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I have used this tablet for 2 days now and almost everything works perfect (thanks to latest ota) but there's one thing that is bothering me. Battery life. I had ipad 3 for 2 months but I finally sold it and bought the infinity. Now I know ios sucks on phones AND tablets. But the battery life was amazing. I could use it to browse and for games for 9 hours at least. But on the infinity I am lucky if I get 4 hours browsing. 4 hours sucks on a tablet. But I think that wifi is the problem. I have added 2 pictures were you can see I used the tablet for 1 hour last night then I used it for almost 3 more hours today. Now the battery is at 10%. But I was wondering why the battery uses 62%? On my galaxy nexus wifi is using 5%.
Have I got a faulty unit or is it like this for everyone? If so please let me know fast so I can send it back before it's too late.
Somethings not right there. Tests/reviews done by some major outlets (thinking PC World or Engadget) reported 9 hours of video play over wifi with screen at 50% brightness. iOS has always had good battery life due to their stict contols over the OS, but you should be seeing more then 4 hours. Hell I was at 40% and played WindUp Knight for hours straight last night which takes up much more battery then a movie. I usually don't suggest using task managers, but there is one built in by asus, I'd use it and see if you can kill some processes. Also be mindful which profile is being used. I stick to balanced most of the time and switch to low when the battery starts getting low (24%ish)
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/25/asus-transformer-pad-infinity-tf700-review/
The TF700 packs a 25Wh battery rated for up to nine and a half hours of runtime. Indeed, it lasted nine hours and 25 in our battery rundown test, which involves looping a video with WiFi on and the brightness fixed at 50 percent.
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Thanks for the reply. I am always on Balanced and i am seeing over 20% down in an hour. Maybe i have a faulty unit?
I wouldn't be so sure. I was playing nova 3 on performance mode though.
jdeoxys said:
I wouldn't be so sure. I was playing nova 3 on performance mode though.
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Hmm so i'm not the only one. I hope Asus fixes this fast or im gonna have to return, but i can't see any tablet better then this atm.
armanisafarai said:
Hmm so i'm not the only one. I hope Asus fixes this fast or im gonna have to return, but i can't see any tablet better then this atm.
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Well, what do you expect? It's going to take some power to push all the pixels on this massive resolution.
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Well, what do you expect? It's going to take some power to push all the pixels on this massive resolution.
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Exactly, it all depends on what your doing OP. The movie scenerio in the review doesnt take much juice in that it uses the low power single core. I don't know for sure, but web browsing may require all 4 cores to kick in depending on exactly what your doing. Regardless, your wifi being a big consumer is easy to deal with. Somewhere in the settings is an option that automatically turns wifi off when screen is off.
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Exactly, it all depends on what your doing OP. The movie scenerio in the review doesnt take much juice in that it uses the low power single core. I don't know for sure, but web browsing may require all 4 cores to kick in depending on exactly what your doing. Regardless, your wifi being a big consumer is easy to deal with. Somewhere in the settings is an option that automatically turns wifi off when screen is off.
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Well, all i was doing was using chrome... I think it's pretty bad when i cant browse for more then 4 hours on a tablet. I thought it had to do something with WiFi since its using over 62%. I did the same test with my nexus where i i just used chrome and when i looked in battery , wifi only used 10%. Maybe there is a bug with wifi?
Try Battery HD for some averages/estimates.
I tend to get about 9+ hrs of reading, balanced mode, WiFi off, and about 7 hrs of browsing over WiFi (undocked, dock charges me about 2/3 full), but it all drops down drastically for gaming, which is about 4 hrs you mentioned.
If you get 4 hrs of pure browsing, I'd consider re-flashing, wiping data and - if these don't help - returning your device.
Chief Geek's point has much merit, and you could always look at (for example) GreenPower or some other time-/screen-based toggler. They do pretty well, and you do not even lose out anything except direct push functionality. (Does it really matter for 99.9% of mail when it comes in once every 15 or 30 minutes? When it does (when you're buying a house or something), shut down the toggler for the time being and cope with some battery drain, then when the situation has resolved, enable it again.
And try using BetterBatterStats for your statistics -- the main battery stat app Android offers has some quirks to prevent meaningful interpretations of many scenarios. Let that get a few charging/discharging cycles and then look at the stats.
So battery hd tells me I should get 8 hours of browsing and 9 for video playback. Will do another test tomorrow with screen on whole time and see how long it will last watching videos. Also battery hd tells me I can play 3d games for only 2 hours. Eh
MartyHulskemper said:
Chief Geek's point has much merit, and you could always look at (for example) GreenPower or some other time-/screen-based toggler. They do pretty well, and you do not even lose out anything except direct push functionality. (Does it really matter for 99.9% of mail when it comes in once every 15 or 30 minutes? When it does (when you're buying a house or something), shut down the toggler for the time being and cope with some battery drain, then when the situation has resolved, enable it again.
And try using BetterBatterStats for your statistics -- the main battery stat app Android offers has some quirks to prevent meaningful interpretations of many scenarios. Let that get a few charging/discharging cycles and then look at the stats.
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I installed betterbatterystats last night, will do more testing.
armanisafarai said:
So battery hd tells me I should get 8 hours of browsing and 9 for video playback. Will do another test tomorrow with screen on whole time and see how long it will last watching videos. Also battery hd tells me I can play 3d games for only 2 hours. Eh
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Remember that these are just averages for your device, at least in the beginning.
If you mistreated your battery upon receiving it, it can kill battery life. You are suppose to plug in your asus tablet for at least 8 hours (well beyond the tablet would say the battery is 100%) the first time you get it. This is sound advice for any new Lithium Ion Battery.
Then you can start using it. Letting the battery die at 0% also decrease the life of the Li-Ion battery every time it happens (ignore old sites that say you should do a full discharge cycle every 2 weeks, that was for old Nickel Cadmium batteries).
Juice Defender is typically a phone app but you can run it as well to detect if any background processes are eating up your battery life.
I get almost 10 hours on my TF700 with moderate usage (mix of browsing, video playback, reading, etc.).
Diogenes5 said:
If you mistreated your battery upon receiving it, it can kill battery life. You are suppose to plug in your asus tablet for at least 8 hours (well beyond the tablet would say the battery is 100%) the first time you get it. This is sound advice for any new Lithium Ion Battery.
Then you can start using it. Letting the battery die at 0% also decrease the life of the Li-Ion battery every time it happens (ignore old sites that say you should do a full discharge cycle every 2 weeks, that was for old Nickel Cadmium batteries).
Juice Defender is typically a phone app but you can run it as well to detect if any background processes are eating up your battery life.
I get almost 10 hours on my TF700 with moderate usage (mix of browsing, video playback, reading, etc.).
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All correct -- there is a lot of disinformation going on with batteries (especially regarding the charging cycles, although a single, long, full charge and then draining to zero charge actually helps calibrate the battery indication algorithms in the device). The optimum minimum charge level seems to be about 40% or so I've read.
Juice Defender and Greenpower toggle WiFi on either time- or location-based profiles, and that works on tablets as well. Recommended!
Your phone doesnt actually discharge a battery to zero. The thing with lithium batteries is they maintain voltage untill nearly the end. This is a very large benifit for modern devices. Once the voltage starts to drop the phones circuitry cuts it off and prevents it from powering on with the LVC circuit that checks the battery before allowing phone to power on then immeditately cuts it (first attempting a power down then all out power cut). This happens to protect the battery. So what the phone considers a dead battery is simply an exhausted battery ready for charge. If a lithium is actually dischardged completely it will damage the cell and prevent it from taking a charge. The power being given to it is then converted to heat. The battery then ignites and very very bad things happen such as your house burning down. The point of all that is to point out that discharging your phone to "zero" isn't actually doing any damage past the normal wear and tear on the battery. I buy batteries that cost hundreds for some of my RC hobbies and have learned the hard way about how lithium batteries work. (bypassed LVC and ruined a $80 3S2P pack)
Diogenes5 said:
If you mistreated your battery upon receiving it, it can kill battery life. You are suppose to plug in your asus tablet for at least 8 hours (well beyond the tablet would say the battery is 100%) the first time you get it. This is sound advice for any new Lithium Ion Battery.
Then you can start using it. Letting the battery die at 0% also decrease the life of the Li-Ion battery every time it happens (ignore old sites that say you should do a full discharge cycle every 2 weeks, that was for old Nickel Cadmium batteries).
Juice Defender is typically a phone app but you can run it as well to detect if any background processes are eating up your battery life.
I get almost 10 hours on my TF700 with moderate usage (mix of browsing, video playback, reading, etc.).
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i have actually read that Li-Ion batteries can be used out of the box. Sp i turned on my infinity right away. I put the charger in, but i still used the tablet. It was about 25% when i got it out of the box. So what you're saying is that i have basically ****ed up the battery? If so, then i will return and get a new one. But i dont understand why most people say that you can usre a device with Li-Ion battery staright out of the box without needing to charge it first.
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Your phone doesnt actually discharge a battery to zero. The thing with lithium batteries is they maintain voltage untill nearly the end. This is a very large benifit for modern devices. Once the voltage starts to drop the phones circuitry cuts it off and prevents it from powering on with the LVC circuit that checks the battery before allowing phone to power on then immeditately cuts it (first attempting a power down then all out power cut). This happens to protect the battery. So what the phone considers a dead battery is simply an exhausted battery ready for charge. If a lithium is actually dischardged completely it will damage the cell and prevent it from taking a charge. The power being given to it is then converted to heat. The battery then ignites and very very bad things happen such as your house burning down. The point of all that is to point out that discharging your phone to "zero" isn't actually doing any damage past the normal wear and tear on the battery. I buy batteries that cost hundreds for some of my RC hobbies and have learned the hard way about how lithium batteries work. (bypassed LVC and ruined a $80 3S2P pack)
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Nothing to add, technical and extensive, but fully correct, sir. I think we may have had a slight misunderstanding, however: my point was that discharging your phone to 'zero' (and as you rightfully point out, that is not an actual fully discharged battery state) is a required step in calibrating most device's algorithms (some devices, such as my SGS2 do not need this because of advanced hardware). I'd rather not fully discharge any Li-Ion batteries either.
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armanisafarai said:
i have actually read that Li-Ion batteries can be used out of the box. Sp i turned on my infinity right away. I put the charger in, but i still used the tablet. It was about 25% when i got it out of the box. So what you're saying is that i have basically ****ed up the battery? If so, then i will return and get a new one. But i dont understand why most people say that you can usre a device with Li-Ion battery staright out of the box without needing to charge it first.
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A typical case of RTFM, an affliction I sometimes suffer from as well, as do most men. Hahaha! Do you think ASUS put it in the manual for laughs, or just to give you a few more hours of painful desire to use your device while you cannot, yet? Nah, it's there for a reason. Sometimes, though -- and again that's SGS2 experience -- just running a few battery cycles might make the readout correspond to the actual battery level again. You could at least give it a try, right?
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armanisafarai said:
I have used this tablet for 2 days now and almost everything works perfect (thanks to latest ota) but there's one thing that is bothering me. Battery life. I had ipad 3 for 2 months but I finally sold it and bought the infinity. Now I know ios sucks on phones AND tablets. But the battery life was amazing. I could use it to browse and for games for 9 hours at least. But on the infinity I am lucky if I get 4 hours browsing. 4 hours sucks on a tablet. But I think that wifi is the problem. I have added 2 pictures were you can see I used the tablet for 1 hour last night then I used it for almost 3 more hours today. Now the battery is at 10%. But I was wondering why the battery uses 62%? On my galaxy nexus wifi is using 5%.
Have I got a faulty unit or is it like this for everyone? If so please let me know fast so I can send it back before it's too late.
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I see the same picture here. Looking at the battery stats I see WIFI using >90% of the battery when surfing in balanced/50% backligt mode.
Hope they fix this.
I'm not too sure how to go about this, but when I try to charge my nexus 5, regardless of the cable or charger i use, it won't charge faster than 1a unless I blow into the micro USB port hard, and I'm not sure if it's dust, because if I unplug it and plug it back in again it will go back down to 1a charging, when i blow into it, it can charge as high as 1700mAh...
Sorry for the noob question, it's my first post.
What are you using to determine the mAh?
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I'm not too sure how to go about this, but when I try to charge my nexus 5, regardless of the cable or charger i use, it won't charge faster than 1a unless I blow into the micro USB port hard, and I'm not sure if it's dust, because if I unplug it and plug it back in again it will go back down to 1a charging, when i blow into it, it can charge as high as 1700mAh...
Sorry for the noob question, it's my first post.
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What are you using to determine the mAh?
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He's just going through throttling which is normal. My phone does the same when battery is higher than 80%. My phone charges at 1.7A from 0-80% then 1A to 90%, then 0.6A to 100%. It's all pre dictated by the onboard battery chip
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He's just going through throttling which is normal. My phone does the same when battery is higher than 80%. My phone charges at 1.7A from 0-80% then 1A to 90%, then 0.6A to 100%. It's all pre dictated by the onboard battery chip
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Yeah, or that. But if he's measuring the mAh from within Android its kinda inaccurate too anyways.
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Yeah, or that. But if he's measuring the mAh from within Android its kinda inaccurate too anyways.
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Yeah true, I find the estimation by current widget to be alright for general current usage when comparing chargers. As long as the battery doesn't take several hours to charge, there's no need to be concerned
It was below 80%, and i realize that current estimates aren't 100% accurate but I don't think they would be 600mah different to the original...
I'm using battery monitor widget, I'll post screenshots when my battery drops to about 70%.
I'm not sure if my micro USB port is faulty or maybe it's just dusty, even though it doesn't look dusty, does anyone else have this same issue?
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What are you using to determine the mAh?
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I'm using battery monitor widget, but it shouldn't vary so much just by blowing into the charging port, should it?
Here's before and after blowing into it, I'm using the nexus charging accessory from the play store with a 1.8a output.
I know exactly what you're going through, OP. This technique was the only way I could Legend of Zelda to work.
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I know exactly what you're going through, OP. This technique was the only way I could Legend of Zelda to work.
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Haha, which fittingly has been described by Nintendo to be a placebo effect. If you just took the cartridge out and placed it back in, apparently that had the same chance of working.
I think the same can be said for this situation.
OP, mA current as reported by Android jumps all over the place. I could take a screenshot of it showing 1600mA, 1000mA and 600mA all within 20 seconds of each other. The only thing that you can do to try and prove this is happening (which I seriously doubt) is to use a log to plot the charging level over time. Even then the results could be skewed by whatever the phone happens to be doing during that time.
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Haha, which fittingly has been described by Nintendo to be a placebo effect. If you just took the cartridge out and placed it back in, apparently that had the same chance of working.
I think the same can be said for this situation.
OP, mA current as reported by Android jumps all over the place. I could take a screenshot of it showing 1600mA, 1000mA and 600mA all within 20 seconds of each other. The only thing that you can do to try and prove this is happening (which I seriously doubt) is to use a log to plot the charging level over time. Even then the results could be skewed by whatever the phone happens to be doing during that time.
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No that's not it, it does junp a little but never that much for me, it might be a problem with your charger if you're getting that...
Changed the rom and kernel and the problem was solved, i still can't explain it but meh, I'm happy with it now, if only I could do something about battery life now...
You can only do so much with 2300mah in such a high powered device...
N00TN00T said:
No that's not it, it does junp a little but never that much for me, it might be a problem with your charger if you're getting that...
Changed the rom and kernel and the problem was solved, i still can't explain it but meh, I'm happy with it now, if only I could do something about battery life now...
You can only do so much with 2300mah in such a high powered device...
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This was with the stock 1.2A charger. It's actually just my phone's usage constantly changing that causes the spikes, if logs were able to update more than once per second it would be jumping even more as I'm able to see with manual refresh. This happens during charging, full load and idle situations but your issue might have had something to do with the USB fast charge settings in certain ROMs.
I find the 2300mAh battery can be pushed surprisingly far, depending on your usage. If you're willing to sacrifice certain settings it can make things easier. This is on stock and unrooted, 20% brightness. I disabled Locations, Auto Syncs only allowed periodically at preset times, and used apps that are fairly battery efficient.
That was mostly WiFi, but this was with more mobile usage. Two work days on a weak 3G signal, 40% brightness using mostly Hangouts, Feedly, and 2 hours of video. Check out the [Battery Life Help] thread for more tips.
That's pretty impressive, i usually get about 3 hours SoT, with a bit under an hour phone calls usually and occasional snapchat, usually just internet browsing, underclocked to 1.7 and i almost half an hour SoT improvement without any loss to performance, cause i don't use my phone for gaming...
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This was with the stock 1.2A charger. It's actually just my phone's usage constantly changing that causes the spikes, if logs were able to update more than once per second it would be jumping even more as I'm able to see with manual refresh. This happens during charging, full load and idle situations but your issue might have had something to do with the USB fast charge settings in certain ROMs.
I find the 2300mAh battery can be pushed surprisingly far, depending on your usage. If you're willing to sacrifice certain settings it can make things easier. This is on stock and unrooted, 20% brightness. I disabled Locations, Auto Syncs only allowed periodically at preset times, and used apps that are fairly battery efficient.
That was mostly WiFi, but this was with more mobile usage. Two work days on a weak 3G signal, 40% brightness using mostly Hangouts, Feedly, and 2 hours of video. Check out the [Battery Life Help] thread for more tips.
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Hello ..
I am getting amazing battery life since I got 6.0 .. Before with lollipop I used to get around 5 hours on screen time. Amazingly though I hit 6.30 hours on the first day after update, and this with wireless, mobile data and Bluetooth on. And no data saving and screen on 70% which is amazing.
Good job Motorola
Excellent I would say
Excellent batt life with this new update very impressive how a software help the hardware to accomplish that task.
I replaced my STYLE and got a new one two days back. The old one would be dead even though it has 80%+ battery.
The current one is pretty good compared with the old unit. I got 4+ hours of SOT and I was on 4G and WiFi all the time. Was using it heavily for browsing and chat.
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I replaced my STYLE and got a new one two days back. The old one would be dead even though it has 80%+ battery.
The current one is pretty good compared with the old unit. I got 4+ hours of SOT and I was on 4G and WiFi all the time. Was using it heavily for browsing and chat.
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This is not bad at all. What I am saying is after MM update battery life increased about 1.5 hours extra SOT
Perhaps the update fixed something else? Looking at the MM update from L, there appears to be nothing besides Doze, which only works when the device is still and not used. I notice perhaps 15% better battery life if using the device sporadically during the day (medium use for me). With heavier use, I notice zero difference so far.
I was hoping some kernel adjustments were made, but the device spikes with heat about the same. I first thought it was less, but notice the same apps get the device very warm to hot (the GPU is over it's head with 1440p). Standby time is a lot better though, but only a significant improvement if lighter use though the day (so Doze can be a factor).
Usage is relative only to the user though
How do you get such great battery performance? I barely manage to get 3 hours SOT.
When the device is idle there's no drain, i only lose 2-3% overnight. But when the device is active the battery drains very quickly.
Tried a lot of battery saving stuff, greenify, powernap, and so on, but no luck.
I'm on MM stock rooted. Having a lot of apps installed. May this be the culprit?
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How do you get such great battery performance? I barely manage to get 3 hours SOT.
When the device is idle there's no drain, i only lose 2-3% overnight. But when the device is active the battery drains very quickly.
Tried a lot of battery saving stuff, greenify, powernap, and so on, but no luck.
I'm on MM stock rooted. Having a lot of apps installed. May this be the culprit?
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If 20% brightness or less, all you do is web surf and a little Youtube, with good LTE signal or wifi and VERY little use of apps that force the GPU to push 1440p, you can get five hours. Everything is relative to the user. That's it.
Counting stock apps, I have 395 apps and 5GB free (64GB model). based on MM battery report, I have no apps that are background battery demons.
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If 20% brightness or less, all you do is web surf and a little Youtube, with good LTE signal or wifi and VERY little use of apps that force the GPU to push 1440p, you can get five hours. Everything is relative to the user. That's it.
Counting stock apps, I have 395 apps and 5GB free (64GB model). based on MM battery report, I have no apps that are background battery demons.
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Are you talking just 1440p video in general or are you talking 1440p games?
I'm lucky if I get 2 hours of SoT. I can't tell if Android Wear is eating my battery or if it's Sprint, despite having a decent signal. Bluetooth and Cell Standby are chewing up the majority of my battery power. I think the network management is trying to shuffle my phone between their three frequencies and while at work, I can only get on the 1900MHz PCS band due to having to use a repeater.
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Are you talking just 1440p video in general or are you talking 1440p games?
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Some games and apps run at 1440p and choke the GPU. They stand out by running very warm to hot and drain the battery more quickly.
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How do you get such great battery performance? I barely manage to get 3 hours SOT.
When the device is idle there's no drain, i only lose 2-3% overnight. But when the device is active the battery drains very quickly.
Tried a lot of battery saving stuff, greenify, powernap, and so on, but no luck.
I'm on MM stock rooted. Having a lot of apps installed. May this be the culprit?
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Yes the apps do drain battery.
I uninstalled one particular email app that alone would drain 6% daily!
Anyway this time I got is without gaming. Mostly chatting and browsing and a lot of movies (vlc). I think that day I watched not less than 3-4 hours of continuous movies on the phone.
The only thing I did differently than before is removing unnecessary app permissions and notifications. Other than that I have done nothing. Like I said I do not try to save battery because I always have power source near by, but this 6.30 hours SOT i s awesome I tell you.
Based on my little experience with Android some apps will screw up the phone for no reason. First time I got the phone I got around 3 hours SOT with so many unneeded apps, and I did not know which app is draining my battery so I formatted the phone, and started installing apps one by one and watching the battery. And I managed to hit 4-5 hours with lollipop. Now with the update I got this and I was shocked.
Fully back to stock, unrooted, bootlocker relocked.
Upgraded to MM via OTA.
Installed all my apps via Play Store. Until now, i always restored my apps via TiBu, including data/settings.
I'm curious if my battery life will improve.
Will post the outcome, if any
Cheers!
A lot of the time my phone is just sitting on my desk. It used to say I would get around 1-2 days battery life from it sitting there doing nothing. After MM it says there is 8 days left. I have had it unplugged all day and even with some moderate use I am only at 95%. The doze mode really makes a big impact in stand by times!
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Perhaps the update fixed something else? Looking at the MM update from L, there appears to be nothing besides Doze, which only works when the device is still and not used. I notice perhaps 15% better battery life if using the device sporadically during the day (medium use for me). With heavier use, I notice zero difference so far.
I was hoping some kernel adjustments were made, but the device spikes with heat about the same. I first thought it was less, but notice the same apps get the device very warm to hot (the GPU is over it's head with 1440p). Standby time is a lot better though, but only a significant improvement if lighter use though the day (so Doze can be a factor).
Usage is relative only to the user though
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I think it did do something to the apps. The way you can block apps from getting access to location or other services is pretty impressive. I love that as I hated that apps would have access to everything on my phone and I cannot do anything about it. Now I can and this particular feature made me love Android even more after I switched two months back.
Is there something wrong with me. I only get 2 to 2 1/2 hours battery tops and actually I've tried amplify (paid version), and power nap and they don't seem to help much. I have only got 3 hours once since I got this phone. Is it just AT&T maybe?
I'd like to mention something else. Probably not related at all, but ..
My old MXS was a faulty unit (as I mentioned in my previous post). Once I got a new replacement, I have not yet charged the phone using Turbo Charger. I am charging it with Mi Pad charger (non-turbo). Yes, it took about 2+ hours to go from 30 to 100%.
Old MXS was always charged with turbo charger and I was getting pretty bad SOT and the baterry would drain as fast as it would charge. Does it have to do something with using a normal vs turbo charger?
I stop pretty much all background services and apps not in use. The only active applications are firefox, whatsapp and VLC.
My screen is set to 50% brightness with adaptive brightness ON. Moto X display and attentive display is ON.
Non-root (planning to root soon) and Moto ROM.
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I'd like to mention something else. Probably not related at all, but ..
My old MXS was a faulty unit (as I mentioned in my previous post). Once I got a new replacement, I have not yet charged the phone using Turbo Charger. I am charging it with Mi Pad charger (non-turbo). Yes, it took about 2+ hours to go from 30 to 100%.
Old MXS was always charged with turbo charger and I was getting pretty bad SOT and the baterry would drain as fast as it would charge. Does it have to do something with using a normal vs turbo charger?
I stop pretty much all background services and apps not in use. The only active applications are firefox, whatsapp and VLC.
My screen is set to 50% brightness with adaptive brightness ON. Moto X display and attentive display is ON.
Non-root (planning to root soon) and Moto ROM.
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Maybe if it is a faulty device. I use turbo and i t has nothing to do with battery life.
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Maybe if it is a faulty device. I use turbo and i t has nothing to do with battery life.
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Probably yes. But i would charge on non turbo for two weeks so that I get definite data for comparison.
timde9 said:
Is there something wrong with me. I only get 2 to 2 1/2 hours battery tops and actually I've tried amplify (paid version), and power nap and they don't seem to help much. I have only got 3 hours once since I got this phone. Is it just AT&T maybe?
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Less than 3 hours is not good bro, really anything below 4 hours is just bad. You better figure out what is draining your battery, or maybe it Is a bad unit?
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Probably yes. But i would charge on non turbo for two weeks so that I get definite data for comparison.
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what difference does it make if it is charged slowly or not??
It should not matter, if the battery is not keeping the power that means it is defective, nothing to do with slow or fast charging.
Hi,
Previously I successfully rooted LS966 and bricked while flashing ROM (Lesson Learnt) and paid a bomb to repair the motherboard.
I now have H955 - 15B. I successfully rooted the phone via online remote connect help, because I felt it would be cheaper than last time. After rooting,
Debloated mostly all google Bloatware and few system apps based on a list from another discussion on XDA,
Installed Pimp My CPU and reduced to 1230 Mhz
Doze to block background data traffic
Greenify to stop background processes.
This has been quite a versatile combination for me and the battery doesn't drop by even 1% until the screen is on.
Once the screen is on I am losing 1% of battery every 3 - 5 mins.
I am getting a Screen On Time of 3Hrs.45Mins only.
I have also read up on Battery Calibration issue and this is my second full charge - full discharge cycle.
But the battery percentages are still going down at the same speed.
My screen is drinking above 50% of my juice at 100% brightness. I tried to change that few times but it is more or less same.
Earlier it used to be around 15 to 30%. I am attaching current consumption picture.
While I am enjoying a good Stand By Time of upto 12 to 14 hrs, my Screen on Time is reduced to 3hrs 45Mins.
Is this normal?
Or I am missing something?
Is it the way ROM was flashed on old built before rooting because of soft brick while rooting?
Any indication will be of immense help. Many
Many Thanks.
Seems the way it should be. Changed my battery almost a week ago and I get maybe close to 4 hours of SOT, depends how you use your phone, I use it at 80% brightness though and standby time while it's just sitting on the table is days. :good: N.B. Using android 6.0.1, although it used to be pretty much the same on 5.1.1, maybe less standby time.
Also I'm pretty sure Pimp My CPU shouldn't be compatible with this phone because of the kernel and lockdowns. Maybe they've found some kind of loophole, doubt it though.
Also for the battery calibration, I fully discharge every month to 0% and then charge it to 100% while not using it and once it hits 100% it's good to go. Just the way I do it, not everyone does it the same.
Also, I never trust remote help of any kind, who knows what crap they might do, and even though I am an amateur at android rooting and flashing, I've done it myself every time cause I don't trust remote stuff.
And depending if you want root or not, you could use android 5.1.1 15c(although I don't know if the difference between 15b and 15c is that big) with root or android 6.0.1 20c without root. It's rather simple to root on 5.1.1 though, so many guides here, as long as you follow them to the letter.
You don't have to agree with what I've written here, it's just my opinion.
Azure Potato said:
Seems the way it should be. Changed my battery almost a week ago and I get maybe close to 4 hours of SOT, depends how you use your phone, I use it at 80% brightness though and standby time while it's just sitting on the table is days. :good: N.B. Using android 6.0.1, although it used to be pretty much the same on 5.1.1, maybe less standby time.
Also I'm pretty sure Pimp My CPU shouldn't be compatible with this phone because of the kernel and lockdowns. Maybe they've found some kind of loophole, doubt it though.
Also for the battery calibration, I fully discharge every month to 0% and then charge it to 100% while not using it and once it hits 100% it's good to go. Just the way I do it, not everyone does it the same.
You don't have to agree with what I've written here, it's just my opinion.
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Are you sure you get close to 4Hrs of SOT on a brand new battery because I get 3 Hrs and 50 Mins or so but less than 4 Hrs on a phone which is 6 months old. Never changed the battery. If that is the case then I think I am doing alright. I have seen SOT Tests of phones like Pixel and One Plus T.
I dnt think pimp my ROM has any restrictions. It kind of works smoothly. It helps me cool down the hot CPU also. I have ovecome the dreaded overheating issues of G Flex 2 easily with clocking my CPU.
I have done the battery calibration. But it quite didn't help me.
I went paranoid because immediately after the root I started to observe the battery percentage on the top. And I felt its falling drastically. But on the other end my stand by time has gone upto 15 hrs. The battery doesn't drop even by a single percent until the screen is on. Once it is on it goes down drastically.
I think of the battery calibration as kind of a safeguard, it's not a necessity.
The pixel and oneplus are different beasts altogether.
Also, as your phone is only 6 months old then it's battery should be ok and as I stated before battery life depends how one uses their phone, I tend to play a few games here and there with 80% brightness and such so it takes a bit more on my end. I personally haven't seen over 4 hours of SOT with my phone ever since I've had it, but your mileage may vary.
As for the PIMP my CPU, if it works for you good, I personally moved over to 6.0.1. When I was changing my battery I removed the motherboard out of curiosity to see how the thermal pad is and only one edge was touching the frame, so I added some Arctic MX-4 thermal paste between the frame and thermal pad and the temps are surprisingly better now. Still tends to get hotter than it should but throttles a lot less now and the screen brightness doesn't forcibly drop below 80% now, even when gaming. It used to drop to 50% etc before when just browsing the web. Anyways, that's that.
It might be some background stuff eating your battery too if you had better battery life than you do now, or it might be because of the motherboard change. Unfortunately I'm not smart enough to say for sure. Also, the more you look at the battery percentage the worse it looks
Sincerely,
Azure Potato
Azure Potato said:
I think of the battery calibration as kind of a safeguard, it's not a necessity.
The pixel and oneplus are different beasts altogether.
Also, as your phone is only 6 months old then it's battery should be ok and as I stated before battery life depends how one uses their phone, I tend to play a few games here and there with 80% brightness and such so it takes a bit more on my end. I personally haven't seen over 4 hours of SOT with my phone ever since I've had it, but your mileage may vary.
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Pixel is too expensive for me honestly and I am not really into expensive phones like iPhone or Pixel.
I am quite happy with G Flex 2's performance and I was only worried about SOT of 4 Hrs. I re calibrated battery and discharged and charged again 100% Thrice.
Somehow battery last over 15 hours after rooting. For example, its 3PM and I have 70% battery left even with SOT of 90 mins of movie. That is 1Hour30Mins.
And you're right, the more you look at battery. the more complicated it gets :laugh:
After rooting - Greenify + Pimp My ROM + Doze + Uninstall System Apps - combination is giving me 15 hrs of usage per day. It more or less includes phone calls, WiFi browsing, Network Data Browsing, Some videos and crazy amount of Twitter, all put together through out the day.
But I am still interested in SOT per single charge.
Interesting.... Same problem here
I'm on 20A, 6.0.1
You're sitting on about the expected SOT. I get anywhere from 4-5 hours and almost never take my brightness off 0%. I'm running a fully debloated 15c setup, same as yours except a version increment higher. The most intensive thing I do on here is install new apps, no gaming or anything. If you have the Facebook app, try switching to Facebook Lite which you can download off APK Mirror. Does everything the normal app does but without all the bloat, it's only a couple MB. Apart from all the tweaks you've already listed, there's not much else we can do. I've always wondered why screen takes the most battery usage by far, maybe it's just the screen type we have. Screen off is great, I lose less than 3% every night including background updates. Screen drains at about the same rate yours does.
Hi guys,
as we are approaching nearly 1.5 years since the Pixel 5 was released, I am curious what everyone's Battery Health is.
You can use Accubattery.
BatteryGuru also has it included in their app.
It will take a few charges to get an accurate reading.
I take pretty good care of my battery, by never going below 20% and only gone about 80% maybe 10 times.
I just got Accubattery on my device so I will update where I am in a little bit.
Well since I feel itt'll take a good 4-5 charges before any type of "accurate" measurement is shown, I decided to do a full charge and I'm very happy, I feel like this is at least 90% the capacity still. Right now BatteryGuru is showing 70% but I expect it to *hopefully* go up, since accubattery is showing 85%, but this is only after 1 charge.
Running Android 11 crDroid v7.15
I did 1 full charge (35% => 100%) with AccuBattery, says my battery health is 93% (3 718 mAh / 4 000).
Not bad I guess, for a 16 month old phone which I used to charge regardless to "efficiency rules".
I used stock rom, and rooted couple of months ago. And only recently switched to lineageos 18.1 and elementalx kernel so I can't tell if there's a difference.
I'll take a look at crDroid, but I can't help installing some google stock apps - force of habits.
If I see any significative change after some charging cycles I'll give an update.
Btw are you using a custom kernel?
AnyNameYouWish said:
I did 1 full charge (35% => 100%) with AccuBattery, says my battery health is 93% (3 718 mAh / 4 000).
Not bad I guess, for a 16 month old phone which I used to charge regardless to "efficiency rules".
I used stock rom, and rooted couple of months ago. And only recently switched to lineageos 18.1 and elementalx kernel so I can't tell if there's a difference.
I'll take a look at crDroid, but I can't help installing some google stock apps - force of habits.
If I see any significative change after some charging cycles I'll give an update.
Btw are you using a custom kernel?
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Thanks for posting my friend! That's a great starting point, I hope that it only gets better for you!
I'll upload images from what accubattery and batteryguru are currently showing, now that I have a few charges completed. I hope to see a higher health.. but it could always be worse. I remember my htc 10 bring at like 70% at this point in it's ownership.. though Android wasn't as up-to-date with battery adaptivities.
I used to use ElementalX but since lack of updates for Android 11 I've been pretty happy with crDroid stock kernel. (Though I have used the last update that was out and it ran quite nicely before I moved fully to crDroid. So I may give it a go and see what type of battery I am getting compared to crDroid stock).
CrDroid also comes with PixelGapps installed, which I personally love. So you'll get Pixel launcher, Camera and other Google apps/goodies .
I am not a very patient man, and a few minutes reading about this rom convinced me to try it asap !
Love it so far, I really like the stock experience with easy tweaks possibilities - I also already shared my gratitude and first issues in the main thread
I'll keep stock kernel for a few weeks and share accubattery and batteryguru screenshots here, before giving a try to elementalx kernel and see if there's a difference
This is all stock with root and some modules installed. I received my device in November of the year it was released
elong7681 said:
This is all stock with root and some modules installed. I received my device in November of the year it was released
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Dang! That's awesome health! You do anything special?
Mine is down to 87% for some reason.
andybones said:
Dang! That's awesome health! You do anything special?
Mine is down to 87% for some reason.
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Just kept my battery charged between 80% to 20%
90% here. Have the phone almost since launch and accubattery since then. Don't follow the 80% rule too much. I use to follow it religiously but then read a comment somewhere that by following it, you are at 80% health effectively so... it made sense.
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90% here. Have the phone almost since launch and accubattery since then. Don't follow the 80% rule too much. I use to follow it religiously but then read a comment somewhere that by following it, you are at 80% health effectively so... it made sense.
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So after few weeks I'm 90% on Accubattery and 85% on Batteryguru. I did noticed the stats were pulled down when I charged only to 80%, so I would tend to agree...
andybones said:
I used to use ElementalX but since lack of updates for Android 11 I've been pretty happy with crDroid stock kernel. (Though I have used the last update that was out and it ran quite nicely before I moved fully to crDroid. So I may give it a go and see what type of battery I am getting compared to crDroid stock).
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I installed ElementalX a couple of days ago, I've let it just as it is out of the box, no personnal settings. It seems to be very efficient with battery usage but maybe too much because I don't receive whatsapp calling notifications anymore, only "missed call" once it's too late... gonna take a look on the official topic to check it out.
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So after few weeks I'm 90% on Accubattery and 85% on Batteryguru. I did noticed the stats were pulled down when I charged only to 80%, so I would tend to agree...
I installed ElementalX a couple of days ago, I've let it just as it is out of the box, no personnal settings. It seems to be very efficient with battery usage but maybe too much because I don't receive whatsapp calling notifications anymore, only "missed call" once it's too late... gonna take a look on the official topic to check it out.
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Thanks for posting!
I am at 90% myself actually, and noticed it actually went up from 88% to 90% when I charged it over 80% to 85%.
So maybe with all the new changes and upgrades to batteries, etc, charging to 100% is just fine?
I think it is the charging overnight for more than 8 hours can possibly be harmful.
I think I'll start charging to 90%.
Maybe try adding whatapp to battery optimization, is you haven't already to see if you start getting the notifications.
andybones said:
So maybe with all the new changes and upgrades to batteries, etc, charging to 100% is just fine?
I think it is the charging overnight for more than 8 hours can possibly be harmful.
I think I'll start charging to 90%.
Maybe try adding whatapp to battery optimization, is you haven't already to see if you start getting the notifications.
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Already tried that but thanks for suggestion
About battery, I'm far from being an expert but I think it's still good to charge up to a lower lever eg. 80-90%, in order to preserve battery health and loose less capacity at each cycle. However, in order to properly measure the battery's performance, you'll have to give it a full charge or the stats will be inaccurate, as @ribogushter mentionned.
I would suggest, wipe your Accubattery and/or Batteryguru stats and give your phone a full charge from 20 to 100% and see if it impacts your health score
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Already tried that but thanks for suggestion
About battery, I'm far from being an expert but I think it's still good to charge up to a lower lever eg. 80-90%, in order to preserve battery health and loose less capacity at each cycle. However, in order to properly measure the battery's performance, you'll have to give it a full charge or the stats will be inaccurate, as @ribogushter mentionned.
I would suggest, wipe your Accubattery and/or Batteryguru stats and give your phone a full charge from 20 to 100% and see if it impacts your health score
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Darn sorry, wish I knew what else for you to try.
I think I will keep my stats in accubattery as it gets better with time, but I will charge it to 100% and see if it drops, goes up, or just stays the same at 90% health.
Edit: both accubattery and battery guru dropped a bit after charging to 100%.. down from 90% to 88% accubattery, and 89% to 86% battery guru.
I think I will probably do 90% from here-after though, I still think charging all the way to 100% all the time isn't the best, but I really don't know anymore!
I'd like to read more about getting the only 80%, I mean it's just common sense that you get actually only 60% if you run from 80%-20%, but that is charge capacity, not battery health capacity.
I do wish Google/Android had some documentation on this. Even cApple at least has a battery capacity built into its settings, and I saw they have a setting that tells if say the screen was replaced was it done using official cApple products, very good idea actually.
Also how has ElementalX been running?
I decided to flash it and see how it compares to the stock kernel in crDroid_v7.17 (Android 11)
I always loved it when I used it, but it is a little out-dated, (over a year now) but I think it's still fine.
Proton kernel is also really good.
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Darn sorry, wish I knew what else for you to try.
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I think it was becase I enabled data saving, and since I put Whatsapp on the exception list the problem seems to be solved. Once again, the problem was between the chair and the screen ^^
andybones said:
I think I will keep my stats in accubattery as it gets better with time, but I will charge it to 100% and see if it drops, goes up, or just stays the same at 90% health.
Edit: both accubattery and battery guru dropped a bit after charging to 100%.. down from 90% to 88% accubattery, and 89% to 86% battery guru.
I think I will probably do 90% from here-after though, I still think charging all the way to 100% all the time isn't the best, but I really don't know anymore!
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As you said, we probably never will have a 100% effective method to quantify battery health until it's native to Android ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Also how has ElementalX been running?
I decided to flash it and see how it compares to the stock kernel in crDroid_v7.17 (Android 11)
I always loved it when I used it, but it is a little out-dated, (over a year now) but I think it's still fine.
Proton kernel is also really good.
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Really smooth, I'm not experiencing any lags or freeze, or any problem so far and battery life seems to have improved. As a pure rookie, I don't understand what would make a given kernel different or better than the other, so I tried the one that seemed to be the most popular but I noticed only afterward that it hadn't been updated for a while and that the developer is focusing on his apps (he mentioned it on some thread).
Proton kernel's latest update is also almost 1y old, I'll stick with ElementalX until next update or give a try to CleanSlate which seems to be the most active.
Btw, I guess you're using ACC? If so, which charging switch are you using?
Best way to measure your battery is to charge it with an USB tester such as UM24 or UM25 . You can see how much mAH your battery can absorb and calculate the health . Phone needs to be turned off and charged with a regular charger, not fast-charger .
I'm looking for a good benchmark for the battery , i tried Geekbench4 , PC Mark ..do you any other good ones ?
Not that I think it helps I am always on my PC and just charge through the usb-c.
charges pretty fast too, like 45 min.
I may invest into UM24 orUM 25, thanks @arcadekidflo
If you only use usb-c to usb-c you can get TC-66c , from the same company . If you also use regular chargers you can get UM-25c .
AnyNameYouWish said:
I think it was becase I enabled data saving, and since I put Whatsapp on the exception list the problem seems to be solved. Once again, the problem was between the chair and the screen ^^
As you said, we probably never will have a 100% effective method to quantify battery health until it's native to Android ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Really smooth, I'm not experiencing any lags or freeze, or any problem so far and battery life seems to have improved. As a pure rookie, I don't understand what would make a given kernel different or better than the other, so I tried the one that seemed to be the most popular but I noticed only afterward that it hadn't been updated for a while and that the developer is focusing on his apps (he mentioned it on some thread).
Proton kernel's latest update is also almost 1y old, I'll stick with ElementalX until next update or give a try to CleanSlate which seems to be the most active.
Btw, I guess you're using ACC? If so, which charging switch are you using?
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I accidentally charged to 100% again, and health went up in accubattery.
Maybe I will start fully charging..
Oh yea. One thing that helped for me for late notifications is to turn off "Adaptive Notifications"
-- It's been working for me.
some ROMs (such as crDroid) it turns it back back on after every reboot.
I just make a shortcut on my homescreen using Activity Launcher
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If you only use usb-c to usb-c you can get TC-66c , from the same company . If you also use regular chargers you can get UM-25c .
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Many thanks my friend! Very much appreciated.
Mine looks like it's around 94% - ordered it on release day, so about 1.5 years old now.
I've not followed the 20% - 80% rule, most of the time just letting the phone charge fully over night.
Maybe the 20% - 80% doesn't really make any difference?
IMO it's pretty silly to only use a portion of your battery's indicated capacity. The nature of lithium ion batteries is such that both over and undercharging can cause damage, so manufacturers don't actually use 100%, or even 80%, of their full voltage potential. The battery circuitry itself, as well as the phone's power monitor, do a sufficient job of limiting charge and discharge, so its really not necessary to do it yourself. Use your phone as you normally would, but be aware that keeping it charged all the time may reduce battery life.