Can anyone comment on the battery life on the Official AT&T 4.0.4? Battery life is one of the most important necessity of mine. Right now I am on SKY ICS 4.2E with the nexus extended battery and I can go with a full charge from morning 8:00 a.m to 7:00 p.m with moderate usage. The ICS leaks were horrible, so that to back to stock GB. Tried Sky ICS 4.2F but 4.2E was smoother so went back and sticking to Sky ICS 4.2E.
If this official release is too bad on the battery life like the leaks, I am gonna skip and stay on Sky ICS 4.2E for a while.
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Can anyone comment on the battery life on the Official AT&T 4.0.4? Battery life is one of the most important necessity of mine. Right now I am on SKY ICS 4.2E with the nexus extended battery and I can go with a full charge from morning 8:00 a.m to 7:00 p.m with moderate usage. The ICS leaks were horrible, so that to back to stock GB. Tried Sky ICS 4.2F but 4.2E was smoother so went back and sticking to Sky ICS 4.2E.
If this official release is too bad on the battery life like the leaks, I am gonna skip and stay on Sky ICS 4.2E for a while.
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If you're worried about battery life I would stick with SkyICS. You can wait a while till sean works on the ROM a little bit more but hes been working hard to get the tweaks with the latest ICS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1763195
Check that frequently for more updates. :good:
two days on att ics, fully stock non-rooted... yada yada. day 1 was great got 11 hours with moderate to heavy use (mostly internet, set up, download apps). day 2 sucked, only got about 7 hours of use .... slight to moderate use (some internet, fb, 10 mins of map with gps).
i'm hoping day 2 was a fluke.
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I'm impressed with it. I got a solid 12 hours of usage out of it. Playing tunes, texting frequently, downloading apps and what not... Keep in mind, I'm not on an LTE and as such I have it disabled. I've heard it can wreak havoc on battery life.
Can't give an accurate estimate for today, as it was plugged in and floating around 30-50%... But it seems better than GB to me.
What about your screen on time?
Yeah... battery life has been bad for me since I switched from skyics Rodgers edition to att official skyics release. Tried reflashing the rom a couple times but the problem remains. Just gotta wait around now for a solution.
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I'm getting around 16 hours with 3-3.5 hours screen on time. I haven't been playing any graphics intensive games.
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No complaints. Its not really that bad.
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The battery life of the official ICS was definitely better than 2.3, that being said I have moved on to SkyICS, and it's simply fantastic, even with the stock kernel
For me, it's excellent on wifi. On 4G, it's decent. I can go about 10 hours with moderate use and system power saving settings on.
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My wife and I have the same phone her's is white(stock) mine is black (rooted and using stock rom bloatware is frozen ). I am getting better hours of use with some Words with friends a few calls and a few txt message. I can go day and half before I charge. Wife has to charge nightly and she uses her phone less then I do. I am rooting her phone tonight after work. Both have upgraded to ICS.
My wife has my old Skyrocket now that I have the GSIII..She came from a Cappy to the iPhone to the Skyrocket and she swears by the battery life on her phone and she LIVES on her damn phone...(I do too, I'll admit). She claims it's even better with the firmware upgrade, stock & unrooted..
Stock rooted rogers, with heavy use, I've got a dismal 4-5 hours! But that's scree on & browsing... Good thing I'm close to a charger.......
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12 hours! battery @ 78% didn't use the phone much since 5 am. Made a couple of phone calls, surfed play store... not much
i didnt like the battery life on the official build so i am using skyics 4.2f6 now with better battery life! Seanzscreams is the best developer for the skyrocket love his work.
for those of you who were like me and had horrible battery life on any of the ICS roms including Sky, i have found a solution i have tested this on 2 roms so far the first being my Daily Driver CM9 Nightlies, and stock ics. i found that for some reason when my phones screen turned off my phone would not go into sleep mode, the fix for me was to run SetCPU app, which i did pay for, and create 1 profile, for screen off, and just change the the cpu max and min speeds to max 540 and min, 192, i found that will keep your notifications coming without any lag, and when you wake the screen it will not be laggy as well. I'm Currently at 13 hours and my battery is at 79% and i played with the market, and surfed the web some, obviously texted a few time as well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhuang.overclocking&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5taHVhbmcub3ZlcmNsb2NraW5nIl0.
it is worse than 2.3.6. now after just over one hour heavy use, down to 63%
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Pure bone stock phone here (for now), battery life has been pretty good IMO (compared to my Captivate). The other day I was down to ~72% after >15hrs of light use.
As always, YMMV. My theory is that it depends on the apps you have installed, and what version they are. I would get updates to some apps and my battery life would suddenly be different after the update (sometimes better, sometimes worse.)
My gfs on stock has dropped by about 50%. Lte in sf.
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I went from rooted running every from imaginable and now I'm stock battery life on the ics uptade is much improved from gb it almost feels like a rom check it out...
Granted this is light usage but still great for a stock bloated phone
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Which roms are the best for improving battery life, which is my main challenge and issue with this device, as I am finding pretty much everything else great?
I don't want to sound harsh but what is the point of these threads?
People use phones in different ways. I use mine only to make calls and send txt msges and my battery lasts 2-3 days without a single charge, on froyo, gb, faux rom and miui
while for others who constantly browse web with 4g or play games expect the device to last a week without a charge...
oh well
/end rant
I think any stock speed kernal will save battery if you put brightness on auto
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besthijacker said:
I don't want to sound harsh but what is the point of these threads?
People use phones in different ways. I use mine only to make calls and send txt msges and my battery lasts 2-3 days without a single charge, on froyo, gb, faux rom and miui
while for others who constantly browse web with 4g or play games expect the device to last a week without a charge...
oh well
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Why do you have a smartphone then?
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All of the 2.3.3 ROM
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All of the 2.3.3 ROM
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EaglesBlood 2.3.3 , Xboarder's Stock Tweaked, and Weapon G2x all give me much better battery life than the stock 2.3.3 OTA did.
XBoarders tweaked ROM has breathed new life into my battery life. I was remarking yesterday that I got 16+ hours and was still above 60% at the end of the day.
I've been on CM7 - Nightly 99 and the battery life has been fantastic. Was at 45% left last night after 17 hours off charge.
This was moderate use, with WiFi / WiFi calling on for about 60% of the day (which obviously helps).
Everything (mostly) keeps getting better with this phone.
I prefer EaglesBlood 2.3.3 OTA ROM. It's very stable, and if you use SetCPU, you can easily get through an entire day with it. I lasted 10 hours with moderate to heavy usage, and that's really good for me.
i had the best battery life with Ultimate ROM and faux kernel.
im on CM7(101) with Fauxs Stock voltage Kernel with set cpu at 389/389 on screen off and i get 8+ hours using the phone all day on "4G" web and a lot of texting. i calibrate the battery every time i do a nightly update. once you go CM7 you wont go back to anything else ill tell you that much
Have one of these, rooted, stock rom on Rogers (LTE).
The battery life seems inconsistent... Some days it seems fine but days like today with 11 hours off the charger, with the two highest battery culprits being android OS (46%) and android system (16%) the battery life is already at 26%.
Other days when its on my desk it uses nowhere near as much...
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Have one of these, rooted, stock rom on Rogers (LTE).
The battery life seems inconsistent... Some days it seems fine but days like today with 11 hours off the charger, with the two highest battery culprits being android OS (46%) and android system (16%) the battery life is already at 26%.
Other days when its on my desk it uses nowhere near as much...
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Titanium Backup.. "Freeze" tons of Bloatware.. get 18 hours of fun
Your gonna get reamed for posting in the dev section of the forums.
shansmi said:
Your gonna get reamed for posting in the dev section of the forums.
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Hope he brought some lube
Haha assume the position
vect0r said:
Have one of these, rooted, stock rom on Rogers (LTE).
The battery life seems inconsistent... Some days it seems fine but days like today with 11 hours off the charger, with the two highest battery culprits being android OS (46%) and android system (16%) the battery life is already at 26%.
Other days when its on my desk it uses nowhere near as much...
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Man I know I should say something but I'm just gonna sit back and watch this one unfold lol no astroglide
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But seriously though, post this in q&a as you will not get reamed in the ___.
Answer: try one of the roms in this forum since that is what this forum is for, roms and development and such. They should be your answer since your current rom is filled with BS that sucks battery away my friend
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@jayharper08 you are welcome here!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha
I used stock with root and juicedefender battery is fine on mine
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@jayharper08 you are welcome here!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha
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I'm here!
OP, please keep questions in the Q&A section. These guys were nice tonight, which I like to see. Keep it up
Seriously though, OP, development section is for development threads only. Hope you get your answer
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vect0r said:
Have one of these, rooted, stock rom on Rogers (LTE).
The battery life seems inconsistent... Some days it seems fine but days like today with 11 hours off the charger, with the two highest battery culprits being android OS (46%) and android system (16%) the battery life is already at 26%.
Other days when its on my desk it uses nowhere near as much...
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If you are rooted and not afraid of flashing ROMs than get BeastMOD ROM. The name says it all. I m heavy user and i go for a day with full charge.
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I'm here!
OP, please keep questions in the Q&A section. These guys were nice tonight, which I like to see. Keep it up
Seriously though, OP, development section is for development threads only. Hope you get your answer
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I realized I posted it there once I left the house and I knew what I was going to come back to.
My bad.
appdroid said:
If you are rooted and not afraid of flashing ROMs than get BeastMOD ROM. The name says it all. I m heavy user and i go for a day with full charge.
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You talking about the TMo version? I did a search and I cant find a Skyrocket or Rogers version of a BeastMOD ROM.
BTW I get have been getting 34-37 hrs @ 20-15% on the BoneSTOCKeteer-v1.0 ROM with med to light use. Your mileage may vary, but stock ROM only lasted a day with the same use.
edit: the more you play with/use your phone the faster the battery is going to peter out no matter the ROM
I noticed that wifi has a big impact on battery life. I hit about 50% of battery life with it on in about 5 hours but with it off and moderate use I can get 2 days use.
Just a thought and I froze lots of the SNS syncing apps with TB. I dont use those since i use another program for FB.
I actually like the ATT Smart Wifi app. Shuts down wifi when not in use. I think the free version of Juice Defender doesn't do that.
I have now owned my 727R for 6 weeks, coming from an iphone 4. I am finding the battery life inconsistent from charge to charge and anywhere from barely adequate to downright poor. Maximum I have ever gotten was 26 hours with minimal use and minimum has been 10 hours with minimal use.
I have installed and use Juice defender, and have looked at a variety of apps such as cpu spy, cpu hound, traffic monitor. I have turned off notification as much as possible and all other tricks under the sun.
My phone does not seem to go to deep sleep often and a lot of times it shows as awake even though the screen was off for a while.
The straw that broke the camle was when I cmpared notes with my clleague who has a Galaxy S (I know, no 4g, no LTE, smaller csreen). But he is getting 90% battery life with wifi and bluetooth on after 7 hours 15 minutes (minimal use). In the same time period I am down to 60% with bluetooth off!
I am not planning on rooting the phone and using custom ROMS or Kernels right now.
What gives? What do I look at to improve battery life?
Thanks
i notice with out a lot of changes i get horrible horrible battery life. but with a custom rom like quick wiz. i turn screen down. wifi off. under clock it and use a battery saver plus task killer i get two days moderet (use
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I would suggest since Roger stock rom sucks the life out of the battery to root it and use faux123 kernel and Gideon's script to under clock it. Im using at&t stock rom rooted and faux123 kernel and I haven't had a bad battery day yet.. currently 12hrs moderate use 73% still.... not bad at all. Give it a try.. its not like it could any worse lol
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I actually like the ATT Smart Wifi app. Shuts down wifi when not in use. I think the free version of Juice Defender doesn't do that.
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It looks like this isn't available for Skyrocket.
1) Does it work like it should, and does it save battery, or is the battery savings negated by other junk running with it in the background? Reviews seem very mixed.
2) If you got it on a SR, how? Would pulling the APK from another device work?
rezadue said:
I have now owned my 727R for 6 weeks, coming from an iphone 4. I am finding the battery life inconsistent from charge to charge and anywhere from barely adequate to downright poor. Maximum I have ever gotten was 26 hours with minimal use and minimum has been 10 hours with minimal use.
I have installed and use Juice defender, and have looked at a variety of apps such as cpu spy, cpu hound, traffic monitor. I have turned off notification as much as possible and all other tricks under the sun.
My phone does not seem to go to deep sleep often and a lot of times it shows as awake even though the screen was off for a while.
The straw that broke the camle was when I cmpared notes with my clleague who has a Galaxy S (I know, no 4g, no LTE, smaller csreen). But he is getting 90% battery life with wifi and bluetooth on after 7 hours 15 minutes (minimal use). In the same time period I am down to 60% with bluetooth off!
I am not planning on rooting the phone and using custom ROMS or Kernels right now.
What gives? What do I look at to improve battery life?
Thanks
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I hated my skyrocket when I first got it because the battery sucked. Never could make it through a full day of average use. I did a search, found out how to root and install a custom rom and now I love it. I can go a full day and still have 20% left. All I can recommend is rooting and at least remove bloatware. I've never seen a single skyrocket user happy with their battery life on stock. Maybe sell or trade it for another iPhone.
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How is the GalnetMIUI? im just wondering never really gave the rom a try i am running Weapon G2x which is pretty good
im wondering how galnet is in -
- battery life
- keyboard
- performance
so far ive only tried out CyanogenMod7.1 stable battery was around the same as stock and weapon g2x which is about the same as stock just a bit better (wiped batt stats)
I just recently flashed coming from CM7.2 which was getting about 18 hours of fairly good use (xda every 30 minutes, facebook every 2-3 hours, regular web browsing looking at news in my area, about 20 minutes talk time and quite a bit of texting.) On wi-fi calling in the evenings about 6 hours 4g every else)
I flashed Galnet 1.12.2 and went through the market and installed my 10 or so apps that I use, setup the phone to my liking looked at the themes sent a couple of texts. In the 2 hours with all that I'm at 92% it was kinda heavy usage for the first hour. Battery is pretty good. I'll report back later in the day after more use to see if it is still good. I think it should be around 16 or so hours. oh and I use Smart Keyboard Pro the stock keyboard feels like it does on every other Gingerbread ROM. Performance is a little sluggish compared to other roms, but that might be just me. Either way the ROM is nice.
oh wow thats amazing :3 i get 10% drops within the hour... if i leave the phone over night with no use it drops 10% ... but i do leave it on 3g all the time as i am in canada and use WIND ... also weapon has Wifi Calling app preinstalled which i think could be using the battery too how is it looks wise? im pretty used to the gingerbread now its really nice
82% now with some more texting and some damn angry birds, haha.
where the install for galnet 1.12.2 and is it the g2x version?
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where the install for galnet 1.12.2 and is it the g2x version?
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Google search this "galnet miui g2x port" should be your first option.
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Battery life shouldn't be much different considering they use cms kernel
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what is the difference between galnet MIUI and MIUI? i heard that it has some ICS coding for the framework is this true? does it actually make it different?
If noticed a lot of roms have some slight of battery drain, Which rom do you recommend?
I'm currently using AOKP crespo4g milestone-2
Thanks!
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I'll give it a whirl and report back, Thanks
Wait, this isn't for my nexus s 4G though?
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it's almost same to me , i have use 2 batteries back in GB time with heavy usage , and ICS same 2 batteries.
Battery life for me is MUCH worse in ics. But I feel like its the radios fault. No matter what from/kernel/setting combos I use I can't even break 10 hours with only 1 hour screen time. Blows ass for me. But ics is pwnage compared to gb so I'll keep it.
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Doing a clean fresh install of ICS stock ROM 4.0.3 (after formating everything) made a world of difference to me .... 2 days are easy of moderate use .
Full wipe try the ROM I'm using
Nexus S (GSM i9020a)
CM9 Nightly Kang (Build 1 of v2.1)
Eugene's Kernel (Speedy-7)
OC 1100/100 (conservative)
Gingerbread menus and overal theme was darker and thus used more power.
Install CM9 and install this theme and I guarentee you will have longer on-screen time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1460132
I have a huge reason to believe the battery life issue is my reception here. i always have 1 bar. sprint is sending me out a airave device thats suppose to boost my signal.. we shall see how this works..
xamadeix said:
I have a huge reason to believe the battery life issue is my reception here. i always have 1 bar. sprint is sending me out a airave device thats suppose to boost my signal.. we shall see how this works..
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Me too!! Right now i have 2 bars and it stays there all the time. Rarely do I see it go over that. Tried the new radio, and all the other radios. No dice. I think there's some software going wrong here. If I switch my signal to dbm my phone stays @-67 for the most part. That don't equal 2 ****ing bars for me. Yesterday I got 8 hours.. with CPU downclocked to 800mhz with lulzactive set to fast 1up, 2down. Brightness on auto and NOTHING syncing. This is BS. I had 6 hours of extremely heavy use on gb. Lucky I'm unemployed and never go anywhere for long periods of time so my phones basically on the charger on demand
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It sounds like it could definitely be your phone struggling to get a good signal. That will drain the battery faster. I am running CyberGR ICS rom and my battery life is great.
Same problem here.... my HTc Wildfire S on ICS is eating twice battery then GB , with all closed down (wifi,bt , network etc).
It is a software problem i guess...
Any other opinions or fixes ??
Does anybody notice that JB cconsume battery high even more than ICS ..
I am using Team Union Rom 4.1.1 XXBLJ9 DBT v3 ...
For me the biggest reason not to update.
I noticed it on my Galaxy S3 and now again on my note 10.1.
I want best battery life for my tablet, so I think I will stick to ICS, although there are some pretty impressive improvements in Jelly Bean.
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I noticed it too ..,NOT a BIG issue to me since it has a crazy battery , but considering that I'm using " Google Now " and other many sync stuffs ,, It's reasonable ..
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i noticed it too ..
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Are you using the same Rom as the op?
mauricewal said:
For me the biggest reason not to update.
I noticed it on my Galaxy S3 and now again on my note 10.1.
I want best battery life for my tablet, so I think I will stick to ICS, although there are some pretty impressive improvements in Jelly Bean.
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I am thinking of getting back to ICS but I will miss JB features
it was like that on my epic 4g touch. i ics worse than GB, JB worse than ICS. i ended up going back to GB with that phone. but my sgn2 has incredible battery life on JB. i'd suppose that on ICS it would be astronomical.
did you tried to deactivate / freeze new "bloatware" like
- new Samsung Syncs
- Google Now
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Batt life is still phenomenal with JB for me, although Google Now is activated and everything is synced. (It´s my main work-tool now)
Clean 11 hrs on HSPA with always on.
Clean 14,5 hrs on WiFi with always on.
I deativate goggle now, snd disable autostart of maps. That helped alot
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No!
nbnbn said:
Does anybody notice that JB cconsume battery high even more than ICS ..
I am using Team Union Rom 4.1.1 XXBLJ9 DBT v3 ...
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i feel opposite i mean after installing 4.1.2 version stock or omega rom or android revolution hd v5.1 i feel'd it's much better power manager than i thought!
sorry about the language!
I don't know how the battery life was on ics or gb because as soon as I got it, I upgraded to Jelly Bean.
I am running Android Revolution HD 5.1 and the battery life has been just awesome.
I get around 14 hours with 8-9 hours of screen use and I've never had it go under 10% battery life thus far.
-Keep it at around 10 to 20% brightness, I've never needed more that that.
Don't even have power saving turned on! Also I set it to 30min timeout to sleep if not in use.
The battery life is so great I almost can't believe its this good.
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Batt life is still phenomenal with JB for me, although Google Now is activated and everything is synced. (It´s my main work-tool now)
Clean 11 hrs on HSPA with always on.
Clean 14,5 hrs on WiFi with always on.
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Stock jb and could not wish for better battery .
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I don't know how the battery life was on ics or gb because as soon as I got it, I upgraded to Jelly Bean.
I am running Android Revolution HD 5.1 and the battery life has been just awesome.
I get around 14 hours with 8-9 hours of screen use and I've never had it go under 10% battery life thus far.
-Keep it at around 10 to 20% brightness, I've never needed more that that.
Don't even have power saving turned on! Also I set it to 30min timeout to sleep if not in use.
The battery life is so great I almost can't believe its this good.
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Here is my usage today
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