My last phone until my Sprint G2 was the original EVO with the original battery so I couldn't wait until I got the G2 the other day. However I dont seem to be getting the battery life that I hear others talk about. With mod/heavy use while getting everything set up and learning about phone the back gets hot around the volume/power switch area. I havent really even been watching videos, mainly getting on Dolphin browser. what do you guys think?
Give it a few full charges and a few days.......
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Give it a few full charges and a few days.......
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I see my display is using 60% of battery.. The brightness display setting is set at auto 80%. I checked auto but it seems to keep what ever % that I have even when auto is checked? What brightness setting do you have set?
Thanks again
That is a base brightness when auto is checked. Set it lower. I tend to keep mine 35%.
That looks terrible. Im at 48% with 3+ hrs screen on time. And 7+ hrs expected left. I have my brightness at 33 most of the day. Also second day with the phone.
I would be a bit worried unless you have your brightness cranked and all setting checked on...
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Auto bright doesn't really work on this phone. LG can't get it right. How long was your screen on, and what do you have on in the background? GPS? Bluetooth? WiFi? If your screen was on most of the time, that's pretty spot on.
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When i first got my g2 the battery would only last around 10-12 hours with wifi and max brightness but after a week im now getting 24hours+ with normal use including playing games. I think it takes a while to learn what you use the most or something. Am using rayglobes rom too
Ohh and auto bright does nothing at all lol, at least it wasnt like the Galaxy S3 that would be either extremly bright or dull
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That is a base brightness when auto is checked. Set it lower. I tend to keep mine 35%.
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35% man? I didnt get a badass phone to have to set it at 35% brightness because of battery..cant hardly see it then.
mlaaw said:
My last phone until my Sprint G2 was the original EVO with the original battery so I couldn't wait until I got the G2 the other day. However I dont seem to be getting the battery life that I hear others talk about. With mod/heavy use while getting everything set up and learning about phone the back gets hot around the volume/power switch area. I havent really even been watching videos, mainly getting on Dolphin browser. what do you guys think?
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It's not supposed to run hot at all. Do a factory reset and see if that corrects your problem. If not, exchange the phone for another one. It may be defective
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35% man? I didnt get a badass phone to have to set it at 35% brightness because of battery..cant hardly see it then.
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I use mine at 60% most of the day & get excellent battery life
Mine is set at 70% medium use 20+ hours.
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35% man? I didnt get a badass phone to have to set it at 35% brightness because of battery..cant hardly see it then.
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What are you expecting out of your phone? Screen burns most of the battery. Even the g2 doesn't have that much battery strength. Hell, most phablets don't. I get 5 hours of life on 40% brightness, heavy usage, screen on most of the time.
I'm not saying it isn't possible to have it brighter and get great life, it depends on other parameters too.
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What are you expecting out of your phone? Screen burns most of the battery. Even the g2 doesn't have that much battery strength. Hell, most phablets don't. I get 5 hours of life on 40% brightness, heavy usage, screen on most of the time.
I'm not saying it isn't possible to have it brighter and get great life, it depends on other parameters too.
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What are you doing on your phone? Must suck to buy a top of the line phone and can only use it 5 hrs with a dim lit screen. and dont tell me 40% looks good cause it doesent! One of the main points was this phone has great battery life so either something wrong with our phones or all the reviews didnt use it much. Im getting no difference with this one than my 4 yr org EVO with org battery. Enjoy charing a plug and looking for an outlet all day Im not.
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With mod/heavy use while getting everything set up and learning about phone /QUOTE]
You basically got 5 hours of screen on time with 40% left?
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mlaaw said:
With mod/heavy use while getting everything set up and learning about phone /QUOTE]
You basically got 5 hours of screen on time with 40% left?
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No.. It was off the charger for the 5hrs not all screen on time. A little more than mod use. Setting up checking out stuff. I was not on it the entire time plus it would get hot while charging. I've have now a replacement on the way. It was getting hot around the top of phone, buttons and ear piece. I don't know just doesn't seem right. And about people putting brightness at 35-40 % is crazy.. At least on my phone its way to dark to enjoy.
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An easy way to get that little extra batterylife is to unbox Googles right to get your position using WiFi. I discovered that during nights i lost about 8% even though my screen was off and i didn't use the phone, all due to that service. Now i Only loose 1% in 7-8 hours.
Typical use for me.
My Nexus 4 with the same usage patterns wouldn't last 10 hours, and I'm syncing 3 emails and all Google services. Color me satisfied.
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What are you doing on your phone? Must suck to buy a top of the line phone and can only use it 5 hrs with a dim lit screen. and dont tell me 40% looks good cause it doesent! One of the main points was this phone has great battery life so either something wrong with our phones or all the reviews didnt use it much. Im getting no difference with this one than my 4 yr org EVO with org battery. Enjoy charing a plug and looking for an outlet all day Im not.
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Sounds like there's only 1 common denominator between the 2 phones....hm...
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I'm having the same problem as you. However my battery life out the box started out great. I could use the phone for almost two days without needing a charge. I "bent" the phone two weeks ago when I was trying to get it out of the quickwindow case and since then the battery life has been total crap. I barely get half a day off my phone with the same usage. I really don't understand whats going on with the battery.
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So my battery has been great since switching to bangster's build. I loved it. Only thing that confuses me was my "about battery usage" status. It shows that my display is eating the majority of my battery. Any idea?
I'm using the latest tmousa radio. My setting is always 25% dim and no animation. I don't have live wall paper nor any widget that requires constant update.
I've attached a screenshot to show my status.
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How did you get that screen? Then I can compare. I'm sure it's correct and probably normal if you think about how big it is. All those numbers are relative to each other. Your screen is going to take up the majority of your battery compared to apps, regardless of what it's set at. I bet if you set it at 100% brightness, the percentage will stay about the same.
Mine has always had similar readings regardless of build
i also got 80% ? even when i turning off the brightness :-D
Mines doesn't ever seem to take as my much but my android system does.
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Wow my screens sucked sorry lol
but after about 50 mins my display was 16% and my system 60%
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80 percent is pretty high.
These are my stats after being off the charger for about 8 hours. Even if I had my screen on and playing on my phone all day I have never seen dispaly that high on mine.
Maybe the app you're using isn't working correctly on the HD2 (what is that, taskkiller x?)
As long as it's a minor inconvenience like that I wouldn't worry about it...
I was running dark stone's build before this and I remember system taking the majority of the load so I was just concern about my display setting.
I have task killer but not set to autokill. I'm stumped on this. Maybe it is normal since my battery life is better than ever.
Maybe I should post this question in bangster's thread to see if other users of this build experience similar things.
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Yea i used some free one called screenshot, looks fine on my phone not when I uploaded it. I feel my battery is pretty good coming from a Sprint touch diamond whose battery is horrible and being that I use WiFi a lot.
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The screen using an average of 80% of the battery is nothing unusual. I have just checked mine and after 13 hours I have 58% of battery power left and the display has used 75% of it.
4.3", nuff said.
derycklong said:
4.3", nuff said.
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This could make for a horrible "thats what she said" joke.
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This could make for a horrible "thats what she said" joke.
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Hahahahaha
Pagnell said:
The screen using an average of 80% of the battery is nothing unusual. I have just checked mine and after 13 hours I have 58% of battery power left and the display has used 75% of it.
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How much do you use your phone a day?
Mines is weird. I am already at 82% and it's been only a few hours off the plug.
What the heck? If you check my signature, I think I have a decent build. Ugh. ANy Ideas? PLZ!
I just want to know what kills the battery the most on your nexus s
........and do y'all use auto brightness
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I just want to know what kills the battery the most on your nexus s
........and do y'all use auto brightness
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If you have the RGB multipliers on the voodoo app to full and brightness on full you will get 2:30 mins lollol, found that out at uni yesterday;P
But that was heavy usage as well But i could see everything on the screen in direct bright sunshine)
Biggest killers are things like powerAMP(but worth it), virus scanners, anything you have syncing under 1 hour...
I never use auto brightness
Just common sense stuff dude really
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If you have the RGB multipliers on the voodoo app to full and brightness on full you will get 2:30 mins lollol, found that out at uni yesterday;P
But that was heavy usage as well But i could see everything on the screen in direct bright sunshine)
Biggest killers are things like powerAMP(but worth it), virus scanners, anything you have syncing under 1 hour...
I never use auto brightness
Just common sense stuff dude really
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I'm still on stock 2.3.2 not rooted so I don't got any of that voodoo **** but I guess auto brightness does
More damage then help
3g data is a big one. You can switch the phone to 2g when your not using the internet or sending and receiving pictures. YouTube / videos, and music are the main killers. If you limit the use and use SETCPU to underclock the phones processor then you'd be fine.
I normally get about 14-15 hours from moderate use with 3g data, GPS setting and auto brightness all on. In my opinion that is excellent especially considering what the phone can do.
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3g data is a big one. You can switch the phone to 2g when your not using the internet or sending and receiving pictures. YouTube / videos, and music are the main killers. If you limit the use and use SETCPU to underclock the phones processor then you'd be fine.
I normally get about 14-15 hours from moderate use with 3g data, GPS setting and auto brightness all on. In my opinion that is excellent especially considering what the phone can do.
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what? i get 24 hours+ with 3G (HSDPA) on all day. this is only true depending on your location, if you're in a place with weak 3G signal, then yes it'll drain.. but that applies to anything. if you have weak service, it'll stress more on the radio causing more battery to be used.
SetCPU: Profiles will cause phone to reboot/shut down etc etc. All sorts of problems can happen. And OP said he's not rooted so this is not an option.
My brightness is set to 0.00%
the screen is by far the biggest battery drain, nothing else comes close!
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the screen is by far the biggest battery drain, nothing else comes close!
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not if you use all black
That's true that nexus s screen be eating up the battery I got mine on
medium I guess the best way to go is 00% at least at work.... at medium I get
The most 10hr from like 6am to 5pm y'all dudes need to stop
Lying saying y'all get a whole 24hours with heavy use that's bull****.
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That's true that nexus s screen be eating up the battery I got mine on
medium I guess the best way to go is 00% at least at work.... at medium I get
The most 10hr from like 6am to 5pm y'all dudes need to stop
Lying saying y'all get a whole 24hours with heavy use that's bull****.
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Yeah, I definitely don't understand how people claim 24 hours on heavy use. I get about 14 hours on moderate use.
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Yeah, I definitely don't understand how people claim 24 hours on heavy use. I get about 14 hours on moderate use.
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no one ever said heavy use.. moderate use, i could go on for 24 hours+ easily.
its not "bull****" all you have to do is:
A) Apps with syncing (reduce them to 2 hours+ rather than every 10min/30m/1hour)
B) USE BLACK WALLPAPERS! this is a must. white on the Nexus S (or any Super AMOLED screen) is absolutely kryptonite
C) Flash a custom ROM + Netarchy's 1.3.0.2 CFS Kernel. (This is a must as well)
D) GPS/WiFi/BT off.
E) Possibly recalibrate your battery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031531 Attached is your proof. NSCollab is pretty much CM7 + some minor modifications.
Now can y'all stop being disrespectful? We're not here to say our battery lasts over 24 hours+ just to mess with your head and make you feel bad. It's the truth. You just need to do these little small things to get the best out of your battery.
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no one ever said heavy use.. moderate use, i could go on for 24 hours+ easily.
its not "bull****" all you have to do is:
A) Apps with syncing (reduce them to 2 hours+ rather than every 10min/30m/1hour)
B) USE BLACK WALLPAPERS! this is a must. white on the Nexus S (or any Super AMOLED screen) is absolutely kryptonite
C) Flash a custom ROM + Netarchy's 1.3.0.2 CFS Kernel. (This is a must as well)
D) GPS/WiFi/BT off.
E) Possibly recalibrate your battery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031531 Attached is your proof. NSCollab is pretty much CM7 + some minor modifications.
Now can y'all stop being disrespectful? We're not here to say our battery lasts over 24 hours+ just to mess with your head and make you feel bad. It's the truth. You just need to do these little small things to get the best out of your battery.
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Who's being disrespectful? Did I say anything disrespectful? I can believe 24 hours on moderate use while doing the things you mentioned.
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adb logcat people!
Pretty simple: plug in phone to pc and open up a command prompt and type adb logcat
If you can't keep up with the lines running then you got issues
I ended up uninstalling crap loads of unnecesary apps that were wasting resources... getting a day and a half now
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Who's being disrespectful? Did I say anything disrespectful? I can believe 24 hours on moderate use while doing the things you mentioned.
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The OP.. not you; just the first part was meant towards you. sorry
That's true that nexus s screen be eating up the battery I got mine on
medium I guess the best way to go is 00% at least at work.... at medium I get
The most 10hr from like 6am to 5pm y'all dudes need to stop
Lying saying y'all get a whole 24hours with heavy use that's bull****.
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technically speaking the phone can last several days in standby
Push email/gmail on 3g kills the battery pretty fast.
Push email (exchange) + push gmail on 3g destroys the battery
So if you "push" sync anything (email, twitter, latitude etc) on 3g, you can simply forget about a decent battery life.
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pkilla said:
That's true that nexus s screen be eating up the battery I got mine on
medium I guess the best way to go is 00% at least at work.... at medium I get
The most 10hr from like 6am to 5pm y'all dudes need to stop
Lying saying y'all get a whole 24hours with heavy use that's bull****.
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Just because you haven't been able to achieve it doesn't mean people are lying to you. I have a thread about my battery life lasting 24hrs+ and I still had 16% when I put it on the charger. And that was with 2.5 hrs of calling, the screen on for a couple hours, syncing, facebooking, video recording and uploading, and some other things. Maybe you should take a look at that thread and see what you can do differently instead of being disrespectful.
In case you have not try this, you can try disable Location service from 'Location & Security' settings. Turn off both 'Use wireless networks' and 'Use GPS satellites'.
This worked for me.
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The OP.. not you; just the first part was meant towards you. sorry
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Ok, thanks for clearing it up and I do agree with your previous post. It definitely makes sense.
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It's a combination of all of the above.... location and push email (other than gmail..I have my work email updating every hour) and bright colored screens are the 3 killers I found...and obviously staying on 3G adds to it.. I can last a good 17-19 hours on mostly 2G (maybe 3G when downloading heavy stuff), with just above average use... that number is good enough for me...charging overnight is all I need.. I also have weatherbug updating every 2 hours...
oh and make sure u don't have that init bug... using OS monitor, check if /init keeps fluctuating...if so, check the debug mode in your settings,.. always have the box checked and you will notice a huge difference
funny how people freak out when someone has done something that they perceive as unachievable... just like when android was ported to the HD2 XD everyone that saw mine was like WTF!? now its all normal and expected @[email protected]
but just as everyone has been mentioning, there are ways to get 24+ hours of battery life, its just all the small things that make a difference =)
-MUCH improved battery life..55% left with about 23 hours after unplugging..wifi was on and played a good amount of angry birds (light to moderate use otherwise)
-brought back notification bar brightness adjustment thingy
-charges MUCH faster as well
-wifi doesn't crash
-no noticeable performance changes
-media scanning seems to be faster
Might edit this post later...just a little info for those updating.. :|
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-MUCH improved battery life..55% left with about 23 hours after unplugging..wifi was on and played a good amount of angry birds
your just turning your phone on to check time or something, thats just not possible.
I can get 15 hours max, i've gotten 20 but with the minimalest use ever.
I have no data plan, so i use wifi all the time, and even with that, i dont get that kind of battery life, your just ****ing with me bud.
I'm not...serious about that.results may vary anyway. My brightness wasn't really too high. I would have
Capped, but I'm not rooted and my camera is pretty bad.
EDIT: light to moderate use otherwise
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I'm not...serious about that.results may vary anyway. My brightness wasn't really too high. I would have
Capped, but I'm not rooted and my camera is pretty bad.
EDIT: light to moderate use otherwise
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NO NO NO NO.
Results may vary, but not by 6+ hours.
My brightness is always at either 0% or 15%
Camera being bad has nothing to do with battery life.
Rooting doesn't either.
Light to moderate? no.
VERY light? yes.
i'm sorry if i sound rude, but i just hate it when people OVER- say what they actually want to say.
23 hours and 55% left is just dumb. That would mean that you'd get 2 days worth of battery.
Either your battery's filled with magical unicorns that auto-refill your charges, or your lying.
^^^^^Riiiiiight.
I get 30 hours of use easy--I'm on it all the time.
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-MUCH improved battery life..55% left with about 23 hours after unplugging..wifi was on and played a good amount of angry birds
your just turning your phone on to check time or something, thats just not possible.
I can get 15 hours max, i've gotten 20 but with the minimalest use ever.
I have no data plan, so i use wifi all the time, and even with that, i dont get that kind of battery life, your just ****ing with me bud.
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You can get 24+ hours just on overstock + trigger.
Beleive it or not, once when I left to work, I had 9% battery and I was like !!, so i turned off wifi, data, sync. and sed phone just to check for msgs etc and maybe 1 call.
When I got back home after ~9 hrs, I had 5% battery and I was pretty amazed. True story, take it or leave it.
I m on KB1 and right now 17hours on %52. So it is possible but it all depends on the usage.
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@rider It's cool..I'm just going by what my phone does.. :/
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NO NO NO NO.
Results may vary, but not by 6+ hours.
My brightness is always at either 0% or 15%
Camera being bad has nothing to do with battery life.
Rooting doesn't either.
Light to moderate? no.
VERY light? yes.
i'm sorry if i sound rude, but i just hate it when people OVER- say what they actually want to say.
23 hours and 55% left is just dumb. That would mean that you'd get 2 days worth of battery.
Either your battery's filled with magical unicorns that auto-refill your charges, or your lying.
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Yet another troll post by this guy.
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You can get 24+ hours just on overstock + trigger.
Beleive it or not, once when I left to work, I had 9% battery and I was like !!, so i turned off wifi, data, sync. and sed phone just to check for msgs etc and maybe 1 call.
When I got back home after ~9 hrs, I had 5% battery and I was pretty amazed. True story, take it or leave it.
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I believe it, i never said its impossible to get 20+ hours of battery life, i've gotten there too.
but the OP has gone through 23 hours and has 55% remaining.
thats ****ing insane.
Yeah I thought it was insane too.. didn't think it was possible either.
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I believe it, i never said its impossible to get 20+ hours of battery life, i've gotten there too.
but the OP has gone through 23 hours and has 55% remaining.
thats ****ing insane.
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The problem with people posting their drain times is that light use for you and me might be considered heavy use by the OP. With that said, if you properly want to tell people how good your battery is, post your screen on time. At least that gives an idea as to how good your battery is in comparison to something we can also measure.
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The problem with people posting their drain times is that light use for you and me might be considered heavy use by the OP. With that said, if you properly want to tell people how good your battery is, post your screen on time. At least that gives an idea as to how good your battery is in comparison to something we can also measure.
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the DEFAULT settings for battery usage is the most inaccurate.
Use another app from the market, that shows like a line graph of when you charged etc.
I have MIUI, so i know my battery life is horrible.
What other improvements...
Other than battery life what other improvements did this update bring. When I updated my wife's phone to 2.2 she said it was crap. Visual voice mail did not work properly which was a big deal to her.
Did this update have any other improvements?
Well not really other than the OP. No real overall performance changes. Just about as fast or slow as froyo depending on what you think about it.
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You can get 24+ hours just on overstock + trigger.
Beleive it or not, once when I left to work, I had 9% battery and I was like !!, so i turned off wifi, data, sync. and sed phone just to check for msgs etc and maybe 1 call.
When I got back home after ~9 hrs, I had 5% battery and I was pretty amazed. True story, take it or leave it.
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If you literally do nothing on it (other than leave it on), a fairly new battery will drain slower than that. Mine will last a couple days if all I do is turn the screen on to check the time.
After I put 2.2 on my phone I noticed that vvm kept running in the background and was draining the battery. Was this fixed?
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Is avatar not playing for anyone else? I fixed it for stock KA6 by deleting a file/symlink. Now with KB5 it will not play. How can I fix it again? Thanks.
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I believe it, i never said its impossible to get 20+ hours of battery life, i've gotten there too.
but the OP has gone through 23 hours and has 55% remaining.
thats ****ing insane.
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I have to concur with the posting, I forgot to plug in my phone yesterday so when I got up this morning it had been 27 hours since I last plugged in and I was at 56% left according to my battery widget running Bi-Winning with overstock version1.4, I got to say this much improved battery life surprised me. i do not have my screen @ 45% I run @ 60% bright
I get faster data transfer as well. So this is all good...... Too bad Samsung took 8 Months to figure out how to code a decent modem......
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Yet another troll post by this guy.
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+1 kid needs some manners..
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So I just bought the Nexus 10 a day ago and I'm worried about a few things. The device gets hot/warm under minimal usage like browsing Chrome near the rear camera. It also seems that the battery life is terrible, like four hours to go from 80% to 0% with light usage. Also I've noticed that the screen randomly flashed brightly once or twice when it was turned down pretty low. Does anyone think this is cause for worrying or is it normal? Thank you for any answers.
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So I just bought the Nexus 10 a day ago and I'm worried about a few things. The device gets hot/warm under minimal usage like browsing Chrome near the rear camera. It also seems that the battery life is terrible, like four hours to go from 80% to 0% with light usage. Also I've noticed that the screen randomly flashed brightly once or twice when it was turned down pretty low. Does anyone think this is cause for worrying or is it normal? Thank you for any answers.
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Sure doesn't sound normal to me.
Mine never gets warm with light usage. Sounds like you should call Google and RMA it. Look up Google play contact, and call their number
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Sure doesn't sound normal to me.
Mine never gets warm with light usage. Sounds like you should call Google and RMA it. Look up Google play contact, and call their number
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Not even around the camera? Any word on your battery life?
Sounds to me like your frequency is stuck at max, or you set it there without realizing it.
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Sounds to me like your frequency is stuck at max, or you set it there without realizing it.
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Well, although I appreciate your input, I don't believe that's so. (See attached)
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Not even around the camera? Any word on your battery life?
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I don't think so.. but I have a case on it now and the camera is the only exposed area. I don't think it gets warm from normal usage, but probably if I play a video or game. Then again, climate varies (also temp of hands affects heat perception). But next time I use it for an hour or more I'll take the case off and feel it.
Unfortunately I haven't done much testing on battery. I did run it down once to 20 percent once, I forget how long it took. But I'm sure it's longer than 4 hours.
What is your display?
And what does it say under battery? Usually screen should be main eater of battery unless intense apps are being used.
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I don't think so.. but I have a case on it now and the camera is the only exposed area. I don't think it gets warm from normal usage, but probably if I play a video or game. Then again, climate varies (also temp of hands affects heat perception). But next time I use it for an hour or more I'll take the case off and feel it.
Unfortunately I haven't done much testing on battery. I did run it down once to 20 percent once, I forget how long it took. But I'm sure it's longer than 4 hours.
What is your display?
And what does it say under battery? Usually screen should be main eater of battery unless intense apps are being used.
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Ok, well mine seems to be doing better now with a few charges. Here's my battery info, I've only had it on a little today.
I had the same thing happen to me. After a few charges the battery lasts longer... Up to 2 days with consistent daily use, for example.
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dopey44 said:
I had the same thing happen to me. After a few charges the battery lasts longer... Up to 2 days with consistent daily use, for example.
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Ok, I was just worried something was wrong.
So, they have apparently sorted out the stock and supply problem. I <cough> borrowed the wife's credit card and have placed the order.
They say it will ship in 1 to 2 weeks, I can live with that.
The light-hearted question I have is, once I've gotten over the excited rush of playing with the phone for a while, what have your experiences been? Good or bad! I've heard that the battery life is not great but to be honest I am not so bothered with that. I have a charger and work, and home, in the car - I can even charge it at the pub/bar I go to
Keep an eye out for issues worthy of an RMA. From there, the only thing to expect is awesomeness. You'll want to calibrate the screen color and gamma, though.
Has battery life been that bad? Because I just ordered one myself to replace my wife's 3GS.
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Has battery life been that bad? Because I just ordered one myself to replace my wife's 3GS.
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yes battery life is very bad on this device. in sleep/standby its great. but when you do something, it drains battery very fast. just 5minutes use and at least 10% are gone.
Rondock said:
yes battery life is very bad on this device. in sleep/standby its great. but when you do something, it drains battery very fast. just 5minutes use and at least 10% are gone.
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Utter tripe. You either have a rouge app, or you have the brighness turned up full or something else stupid.
I easily get a full day out mine with moderate use. It's about 50%-60% remaining when I get home in the evening from work.
I got around 3 hours of screen on time and a full 18-20 hours standby on stock rom with the usual useage of whatsapp and gmail syncing, with web use and texting etc, and now on custom rom, I am getting up to 4.5 hours screen on.
So, battery is good, phone is super fast and smooth, camera is great if you take time to learn how to use it and especially with HDR on and a bit of post picture editing. Only down side is music volume and quality which is average at best. In my opinion.
Thanks for the feedback. I just hope my wife can make the transition from iOS to android.
I think depending whether you are on WiFi or HSPA will make a huge difference for battery. From what I understand, when using HSPA, the standby battery life is horrible.
The screen is usually the single biggest threat to your battery. And the N4 can get 4-6 hours of "screen on" time depending on use. As others have said, it can be on standby for 15+ hours, but you can completely kill the battery in 4 hours or less if you are using a cpu intensive app.
Custom roms and battery saving apps can def help out though.
I ordered mine at 3pm on wednesday and it was with me by 3pm on thursday .. so slightly quicker than the 1-2 weeks they quote!
Unlock the boot loader, doesn't matter if you decide on staying stock or what. Having your boot loader unlocked right of the bat allows you to keep your apps if you do decide to root /flash.
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You'll sadly probably find that the screen is *uneven* in it's tint (yellow probably) and brightness. Because it's uneven, "calibrating" will help a little maybe but will not fix any issues with the screen. On the other hand, with luck (which I wish you) you may find that your screen is pretty much perfectly uniform in brightness and tone top to bottom, left to right. (Check using the Mail app and minimise the keyboard) I've had 5 so far and none of them are acceptable to me. Otherwise the phone is truly incredible in use. Buttery smooth, responsive, great. The screen very generally is amazing too. It's just not even as it should be. Let me know how yours is - i'd be interested to know because if yours has good uniformity I'll order another. Good luck!
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yes battery life is very bad on this device. in sleep/standby its great. but when you do something, it drains battery very fast. just 5minutes use and at least 10% are gone.
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My drain is 1% per hour and I get more the 4hs screen time. Please, review your device and stop giving false statements.
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How much do you believe turning off the data and just running the voice will save battery life?
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My drain is 1% per hour and I get more the 4hs screen time. Please, review your device and stop giving false statements.
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I ordered mine at 3pm on wednesday and it was with me by 3pm on thursday .. so slightly quicker than the 1-2 weeks they quote!
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What? No way lol you must be lucky then. Because even the shipping method says 2 day shipping. Unless you paid a bunch of money for overnight shipping?
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What? No way lol you must be lucky then. Because even the shipping method says 2 day shipping. Unless you paid a bunch of money for overnight shipping?
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Played £9.99 for shipping... Think that was the only option on there?
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So, they have apparently sorted out the stock and supply problem. I <cough> borrowed the wife's credit card and have placed the order.
They say it will ship in 1 to 2 weeks, I can live with that.
The light-hearted question I have is, once I've gotten over the excited rush of playing with the phone for a while, what have your experiences been? Good or bad! I've heard that the battery life is not great but to be honest I am not so bothered with that. I have a charger and work, and home, in the car - I can even charge it at the pub/bar I go to
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Well expect battery drain issues (msm_hsic_host wakelock).