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If you have gotten your hands on a TB, what kind of battery life are you seeing under various scenarios (3G, Wifi, 4G, etc)? This is the biggest hesitation that I and other folks are having...
Battery life is not that great, but much better than it was 4 months ago. With early firmwares it lasted about 4 hours without even using it. Now it is good for 8 hours of moderate use in 4G coverage. The phone does eat more battery while in 4G coverage than in 3G due to the higher uplink power used by LTE over EVDO. I think future firmwares will help, but the MSM9600 chipset was designed for datacards and not phones like the MSM8960.
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Battery life is not that great, but much better than it was 4 months ago. With early firmwares it lasted about 4 hours without even using it. Now it is good for 8 hours of moderate use in 4G coverage. The phone does eat more battery while in 4G coverage than in 3G due to the higher uplink power used by LTE over EVDO. I think future firmwares will help, but the MSM9600 chipset was designed for datacards and not phones like the MSM8960.
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That is such a stupid reason for poor battery life. It was also a problem when 3g stuff was new. The solution seems quite simple to me, automatically turn off the 4g radio when the phone is in sleep mode. There is no reason to have it using a higher data transfer rate when sleeping. The solution could be extrapolated further into an app based solution. Turn on the 4g radio only when certain apps are open and running. Who really needs 14Mb connection to read e-mail? To make everyone happy, allow the users to configure which apps turn on the 4g radio as well as allowing them to leave it on all the time or leave it off all the time. Viola, battery problem solved.
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Now it is good for 8 hours of moderate use in 4G coverage.
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Hmm, that's pretty weak. What about 3G?
I have gotten into the habit of turning of 3g on my incredible while I'm at work anyway .. I dont need to be that connected while I"m busy working anyway... and pressing the little widget takes 2 seconds to get back online... that will help you increase your battery by 3 times
Battery life is terrible for me, I an on 3g, charged the phone to 100 when I got it and now after 1 hour of use its down to 60%. This is the first charge so its all up in the air, but def way worse than I am used to.
Not bad for me (Central Dallas area), but it is switching between 4G and 3G a noticeable bit, so I'm sure it could be better. I'm not too worried about it as my extended battery comes in tomorrow.
I don't care about the battery issues ,I just love this phone for what it is. Is there even a 4.3in phone out there that last 24hrs of heavy to moderate use, no there isn't. If u want 48hr heavy usage get a blackberry.
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This thread is pointless on release day. The battery needs several charge cycles before it performs as it should.
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In theory, LTE should use less power than CDMA as it's on the 850 Mhz spectrum so the TX power needed should be a lot less.
While in LTE mode the CDMA will kick down to 1x and so should also use less power.
I don't care about the battery issues ,I just love this phone for what it is. Is there even a 4.3in phone out there that last 24hrs of heavy to moderate use, no there isn't. If u want 48hr heavy usage get a blackberry.
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I came from a long line of HTC phones and I wold say that the battery life is better if not on par with the Incredible I had before this.
I bought the phone @ 9am and the battery was at 39%. I almost positive I did not put the phone to sleep until after 1pm. The phone was still at 33%
I am on the fringe of 4G, so it was switching between 3G and 4G, lots of downloads, about 6 calls, lots of texts, surfing/email and only a 6% loss. I'm happy with that.
Tomorrow will be the real test as I have not completed a full charge yet. I did notice that when I did connect it to the charger a little while ago, it charges much slower than my Incredible did.
Battery life is great so far. Better than my Droid X, Samsung fascinate, EVO
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Unplugged at 3:30pm after fully charged. It's now 7:50pm and it's giving a warning to connect charger (at ~10%). I hope battery life improves after a few full discharge/recharge cycles otherwise may have to look into other options such as extended battery. I guess that's the price to pay to have screaming LTE on all the time. I'm guessing Verizon intentionally left out a way to disable LTE to keep data usage off the 3G network.
Very nice batt here
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mycomputerisjunk said:
Tomorrow will be the real test as I have not completed a full charge yet. I did notice that when I did connect it to the charger a little while ago, it charges much slower than my Incredible did.
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This is because the USB Port only pulls .5 amperes, and the T-Bolt's charger is rated at 1.0 amperes. This is why the charger charges much quicker than USB. Also, my motorola droid charger was .5 amperes too. So this kinda sucks. Power is definitely going to be an issue for the t-bolt.
I came from the fascinate which had a terrible battery but this is much worse. I don't mind though, I have a charger in my car and at my desk. I am very happy with this purchase so far.
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Yeah... I actually bought a car charger for the first time since phones used proprietary connections (read lg chocolate). Good investment
It's ok, fully charged at 5, its 11 and down to 25%, need to cycle through a few times.
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This thread is pointless on release day. The battery needs several charge cycles before it performs as it should.
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^This... seriously people... the power manager needs several COMPLETE charges to calibrate... also because it is new most people are using it far more than they will after the calibration is completed (remember display is than #1 battery drain and the hours you spend configuring and playing with it the first day or two gives an inaccurate assessment of 'normal' use)...
Woke up this morning to be greeted by the 4G notification on the title bar. Yippee, so turn your radio to LTE more and enjoy.
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Congrats! Soon I will be able to make the drive to Milwaukee without ever dropping LTE.
Noticed mine last night!!
its been kinda spotty jumping back to 3g every so often,
but lovin the speed!!
Seeing as I work downtown, it would come on occasionally over the past month, but it was very infrequent and spotty at best (I think they were testing). Today it's been on all day, and surprisingly my battery life hasn't tanked like it did last month during testing. It's still worse than 3G, but it didn't drain in six hours like it had in the past (I still have 66 percent left with moderate usage). I am getting about 8 down and 5 up downtown - nice!
So far so good down in Racine it's been on all day for me. Now to see how fast my battery changes.
Awesome here in Brookfield and Menomonee falls has it too I guess. I'll find out after work
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I know it has only been out for a little more than a day, but curious on what sort of battery life people are seeing on the Skyrocket.
Thanks
Just got mine about an hour ago so I will report back, what I can say that LTE is amazing.
I had it since yesterday... however.. I had a wakelock issue.. so mine never went to deep sleep till I found the culprit..
but so far so good. it's very similar to the OGSGS2 (I owned for 28 days)
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I had it since yesterday... however.. I had a wakelock issue.. so mine never went to deep sleep till I found the culprit..
but so far so good. it's very similar to the OGSGS2 (I owned for 28 days)
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What was causing the wakelock?
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Just got mine about an hour ago so I will report back, what I can say that LTE is amazing.
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Not just on LTE. I'm constantly getting 7-10 mbps on hspa+. Never ever seen that speed on any of the so call 4g phones on at&t till now. I did a speed test at 3 in the after noon where I usually was getting 1.5 - 3.0 on my ogsg2.
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http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-review-20111107/
They are reporting a full day use with no problems.
"The battery is larger than the one on the SGSII by a good margin, the better to supply that power-hungry LTE radio. Though most of the time I was on HSPA+, the phone lasted all day and through an idle night with 30% battery remaining, a solid showing."
Another review: http://www.phonedog.com/2011/11/07/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-first-impressions/
"Skyrocket brings a rather large 1,850 mAh battery to the table, and it shows. If you're a road warrior or someone who's away from an outlet for an extended period of time, this may be the device for you. With moderate use including some calling, text messaging, browsing the web, downloading apps, and running Quadrant Standard tests, I was able to make it through the day and well into the evening before a recharge was needed. On a related note, I've chided Samsung devices in the past for taking too long to charge, and that seems to have been improved upon. "
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have to say it has Great Battery life.....probably the best on a phone that i have had so far. again its still new. but i get a full day of use and still have 30-40 percent done by the time i hit the pillow.
im impressed especially since its an LTE phone and everyone kept yelling----IT WILL BE A BATTERY HOG.
nope
my wakelock problem was with FriendCaster Pro. After stopping the app a few times it release wakelock and it's properly going to deep sleep
As for battery. I finally got a "full" day of use. from 10am to 11pm I have about 19% left. That included GPS use for about 15mins, watched a movie on NetFlix (A Knight's Tale) and about an hour worth of 3-way calling and some texting.
I have Background and Auto Sync on with K9 email polling every hour for one of my POP3 + and 2 IMAP account is pushed.
Polling calendar using Calengoo every 3 hours
Honeslty no issues at all. I use my phone for txt calls web all day for work had no issues at all. I don't have Lte in my area but occasionally travel to areas that do. No pixel issues either, yea its bigger but nothing noticeable.
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I must be doing something wrong 5 hours in and I am already down to 60%. No phone calls and may be a total of 15 minutes on emails, texts and twitter.
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I must be doing something wrong 5 hours in and I am already down to 60%. No phone calls and may be a total of 15 minutes on emails, texts and twitter.
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maybe a bad battery bruh......i have been ON my phone. loading, streaming calling....even just sufing the web with screen at its brightest.
and i still cant complain. I have not HAD to charge my phone throughout the day yet. and i walk in the house in the evening with about 30% left after a full day of use.
my infuse would have to be charged at work just to make it home sometimes....lol
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maybe a bad battery bruh......i have been ON my phone. loading, streaming calling....even just sufing the web with screen at its brightest.
and i still cant complain. I have not HAD to charge my phone throughout the day yet. and i walk in the house in the evening with about 30% left after a full day of use.
my infuse would have to be charged at work just to make it home sometimes....lol
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I wish I could say the same. 12 hours later my phone is down to 10% from full charge.
Guess I will pay AT&T a visit and see if they would replace the battery for me.
today... i've been on battery for 13 hours, 1.5 hours with the screen on, mainly surfing around using LTE, as well some texting. also downloaded a few apps.
37% remaining.
i think that's pretty good.
I've been unplugged for a little over 18 hours as of now, (about 7 of that was idle while I was asleep) and I am at 34% right now. I've used the phone quite a bit today and I would say that battery life seems to be about the same as the original GSII.
Yea mine is no different from the i777 s2. I did however root it n disable some junk. I'm sure that had something to do wit it.
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Yes quite respectable, granted my iPhone runs forever on a charge but it's pretty good. Also I had read that the phone will turn off the LTE radio if it's not in a LTE area, opposed to other networks.
Hope these skyrocket threads can be moved to their correct destinations...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1383
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can u post some shots of battery use I'm getting only about 6hrs at most changed battery already think it might b the phone want to go show att rep so I can replace phone with no restocking fee
This is from my first day with the phone, you can see it was idle for the first 7 or so hours while I was asleep, then what I would consider pretty heavy use, being my first day with the phone.
This is what mine looks like after 2 hrs
why do I think my screen is at 51 how high is your brightness? Just figured out that automatic screen brightness is set to certain brightness turned down maybe will help me get more battery life
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I just had the coolest thing happen, I woke up and turned my phone on only to find I have lte at my house now! Has this happened to anyone else in the Atlanta area?
Jealous. I wish they'd work on my area. Upstate sc
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Jealous. I wish they'd work on my area. Upstate sc
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Your day will come, and when it does.
You will be prepared
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Be prepared to get worse battery life than before. LTE really chews battery life alive. I turn off mobile data when I'm not using it just to get better battery though.
im on LTE and get 24 hours easy...and id consider myself at least a moderate user.
I havent noticed bad battery life when I was using it before but its never been constant so I guess Ill find out soon haha
Ottawa - Canada
Where LTE covered pretty much everywhere. I've used LTE on my device and I get at the most 6hours of usage.
I consider myself very heavy user. Download, online music, browsing, IM+ etc... Switching LTE off and going only on 4G I get an extra 12hours worth of juice but the speed is more then what I need 4G speed here is an average of 8mpbs UP and DOWN. That translate to 800K per second in transfer rate. Just as fast as you regular high speed at home. So no there's no need for LTE personally. It just kills your battery off in no time.
I've consistently gotten over 24 hours with light usage on LTE. Obviously reception and level of usage will make a big difference. But for many people the battery life on LTE is plenty good enough to use all day, then charge when you sleep.
LTE destroys battery, but that's what 3g is for
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Be prepared to get worse battery life than before. LTE really chews battery life alive. I turn off mobile data when I'm not using it just to get better battery though.
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I haven't noticed a significant drain on the battery going from HSPA+ to LTE.
I don't use wifi because of the bugs so i'm always using data.
I easily get 18+ hrs with heavy usage, including 3+ hrs screen time on LTE, so not real sure what you are expecting from the battery. It's a high-end Smartphone, use it for what its meant to be used for.
Based on some of the responses, the logic is like buying a Ferrari and only driving it 55 in the slow lane cuz you're worried about not getting good gas mileage.... Com'on people, use the damn phone!
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I just had the coolest thing happen, I woke up and turned my phone on only to find I have lte at my house now! Has this happened to anyone else in the Atlanta area?
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Yes, I never got a LTE signal at my house which is roughly 50 miles from Atlanta, but recently I've started getting a very good LTE signal at home.
I also don't see any of these battery drain issues everyone talks about. I'm on LTE for about 16 hours a day before I plug my phone in at night, and I always have some juice left. This has changed to be even better recently since I tend to need wifi more using AOKP and it's inconsistent mobile data. But my good battery life was consistent with stock and other Sense ROMs using only LTE.
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Justjusten said:
I just had the coolest thing happen, I woke up and turned my phone on only to find I have lte at my house now! Has this happened to anyone else in the Atlanta area?
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Lmfao, me too. I'm in hiram. I now have lte all the way from Atlanta to Paulding county. In fact, I have had constant lte since. I was sitting at the bowling alley, which I use to struggle just to get any signal, and I had two bars, lte.
Really haven't noticed much of a difference in battery drain either. Now I do use wifi at the house but still, been pretty impressed actually.
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When you get throttled what are typical speeds?? Out of nowhere my speeds went from 16-24mb down and 7-11mb up to about 3-6mb down and 1-2mb up. Checked my usage (unlimited) and i've only used 200+mb so far. Whats up with that?
I suspect that the people complaining about LTE battery drain also have their brightness turned way up, like at full. I know, b/c I'm one of those people. Almost any phone is going to last you an entire day, of even heavy use, if the brightness is down to 10%. Even in the laptop world, the battery life differential going from 10% brightness to 100% screen brightness is double, real world use.
Just noticed LTE in the Milwaukee area and SE Wisconsin this week. Download speeds are smokin' fast... take a look at the broadband comparison.
Noticed last night that we have it here in Pensacola, FL as well, and boy is it fast!
Have you noticed a significant battery drain now that you're on LTE? My phone easily lasted a full day with moderate use. Today, I am at 30% battery after only 6 hours. I've got 4 bars of 4g LTE, and have never seen my battery go this fast. Coincidentally, today I also experienced my first random reboot EVER with this phone.
Regardless, the LTE speed is stupid fast! I really notice it when doing things like voice dictation and voice search.... it's almost instantaneous. :good:
Jealous! Still waiting for it in Tucson. Hopefully this means they're actively expanding the network and we'll be up soon...we're supposed to have it before the end of 2013.
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Noticed last night that we have it here in Pensacola, FL as well, and boy is it fast!
Have you noticed a significant battery drain now that you're on LTE? My phone easily lasted a full day with moderate use. Today, I am at 30% battery after only 6 hours. I've got 4 bars of 4g LTE, and have never seen my battery go this fast. Coincidentally, today I also experienced my first random reboot EVER with this phone.
Regardless, the LTE speed is stupid fast! I really notice it when doing things like voice dictation and voice search.... it's almost instantaneous. :good:
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Haven't seen any significant drain. It could be that you tend to use more data with LTE hence the extra battery usage.
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Just noticed LTE in the Milwaukee area and SE Wisconsin this week. Download speeds are smokin' fast... take a look at the broadband comparison.
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I live near General Mitchell Airport. You would think I'd be getting LTE but I've only seen it in the downtown area.
And I spoke too soon. The highest speed test I saw was 16mbps.
I actually noticed it at a Brewers game in late September, but it seemed like it was only right around Miller Park. The last week or so it's been more consistent. Hurray!
Just popped up today in Columbus, OH as well. Nice.
Just noticed that Minneapolis also got it. Just in time for thanksgiving.
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