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Post Your Battery Drain Time!!!

Hey, post your battery drain time, for your original included battery. Vote also!
Please try to do it using this method, to keep results consistent and more accurate.
Fully charge your battery, once fully charged, reboot your phone, this will reset the "Time since boot" to zero. Then use your phone as you normally do, once the battery is about to die, dial in *#*#4636#*#* choose battery information, then please post your "Time Since Boot." This time should be reflective of the time it took for your battery to drain.
From full charge, to basically empty, my battery icon is flashing... the max I've gotten is 25hrs.
I have screen set to lowest level
only gmail is actively synced
bluetooth off, haptic feedback off
black background
I make a few calls, play maybe an hours worth of Angry Birds, and use the internet for probably an hour.
Please post your results, and how you use your phone! Thanks

Oh ya, I've also tested with and without Juice Defender, didn't help increase my battery life at all, so I uninstalled it.

16-20 hours on mine, using Juice Defender.
Juice Defender says it helps my phone x1.97... I believe it. My battery life sucks without it.

Please post how you guys/gals use your phone, and R-U a heavy moderate or light user
sano614 said:
16-20 hours on mine, using Juice Defender.
Juice Defender says it helps my phone x1.97... I believe it. My battery life sucks without it.
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Please post how you guys use your phone, along with your drain time results. What are your phone settings set to, are you a heavy moderate or light user(of course that is subjective).

I get about 4 hours of actual using my phone. Because I am a somewhat heavy user my phone is dead before 12 hors off the charger.
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pittphan said:
I get about 4 hours of actual using my phone. Because I am a somewhat heavy user my phone is dead before 12 hors off the charger.
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I wonder what caldjeff is doing to get 36-40hrs, wow!
wonder what/her usage is like

I get about 30hrs on average.
I use about 2.5hrs of voice per day
I have K-9 that updates every 10 mins
I get about 30 or so emails a day
I keep my display settings on the lowest
I prob use 1 hour of music playing a day
Surf the net for 1/2 hour
Average times for me

All those folks getting 30+ hrs, how are you achieving that?

SamsungVibrant said:
All those folks getting 30+ hrs, how are you achieving that?
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angry birds sucks alot of juice. All games will. Also are you using wifi and GPS. both of those also use alot

geocepe said:
angry birds sucks alot of juice. All games will. Also are you using wifi and GPS. both of those also use alot
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I use wifi at home, and GPS is always on, but many so called experts say, that leaving GPS on doesn't use battery, it only uses battery if it is actually being actively used.

SamsungVibrant said:
...but many so called experts say, that leaving GPS on doesn't use battery, it only uses battery if it is actually being actively used.
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Well, I am not an expert, but its been my experience that even when I never turn off the GPS, my phone has a good battery life. I cant complain.
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I get 12-15 hours on mine.
I have:
Gmail Syncing
Screen to medium brightness
games for about 30 minutes
internet for about 40 minutes
youtube for about an hour
music for a hour
All that, I do everyday. I usually have a little bit left after doing that.
I only got 5-8 hours a day before I let the battery COMPLETELY die, then my battery improved.

Pookito said:
Well, I am not an expert, but its been my experience that even when I never turn off the GPS, my phone has a good battery life. I cant complain.
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Ya, I leave GPS toggled on, it shouldn't use battery unless it is actively being used.

SamsungVibrant said:
Ya, I leave GPS toggled on, it shouldn't use battery unless it is actively being used.
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agreed- 12hrs based on my high usage Wifi,bt,gps all on screen brightest all time(i sell em so like bright screen to floss) stream espn radio thru bt 6+hrs a day. lil video watching and lil (30-45min each) web browsing constant texts and calls.-vibrant fact 2.1 update 1

I usually have to recharge after 2 days of normal use.
Internet, few games, web browsing, a lot of texting. Airplane mode when going to sleep. Hardly use it at work.
Id say about 30 hours at max.
15 hours over-using it.
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HG! said:
I usually have to recharge after 2 days of normal use.
Internet, few games, web browsing, a lot of texting. Airplane mode when going to sleep. Hardly use it at work.
Id say about 30 hours at max.
15 hours over-using it.
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second this

Is there a way to track how much juice your active widgets may be draining? The System "Battery use" meter doesn't seem to track this... Thx

pavvy said:
Is there a way to track how much juice your active widgets may be draining? The System "Battery use" meter doesn't seem to track this... Thx
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have you tried *#*#4636#*#* then you can see battery use bay programs I think, not totally sure though, try looking around there.

Turn off orientation in settings. Try it for a day and see how much your battery life increases.

Goog1e Phone said:
Turn off orientation in settings. Try it for a day and see how much your battery life increases.
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how does that increase battery life? Ill trx it but i use landscape keyboard a lot

Official ICS - battery life is actually pretty good, screenshot inside

http://db.tt/KhLtQeqM
I updated "cleanly" as per my previous post,
B.

Looks good!
What is your brightness setting?

More info about your settings please?
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Auto mainly but i adjust sometimes upwards, as ICS auto brightness can be a bit too dark for me sometimes.
I turn wifi, gps off when im not using it, NFC is off if that makes a difference. 3g is on always. Nothing special, I just "use it" as I normally would.
I think 2 days and 8 hours is pretty good going?

Stock battery?
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A_Flying_Fox said:
Stock battery?
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yes absolutely, nothing custom at all. bought from carphone warehouse in uk, i9020T

I don't get it, I get 14 hours if I'm lucky...

RioRyan said:
I don't get it, I get 14 hours if I'm lucky...
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No idea feel free to ask me specific questions!

what apps have you used in this 2+ day period?? games? streaming video? web-browsing? These are the most common uses and they are also the biggest battery killers. I'm sure if I had my phone in airplane mode & barely used it at all I could get better battery life than that. Please give us more details on the specific apps, etc. you ran in this period (to the best of your memory, of course )

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what apps have you used in this 2+ day period?? games? streaming video? web-browsing? These are the most common uses and they are also the biggest battery killers. I'm sure if I had my phone in airplane mode & barely used it at all I could get better battery life than that. Please give us more details on the specific apps, etc. you ran in this period (to the best of your memory, of course )
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Hmm probably only an hours worth of "apparatus" - game, good couple of hours on google reader, facebook etc. no more than an hour on the phone.
my "normal" usage really; not trying to be overly conservative, but also not constantly on. certainly nothing to suggest that I'm getting any worse battery life than I did on 2.3.x

Next time you get this kind of usage from a full charge down to zero let us know your screen on time please.
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Battery life stats don't mean much if you don't really use the phone for those 2 days. I'm at 16hours with 66percent left.
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Here's mine. A day and half. Similar battery performance with GB even though that Android OS is way too high (higher than Screen)

Yes; that Android OS' looks like a statistic and therefore has a 87.8% chance of being made up on the spot (like that one!).
This is a sample of my battery life and quite unusual for me; Mobile Standby is the highest because I spent five or so hours in an area with very poor coverage, when it could get a signal it was 2G.
Wifi is on when I know I have a hotspot I can use. AutoSync off unless I need it. Bluetooth wasn't used. Screen brightness mostly at the minimum with some time at Auto. Latitude constantly running in automatic update.
Screen on time was 2 hours, 30 minutes and that included approximately 20 minutes of Google Maps (not Navigation).
The biggest difference I've made on my device is to log out of Google+. My use is mostly checking two Gmail accounts, browsing the web, using DropBox / Documents-to-Go, texting, some photography.
Disabling Latitude's AutoUpdate stops the device from waking up with the screen off (all those little blue ticks on the use bar) and makes a big difference to battery life when I'm on the move.

How can you guys take screenshot on stock?

Hold down power and vol. down simultaneously for a second or two for a screenshot.
Also, nice battery life. I've been running about a day with ~50% left, 2 hours of screen time and somewhere around 30 - 45mins gaming. WiFi on all day and calls/texting was minimal.

Have a look https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT More insight regarding Android OS from google engineer.

I am running stock 4.0.3 ICS and battery lasts only 10-11 hours.(Data Disabled, Occasional Wifi Use, Brightness reduced to minimum.).

Android-Junky said:
I am running stock 4.0.3 ICS and battery lasts only 10-11 hours.(Data Disabled, Occasional Wifi Use, Brightness reduced to minimum.).
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What's your screen on time during the ten hours?

Please post your web-browing battery life

Can we start collecting some stats. Can people post what battery percentage they lose every 30 minutes or an hour of just browing websites on wifi and/or 3G and specify which one, and also average screen brightness during this time. I know this tablet using superAmoled will have less battery life than if you watched movies, but there should be some standard of web browsing.
I use about 20% battery life, just on wifi, brighness at max of 30%, battery stats showing no abnormal activity in the background.
[edit] on ICS 2nd stage. using Chrome browser.

About 13% per hour here. This is a P6800, using wifi only (radio turned off), in an area with low wifi signal (2 bars). Minimum brightness, CM10, default JellyBean browser.
(EDIT: 20% in 1.5h, so 13-14% per hour)

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About 13% per hour here. This is a P6800, using wifi only (radio turned off), in an area with low wifi signal (2 bars). Minimum brightness, CM10, default JellyBean browser.
(EDIT: 20% in 1.5h, so 13-14% per hour)
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I think this is an accurate SGT 7.7 battery test http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-battery-test-results-are-ready-does-well/

kaimyns said:
I think this is an accurate SGT 7.7 battery test http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-battery-test-results-are-ready-does-well/
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i did read that yesterday while scouring the web for web-browsing results for the SGT 7.7, which is why I was hoping we could all share our experiences, since I know myself, and it sounds like others, are not getting 7 hours of straight web browsing. Me I am getting 5. Starting to think it is a hardware defect and to contact Samsung, but wanting some more data also.

That's a bit worse than what I'm getting on CM10. Quite impressive, I'd think Samsung would tune their ROM better than what the community could do in a couple of months.

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i did read that yesterday while scouring the web for web-browsing results for the SGT 7.7, which is why I was hoping we could all share our experiences, since I know myself, and it sounds like others, are not getting 7 hours of straight web browsing. Me I am getting 5. Starting to think it is a hardware defect and to contact Samsung, but wanting some more data also.
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Screen shot you battery usage and post. Maybe there is an app we can see causing your drain. If your screen isn't drawing 70%+ there may be an app running out of hand.
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With wifi and auto brightness, max is 5 hours screen up time. How they get 7 hours? @@

well I switch from chrome to opera and battery life is much better in initial usage. 16 percent battery in an hour in 15 minutes. auto brightness in a dim indoor setting. tablet temp is also not going over 100 where with chrome that was normal. Will test for a few days.

end of one full battery session only using opera mobile to browse.
with 37% left I had the screen on for 4.25 hours, auto brightness indoors, most of which was browsing. while browsing i also downloaded 2 HD movies from google play on wifi as well as updated about 10 apps and downloaded a couple more. after watching 1:35 minutes of an HD movie at about 80% brightness, the battery only went down to 26% from the 37% which is what i am used to for this tablet for video, it's amazing due to the lack of pure whites and a lot of dark colors including the black bars. browsed the web another 20 minutes, only lost a few more percent. put it on the charger at 22% and will pick it up again tomorrow.
also regardless of what browser i use, my tablet is a standby machine. with the screen off i may lose a percent every few hours.
during the screen on time my temp went over 100 degrees only while downloading movies and browsing. and it only went to 102. just browsing with chrome the tablet would get to 107.
will test again tomorrow and see if the trend continues or if this was an anomaly. if i get three days in a row with this kind of battery life, i am uninstalling chrome and sticking with opera for now.

This is my stats after almost 5 hours on 3g. Activities includes Web browsing, music streaming etc.
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using stock honeycomb 3.2, I also have the ics update but I won't do it
1 hour for 10% how much I will get? do the math ^_^
and now after 4 hours of continuous usage, still 60%

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well it's been some days since i stopped using chrome and tested out numerous other browsers. here are my results.
using chrome my tab would get quite warm and lose close to 20% an hour browsing on 20-50% brightness. the stock browser wasn't much better.
i have tried opera, maxthon, boat and xscope. maxthon is just not good layout wise on a tablet. maxthon tablet is quite nice with an awesome and fast night mode that turns text into white, the background into medium gray and still shows all the pictures in full color - which is amazing for a samoled screen not having to produce all these white backgrounds. however it FC's a lot and you can see that in the comments. keep an eye on this browser as it is being developed.
xscope just doesn't have a nice enough interface for me on a tablet. boat also got my tablet warm.
so opera mobile. my battery life has gone up extensively since i started using this. with heavy heavy browsing i am getting between 7-8 hours battery life. with steady browsing mixed in with other things like using pulse, taptu, play store i am getting 8 hours+.
i monitor my temps and they stay much much cooler, like 7-10 degrees and often more. with chrome or stock i would notice the left side of the tablet getting warm quickly.
i am running the stock ICS stage 2 ROM, rooted. standby time is amazing, i will not lose more than a percent of battery every few hours. i used to keep GPS on and do quite well standby but in better battery stats i noticed MAPS having wakelock time for many minutes while on standby even with settings set so it shouldnt. so i just turn GPS off until i need it. other than that, nothing special.
for those with lower battery life on wifi browsing, try opera for a few days. let us know what your results are.

well it's been a week since I switched browsers. i have to say it's like having a brand new 7.7
chrome is uninstalled. the stock internet is never used. i ended up testing the maxthon tab browser and opera. the last 4 days just exclusively opera mobile.
i don't think the maxthon tab browser is ready for prime time even with an update in the last week. keeping an eye on it.
opera mobile has been the best option, though it has some features i feel need tweaking and others that are better, it is still a nice browser. it also creates far lower temps, lower cpu usage and far better battery life with my tab. 2 hours more per charge at least than chrome or stock.
i hope this helps some people out who are having battery issues in regards to standard internet browsing. if you encounter simliar success, please post.

I don't lose a single percentage in battery when I sleep at night after the ICS update. That's 6-8hrs of sleep. Is that normal? I am happy about it though, but is it normal?

jerverg said:
I don't lose a single percentage in battery when I sleep at night after the ICS update. That's 6-8hrs of sleep. Is that normal? I am happy about it though, but is it normal?
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Yep
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Yep
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Nice. I thought my Tab was kind of 'over-sleeping'. Haha. Thanks!

Here's my battery usage... Currently at 9% after a full days use with about 2hrs+ surfing on 3g, 2hrs of satnav and a few texts and calls. Pretty impressive i think. I am using Dolphin browser which for me blows all the rest away. Good on battery, great gestures and fast.

Here's mine. I was listening music for about two hours while browsing
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Nexus 10 battery life

Hey everyone. I ordered my Nexus 10 in late March and just had a question: How much actual battery life do you get out of your N10? I found that I was barely able to get a day out of mine and am awaiting a RMA replacement. I did a Netflix test, where I charged it to 100%, unplugged and played Futurama on Netflix. I got about 5 hours 12 minutes before the device shut off. I have my screen brightness at 50% and no apps that would cause heavy background usage.

That is pretty good battery life for 50% screen brightness. I still cant comprehend why people need their brightness at 50% or even higher though.

EniGmA1987 said:
That is pretty good battery life for 50% screen brightness. I still cant comprehend why people need their brightness at 50% or even higher though.
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I get decent battery life with aroma AOKP and Trinity.
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EniGmA1987 said:
That is pretty good battery life for 50% screen brightness. I still cant comprehend why people need their brightness at 50% or even higher though.
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Some people like me use their tablet in brightly lit rooms and outside which means in order to see the screen you need to have the brightness cranked. I never use my tablet in dim rooms.

7 hours man. That is too much
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EnIXmA said:
I get decent battery life with aroma AOKP and Trinity.
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What do you have your brightness set to?

I'm on on the 2nd charge cycle, but I got almost 5hrs screen time on last charge with about 30% battery left before putting it on the charger. Pretty good in my opinion.

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I'm on on the 2nd charge cycle, but I got almost 5hrs screen time on last charge with about 30% battery left before putting it on the charger. Pretty good in my opinion.
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What were you doing on your tablet in that time? Streaming movies? Streaming music? Watching local or Streamed movies?

legato89 said:
What were you doing on your tablet in that time? Streaming movies? Streaming music? Watching local or Streamed movies?
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Mostly web surfing, youtube, gmail, G+ and facebook. Not too intensive, I suppose.
I have all sync on except for facebook and display on auto brightness. I also have a strong wifi signal most of the time.

When my tablet is AT HOME WITH ME instead of off cavorting around Samsung repair centers, its day starts about 6:45am. With all my apps and syncing, it lasts me through a work day and then some, going as late as 11:00pm and still being at 30% battery or more, depending on how much gaming I did.

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What do you have your brightness set to?
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When I am inside it is at minimum (which is still too bright), outside is between 25-35%
For the people who have really low battery, I have a good hunch that the problem is how much wifi sucks up. When I have wifi on I can feel the tablet is much hotter than normal, which means it is dissipating a lot of power. I suspect that the wifi traffic is the 2nd biggest battery drain for people who are browsing all day, the 1st most being the screen itself.

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What do you have your brightness set to?
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lowest
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11 hers for me.... No gaming for that amount but still. How much more do you want
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It seems there is a common trend with people who have long battery lives - low brightness. My eyesight is pretty bad so I really can't stand setting it any lower than 40%.

I get about 7 hours before it needs a charge and that's mostly browsing with wifi, which sounds around right according to claimed stats by Google. I'm on around 20% brightness, doesn't need to be higher.

About 8 hours, which is a full workday for me, mostly Evernote/webbrowsing/mails - no gaming. I usuall have ~20% left, so there's 1-2 hours more for emergencies.

I just ran both my original and RMA units side by side, factory reset and unrooted on Youtube playing a 10 hour loop video with brightness set to 100% and at 5h 6 minutes my original N10 hit the 15% warning, the RMA a few minutes later....so I feel kind of bad for wasting Googles time.

I think kernel and ROM have something to do with battery as well as WiFi. I have great signal and use 5ghz and I get great battery life with little drain. Before ras came to the n10 I was using cm and got amazing battery on the kernel it came with but horrible life on paranoid (early build). Also the first trinity kernels had poor battery life for me.
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Is my Nexus 10 faulty?

I've had it for around a week now but I've yet to get over 6hrs battery life. I keep the display on the dimmest setting, have no bluetooth or anything on apart from wifi. I keep location services and Google Now off and I use it mainly for Internet browsing, you tube and a couple of bejewelled type games for around 10 mins a day. I haven't watched any films on it or played any real heavy duty cpu smashing games at all.
No matter what I do, I just don't get any more than 6hrs before I get the 15% battery warning.
I don't appear to have any wake locks, the battery graph shows that when the display is off, the tablet never seems to be awake.
I installed Better Battery Stats but I don't really understand what to look for.
Can anyone suggest anything before I give Google a call and they tell me factory reset and try again?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Mind posting a picture of your betterbattery with:
-Partial wake locks since boot
-Other since boot
If you use it like you explained you should be getting more than 6 hours.
I'm using a custom rom and kernel so that might explain why I can idle for an entire day and only lose around 6-8% depending on how many emails I get.
Typically I get around 8 hours of use which includes watching movies over stream, YouTube, flip board, email, xda surfing, and a few other things.
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Thanks for the reply, I hope this is what you wanted - I'm not sure exactly how to do add files to posts but here goes..

Anyone please?
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Charge your device to 100% and use your device the way you typically have been. Once you get down to red numbers, post a screen shot of the regular Android system battery usage. That might give a better picture of what's going on.
You can also charge to 100% and disconnect from the charger and let your device idle. Better battery stats is a better tool to use when you aren't using your tablet, and you are experiencing battery drain.
Also, you didn't mention whether you are stock, rooted, or rooted and ROM'ed. Please do that and we can go from there.

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Charge your device to 100% and use your device the way you typically have been. Once you get down to red numbers, post a screen shot of the regular Android system battery usage. That might give a better picture of what's going on.
You can also charge to 100% and disconnect from the charger and let your device idle. Better battery stats is a better tool to use when you aren't using your tablet, and you are experiencing battery drain.
Also, you didn't mention whether you are stock, rooted, or rooted and ROM'ed. Please do that and we can go from there.
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Ok, thank you.
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Homey said:
I've had it for around a week now but I've yet to get over 6hrs battery life. I keep the display on the dimmest setting, have no bluetooth or anything on apart from wifi. I keep location services and Google Now off and I use it mainly for Internet browsing, you tube and a couple of bejewelled type games for around 10 mins a day. I haven't watched any films on it or played any real heavy duty cpu smashing games at all.
No matter what I do, I just don't get any more than 6hrs before I get the 15% battery warning.
I don't appear to have any wake locks, the battery graph shows that when the display is off, the tablet never seems to be awake.
I installed Better Battery Stats but I don't really understand what to look for.
Can anyone suggest anything before I give Google a call and they tell me factory reset and try again?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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This 6 total battery? Or 6hr screen on time time? I get 6hr screen time and I consider that great

SayWhat10 said:
This 6 total battery? Or 6hr screen on time time? I get 6hr screen time and I consider that great
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Screen time. I thought that was kinda low after seeing loads of people get 8 - 9 hrs and some get even more!
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Homey said:
Screen time. I thought that was kinda low after seeing loads of people get 8 - 9 hrs and some get even more!
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You said 6 hours battery life in OP, implying you were getting that battery life for the device... ._.
Congrats. You have a normal device... People may be using screen filter to get those results, but why not just enjoy the screen instead of gimping it for an extra hour or two of dimly viewed screen...It's not too tough to charge it overnight.

cb3ck said:
You said 6 hours battery life in OP, implying you were getting that battery life for the device... ._.
Congrats. You have a normal device... People may be using screen filter to get those results, but why not just enjoy the screen instead of gimping it for an extra hour or two of dimly viewed screen...It's not too tough to charge it overnight.
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And if its really that big an issue, go get KTManta, Franco, or any kernel that lets you reduce the maximum clock from 1.7 to 1.3 or 1.2 GHz. I have benchmarks for the Manta at frequencies ranging from 1.2 to 2.1GHz and there's not a big difference in performance.