Battery life - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727

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I don't get it.
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Ozzy gets it

kr3w1337 said:
I don't get it.
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I admit its a but esoteric but its funny to me on a bunch of levels. Our battery life sucks so I feel like I need to carry a car battery around like the image to charge my phone. In the movie iron man Tony stark was hooked to a car battery that he carried that was saving his life. In this case the car battery is saving my lifeline aka my skyrocket.
Also, the caption is a play on the line from the movie "yeah, I can fly".
It kills me, but obviously only me and one other person got it.

It would be funny if it actually had poor battery life
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avarize said:
It would be funny if it actually had poor battery life
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I'm beyond heavy usage on mine. I go 20% drain an hour. My iPhone made it through the day, I burn mu skyrocket out. Granted I would never go back to iPhone. But I send over 20k texts a month, web browse, YouTube, etc throughout the day. Running nexusmod4.1b, faux 10u. No Widgets, no flair, no excess apps running. I'm just extremely heavy use.

R4INS said:
I'm beyond heavy usage on mine. I go 20% drain an hour. My iPhone made it through the day, I burn mu skyrocket out. Granted I would never go back to iPhone. But I send over 20k texts a month, web browse, YouTube, etc throughout the day. Running nexusmod4.1b, faux 10u. No Widgets, no flair, no excess apps running. I'm just extremely heavy use.
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How much screen on time do you have per day? BTW, I got the joke, hahaha

xcrazydx said:
How much screen on time do you have per day? BTW, I got the joke, hahaha
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LOL thanks!
And I get hours of screen time. I never really checked honestly. I just know I use it too much LOL. I keep brightness at the min setting while indoors. Auto outdoors.

R4INS said:
LOL thanks!
And I get hours of screen time. I never really checked honestly. I just know I use it too much LOL. I keep brightness at the min setting while indoors. Auto outdoors.
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I was just doing a comparison since we run the same rom but different kernels

xcrazydx said:
I was just doing a comparison since we run the same rom but different kernels
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I rebooted not long ago. Right now android system has uses 5% battery and my display has used 90% lol

R4INS said:
I rebooted not long ago. Right now android system has uses 5% battery and my display has used 90% lol
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Holy smokes!! I been dickin around with go launcher, go locker, and zedge all day. My android system is at like 18%, display at 49%. Made a whole new look, its taken hours! haha

LOL! Totally got it and I can totally relate.
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I think it has great battery life. For me atleast, I recharge every morning but, it last me all day np. I udually have ablut 50% the next morning before I recharge. It ses better then the Droid razr, wayy better thrn my xperia arc
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shorty473 said:
LOL! Totally got it and I can totally relate.
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Thank God I was starting to think I was crazier than normal today. My phone can deep sleep when I do, or when I'm dead.
In all seriousness though for the average person this phone probably can last them a long time. But I use it constantly.

R4INS said:
Thank God I was starting to think I was crazier than normal today. My phone can deep sleep when I do, or when I'm dead.
In all seriousness though for the average person this phone probably can last them a long time. But I use it constantly.
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I have to try really hard to kill this thing in one day. I get over 5 hours screen on time, gtalk all day long, words wit friends, youtube, tapatalk all day, very little web browsing, texts frequently, stream google music or pandora. So much stuff, can't kill the damn thing.

xcrazydx said:
I have to try really hard to kill this thing in one day. I get over 5 hours screen on time, gtalk all day long, words wit friends, youtube, tapatalk all day, very little web browsing, texts frequently, stream google music or pandora. So much stuff, can't kill the damn thing.
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Part is probably due to the fact I'm on my feet all day at work in a big building that has poor service in a lot of areas. Also my house is patchy for service so my radio is working its butt off getting signal. I live in the country, don't even have LTE.

R4INS said:
I admit its a but esoteric but its funny to me on a bunch of levels. Our battery life sucks so I feel like I need to carry a car battery around like the image to charge my phone. In the movie iron man Tony stark was hooked to a car battery that he carried that was saving his life. In this case the car battery is saving my lifeline aka my skyrocket.
Also, the caption is a play on the line from the movie "yeah, I can fly".
It kills me, but obviously only me and one other person got it.
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I didn't see the movie, that's why, now I get it lol
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R4INS said:
Part is probably due to the fact I'm on my feet all day at work in a big building that has poor service in a lot of areas. Also my house is patchy for service so my radio is working its butt off getting signal. I live in the country, don't even have LTE.
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Ah, yes. I have full service or wifi all day long

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Ah, yes. I have full service or wifi all day long
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At work I'm all over from full to none inside. Outside full. Home I get 3 outside and none to 2 inside. Sometimes a matter of moving my phone a few inches means a bar. Att is the only company that gets service at my house. All the others are total dead zones.
At home I stay on wifi, at work I have to use my cell data because the internet here has so many restrictions on it. No Facebook etc. Anything that would slow employee productivity LOL.

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At work I'm all over from full to none inside. Outside full. Home I get 3 outside and none to 2 inside. Sometimes a matter of moving my phone a few inches means a bar. Att is the only company that gets service at my house. All the others are total dead zones.
At home I stay on wifi, at work I have to use my cell data because the internet here has so many restrictions on it. No Facebook etc. Anything that would slow employee productivity LOL.
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Yeah, searching for signal or using navigation eats it up fast!!

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it's failure by design..

One would think by now, that after HTC put out the evo and other large screen devices they would have better batteries. Also not to mention the thunderbolts delayed release. No we waste more on extended batteries, and have no cases to protect the dam thing. I've tried all the tips out there for tweaking the battery to get max use and it still sucks. I'm still in my 14 day trail period and I'm thinking of bringing it back. I'm just pIssed companies have the nerve to do this BS!
Well take it back then. Try a blackberry out. Oh yeah those things have even worse batteries and the bis always fails.
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First off I get plenty fine battery for a phone as fast as this with LTE. The large, bright screen is just a bonus. If you are getting bad battery you have yourself to blame if you would read these forums as almost everyone here is getting great battery life.
Also, your battery size complaint is terrible, the droid X has almost the same battery and runs fine as well. The LTE right now is the killer, verizon has admitted it so either switch to 4g or 3g only and stop flooding the boards with this crap.
I make it through the day no problem, and with LTE on. First few days were terrible, but things seem to have improved drastically since then.
Take it back. Threads like this show that it's not for everyone.
Example - I have a car dock, I commute, I work on a comp. all day, easy enough to charge at home. I've never had this battery life issue everyone is talking about.
miketoasty said:
First off I get plenty fine battery for a phone as fast as this with LTE. The large, bright screen is just a bonus. If you are getting bad battery you have yourself to blame if you would read these forums as almost everyone here is getting great battery life.
Also, your battery size complaint is terrible, the droid X has almost the same battery and runs fine as well. The LTE right now is the killer, verizon has admitted it so either switch to 4g or 3g only and stop flooding the boards with this crap.
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uhhhhhh what? The majority says the battery sucks. Where have you been?
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uhhhhhh what? The majority says the battery sucks. Where have you been?
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I have read WAY more posts about good battery life than I have bad. Where have you been? Yes, there are occasional posts about it but the vast majority after a little bit of tinkering have said good battery life.
My personal experience.
Took my phone off the charger at 96%. Used the GPS on a hour drive, sending texts and listening to music the whole way. Ate some dinner while continuing to send texts. Went to a hockey game and took ~30 Pics. Used the GPS to get back home with music and finally put the phone back on the charger. Time off charger 7 hours. Battery percentage 82%. Only 14% decrease with what I would say is some pretty moderate use.
One thing I actually thought was funny is I pulled out an old Sammy flip phone to see what size battery it had. 1100 mah. 5 years ago they were shipping dumbphones with 1100 mah batteries. Come to present day, a phone with 4G, a 1 ghz processor, and a ginormous lcd screen has a bump of 300 mah. Is something wrong with that?
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First off I get plenty fine battery for a phone as fast as this with LTE. The large, bright screen is just a bonus. If you are getting bad battery you have yourself to blame if you would read these forums as almost everyone here is getting great battery life.
Also, your battery size complaint is terrible, the droid X has almost the same battery and runs fine as well. The LTE right now is the killer, verizon has admitted it so either switch to 4g or 3g only and stop flooding the boards with this crap.
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I don't want to sound like a jackass, but I bought a 4G phone, not a 4G phone I need to use in 3G so I can make it through the day. In the end I just bought the extended battery. Solved all my woes.
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If I can figure out how to go 22 hours with 43% remaining on my phone with moderate to heavy use, than sure as hell you should be able to get at least 12-15 hours out of the phone, not knowing half of what I know.
cause that is all that matters right, making it through the day for how long your awake, so for most people 12-15 hours, then you are home and can plug it in.
who cares if you make it home and plug it in at 5%, it still lasted you all day.
I've done the 5 tips for better life, and thou it has a improved.... its a minor improvement. the phone is with out a doubt sweet, im just pissed bc i cant get a full day out of it. i work for 8 hours and leave the friggin thing in airplane mode, then on my way home i listen to music with it still in airplane mode subway kills it mad quick....i do and dont wanna bring it back i want the newest thing out, im coming from a OG moto droid.. 50-60 bucks for a goddamn battery that makes your phone last longer and turns it into a potential weapon...data/voice together is the only feature right now that is making it hard for me to decide if i should bring it back or not.. i got it this past Saturday i have 8 more days to decide, not to mention vzw wants the 35 dollar restock fee now. who remembers when they had the 30 day test run??? lmao they stop doing it because people kept bringing phones back within the period...
my phone definitely lasts me the day, but i don't think it would last the 10 to 15 hours that others are reporting. i already turned the brightness down to about 25 - 30 percent, turned off unnecessary widgets and sync'ing plus i set setcpu to throttle the cpu down to lowest speed when the screen is off. as such, i'd like to know what others are doing to squeeze so much battery time out of their TBs.
Custom Rom and Kernel seemed to help my battery life a ton. I can now easily make it all day with moderate to heavy use on stock battery. From the battery monitor, it looks like the screen will eat the most power, be sure to keep it set low. The underclock/volt while screen is off uses hardly any batter power and is really nice as well.
I'm getting awesome battery... My phone has been up for about twelve
Hours now and I still have about 45 percent... Heavy usage texting music internet and xda posting.
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TBJared said:
Custom Rom and Kernel seemed to help my battery life a ton. I can now easily make it all day with moderate to heavy use on stock battery. From the battery monitor, it looks like the screen will eat the most power, be sure to keep it set low. The underclock/volt while screen is off uses hardly any batter power and is really nice as well.
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On all Android devices the screen is the battery eater, except on 2.0/2.1 with Exchange Sync issues... then it could hang and eat the battery.
I've never really had an issue with battery life. That's not to say my battery lasts longer, i just use different methods to keep my devices alive.
AA USB chargers have always been a good friend of mine, as well as plugging my phone into my laptop while it's in my backpack.
I can't wait for an external battery charger to come out for the TB, then you just have 2 or 3 batteries and swap them out as needed.
But if you're expecting more than 8 hours or so off of one charge they're right, you may look for another device
Yah man, 3 hours of navigation, with music going, many calls, 3 hours of internet use, txt & talk and LTE and 3G switching through out all day because of traveling . I was really heavily using the phone with an extended battery but made it just over 24 hours... Try trading it in for another battery. Your not Wifi tethering all day as home network are you?
hammer4203 said:
Well take it back then. Try a blackberry out. Oh yeah those things have even worse batteries and the bis always fails.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about. Blackberries are known for having excellent battery life. I had 12 hours 40 some odd minutes and was at 69% last night when i plugged my TB in to charge. I really don't understand the problem.
edit: proof, this was a few hours before i plugged it in.
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Stop whining about the phone. If you don't like the phone, take it back. No one here is forcing you to keep it.
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howtodoo? said:
One would think by now, that after HTC put out the evo and other large screen devices they would have better batteries. Also not to mention the thunderbolts delayed release. No we waste more on extended batteries, and have no cases to protect the dam thing. I've tried all the tips out there for tweaking the battery to get max use and it still sucks. I'm still in my 14 day trail period and I'm thinking of bringing it back. I'm just pIssed companies have the nerve to do this BS!
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You bought a device with a 4.3" screen and a brand new radio technology. Honestly, what did you expect.No phone out there with a screen that large has what could be considered great battery life. Sure some are better then others, but these are not BB devices. And while we are at it, lets be realistic here... if they put in a bigger battery you would be in here complaining about how large and how heavy the phone is.... You can't have everything, something has to give at some point.

Battery stats....pssh

I'm tired of seeing all these battery threads of people saying " I get 18-24 hours of life off a single charge! " To you people I'm saying bs, the only way your getting this kind of life is if your not using your phone. So quit trying to say your a " power user " when your not. Fact is you don't use your phone hardly at all and are trying to " look cool " by making people think that you have some super thunderbolt....lol.
So that being said I take my bolt off the charger at 6am and can burn through the battery by 1030am. I am a power user. Now I will go ahead and post my screen shots of last night and this will show you why I'm calling bs on all these battery threads. The phone was pulled off at 100% charge, on wifi all night really no use besides email and whatever android runs at idle.
Let's all face it, the battery life sucks on the tbolt. As well as the dinc...
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This is just one persons view....don't get butt hurt over it.
Agreed.
If I leave my phone doing nothing for 24 hours, it might last all that time, but as soon as the screen comes off and I do anything with it, all bets are off. Simple texting causes the phone to discharge at the rate of 1 percent/minute. 1400 mah is just too small of battery for this device.. dont know what HTC was thinking. They should have left off the kick stand and made the entire rear of the phone all battery.
Talked with HTC last night. Patch coming out in a week or 2 that will address this issue. Its the way the modem is talking to the system.. Pulling way too much power even when 4G is idle.
Meaningless screenshots on their own. You have to dig into each subscreen and show how long the things were in use to be meaningful. Sure, you're Display used 57% of the battery juice that's been used, but how long was the screen on? 5 hours of the 13? That would be damn good battery life in my opinion. If it was on only 1 hour, maybe you have issues.
A real "power user" would just suck it up and buy the extended battery or buy a cheap spare and keep it in their pocket/wallet if they're going to be away from a charger the whole day. That's what I did, and it's big, ugly and heavy, but the Thunderbolt with the extended battery lasts this "power user" all day long most of the time.
YMMV.
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Meaningless screenshots on their own. You have to dig into each subscreen and show how long the things were in use to be meaningful. Sure, you're Display used 57% of the battery juice that's been used, but how long was the screen on? 5 hours of the 13? That would be damn good battery life in my opinion. If it was on only 1 hour, maybe you have issues.
A real "power user" would just suck it up and buy the extended battery or buy a cheap spare and keep it in their pocket/wallet if they're going to be away from a charger the whole day. That's what I did, and it's big, ugly and heavy, but the Thunderbolt with the extended battery lasts this "power user" all day long most of the time.
YMMV.
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Extended battery is the way to go.
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I 2nd the extended battery!
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distortedloop said:
Meaningless screenshots on their own. You have to dig into each subscreen and show how long the things were in use to be meaningful. Sure, you're Display used 57% of the battery juice that's been used, but how long was the screen on? 5 hours of the 13? That would be damn good battery life in my opinion. If it was on only 1 hour, maybe you have issues.
A real "power user" would just suck it up and buy the extended battery or buy a cheap spare and keep it in their pocket/wallet if they're going to be away from a charger the whole day. That's what I did, and it's big, ugly and heavy, but the Thunderbolt with the extended battery lasts this "power user" all day long most of the time.
YMMV.
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Obviously you need to dig into each subscreen to get a better analysis. However I'm just posting on par with what others are going off of. Also I think you misunderstood my post. I'm not complaining about my battery life, my phone lasts as long as I need it to, which is nowhere near those hours on regular use. I was simply just staying a point towards all the battery threads.
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We all know that the Bolt has battery issues, why are we all so hung up on beating a dead dog? HTC is coming out with a revision until then suck it up and move on to more important things.........
Hmmm screen on for 2 hours straight and only dropped 20%. That means i should end up with about 10 hours with constant use. Seems pretty good to me since I wont be keeping it on for the whole time.
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I 2nd the extended battery!
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Had one.. took it back. There is no reason a cell phone should weigh as much as a Glock 19.
luniz7 said:
I'm tired of seeing all these battery threads of people saying " I get 18-24 hours of life off a single charge! " To you people I'm saying bs, the only way your getting this kind of life is if your not using your phone. So quit trying to say your a " power user " when your not. Fact is you don't use your phone hardly at all and are trying to " look cool " by making people think that you have some super thunderbolt....lol.
So that being said I take my bolt off the charger at 6am and can burn through the battery by 1030am. I am a power user. Now I will go ahead and post my screen shots of last night and this will show you why I'm calling bs on all these battery threads. The phone was pulled off at 100% charge, on wifi all night really no use besides email and whatever android runs at idle.
Let's all face it, the battery life sucks on the tbolt. As well as the dinc...
This is just one persons view....don't get butt hurt over it.
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Agree completely. I'm at 62% after 5 hours off charger and solid lte coverage.
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sounds like you need a tablet, not a phone. these phones are not meant to be constantly on for hours. if thats the case - 4-5 hrs is great when you compare the zsize of the tbolt to the ipad which gets 10 hours.
luniz7 said:
I'm tired of seeing all these battery threads of people saying " I get 18-24 hours of life off a single charge! " To you people I'm saying bs, the only way your getting this kind of life is if your not using your phone. So quit trying to say your a " power user " when your not. Fact is you don't use your phone hardly at all and are trying to " look cool " by making people think that you have some super thunderbolt....lol.
So that being said I take my bolt off the charger at 6am and can burn through the battery by 1030am. I am a power user. Now I will go ahead and post my screen shots of last night and this will show you why I'm calling bs on all these battery threads. The phone was pulled off at 100% charge, on wifi all night really no use besides email and whatever android runs at idle.
Let's all face it, the battery life sucks on the tbolt. As well as the dinc...
This is just one persons view....don't get butt hurt over it.
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Well said! I respect your thread because I know what you mean and you are RIGHT! You are not complaining just stating facts. I kind of hate it when people grasp a hold of that "brand loyalty" mentality. Just because I purchased and own this phone (and like it too) doesn't mean I have to overlook and/or deny its flaws. That is how things get improved, with honest feedback. The Thunderbolt is an amazing device, probably the best phone I ever owned and I purchase a new smartphone about every six months. But make no mistake, it has a battery issue. Great to hear that HTC is on it, I knew they would be.
/sarcasm?
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Extended battery is the way to go.
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Exactly. I take mine off at about 545 every morning and make it till about 600 at night streaming music over bt all day. Personally I love the extended battery.
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This thread is ridiculous. The only reason you got bad battery life is you sit on 4G and, judging from your screenshot, were most likely downloading a million files at once while listening to music or something. You didn't use anything outside of the OS. This isn't stating facts, its stating personal experience. I am one of the people that can actually get 7-8 hours of use from this phone, and yes I actually USE the phone. So again, this thread = retarded. There were at least four other battery threads to complain in.
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Dont look at this thread it'll just make you mad,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030203
My stats are on the second page.
mb02 said:
This thread is ridiculous. The only reason you got bad battery life is you sit on 4G and, judging from your screenshot, were most likely downloading a million files at once while listening to music or something. You didn't use anything outside of the OS. This isn't stating facts, its stating personal experience. I am one of the people that can actually get 7-8 hours of use from this phone, and yes I actually USE the phone. So again, this thread = retarded. There were at least four other battery threads to complain in.
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Everything you just said is "retarded". Why would I put my 4G phone in 3G mode if I'm in a constant 4G area? Almost every one of your points or lack there of isn't even a rebuttal to my points. You obviously can't comprehend anything that I said in the op....
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I agree with the OP, you guys need to stop bragging about to battery life, everyones definition of using the phone as a normal, or power user or whatever is totally different. On a good day, ill get 12 hours with the screen off for about 6-8 hours, others, ill get like 2 hours tops.
It all varies and you guys need to stop bashing the OP, hes just trying to prove a point and honestly hes right, everyone is different. You could just text a couple of times a day and think youre a power user because you have the speed and power of 4g
Nikolai2.1 said:
It all varies and you guys need to stop bashing the OP, hes just trying to prove a point and honestly hes right, everyone is different. You could just text a couple of times a day and think youre a power user because you have the speed and power of 4g
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There are two sides, some people use the phone one way and are unimpressed by the battery life. Others use the phone a different way and are impressed by the battery life. One side likes to complain that it sucks, the other side likes to say that it's great. Who are you to tell the happy people they should STFU? Likewise, who are the satisfied people to tell the complainers to STFU? HTC & Verizon clearly struck a midpoint with battery life and gave the heavy users an optional heavy battery. Threads like this are truly a waste of space though. If you don't like the battery life, buy an extra or extended battery, or return the phone. If you do like the battery life, great, but a thread on poor battery life is just as useless as a thread on good battery life. There is nothing that will change by making it "known" that the battery life is poor or great since only the end user can make that judgement.
Now look, I've extended an already poor thread.

***Post Your Battery Usage Here***

Post your real numbers of what you get chaps, it will be interesting to see what some get over others.
Over night Standby Loss=30%
Average day I get 12 hours before needing a charge.
I have
WIFI on,
GPS off
Auto Brightness
but nothing is set to sync I do it all manually.
with setcpu and juicedefender i lose about 5% over night
Jabbypants said:
Post your real numbers of what you get chaps, it will be interesting to see what some get over others.
Over night Standby Loss=30%
Average day I get 12 hours before needing a charge.
I have
WIFI on,
GPS off
Auto Brightness
but nothing is set to sync I do it all manually.
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sounds like a big drain if you have lg vip service ( free in NL ), call lg and ask a replacement.
My first o3d was like that and the new one I lose 3-5% overnight with no TP app ( juice garbage etc )
Wifi on
Sync on
Auto brightness
GPS 0ff
Edit: main bettery user seems to be 3d gameloft games, I can get 24hours with some 3d youtube a lof wifi browsing and a 3d picture now and then
I am using a custom rom and it has gamesloft removed and lots of other stuff.
12 hours, 24 if i dont touch it
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Over night Standby Loss= 0%, some other nights I get about 4% loss, I don't know why!
Average day I get 24 hours before needing a charge, or extra one half a day, depending on the use.
I have :
WIFI off, I turn it on when I need that and I do that a lot.
GPS off.
Auto Brightness.
Sync on.
Playing Cut the rope for a while.
Taking some 2D/3D videos and pictures.
Yehaww
I get about 7-8 hours but I'm ALWAYS on my phone. Always.... normal for me
I would say I get what I need.
I have the phone from 6:40am till 10pm with 20%-10% battery left.
My use is:
WIFI all the time.
3G (data transfer) off all the time.
GPS off.
Default Brightness.
Sync on.
Playing Angry Bird, Slice Fruit and a bit of Golf 3D and listening music while going and coming back from work (2hrs journey return).
And obviously making/receiving some phone calls.
Now, lately, I've been playing a LOT of Golf 3D (got really addicted ) so from my house to my work I've lost 30%-40% battery.
When I go to my break I play another 30 minutes and the battery is already on its 40%-30%.
So basically I have to charge it at work.
During the night the phone is ALWAYS charging so I don't know how much the phone would drain.
Wifi on
Data off most of the time
Sync on
No 3d
Average time 10-14 hrs
Very dissapointed...i have to carry charger everywhere...LG software is battery unoptimized
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Charged 24 hours ago, lost 4% overnight. Played about 30 minutes of Myth Defense, took 7 3D photo's, two calls and three text messages and have 68% left.
Wifi on
Sync on
3G/HSDPA on
GPS off
Wifi localization on
Brightness 55%
Phone is on v10D and rooted. Got a couple of background processes like WhatsApp and battery/time/weather widgets.
The first week it was pretty bad but now I'm quite content.
You have to take into consideration that the phone has a very large screen with dualcore processor. I think the largest capacity battery you can get for this phone without drastically enlarging the casing is about 1980mAh which will give you (just an estimation) about an hour more juice. If you want the phone to last two days on one charge with normal use it would've been twice as large and a lot heavier.
I don't understand how some can get such better battery life when they use the phone more than I do.
Is it the different launchers, what do people use.
Jabbypants said:
I don't understand how some can get such better battery life when they use the phone more than I do.
Is it the different launchers, what do people use.
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I dont want to be rude but it is not possible. I have used alot of android phones and i know first hand what battery drainage is...
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I dont want to be rude but it is not possible. I have used alot of android phones and i know first hand what battery drainage is...
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It's totally possible.
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It's totally possible.
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What worrys me about that is that your Android System stat says that it is using 15% were as mine says it is using 53%. That just doesn't seem normal.
My Android System is using 33% and it is the one that uses most my battery.
Look at mine...most time screen off and just a litle wifi
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Check my mA drainage
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Honestly when i look at mine i see cell standby of 53% and think that isnt normal.
In my milestone the display is always miles ahead in battery consumption by about 50% and i assumed it would be the same in all androids.
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Check my mA drainage
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Nice app man. Im gonna check that out. My experience of battery monitors has always been that they eat more battery than they help you conserve but that one looks interesting.
There are parts on that graph that say it is consuming absolutely no power at all. That seems off likes.
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I dont want to be rude but it is not possible. I have used alot of android phones and i know first hand what battery drainage is...
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There's a difference between not wanting to be rude by questioning something or just stating something's impossible
Here ya go, after over 14 hours. The top one is RF2011 3D which I played about 5 minutes. Besides RF2011 I played just over half an hour of Wordfeud. The rest of the time the phone was in standby and as you see it still has about 70% charge. My Android System only used 3% in these 14 hours as you can see in my screenshot.

[Q] How is the battery life so far?

I know the phone has only been out for a few days at this point, but how is your battery life so far? I am coming from a Galaxy Note 2 with the massive removable battery. I have two batteries, which is a luxury the HTC One (M8). I consider myself to be a heavy user, and a need a device to fit me. I already ordered the phone with the 30% off code, and am really excited. Would love your feedback. Also, what should be the first thing I do or try once I have this phone in my hands?
Try a game or music. The screen is gorgeous and the sound is great, though some have had grievances with crackling at high volume(I haven't had this issue).
The battery life is pretty impressive on its own I'm at 46% after 12 hours of somewhat regular use. If I want so accustomed to AOSP I'd probably be fine with leaving it stock.
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Used it all day and was on it pretty much all day. 7am till 11:45 pm and it was at 39%. Pretty darn impressive.
Wow, sounds great. I listen to a lot of music so this needs to be good. I might just have to invest into an external battery charger, to be on the safe side
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Try a game or music. The screen is gorgeous and the sound is great, though some have had grievances with crackling at high volume(I haven't had this issue).
The battery life is pretty impressive on its own I'm at 46% after 12 hours of somewhat regular use. If I want so accustomed to AOSP I'd probably be fine with leaving it stock.
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I have crackling at high volumes only on certain songs or videos. is that normal?
oneandroidnut said:
I have crackling at high volumes only on certain songs or videos. is that normal?
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Was normal on several 2013 HTC Ones I've owned
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Was normal on several 2013 HTC Ones I've owned
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im taking mine back to Verizon tonight I don't like. my max or og one never did it
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im taking mine back to Verizon tonight I don't like. my max or og one never did it
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Yeah, I would. I had that issue start to come up with my M7 but I listen to everything at highest volume so I'd assumed it was my fault, and I was getting the M8 2 days from that point so I shrugged it off. Now it seems more like it's a fairly regular issue, maybe just a bad batch of speakers.
Try using G Wallet too, OP. Multiple confirmations its working but I'm not seeing any functionality here.
One website I always trust for battery reviews is laptopmag.com ... They use a standardized test across all devices that mimics how I'd normally use a device; it constantly surfs the web on wifi with brightness at around 40% til the battery is completely drained. I find their results to be similar to my own.
I was blown away by their result with the M8 - it lasted a total of over NINE hours! It surpassed even the LG G2 which was close behind.
Surfing over the network is another story, I'd predict the same test to yield a 6-7 hour duration on LTE, which is the same as what I get with my GS3 w/ 3000mah extended battery. This life is perfectly fine for me and I rarely need to plug in before bedtime.
I'd like to know if anyone's experienced stellar battery life of constant web surfing like they're reporting.
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pretty heavy usage throughout the day. Looks to be on track to get 6 hours screen on time. I got 5 hours at best on the m7 which was already impressive. I'm definitely happy so far. this. is only the first full drain as well.
I will use strictly lte on my next full drain.
Had about 58% when I hooked my charger up last night after a day of heavy use (for me anyway). Very happy with how well the batter is doing so far!
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Yeah, I would. I had that issue start to come up with my M7 but I listen to everything at highest volume so I'd assumed it was my fault, and I was getting the M8 2 days from that point so I shrugged it off. Now it seems more like it's a fairly regular issue, maybe just a bad batch of speakers.
Try using G Wallet too, OP. Multiple confirmations its working but I'm not seeing any functionality here.
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I took back last night and Verizon employees agreed the top speaker sounded awful and different from floor model. swapped out with a new one no problem and sounds much better although still not perfect but doesn't do on every song like old one just a select few. I think its just those parts of the music. boy I need viper audio!!
Impressed
I turned mine on for the first time yesterday at around 1PM, CONSTANT heavy use through 8 PM or so. I left it on over night assuming it would die as my old SG3 would die on a full batter within 5 hours because I have terrible service in my house, woke up to 21%. Did my usual checking of emails etc for a few minutes. It's crazy to not see the battery dropping as I use it. Impressive to say the least. Now if I can just figure out what setting carried over that is preventing the LED from working but that is noted in a different thread.
Edit: Forgot to mention current time / percentage: 9AM 15% Battery
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Ended yesterday with 62% battery, 2.5 hours on screen time! Not bad!
I'm absolutely thrilled with the battery life of this phone! Thing is, though, I upgraded from a VZW Galaxy Nexus. I'm pretty sure any current-gen phone would have given me a similar reaction.
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Very Happy with battery life
After 1st full charge, I'm at 1 day 2 hrs and 14% left with just above normal usage. Leaps above the old Droid 4 I came from.
Battery seems to not be a problem, but now i am hearing the camera is atrocious.
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I dont have that issue on this phone or neither one of my blue m7. I would take that back.
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It's lasted a full day with plenty of battery to spare. I'm impressed so far, I'm on day one.

Screen on time

It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Google Pixel XL before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
I decided to try and push things this morning and used my Pixel XL almost all morning non-stop. I used it to talk on Hangouts/Allo, check mail, facebook, feedly, Flipboard, google news, listen to music, etc. I had 3.7 hours of on screen time and the battery was down to 67%.So far it seems much better than my S7 was
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I decided to try and push things this morning and used my Pixel XL almost all morning non-stop. I used it to talk on Hangouts/Allo, check mail, facebook, feedly, Flipboard, google news, listen to music, etc. I had 3.7 hours of on screen time and the battery was down to 67%.So far it seems much better than my S7 was
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How are people getting this? My screen seems to drain so fast even when I'm just constantly using it to see how much I can get. I barely get 40 minutes of SOT per 10% drain and that's if I'm using it straight through. Brightness kept low too. On wifi or LTE if doesn't matter.
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How are people getting this? My screen seems to drain so fast even when I'm just constantly using it to see how much I can get. I barely get 40 minutes of SOT per 10% drain and that's if I'm using it straight through. Brightness kept low too. On wifi or LTE if doesn't matter.
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Maybe you got a dud? With millions of these being mass produced there are bound to be bad ones. Maybe yours is that case. Would suck, but it sounds like SOMETHING is wrong. Have you checked your battery stats in Settings to see what's using all your juice?
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Maybe you got a dud? With millions of these being mass produced there are bound to be bad ones. Maybe yours is that case. Would suck, but it sounds like SOMETHING is wrong. Have you checked your battery stats in Settings to see what's using all your juice?
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"Combined APP CPU" takes up 60% in GSAM battery stats. No idea what that means
I finished my day yesterday (day 3 of owning) with 5.7 hrs screen on time and had 22% battery left when plugging in. I hadn't watched any videos but spent alot of time reading, browsing and chatting. I kept my brightness around 1/3 the way to full and never moved it. Adaptive brightness was left on but seems to change very minimally in different lighting conditions. My G3 used to drop to an unbearable dark when in lowlight situations. The Pixel XL 128gb has stayed more bright in lowlight situations than I'd like making it straining to my eyes. I tried nightmode but was a pukey looking orangish red. Not cool. Either way, it seems screen time is best I've had in recent phones. I averaged around 3.7 to 4.2 hrs on my Note 7 but only owned that for 3 weeks and had returned due to it being an incendiary device! KABOOM! So far I'm Pleased with the Pixel XL aside from the lack of lift to wake or double tap to wake. I hate hitting the power button to check notifications.
40 mins screen on for 10% drain ends up being about 6.5 hours of screen on time....don't understand your problem.?
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Almost 5 hours screen on time and I was using Waze and listening to Alex Jones pretty much the whole time the screen was on. This is the best better life I have gotten ever.
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Almost 5 hours screen on time and I was using Waze and listening to Alex Jones pretty much the whole time the screen was on. This is the best better life I have gotten ever.
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I'll say your SOT are good, seeing that most of the time you had bad cell signal.
When posting your screen on time could you possibly include your how bright you keep the brightness and if you use adaptive brightness or not. That would help comparisons.
Yesterday I got awesome screen on time.
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Ive been really happy with the phone so far. Majority of the time the brightness is between one third and half. Never use auto-adjust.
Over 9 hours! What kind of voodoo magic do you have on your phone!? Is that plain ol' vanilla android? Any kernel?
It's stock Android. I watched a lot of movies that day.
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How are people getting this? My screen seems to drain so fast even when I'm just constantly using it to see how much I can get. I barely get 40 minutes of SOT per 10% drain and that's if I'm using it straight through. Brightness kept low too. On wifi or LTE if doesn't matter.
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Damn id get a replacement. Im a heavy user and i litteraly charge this once a day and thats in the afternoon. Im on fb google plus. Youtube and i listen to music via bluetooth
I just got through my first full charge and ended up with over 7.5 hours SoT over about 32 hours of use. I didn't get a screenshot because I was trying to push for that 8 hour mark and the phone died...But I'm going to get it next time.
Best battery life I've ever experienced on a phone! Took of our charger this morning at 100% charge and it is 3:13 AM the following morning. Been doing the usual. Taptalking to check for Pixel Root method/. TWRP, YouTube, few photos, downloading apps, texting, few calls, and whatnot.
Still says I have 5 hours left on my battery give our take.
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Almost 5 hours screen on time and I was using Waze and listening to Alex Jones pretty much the whole time the screen was on. This is the best better life I have gotten ever.
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With such bad cell reception for a large part of the time and Chrome(a known battery hog) pretty high on the list as well as a small battery that's pretty good.
And I couldn't help but mention it but.... seriously? Alex Jones? That dude is crazy! Does the Pixel XL come with a free tinfoil hat and straight jacket? LOL Alex Jones HAHAHAHA
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It's stock Android. I watched a lot of movies that day.
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Over 9 hours! What kind of voodoo magic do you have on your phone!? Is that plain ol' vanilla android? Any kernel?
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That's the only possible reason for that SOT... youtube 25%... lol... no way in other "normal" conditions you would get over 5/6h SOT
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That's the only possible reason for that SOT... youtube 25%... lol... no way in other "normal" conditions you would get over 5/6h SOT
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I'm a heavy user anyway and I've never had a phone except the iPhone have more screen on time. I don't think it matters how it happens.
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