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Hi,
I have diamond, and thinking to get diamond2.
I have a question for D2 owners.
How is the battery life on D2, because the original battery for D1 was terrible, I got the extendet one so it's ok. But as I know there is no extendet battery for D2. And the stock one is just a bit bigger then D1. But the screen is also bigger on D2, with drains more battery, I think.
How long the phone lasts with moderate use? Also is there a difference with 6.1 and 6.5.1 rom with battery drainage?
And maybe someone had D1 and now hase D2, so whats the + and - compared?
Thanks
I have had both. The TD2's battery is considerably better than the TD(1) in my opinion. I'd say the TD2 would be at about 30-40% charge once the TD(1) run out.
I think my TD2's battery is pretty good, as long as 3G and bluetooth are turned off. Other than that: abysmal (Not quite TD1 bad, but almost)
p.brazauskas said:
Hi,
How long the phone lasts with moderate use?
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I'm getting around 90 hours. I recharge when the battery reaches 40%-50%. Generally bluetooth, wifi, and cellphone radios are turned off. I use my TD2 as PDA.
I find the D2 battery life on WM6.5 much improved. I seemed to be always charging it but now, it's less critical. Also, with all transmitters turned off, the lifetime is pretty good. My phone was on for a week on holiday and the battery was 90% by the end of the week having turned the mobile on for an hour or so to check messages a couple of times.
Of course, turning the phone & WiFi off isn't very practical but it does shown where the power drain comes from - no surprises there!
Cheers, Rob.
am getting 2 days , to 3 ...normal usage, and songs.
got even 4 days with normal usage. Can always buy a bigger battery
My wife got a TD2, and battery lasts for 3-4 days with her usage, and when I used her phone it lasts about 2 days. Not too bad, really.
The longer you have the TD2, the less you "play" with it and therefore the better the battery becomes. Never base battery consumption in the first month of getting your new toy
Cheers, Rob.
On ROM Base 2.18 drained for couple hour.
On 2.16 go 3-4 days with normal usage...
Regards
I have Duty HG R6 and battery drains FAST! Fully charged it lasts less than a day with normal usage on 2G network and everything turned off (BT, WF), few messages and max 2 hours of talking! And one more thing, anyone else experiencing that phone is getting hotter after 5-10 minutes of talking? Sometimes I cant put it on ear because of that...
ViktorX said:
I have Duty HG R6 and battery drains FAST! Fully charged it lasts less than a day with normal usage on 2G network and everything turned off (BT, WF), few messages and max 2 hours of talking! And one more thing, anyone else experiencing that phone is getting hotter after 5-10 minutes of talking? Sometimes I cant put it on ear because of that...
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Same here, 2 hours of talking and battery are gone, all other (BT, Wifi, 3G) are off, no play with device, only talking and some short e-mail read or write.
I search this forum and all users write that device last for 3-4 day ?? But what usage are to last 3-4 day, my phone is empty on half of working day.
And yes, phone are hot after 10-20 minutes of talking, some time my call last for 50-60 minutes, and this is terrible, like radiator on ear.
My call consumes eta 1% for 1 minute of call, (13 minutes , battery drops 11-12%)
Is this normal for this device, i have no answer on this question, but i plan send device to HTC service, because 5 h of talking in specification are far away in my Diamond2.
Maybe we should try some rom with 2.16 base and not 2.18 like miro666 sad. Will try it soon and report than and I'm using 4.49.25.14 radio...
I always have everything switched on with wifi and data access available when needed.
I run a 'lite' ROM, always install all apps to phone mem (Micro SD usage consumes a lot of power) and charge as often as possible.
I am probably what you would describe as a heavy user. I always carry a spare battery and an external power pack.
I need the extra power only rarely and so I usually make it throught an eight hour day on phone power alone with this usage.
Only a Day
I have a standard TD2 with a standard UK 6.5 upgrade.
Battery beeds charging daily. Im not even a heavy user. I make/receive a few calls, send a few texts, check my email and use "Brain Trainer" game for 15mins whilst on the bus going home from work.
The battery is pants!!
I have this phone and the Nexus one. I can't tell you for sure what real world use gets you, but here's what I found today.
I had a class to go to. I took my MT3GS with me to the class. I have the HTC Flip Clock, as well as twitter, my texts, GPS on and minimal use during the breaks, and Silent Time Pro keeping it silent. I got home and my phone was at 96%.
My Nexus was left at the house. It has Beautiful Widgets updating the weather every hour. It has no facebook, no twitter, nothing that will sync other than my email. GPS and WiFi were off, as was the display. The only thing running on the phone besides beautiful widgets was Silent Time Pro. When I got home, I checked my N1, and it had fallen to 69% with absolutely no usage while I was gone.
Like I said, I dunno what real world use would get you on the MT3GS, but it seems far superior to the N1 at this point. All things considered, I think the N1 even with the faster processor should have fared better, as it wasn't used and basically nothing was on, as opposed to the MT3GS having GPS, a few things syncing, a few texts, and more programs running in the background.
This (to me) either means that A) The MT3GS manages power better OR B) Beautiful Widgets takes up far to much processor and battery power. Maybe I'll test it on my MT3GS later this week when I have some time off and see.
Anyway, there's my opinion. Take it for what you will.
I'm running the HTC flip clock, a few toggle widgets, the FeedR widget, Taskiller widget, and a calendar widget, and from fully charged to the end of my work day (few songs, few youtube vids, some texting, browsing facebook, etc etc) by battery is at about 25 percent.
I hate to say it, but my old Motorola Cliq would play Pandora through my entire work shift and still leave me with as much or more battery life than the slide does.
Honestly, not impressed with battery life so far.
My battery life has been ok, not great, some facebook, some twitter, a few hundred texts. some interwebbing. I can get around 10-12 hours from a charge it seems. which in my opinion is crap lol. i had a rooted cliq before this that was running only the basics in the background(killed all the bloatware and extra crap), i could get almost 2 days outta that thing.
I thinks once we get root and kill all the bloat and stuff running in the background, battery life will go through the roof. A vanilla 2.1 or 2.2 will prolly do wonders for battery life.
just my 2 cents
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My battery life has been ok, not great, some facebook, some twitter, a few hundred texts. some interwebbing. I can get around 10-12 hours from a charge it seems. which in my opinion is crap lol. i had a rooted cliq before this that was running only the basics in the background(killed all the bloatware and extra crap), i could get almost 2 days outta that thing.
I thinks once we get root and kill all the bloat and stuff running in the background, battery life will go through the roof. A vanilla 2.1 or 2.2 will prolly do wonders for battery life.
just my 2 cents
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I almost feel like raising my hand and calling bs on 2 days with the cliq'r but i dont know you.
the cliq i used would get about 10 hours with use and 19 or so without use.
my g1 would get about 9 - 18
the mytouch 10 - 18
the old garbage samsung flip and sony flip phones 2 - 3 days.
this slide im averaging 10 - 12 with heavy use and 17 - 19 without much use.
keep in mind only had it for 2 - 3 days since release date but i did drain the battery and recharge it a few times the first day to break it in.
so far id say its about average on battery life.
i charge overnight
then either while driving, or working
then i connect to pc at home
with a full battery in the morning
and a slight top off mid day i never run out of battery life.
Hehe with my cliq I only had only the essentials running(there's a few custom roms out). So it went for almost 2 days. You can get the roms off modmymoto forums if you wanna check em out. The key to the cliq is killing motoblur =). Pm me if you want info shadow
I'm happy with battery life. First day I played with a lot, browsed a bunch and installed many apps and got around 12 hours(most I'd ever get from G1). Today I'm going on almost 24, took it off the charger at 4am after letting it fully charge, didnt start using it till around 10am and at 10am the battery still read 100% which I thought was wrong. Right now its at 17% (still havent gotten the 15% warning) at 1:30am, I'm sure it'll make it till 4. Sent around 50 text today, installed around two apps, and didnt do much voice talking or browsing but I did at least a good 30 mins worth from both. I periodically kill all with advanced task manager (except sense).
i charge overnight
then either while driving, or working
then i connect to pc at home
with a full battery in the morning
and a slight top off mid day i never run out of battery life.
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Amen. I carry a 3 in. USB to Micro USB cord that charges me at home, in my car and at work.
Those that are disapponted by the battery life are being unrealistic with their expectations. Power is too easy to come by to waste time *****ing about it. Makes you look too lazy or good to plug it in.
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I purchased mine yesterday,and it sat on the charger overnight, and read a full charge in the morning.
6 hours 42 minutes later, it gave me a "battery life is at 26%" warning. WiFi, bluetooth and GPS were all off (all day)
I have it setup to check my email and facebook, but I had my Kaiser doing that and more for 2 days at a time with a smaller battery...
Usage-
55% Display (was set to auto)
32% Voice calls (20m 21s)
9% cell standby (6h 44m 59s)
4% Phone Idle (5h 10m 4s)
This seems absurd! If tomorrow doesn't do better, I'm taking it back.
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Amen. I carry a 3 in. USB to Micro USB cord that charges me at home, in my car and at work.
Those that are disapponted by the battery life are being unrealistic with their expectations. Power is too easy to come by to waste time *****ing about it. Makes you look too lazy or good to plug it in.
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.Realistic ... I never expect an electrical device that CONSTINTLY draws power to have a great battery, I dont race my car all day or let it idle in my driveway and wonder why theres no gas in the tank. a battery holds a resorce that regardless if yo like it or not .. will deplete over time. Advanced task killer is a great tool to get rid of th7e programs rnning in th7e back grond. to save batt life.
.Sorry for any mispellings, my laptops keyboard is taking a crap on me after it got rained on last night.
shadowmike said:
.Realistic ... I never expect an electrical device that CONSTINTLY draws power to have a great battery, I dont race my car all day or let it idle in my driveway and wonder why theres no gas in the tank. a battery holds a resorce that regardless if yo like it or not .. will deplete over time. Advanced task killer is a great tool to get rid of th7e programs rnning in th7e back grond. to save batt life.
.Sorry for any mispellings, my laptops keyboard is taking a crap on me after it got rained on last night.
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I don't think my expectations were high. Most people outside our community think "only a day" is bad battery life. I expected to be able to make it through 1 day without going dead. Being 3/4 drained after only ~20 minutes of talk time is absurd, especially since I didn't use the web or IM, etc. Just POP3 email every 30 minutes, and I uploaded 4 or 5 photos to facebook.
No Wifi, bluetooth, or GPS...
I just wanted to come back and reply now that I've had a couple days to play with the phone. I've been using it for about 16 hours straight now, quite a few texts, 5-6 short phone calls, and maybe 20 minutes of 3G usage, I'm at 66%. I haven't had this phone on the charger at all.
On the other hand, my Nexus, which has been on the charger all except maybe 2 hours in that same amount of time is already at 88%.
I think we have a clear winner in the battery life category. At least from my tests.
I am certain now that I have a defective phone.
I killed all running tasks, manually logged out of all IM clinents, etc, and then took it off the charger. I've made 12 minutes of calls today, it's only been unplugged for 4 1/2 hours and it's at ~%60 battery life.
12 minutes? Thats got to be a defect.
But, they are apparently out of stock... I might end up with a Touch Pro 2 or a HD2 after all...
Definitely not right .. I'm at 85 percent since 9am (7pm now), light use again though but its stand-by time is impeccable.. try and get another one, I can tell you the HD2 battery life is much, much worse, my father got it at the same time I got the slide and he's charging 2x a day. Mind you this guy would go the entire day with bluetooth,wifi, and gps on his G1. Oh and the usability of windows, well its just blah.. not trying to be biased at all. I have my brightness at 30 percent, syncng gmail only, and for widgets I have the curvefish battery widget, pure calander widget, power widget, and audiomanger. No bluetooth, gps or wifi on.
Have you tried going into the about phone in settings, and seeing whats draining the battery (click battery use)? See what cell standby is. Are you using 3g? May I suggest downloading anycut > new shortcut, activity, phone info. From there, open the short cut and you can adjust if you want 3g only (wcdma) or edge (gsm) only. Try setting it at one of the only settings, your phone might be dropping and picking up signal.
First post here, Hello World!
I have had mind for almost a week now. At first I was averaging about 1/2 day on a full charge. This was with Gmail syncing, no WIFI/GPS/BT on. Mild surfing, about a dozen SMS and 15 minutes of talk time.
I installed Advanced Task Killer and set it to shut off my apps on screen close. I am now able to go 17 hours ( a full day for me ) and I still have 15% left. This was with BT on for about 30 minutes of talk time, WIFI on for about 1 hour at the office, GPS on for clock/weather updates every 3 hours.
Overall, I am happy with the battery life on this device now. I am wondering if it took a while for the battery to calibrate and ATK helping with running apps.
I love this phone!
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I am certain now that I have a defective phone.
I killed all running tasks, manually logged out of all IM clinents, etc, and then took it off the charger. I've made 12 minutes of calls today, it's only been unplugged for 4 1/2 hours and it's at ~%60 battery life.
12 minutes? Thats got to be a defect.
But, they are apparently out of stock... I might end up with a Touch Pro 2 or a HD2 after all...
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Sounds about like me. I don't use my phone to call much (go figure) but I listened to 15 min. of music, logged onto facebook for 10 minutes (3g) and sent probably 15 texts, and I was at about 65% in the 5 hours I had it unplugged.
chrisinaz said:
Sounds about like me. I don't use my phone to call much (go figure) but I listened to 15 min. of music, logged onto facebook for 10 minutes (3g) and sent probably 15 texts, and I was at about 65% in the 5 hours I had it unplugged.
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Here's a question, Did you all plug it in and let it charge to full when you got it BEFORE using it?
Sure did. Ive made that mistake before, but I do that with all phones now, even though with a lithium battery, it shouldn't make that much difference.
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Sure did. Ive made that mistake before, but I do that with all phones now, even though with a lithium battery, it shouldn't make that much difference.
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Yea, I guess im just superstitious but I always do that with a new device. Have you tried recalibrating the battery? Charge to full, leave plugged in for like an hour after it says it's fully charged, wipe battery status, reboot, use normally? (if you can wipe battery status int he menu's without root) I'm picking my MYT3G slide up this weekend so I don't know if it can be done or not yet.
i think the battery life is great, i take the phone off of the charger around 9am. while im at work from 11aM-7pM i check my updates every hr or so. from 2-330 i listen to music also on my way home(7-8) and when i finally get back home round 8ish my battery is at about 58% then around midnight i get the 30% message. around 130-2am its at about 12% so i get 17hrs with medium usage
My battery life isn't too bad. 17+ hours since unplugged of moderate use (but only like 1% left): Display 41% (on Auto), Wi-Fi 25% (worked at home, kept on wifi for data instead of 3G), Voice Calls 22% (35 minutes; 14 calls), Standby 8% and Idle 4%. I think if you're more active in process management, it will help with life. I also just switched Brightness from Auto to a manual setting of about 20%. I un-synced Tweet and Weather and am running very few widgets, but keep GPS on. My K9 Mail syncs on an hourly basis and Gmail with Calendar and Contacts auto-syncs. Overall, MUCH better than G1.
So this afternoon I decided to charge my phone for the first time in 3 1/2 days as the battery level dropped to 9%. I last charged it fully on Thursday night, and unplugged in on Friday morning. I unfortunately don't have screenshots to prove it because I plugged it in briefly (for no more than 10 minutes) to update to FRF72, and also rebooted.
If you are wondering, here are my settings:
- Wifi on (Sleep disabled)
- 3G on (Set to WCDMA Only in the secret menu)
- GPS on
- Sync on
I'm using stock Froyo (FRF72), and have had quite a lot of stuff running:
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Meebo
- FotMob (World Cup alerts)
- A fair bit of browsing
The only thing I haven't really done which I think kills the battery is listening to music. I listened to it for about 30 minutes on the train this morning the battery dropped from 32% to 16%.
So to the people complaining about the battery life being terrible: You're Doing It Wrong!
That's impressive if true. I've been getting really great battery life lately with CM and IR's kernel as well. I can go two days on a single charge, but I plug it in every night anyway.
I find that the biggest battery waster is phone calls. Maybe switching to EDGE would help with that, but I don't feel like it's worth the effort.
Lucky bastard. I get like 1day 4hours for typical use with Cyanogenmod 5.0.8 with 3G off, wifi off unless I need it, sync off, gps off, and maybe 200 texts sent a day and a phone call or two for like 5mins. The battery life is really bad for me...and has been ever since using CM but i can't go without it, I'm just too use to it now.
thelucster said:
So this afternoon I decided to charge my phone for the first time in 3 1/2 days as the battery level dropped to 9%. I last charged it fully on Thursday night, and unplugged in on Friday morning. I unfortunately don't have screenshots to prove it because I plugged it in briefly (for no more than 10 minutes) to update to FRF72, and also rebooted.
If you are wondering, here are my settings:
- Wifi on (Sleep disabled)
- 3G on (Set to WCDMA Only in the secret menu)
- GPS on
- Sync on
I'm using stock Froyo (FRF72), and have had quite a lot of stuff running:
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Meebo
- FotMob (World Cup alerts)
- A fair bit of browsing
The only thing I haven't really done which I think kills the battery is listening to music. I listened to it for about 30 minutes on the train this morning the battery dropped from 32% to 16%.
So to the people complaining about the battery life being terrible: You're Doing It Wrong!
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That is good.
I only got 3 days but to be fair I did have to jump start my car with it, that may have upped the consumption.
i unplugged my phone 7.5 hours ago, and i am still at 95% . using stock froyo on 3g with wifi on.
i even took a screenshot but will post it later.
You're either a liar or didn't use your phone at all
I have serious doubts you can get that kind of battery life. I tried not using the phone at all with lots of services stopped and it could barely go through 2 days.
3 days is a bit too much.
3 and a 1/2 days on a single charge is great... I doubt u'd get much better battery life on any phone with the same features as the N1...
I get 6 to 8 hours on stock 2.1 - no fair!
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I call shenanigans.
Either the OP is trolling or using a non-stock battery.
dude thats great battery life! i get like 1 day lol
lorin.bute said:
You're either a liar or didn't use your phone at all
I have serious doubts you can get that kind of battery life. I tried not using the phone at all with lots of services stopped and it could barely go through 2 days.
3 days is a bit too much.
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if i don't do anything i also can get 3 days. but i play so much that i have to charge every 7 hours my tipical day is something like this:
Listening music 3 hours straight (i travel 3 hours)
Reading the news
Browsing the net
sometime a little talking
playing with the phone
and when i arive i got 60% left after 3 hours. i think it's impressing but i got better battery on my Hero. i also carry a power pack with me as emergency. i can almost charge my phone twice
My wife gets that on her Hero running 2.1 (was also getting that running 1.5).
I have a hard time getting a full day to be honest. One thing I've always wondered is what kind of reception these people get and how they store their phones.
At home and at work, my 3G reception goes from 1-2 bars while I'm connected to Wifi. I find this drains the battery.
I also carry my phone in my pocket without any case whatsoever.
commodoor said:
if i don't do anything i also can get 3 days. but i play so much that i have to charge every 7 hours my tipical day is something like this:
Listening music 3 hours straight (i travel 3 hours)
Reading the news
Browsing the net
sometime a little talking
playing with the phone
and when i arive i got 60% left after 3 hours. i think it's impressing but i got better battery on my Hero. i also carry a power pack with me as emergency. i can almost charge my phone twice
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Which power pack do you have?
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You're either a liar or didn't use your phone at all
I have serious doubts you can get that kind of battery life. I tried not using the phone at all with lots of services stopped and it could barely go through 2 days.
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Admittedly this weekend I haven't used it as much as I usually do, however even so I still get pretty good battery life. I've had quite a few occasions when I've easily had 2 days of battery life. I don't understand how people get less than a day.
Here are a few things that I have noticed definitely help:
- If using 2.1, install a custom kernel. On stock 2.1 I barely got a day and a half.
- Connect to wifi where you have it, and set the wifi sleep state to none. Although wifi uses more power than 3G, when it is idle it is a lot more efficient, and due to the increased bandwidth it can be idle longer. You also save on your data plan. You may also want to disable the feature to notify you of open wifi networks, however I don't know if this has an effect on battery life (I suspect it does).
- If you are in an area that has 3G coverage most of the time, in the secret menu set it to WCDMA Only. This will prevent it falling back to the slower and less efficient GPRS or EDGE.
- Keep an eye on what apps are using up the battery life. It is rather easy to accidentally create a service that prevents the CPU from sleeping which will quickly kill the battery. If you find one let the developer know and / or find an alternative.
- Turn off things you don't use (i.e. Bluetooth).
When I left the office this afternoon my battery was at 76%, and it has no dropped to 65%. On my 30 minute subway journey home I listened to music, however I also had no coverage. I'm not sure whether this drop is mainly due to music or having no coverage, so I'm going to investigate more. The battery usage panel says that 'Cell Standby' has used the majority of my battery since it was last unplugged, and it also recommends to enable airplane mode when in an area of no coverage. I should probably also note, that other than this I'm always in an area of strong coverage (yaye microwaves!).
I got about 3 days without using the phone AT ALL.
On a fresh brand new N1 with Cyan ROM.
3 days with moderate usage is false, I'll put money on it.
There is no way that is possible yet with a stock battery no matter what ROM you're using.
If you want to confirm your claim I'll be happy to see the screen shots.
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Which power pack do you have?
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I'm using the Phillips Power2Go http://www.philips.co.uk/c/power-so...=85F14C383C63DDF5599FE5DA0A89CD07.app102-drp1
A followup from my music tests: Playing music for 25 minutes on low volume dropped the battery percentage from 64% to 61%, so I'm guessing that isn't the major killer I thought. I'll try switching on airplane mode before I go on the train tomorrow and see if that improves things
I would gladly trade you my 8 - 10 hours on a stock n1 with moderate use for your 3 1/2 days. That is with everything off. If I start playing a game or listening to the radio I better have a charger close by. My phone is only about 2 months old if that.
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I'd be happy with ONE full day of a battery. I'm positive your not getting 3. N a half. Stock kernel. Stock froyo. Basic battery nd decent usage?? Ill donate...no give yield $50 if that's so..
thelucster said:
So this afternoon I decided to charge my phone for the first time in 3 1/2 days as the battery level dropped to 9%. I last charged it fully on Thursday night, and unplugged in on Friday morning. I unfortunately don't have screenshots to prove it because I plugged it in briefly (for no more than 10 minutes) to update to FRF72, and also rebooted.
If you are wondering, here are my settings:
- Wifi on (Sleep disabled)
- 3G on (Set to WCDMA Only in the secret menu)
- GPS on
- Sync on
I'm using stock Froyo (FRF72), and have had quite a lot of stuff running:
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Meebo
- FotMob (World Cup alerts)
- A fair bit of browsing
The only thing I haven't really done which I think kills the battery is listening to music. I listened to it for about 30 minutes on the train this morning the battery dropped from 32% to 16%.
So to the people complaining about the battery life being terrible: You're Doing It Wrong!
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I have no choice but to charge every day with my use. I've found that the battery is usually empty after the screen has been on for about 3 and a half hours. Where my display accounts for about 70% of the battery drain. I always have the brightness at maximum though so I guess it's to be expected.
Hey new myTouch 4G owners. I know your loving your phone so far but I and many others want to know one thing. How is your battery life so far? Compared to your previous phone?? and have it manage a day through your heavy usage yet?
Thanks!
P.S: if you can, report your "display" on time or just take a picture of "battery use" ..
I use the "Battery Left Widget". It's about 80% calibrated right now, reporting that my full battery life (based on my usage) is roughly 15 1/2 hours.
Having used the same widget on the Nexus One, I'd say it's pretty much right in line with what I was getting there.
Hmm I guess no great battery life then?
I must say though that my phone probably isn't the best representative for battery life... Reception here at work is weak, causing the phone to boost it's power output.
When I am at home, I get much better battery life.
I picked my phone up on the morning of launch and I'm still on my first charge (15% left). I've used it for calls, texts, pictures, videos, apps & widgets and I installed the ota update. I've had great battery life so far.
PrisonerOfDoom said:
I picked my phone up on the morning of launch and I'm still on my first charge (15% left). I've used it for calls, texts, pictures, videos, apps & widgets and I installed the ota update. I've had great battery life so far.
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Mine only came about 60% charged.
So far my battery has been the best of any android phone so far (Nexus -> G2 -> MyTouch 4G). I have about 10 sync accounts going (2 gmail, facebook, rss feeds, etc) and with moderate use I have 40% or so at the end of a day. Screen is on auto, quite usable in any light.
Wow..not bad..so what are your display on time saying? It's in the battery use section, click on display.
guess not then
my battery is ****. I had to charge it half way through the day, but I'm an android noobie and lookin to get this thing going easily a whole day hopefully.
my battery life is ok. doesnt last the whole day for me but i text a lot make some phone calls and download apps and play games like assassins creed and nova.
The battery will need a few charging cycles to reach its full potential. I'd recommend fully discharging and fully charging it the first few times (and every so often after a few weeks of use). You probably won't get the most representative results on day 2 after launch. Was the same for my Nexus and G2
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Oh ok i will have to try that out. I usually charge my phone when it gets down to 20 percent. But i left it fully charge over night
Mine seems about 4 hours shy of my G2.
My weekdays are 20hrs on G2 and about 16 on mT
Weekends are about 12 hrs on G2 and about 8 on mT
Amazing in terms of any other android phone I've owned.. Without a task killer
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For some reason when it's rooted it lasts longer. If I don't root it the battery goes fast.
myTouch4G (Glacier)
i fully discharged when i got the phone and charged it over night. I went to an air show today and unplugged it around 9. its now 10 and i still have 25% left
(i uploaded pics to my blog and facebook, made calls, got text, checked football scores, and used google maps)
i'm impressed. Way better then when i had my EVO
everyone is giving answers as either "my battery life is great" or "my battery life sucks" but that doesnt really say anything... your battery life is gonna be amazing if you dim the screen to zero and dont use data :/ its all gonna be on how you use the phone and everyones gonna use the phone differently...
bottom line... the answer to this question just has to many variables
I am happy with battery life so far... while not analytical, I am getting as good or better tham MTG3. I was able to play Monopoly for an hour and the better was still 3/4.
I bought the MT this past Wed and when I bought it, the level was at about 40-50%. I was messing around with it, adjusting it and it lasted for a good 3-4 hours with the factory charge.
I let it die then fully charge and removed it from the charger. That charge held from 5am all the way until 1am the that late evening with regular use. It died and again I did a charge and disconnect.
I have done this same cycle for the last 3 days and right now. I can consistently keep a high charge for the most part of the day with average use. I disconnected the charger this morning at about 1 am, and here I sit now at 945pm with still over 75% charge.
Seems like this phone really likes the power cycles right now. Full to dead, recharge then remove until dead...etc.
Since Wed afternoon, I have charged my phone only 3 times since purchase, and right now it is Sat night. This is with average use, brightness set about 25%, auto sync only for email, weather, tmobile and no task killer used
You must remember this phone is using a powerful 1Ghz snapdragon, with a small battery. By default android uses the governor called ondemand, in other words it automatically shoots up to max freq during use. But once the 4G is rooted, you can use SetCpu to make changes, tmo will probably make an update though to address the issue. I can't really see extended batteries being made to small without needing a new back. I'm considering the 4G, I currently use both phones in my sig, my slide can get 2 days max, my G1 around 10hrs. It all depends on how you use the phone.
tips:
-turn down brightness
-turn off gps/Bt/wifi
-switch to 2g/3g/H depending on signal
-dial *#*#4636#*#* to modify radio settings(2g/3g/etc)
-turn off background updates(twitt/fb/flickr/etc)
Does anyone agree that the battery life for Samsung Focus is really short?
I use my phone to check emails, browse websites and listen to music during lunch, dinner and on the road. The total hands on time per day is roughly 2hrs. But if I only charge it overnight, not anytime else, it only last until right after dinner.
It unacceptably short comparing to my ex-phone, HTC Touch Pro2.
Anyone experiencing the same thing?
Who should take care of this issue? Samsung or Microsoft?
My phone on moderate use will last me 1.5-2 days but I usually charge it at the end of the night regardless. In the first couple of days I did notice that the battery would drain pretty fast but seemed to get better after that.
Mine will typically go from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. or so while still having the battery indicator having something inside. That's with it being used all day as an mp3 player, triaging email, web surfing, and Twitter.
When you get a new phone the battery has to go through a couple of cycles charging for the phone to calibrate. Also, keep in mind things that drain battery: light theme, streaming, basically downloading massive amounts of data. Make you sure you discharge your battery to about 10% and fully charge your battery a couple of times. Try not to go below 10% not good for battery. Make sure you are using wall adapter ac to charge. Charging from a pc is very slow and generally doesn't fully charge unless you leave it plugged for a LONG time.
Light use I'd say 1.5 days
Moderate 1 full day
Heavy use 7-8 hours
With light use i get about 4 to 5 days, heavy use i get about a day or two. Check to see if you have location services (GPS) running, wifi, etc as the more parasitic things you can turn off the better the battery life of course.
Mine lasts all day for me. A long 16+ hour day with moderate usage leaves me at about 30-35% battery. I keep Wi-Fi turned off and bluetooth always on. Not bad for a smart phone. I've seen phones far worse than this (Sprint Epic anyone?).
My battery last abour 8 - 9 hours, and I'm running for a outlet by then. But I'm a heavy user. Bt headphones with the music playing, twitter constantly, facebook, text, email, IE..., pretty much all of those 8 - 9 hours.
I have just about everything that I can find turned on, and have been using my new toy as much as possible. With that, I'm having to charge about twice a day, which is roughly where I was at with my Tilt2. Your battery drainage really sounds like it's normal, and likely related entirely to how much crap you have turned on and running in the background. The biggest drainer of the battery in any phone is gonna be the radio, so if you want to improve battery life, turn off stuff that connects to the network and set your email/weather/tweets/facebook to refresh much less often. Select "as items arrive" for your hotmail and Gmail so that they push instead of pull. Check your basics first before trying to find a customer service rep to chew out.
I'm happy with my battery life. I just charge it every night like I have every phone Ive owned. I use my phones as my morning alarm clock. I have all location services active, and i activate WiFi when usable. At work I leave it plugged in to stream music and podcast.
Coming from Android and Droid Incredible, the Focus is awesome on battery. I have no problem lasting the full day. I charge my phone each night overnight.
It's a mixed bag for me. the first few days when I was just getting to know it, making calls and just goofing around with basic functionality the battery was lasting very long and things were looking great.
Once I started using the data and other apps, the battery drains very fast IMO. I mean play a 2D game for half an hour and I won’t make it through the day.
Right now I’m not digging it that if I’m out and about I feel like I need to avoid using the phone like I would like to.
I’m really looking forward to being able to do things like being able to easily disable 3g.
I'm most certainly happy with my battery life. After using a nexus one, xperia x10 and the galaxy s I have nothing to complain about with the focus....just lovin wp7 at the moment.
willp2 said:
It's a mixed bag for me. the first few days when I was just getting to know it, making calls and just goofing around with basic functionality the battery was lasting very long and things were looking great.
Once I started using the data and other apps, the battery drains very fast IMO. I mean play a 2D game for half an hour and I won’t make it through the day.
Right now I’m not digging it that if I’m out and about I feel like I need to avoid using the phone like I would like to.
I’m really looking forward to being able to do things like being able to easily disable 3g.
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Games are always battery killers, especially on AMOLED screens that tend to get the best battery life with black interfaces, since they actually don't light the pixels up if they're supposed to be black.
Coming from an iPhone 4 i can't complain. Battery on that was amazing. The focus doesn't Last at long but I can't say im disappointed. It's actually better than expected.
It is normal for the battery to die after browsing the internet for about 3-4 hours?? Not happy about that.
Battery life
It depends on how the phone has been used. Screen is the biggest power drain, than the radio (3G data, WiFI, location services).
With all on and moderate usage (gaming for 30 mins, a few calls, and playing with the phone for an hour) I get about 12 -13 hours.
With all off and a few TXT and calls (about 10 -12) I get about 76 hours.
Not bad I guess.
This phone is better than iPhone 3GS.
jimenez16 said:
My phone on moderate use will last me 1.5-2 days but I usually charge it at the end of the night regardless. In the first couple of days I did notice that the battery would drain pretty fast but seemed to get better after that.
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I agree, I was loosing full battery within half a day with my normal usage for the first 4-6 days... Then after a while, now I can go for 2 days without charging under normal usage...
The battery life on this thing rocks!
Zhariak said:
I agree, I was loosing full battery within half a day with my normal usage for the first 4-6 days... Then after a while, now I can go for 2 days without charging under normal usage...
The battery life on this thing rocks!
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I use my Focus heavily for reading texts off of PDFs and browse the internet using WiFi most of the day, and in my free times I listen to music so I use it quite heavily. Yesterday I ran it through my routine day and got about 14-15 hours of full operational time from 100% charge as I took off from my dormitory to university to 0% half-way back to my dorm. My only problem is the length of time it has to be plugged in to charge. Its pretty slow, but that may be because of the large battery capacity to begin with.
the battery life is just OK, hopefully like with other cellphone updates maybe battery life will be improved at least somewhat, we can hope....
I have two of these things. Mine I use a lot and while the battery lasts less than my old 3GS, I am getting used to it and end up keeping hooked up to a charger pretty often.
My wife's on the other hand is baffling. She hardly uses the thing, maybe a call every day or two. For a while there we were getting about 3 days from a charge and then it would still have around 30%-50% left.
Now in the last few days, it drains the battery completely overnight. And I mean completely its totally shut down and dead. That’s with wifi and Bluetooth off and virtually no usage. Not sure what is happening, but this really sucks as now she can’t count on the thing to just be a phone without needing to be babied.