I just thought someone might get a kick out of this. I have my captivate as a backup phone now. It has no sim in it and I turned off data and wifi and gps. Anyway I couldnt remember how long I had left it on so I went to battery status and its been on and unplugged for 4 days and still has 60% battery life. At this rate it should last ten days in this state. Its loaded with stock 2.2
I get about the same with my Tilt 2, which is now relegated to playing 10-20 minutes of Wordly on before bed every night.
I tried that with my nokia a few times and used to get 11-12 days in offline mode.
Too bad they don't last as long when connected to the network.
I have LG Vue...went to 6 days with normalcalls and text...my cappy was envy of it..
Day ten and still have 5% battery life, might last about 11 more hours for 10.5 days total.
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ok so i basically went 2 days with no charge on my TP
first day i used it and it held the charge of 100%, while i was at school i send a couple of sms messages and checked my phone every 30 mins to an hour and it still shows full charge then at the end of school(7 hours) i started using SMS again and it went down to 99%, it started to drop every time i text someone or just browse my phone, then it stopped at 92% for at least an hour then as i recieved twitter and weather updates it never moved then when i shut off data connection, everytime i check my phone battery keeps dropping constantly until 85% then it was stuck
at the end of the day my battery was at 75%, woke up 6 hours later and it was at 69%
on day 2 i started to use my music player for like one song which was about 6 mins with screen off, battery dropped from 69% to 56%
used opera browser on EDGE(since its got the best reception in the area) used it for at least 30 mins and it dropped from 56% to 32%
does this show my battery is not calibrated?? is it time to get a new battery?? or is this a normal behavior??
plz help
btw i was on EDGE Network the whole 2 days
and info is on my signature
Its not ideal, and letting it have a couple of full charge/discharge cycles might help it read slightly more consistantly. But other than that its doesnt seem too abnormal for a battery discharge. I guess its not showing you a linear discharge as you are spiking the load for a short(ish) period of time, then allowing the battery to basically rest between "hits".
As for a new battery - you got 2 days usage out of it, so unless these days were unusually light usage, i wouldnt worry about a new battery.
I think it's normal, i use wifi and music player allot so i charge it everyday just to be sure i have enough, internet is really eating battery. even if only updating still takes much. i figured out that if u r not using those 2 functions battery keeps full MUCH longer.
Basically as the title says, I've bought a "refurbished" one, but I'm not sure whether it's faulty, or whether this is just the average battery life of one of these things!
Woke up at 6am, I used it for about 30 mins this morning on facebook/ebay/bbc news through wifi. Send about 20 txt messages, 10 minutes on the phone. ANother 30 mins browsing/facebook on my lunch break. 12 hours later it's sitting at 17 hours battery life. And it's been on power save mode the WHOLE time. Is this just something I'm going to need to get used to or is mine just a dud?
LOVE the phone otherwise though
whats youre screen on time? do you keep data and stuff on when not in use?
The first couple of days it will be bad while it builds up cache. It will get better. You can try rooting it and putting a custom kernel in to make it last even longer.
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Basically as the title says, I've bought a "refurbished" one, but I'm not sure whether it's faulty, or whether this is just the average battery life of one of these things!
Woke up at 6am, I used it for about 30 mins this morning on facebook/ebay/bbc news through wifi. Send about 20 txt messages, 10 minutes on the phone. ANother 30 mins browsing/facebook on my lunch break. 12 hours later it's sitting at 17 hours battery life. And it's been on power save mode the WHOLE time. Is this just something I'm going to need to get used to or is mine just a dud?
LOVE the phone otherwise though
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1day 2hours 51minutes and 20s on battery with 43% left No power saver mode.
Got my galaxy 3 for 1,5 year. Light usage, GPS rarely, 3g never, wifi only to download or update, no Internet, don't spend hours talking either. Battery lasted for about three days. About a month ago I installed the GO Launcher, looked nice, just to check it out. Removed it in a couple of days. Possibly a coincidence but right after the battery's life dropped to less than a day. Well I thought it's time was up so I ordered a new one (XDA will not allow a link from me yet) cause the genuine costs about 20 euros in Greece.
When I got the battery it was half full so I charged it fully - not for 8 hours or so- and then... it lasted for about a day. Drained it completely and recharged fully...lasted one day. Downloaded Battery Calibration and calibrated ...lasted one day. Let it charge for more than eight hours and then calibrated...lasted one day. I'm fed up! Should I consider it a lousy (chinese) battery problem and look for another battery or does anyone have another idea?
Would wiping everything out and installing the ROM again make a difference? I'm using Kyrillos' 9.6 JPU
Ever since the Kit Kat update -- my battery life has been bad.
I used to be able to get almost 2 whole days on one charge - I loved it.
Now I'm lucky to get about 12 hours and be at 20-30%.
The last week or so, my phone gets incredibly hot near the top 1/3 of the device - front and back. The battery life is abysmal. I can be from 100% to 20% in a few hours. ON top of that, it's charging REALLY slowly. I plugged in last night when I was down to 5% and was browsing the web and the battery actually went to 0% and shut off. That was the first time it's done that. I let it charge and it got up to about 80% by 6am this morning.
What's up with this thing? I am doing a backup now to do a hard reset. But I'm afraid if I restore the backup whatever is happening will just happen again. Any suggestions?
Side note - I ran it in safe mode yesterday and went from 8am to 4pm using only 15%!!!
hey guys, am I the only one.....
after the last update, my battery went to [email protected]!
Initially I would get a good 24 to 28 hours. No, I barely get 8.
No other chnages...???
Did you try restoring your device to defaults? Maybe formatting a battery will be a solution (discharge it to 0% then fully charge - do it 3 times).
I bought mine on monday, it updated as soon as I started it. First charge of course took a toll from me playing with the watch, only 13 hours. Second charge, took it off the charger at 9.30 pm last night, used it for about 2 hours, put it on "do not disturb" until 6.30 am this morning, only lost 8% battery in 9 hours.
Now, after 3 hours of normal use (not much looking at it and light notifications) lost 3% so it's roughly doing 1 or 2 % and hour. Not so bad if it stays that way.
I hope to get it to 2 days of normal use, if it gets me there, it's a solid buy.