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Hi Everyone,
Quick question for all that have updated their Evos to 1.47.651.1-1.32.651.6, have you noticed an increase in battery life?
I can say unequivocally that I have, and it has made me fall in love with my Evo all over again.
Last night I did a test, on full battery life I left my phone unplugged for approximately 8 hours. The following morning I noticed it drained little more than 20%. Prior to the update, it would drain almost completely overnight.
Has anyone else noticed similar increases in their charge lifespan? I'm curious.
I have to give kudos to HTC...this being my second HTC phone after migrating from the G1 - the update is great and painless!! Can't wait for Froyo 2.2. :]
over 20% drop in 8 hours on standby? that is hardly positive. my EVo only drops between 3% and 5% in 7 hours of standby.
Mine has been fantastic, as per my post in this topic. Currently I'm at 95% after 3 hours of use.
oblivion0 said:
Hi Everyone,
Quick question for all that have updated their Evos to 1.47.651.1-1.32.651.6, have you noticed an increase in battery life?
I can say unequivocally that I have, and it has made me fall in love with my Evo all over again.
Last night I did a test, on full battery life I left my phone unplugged for approximately 8 hours. The following morning I noticed it drained little more than 20%.
Has anyone else noticed similar increases in their charge lifespan? I'm curious.
I have to give kudos to HTC...this being my second HTC phone after migrating from the G1 - the update is great and painless!! Can't wait for Froyo 2.2. :]
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Such a vast improvement huh? Well I guess I'll have to do that test for myself. I've noticed some improvements but not enough to miss my old iPhone's battery life. Could also be because I was one of those idiots dupt into buying the AMZER 1800mAh battery (Which let me tell you; gives you NO increase, at $50)
Prior to the update, I would lose nearly all my battery life after 8 hours. I could probably do a better job of managing apps and whatnot, but for a single update to add such a leap in battery performance I can't raise my nose to HTC!
Been off the charger for a little over 5 hours - just hit 90%. I usually have the quick drop into the low 90's within minutes - didn't happen today. That was a first!
oblivion0 said:
Prior to the update, I would lose nearly all my battery life after 8 hours. I could probably do a better job of managing apps and whatnot, but for a single update to add such a leap in battery performance I can't raise my nose to HTC!
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I hear you;
I love this thing.
I find it better than all my old iPhones but I gotta say: HTC has been in the game waaay longer then Apple, How come they haven't found that magic that Apple has with their battery life? Atleast offer a decent upgrade option to the standard...
PLESTIUC said:
over 20% drop in 8 hours on standby? that is hardly positive. my EVo only drops between 3% and 5% in 7 hours of standby.
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About the same here. Maybe double that if bluetooth is on.
Losing that much battery while in standby is not normal IMO. You should be losing around 5% during that time, 10% tops. Definitely check your sync settings and whatnot.
Vandam500 said:
Losing that much battery while in standby is not normal IMO. You should be losing around 5% during that time, 10% tops. Definitely check your sync settings and whatnot.
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I think 20% after 8 hours of standby is pretty great. 5% after 8 hours of standby would be insane.
TheBiles said:
I think 20% after 8 hours of standby is pretty great. 5% after 8 hours of standby would be insane.
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Has the Evo lowered your standards? 20% for 8 hours is ridiculously low, maybe you are not managing apps and services properly. I can easily get a full night of rest starting at 100% and have 95% when I wake up.
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Has the Evo lowered your standards? 20% for 8 hours is ridiculously low, maybe you are not managing apps and services properly. I can easily get a full night of rest starting at 100% and have 95% when I wake up.
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That would be improbable to me. I've never gotten battery life like that with ANY mobile device I've had (and you can see that is quite a few). I'm assuming that when you say "standby" you mean sleeping with the screen off and not completely powered off. I could see it happening with the latter option but never the first--especially with the radio on.
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Has the Evo lowered your standards? 20% for 8 hours is ridiculously low, maybe you are not managing apps and services properly. I can easily get a full night of rest starting at 100% and have 95% when I wake up.
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Lowered my standards? Not by a long shot buddy. If anything at all, the Evo has been a testament to the Android platform's amazing scalability and robustness.
I'm coming from a G1, so buying the Evo was a major Android technology jump. I had big time complaints with battery life, and in less than two weeks I get a major update that significantly increased the device's overall life - all without having to shell out cash for a so-called "extended battery".
I'd say that's a pretty big deal, and HTC didn't have to tell me to "hold the phone differently." lol
kcasante said:
Such a vast improvement huh? Well I guess I'll have to do that test for myself. I've noticed some improvements but not enough to miss my old iPhone's battery life. Could also be because I was one of those idiots dupt into buying the AMZER 1800mAh battery (Which let me tell you; gives you NO increase, at $50)
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Exactly WHICH iphone was this? Because I had a 3g and a 3gs and the ONLY way I made it a whole day when I actually used the phone was to buy one of those mophie juicepack things. The battery was garbage on both. To the OP, my battery is definitely improved after the update. Been off the charge about 7 hours now with pretty moderate usage, emails/twitter/facebook all updating frequently, texts and using the cam and im sitting at 76% right now.
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Has the Evo lowered your standards? 20% for 8 hours is ridiculously low, maybe you are not managing apps and services properly. I can easily get a full night of rest starting at 100% and have 95% when I wake up.
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You must having NOTHING on to get that. Radio must be off too there's no way you're going to have data running and get that.
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Mine has been fantastic, as per my post in this topic. Currently I'm at 95% after 3 hours of use.
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3 hours of use, or 3 hours off the charger?
I followed your advice in your thread too, btw. No task killer, only autostarts and battery saver profile in dconfig.
Went 1d15hrs (39 hours) without using a charger with about a 6hr awake time.
I'm waiting on a 3500 mAh battery to be released within the next week or two (supposedly) for 70 bucks.
The 1800 mAh batteries do nothing. I was strongly advised against it at a local battery store here in town.
Either way, my phone did not receive the new update, so I can't see any difference in my phone life.
I'm not downloading it because I enjoy my root and wifi tether. I hope someone figures out a way to mod the update for us rooted users, after they release it again. Haha.
the update for root has been out since yesterday morning. used it on my phone, it works perfect.
I am noticing a better battery life after the upgrade also.
I bought the 2 batteries with charger from ebay for $10. they've been working great, almost the same as the stock battery.
I have had the ultimate in crappy battery life since day one with my Vibrant. I have tried reconditioning, task killers, freezing apps, etc., etc. Very minimal gains and, in some cases, worse battery life. These things were draining just sitting on our pockets.
Here's where it gets weird. My wife also has a Samsung Vibrant and was getting the same horrible battery life. We were both charging dead Vibrants half way through the day. Granted, we are both moderate to heavy users but I expected more. A week ago, my wife was still sitting at 80% by lunch time while I was looking at 27%. Huh? I asked her what she did and she had no idea except that she had downloaded a battery monitoring app the day before. I thought it made no sense that this could have anything to do with it so I brushed it off. Over the next few days she was still getting killer battery life throughout the day.
So....I decided to give it a shot just to be sure it wasn't that app. Well, just before bedtime, my battery was it 7%. I downloaded the battery app, plugged in my Vibrant and hit the hay. By noon the next day I was still over 80% I have no idea why but I know it's working for both of us and it has to have something to do with this app.
I'm no programmer and I certainly have no vested interested in any android apps. We just stumbled on this and it works. Would anyone out there have a clue why?
I'm not sure if posting the name of the app breaks any xda rules so I'll wait.
Ever since i've been on JK2 Froyo my battery life has been excellent. But i'm interested in hearing which app you're talking about
Castle5665 said:
I have had the ultimate in crappy battery life since day one with my Vibrant. I have tried reconditioning, task killers, freezing apps, etc., etc. Very minimal gains and, in some cases, worse battery life. These things were draining just sitting on our pockets.
Here's where it gets weird. My wife also has a Samsung Vibrant and was getting the same horrible battery life. We were both charging dead Vibrants half way through the day. Granted, we are both moderate to heavy users but I expected more. A week ago, my wife was still sitting at 80% by lunch time while I was looking at 27%. Huh? I asked her what she did and she had no idea except that she had downloaded a battery monitoring app the day before. I thought it made no sense that this could have anything to do with it so I brushed it off. Over the next few days she was still getting killer battery life throughout the day.
So....I decided to give it a shot just to be sure it wasn't that app. Well, just before bedtime, my battery was it 7%. I downloaded the battery app, plugged in my Vibrant and hit the hay. By noon the next day I was still over 80% I have no idea why but I know it's working for both of us and it has to have something to do with this app.
I'm no programmer and I certainly have no vested interested in any android apps. We just stumbled on this and it works. Would anyone out there have a clue why?
I'm not sure if posting the name of the app breaks any xda rules so I'll wait.
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I don't believe nothing is wrong with posting the name of an app. If it helps, then why not?
Yeah dude hook it up
Still flashing , thanks to odin & tw
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I don't believe nothing is wrong with posting the name of an app. If it helps, then why not?
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I agree. I just didn't want to be seen as peddling a product here.
It's called BatteryTime. It's free although, I believe there is a pay version. I didn't adjust any settings. Just installed it, charged over night and I can't believe the difference nor understand why it made such a huge difference. I unplugged 4 hours ago and have 98%. Still a mystery to me but I'm not complaining.
There's like 4 of the same app on the market x)
What is the full name?
OH and thanks, I installed it, I'll report back with results.
draikz said:
There's like 4 of the same app on the market x)
What is the full name?
OH and thanks, I installed it, I'll report back with results.
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Just Looked again and you're right. There are 4 versions there. I'm currently using the "BatteryTime Lite" version.
The only thing that I can think of to rationalize this huge difference is that the battery percentage was being reported incorrectly before. I may have had a charge that would last all day or longer but it was displaying an accelerated discharge rate which would kill my Vibrant prematurely. For one reason or another, this app appears to have corrected that and the indicator is (I hope) reporting the correct battery life now.
Does that make any sense?
Castle5665 said:
The only thing that I can think of to rationalize this huge difference is that the battery percentage was being reported incorrectly before. I may have had a charge that would last all day or longer but it was displaying an accelerated discharge rate which would kill my Vibrant prematurely. For one reason or another, this app appears to have corrected that and the indicator is (I hope) reporting the correct battery life now.
Does that make any sense?
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Thanks for sharing. I will give it a try.
Update:
I found this somewhat disappointing. I rebooted my phone for the first time in about a week and on boot up the indicator is displaying significant drain again. I was at 96% before boot and 56% after? I'm going to recharge to full again and see if I still enjoy the same battery life.
Now I'm really confused. Sent an email to developer.
judging by the app description and most of the comments - the app doesn't actually *do* anything. It merely reports the battery differently.
No amount of software will change how much charge a battery can hold. The only thing that's different is how it's being reported.
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judging by the app description and most of the comments - the app doesn't actually *do* anything. It merely reports the battery differently.
No amount of software will change how much charge a battery can hold. The only thing that's different is how it's being reported.
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Indeed, and that was my point to begin with. Originally, the battery indicator reported as critically low in no more than 6 hours. Soon after, the phone would shutdown until put on the charger. With this app I am able to get through the day reporting roughly 30% at bedtime around 10pm. Of course, that is subject to change on a reboot....until fully charged again. This is the mystery.
Yeah, there is funky stuff going on with battery meters. One that is included with the Obsidian Roms is Battery Left, currently, this is showing a 50% charge and 10:19 left. Next to it is Juice Plotter which is showing 21h 11m left. According to the system, i am at 71% Power and it has been unplugged for 6 hours. From experience, I know that the 21h remaining is actually accurate and Battery Left is completely dorked.
The point being, you can't always trust the battery meter.
So I installed a monitor also to try and figure out what was killing my battery 30+% over night and I had the same reaction....I woke up to a 10% loss. I realized what is probably happening is since this app is monitoring the phone all night...whatever app is draining the battery is probably a daemon that only runs when the CPU goes really idle for a certain period of time. More than likely that app inadvertently gave you better battery life because it runs in the foreground and marks your phone as being active so whatever app was killing battery never ran.
Castle5665 said:
The only thing that I can think of to rationalize this huge difference is that the battery percentage was being reported incorrectly before. I may have had a charge that would last all day or longer but it was displaying an accelerated discharge rate which would kill my Vibrant prematurely. For one reason or another, this app appears to have corrected that and the indicator is (I hope) reporting the correct battery life now.
Does that make any sense?
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I think you've hit the nail on the head. Since day one, I have had buggy battery reporting. For instance, if I reboot the phone while it is plugged in, the reported battery level changes dramatically.
Edit: your later post supports this idea even further.
I installed this on my phone. This program does not attempt to save battery life or control anything on your phone. It does offers "Tips" to save battery life. Its main purpose is to indicate, based on your current level of charge, how long your battery should last given different circumstances - ex. idle, talk time, video time, audio time, etc... Thus the name BatteryTime.
That's all that it does. Any perception of a longer lasting battery may have been an anomaly as does happen sometimes with our phones. One day you'll seem to be getting awesome battery life (and there is likely an underlying reason which we'll never figure out, but which jives with the battery) and the next day it is back to draining quickly as normal.
There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and posts about battery life in smart phone forums.
Anyone have the issue where they charge the phone overnight, the phone reads 100% in the morning, you unplug it and you are immediately down to 7% battery? It seems to happen to me at least twice per week. It is a terrible bug.
i dont get it you said that before the battery wasnt being read correctly so it shut off fast but now with the app it reads correctly and last you the whole day with 30% left to spare?? wouldnt that technically mean it increased battery because you got it to last all day plus some? just by making the phone read the battery correctly.
Hi,
I brought my Samsung s4 yesterday and charged it before use it, my question is i used only 1 or 2 h and stand by about 4 h, battery is now 48%.
Is others have same issue?
Is it normal ? draining battery like this ? if not should i send it back?
Please give me some advice .
Regards
Let it completely die 3 times before sending it back imo. It might just be getting poor battery readings
Had mine run GLBenchmark when I was laying down in bed. Found it still on around 7 hours later, the screen still on (after I realized I fell asleep), and was around 10%.
Again, that's with the screen on all 7 hours.
Will try completely draining but battery life is horrible for me also...
I mean I'm at 89% using Power Saver with 11 minutes screen time and only 2.5 hrs off the charger...
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Reason I brought this Samsung s4 over htc because of the large batterie capacity, Samsung disappointed me ..
And thank you friends for advice , hope that drain battery totally will solve this problem. . If not I will return this unit. .
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My battery going down quick as well, today i take at 00:37am from charger was 100% and around 7am left me 68% battery . I was shock, now is 6pm and my phone is connect back to charger because battery was only 18%. All today what I use this is was 3 or 4 call for 4 minutes long and internet connection . Bad Compare to HTC ONe rubbish result.
Wielki.Brat said:
My battery going down quick as well, today i take at 00:37am from charger was 100% and around 7am left me 68% battery . I was shock, now is 6pm and my phone is connect back to charger because battery was only 18%. All today what I use this is was 3 or 4 call for 4 minutes long and internet connection . Bad Compare to HTC ONe rubbish result.
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You have mediaserver running and scanning that's why. Check your stats
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Hi ski
Can you please explain me what do you meaning by media server?
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safeburn said:
Reason I brought this Samsung s4 over htc because of the large batterie capacity, Samsung disappointed me ..
And thank you friends for advice , hope that drain battery totally will solve this problem. . If not I will return this unit. .
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Give it a few days and then judge. :good:
Battery life its crap. Where is that big battery life improvement over gs3? All those reviewers must be shot dead! Also sound quality its *******. It looks like we got crappy snapdragon version and 3rd world countries get better octa version. Will send this ***** back.
I'm getting pretty horrible battery life as well. I'm giving it a few days do see if it corrects itself before I worry too much though. So far I have been very disappointed in the S4. Atleast the U.S. version.
damon20r said:
I'm getting pretty horrible battery life as well. I'm giving it a few days do see if it corrects itself before I worry too much though. So far I have been very disappointed in the S4. Atleast the U.S. version.
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Try installing this
its made by qualcomm to improve battery life =]
get about 5 hours more on battery
Qualcomm Battery Guru
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I'll see what my battery life is after it settles in and then might look into it. I need to have a little more to compare it to than I have after 2 days of using it.
damon20r said:
I'll see what my battery life is after it settles in and then might look into it. I need to have a little more to compare it to than I have after 2 days of using it.
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Yea generelly it takes about a week for batteries to settle down =] still early days
Yea you really have to let it go for a good week til it gets some battery data & breaks the battery in.
Also the screen drains the battery more than anything you could listen to music for days if you kept the screen off
I remember when I had my old droid x and that thing would run down to 20% streaming pandora for a few hours haha
fade2green514 said:
Let it completely die 3 times before sending it back imo. It might just be getting poor battery readings
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NO NO NO FOR CHRIST SAKE NO. don't listen to this swine. Letting your battery completely discharge is the worst thing you can do for a lithium ion battery, significantly reducing its life
If I helped you out be sure to hit thanks
Swyped from a minimalist S2
MultiLockOn said:
NO NO NO FOR CHRIST SAKE NO. don't listen to this swine. Letting your battery completely discharge is the worst thing you can do for a lithium ion battery, significantly reducing its life
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firstly, im not a swine.
secondly, its actually really beneficial to let your battery die. since android shuts off the phone before it hits absolute 0% you will not ruin the battery. now, on the other hand, if you let the phone die, set the battery on a shelf for a few months, and then try to use it again, that will probably ruin the battery.
ive let my droid 3's battery die hundreds of times and it still gets me through a full day regularly
leaving the phone on the charger at 100% actually potentially hurts battery life. but, this rarely effects battery life by much.
if you store a battery for long term storage, the suggested amount of charge to leave in the battery is 30-40%
fade2green514 said:
firstly, im not a swine.
secondly, its actually really beneficial to let your battery die. since android shuts off the phone before it hits absolute 0% you will not ruin the battery. now, on the other hand, if you let the phone die, set the battery on a shelf for a few months, and then try to use it again, that will probably ruin the battery.
ive let my droid 3's battery die hundreds of times and it still gets me through a full day regularly
leaving the phone on the charger at 100% actually potentially hurts battery life. but, this rarely effects battery life by much.
if you store a battery for long term storage, the suggested amount of charge to leave in the battery is 30-40%
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From what I've researched putting any unnecessary strain on the battery isn't good for maintaining it long term. Meaning charging it when it hits 15 percent or so, and yes, not leaving it at a high capacity for extended amounts of time
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Swyped from a minimalist S2
If your battery gets below 3.0 V it's bad. But the phone will shut down when the battery gets below 3.5 V.
MultiLockOn said:
From what I've researched putting any unnecessary strain on the battery isn't good for maintaining it long term. Meaning charging it when it hits 15 percent or so, and yes, not leaving it at a high capacity for extended amounts of time
If I helped you out be sure to hit thanks
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yea im not saying to leave the screen on when you're not using it. im just saying let it die during normal usage. maybe even by the next day.
if you somehow manage to wreck the battery in this thing though, the greatest thing is its easily removable lol
With the couple of reviewers stating the battery isn't that great. Let's see if it they're right..my "screen on time" was a little over 5 hours*...
This is mine after a full 100% with auto brightness with moderate to heavy use..
Edit. remember to include "screen on time screenshots" unlike my OP.
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After running down the out of the box battery to 20%, gave it a full charge. Since then, sitting at 6.5 hours off battery, 2 hours 1m 46s of screen on, mostly surfing the web, facebook, a handful of texts, using the Moto Display, Wi-Fi on half that time, off the other half, and about 10 pictures, 79% left.
daboyal006 said:
This is mine after a full 100% with auto brightness with moderate to heavy use..
Add On: I have do something about this moto voice lol
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Screen on time is the most important battery stat. Any chance you can edit your OP to include a screenshot of it starting from fully charged?
Yeah please post screen on times when reporting back.
I picked mine up yesterday, got it all setup, and charged over night. I'll be able to report back later this afternoon once it's had some significant uptime. I also have my LG G3 and Moto X 2013 next to me, and I'm trying to keep the usage uniform across all 3 to compare.
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Yeah please post screen on times when reporting back.
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Screen on time is the most important battery stat. Any chance you can edit your OP to include a screenshot of it starting from fully charged?
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Yeah I just remembered about that but I did check it out before I charged it. It was about 5 hours before it finally died out ...I'll do it again today
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Got mine and it was at about 44% out of the box. Ram it down until it shut down and have been having baby use with it since (except for about 7 hours sleeping). And yeah, that is totally a rogue app. Never had problems with it before though. :/
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This is comparing a Verizon G3 and Turbo, as well as a T-Mobile Moto X 2013. I've always had issues with the wireless keeping the phones awake, so the battery life isn't what most of you would probably see, but it's still a fair comparison.
DROID Turbo:
LG G3:
Moto X 2013:
So basically it's doing better than the G3 and way better than Moto X 2013. I agree with you though I think the poor Wifi reception is causing the phone to be awake more often or spend more battery maintaining signal. I'm at about 5 hours with 1 hr SOT and 80% battery. Seems reasonable but I thought it'd be better.
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So basically it's doing better than the G3 and way better than Moto X 2013. I agree with you though I think the poor Wifi reception is causing the phone to be awake more often or spend more battery maintaining signal. I'm at about 5 hours with 1 hr SOT and 80% battery. Seems reasonable but I thought it'd be better.
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That's my conclusion as well, I will run these through the night and I'll have a better comparison, then this weekend will be real world use.
It has something to do with our wireless infrastructure at work that causes devices to stay away 90% of the time, at the end of the work day I'll have 6-7 hours of it being away with very little SOT.
I'm surprised that it's only a slight improvement over the G3 though, I was expecting more.
Still trying to get through my first few cycles. So far this morning my phone is at 90% with only 25 minutes of screen on time. I did run google play music on the drive over here. But still, those are rather terrible battery stats, hoping to get through the first few cycles and get better battery life.
Juliann826 said:
Still trying to get through my first few cycles. So far this morning my phone is at 90% with only 25 minutes of screen on time. I did run google play music on the drive over here. But still, those are rather terrible battery stats, hoping to get through the first few cycles and get better battery life.
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You gotta give it more than the first 10% of one cycle to get an accurate representation. Let us know after the battery is down more.
Still gonna let it get lower before charging again. This is with a full charge. I am coming from the G3 and batt life seems way better on this, but can't tell since not even 1 charge cycle
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(...)but can't tell since not even 1 charge cycle
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Exactly, it takes few charging cycles for the battery and the phone to calibrate and maximize the battery life.
Alright here's mine.
Bought yesterday, charged to 100% overnight, used all day at work.
Thus far appears much better than my previous phone, an LG G2, but battery life has never been a problem for me.
Did well in phone arena tests though:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Step...the-new-king-of-flagship-battery-life_id62350
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Still gonna let it get lower before charging again. This is with a full charge. I am coming from the G3 and batt life seems way better on this, but can't tell since not even 1 charge cycle
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So we have 1 legit post from 100% to 0%. 4 hours screen time.
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So we have 1 legit post from 100% to 0%. 4 hours screen time.
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Here is my final before going back on charger
PS. This is with 1hour streaming music and 4 hours streaming Plex
Seems like battery life it pretty dam good. Don't see why other people's reviews about battery are so crappy.
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Here is my final before going back on charger
PS. This is with 1hour streaming music and 4 hours streaming Plex
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I think this is not good. Four hour screen time is awful.
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I think this is not good. Four hour screen time is awful.
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SOT isnt the only thing that shows how a battery is good or not. Like I said, I streamed a lot...with my G3, it would have crapped out long before going a full day, and the battery is only about 20% bigger. I got more than that out of the Turbo. Also note, this was the full first cycle. If you dont know already, the battery will get better after a full cycles. So Im loving it. I only have one true gripe and that is the low call volume, but I know that can be fixed through an update, which I hope they do soon.
Hello to all,
I just purchased a brand new Nexus 6p that was purchased about two years ago directly from Google. The individual bought it but never even opened up the box so the phone has never been used or even turned on until four days ago when I got it. My question is this. Even though it's still a brand new 6p can the battery still degrade even though it has never been used before? My first thought would be no because the battery has never been used meaning no wear and tear to the battery even though it's just been sitting there unopened for two yesrs but then I got to debating this with myself and I just don't know the clear answer. Should I be okay in terms of the degrading battery issue since my battery has never been used before? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Dconn1975 said:
Hello to all,
I just purchased a brand new Nexus 6p that was purchased about two years ago directly from Google. The individual bought it but never even opened up the box so the phone has never been used or even turned on until four days ago when I got it. My question is this. Even though it's still a brand new 6p can the battery still degrade even though it has never been used before? My first thought would be no because the battery has never been used meaning no wear and tear to the battery even though it's just been sitting there unopened for two yesrs but then I got to debating this with myself and I just don't know the clear answer. Should I be okay in terms of the degrading battery issue since my battery has never been used before? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Battery degradation occurs through it's lifetime of charging cycles due to heat (and chemical changes within the battery). Since your device has not been subject to this, it should be like new. Note there are literally thousands of N6P users who have never experienced battery degradation (or bootlooping). We have 3 in our family and none have been affected. I suggest you just let the phone charge and discharge normally a few times before you start forming any judgement on your battery life or SOT. Install Accubattery and check the battery health after several deep charges. After several full charge cycles, Accubattery will estimate the capacity of your battery vs. a new one (3450 mAh). Enjoy your new 6P. It has been a great phone so far (knock wood).
v12xke said:
Battery degradation occurs through it's lifetime of charging cycles due to heat (and chemical changes within the battery). Since your device has not been subject to this, it should be like new. Note there are literally thousands of N6P users who have never experienced battery degradation (or bootlooping). We have 3 in our family and none have been affected. I suggest you just let the phone charge and discharge normally a few times before you start forming any judgement on your battery life or SOT. Install Accubattery and check the battery health after several deep charges. After several full charge cycles, Accubattery will estimate the capacity of your battery vs. a new one (3450 mAh). Enjoy your new 6P. It has been a great phone so far (knock wood).
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I appreciate the clarification on that. I wasn't sure when the degrading process started on a battery was. I love you this phone. In fact it's my second time owning it and by far it's my all time favorite Android phone I've ever used. I'm glad to know my battery should act as new and I should be okay from the battery issues. I appreciate you explaining in detail to me about what to do and how to check my battery life. I'll download that app now.
v12xke said:
Battery degradation occurs through it's lifetime of charging cycles due to heat (and chemical changes within the battery). Since your device has not been subject to this, it should be like new. Note there are literally thousands of N6P users who have never experienced battery degradation (or bootlooping). We have 3 in our family and none have been affected. I suggest you just let the phone charge and discharge normally a few times before you start forming any judgement on your battery life or SOT. Install Accubattery and check the battery health after several deep charges. After several full charge cycles, Accubattery will estimate the capacity of your battery vs. a new one (3450 mAh). Enjoy your new 6P. It has been a great phone so far (knock wood).
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Okay I just downloaded accubattey. Now once I charge it for a while I will get results about the health of my battery. What do I need to look for that's tells me it's good? Any tips on using the app. So indeed I never should charge past 80 percent? I always have charged to 100 percent so that's going to take some getting used to. Also I don't need to let it drop below 20 percent? Thanks again for your help on this. This is all new to me as I've never had to guard against a bad battery before nor have I ever had one. I hope my new 6p will be okay. So far it's seemed to have kept a good charge but I'd of course like to see it do a little better being that it has a 3450amp battery inside. There have been a couple times of times where it seemed to eat up battery life quickly but I found out I had some apps running in the background such as YouTube once where it consumed 77 percent of the battery overnight once but I have since fixed that. It hasn't happened again so I'm good there. Anyways just curious to know what I need to be looking for on the app. Thanks a lot!!
Dconn1975 said:
Okay I just downloaded accubattey. Now once I charge it for a while I will get results about the health of my battery. What do I need to look for that's tells me it's good? Any tips on using the app. So indeed I never should charge past 80 percent? I always have charged to 100 percent so that's going to take some getting used to. Also I don't need to let it drop below 20 percent? Thanks again for your help on this. This is all new to me as I've never had to guard against a bad battery before nor have I ever had one. I hope my new 6p will be okay. So far it's seemed to have kept a good charge but I'd of course like to see it do a little better being that it has a 3450amp battery inside. There have been a couple times of times where it seemed to eat up battery life quickly but I found out I had some apps running in the background such as YouTube once where it consumed 77 percent of the battery overnight once but I have since fixed that. It hasn't happened again so I'm good there. Anyways just curious to know what I need to be looking for on the app. Thanks a lot!!
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I've always charged my battery to 100% and will continue . I leave it on the charger at the office and home, all night long 24/7. When I leave the house I want to know it is 100%. One thing to note is that you should not take the phone off the charger until the APP tells you it is charged, not the phone itself. You will see current flowing into the battery sometimes 45 minutes to an hour after the phone says 100%. That, and let the phone drain down to below 20% first in order to get an accurate charge measurement. After that you look on the health tab for the estimated capacity. It will be provided in both mAh and percentage. Quick Start guide here.
v12xke said:
I've always charged my battery to 100% and will continue . I leave it on the charger at the office and home, all night long 24/7. When I leave the house I want to know it is 100%. One thing to note is that you should not take the phone off the charger until the APP tells you it is charged, not the phone itself. You will see current flowing into the battery sometimes 45 minutes to an hour after the phone says 100%. That, and let the phone drain down to below 20% first in order to get an accurate charge measurement. After that you look on the health tab for the estimated capacity. It will be provided in both mAh and percentage. Quick Start guide here.
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So you actually charge your battery to 100 percent. I guess I will do the same since I'm used to doing it that way plus I want that extra 20 percent charge. This seems like a really good app. I appreciate you guys on giving me the heads up on it. I downloaded it to both of my devices which my daily driver is the axon 7 mini. That battery isn't the best so maybe this app will help me tweak that battery into keeping a longer charge. I like a smaller device to be my daily driver although for right now my 6p is my daily driver just bc it's new but after a couple weeks I'll swap back over to my axon 7 mini as my daily driver
Dconn1975 said:
So you actually charge your battery to 100 percent. I guess I will do the same since I'm used to doing it that way plus I want that extra 20 percent charge. This seems like a really good app. I appreciate you guys on giving me the heads up on it. I downloaded it to both of my devices which my daily driver is the axon 7 mini. That battery isn't the best so maybe this app will help me tweak that battery into keeping a longer charge. I like a smaller device to be my daily driver although for right now my 6p is my daily driver just bc it's new but after a couple weeks I'll swap back over to my axon 7 mini as my daily driver
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Yeah, I disable that 80% charge alarm first thing. Accubattery is just a tool and it's just giving you an estimate so don't rely solely on it. I will say that after a few full charges it converges to one percentage value and for me that has been enough confidence that my battery is not in a degrading trend (so far). There are a few Accubattery haters out there but it's been a solid tool for me. Enough so to buy the Pro version. Good luck to you.
v12xke said:
Yeah, I disable that 80% charge alarm first thing. Accubattery is just a tool and it's just giving you an estimate so don't rely solely on it. I will say that after a few full charges it converges to one percentage value and for me that has been enough confidence that my battery is not in a degrading trend (so far). There are a few Accubattery haters out there but it's been a solid tool for me. Enough so to buy the Pro version. Good luck to you.
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Much appreciated! Yeah I think I'm going to be fine in regard to my battery. I mean it's brand new so there has been no usage of the battery until as of about three days ago. I'm super excited to have gotten this unbelievable deal I got on my 6p. Never in a million years was I expecting it either. I got in touch with this guy by chance. There was never any intent on getting a brand new Nexus 6p for 150 dollars but by the end of our conversation that's what he offered me. Just a very generous guy.