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Just want to make sure we are all on the same page here.

so this wonderful phone we all have is a little... Buggy... I was one of those lucky people who wasn't having any issues with their phones now all of a sudden it gets a little laggy and the screen well shut off and not come back on (sometimes if I hit the power button repeatedly it will come back)... It kinda upsets me because I thought I had a good one... It was running fine after root, and after NVflash... It was after I started different kernels and roms that I had issues... Now I am running rooted stock with no other add ons and I am still having issues...
Question time.
Sounds like I am having the same issues as a lot of other people. True?
Should I get a replacement (sounds like a lot of the replacements are duds too) or just wait to see what the update brings?
I love this phone... I don't need perfect, just stable...
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BobbyDukes707 said:
so this wonderful phone we all have is a little... Buggy... I was one of those lucky people who wasn't having any issues with their phones now all of a sudden it gets a little laggy and the screen well shut off and not come back on (sometimes if I hit the power button repeatedly it will come back)... It kinda upsets me because I thought I had a good one... It was running fine after root, and after NVflash... It was after I started different kernels and roms that I had issues... Now I am running rooted stock with no other add ons and I am still having issues...
Question time.
Sounds like I am having the same issues as a lot of other people. True?
Should I get a replacement (sounds like a lot of the replacements are duds too) or just wait to see what the update brings?
I love this phone... I don't need perfect, just stable...
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Check my thread here, will give you an idea of how widespread the problems are: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1107660

Same exact thing happened to me. One minute it was a perfect little baby, and next thing you know the booger starts acting up.
I was happy in the beginning when it gave me an awesome experience and was wondering why people are complaining about such an awesome device, then it struck me out of nowhere and began rebooting like crazy.

I want to ride this beast to the bitter end... I am hoping that the end is MUCH further down the road... so as far as we know, the "update" will be fixing most o these issues... i guess I am going to hold off on the replacement... seems like those have the same issues too...

And now the battery is heating up like crazy... I don't like this! Why it's this happening?
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Man this things idle battery is horrible also. I'm on my second unit..and this one is brand new. I pretty much know for a fact that anybody that says that they get good battery life with the internet still connected is plain lying. The only time this phone has good life is when on wifi. Smh
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I was just checking my facebook and the temp of the battery shot up to 100 degrees... Wtf?
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That happened on my old G2x, the new one doesn't heat up abnormally, but it does have more light leakage that is obviously noticeable. Gonna get another one when they receive the old one.
I have had a few random reboots, but thats about it. I think it was my fault for screwing around with faux's undervolt kernel lol.

I get good battery life .. on Edge.
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jonathan3579 said:
I get good battery life .. on Edge.
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That is my main gripe. Seriously this is worse than the HD2 I had, and that thing sucked.

greengoldmello said:
Man this things idle battery is horrible also. I'm on my second unit..and this one is brand new. I pretty much know for a fact that anybody that says that they get good battery life with the internet still connected is plain lying. The only time this phone has good life is when on wifi. Smh
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Ill leave my WiFi off all day tomorrow, then post a screenshot of my battery statistics (not the ones provided by Android) but more accurate ones from a app called "Battery Monitor" that gives a break down of use and what you had enabled. I don't want you to think I'm a liar or anything. I guess you could call me lucky but I have had nothing but good experiences so far. I haven't had any reboots, no lag, no freezing and great battery life. Probably better battery life than any other Android device Iv'e ever used. I take my phone off the charger at 7AM and don't return it until 9PM. Throughout the day I am making phone calls, sending texts, surfing the web, reading news from 4 different apps and playing some games. I don't know why anyone would lie about there battery life but maybe some people who say they only get 5 hours of battery life are just plain lying? See what I did there?

But does anyone else have a battery that is heating up for no reason? Should I look into a new battery or possibly a new phone?
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BobbyDukes707 said:
But does anyone else have a battery that is heating up for no reason? Should I look into a new battery or possibly a new phone?
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Nah, the only time my battery heats up is when I am charging the phone and at the same time playing a graphically intensive game. Even then it doesn't heat up to the point of being uncomfortable.

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Ill leave my WiFi off all day tomorrow, then post a screenshot of my battery statistics (not the ones provided by Android) but more accurate ones from a app called "Battery Monitor" that gives a break down of use and what you had enabled. I don't want you to think I'm a liar or anything. I guess you could call me lucky but I have had nothing but good experiences so far. I haven't had any reboots, no lag, no freezing and great battery life. Probably better battery life than any other Android device Iv'e ever used. I take my phone off the charger at 7AM and don't return it until 9PM. Throughout the day I am making phone calls, sending texts, surfing the web, reading news from 4 different apps and playing some games. I don't know why anyone would lie about there battery life but maybe some people who say they only get 5 hours of battery life are just plain lying? See what I did there?
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Yeah I see..but I'm not lying. I simply cannot believe that people actually get good battery life because I've had more than one phone and it exhibits the battery characteristics as the last ones. I wish I could experience what some people say, but it simply does not happen unless I'm on wifi. If only the phone didn't eat percents while screen off...
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Yeah I see..but I'm not lying. I simply cannot believe that people actually get good battery life because I've had more than one phone and it exhibits the battery characteristics as the last ones. I wish I could experience what some people say, but it simply does not happen unless I'm on wifi. If only the phone didn't eat percents while screen off...
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It also depends on how much your 4G signal fluctuates so it depends on your area. If your constantly going from edge to 4G then that is using up more battery than me if I am always getting a good 4G signal. The more work your radio has to do the more battery it will use. The phone is going to eat up percentages when the display is off but if it's eating up "Display" percentage then I would say you have a problem. If your device is in standby most ofthe day then "Cell Standby" will be at the top on the percentage list. It's doing what it's supposed to do. If there was something wrong, then display would be at the top of the list. Next time you take your phone off of the charger, play a game for 20 minutes right away then make a 10 minute phone call. At this point you should see "Display" and "Voice Calls" at the top and "Cell Standby" the bottom. If not then something is wrong. I know there are many people with bad battery's and ones who have had problems with multiple units. I am just not one of them.

I just plugged it in to charge and it is at 103 degrees!
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I just plugged it in to charge and it is at 103 degrees!
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I hope that's Fahrenheit! I'll let you know what mine is plugged in. What temp does yours run after being on idle for 10 minutes unplugged?

Charging on a non OEM charger but sitting idle overnight it was around 68 degrees...
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BobbyDukes707 said:
Charging on a non OEM charger but sitting idle overnight it was around 68 degrees...
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What are the specs on that charger? How many volts and milliamps is it supplying to your phone?
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Dunno it's at home right now... I will check when I get home... But I was using the stock charger at work last night and it was heating up like crazy...
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One Thing Android Sucks At...

even with ICS, is determining how much battery life is left.
I could keep a better tab on my battery life with my watch. It's the worst when it's full and it's empty. It'll be at 100% for 2 hours and 20 minutes later it's at 89%. At the end, when you are at 10%, it's over, you might have 5 mins lefts or 60...who the hell knows.

Very true. I was at 15% for about 20 min but went from 100% to 30% in an hour
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wifesabitch said:
even with ICS, is determining how much battery life is left.
I could keep a better tab on my battery life with my watch. It's the worst when it's full and it's empty. It'll be at 100% for 2 hours and 20 minutes later it's at 89%. At the end, when you are at 10%, it's over, you might have 5 mins lefts or 60...who the hell knows.
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And what kind if phone are you running your ics on?
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And what kind if phone are you running your ics on?
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HTC Sensation

I hardly agree to the battery percentage because it depends on your usage ... there might be a number of unused apps running in the background which might eat up your battery... delete unused apps/widgets...
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I hardly agree to the battery percentage because it depends on your usage ... there might be a number of unused apps running in the background which might eat up your battery... delete unused apps/widgets...
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I keep my phone very barebones. I use two widgets and I have 20 apps.
When I'm down to 10%, I can have everything off and it will still drop down to below 5% within the half hour.
I've come to the conclusion that Android just sucks at this to ignore the percentages and to keep it as charged up as possible.

On my HTC wildfire with like 5 widget and over 150 apps installed it easily crossed one and half days....
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HTC Sensation
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And I asked because from what I know...that's probably not the best nor final version to ics at the moment for the sensation...maybe just like a kang or a build....but either way...in the future when Everything settles down and is more developed for the sensation..I'm pretty sure your battery will be at is best....
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I used to have this issue with Android with past phones like the Epic 4G and the Nexus S 4G. I could be at 70% and reboot the phone and all of a sudden it's now at 52%. I could reboot phone 5 times and get 5 different values. It was all so tiring.
Now i've since moved on to the Epic Touch running Blazer ROM and since i've been on this combo, i've not noticed this phenomenon anymore. The battery guage is spot on. I could reboot a billion times and the accuracy doesn't deviate one bit. Could it be that the dev of this ROM has some super mojo/juju that just works? (I hope so).

Alpha Review ROM is not completed, all guys using review HTC Rom have same problems. Keep remembering that it is still a review ROM

Battery performance on the one s

Is it just me or battery performance on this phone is much better than previous HTC phones??
I had a mytouch 4g slide and even with a mugen battery it had half the life this can give me through the day.
It's incredible.
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I agree. I'm also coming from the slide and this seems to be much better on battery.
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Most indeed it is the best out of all HTC phone. Myself is coming phone the mytouch4g. And I had to carry my charger with me. Right now I been unchanged for almost 10 hours and I'm at 36%. I'm been doing some heavy usage. I'm talking about talking a lot, texting, email, listen to music, watching family, and web surfing. I'm on stock rom that I rooted and removed deboatload myself. with sufbs.
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If I'm not doing heavy usage I'm normally go home after 10 hours with more 50%

Off topic.
What happens at the battery's end of life, how easy or hard will it be to replace and how much will it be likely to cost.
Its my only concern, i am really considering this phone but I think its important to know especially as upgrades don't come to often.
Any thoughts?

intel007 said:
Off topic.
What happens at the battery's end of life, how easy or hard will it be to replace and how much will it be likely to cost.
Its my only concern, i am really considering this phone but I think its important to know especially as upgrades don't come to often.
Any thoughts?
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I imagine if it gives you issues under the first year it'll be covered under warranty. After that who knows. But iPhones hardly have any problems so I imagine this shouldn't either.
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masterkamon842 said:
I imagine if it gives you issues under the first year it'll be covered under warranty. After that who knows. But iPhones hardly have any problems so I imagine this shouldn't either.
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Problem is you can always walk into an apple store and they will just hand you one. What the eff will we do?

I had moderate usage the last 10 hours with gps usage and still at 50%
My N1 would have been shot in 2-3 hours
Have had mobile phones of some type for the last 18 years and never had a battery go bad
I can't see the battery as a deal breaker and in 18-24 months most of us will have another phone

rugmankc said:
Have had mobile phones of some type for the last 18 years and never had a battery go bad
I can't see the battery as a deal breaker and in 18-24 months most of us will have another phone
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+1
We shouldn't worry too much, we should just bask in the glory of our battery life.

agreed, at 12hrs now and still at 50%
would however like a battery % icon in Notification bar without flashing a custom rom

I got 22 hours out of one charge. It's gotten better after I removed the T Mobile bloat.
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rugmankc said:
agreed, at 12hrs now and still at 50%
would however like a battery % icon in Notification bar without flashing a custom rom
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There is an app called battery indicator in the market, its free and no root needed.
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i will check it out--

Same here...I removed bloatware, turned off bluetooth, turned off vibrate feedback for keyboardand regularly close out apps that are not in use..using the multitask by swiping the app up off the screen...battery normally goes all day and this is with playing games and regularly checking this site.

Pretty damn good...

archie53 said:
There is an app called battery indicator in the market, its free and no root needed.
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Got it and works well--will test a few days and buy Pro Version--Always support the Devs--

About % in notification bar, I have installed a free app from market that does exactly that, without root nor flashing anything.
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agreed, at 12hrs now and still at 50%
would however like a battery % icon in Notification bar without flashing a custom rom
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I have 48% left right now after 22 hours of medium/light usage. It's great! My Galaxy Gio never lasted me this long!

I think Its the best device from HTC with such grenat battery life.
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DrJ76 said:
About % in notification bar, I have installed a free app from market that does exactly that, without root nor flashing anything.
Best regards.
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See post 15

havent read all posts, but am i the only one that dont think the battery life is that great? im first time android user with this phone. had iPhone for 3 years and theyre battery life is great. with this phone i get battery from the morning until i go to bed. thats not good:s i have like 15 percent at night.

Not bad battery life for me lol

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It kinda looks like that you did not use the phone at all!
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Nice wait but that jump upward toward the end, were you charging it there, send a screen of the graph with the usage pattern under it

And you recharged it abit

Hehe. But seriously I get around 17 hours of pretty good life. Moderate to heavy use with still about 30% remaining
Just sick and tired of these people complain about horrible battery life
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Post the screen usage!
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devgee said:
Post the screen usage!
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If thats directed at me obviously I did if you look up
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If thats directed at me obviously I did if you look up
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Haha nope not quite we mean like tap the "screen" entry so we can see how many hours of screen-on time you've had, and also possibly tap the usage graph then it shows when your phone was awake, when WiFi was on/off, when it was charging etc.

Spastic909 said:
Hehe. But seriously I get around 17 hours of pretty good life. Moderate to heavy use with still about 30% remaining
Just sick and tired of these people complain about horrible battery life
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As much as I do like the phone. I'm quite annoyed at the battery life and am thinking of ways to improve it and etc. but it doesn't seem to be working. I get like 8 hours and by then it's at 30% MAX. Usually around like 20 or so. 10 hours and it's pretty much dead. Am I doing something wrong? my screen is only on for about an hour and a half or so, maybe 2 hours. Lowest brightness setting, 4g off, 2g on, wifi on.. that's about it. I mean as much as I love HTC, I can't love this battery life...

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As much as I do like the phone. I'm quite annoyed at the battery life and am thinking of ways to improve it and etc. but it doesn't seem to be working. I get like 8 hours and by then it's at 30% MAX. Usually around like 20 or so. 10 hours and it's pretty much dead. Am I doing something wrong? my screen is only on for about an hour and a half or so, maybe 2 hours. Lowest brightness setting, 4g off, 2g on, wifi on.. that's about it. I mean as much as I love HTC, I can't love this battery life...
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Yes you're doing something wrong or have a faulty unit. Make sure you flash a good ROM (I'm using aokp) and that's it. I have my screen at about 25% brightness and here are my stats which is quite acceptable.
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I have freezed so much default htc and adroid crapp apps with Titanium backup. It differs a lot! Also a lot of system apps i dont use.
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I have freezed so much default htc and adroid crapp apps with Titanium backup. It differs a lot! Also a lot of system apps i dont use.
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Yeah, Freezing apps helps a lot!
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@devgee Lol wow 5hr37min screen and almost 10hrs thats quite impressive, all things considered hang on how is your phone still ON at 1% not charging? Mine shuts down at 4% generally...unless I charge it till 7% and unplug, then it runs to 0% before powering down?

MattDN93 said:
@devgee Lol wow 5hr37min screen and almost 10hrs thats quite impressive, all things considered hang on how is your phone still ON at 1% not charging? Mine shuts down at 4% generally...unless I charge it till 7% and unplug, then it runs to 0% before powering down?
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Might be the 1% battery mod which has been added to the viper Rom (Don't know really)
I was too surprised when it was 1%
Usually it shuts down at 3% or 4%!
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JmPTaz09 said:
Yes you're doing something wrong or have a faulty unit. Make sure you flash a good ROM (I'm using aokp) and that's it. I have my screen at about 25% brightness and here are my stats which is quite acceptable.
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Well this is what I got.

This was back on CM. That rom game amazing batt life.
I don't have the screen time pic but it was just over 4 hours. Still had 1/5 of the battery left too! With this phone I just leave gps, wifi, antenna and sync on. It's so rare for me to NOT last a full day that I see no point in being conservative about use anymore.
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GlueEats said:
This was back on CM. That rom game amazing batt life.
I don't have the screen time pic but it was just over 4 hours. Still had 1/5 of the battery left too! With this phone I just leave gps, wifi, antenna and sync on. It's so rare for me to NOT last a full day that I see no point in being conservative about use anymore.
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Nice... CM 10?

Yup. Before the problems that nightlies started having a couple of weeks ago.
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Yup. Before the problems that nightlies started having a couple of weeks ago.
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Do you still have the build you were using? Id like to try it out

I believe it was just the Oct 10 CM nightly on goomanager.
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Battery problems

Hello there,
I noticed that my battery really doesn't last long. It's been 100% full and now, 4 1/2 hours later, there are only 6% left. The weird thing about that is that I did not really used it during that time. WLAN has been turned on over that time, display was really dark, no backlight notifications or anything. Has anyone any idea how to fix this? (LG P940)
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can you give more info
can you give more info? info like- which android, how many mah (ex: 2000,1000). give that and i may be able to help you,...

Would be really awesome! Android version is 4.2.2, battery has about 1500mah (think it's 1540) and I'm using the cyanogenmod kernel. Do you need any more information?
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CookieMonzter said:
Would be really awesome! Android version is 4.2.2, battery has about 1500mah (think it's 1540) and I'm using the cyanogenmod kernel. Do you need any more information?
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Thats not really much of a battery for the hardware,.. how old is it? Is this a recent problem, and when did you flash to CyanogenMod ?
To me it sounds like something is draining the battery pretty hard. Is the Wi-fi signal stable? Any processes under Apps>All, using excessive memory?

To me it sounds like you are having wifi/gps/bluetooth on all time, and if not, you should close ALL apps next time. Some running apps on your background could even drown your battery from 100% to 0% in less than 2 hours. Big apps or games cause the most trouble
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If this phone/battery is more than one and half year old, this could be just battery dying, like mine (LG P920, 2 years old, 1500mAh) is dying right now.
It can't last more than 6 hours lately, so i bought a new one.
A li-ion battery (standard models) just can handle frome 300 to 500 charging cycles, thus if tou charge your phone every day, battery life has about 18 months lifetime.
After, it just dies, more or less slowly.

Thank you all so far.
Bought the phone 1/2 year ago so this can't really be the problem. The battery has never been great but got worse about a month ago. I flashed it about 2 weeks ago and this didn't seem to influence the battery.
I always keep GPS and Bluetooth turned off (only turning GPS on when I go running, but I never noticed that this influences the battery either) and Wi-fi is pretty stable. As I heard that Wi-fi is really bad for the battery I tried turning it off as much as possible and so far it seems a bit better.
I also took a look at how much memory the apps use and saw that Facebook, Kingsoft Office and Whatsapp really need a lot. I think I will uninstall Facebook and KS Office then and see if this helps.
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Bought the phone 1/2 year ago so this can't really be the problem.
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I presume you bought it new ("and sealed")?

Maps used to be a big problem for me running in the background. See which apps use Maps.

Yep, I got it completely new.
Okay, I'll check that, thanks.
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Also problem with battery
I had a similar problem, my battery got "sick" after I used my phone as a GPS during 2 or 3 days. the phone was quit warm during the navigation. After that The battery life was reduced from around a day to 9-10 hours. In addition when battery is around 20%, the phone just shut down due low-battery and as soon I turn it on, as soon it turns off!
The solution was to buy a new battery, but that is odd that using the phone as GPS navigator damages the battery so badly!
Btw, my phone is a HTC desire w/ Android 4.2

yah now i may be able to help you, download the antutu battery saver app from google (it requires root) it is a really good app and helped he last
my battery from 3 hrs to 7 1/2 hrs. if you don't have root access, then it is a prob. if you don't have, tell me and i will give you another solution which
does not require root

Thanks man, I just installed it, will write tomorrow how useful this App is.
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press thanks if worked and any more problems i'm there to help and am always happy to help

batery prblem
same wit me im havin galaxy grand my batery last 5hr wht 2100mh batery nly net i use...

So... I'm not quite sure where the problem was and what helped and what didn't but the only important thing is that my battery lasts a lot longer now. Thank you to everyone who tried to help so far
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