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I'm having ridiculous battery life. I fully charged my phone and unplugged it around 2AM today only to wake up 6 hours later and finding the phone dead.
When I first picked it up yesterday I fully charged it and went to work and it was dead by the time I came back.
I could understand heavily using it, but it was basically on standby 90 percent of the time while at work, and 100 percent while I slept.
The only thing I could be thinking of is that it keeps switching between 4G and 3G.
Any suggestions? Any chance of it being a bad battery?
Turn off 4G if you're in spotty coverage. If its on but not in 4G, it will boost its power to search for a 4G network.
also, you most likely need a task manager - the bloatware on this runs about 20 tasks in the background prior to running anything.
A friend of mine had the same issue with his HD2. He stated that he drained and charged the battery about 6-8 times and now his battery lasts a day and a half. I am trying the same thing with my EVO.
Also give it a couple charges to let it cycle, it'll get better, use the power management widget to manually adjust brightness also
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ive not had any problems with my phone 3/4 of a charge when i went to work last night and after 8 hrs of off and on usage i still had a little under a 1/4th of battery left...
this was email, music, web browsing, installing apps, and being on standby
Getting decent battery life here. i have wifi turned on most of the day which helps save power usage.
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Turn off 4G if you're in spotty coverage. If its on but not in 4G, it will boost its power to search for a 4G network.
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That's what I was thinking. I'm going to keep it off today to see how it does.
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Also give it a couple charges to let it cycle, it'll get better, use the power management widget to manually adjust brightness also
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Hopefully it will get better with cycling but the brightness didn't have any factor in it. Like i said, it was fully charged before going to sleep and it was on standby and couldn't make it 6 hours with no activity whatsoever.
Like stated above, I think it was constantly going from 4G -> 3G->Searching for 4G-> 4G-> repeat over and over.
4G smore-g, Sprint's 3G coverage should be good enough for most web surfing. Having used AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. I think Sprint has the fastest browser surfing over 3G followed by Verizon. I'm thinking leave 4G off until you need to tether or stream a movie.
On my G1 (which I'm leaving behind for the Evo, shortly), T-Mobile is so slow I could probably make a dial-up app and get pages quicker.
As for all the apps running in the background, I'm sure a few devs will grace us with some stripped down ROMs soon enough.
Batteries get better after a few cycles as well. It will get better, don't worry.
Post your awake time from Spare Parts. I had an awful issue on the stock ROM until I rooted and removed all of the bloatware.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=690973
look through my thread and disable the apps and you'll see better battery improvement
I got my EVO from Sprint 8am yesterday, I charged it full when I got home and it lasted 26 hours with moderate usage (web surfing, downloading apps, playing around). This was about what I'd get out of Hero! I was shocked, I was afraid I'd only get 8-ish from some reviews I read.
I let it die down completely to where it turned off and charged it back up with it being off. I'll be doing this for the first week I have the phone, and we'll see if it increases battery even more!
You just got the phone; the battery's not going to be stellar right out of the box. Condition it a bit to break it in, as everybody else on this thread has said. That's probably why all of these reviewers are complaining about the battery; they only use it for a day or two without allowing the battery to reach its true potential.
4g, gps and bluetooth need to be turned off unless needed. Throw some of the widgets on a home screen its easy enough to turn them on and off.
Rooting and removing the bloat helps. Make sure you set the interval for you social networking to something reasonable the same with the mail app and news rss.
All that junk eats juice.
Do the live backgrounds eat a lot of juice? I have the moving starts one. I fully charged my batter at midnight and by 10am with phone screen off, no use all night, it was half used. When I used advance task killer, there were 21 apps running, damn. When i reboot phone, there was a ton of apps that auto start.
Is there a way to shut down those from autostarting or is root the only way?
also, is using another wall charger ok? I have a motorola charger that was for my q9h that seems to work fine, but I don't want to fry the evo.
I was actually curious about the standby battery usage and left my phone on overnight after being fully charged. After about ~8 hours the phone still had 72% battery left.
jeffrimerman said:
Do the live backgrounds eat a lot of juice? I have the moving starts one. I fully charged my batter at midnight and by 10am with phone screen off, no use all night, it was half used. When I used advance task killer, there were 21 apps running, damn. When i reboot phone, there was a ton of apps that auto start.
Is there a way to shut down those from autostarting or is root the only way?
also, is using another wall charger ok? I have a motorola charger that was for my q9h that seems to work fine, but I don't want to fry the evo.
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I've never had any problems with the live wallpaper eating battery. I've been using it since May 26th.
Aridon said:
4g, gps and bluetooth need to be turned off unless needed. Throw some of the widgets on a home screen its easy enough to turn them on and off.
Rooting and removing the bloat helps. Make sure you set the interval for you social networking to something reasonable the same with the mail app and news rss.
All that junk eats juice.
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From my experience Android actually uses GPS really well and it only turns on when you really need it, I've never noticed a huge increase or decrease by turning it on or off. The other stuff seems to be very true, though I still haven't gotten a task killer or rooted and I seem to be doing pretty well..
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
kanej2006 said:
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.
souljaboy said:
@ 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)
OT: 90% of the phones can hang out 1 week without charge since 4-5 years , its no big news
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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...
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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.
How is everyone's battery life... I think I came in overhyped by some reviews like engadget's praising the battery life of this phone but in reality haven't been too impressed.
I have to change how I use my phone in order to make it through the day... I did cone from an iphone 4 though...
Give it a day or so. My initial full charge barely lasted a few hours. My next one, though, lasted 12+ hours with pandora running, and the screen on half the time.
Give it a little time. Battery and phone both need to calibrate their readings. I got ~7 hours with display on today (1.5 hours browsing, 5+ hours movie).
Got my phone a few days ago. Last night I went to bed at 12 and didn't plug in my phone, it had 50% remining. I woke up at 11 am and the phone was dead. I charged it to full, now its reporting 30% at 11 hours later. This is with night mode on and I barely touched the phone today, maybe 20 texts max. The thing using most of the battery is phone idle.
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mchimney said:
Got my phone a few days ago. Last night I went to bed at 12 and didn't plug in my phone, it had 50% remining. I woke up at 11 am and the phone was dead. I charged it to full, now its reporting 30% at 11 hours later. This is with night mode on and I barely touched the phone today, maybe 20 texts max. The thing using most of the battery is phone idle.
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This I too noticed. Uses too much battery when idle. I will charge to 100% and see how it fares while I sleep.
I plan on leaving mine unplugged for the night as well. I wonder why this phone idle is using so much battery though.
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1) this is like the 10th battery thread. Many answers can be found in the others.
2) Yes. Your battery needs to calibrate over time.
3) Android users more battery when on because of all the things it syncs with in the background: weather, mail, maps, etc.
4) again due to it's syncing it uses more in the background. To find out what dial *#*#info#*#* and look at the battery stats of what had been running. Look at Other Usage especially.
What size does your battery say on the actual battery? I thought it is advertised with 1930 but mine says 1850.
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Im 19 hours unplugged and still at 15%, this phone is a beast
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What size does your battery say on the actual battery? I thought it is advertised with 1930 but mine says 1850.
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Mine says 1880/1930 mAh (min/typ).
My battery seemed on the lower side of average when I first got it and then it got a lot better after a couple days.
Download Green Power in the Market. Insane improvement. I've used it on my Nexus One (Atrix is coming tomorooow!! for a month now and I've gone 50-60% plus on duration.
I have been running slacker and just web browsing for approx 1.5 hours and am down from 100% to 70%... This is after about four days of nightly charging. I am running green power too with no wifi managment. I have gps etc off. The battery analysis shows that the display is using 80% of the juice. Is any of this normal or is something wrong here?
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The Atrix's battery is the best battery in an Android phone I've used to date. I just left Sprint and thought the Epic 4G's battery was decent. After using this for a few days, I realize that the battery in this thing is AWESOME!
While we were with Sprint, my wife had the EVO 4g and now has the Inspire 4G. NONE of these phone hold a candle to the battery life of the Atrix.
So i left mine unplugged over night again, just tried to turn it on and i got "Modem did not power up (0). Starting RSD protocol support. Battery is too Low to flash.
battery info and network searching
First post here and I'm not a developer but have some feedback for this. Couldn't share without registering first. Won't be a pest.
Had the battery issue with the atrix and called att. The suggested a microcell booster as i was only getting one bar here (H+) at home. The store in San Diego gave me one for free and I installed it and have been off the charger for well over 24 hours now and at 50%. granted I'm not using it much as I have computer at home too. However, just sitting on the table before the booster and it would be at 50% in 4 hours.
Went to the laguna mountains in the middle of nowhere two days ago and it had edge network only. The battery lasted all day and night. The drive out there had H+ and edge in the middle of the cleavland nat forest.
If the atrix is searching for networks it uses battery like crazy.
Also tech support said there was no way to force edge connectivity on the atrix. There has been a code suggested here (I don't recall it now) that is supposed to do it but it is only for international use.
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Download Green Power in the Market. Insane improvement. I've used it on my Nexus One (Atrix is coming tomorooow!! for a month now and I've gone 50-60% plus on duration.
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Another vote for green power. Worked wonders on my Cappy.
psymont said:
I have been running slacker and just web browsing for approx 1.5 hours and am down from 100% to 70%... This is after about four days of nightly charging. I am running green power too with no wifi managment. I have gps etc off. The battery analysis shows that the display is using 80% of the juice. Is any of this normal or is something wrong here?
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I have Green Power on "Managing wifi & mobile netwotk". Does wonders..
Where you browsing on Wlan or Mobile? If your signal isn't good enough it'll obviously eat the battery much faster.
battery life much better than EVO or Epic and EVEN the Droid X. Better than my cousin's iPhone 4 as well. Really great.
I have been using the mobile connection. Havent used gps or wifi. I do only have 2 bars in my house. Can low signal really account for this massive drain. Display still says over 80% use. Now I have been unplugged for 3 hours and I am down to 40%. This cant be right...
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I have been using the mobile connection. Havent used gps or wifi. I do only have 2 bars in my house. Can low signal really account for this massive drain. Display still says over 80% use. Now I have been unplugged for 3 hours and I am down to 40%. This cant be right...
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Of course!! Your phone is constantly looking for stronger signal & you're browsing at the same time, that certainly accounts for big portion of your battery usage
I'm so giddy right now. I've ordered an OEM battery for my Vibrant, and i should be getting it any day now. The reason for me ordering a new battery is limited usage time. Lately when flashing any ROM, I make sure It is at 100% charged. I will normally get about 4.5 or less hours of usage - using a little app named 'Battery Left'.
I don't use a task killer. Ever. I know this has some controversy signed to this, but the Android OS is engineered without issue regarding this.
I Use WiFi whenever I can (uses a fraction of the power 3G radios use). When I CAN'T use WiFi, I make sure it's turned off so it's not wasting power scanning for hotspots.
I make sure GPS is off whenever i'm not using it.
I set display timeout to 30 seconds, set brightness to Auto, or manual and the lowest. Little trick, if Brightness is on manual, you can adjust it on the fly by swiping left or right across the task bar.
I let the battery TOTALLY discharge at least once (twice is better) and then charge to full. This doesn't condition the battery, this just calibrates the battery metering software, so that it knows for sure where zero is, making the metering more accurate.
I try to use a darker colored wallpaper, blacks and reds and deep greens and blues use less power than lighter tones, and white is the worst.
I get a half-day out of my rooted Vibrant on T-Mobile, and I actually use it as a phone (amazing huh?), PDA, game machine, ebook reader, etc, it's not just in my pocket on standby. Battery life has nothing to do with it being unlocked/rooted.
I understand the biggest reason why people think THEIR particular smartphone has some sort of battery problem: They just got it, and are using the hell out of it. We tend to not set it down in the first few days/weeks, we're always fiddling with it, showing it to our friends and co-workers, etc. Once the new and shiny wears off, and we settle into more "normal" usage patterns, we start noticing that we get a lot more battery life out of the device. Some people think that the battery is now "broken in", but the truth is, the USER is broken in.
Some of my POWER hungry apps I use on a daily basis is 'SportsTracker' which I use riding my bicycle to and from work (7.3 miles one way). SportsTrack uses my GPS and tracks my ride in REAL time. It sends a link to Facebook and Twitter, where my friends, and family can watch me go. This app uses about 17% of my battery - one way. So, at the end of the day, just using SportsTracker it uses at least 35% of my battery.
Speaking to the heavy users, how many hours do you normally get using your Vibrant?
With 20-30 calls a day, 20-50 texts, dozen or so emails and listening to music and just geeking on the phone Axura 30 hrs before it is 15% Trigger 24 hrs before 15%, but then, that's how it works for me. Since I got rid of stock roms, I have had ZERO battery problems, I only use Task manager. Deleted all the bloat and I have screen set to 50%. Battery is no longer an issue
With Bionyx 1.3 I let the phone sit idle (exchange email running in the background though) from 8AM and till 4PM it took only 15%
Skype+music+movie for around 1 hours and it's down 15% more (now 70%)
I guess it'll last 1.5 day normal use and 2 days idle use
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With 20-30 calls a day, 20-50 texts, dozen or so emails and listening to music and just geeking on the phone Axura 30 hrs before it is 15% Trigger 24 hrs before 15%, but then, that's how it works for me. Since I got rid of stock roms, I have had ZERO battery problems, I only use Task manager. Deleted all the bloat and I have screen set to 50%. Battery is no longer an issue
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That's a great battery life. My bionix eats more battery on almost the same usage. I have around 76 user apps installed and some bloater. One thing I have noticed using system panel is when I sleep, my phone sleeps with me and uses an average of 1% battery per hour. Is that good? I still I think im not getting optimal battery life when im actually using the phone.
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You guys think that's good battery life? Nah, this is good battery life.
I always got 20-30hours a charge with most of the Bionix roms. However with Bionox 1.3 I struggle to get more than 12 hours with the same usage. I did notice that new app BLN (using your soft keys as notifications) was reported on some other roms as a battery drainer, so I have uninstalled via Titanium. I will report back tomorrow if that is the issue. I still use KA5 modem, so that part has always been a constant
Weird. I'm on 1.3 as well. I'm 15 hours into my charge with normal usage on 3G/WiFi and I've got 25% left.
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I'm 15hrs in running Bionix-v 1.2 and i have 42% left. That's with GPS on all day....phone in pocket from unplugging to about 3:30pm. Then only light use.
Days that I use heavily I'll have to plug in around 4pm. I'm not too happy with my battery life. I love my phone...but my old iPhone 3G had top notch battery life! lasting 3 days without charging.
Is it not weird how these times fluctuate so much between users?
Will the new Galaxy S 4G battery fit in our phones? Or will it even be worth it?
Do you have the superpower app? It saves my battery big time when phone is sleeping.
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I ordered a batter charger, two spare regular batteries and one spare extended battery last month for my vibrant.
Now I keep a spare charged battery in my pocket and I no longer have to plug my phone in anywhere I go. I just swap batteries and put the dead one on the charger when I get back home.
If I am going to be away from home for more than 24 hours then I put in the extended battery which gives me about 2 days worth of use.
Its a bit of a pain to have to be down for a minute when the battery is dying, but I am more content using the phone this way since I can now keep it with me instead of leaving it upstairs or on my office desk to charge.
My phone is on the stock KA6 kies and from 8-8:30 it is off the charger on 3G. When I get to work it is on WIFI with WIFI Calling(no signal indoors) from 8:30-12:00 and goes back on 3G. then at 12:30 it goes back on WIFI(calling) and sits like that till 5:00. Usage during that time, some email viewing, 10 txt or so, 5 min phone calls and that is it!! from full charge at 8am to 5 pm I'll be at 45-50% battery left and what you read above is all I do with it all day. Battery life is horrible. Not much I can do(unless someone has an idea to fix the issue) as I need WIFI calling otherwise why have a cell phone?
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My phone is on the stock KA6 kies and from 8-8:30 it is off the charger on 3G. When I get to work it is on WIFI with WIFI Calling(no signal indoors) from 8:30-12:00 and goes back on 3G. then at 12:30 it goes back on WIFI(calling) and sits like that till 5:00. Usage during that time, some email viewing, 10 txt or so, 5 min phone calls and that is it!! from full charge at 8am to 5 pm I'll be at 45-50% battery left and what you read above is all I do with it all day. Battery life is horrible. Not much I can do(unless someone has an idea to fix the issue) as I need WIFI calling otherwise why have a cell phone?
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So 16 hours with 3G and WiFi Calling on all the time...on the STOCK Samsung crap? Thats pretty awesome man. WiFi calling is a HUGE drain. Spend the $2 on an app called SystemPanel. It will tell you exactly what is taking up CPU Cycles which, of course, uses battery.
I go 24 hours on a charge with routine use. Granted, everyone's use is different. But I got two days with the KA7 modem on Bionix V. I see no difference with 1.3 (haven't used it enough to tell). Granted, I had WiFi Calling frozen and was on EDGE most of the time and turned on WiFi when I needed it. I've observed WiFi Calling using excessive CPU cycles when it isn't even on. Its pretty poorly coded. I recommend freezing wifi calling when you aren't using it.
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You guys think that's good battery life? Nah, this is good battery life.
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LAY OFF THE photoshop :>>>
You guys think that's good battery life? Nah, this is good battery life.
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LAY OFF THE photoshop :>>>
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Don't hate.
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i got 2+ battery backup =.="
Tarzanman said:
I ordered a batter charger, two spare regular batteries and one spare extended battery last month for my vibrant.
Now I keep a spare charged battery in my pocket and I no longer have to plug my phone in anywhere I go. I just swap batteries and put the dead one on the charger when I get back home.
If I am going to be away from home for more than 24 hours then I put in the extended battery which gives me about 2 days worth of use.
Its a bit of a pain to have to be down for a minute when the battery is dying, but I am more content using the phone this way since I can now keep it with me instead of leaving it upstairs or on my office desk to charge.
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Where did u get the charger and battery from? Also thinking about getting those!
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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?