Hey guys,
I'm really, really impressed with the battery my S3 kicks out, check out my results and feel free to comment. My brightness is on Auto, Wi-Fi has been on all day but for 9 hours was on Mobile Data, and Bluetooth off and NFC Enabled.
Facebook & Twitter update every hour, so does Flipboard
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I roughly get 5 hours of normal usage.
That sounds a bit bad to be honest, I've been on my phone quite a bit today.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681873
Check forums before creating a new thread.
I use my phone an awful lot, I'm on it checking Facebook, texting, making calls, tethering etc. It's been off charge 1 hour now and I've been browsing for the past hour (without wifi) and now on 87% which to me doesn't look good.
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I get about 25 hours of modorate use.
jaaystott said:
Hey guys,
I'm really, really impressed with the battery my S3 kicks out, check out my results and feel free to comment. My brightness is on Auto, Wi-Fi has been on all day but for 9 hours was on Mobile Data, and Bluetooth off and NFC Enabled.
Facebook & Twitter update every hour, so does Flipboard
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Mine hardly lasts 6 hours.
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17 hours doesnt seem that good tbh, specially as the screen has only been on for 3 of those hours.
Here's my battery life with around 3 hours of screen time. This also includes streaming Google Music over 3G for an hour.
As it stands right now with a lot of stuff syncing, my battery has been lastingover a full day with more than 3 hours of screen time.
If I use my phone heavily, I can still pull off a full days (work day) worthof use with a screen time well over 4 and just short of 5 hours some days.
This phone is definitely a win in the battery category.
I'm quite happy with my battery time... Tell me what you think
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Really good battery life compared to my s2 with the samsung extended battery.
I wonder though if samsung will be releasing an extended battery for the s3?
you should classified as lucky man
mine is battery eater
i lowered the brightness , shutting down bluetooth and data ...etc
and still eats my battery
lets face it guys
i did'nt buy a high level smartphone like this one to disable most of its magic wonder features and deal it as it was nokia 3210
disappointed
S3 battery life is certainly better than xperia s that i had before
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What on earth are you guys doing to your phone? I'm disappointed if my screen on time doesn't reach 4 hours. That's with Bluetooth streaming and auto brightness on and about an hour of calls on average and a bit of heavy gaming.
I just flashed the latest CM9 nightly this morning, my phone was around 85% as you can see in the pictures below.
And I still have around 30% left with 3 hours screen on time.
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On CM9 experimental from a few days ago, I got about 6 hours of screen time over ~ 20 hours plus streaming Spotify for about two hours. No screen shots because it is pretty normal for me :/ on wifi.
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I think maybe theres a summet up with some because i can get over a day with moderate usage where as my dad only uses now n again mainly for calls n text n can barely reach the end of the day.
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That is brilliant! I get around 30 hours with almost 4 hours of screen time ...but this is sick .
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You guys get way lower than me.
Wfi on all time
40% Brightness
Sync on every hour (Facebook, Twitter, Email)
Screen on time: 5 hours 12minutes
Battery left: 28%
First touch screen phone I have ever owned that occasioally lasts as long as my Blackberry Bold 9700. Super impressive in my opinion.
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Hello all, I have seen a few posts about battery life on the galaxy s 2. I collected mine yesterday, full charge last night, been using it all day, on either wifi our hspda, battery life is still at 50%. Been watching videos, playing angry birds, a lot of internet and the odd phone call. My old desire hd normally died around mid afternoon with this much usage, have to day, massively impressed. Oh brilliant phone as well.
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This post made me
Yeah nice to know battery performance is improved!
thanks
I'm not impressed so far. Killed mine in less than 9 hours today from full charge.
I am in the first 48 hour period, had played a bit of Angry Birds, shown off how well it handles Flash and all that gubbins, but still, 9 hours is pretty pants.
Maybe the FM Radio is a battery hog, I did have it on for a good few of those hours...
9 hours of battery within first 48 hours translates into roughly 2 full days after the first month.
Yeah true, people must forget they never leave it alone at first and they moan the battery aint too good , novity wheres off and the real readings will show
With a good rom my captivate would last 2 days so I am hoping the SGS 2 lasts at least that long.
i've got sgs2 as well. using it with half brightness level almost never turned display off installing and surfing non stop it's been 1.5 hour 20% consumption.
I'm getting about 10 hours with very heavy usage out of it at the moment. I still haven't given it a full charge cycle from dead yet so I think that should gimme a bit more juice.
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steve228uk said:
I'm getting about 10 hours with very heavy usage out of it at the moment. I still haven't given it a full charge cycle from dead yet so I think that should gimme a bit more juice.
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did you do a unbox vid on youtube?
Roughly 10 hours with heavy usage here, I'm just at the end of my second full charge.
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Hello all, I have seen a few posts about battery life on the galaxy s 2. I collected mine yesterday, full charge last night, been using it all day, on either wifi our hspda, battery life is still at 50%. Been watching videos, playing angry birds, a lot of internet and the odd phone call. My old desire hd normally died around mid afternoon with this much usage, have to day, massively impressed. Oh brilliant phone as well.
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nice thread, my omnia hd lasts for 2.5 days with wi fi, movies, vedios etc but no games n n8 lasts for 1 day. sammy is doing a great job
I am just about to finish a 12 hour guard shift and still have 60% battery. And I hammered it!
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nice thread, my omnia hd lasts for 2.5 days with wi fi, movies, vedios etc but no games n n8 lasts for 1 day. sammy is doing a great job
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There is lot more going in Android compare to Omnia which has silly{useless to be precise} widgets running,symbian^3 in N8 rather does a better job & thus less battery life then Omnia but still better then any other droid.
Here in Android you have anywhere b/w 5 to 7 home screens,widgets running in background & whole lot of things,that's the main reason why Android is always said to have an average battery life.The likes of SGS 2 & Atrix {with huge batteries} are really doing a good job here.Compare it to utter bull**** battery life in HTC Desire HD for example & you will know what i am saying
Do you guys have Latitude turned on?
I've got 10 hours and 9 hours from my first two days.
I'm worried about the Social Hub. I logged in to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Google Talk and now realise I can't remove these accounts?!?!!? If it's constantly checking all that, it's going to drain my battery very quick
I see many test on battery, and all say it is normal.
With a good rom will do better
vimto25 said:
did you do a unbox vid on youtube?
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I didn't but I can do one and give my impressions on the device and software if you like
vimto25 said:
did you do a unbox vid on youtube?
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I did and it would appear to be one of the most popular on YouTube. See my site, link in sig
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I've got 10 hours and 9 hours from my first two days.
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That could either be pretty rubbish or impressive depending on your usage. Care to elaborate for us?
So...the title says it......i hope OP will make this thread sticky....
I made this thread to avoid the multiple threads discussing this matter and its solutions.
OK...everybody tell us how is his battery life......
personally mine last 1 day with heavy usage.....2 days with light usage.....
and please everybody tell us wich rom in the use...and how much using it...and all the statistics that you can get...
You are welcome to post any of your problems with batteries and solutions....
I get about the same, 1 full day with quite heavy use in terms of messaging and surfing.. It does drain alot faster playing games or watching videos.
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Dnt nw how u guys get 1 day or more mine gets down in 12-13hrs heavy usage connectd to 2g completely
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2 days with medium usage 3G, 4 days 2G heavy usage.
I have always said this phone has really good battery life, and for me it does.
right now my battery is on 32% and from the last charge past 1d 8h 12m with medium use
I had 3-4 days with stock 2.1 with my typical light usage. Now with stock 2.3.3 this increased to 5-6 days.
(few calls per day, no games, no music, 3G almost always disabled)
Compared with latest 2.1 with bb 67 on stock 2.3.3 battery life is worse. 1 day with heavy usage, and 2 days with light usage - 2g connected constantly.
I suggest everybody post screenshots and what rom you are using.
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Sometimes, it doesn't even hold for on day. Heavy usage. Web, Facebook, gmail sync, twitter sync (and a couple of others) perhaps I should change the sync.
3G only. Wi-fi sometimes
Android: Froyo 2.2
ROM: FreeX10 Beta4 HF 1
Kernel: DoomKernel/zKernel
On: WiFi, Data
Off: GPS
Usage: Medium
Battery: 2-3 days
Android: Gingerbread 2.3.3
ROM: Stock SE GB
Kernel: Stock SE GB
On:WiFi, Data
Off: GPS
Usage: Medium
Battery: 2-3 days
Android: Gingerbread 2.3.5
ROM: CM7-ZMOD
Kernel: DoomKernel/zKernel
On: WiFi, Data
Off: GPS
Usage: Medium
Battery: 1 day
Might just go back to stock until battery life comes back.
Mine dies after 6-7 hours of medium usage such as like 1 hour youtube 1 hour of xda and like 15 minute of music whit everything off except wifi and no data connection
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Does the mobile networks play a role when it comes to battery life in terms of network coverage etc... Mine fully charged with average usage lasts less than 24 hours. Well i do a bit of surfing and FB and mail sync in on. Is it due to that ? I did a calibration as well after flashing wolfs rom from stock.
Pls advice !
shahkam said:
Mine dies after 6-7 hours of medium usage such as like 1 hour youtube 1 hour of xda and like 15 minute of music whit everything off except wifi and no data connection
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One hour of you tube? playing videos obviously... thats just fine, i do pretty much the same but with gaming instead of youtube and a couple of hours talking, wifi and 3g always on, sync every 30 mins constantly checkin facebook, twiter and xda till ot get to arond 15% in like 7 hours
running wolfbreak´s gb 4.0.3 ROM with stock kernel and oc and uv (they work fine together for me)
There's a theory.....and i personally tested it and it works....
if you wanna get a great battery you must charge it at the percent of 20 or 15.....and it lasts a 2 days...
and i charged it at 0%..it keep about 4 hours charging...and it doesnt last a day....
im not very sure.....test it guys and see it if it works and tell me the results.....
dont forget about the THANKS botton.....
these threads are pointless imo...
everyone's usage is different, and you always get people saying "oh my phone lasts 3 weeks on a single change".... Pfft sure it does
There is no point in really comparing, yes you can get great battery life if you don't use your phone but what does that prove?
scoobysnacks said:
these threads are pointless imo...
everyone's usage is different, and you always get people saying "oh my phone lasts 3 weeks on a single change".... Pfft sure it does
There is no point in really comparing, yes you can get great battery life if you don't use your phone but what does that prove?
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Hey man... this is negativity .... i made this thread to avoid multiple threads of the same matter....READ first man......
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Hey man... this is negativity .... i made this thread to avoid multiple threads of the same matter....READ first man......
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So what?
I'm giving my opinion on the topic of battery life comparisons in general, it was not any way offensive to you.
I'm simply stating that unless there is a way to objectively measure that the usage was the same, what does "this many hours" actually really mean?
Plus everyone's ideas of "moderate","heavy", etc... are completely different.
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There's a theory.....and i personally tested it and it works....
if you wanna get a great battery you must charge it at the percent of 20 or 15.....and it lasts a 2 days...
and i charged it at 0%..it keep about 4 hours charging...and it doesnt last a day....
im not very sure.....test it guys and see it if it works and tell me the results.....
dont forget about the THANKS botton.....
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I tried at 15% didn't see much of a difference lol
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Hey guys,
I charge at 15% and my battery lasts for 7 hours. I use 2G data on always, no wifi, no gps, no music, no videos, but heavy surfing and apps download and update.
I think this battery life depends on the climate conditions where u stay.
I stay in India where temperature is above 40 deg.
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Guys..
I just missed out 1 more thing..
I also use JUICE DEFENDER ULTIMATE. This has definitely increased my battery life to double.
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Impressive battery life.!!! 12 hours and xx mins,standing @ around 62% battery still remaining.
1. Full time wifi/ occaussional shift to 3G when going for lunch/walk outside etc.
2. 3 Emails sync - push
3.Twitter - Facebook Push, instant notification
4.Normal voice calls , normal voip calls.
5.few fring messages.
6. couple of app downloads.
7. No music No movie!!
8.,....and yes, lite flow!!! liteflow blinking LED @ slow rate for Phone signal and for all notifications!!
I guess thats pretty impressive. Far better than my Note/S2 and iP 4S.
Lucky cnut!
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man, the S4 chip is gonna rock so hard in this phone
12 hours is pretty nice, but it looks like you barely even used it?
There is already a battery life thread and people have 2 days +
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There is already a battery life thread and people have 2 days +
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May be! as i said, ive the same usage pattern always and infact my second phone, ip4s is struggling @ 38%
With light usage like that, I get almost 3 days on my note... But good to know battery life is good, will pick up a S3 in a few weeks...
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shouldn't you be looking at 'screen on' time rather than how many hours it lasts after you unplug ?
Didn't someone post a screenshot of 4 days light use with 5 hour 30min screenshot on the battery thread?
Please discuss your battery greatness here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681873
I just got this phone, instantly updated to jellybean, still did a factory reset to help with little issues that happen sometimes on android updates ... and the battery life is terrible. Nothing at all like everyone is bragging about. I even made a lot of smart actions to try to help (i.e. put in airplane mode when I'm not using it, 4g off when wifi on, background data only when using phone, etc.).
I'm getting around 2h and 45 min of screen on time. And it still loses around 12-15% overnight with airplane mode on. No apps downloaded or settings synced from account.
Are there other things I could check?
Facebook freezing and FC constantly too.
SilverTipp said:
I just got this phone, instantly updated to jellybean, still did a factory reset to help with little issues that happen sometimes on android updates ... and the battery life is terrible. Nothing at all like everyone is bragging about. I even made a lot of smart actions to try to help (i.e. put in airplane mode when I'm not using it, 4g off when wifi on, background data only when using phone, etc.).
I'm getting around 2h and 45 min of screen on time. And it still loses around 12-15% overnight with airplane mode on. No apps downloaded or settings synced from account.
Are there other things I could check?
Facebook freezing and FC constantly too.
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I'd disable smart actions and also Google now. People report that helps a little
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I also found it took about 3 weeks for the battery to settle down and really give good long life on each charge. Now I'm super impressed with battery life of this gem of a phone...
Hmm ... I'm debating on sending it back. How was your battery life in the beginning?
No one experiencing huge facebook issues? Some other apps seem to take awhile to load.
Thanks.
I have the official jelly bean and I'm a rooted. So far today has been the best battery life that I've had even since flashing from ICS last week.
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Amazing freaking battery life. Definitely. Probably top five of all time considering the power of the phone
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I disabled location reporting in Google Latitude and find the battery life good.
SilverTipp said:
Hmm ... I'm debating on sending it back. How was your battery life in the beginning?
No one experiencing huge facebook issues? Some other apps seem to take awhile to load.
Thanks.
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Seeing you had 2-3 hrs on screen time, its no wonder the battery is dying on you. At first I found the battery life ok, would get through the day, but as I used it more the battery seemed to settle and now get 2 days a charge...BUT as with everything concerning battery this is relative.
I don't sync pretty much anything. I don't sync gmail, facebook, etc...which i know do take up substantial battery life. One thing I've found with this phone from using CPU Spy (app), is that when it goes into deep sleep, it really uses no battery power...I mean NONE! The other day at work it was just sitting on my desk doing nothing for 3 hours and went from 90% at 9am to 90% at 12 noon.
Battery is great on this phone...
SilverTipp said:
I just got this phone, instantly updated to jellybean, still did a factory reset to help with little issues that happen sometimes on android updates ... and the battery life is terrible. Nothing at all like everyone is bragging about. I even made a lot of smart actions to try to help (i.e. put in airplane mode when I'm not using it, 4g off when wifi on, background data only when using phone, etc.).
I'm getting around 2h and 45 min of screen on time. And it still loses around 12-15% overnight with airplane mode on. No apps downloaded or settings synced from account.
Are there other things I could check?
Facebook freezing and FC constantly too.
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I've had this phone for about a month now and my battery life is incredible. Better than I ever expected. I'm getting 2 full work days out of a single charge. I can suggest an app that I'm convinced works very well for Motorola's as this is the second one I've had. 2x battery saver seems to work better than juice defender. Cutting off background data when the phone is idle will help out a lot and that app does that very well. Smartactions should also be kept to a minimum. My phone uses virtually no battery when it is idle. If you play around on the internet a lot then its gonna drain your battery. For mostly talking and texting, its great.
Same problem but it does get resloved
When I got my razr m it had the same battery problem, but with time it will start holding more of a charge. It takes roughly month, and now i'm getting two days easily with it.
Yep. The battery here is unbelievable. I used ~1gb data, about an hour of calls and a few games for bout 30 min or so. Oh and some music. About 1.5 hours to charge and 2 days battery. Best battery life I have seen since the Nokia 1700 with net ten. Really. Its that good.
And I mean straight out the box. I bought it on Thursday last week and charged it maybe 3 times.
Charged it on Tue at 830 or so till bout 10 central standard time. I got 35% right now. I'm TRYING to kill it before I go to bed. I'm not very optimistic. Outstanding battery. Shoot, unheard of. 4.1.1
Oh and PS. I ain't rooted it yet either.
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To speed the settling in process.
Use the phone unit it dies. And then Charge it fully with no interruptions. Dont unplug and replug.
I had 4 of these going through my place now.
My girls, Mines and 2 from friends.
My girl's was settled in well when we received it already.
Mines took 1 week to settle in. My 2 friends took 1 weeks with that Calibration process and the other took 4 weeks of normal usage.
The phones battery is a monster !!!
2 hours worth of phone calls Screen is on time 3 hours, 16h wifi, I am at 40% and been off the charger for 17 hours.
The battery on this thing is great! One thing Motorola does better than any other manufacturer. I'm getting all weekend off a charge as my phone pretty much runs off wireless
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Anyone compared battery life of RAZR M vs RAZR i battery life?
I've seen on gsm arena that battery life of RAZR i is incredible, but there is no battery test for RAZR M.
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Proda said:
Anyone compared battery life of RAZR M vs RAZR i battery life?
I've seen on gsm arena that battery life of RAZR i is incredible, but there is no battery test for RAZR M.
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The i is more efficient when using it acctionally by 5%
Heavy usage the M is by 3% better, at conserving battery but the i is faster on heavy usage on large application
I have to get the screen shots we got few weeks ago.
Also the i tends to suck more power on some apps due to the emulation. But is not slower in anyway.
They are marginally almost the same.
Its just where u need the Processing power to be.
Heavy need of processing power the i is very competitive on single 3D apps
Need 100% compatibility with the apps store use the M with its ARM CPU
1.5 ARM Dual core or 2.0 Hyper Thread Single Core
I'm getting AMAZING battery life on my RAZR M. I get through the entire work day (lots of voice calls, wifi usage, bluetooth, maybe 1.5 hrs of screen time total) and still have about 35% remaining before I go to bed (about 15 hrs of usage). I even try to kill the battery by watching videos at home, putting the screen brightness on 100%, still havent managed to kill the battery.
So far very impressed with this phone, especially compared with my old Galaxy SII on TMobile
My Record:
2d 4h with 3.30 screen on
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My Record:
2d 4h with 3.30 screen on
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Dudee how are you getting that much!
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I think you got a borked phone, ive had this phone for 3 days now, noticed the amazing battery life the first day, phone came with a 50% charge, didnt charge it all day, finished day 1 with 30% after heavy use, day 2 heavy use navigation, texting, games, ect, finished day again at 30%, now day three same heavy use as day 2, days almost over and im at 50%, think i got a good one well deserving of the trident case i bought for it.
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Dudee how are you getting that much!
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I've got rule in SmartActions.
If screen off - then turn off mobile data.
Hi,
I'm switching from Note 1 to Nexus 4 which should arrive this week. I wonder what the battery performance is like for an average user, does it last alteast a day (10hrs plus) with moderate usage?
Also, I heard glass back issues, does it really needs to be cared for a lot?
I just switched from the note 1 also to the nexus 4. Have had this phone for almost 2 weeks now. Battery life is a lot better than the note. I'm almost always on WiFi. I'm getting about 13+ hours out of the battery. I flashed the Franco kernel and noticed a slight improvement also. Deff a lot better battery life than the note
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Battery life is awesome.
I get about five hours screen on time
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Right now I'm using the CM nightlities and franco r71 kernel and my battery is pretty good. It easily lasts a day, right now it has about 50% battery with about 10 hours on and 1hr 40min screen time on. I've uploaded a picture of my battery with one of the older nightlies. But some people have really good battery life and others aren't as good, it just depends if you get a lucky phone.
Battery live has been great for me. Easily over 3:30 on-screen time, sometimes 4:00, and less often I hit 4:30. At the end of the day and I usually still have some juice left. I use FrankenKernel and Trinity Four.
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Battery life is subjective.
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I can get at least four hours screen on time, sometimes over five, depending on other factors such as signal strength and whether I'm on WiFi or mobile networks.
Just been playing with it for the last hour and this is what it's looking like ... 84‰ battery remaining with one hour eleven minutes of screen time. Connection via mobile networks is usually more taxing though.
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Stock I could go ~12hrs with moderate use and ~18hrs with light use.
With franco kernel r72, I get 2days with light usage (1.5hrs screen on, 1.5hrs call time, auto brightness, wifi on, bt on, gps on, location services on, push for gmail/plume) and a day with moderate use (same as previous with 3-4hrs of pandora streaming and 1hr of video.)
I can reach 2 hours of screen time when entirely on HSDPA or nearly 4 hours entirely on Wifi with stock kernel until the battery hits 25% mark.
With franco or harsh kernel I can reach 2 hours 30 minutes on HSDPA and 4 hours on Wifi until the battery hits 25% mark.
I send a lot of Whatsapp messages and browsing, not much phone call though. I don't measure battery life by phone up time because most of the time it's screen on time that matters.
Battery life seems great for me