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Can any of you dudes that have the phone comment on your experiences with battery life? I'd imagine it would be pretty decent because of the smaller display size and lower cpu frequency, but I've read some reviews that it's mediocre.
Anyone have it last longer than a day on a full charge?
the battery life is better than the backflip I can say that much, but I dont think it will make it 12 hours without being recharged. I actually dont use the voice services that much either.
I would like it even more if the battery at least lasted thru the day.
MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT... the speaker on this phone SUCKS!!!!!!!!! it's a shame, I really REALLY love this phone.
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the battery life is better than the backflip I can say that much, but I dont think it will make it 12 hours without being recharged. I actually dont use the voice services that much either.
I would like it even more if the battery at least lasted thru the day.
MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT... the speaker on this phone SUCKS!!!!!!!!! it's a shame, I really REALLY love this phone.
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Man, not even 12 hours? I'd hate to see what the battery life on an Evo 4g is like. Is it just because of the 1200mAh battery or is this something inherent to Android?
6 hrs 57 mins talk time. frm real world testing.
i read a review on pcmag web page and the reviewer test the battery life and said it got 7 hours talk time. in real world testing. so its as good as smart phones get. better than a iphone or any other android phone thats out.
Batter Life is GOOD!
Ok....I am new to the android universe as the Aria is my first android phone. However in response to batter life it is really good. I have a friend who has the EVO can can only go about 5 - 6 hours before charging.
I turned the screen brightness on my Aria down to about 30% and I yesterday I went through an entire day of work (messing with the phone a lil) then went home and messed with it for a good amount of time (1 1/2 hrs). When i went to charge it that night it had 35% battery life left.
Today I left at 7:30 am and it is now 3:30 pm and the batter says it is full. Now this isn't a percentage app or anything but the batter on the phone says full. Granted i only have 2G where I live (Edge) and I am not using wifi or anything, plus i haven't messed around with the phone too much today, but that is pretty darn good if you ask me.
Here's what I used mine for yesterday:
Off charger at 7a.m.
During day I estimate that I used:
20 min voice, 25 or so sms, several trips and comments on Engadget, a dozen or more FB app uses, downloaded 2 entire songs via 3G, 15 min of browsing. Multiple email accts, fb and twitter accts syncing throughout the day.
When I left work at 6p.m. I was at 47% according to battery app. After some app downloads and a little surfing, 25 min of voice calls later it was at 25% when I went to bed at Midnight.
It's better than my Pre Plus and better than the Backflip for sure. I'd say that if you're a heavy user you may want a car charger and/or an extra wall charger to be on the safe side. I'd say that for any modern Smartphone though. I'm very happy with it, myself.
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Here's what I used mine for yesterday:
Off charger at 7a.m.
During day I estimate that I used:
20 min voice, 25 or so sms, several trips and comments on Engadget, a dozen or more FB app uses, downloaded 2 entire songs via 3G, 15 min of browsing. Multiple email accts, fb and twitter accts syncing throughout the day.
When I left work at 6p.m. I was at 47% according to battery app. After some app downloads and a little surfing, 25 min of voice calls later it was at 25% when I went to bed at Midnight.
It's better than my Pre Plus and better than the Backflip for sure. I'd say that if you're a heavy user you may want a car charger and/or an extra wall charger to be on the safe side. I'd say that for any modern Smartphone though. I'm very happy with it, myself.
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My experience is near identical to this.
As for today it left the charger at 9AM, only 10 or so texts today, on standby the rest of the time and it still says 100%
Hmm.. I guess it's highly dependent on how you use your device and how often you have it sync with online services.
yeah, i find it hard to believe some of these numbers. I don't use my phone much for voice. I dont use wifi or bluetooth, i will trigger the gps, and maybe my screen is too bright, I do about 20-30 text messages and yes, some downloading. I get a pretty good signal where I live so I dont think my battery is being eaten up by the radio searching and trying to connect to towers. I'm serious, if I get 7 hours out of this thing I would be super pleased.
I used to this though, I have had many smartphones over the year.. i just need to purchase all new accessories to keep the device charged as much as possible. ( additional charger, car charger..)
The battery life is not as good as my tilt2..but blows the backflip (i owned for about 3 weeks) in the water.
I think the battery life is just as good or moderately better than most smart phones. Vs the 3Gs I think it's slightly better, Vs the backflip I had for a week, it's way better IMO.
Just placed an order. Hey as long as it's better than my G1. I'm happier than a pig in mud! G1 is the worst when it comes to battery life.
Battery seems to be good. I charge my phone at work while it is on. I'm running pandora constantly at work as well. Yesturday i left work and was playing with the phone from around 6-11, using wifi, 3g, bluetooth, some gps, screen on the whole time, multiple apps open, downloaded a lot of stuff, syncing on for weather, gmail, contacts, news, facebook, and a whole bunch of other stuff. That brought the battery from 100% to 24%. I then killed all tasks that weren't needed, turned off all radios except phone and 3g, and let it sit overnight. It only dropped to 23% by 6:30am.
It seems to do really well with normal use. With heavy use the battry falls, just like any smartphone.
my battery lasted all day yesterday with what i would consider pretty heavy usage. i'm very pleased with the battery so far.
I've has mine since SUnday- now wednesday and the battery is HORRID for me.
I pull it off the charger @ 6am, and now its 12 noon and i have 40% left. I don't get on Facebook much til after 4pm, Use iMobsters sporadically for short amts of time, MAY browse the web if a page is blocked @ work, but that's it. Dont talk on it here @ work.
I dont get it!! I changed my screen brightness???
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I've has mine since SUnday- now wednesday and the battery is HORRID for me.
I pull it off the charger @ 6am, and now its 12 noon and i have 40% left. I don't get on Facebook much til after 4pm, Use iMobsters sporadically for short amts of time, MAY browse the web if a page is blocked @ work, but that's it. Dont talk on it here @ work.
I dont get it!! I changed my screen brightness???
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are you using a bunch of widgets on your home screens?
Mine came off of charger at about 7am and it's now at 72% at 9pm. I didn't use it much today as I was busy at work, but it's still checks my email, fb and twitter throughout the day. I do have the Friendstream widget up as well. Overall I'm good with the battery on mine.
My brightness is set right in the middle with auto brightness turned off.
battery life is pretty descent coming from an HTC Tilt 2. especially with 3g constantly on. i pretty much got similar battery life as the Tilt 2 (without 3g on..3g ate through the battery like a cop with a doughnut). i'd estimate you could probably last 18-20hrs if there was some way to turn 3g off...that includes wifi off, gps off, and auto backlight dimming off.
Advanced Task Killer also helps extend the battery life.
gotta say for how snappy it is, the clarity of the screen, and no lagging..this compact smartphone with it's smaller than typical smartphone battery packs some punch. VERY happy with the upgrade to Android
I wonder if there'll be an extended battery for this thing that doesn't require an enlarged back. I remember my Tilt had something upwards of like 1800mAh that was the same size as the stock battery.
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are you using a bunch of widgets on your home screens?
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is it better to put a app link on the homescreen instead of a widget?
i only have a few that run on the homescreen other than the ones that were pre-installed there.
If you plan on using the phone for anything other than an occasional phone call, you will need to charge it at least once before the end of the day. I just got mine a few days ago, so I've been spending a lot of time toying with it, listening to pandora, downloading apps etc... It's almost 3pm and I'm at 30%. I had the gps on while I played 18 on Sunday, used it with freecaddie for a half decent rangefinder. It made it through the round, about 5 hours. I had to charge it when I got home, battery was at 15%. I think it's fairly typical for a smartphone, a spare micro-usb cable at the office and in the car are certainly going to be a necessity if you are a heavy user.
Just starting a thread for battery life experience as people use the phone. Mine is pretty freakin' great right now, but I'll post some initial results after I get home later tonight. I finished charging to 100% almost 2 hours ago, and with just a bit of usage (maybe 10 minutes total screen on time) I still am at 100%. Though, we know that it sometimes takes a long time to drop from 100% to 90%.
What are other people's experiences? Please post display on time in battery stats, as that gives a good feel for how much you're actually using the phone.
Unplugged it at 6:30am with a full charge.
Took it to work, I put it in airplane mode when I'm in the building because I don't get a signal and don't want the radio searching for a signal and wasting power. GPS/Bluetooth/Wifi are all turned off. I turn the radio back on when I'm out of the building, and I'd estimate it's been on 2 hours since it was charged.
Have watched the latest episode of Family Guy and started on the latest episode of Dexter using Rock Player.
I estimate the screen has been on for about 4 hours. I can only estimate because I had to plug the phone in to transfer a file a couple hours ago which reset the stats.
I've downloaded and installed about 20-30 apps today over 3G networks.
At the current time of 3:15pm (8 hours 45 minutes since full charge), I have 30% of the battery left.
I think you're supposed to do a full charge and full discharge so the phone can "calibrate" the battery meter, which I have not done yet, but so far I'm very pleased. Puts my 2 yr old G1's battery life to shame...
Yeah it sounds decent. A bit better than my Nexus One was.
I would say it is on par with the Nexus One. Should get you through the day but you will be plugging it in at night. It is comparable to most android phones.
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Without explaining a bunch of boring details, it's definitely better than my N1 so far. Charged it up right after getting it from the UPS guy today for a couple of hours while I took a nap.
We'll just have to wait and see after a few days of use, charges and discharges. Looking great so far, though!
Played around with it at the store today, came in at 3 p.m after school. The demo unit was already at 45% when I got it, surfed the web for about half an hour, downloaded an app, watched YouTube for about 5 minutes and the phone died at about 4:30.
Not really impressed, but its an Android phone. Hopefully it can be better, the good thing is that the web browser is a lot faster than my iPhone 4. That's what keeping me on returning the iPhone, and it starts up a lot faster as well. Took about 20 seconds to boot up after the phone died on me, and the rep charged it.
Definitely will be needing to charge it every night.
3 hr bike ride with music playing used about %50 of the bat. So its way better then my G1 but not as good as my Iphone 2g.
I'm getting much better battery life then I was getting on the G1....love this phone
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How about someone download Battery Left widget and tell us what it says.
Will vary by user but it will be more accurate with remaining battery life.
So far the battery life on mine is terrible compared to my nexus one, and that was terrible as well.
I woke up 10am, phone on the charger, took it off, around 2pm made two phone calls. Went to work at 5pm, phone's battery was at 23% around 7pm. My nexus one around that point would be at ~50%. So far I'm not impressed with this phone, more work could have went into it.
I loaded a few webpages... did a video chat with someone on Fring for about a minute (lol), downloaded a few apps, had a few phone calls... one lasting about 10 minutes... and after being off the charger for 5 and a half hours.. i'm at 44 percent power... this is my first android device so I'm not sure if that's good or bad
Have you all that are reporting poor battery life done the full-charge/full-discharge thing to "calibrate" the battery meter. I'm not sure that it really matters, but I'm assuming it does since battery info is one of the things you can wipe in the recovery roms.
I'm still extremely pleased with my battery life.
I got the phone yesterday and played with it right out of the box till it was at 5% battery... i plugged it in lastnight and let it fully charge and i unplugged it at 6:15am this mornining... i used the gps to get to work to see how it was... i have watched videos on youtube, gone on the internet, checked and sent emails and texts, downloaded some apps... and played around with it today... i had it plugged into the computer thru usb for approx 5 min tops to set up some media files... and as of now at 3:33pm my battery is at 50%
Opening mine at 930/10pm, heavily used it to burn it to 0% and did that by 12/1230am. Charged it to 100% by 330am. Played with it a bit then went to bed, left it unplugged. Woke up today and burned it to 0% by 330pm. It's charging right now and we'll see how it goes throughout tonight. It will get a bit of pocket time so I'll get a real feel for the battery life.
Took mine off the charger at 7am throught the day had 20 incoming/outgoing calls all lasted at least 2or 3 mins each, downloaded a couple of apps, checked facebook and twitter a few times. showed it off to some friends and now it is almost 5:00 and still have 60% battery, so I am impressed especially since I had a G1 before this
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Have you all that are reporting poor battery life done the full-charge/full-discharge thing to "calibrate" the battery meter. I'm not sure that it really matters, but I'm assuming it does since battery info is one of the things you can wipe in the recovery roms.
I'm still extremely pleased with my battery life.
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They aren't changing them long enough. Lithium ion batteries don't have to be trained like the older style ones. Other other culprit could be the batterystats.bin but you can't access or delete that without root. Jut discharge the battery till it powers off and charge for 4-6 hrs.
charged mine last night while tethered to my laptop browsing - took it off about midnight
this morning the alarm sound (pre-alarm 5 minutes, full alarm for 10 mins and never woke me btw), spent about 2 hours+ talking, browsed the web for maybe 15 minutes, downloaded a few apps from the market and ran a few quadrant benchmark test - it's now almost 6:00PM and it's at 40% -
i'm happy with that - and from experience with my MT3G and the vibrant, battery life should improve with some cycling or useage
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Jut discharge the battery till it powers off and charge for 4-6 hrs.
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leave it on the charger for 4-6 hours after its full or just to charge it from empty to full?
I'm very glad to hear about the excellent battery life. A friend of mine has even reported his phone being on for a full day and still having battery life left.
People make sure that you charge up your battery fully before turning the phone on. It's better to be safe than sorry. I know people say it does not matter but otherwise the battery won't be accurate if you just turn it on out of the box.
10 hours and some change later after normal phone usage and I had to charge it... I'm impressed to say the least
Excuse me?
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/03/09/google-xoom-still-weak-says-global-equities-honeycomb-a-mess/?mod=BOLBlog
He's full of ****. He's never seen a Xoom, much less touched one. I'm getting the better battery life than any device I've ever used.
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Excuse me?
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/03/09/google-xoom-still-weak-says-global-equities-honeycomb-a-mess/?mod=BOLBlog
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Completely inaccurate. I did a standby test with wifi on for 8 hours and it didn't even drop 1%. If sales are weak, it is more likely due to price.
This article really upset me! How can this guy make such assumptions w/o citing any sources!??! It's probably taken from the Apple shareholder meeting minutes...
the guy hes sourcing has been completely inaccurate in the past. i would take this article with a grain of salt.
I've definitely had numerous random app crashes but i expected this from a baby OS. I've had no such problems with battery life though...
so far battery life has been excellent
I unplugged Friday morning and didn't have to charge it until Monday night.
I viewed my screen on time and it was at just under 9 hours of screen on.
He's entirely accurate- the 2nd day I got it, my life was on standby for 10 hours while I used it (and still had battery left!)
WOW so should we all post screen shots of the over 24 hours of life we get out of this?
Lol..my Xoom gets the best battery life out of any tablet I've had so far.This coming from a ipod touch 4th gen..a Archos 70 & a dell streak 7.The Xoom's battery life is incredible.
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Honestly...I've had mine off the charger for 2 days, 5 hrs, 34 mins., and it's at 34% battery. I will never complain about performance like that.
I'm having issues with the battery life on my Xoom and can't figure out what's doing it...
I can take it off the charger in the morning, use it for 10 minutes then put in standby and when I get home after work it can be down as far as 50%.
I've disabled cell data, put in airplane mode, disable wifi, checked app sync settings (disabled push for exchange just in case).
Nothing seems to help
This is funny.
I had my Xoom on a battery for 4 Days and like 17 hours without charging it. And it was only at 30%! Now, it only had minimal use, of course. I didn't play with it all that much until I received my screen protector. All data services were disabled. WiFi on. So, that's still amazing to have almost 5 days without a charge if you're not using it.
The battery life on the Xoom is excellent!
Did anyone else get annoyed by the insane amount of quotation marks in the article? He might as well have just linked to the source he was pulling all of that fodder from. Plus he didn't conduct his own tests.
Next...
My Xoom matches my old iPad 1, about 10 hours of straight use (reading Kindle books with Wifi/3G on and push Exchange email) or days with mixed use and standby.
I'm running on 1 day 16 hours and I'm still at 40%.
dont listen to that article...the battery life is (in use case scenario) as good as my iPad...
meaning, I don't have to worry about it on a daily basis like my iPad. I think the iPad may get one more hour of vid playback, but the difference between 9 and 10 hours is not huge really.
I went on a ski trip recently and did not bring my xoom...went from Friday morning and plugged it in Sunday at midnight and the Xoom still had 30% left. I did a lot of music playing, web browsing, some gaming, etc.
Standby is definitely longer than 10-12 hours without a doubt.
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Please complain. Tiernan Ray is an idiot for quoting an even bigger idiot.
Hello,
new to posting here! To be honest I didnt read that first post as mine seems to last ok, but thats where I wanted some help. Since I got mine this Sunday, when I have it fully charged or not, my battery seems to go down about 10% or so during the night when I sleep. Thats about 8 hours I leave it unplugged. Is that to be considered normal? I am just coming off the ipad so 10% feels a little bit more then I'm used too.
I leave wifi on all the time, but no bluetooth, no location services or whatnot, I do leave on that background sync though, would that really drain me that much though during non usage time?
Again, not major but I would like my battery to last as long as possible =]
Thank you for your help in advance!
BTW, love this Xoom!
I put up a good comment at that site. What a douche that guy is. I think that article should be taken down for retarded opinions/claims. I know they said everyone has a right to an opinion, but... this isn't an opinion it's a complete BS claim to try and make people look at the iPad. Hehe.. sorry to burst your bubble there guy, but... us Android users already know the truth about how awesome we are.
First of all, I don't have an s5. I might get one soon.
For those who used ultra power saving mode, does it actually works? can you get 20+ hours on it at like 10%? that's 20 hours standby, what about constant usage with it on? what do you get?
Can't say I ever use it unless I really need to and my phones about to die.
I used it once recently, I was out all night at a party, at 14% battery I put it on UPSM at about 9pm. I did not use it very much at all, only for the occasional text.
At 11am the next morning I was still on 14%.
Seems really useful to me.
It works very well.
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Works amazing, very useful feature IMO.
I find the battery over all brilliant. The UPSM is also very good.
I spend a lot of time out in the woods and hills for the weekend and with UPSM i can really stretch the battery out.
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I find the battery over all brilliant. The UPSM is also very good.
I spend a lot of time out in the woods and hills for the weekend and with UPSM i can really stretch the battery out.
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ty all for the replies.
can your phone last from friday to sunday in the woods like that?
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ty all for the replies.
can your phone last from friday to sunday in the woods like that?
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The phone was 80% at about 3pm Friday when I left the car. I used the phone several times Friday afternoon for calls and checking several email accounts, took some photos showed some others to friends. Location was on as I used weather and nav apps. That night I put it into UPSM till the morning, Used it the next day about the same for calls and data, again UPSM sat night. Sunday early afternoon it was just under 30% battery.
The screen was on near full brightness all the time, not out of preference its just the "auto" brightness sensor.software is useless.
Battery is great.
It`s actually a very useful future first week when I got my phone I have to go on a party on Friday and have my phone not charged on around 15% battery I turned UPSM on because I wanted to still have a phone after I finish drinking (not really a smart idea though) and even with some browsing it was on around 10% in the next morning. It`s good to know that if you need your phone it could be with you. However the battery life of this phone for me is stunning after a day of usage it`s on like 50% however i don`t use intensive apps or stuff just Facebook, Browser and my on screen time is around 1 hour and 30 minutes per 24 hours. But still I`m really impressed with the battery life as previously I do have a S4 mini and it lasts around 10-15 hours on one charge which was sad because I really liked it. And having in mind that this battery life is without any form of power saving and with Network on all the time is impressive really.
Hope this helps you.
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It`s actually a very useful future first week when I got my phone I have to go on a party on Friday and have my phone not charged on around 15% battery I turned UPSM on because I wanted to still have a phone after I finish drinking (not really a smart idea though) and even with some browsing it was on around 10% in the next morning. It`s good to know that if you need your phone it could be with you. However the battery life of this phone for me is stunning after a day of usage it`s on like 50% however i don`t use intensive apps or stuff just Facebook, Browser and my on screen time is around 1 hour and 30 minutes per 24 hours. But still I`m really impressed with the battery life as previously I do have a S4 mini and it lasts around 10-15 hours on one charge which was sad because I really liked it. And having in mind that this battery life is without any form of power saving and with Network on all the time is impressive really.
Hope this helps you.
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thanks man!
Holy moly, I didn't even know what to expect.
Today I had kept the phone overnight at 80% and when I woke up the battery was at 77% (3% overnight without charge!). So I charged it quickly to 100% and at around 9am, I took the phone out of charge and started my day. With both Wifi and Bluetooth on, listening to music and taking calls/a bit of googling, I come home at 8pm to a phone that has 94% battery. This battery life is crazy, I am shocked at how a phone at such a low price (compared to other phones) has so much fight in it!
My nexus 5x would drain to 40% within this time frame from 100% without me even touching it! This phone is just so darn good, everything I have used so far works quite well. Bluetooth for me works fine on the SBC codec.
Now my experience may not be the same as others (I see different people have their own problems). But coming from a phone like the 5x, I didn't know what to expect. I thought the battery life would be a bit longer than the 5x, but I never expected it to be this long! I don't even have to charge the phone overnight anymore, I can literally use it for 2-4 days before the battery probs goes down to possibly 30%. I'm going to keep it off charge until it hits 20%, I want to see how long this bad boy lasts! This is also without root or custom kernals, no modifications were done to this phone whatsoever(for now ).
well, the screen is only 1080 whereas high end devices are 2k or even 4k
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