Yes, well aware of the GNex's battery woes. Have used the phone for two years on VZW, recently bought a Nexus 5 so I'm just now getting started with unlocking, rooting, flashing ROM's, customizing the interface.
So obviously screen time will highly vary based on what you're doing with your phone. Just wondering if my below results are in line with the typical GNex phone. These results are with an Anker 2200 mAh battery. This is the phone pretty much just idling as it has been sitting unused since I got the Nexus 5, no network service anymore, I disconnected it from VZW.
11% @ 13hr8m in Airplane mode.
4% battery @ 1d5h42m on WiFi.
The 1d5hr run idling on WiFi, is it normal for the phone to be Awake almost constantly? Why is "Phone" showing 51% battery usage?
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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.
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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.
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Do you have juice defender installed?
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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.
Hi all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 from work, have had it since summer. Got the Sensation XE for private recently and been having a feeling it's consuming the battery well faster. After making some searches and reading some I purchased one of those Anker 1900mAh batteries, got it yesterday and charged it up. I then had both phones lying on the table, screen off doing nothing. About 2-3h later the Samsung was at 98% whilst the HTC was at 87%!!!
I decided to at least restart the HTC and after the restart it showed 88%. I then left them over night, more or less 8 hours - right now the Samsung is at 90% and the HTC at 74%.
Now I know that batteries don't reach their top performance immediately but require a couple of charges first, but how do these numbers sound to you guys? The 13% drop within the first 2-3h was scary and ridiculous, but the overnight loss seems reasonable yet still far worse than the S2. And this is with the Anker battery, not the original.... the Samsung is rated at 1650mAh only.
I've not done this test with the original battery yet, it seems that it kept it's charge better than the Anker though - although on the other hand it had a tendency of staying at 100% for quite a while then dropping faster. Is there some procedure to calibrate/reset battery perhaps?
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//Joris
You could let the battery of XE die and recharge it back to 100% for a few times. If you are rooted be sure to clear battery stats first when you battery is fully charged before doing the above procedure.
Somehow i've been getting rather great battery life with Anker. Probably only losing around 5% when left overnight. Did you clear battery stats when trying out Anker? That may be the reason why the battery life seems poorer as compared to Galaxy S2.
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Hi m8,
cheers for the reply - I do not currently have the phone rooted and, as a matter of fact, would like to keep it that way. Was looking into the wipe battery stats/resets but all I did find related to rooted phones. Guess there's no way for a non-rooted?
It's currently down to 32%, the Samsung is at 70%. That said the HTC has had some light use whereas the Samsung has been sat in my pocket all day, doing not much more than pushing work email and some syncing.
Was thinking to plug it into charger now but better to wait till it's nearly dead? Or even till it shuts itself off?
Sense is a resource hog so that is where probably the majority of your power is going, take a look in the phones battery settings
Had it on charge over night (phone switched off), unplugged it around 7 this morning, so approx 7 hours ago. It's now at 92% with some light use, which is quite impressive - if it's "true" (I'm expecting that battery level is going to drop much faster during the day than it did this morning, when it was at 100% quite long).
Right now it's showing:
34% Screen
34% Phone idle
18% Phone inactive
10% Phonecalls
4% Camera
Not sure that's actually since last charge though, as I've no recollection of using camera at all :/
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whilst posting this and having screen active it dropped to 90%... so let's see how it is going to hold up during the day...
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.
This was my first real day with my LG E900, I am not really that pleased about battery life, I took it of the charger at 6am by 2pm it had about 30% battery left, that was with WiFi and Data turned of, no phone calls and just listening to the FM radio. Now had I these turned on it would of been dead by lunch time I am certain, I come from an iPhone, and that thing with WiFi etc on still had 40% battery left at bedtime, with WiFi of I could get 2 days out of it easily. I am on Mango if that makes a difference, I think this is easily the worst battery life I've seen on a phone especially when WiFi etc all turned of and I've been through iPhones, HTC, Galaxy S2's etc.
Is this normal or what am I doing wrong? Having owned Android phones in the past I already turn data etc of when not being used, dim screen, location services of etc.
Every battery needs to get used to the phone.
Do some full charge to 100 % and drain to till 20 % or less.
repeat this for 3 or 4 cycles. Then you battery will behave very nicely to you.
Also check whether your GPS is turned off.
some apps use your battery in the background. maybe one of them is the one that drains your battery. i discovered a few days ago that i had htc hub on some other like pulse. and there drain the battery too... there are many factors that drain the battery, the network is one of them... is it on GSM or 3G???
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some apps use your battery in the background. maybe one of them is the one that drains your battery. i discovered a few days ago that i had htc hub on some other like pulse. and there drain the battery too... there are many factors that drain the battery, the network is one of them... is it on GSM or 3G???
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Phone is on GSM as have no 3G coverage, I am hoping it'll take a few charges etc to get it going.
As probably many of you already know, there is a shutdown bug mostly affecting Nexus 6p but also other devices as well.
I've been using my Nexus 5 for 3 years until a week ago I got the Nexus 6p, and I had not noticed this issue. However, after having the shutdown a couple of times with the Nexus 6p, I decided to test with the Nexus 5, and I'm finding quite easy to reproduce the problem, what make me wonder why I hadn't read such complains about Nexus 5 before.
Just getting to 15% and spam the camera a little (around 7 photos), and it dies (battery drop 15 to 0). Tested with two Nexus 5.
How old are the batteries in the Nexus 5 phones you used for the test?
You aren't replicating the bug. The camera really does suck down battery life like you wouldn't believe. You are most likely genuinely draining the battery 15%. I've been on a Nougat ROM for a couple of months now and haven't had any sudden battery power off or anything of that nature. I can bring it down to 1% everytime before it dies.
Are you doing this on stock ROM or custom ROMs? What Android version?
everything stock, 6.0.1.
your theory would be ok if the battery remained on 0%. But after turn it on again, some times is indeed at 0%, but other times it's at 15%.
Also, according to that logic, if the device is at 100% and I take 10 photos, my battery should drain to 85%, right?...
It's not a theory. Batteries don't always drain at a linear rate. For example, going from 100% to 85% could take 1 hrs. While going from 15% to 0% could take only 20 mins. This will be made worse by an old or dying battery. When a battery is under load, you have what is called "battery sag." Let's say the battery is at 3.7v. When under heavy load, the voltage could drop to 3.5v or lower, aka: battery sag. When the load is removed, the voltage will jump back up, though not as high as it started because while under that load, it also drained some juice from the battery.
You are probably experiencing heavy battery sag while at 15%, enough to drop the battery voltage low enough for the phone to power off. The heavy load is removed (camera is no longer on), and voila, now the battery is no longer "dead." My first Android phone (Tmobile G1) wouldn't even allow the camera to open if the battery was at 15% or lower. Most likely because the heavy load and subsequent battery sag would cause the phone to power off almost immediately.