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I just order this phone online yesterday and was wanting to get a general consensus on the battery life on the phone... Coming from an HD2 and a nexus one before and a G1 before that I am tired of using smartphones with horrible battery life... I'm hoping to get battery life similar to that of the blackberry 9700 (I had that between my G1 and Nexus) which i was ver impressed with it's battery getting up to 2 days out of it sometimes... Is the battery anything close to that? or is it another fail for smartphone batteries?
mauricehall said:
I just order this phone online yesterday and was wanting to get a general consensus on the battery life on the phone... Coming from an HD2 and a nexus one before and a G1 before that I am tired of using smartphones with horrible battery life... I'm hoping to get battery life similar to that of the blackberry 9700 (I had that between my G1 and Nexus) which i was ver impressed with it's battery getting up to 2 days out of it sometimes... Is the battery anything close to that? or is it another fail for smartphone batteries?
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The battery life on the Vibrant is right up there with the best of a powerful smartphone with a large screen. It will not be like the BB however.
I love the battery life on this phone I have only charged it twice sense last Thursday I seem to be getting 24 hours of normal use or more off this battery. Normal use for me is lots of testing and browsing the net I also been showing off avatar been using the battery for that.
I am very happy with the battery on this phone.
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G1 to Vibrant
I too recently ordered this phone, and if the battery alone is better than then G1 I'll be happy. So far alot of good reviews. So hopefully a charger in my back pocket wont be necessary. I'll repost once I get it on Monday or Tuesday!
My nexus one got me about 4.5 to 5 hours heavy usage. This gets me 6 hours of heavy usage (straight internet). My n1 lasted a day of moderate usage, I noticed standby wasnt to great on it, but the vibrant I bet I could get 2 days light to moderate usage as I can already tell the Standby time kicks the arse off the n1....
Happy so far..
N8QDogg said:
I too recently ordered this phone, and if the battery alone is better than then G1 I'll be happy. So far alot of good reviews. So hopefully a charger in my back pocket wont be necessary. I'll repost once I get it on Monday or Tuesday!
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I once had a G1, worst battery ever! You will be pleased with this one!
I haven't been overly impressed with the battery life. I might have something installed that is sucking it dry but 8-10 hours is all I get from a charge (Of course this is during the initial "wow" period of getting a new phone).
Did my 1st battery test yesterdy. Unplugged it from the charger at 11am. Sittin at the throne browsing fb & twitter, email, xda (legs ended up falling aslep lol) Used camera & video for about 30 mins on the biggest resolution. Daughter was on youtube for about an hour in the car (Weird Al Yankovic's trapped in the drive thru on repeat smh). Surfing the web for a good 45 mins while wifey & daughter shopping. Watchng avatar. Get home at around 10pm and battery just now dopped to 50%. Best battery ive had since my bb8700! hopefully a higher mah stock size battery is in the work so my vibrant can go on beast mode!
Lol I had the 9700 no smart phone would have the battery life that thing has unless a new form of battery technology emerges that thing best point is to live
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FYI just got mine and it is charging now. At the store I checked out the battery stats on the demo unit (in theory it has had a good deal of play time from customers) and it was at 32% and unplugged for 2 days and like 5 hours. That is damn GOOD. If we get custom kernels on this thing, that would be intense.
I think it's pretty bad. I only have exchange email on it and nothing else syncing. Even when I'm not using it much the battery is down to 70%. What's worse is that the battery meter will appear to be 100% even when it's downto 82%. I have to charge it after about 8 hours and keep in mind I have a 9700 that is my #1 for email and messaging via bbm. I could only imagine if this were my only phone. I'd probably need to find a charge after 6 hours. It's better than the hd2 however but I go 2 days without charging my blackberry so I hope that's not what you're looking for.
I will however any that for a super android device it probably had the best battery when compared to the evo, incredible, droid x etc
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You can get a good 10 to 12 hours out of it with heavy usage, which is great for a smart phone .
In terms of fast, large screen smartphones, the battery life is slightly better than average in my opinion. It's a 1500mah pack as compared to the 1150mah pack in my G1. It's definitely not to the point where I would like it to be, but there isn't a phone on the market that can really provide me with that capability (unless some type of new battery tech comes out).
You can just go into your settings, then about phone and then battery usage and you'll see a breakdown of what your usage was since the last time it was plugged in charging. For me the screen is still dominating the power usage. That should be pretty typical of any large screen smartphone. Since the AMOLED is 20% more efficient than LCD it should translate to slightly better overall battery life.
Remember guys, this is also battery life with the stock kernel. I'm sure once we get a dev team working on uv/oc kernels, we'll see some significant fluctuation in the battery life, much like we saw with the N1 almost doubling battery life with the right kernel.
I have to say, my battery life has been rather mediocre at best so far. Yesterday got down to 30% in about 8 hours, and all I did was send maybe 10 text messages and make two calls. I turned off Facebook and Twitter syncing in hopes that it would help. I barely used the damn thing and it ate through the battery. It's syncing my Gmail account and two Hotmail accounts (checking every hour). I hope that I'm just not noticing using it more. In cases when I do sit down and use it heavily, battery runs down incredibly quickly. I'm rather concerned.
I believe Froyo is better on battery
Thanks for all the info guys... Hopefully the phone will be in tomorrow so I can form my own opinion *crosses fingers*
Not good. Battery lost 30% overnight in 9 hours with SetCPU set and it set to GSM Auto PRL... :-(
Condition your battery.
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Condition your battery.
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Conditioning is a myth... LiOn batteries don't need to be conditioned. The phone needs to be conditioned to properly report the battery, but it shouldn't be this bad.
Wanted to see how everyones battery was on the G2. I just got mine a few hours ago. Going through the whole "Training Battery" deal. Almost done charging and going to see how it holds up. Coming from the Vibrant I loved the battery on there. Hope all goes will with the G2.
I am getting pretty decent battery life. I have not done the whole discharging/charging deal and I am getting through a whole day of normal usage without much issue.
I'm averaging between 16-17 hrs on my battery with 25-27% left before charging. Yesterday, I had wifi on for 7 hrs while at work, display on for 3+ hrs, and battery was at 17 hrs with 10% left.
Edit: I think wifi consumes less battery as compared to the radio toggling between Edge, 3G, or HSPA+.
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It feels a tad bit better than my Nexus One despite being smaller. Gets me through my day with moderate to heavy usage.
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I get 8 hours of heavy use. Ive hade enough HTC phones to know whos exagurating when it comes to battery life. Getting 17 hours of heavy use and still having 25% left is unrealistic. I came to work at 9am. Its 3:30 and I'm at 22%. Thats better than either of my G1's and slightly worse than my iPhone.
Again thats with admiteddly heavy usage. With "normal person" usage then yeah. 20 hours...
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Exaggerating for you coz you're not experiencing it. But that's how it's been with mine. Why would I exaggerate about it? What would I gain with lying? If I'm lying about it then ultimately I'm lying to myself. But fortunately for me, I'm telling the truth.
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Between 14-20 hours of moderate usage to light usage. Heavy usage, when I'm in the mood for tinkering with it a lot, drops down to 9-12. Much better than my Vibrant, that's for sure.
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I get 8 hours of heavy use. Ive hade enough HTC phones to know whos exaggerating when it comes to battery life.
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Yeah I get 8 hours with widgets on all seven screens, live wallpapers, heavy text / phone, high brightness, bluetooth music and internet usage. Games and all that other good stuff. I got from 5:00AM till ~2PM before it was 0. Charged it back up, and it's been pretty amazing thus far. Specially considering I got about an hour with my G1 and it's original battery in the months before I bought the G2.
this battery is way better... it works.. it is decent and it gets the job done. What has me quite out and *****in about is this --- i have like 3 wall chargers 9 usb cables car chargers from the whole horde of Dreams I have amassed (collectors item) and was looking forward to being able to charge the G2 up anywhere and everywhere. Now I am left with one little 2 foot long piece of strangly usb..that i have to drag around until i find a source of replacements. why did HTC not make the G2 with the same frigging female/male parts as the G1? its like ruthless capitalization of acessorization. *****es!
androidcues said:
this battery is way better... it works.. it is decent and it gets the job done. What has me quite out and *****in about is this --- i have like 3 wall chargers 9 usb cables car chargers from the whole horde of Dreams I have amassed (collectors item) and was looking forward to being able to charge the G2 up anywhere and everywhere. Now I am left with one little 2 foot long piece of strangly usb..that i have to drag around until i find a source of replacements. why did HTC not make the G2 with the same frigging female/male parts as the G1? its like ruthless capitalization of acessorization. *****es!
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All phones during the G1's time except for the iPhone used the mini USB style.
All phones this year and last year middle onwards have switched over the Micro USB that's found on the G2. No good phone this year has Mini USB, AFAIK, all Micro USB, obviously except for the iPhone.
i got about 29 1/2 hours with normal usage on mine before i charged it and still had about 10% left.
I'm going about 14-17 hours before I need a charge. Normal use for me, quite happy =)
fRom Snugs G2 ^.^
17 hours, down to 22%. Pretty impressive coming from the Vibrant.
My battery has improved significantly once I let it die completely and charge til green while off. I did that twice and I'm loving the battery life now. The one thing I would recommend is putting the screen timeout to around 15 seconds. It helps significantly. I keep my twitter and facebook synchronized but I only fetch around every 3 to 4 hours. If I need it sooner than that, all I have to do is open the app.
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17 hours, down to 22%. Pretty impressive coming from the Vibrant.
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18 hours, 30%... the vibrant couldn't really do 8 hours for me.
Are all these times/hours your getting for the G2. Is with the HSPA on? I havn't really timed my G2 just got it yesterday but its holding up pretty good so far. I was just thinking turning it to 2G speeds when you don't need H will almost double the battery life. Is there an app or option you can set when your phone is in sleep mode it switches to 2G and turn back on to H+?
- Fly like a G2
I get 18 hours easily with heavy usage.
If I were to have the phone on airplane mode, silent, and no running applications it would probably last a week.
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I've had a G1, a Nexus One, and a Charm, and this has great battery life. I keep playing Angry Birds and screwing around on it thatv would kill the Nexus One. I'm beginning to really like this phone.
I haven't really timed it but I kill it half way through the day. Then I charge it and kill it by the time I go to bed. I can't put the damn thing down.
I have noticed that it seems to charge rather quick. Or maybe its just the fact that I am actually getting things done when its charging and don't notice.
I am fine with the battery. I feel that once I get all the tinkering out of my system, I will have battery to spare by the end of the night.
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No good phone this year has Mini USB, AFAIK, all Micro USB, obviously except for the iPhone.
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Though there are enough iphones in this small world that you could almost claim that the apple connector port is standard. almost.
So I'm looking at buying a EVO and wondering about battery life. I have a Hero and can usually make a day without charging. Stock rom, wifi on, not many calls, checking email/facebook frequently and some internet surfing is a normal day.
How will the EVO battery match up?
Thanks
When I first got my EVO the battery life sucked. I probably got 6 hours at most out of it. Now with the way it's set up it lasts well over a day, which is much longer than my Hero ever lasted.
My experience so far is Evo is much better except for calls. Calls seem to eat battery real quick.
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So I'm looking at buying a EVO and wondering about battery life. I have a Hero and can usually make a day without charging. Stock rom, wifi on, not many calls, checking email/facebook frequently and some internet surfing is a normal day.
How will the EVO battery match up?
Thanks
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It is the exact same battery and uses much more power(bigger screen, 4G, .....) But does have more ROMS in the future and updates always help battery life.
I had two Hero's on my plan, and now two Evo's...
The phone will eat more battery when the screen is on, and you are browsing the internet, (especially with 4G turned on), but otherwise, I seem to get better battery life than I did with my Hero's!
Rooting and flashing a ROM with a decent kernel will usually give better results.
I've had mine on today for a little over 13 hours, with full screen brightness, live wallpaper, and 4G on... I could never achieve these results before.
The hero got horrid battery life I had to carry 2 spares to last a day ...but I use my phone a ton my Evo lasts just thru the day ....
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Batteryleft on my Hero projects 46.47 hours under full charge. It's my daily business phone. Running 2.4.0 from flipz. OC widget under clock to 246 when screen is off.
On my EVO, I took batteryleft off the phone. It is what it is. It doesn't charge the battery right, sometimes I'll unplug and it'll drop 3 % pts. I attribute it to the supplier wanting to limit G access, wanting to hype and spin about the "First". But it does make Iphone users quiver (mostly due to their ignorance), with the big screen and Hulu.
my wife went from a hero to a evo, and battery life appears at least as good.
as a nice bonus though, the hero battery works in the evo so you can carry that as a spare while trying it out.
My older Evo hardware 0003 used to SUCK.. Im talking 6-7 hours with medium use..
Then I got a newer 0004 hardware Evo.. I don't think it changed a DARN thing with battery, but my battery surprisingly is lasting a good 8-10 hours now..
But I don't care, I got the extended RED BATTERY from ebay, for 20.00 bucks.. Comes with a new back (not the UGLY Siedio back either, its smooth and conforms perfectly, plus it has the same feel)
Now my battery lasts about 2 days.. plus you don't even notice it bigger really and IMO since a phone is for well.. A phone and not a show off toy (even though I actually think it looks better with the bigger battery) I want to have a long battery life
** Edit, just found it
http://cgi.ebay.com/3500mAh-extende...519248?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item45f66469d0
Plus this is not from Hong kong, this guy is from US
Unplug phone with 100% charge (1750mah battery).
Use phone for 1 hour with hot spot and 4g off. 10 minutes in a solitaire game and a couple emails during this time.
Turn on the hot spot (3g only) and use it for 1 hour (with a few emails during this second hour) and battery life down to 30%.
What a joke.
Where'd you get that battery?
Back when I had the 1500 mah battery, I was able to get 4 hours of non-stop 4G tethering before the 10% warning hit. Regardless of what Rom/Kernel combo I had.
I never used 3G tether with the EVO so I can't speak on that.
BTW:
I bought the Seidio 3500 mah battery so I never have to turn off WiFi Tether again. I usually keep my iPod Touch paired at all times & a hassle free connection when I use my HP TM2 Tablet PC.
I get 3 1/2 hours tethered on 3g. Buy a spare battery and enjoy.
Use to get like 3.5 hours when I had the hotspots option on sprint hotspots and on wifi tether hack is 8 hours but mostly it was on standby mode I realty used it for like 2 hours rest was standby
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hows the battery life on the HTC EVO 4G with bluetooth, gps, wifi, email alerts and notifications all turned off?
I find the battery life to be right on par with other Android smart phones, and I always have mobile data/notifications on. Wifi seems to increase battery life.
Its pathetic in my book compared to my previous htc phones. About 3 to 4 hours use and its dead. Pathetic.
pretty crappy. don't buy in to all these ppl saying "it lasts me 2 days etc etc" either cuz they don't actually use their phones
I have a stock 2.3.3. Yesterday, after 9 hours on battery with minimal usage (a few games of pew pew) I was about 30%. Today I used it a little more and was about 60% before lunch. Depends on your usage.
It's aiite. I get 1 day and 2 hours on my fone with moderate usage... Depends what rom and kernal your using.
If you have 4g on all day and are constantly playing games prolly 5 hours. If you use it as a phone and not an xbox then you can get a full day out of it easy. My brother leaves 3g on all day and plays a few games and still has 10% after 15 hours...
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If you have 4g on all day and are constantly playing games prolly 5 hours. If you use it as a phone and not an xbox then you can get a full day out of it easy. My brother leaves 3g on all day and plays a few games and still has 10% after 15 hours...
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That sounds right.
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like others have said...depends...
i always have all 4g or 3g on, gps, wifi, bt, and screen high brightness...
i get a few hours, but for ME that's fine, as i'm always plugged in.
if i remember to dump bt and 4g when im at home, i'll maybe get a little more.
went to nyc to walk around last week...it was dead by noon, which was an inconvenience since i couldnt charge...
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Honestly, it's terrible. There are steps you can take, however, that can get it "average" or "acceptable".
And like someone above said, don't listen to all these people saying they get 2+ days out of their phones.... they either
a) have an extended battery
b) use their phone light~moderate usage
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using a Sense ROM and chatting on my phone all day using talk, streaming music, and checking email on 3 accts, I get an entire workday and then some out of my phone. I take my phone off the charger at 7am and don't put it on again until after 10pm. At that point I still have about 20-30% left.
I keep GPS and BT off unless I am using it, the Always On Mobile Data is disabled, and I use WiFi at home and work.
As some people stated, it depends on usage.
I asked the same question the other day..60 views no replies...because everyone was raving about the awesome battery life on Kingdom_signed_062311_194639.zip but I get under 4 hrs because my screen is on alot playing the "word" game. Seems thats about right for heavy use.
My phone has been unplugged for 10hrs now and I'm at 32%, I mostly talk between 2 to 3hrs a day, check emails, facebook, play games through out the day, text, but I keep everything off til I want to use it except data is on all the time, I keep all updates turned off I do updates as I choose, I'm happy with it plus I keep a fully charged battery with me anyway
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Honestly, it's terrible. There are steps you can take, however, that can get it "average" or "acceptable".
And like someone above said, don't listen to all these people saying they get 2+ days out of their phones.... they either
a) have an extended battery
b) use their phone light~moderate usage
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With my stock battery I can get at least 6 hours with juice defender and a good kernel and I am glued to my phone. I read alt of ebooks on it and browse the web. My extended which is only 2600 I get at least 15 hours. I also use miui.if you don't like the phone get
A different one and stop whining
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genderblurr said:
With my stock battery I can get at least 6 hours with juice defender and a good kernel and I am glued to my phone. I read alt of ebooks on it and browse the web. My extended which is only 2600 I get at least 15 hours. I also use miui.if you don't like the phone get
A different one and stop whining
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I agree with you on this one. If you dont like the evo then just get a different phone ****.
josh030181 said:
My phone has been unplugged for 10hrs now and I'm at 32%, I mostly talk between 2 to 3hrs a day, check emails, facebook, play games through out the day, text, but I keep everything off til I want to use it except data is on all the time, I keep all updates turned off I do updates as I choose, I'm happy with it plus I keep a fully charged battery with me anyway
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hi, josh.. what if i turn off everything (BT, wifi, email alerts, notifications, and reduced brightness).. and talk for 2 hours straight. listen to mp3 for 45 minutes. play a word game for 30 minutes. do you think that the battery will last 24 hours?
xlk said:
hi, josh.. what if i turn off everything (BT, wifi, email alerts, notifications, and reduced brightness).. and talk for 2 hours straight. listen to mp3 for 45 minutes. play a word game for 30 minutes. do you think that the battery will last 24 hours?
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What rom and kernal are you using?
xchompondizx said:
I agree with you on this one. If you dont like the evo then just get a different phone ****.
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genderblurr said:
With my stock battery I can get at least 6 hours with juice defender and a good kernel and I am glued to my phone. I read alt of ebooks on it and browse the web. My extended which is only 2600 I get at least 15 hours. I also use miui.if you don't like the phone get
A different one and stop whining
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*sigh*
You people need a lesson on reading comprehension. No where in my post did I say that I don't like the Evo... So why would I get another phone?
I said that the battery life sucks, which it does. Especially if your phone isn't rooted.
Also, I feel bad for you: only 15 hours with an extended battery!? LOL that's terrible. I use a Sense ROM (Fresh3.5) with netarchy-more-havs (don't know the version number) and I get at least 20 hours with moderate~heavy usage, on the stock battery.
When I'm using MIUI with Tiamat & ViperBoy's undervolt scripts, I get over 24 hours with moderate~heavy usage. I have no doubt that if I had an extended battery, I could get 2+ days.
P.S.
I will be getting another phone. Preferably the iPhone when (if?) it drops on sprint, or a mango windows phone 7 device. If neither of those happen, galaxy s II it is...
It's terrible. Heavy usage I get 2 maybe 2 and a half hours. If you don't use it much,the standby time should be enough to get you through the day. I remember streaming the world cup on Sprint Espn and it barely made it past one 2 hour game before it became totally dead. Don't know how some say they get 5 plus hours on 4g running under heavy usage. I think their idea of heavy usage is much different than mine.
I'm on kinged kingdom nightlys sense 3.0..I get 10+ hrs with heavy use!! Calkulins Undervolt script..ROM is insane fast, with moderate use I avg 1day 9-11hrs..haven't hit two day mark with moderate use thou..working on it. STOCK battery! Make sure ur SD card is partitioned correctly. Optimize your RAM..the smoother and more stable the ROM,the better battery life,cuz your phone won't be struggling to function properly!!
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