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Have had my rooted stock rom g2x since day 1.
Love phone. I am comming from H2 customed. I thought it had worst battery I have ever had.
That was till the g2x. I hate running a task killer. But am about to do just that to see if I can get anymore battery,.
Its to the point where I fully charge phone and yesterday with only 12 minutes of talk. Maybe 20 minutes of Web use and some emails. Battery was yellow.
This is a joke right? My only thought is that by having my Gmail auto refresh every 10 minutes possibly that could be some cause. But I if not in my car to keep on charger phone last barely a day.
Sounds like you have a bad battery, I get great battery life with the phone
G2X & Nexus S
I get 13hrs on this battety with wifi on all day.
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iceshark said:
Have had my rooted stock rom g2x since day 1.
Love phone. I am comming from H2 customed. I thought it had worst battery I have ever had.
That was till the g2x. I hate running a task killer. But am about to do just that to see if I can get anymore battery,.
Its to the point where I fully charge phone and yesterday with only 12 minutes of talk. Maybe 20 minutes of Web use and some emails. Battery was yellow.
This is a joke right? My only thought is that by having my Gmail auto refresh every 10 minutes possibly that could be some cause. But I if not in my car to keep on charger phone last barely a day.
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Did u calibrate?
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do u really think that is the standard performance of the G2x battery or is it more likely you got a bad unit ? Come on now people, stop posting this crap and just exchange your phone when you only get an hour of battery life. Why start a freaking thread ? You could have used that time to go exchange your phone.
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do u really think that is the standard performance of the G2x battery or is it more likely you got a bad unit ? Come on now people, stop posting this crap and just exchange your phone when you only get an hour of battery life. Why start a freaking thread ? You could have used that time to go exchange your phone.
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Totally true.
For those of you with problems, your phone is still new, it will be replaced either under buyer's remorse (15-20 days) or directly through tmobile after that period.
Just get a new phone and be done with it.
My first hot potato of a phone would get good battery life, until it cooked itself alive. My second phone was on for over 27 hours and was still at 50%. I'm still surprised.
First off guys. I am not a newbie to XDA or phones. No its not a bad battery.
Remember I am the Costco Manager so I can exchange phone as much as I want for 90 days.
This is my third as I wanted a perfect screen.
I have had this problem with all 3. So the battery is fine.
I use batt apk and I show about 5%loss per half hour after taking off charge
There is no way this is normal. Now I do have lots of apps. But I have froze some in Titanium. However I can blow out this charge in an hour with web use.]
No I did not calibrate. Did not read that till after. However I did charge initially correct.
My HD2 would gobble batterys. But this phone while I love it. Is not a great everyday use phone if not able to be on a charger during day.
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First off guys. I am not a newbie to XDA or phones. No its not a bad battery.
Remember I am the Costco Manager so I can exchange phone as much as I want for 90 days.
This is my third as I wanted a perfect screen.
I have had this problem with all 3. So the battery is fine.
I use batt apk and I show about 5%loss per half hour after taking off charge
There is no way this is normal. Now I do have lots of apps. But I have froze some in Titanium. However I can blow out this charge in an hour with web use.]
No I did not calibrate. Did not read that till after. However I did charge initially correct.
My HD2 would gobble batterys. But this phone while I love it. Is not a great everyday use phone if not able to be on a charger during day.
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Huh.. some people are getting awesome battery time. When it first came out, people were having success with doing factory reset on their phone. Idk.. I personally didn't buy it.. but they swore it worked. Give it a try.
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First off guys. I am not a newbie to XDA or phones. No its not a bad battery.
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So what you're saying then, is those of us with good battery life are the ones with the bad batteries? You really didn't think this through, did you?
I find my battery life was OK on the stock ROM. Nothing I'd get excited about, but I'd gotten used to insanely poor battery life running CM7 on my vibrant. Since I flashed the GB leak (no wipe, fixed permissions, erased battery stats) I'm seeing 18+ hrs with moderate usage.
gingerbread in general gets good battery life, cm7 for galaxy has problems due to samsung not following the google standards, those guys are basically shooting in the dark with that project, yet they have made huge improvments. recently people report decent to improved battery life on the latest builds.
to the op, what are your sync options? i find facebook sync and facebook contact sync are big culprits. also i only use google contact sync to get my contact list initially then turn it off. also if you have your gmail on the stock email app and the gmail app it can increase useage, if you prefer the email app id turn off google sync all together, if you like the gmail app id turn off fetch on the email app.
another culprit is weather apps using the location service, for me beautiful widgets is a battery hog on a vibrant rom but not on a captivate rom so results can vary from phone to phone.
and last of all i dont agree with calibration proceedures, i get some funky results with them, i just delete batstats and then charge to full. i find it takes 3 day minimum to get a good calibration, 5 days is sometimes needed.
I get very good battery life with mine and have been since day one. It lasts almost twice as long as my Vibrant and N1 did.
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I use juice defender to turn on/off my data for me when its not being used and the screen is off. It seems to work less than on vibrant.
I'm running stock rom and my battery life varies TREMENDOUSLY from when I'm at work and seldomly using it to when I'm home surfing the web on it ( tablets too far from couch I'm surprised I got the cookies )
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I was getting really bad battery life when I first got the phone (about 7hrs ) I ended up finding out that the touch led notification app was the culprit so I deleted it and also calibrated my battery and now my phone last all day easily and that with me playing guerrilla bob and the samurai game at work for like 2 hours lol
I recommend you download the where's my Droid power app from the market and see what's killing your battery
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Also keep in mind that it could be a certain app draining your battery. I downloaded the NFL apparently for draft day and even after exiting the app it took my battery down 15% in a matter of 10 minutes. Not to mention it had my battery's and CPU running super hot. On average I get about 12 hours out of a full charge with moderate to heavy usage.
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My last charge i got 36 hours of light use so I dont know what everyone's problem is lol
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So what you're saying then, is those of us with good battery life are the ones with the bad batteries? You really didn't think this through, did you?
I find my battery life was OK on the stock ROM. Nothing I'd get excited about, but I'd gotten used to insanely poor battery life running CM7 on my vibrant. Since I flashed the GB leak (no wipe, fixed permissions, erased battery stats) I'm seeing 18+ hrs with moderate usage.
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No wonder your a newbie and no listed thanks. What an asswade comment.
NO!!!!!!!!! What I am saying is that is has to be an internal issue with either synch times or possibly an APP be it internal or external that is causing MANY of us to have terrible battery times vs. others with good. Not saying anthing negative about those who are functioning ok.
I have been rooting and modding for 2 years. This is the worst battery usage yet. My Galaxy S 4g. Could last with same synch times and apps for 18 hours.
Now for those others who have there head inserted other then in there behind.
Okay ran some tests today,
1. Charged phone to 100percent.
2. Left everything the way it has been and no adjustments.
Battery at 84 Percent sitting tableside no text, app, wed or voice use after 2 hours. After 4 hours at 64 percent. After 6 hours at 51 percent. After 8 hours at 39 percent. This is with no usage. This is terrible.
Okay, Now have done following based on others test here and other forums.
1. Loaded Setcpu and made profile for sleep using stock 216 usage.
2. reluctently loaded Taskmanager Pro and killed all but needed apps.
3. Loaded Battery calibration app and after charge calibrated phone.
Left my email synch at every 10 minute as its needed for work.
We will see if this brings better test times now and report back.
What may be my culprit from studying this and other forums is I am in Seattle. We are Tmobiles home office corp and full test market for 4g and every change before rest of USA. I get full 4g at all times. In fact my speed tests are off the board. ave of 12 down 1.3 up speeds.
From what I am finding out, those of us in best 4g coverage (and Seattle is listed best) are finding much more drain on battery in standby and in use.
So my theory is that with this phone and its dual proccesor and my 4g, this is why myself and others in like markets are seeing much faster drain then others. Some dispute this possibility. however other experts say its fact.
Will report back findings tomorrow.
Thanks.
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to the op, what are your sync options? i find facebook sync and facebook contact sync are big culprits. also i only use google contact sync to get my contact list initially then turn it off. also if you have your gmail on the stock email app and the gmail app it can increase useage, if you prefer the email app id turn off google sync all together, if you like the gmail app id turn off fetch on the email app.
another culprit is weather apps using the location service, for me beautiful widgets is a battery hog on a vibrant rom but not on a captivate rom so results can vary from phone to phone.
and last of all i dont agree with calibration proceedures, i get some funky results with them, i just delete batstats and then charge to full. i find it takes 3 day minimum to get a good calibration, 5 days is sometimes needed.
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May be some of my issue vs. others.
I do have sync on for FB and Google mail 2 accounts. and I use Fancy Widgets for my Weather and news feeds. However I also used these on my HD2 a known battery hog running cm7 and it had even better life then the phone. I run them on my other Galaxy s 4g as well and it has awesome battery life.
But I will freeze these in my next test after running this test.
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No wonder your a newbie and no listed thanks. What an asswade comment.
NO!!!!!!!!! What I am saying is that is has to be an internal issue with either synch times or possibly an APP be it internal or external that is causing MANY of us to have terrible battery times vs. others with good. Not saying anthing negative about those who are functioning ok.
I have been rooting and modding for 2 years. This is the worst battery usage yet. My Galaxy S 4g. Could last with same synch times and apps for 18 hours.
Now for those others who have there head inserted other then in there behind.
Okay ran some tests today,
1. Charged phone to 100percent.
2. Left everything the way it has been and no adjustments.
Battery at 84 Percent sitting tableside no text, app, wed or voice use after 2 hours. After 4 hours at 64 percent. After 6 hours at 51 percent. After 8 hours at 39 percent. This is with no usage. This is terrible.
Okay, Now have done following based on others test here and other forums.
1. Loaded Setcpu and made profile for sleep using stock 216 usage.
2. reluctently loaded Taskmanager Pro and killed all but needed apps.
3. Loaded Battery calibration app and after charge calibrated phone.
Left my email synch at every 10 minute as its needed for work.
We will see if this brings better test times now and report back.
What may be my culprit from studying this and other forums is I am in Seattle. We are Tmobiles home office corp and full test market for 4g and every change before rest of USA. I get full 4g at all times. In fact my speed tests are off the board. ave of 12 down 1.3 up speeds.
From what I am finding out, those of us in best 4g coverage (and Seattle is listed best) are finding much more drain on battery in standby and in use.
So my theory is that with this phone and its dual proccesor and my 4g, this is why myself and others in like markets are seeing much faster drain then others. Some dispute this possibility. however other experts say its fact.
Will report back findings tomorrow.
Thanks.
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those are shocking results man... I dont know what to tell you... If I literally dont touch my phone for 6 hours i will drain no more than 10% of my battery, closer to around 6 or 7% based on my battery monitor widget...
I pulled the phone off at 6 this morning and didnt touch it until 12 and I was at 92%... Chelsea got ****ing spanked this morning and I got a barrage of **** talk text messages that I did not want to deal with haha so my phone wen untouched for a good 6 hours...
I will say though, when I first got the phone my battery life was pretty wonky... first drain was great, second one was mediocre, the third and fourth ones were horrible, drained in 6 hours flat of light-moderate use... I did a factory reset at this point to try and change things up... Calibrated once after that and I have run it up and down to get a good read and I have not looked back since, like i said i can get 20-30 hours of moderate to light use no problem at all!
Great battery on my g2x
I had battery problems with my G2x, only lasted about 7-8 hours on moderate use and cell stabd by was like 50% of battery use.
After i installed the leaked official Gingerbread ROM is like a new phone, ofter 16 hours of use i still had 43% last night. In idle mode it uses about 1% in 2 hours.
I think the battery probles come from Froyo not getting along with the dual core processor.
This phone is awesome!
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Okay ran some tests today,
1. Charged phone to 100percent.
2. Left everything the way it has been and no adjustments.
Battery at 84 Percent sitting tableside no text, app, wed or voice use after 2 hours. After 4 hours at 64 percent. After 6 hours at 51 percent. After 8 hours at 39 percent. This is with no usage. This is terrible.
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Iceshark, you're not crazy. This is the same exact battery drain I get not even touching the damn phone! This is my second phone in less than 2 weeks, the first had the same results, both brand new.
Today I unplugged my phone at 12:45 pm, gave my mom a call for mothers day (less than 2 min talk time) Got to work and browsed web for maybe 5 minutes then clocked in at 2 pm. Took a 15 min break at 4pm battery was down to 80% (did some web browsing for 5 min). Took my 30 min lunch at 6pm (battery was down to about 60% (did some browsing for about 15 min). Took my last break at 8pm, and battery was down to 30%. I clocked out at 10:30 and I only had 20% battery left. The only timeI touched the phone was on my breaks, the rest of the time my phone was in my pocket. I had juicedefender running on balanced.
It's now 12:01am and I only have 14% battery left, that's not even 12 hours yet, and I only used the phone and it's features for less than an hour, all the other drain was sitting in my pocket. This is unacceptable. And I'm starting to think all the other people who claim to have great battery life are exaggerating or lying through their teeth.
Although I did a test yesterday using auto airplane mode, which automatically enables airplane mode when the screen shuts off, disabling any data, and then it turns data back on when you unlock the screen this helped very much with battery draining and at the end of an 8 hour work shift I still had 70% battery, but without data you can't receive calls, which sucks.
This battery drainage or bleed while the handset is not even being used needs to be fixed. And isn't it false advertising since the G2x specs indicate standby time is 400 hours?
Is the battery life shorter than the life of a fly? I'm coming from a HD2, which I was constantly wanting to turn into a bomb and ship it back to HTC because of it's poor battery life, until I upgraded to CyanogenMod.
The other thread about the phone is filled with silly, useless blabbering about benchmarks, so if you have the phone, could you please spare us drudging through that thread and post your battery life results here?
+1 to T.S
If the Sensation can run more than 8 hours on Battery I'mma pre-order this beast on Handtec asap
Good initiative. Change the topic title to 'battery life' or something similar otherwise people interested won't think to look in this topic.
the phone only came out yesterday, it always takes a few charge/discharge cycles to get it conditioned properly, so any comparisons that are done after just one day aren't going to be very accurate. give people a chance!!
For who?
Don't expect any better battery life than present phones. It's dual core. I don't have it but I think it's predictable. You will get 1 or 2 days depends on how you use it. I'm saying that might be 2 days because for normal usage it will run only one core which is new chipset etc. so it will spend less power than 1 core phones when one core is running. It will spend more power when you play gamse etc. because of 2 cores.
As long as it's better than my Desire (AMOLED), I'm happy.
I've installed CM7 and undervolted it and when I run my usual set up (Podcasts/Music, Trillian (Battery Saving Mode), GTalk, Latitude activated) it can happen that it doesn't really reached the end of a typical work day. When I had certain widgets installed, it didn't really reach the end of the day.
I don't need it to last 2 days, but easily one full day with nearly heavy use would be somehow nice...
Had my phone for 3 hours, battery life is about 10 billion times better than my HD2 was. Been using it pretty constantly since, and my battery would have gone down by about 25-30% on my HD2 (mental!!) but battery has gone down by about 5-10% and I haven't even charged it yet. Very happy soo far! .
I unplugged my phone after it's first charge cycle 7h 38m ago. It's gone from 100% to 23%.
During that time, my phone has been used almost constantly, including benchmarking, taking screenshots, as well as the usual few phonecalls, facebook updates every hour and Twitter updates every hour. Plus, of course, all the mucking around that we all do when we get new phones!
sjgore, great news! I have a question about your signature, how could you possibly be holding both your phone and your baby at the same time in each hand?
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I unplugged my phone after it's first charge cycle 7h 38m ago. It's gone from 100% to 23%.
During that time, my phone has been used almost constantly, including benchmarking, taking screenshots, as well as the usual few phonecalls, facebook updates every hour and Twitter updates every hour. Plus, of course, all the mucking around that we all do when we get new phones!
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Thats is very promising, waiting for my Sensation! Have to wait a damn week though!
This thread is relevent to my interests...
A good reliable benchmark will be good only after everyone stops playing with their new phone for 23 hours out of the day!
Can't wait to get mine when it hits the US soon!
Also, battery conditioning isn't applicable to these kind of batteries. The first charge is as good as the 50th or the 100th. Of course, this is pending the lifetime of the battery. They do wear out!
I have been using my phone since 8am this morning, the battery is at 53%
My HD2 would have easily been dead by now!
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I have been using my phone since 8am this morning, the battery is at 53%
My HD2 would have easily been dead by now!
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thats promising
Could please more users comment regarding battery experience so far? Even though you might still hope for an improvement after several charges, I'd like to know how it has been for you guys for the first couple of days. Thanks
I charged mine about half 5 yesterday, been using it as normal and had WiFi turned on, and its just hit 25%.
A lot better than my Desire HD.
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Mine's been off charge since about 9:30, and today I've been recording some 1080p video clips, taken some photos, playing Angry Birds and general usage. It's currently at 65%. So I'm pretty happy all in all!
Ok people who say "I've been off the charger since XX:XX and I'm at XX%, my YYY phone would've been dead by now!" please stop... people use their phones every differently and moderate/heavy usage varies greatly among different people.
If possible just look at your battery graph and report how long it says it's been off the charger, and also press display to see the DISPLAY TIME ON. Also, if you've made a lot of calls, report the voice call time as well. Signal strength is another major factor.
With Gingerbread it's MUCH easier to see battery life performance because of that new graph. Signal strength, display on, awake, etc. are very important in determining how long the battery will last and also if your phone isn't getting as much juice as you think it should.
20 hours 5 mins off charge, 100% to 39%, display time 1 hour 26 mins. WiFi on all that time. Is that any use?
Edit: Forgot to say, my phone's on its third charge cycle now.
Thanks. Did you make many calls? 1.5 hours of screen on time seems like light usage for 20 hours off the charger. The battery life on this phone seems quite average... on par with other 1500mah phones I guess.
More data is always welcome =)
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20 hours 5 mins off charge, 100% to 39%, display time 1 hour 26 mins. WiFi on all that time. Is that any use?
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Hey guys, so I'm running Mango 7712, and my Samsung Focus battery only lasts for like 2 hours of actual use. For every 10 minutes of using the phone my battery loses up to 8%, and this is while not playing games or doing anything stressful to the battery. I can probably max out at 6 hours if I don't use the phone.
I don't have the best memory, but I remember my phone being able to last 4 or 5 hours of actual use. But I could be wrong, if you have a Focus, is it as bad as mine? Should I buy a new OEM battery? (And I've tried to recalibrate it, that didn't work, I think it made it worse actually)
Nope just you, my focus has amazing battery. Best out of any smartphone I've owned actually, it can easily last me two days of moderate use... one full day with heavy use (around 15 hours of heavy browsing with music and stuff.)
Im using stock NoDo though, dark background/theme auto backlight. Don't know if mango could have anything to do with your issues.
I have both omnia 7 and hd7 .
Funny thing is that both battery life last the same when surfing continously on 3g.
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Nope just you, my focus has amazing battery. Best out of any smartphone I've owned actually, it can easily last me two days of moderate use... one full day with heavy use (around 15 hours of heavy browsing with music and stuff.)
Im using stock NoDo though, dark background/theme auto backlight. Don't know if mango could have anything to do with your issues.
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Yeah I dunno what's up with mine, it used to get me through the day before, now it just sucks. I've heard people say that Mango increased their battery life though. I'm gonna try buying a new OEM battery and see if that helps.
These phones have been out for less than a year so should be under warranty. I have had a weird anamoly a couple of times with my Focus though. Fully charged and when I rebooted it gave me low battery warning. Took battery out and back in and was back to normal. Has happened 3 times in the last 4 months.
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These phones have been out for less than a year so should be under warranty. I have had a weird anamoly a couple of times with my Focus though. Fully charged and when I rebooted it gave me low battery warning. Took battery out and back in and was back to normal. Has happened 3 times in the last 4 months.
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That happened to me too! Like it was stuck at 1% even though it truly had 30% left, I left it like that until it died, and then it went back to normal.
Mine isn't bad. A far cry better than my 3gs. I can get about 10 to 13 hours of decent usage. It does go down to about 8 hours if I have music playing for most of the day.
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Hey guys, so I'm running Mango 7712, and my Samsung Focus battery only lasts for like 2 hours of actual use. For every 10 minutes of using the phone my battery loses up to 8%, and this is while not playing games or doing anything stressful to the battery. I can probably max out at 6 hours if I don't use the phone.
I don't have the best memory, but I remember my phone being able to last 4 or 5 hours of actual use. But I could be wrong, if you have a Focus, is it as bad as mine? Should I buy a new OEM battery? (And I've tried to recalibrate it, that didn't work, I think it made it worse actually)
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Hi Ryken,
How old is the SIM card that you are using? I have read in other parts of the forum that people have had decreased battery life issues when using an old SIM, once they had it replaced with a new one the battery life increased considerably.
Hope this helps,
Creamy
This usually happens when flashing a new ROM - you need to let your battery recalibrate itself. There are a few examples of this in the forums.
if yr sim card is around 2 years or more, it may have worn out. the gold contacts may have worn out, so change to a newer one
I did this an dmy battery life has been great
yr sim card works 24 hours 7 days a week for 2 years, just imagine how much of a beating it has taken .
Well my sim card is 10 months old, I got it with my phone last November when WP7 launched. Is that old enough to be bad? I've bought a new Samsung battery, it should arrive tomorrow or Thursday, I'll tell you guys how that goes for me?
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Well my sim card is 10 months old, I got it with my phone last November when WP7 launched. Is that old enough to be bad? I've bought a new Samsung battery, it should arrive tomorrow or Thursday, I'll tell you guys how that goes for me?
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10 months is nothing to worry about
So what kind of real world battery life are you guys getting? I've only had my Atrix 2 for a matter of 8 hours. It said 50% when I got it home, charged it up. I'm just curious as to what people are getting out of it. I'm coming from the Backflip which got, maybe 4-6 hours of frequent use (texting).
I'm getting anywhere from 14-18 hrs with moderate use, but when I get really heavy I can drain it n around 6-8 hrs. Battery life has been great!
I get about 17+ hours. I work and use the GPS all day and Pandora and by the time I'm home I'm still at 50%. The ATRIX 2 by far is my best android phone when it comes to battery life.
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That sounds great. :O I was considering the extended battery when it becomes available, but at that rate, why bother?
True. I have yet to run out if battery before I got home. I had an extended battery on my incredible because that battery was horrible. Give it a whirl without the extended battery you won't be disappointed.
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I'm getting about 26hrs on a charge, moderate use
I have the extended battery and honestly I haven't been able to get much more life at the end of the day over the STD battery.
Sent from my Atrix 2.
I'm putting mine through the gauntlet, when I get ready for bed I'm around 50%.
I am coming from an OG Atrix (which I lost) and my Atrix 2 is in the mail. Does anyone know how the battery life on the Atrix 2 stacks up against the Atrix 4G? I was getting pretty good battery life with the OG and was wandering if this one should be as good.
I have had both phones and they are comparable for my usage. Usually 14-15 hours with moderate usage.
I have not had it run out on me during the day even on heavy use days. I do charge it every night.
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I am coming from an OG Atrix (which I lost) and my Atrix 2 is in the mail. Does anyone know how the battery life on the Atrix 2 stacks up against the Atrix 4G? I was getting pretty good battery life with the OG and was wandering if this one should be as good.
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I had an OG Atrix, and at least for me the Atrix2 is slightly better on battery. It's just a subjective observation, but the A2 seems to be really agressive in turning off the wifi (after locking the screen), which might account for the increased battery life.
I can easily go "a day" (16 hours) and even if I forget to charge my phone overnight, I'll still have 20 some percent left. I'm estimating I use the phone a bit more than "moderate". I use it as a kindle for reading, game playing of course and then taking pictures of my 6 month old son.
Again subjectively, but it seems the only thing that's worse battery-wise is talk time. I've only had 2 long (>30 mins) calls so far on the A2 and they were pretty heavy on the battery. On my OG Atrix I never could get the battery to go down from being in a call, not sure what's up with that.
Hope that helps,
I charged up my phone last night to 100% at 10pm, took it off the charger, set my alarm on it, alarm went off at 600am, i hit the snooze three times and ended up getting up at 630am, my phone was still on 100% per the battery calibration app I use. About an hour ago it was down to 93%, not bad after being on the battery for 14hrs I'd say
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I charged up my phone last night to 100% at 10pm, took it off the charger, set my alarm on it, alarm went off at 600am, i hit the snooze three times and ended up getting up at 630am, my phone was still on 100% per the battery calibration app I use. About an hour ago it was down to 93%, not bad after being on the battery for 14hrs I'd say
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Which calibration app do you use? Do you like it? Why or why not?
When I bought I played a lot and used wifi (turned off GSM module). It was about 14 hours of usage.
Now with moderated usage I have about 2 days.
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Which calibration app do you use? Do you like it? Why or why not?
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The only reason i'm using a calibration app is because we don't have a fully functional recovery yet. Normally I'd wipe batt stats in recovery. But for the meantime, i'm using this one
Why don't I like these calibration apps? Back when I had my SE Xperia X10, rooted on WB rom, my phone was stable but my batt stats got jacked up during a flash of a mod so I decided to calibrate my battery (before I knew I could do so via xRecovery) and the result was all bad. After following the process and recharging it to 100%, my battery drained fast as hell....i'm talking 1% per minute!
Then I found out I could (and should) recalibrate via xRecovery and did so and it was back to normal. That being said, I used the above app to calibrate my battery on my Atrix 2 yesterday and so far so good. I am at 70% still and my phone has been on battery power since 10pm last night and I spent at least 1-1.5hrs on 4g during lunch. Few texts, few phone calls....I'd say it's doing pretty damn good.
Do you use any "battery saving apps"? I've seen all kinds out there but don't know which ones actually work and which ones just take up more space on the device and resources
I don't know if the Atrix 2 has it or not, but if it does (the OG does); there are battery settings in the settings menu that work pretty darn good. I've heard JuiceDefender works pretty good, although I've never used any of those programs.
My battery life has been great compared to other android devices I've used
(Nexus S, Captivate, Inspire4G(The Worst), Atrix 4G)
Typical day for me is: up @ 5AM, the phone is the alarm so it comes off the charger at around 5:01AM.
Configuration is:
1 Gmail account,
1 IMAP Account
1 Exchange Active Sync.
Typical routine:
check email at 5:30 or so for over night activity,
Turn on pandora for about 35 minutes @ 6:15 while I drive.
Typically during the day I'll get at least 75 - 130 emails on the active sync account. Send about 50.
About 100 - 200 text messages.
Facebook i'll check about twice.
I'll use about 1 - 2 hours of phone talk time.
7 or 8 google searches with a tad bit of web browsing at each search.
Another 35 minutes worth of pandora at around 5:00PM.
Random game playing / whatever the 6 year old may do.
at 10PM it goes back on the charger, battery is usually between 30 and 40%.
So far its only been completely depleted during the day once, but that was due to a 4 1/2 hour phone call that took place on top of the other stuff, and GPS nav for bout 90 minutes.
All in all, its a tad bit less battery life than my iPhone 4 was, however I would say it is quite acceptable. None of the other android devices could go the distance for my day, and the inspire 4g was just laughable to the point I returned it after 2 weeks to get the Atrix 4G. The 4G did good, but not as good as the Atrix 2 has so far.
Any phone that makes it through my day I consider to have a great battery. I've ordered the extended battery (motorola direct, non third party) I'll see what the difference is.
Damn man, I couldnt imagine being that tethered to the phone. When do you live life?
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That is one hell of a day...if I received that many emails and text messages on my phone everyday I would throw it!!!
I haven't gotten my A2 yet, but I am really looking forward to playing with it. Seems like a worthy upgrade from my trusty (but lost) 4G.
I know it has only been out for a little more than a day, but curious on what sort of battery life people are seeing on the Skyrocket.
Thanks
Just got mine about an hour ago so I will report back, what I can say that LTE is amazing.
I had it since yesterday... however.. I had a wakelock issue.. so mine never went to deep sleep till I found the culprit..
but so far so good. it's very similar to the OGSGS2 (I owned for 28 days)
mbze430 said:
I had it since yesterday... however.. I had a wakelock issue.. so mine never went to deep sleep till I found the culprit..
but so far so good. it's very similar to the OGSGS2 (I owned for 28 days)
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What was causing the wakelock?
jbsg02 said:
Just got mine about an hour ago so I will report back, what I can say that LTE is amazing.
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Not just on LTE. I'm constantly getting 7-10 mbps on hspa+. Never ever seen that speed on any of the so call 4g phones on at&t till now. I did a speed test at 3 in the after noon where I usually was getting 1.5 - 3.0 on my ogsg2.
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http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-review-20111107/
They are reporting a full day use with no problems.
"The battery is larger than the one on the SGSII by a good margin, the better to supply that power-hungry LTE radio. Though most of the time I was on HSPA+, the phone lasted all day and through an idle night with 30% battery remaining, a solid showing."
Another review: http://www.phonedog.com/2011/11/07/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-first-impressions/
"Skyrocket brings a rather large 1,850 mAh battery to the table, and it shows. If you're a road warrior or someone who's away from an outlet for an extended period of time, this may be the device for you. With moderate use including some calling, text messaging, browsing the web, downloading apps, and running Quadrant Standard tests, I was able to make it through the day and well into the evening before a recharge was needed. On a related note, I've chided Samsung devices in the past for taking too long to charge, and that seems to have been improved upon. "
(woot 100th post)
have to say it has Great Battery life.....probably the best on a phone that i have had so far. again its still new. but i get a full day of use and still have 30-40 percent done by the time i hit the pillow.
im impressed especially since its an LTE phone and everyone kept yelling----IT WILL BE A BATTERY HOG.
nope
my wakelock problem was with FriendCaster Pro. After stopping the app a few times it release wakelock and it's properly going to deep sleep
As for battery. I finally got a "full" day of use. from 10am to 11pm I have about 19% left. That included GPS use for about 15mins, watched a movie on NetFlix (A Knight's Tale) and about an hour worth of 3-way calling and some texting.
I have Background and Auto Sync on with K9 email polling every hour for one of my POP3 + and 2 IMAP account is pushed.
Polling calendar using Calengoo every 3 hours
Honeslty no issues at all. I use my phone for txt calls web all day for work had no issues at all. I don't have Lte in my area but occasionally travel to areas that do. No pixel issues either, yea its bigger but nothing noticeable.
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I must be doing something wrong 5 hours in and I am already down to 60%. No phone calls and may be a total of 15 minutes on emails, texts and twitter.
bidyut said:
I must be doing something wrong 5 hours in and I am already down to 60%. No phone calls and may be a total of 15 minutes on emails, texts and twitter.
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maybe a bad battery bruh......i have been ON my phone. loading, streaming calling....even just sufing the web with screen at its brightest.
and i still cant complain. I have not HAD to charge my phone throughout the day yet. and i walk in the house in the evening with about 30% left after a full day of use.
my infuse would have to be charged at work just to make it home sometimes....lol
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maybe a bad battery bruh......i have been ON my phone. loading, streaming calling....even just sufing the web with screen at its brightest.
and i still cant complain. I have not HAD to charge my phone throughout the day yet. and i walk in the house in the evening with about 30% left after a full day of use.
my infuse would have to be charged at work just to make it home sometimes....lol
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I wish I could say the same. 12 hours later my phone is down to 10% from full charge.
Guess I will pay AT&T a visit and see if they would replace the battery for me.
today... i've been on battery for 13 hours, 1.5 hours with the screen on, mainly surfing around using LTE, as well some texting. also downloaded a few apps.
37% remaining.
i think that's pretty good.
I've been unplugged for a little over 18 hours as of now, (about 7 of that was idle while I was asleep) and I am at 34% right now. I've used the phone quite a bit today and I would say that battery life seems to be about the same as the original GSII.
Yea mine is no different from the i777 s2. I did however root it n disable some junk. I'm sure that had something to do wit it.
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Yes quite respectable, granted my iPhone runs forever on a charge but it's pretty good. Also I had read that the phone will turn off the LTE radio if it's not in a LTE area, opposed to other networks.
Hope these skyrocket threads can be moved to their correct destinations...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1383
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can u post some shots of battery use I'm getting only about 6hrs at most changed battery already think it might b the phone want to go show att rep so I can replace phone with no restocking fee
This is from my first day with the phone, you can see it was idle for the first 7 or so hours while I was asleep, then what I would consider pretty heavy use, being my first day with the phone.
This is what mine looks like after 2 hrs
why do I think my screen is at 51 how high is your brightness? Just figured out that automatic screen brightness is set to certain brightness turned down maybe will help me get more battery life
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