gains came from SetCPU, and to be honest I really can't tell a difference in performance when it throttles me down.
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There are a number of "Power Management" tweaks that can be performed that will dramatically improve battery life. Things i have done include:
device rooted via z4root (this has no direct impact on battery performance but necessary for things that do...)
Screebl Pro
SetCPU (throttle down to 300 when screen off)
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer
Uninstalled or frozen a bunch of stuff i don't use via Titanium Backup (there is thread in this forum that discusses what can be uninstalled/frozen)
Changed phone radio from global to cdma
I have also added an extended battery. I can easily go 12+ hours with heavy data/email and voice use.
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Which extended battery? Do you need a new battery cover?
This guy is selling his Droid Pro for $500 with extended battery.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Motorola-DROID-...0741502439?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item3a615bb1e7
The battery life on this device is very low. I ordered my extended battery here on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150532539861
I like that is has an original backing and there is no noticeable bulge.
Verizon is selling extended battery for $50+tax with free overnight shipping.
I got lucky. The seller has since revised his listing to NOT ship outside the united states. Its a shame for all those who've purchased their phone for use outside of the usa.
Well I have to contradict my last post. I burned through 2 1/2 standard batteries Sunday during a 16 hour day at work. I decided to break down and purchase the extended battery.
I bought it yesterday and threw it in my phone last night before I put it on the charger for the evening. Today I'm very surprised to see I'm still sitting at 40% with the phone being off the charger since 8am this morning (10:46pm now.) So 12.75 hours on just the extended battery, I'm thrilled. I would almost say this battery would net me more time than 2 fully charged standard batteries.
I bought the Shell/Holster combo at VZW when I bought the phone. I could not get the shell to fit over the extended battery back without modification (as I've read elsewhere). However, I threw the shell in my oven for about 10 minutes at 200, and the plastic was pliable enough to wrap the phone. It then cooled down and now fits great. A little snug, but it functions perfectly (actually fits better in the holster IMO). I would highly recommend the extended battery. I can see why everyone is saying great things about it now..
The salesman at the VZW store got me 25% off for something (Forgot exactly why I got the discount) and they had one in stock. So I would definitely encourage those to go to the store 1st before buying online. (The salesman, who was a manager, said the only reason they had them in stock was because their store has sold so many of the Pro's).
the has gotten better since we got em but i thing i found which seems kind of weird is im getting better battery life with my screen brightness all the up and my battery manager set to performance
I just got my extended battery in the mail yesterday. I am noticing a huge improvement in battery life with the droid pro. The annoying thing is the back for some reason does not "snap" into place properly. Not too sure why, but putting a piece of folded paper underneath the cover seems to have done the trick.
To anyone seeking to further extend their battery life I recommend getting the extended battery from verizon. If that is still not enough you can buy the Energizer USB rechargeable battery and go from there...
i am planning to buy HTC DHD in a day or two......
all my friends say the battery is poor and blah... blah..
but i like the design, features, etc...
is the Battery really very poor and is there any other trouble in that mobile!!
There are roms that could help you out. They can increase your DHD's battery life If you are willing to root your phone...
I most admit... With normal ROM, the battery really suck.
I haven't tried to root and put a custom ROM on yet, but only heard good things about it!
hey dude the battery usage depends on how u use ur phone
btw, i m also buying DHD on 17th very excited for my first Android
The battery is no worse than any other HTC, infact the battery is slightly better on my DHD than my classic desire.
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I've got a standard DHD, not rooted and no custom roms and I have no problem with the battery. I can get more than 24 hours out of a single charge and that is with what I would consider heavy use.
Echoing what has already been said, yes the battery life can be quite poor. My phone will last for a "day" out of the house, by which i mean ~8am-6pm, but will be at ~20% when i get home, so will need charging.
That said, the rest of the features more than make up for that in my opinion
If you manage your data and what you actually use your phone for then you can get lots of time out of your dhd, if you slam your phone by downloading loads and streaming all kinds of videos to it and using gps on maps constantly then yea it'll go, but for the size of the battery and what the phone can do i'm amazed it lasts as long as it does.
Right now I'm at 11h and 39m with 56% left. This is with 3g on. Facebook and twitter every 30 min but its set to automatically update. Surfing, Texting, and a few calls were made as well.
Replace the stock ROM with one of the ROMs available here. I personally use LeeDroid 2.3.4 Beta 4 with an updated Radio. And I am very happy with it. It has given me a better battery life as well as removal of those useless HTC apps is a bonus. I still use sense which adds a lot of frills to stock android. Also look into the battery threads where there are ideas on what to do to optimize battery usage.
If you are getting your first smartphone you'll probably be disappointed in terms of battery. They are like little laptops and you know how much their batteries drain out. It's not that bad, but it's completly different than a normal phone.
You can drain the battery in 4 hours with very heavy usage, with semi-heavy it'll last for ~8 hours. With my use I get about 24 hours. I get up in the morning (15mins Wifi), go to school 15mins Angry Birds, 20 mins or more wifi, come home and wifi + play for 20 mins. Calls 5mins. Go to sleep phone on standby. Next day the same and after school I'll charge and it'll be at 5%. This is very light use.
I'm using Android Revolution, but I'm getting worse battery than with stock because I flashed a bad radio for Finland.
Other faults, I've only found one.
First: The speaker, it's pretty bad. Sometimes if you are in a noisy place you might even miss a call because of the silent speaker. Want to listen to music or watch youtube videos using the phone's speaker? That'll be hard...
I had the same problem with the ROM Cyanogen CM7.
Consumption of the battery far too high.
You should know that the HTC rom with sense use a proprietary driver and less greedy.
For other's rom's hacking in the kernel.
I returned on a rom with sense, Leedroid 2.3.4, I' have never eaten my battery so little.
For Rom's nosense, I wait that problems are solved
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Echoing what has already been said, yes the battery life can be quite poor. My phone will last for a "day" out of the house, by which i mean ~8am-6pm, but will be at ~20% when i get home, so will need charging.
That said, the rest of the features more than make up for that in my opinion
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I'll second that. Mine is the same too.
Given the Pros of the device I will not mind the battery life. Its ok-ish.
I am on stock ROM and I kinda have better battery then when I was on Revolution HD. It gets better after a week usage and after a simple calibration. I get between 24 and 36 hours of medium usage and 3g and autosync aways on. I think its pretty great for this beast!
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I'm still running 2.3.3 (Original firmware)
For those who ran 2.3.3 and are now running official 2.3.4...was battery life improved?
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I'm still running 2.3.3 (Original firmware)
For those who ran 2.3.3 and are now running official 2.3.4...was battery life improved?
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much better bud...but im on a custom rom and my battery life is even better
3d-6h-4d8h All the time.
Email check every 5 min, twitter check 1h. wifi always on. Phone calls and little other usage.
12 hours before stable normal use. Arround 10 now with 2.3.4.
My battery life got much much worse. No custom roms, everything stock, UK non branded phone. Before upgrade (from 2.3.3.) battery lasted about 12 hrs and still 20% left, after update to 2.3.4. removed from charger at 8 am in the morning and 100% charged, after 10 hrs phone at 7%, same type usage as before, actually even little less.
I am very dissapointed with the battery life after upgrade.
Well this was my first day on the new software, will see tomorrow...
The custom rom is better for you battery life.
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2.3.5 is reported to be even better on battery life, have a look around and try a custom rom & kernel, you will notice a difference.
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i am using 2.3.5 and i have the worst battery life
carlitos66 said:
My battery life got much much worse. No custom roms, everything stock, UK non branded phone. Before upgrade (from 2.3.3.) battery lasted about 12 hrs and still 20% left, after update to 2.3.4. removed from charger at 8 am in the morning and 100% charged, after 10 hrs phone at 7%, same type usage as before, actually even little less.
I am very dissapointed with the battery life after upgrade.
Well this was my first day on the new software, will see tomorrow...
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I've seen the same battery life drop on my unbranded UK phone since kies update to 2.3.4. It barely makes it through the day now. Hoping this gets resolved soon, as it seems I've taken one step forward and two steps back.
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I've seen the same battery life drop on my unbranded UK phone since kies update to 2.3.4. It barely makes it through the day now. Hoping this gets resolved soon, as it seems I've taken one step forward and two steps back.
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I agree, battery life is actually worse with the official 2.3.4 update. With 2.3.3 I got around 1d, 12h, now I'm getting less 6-12h than before, with some synching, push email, calls/sms and light browsing. I mostly use stock apps, except the browser (I prefer Opera). I'm not even playing games or anything. Sammy, I'm dissapoint...
At least now the interface is smoother, but overall I'm not happy with the update. Battery life is (or should be) sacred.
No complaints so far getting more juice left after longer period!
+1 for improved battery life. i didn't do any measurements. going from stock 2.3.3 to stock 2.3.4 and battery was noticeably better all day. on 2.3.3 it wasn't great, so i'm happy for any improvement.
Agreed, the idle times are insane. Before I was only able to pull a day with less than 20% battery remaining. Now I'm able to get over a day of battery now and still have 50% battery left-over. Wonder how a movie marathon would fair now, compared to before the update.
I'm on 2.3.5 and my battery is at 70% after a 12+ day. On 2.3.4 it wouldn't last anywhere near that. I was charging twice a day.
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Im using phone for 55 minutes now.. Already 15% gone.. I only checked the forum for couple of minutes..
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Im on 2.3.5 stock, i think its ok?!!
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Battery life impressive on 2.3.5
I did my first full battery drain and managed to get 1d18h with quite a bit of use. Wifi on all the time. At least 2 hours of talking. I have dimmed my display but thats it.
Definitely better for me on 2.3.4 - no question about it.
Rather than compare my findings with other peoples the only fair thing to do is compare with the level of my 2.3.3 drain previous to updating. My usage is pretty like for like during the week so this makes for a fair comparison.
On 2.3.3. I could get a couple of days use out of it (a few hours of music, heavy twitter, frequent push gmail updates, camera use, calendar use, alarms etc) and be down to about 20% or so and that made it worth a recharge overnight. That was still ok for me and fair enough.
From a full charge yesterday morning and now into the afternoon on day 2 I still have 70% left. Even if I use some during what's left of the day I'm going to way better off under 2.3.4 - could probably run three days or more at this rate?
I guess it all depends how you use you phone and what parts you use most as to whether any update is better or worse. For me this is way better and I say well done to the update!
My phone is running Rom Kitchen KI4 2.3.4 ROM with CF-Root KI4 Kernal, since I took it off charge 1d 5h 19m, battery = 66%...
Android OS = 1h 19m
Display = 58m
Cell Standby = 1d 5h 19m
Phone Idle = 1d 4h 21m
Wifi On = 1d 5h 19m
Bluetooth = 1d 5h 6m
Android System = 39sec / Stay Awake = 4m 50s
XDA = 2m 42s
Facebook Synch every hour
Beautiful Widgets Synch every 4 hours
Gmail Push notifications on
MyBackyp Pro runs a schedule every day at 11:59 to backup SMS, MMS, Call Logs, Dictionary, Android Home and Settings.
Have received a few sms and emails, browsed the web with Dolphin HD and XDA forums via their app... looks good to me, on the previous 2.3.3 Stock ROM, It would be near dead by now...
On 2.3.3 (stock, NL), my battery was absolutely fine. I got between 2 and 6 days with light usage.
After upgrading to 2.3.4 it got worse. Hardly get 2 days now.
What's even worse is, that now my Android OS process takes 60%, which wasn't the case before. It seems as if 2.3.4 introduced the OS bug, instead of getting rid of it!
The only thing I changes more or less at the same time when I made the update (well, two days earlier actually), was to enable "Use wireless networks" under Location and security. But according to several forums this should not use significantly more battery.
Any ideas what is going on here?
So long story short after getting two defective Oneplus 2's in a row from Amazon I decided to step away from Oneplus to a more stable and reliable manufacturer.
I've come from a Oneplus 1 before this and I just spent the last three days going over every review of the MXPE. The only issue I have is if I'm making the right decision considering that battery life is pretty average? I'm not going to be using it for gaming, and I wont be using 3G instead of LTE.
Won't say it's bad. The turbo charged enables amazing fast charging times and Android M has surely improved some percentage of the battery. I carry a quick charge 2 enabled car charger too so i don't feel it's bad. i think you will get used to the battery offering of the MXPE.
Hi,
I had the same concerns as you have right now. The Screen of my OnePlus One got a crack, so I had to decide for myself "Do you want another one, or do you want to give an other manufacturer a try". I decided to buy the Moto X Style, which is the Pure in europe and was blown away by the display quality, the sound and the overall performance. And of course, it's as close to stock Android as it can get. The battery was a real letdown after a few hours of "testing" and recharge-cycles. Coming from a OPO, with all the possibilites to tweak and getting very high SOT, I was really really disappointed. But now, I'm getting really used to it and tweaked some settings a bit, to get more out of that battery. Now I'm on 4-5 hours of SOT and, thankfully, can go even further with the Turbo Charger. Of course, the battery could've been a bit larger (as always), but that's not a big issue in my opinion. Give it a chance, play around a little and you will see, that the overall experience prevails. With Marshmallow on the doorstep, you should get even more out of the battery, thanks to the Doze-Feature. There's a thread floating around, where a couple of users are reporting about an increasing battery life.
Thanks a lot for taking the trouble to reply guys. @doree Glad to see someone else coming from the OPO, I was used to getting 6-8 SOT with all the underclocking/volting that we used to do with AK kernel. Guess i'll do a bit more research from users using marshmallow on the X and then make a decision.
I'd say so far my battery life experience has been slightly worse than what I had with my Note 4, which is still pretty good overall. Especially since the update to MM it seems to drain less in standby. Currently have 2 hrs SOT with 38% battery left (and it last came off the charger Saturday morning). Granted, when I'm at home I always have it on Wifi which uses less battery than having it on GSM/LTE. On weekdays when I'm at work (where I don't have wifi) it drains a bit faster. And I also have a long commute which also isn't beneficial to battery life as it's constantly hopping towers during the commute.
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So long story short after getting two defective Oneplus 2's in a row from Amazon I decided to step away from Oneplus to a more stable and reliable manufacturer.
I've come from a Oneplus 1 before this and I just spent the last three days going over every review of the MXPE. The only issue I have is if I'm making the right decision considering that battery life is pretty average? I'm not going to be using it for gaming, and I wont be using 3G instead of LTE.
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I've read a lot different stuff concerning battery on the MXPE - with a handful of users reporting it's not great. But I must say, from my experience, battery life has been amazing. I get between 4 and 6 hours of SOT per charge. And a full charge can easily get me through 48 hours. I've never had battery life this great on a phone before. Right now I'm running stock LP, no tweaks, no nothing. I don't use WiFi, but location is set to high accuracy, and I'm always on LTE. I do have more than adequate cell signal strength which helps, and I run minimal apps. But overall I've been super impressed with battery life. :knock on wood:
Battery life is decent as long as your not playing games with full gpu usage. I get three straight hours of battery playing games. For the days I don't play games, battery life is good as oneplus one. But my old OnePlus takes the cake playing games and gpu usage with heat.. I'm on stock MM rom on mxpe and cm12 with custom kernel on 1+. Out of the box, I like mxpe hands down. Probably why I'm still stock on this phone. But once we get Custom marshmallow roms rolling, my flashiolic will kick in!
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i do not play games but i do chat a lot, movies etc, i get around 5 hours on screen time.
the phone usually lasts the whole day but you have to watch your apps some apps just drain your battery.
keep in mind that you can get 40% of charge in 15 min, you gotta love this feature over the one plus