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Hey Seidio, Still Waiting on that 3000mAh Battery...

Innocell 3000mAh Extended Life Battery
It has been quite some time now since this was announced, is anyone else as anxious as I am? Hopefully when it is released we will start seeing different battery covers coming out. Just thought I would get some other people's input.

thomasskull666 said:
Innocell 3000mAh Extended Life Battery
It has been quite some time now since this was announced, is anyone else as anxious as I am? Hopefully when it is released we will start seeing different battery covers coming out. Just thought I would get some other people's input.
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I couldn't care less. I get 24+ hours on my battery now, with chargers in everyplace I frequent throughout the day and a spare charger in my laptop bag for those emergency moments.

I seriously doubt you really use your phone very much. The only time I got 24 hours out of my battery was when it sat unused an entire day.
For the rest of us that actually want to use a smartphone that isn't crippled, this extended life battery is a huge deal. So yes, OP, I check their website every week to see if I somehow missed the announcement. I can't wait!
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I broke down and bought the 3500mah from ebay, but no cover
I wanna use the phone how I wanna use it, and not need to worry bout battery being to low to listen to music or take a pic.
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I get 24 hours on med-heavy usage.

ranchosteve said:
I broke down and bought the 3500mah from ebay, but no cover
I wanna use the phone how I wanna use it, and not need to worry bout battery being to low to listen to music or take a pic.
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same here
i wonder if its just a 2800-3000mAh battery just relabeled

churro7 said:
same here
i wonder if its just a 2800-3000mAh battery just relabeled
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I am sure it is, but for $10 to me its worth the investment, will post a small review.
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I'm glad that there are some other people who are waiting for this, I for one am tired of charging my phone halfway through the day only to have it die again before I go to bed. This battery better come out soon, come on Seidio!!!
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I remeber that the sedio battery used to say 3200mah. I have heard nothing but good about the sedio battery for evo. I know it adds bulk, but how bad can it be.
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This battery, coupled with my two spares and the original might actually let me go away for a week (almost) without being near electricity. That'd be cool.

this would be nice.... I am sucking down 2 and a half batteries a day......

luis12285 said:
this would be nice.... I am sucking down 2 and a half batteries a day......
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I am draining roughly the same, damn Angry Birds lol.

bagelicious said:
I seriously doubt you really use your phone very much. The only time I got 24 hours out of my battery was when it sat unused an entire day.
For the rest of us that actually want to use a smartphone that isn't crippled, this extended life battery is a huge deal. So yes, OP, I check their website every week to see if I somehow missed the announcement. I can't wait!
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k, let me end it for you. /smartass
There we go.
I get, on a low use day, 24+ hours. Med-heavy usage I get 18-20. Stop living off of your phone and you'll get better battery life.
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I get 24 hours on med-heavy usage.
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x2, atleast i'm not the only one that knows how to manage their cell phone battery life.
Right now i'm sitting at 80% with 3h 52m on, time without signal at 1%, screen on time of 16 minutes voice calls of 7 minutes, and I've been listening to music on my phone from the SDcard for about 20 minutes.

If you actually take the time to set up your phone correctly, you can save a ton of battery life. I use tasker to accomplish a majority of these tasks. For instance, when angry birds is being played i have the phone automatically adjust the brightness to a slightly higher level and i have it turn off the data connections and wifi. Then when i exit it returns the phone to the state it was in before angry birds. I have a ton of these profiles set up.

how many people will take the time for that?
also are you running a custom kernel?

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how many people will take the time for that?
also are you running a custom kernel?
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Phoenix 1.43 right now. And it takes a few minutes to set pretty much everything up. I just set them up as I need them.

Battery life isn't the worst, but for me its inconsistant. One day I will make trough a day, next day ill get half.
I know it will get better with froyo and updated kernals and roms.
The touch pro 2 had great battery, I always had gps on and palringo going and didn't have to worry about battery.
The other day I was in vegas taking pics with some random person, I was able to take one, while trying to take another
Boom "battery too low"
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ranchosteve said:
Battery life isn't the worst, but for me its inconsistant. One day I will make trough a day, next day ill get half.
I know it will get better with froyo and updated kernals and roms.
The touch pro 2 had great battery, I always had gps on and palringo going and didn't have to worry about battery.
The other day I was in vegas taking pics with some random person, I was able to take one, while trying to take another
Boom "battery too low"
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I had the same issue. I found that it was something causing the battery not to go to sleep. For me, the music player (Fascinate one from EE rom) would start CorePlayerServices which would run and not allow the phone to sleep. As long as that service is running, my phone wasn't sleeping correctly. There are other things that cause this not sleeping problem as well, but that is the only one I have identified personally.

scriz said:
k, let me end it for you. /smartass
There we go.
I get, on a low use day, 24+ hours. Med-heavy usage I get 18-20. Stop living off of your phone and you'll get better battery life.
x2, atleast i'm not the only one that knows how to manage their cell phone battery life.
Right now i'm sitting at 80% with 3h 52m on, time without signal at 1%, screen on time of 16 minutes voice calls of 7 minutes, and I've been listening to music on my phone from the SDcard for about 20 minutes.
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You are misunderstanding the reasons why I want this battery. Yes I could set up my phone to last for a whole day no problem, but that would severely limit the amount of time that I spend on it and the purpose for which I use it so often. I am constantly testing and flashing new zips over and over and over, which will drain the battery tremendously as it is. Testing a 32 x 32 icon on a 480x800 screen is straining on the eyes when the brightness is turned all the way down, so that must be up to see the fine details of images that I have edited.
I understand that it is completely possible to make my phone last much longer than it currently is, but taking the steps necessary to do so would thus render it useless for the tasks that I am trying to accomplish. I live off of my phone because I can and choose to do so, it is my hobby to develop custom themes/ROMs for the Epic and I don't plan on stopping just to have my battery life last 2x longer.
When this comes out it will mean the difference between being able to do whatever I want on my phone for 8-10 hours under very heavy use and only being able to make it last for less than 6 hours. IMO this is significantly to my advantage.

what is med usage to you?

My Battery Life Report - Feedback Welcomed

So I have been using Juice Defender Ultimate for a couple of days and also measuring stats with Juice Plotter.
My experience thus far has been that the addition of JDU hasn't really changed my stats. I would say it has helped slightly... At the end of an 8 hour day I am usually at around 65% I average approximately 4% battery drain per hour mostly with the screen off since I don't typically do much on my phone while at work. I'm sure the battery stats will improve with the addition of custom ROMs but was wondering if the 4% decrease per hour was pretty much standard across the board.
I happen to like the battery performance thus far but will admit that my Cappy was providing me with a remaining percentage of around 75% after an 8 hour day. Of course, that Cappy was on Gingerbread with a super tweaked rom that took advantage of every little ounce of conservativity. There really isn't much difference between 65 & 75 but I thought I would throw it out there to see what you all are experiencing.
Thoughts?

b3asty said:
So I have been using Juice Defender Ultimate for a couple of days and also measuring stats with Juice Plotter.
My experience thus far has been that the addition of JDU hasn't really changed my stats. I would say it has helped slightly... At the end of an 8 hour day I am usually at around 65% I average approximately 4% battery drain per hour mostly with the screen off since I don't typically do much on my phone while at work. I'm sure the battery stats will improve with the addition of custom ROMs but was wondering if the 4% decrease per hour was pretty much standard across the board.
I happen to like the battery performance thus far but will admit that my Cappy was providing me with a remaining percentage of around 75% after an 8 hour day. Of course, that Cappy was on Gingerbread with a super tweaked rom that took advantage of every little ounce of conservativity. There really isn't much difference between 65 & 75 but I thought I would throw it out there to see what you all are experiencing.
Thoughts?
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Get an HTC Inspire, you'll be down to 20% before lunch time, hehe. That was my last phone, was horrid. What's bad about 65% left after a full day? That sounds amazing to me... means you can go 3 days before recharge!

Actually when I uninstall JDU my battery last longer.
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To me using juice defender I pointless. No data while phone is in standby? 2000 called, it wants its phone back.
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it doesnt work for sure i had it and unistalled it its really pointless.
ive been giving my phone a really ward time this past week for the sole reason that my ipod got sent in to Apple Care. so its my main device for music and pandora and what not.
but like 4pm im down to like 40someish
not bad really the atrix would have of giving out bye then
and i try to use my Data alot with out wifi just for the hell of it because i got unlimited... lol

cmjkxa said:
To me using juice defender I pointless. No data while phone is in standby? 2000 called, it wants its phone back.
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LMFAO! (hehe since you brought up 2000 I thought I'd give a 2000 acronym too, haha).
A++++ for the post tho, hehe

LOL @ some of these replies! Ok. I'll explain why I use JDU. I work in an area that's on the outskirts of AT&T's nearest tower. If am on the outer edges of the building, my service is so so. If I am in my office, which is more interior, my service is off & on. As soon as I walk outside, my service is decent. So, until AT&T increases their presence near our building, I will be faced with a dilemma. The radio on the phone will struggle to lock onto a signal all day long. Depending on where I am in the building, it can get really bad. This constant effort to acquire signal equates to increased battery drain. When I first purchased the Infuse on 5/20, I went back to work that afternoon and my battery had drained from 100% to 40% in less than 4 hours. I had experienced this with my Captivate so I knew it had to be the constant struggle to obtain signal.
The thing I really like about Superpower Beta (which I used and loved on my Cappy), Green Power, and JDU is that they are able to halt that constant struggle when the screen is off (as it is 90% of my time at work). This equates to a much more civilized battery drain. I suppose if I worked in a place where I always had 4 bars this wouldn't even be an issue. Hopefully this explains why I use it. Although JDU probably doesn't do much to "save" battery per say, I think it's invaluable in the way it cuts the communication when the screen is off which in my situation saves battery. I still get phone calls and text messages without issue (depending on where I am in the building). I also have it set to allow data for 5 minutes ever hour which helps.
Wow.. I got a little long winded..

bella92108 said:
Get an HTC Inspire, you'll be down to 20% before lunch time, hehe. That was my last phone, was horrid. What's bad about 65% left after a full day? That sounds amazing to me... means you can go 3 days before recharge!
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hahah.. True man. 65% is pretty decent. I'm just looking for comparisons.

b3asty said:
LOL @ some of these replies! Ok. I'll explain why I use JDU. I work in an area that's on the outskirts of AT&T's nearest tower. If am on the outer edges of the building, my service is so so. If I am in my office, which is more interior, my service is off & on. As soon as I walk outside, my service is decent. So, until AT&T increases their presence near our building, I will be faced with a dilemma. The radio on the phone will struggle to lock onto a signal all day long. Depending on where I am in the building, it can get really bad. This constant effort to acquire signal equates to increased battery drain. When I first purchased the Infuse on 5/20, I went back to work that afternoon and my battery had drained from 100% to 40% in less than 4 hours. I had experienced this with my Captivate so I knew it had to be the constant struggle to obtain signal.
The thing I really like about Superpower Beta (which I used and loved on my Cappy), Green Power, and JDU is that they are able to halt that constant struggle when the screen is off (as it is 90% of my time at work). This equates to a much more civilized battery drain. I suppose if I worked in a place where I always had 4 bars this would even be an issue. Hopefully this explains why I use it. Although JDU probably doesn't do much to "save" battery per say, I think it's invaluable in the way it cuts the communication when the screen is off which in my situation saves battery. I still get phone calls and text messages without issue (depending on where I am in the building). I also have it set to allow data for 5 minutes ever hour which helps.
Wow.. I got a little long winded..
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well you see there are special cases where this would be useful aka yours but for us that have signal available turning data on and off i every time i get a text seems pointless doesn't it? it only consumes more energy

Transformer27 said:
well you see there are special cases where this would be useful aka yours but for us that have signal available turning data on and off i every time i get a text seems pointless doesn't it? it only consumes more energy
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Tru Tru!

some benfit others jsut need to chill out and dont worry bout your battery. i found that with the atrix i didnt download a app to tell me how many percentage i had left i would worry about it and it seemed like i lasted a life time.
and im doing the same with the Infuse...

Transformer27 said:
some benfit others jsut need to chill out and dont worry bout your battery. i found that with the atrix i didnt download a app to tell me how many percentage i had left i would worry about it and it seemed like i lasted a life time.
and im doing the same with the Infuse...
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I agree. The percentage makes me sweat every percentage hehe.

yeah i realized it with the atrix.

Transformer27 said:
yeah i realized it with the atrix.
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they need to make an app that lies to me and says my battery is always fuller than it is cause to see it ticking down just puts me into panic, haha

bahahah! no that is really pointless.
app: you have 98%
reality: 4%
lol

Transformer27 said:
bahahah! no that is really pointless.
app: you have 98%
reality: 4%
lol
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I know, I need to see a shrink, hehe

bella92108 said:
I agree. The percentage makes me sweat every percentage hehe.
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I agree, looking at the battery makes a sour smell. Lol
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I don't worry about the battery so much as I do charge time... I like to put it on the charger after lunch at work... Even with just over 50 percent it takes almost 4 hours to charge...
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garak0410 said:
I don't worry about the battery so much as I do charge time... I like to put it on the charger after lunch at work... Even with just over 50 percent it takes almost 4 hours to charge...
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yeah it's so strange that it takes so long to charge.... wish there was a way to get around that. I'm actually thinking of buying one of those external battery chargers and using it to charge the batteries.

Just get a higher output charger, they have a few at radioshack
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Is this battery life normal?

Hey all,
I was just wondering, is this battery life normal? Ot seems to me as if it was just too low, well, actually, sh*t.
Thanks in advanced.
EDIT: got to 7% just writing this post, with Spotify.
EDIT2: I forgot to say I disabled wifi scan even when off, Ok Google hot word, bluetooth is always off, same applies to wifi, brightness nearly at minimum, but location on and sweep2wake aswell.
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No, it sucks. Get rid of spotify it's sucking your battery

The battery sucks

I am at 9 hours and 45 minutes, 18 seconds on my current charge. I have 70% remaining. 19% of my used battery life has been voice calls so far today also. I get more than a day easily but I charge every night just to be sure my alarm goes off in the morning, but on weekends I get two full days at time pretty easy.
I use waze at times to navigate and play music at the same time in the car for about 3 hours at a time, that can use my full battery in eight hours total, but for using everything basically I fine with that! Doing nothing special to save power either.

dicecuber said:
The battery sucks
Nexus 5
-Underpowered battery for a 5inch 1080p screen that is non-removable. Ruined by 4.4.2
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Rather than *****ing about the battery on a daily basis how about you get the g2/note3/iphone/startac and mozy on out of here.

dicecuber said:
The battery sucks
Nexus 5
-Underpowered battery for a 5inch 1080p screen that is non-removable. Ruined by 4.4.2
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still trolling i see. also it seems that you didnt learn how to set up your phone properly yet. when you do learn, you will see that the non removeable battery for your 5 inch 1080p phone is not so underpowered, but not managed properly by the user.

simms22 said:
still trolling i see. also it seems that you didnt learn how to set up your phone properly yet. when you do learn, you will see that the non removeable battery for your 5 inch 1080p phone is not so underpowered, but not managed properly by the user.
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may I know your tweaks, kernel and ROM?
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ImSoBored said:
may I know your tweaks, kernel and ROM?
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my rom and kernel are rastakat with trinity kernel. but battery life is mostly determined by how you personally set up your phone, how you personally use the phone, how you manage your phone and apps(plus keeping away from known terribly written apps, like facebook), and, very importantly, the quality of your data/phone connection(this makes a big difference in battery life).

simms22 said:
my rom and kernel are rastakat with trinity kernel. but battery life is mostly determined by how you personally set up your phone, how you personally use the phone, how you manage your phone and apps(plus keeping away from known terribly written apps, like facebook), and, very importantly, the quality of your data/phone connection(this makes a big difference in battery life).
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hmm... then what should I do? Not getting 3 hours of battery seems terrible... Warranty will not cover this, right?
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hmm... then what should I do? Not getting 3 hours of battery seems terrible... Warranty will not cover this, right?
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no. but id say that depending how you use your device(we all use it differently), that 2.5-4.5h screen on time would be considered normal. with some effort in managing your device/apps, 4.5-7h sot is possible, with 7h sot being the extreme end(most wont ever see 7h, but a few will). i normally see between 5-6.5h sot.

ImSoBored said:
hmm... then what should I do? Not getting 3 hours of battery seems terrible... Warranty will not cover this, right?
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This thread is a great resource:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357417

Holy Battery...

I have never had a battery be this good. Rooted with Greenify. Running Skyfall.

Kinda ridiculous. 16 hours and 60% full over here on just regular power save mode....SkyFall also

Yeah this phone gets way better battery life than my s4 did with same size battery. Love it. Does greenify really work that well? I have never used it as I have great battery life without it.
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Lots of reviewers are talking about how the M8's battery lasted longer than the S5 too. Samsung needs to stop slacking on the software and give us a lightweight touchwiz. I absolutely love Sense 6 and I'm usually an AOSP guy. I'll probably try out GPE Roms once they're stable but honestly the new sense is everything I want out of android software. Minimal, clean, customizable, smooth and fast.
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did you guys flash sky fall with twrp or cwm? been looking to flash it

CWM. Always been wary of TWRP. Not sure why.
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Twrp here. I've always been wary of cwm. Lol. No joke. And yes, the battery on this is ridiculous! I used the ONE MAX today to do a test. And we all know, it Has a bigger battery, 3300 mh. The M8 beat the MAX. Did the exact same things throughout the day, and no lie, the M8 won the test.
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TWRP user here as well. Everything went smoothly for me on skyfall lastest.
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I don't think I could ever kill this battery in one day unless I was using navigation alot or constant gaming. So far today.
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20 hours and 55% full over here on just regular power save mode and SkyFall

Don't get me wrong, I'm getting great battery life as well (though coming from a VZW GNex, anything would be an improvement). However...posting screenshots of how long your device has been off the charger with no other information (screen on time, app battery use) doesn't tell us anything.
Hell, I could leave my phone at home on wifi with the screen off and not touch it for the next 3 days, take a screenshot of any remaining battery life, and post it being like "OMG I got 3 days of battery life, this is amazing!" And it would be just about as informative and truthful as your screenshots (not including yours Evocm7, obviously).

sorry im kind of a noob i am aware of greenify i have used it but whats skyfall? I tried searching but nothing is coming up but james bond.
EDIT: Sorry havent looked at roms yet im just rooted atm

sfreemanoh said:
Don't get me wrong, I'm getting great battery life as well (though coming from a VZW GNex, anything would be an improvement). However...posting screenshots of how long your device has been off the charger with no other information (screen on time, app battery use) doesn't tell us anything.
Hell, I could leave my phone at home on wifi with the screen off and not touch it for the next 3 days, take a screenshot of any remaining battery life, and post it being like "OMG I got 3 days of battery life, this is amazing!" And it would be just about as informative and truthful as your screenshots (not including yours Evocm7, obviously).
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I hear what you're saying. Personally, I'm not trying to participate in any scientific study on the matter. All I know, and all I care, is that I've had the phone off charge for 29 hours now... using it the way I normally use it during an average day ( pretty light)... and I'm still at 40% battery.
Coming from a malfunctioning POS Droid Charge this phone is a godsend. I used to have to carry an extra battery just to get through an 8 hour shift at work starting on a full charge.

JelloB said:
I hear what you're saying. Personally, I'm not trying to participate in any scientific study on the matter. All I know, and all I care, is that I've had the phone off charge for 29 hours now... using it the way I normally use it during an average day ( pretty light)... and I'm still at 40% battery.
Coming from a malfunctioning POS Droid Charge this phone is a godsend. I used to have to carry an extra battery just to get through an 8 hour shift at work starting on a full charge.
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lol I came from a GNex, so we're probably in the same boat. Even on wifi with extremely minimal use (10-15m screen time all day, which with how slow and laggy it was I didn't really care)), I would be down into the 60%'s by bedtime. If I went to the gym with full battery, after listening to Pandora while doing weights, and watching Netflix during cardio, it would be into 20-30% by the time I left, total of maybe 1 1/2 - 2 hours.
I flashed Skyfall the other day after charging my phone to full, and by the time I was done flashing, re-installing everything from TiBu, updating a few out-of date apps, and setting everything up, it was down to maybe 95%. And that was with the screen on for probably 20 minutes straight.

nazzo123 said:
sorry im kind of a noob i am aware of greenify i have used it but whats skyfall? I tried searching but nothing is coming up but james bond.
EDIT: Sorry havent looked at roms yet im just rooted atm
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I think they are talking about this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51745866
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I think taking into consideration the snapdragon 801 chip how it saves battery, sense 6 being light weight, if one needs to you have the choices of battery save mode and if that's not enough extreme battery save mode! This phone came built up from the floor up. Now if we just had the 1.56 software version with all the above included stock and operating correctly, I'm sure we would see even more battery savings!

Im looking for good app for monitoring battery use. Is betterbatterystats the de facto standard?

JBmfG said:
Im looking for good app for monitoring battery use. Is betterbatterystats the de facto standard?
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or GSAM battery monitor

JBmfG said:
Im looking for good app for monitoring battery use. Is betterbatterystats the de facto standard?
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There are very few "de facto standards" for anything in the Android ecosystem...which is why we like it. I use a combination of GSAM Battery Monitor with the root companion, and Wakelock Detector.

Dont get me wrong, I get decent battery life, but nothing like you guys. For those of you with amazing OST are you guys using Google Now? I just installed wake lock detector to see what is causing my batt to drain more than others.

[Q] Need a new battery?

Hey guys, i'm wondering what kind of battery life you guys are getting because my droid x is currently getting better battery than my s3.
On Wi-Fi I drain 10% every half hour of screen on time. I should be able to max at about 5 hours screen on time, however the best I've gotten was on 4 hours, on a good day. So I'm just wondering what the norm is for our phones. Thanks guys

joedajoester said:
Hey guys, i'm wondering what kind of battery life you guys are getting because my droid x is currently getting better battery than my s3.
On Wi-Fi I drain 10% every half hour of screen on time. I should be able to max at about 5 hours screen on time, however the best I've gotten was on 4 hours, on a good day. So I'm just wondering what the norm is for our phones. Thanks guys
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3.5-4.5 hours of screen on when all on wifi is normal. 2.5-3.5 screen on time is about normal for LTE. I'd say these are normal screen on stats given the display size, user set brightness, and AMOLED's poor performance with bright colors compared to dark colors. Dark color screens require less light. Bright colors (browser, wallpapers) draw more power from AMOLED displays. I usually get 3-4 hours of screen on time with my display brightness at about 50%.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
3.5-4.5 hours of screen on when all on wifi is normal. 2.5-3.5 screen on time is about normal for LTE. I'd say these are normal screen on stats given the display size, user set brightness, and AMOLED's poor performance with bright colors compared to dark colors. Dark color screens require less light. Bright colors (browser, wallpapers) draw more power from AMOLED displays. I usually get 3-4 hours of screen on time with my display brightness at about 50%.
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Thanks for your response. I forgot to mention that I always have brightness really low. You claim to be able to get about 4hrs screen on at half brightness. I'm going to try setting my brightness and see where I end up. Right now I'm at 60% with 1hr 45m screen on, WiFi, minimum brightness. I could max at 4 hours in theory with the lowest brightness. I think my battery is starting to go.

joedajoester said:
Thanks for your response. I forgot to mention that I always have brightness really low. You claim to be able to get about 4hrs screen on at half brightness. I'm going to try setting my brightness and see where I end up. Right now I'm at 60% with 1hr 45m screen on, WiFi, minimum brightness. I could max at 4 hours in theory with the lowest brightness. I think my battery is starting to go.
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There is always the possibility that the battery is going bad, but your battery stats aren't that unusual in my eyes. I've been thinking of getting a newer battery as well just cuz I've had this one since release date. Seeing if there would be any improvement.
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joedajoester said:
Thanks for your response. I forgot to mention that I always have brightness really low. You claim to be able to get about 4hrs screen on at half brightness. I'm going to try setting my brightness and see where I end up. Right now I'm at 60% with 1hr 45m screen on, WiFi, minimum brightness. I could max at 4 hours in theory with the lowest brightness. I think my battery is starting to go.
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Try a free app called RootDim. Let's you set lower but still very viewable brightness settings. I think most days I set at 25% but the nice thing is the brightness control is a slider so you have more control. Plus you can set profiles.
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I have never had a phone long enough to have to buy a new battery. What's the average life of one?

evertking said:
I have never had a phone long enough to have to buy a new battery. What's the average life of one?
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That is what I am trying to find out, no one seems to own a brand new battery lol. Im still debating whether to buy a new battery.

My own experience
since 1 year I'm using the Zero Lemon Battery 7500 mAh
Have unlimited Data Plan with Verizon - Wifi Tether to my laptop for 10 hours a day
Phones heats up a bit. But, giving me, excellent service.
The main reason, I ditched Apple is because of the extended battery
Not even the so called dedicated Jetpacks don't run that long.
I use everything - Full brightness - High Volume - Vibration - listen to songs - play games very rarely though - may be 30 min. in a week or 10 days.
I PUT FULL CHARGE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. IT WILL BE 100% CHARGED by 7:00 A.M.
As I have said, I have been using this for the past 1 year. Still going Strong.
This is the main reason, I'm not upgrading my SGS3.

qzmpal said:
My own experience
since 1 year I'm using the Zero Lemon Battery 7500 mAh
Have unlimited Data Plan with Verizon - Wifi Tether to my laptop for 10 hours a day
Phones heats up a bit. But, giving me, excellent service.
The main reason, I ditched Apple is because of the extended battery
Not even the so called dedicated Jetpacks don't run that long.
I use everything - Full brightness - High Volume - Vibration - listen to songs - play games very rarely though - may be 30 min. in a week or 10 days.
I PUT FULL CHARGE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. IT WILL BE 100% CHARGED by 7:00 A.M.
As I have said, I have been using this for the past 1 year. Still going Strong.
This is the main reason, I'm not upgrading my SGS3.
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Well, aside from the reason it's still a highly capable phone and doesn't lack anything of importance over the newer models in my opinion. In fact I have a S4 and my mother's S3 is currently much faster than mine was before the fine dev's around here got their hands on it. Now they are dead even and most apps run identically on both.
Currently trying to figure out why hers won't charge. I have put a charged battery in there and that works fine but it won't charge in her phone. Guess I just gotta take 'er apart and see if there's a bad solder point or broken pins somewhere. This doesn't seem to be a common issue.

arikdahn said:
Well, aside from the reason it's still a highly capable phone and doesn't lack anything of importance over the newer models in my opinion. In fact I have a S4 and my mother's S3 is currently much faster than mine was before the fine dev's around here got their hands on it. Now they are dead even and most apps run identically on both.
Currently trying to figure out why hers won't charge. I have put a charged battery in there and that works fine but it won't charge in her phone. Guess I just gotta take 'er apart and see if there's a bad solder point or broken pins somewhere. This doesn't seem to be a common issue.
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Might be a bad charging port. My fiancee had to get a replacement S3 from VZW recently because of this. But I'm no expert on taking it apart but if you successfully figure it out that way then kudos to you
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ShapesBlue said:
Might be a bad charging port. My fiancee had to get a replacement S3 from VZW recently because of this. But I'm no expert on taking it apart but if you successfully figure it out that way then kudos to you
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We'll see. I'll give it a shot when I get a free second and let ya know how it goes. It's out of warranty so there's no way I can screw it up any worse.

arikdahn said:
We'll see. I'll give it a shot when I get a free second and let ya know how it goes. It's out of warranty so there's no way I can screw it up any worse.
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Yea mine is now officially out of the 1 year warranty as of Monday
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