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Bad to leave photo frame on?

Hi,
I recently downloaded an APP called photo frame.
I like the idea of having a mini digital photo frame when charging my x10.
I am wondering if it is bad to leaving the screen on all the time while charging and displaying the photos.
Thanks

I don't know if is bad or not to have the screen on but your batter will be drained in no time most likely

dkyu said:
Hi,
I recently downloaded an APP called photo frame.
I like the idea of having a mini digital photo frame when charging my x10.
I am wondering if it is bad to leaving the screen on all the time while charging and displaying the photos.
Thanks
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all screens have a life time of sum thousand hours.. so as long as u leave them on u loose the life of it.!!!

all screens have a life time of sum thousand hours.. so as long as u leave them on u loose the life of it.!!!
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True, but TFTs have lifespans measured in tens of thousands of hours so you could leave it on 24x7 and it would still last for years! (OLED displays still have significantly shorter lifespans as the technology is less mature).
The only downside I can see to using a phone as a digital photo frame while charging is that it will take a bit longer to charge.
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Ic. So the life time of the screen will be too long to matter. Thanks for the reply.
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[Q] Nexus 4 on order, arrival soon, what can I expect ;) ?

So, they have apparently sorted out the stock and supply problem. I <cough> borrowed the wife's credit card and have placed the order.
They say it will ship in 1 to 2 weeks, I can live with that.
The light-hearted question I have is, once I've gotten over the excited rush of playing with the phone for a while, what have your experiences been? Good or bad! I've heard that the battery life is not great but to be honest I am not so bothered with that. I have a charger and work, and home, in the car - I can even charge it at the pub/bar I go to

Keep an eye out for issues worthy of an RMA. From there, the only thing to expect is awesomeness. You'll want to calibrate the screen color and gamma, though.

Has battery life been that bad? Because I just ordered one myself to replace my wife's 3GS.

kenhicg said:
Has battery life been that bad? Because I just ordered one myself to replace my wife's 3GS.
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yes battery life is very bad on this device. in sleep/standby its great. but when you do something, it drains battery very fast. just 5minutes use and at least 10% are gone.

Rondock said:
yes battery life is very bad on this device. in sleep/standby its great. but when you do something, it drains battery very fast. just 5minutes use and at least 10% are gone.
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Utter tripe. You either have a rouge app, or you have the brighness turned up full or something else stupid.
I easily get a full day out mine with moderate use. It's about 50%-60% remaining when I get home in the evening from work.

I got around 3 hours of screen on time and a full 18-20 hours standby on stock rom with the usual useage of whatsapp and gmail syncing, with web use and texting etc, and now on custom rom, I am getting up to 4.5 hours screen on.
So, battery is good, phone is super fast and smooth, camera is great if you take time to learn how to use it and especially with HDR on and a bit of post picture editing. Only down side is music volume and quality which is average at best. In my opinion.

Thanks for the feedback. I just hope my wife can make the transition from iOS to android.

I think depending whether you are on WiFi or HSPA will make a huge difference for battery. From what I understand, when using HSPA, the standby battery life is horrible.

The screen is usually the single biggest threat to your battery. And the N4 can get 4-6 hours of "screen on" time depending on use. As others have said, it can be on standby for 15+ hours, but you can completely kill the battery in 4 hours or less if you are using a cpu intensive app.
Custom roms and battery saving apps can def help out though.

I ordered mine at 3pm on wednesday and it was with me by 3pm on thursday .. so slightly quicker than the 1-2 weeks they quote!

Unlock the boot loader, doesn't matter if you decide on staying stock or what. Having your boot loader unlocked right of the bat allows you to keep your apps if you do decide to root /flash.
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You'll sadly probably find that the screen is *uneven* in it's tint (yellow probably) and brightness. Because it's uneven, "calibrating" will help a little maybe but will not fix any issues with the screen. On the other hand, with luck (which I wish you) you may find that your screen is pretty much perfectly uniform in brightness and tone top to bottom, left to right. (Check using the Mail app and minimise the keyboard) I've had 5 so far and none of them are acceptable to me. Otherwise the phone is truly incredible in use. Buttery smooth, responsive, great. The screen very generally is amazing too. It's just not even as it should be. Let me know how yours is - i'd be interested to know because if yours has good uniformity I'll order another. Good luck!

Rondock said:
yes battery life is very bad on this device. in sleep/standby its great. but when you do something, it drains battery very fast. just 5minutes use and at least 10% are gone.
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My drain is 1% per hour and I get more the 4hs screen time. Please, review your device and stop giving false statements.
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How much do you believe turning off the data and just running the voice will save battery life?
calanizzle said:
My drain is 1% per hour and I get more the 4hs screen time. Please, review your device and stop giving false statements.
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fredcorp6 said:
I ordered mine at 3pm on wednesday and it was with me by 3pm on thursday .. so slightly quicker than the 1-2 weeks they quote!
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What? No way lol you must be lucky then. Because even the shipping method says 2 day shipping. Unless you paid a bunch of money for overnight shipping?
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Crisisx1 said:
What? No way lol you must be lucky then. Because even the shipping method says 2 day shipping. Unless you paid a bunch of money for overnight shipping?
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Played £9.99 for shipping... Think that was the only option on there?
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bittersound said:
So, they have apparently sorted out the stock and supply problem. I <cough> borrowed the wife's credit card and have placed the order.
They say it will ship in 1 to 2 weeks, I can live with that.
The light-hearted question I have is, once I've gotten over the excited rush of playing with the phone for a while, what have your experiences been? Good or bad! I've heard that the battery life is not great but to be honest I am not so bothered with that. I have a charger and work, and home, in the car - I can even charge it at the pub/bar I go to
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Well expect battery drain issues (msm_hsic_host wakelock).

How's the battery and available storage?

Hello, I'm thinking about buying a lg nexus 4, i have a iphone 4s and i saw in some reviews, including the gsmarena, that battery is very bad in this phone... But maybe some update made it better, can anyone tell me?
And how much is the available storage in 16gb model? In iphone i have 13.3gb i think.
Thanks!
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jjforums said:
Hello, I'm thinking about buying a lg nexus 4, i have a iphone 4s and i saw in some reviews, including the gsmarena, that battery is very bad in this phone... But maybe some update made it better, can anyone tell me?
And how much is the available storage in 16gb model? In iphone i have 13.3gb i think.
Thanks!
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Storage is 12.92 gb. Battery depends on your usage.
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So... No battery improvements since the launch? Thnks.
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jjforums said:
So... No battery improvements since the launch? Thnks.
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i have 61% remaining after 13h plus of usage with 1hr 16m on screen time (whatsapp, occasional checking of twitter and instagram, watching a few youtube videos) with 3G enabled.
very good battery life i would say. running on sentinel rom though.

chainer22 said:
i have 61% remaining after 13h plus of usage with 1hr 16m on screen time (whatsapp, occasional checking of twitter and instagram, watching a few youtube videos) with 3G enabled.
very good battery life i would say. running on sentinel rom though.
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do you always turn on turn off the display just to check what's going on, on your phone every 5-10 minutes ? cause I always do that and is that draining the battery that much ?

banboy said:
do you always turn on turn off the display just to check what's going on, on your phone every 5-10 minutes ? cause I always do that and is that draining the battery that much ?
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Checking the clock has no effect on battery use.
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banboy said:
do you always turn on turn off the display just to check what's going on, on your phone every 5-10 minutes ? cause I always do that and is that draining the battery that much ?
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i always do that to check on any new notifications, unlocking to clear notifications. but like what calyxim said, it doesn't affect the battery life.

Battery Life Discussion

Discuss your battery life here.

Ya sure , the battery life is so awesome I think I don't need to charge it again until May 27th.
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trincisor said:
Ya sure , the battery life is so awesome I think I don't need to charge it again until May 27th.
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Good one
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3000mAH for 2k 5.5 inch
just to make sure this one maybe for korea, usually using 2 batteries so the global g3 will be different

Samscheetah said:
3000mAH for 2k 5.5 inch
just to make sure this one maybe for korea, usually using 2 batteries so the global g3 will be different
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The g pro 2 came with 2 batteries ... maybe they do the same.
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honestly, if they just put a 4000mAh in it, I wouldn't mind if it weren't replaceable. And I seriously doubt with the kind of perfomance/specs its gonna have, anyone would really mind the extra thickness either. Not to mention heft (cough, durability).

It's not how big the tank K is but how much less is sippped from the tank
Nexus 5 so battery is 75% if G2
But battery life on nexus 5 is far less than 75 percentage of G2 albeit having a smaller screen
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Don't forget - with a removable battery, I'll bet some vendor will come out with a 3500+ mAh battery...
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GeodudeFFP said:
Don't forget - with a removable battery, I'll bet some vendor will come out with a 3500+ mAh battery...
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true, tho hopefully LG itself does it, kinda like Samsung did with S3, which I have.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Firs...ery-life-tests-show-promising-results_id56590
more than six hours of screen-on time with 100% brightness, it's really impressive.

jason_jiang said:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Firs...ery-life-tests-show-promising-results_id56590
more than six hours of screen-on time with 100% brightness, it's really impressive.
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it looks promising but i would take this article with a grain of salt. I want to see a article or a video with alot of apps and features turned on this reviewed. i believe that would be a real battery review

Still, LG hasn't outed official talk, standby, browsing and video playback times yet, so we can only guesstimate the battery life of the G3 to be pretty good, based on some tangential proof from improvised battery tests that are popping up.
First off, a prototype version of the phone has been put through its paces, and the phone lasted six and a half hours of video playback on a charge, as you can see from the screens on the right. That might seem average, but the test has been done at the screen's*maximumbrightness, which*LG officially pegs at 430 nits, instead of the usual 150 or 200 nits, so the result from standardized routines like our own battery test, are likely to be much higher.*
Also so the test was at basically 2× brightness of a normal screen. ... so at lower brightness it should do very well
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Thanks to the removable battery I couldn't care less about battery life you can always take one or even two with you and go through half a week without ever needing to charge your phone good job LG :good:
I'm sure it will feature some sort of ultra power saving mode just like the S5

frankgreimes said:
Thanks to the removable battery I couldn't care less about battery life you can always take one or even two with you and go through half a week without ever needing to charge your phone good job LG :good:
I'm sure it will feature some sort of ultra power saving mode just like the S5
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Is it really nice to always have a secondary batt and most time having to turn off phone then replace. I quite don't like that and I don't see that very cute at all. Maybe it's how I feel but that for me just seems not right.

jeyd02 said:
Is it really nice to always have a secondary batt and most time having to turn off phone then replace. I quite don't like that and I don't see that very cute at all. Maybe it's how I feel but that for me just seems not right.
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I would totally have taken a 3500mAh stuck battery like in G2(not impossible to remove after some years) instead of 3000mAh removable.

wargreymon89 said:
I would totally have taken a 3500mAh stuck battery like in G2(not impossible to remove after some years) instead of 3000mAh removable.
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How about we first get the phone and test it ourselves?

jeyd02 said:
How about we first get the phone and test it ourselves?
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I never said 3000mAh isnt enough, but 3500mAh would last longer and most people dont run around with an extra battery in their pocket even if they can. Saving 1-2 hours of work to replace a battery like in the G2 after 1-3 years isnt really that much.

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I never said 3000mAh isnt enough, but 3500mAh would last longer and most people dont run around with an extra battery in their pocket even if they can. Saving 1-2 hours of work to replace a battery like in the G2 after 1-3 years isnt really that much.
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Just the same way you are thinking, don't you think that LG thought of that?

jeyd02 said:
Just the same way you are thinking, don't you think that LG thought of that?
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Of course they did, but they are catering to the people who are stuck in the old days when smartphones didnt last as long and batteries died much faster. Sure batteries degrade still, but if they hold longer between the charges and with more improvment it would be years between needing to change it. LG did the right thing with G2, but people arent smart enough to see it, so LG had to go back to the old ways to win the heart of the stuck.

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Of course they did, but they are catering to the people who are stuck in the old days when smartphones didnt last as long and batteries died much faster. Sure batteries degrade still, but if they hold longer between the charges and with more improvment it would be years between needing to change it. LG did the right thing with G2, but people arent smart enough to see it, so LG had to go back to the old ways to win the heart of the stuck.
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Okay, what I'm saying is if they have thought then it'll make no sense for that regard. If so, then the 3000mAh batt along with their Optimization makes it enough to have that battery.
Like for example, there are different desktop power supplies but some of them are different quality. A 3 star 1200w quality desktop supply could be equivalent to a 5 star 800w quality supply.

Mate 9 - 1 month later

Fellow XDA members check out my video on my mate 9 after owning it for a month, [Mod Edit

I'm also a power user and I have to say I've gotten 8 hours SOT. When I got this phone I used the daylights out of it. Email social media, YouTube, web and couldn't kill this thing. I agree low light pics aren't good but I do like the camera otherwise. I would have liked to have seen the price around $500 seeing how great the Axon 7 is at $400.

ramheer said:
Fellow XDA members check out my video on my mate 9 after owning it for a month,
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Could you please tell me about the camera lens? I mean to ask about the tiny scratches on the camera lens after usage of a week or two, these scratches are only visible under the light when camera lens is facing the light source. please update about it.

WHY?!
Help me. I am almost sure that my battery drains so much after update to B138 and not physical battery defect. Please convince me. Am I right?

Badonga said:
Help me. I am almost sure that my battery drains so much after update to B138 and not physical battery defect. Please convince me. Am I right?
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It does, more than B126, but in my experience it will settle after a while. Probably just reindexing for the first couple of days.
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Governa said:
It does, more than B126, but in my experience it will settle after a while. Probably just reindexing for the first couple of days.
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Should I downgrade tho? Have anyone tried downgrading and actually get the old awesome SOT?

Badonga said:
Should I downgrade tho? Have anyone tried downgrading and actually get the old awesome SOT?
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You can use FunkyHuawei but you will end up having to restore everything afterwards.
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Governa said:
You can using FunkyHuawei but you will end up having to restore everything afterwards.
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Actually if you re-read what I said, I was actually asking if anyone who downgraded actually get the awesome battery life again.

Badonga said:
Actually if you re-read what I said, I was actually asking if anyone who downgraded actually get the awesome battery life again.
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They did.
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Anyone know when the next update is due? For the international version

Anyone else having issues on their Mate 9 that I didn't cover?

bossei said:
I'm also a power user and I have to say I've gotten 8 hours SOT. When I got this phone I used the daylights out of it. Email social media, YouTube, web and couldn't kill this thing. I agree low light pics aren't good but I do like the camera otherwise. I would have liked to have seen the price around $500 seeing how great the Axon 7 is at $400.
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HI,
Im struggling to understand how one is able to attain a SOT of even more than 4 hours. Could the signal strength be a factor for SOT?
I dont have bluetooth turned on nor wifi with automatic screen brightness, i barely get passed 3 hours. Heck, i dont even have the facebook app on the phone.
Please enlighten me on how you have managed to get an SOT of 8 hours. Thanks!:cyclops:

Other than the lock screen issue, the other two are just nitpicking, in my opinion.
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When I play a movie either on facebook or youtube and receive a phonecall, I can hear very loud in the headset at the same time the caller and the movie sound. It also happens with google maps. Does any of you have this issue?

was hoping this device would drop to 500. I just can't justify 600 for a huawei.

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was hoping this device would drop to 500. I just can't justify 600 for a huawei.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=70985959
It was and will be again

Great video, disagree entirely with battery. This is the first phone EVER, that I do not have to charge before bedtime. Real life use. Everything else including the Samsungs will need a charge early evening at least. This one, never.
I agree about the screen... I'd have liked 2k.

androFRUST said:
HI,
Im struggling to understand how one is able to attain a SOT of even more than 4 hours. Could the signal strength be a factor for SOT?
I dont have bluetooth turned on nor wifi with automatic screen brightness, i barely get passed 3 hours. Heck, i dont even have the facebook app on the phone.
Please enlighten me on how you have managed to get an SOT of 8 hours. Thanks!:cyclops:
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That is so true even in my case. I use my phone like usual and I get 3-4 hours of SOT. Last night I went to bed, it was on 16%, so I put it on charge.
I am surprised when people around me talk about 6-7 hours of SOT. Makes me wonder, if my battery is bad, or perhaps I need to reset my phone and start again.
By the way, this is within a week of buying the mobile. I never saw more than 4 hours before last night.

I must say battery life is great . I am a heavy user too n I do not disable any stuffs except GPS ( enabled it only when needed). My MINIMUM SOT is consistently 9 hours . With greater usage of wi-fi 10-11 hours. Is quite similar to my other mi mix with higher capacity battery. These are similar SOT with Mate7, Mate8.
As comparison these are other SOT on my other phones I had used : s7e 6-7, one plus 3t 5-6, V20 5-6, iPhone 7+ usage 11-12
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Camera at low light could improve further, it have some software issues.
If noticed that when battery low, the phone throttles graphics and cpu performance, i hope it will be resolved.
Also typing with swiftkey doesn't feel smooth as with my s7e, it has some delays, sometimes though it works fine.