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Nexus S battery

Hi did anyone experiance this kind of battery consumption? 3days 14hours and 45min and still have like 7%?

Not personally, I use my phone too much to get that kind of life out of it. Based on what I know about the drain when it's screen off and sleeping, though, I think it's well within the realm of possibility with light use.

I get like 24 hours out of mine... with some light-moderate use... used to be better when I bought it but then after installing some apps it just starts degrading a bit I guess

Well, rechargable batteries do degrade over time, and the more apps you have on a device, generally the less time it will last on battery, partially because those that run in the background consume more system resources and partially because those that update data in the background will keep your phone "awake" more of the time.

If I wasn't using my phone and just let it idle (sync on, airplane mode off) I'd get like 12 days of battery life. That's what I like about the NxS, unlike other smartphones it does actually last longer when not used.

hi
i am getting around 10 to 12 hours. wifi always on. mostly watching youtube videos. netbrwosing. gaming.
2g phone calling
still i think i am getting reasonably good back up

Disabling wifi,gps,bluetooth and reducing screen brightness will improve battery life.

faceoff007 said:
Disabling wifi,gps,bluetooth and reducing screen brightness will improve battery life.
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So will removing the battery and placing it next to the phone.

My wife and I both have the Nexus both with battery issues never charging to full 100% always get 95% max. New phones. Battery usually lasted 10 to 12hrs
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ErlyD said:
My wife and I both have the Nexus both with battery issues never charging to full 100% always get 95% max. New phones. Battery usually lasted 10 to 12hrs
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That's no issue, but working as intended.
Other phones are using the same technique, but they are hiding it by showing the 100% the phone never reached, that's why they drop to 95-97%ish right after unplugging and from there drain normally.

I experienced battery drowning after using app's like maps or latitude. I had to kill them manually, now I'm cleaning the phones memory regularly. That safes a lot of battery life for me on the one hand, but on the other hand loading app's isn't as fast as before.
It's the classical trade-off between battery life an usability. And 10-12 hours are normal for me if I'm using my phone a lot.

rentaric said:
That's no issue, but working as intended.
Other phones are using the same technique, but they are hiding it by showing the 100% the phone never reached, that's why they drop to 95-97%ish right after unplugging and from there drain normally.
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Just read about it searching. It's a safety setting. Surprised none of the galaxy s phones had this on. I had epic4g before.
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ErlyD said:
Just read about it searching. It's a safety setting. Surprised none of the galaxy s phones had this on. I had epic4g before.
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Well, depends on the manuf. if they want to "hide" it or not, they could also set 95% capacity as "100%" displayed. All batteries got a safety feature of some kind

20 hours of hardcore use here

Can't be too hardcore, display lasts 4.5h max
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kbshowtyme said:
20 hours of hardcore use here
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same here.
never rooted or installed a custom rom.
in 2g idle it lasts ~14days

9 to 13 hours ,was looking at getting maybe better battery but dont think theres one

So 95% is the new 100% because my phone won't charge to 100%. It just stops at 95%.
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rentaric said:
Well, depends on the manuf. if they want to "hide" it or not, they could also set 95% capacity as "100%" displayed. All batteries got a safety feature of some kind
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I did not know that was built into the battery thought it was the phone that controlled that. Thanks for info. I'll see what these ebay batteries I purchased for $10 from china do. Should be getting them soon.
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[Q]Uneven battery consumption

It is really strange that the battery comsuption of my new nexus 4 doesn't show uniformly.I mean it often stays the same figure for a long time,but drops very quickly in a few minutes for 2-3 percent,and then stays at the same number again.
When the battery percentage is above 50%,it's not very obvious.But below 50%,I can feel it very obviously.Today,I turn off my phone at 42%,but when i turn on the phone again,the percentage suddenly drops to 32%.
Besides,I want to say the the battery can stay for 15 hours or more.So the total time is obviously normal.I think it's not a problem of battery.But I am still a little puzzled.What can I do?
From the chart,I can see the trend of the curve change looks like steps......

It's not uneven battery consumption, it's that the reporting is kinda broken - e.g. it gives you the impression that it has used hardly anything for a while, then suddenly drops.
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Well first of all rebooting the phone uses a considerable amount of power. You can't expect to shut it down and turn it on and see the same battery level.
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steviewevie said:
It's not uneven battery consumption, it's that the reporting is kinda broken - e.g. it gives you the impression that it has used hardly anything for a while, then suddenly drops.
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Thank you.But how can i fix this?

pzx said:
Thank you.But how can i fix this?
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You can't.

[Q] Nexus 4 on order, arrival soon, what can I expect ;) ?

So, they have apparently sorted out the stock and supply problem. I <cough> borrowed the wife's credit card and have placed the order.
They say it will ship in 1 to 2 weeks, I can live with that.
The light-hearted question I have is, once I've gotten over the excited rush of playing with the phone for a while, what have your experiences been? Good or bad! I've heard that the battery life is not great but to be honest I am not so bothered with that. I have a charger and work, and home, in the car - I can even charge it at the pub/bar I go to

Keep an eye out for issues worthy of an RMA. From there, the only thing to expect is awesomeness. You'll want to calibrate the screen color and gamma, though.

Has battery life been that bad? Because I just ordered one myself to replace my wife's 3GS.

kenhicg said:
Has battery life been that bad? Because I just ordered one myself to replace my wife's 3GS.
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yes battery life is very bad on this device. in sleep/standby its great. but when you do something, it drains battery very fast. just 5minutes use and at least 10% are gone.

Rondock said:
yes battery life is very bad on this device. in sleep/standby its great. but when you do something, it drains battery very fast. just 5minutes use and at least 10% are gone.
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Utter tripe. You either have a rouge app, or you have the brighness turned up full or something else stupid.
I easily get a full day out mine with moderate use. It's about 50%-60% remaining when I get home in the evening from work.

I got around 3 hours of screen on time and a full 18-20 hours standby on stock rom with the usual useage of whatsapp and gmail syncing, with web use and texting etc, and now on custom rom, I am getting up to 4.5 hours screen on.
So, battery is good, phone is super fast and smooth, camera is great if you take time to learn how to use it and especially with HDR on and a bit of post picture editing. Only down side is music volume and quality which is average at best. In my opinion.

Thanks for the feedback. I just hope my wife can make the transition from iOS to android.

I think depending whether you are on WiFi or HSPA will make a huge difference for battery. From what I understand, when using HSPA, the standby battery life is horrible.

The screen is usually the single biggest threat to your battery. And the N4 can get 4-6 hours of "screen on" time depending on use. As others have said, it can be on standby for 15+ hours, but you can completely kill the battery in 4 hours or less if you are using a cpu intensive app.
Custom roms and battery saving apps can def help out though.

I ordered mine at 3pm on wednesday and it was with me by 3pm on thursday .. so slightly quicker than the 1-2 weeks they quote!

Unlock the boot loader, doesn't matter if you decide on staying stock or what. Having your boot loader unlocked right of the bat allows you to keep your apps if you do decide to root /flash.
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You'll sadly probably find that the screen is *uneven* in it's tint (yellow probably) and brightness. Because it's uneven, "calibrating" will help a little maybe but will not fix any issues with the screen. On the other hand, with luck (which I wish you) you may find that your screen is pretty much perfectly uniform in brightness and tone top to bottom, left to right. (Check using the Mail app and minimise the keyboard) I've had 5 so far and none of them are acceptable to me. Otherwise the phone is truly incredible in use. Buttery smooth, responsive, great. The screen very generally is amazing too. It's just not even as it should be. Let me know how yours is - i'd be interested to know because if yours has good uniformity I'll order another. Good luck!

Rondock said:
yes battery life is very bad on this device. in sleep/standby its great. but when you do something, it drains battery very fast. just 5minutes use and at least 10% are gone.
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My drain is 1% per hour and I get more the 4hs screen time. Please, review your device and stop giving false statements.
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How much do you believe turning off the data and just running the voice will save battery life?
calanizzle said:
My drain is 1% per hour and I get more the 4hs screen time. Please, review your device and stop giving false statements.
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fredcorp6 said:
I ordered mine at 3pm on wednesday and it was with me by 3pm on thursday .. so slightly quicker than the 1-2 weeks they quote!
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What? No way lol you must be lucky then. Because even the shipping method says 2 day shipping. Unless you paid a bunch of money for overnight shipping?
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What? No way lol you must be lucky then. Because even the shipping method says 2 day shipping. Unless you paid a bunch of money for overnight shipping?
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Played £9.99 for shipping... Think that was the only option on there?
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bittersound said:
So, they have apparently sorted out the stock and supply problem. I <cough> borrowed the wife's credit card and have placed the order.
They say it will ship in 1 to 2 weeks, I can live with that.
The light-hearted question I have is, once I've gotten over the excited rush of playing with the phone for a while, what have your experiences been? Good or bad! I've heard that the battery life is not great but to be honest I am not so bothered with that. I have a charger and work, and home, in the car - I can even charge it at the pub/bar I go to
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Well expect battery drain issues (msm_hsic_host wakelock).

Why is my battery time rubbish?

Looking at others screenshots, I am only having half what the crowd having.
This is not the case for the n4 only. I am talking about every single Android I had in the past.
Is something wrong with me or what I see in the screenshots is 10% brightness, all the services off and staring at a black screen for 8 hours?

People's usage varies. Some people listen to a lot of music. Some use navigation frequently. Some have Google Now running, while others don't.
That said, I use automatic brightness, get on XDA a LOT, make a few calls and texts, and talk to people on gtalk. I usually see around 4h screen on time. Could I get more? Yes. But I don't care enough.

calyxim said:
Looking at others screenshots, I am only having half what the crowd having.
This is not the case for the n4 only. I am talking about every single Android I had in the past.
Is something wrong with me or what I see in the screenshots is 10% brightness, all the services off and staring at a black screen for 8 hours?
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Good signal reception in your area is key to battery life.

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People's usage varies. Some people listen to a lot of music. Some use navigation frequently. Some have Google Now running, while others don't.
That said, I use automatic brightness, get on XDA a LOT, make a few calls and texts, and talk to people on gtalk. I usually see around 4h screen on time. Could I get more? Yes. But I don't care enough.
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I used my phone heavily and the screen was on for the most part used Google wallet and did a lot of stuff on my phone and it still have some juice left.. Coming from a GS 2 this battery life is more than enough for me
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From 100%.. Quarter brightness level.
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Because u own a nexus device with no replaceable battery and and and underpower battery. Google posing that they are giving u cheap phone. They took from u all the real things that we need and gave us what makes little difference.
Less storage so u will be using their cloud.
Not replaceable battery so after a year or less you instead of replacing battery by sending phone to service centre, buy their motorola X.
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qazibasit said:
Because u own a nexus device with no replaceable battery and and and underpower battery. Google posing that they are giving u cheap phone. They took from u all the real things that we need and gave us what makes little difference.
Less storage so u will be using their cloud.
Not replaceable battery so after a year or less you instead of replacing battery by sending phone to service centre, buy their motorola X.
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So little text, so many conspiracies..

Vangelis13 said:
Good signal reception in your area is key to battery life.
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Yep, by far. Took the words from my mouth.

spooke said:
From 100%.. Quarter brightness level.
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That, I can understand.
6 hours guys, I honestly have no idea how they manage that. When I turn on the screen, consumption jumps up to 600mah straight away. 2100/600= 3 hours + some minutes.
Btw I can literally see the cell tower from where I live. Reception is no issue at all.

calyxim said:
That, I can understand.
6 hours guys, I honestly have no idea how they manage that. When I turn on the screen, consumption jumps up to 600mah straight away. 2100/600= 3 hours + some minutes.
Btw I can literally see the cell tower from where I live. Reception is no issue at all.
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List all the apps you have installed. Is Facebook one of them? Remove it.
Install betterbatterystats, check if some app(s) keeps your phone awake.

Way better if I don't use it much lol..
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calyxim said:
That, I can understand.
6 hours guys, I honestly have no idea how they manage that. When I turn on the screen, consumption jumps up to 600mah straight away. 2100/600= 3 hours + some minutes.
Btw I can literally see the cell tower from where I live. Reception is no issue at all.
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Seeing the cell tower means nothing if your phone isn't actually connecting to that cell tower.
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Vangelis13 said:
Good signal reception in your area is key to battery life.
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what he says. single most important factor. in my city it can last for 2 days, i have always 4 bars on hspa. when i visit my parents the reception goes down to zero or one bar. the phone is empty in a few hours just by sitting there.

What you need is faux kernel and under volt a little ... I'm on 3 hours heavy use atm at 52%
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Mine sucks some what.
@1.8 GHz
But most of the time running on demand gov so in deep sleep
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If you're using the stock Email client(not Gmail), that might have something to do with it.
I found out, by using Elixir 2, that the Email client was pretty much constantly using around 20-30% CPU, even though it wasn't showing up in the battery stats. Once I stopped using the Email client(removed all accounts) my battery life improved a lot.

[Q] battery?? not up to par.

My last phone until my Sprint G2 was the original EVO with the original battery so I couldn't wait until I got the G2 the other day. However I dont seem to be getting the battery life that I hear others talk about. With mod/heavy use while getting everything set up and learning about phone the back gets hot around the volume/power switch area. I havent really even been watching videos, mainly getting on Dolphin browser. what do you guys think?

Give it a few full charges and a few days.......
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Give it a few full charges and a few days.......
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I see my display is using 60% of battery.. The brightness display setting is set at auto 80%. I checked auto but it seems to keep what ever % that I have even when auto is checked? What brightness setting do you have set?
Thanks again

That is a base brightness when auto is checked. Set it lower. I tend to keep mine 35%.

That looks terrible. Im at 48% with 3+ hrs screen on time. And 7+ hrs expected left. I have my brightness at 33 most of the day. Also second day with the phone.
I would be a bit worried unless you have your brightness cranked and all setting checked on...
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Auto bright doesn't really work on this phone. LG can't get it right. How long was your screen on, and what do you have on in the background? GPS? Bluetooth? WiFi? If your screen was on most of the time, that's pretty spot on.
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When i first got my g2 the battery would only last around 10-12 hours with wifi and max brightness but after a week im now getting 24hours+ with normal use including playing games. I think it takes a while to learn what you use the most or something. Am using rayglobes rom too
Ohh and auto bright does nothing at all lol, at least it wasnt like the Galaxy S3 that would be either extremly bright or dull

Steamer86 said:
That is a base brightness when auto is checked. Set it lower. I tend to keep mine 35%.
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35% man? I didnt get a badass phone to have to set it at 35% brightness because of battery..cant hardly see it then.

mlaaw said:
My last phone until my Sprint G2 was the original EVO with the original battery so I couldn't wait until I got the G2 the other day. However I dont seem to be getting the battery life that I hear others talk about. With mod/heavy use while getting everything set up and learning about phone the back gets hot around the volume/power switch area. I havent really even been watching videos, mainly getting on Dolphin browser. what do you guys think?
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It's not supposed to run hot at all. Do a factory reset and see if that corrects your problem. If not, exchange the phone for another one. It may be defective
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mlaaw said:
35% man? I didnt get a badass phone to have to set it at 35% brightness because of battery..cant hardly see it then.
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I use mine at 60% most of the day & get excellent battery life

Mine is set at 70% medium use 20+ hours.
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mlaaw said:
35% man? I didnt get a badass phone to have to set it at 35% brightness because of battery..cant hardly see it then.
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What are you expecting out of your phone? Screen burns most of the battery. Even the g2 doesn't have that much battery strength. Hell, most phablets don't. I get 5 hours of life on 40% brightness, heavy usage, screen on most of the time.
I'm not saying it isn't possible to have it brighter and get great life, it depends on other parameters too.
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What are you expecting out of your phone? Screen burns most of the battery. Even the g2 doesn't have that much battery strength. Hell, most phablets don't. I get 5 hours of life on 40% brightness, heavy usage, screen on most of the time.
I'm not saying it isn't possible to have it brighter and get great life, it depends on other parameters too.
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What are you doing on your phone? Must suck to buy a top of the line phone and can only use it 5 hrs with a dim lit screen. and dont tell me 40% looks good cause it doesent! One of the main points was this phone has great battery life so either something wrong with our phones or all the reviews didnt use it much. Im getting no difference with this one than my 4 yr org EVO with org battery. Enjoy charing a plug and looking for an outlet all day Im not.

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With mod/heavy use while getting everything set up and learning about phone /QUOTE]
You basically got 5 hours of screen on time with 40% left?
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mlaaw said:
With mod/heavy use while getting everything set up and learning about phone /QUOTE]
You basically got 5 hours of screen on time with 40% left?
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No.. It was off the charger for the 5hrs not all screen on time. A little more than mod use. Setting up checking out stuff. I was not on it the entire time plus it would get hot while charging. I've have now a replacement on the way. It was getting hot around the top of phone, buttons and ear piece. I don't know just doesn't seem right. And about people putting brightness at 35-40 % is crazy.. At least on my phone its way to dark to enjoy.
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An easy way to get that little extra batterylife is to unbox Googles right to get your position using WiFi. I discovered that during nights i lost about 8% even though my screen was off and i didn't use the phone, all due to that service. Now i Only loose 1% in 7-8 hours.

Typical use for me.
My Nexus 4 with the same usage patterns wouldn't last 10 hours, and I'm syncing 3 emails and all Google services. Color me satisfied.

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What are you doing on your phone? Must suck to buy a top of the line phone and can only use it 5 hrs with a dim lit screen. and dont tell me 40% looks good cause it doesent! One of the main points was this phone has great battery life so either something wrong with our phones or all the reviews didnt use it much. Im getting no difference with this one than my 4 yr org EVO with org battery. Enjoy charing a plug and looking for an outlet all day Im not.
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Sounds like there's only 1 common denominator between the 2 phones....hm...
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I'm having the same problem as you. However my battery life out the box started out great. I could use the phone for almost two days without needing a charge. I "bent" the phone two weeks ago when I was trying to get it out of the quickwindow case and since then the battery life has been total crap. I barely get half a day off my phone with the same usage. I really don't understand whats going on with the battery.