Howdy all,
Just thought I'd relay my battery stats on my Rooted Verizon S5 with Jkruse's Dark_Theme_Rom.
I had my phone on full with NO charge for 4+ days. 1hour 21 minutes for voice calls, 4hours 8 minutes for screen time and 4 days 4 minutes without a charge. My S5 always has: Bluetooth on, Location on, Mobile data on, sync on and I keep my brightness at 60%! So I was not just trying to get to 4 days. However when I was at the 4 days it did finally get down to 1% battery left so I did these screenshots for fun. I guess I'm just excited but also if one has an issue with battery life, then I'm not sure where the problem may be. Great phone this Galaxy S5 is proving to be.
Call me happy and I thought I would share.
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tiger505 said:
Howdy all,
Just thought I'd relay my battery stats on my Rooted Verizon S5 with Jkruse's Dark_Theme_Rom.
I had my phone on full with NO charge for 4+ days. 1hour 21 minutes for voice calls, 4hours 8 minutes for screen time and 4 days 4 minutes without a charge. My S5 always has: Bluetooth on, Location on, Mobile data on, sync on and I keep my brightness at 60%! So I was not just trying to get to 4 days. However when I was at the 4 days it did finally get down to 1% battery left so I did these screenshots for fun. I guess I'm just excited but also if one has an issue with battery life, then I'm not sure where the problem may be. Great phone this Galaxy S5 is proving to be.
Call me happy and I thought I would share.
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Did you use u ultra power saving?
popkurn611 said:
Did you use u ultra power saving?
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I do use Glowing Battery Saver. It gives me a nice battery widget and it does have a power saving modes. I use the normal settings which does help. I should also mention that I have S-health on always for my pedometer as I like to know how much I walk everyday. Today was about 4 miles. Picture below is my home screen with the Glowing Battery Saver widget. I use the Apex Launcher and Wanam for an FYI.
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I do use Glowing Battery Saver. It gives me a nice battery widget and it does have a power saving modes. I use the normal settings which does help. I should also mention that I have S-health on always for my pedometer as I like to know how much I walk everyday. Today was about 4 miles. Picture below is my home screen with the Glowing Battery Saver widget. I use the Apex Launcher and Wanam for an FYI.
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And that app hasn't been updated in a since September of last year. That's good its still working that well!!
budies3 said:
And that app hasn't been updated in a since September of last year. That's good its still working that well!!
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Yes your right Glowing Battery Saver has not been upgraded in a while but it works great for me. There are probably hundreds of apps like this and I encourage folks to take advantage of one of them for their device at least IMHO.
I call BS. I find it impossible to believe that the phone went 4 days without charge , while still being used. If I don't touch my phone, it's dead in under 2! I'm guessing he's the app's developer trying to drum up more sales.
ldeveraux said:
I call BS. I find it impossible to believe that the phone went 4 days without charge , while still being used. If I don't touch my phone, it's dead in under 2! I'm guessing he's the app's developer trying to drum up more sales.
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I can't imagine what options were turned off, but check it out -- only about 4 hours of screen-on time. Not sure how much one can use their phone over 4 days when you're only averaging 1 hour of on-screen time a day.
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I call BS. I find it impossible to believe that the phone went 4 days without charge , while still being used. If I don't touch my phone, it's dead in under 2! I'm guessing he's the app's developer trying to drum up more sales.
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Nope, his phone's like mine. If you turn off everything that doesn't need to be on, minimal apps it can be done. Turn off wifi always scanning, stuff like that. I can get 10%-15% drain per day with little to no use, it can go 5+ days between charges that way, seriously no B.S.. Now it's not much of a phone that way and I freely admit I have no life
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I call BS. I find it impossible to believe that the phone went 4 days without charge , while still being used. If I don't touch my phone, it's dead in under 2! I'm guessing he's the app's developer trying to drum up more sales.
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Before calling BS perhaps you should try some battery saving options for yourself. If I "don't touch my phone" I can go far past two days. Moderate use (3-4 hours screen on time + exchange + 2 google accounts) I can go about 1 1/2 days. Without exchange, I've gotten a little more than 3 days. So, if I "don't touch my phone" it'd go much past that.
People should stop assuming everyone is always lying.
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Before calling BS perhaps you should try some battery saving options for yourself. If I "don't touch my phone" I can go far past two days. Moderate use (3-4 hours screen on time + exchange + 2 google accounts) I can go about 1 1/2 days. Without exchange, I've gotten a little more than 3 days. So, if I "don't touch my phone" it'd go much past that.
People should stop assuming everyone is always lying.
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People should really stop believing what they see on the internet!
I don't KNOW he's lying, the whole thing just doesn't add up, to me and apparently others. I'd love for it to be true, but with BT, WIFI, sync, Exchange, S-health, 1+hr talktime, I doubt it's legit. You believe him, that's your opinion. He also hasn't bothered to follow up on the thread since day 1...
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People should really stop believing what they see on the internet!
I don't KNOW he's lying, the whole thing just doesn't add up, to me and apparently others. I'd love for it to be true, but with BT, WIFI, sync, Exchange, S-health, 1+hr talktime, I doubt it's legit. You believe him, that's your opinion. He also hasn't bothered to follow up on the thread since day 1...
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Wow, this really has opened a can of worms. First and foremost I am NOT lying! I never had my phone off and yes I did have everything opened above but Exchange, never said that. And I do have sync always on but un-check everything and sync only on demand for my contacts (over 3000+ as I in sales), gmail, browser and calendar. Yes for 4 days I was light on phone use. Only an hour a day average of screen time, and yes only an hour and 1/2 of phone calls so it was not my usual power use, however this is very legit. I only posted about this just to let everyone know I'm happy with my results with jkruse Rom and the device itself. I could care less about whether one believes me or not, but to say I'm lying is really not cool. Move along doubters, nothing to see here. But again it is what I experienced.
If the Mods want to delete this tread because of hostility then so be it, as I'm amazed at some of these posts. Those who understood I thank you... :good:
That's mine.
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That's mine.
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That's basically 6 hours screen on-time, not bad.
Not too shabby. I still want the zero lemon
close to 4hrs screen time with 51% left
I have the ZL battery... Considering this Dark Theme Rom more now after reading this. And I wonder what kind of damage I could do, so to speak, with a ZL battery, that rom, and NO battery saver app. Probably wouldn't be as long as his though because my S5 is my internet at home, and that would drain the battery fast.
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I have the ZL battery... Considering this Dark Theme Rom more now after reading this. And I wonder what kind of damage I could do, so to speak, with a ZL battery, that rom, and NO battery saver app. Probably wouldn't be as long as his though because my S5 is my internet at home, and that would drain the battery fast.
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im using stock battery with only greenify as batt saver app.. 28% over 1 day and 5 hrs screen time now.. im going to run down to 1% and post results after
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im using stock battery with only greenify as batt saver app.. 28% over 1 day and 5 hrs screen time now.. im going to run down to 1% and post results after
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28% used in that time, or 28% left to use?
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28% used in that time, or 28% left to use?
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it was 28% left.. this was end result:
Some of the best ive had on this phone since ive had it and have had same device and battery since the s5 came out day one
with the black s5, white mophie case and my black n white extreme syndicate rom i have over 2 days and 14+ hrs screen on time without plugging it in once! & it looks badass!
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One would think by now, that after HTC put out the evo and other large screen devices they would have better batteries. Also not to mention the thunderbolts delayed release. No we waste more on extended batteries, and have no cases to protect the dam thing. I've tried all the tips out there for tweaking the battery to get max use and it still sucks. I'm still in my 14 day trail period and I'm thinking of bringing it back. I'm just pIssed companies have the nerve to do this BS!
Well take it back then. Try a blackberry out. Oh yeah those things have even worse batteries and the bis always fails.
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First off I get plenty fine battery for a phone as fast as this with LTE. The large, bright screen is just a bonus. If you are getting bad battery you have yourself to blame if you would read these forums as almost everyone here is getting great battery life.
Also, your battery size complaint is terrible, the droid X has almost the same battery and runs fine as well. The LTE right now is the killer, verizon has admitted it so either switch to 4g or 3g only and stop flooding the boards with this crap.
I make it through the day no problem, and with LTE on. First few days were terrible, but things seem to have improved drastically since then.
Take it back. Threads like this show that it's not for everyone.
Example - I have a car dock, I commute, I work on a comp. all day, easy enough to charge at home. I've never had this battery life issue everyone is talking about.
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First off I get plenty fine battery for a phone as fast as this with LTE. The large, bright screen is just a bonus. If you are getting bad battery you have yourself to blame if you would read these forums as almost everyone here is getting great battery life.
Also, your battery size complaint is terrible, the droid X has almost the same battery and runs fine as well. The LTE right now is the killer, verizon has admitted it so either switch to 4g or 3g only and stop flooding the boards with this crap.
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uhhhhhh what? The majority says the battery sucks. Where have you been?
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uhhhhhh what? The majority says the battery sucks. Where have you been?
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I have read WAY more posts about good battery life than I have bad. Where have you been? Yes, there are occasional posts about it but the vast majority after a little bit of tinkering have said good battery life.
My personal experience.
Took my phone off the charger at 96%. Used the GPS on a hour drive, sending texts and listening to music the whole way. Ate some dinner while continuing to send texts. Went to a hockey game and took ~30 Pics. Used the GPS to get back home with music and finally put the phone back on the charger. Time off charger 7 hours. Battery percentage 82%. Only 14% decrease with what I would say is some pretty moderate use.
One thing I actually thought was funny is I pulled out an old Sammy flip phone to see what size battery it had. 1100 mah. 5 years ago they were shipping dumbphones with 1100 mah batteries. Come to present day, a phone with 4G, a 1 ghz processor, and a ginormous lcd screen has a bump of 300 mah. Is something wrong with that?
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First off I get plenty fine battery for a phone as fast as this with LTE. The large, bright screen is just a bonus. If you are getting bad battery you have yourself to blame if you would read these forums as almost everyone here is getting great battery life.
Also, your battery size complaint is terrible, the droid X has almost the same battery and runs fine as well. The LTE right now is the killer, verizon has admitted it so either switch to 4g or 3g only and stop flooding the boards with this crap.
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I don't want to sound like a jackass, but I bought a 4G phone, not a 4G phone I need to use in 3G so I can make it through the day. In the end I just bought the extended battery. Solved all my woes.
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If I can figure out how to go 22 hours with 43% remaining on my phone with moderate to heavy use, than sure as hell you should be able to get at least 12-15 hours out of the phone, not knowing half of what I know.
cause that is all that matters right, making it through the day for how long your awake, so for most people 12-15 hours, then you are home and can plug it in.
who cares if you make it home and plug it in at 5%, it still lasted you all day.
I've done the 5 tips for better life, and thou it has a improved.... its a minor improvement. the phone is with out a doubt sweet, im just pissed bc i cant get a full day out of it. i work for 8 hours and leave the friggin thing in airplane mode, then on my way home i listen to music with it still in airplane mode subway kills it mad quick....i do and dont wanna bring it back i want the newest thing out, im coming from a OG moto droid.. 50-60 bucks for a goddamn battery that makes your phone last longer and turns it into a potential weapon...data/voice together is the only feature right now that is making it hard for me to decide if i should bring it back or not.. i got it this past Saturday i have 8 more days to decide, not to mention vzw wants the 35 dollar restock fee now. who remembers when they had the 30 day test run??? lmao they stop doing it because people kept bringing phones back within the period...
my phone definitely lasts me the day, but i don't think it would last the 10 to 15 hours that others are reporting. i already turned the brightness down to about 25 - 30 percent, turned off unnecessary widgets and sync'ing plus i set setcpu to throttle the cpu down to lowest speed when the screen is off. as such, i'd like to know what others are doing to squeeze so much battery time out of their TBs.
Custom Rom and Kernel seemed to help my battery life a ton. I can now easily make it all day with moderate to heavy use on stock battery. From the battery monitor, it looks like the screen will eat the most power, be sure to keep it set low. The underclock/volt while screen is off uses hardly any batter power and is really nice as well.
I'm getting awesome battery... My phone has been up for about twelve
Hours now and I still have about 45 percent... Heavy usage texting music internet and xda posting.
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TBJared said:
Custom Rom and Kernel seemed to help my battery life a ton. I can now easily make it all day with moderate to heavy use on stock battery. From the battery monitor, it looks like the screen will eat the most power, be sure to keep it set low. The underclock/volt while screen is off uses hardly any batter power and is really nice as well.
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On all Android devices the screen is the battery eater, except on 2.0/2.1 with Exchange Sync issues... then it could hang and eat the battery.
I've never really had an issue with battery life. That's not to say my battery lasts longer, i just use different methods to keep my devices alive.
AA USB chargers have always been a good friend of mine, as well as plugging my phone into my laptop while it's in my backpack.
I can't wait for an external battery charger to come out for the TB, then you just have 2 or 3 batteries and swap them out as needed.
But if you're expecting more than 8 hours or so off of one charge they're right, you may look for another device
Yah man, 3 hours of navigation, with music going, many calls, 3 hours of internet use, txt & talk and LTE and 3G switching through out all day because of traveling . I was really heavily using the phone with an extended battery but made it just over 24 hours... Try trading it in for another battery. Your not Wifi tethering all day as home network are you?
hammer4203 said:
Well take it back then. Try a blackberry out. Oh yeah those things have even worse batteries and the bis always fails.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about. Blackberries are known for having excellent battery life. I had 12 hours 40 some odd minutes and was at 69% last night when i plugged my TB in to charge. I really don't understand the problem.
edit: proof, this was a few hours before i plugged it in.
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One would think by now, that after HTC put out the evo and other large screen devices they would have better batteries. Also not to mention the thunderbolts delayed release. No we waste more on extended batteries, and have no cases to protect the dam thing. I've tried all the tips out there for tweaking the battery to get max use and it still sucks. I'm still in my 14 day trail period and I'm thinking of bringing it back. I'm just pIssed companies have the nerve to do this BS!
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You bought a device with a 4.3" screen and a brand new radio technology. Honestly, what did you expect.No phone out there with a screen that large has what could be considered great battery life. Sure some are better then others, but these are not BB devices. And while we are at it, lets be realistic here... if they put in a bigger battery you would be in here complaining about how large and how heavy the phone is.... You can't have everything, something has to give at some point.
My battery seems to be REALLY bad. Worse than most peoples from what i gather from reading threads. I get about 8 hours from a full charge with minimal use. It seems that my screen is taking up most of the battery, according to my battery use page.... Any one else having major battery drain like I am??
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My display is taking a huge percentage as well. Everything else is low percentages. Don't know why. My screen is always either on auto brightness or completely dim.
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Give it a while and a few recharges. It should get better. Same thing happened to me. It's slowly getting better. I have it about a week now.
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I was getting 7 to 8 hours at first, had my phone almost 2 weeks now and am now getting just under 20 hours with moderate use.
Give it time. My sensation has far better battery life compared with my DHD.
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Peeps, you missed most important thing. Look at the AWAKE line. Either OP is playing a lot with th phone, or something is not letting it sleep.
Yeah, the battery really plummets when you actually use the phone (even on low brightness) but it idles quite efficiently at least...
Did u try juice defender? Just asking ify bout the sensation dnt knw either to get it or wait for sumthing else
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Gregory.u317 said:
Did u try juice defender? Just asking ify bout the sensation dnt knw either to get it or wait for sumthing else
mt4g royal ginger v2.1
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Would help if you used proper language.
bcpk
Yeah, noticed same thing
I downloaded juice defender beta? whatever the free one was. To me that app does not have a good layout at all, either that or I was missing something. There dont seem to be any personalization settings at all. I dont trust apps to work when they just say "im doing something!!" ya know?
Now that I think about it on that charge I was playing music while I worked on my car for a while, that would explain the awake time. Even without doing that battery life is still really bad and the screen takes up 80%+. I will post another pic after my battery dies today. Dont plan on using it much so hopefully it will last longer.
That is good news about life getting better after a week or two though cause 8 hours with moderate use is unacceptable. My MT4G got a good 24 hours with pretty heavy use, I expect this thing to get at least half that.
i use juice defender and under normal use and a few hours of pandora streaming on wifi im at 35 hours at 40% battery
My phone was also drained like madness, within 6 hours it was empty, even if I didn't do anything with it. At the moment it is better, I did a factory reset through the startup of the phone (turn phone off, remove batt, place batt, hold volume down and push on/off button). There is an option to factory reset.
Strange thing was that when I turned off my phone before the factory reset, it was telling 34% batt. Right after the factory reset is was at 89% ???
I use Battery Status Bar app to display my batt in percentage...
But the good news is, my problem is now solved. Battery lasts for more than a day at normal use and 6-8 hours while very actively handeling it.
Looks like it was a reading wrong information or something...
Got 11 hours out of a battery today. So far its been charging for 4.5 hours and is at 94% charge. Takes about half as long to charge it as it does to kill it!
I will give juice defender a try. Seems like it works for a lot of people.
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Got 11 hours out of a battery today. So far its been charging for 4.5 hours and is at 94% charge. Takes about half as long to charge it as it does to kill it!
I will give juice defender a try. Seems like it works for a lot of people.
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I had same kind of long charging last night. Battery died at about 7:30pm. I plugged it and did not turn the power on. Went to play some ice hockey and after that I turned the power on again at about 10:10pm and it was still charging. At about 11:20pm(still charging) I unplugged for a couple of seconds to see the specs of the charger and then plugged back, surprisingly percentage jumped to 100. It was still on 100 this morning at about 8:00am.
Now I found out that phones own battery monitor tells me that time on battery is roughly 8 hours But when I check the time from Battery Indicator it tells me that time on battery is roughly 15 hours, which is correct.
Seems that a lot of people are getting false battery readings, me included. I did a factory reset last night and this seemed to fix this, at least until now it seems to report correct (realistic) values. I haven't charged the battery after the reset so we will see if charging messes it up again...
I hope this is a software problem, i really don't want to exchange my phone, i don't have any of the other problems.
what sort of battery times are acceptable for this phone? many are suggesting factory resets and all i wonder if i should do it or not. if i charge the phone overnight it goes to power saver mode usually say 8-9pm and then the power saver mode (basically dim screen and no gps wifi remains on) is managing to hold the power till i go to bed and charge it. is this ok?
juice defender seems to be recommended eh? maybe one should should try that before the factory reset. btw if factory reset done whats the best way to restore your phones contacts to how they are now? i mean it took forever to link all the facebook, phone and microsoft exchange contacts and offcourse gmails. dont want to go through that again.
I tried juice defender last night and it didnt seem to help. I lost 45% overnight without me even using the phone! When I fell asleep the battery meter said 100% still and I woke up to 55%. The phone says there is some awake time, wonder what it could be? As much as I dont want to do it I think a factory restore may be an option since nothing else is really helping. Should I wait until the battery is 100% before I reset it?
Some new pics, keep in mind I was asleep for all of this use except for what the screen awake time says.
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what sort of battery times are acceptable for this phone? many are suggesting factory resets and all i wonder if i should do it or not. if i charge the phone overnight it goes to power saver mode usually say 8-9pm and then the power saver mode (basically dim screen and no gps wifi remains on) is managing to hold the power till i go to bed and charge it. is this ok?
juice defender seems to be recommended eh? maybe one should should try that before the factory reset. btw if factory reset done whats the best way to restore your phones contacts to how they are now? i mean it took forever to link all the facebook, phone and microsoft exchange contacts and offcourse gmails. dont want to go through that again.
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I would say you battery life isnt that bad, if it lasts a day then it sounds about right. People are saying the batteries last longer after a couple weeks or so. If you do factory reset try and connect to wifi when google is restoring your contacts and such, it makes things go a lot faster.
I managed just over 9 hours on my first charged but I'm recharging it now and it went straight up to 31% when it booted up again :S
Me and my gf both have a Sensation now(i upgraded from HTC Desire, and she a HTC Legend), we are both pleased with the battery on the phones, she uses stock Sense, and i use LauncherPro, though we did learn something from our older phones, the thing that drains battery extremely much is all the notification emails Facebook automatically send(gmail push), these are almost turned off to 100%, next thing is to turn off all syncronisation in the phone you don't use, ex. i use Launcherpro therefore i don't need the phone to update Sense's own weather, and so on.
We both normally charge the phone every night, but i guess my phone would last almost 2 days on days i don't use it that much.
I must say i am extremely satisfied with my phone, the thing that i dislike the most is the camera, or to say it in a different way, if i didn't know the SG2 had a slightly better camera i may have been more satisfied
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The phone says there is some awake time, wonder what it could be?
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You should not have anywhere near 100% awake time unless you're using the phone at all times. You have some app that is not shutting down or auto-updating far too often. That's your culprit - find it and your battery life will improve.
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Yeah, the battery really plummets when you actually use the phone (even on low brightness) but it idles quite efficiently at least...
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What app is this???
Insert whiny post about how much my battery life sucks.
Now that I've just rooted my Inspire, are there any fixes that are available that will help improve battery life? I am using the RCDMix3D rom, and my phone barely lasts 6 hours. I take all of the suggested actions like turning off bluetooth, gps, wifi, autosync, and background data, but it doesn't seem to help much. I even bought a 1600mAH battery, which lasts no longer than the standard 1230mAH one.
So, looking for anything I can flash, or download, or whatever that will help improve it. Good battery life is something I really need in a phone, and the Inspire's is the one thing that is making me consider switching phones. (which I'd rather not do, I love this phone!)
Thanks!
honestly if you are only getting six hourse with the setup you have, im tempted to say something is wrong with your phone......
unless you are getting 4 or more hours of screen-on time. how much screen on time?
i was getting 15 hours out of the box with 2 hours of screen on. now with leedroid, slightly underclocked, im getting about 24 hours with 3 hours screen time.
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honestly if you are only getting six hourse with the setup you have, im tempted to say something is wrong with your phone......
unless you are getting 4 or more hours of screen-on time. how much screen on time?
i was getting 15 hours out of the box with 2 hours of screen on. now with leedroid, slightly underclocked, im getting about 24 hours with 3 hours screen time.
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OP, if you're talking 6 hours to go from 100% to 0%, you've got something else going on. Big time. Especially of you're turning off all that stuff and *still* only getting 6 hours.
Now, if you had the screen on that entire time, I'd actually say you have great battery life, but I suspect that's not the case.
If it happens with both of your batteries, there has to be something else running on your phone, perhaps as a background service, that's sucking that much juice.
@ OP:
I get like 1 hour call per 18-20% battery on 3G/H. So 6 hours of call time from 100 to 0 is good in my opinion.
If not on calls: I did a stress test 2 days back. I got ~6.5 hours display time for movies from 100 to 5% battery with display at 25%.
So like people pointed out above, unless u r continuously on calls or having display on for atleast 3-4 hours with data transfer on 3g/h, something is wrong.
Here are my normal stats:
1 hour calls, 2 hours display exclusively with data transfer, all these on 3G/H, with about 12 hours standby, I come home with about 35-40% battery left.
I agree with the posters above there is definitely something wrong. Slightly UC & UV I get 6-7h screen time.
elijahpr said:
Insert whiny post about how much my battery life sucks.
Now that I've just rooted my Inspire, are there any fixes that are available that will help improve battery life? I am using the RCDMix3D rom, and my phone barely lasts 6 hours. I take all of the suggested actions like turning off bluetooth, gps, wifi, autosync, and background data, but it doesn't seem to help much. I even bought a 1600mAH battery, which lasts no longer than the standard 1230mAH one.
So, looking for anything I can flash, or download, or whatever that will help improve it. Good battery life is something I really need in a phone, and the Inspire's is the one thing that is making me consider switching phones. (which I'd rather not do, I love this phone!)
Thanks!
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A lot of testing with legitimate lab equipment has proven that ProdiCell batteries are not actually 1600mah, rather 1060mah which is actually lower than stock. Sorry if you bought one of their batteries.
I wasn't able to find the blog I was reading last night, but I can link you to the amazon comment thread where I first started my online research. >> Link <<
Yikes, that would suck if it was something wrong with the phone. I bought it off someone and was practically brand new, but I think it is out of warranty now.
It did this both before and after I had rooted my phone, so I'm not sure what background processes there could be that would be causing this? I know that some of the AT&T bloatware was always running in the background before (like Blockbuster), but I have since removed all of that crap.
I planned on doing some stress-testing today just to see. So far it has been unplugged for 56 minutes with 15 minutes of display time on, a 3 minute phone call, and using the internet for 5 minutes. Also sent/received about 20 SMS. Battery is at 94%.
Maybe I will switch back to the stock battery that came with the phone and see if there is any improvement. The one I am using now is meant for an HTC Desire, but I had read that those with an Inspire were able to use it with improvements. Not sure what brand makes it, but I do know it came from eBay That could be it by itself hah.
elijahpr said:
Yikes, that would suck if it was something wrong with the phone. I bought it off someone and was practically brand new, but I think it is out of warranty now.
It did this both before and after I had rooted my phone, so I'm not sure what background processes there could be that would be causing this? I know that some of the AT&T bloatware was always running in the background before (like Blockbuster), but I have since removed all of that crap.
I planned on doing some stress-testing today just to see. So far it has been unplugged for 56 minutes with 15 minutes of display time on, a 3 minute phone call, and using the internet for 5 minutes. Also sent/received about 20 SMS. Battery is at 94%.
Maybe I will switch back to the stock battery that came with the phone and see if there is any improvement. The one I am using now is meant for an HTC Desire, but I had read that those with an Inspire were able to use it with improvements. Not sure what brand makes it, but I do know it came from eBay That could be it by itself hah.
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Have you tried a battery calibration? It's easy to do manually, but there's a convenient app on market called, wait for it... battery calibration, that makes it a one-click process.
I really doubt it's the phone hardware itself. Probably some combo of battery/calibration/rom/kernel/radio.
BTW, the phone just came out in mid-February, so technically it's not out of warranty. It's like a year or year and a half or something.
I'll try that app for sure. Thanks!
When I called HTC in May to order replacement battery/SIM door covers, they said my warranty would run out in the next month. Maybe the CS rep was a moron.
Do a fresh install and calibrate your battery. Use titanium backup to freeze user apps. Add your apps one by one to find out which apps are hogging your battery. Also, try charging it before you go to bed. Take it off the charger, and when you wake, check to see if your phone uses more than 1% battery per hour.
Sent from my Inspire 4G running TPGB Ninja
Also make sure to turn off WiFi & mobile data when not using it, that will extend your charge.
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dxwilliams40 said:
Do a fresh install and calibrate your battery. Use titanium backup to freeze user apps. Add your apps one by one to find out which apps are hogging your battery. Also, try charging it before you go to bed. Take it off the charger, and when you wake, check to see if your phone uses more than 1% battery per hour.
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I literally just rooted/flashed my ROM yesterday. I charged the phone back up to 100% today and used that calibration app, and so far it seems to have helped. It definitely uses more than 1% an hour. So far it's at 45% after having been unplugged for 5 hours and 37 minutes, with 2 hours and 4 minutes of display time, 10 minutes of phone calls on 3G, sent/received about 100 texts, checked/downloaded about 20 emails, and taken 10 or so pictures.
Of course, WiFi/Background data/auto-sync/bluetooth/GPS are off, and brightness is at about 40%.
I've got a weird one on this particular battery cycle. I used the battery calibration app before I went to sleep last night and unplugged the phone at 100% charge. While I was asleep...the dialer used 16% of my battery according to my battery stats and the total battery was down into the 60%'s...I searched google, and other sources / forums report a reboot fixes it, and the issue likely occured from a "Wake Lock State" occuring at my last previous phone call the previous evening...ugh hell of a bug...I haven't rebooted it yet, and still notice even plugging and unplugging all day dialer still in low teens for batt. %...seems to be an Android thing although thre seemed to be a preponderance of HTC's...but they are popular devices and there was a Samsung tablet in there with the same thing...
I just got a whole day with 3 hours screen time and gmail and htc sense getting updates, more than 100 texts and 40 minutes of calls and wifi on half the time the battery on this phone is awesome. At night i get maybe 2-3% drain in about 7 hours. I suggest you find a ROM with some UV capabilities, the ones with the oc/uv daemon are great as they already have the settings built in.
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I just got a whole day with 3 hours screen time and gmail and htc sense getting updates, more than 100 texts and 40 minutes of calls and wifi on half the time the battery on this phone is awesome. At night i get maybe 2-3% drain in about 7 hours. I suggest you find a ROM with some UV capabilities, the ones with the oc/uv daemon are great as they already have the settings built in.
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Wow, that's pretty good. What ROM are you using?
Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.
That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.
So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.
Thanks again all!
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Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.
That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.
So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.
Thanks again all!
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Someone asked which ROM I'm using, its the one in my Sig...when you dont have signal I would put it in airplane mode because your phone will search and search for a signal and that kills battery fast.
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elijahpr said:
Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.
That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.
So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.
Thanks again all!
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The reason why you are losing so much battery is your phone is trying to connect to a tower in order to gain service. Switch to airplane mode when at work.
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elijahpr said:
The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there
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There's the culprit!!! When phone does not have proper signal, it increases the radio power so that it may not lose connection. And when connection comes in, and is good enough, it starts to slowly scale down the power to the radio.
Hahaha, that's awesome. I was thinking the exact same thing as the three posts above me when I was working today... kind of an "oh, duh!" moment, then I come back and check the thread and ya'll confirmed it.
Flashing Gingerbeast right now, so hopefully that will show if it's the ROM or my hardware that's causing the battery drain. Gonna try it out for the rest of the day, though I will miss my Sense 3.0
Fellow MT4GS users,
How is your battery lasting you? I'm coming from a MT4G, even though I eventually modded it, and it I used to get at least a full day and have to charge that night at the worst unless I really heavily used it.
My MT4GS has been lasting me half a day or so before I get into the yellow/red and I'm usually charging before the sun goes down.
My main culprit according to the built in battery indicator is display at 65% (I'm on automatic brightness)
Just over 10 hours today for me before I had to charge.
ps- Anyone know how to remove the annoying low power notifications? I'm getting two pop ups in a row.
Yeah mine generally lasts about 14 hours at moderate usage, but it's only been 2 days, and I remember when I got the MyTouch 4G it died on me while I was still at work and then after a week or so it got much better...
Yeah, I can agree with you there I think my MT4G was a little wonky the first week or so. We'll see how it goes.
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Fellow MT4GS users,
How is your battery lasting you? I'm coming from a MT4G, even though I eventually modded it, and it I used to get at least a full day and have to charge that night at the worst unless I really heavily used it.
My MT4GS has been lasting me half a day or so before I get into the yellow/red and I'm usually charging before the sun goes down.
My main culprit according to the built in battery indicator is display at 65% (I'm on automatic brightness)
Just over 10 hours today for me before I had to charge.
ps- Anyone know how to remove the annoying low power notifications? I'm getting two pop ups in a row.
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Only lasting 6 hours yesterday ....
My battery lasted about 33 hours. After the 1st full charge. So way better than my other phones have done. This wasnt heavy usage though. No videos or music just a few calls, lots of emails and some web browsing.
One problem I am having is low call volume. My videos and music are perfectly loud, just the call volume sucks.
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My battery lasted about 33 hours. After the 1st full charge. So way better than my other phones have done. This wasnt heavy usage though. No videos or music just a few calls, lots of emails and some web browsing.
One problem I am having is low call volume. My videos and music are perfectly loud, just the call volume sucks.
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how did you get 33 hours because mine on the 1st day on lasted about 10 hours.
I'm getting 6 hours. Its terrible. This things gonna get flushed down a toilet soon.
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I'm getting 6 hours. Its terrible. This things gonna get flushed down a toilet soon.
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Well make sure, your phones screen brightness is on low. Also make sure wifi,gps,bluetooth are off. Also make sure you kill some of the apps you ran on a task manager. just gotta find ways to keep the battery life up.
Well when I first got the phone, I didnt charge it until it was almost dead. Then fully charged it.
Also I turned off GPS, WiFi ect. I also use task manager to kill background programs that I don't need or want running.
We will see if the battery life goes down after a few weeks. Sometimes they take time to normalize.
Oh what task you ended and what task manger you used?
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Well make sure, your phones screen brightness is on low. Also make sure wifi,gps,bluetooth are off. Also make sure you kill some of the apps you ran on a task manager. just gotta find ways to keep the battery life up.
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I appreciate the help but the logic is off. This is the latest ..and i stress smartttphone. It is supsupposed to be used as such. Bluetooth ..4g..music...video calling..maps..etc.. if u use of of these features six hours it will last. If you use them all try maybe 4 hours. Plus those boxes are annoying when the batterly is low. This phone has got to be rooted.
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I appreciate the help but the logic is off. This is the latest ..and i stress smartttphone. It is supsupposed to be used as such. Bluetooth ..4g..music...video calling..maps..etc.. if u use of of these features six hours it will last. If you use them all try maybe 4 hours. Plus those boxes are annoying when the batterly is low. This phone has got to be rooted.
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I'm gonna have to agree with that one, that's pretty much no different than saying buy a car but don't drive it so you can save gas lol
I have gotten to around 12 hours or more now. Still moderate overall but heavier browser usage.
I do not kill tasks or turn off wifi, gps or anything. My brightness is auto.
I uninstalled the recent maps update because I saw where G2 users seem to think the recent update is draining their battery so I wondered if it could maybe be causing issues here too.
Anyways my battery life has gotten into the acceptable range and that was all I really did other than have more days to monitor it.
Some technical specs on the battery:
Model: BG58100
Rating: 3.7V DC
Charge Capacity: 1520mAh
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This appears to be the same battery that is in the Sensation 4G according to Google.
For us this is good because Ebay and Amazon are already flooded with replacement batteries.
We need to find a higher capacity mAh battery but with the same size as to not make us have to get a replacement back. This shouldn't be that hard.
My old phone has a smaller battery with a higher mAh capacity so the battery in the myTouch 4G Slide is an utter disappointment. They could have easily produced a 3000 mAh battery for this beast of a phone.
Edit: Found a 1900 mAh battery for only 9.99.
sonicjam said:
Well make sure, your phones screen brightness is on low. Also make sure wifi,gps,bluetooth are off. Also make sure you kill some of the apps you ran on a task manager. just gotta find ways to keep the battery life up.
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Screen is on the least bright setting. I'm an ex blackberry user and dont even have one app. I could care less about apps. I'm charging every 5 hours and thats sometimes from just it sitting around/ not even using the phone. The thing better get it's act together. I'm starting to like the keyboard too but I'm up at 5am and if im charging at noon that's terrible. Especially with minimal use.
Akujin said:
Some technical specs on the battery:
Model: BG58100
Rating: 3.7V DC
Charge Capacity: 1520mAh
This appears to be the same battery that is in the Sensation 4G according to Google.
For us this is good because Ebay and Amazon are already flooded with replacement batteries.
We need to find a higher capacity mAh battery but with the same size as to not make us have to get a replacement back. This shouldn't be that hard.
My old phone has a smaller battery with a higher mAh capacity so the battery in the myTouch 4G Slide is an utter disappointment. They could have easily produced a 3000 mAh battery for this beast of a phone.
Edit: Found a 1900 mAh battery for only 9.99.
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I've found the slide version there too for $11.99. I've wonder how long it will last with that battery.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Anker-1900mAh-B...Accessories&hash=item4aad15c501#ht_3648wt_942
There must be something wrong. Mine lasts about that long playing videos and games, messing with the camera, web browsing etc..
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As I posted in my other thread, battery sucks on this phone. I had to keep wifi off all the day to keep it from dying by 6pm. Funny how 4g speed is so bad in nyc that wifi is the only other option to do something meaningful.
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As I posted in my other thread, battery sucks on this phone. I had to keep wifi off all the day to keep it from dying by 6pm. Funny how 4g speed is so bad in nyc that wifi is the only other option to do something meaningful.
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Weird I live in small city and 4G is crazy fast. When I get to a big city like Baltimore, Maryland the 4G was slow. My thoughts are there too many people on the 4G network. T-Mobile did promised us double the 4G speed and they need more Towers too.
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For the first couple days, my battery life was awful. I'd be getting low-bat notifications when I got home from an 8-hour day at work.
But of course that's always the case with new phones that haven't even had the settings tweaked...
- Placed a Wifi toggle widget on the homepage and turn it off every day after leaving home for work in the morning.
- Ensured certain programs and updates were not running in the background automatically:
~ Turned off Autosync on accounts (manual only)
~ Turned off autoupdates for weather
~ No Bluetooth, GPS, Wifi, unless turned on for a specific reason
~ Enabled power efficiency and power saver modes (30%)
~ Disabled Always-on data connection
~ Disabled auto-updates in various apps (Friendcaster, IM+ Pro, etc.)
- Turned the screen off when not in use
Today I'm at 40% after 14 hours of mixed use. I'd say that's DAMN good.
By the way, for those seeing the whole "Autosync off" thing and thinking that you can't do it, just do it. I don't get my work email or personal email on my phone unless I tell it to and it's utterly awesome. Less stress. Less looking at my phone constantly. It feels free and just plain great. And I used to be superconnected 24/7 syncing every 5 minutes (if push wasn't available).
I am LOVING my battery life!!! I keep seeing people gating on the longevity but im not seeing it. Im not rooted yet and im still getting 18+ hours on an everyday basis.
Also seeing people talk about how their phone doesnt stay on 100%. My TB had that issue but my S3 will stay on 100% for an hour after being unplugged if i dont touch it. I havent found one thing to complain about with this device yet.
All notifications turned off except handcent sms. When im at home in the morning or evening i keep screen at 1% and 25% during the day. 45% if outside.
I have 4g turned off and 3g forced with "phone info" app. The only thing i cant figure out with this phone is turning off/on background data. After turning it back on after turning it off, my email errors out even though data is certainly on. So for now i just leave background data on. Im sure battery life would be even more impressive if i was able to figure this little bug out.
You loving or hating your battery life?
Mine is pretty ridiculous compared to the Nexus. I'm easily getting over 2.5 hours screen time, and yesterday I was at 61% after 12 hours and an hour of screen time.
Edit: Currently at 90% after 5 hours off the charger today. Not much screen time, though.
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I'm not very impressed with battery life...yet. I think I've got some sort of issue going on. My "Android System" entry is very high. Sometimes higher than screen. Anyone have any ideas as to what my problem is? Another note is that my phone is always warm to the touch, even with screen off, and nothing (intentionally) happening in the background.
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I am LOVING my battery life!!! I keep seeing people gating on the longevity but im not seeing it. Im not rooted yet and im still getting 18+ hours on an everyday basis.
Also seeing people talk about how their phone doesnt stay on 100%. My TB had that issue but my S3 will stay on 100% for an hour after being unplugged if i dont touch it. I havent found one thing to complain about with this device yet.
All notifications turned off except handcent sms. When im at home in the morning or evening i keep screen at 1% and 25% during the day. 45% if outside.
I have 4g turned off and 3g forced with "phone info" app. The only thing i cant figure out with this phone is turning off/on background data. After turning it back on after turning it off, my email errors out even though data is certainly on. So for now i just leave background data on. Im sure battery life would be even more impressive if i was able to figure this little bug out.
You loving or hating your battery life?
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Do you mind posting a SS of your settings on the Phone Info app?
My Verizon S3 is horrible. Even after a full wipe (x3) and custom clean rom and frozen apps that run as services.. Just sitting on my desk, it's bad.. 6 hours into the day and i'm down to 60%. Awesome phone, Samsung!
I'm very impressed with my battery life. It is such a leap from my Inc. Yesterday I got 15 1/2 hours with 5 hours screen time! It was a really good day. Usually get around 12+ with around 4 screen time. Mine also stays on 100% for a little bit after charging. I have yet to root, and haven't really changed to many settings to help with battery life. So I'm pretty sure it can do even better!
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My battery life has been nothing short of amazing (my wife too, who got her SGS3 the same day as me). I haven't rooted, so just disabled a few apps and did some minor tuning of settings... the best example I can give is this past Saturday...
We drove 600 miles on a round-trip through three different states, a mixture of back roads, typical suburban areas and through two major cities, so in other words a good mix of connectivity, some roaming for sure included... I used the phone a fair bit throughout the day because we went to a family gathering, so there were quite a few pictures being taken with it and people playing with the "new hotness" of course... I played games for a bit on the ride (err, when my wife was driving at the time!), checked mail, Twitter and Facebook probably once or twice an hour on average (I know, I have no life), a little web surfing to look stuff up, played with S Voice for a few minutes, streamed some Pandora for a while and used GPS for a few minutes here and there. The WHOLE DAY I had wi-fi, GPS, mobile data, NFC and background sync turned on (only things turned off were bluetooth and LTE).
Phone came off the charger at 8am with 100% charge... By 9pm that night I JUST hit 50%! And by the time I finally went to bed at around 2am it was at right around 25% (because I read for an hour or so with it before falling asleep).
That, to me, is pretty freakin' phenomenal! The only time I ever saw comparable battery life was my Epic with the big, fat extended battery. And, again, this is 100% stock with minimal tuning and I'm not sacrificing any feature that I care anything about (I don't have all the motion gestures or face unlock or stay turned on for example because I can live without those just fine). I DO ensure that the apps I have installed are all completely well-behaved and I turn all off but a very small handful of push notifications, that's the sort of "tuning" I'm talking about.
So yeah, count me as completely ecstatic about my SGS3 battery life for sure
Im NOT rooted or anything and running everything stock and every single day I have managed to get at the very least 4 hours of screen on time. I have brightness on 50% with wifi on and no airplane mode. Battery is amazing on this phone and I could not be loving it anymore.
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My Verizon S3 is horrible. Even after a full wipe (x3) and custom clean rom and frozen apps that run as services.. Just sitting on my desk, it's bad.. 6 hours into the day and i'm down to 60%. Awesome phone, Samsung!
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That's odd. No notifications running in the background or anything? I've been getting awesome battery life on mine.
So it seems from this thread, non-rooted users are getting better battery over rooted?
my gf's verizon (100% stock) gs3 is ridiculous... 14 hours with 53% left and 2.5 hours of screen time. compared to my AT&T GS3 which is at the same level after 6 hours and 2 hours of screen.
a lot of it may also have to do with what networks you're on; i.e. my gf was on wifi all day whereas i was at work in/out of LTE/HSPA+.
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So it seems from this thread, non-rooted users are getting better battery over rooted?
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in this thread it seems that way but read thru the other 100 threads about this same topic and you will the battery life increases after rooting and debloating. Im seeing anywhere from 21-27hrs battery life with around 4hrs screen on. Brightness 50% avg., wifi,data, and gps all on...no air plane mode!
I wonder if it might be helpful to list off the apps we all have disabled (or removed entirely for rooted users)? Might be an interesting comparison point. Here's mine:
AllShare Controller
AllShare Play
ChatON
Dropbox (interestingly, I have two of them listed and disabled- everyone else?)
Email (replace with K9)
Exchange services
Flipboard (I prefer the plain old Google Reader app, believe it or not!)
Game Hub
Gmail (I use the web version)
Google Play Books
Google Play Movies
Google Play Music
* (the above three seem to get re-enabled after a reboot BTW so I always disable them again)
Google+
Kies Air
Media Hub
Messaging (replaced with Go SMS)
Music Hub
My files (replaced with ES File Explorer)
New Daemon(EUR)
Polaris Viewer 4.0 (replaced with Documents To Go)
S Planner widget
S Suggest
Samsung account
Samsung Apps
Samsung Push Service
SNS
Sprint Zone
Stock Dameon(EUR)
Tags
Talk
Wallet (another one that gets enabled again after a reboot)
Weather
Weather Daemon
Weather Main
Windy Weather
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! News
* (weather apps replaced with Beautiful Widgets and WeatherBug)
One other thing I just thought of: I'm using Go Launcher. Just in case TouchWiz is a power hog somehow
Was on wifi most of the day yesterday since I was at home, but I'm going on 2 hours of screen on (not much I know) and 30 hours and i'm still at 41% battery.
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usage - playing youtube hd videos over wifi
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came from the thunderbolt also...
getting AMAZING battery life. (im not rooted, everything stock, didn't disable any apps.)
i got about 8 hours from the tbolt.
getting about 14 hours from s3. but the thing is... im getting the 14 hours using my phone freely! with my tbolt i was always concerned about using it up and was careful way too much. if i used the tbolt the way im using the s3, id probably get more like 5-6 hours.
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That's odd. No notifications running in the background or anything? I've been getting awesome battery life on mine.
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Nothing running in the background - even using lowest brightness and power savings mode turned on.
Even when I was 100% stock, the battery was pretty terrible so I doubt there's an issue with the rom.
I'm pretty happy with mine. By the end of day yesterday it's 40% after 14 hours with just a little under 3 hours screen time. I'm on WiFi the first half of the day and on 4G the rest. Didn't seem to be much different if the 4G signal is decent. At work it seems drain a little faster without the screen on, I think due to the poor 4G signal here.
Yep I am loving this phone. It is getting double the battery life of my rezound which had the 2700 battery. I'm only losing 1% an hour on standby overnight. I don't have that feeling of - oh I want to play with my phone but I better not if I want to be able to use it in an emergency later.
micromania said:
came from the thunderbolt also...
getting AMAZING battery life. (im not rooted, everything stock, didn't disable any apps.)
i got about 8 hours from the tbolt.
getting about 14 hours from s3. but the thing is... im getting the 14 hours using my phone freely! with my tbolt i was always concerned about using it up and was careful way too much. if i used the tbolt the way im using the s3, id probably get more like 5-6 hours.
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I'm also coming from a Thunderbolt, but I had the OEM extended battery (2750mAh), so for me the Galaxy S III is a little more constraining. The Thunderbolt with extended battery would last through a day (~16 hours) with moderate-heavy use.
The Galaxy S III will also last ~16 hours, but the use has to be closer to light-moderate (~3 hours screen on). I've got power saving mode on, I'm not using WiFi at all, and I'm running it completely stock and unrooted (but with some bloat disabled).
Overall, I'd say the battery life is decent. I am, however, looking forward to an OEM extended battery.