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Tell me hows your battery life after root.

My phone has been charging awfully slow on the A/C Adapter. And it drain that battery on 3 hours. I'm still looking at what could've caused this.

Very good thus far. First charge was a little slow which I chalked up to conditioning.
Check Google Talk make sure you are not signed in. Open it, menu then settings and remove auto sign in. Then menu and sign out.
Make sure 4g isn't on
Make sure gps isn't on
Make sure bluetooth isn't on
Same with wifi unless you are using them. They are easy enough to turn on and off as needed.
Screen brightness to auto
Check facebook, twitter, weather etc.. refresh settings.
Check mail settings if not using IMAP. POP3 searching every 5 or 15 minutes in low signal areas can be a huge drain.
I also removed all the bloat crapware that I didn't want on anymore. I also used a program called "Startup Manager" to prevent all the other crap from loading all the time on reboot and randomly throughout the day.
The epic gets a little less signal than my EVO did. Although the EVO had 3 or 4 radio upgrades to get it where it is now but for now it is a little less which will use a little more power until we get a few updates.
I'm getting excellent life thus far.

Aridon said:
Very good thus far. First charge was a little slow which I chalked up to conditioning.
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When I got my phone, surprisingly it was almost drained. So I plugged it for about 3 hours and it completely charged. Now I put it on the AC Adapter and it was around 20% and when I look at the time 4 hours had passed by and still wasn't 100%. I would say it took 4 hours and 20 minutes. And I looked at the Battery used and it said 73% Display. The rest were like 5 things with 3 or 5%.

Thank You!
Yes.. Yes..! Please Do so tell..
I will make this short and sweet. I am arguing with my fiancee cause I just showed her two videos the Epic's camera and how they looks amazing. I saw a few videos taken today on the tube and this was to much to handle. I have an Evo and I compared and yes the Evo has more density due to the extra 3MP but the capture and sharpness of the Epic is amazing. The extra LED is great, a little brighter on Pictures. Not Much! The screen is a tad bit bigger, but horrid in the light, but who's outside like 24? Eh, I need everyone to convince me in.. So I have questions!
Dlna.. How has video Playback been?
Battery Life?
Smoothness, ADW Launcher Pro, Come on guys you know the drill..! I wanna know all the above!
Help another androidian get the Epic!

PlankLongBeard said:
Yes.. Yes..! Please Do so tell..
I will make this short and sweet. I am arguing with my fiancee cause I just showed her two videos the Epic's camera and how they looks amazing. I saw a few videos taken today on the tube and this was to much to handle. I have an Evo and I compared and yes the Evo has more density due to the extra 3MP but the capture and sharpness of the Epic is amazing. The extra LED is great, a little brighter on Pictures. Not Much! The screen is a tad bit bigger, but horrid in the light, but who's outside like 24? Eh, I need everyone to convince me in.. So I have questions!
Dlna.. How has video Playback been?
Battery Life?
Smoothness, ADW Launcher Pro, Come on guys you know the drill..!
Help another androidian get the Epic!
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I haven't messed with DLNA yet. Looks like you can stream from the PC and other media devices fairly easily with "All Share" but I haven't had a chance to mess with it. Basic codec support is still significantly better than the EVO. No need for rock player. Although the music player is different than the Touchwiz 3.0 devices which should be updated with Froyo.
My battery life has been equal to my Evo. Maybe a little better.
There is no comparison with smoothness or in Camera / video taking quality. The Epic beats the EVO hands down and this was the big reason my evo is on Ebay right now. Hands down the Epic wins.
Keyboard is very nice. Swype is also nice (had it on my evo as well).
Screen is much better and brighter. It seem to be easier to clean as well for whatever reason.
The downsides?
Nothing major that I can see. Developer support should be good since the Galaxy S has been released on every carrier. Porting to the Epic should be trivial once the keyboard files are isolated.
Regardless, the EVO needs to be rooted to even be a decent phone. The Epic far less so. I've removed some of the crap ware and stopped some of the auto starting apps and that is about it. Thus far the Epic has been very good. It does have a fair bit of crap preinstalled but its easy to remove.
I do find the Epic's screen, while better than the Evo, does seem a bit high in contrast. Its still much better in all regards IMO but I do notice it. We might be able to adjust this at some point.
The side power button is something to get used to, not a huge deal but odd.
Having the micro usb port up top is a mixed thing as well. Its a little farther from the power source if you are on the device talking to if your cord is short it could be an issue. Otherwise its easier to hold IMO without the cord and such getting in the way when resting in your hand while surfing.

I think JuiceDefender is killing my battery.. :S I used it Yesterday without Root and old apps and I could swear the phone lasted the whole day.

Aridon said:
I haven't messed with DLNA yet. Looks like you can stream from the PC and other media devices fairly easily with "All Share" but I haven't had a chance to mess with it. Basic codec support is still significantly better than the EVO. No need for rock player. Although the music player is different than the Touchwiz 3.0 devices which should be updated with Froyo.
My battery life has been equal to my Evo. Maybe a little better.
There is no comparison with smoothness or in Camera / video taking quality. The Epic beats the EVO hands down and this was the big reason my evo is on Ebay right now. Hands down the Epic wins.
Keyboard is very nice. Swype is also nice (had it on my evo as well).
Screen is much better and brighter. It seem to be easier to clean as well for whatever reason.
The downsides?
Nothing major that I can see. Developer support should be good since the Galaxy S has been released on every carrier. Porting to the Epic should be trivial once the keyboard files are isolated.
Regardless, the EVO needs to be rooted to even be a decent phone. The Epic far less so. I've removed some of the crap ware and stopped some of the auto starting apps and that is about it. Thus far the Epic has been very good. It does have a fair bit of crap preinstalled but its easy to remove.
I do find the Epic's screen, while better than the Evo, does seem a bit high in contrast. Its still much better in all regards IMO but I do notice it. We might be able to adjust this at some point.
The side power button is something to get used to, not a huge deal but odd.
Having the micro usb port up top is a mixed thing as well. Its a little farther from the power source if you are on the device talking to if your cord is short it could be an issue. Otherwise its easier to hold IMO without the cord and such getting in the way when resting in your hand while surfing.
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That's perfect, I still need to hear if it gives errors in the DLNA playback. From TV 2 PS3 whichever anyone can confirm. I know the Evo has codec issues when playing video from it. Just wanted to be sure this was not an issue in it there.
Otherwise the camera quality yes is amazing on the epic. I dint get it the Evo is 8mp, err? Anyways I am happy, I am going to exchange my Evo from what it looks like. I guess I have to get used to not having sense anymore. Thats about it.
More would be great if anyone cares to share to a fellow Evo pondered mind?
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Well. I'm gonna find a way to remove root. Since I am 100% sure its draining my battery and fast. It's either that or Juice Defender (Plotter) I took it out of the charger at 5 am, left it on my bed and when I checked on it 55 minutes later it was 94%.

Battery life is exactly the same, all we did was root there are no ROMs to install which could impact battery in a positive or negative way so far. Again all we did was gain super user permissions root does not impact battery life whatsoever.

My battery life appears to drain slower now that I've rooted, that probably is because I have SetCPU underclocking my phone to 200mhz when the screen is off so it won't waste battery. Also if you are draining quickly you can look in Settings> About Phone> Battery Usage as to what is using the most battery. A good chance if you have f.e. Live Wallpapers on or something is that they will drain your battery. Also depending on what you have enabled for email syncing, etc. that may play a role. I keep my phone signed into Google Talk + Google Sync + TouchDown Exchange syncing all day and seem to have no issue at all. (I was at 60% after a full day's use yesterday, and that included some foray into the world of 4G in the area.

khalaan said:
My battery life appears to drain slower now that I've rooted, that probably is because I have SetCPU underclocking my phone to 200mhz when the screen is off so it won't waste battery. Also if you are draining quickly you can look in Settings> About Phone> Battery Usage as to what is using the most battery. A good chance if you have f.e. Live Wallpapers on or something is that they will drain your battery. Also depending on what you have enabled for email syncing, etc. that may play a role. I keep my phone signed into Google Talk + Google Sync + TouchDown Exchange syncing all day and seem to have no issue at all. (I was at 60% after a full day's use yesterday, and that included some foray into the world of 4G in the area.
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All of those settings are off. Email, Facebook, No LWP, no SetCPU. I really think its juice defender the culprit here. Cause it all happened when I restored my apps using Titanium Backup.

When you restored did you restore the apps plus data or the apps by themselves? When you add the data in that can lead to problems because the data was for another phone.
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lv2bll said:
When you restored did you restore the apps plus data or the apps by themselves? When you add the data in that can lead to problems because the data was for another phone.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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There isn't a backup in Titanium Backup of only apps. You can restore Apps with Data only.

Slow battery charging via USB after rooting? unplug the USB, go to settings and disable USB debugging. Plug the cable back in and select "Charging" from the pop-up.
problem solved.
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i to have noticed significant drain after the one click root process... i have had my phone running for maby 4 hours off a full and with it in my pocket it can go dead.... doesnt happen all the time and i must say as well that the charging is extremely slow for me as well... hopefully there is a fix for this soon.. might have to do a restore and see if that helps.

been off the charger for for 12 hours and 12 minutes and I am at 41 percent

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been off the charger for for 12 hours and 12 minutes and I am at 41 percent
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Ok i think i figured out the problem, i rerooted with the newest version and already noticed a difference since the splash screen is back again... to the op try to reroot with the updates from today

Fixter said:
There isn't a backup in Titanium Backup of only apps. You can restore Apps with Data only.
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Ummm... Yes you can. Open up Titanium Back up, press Menu -> Batch -> (Choose your restore function), then tap the radio button next to "App Only" instead of "App+Data". You can even just restore the data instead of the app!

[Q] Battery drain and high Android OS usage?

Last week I got a Droid Ultra and am noticing my battery life is pretty bad. I'd heard the Ultras don't get great battery life to begin with but I think something else is going on with my setup. My Android OS usage is always by far the highest, dwarfing the screen percentage. This is my first smartphone so bear with me if this is normal or I'm doing something dumb. My usage seems to be pretty normal by these board's standards, 30min talk, 20-40 texts, wifi on, and couple hours of gaming. (slow week at work!) I have installed Watchdog and it is running on moderate, although I must admit I don't really know how to use it to its full capabilities. I have attached some screenshots below, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I have a Mini with the same issue. Still haven't figured out what it is, even tried a factory reset. So you're not the only one.

jjlangen said:
I have a Mini with the same issue. Still haven't figured out what it is, even tried a factory reset. So you're not the only one.
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Last week I got a Droid Ultra and am noticing my battery life is pretty bad. I'd heard the Ultras don't get great battery life to begin with but I think something else is going on with my setup. My Android OS usage is always by far the highest, dwarfing the screen percentage. This is my first smartphone so bear with me if this is normal or I'm doing something dumb. My usage seems to be pretty normal by these board's standards, 30min talk, 20-40 texts, wifi on, and couple hours of gaming. (slow week at work!) I have installed Watchdog and it is running on moderate, although I must admit I don't really know how to use it to its full capabilities. I have attached some screenshots below, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Did you guys try disabling the bloatware and turn of Google location?if you're still on 4.2 you can use gsam battery monitor from play store. It gives detailed info on wakelocks and and what's keeping your CPU active.
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Caseyk621 said:
Did you guys try disabling the bloatware and turn of Google location?if you're still on 4.2 you can use gsam battery monitor from play store. It gives detailed info on wakelocks and and what's keeping your CPU active.
Sent from my KitKat Ultra
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I have tried to get rid of the bloatware but they don't seem to be removable. I can stop them but they just restart later. I have just turned off locations so we will see if that helps. Will the program you mentioned work with Kit Kat? I am using DU Battery Saver at the moment. Thanks for the advice.

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I have tried to get rid of the bloatware but they don't seem to be removable. I can stop them but they just restart later. I have just turned off locations so we will see if that helps. Will the program you mentioned work with Kit Kat? I am using DU Battery Saver at the moment. Thanks for the advice.
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Gsam Won't work on 4.4 unless you're rooted. So you can disable the bloatware easily. Go to app drawer long press on app you want to disable as if you were going to add it to the home screen. Drag it up and drop it on app info. You can disable it there. Some apostle it will ask if you want to revert back to stock. Select ok. Best part is you can't break anything this way! If you want to enable the apps go to settings....apps...and slide all the way over for list of disabled!
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Bloatware has been gone for a while. I tried disabling location last night, but still have the same high OS usage today. Just installed GSam- on 4.4 but rooted- I'll post if it comes up with anything helpful.

Battery Optimize

Any suggestions on how to improve battery life of the tablet? Mine is sucking the juice so fast even if im just watching some videos

RollWii said:
Any suggestions on how to improve battery life of the tablet? Mine is sucking the juice so fast even if im just watching some videos
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In general usage, I keep my performance set on lower modes. That REALLY helps. That, and maybe around half battery keeps me going. I regularly get at least 8-10 hours of video when doing so. Hope this helps!

badler6545 said:
In general usage, I keep my performance set on lower modes. That REALLY helps. That, and maybe around half battery keeps me going. I regularly get at least 8-10 hours of video when doing so. Hope this helps!
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So selecting the option "Let Nvidia Optimize this app" is better? Because i tried playing with power saving option and it lags and even on the launcher laggs

RollWii said:
So selecting the option "Let Nvidia Optimize this app" is better? Because i tried playing with power saving option and it lags and even on the launcher laggs
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Yeah that is pretty odd isn't it? I switched to NOVA launcher and haven't had an issue since. Although I haven't even had to be away rom the charger lately so have been keeping it on high performance. It seems like it is lasting better after several full discharges oddly. I probably only use the Tab for 2 hours a day or so, but I'm regularly getting 2-3 days or more.

If you're rooted and you don't mind to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2925957
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Battery saving apps

There are plenty of apps which supposedly save battery life majorly by real-time optimizations. The most popular seems to be Battery Doctor and Clean Master which also have very high ratings on Google Play. Does anybody use them? What's your experience on their battery impact? Do they really make any difference?

All I use is Greenify. It's an awesome app and a ton of people swear by it.

Honestly battery apps make it worse. Greenify is the exception.
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Greenify only. Nothing else.

Leandroid here..

Post 2, 3 and 4 sums it up. ?

I'm always running out of battery. I went dead in the first few hours today and then I used my Chromecast to watch the interview and was at 50% when I started. Screen off entire time 17% at the end. Now 15. Idk what to do about this drain. I've gotten lucky once with 4 hours screen on time though

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I'm always running out of battery. I went dead in the first few hours today and then I used my Chromecast to watch the interview and was at 50% when I started. Screen off entire time 17% at the end. Now 15. Idk what to do about this drain. I've gotten lucky once with 4 hours screen on time though
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Not sure why you'd expect good battery whilst casting. Its a massive battery drain, using wireless to send data. Especially large chunks over prolonged periods.

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Not sure why you'd expect good battery whilst casting. Its a massive battery drain, using wireless to send data. Especially large chunks over prolonged periods.
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It's not steaming from the device itself. Your phone is mostly the controller

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It's not steaming from the device itself. Your phone is mostly the controller
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I'm not convinced that's accurate, but even if you're right, there is a constant connection between Chromecast and your device, with wakelocks and large data usage.

rootSU said:
I'm not convinced that's accurate, but even if you're right, there is a constant connection between Chromecast and your device, with wakelocks and large data usage.
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That is definitely true! But even without casting I can't get over 3.5 hours sot

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That is definitely true! But even without casting I can't get over 3.5 hours sot
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Yes, sorry you're right. I've read up how Chromecast works and it is different to others, as you say.
It actually doesn't make sense that it would cause drain.
As for 3.5 hours screen, that's not abnormal.

rootSU said:
Yes, sorry you're right. I've read up how Chromecast works and it is different to others, as you say.
It actually doesn't make sense that it would cause drain.
As for 3.5 hours screen, that's not abnormal.
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I just don't know how I can get that to be higher. I was looking at gsam and trying to figure out wake locks but I don't understand it

DOBBY0 said:
I just don't know how I can get that to be higher. I was looking at gsam and trying to figure out wake locks but I don't understand it
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Did you visit the battery sticky thread?

rootSU said:
Did you visit the battery sticky thread?
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Yeah, I just haven't had much experience with tweaking my device for battery. I could use someone's help determining what kills my battery. I have lost 5% in 20minutes I've been awake

DOBBY0 said:
Yeah, I just haven't had much experience with tweaking my device for battery. I could use someone's help determining what kills my battery. I have lost 5% in 20minutes I've been awake
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Run your phone until it's had a good run (80% battery used or something) and post as many gsam and android battery stats as possible in that thread. Use
tags so people dont have to load all pictures unless they want to. Make sure you go into teh battery graph in andoid and screenshot that and also into the big offenders, like screen so they can see how long things have ben running

Chromecast does not stream data from the phone unless its local media. If you want to see for yourself, stream a netflix movie and turn off your phone once it starts playing.

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Chromecast does not stream data from the phone unless its local media. If you want to see for yourself, stream a netflix movie and turn off your phone once it starts playing.
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Yes, we established that.

2 pages and not one useful screen shot of battery stats. ?
See post 4 in the battery thread in my signature, and provide some screen shots that are recommended.
Otherwise this is just going to go in circles. ?

Guys Im coming from a stock lollipop rom on my Nexus 5 and Im looking for a STABLE rom on my nexus 5 that provides much better battery life without performance sacrifice.. Any suggestions..??

Want to improve battey life on Pixel? Try this

settings -> system -> Advanced -> Developer Options -> System Tracing. Uncheck the Trace Debuggable Applications. Enjoy about 15% better battery life.
Make sure to have a before and after record of your battery usage, with same set of apps, and same pattern of usage over couple of charges (like 3-4 days), to see how this affects your battery life. So, don't just rush to make the change, measure it. Your numbers may vary compared to mine.

thanks for sharing, will give it a go.

Interesting. I'll experiment with this for the hell of it. Thanks.

More info here: https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/systrace-on-device
Is is only enabled if you enable developer options? Seems like an interesting switch regardless, less realtime debugging / tracing should lead to better battery I'd think .

Just for someone who doesn't know too much about this, what does this do? Is it okay to turn off? Does it actually enhance battery life?

Thanks! Testing it out.....my average SoT is between 5h to 6,5h.

Thanks for the tip. Trying this out now.
My battery life on my 3 XL has not been great lately. I used to easily get 6h to 6.5h SoT, but not since like December patch, I'm getting maybe 5.5h tops.

Anecdotally this seems to work for me, heading home with 85% battery instead of 60% despite similar usage during the day

I turned it off yesterday. I feel my battery life getting longer, thanks:highfive:
But I noticed my phone is getting some lags sometime

same here will give it a go

When I got my pixel 3 XL last year the battery life was pretty good it was never a amazing but was enough for me. But lately the last couple of months it's turned ****, and I haven't installed any new apps or done anything different with my phone since I got it. I've got it set up exactly the same way since launch.

Zorachus said:
When I got my pixel 3 XL last year the battery life was pretty good it was never a amazing but was enough for me. But lately the last couple of months it's turned ****, and I haven't installed any new apps or done anything different with my phone since I got it. I've got it set up exactly the same way since launch.
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The Feb update seems to have caused some more drain for me. Battery was fine prior to that update. I'm going to give this suggestion a try and see if it helps.

anyone can confirm?

I can't definitively confirm this is what did it, but I'm definitely experiencing longer battery life.

TheIgster said:
The Feb update seems to have caused some more drain for me. Battery was fine prior to that update. I'm going to give this suggestion a try and see if it helps.
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Yup, the Feb update has definitely messed up the battery life.

Thanks! I also give it a try on my 3 XL.
Up till now, my 2 XL gives always a better batterylife than the 3 XL, hopefully it will be better now on the 3 XL.

This actually worked! thanks!

Discovered that when I do this, I lose the smart lock, which sucks because I'm using AA Mirror to mirror my phone screen to my Ford Sync display. Had to disable this.
Cheers,
B.D.

BostonDan said:
Discovered that when I do this, I lose the smart lock, which sucks because I'm using AA Mirror to mirror my phone screen to my Ford Sync display. Had to disable this.
Cheers,
B.D.
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I disabled it also, but my smart lock is still working. I just tried it. No issues.
PS: And you mean you had to re-enable it right? Cause it was enabled by default.

Legendhidde said:
Just for someone who doesn't know too much about this, what does this do? Is it okay to turn off? Does it actually enhance battery life?
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https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/systrace-on-device
Explanation. I don't know for sure, but I can't see any benefit to a non developer having this on.
I'd be curious if it's enabled in the background, or if triggering Dev setting turns it on.
My wife's phone doesn't have Dev on, but mine does. Not sure how I'd do a battery test short of running a stress test of some kind with both phones.
Anyone have an inside contact who would know if turning on dev enables it? Would be illogical to have it running without that right? No benefit...
I'm on a brand new 3xl and battery seems great. I just came from a V20 though, so hard for me to know if my battery is great or good...