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Hi guys, I have my omnia 7 for less then a week now and I found it's battery life terrible, the worst performance ever. It drys off in less then a half of day with general use. I fill the battery to 100% over the night and then I wake up in the morning at 5.30am and when I'm back from school sometimes it's allmost empty, sometimes is at about 20% with a usage of About 15 mins of gaming, some browsing/facebook.. few calls and sms and an hour or two of music playback.
I have wifi, bluetooh, push mail, feedback and locations off. Have also been reading on the social.answers microsoft forum about that and there were different tought. I'm wondering how is it with yours.. is it REALLY this bad or it is something wrong with my phone/battery. I don't want to take it back if all are like this as it will be at least one week on service.
uristic said:
Hi guys, I have my omnia 7 for less then a week now and I found it's battery life terrible, the worst performance ever. It drys off in less then a half of day with general use. I fill the battery to 100% over the night and then I wake up in the morning at 5.30am and when I'm back from school sometimes it's allmost empty, sometimes is at about 20% with a usage of About 15 mins of gaming, some browsing/facebook.. few calls and sms and an hour or two of music playback.
I have wifi, bluetooh, push mail, feedback and locations off. Have also been reading on the social.answers microsoft forum about that and there were different tought. I'm wondering how is it with yours.. is it REALLY this bad or it is something wrong with my phone/battery. I don't want to take it back if all are like this as it will be at least one week on service.
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mine is on par with any other smartphone ive owned. i can get 24 hours out of it comfortable. thats with about 30 mins calls, 15-20 sms, 30-40 mins gaming, wifi, bluetooth, location & feedback all turned on, windows live & facebook hourly sync & 5 email accounts syncing between every hour & every 2 hours. i have noticed battery life seems to suffer when i use last.fm over HSDPA so maybe its something related to music playback. but even with 3-4 hours of last.fm im still getting 13-14 hours.
uristic said:
Hi guys, I have my omnia 7 for less then a week now and I found it's battery life terrible, the worst performance ever. It drys off in less then a half of day with general use. I fill the battery to 100% over the night and then I wake up in the morning at 5.30am and when I'm back from school sometimes it's allmost empty, sometimes is at about 20% with a usage of About 15 mins of gaming, some browsing/facebook.. few calls and sms and an hour or two of music playback.
I have wifi, bluetooh, push mail, feedback and locations off. Have also been reading on the social.answers microsoft forum about that and there were different tought. I'm wondering how is it with yours.. is it REALLY this bad or it is something wrong with my phone/battery. I don't want to take it back if all are like this as it will be at least one week on service.
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mine is running fine.
1. exchange mail
2. google mail
3. facebook sync
4. average 10 minutes surfing
5. 10 minutes game
6. less than 20 sms
7. average 10 minutes voice call
morning 9AM full charged and at least 60% by 8PM
ok thank you guys for reply.. I'm deffinetly taking it back for a replacement on monday.
It could be some app running under the lock screen draining your battery, like a game or Last.fm... other than that, yeah, sounds like a replacement is in order
T045T said:
It could be some app running under the lock screen draining your battery, like a game or Last.fm... other than that, yeah, sounds like a replacement is in order
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Nothing running in background. anyway I'll take it back in monday and ask them for a replacement if not, I'll have to wait a week or two to get it back from repair service... trought I hope to get it back till new year.
Maybe consider just buying a new battery?
you should definitely ask for a new battery first, before sending it to service. In the end all is made in China... P.s. My bat. lasts the same as descibed by the others. 1-1,5 day...
Bya said:
Maybe consider just buying a new battery?
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giving 390€ with 24 months of contract, using the device for one week and you really think I'm as dumb to buy a new battery as I have 1 year warranty on battery and other accesories ? ... Really ?
mchabr said:
you should definitely ask for a new battery first, before sending it to service. In the end all is made in China... P.s. My bat. lasts the same as descibed by the others. 1-1,5 day...
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Thanks, I'll see what it can be done..
my omnia7 leasts longer than my galaxys with data and email sync .. so no problem
Ok I was at my carrier and they said that the phone needs to be send on service (no replacement options) so I'll probobly send it after new year.
But I notice that when I'm at home (I live about 7-8km out of the city) my battery last muuuuuch longer, actually enugh for what I expect - 2h of music, about 2h web and of market browsing (connected to home wifi + mobile data enabled connected on 3g+ full signal) and when I'm in school (city centre) it drys my batery much faster. Today after 3h with 20min of music and 5 min of web browsing it fell on less than 50% and few hours later on -20% and then it turned off. (same if connected to school wifi or just 3g+ also with full signal)... I really don't get it .
And many of my school mates have the same carrier but don't have any of this problem... might it be somekind of carrier transmitor selectnig bug with windows phone 7 or what ?
Things to note - browsing with WiFi requires less power than browsing over 3G - 3G browsing will suck out your battery a lot faster. (The phone will not use your mobile data connection if you're over WiFi) Also, depending on the lighting conditions, your screen auto brightness will probably also have your screen on a lower brightness setting in your house.
That, and I don't really recommened using your phone as your primary Music/Video palyer if you're serious about battery life - that does a good job of sucking your battery too, and you'll ntoice most of the people getting good battery life aren't really using it as their primary media player.
actually I tested it with using at home with same settings (brightnes to low, wifi/3g off/on) and I can see that when I'm in the city centre it sucks the battery in only few hours with data connection on and not connected to wifi so I assume that my operator wich recently updated it's network did something wrong as my school mates have noticed this too but none of them isn't using a smartphone on this network so it isn't so obvius. I temporary solved the problem with turning off data connection when I'm in the centre and turning it on only when I need it and when I'm out of the centre.
I also noticed my battery life sucked when I had the official twitter application installed on it.
Today I left it charging for 8 hours on my laptop and the battery meter barely moved, I removed Twitter and hey presto it started to charge properly.
Back to Beezz and now all is ok
daleski75 said:
I also noticed my battery life sucked when I had the official twitter application installed on it.
Today I left it charging for 8 hours on my laptop and the battery meter barely moved, I removed Twitter and hey presto it started to charge properly.
Back to Beezz and now all is ok
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Apps don't run in the background so it is pretty much impossible for twitter to be draining your battery if it is not open.
Maybe it was just a coincidence but as soon as I removed this app my battery started to charge.
Unless it was a one off issue with charging over usb.
my batterylife is the best ive ever had in a smartphone ... i need a custom rom on my galaxy s with android to get close to the batterylife of my omnia 7 ... i am using hsdpa with the same provider on both phones permantly and im syncing emails with them ... even with gaming (sims 3 or nfs underground) the windows phone least longer.
Spybreak said:
Apps don't run in the background so it is pretty much impossible for twitter to be draining your battery if it is not open.
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Not at all. There could me a memory leak in the .NET/silverlight runtime - even Microsoft developers make mistakes
Tbh, I have the Twitter app installed also and my battery life is as good as can be expected with a modern smartphone: 1.5 days heavy use (Music, Twitter, Facebook, web browsing & constant SMS/e-mail)
may I ask somebody for a favor ? Under the diagnosis (call ##634#) type *#2*# (battery diagnosis) and please check what does it say on the third screen at the last line "Result". For me it's "Pass/Fail". Might this "fail" mean it's something wrong with the battery ?
PS. after dialing ##634# a shortcut for diagnosis will show up in the apps menu... just delete it if you don't need it.
And to get to the third screen use the big arrow on the top =)
I have a LG E900 Maximo7 and I'm a bit disappointed with the lack of autonomy of it.
On last days I had push mail off, wifi off, bluetooth off, location off, data connection off, .........., and with a few phone calls and sms, and 5 minutes of internet per day the battery is off at the end of the day.
I usually charge it at night (23:00pm) and at the end of afternoon of next day (arround 19:00 or 20:00pm) the battery is off or near by.
Is it normal? On your mobiles you have this kind of autonomy?
PS: My LG has the NoDo (OS version 7.0.7392.0)
No, my phone runs 2 days with internet and everything.
Hummm, can probably be something wrong with my mobile?
Well my experiences on battery life:
Heavy use (3G, surfing, gaming, mp3) = 8-12h (with 2-3h screen on)
Normal use (3G, some surfing) = 20-24h
No Use (3G off, Data connection off, just lying around with GSM) = 3+ days (I was really shocked by how long the battery lasted when I was on vacation)
I use a brand new battery. I dont know if the values are really correct as I never let the battery run down until it shuts off automatically.
The battery duration of this phone and of all WP7 phones in general is really impressive, try Android and you will understand!
Maybe u have just faulty battery, I can use my device for 2 days with all on without charging it (just turn off all radios with Airplane Mode during the night)
The same problem. I've even bought a new battery and it didn't help.
I have ROM from StarHub
the.rider1290 said:
The battery duration of this phone and of all WP7 phones in general is really impressive, try Android and you will understand
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My wife has already bought SG2 (which has bigger screen) and I was impressed how long does it work on battery. She works as seller and supervisor, and use phone almost constantly aprox 8-10h per day (of course not only for emails and internet) and only charge phone every 2 days! When my LG was brand new, battery life was aprox. 24h on normal use, now with mango and 6 months old battery is aprox. 16-18h only.
I get phone from from charger at 9, use it only to listen to the music through bluetooth and read news for an hour or two maximum and at the late evening it can die.
Everything enabled (Wi-FI, Bluetooth, Location)
Using 3G
If I use it more intensive it definitely dies till evening. WTF?
We need to do something with it. Focuses and other WP7 works for 2 days.
It all comes down to usage really. Smartphones in general don't last long. If you think you are not using the set much and still it seem to drain battery way too fast start checking for stuff running that can eat power.
Usually things are running that one is unaware of that under certain circumstances drain your battery.
Check for background tasks and stuff like that.
/J
I started thread at MS Q&A
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-90c3-405e-8073-18e12bfab008?tm=1318370390863
Hi, everyone ı bought s4 but ı didn't like its battery.İnternet is connecting everytime , and ı look my social network every 15 minutes,ı play 30 minutes totally in a day.And waching video on youtube but battery run-out 12 hours.İs it normal ?
Lastly I'm sorry for my English.
Thank you
These phones suck up the juice. Search for other posts on battery drain there are a bunch, and they have good info in them.
I shut off everything I don't use and still had issues getting 24 hours with light use. I ended up getting an extended battery and I get 2 days with no issues now. Google services was killing my battery.. Look in settings under battery and see what's using the most battery.
Samsung Galaxy S4 battery life
Stock 4.2.2 I337MVLUAMG1 Rooted. Using JuiceDefender Ultimate.. Pretty good thou..
Just sharing with my experience..I'm happy about it..
Battery is great.
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Both TouchWiz and CyanogenMod gave me around a whole days use (about 3-5 hour screen on time). It all depends what you do with your phone throughout the day. If you browser the web, text and call you should last the whole day. But if you play games, text, call, etc and use your phone heavily, expect it to die out at around 12-15 hours.
The best option in my opinion would be getting extra batteries. Not extended batteries, if you don't want the extra bulk. Hyperion and Anker are excellent 3rd party battery manufacturers, you can carry the extra batteries around with you, in your backpack or even your pocket and use them if you need them.
I like to use GREENIFY and hibernate all but essential apps
*messaging, Whatsapp, phone and weather widget
I also use WAKELOCK DETECTOR to see what is running when the phone is "asleep"
I can "play hard" with the phone for about 14 hours
--games, texting, pictures...and typical phone calls
However I do still charge it up at night and I have a car charger so I keep the battery topped off..I never know when I will be 14 hours away from a charger
dhexzter22 said:
Stock 4.2.2 I337MVLUAMG1 Rooted. Using JuiceDefender Ultimate.. Pretty good thou..
Just sharing with my experience..I'm happy about it..
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How in the hell did u get 3 days? I cant get over 26 hours, and thats with like maybe 2-3 hours screen on time and really limited usage of games, maybe like 10 minutes
alexjojo946 said:
How in the hell did u get 3 days? I cant get over 26 hours, and thats with like maybe 2-3 hours screen on time and really limited usage of games, maybe like 10 minutes
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Just a regular usage, FB, Email, Weather, Remote of my few devices at home. Not much Call and text specially games. Restart phone when your about to go sleep in the end of the day and just let it go. Let juice defender do the trick for you. I kinda like the app. 2nd or 3rd day charge phone when ever necessary. I have S3 as wel b4 this phone so I just use that for my games and etc.
I used to go 2 days with my 5200 battery, but the last set of google updates have cut me down to 17 hours.. I was very happy with the S4 battery life before that
I had the same issue with my S4. Id seem to be losing a percent per minute while using the phone to do simple things like sending texts with wifi, air gestures, gprs, bluetooth off. I 'd leave the phone on standby over night and by morning losses of up to 30% of the battery wold be seen. I fixed the issue by reseting the phone and disabling location finder in google seen on initial setup. Try it. My battery nowlasts much longer despite frequent usage. eg. I umplugged from charger yeaterday at 9am and used the phone all day. At 9 this morning my battery was at 35%.
I just got my phone 2 days ago and I can say this is the best battery I ever used (at least for now)
mf3 rooted SHOstock 2.3
willieamm said:
I had the same issue with my S4. Id seem to be losing a percent per minute while using the phone to do simple things like sending texts with wifi, air gestures, gprs, bluetooth off. I 'd leave the phone on standby over night and by morning losses of up to 30% of the battery wold be seen. I fixed the issue by reseting the phone and disabling location finder in google seen on initial setup. Try it. My battery nowlasts much longer despite frequent usage. eg. I umplugged from charger yeaterday at 9am and used the phone all day. At 9 this morning my battery was at 35%.
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ekotim said:
Hi, everyone ı bought s4 but ı didn't like its battery.İnternet is connecting everytime , and ı look my social network every 15 minutes,ı play 30 minutes totally in a day.And waching video on youtube but battery run-out 12 hours.İs it normal ?
Lastly I'm sorry for my English.
Thank you
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seaham358 said:
These phones suck up the juice. Search for other posts on battery drain there are a bunch, and they have good info in them.
I shut off everything I don't use and still had issues getting 24 hours with light use. I ended up getting an extended battery and I get 2 days with no issues now. Google services was killing my battery.. Look in settings under battery and see what's using the most battery.
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Hi all,
I realize a bad Wifi connection /congested wifi can cause Battery drain.
Some background services will get stuck there and consume 3-4% per hour. If that happens can try to disable Wifi or set it to disable during sleep and monitor the battery usage again. Hope this will help
Well I'm not sure what to make of this but here goes.
My wife and myself have both got n4 mine is black hers is white both sim free UK phones.
I've been checking every time I get home from work what her sot is and what percentage battery she has left against mine and she always wins.
Example my phone would have say 50% battery and 2.5 hours sot and my wife would have say 70% with 2.5 hours sot.
So I thought maybe it's because she's at home with good 3g radio and I'm in a medium 4G area at work?
I've been through every setting on both the phones to see if one had something turned on that the other didn't but no and in some cases she had more things on that me ie haptic feedback was on and mine was off on everything calls text messages everything.
I planned on swapping batteries to see if that was to fault.
But I decided to do a factory reset as the only hassle I would have would be to re enter my WiFi password and all my apps would download automatically which isn't a big deal.
And now as we speak or as I type I have 71% battery with 2hrs sot unplugged since 7.30am it's now 15.50.
So what has caused my battery to be so bad?
I've been through all my apps and there is nothing abnormal and my wife even had stupid ones like candy crush and talking Tom that she has to feed and take out for a pee!
Anyone else noticed that there battery has got worse ?
i had issues with lock ups and poor battery because of google services (google now in particular). i ended up removing all the services - uninstalling the updates (play, gmail, music etc) and then re applying them.
That was a week ago and since then the phone has been smooth and rapid without the silly lock outs.
ALSO, when booting i have to goto the multitask screen and end all otherwise i cannot get wifi and the phone runs like a dog for a while.
I hoping that these are fixed with the next firmware that im still waiting for in the uk
Ive had my phone for 3 weeks and its been rooted since day one. I use my phone in the same way day to day but my battery is over the place. Yest i had it off charger for 15 hours and i had 6 hours of sot with 5% left. Today its been off charger since 730. All i did was stream music to my blue tooth headphones for 30 min and battery is down to 75%. Screen was off so was wifi and gps. Anyone else have this problem?
thegameksk said:
Ive had my phone for 3 weeks and its been rooted since day one. I use my phone in the same way day to day but my battery is over the place. Yest i had it off charger for 15 hours and i had 6 hours of sot with 5% left. Today its been off charger since 730. All i did was stream music to my blue tooth headphones for 30 min and battery is down to 75%. Screen was off so was wifi and gps. Anyone else have this problem?
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Messenger is your problem if you weren't using it. Was there an update to it recently? My GF complained of battery drain on her G5 this morning and messenger was running crazy.
Wouldn't I have awful battery everyday than? I have bad day followed by Good day.
There is another thread here. A few of us are expecting this lately. And I think it's safe to conclude that Facebook is the one responsible for these battery drain. Try uninstalling and disabling it. Both Facebook and FB messenger.
I uninstalled it and recharged. I'm still losing crazy amounts of battery. I lost 10% in an hr with the phone sitting in my pocket and now the screen won't rotate anymore.
on the tmo/918 variant and experienced this as well starting this morning - slow charging, high battery drain, phone being overly hot. uninstalled both FB and messenger, cleared cache, and so far things seem to be back to normal...