I just came from an S3 and had read so many horror stories about the battery life of the Nexus 4. It arrived last night and I didn't bother checking out the stock rom as I immediately flashed AOKP with franco kernal and let me say...battery life has been great thus far. No question it is an improvement over my S3.
So for those who are having major battery issues, I suggest trying a custom rom/kernal.
Thanks to all the developers...I was nervous about making the switch to Nexus, but am very happy so far.
Well yeah....did you try everything on stock and see the battery life from there?
I haven't either. LOL.
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How could you possibly know whether the battery life is good or not if you've only had the device for less than 24 hours.
The battery life on one of my Nexus 4s was great for about a week, then it slowly turned to crap.
The battery life on my other is still holding strong...
With my experience, battery life generally gets better as you go through a few cycles. I charged to 100% and with an hour of screen time and 5 hours up time today, I am only at 85%...and I've been on HSPA practically the entire time. With my S3, I would drain 5-8% an hour on HSPA with zero on screen time.
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So far getting 13 hours with medium brightness.
Its not the total on time that really counts, it is the screen on time. And go to the great battery impression thread in the general forum!
Just finished getting 1d11hrs from it... I had run it down to 1% and fully meant to take screenshots when the phone shut down on me I had done "average" use as I use a phone... watched a little bit of an hd movie, facebook, a few calls, playing on google play and other stuff.
I'm coming from a Samsung Infuse and this is about on par with the battery life I was getting from that running CM10 unofficial on it when the ROM didn't have drain problems affecting it.
I don't know if this isn't typical of others' experience with the N4... I was cautious and plugged my baby in when I got it before even turning it on and let it charge up. It did have to do some calibration as with power off it thought it was at 100% but when it booted up, it registered 80% charge. Now after a few full drain/charge cycles it seems to have a very good feeling for 100% and 0%.
j.smith said:
Just finished getting 1d11hrs from it... I had run it down to 1% and fully meant to take screenshots when the phone shut down on me I had done "average" use as I use a phone... watched a little bit of an hd movie, facebook, a few calls, playing on google play and other stuff.
I'm coming from a Samsung Infuse and this is about on par with the battery life I was getting from that running CM10 unofficial on it when the ROM didn't have drain problems affecting it.
I don't know if this isn't typical of others' experience with the N4... I was cautious and plugged my baby in when I got it before even turning it on and let it charge up. It did have to do some calibration as with power off it thought it was at 100% but when it booted up, it registered 80% charge. Now after a few full drain/charge cycles it seems to have a very good feeling for 100% and 0%.
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Even though i wasnt able to get my hands on it, my cousin did and he says he got 6 hour on screen time and at total of 22 hours for battery
Where are you getting this battery life? I get max 5 hours of moderate use Facebook twitter tapa talk, a game or two what gives?
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Total battery time it differs but my screen time on average is around 4hrs.
Very low brightness, wifi always on.
I only use a few apps like sms, tweet lanes, instagram, flipboard, and espn.
I get 9 by barely using it. This phone has a serious problem. It's obvious because the Optimus G is a battery boss, and it even has LTE.
This phone had the exact same screen, internals, battery.
I got 5 hour screen time with aokp
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I get 9 by barely using it. This phone has a serious problem. It's obvious because the Optimus G is a battery boss, and it even has LTE.
This phone had the exact same screen, internals, battery.
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That's where you know it is software related. 4.2 has some bugs, the galaxy nexus got updated to 4.2 and people are reporting really bad battery life ever since the update. Also JB in general doesn't perform as good as ICS in the battery department cause of project butter that cranks the CPU up soon as you start using the phone. Example is Galaxy s 3.
Personally i get very good battery life and in very satisfied. When i was on stock my battery started really bad but then improved, now that I'm rooted and running a custom ROM and kernel i have very satisfying battery life.
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Hey Guys,
A bunch of people are complaining about the battery life on Nexus 4. I've been waited for a couple days since I got the device, to have enough confident about the battery before I make any post here. Yes, the phone battery drain pretty fast on the first few cycles. After a bunch more charges later, let me tell this, the battery life did get significantly better. It lasted about 10-15 hr depends on the load of the usage.
Here is my typical day, off the charge at 100% in the morning, listen to a few songs, checking emails, and messages while getting ready for school. About an 30mn to 1hr of internet browser and youtube videos while on the bus. By 1-2pm the battery drop the about 70-80%. I put the phone in silent mood til i'm done with all my classes. On the way back home on the bus, I listened to a bunch of music, web browsing, maybe a few phone calls, texts or games.
Compare to my old phone, Samsung Galaxy S2 T989, im impressed with the Nexus 4 battery life. My Galaxy S2 battery always die on the bus coming back home. What I'm trying to get at: if you're a light to medium user like me, then get this phone. I was hesitate at first because I always have bad experience with android battery life. But Google seem to get its OS right with this nexus device, mainly because the battery drain minimum while in sleeping mood.
Can you post your Nexus 4 battery performance screenshot if you have been using the phone for more than a few days ?
Is there supposed to be a question being asked? Or a statement as this is in the Q&A forum.
I agree with you on many points. People need to wait at least 5 to 7 days for the battery charge to fully kick in. The first days mean absolutely nothing as it is still being aligned plus the user is still installing apps and setting up their phone.
There are some notable problems in the default kernel that uses more battery Usage than normal too.
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From full battery to this overnight + breakfast usage. Rasbean + Matr1x v3.0. Never seen anything like it. Coming from the GN, this phone is a different dimension altogether. On any aspect..
Had phone for 5 days. Drained phone to 10% then fully charged. Moderate to light use made it through a day.
Stock rooted + Franco Kernel.
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Had phone for 5 days. Drained phone to 10% then fully charged. Moderate to light use made it through a day.
Stock rooted + Franco Kernel.
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can someone post how the battery drain is wihr stock kernel with normal using phone ?
what do you think?
Getting this i am on stock kernel and stock rom
is it low?
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Getting this i am on stock kernel and stock rom
is it low?
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Depends on how much screen time you got, which you didn't show us.
The trick is to be careful about using mobile data when signal is bad, I switch to WiFi when home to avoid unnecessary battery drain.
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What is this obsession for battery life, it lasts me well through the day with moderate/heavy use. I charge it at night (if needed) and unless you are homeleless this shouldn`t be a problem. It`s a great phone and i enjoy using it.
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What is this obsession for battery life, it lasts me well through the day with moderate/heavy use. I charge it at night (if needed) and unless you are homeleless this shouldn`t be a problem. It`s a great phone and i enjoy using it.
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I thought the same until my N4 actually arrived, it seems battery life is abysmal compared to my Optimus 2x which didnt have anything really spectacular in regards to battery size. On my O2x I could get 1.5 - 2.5 days depending on use, hitting atleast 1 .5 which was good and acceptable for me (I can charge at night anyways) however my N4 doesnt even reach 13 hours on similar usage!.
I am quite a light users of smartphones however I do like to have a power phone when it comes to using it on the basis of smoothness and capabilities if I need to say do work on my phone, I rarely play games though. Main usage is 2 email accounts on poll 1 hour steps, a third account that is an exchange server and polls in 30 minute steps and thats about it with some brief browsing and a handful of texts (been a quite time since I got my N4), this is less usage than my O2x and yet it still performs alot worse!
I was hoping of staying with stock as I was expecting it to finally be good, comparing it to LG stock attempts it is but battery life isnt . I will be trying the combo Vangelis13 mentioned, raspbean and matr1x kernel as that seems like a great mix however Parandroid has been on the table and it seems like alot of being are getting good results so I will try it soon .
If I can get more than a day of usage I would be really happy, if I was playing games or doing really heavy tasks I wouldnt expect it to last but right now it is doing pretty much nothing and dieing far to fast!.
One thing I've noticed since coming to N4 from S2 is that phone calls drain battery much more significantly on the N4. I could make an hour long call on my S2 and it would use no more than a couple of percent battery but the N4 used 15% for an hour long phone call the other night.
If I didn't own a nexus 4 and came to this thread to find out about it's battery life I would expect it to be good.
Point is you guys are misinforming everyone. The battery is mediocre and that's it.
It won't last a full day if you use it constantly and I do need two charges / day many times.
Let me put it this way, you will only get roughly 3 hours of screen time on stock everything. If that is good for you then it's will have good battery life, if not then you will say it's got poor battery life.
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If I didn't own a nexus 4 and came to this thread to find out about it's battery life I would expect it to be good.
Point is you guys are misinforming everyone. The battery is mediocre and that's it.
It won't last a full day if you use it constantly and I do need two charges / day many times.
Let me put it this way, you will only get roughly 3 hours of screen time on stock everything. If that is good for you then it's will have good battery life, if not then you will say it's got poor battery life.
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It's always incredibly funny when someone comes in saying everyone else's subjective battery advice is bad then claims his subjective battery advice as correct.
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It's always incredibly funny when someone comes in saying everyone else's subjective battery advice is bad then claims his subjective battery advice as correct.
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You clearly misunderstood my post. Food you even read it?
There is nothing subjective about 3 hours screen time.
My battery is fine.
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madmike413 said:
My battery is fine.
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madmike413!!!
How do you got this battery life?!!
mine is insanely bad with trinity kernel and toolbox and paranoid android.
thanks..
StayGreen said:
madmike413!!!
How do you got this battery life?!!
mine is insanely bad with trinity kernel and toolbox and paranoid android.
thanks..
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His phone was mostly on standby/deep sleep mode. That's how it lasted 2days.
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chrisastrous said:
If I didn't own a nexus 4 and came to this thread to find out about it's battery life I would expect it to be good.
Point is you guys are misinforming everyone. The battery is mediocre and that's it.
It won't last a full day if you use it constantly and I do need two charges / day many times.
Let me put it this way, you will only get roughly 3 hours of screen time on stock everything. If that is good for you then it's will have good battery life, if not then you will say it's got poor battery life.
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you are perfectly right.
I come from an iPhone 4s, which I changed because the battery life wasn´t that great and I thought it was time to try something new.
Got the N4 last friday and played around with it during the weekend.
Monday, tuesday and wednesday this week... none of these days I´ve been able to come back home with the phone still on.
I wake up at 7.30am and I usually am back home at 6pm.
In my opinion, and honestly should be in everyone´s opinion, 10 hours of battery life are unacceptable, whatever the usage is (considering that 7.30 of those 10 hours I was at work)
I have till friday this week to return it, which is a pity because the phone is great
i get 5-6 hours sot..
rom is omnirom 5.1.1 hellscore kernel b73.
100mv undervoltage hellsactive governer.
think 7 would be possible if google services would not take a quarter of the battery.
the screen is not taking that much battery as one would think.
think most issues with battery life come from fake original battery replacements.
had 3-4 sot using "original" battery. but after replacing with real genuine from official lg spare parts shop 5-6...
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I am seeing tons of the battery life threads, which to be honest, was expected. and I just wanted to put this in perspective for you guys. Currently, I own a Galaxy Nexus, but I am getting a Moto X within the next few days thanks to Moto's Cyber Monday (Wednesday) deal. My battery life average is about 4.5 hours with 1 hour SOT on a full charge. This is not my bad or minimum. This is my average. I spend half of my workday with my phone off and I never leave a charger behind lol.
So in summary, your battery life is still amazing to me if you get 14 hours with 3 hour SOT or anything better and I am really excited to not carry a charge cable everywhere lol
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My battery life average is about 4.5 hours with 1 hour SOT on a full charge.
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I LOLed.
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You should see Moto Gs battery life :|
I am generally happy with battery life. But every so often I will see my battery drain about 30-40% overnight. I assume it is a wifi or cellular issue as it also happened on my gs4 and nexus 4. Never happened on any of my iPhones or windows phones though. I assume android's modem software is just poorly written.
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Smashed my phone's screen back in march and only just got it fixed the other day. One of the first things I did was upgrade to the latest purity ROM, based on 4.4.4.
I am getting terrible battery life, only about 2-2.5 hours screen on time over 12 hours and it's dead - thats mostly on wifi with about 30 mins on spotify. I have google now switched on, but location reporting off. Brightness at 50%. Hellscore kernel.
Is this a known issue or is there something up with my phone??
Thanks.
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Have you checked your wakelocks using better battery stats, gsam, or wakelock detector? I think that you wakelocked by something.
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The nexus 4 is known for its terrible batterie life.
I am on cm11 and matr1x kernel and it runs for about 4 hours with 3 hours screen on time. I am surfing the internet right now, listen to music and doing whatsapp a little bit.
If you have newly flashed your rom, you should let your phone settles for a couple of days. The batterie is always worse after flashing a new rom.
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The nexus 4 is known for its terrible batterie life.
I am on cm11 and matr1x kernel and it runs for about 4 hours with 3 hours screen on time. I am surfing the internet right now, listen to music and doing whatsapp a little bit.
If you have newly flashed your rom, you should let your phone settles for a couple of days. The batterie is always worse after flashing a new rom.
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not true. VERY not true. its your own setup that's destroying your battery. battery life is mainly determined by how you yourself use your device, how you ser it up, which apps you use, and very much your data/phone signal. i, personally see 5-5.5h screen on time every day, witjout disabling anything, and on lte. hows that horrible battery life? learn to set up your phone, or change your rom/kernel. the n4 is not known for horrible battery life. and battery life isnt generally worse after flashing a rom. where you get your information from is all based on speculation, not on truth.
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not true. VERY not true. its your own setup that's destroying your battery. battery life is mainly determined by how you yourself use your device, how you ser it up, which apps you use, and very much your data/phone signal. i, personally see 5-5.5h screen on time every day, witjout disabling anything, and on lte. hows that horrible battery life? learn to set up your phone, or change your rom/kernel. the n4 is not known for horrible battery life. and battery life isnt generally worse after flashing a rom. where you get your information from is all based on speculation, not on truth.
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I am sorry. It is just, compared to other devices the nexus 4 is rather under the average. I myself am very satisfied with about 4 hours screen on time. I dont know how you could even get 5 and more. So, master, if you would kindly share your wisdom with us, we would be very glad.
But lte and nexus 4? That screams after horrible battery life, but tell me your story.
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not true. VERY not true. its your own setup that's destroying your battery. battery life is mainly determined by how you yourself use your device, how you ser it up, which apps you use, and very much your data/phone signal. i, personally see 5-5.5h screen on time every day, witjout disabling anything, and on lte. hows that horrible battery life? learn to set up your phone, or change your rom/kernel. the n4 is not known for horrible battery life. and battery life isnt generally worse after flashing a rom. where you get your information from is all based on speculation, not on truth.
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Would you mind sharing how you've set it up? Not sure where I'm going wrong.. I use very few apps and have set syncing to a minimum. Are you on 4.4.4? I've read somewhere that there is a battery bug in 4.4.4
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Would you mind sharing how you've set it up? Not sure where I'm going wrong.. I use very few apps and have set syncing to a minimum. Are you on 4.4.4? I've read somewhere that there is a battery bug in 4.4.4
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I'm on L at the moment, was on 444. I've never ever heard of a battery bug in 444. the one thing that will decide the battery life of your device, that you don't have control of, is your data/phone quality. it can make a phone get great battery, or keep it at worse battery life no matter what you do. the quality can make or break battery life. also, I've found that I get much better battery life on lte as opposed to 3G/H+. with H+, I see around 4h sot no matter what, with lte I see around 5h sot. also, screen brightness can make a big
difference. I normally keep my brightness at about 25%. if I raise it to 50%, I'll get about 45 minutes to an hour less in screen on time.
I have always rooted my phones but so far I haven't rooted my S7 Edge yet. However, the battery life sucks but after reading some comments on here it seems that people who root are getting no better or worse battery life. I was just looking for some feedback from people that have rooted to see what the majority response is. I've been contemplating doing this now for several days.
Thanks.
I've been contemplating about trying root again too, and that's after being on the U firmware. I'm now suffering battery life by only getting 2 hours of SOT by 50%, unlike at the beginning I could get up to 3 hours by 50%.
When I was on root though, that's how bad I suffered, only getting 2 hours of SOT by 50%. My Xperia Z3v is abandoned on support, but could still achieve better battery life being only on Lollipop. C'mon Samsung...
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I have always rooted my phones but so far I haven't rooted my S7 Edge yet. However, the battery life sucks but after reading some comments on here it seems that people who root are getting no better or worse battery life. I was just looking for some feedback from people that have rooted to see what the majority response is. I've been contemplating doing this now for several days.
Thanks.
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When i rooted my battery life dropped from 2 days to under a day before dying.
I am barely even getting that. I am at 59% right now with 37 minutes SOT and off the battery for 8 hours and 26 minutes. When I check app usage, the only thing that is high is the Android System at 39% and the Kernel at 10.7%. I can't figure out what kills my battery. I am on WiFi most of the time while at work or at home. BT is off as well.
On root you are using the engineering bootloader so the battery life is bad. You are better off using stock U. It runs smooth and battery life is not bad, plus you can get OTA updates.
U is a great FW so far. Battery life for me, with about 4 hours of SOT got me to about 50% at 530pm and I was off the charger at 7am.