[Q] What counts as good or bad battery life? - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I usually have to recharge after beeing 20 hours on battery and I usually have about 4+ hours of screen on time, and the battery is around at 30% after this much usage.
Today I used it a little bit more, it's been 16 hours since fully charging and I've had 6 hours of screen on time before when I was at 15%.
Is it good/neutral/bad battery life? I almost always use my N7 at home, so it doesn't really matter, I'm just curious.

Pr3no said:
I usually have to recharge after beeing 20 hours on battery and I usually have about 4+ hours of screen on time, and the battery is around at 30% after this much usage.
Today I used it a little bit more, it's been 16 hours since fully charging and I've had 6 hours of screen on time before when I was at 15%.
Is it good/neutral/bad battery life? I almost always use my N7 at home, so it doesn't really matter, I'm just curious.
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Not sure you will get an accurate answer on this topic.
Since everyone has different usage habits, it could be tough to determine what's good and what's not.
I know I can go days without charging my N7 and the screen time is usually around four or five hours.
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Sounds similar to my battery life.
I like Android but I have to say, my iPhones and iPads have ALWAYS blown away every single Android device I have ever owned when it came down to battery life.
I still like my N7, but it's just slightly sad

Macmee said:
Sounds similar to my battery life.
I like Android but I have to say, my iPhones and iPads have ALWAYS blown away every single Android device I have ever owned when it came down to battery life.
I still like my N7, but it's just slightly sad
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Well I believe androids do a lot more than apple products.
No real multitasking on apple products which could effect battery life.
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Bsmith0731 said:
Well I believe androids do a lot more than apple products.
No real multitasking on apple products which could effect battery life.
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There is real multitasking on apple products, they have opened up multitasking capabilities to devs moreso than in years past, don't forget about backgrounder!
I like my iPad and N7 about the same really.

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There is real multitasking on apple products, they have opened up multitasking capabilities to devs moreso than in years past, don't forget about backgrounder!
I like my iPad and N7 about the same really.
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Nice.
It's been so long since I've used one.
Apologize about that.
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New to the tab from the xoom, question about battery.

I just picked up the tab today and i am liking it so much more than the xoom. Much much more. But the one thing I am concerned about is that the battery charging time is unbelievably slow.
The one thing I could say in the xooms favor was that the battery charging speed was supernatural. It literally took less than 40 minutes to charge the whole thing which would last 9 to 10 hours on normal use. That was the one thing about the xoom that was positively good.
So far I have had the tab charging for hours and it's still not full. I plugged it in at 8:14 with the battery at 8%, now its 11:44 and its still only at 74%. That's more than 3 hours and its not full. I think I remember reading that the battery is bigger and last up to 15 hours. If all that's true I can understand longer charge time but 4 hours is alot. Is this normal?
And how long does the battery really last? Does it really get 15 hours? That would be nice.
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IndivisibleP said:
I just picked up the tab today and i am liking it so much more than the xoom. Much much more. But the one thing I am concerned about is that the battery charging time is unbelievably slow.
The one thing I could say in the xooms favor was that the battery charging speed was supernatural. It literally took less than 40 minutes to charge the whole thing which would last 9 to 10 hours on normal use. That was the one thing about the xoom that was positively good.
So far I have had the tab charging for hours and it's still not full. I plugged it in at 8:14 with the battery at 8%, now its 11:44 and its still only at 74%. That's more than 3 hours and its not full. I think I remember reading that the battery is bigger and last up to 15 hours. If all that's true I can understand longer charge time but 4 hours is alot. Is this normal?
And how long does the battery really last? Does it really get 15 hours? That would be nice.
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The battery is 7000 mAh, it takes me an average of 5 - 6 hours to charge depending how low I let the battery go.
Battery life on the tablet is great, sometimes I can go for 3 - 4 days on a single charge, sometimes a single day, it really depends how much I've used the tablet.
I also had the xoom for close to 3 months, and the xoom's battery not only charges considerably faster but I also feel that it last longer also than the 10.1, just something you will get use to.
Damn, I am really loving this tablet. Its SO much better than Motorola's crap. But I don't know if I can adjust to this battery. I can't leave it plugged in all day cause that defeats the purpose of having a light weight portable device. I guess ill have to see how it holds up after a full day of usage.
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You all with battery charge time issues, why don't you guys put it in charge while you go to sleep, that way you'll have a fully charged tablet throughout the day. Until you guys are not sleeping in the night time or anytime in a 24 hours day.
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krips2003 said:
You all with battery charge time issues, why don't you guys put it in charge while you go to sleep, that way you'll have a fully charged tablet throughout the day. Until you guys are not sleeping in the night time or anytime in a 24 hours day.
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This is exactly what I do. When I'm asleep I have it charging so when I wake I have a full battery.
i guess i dont use mine enough, i charge mine like every 3 days overnight... the battery is amazing...
actually i know i barely use it, im at work all day and only play with it at nights...
IndivisibleP said:
Damn, I am really loving this tablet. Its SO much better than Motorola's crap. But I don't know if I can adjust to this battery. I can't leave it plugged in all day cause that defeats the purpose of having a light weight portable device. I guess ill have to see how it holds up after a full day of usage.
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I charge it every 3-4 days, and I leave it overnight. I have no issues with the charging. The battery life is actually quite awesome.
My only complaint is idle-time battery life. If I leave it turned-on, but asleep, I find battery will discharge in ~2 days. That's not what I expected from the device while it basically sleeping!
Maybe poor app management on my part, I dunno.
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I also had the xoom for close to 3 months, and the xoom's battery not only charges considerably faster but I also feel that it last longer also than the 10.1, just something you will get use to.
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I also had the xoom until the 10.1 was released and I also notice that the Xoom's battery lasted longer.
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My only complaint is idle-time battery life. If I leave it turned-on, but asleep, I find battery will discharge in ~2 days. That's not what I expected from the device while it basically sleeping!
Maybe poor app management on my part, I dunno.
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Has to be something. Mine loses maybe 2% in the 9 or so hours I'm working. I have the wifi set to off when the tablet is locked.
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I also had the xoom until the 10.1 was released and I also notice that the Xoom's battery lasted longer.
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Yeah I think it lasts longer also, but that part doesn't bother me so much. Its the charge time which kills me! 40 mins vs. 5+ hours is crazy. I am having a hard time adjusting ...
I do proof reading on the tab so I use it alot and when its plugged in it is very ergonomically unfriendly due to being tied down to a very short yet intrusive cable. Anyway, just a compromise I wasn't aware of.
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The Samsung definitely doesn't rapid charge like the xoom, but it lasts all day and I greatly prefer usb charging options. At least I can use the Sammy charger for other stuff.
Well I'm glad I didn't get rid of my Xoom and get the 10.1 like I was planning on.I will wait on October when Asus brings out their new tablet with Kal-el processor.
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I do proof reading on the tab so I use it alot and when its plugged in it is very ergonomically unfriendly due to being tied down to a very short yet intrusive cable. Anyway, just a compromise I wasn't aware of.
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Yeah, I never use it while it's plugged in, the cord is way too short unless you have an outlet right on your desktop
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10 feet cords on ebay for $3-4. Solves that issue. It sounds like you are complaining about the tab being plugged in to charge, and which is a silly thing to complain about. You say you are proofreading? You need to be on the move while doing so? Remember to charge your tab at night and you won't have issues. Don't bash our tab because you forgot to charge.
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Agreed. USB extender cables work fine. In fact, splitters work too
I don't mean to start an argument with you but some of your reasoning is a bit skewed. First of all to say "our tab" (as if it's some fanboy fraternity is just silly) includes me as well because I also own one that I purchased with my own money. Secondly, I am not bashing it. I was originally asking a question to see if mine was performing normally then I stated how this is an inconveniance for me. Thirdly, customers are fully entitled to review their purchases and express their feelings and experience. This is how products IMPROVE. If every company could depend on foolish non-critical fanboy psychology to sell products, people like you would be paying twice as much for a product half as good.
To take issue with the way I use my tablet because I find a 5+ hour charging time an inconvenience on a mobile device is stupid. If you must know, I am proofreading in my spare time and help take care of my sick mother. I have to potentially be up at all hours and change my location frequently. And yes, to have to plug in a short and obtrusive cable for hours on end everywhere I go is an inconvenience. Neither did I criticize Samsung or your (or should I say "our" ) beloved tablet. I just stated the awkwardness and undesirability of the charge time.
If you need all other people to be unconditionally fanatic about some product so that you yourself can appreciate it, I think it has less to do with the actual product than some sociological mental issue.
Anyway I started writing with the intention of just mentioning the importance and value of being "objective" and I wanted to avoid coming across as a ****. I know... I know...
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Obviously not a software issue then since both the xoom and the sgt are vanilla honeycomb.
The battery lasts on average 7-8 hours of use.

YABB Yet Another Battery *****ing Thread

Gawdang battery, lasted too long!
So my first android was the nexus one, then the galaxy s, then the nexus S. I am used to the "fantastic" battery life of android phones. So yesterday I was deciding on whether to get the galaxy nexus to continue the tradition, but decided to get the note instead.
I want to do the right thing and that is to do a full charge and full discharge on the first few rounds of battery life but it took AGES for it to discharge fully. I am so pleased with this, I now have better battery life than my wife's iphone.
******** If you see the battery chart, I could not resist playing with the phone so did a little charge there. I am also trying to avoid root as long as possible, after the so call "stock vanilla" experience, its nice to have toggles on the notification without jumping through loops
Wow. 6 hours. That's impressive
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And that is on stock. I wonder if I flash a custom kernel, would I be able to get better? Overall very happy. On my second trip of full term charge to empty.
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5 hours screen on only took 37% of your juice? 5 hours with kill almost 100% of mine! whats wrong with my note?
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How the hell...
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That's good to hear, getting my Note in 2 days and I can't wait. Been trolling the forums and hearing a lot of good things
I got my Note on Thursday morning. I didn't have time to set it up until Friday evening. I fully charged the battery first. I've got gmail and twitter syncing, and bluetooth and wifi on. I've made a few calls and showed it off to my family on Christmas Eve. It hasn't been heavy use by any stretch, but I have yet to recharge the battery - it's at 33% right now with screen on time of just over three hours. I'm pretty satisfied so far.
gaolinde said:
5 hours screen on only took 37% of your juice? 5 hours with kill almost 100% of mine! whats wrong with my note?
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You see from the screenshot that he was charging for a while.
So I don't understand this thread. How can you know how long battery last for if you part charge it?
Not much to understand, my friend. This thread was not made to prove anything, just to show I am real happy with my phone. You are completely right, I did charge it in the middle, I was transfering songs and movies out from the computer and forgot to take it off the usb.
I am now on the second from full to zero. Lets see how much screen time I can get, but already its a winner for me. 77% with 10h on battery and 1h 39m screen time.
Happy holidays all.
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That's good to hear, getting my Note in 2 days and I can't wait. Been trolling the forums and hearing a lot of good things
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I got my Note on Thursday morning. I didn't have time to set it up until Friday evening. I fully charged the battery first. I've got gmail and twitter syncing, and bluetooth and wifi on. I've made a few calls and showed it off to my family on Christmas Eve. It hasn't been heavy use by any stretch, but I have yet to recharge the battery - it's at 33% right now with screen on time of just over three hours. I'm pretty satisfied so far.
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Congrats on your new purchases, may you have much joy with it, like I do mine.
i got the note a few days ago and im very pleased with the battery usage. right now on normal usage im on 48 hours of on time, with 40% battery left. display is the biggest usage of course, and has been on 2.5 hours. ive done lots of installing via wifi and playing with new apps and running games, and a few calls, etc. my old galaxy s would get 48 hours only with very minimal usage and nowhere near 2.5 hours of the display on.
So I am now on my 2nd discharge or 3rd and I rooted it, so there was a whole lot of plugging in and adb and stuff, but I think on a real discharge I can get away with about 4 hours screen time, that is stretching it i think but, generally still very very happy with it. Compared to the nexus S and the galaxy s before, this is heaven for me. I still maintain its better than the wife's 4S
Wow. It sounds like a lot of us with battery problems might still have half full batteries falsely claiming to be empty. Aside from turning off the heater function, this might be the next big explaination of "poor battery"
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Lol at heater function.
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Battery life

How is everyone's battery life doing? Im on almost 11hrs with 27% left with medium/heavy usage.
Over two hours screen time, 11 hours up time. 50% left. Moderate use.
I also run Cerberus and Lookout Mobile plus all this bloatware B.S....it's only going to get better!
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Really heavy use I have 32%
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Been great so far. Lots of surfing but I did use the battery saver option in the settings
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Did it take a cycle to start getting better battery? I'm at work with it in my pocket and it seems to be doing poor
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Not to be crass, but any phone that is used at 10% brightness, which is what Samsung uses, is going to last the day with heavy use. This is not surprising, and any phone is capable of this. The challenge lies in making the phone last the day with the brightness up.
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Not to be crass, but any phone that is used at 10% brightness, which is what Samsung uses, is going to last the day with heavy use. This is not surprising, and any phone is capable of this. The challenge lies in making the phone last the day with the brightness up.
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I'm using mine in auto brightness , it got me thru the day with heavy usage.
It's not letting me post the other picture but any ways its at 5 percent and screen on time was at 3:39 when I took both screen shots, it was on my first charge also
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Same. I keep mine on auto brightness.
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lamenramen said:
Not to be crass, but any phone that is used at 10% brightness, which is what Samsung uses, is going to last the day with heavy use. This is not surprising, and any phone is capable of this. The challenge lies in making the phone last the day with the brightness up.
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My thoughts exactly.
lamenramen said:
Not to be crass, but any phone that is used at 10% brightness, which is what Samsung uses, is going to last the day with heavy use. This is not surprising, and any phone is capable of this. The challenge lies in making the phone last the day with the brightness up.
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I hate a dim screen. I just set my display to 100%. I expect to need a few spare batteries which does not bother me in the least. As I've said elsewhere, IMO this battery usage is awesome. Best I've had except for that One S.
Use it hard, the battery is going to die. edit-I'm near my charger all day so have not gone below 60% yet.
I'll let you know after a few days at 100% what I think.
battery rocks on this phone!! as long as i can keep getting through the day without having to charge i will be fine, however i just got my t-mobile car charger in a few minutes ago
What's with the cell standby percentage?
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Loving the battery life so far, I used my phone for like 4-5 hours last night with the brightness up pretty high (70 or 80%) and a couple hours today already and its still got plenty of life left ^.^
Ditto. I do not like a dim screen. At least not Samsung dim. It's clearly done as a ploy to artificially inflate battery life runtimes. Someone called them out on this in a review and said that the SIII at 100% brightness is at most 70% of the One X's brightness, which I believe, as there is at least a 200 nit difference in peak brightness between these two phones. This is easily visible. Especially in videos where it matters.
the battery is ok, but i was getting better battery life with my iPhone 3gs before i upgraded to my s3
g2uzer said:
I'm using mine in auto brightness , it got me thru the day with heavy usage.
It's not letting me post the other picture but any ways its at 5 percent and screen on time was at 3:39 when I took both screen shots, it was on my first charge also
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When cell standby is 21% that's not heavy use...just saying
With all these reports it's looking like the T-mobile version is getting better battery performance over the ATT LTE version. Excellent news!
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the battery is ok, but i was getting better battery life with my iPhone 3gs before i upgraded to my s3
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I don't mean to be a jerk but if you were using your 3GS on Tmo then it was on edge and well... yeah. If that's the case, that will be the dumbest comparison I've ever read on XDA. Ever.
Not even trolling, just shocked the comparison was even made.
lensgrabber said:
With all these reports it's looking like the T-mobile version is getting better battery performance over the ATT LTE version. Excellent news!
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Probably MUCH better battery life, and with damn fast download speeds still! Gimme my hspa+42 & I couldn't be happier! More than respectable speed with outstanding battery life for a powerful cpu & screen this large and beautiful! I was running w/ the sensation for a bit while I was waiting for the GS3 & I'm grateful to have that Samsung battery life back. They seem to do well in this department.

Great battery life! Is it normal?

So I've been using this phone since 5am (its almost 2pm now), making and receiving phone calls for the last 3 hours, using the internet while in calls (some people are boring to talk to), playing games, and listening to music off and on for a while, and I'm at 74%.
Now, to some people who really tweak their phones, this probably doesn't mean anything to them. However, I have had an Evo 3D, Droid Razr OG, and Galaxy Nexus, all of which I completely tweaked, and wasn't getting this battery life. I am rooted with a stock rom, but my hatred for TouchWiz forced me to use Apex Launcher. Other than that, no modifications at all, no flashed kernels, nothing.
I've only had this phone for a little over 24hrs, so I'm wondering, with all the reviews complaining about battery life, and even threads in various forums with users complaining about battery life, is this normal? Is the battery life great at the beginning then gradually gets worse? Or is it truly dependent on the use I give it? I'm in an HSPA+ zone at my house, but I have LTE when I actually go into town. Any ideas?
It seems like there is some debate on whether there are some people getting "good batteries" and some people getting "bad batteries". I know that my wife and I are both seeing what I'd call phenomenal battery life, and that's with no root, just disabling a few apps, and we're leaving everything except Bluetooth on all the time (and making sure it's not trying to find an LTE signal, since there is none here)... so clearly we got "good" batteries. I also ensure we don't have any rogue apps, or things running in the background that we don't really want there, but that's the extent of "tweaking" I've done. But, like I said, there's definitely reports of people seeing bad battery life, so not sure what the deal is.
that's not normal...I took mine off the charger at 7 a.m., used it for about 45 minutes worth of phone calls and by 11:30 I was down to under 70%.
My battery life sucks. No where near that. My phone has been unplugged for 2.5 hours and I'm down to 60. That sucks.
I only got into this phone because of the battery life. I may switch out. I'm not getting anywhere near the advertised life
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Thanks for rubbing it in. I'm lucky to get 16hrs or moderate usage. I saw on amazon there's a three pack of batteries. Maybe I'll try those and get lucky
I'm not getting any where near that wither going in for a replacement battery soon, that and I just ordered a couple spares.
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LTE makes a huge difference.
I am getting better battery life after uninstalled Chrome. But since I live and work within an LTE area, it's still not phenomenal.
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Just in case. Standy used to take a toll on my other phones, particularly the Razr (which had horrible battery life, easily charged twice to three times a day), but not so much here.
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LTE makes a huge difference.
I am getting better battery life after uninstalled Chrome. But since I live and work within an LTE area, it's still not phenomenal.
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What was chrome doing.?
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composi said:
Just in case. Standy used to take a toll on my other phones, particularly the Razr (which had horrible battery life, easily charged twice to three times a day), but not so much here.
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How much screen-on time? Means nothing without at least that number to compare against.
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What was chrome doing.?
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I second this question as I'm using chrome as default.
composi said:
So I've been using this phone since 5am (its almost 2pm now), making and receiving phone calls for the last 3 hours, using the internet while in calls (some people are boring to talk to), playing games, and listening to music off and on for a while, and I'm at 74%.
Now, to some people who really tweak their phones, this probably doesn't mean anything to them. However, I have had an Evo 3D, Droid Razr OG, and Galaxy Nexus, all of which I completely tweaked, and wasn't getting this battery life. I am rooted with a stock rom, but my hatred for TouchWiz forced me to use Apex Launcher. Other than that, no modifications at all, no flashed kernels, nothing.
I've only had this phone for a little over 24hrs, so I'm wondering, with all the reviews complaining about battery life, and even threads in various forums with users complaining about battery life, is this normal? Is the battery life great at the beginning then gradually gets worse? Or is it truly dependent on the use I give it? I'm in an HSPA+ zone at my house, but I have LTE when I actually go into town. Any ideas?
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I second this question as I'm using chrome as default.
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I don't know man. I would definitely send it in for a replacement. Good battery life can't be good.
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How much screen-on time? Means nothing without at least that number to compare against.
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Honestly, not much. I had been on the phone for about three hours so the screen was mostly off during that time. About an hour or so of screen time.
akarol said:
I don't know man. I would definitely send it in for a replacement. Good battery life can't be good.
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Trolls, trolls everywhere.
composi said:
So I've been using this phone since 5am (its almost 2pm now), making and receiving phone calls for the last 3 hours, using the internet while in calls (some people are boring to talk to), playing games, and listening to music off and on for a while, and I'm at 74%.
Now, to some people who really tweak their phones, this probably doesn't mean anything to them. However, I have had an Evo 3D, Droid Razr OG, and Galaxy Nexus, all of which I completely tweaked, and wasn't getting this battery life. I am rooted with a stock rom, but my hatred for TouchWiz forced me to use Apex Launcher. Other than that, no modifications at all, no flashed kernels, nothing.
I've only had this phone for a little over 24hrs, so I'm wondering, with all the reviews complaining about battery life, and even threads in various forums with users complaining about battery life, is this normal? Is the battery life great at the beginning then gradually gets worse? Or is it truly dependent on the use I give it? I'm in an HSPA+ zone at my house, but I have LTE when I actually go into town. Any ideas?
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So based on what you said, in 9 hours you used 26% of the battery. This would mean that the 2100mAh battery was sustained at an average of 61mA over the course of your usage. This seems almost impossible considering what type of use you put the phone through, Unless you phone is idling at under 20mA (mine is around 30-50) your battery stats might be inaccurate. If you continue using your battery at this rate and usage it should last you 34-35 hours with what looks like heavy use. You can use battery monitor widget from the play store to view your current usage and see what type of power your phone is actually consuming, as it is directly related to your battery life.
BonesHopkins said:
that's not normal...I took mine off the charger at 7 a.m., used it for about 45 minutes worth of phone calls and by 11:30 I was down to under 70%.
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More like that's not normal.
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So based on what you said, in 9 hours you used 26% of the battery. This would mean that the 2100mAh battery was sustained at an average of 61mA over the course of your usage. This seems almost impossible considering what type of use you put the phone through, Unless you phone is idling at under 20mA (mine is around 30-50) your battery stats might be inaccurate. If you continue using your battery at this rate and usage it should last you 34-35 hours with what looks like heavy use. You can use battery monitor widget from the play store to view your current usage and see what type of power your phone is actually consuming, as it is directly related to your battery life.
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Your argument is completely valid which is why I posted this thread to begin with. I wiped battery stats and all that, so it might be giving me an inaccurate reading as I pretty much never let my phones die, although I read in some places that wiping battery stats makes no difference at all and is basically useless. I'll download the app and let it run and I'll post back. I did post a screenshot with the time I was on battery and the battery percentage that was left, but as mentioned before, since most of the actual usage was phone calls, I didn't have the screen on that much.
I've had mine for about two weeks and I consider my usage to be medium-high a lot of the time. I can't complain with these results. I'm completely stock, no root, no apps disabled.
As far as Chrome, I don't know what it does but I've read in other threads that it does drain battery.
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I second this question as I'm using chrome as default.
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I kept seeing Chrome use CPU even when I had all the tabs closed. Quick internet search revealed several threads about it draining battery so I decided to uninstall it until it gets out of beta.
However, my battery drained dead over night again. I did hear my notification go off prior to bed. I am now thinking the led is killing my battery so I turned off just now for notifications.
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If people are having very bad battery issues it's due to how the phone is set up and syncing. Sure there are the super rare cases where the phone is actually broken in some way.
S3 has the best battery life stock behind the razr maxx on Vzw at least.
Any good current apps like "current widget"?
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Nexus 4 Battery Life

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?
rhut_tiger said:
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.
gee2012 said:
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.
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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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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