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I apologize if this was asked before (I did a search of the forums but nothing really came up), but I'm wondering what others' experience with the battery life of the S4 is? This is my first smart phone and coming from a non-smartphone, I'm not sure if my expectations on battery life are unrealistic.
I got the S4 on 4/29 and brought it through one full charge cycle and several part cycles. Battery life is pretty important to me so I put an all black background (since its AMOLED), keep the brightness to below 10%, turn off all the fancy sensor things, turned on power saver mode, turn off wifi and data unless I really need to use it, turn off all sync so it only happens manually, etc. Yesterday, I charged it to 100% to see how long it would last and the stats I got were:
At 6% battery left, I had a total screen on-time of 2 hours and 58 mins and 1 d 2 hr on battery. Then, when I charged it to 100% and took out the charger, after about 5 minutes of it sleeping/screen off, the battery percentage dropped down to 97% with no data, no wifi, no active apps running.
With my pretty battery-friendly settings on my phone (or at least I think so), is this battery stat normal to others with this phone? Or do you think something might be wrong with the battery?
That sound horrible. There must be some rogue apps running/some wakelocks - try using better battery stats and find out.
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I apologize if this was asked before (I did a search of the forums but nothing really came up), but I'm wondering what others' experience with the battery life of the S4 is? This is my first smart phone and coming from a non-smartphone, I'm not sure if my expectations on battery life are unrealistic.
I got the S4 on 4/29 and brought it through one full charge cycle and several part cycles. Battery life is pretty important to me so I put an all black background (since its AMOLED), keep the brightness to below 10%, turn off all the fancy sensor things, turned on power saver mode, turn off wifi and data unless I really need to use it, turn off all sync so it only happens manually, etc. Yesterday, I charged it to 100% to see how long it would last and the stats I got were:
At 6% battery left, I had a total screen on-time of 2 hours and 58 mins and 1 d 2 hr on battery. Then, when I charged it to 100% and took out the charger, after about 5 minutes of it sleeping/screen off, the battery percentage dropped down to 97% with no data, no wifi, no active apps running.
With my pretty battery-friendly settings on my phone (or at least I think so), is this battery stat normal to others with this phone? Or do you think something might be wrong with the battery?
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you gotta give samsung a little time to fix the firmware
Good for me 4g/3g om half day wifi Facebook browsing xda
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This is what's draining my battery can't turn it of for some reason Google services
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chriswongdo said:
I apologize if this was asked before (I did a search of the forums but nothing really came up), but I'm wondering what others' experience with the battery life of the S4 is? This is my first smart phone and coming from a non-smartphone, I'm not sure if my expectations on battery life are unrealistic.
I got the S4 on 4/29 and brought it through one full charge cycle and several part cycles. Battery life is pretty important to me so I put an all black background (since its AMOLED), keep the brightness to below 10%, turn off all the fancy sensor things, turned on power saver mode, turn off wifi and data unless I really need to use it, turn off all sync so it only happens manually, etc. Yesterday, I charged it to 100% to see how long it would last and the stats I got were:
At 6% battery left, I had a total screen on-time of 2 hours and 58 mins and 1 d 2 hr on battery. Then, when I charged it to 100% and took out the charger, after about 5 minutes of it sleeping/screen off, the battery percentage dropped down to 97% with no data, no wifi, no active apps running.
With my pretty battery-friendly settings on my phone (or at least I think so), is this battery stat normal to others with this phone? Or do you think something might be wrong with the battery?
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For a smartphone, an 'all-day' battery is fine, and given that the S4 has so many sensors, large screen and a powerful processor, I am happy with the battery lasting for 12-16 hours. I don't turn off any sensors, why get an S4 to run it on power saver mode and turn everything off? It defeats the purpose, in my opinion. I am trying to use as many features as possible on my S4. Of course, there are a few I don't, but just for personal preference. What you are doing is (no offence) in my opinion like getting a BMW M3 and running it on 4 pistons to save fuel.
Anyway, your battery life will improve after about 10-15 charge cycles, I noticed that with my past phones as well. If you need your battery to last longer, I would suggest getting a spare battery and keep it charged at all times for any emergencies. These are some of the reasons I love Samsung, removable batteries and microSD card slot.
thanks for the replies guys. I'll try the betterbatterystats app out. i'll probably take it back to sprint and see if they'll replace the battery for me. the screen accounts for about 50% of the battery usage in the stats and other apps take up the rest. the battery curve is pretty linear in a downward slope too (except when i don't use it at night, it becomes much flatter, albeit still downward).
haha its funny you say that, because i agree completely. the m3 is my dream car and if i could ever afford one, i would probably baby the crap out of it the reason why i got the s4 (and i also compared it to the htc one as a possible candidate) is because of the removable battery, sd card, nd most importantly: camera. that 13 megapixel shooter + hdr is really great for good photos on the go. speaking of which, i use the camera alot. is the physical use of the camera and the screen use a big power hog?
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Good for me 4g/3g om half day wifi Facebook browsing xda
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This is what I expect from S4
Google Services may be Google Now.....unless you use it, you can turn it off........
The phone only takes 1h 57 minutes to charge from flat. It's mad how fast thing thing charges from AC so battery life isn't really a problem. (yes I was sad enough to time it)
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Hi, i've a i9505 and my battery life is awful, no matter wich kernel i'm using. I've already bought a new battery (RAV Power) but nothing changed. There's a way to check what causes those incredibile drain/a way to solve my problem? Right now, i lose up to 10% with a 15 minutes video on YouTube...
Search for Better Battery Stats on the forums and install it to check to see if you have a wakelock or other issue keeping your device awake.
Madafacca said:
Hi, i've a i9505 and my battery life is awful, no matter wich kernel i'm using. I've already bought a new battery (RAV Power) but nothing changed. There's a way to check what causes those incredibile drain/a way to solve my problem? Right now, i lose up to 10% with a 15 minutes video on YouTube...
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Why is that drain? In general you only have battery drain when you lose lot's of battery while screen is off.
You screen uses power. Your cpu uses power. Your gpu uses power. 10% battery when watching 15 minutes on Youtube is perfectly normal.
Lennyz1988 said:
Why is that drain? In general you only have battery drain when you lose lot's of battery while screen is off.
You screen uses power. Your cpu uses power. Your gpu uses power. 10% battery when watching 15 minutes on Youtube is perfectly normal.
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Not when you've everything off except for Wi-Fi. Also, i'm always with just 15% of brightness and i locked all my cores to 1600 MHz, that's just not normal, my battery life was way better 3-4 months ago.
Lennyz1988 said:
Why is that drain? In general you only have battery drain when you lose lot's of battery while screen is off.
You screen uses power. Your cpu uses power. Your gpu uses power. 10% battery when watching 15 minutes on Youtube is perfectly normal.
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10% per 15 mins extrapolates to 100-0% in 150 mins. Which is 2 hours and 30 minutes of on-screen time. I'd say it's rather bad.
@Madafacca do you have a good signal reception? Bad signal can drain your battery a lot. I'm talking about carrier signal, not wi-fi signal.
Madafacca said:
Hi, i've a i9505 and my battery life is awful, no matter wich kernel i'm using. I've already bought a new battery (RAV Power) but nothing changed. There's a way to check what causes those incredibile drain/a way to solve my problem? Right now, i lose up to 10% with a 15 minutes video on YouTube...
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which rom are you using?
after changing battery you calibrated it?
I tried most of roms/kernel with my s4 and I can only dream of 2hours of screen on, even when it's stock, I use only viber, whatsapp and facebook ( without messenger ) and there is no way, i have 2 batteries, same with any of them... gonna add some money and buy lg g2, had it bout 4 months ago, and i get about 4hours of screen on time with g2, s4 for me is sh*t
NeoDJW said:
I tried most of roms/kernel with my s4 and I can only dream of 2hours of screen on, even when it's stock, I use only viber, whatsapp and facebook ( without messenger ) and there is no way, i have 2 batteries, same with any of them... gonna add some money and buy lg g2, had it bout 4 months ago, and i get about 4hours of screen on time with g2, s4 for me is sh*t
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Facebook is a resource hog. I haven't seen an app to use so much RAM as facebook does. And it also cripples the performance of the phone.
Everything is disabled in FB app, notifications, refresh, so when i exit it, it doesn't do any background refresh.... you can't say that is because of FB because I had like almost every phone until now ( except 2015 flagships ) and only s4 is so bad at battery, switched from s5 to s4 because I was broke and had to sell it, before s5 I had note 3, lg g2, m7, m8, z2, s4 active, note 2 ( 2nd best battery life after lg g2 )
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Everything is disabled in FB app, notifications, refresh, so when i exit it, it doesn't do any background refresh.... you can't say that is because of FB because I had like almost every phone until now ( except 2015 flagships ) and only s4 is so bad at battery, switched from s5 to s4 because I was broke and had to sell it, before s5 I had note 3, lg g2, m7, m8, z2, s4 active, note 2 ( 2nd best battery life after lg g2 )
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Well, I don't know what's wrong with your phone. I can get 100-50% in about 2 hours gaming. I generally don't let it go under 50%. So that should mean about 4 hours total if I were to go 100-1%.
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which rom are you using?
after changing battery you calibrated it?
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Battery calibration is a waste of time. All calibration does is wipe batterystats.bin, which is wiped when the device is fully charged anyway. Thus a waste of time.
GDReaper said:
10% per 15 mins extrapolates to 100-0% in 150 mins. Which is 2 hours and 30 minutes of on-screen time. I'd say it's rather bad.
@Madafacca do you have a good signal reception? Bad signal can drain your battery a lot. I'm talking about carrier signal, not wi-fi signal.
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In general I never get more then 2,5 hours of screen on time if I even make it.
It depends on how you use it I guess and the state of your battery.
NeoDJW said:
Everything is disabled in FB app, notifications, refresh, so when i exit it, it doesn't do any background refresh.... you can't say that is because of FB because I had like almost every phone until now ( except 2015 flagships ) and only s4 is so bad at battery, switched from s5 to s4 because I was broke and had to sell it, before s5 I had note 3, lg g2, m7, m8, z2, s4 active, note 2 ( 2nd best battery life after lg g2 )
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I'm hating this phone right now, i think i'll switch to the 1+2 asap. Battery life is just too bad, i can't handle it.
Madafacca said:
I'm hating this phone right now, i think i'll switch to the 1+2 asap. Battery life is just too bad, i can't handle it.
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Well, something is obviously draining your battery. 100-0% in 2 hours is just too much. In 2 hours I go from 100-50% when gaming. Of course, no wifi, lowest screen brightness, no bluetooth and no useless app's (like facebook app) running in the background thanks to greenify.
Put your phone in airplane mode and see how much drain you get. In airplane mode there should be practically no drain, since keeping the device connected to the network eats battery.
Yes there is but until we get some data from him we're basically tossing darts blindfolded. I recommended in post 2 that he install Better Battery Stats from the forums. If he runs it and posts its output, that should be of assistance in pinpointing where his battery drain is coming from.
OP, help us help you. Get the app, run it, and save a log of its data before your battery dies.
Hello! This is my first post on this website, but I'm a long time lurker.
I decided to post because I don't know what I should do.
I have both Galaxy S4 and S3, and I'm beginning to get frustrated with the S4, mainly due to its battery life.
I performed few tests, and the results are very weird:
1. If I leave both S3 and S4 in airplane mode over the night at 100% both, around 8h, the S3 will lose 3% battery, and S4 will lose 30-40% !
2. But... When I left both at 100% while having a game (Monster Legends to be precise) open the whole time, S3's battery was drained to 0 in 2.5 hours, and S4 lasted whole 4 hours !
What is happening here? I still think there is something wrong with my S4 phone. Might it be the battery? I have 2 batteries and on both the life is pretty low, in one of them NFC doesn't work, and once it overheated.
Maybe it's something with the software?
Please give me an advide on what to do or what to check. I am attaching Idle S4 battery monitor screenshots I took a while ago with Wi-Fi, almost Idle whole day and night: (sorry it's in polish)
Album: imgur.com/a/1er8M
Please give me an advice on what to do or what to check, thanks !
I think something is keeping your S4 awake.
I have Wakelock Detector installed, and there isn't anything standing out The highest positioned one is Google Play Store with 1 minute 12 seconds, when the phone has been idle for few hours.
Kankuro666 said:
I have Wakelock Detector installed, and there isn't anything standing out The highest positioned one is Google Play Store with 1 minute 12 seconds, when the phone has been idle for few hours.
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I have 2 batteries and on both the life is pretty low, in one of them NFC doesn't work, and once it overheated.
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I would start with buying a new battery and tossing these two that you have. Overheating can be a symptom of a damaged battery. The not working NFC can be a symptom of to low voltage on your battery.
Definitely impressed so far. How about your experience?
I'd like to know wich rom offers better battery life, xiaomi.eu or official global.
I get 6-7h of SoT regularly. But then I use my phone heavily every single day, needing to recharge at 3pm, almost never allowing the phone to sleep/turn off the display.
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Since I've used reading mode my screen on time is 5 hours, meanwhile at first my Sox was about 6.30 hours...
i got decent 6 hour screen on time in normal usage ( in performance and balance mode)
i always turn performance mode because i did notice some frame drop and lag
i just received redmi 4 prime view day ago
and it beat redmi note 4 battery life
Battery life is awesome! I'm coming from the iPhone 6s and I'm completely stunned by the battery life I get with this phone!
I get on average 7 hours screen on time (chrome instagram twitter whatsapp spotify youtube twitch) and phone last about at least 18-20 hours. Amazing
someone261 said:
Battery life is awesome! I'm coming from the iPhone 6s and I'm completely stunned by the battery life I get with this phone!
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GSam works on your phone? MIUI keeps killing off mine, so the results are horribly inaccurate. Tried high priority, tried removing power saving from MIUI app settings, tried putting notification. Kept killing off the notification.
You should go to Settings and then Permissions and then Autostart and select the apps you want to be able to run in the background and autostart.
Pretty decent battery with the alternative rom from cofface.
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Around 4-5 hours SOT, 20% brightness mostly reddit, FB, manga, that's with wifi + dualsim btw.
can you tell me what is the pecertange of cell standby on your phone when you have 5-6 hours sot and what ROM do you use? thank you
Thunder ROM, no tweaks or settings changed, WiFi + dualsim, 4G if there's no WiFi
Between the huge battery and the very customizable "doze" alternative, this thing sips its juice like a little bird. Could go for a few days if need be. Stock everything.
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Lol what? That's impossible.. That's probably on multiple charges or you left the screen of the phone on overnight without using it (which will only consume some %).
Silvers91 said:
Lol what? That's impossible.. That's probably on multiple charges or you left the screen of the phone on overnight without using it (which will only consume some %).
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Would you believe if I showed graph ?
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Dude seriously? 23 hours with 11 hours of SOT? That's the craziest I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. What is your usage? (apps, wifi or 3G/4G)
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Dude seriously? 23 hours with 11 hours of SOT? That's the craziest I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. What is your usage? (apps, wifi or 3G/4G)
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Usage is light with some gaming
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Hello,
my uncle just bought me a brand new genuine Redmi note 7, I opened the box and turned the phone on.. I noticed that the battery was at 66%, I set up the phone which took a minute or less and that's when I was about to connect it to my wifi BUT then I notice that the battery is 63% ALREADY.. Now knowing that the phone has a 4000mah battery I was beyond shocked too see a 3% drain with low brightness and just 1 minute of light use literally no SIM or internet was being used.. so I turned it off and charged it to the max.. After that I turned the phone back on to update miui.. I connected the phone to my wifi and started updating to the last version.. available from the updater.. it took less than 10 minutes.. and guess what I see? 100% to 89% in less than 10 minutes that's crazy.. I bought this phone because of this guy w ww. youtube. com/watch?v=3gaWbx2x06s as we can see in the video he gets almost 8 hours of SOT with full brightness wifi and youtube FHD... right now I'm doing the same experiment and adding battery saver setting and my battery is draining fast I'd be surprised if I got 4 hours of sot... I don't understand... what's wrong? The phone is new and genuine since I verified the imei.. Thank you.
UncleFelow said:
Hello,
my uncle just bought me a brand new genuine Redmi note 7, I opened the box and turned the phone on.. I noticed that the battery was at 66%, I set up the phone which took a minute or less and that's when I was about to connect it to my wifi BUT then I notice that the battery is 63% ALREADY.. Now knowing that the phone has a 4000mah battery I was beyond shocked too see a 3% drain with low brightness and just 1 minute of light use literally no SIM or internet was being used.. so I turned it off and charged it to the max.. After that I turned the phone back on to update miui.. I connected the phone to my wifi and started updating to the last version.. available from the updater.. it took less than 10 minutes.. and guess what I see? 100% to 89% in less than 10 minutes that's crazy.. I bought this phone because of this guy w ww. youtube. com/watch?v=3gaWbx2x06s as we can see in the video he gets almost 8 hours of SOT with full brightness wifi and youtube FHD... right now I'm doing the same experiment and adding battery saver setting and my battery is draining fast I'd be surprised if I got 4 hours of sot... I don't understand... what's wrong? The phone is new and genuine since I verified the imei.. Thank you.
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I believe every phone does the same thing like that when you configure them for the very first time. Full brightness, wifi scanning, mobile data ON, GPS ON, sync ON for a few minutes can consume lots of battery.
My advice is to fully set up your phone with all the apps you want and turn off any features you don't use. Use and recharge your phone normally for a few days. Check for battery consumption stats using native graphs or popular battery tracking apps. Analyze graphs and stats and draw the conclusions yourself. (Don't trust everything people say on YouTube, trust your own experience.)
In the worst scenario, you can always return your phone within 7 days of purchase. I hope you don't have to! :fingers-crossed:
My brand new redmi note 7 is a little fast draining right now too which is a little disappointing but my redmi note 5 was also the same fast draining when I first purchased it and it improved so I really hope this redmi note 7 does the same and improves.
I have both phones side by side right now so I can kind of compare usage
T1Cybernetic said:
My brand new redmi note 7 is a little fast draining right now too which is a little disappointing but my redmi note 5 was also the same fast draining when I first purchased it and it improved so I really hope this redmi note 7 does the same and improves.
I have both phones side by side right now so I can kind of compare usage
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Yeah even my mediatek redmi note 4 didn't drain like this.. now when it gets to 15% it just discharges completely.
One thing I will mention is facial recognition. It could possibly drain the battery faster so I have just turned it off for testing purposes. I need to see what difference it makes but that's really the only difference between my two redmi phones 5 & 7.
Any new phone battery will take a few charge/drain cycles until it is calibrated correctly.
Use it for a while and see if the battery settles down.
Also different countries have different mobile systems. This will also affect battery life as the phone needs to continually scan for a signal....
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30% brightness.. only wifi.
T1Cybernetic said:
My brand new redmi note 7 is a little fast draining right now too which is a little disappointing but my redmi note 5 was also the same fast draining when I first purchased it and it improved so I really hope this redmi note 7 does the same and improves.
I have both phones side by side right now so I can kind of compare usage
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I know the post is old but I have the same problem ... I think we are so many to have it !!
I have a Note 7 for more than a month and it never went well ... I managed to do only 3 days but almost without using it, there are people who also do 4 or 5 days of use ...
Anyway if I use it it makes me amalapena 1 day ...
When I use the phone I see that it consumes my battery quickly even if I just navigate the phone menu.
I've already done at least 4 reset but it didn't help
I do not know what to do..
Did you solve the problem?
miui 11 could help?
Thanks
Imposible to do 4-5 days with this phone or any phone when u use it. Why do u have smartphone when u dont use it and u care about battery?
What version MIUI are you all using?
I'm still on 10.3.5 and battery life is great.
I average 9.5 hours SOT ( 2 days worth) with normal use and have got as high as just under 11 hours SOT a few times.
If you're not on 10.3.5, can you roll back?
I've heard of battery life issues after updating to the newer versions which is why I'm staying on this one until they work out the kinks
My battery life has improved since my earlier post just as I expected it to The note 5 does last a little longer when I put them side by side but they are both great phones and the batteries last for ages with normal daily use!
I barely use 50% with gaming (currently clash royale) social medias, spotify for around 2 hours and some other stuff plus I'm working 5 days a week so I don't get to see my phone for most of the day anyway
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My battery life has improved since my earlier post just as I expected it to The note 5 does last a little longer when I put them side by side but they are both great phones and the batteries last for ages with normal daily use!
I barely use 50% with gaming (currently clash royale) social medias, spotify for around 2 hours and some other stuff plus I'm working 5 days a week so I don't get to see my phone for most of the day anyway
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might be a dumb question but, how/when do you charge your phone ? do you wait for the battery to reach 0-10% and charge it back to 100%? or you do the 20% to 80% charge "cycle" ?
I try to charge my phones every night now when I go to bed, The note 5 & 7 are around 50% most days from useage and I charge them from around 8/9pm until I wake for work at 5am (Living the dream)
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I try to charge my phones every night now when I go to bed, The note 5 & 7 are around 50% most days from useage and I charge them from around 8/9pm until I wake for work at 5am (Living the dream)
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and what SOT do you get with the 50% usage ?
I am not sure, Because it almost never drops below 50% in a days usage I have stopped looking and worrying about battery life It just lasts and lasts for me.
However I will try and take notice over the next few days and report back if there is anything to report...