So I'm wondering how you guys are holding up with the battery. Can you last all day?
If not, do you have a spare battery or anything? Thanks.
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Mine lasts about 16 hours on moderate use. I have Set CPU to be around 700mhz while screen off. That seems to help and the fact that im on the optimized TPC ROM makes it all better.
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hmmm only 16 hours for you :/
this phone will take getting used too lol...
im used to like over 30
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Figure 20 hours till the phone starts nagging. I do a lot of texting and emails throughout the day. Phone goes off charger at 6am and is back on charger by 11:30pm. Display brightness auto adjusts a lot too since I work outside a lot.
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Sorry. Had to edit my post. Did a more accurate calculation according to my day of use.
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I use TPC stock rooted ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982963
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Oh ok; I'm using aa N1 right now and I can get a full day with moderate use; I know the battery is smaller and it has a bigger screen so... yea; well thanks guys, I'm running to ATT to get this off contract tomorrow.
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Oh ok; I'm using aa N1 right now and I can get a full day with moderate use; I know the battery is smaller and it has a bigger screen so... yea; well thanks guys, I'm running to ATT to get this off contract tomorrow.
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No problem. Let us know how you like it when you get it.
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Thanks if i cant get good battery out of the Coredroid im currently running will switch to this or the other on that claims 24HRS at least
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with core droid I could not get more than 12 14 hrs
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Mine seems to last the day. Well night in my case. But I just plug it in when I goto sleep. I ordered an extra stock battery from ebay for 6.98 shipped
Wait till you guys get ginger bread, they improved idle power drastically. I'm unplugged 15 hours right now and still at 71% battery on my nexus. Granted this was over night, but it was never this good before. Idle current stays around 10mA which is excellent.
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wow thanks for your input..
man i like the theme though :/
haha
have you switched to something with better?
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Not right now. I was on revolution then on Lee droid and now on core droid. Just checking out all the ones out there. As of now I like Lee driod for battery and speed.
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Wait till you guys get ginger bread, they improved idle power drastically. I'm unplugged 15 hours right now and still at 71% battery on my nexus. Granted this was over night, but it was never this good before. Idle current stays around 10mA which is excellent.
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My idle, on my inspire with TPC's froyo Rom, is anywhere from 1mA to 5mA with the occasional spike to 30mA.
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Honestly you can ask, but in all its relative to: amount of use/what you are doing (ie:games or texting)/ROM/kernel/radio/health of the battery. Expect anywhere from 8hours-48hours depending on your usage. Though I have never played angry bird for 8hours straight....
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My idle, on my inspire with TPC's froyo Rom, is anywhere from 1mA to 5mA with the occasional spike to 30mA.
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That is very impressive. I need to try some more ROMs out there. The stock inspire here is at 24mA idle pretty regularly which isn't bad but not great.
I get about 12 hours of battery life with heavy use and 20 hours of moderate use. Usually I have the display on for three hours and sending about 100 texts a day about an hour calling with email coming in all day.
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This post gives me hope. I am so sick of my iPhone 4, but have been scared the battery will suck on the Inspire. Anyone have/had an i4 and can compare with their Inspire?
IPhone 4 will definitely get better battery life than any android phone. But not too bad and totally worth it.
I pulled my phone off the charger at 8am, it's now just after 10pm and I have 46% remaining. I was browsing on wifi and playing words with friends for about two hours this afternoon, made a few calls, sent a few messages and regularly checked emails.
Battery life on my Inspire hasn't been as good as the Streak, but definitely better than my Captivate. I'm using SetCPU 1024 max/245 min ondemand for my main profile and 245 max 245 min ondemand for screen off.
The key indicator for me is screen-on time. Taking the phone of the charger at ~8am, by about 10pm, with gps off all day, and WiFi on only as needed (~1hr total), I'm at around ~15-20% battery remaining, with the total screen-on time being ~4.5 hrs for that day.
Most of that screen time is playing angry birds, so I'm sure that factors in somehow, as the screen doesn't seem to drain as much battery doing other stuff, as it does playing a processor-intensive activity like a game.
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The key indicator for me is screen-on time. Taking the phone of the charger at ~8am, by about 10pm, with gps off all day, and WiFi on only as needed (~1hr total), I'm at around ~15-20% battery remaining, with the total screen-on time being ~4.5 hrs for that day.
Most of that screen time is playing angry birds, so I'm sure that factors in somehow, as the screen doesn't seem to drain as much battery doing other stuff, as it does playing a processor-intensive activity like a game.
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That's good, 4.5 hours of screen on time is a lot.
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I was wondering if anyone had a good comparison between the two phones.? I currently have the atrix and I have been seriously thinking about switching to the infuse but I don't know if it will last as long. I am currently getting about a day out of the atrix and I can't afford to go to a phone that will last any less.
The infuse battery lasts just as long. I had an atrix and was impressed and am equally impressed with the infuse.
I go at the very minimum at least a day, and on most days well over a day. Under normal circumstances I charge every other night.
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The infuse battery lasts just as long. I had an atrix and was impressed and am equally impressed with the infuse.
I go at the very minimum at least a day, and on most days well over a day. Under normal circumstances I charge every other night.
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Have you done anything to increase your battery life? I come from ios and I am a firm believer in not having to constantly turn things on and off. I will not shut off my data or modify sync schedules and my corporate email must be on push all the time. I also don't use a task killer. I was just wondering because you said at minimum a day and that is my maximum.
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I was wondering if anyone had a good comparison between the two phones.? I currently have the atrix and I have been seriously thinking about switching to the infuse but I don't know if it will last as long. I am currently getting about a day out of the atrix and I can't afford to go to a phone that will last any less.
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I had the Atrix for about 20 days. I loved the battery on it!! That phone would last me a whole day! I left gps and sync always on and I had brightness on max with screen timeout at 2 minutes. I had issues with it and definitely didn't like the cameras so I returned it.
The Infuse I've had 3 or 4 days now and the battery has gotten better with time. I have the gps and sync always on and brightness at a bit more than half. Doesn't seem to last me as long as the Atrix did, but it's much better than the Captivate! I'm having data issues with it though just like I did with the Atrix
I had the atrix for 30 days and so far the infuse lasts just as long on the battery. Atleast for my usage.
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Have you done anything to increase your battery life? I come from ios and I am a firm believer in not having to constantly turn things on and off. I will not shut off my data or modify sync schedules and my corporate email must be on push all the time. I also don't use a task killer. I was just wondering because you said at minimum a day and that is my maximum.
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Push saves battery.
Battery life is fantastic, I can be over 50% after a 14 hour day.
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Battery life is fantastic, I can be over 50% after a 14 hour day.
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Really?? Are you a light user? Do you set somethings off?
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Push saves battery.
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I'm sorry if this is a silly question but how does push save battery?
I was under the impression that push required the phone to be constantly checking for new emails or to have a connection active at all times. Both of the scenarios would lead me to think that it uses more battery than setting a fetch schedule.
For refernce here is what an average day for me is:
3h 25m since unplugged
voice calls 77% 1h 33m
display 9% 39m 13s
phone idle 4% 2h 46m
android system 4%
CPU total 5m 29scell standy 2% 3h 25m
touchdown 2%
CPU total 2m 38sandroid OS 2%
CPU total 1m 52s
With all of this I am at 50 and it has only been 3.5 hours of a 10 hour work day not to mention time during break and when I get off.
This guy here says that he was still at 62% battery left AFTER FOUR DAYS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyRG0S3o3o
forward to the 1:45 mark to hear him say it...
Maybe the Samsung sends out test models with better batteries to the websites doing reviews so that potential customers think it has better battery life than it really is and purchase it???
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The infuse battery lasts just as long. I had an atrix and was impressed and am equally impressed with the infuse.
I go at the very minimum at least a day, and on most days well over a day. Under normal circumstances I charge every other night.
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Same here. Done nothing to the infuse though to tweak.
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Typical day is using email, texting, phone calls, and some web browsing usually. Probably typical business usage.
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I'm sorry if this is a silly question but how does push save battery?
I was under the impression that push required the phone to be constantly checking for new emails or to have a connection active at all times. Both of the scenarios would lead me to think that it uses more battery than setting a fetch schedule.
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Pull is when the phone checks the server every X minutes for new messages, whether they're there or not.
Push is when the server sends the new message to your phone when it gets it.
Depending on how many messages you get, Push can save some battery.
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Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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I'm getting 13-15 hours on a charge with 2.5-3 hours of phone calls and at least 2 hours screen on time. When I'm not using my phone I'm losing about 3% per hour (connected to wifi). I have facebook syncing and push email going also. Overall I am liking the battery life.
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Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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Go into the task manager and close all running apps. Also try bump charging. I'll find the link for the thread about it
bump charging is only going to buy you that last 5% or so. that's great if you need an extra 20 - 40 min, but in reality, if battery life is "short" even an extra hour won't save you because when people cry about long vs short battery, it's something like 2 days of charge vs 1 day....
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Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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Hi,
Any new battery will take at least couple of complete charge cycles to reach their optimum capacity. Also the phone needs few charges to build up the battery stats to report it correctly.
Just use it for a week and the battery life should improve. You can also fully charge the phone than discharge it in one go, wait for few hrs and charge up again.
So I read a lot about either amazing or horrible battery life on this ROM or that ROM...however I've been wondering what is good or bad battery life... I don't wanna start a firestorm of opinions just maybe some helpful thoughts on what qualifies as what
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While I was @ stock my battery would be at 20% or less after a regular day at work.
Now using a ROM and the same amount of general usage I come home with, at the worst, 50% charge.
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It depends on your usage.
on CM7 i tend to only get about 10-14 hours of battery life, and i tend to just read alot from pulse reader and maybe play a little bit of fruit ninja, otherwise its mostly on standby.
On VU 2.35 i was getting 17-20 hours of battery life with the same usage.
insert quick rant:
Only difference i can see is that on CM7 im using JuiceDefender to control when to shut down my mobile network, and on VU i used automateit, so im gonna see if automateit will give me those extra hours or not.
Back to the chat:
15-20 hours tends to be considered good battery for moderate usage (like mine).
For minimal usage (from what i have read on these forums) 20-25 hours is good, and on heavy usage (lots of games, lots of RSS feed reading time, etc etc.) you can probably expect 7-9 hours of battery life.
so in conclusion:
Minimal usage: 20-25 hrs
Moderate usage:15-20 hrs
Heavy usage:7-9 hrs.
Thanks for the reply... I reset the battery stats last night and took the charger off at about 1am. I used the phone normal today (a lot of texts, some angry birds and surfing) and I'm still at 24%!!!!!
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You have to test diff roms and tweak settings. Im on the newest virtuous unity and my phone has been off the charger for about 13 hrs and im at 70%. Oc at 1.2gh stock. Just gotta learn how to use your phone.
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I'm in the newest revolution... Daemon is set at 11xxx any suggestions on things I could look for in the settings, things to tweak, etc... Any help greatly appreciated, Im catching on pretty quick to all this Rom flashing and whatnot but still a lot to learn
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Make sure cpu is on conservative, lower screen brightness, 30sec timeout, wifi bluetooth and gps all off. I turn data off when im not on my phone. Sense base rom i took sense weather widget off. Always on silent with flashing notifications and sync off. Just play with some settings and try it out
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I am running leedroid 3.2.1 and with the app setcpu you can run profiles and it should increase your battery life by 20% to 30% as in my case
Good luck K4GET
K4get said:
I am running leedroid 3.2.1 and with the app setcpu you can run profiles and it should increase your battery life by 20% to 30% as in my case
Good luck K4GET
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Agreed, I have my phone at 268 for screen off and slightly underclocked for screen on, on SetCPU. Running the latest MIUI rom with TalonAce kernel and my phone will drop only 5 percent over night. It will last all night and all the next day after a full charge with normal usage
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After 7 hours, I'm at 14%. Screen was on for 2 hours and I haven't been doing anything intensive (3d games or movies etc) just some web browsing. On automatic brightness. Are other people getting battery life this bad?
what about gps, nfc, app update intervals, there can be a lot going on in the background.
What is the top battery consumer under your battery usage?
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ptaros said:
What is the top battery consumer under your battery usage?
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Screen is, with 48%
Wifi is on, Bluetooth, NFC, and gps are off.
to be fair, my gf's verizon GS3 is ridiculously efficient. granted she was on wifi most of the day and doesn't use internet as much, but she was at 53% with 13 hours and 2 hours 14 min of screen time.
my att on the other hand, wifi off and on LTE, was at 53% with 6 hours and 2 hours of screen time.
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to be fair, my gf's verizon GS3 is ridiculously efficient. granted she was on wifi most of the day and doesn't use internet as much, but she was at 53% with 13 hours and 2 hours 14 min of screen time.
my att on the other hand, wifi off and on LTE, was at 53% with 6 hours and 2 hours of screen time.
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But both of those are higher than 15% after 7 hours with 2 hours of screen time
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Screen is, with 48%
Wifi is on, Bluetooth, NFC, and gps are off.
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How is the LTE signal in your area, if its not strong and swapping back and forth from 3g to LTE all day it can take a huge toll on your battery.
Try it without wifi and 4g. ONLY use 3g. I have a theory...
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Try it without wifi and 4g. ONLY use 3g. I have a theory...
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I'll do that tomorrow and get back to you
Mine seems to be doing great. The signal isn't that great in my house either. This is more real time use as I was asleep for a while. But when I woke up at 10am this morning it was at 92. I've been using it moderately ever since. I get about 8 hours with ridiculous use(4+hr screen on time).
Never on wifi.
Edit: I realize its kind of a bad example since it was in standby more than awake. But I'm getting great battery.
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Screenshots for those of you wondering
I had the same problem as you did. What made a significant change for me was changing amount of apps to keep running at 4 instead of default. Also I found the xda app runs in the background, continues to drain the battery. I have to manually kill the xda app every time I exit it. For today I'm at 12 hour running, and screen on 1.5hrs and 59 percent battery life.
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But both of those are higher than 15% after 7 hours with 2 hours of screen time
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right, and im saying my gf's VERIZON model spanked mine.
Give the battery sometime.
I've been getting worse battery on wifi than 4g for some reason. I also noticed my idle power usage is around 115mA, where on my thunderbolt it was around 20mA
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I had the same problem as you did. What made a significant change for me was changing amount of apps to keep running at 4 instead of default. Also I found the xda app runs in the background, continues to drain the battery. I have to manually kill the xda app every time I exit it. For today I'm at 12 hour running, and screen on 1.5hrs and 59 percent battery life.
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Ditto on the xda app, it was burning up cpu cycles while in the background, enough to make my phone warm. So I just close it every time I'm done using it.
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I have gps, wifi, data, and sync on still netting 27-30hrs battery life. The key is rooting and debloating....
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I've been getting worse battery on wifi than 4g for some reason. I also noticed my idle power usage is around 115mA, where on my thunderbolt it was around 20mA
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Woh how are you getting your current draw? The apps that I've tried won't support the s3.
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I have the Verizon model of the S3 as well. I have had it for over a week now because I was an early pre-order so I got it really early. For the first few days I was getting really bad battery life. I would maybe only get 8 - 9 hours with moderate usage, that being about 2 hours of screen time. I would play no games, and just browse the web and text. I am a big texter though, but on my DINC as long as I had mobile data switched off I could get plenty of life out of my phone. With this phone for some reason after about 70 percent, mine will start to drain much faster regardless of what I am using it for, even if the screen is is off. Just to test it I left all the radios on while the phone was at 100 percent over night, and the next morning it was at 96. The next day I tried the same test when my phone was at 50 percent battery, and when I woke up it was at 10 . I don't really understand what is going on here either. I keep seeing all of the reviews for the device even the Verizon version to point towards great battery life, but I am just not seeing it. Maybe rooting and a re-flashing the stock rom plus removing bloatware will help. I also got another battery just to see if that was the problem, but it doesn't seem to be. I'm hoping this is just a software issue, because I don't know why some can get such great battery and some can't. I would also hate to have to get a replacement phone.
im getting around 10 hours with Heavy use ... 6 hours of pandora, youtube, email, facebook, twitter, web
On day 6 with the phone
How often you charge your phone? I have to do it every single day! And if I play for an hour or so some 3d hard game... maybe even twice a day!
I charge it two times per day.
Heavy usage.
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1x a day if I'm only listening to music, surfing, whatsappnig and xdaing.
2x if I'm on candy crush rush lol
How much display on time do you reach with normal useage a day ?
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How much display on time do you reach with normal useage a day ?
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Sorry, friend, cant understand the question?
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How much display on time do you reach with normal useage a day ?
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Depends on Rom and kernel. With LS and bubba about 5h screen on, with Carbon and 3.4 about 1,5h....
HTC One S (S4) | Carbon~HALO | 3.4.49_kernel | S-OFF
I charge about once a day, no more than 6 hours charging, and I dont usually let my phone die.I use my phone casually, web browsing, facebooking, instagram, flipbook. 3D gaming will drastically drain your battery.
I have not been charged yet, I have it always tied to an electrical outlet.
Kernel 3.4.49, PacMan 23.0.0 made my day. Nice rom, but hungry on battery.
i have it hooked up to my body so that it's always charging.
i got the idea from watching the Matrix.
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i have it hooked up to my body so that it's always charging.
i got the idea from watching the Matrix.
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Haha, very funny indeed.
I just ordered this one http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310674792440
Yeah, its cheap, but my friend bought smth like this for 50$ and still have problems with it. I wll try and post.
My Htc is villec2 (C2) and when I am playing 3d game, with perfomance governor for both CPUs and slight overclock for the GPU ... well, I lose 10 percent battey for 20 minutes.
Every second day, 3G is on all day and I always wait until the battery is at about 1-3%.
I keep 4g off unless I'm using it most of the time, and I try to recharge before getting below 20% to extend the long term life of the battery, but if I'm using it normally I can go 2 days easily. Screen on time is probably about an hour and probably about 40hours since unplugged. Sense roms don't see exact screen on time apparently.
When I'm using it in place of my laptop for a few hours of browsing I get one work day out of it. Unplug it in the middle of the night when its charged, maybe midnight and I use it very little at work. By lunch its at 95% then an hour screen on brings it down to 80% then end of day its like 75% and I web browse for a few hours until its down to 20% and I plug it in.
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I keep 4g off unless I'm using it most of the time, and I try to recharge before getting below 20% to extend the long term life of the battery, but if I'm using it normally I can go 2 days easily. Screen on time is probably about an hour and probably about 40hours since unplugged. Sense roms don't see exact screen on time apparently.
When I'm using it in place of my laptop for a few hours of browsing I get one work day out of it. Unplug it in the middle of the night when its charged, maybe midnight and I use it very little at work. By lunch its at 95% then an hour screen on brings it down to 80% then end of day its like 75% and I web browse for a few hours until its down to 20% and I plug it in.
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Thats I thing very good battery life.. What about the screen brightness ?
With my phone I think is not so bad but when 3d game is lounched... WOW I think battery will drop from 100 to 10 for less then 1 and a half hours!
Here are screenshots from today. Wish I could see screen on time.
I only use real intense games on occasion but I do play words with friends every day. Not sure how much time total though.
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I just browsed and played words and ran facebook for exactly 1 hour screen on the whole time and lost 15%,.went 95 down to 80. Pretty happy with that.
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I just browsed and played words and ran facebook for exactly 1 hour screen on the whole time and lost 15%,.went 95 down to 80. Pretty happy with that.
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I will post my screens tonight. I think your battery is acting nice! Last night I lost 30% for 2h 30min pllaying Angry Birds with screen brightness to low! I am happy with that too!
1x a day or 1x in 2 days. Depends on if i have to use mobile data if i am away on weekends or i can stay at home with WLAN only. I am looking forward to CyanogenMod when the 3.4 issues are fixed because even Sense 5 is somehow battery hungry.
I normally charge daily, but now with the newer unstable roms I find the battery to drain faster (so less usage each day)
Here are my screenshots. The big battery drops are while playing Angry Birds and Beach Buggy Blitz.