Battery Life Question. - AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL

Hi everyone,
I noticed that my One X has been losing about 12% of battery life while asleep for 8 hours (while I'm sleeping). Is that normal? How much battery life do you lose when you don't use the phone? I leave wi-fi on and that's about it. I checked to make sure that the phone isn't awake during this period.
My battery life has been good on some days (lasts about 20 hours) and bad on some days (lasts about 10 hours) with almost identical usage. Any tips on improving battery life?
I went camping and put my phone on airplane most 80% of the time except when I needed it. It lasted me nearly 3 days! Does LTE consume a lot of battery power? Does wi-fi do also?

RPTheLefty said:
Hi everyone,
I noticed that my One X has been losing about 12% of battery life while asleep for 8 hours (while I'm sleeping). Is that normal? How much battery life do you lose when you don't use the phone? I leave wi-fi on and that's about it. I checked to make sure that the phone isn't awake during this period.
My battery life has been good on some days (lasts about 20 hours) and bad on some days (lasts about 10 hours) with almost identical usage. Any tips on improving battery life?
I went camping and put my phone on airplane most 80% of the time except when I needed it. It lasted me nearly 3 days! Does LTE consume a lot of battery power? Does wi-fi do also?
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Yes to both of your final questions. LTE uses a ton of power. I went to the San Jose area where it's only HSPA and my battery was phenomenal. Wifi may drain significantly if "best wifi performance" is enabled in advanced wifi settings.
Check what uses your battery overnight. What process does it say under power in settings? 12% for 8 hours isn't really that bad..
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RPTheLefty said:
Hi everyone,
I noticed that my One X has been losing about 12% of battery life while asleep for 8 hours (while I'm sleeping). Is that normal? How much battery life do you lose when you don't use the phone? I leave wi-fi on and that's about it. I checked to make sure that the phone isn't awake during this period.
My battery life has been good on some days (lasts about 20 hours) and bad on some days (lasts about 10 hours) with almost identical usage. Any tips on improving battery life?
I went camping and put my phone on airplane most 80% of the time except when I needed it. It lasted me nearly 3 days! Does LTE consume a lot of battery power? Does wi-fi do also?
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Wifi consumes the least power of all, but like the post above says, if you have "maximum wifi performance" enabled in your advanced wifi settings then it will prevent your phone from going into deep sleep and drain more battery than it would if that option was not checked. Overnight I usually drain about 1% an hour or less (on both CleanROM DE and AOKP M6.2).

I think it's not LTE drains the battery. It may be because of searching of networks when signal on LTE is bad.
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akaivan said:
I think it's not LTE drains the battery. It may be because of searching of networks when signal on LTE is bad.
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It's sort of both. When you have a good LTE connection while using data then it uses up more battery or if you have a poor connection without using data you will use even more battery or if you have a poor connection while using data that would be the worst for battery. But if you are in a good coverage area and not using data then the battery should be fine.

Drain of 12% over 8 hours (1.5% per hour) of screen off time is pretty damn good. Certainly nothing to complain about. I get somewhere around 2.5% per hour overnight.
Phone battery last forever when in airplane mode. The phone radios are a big consumer of power, often second only to screen-on time. Way back, I had my old HTC Tilt2 in airplane mode in a location with no cell service (basically just using the phone as a watch and camera), and it was on track to last about a week (maybe more) before needing a charge.

12% is what I get overnight. But If I turn off WiFi before sleeping then I get around 5% loss so turn off WiFi if you need more battery.
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karan1203 said:
12% is what I get overnight. But If I turn off WiFi before sleeping then I get around 5% loss so turn off WiFi if you need more battery.
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I feel that most people would get better battery with WiFi turned on. It seems the area you place your phone overnight is not getting a good WiFi signal and/or you might have some of your settings to sync or download while on "WiFi Only".
It varies from person to person and it usually ends up being something in the settings, specific apps, and/or quality of connection (mobile or WiFi).

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Quick battery drain on standby

We need to be precise in what we communicate in order not to have misunderstandings. Many threads disagree on how good the battery is on th G2x. I agree that 6-8 hours of continuous use is great, that is if you're literally using nonstop, without having the screen shut off.The problem that many users are complaining about is that the battery keeps draining at a unacceptable rate even when the phone is just on standby. The excuse is that this is a smart phone and it has to ping the towers in order to receive calls.
Well my last smart phone was the HTC Shadow which was a Windows based operating system and the battery would never drain at 5-15% an hour just on standby. I did some reading on many sites, and the majority consensus is only android handsets have this huge battery drain problem when it's not being used but just on standby. So what gives? Is it because of google maps? Or some other google program that has to constantly access your phone even when you yourself aren't activley using it?
I've notice on my juice defender log that when I'm not using my phone it shows every few minutes something about accessing a schedule and data. What could this be? Back ground data? The only way I can get the phone not to drain excessivley when on standby is to put it on airplane mode. The bad battery drain when phone isn't being used has something to do with the Android operating system and the cellphones radio being very active even when not in use.
Factory Reset fixes that
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Factory Reset fixes that
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Believe me I tried resetting it twice, and it does nothing for improving the battery drain.
If any one has juice defender go to status tab and check your log. Even with the supposedly data turned off it'll show the the phone us accessing some schedule or data every few minutes.Maybe one of the knowledgeable developers can look into this and tell us what is happening and create a fix.
You may have a bad battery.
The battery that came with my G2x in the box (manuf. date of 2011-04-06) had the insane battery drain where I can watch it drop. I got a replacement thru Tmo (manuf. date of 2011-04-28), which has been outstanding.
Prior to the new battery, I lasted about 7 hours with moderate/heavy use. The new battery just clocked in at almost 16 hours the other day.
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You may have a bad battery.
The battery that came with my G2x in the box (manuf. date of 2011-04-06) had the insane battery drain where I can watch it drop. I got a replacement thru Tmo (manuf. date of 2011-04-28), which has been outstanding.
Prior to the new battery, I lasted about 7 hours with moderate/heavy use. The new battery just clocked in at almost 16 hours the other day.
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We'll see, I just spoke to t mobile customer rep, they shipped me out a new one which should get here on the 3rd. Although, I didn't appreciate them charging me $10 for shipping. 16 hours of heavy use and I'll be content, if not I'm getting me the mugen 4500mah extended battery. So with o out you touching the phone how much percent does it drain in an hour?
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We'll see, I just spoke to t mobile customer rep, they shipped me out a new one which should get here on the 3rd. Although, I didn't appreciate them charging me $10 for shipping. 16 hours of heavy use and I'll be content, if not I'm getting me the mugen 4500mah extended battery. So with o out you touching the phone how much percent does it drain in an hour?
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Right now I'm at 99%, phone has been unplugged for 2hrs 34mins. I'm on wifi at the moment, but I would have drained anyway on the old battery with this same setup.
GideonX said:
Right now I'm at 99%, phone has been unplugged for 2hrs 34mins. I'm on wifi at the moment, but I would have drained anyway on the old battery with this same setup.
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Do you have juice defender installed?
jacob808 said:
Do you have juice defender installed?
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Yup, same exact setup with old and new battery.
I'll try when I have the time and patience for it, but maybe someone can perform an experiment by charging to full then just let the phone sit on standby until the battery dies. Do this with wifi, bluetooth, juice defender and gps off. Log how long it took to die, then run the same test again, but with juice defender turned on. If it can hold it's charge for 2-3 days I'll be very happy, but if it dies out in 16 hours just being idle and on standby then somethings wrong.
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I'll try when I have the time and patience for it, but maybe someone can perform an experiment by charging to full then just let the phone sit on standby until the battery dies. Do this with wifi, bluetooth, juice defender and gps off. Log how long it took to die, then run the same test again, but with juice defender turned on. If it can hold it's charge for 2-3 days I'll be very happy, but if it dies out in 16 hours just being idle and on standby then somethings wrong.
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JD only kicks in when I'm on cell data. With wifi on, it never activates I believe. Unless I'm looking at this wrong.
I was getting horrible battery life when I first got mine. I couldn't go 8 hours without it dying, and that was not even using the phone...on standby! I tried a toggle switch for data to turn it off and on when using it, but it still died. Next, I tried a 2g-4g toggle switch. Battery life is flat out amazing now. I can go almost 8 hours on a full charge and be on maybe 95%!!! I think a lot of it has to do with my office building and not getting the best reception. I would tend to bounce back and forth from edge to 4g all the time. Anyway, I use switch pro for the toggle widget, but give it a shot for a few days.
Switchpro only has a 2G/3G toggle. How did you get the 4G toggle or did you mistake what it was called.
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I had a similar problem with my first G2x. With the screen turned off and in stand-by the battery would drain 15-20% per hour. I even bought 3 cheap batteries from China and the results were the same. I then had T-Mobile send me a replacement G2x. The new G2x drains about 1% per hour in stand-by. I even get 1% drain with the 3 cheap batteries. So it appears the problem was the phone. I had tried CM7 and Eaglesblood on the first G2x and it didn't stop the drain.
I had terrible life when first started, than I did the factory reset and the battery conditioning thing.
Took it off charge over 30 hours ago, it still has 10% left. Within that it had a solid 2 hours use of edge/3g/4g internet (Searching for towers as I was on a train). And a good hour of me using it on wireless for checking emails and browsing while at home and work.
Note that I have GPS turned off, and the phone is on a wireless network for almost all of its idle time. NO Juice Defender, no data stwitching, no rooting. Stock standard, although I did follow the advice here and not activate any of the TMobile apps.
Pretty happy with it now.

BATTERY Performance / Expectations

I'm just wondering if some other Sensation owners can chime in with their battery stats. I've had the phone for a couple of days now, and with a few battery cycles behind me, I'm still concerned. I do understand the "new toy factor" of using a new gadget much more frequently than normal, but what specifically concerns me is the amount of juice the display is using. With push email on, twitter sync on, auto brightness on, and mostly indoor use, I am finding that I can't get more than 3 hours of Display On time. At the moment I have the following stats:
17% Battery Remaining
9h 5m 9s on battery
Display: 80% (Time on 2h 7m 31s)
Cell standby: 8%
Phone idle: 5%
Wi-Fi: 5%
Maps: 2%
Usage has consisted of some light web browsing, just a few minutes of phone calls, lots of texting / email, and general playing. At the moment, I can barely make it to the afternoon, let alone a full day. Is this comparable to what most of you are seeing or do I have a bad battery? Coming from a Samsung Galaxy S I was hoping for better performance but so far this is far worse ( I used to get 5+ hours of Display On time )..
Thx..
45% remaining
On battery 6 hours
Display on 2hr 10min
Display 85%
WiFi 6%
Cell standby 6%
Phone idle 3%
Comparable to my DHD I'd say, possibly a bit better. Custom roms did improve that though
Funny thing is my girlfriends galaxy s has shocking battery drain, particularly in standby. She's currently on Darkys ROM and I've given up trying to figure why she can never last a day with her phone.
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Coming from a G2 and this phone seems to be much worse. At work I would make it through the afternoon with very minimal usage mostly idle and checking my email on it 8-10 times and have 80%+ left over when I left the office after 9 hours off the charger. Even mostly idle I'm at 50-60% during the same timespan with a 20% bigger battery. Yesterday I was @ 95% and used the GPS for 30 minutes and it dropped the battery down to 60% in that small time period.
My batyery sucks big time... I trained it once - didnt do anything. Still get about 8 hrs between 7am and 8pm. Light to moderate usage :-(
Maybe i should look into finding a bigger battery
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I get about 14-17 hours, depending on usage. I'll post my stats later today as I'm at 100% right now.
I would disable htc hub from syncing. It syncs every few minutes and drains the hell out of the battery. I also disable always on mobile data and that helps save the battery when my phone is idle but things that you auto sync might have problems. My .02.
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Remaining 52% (as per battery solo widget pro and quick info pro)
14H 58M on battery
Voice: 48%
Display 34%
Cell Standby 10%
Phone Idle 5%
Wifi 3%
Settings:
Autobrightness
Auto Sync Disabled
EDGE/WIFI Disabled (Wifi - best performance unchecked)
Phone on GSM only
ACTUAL USAGE:
Calls: Approx 40 mins (did a quick count of mins in the call history)
Msg: 35 incl a few recd
Weather: 8 cities updated 4 times using Edge
Wifi and Web: Approx 10 mins
Angry birds: Approx 10 mins
Music: One song.. 3m40s
Hope this helps!!
Profondo_Rosso said:
I get about 14-17 hours, depending on usage. I'll post my stats later today as I'm at 100% right now.
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This is pretty much my usage.
I can get over 24 hours pretty easily if i'm only using it for a phone call here or there. This is with Wifi turned on(and wifi calling on), auto-brightness, and auto-synching set to different intervals. Exchange email is set to every 15 mins, google set to push, FB is manual, weather is set to once a day.
If I'm using it pretty heavy, browsing the web, playing a game or two(peggle & plants vs zombies), I'll get typically around 12-14 hours.
For the first few days the battery life in my brand new Sensation sucked too. I was getting maybe 8-9 hours of moderate usage before having to plug it in to recharge.
On Friday night (June 24th), I did a full factory reset through the bootloader, installed Juice Defender and set it on Aggressive setting, and charged it overnight for about 8 hours while the phone was turned off. Yesterday (Saturday, June 25th) after over 18 hours of moderate use, which included many phone calls, emails, some texting, browsing, playing with the phone, and even a little bit of Stupid Zombies, the battery was still at 42%!!!
I charged it overnight again for 8 hours. So far today, after 3.5 hours of HEAVY usage, the battery is at 93%. I am beginning to like this a lot!
Email auto-sync, BT on at all times, some internet radio streaming today and still at 91%. It's been off the charge for 3 hours now. I think that's pretty good compared to my HD2.
I have been very happy with the battery life so far, its better than the battery life was on the MyTouch 4G I had. Can go a whole day no problem, MyTouch 4G couldn't make it a day....
To all you guys that are getting phenomenal battery life, could you check your battery stats and tell us your display usage?
Thx
I will post battery stats later today but battery life has not been as good as I hoped. Compared to the G2x I'm getting worse battery life. Then again, it's too to compare a device that is running a custom rom versus stock.
smacman said:
To all you guys that are getting phenomenal battery life, could you check your battery stats and tell us your display usage?
Thx
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I did already.. with much detail Below: (Now 17H 15M down to 48% - so, lost about 4 percent in 2 hours, with some more use)
prateekgujral said:
Remaining 52% (as per battery solo widget pro and quick info pro)
14H 58M on battery
Voice: 48%
Display 34%
Cell Standby 10%
Phone Idle 5%
Wifi 3%
Settings:
Autobrightness
Auto Sync Disabled
EDGE/WIFI Disabled (Wifi - best performance unchecked)
Phone on GSM only
ACTUAL USAGE:
Calls: Approx 40 mins (did a quick count of mins in the call history)
Msg: 35 incl a few recd
Weather: 8 cities updated 4 times using Edge
Wifi and Web: Approx 10 mins
Angry birds: Approx 10 mins
Music: One song.. 3m40s
Hope this helps!!
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I still don't see your display on time there. Maybe I'm blind..
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smacman said:
I still don't see your display on time there. Maybe I'm blind..
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Not blind ... are you looking for awake time?
3 hours 11 mins
So with 48% battery left your display had been on for over 3 hours? That is excellent.. Definitely something wrong with my battery if that is the case.
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smacman said:
So with 48% battery left your display had been on for over 3 hours? That is excellent.. Definitely something wrong with my battery if that is the case.
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Yup. thats what i read... maybe i should tell you what I did when I got the HTC Ssensation...
I used it and set it up on that batt level that came out of the box... till it switched off... kept if off and charged it the whole night.. about 7 hours.. unplugged.. turned the phone back on.. used it again the whole day and brought the battery level to about 19%.. turned it off.. charged it again full for about 7 hours... and now i am using it as normal!!
EDIT::: hahahahahhahahahahahaha.. no wonder... I am sorry.. its a typo.. 2 hour and 11 Mins.. well now 18 mins!!!
Still quite decent I think.. with the usage!!!
My battery sucked too but its doing much better (ibwas not worried because the same happened to my nexus one). Always moderatevuse and I get about 16 hours of use and still have about 40% left.
I have auto sync on, wifi off, screen brightness on about 60%.
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This is probably the longest lasting device I've used in a while. My G2X would get me about 11 hours with moderate use but my Sensation will last close to 16 hours with moderate use.
The only thing I have syncing is my Gmail account and calendar. I turned off everything else including weather. I also never keep my display set to automatic since that's just another piece of hardware that constantly has to work. Unless I'm in direct sunlight, my display stays at 50%.
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Battery life question

I recently bought a g2x. I previously had a Optimus v with cm7 that I liked, so I pretty much immediately installed cm7 on my g2x. I've noticed my battery will drain 25% on stand by overnight. Just wondering if this is normal, and if the stock rom is any better in this regard?
Well...its normal but at the same time its not, and i'll tell you why. Mine drains about 5-10% overnight (around 7 hours) and with wifi on it is usually even less, about 3-5%.
Though there HAVE been instances where it has drained about 20-30%, usually I just pull the battery (or restart the phone a couple of times) and it seems to fix it till the next time it happens.
In fact just last night it drained 35% =\ but normally it is around 10%.
Im on weapon G2x
My phone drains about 3% overnight. Wifi and data off. CM7 with Faux kernel and setcpu screen off profile.
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It honestly depends what kind of network signal you're getting.
I've had mine drain a considerable amount one night just because I had low signal. Especially when you have low signal AND data on.
Mine drops 5-10% at night, sometimes less. I either keep it on 2G with data off or wifi with wifi calling on. Wifi calling seems to save a ton of battery.
But, leaving data on and 3G on I drop 30% or so.
yeah, as everyone says, depends on your usage (and/or signal). i've gotten 12h, i've also had 4 days, it really differs on lots of factors.

Battery reduces 20% in standby overnight, is this normal?

My phone was reduced from 100 to 82 in just around 6 hours. I had data/wifi turned off as well. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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teobeo94 said:
My phone was reduced from 100 to 82 in just around 6 hours. I had data/wifi turned off as well. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Nope. With data/wifi turned on (data auto-off since Wifi is active), I lose at most 2% overnight. With airplane mode on OR data/wifi off, you should be seeing practically 0% loss.
Check your battery usage and see what's eating up the battery. Sounds like an rogue app/process that's wasting cycles or is out of control.
One of the best things about this phone is its standby life, as it seems to sip battery juice very lightly.
My battery was still 100% after I woke up today.
Nevertheless it dropped very quickly after using the phone, about 11% in 10-15 min but I assume that's completely normal after 8 hours standby.
I have a live wallpaper but it shouldn't work when is screen off. I also have setcpu set so that is practically doing nothing when the screen is off. The live wallpaper cost only 2% of my battery but standby showed 20%. I have no idea why it uses much in standby...
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teobeo94 said:
I have a live wallpaper but it shouldn't work when is screen off. I also have setcpu set so that is practically doing nothing when the screen is off. The live wallpaper cost only 2% of my battery but standby showed 20%. I have no idea why it uses much in standby...
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That means that of the whatever % battery (out of 100%) that you've used, 20% of that drain was due to standby. That's not necessarily bad. So if you have 50% charge left, then it means that (50% x .2)% of your drain was from standby. My cell standby has currently used 23% of my current drain percentage. Since your phone is often left in the sleep/not-active state, then a large % of battery drain happens in standby.
Battery usage on Android is frequently misunderstood. And keep in mind that the 2% from the LWP you used is because it's only displayed when you're on the home screen. Otherwise, it remains dormant/paused.
that's strange that you are having that much usage in standby.. i have been getting a solid day and a half out of my battery and it doesnt really use any battery in standby.. there has to be an app of some sort that is sucking the battery or still running.. i always at bedtime though clear the cache thru storage in the settings menu and end all tasks in the task manager and close all the windows/programs with the far right virtual button on the bottom of the screen.. I am a bit OCD but heck if its working why stop..lol
Area with poor cell reception? If you were in plane mode it is an app for sure.
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My battery stayed the same overnight. That is with a x2 battery saver which switches off data when the phone is not used and only allows it as special intervals. I have set at 10mins intervals though which is not a huge saver.
I'm doing a test from yesterday to see how long the phone will last with my use. So far from last night im at 39% and when I first turned the phone on it was at 47% from yesterday.
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I would have to agree with everyone else. I only experience 1% loss at most times overnight. Best standby battery life i've ever gotten on a HTC phone.
I actually have full bars at home so I don't think that's why. Maybe it's because it's a new battery so I'll try charging it a couple more cycles.
Lost 8% tonight (86/78). Saw this morning that the signal was not perfect. But wifi went off during the night. That should not happen. Maybe my custom rom is switching off wifi on sleep...
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I actually have full bars at home so I don't think that's why. Maybe it's because it's a new battery so I'll try charging it a couple more cycles.
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It's either a faulty battery or a rogue app. Shouldn't happen to a new battery either.
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Use better battery stats to diagnose rogue apps.
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My battery stayed the same overnight. That is with a x2 battery saver which switches off data when the phone is not used and only allows it as special intervals. I have set at 10mins intervals though which is not a huge saver.
I'm doing a test from yesterday to see how long the phone will last with my use. So far from last night im at 39% and when I first turned the phone on it was at 47% from yesterday.
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Right.
Battery lasted up to 2:30pm being off the plug from 7 am the previous morning. So a total of 31hours.
That is with tapatalk, a bit of web browsing, a bit of WiFi and google store updating, 2 short phone calls.
The app. 2x was running on mild battery saving,mainly by cutting the data periodically when the phone is idling.
I must say that this is really good and the phone took quite a while to go from 15% to 4% after which it switched off before I noticed it again.
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How's your battery life

I love everything about this phone but the battery . Im hoping to get 2hrs of screen on time . Anyone else have issues with the battery. Any tips would be appreciated.
parmend said:
I love everything about this phone but the battery . Im hoping to get 2hrs of screen on time . Anyone else have issues with the battery. Any tips would be appreciated.
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Try turning off the Always Scanning for WiFi option. Also, change the Sync settings for apps you don't need to be synced at all times. And Location setting to Battery Saver.
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optimummind said:
Try turning off the Always Scanning for WiFi option. Also, change the Sync settings for apps you don't need to be synced at all times. And Location setting to Battery Saver.
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When im at home i can pull close to 4hrs screen on . If im not on wifi the phone idle is terrible. I probably drain 6% or more per hr idling. Its hard coming from a note 4 , but i guess it is what it is.
parmend said:
When im at home i can pull close to 4hrs screen on . If im not on wifi the phone idle is terrible. I probably drain 6% or more per hr idling. Its hard coming from a note 4 , but i guess it is what it is.
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Draining at 6% per hour is not good & unusual. But for Android 5.0.2, it seems about right, unfortunately. My N5 drained at that rate before the 5.1 update.
On my S4 with its 2-yr old battery, I drain at 3 to 3.5% per hour on idle with both WiFi & LTE turned off.
On my N5 with a new battery & 5.1, I idle drain at 0.7 to 1.5% per hour.
I'll add my battery drain rate once I get my S6E tomorrow.
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This is mine on light usage. I noticed etter after a factory reset. Heavy usage is between 6 and 8 depending on wifi
I'm debating going to get one of these... My Note 2 keeps not charging and the stock battery died in 1:10 (from 50% to 1%) during a run yesterday. I was using spotify and mapmyrun.
Today is my first day after first full charge and my battery drains at ~3.5% hour, per GSAM.
I have screen brightness at little bit below the half-way mark with Auto Brightness checked.
I disconnected my phone at 6 AM and right now, it has been on 16 hrs 30 mins. I have gotten 2 hrs 30 mins SOT with 45% left.
Wifi active for 6 hrs, LTE for about 1 hr.
Screen has used 52% of my battery, Wifi 15% (5.0.2 shortcoming), Bluetooth (2%), Held Awake (0%), Phone (0%), Phone Radio (0%), App Usage (31%).
So far, the S6E is outperforming my Nexus 5 on 5.1 with a brand-new battery I swapped in on 4/1/2015.
Happy with the S6E's battery life, especially considering it's only 2600mah.
a little over 6hrs and it went from 100% to 14%. Granted 56%-23% were on a 1:43 run using Bluetooth headphones + spotify and mapmyrun mapping my way. Oddly, when I look at the battery usage, OneDrive is at 18%!
18 hrs & 37 mins off the charger with 4 hrs 8 mins of SOT. 17% battery left. I'm very happy with this. Update to 5.1 should improve it a lot more as it did on my Nexus 5.
Android System & Kernel battery usage is pretty decent. Those two on my N5 on 5.1 drains way more battery than it does on my S6 Edge.
When I'm not actively using my phone, the idle battery drain rate is pretty good - 1.9%/hour (similar to my N5, with the N5 being a bit better).
13 hrs & 9 mins off the charger with 2 hrs 20 mins SOT --> 52% battery left.
All this is without Root and my usual battery-saving Root programs.
Once 5.1 rolls out and if I decide to Root the phone and add battery-saving Root apps, I'm expecting to achieve 6-7 hrs SOT.​
optimummind said:
18 hrs & 37 mins off the charger with 4 hrs 8 mins of SOT. 17% battery left. I'm very happy with this. Update to 5.1 should improve it a lot more as it did on my Nexus 5.
Android System & Kernel battery usage is pretty decent. Those two on my N5 on 5.1 drains way more battery than it does on my S6 Edge.
When I'm not actively using my phone, the idle battery drain rate is pretty good - 1.9%/hour (similar to my N5, with the N5 being a bit better).
13 hrs & 9 mins off the charger with 2 hrs 20 mins SOT --> 52% battery left.
All this is without Root and my usual battery-saving Root programs.
Once 5.1 rolls out and if I decide to Root the phone and add battery-saving Root apps, I'm expecting to achieve 6-7 hrs SOT.​
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Ive noticed that turning off location and disabling google now has helped my battery life a lot.
I love this phone, but the battery life is the one terrible thing. 7-10 hours seems to be the max. I might have to return it and suffer the summer until the note 5.
i'm surprised to hear about all the negative battery life issues on this phone. on my GS3, i'd lose 3-4% battery just driving to work - now I get there and still have 100%. maybe i'm just not as heavy a user, but the other day my phone was off the charger for 16 hours and I still had 43% when I got home - and that included using Google Maps for 20 minutes, texting throughout the day, and using a bunch of apps. when idle, I generally only get 1% battery drain. my only complaint about the phone is some of the UI that I can't customize, but it's only a matter of time before custom ROMs are available...
I lose 10% or more battery on the phone regardless if I'm using it or it is sitting with the screen off. When I drive the 45 minutes to work, the battery is at 89%-93%.
A 1hr run with it on my arm playing spotify/mapmyrun seems to use about 26%.
Basically, I'm always worried now about the battery dying when I'm using it.
at the end of next month, I have a 14hr+ a day for 4 days music festival where I can only charge it at night. 7-10hr battery isn't going to work for me. It seems bizarre to me that they made the best phone ever, but skimped on the battery.
drive to work today with the phone just sitting beside me, 100% to 86%.
revaaron said:
drive to work today with the phone just sitting beside me, 100% to 86%.
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Is your location on? I had to disable google now. Turned off nfc, advanced wifi scanning.
my battery sucks too :/
i live by the charger even more
with all the same activities that got 7-10 hours on my Edge, the Note 4 is getting 14-24hrs.
Battery is beyond horrible!
Wifi is off
NFC is off
What else can I turn off? I can't even get half day out of this POS.
chirayu said:
Battery is beyond horrible!
Wifi is off
NFC is off
What else can I turn off? I can't even get half day out of this POS.
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I think you actually want Wi-Fi to be on. I find that on any android device I burn more battery when using cellular networks.
Alitheia said:
I think you actually want Wi-Fi to be on. I find that on any android device I burn more battery when using cellular networks.
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I meant, when there's no wifi access points are in place.

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