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I am getting incredible battery life!

I have to say that after some experimintation I am getting consistantly incredible batter life. For instance, I took off charger at 6:00 am at 100% fully charged this am. It is now 6:00 PM (12 hrs) constant MS Exchange updating, internet browsing, and about 2.5 hrs on phone calls, I now have 81%.
Some facts:
I am on stock KG5
the following definatly made the batter life wose:
Beautiful Widgets
Widget Locker Lockscreen
I have NO battery monitor programs like Juice Defender. In fact I have purchased Juice Defender Ultimate and I saw a slight decrease in perforance.
I have to following apps installed:
Sirius XM Premium online
App2SD Pro
Google Maps update
MLB At Bat 2011
Scanner Radio Pro
You Tube update
OI File Manager
Only downfalls of KG 5 is no video with the Google talk and Flash crashes with the browser. Tried KH1 and KH3, not ready for prime time.
Thoughts and comments welcome.
Charlie C

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and?
so if you already have incredible battery life (by your definition and standards), what's the point of this thread?

so funny

At least post battery usage graph.
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Come on guys, He was just trying to help!
Well, I've shifted to KH3 which gives me 3.5 days battery time. Haha!
Try KH3.

cc999 said:
I have to say that after some experimintation I am getting consistantly incredible batter life. For instance, I took off charger at 6:00 am at 100% fully charged this am. It is now 6:00 PM (12 hrs) constant MS Exchange updating, internet browsing, and about 2.5 hrs on phone calls, I now have 81%.
Some facts:
I am on stock KG5
the following definatly made the batter life wose:
Beautiful Widgets
Widget Locker Lockscreen
I have NO battery monitor programs like Juice Defender. In fact I have purchased Juice Defender Ultimate and I saw a slight decrease in perforance.
I have to following apps installed:
Sirius XM Premium online
App2SD Pro
Google Maps update
MLB At Bat 2011
Scanner Radio Pro
You Tube update
OI File Manager
Only downfalls of KG 5 is no video with the Google talk and Flash crashes with the browser. Tried KH1 and KH3, not ready for prime time.
Thoughts and comments welcome.
Charlie C
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I think the problem is not the battery mate. You have the same problem than me. Talking two hours and a half by phone every day is nasty, I am sure you have about 80 mails every day like me. This is the real problem to solve, we have to work less so the battery will last more , and kick someone asses who are always calling us and giving problems

100 battery threads but i didnt yet find a clear answer if 2.3.4 improves battery life or not..i wait for the official release so i didnt use any 2.3.4 rom yet...

i too have awesome battery life! my phone was unplugged 13hrs 17m 15s ago and now has 88% remaining..... stock bvkg3 orange rom...

I'm tired of these threads. It's not like samsung sold some phones with good battery life and some without. They are ALL the EXACT SAME.
You can't have a 'better' battery life than another SGS2 user. You can't have a 'worse' battery life either. What matters is usage.
Anyone can get 'incredible' battery life - simply install any ROM such as cog or vr, and do a full wipe. Install only 10 apps, and use the phone sporadically, dare I say, use the phone 'as a phone'.
What I'm trying to say is that the people reporting 52 hours of battery life or what not simply do not use the phone as much as others do. If it sounds logical, that's because it is.
There is no 'magic pill'. I get 54h on standby because despite having 205 apps, I used betterbatterystats to uninstall the worst offenders. But today for example I got 6h out of my battery because I spent 3h hours with the screen on, 1 hour on GPS navigation in my car, 1 hours taking pictures with the flash on, 1 hour playing angry birds. 205 apps, endless memory resident programs, custom-everything, even my wallpaper is 3d with 16x MSAA through CF3d, what did I expect?
The whole Iphone comparison is also whack. I own an iphone 4. Sure when stock the thing flies and stays on battery like you wouldn't believe. But try to customize it and you'll find the same problems that you find on android. Plus, it's twice as heavy as my sgs2

I prefer using my sgs2 as a laptop, the battery life is still better than my acer.

I call bs. But while Im at it i get over 100 hours on my battery. On standby. Omg. I can't believe how long my phone lasts when I don't use it.
Or.
I used my phone 15 hours today. 5 hours screen time. Heavy wifi and cell data. .and snes emulator 2 hours. And I still had 30%. Omfg incredible. I can't believe it not butter. And these are my usual stats or the like. And I don't have a sgs2. I don't get to jizz my pants every day like you guys. Omg. This must be the most incredibly dumb post I've ever posted.
I voided my warranty and your mum.

Wow... so much anger in this forum.
There is a simple solution to all of u angry birds, when u see a thread with the word "battery" in it, run away as fast as u can, and dont look back, ur wasting ur time and others by posting useless angry replies, so cut the crap and grow up...
to the op, thanks for ur post it was helpful at least to me if that counts.

pukemon said:
I call bs. But while Im at it i get over 100 hours on my battery. On standby. Omg. I can't believe how long my phone lasts when I don't use it.
Or.
I used my phone 15 hours today. 5 hours screen time. Heavy wifi and cell data. .and snes emulator 2 hours. And I still had 30%. Omfg incredible. I can't believe it not butter. And these are my usual stats or the like. And I don't have a sgs2. I don't get to jizz my pants every day like you guys. Omg. This must be the most incredibly dumb post I've ever posted.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
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That's not unbelievable at all.. I can easily get 4 hours screen on time and around 24 in total. Clearly your not a super user..
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ChongoDroid said:
That's not unbelievable at all.. I can easily get 4 hours screen on time and around 24 in total. Clearly your not a super user..
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Lol nerd comparing screen time and being a "superuser" or not lmao. Its a phone and works very well, so who gives a ****... Let the guy post his results no need to be an ass about it.
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ChongoDroid said:
That's not unbelievable at all.. I can easily get 4 hours screen on time and around 24 in total. Clearly your not a super user..
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Wow. 4 hours. On a charge. Omfg. Incredible. I get about 7 hours. On a charge. I guess all that wifi/cell data, email sync, emulators and text make me a light user. Tucks tail between legs.
Weren't you just trolling in the atrix forums letting us know exynos > tegra2? How's that being tethered to a wall working out for you?
I voided my warranty and your mum.

@cc999 Thanks for posting your experiance about battery life, don't bother about angry birds. They can't get laid than express anger on your thread .
cigaro78 said:
I'm tired of these threads. It's not like samsung sold some phones with good battery life and some without. They are ALL the EXACT SAME
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@cigaro78 You are sooo wrong! The batteries are not all the same. It depends on many factors (how they are stored before shipping, and lotof thing).
Last year i did some test on 5 exact same new mobile phones (samsung omnia i900) and 2 of them have battery wear of 24%.
So the point is that you coud buy a new phone with some percentage of damaged battery.
Thats a first thing, the second thisng is that firmware (battery optimisation) could extremely reduce or extend battery life, depanding on optimisation.
I tried 5 firmwares, 3 of them 2.3.3 and 2 - 2.3.4. (all stock roms)
Best battery experience I had with 2.3.3 XWKF3 (2.3.3), and the worst on XXKH3 (2.3.4), but for some users 2.3.4 is way better for battery.
I can't get over 16h of normal usage at all. (1h phone talk, 50-80 messages, 25 emails, 30 mins on internet (3G) and about 20 mins of playing amtale). DIsplay usage is 44% (auto), 25% Voice calls, 10% android OS, Internet 9% Android system 8% etc...

I was quite chuffed with mine, 2d 12 hours! admittedly not heavy usage but moderate!

pukemon said:
Wow. 4 hours. On a charge. Omfg. Incredible. I get about 7 hours. On a charge. I guess all that wifi/cell data, email sync, emulators and text make me a light user. Tucks tail between legs.
Weren't you just trolling in the atrix forums letting us know exynos > tegra2? How's that being tethered to a wall working out for you?
I voided my warranty and your mum.
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Lol sounds exactly like my usage.. I don't follow? Tethered to a wall? If you're referring to webtop I don't miss it one bit... And yes I troll the atrix forums frequently... I sold mine to my friend so sometimes I check on progress. And am I wrong about the tegra 2 vs exynos thing? Honestly i've heard arguments for both sides but wouldn't mind another opinion. Sorry to hijack.
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jr866gooner said:
I was quite chuffed with mine, 2d 12 hours! admittedly not heavy usage but moderate!
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Lol, you realy don't use your phone so much .
Phone calls 4%, display 24%???
I bet your display isn't have "'time on" bigger than 1:30h

Is the N4 battery UN-efficient?

3 hours of screen time? Seriously? My GS2 was able to manage that with a 8 month old battery. I don't want to hear the whole "It's only 350 (16 GB) dollars, stop complaining." I love the phone, but this just sucks.
I have all sync off, no gps, no auto facebook/email/nonsense. I text with google voice.
I got my friend mark a galaxy nexus (GSM) for his birthday, and somehow he hits about 4 to 5 hours of screen time over 12 hour periods. He uses auto sync, and listens to boat loads of music and texts much more than me. Seriously?
Having sync nonsense off, I would expect the N4 to get at least 5 hours. It's a 7.7 watt-hour battery
The Nexus 7 has a 16 watt-hour battery and I've gotten it to 11 hours. Let's do some math here!
MATH TIME. Give me a moment to explain. For this process, we shall say the Nexus 7 only gets 9 hours of screen time since that's the norm.
Nexus 4 = 4.7" screen.
Nexus 7 = 7.0" screen.
67.14% difference.
Assuming the screens are similar, let's be super simple here and say the Nexus 7's screen takes 67.14% MORE power to run.
The Nexus 7 can get 9 hours of screen time. 9 hours to 16 watt-hours.
9/16(WH)=0.5625
Let's apply this new thing to the N4.
0.5625*7.7(WH)=4.33
Now that looks normal, 4.5 ish hours of screen time for the N4? Well...No. Remember the % difference?
Assuming the hardware isn't too far different. The nexus 4 SHOULD be able to pull... ((4.33*67.14)+4.33)=7.23
Let's round down to make up for differences in chip sets and what not.
7 hours of screen time should be possible. But it's not, this means than the Nexus 7 is incredibility power efficient...but the Nexus 4 is not. What gives? This would have to mean that something in the N4 is extremely power UN-efficient. I understand the N4 has a Radio in it and does a bit more work...but even if you drop it to 6 hours, or 5 hours...the N4 doesn't meet that.
Something is off somewhere. That is my point.
How do you feel about this? Post your thoughts.

Did you take into account the different battery sizes?

ceejay83 said:
Did you take into account the different battery sizes?
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Sizes? You mean the 7.7 watt-hour vs 16? Then yes, I based all my logic off of that. Or am I misunderstanding you?

The mah capacity

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The mah capacity
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Mah doesn't work like that truely. Watt-Hours is more specific.
I presume both devices run on 3.7 volts, correct? That is normal for lithium.
I'm saying the Nexus 4 is no where near as efficient as the Nexus 7. 50% efficiency would give around 3.5ish hours. Tonight it looks like I am barely going to get 2 hours.
This is terrible. Something somewhere is zapping up mah battery.

Simple quad core
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Did u just get the phone the first few days were terrible now am getting around 3.5-4 hr screen on
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Lt.Tealc said:
Simple quad core
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Did u just get the phone the first few days were terrible now am getting around 3.5-4 hr screen on
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Such is the Nexus 7. The newer core in the N4 should be AT LEAST 90% as efficient, honestly it should be better...but it's not looking at these numbers.
If the processor is the main reason, then that means it sucks, big time. It barely makes it to roughly 40-50% as effecient as the nexus 7.
Does Snapdragon just suck? XD
See my point? This phone can do more... it CAN do 5 hours. Hell, I bet it can do 6.
Sorry I didn't see your edit haha. I just got it on the 12th, but I've pushed it through about 5 cycles. Is this not enough? Ironically the first day I got about 5 hours and it wasn't fully charged. Loads of app installing, unlocking, playing, and...it got to about 4.8 hours I think to be precise.
So why am I now getting 2? Last night was 3.

Given that there are a few devices out there that have a quad core and still get a better battery life than the N4 with a lower battery capacity all leads to OS optimizations.
You give it the opportunity to use its power it will use it

UZ7 said:
Given that there are a few devices out there that have a quad core and still get a better battery life than the N4 with a lower battery capacity all leads to OS optimizations.
You give it the opportunity to use its power it will use it
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There must be something somewhere sappin it all up. There has got to be, that's what I am trying to say. Something somewhere is wack.
Because this is just silly poor. lol. Ahhhhhh Mighty XDA lords of code!....Work some magic?

Locklear308 said:
Such is the Nexus 7. The newer core in the N4 should be AT LEAST 90% as efficient, honestly it should be better...but it's not looking at these numbers.
If the processor is the main reason, then that means it sucks, big time. It barely makes it to roughly 40-50% as effecient as the nexus 7.
Does Snapdragon just suck? XD
See my point? This phone can do more... it CAN do 5 hours. Hell, I bet it can do 6.
Sorry I didn't see your edit haha. I just got it on the 12th, but I've pushed it through about 5 cycles. Is this not enough? Ironically the first day I got about 5 hours and it wasn't fully charged. Loads of app installing, unlocking, playing, and...it got to about 4.8 hours I think to be precise.
So why am I now getting 2? Last night was 3.
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Your nexus has a mind of its own lol
My gs2 used to get 8hr easy with stock touch wiz cause it was optimized but prefer once is sacrificed with nexus its the other way. It might even be a bugg some one started thread saying a rep told him there will be battery bug fix
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Google gonna pull a stunt and be like... Oh with our new update you get 50% more battery life (that you were suppose to get out of the box), take that apple! your software updates gets people lost and stranded in the middle of now where! :silly:

This is pure speculation, but my first device wouldn't charge to 100% and the battery immediately dropped to 97% after taking off the charger. This RMA device I have on my hand is still at 91% with a screen on time of 20mins with chrome usage, xda and multiple other apps also open in the background.
I think some of the batteries are **** as well.
Now I don't know which device to keep as this screen is a bit warmer and has some very little screen bleeding with a black background. However I have 20days to play with this device before I have to send a device back. I'm expecting to get about 4 hours with the way things are going right now.
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Lt.Tealc said:
Your nexus has a mind of its own lol
My gs2 used to get 8hr easy with stock touch wiz cause it was optimized but prefer once is sacrificed with nexus its the other way. It might even be a bugg some one started thread saying a rep told him there will be battery bug fix
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I am just talking about screen time.

I see what you mean, asus tablets quality control is good,s2 was good with a 2000mAh battery, I would like to disable 2 cores.since display chews battery

Inefficient.

Its not the core !
I found the main culprit sucking all the juice was Location settings, WiFi and Google now. I experimented around and found that if all these services were off, the phone lasted much much longer on standby.
The next issue is the screen - it seems to take a hell of a lot of power with very little to show for it.
The last issue is some apps - Youtube and Chrome seem to be juice eaters.

with 12.14 hours I managed to get 4.40hours screen on, web browsing, I think that's ok, disable Google now, currens etc, chrome does seem to chew more than standard browsers
stock not rooted yet.

Locklear308 said:
There must be something somewhere sappin it all up. There has got to be, that's what I am trying to say. Something somewhere is wack.
Because this is just silly poor. lol. Ahhhhhh Mighty XDA lords of code!....Work some magic?
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People already have been working magic. Go flash Faux123's beta kernel and undervolt the processor by atleast -100mv, as well as enjoy other battery saving optimisations included with it.
Here's what I got on 25% brightness, sync off and a few google apps disabled (i.e. google plus).
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This is pure speculation, but my first device wouldn't charge to 100% and the battery immediately dropped to 97% after taking off the charger. This RMA device I have on my hand is still at 91% with a screen on time of 20mins with chrome usage, xda and multiple other apps also open in the background.
I think some of the batteries are **** as well.
Now I don't know which device to keep as this screen is a bit warmer and has some very little screen bleeding with a black background. However I have 20days to play with this device before I have to send a device back. I'm expecting to get about 4 hours with the way things are going right now.
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The immediate drop to 97% isn't a defect. The battery charges to 100%, takes itself off the charger until about 95%, then goes back on the charger until 100% over and over. The problem is the software will report "fully charged" after initially reaching 100% charge, even if it isn't.
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[Q] short battery life s4

I takes about 10 hours, the lesson download much battery? when I go to sleep I lose almost 15% of battery. Any solution?: (

Battery life is terrible.
I refuse to do what my friend does:
Turn vibrate off
Turn screen brightness to lowest
Phone is always connected to Edge - unless he's using the Internet - then he switches back to Edge
Syncs his email every 15 minutes (pull not push!!!)
Always 'freeing ram' and exiting apps
His life sucks.
I am the opposite. Full brightness, 4g , push mail for my 4 emails, exchange server (email and calendar) for work and so on.
I manage this by always having a spare battery that I charge with my battery charger dock lol.
Will be doing the same thing once I can get one for my S4

I know, so far it's been below expectations for me too - I ordered a portable energy bank from Amazon this morning, and I guess I'll just carry it around with me from now on.. What a shame - the phone is extremely powerful too..

Install gsam battery monitor and let it monitor your phone and see what is causing wake locks. Also let the battery go through 3-4 battery cycles before you start comparing battery life.

That'd weird. Isn't the 9500 or the 9505?
My battery exceeds my expectations by quite a lot. Best battery I've had on a smartphone so far, and I've had a few.
Where my 920 died, this one still has 50-70% remaning.
Thats with push mail, air view, air gestures, wifi, mobile data, auto brightness, screen rotation, sync, gps and multiwindow on constantly.
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Anyone tried this app yet?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
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Slai said:
That'd weird. Isn't the 9500 or the 9505?
My battery exceeds my expectations by quite a lot. Best battery I've had on a smartphone so far, and I've had a few.
Where my 920 died, this one still has 50-70% remaning.
Thats with push mail, air view, air gestures, wifi, mobile data, auto brightness, screen rotation, sync, gps and multiwindow on constantly.
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Same here, battery life is phenomenal. I really dont see how folks are having bad battery life
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Slai said:
That'd weird. Isn't the 9500 or the 9505?
My battery exceeds my expectations by quite a lot. Best battery I've had on a smartphone so far, and I've had a few.
Where my 920 died, this one still has 50-70% remaning.
Thats with push mail, air view, air gestures, wifi, mobile data, auto brightness, screen rotation, sync, gps and multiwindow on constantly.
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Same Best smartphone battery life I've ever had and I too had quite a lot smartphones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola and LG. Those lasted only half as long with the same usage pattern.

barondebxl said:
Same here, battery life is phenomenal. I really dont see how folks are having bad battery life
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chalid said:
Same Best smartphone battery life I've ever had and I too had quite a lot smartphones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola and LG. Those lasted only half as long with the same usage pattern.
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Seriously? how much is the battery life? can post some pics?

I am also curous how many hours does it take for the battery to reach 15% and how much screen on time do you get. Please post a few screenshots!

After a day i have like 30% left. Screen on time is about 2h.
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battery life is not a issue here I don't think I can get to 15% easily most day I do not but I will try to get some pics posted after an all day use no promises I manage to be busy a lot lol.

I am constantly using it.
Whatsapp
Instagram
Facebook
Push mail for 4 gmail (only one is really active)
Synced exchange server at work (calendar only)
In 10 mins of use, it'll go down 2mins

MaKTaiL said:
Anyone tried this app yet?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
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I'm trying it right now. It takes a bit more than two days for the app to learn certain usage patterns. I still have to wait 8 hours until the actual battery savings start. Will report as soon as I have it working.
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pedrohz said:
I'm trying it right now. It takes a bit more than two days for the app to learn certain usage patterns. I still have to wait 8 hours until the actual battery savings start. Will report as soon as I have it working.
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Let us know as soon as you can. Mine is still one day away of starting the battery saving.
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monkteo said:
Seriously? how much is the battery life? can post some pics?
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I get similar battery life as well. Sometimes 4 ton6 hours screen times
16 hour days
I found my battery life improved when I got rid of a poor quality 32gig media card and used another spare old16gig one.
I also dumped corrupted mp3 files and videos and got new ones.
I think poor sd card quality and bad mp3 files are partially responsible for lower battery life.
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just got mine
first charge cycle
4 hours on screen
total 8 hours
15% left
not very good but i think it will get better
9505

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Let us know as soon as you can. Mine is still one day away of starting the battery saving.
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So far with battery saving on it seems that nothing changed... Will test it further with daily use. But battery life here, even before using the app was not bad by any means.
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Gillion said:
I get similar battery life as well. Sometimes 4 ton6 hours screen times
16 hour days
I found my battery life improved when I got rid of a poor quality 32gig media card and used another spare old16gig one.
I also dumped corrupted mp3 files and videos and got new ones.
I think poor sd card quality and bad mp3 files are partially responsible for lower battery life.
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Yep. I'm really impressed with this phone s battery life, not too far from the note 2 battery life but not quite there.
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[Q] Nexus 4 Battery Life [vs S4]

Hey Guys,
Firstly i apologize if this has been asked before but here is my question:
Currently i had the chance to use the Galaxy S IV i9500 and after having using it for a month i found that the battery life is pretty good. In my usage of surfing the web, youtube, playing a few games i usually get a day of standby time with around 3-4 hrs of screen on time. Sometimes the charge carries over to the second day.
However the Galaxy S IV is not mine and i am looking to buy the nexus 4. As compared to the S4 i know the major differences are the screens, batteries and cameras. I know the screen has some great colour calibration tweaks which make colors pop and the sharpness is pretty good on nexus 4 screen so i am not worried. The camera is not as good as on the S4 but i can live with that since i can get the job done with my primary camera. However i am mainly concerned about the battery life. I want to know if on my current usage pattern (as mentioned above) will the nexus 4 last me through a day with 3-4 hrs screen on time? Also i have found that using PA ROM with FRANCO kernel doubles the battery life? Is this true and if so how does battery life with the setup compare to stock ROM and kernel?
Once again i appologize if this has already been answered somewhere and thanks to everyone for help.
Cheers

Now I'm using CM10.1 RC5 + franco.kernel r151 and i get 3 hours of screen on using 3g and 5+ hours using WiFi, but it really depends on your usage.
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marocampos said:
Now I'm using CM10.1 RC5 + franco.kernel r151 and i get 3 hours of screen on using 3g and 5+ hours using WiFi, but it really depends on your usage.
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With stock rom u will have very poor battery life. My Galaxy s3 lasted 1hour more screen time than my Nexus. and The Galaxy S4 is even better than GS3.
With Franco + UV u should have some decent Battery Life but not as Good as Galaxy S3 or S4

This should've been posted in the Q&A thread. Anyhow, after all i've heard and read i was pretty surprised by the battery life on the nexus 4 when i actually got it. I get between 4-5h of screen-on on a 1 day uptime. I'm using rooted stock rom and stock kernel. I have autosync for gmail, i use apps like whatsapp..basically the only thing that i have turned off and that i don't use is google now, oh, and i don't play 3d games on my phone. I think you should be able to get 4h screen-on on a charge using stock rom without a problem.
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hamad138 said:
With stock rom u will have very poor battery life. My Galaxy s3 lasted 1hour more screen time than my Nexus. and The Galaxy S4 is even better than GS3.
With Franco + UV u should have some decent Battery Life but not as Good as Galaxy S3 or S4
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I plan on using PA with FRANCO. you think it could be on par with s4 battery life?as a side note are there any extended battery cases for nexus 4 which can increase battery life?

rayiskon said:
This should've been posted in the Q&A thread. Anyhow, after all i've heard and read i was pretty surprised by the battery life on the nexus 4 when i actually got it. I get between 4-5h of screen-on on a 1 day uptime. I'm using rooted stock rom and stock kernel. I have autosync for gmail, i use apps like whatsapp..basically the only thing that i have turned off and that i don't use is google now, oh, and i don't play 3d games on my phone. I think you should be able to get 4h screen-on on a charge using stock rom without a problem.
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is it due to a firmware update? as i heard that initially the battery life was not too good with average of 2.5 hrs screen on time!

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is it due to a firmware update? as i heard that initially the battery life was not too good with average of 2.5 hrs screen on time!
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Ya that's the type of things i read around too, and was expecting horrible results, and actually was quite surprised.
I'm not sure if it's related to me being in a good reception area or something.. One thing i forgot to mention was i don't use facebook , but i really use my nexus 4 for everything else, browsing, gmail, reading xda, i'm a heavy music listener, whatsapp, flipboard, i also take a lot of pictures, especially photospheres..
In comparison, a friend of mine uses facebook, has everything always running, google now etc.. , gps always ON, all apps can access location... He also plays real racing 3 often, and he gets 3-3.5h screen-on on a 15-20h uptime.
One tip i can give you, i use greenify for most of the apps that don't need push services, or that i don't use frequently, and during standby, for example 6h of sleep, i lose 2-3% of battery.
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Battery life is horrible during the first week. After that it will become good. Currently I'm getting four hours screen time with 20% charge to spare at night.
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Battery life is horrible during the first week. After that it will become good. Currently I'm getting four hours screen time with 20% charge to spare at night.
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If tht is on stock rom it seems to be pretty good? also are you on 3g entire time and what is your main usage? thanks for the info!

I am stock rooted with stock kernel. I get 4-5hrs sot while on cellular data and 5-6hrs on wifi. What each individual gets is gonna be subjective to location while on a cellular network. A weaker signal will eat more battery and may just give you 3-4hrs sot.
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If tht is on stock rom it seems to be pretty good? also are you on 3g entire time and what is your main usage? thanks for the info!
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I'm on WiFi most of the time. 2G during power cut.( 1.5 hour power failure daily)
Main use is whatsapp, xda, little FB browsing, candy crush, subway surfers. No calling I only text or IM
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I am not sure unless someone here has both phones and stock if they can accurately answer your question. Also you are comparing a 2100mah battery N4 to a 2600mah battery in the S4. As a N4 owner I have had to say that after tweaking for a couple months I have found a nice setup giving me 3-4 hrs screen on time. If battery life is most important to you I would go with a phone with a removable battery.

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I am not sure unless someone here has both phones and stock if they can accurately answer your question. Also you are comparing a 2100mah battery N4 to a 2600mah battery in the S4. As a N4 owner I have had to say that after tweaking for a couple months I have found a nice setup giving me 3-4 hrs screen on time. If battery life is most important to you I would go with a phone with a removable battery.
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Thnx mate. Appreciated for the help!

if I stick with like casual texting and phone calls, and wifi or 3G, I get really decent battery life 4.5 hours usually, but I use the phone to listen to music and well that just keeps it awake for such a long time meaning i get like 2 hours.

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[Q] How is your N3 Battery life?

How's the battery/charge life?
With a 3200mAh battery, i assume it's better than most...
I've been spoiled with my OG Razr maxx, and frequently go two work days without charging
But I want more screen...lots more

Given the Qualcomm chip that handles the radio management and is expected to reduce battery consumption by 20% and heat by 30% it should do quite well even with 1080p and 5.7" screen.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...ss-power-and-30-less-heat-than-existing-tech/

Note 2 having 3100 mAh battery, and not much attractive. All android phones has low battery life.
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MBariya said:
Note 2 having 3100 mAh battery, and not much attractive. All android phones has low battery life.
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What are you trying to say?
Note 2 had excellent battery life.

Read out proper.
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Probably about the same as Gnote II which is said to be the better than every phone not named Razr Maxx(HD). The 1080p screen will still take it's toll though.

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Probably about the same as Gnote II which is said to be the better than every phone not named Razr Maxx(HD). The 1080p screen will still take it's toll though.
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This is my worry... I am spoiled with the RAZR Maxx HD now.
I just need about 16 hours with 4-5 hours screen time. Think the N3 will live up to that?
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Notrega said:
This is my worry... I am spoiled with the RAZR Maxx HD now.
I just need about 16 hours with 4-5 hours screen time. Think the N3 will live up to that?
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no it wont. it will last 12-15 hours no problem though. at least my old note 2 did and this one should last longer

oneandroidnut said:
no it wont. it will last 12-15 hours no problem though. at least my old note 2 did and this one should last longer
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What kind of screen time are you getting?
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What kind of screen time are you getting?
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probably 4-5 easy. cant remember exactly havent been on note for a long time. that was in the winter/spring right before s4 so i dont remember sorry!
all i know is i never had to worry about it dying during a day no matter what i did with it

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What kind of screen time are you getting?
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Please, the screen time is irrelevant it's how you use that screen time is what's important. You can watch netflix 9 hours non-stop, but you won't be able get these 9 hours of screen time any other possible way, only if you keep it on all the time.
So in average you might get 4 hours of screen time by using it for 15 minutes at a time, or next time it will be only 2 hours if you turn it on for 30 sec at a time.
Screen time on it's own is like artificial benchmarks - useless.

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Please, the screen time is irrelevant it's how you use that screen time is what's important. You can watch netflix 9 hours non-stop, but you won't be able get these 9 hours of screen time any other possible way, only if you keep it on all the time.
So in average you might get 4 hours of screen time by using it for 15 minutes at a time, or next time it will be only 2 hours if you turn it on for 30 sec at a time.
Screen time on it's own is like artificial benchmarks - useless.
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Screen on time with average use, ie. email/texting/web IS indeed a good indicator.... That is why screenshots should show the battery screen and screen time so that you can evaluate what is being used
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Notrega said:
Screen on time with average use, ie. email/texting/web IS indeed a good indicator.... That is why screenshots should show the battery screen and screen time so that you can evaluate what is being used
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That's exactly is my point - one must see how the phone was used together with the screen time before be able evaluate it. Unfortunately people show screenshot of first screen where all apps displayed and then screen time screen. That doesn't tell you anything either. The details graph is what's most important in battery live evaluation.
I can have 24 hours battery life and 7 hours of screen time. How? - by not touching the phone for 17 hours and then watch netflix til it dies. It will be amazing unless I show the battery usage details graph.
P.S.
Not arguing, just saying

I now understand why i barely get 2 hours of screen on time with my gnex... I use it way too much. When my screen is open, i'm usually reading news from flipboard news360 etc. that's why it doesn't last that long.

This is one of the best days I have had with my Maxx... When gauging battery life I look for what is being used the most. I am constantly emailing/texting/reading rss/web surfing/etc... if it is on it is being touched in someway. Seldom have I watched more than a few youtube videos, never netflix. The only time it is awake and not being touched is in the morning when I stream iHeart Radio.
I know that I would never be able to come close to this with the N3...
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My battery life on my note 3 is great like 34 days of standby 145 hours. Of screen time and I don't even have the phone yet and it just gets better all the time .....
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Notrega said:
This is one of the best days I have had with my Maxx... When gauging battery life I look for what is being used the most. I am constantly emailing/texting/reading rss/web surfing/etc... if it is on it is being touched in someway. Seldom have I watched more than a few youtube videos, never netflix. The only time it is awake and not being touched is in the morning when I stream iHeart Radio.
I know that I would never be able to come close to this with the N3...
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I bet I can get better battery with a Note 3.
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leyvatron said:
I bet I can get better battery with a Note 3.
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Based on? I WANT to believe
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Notrega said:
This is my worry... I am spoiled with the RAZR Maxx HD now.
I just need about 16 hours with 4-5 hours screen time. Think the N3 will live up to that?
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My Note1 with 2500mah lasts about 16 hours with 4 hours of onscreen time. Note3 will be much much better.
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note3 battery only tiny bit bigger than note2... i think it might has shorter battery life than note2