Mine has been taking 6.5 hours from when the battery was completely dead. Is this normal? I understand it may take longer than standard battery because of its superior capacity. Battery has been working great though, but should I return it?
My extended battery takes about the same when it is absolutely dead. One thing that I find odd though is that the last one percent (99-100) takes a long time. I wouldn't return it for that reason though.
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My extended battery takes about the same when it is absolutely dead. One thing that I find odd though is that the last one percent (99-100) takes a long time. I wouldn't return it for that reason though.
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The phone switches to trickle charge around 95% or so.
Just got mine today at 5 its still charging at 10.
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do you guys have your phones rooted? i have DAS BAMF NTE 1.6.3 with advanced task killer and juice defender and sometimes my extended battery doesn't even last literally 12 hours which really pisses me off because the first day i used my extended battery (non rooted/ROMed) i literally got almost 2 full days of use. thoughts?
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do you guys have your phones rooted? i have DAS BAMF NTE 1.6.3 with advanced task killer and juice defender and sometimes my extended battery doesn't even last literally 12 hours which really pisses me off because the first day i used my extended battery (non rooted/ROMed) i literally got almost 2 full days of use. thoughts?
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Task killer + auto kill = fail
Get rid of the task killer.
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My battery has lasted 15 hours with 40% left on my extended battery. Bamf 2.0
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Task killer + auto kill = fail
Get rid of the task killer.
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really? is there an alternative? or just not worry about it? should i set up a task killer with super manager widget?
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My battery has lasted 15 hours with 40% left on my extended battery. Bamf 2.0
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do you have any battery saver strategy suggestions for me?
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really? is there an alternative? or just not worry about it? should i set up a task killer with super manager widget?
do you have any battery saver strategy suggestions for me?
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The auto kill eats up clock cycles for no reason. Turn it off and kill processes when needed.
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really? is there an alternative? or just not worry about it? should i set up a task killer with super manager widget?
do you have any battery saver strategy suggestions for me?
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Not really I just run bamf and make sure to only sync what I need. Brightness was on lowish most of the day.
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I'm stock with ext. battery and have advanced task killer and can easily get 12+ hrs of actual usage before the batt is close to dead. Mine takes a long time to charge between 99 & 100% as well. I've also noticed that if you turn the phone off after getting to 100%, it seems to charge even more according to the led that goes from orange to green when fully charged.
When I charge mine in the car, sometimes it stays at 99% for a long time, (though I'm usually streaming music). But at home it charges pretty fast, never gets stuck at any percentage.
Oh and yes this is with the huge extended battery.
my goodness with these task killers! if google is banning certain apps from the market it should be all task killer apps.
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Hello I am new to this forum, I just got the Samsung galaxy s 4g this Wednesday and I was wondering if anyone else was having battery issues. Right now I have my phone set to minimum brightness, auto sync off, black bckground and juice defender on. So I don't understand why am I getting only about 3 hours of battery life when all I'm doing most of the time is surfing the web(this forum) and facebook. I even get better battery life from my dads vibrant which is completely stock, has auto sync on, no juice defender, and screen brightness set to 50%. From reading the stats of both phones, the vibrant 4g is supposed to have a slightly better battery. I also don't understand why if the screen is at the minimum it still takes up 94% of the battery whereas on my dads vibrant 50% screen brightness takes up 30%. Is there anything I can do? Will wiping the battery stats help? If so how do I do that from a stock unrooted vibrant?
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Check your notifications settings. I know that Samsung's contacts integration with social networks takes a big toll on the battery, hence why I've disabled it. Also, disable T-Mobile's Contact Backup Sync, just use Google's contacts integration.
Thanks for helping, but yeah I have those disabled already.
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Thanks for helping, but yeah I have those disabled already.
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No, I charged mine this morning at 630AM, and I have been playing with it all day. It is currently 610PM, and I am at 60% still. Seems pretty good to me.
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No, I charged mine this morning at 630AM, and I have been playing with it all day. It is currently 610PM, and I am at 60% still. Seems pretty good to me.
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Wow thats much better than what I have been getting, have you changed any settings that might have increased the battery life for your phone?
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Does the trick to fully discharge and recharge 3 times work with these batteries? According the the Li-on technology this is not supposed to be necessary but I've heard stories in the forums of folks getting great battery life on other phones after doing this. Many people also say their batteries work a lot better after a week of use (supposedly after "training" them as well.)
I believe the G2 is clocked down for this reason. You could try CPU-set app, clocking down to 500-800mhz when not gaming.
Anyone tried these tricks?
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Does the trick to fully discharge and recharge 3 times work with these batteries? According the the Li-on technology this is not supposed to be necessary but I've heard stories in the forums of folks getting great battery life on other phones after doing this. Many people also say their batteries work a lot better after a week of use (supposedly after "training" them as well.)
I believe the G2 is clocked down for this reason. You could try CPU-set app, clocking down to 500-800mhz when not gaming.
Anyone tried these tricks?
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Will ill try to cycle charge the vibrant and use it for a week, and ill try out cpu set. if this doesn't improve I'm definitely returning this phone. I had soo much expectation for this because I have seen people getting up to 24 hours. I can't even get halfway through the day barely using the phone.
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Thats weird... I unplugged at 9:30 used it moderately untill 12:30 at which time i turned brightness to max and watched the intire incpetion movie and watched an episode of kitchen nightmares and ended up at 56%.
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Thats weird... I unplugged at 9:30 used it moderately untill 12:30 at which time i turned brightness to max and watched the intire incpetion movie and watched an episode of kitchen nightmares and ended up at 56%.
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Yeah there's gotta be something wrong with my phone, after watching halfway through inception from a full charge and at 0% brightness I had 30% battery left.
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I'm also struggling to make it through the day. I check Facebook / xda on occasion and text moderately, Gps off, notifications and auto sync off, display set to 0% with an all black background, even 3g off in areas where its spotty... I don't remember the vibrant being this bad...
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did you guys do a full battery break in? I charged my phone to 100% drained it till it died charged it to 100% again with the power off then drained till it died again... I have great battery life.
What is your usage like? Im breaking in my battery again today.
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What is your usage like? Im breaking in my battery again today.
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Auto brightness on GPS on sync on 20 texts 30 min playing games 20 min on Facebook now on xda app for 15 min. And standby for 3 hours... currently at 80%. Also have hepatic feedback on the Mtm gingergread keyboard. If that matters.
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I got my replacement 4g today. Hopefully ill have better results. I have a question for those of you that are getting really good battery life, are you running juice defender or something similar in the background? Maybe that's a factor in why I've been getting terrible battery.
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Im having the same issue with battery life.. for me its a deal breaker.. I use my phone pretty heavily for keeping up with email and a little web browsing as well as talking quite a bit.. My iPhone 3Gs lasted me all day of heavy use and with the SGS4G I have to charge the damn thing at least once a day with light usage and if I have to be on the phone a lot then its twice a day.. Not acceptable at all...
Thats with wifi and gps disabled..
On the 3Gs I had wifi, bluetooth and the gps running all the damn time...
Took my phone off charge at 6:30 this morning haven't put it on charge yet at 88% never had this much juice with the nexus one.
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I'm not having any issues with battery life or heating. I use wifi teather most of the day and I'm getting to use it all day without issue. I did cycle my battery 4 times already just in case it matters. FYI
The batteries that our phone uses DOES NOT require u to cycle the battery. In fact, doing so will harm your battery. To avoid damage to your battery always charge ur phone when u r at <15% battery level. Trust me I thought the same until I did the research. I will post more info when I get on my PC later.
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http://batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-36.htm
I just bought a Galaxy S 4G on wednesday. First android device coming from iphone 3G. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to preserve the battery life.
I took it off the charger at 6:30am and the battery was at about 2% at 8:30pm.
I haven't rooted the phone yet to remove some of the bloatware that comes pre-installed.
I've got email accounts synching, brightness set at about 10% w/ a static wallpaper. Played about an hour of angrybirds throughout the day and didn't really do any web browsing with a few phones calls. I mean 14 hours is decent but from what I've read there are plenty of people getting a full day of use and still have 50% battery left.
I guess once the battery fully charges I'll put inception on, turn off syncing and try a few other things.
So I guess I said all that to say this, my battery life isn't great but it's not downright horrible either. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
And yes I'll continue browsing all the forums to see what else I can find.
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Played through half of Inception in airplane mode, brightness at minimum. I dropped from 93% to 80% in an hour and a half. Not too shabby.
Also created a shortcut to toggle between 4G modes and Edge. I know 4G is going to be a pretty big drain so I'll see how much that helps.
I'll keep tweaking it.
this is completely true and if you read the manual on page 13- h t t p:// downloadcenter . samsung . com/content/UM/201102/20110224044646930/T959_Galaxy_S_4G_English_User_Manual.pdf it says that
"• Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted before charging
your device. Repeating this process of a complete discharge and
recharge can over time reduce the storage capacity of any battery."
right now my phone is at 23% battery level with up time of 46:46:40 hrs/mins/secs. with skype calling (around 10 minutes), text messaging, browsing the net (for around 5 minutes about 6 times a day), and talking on the phone (around 15 minutes)
the settings i did:
1. took a picture with my finger blocking the camera to get pitch black picture and set that as my background and deleted all the shortcut icons (i short, i only have a blank screen with the only 4 icons down below)
2. changed the brightness settings to 2 clicks to the right from 0% brightness (or you can lower your brightness all the way down during the night, and 2 clicks away during the day, this will save you more)
3. disabled haptic feedbacks and audible touchtones, selections, and screen lock sounds
4. disabled animations
5. disabled background data and syncing when not in use
6. disabled packet data (3g), wifi, and gps when not in use
the last two are the biggest settings that made my battery last longer.
7. i only charge my phone when it gets to 20% and the manual recommends not to use the phone while charging
i hope this helps.
and yes it is recommended to charge your battery to 100% before you turn on your phone for the first time and this is also stated on the manual.
one more thing, don't forget to set your browser's brightness setting as well
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The batteries that our phone uses DOES NOT require u to cycle the battery. In fact, doing so will harm your battery. To avoid damage to your battery always charge ur phone when u r at <15% battery level. Trust me I thought the same until I did the research. I will post more info when I get on my PC later.
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http://batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-36.htm
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I have serendipity rom and I unplugged my phone at 9.30am this morning with fully charged now its 4pm I have 11% left? And I went on about phone-battery it said. Display 93% , phone idle 4% , voice calls 3% and I have my brightness to the lowest. Can anyone suggest why it dies so quick?
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How much screen time?
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Unplugged at 8am and now it's 4pm and I'm at 51%. Rebooted once so the battery numbers are not correct.
More information would be helpful.
What widgets do you use?
What apps remain open in the background?
How much screen time was there?
Are you in a low-signal area?
Do you leave BT/Wifi/GPS on?
I usually have 40-70% at the end of my workday (5pm) with pretty decent usage - I unplug at 11pm.
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More information would be helpful.
What widgets do you use?
What apps remain open in the background?
How much screen time was there?
Are you in a low-signal area?
Do you leave BT/Wifi/GPS on?
I usually have 40-70% at the end of my workday (5pm) with pretty decent usage - I unplug at 11pm.
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Only using the power control widget.
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For what it's worth----my wife and I each have a captivate and I have two spare "after market" batteries. I've never checked my wife's battery usage since she rarely does anything with it besides taking/receiving maybe 6-10 calls a day. She charges it every night and it's never run completely down so I haven't changed the battery. In my case, the battery that came with the unit is usually down to 20-30% after eight hours. One of the after-market batteries won't make it for more than 6 hours. The second after-market battery usually has 50-60% remaining at the end of the day. I usually replace the batteries every night and charge the replaced battery with a wall charger over night. I know there are lots of variables involved, but there is no doubt in my mind that there is tremendous variation between these three batteries. I'm running on andromeda 1.2 and on weekends I disable most everything except the phone and, on the best battery, the captivate will idle along for at least 48 hours. I also suspect there may be as much, or more, variability between ROMs.
Where can I get those batteries? Ya I just got the phone 2 days ago over iphone 4
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Got 'em on ebay. I think they are of Chinese origin but I just took pot luck because I wanted a spare in my brief case for emergency use.
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Got 'em on ebay. I think they are of Chinese origin but I just took pot luck because I wanted a spare in my brief case for emergency use.
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Is it possible to pm the link? Cause im close to returning it
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Is it possible to pm the link? Cause im close to returning it
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Turn off gps, wifi, task killers, etc.
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@fishdoc were the two after market batteries the same and from the same seller on ebay? Or were they different batteries?
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Check services too... I found out that Win Amp was using all my battery trying to do wifi sync when I didn't ever use that function.
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Get Juice Defender. It has extended my battery life from 5-7 hours to 24+ hours. It disables your radios while the phone is off, but turns them back on ever 15 or 30 minutes to get data pushed to all of your active services.
Can we go with the obvious and have you calibrate your battery first?
How has battery been for everyone? Mine has been atrocious! I just formatted the phone and am leaving it "naked" overnight to see how it fairs. Also, has anyone successfully used SetCPU?
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How has battery been for everyone? Mine has been atrocious! I just formatted the phone and am leaving it "naked" overnight to see how it fairs. Also, has anyone successfully used SetCPU?
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Battery life has been terrible, even sitting idle with the screen off it uses 1-2% battery in just 10-15 minutes.
Turned off bluetooth, gps and all syncing and it still drains battery just as fast.
About to factory reset to see if it helps....that is if I can get that far without it freezing and restarting itself.
My battery has been great. I took off charger at 8:30am and at 8:02pm its at 61 percent. Thats with some texting, web browsing and wifi.
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My battery has been great. I took off charger at 8:30am and at 8:02pm its at 61 percent. Thats with some texting, web browsing and wifi.
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Did you fully charge the phone before using it?
sent from my side of the galaxy....
It will get better guys just let the battery get conditioned. In the next couple charges it will start getting better. Don't panic you just got the phone, give it a few days.
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Yup I left work at around 5pm with it charged 100% and by 9:30 I had hit yellow(20% -ish). To be fair I was using it quite a bit messing with settings and stuff, and its brand new.
My G2 battery would last forever, literally off the charger at 7:45am and by 3 or 4pm it would hit 60%. This phone is worth it though, IMO.
I also have serious battery issues. The battery usage is mostly consumed by cell standby and bluetooth. On my mytouch 4g at most these parameters were a few percent each. On the g2x they are like at 25% usage each. This does not appear to be normal. This is with minimal to no usage. I dont get it. Is it a software issue, there is no reason cell standby and bluetooth should be usaging so much juice with little to no use.
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How has battery been for everyone? Mine has been atrocious! I just formatted the phone and am leaving it "naked" overnight to see how it fairs. Also, has anyone successfully used SetCPU?
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Has anyone used Set CPU? Does it help? I'm very close to going back to my HD2.
Juice defender helps tremendously. Give the app a try. Also, let the battery settles by fully charge it.
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Yesterday was my first full day, but it gave me plenty of use. I unplugged at 10am and it lasted until about 6pm. Keep in mind I was playing a little and screen was on most of the day cause I was setting things to my liking.
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Juice defender helps tremendously. Give the app a try. Also, let the battery settles by fully charge it.
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I agree with you, I only use Juice Defender Data Toogle though. It works great when I don't want to use my phone data.
hey im using leedroid v1.3 and the battery life on my phone is horrendous, i left the house at 11am this morning with 98 percent and after a 10 minute phone call i had 75 percent battery by 12 oclock. do you guys have any tips or things i can flash to get the phone through a day and a half or even 2 days somehow?
also having an issue with the speakerphone, its the lowest volume of any phone i think ive ever owned, ive got to put the phone to my head, so its basically like making a call but using the back as an earpiece. thanks for the help.
I'm having the same problem with my phone, on any rom. According to CurrentWidget, the Ma being used by my phone will not drop below 150, even while idling. I'm starting to believe that my battery is faulty.
Are u guys calibrating the battety?
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I thought I was, but apparently I'm not. Can you point me in the right direction?
Download the battery calibration app from the market. Charge to full run the app calibrate.....drain than calibrate again and you should be fine.
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Download the battery calibration app from the market. Charge to full run the app calibrate.....drain than calibrate again and you should be fine.
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Upgraded to v2 and ran the battery calibrator. Phone finally lasts a day. Thanks. Am I supposed to run the calibrator at like 10% or should I let it die and run it after a 100% charge?
Battery calibration + managing screen brightness massively increases battery life. You need root to be able to clear battery stats, right?
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Upgraded to v2 and ran the battery calibrator. Phone finally lasts a day. Thanks. Am I supposed to run the calibrator at like 10% or should I let it die and run it after a 100% charge?
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I believe the calibration tools want you to use them at 100% charge. I got a chichitec 1900mA/Hr battery, calibrated (i guess it is now) and my phone went for more than 24 hours before hitting the 49% mark. This was with light use (checking email, checking web forums, playing some Angry Birds, and making some phone calls) but still a HUGE difference from the stock battery. Also, I turn off data connection via quick settings when I am at home. I do turn on wifi though while at home. Calibration ought to help out big time, as these phones are reporting a dead battery long before it is really dead.
Also, dont pay attention to the current battery monitor's report for standby current. It isnt accurate.
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That's the one reason I keep going back to the stock setup I just seem to get better battery life out of is than any of the custom ones I've tried. I've only tried a couple. Has anyone found a ROM that gets better battery life than stock?
How much battery do you guys usually get? Recently I've noticed a large drainage of battery and I know phone isn't too good with battery but even this doesn't seem normal. Some of my apps use 1-2% of battery per minute! Is this normal or not?
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Oh and my battery never gets to 100%, the phone will tell me it has reached 100% but as soon as I unplug it, the battery is usually at 92-95%, also I use Juice Defender and it seems to help but not much..
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How much battery do you guys usually get? Recently I've noticed a large drainage of battery and I know phone isn't too good with battery but even this doesn't seem normal. Some of my apps use 1-2% of battery per minute! Is this normal or not?
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generally my phone will last all day, but that is only when i rarely use it. when im using it a lot, for example if im playing games and listening to music, it lasts about half a day. but it all depends on how you use it. if you are using a lot of 3D apps, your battery will drain quickly
Mine lasts all day. I listen to local music and have push email hitting me most of the day. I might have to charge it at night if I use it a lot and I am up past midnight.
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I think the Blaze battery is one of the best I've seen. I use my phone lots from 8am till 23:00 and it gets down to about 5%.
That's on Dark Knight ROM.
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Odd ive got over a day on my battery with over 4 hours display time on my blaze with erikkm's darkknight rom with moderate use Lithium ion batteries have a memory and when you fully kill the battery it reduces its memory slightly, always always try to charge your phone before 30-20% and dont unplug your phone while its charging that can effect the battery memory as well.
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