Battery Thread - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers

Please post your battery stats here, including Screen On Time.
Thanks.

5 hours SOT and Still at %30

Android System and OS together are eating nearly 50% of my battery.

Same here. System and OS eating my battery.

20 hours with 4 hours SOT. I'm not complaining. Much better than the s6!

First charge with massive wakelock issues...

Completely impressed with battery life. Pretty solid so far.

Not sure how everyone is getting all these legit battery stats. I'm only getting about 4-4.5 hours screen on time.

I'm at 15% with 3 hour 45 minutes screen on. No so impressive. I charged my phone before I went to bed and lost 16% with it just sitting, while I sleep. So much for doze.

Having the same issues. Trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong that everyone else is getting so much better results.

Anyone else care to comment? I'm getting pretty mediocre battery life. I expected ALOT BETTER. I'm averaging 4 hours screen on time. Android system is eating 37% right now.

combatmedic870 said:
Anyone else care to comment? I'm getting pretty mediocre battery life. I expected ALOT BETTER. I'm averaging 4 hours screen on time. Android system is eating 37% right now.
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I'm seeing similar results. I'm getting 3 hours and 45 minutes of screen on time with Android System eating up 30+%.
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Same boat here, relatively poor battery life and close to 2%/hr drain when not in use. Slightly better than my S5 active, but not much.
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Got the phone 2 days ago, it's a bit early but I'm not getting crazy battery life: I listen to music a lot (5-6h/a day - Deezer or Poweramp) and get 5-6%/hour drain, a bit less (maybe 2%) while idle. Coming from a Nexus 6P this isn't great...

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Anyone else have heat issues, my phone got crazy hot and I was just using fliboard no gaming or video watching.

Give it a week or so before complaining
Mine took 5 days to settle
Afterwards a constant 6.5 hr sot sometimes 8

anybody having battery issues,cycle the battery completely and it should improve. when i got my S7 and My S6 also battery was garbage. I did 2 full cycles and man im getting crazy battery after..
anyone not knowing exactly what I mean by cycle heres what I did
use the phone til it dies completely DO NOT TURN BACK ON
plug and charge til its fully charged turn back on use it again til it dies
and AGAIN DO NOT TURN IT ON just plug and charge fully before turning back on.
that was 2 full cycles did wonders for me hope it does that same for ya'll having bad battery good luck:good:

I've done two cycles. I average about 23 to 24 hours between charges. With 3 and a half hours screen time.
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After a week here's my new stats. Much much much better

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Battery life?

I just got the Captivate on Sunday so maybe it needs some time to settle in or whatnot, but I thought I'd make a post about its battery life. How's everyones experience with the battery so far? I love this phone to death, but it seems like the battery life sucks so far. It also seems to take a really really long time to charge up.
I have the display at 11% and haven't done anything with the phone at all today and I'm already at 80%.
3h 12m since unplugged. Says what's using my battery is:
Display: 35%
Cell Standby: 22%
Phone Idle: 15%
Bezier - Live Wallpaper: 7%
Android System: 6%
Advanced Taskkiller Free: 5%
Alarm Clock Plus: 4%
Android OS: 3%
I have GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth all off. Autobrightness is off, I just have it set to 11%.
80% after 3 hours of doing absolutely nothing to the phone doesn't seem right. I'm killing apps I'm not using and the only thing more I could really do is kill the live wall paper but it doesn't seem to be taking that much battery life and I really like it.
Any thoughts?
Also it seems to take like an hour and a half to get like 15% charge when plugged into an outlet. It just takes absolutely forever to charge it.
Yea my battery life is also draining really fast. It tells me that the screen is using 73% of the battery though....
Any thoughts?
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bb12489 said:
Yea my battery life is also draining really fast. It tells me that the screen is using 73% of the battery though....
Any thoughts?
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When I first got it I used it till it died pretty much and then charged it all the way back to full. Wasn't sure if this was necessary or not, but I'm just pointing out that I did it. I have obviously been using it a bunch when I first got it, but now I'm not, trying to see what kind of battery life I have. I haven't done anything except look at the phone a couple times this morning. Haven't even run an app.
Yea same here. Im doing the exact Same thing. I unplugged at like 8am and right now im at 80%
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I unplugged my phone about 3 hours ago and I am at 93% battery life.
I am using Juice Defender, and I kill all apps that I don't want open.
I actually think this phone has great battery life. It typically takes a few charge cycles for the battery to settle in. I abuse the phone a lot and it lasts all day for me. Compared to my tilt2 this thing has much better battery. I would suggest that you guys run the battery all the way down, and let it charge fully overnight a few days in a row, and you should see and increase in performance.
Current Battery: 74% Unplugged for 5hrs 14 minutes
Display: 41%
voice calls: 37%
standby:11%
Idle:7%
android system: 3%
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I unplugged my phone about 3 hours ago and I am at 93% battery life.
I am using Juice Defender, and I kill all apps that I don't want open.
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I just installed juicedefender. Looks interesting. We'll see if it makes a difference.
Running down the battery to about 5 or 10 percent and then charging all the way up several times definitely helps. Its been almost eleven hrs since I unplugged and I'm at 73%
Let it run down and then charge all the way up several times. Worked with my phone.
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My Battery Life on my bold was better but then it is a different phone and the battery was almost 2 years old but still worked great. Now my battery is at 22% and when I left a 8:50 am PDT, I pulled it off of charge, and I am playing music to intentionally get the battery down to 5% or less before I charge it. Not bad considering, I am constantly doing a ton of stuff, browsing, playing games, playing music the first time, and running google earth/maps as well as you tube videos.
Cheers,
Charlie
ive been unplugged for 2 hours and 27 minutes and im down to 67%
Haven't done much with the phone all day. Installed juicedefender. Left it on easy settings. Not sure how much it's helping so far, if anything. This is my current breakdown: 8h, 48m since unplugged... 35% battery remaining. Display: 45%, cell standby: 16%, phone idle: 10%, Live Wallpaper: 7%, android system: 5%, beautiful widgets, maps, speed test, android OS and advanced task killer 3%, 3%, 3%, 3%, 2% respectively. Still think it's not doing what it should. A good majority of the day I've left it in the off position, not messing with it. 30% by the time I leave work really kind of sucks.
I got the phone Sunday. Used the crap out of it Sunday and Monday and let it run almost down to 0% (it was warning me to plug it in) then let it charge to 100% which took hours and hours and hours. I remember when I had my Iphone down to like 60% when I left work I'd enable pandora streaming and plug it into the car charger and be back up to 85% by the time I got home at least, and it's a half hour drive.
When I plug it into the car charger or a regular outlet I'm lucky if it goes up 2% after a half hour. I'm starting to wonder if this thing has a bad battery.
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ive been unplugged for 2 hours and 27 minutes and im down to 67%
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What is your phone's uptime?
I've been unplugged since 6:45am this morning.. its about 2:40 now and I am at 73%.
I've been downloading apps, playing with androidVNC and just continually tinkering with settings.
My uptime is 111:40:00 and its been 7h 50m since unplugged.
I'm using launcher pro.
I have a bit of speculation that Touchwiz has something to do with it including its special widgets.
Something isn't right with that.
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Haven't done much with the phone all day. Installed juicedefender. Left it on easy settings. Not sure how much it's helping so far, if anything. This is my current breakdown: 8h, 48m since unplugged... 35% battery remaining. Display: 45%, cell standby: 16%, phone idle: 10%, Live Wallpaper: 7%, android system: 5%, beautiful widgets, maps, speed test, android OS and advanced task killer 3%, 3%, 3%, 3%, 2% respectively. Still think it's not doing what it should. A good majority of the day I've left it in the off position, not messing with it. 30% by the time I leave work really kind of sucks.
I got the phone Sunday. Used the crap out of it Sunday and Monday and let it run almost down to 0% (it was warning me to plug it in) then let it charge to 100% which took hours and hours and hours. I remember when I had my Iphone down to like 60% when I left work I'd enable pandora streaming and plug it into the car charger and be back up to 85% by the time I got home at least, and it's a half hour drive.
When I plug it into the car charger or a regular outlet I'm lucky if it goes up 2% after a half hour. I'm starting to wonder if this thing has a bad battery.
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What the iPhone was doing is called a rapid charge. That 85% is not equivalent to an 85% charge that you would get from discharging from 100%
You should read this article.
hxxp://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
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What the iPhone was doing is called a rapid charge. That 85% is not equivalent to an 85% charge that you would get from discharging from 100%
You should read this article.
hxxp://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
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Fair enough. I'm very interested in checking out this article, but I've gotta run now. I was going to give the GPS one more shot on the way home. If I can't get a lock and the battery doesn't get much of a charge being plugged in the whole way I think I may take it back to the AT&T store and see if they'll swap it out or even give me a battery replacement.
Should I reverse the root before I do that, if I do? I know that's entirely off topic. Should I just remove the superuser permission app (if I even can)?
Additionally, just throwing this out there anyway, according to this review: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/07/23/att-samsung-captivate-review/ their camera is awesome without any settings changes.. I find the regular camera kind of blows. I'll upload some pictures if anyone wants to see em, but I used my phone, on the basic settings, to take pictures of my Iphone which I was selling on ebay and the pictures came out kind of crappy, especially for being 5mega pixel. The video camera looks great, but the picture part of it I am really surprised at. My overarching point is I think there might just be some lemon phones out there possibly, and I think I might have gotten one. I'm running into all the major problems that some people are complaining about. Camera, GPS locking, battery, lagginess of the UI, etc. I think I'm gonna try to get AT&T to swap my phone out.
LIke said in other threads, mine just draining like crazy before but now it seems to be pretty bearable. Here are the things that REALLY helped me:
1.Completely drain the phone till its dead.
2.Fully Charge the phone with it off! Yes you can live without it for a little while
3.Disable the live wallpaper,
4.Use Launchpro and heaurisitc which is the vibration when the 4 buttons at the bottom are used.
5.Reduce vibration overall
6.Dim Screen
7.Turn off everything except I run wireless and fring 24/7 basically
AND this phone is fast,
I dunno if its available through the free launchpro, but I paid for the plus and its sooo fast.
1.I just disable all the animation crap and everything and make everything level 8 on speed of opening up
2.Disable the elastic animation when moving from screen to screen....
3. I would really suggest people pay for launchpro plus, cause its cheap and the work is almost gods gift to cell phones ahahhaa....
Hope this helps....
7am and now its 1PM with Wifi and Fring on since 10am and last checked its at 80% with a 15 minute phone call. and messaging probably 30 messages.
I am going to drain it till its dead tonight again and fully charge with phone off again. I think this helps a lot.
I unplugged my phone at 8:30...listened to an hour of Pandora, checked email, and was on Twitter...down to 85% at 10:30 which is pretty good to me. I also don't have a task killer installed for what its worth.
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Well Update around 30 minuets my phone completely died for the first time so I am charging it now, and I am hopeful that it will get better soon.
HTH,
Charlie
Get rid of the live wallpaper, that uses quite a bit of battery
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I just want to mention that I swapped out my captivate at the AT&T store yesterday. I let it almost die, then charged it to full, unplugged it for 5 minutes, charged it to full again, unplugged it for 5 minutes and charged it to full again and left it connected over night.
I've been using the phone all day today, changed settings, texted, generally used it, since about 6:45AM and I'm at 71% battery at 11:35. Insanely better. By a lot. With the old phone I'd be at 30 or 40% by now, honestly.
Additionally, the screen seems much brighter, even at the lowest setting. The camera seems to take better pictures and everything seems much snappier and quicker on the phone, by a lot.
I got the GPS to lock on once, and while it wasn't perfect, it followed me, and then I couldn't get it to lock again unfortunately, but I'll keep messing with it. I think it's a samsung update issue anyway, with regards to the GPS.
I really and truly believe that I got a lemon phone. I know that the AT&T store by me sold out on the first day so I definitely got this one from a different batch. This is like a totally different phone. If anyone else is having these kinds of problems with lag and battery life and things, try getting the AT&T store to swap out your phone. You have 30 days.
The iPhone and many other phones like the Droid charge faster for some reason.
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[Q] How is the battery life on your transformer

Post your battery usage on your transformer, and how much juice you are getting.
Mine looks like it's draining much.
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I had 100% battery when I started using it last night at 4pm used it heavily from then until about 830, which included the firmware update and some angry birds and I was just under 50% by 10pm after 1.5hrs of standby. Didnt plug it in until i left for work after some browsing this morning andwas at 35% then. Hope that helps!
I have an ipad 2 and a transformer and par to par my ipad 2 last longer, but I love honeycomb and it's probably due to the fact that we have real background applications
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For my first charge, I wanted to charge it up and then run it down until it died to calibrate the battery. It lasted a good two days, probably 9 hrs of pretty heavy use as I goofed with it constantly. It was hard to get it to finally die, I turned the brightness up all the way and kept it alive to kill the last 5%.
It was draining pretty quickly at first but it improved over time, specially after the first FOTA.
I've been using it on and off over the past 3 days and it has just over 40%.
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For my first charge, I wanted to charge it up and then run it down until it died to calibrate the battery.
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Just wondering do we really need to run it down till it dies and then do a full charge?
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Just wondering do we really need to run it down till it dies and then do a full charge?
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I dunno. People are all over the road on this, so I'll just give you my opinion. I don't think that full discharge of lithium ion batteries is good for them. These aren't the old fashioned NiCd batteries where that was true. The more you use your lithium battery, the shorter it's life. There are people that say otherwise. That said, on an Android machine, I think that the battery calibration needs to see the full range of the battery to be accurate; and it is worth one full cycle to get things working. That's why I did it. I'm not recommending that anyone else do it, that's just what I did with mine.
I thought mine was draining fast at first but I'm on about 32 hours since it was plugged in to get its full charge. Of that a solid 3 to 4 hours of use easy. Currently at 19%
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Wouldn't it take a couple of discharges and recharges before the battery gets conditioned?
The other day it was on 100% brightness and light usage I think I got 6 hours out of it. 5 hours in use I'd say. Max brightness and touch intensive stuff like angry birds and playing w/ it FWIW. I'm sure at a lower brightness you could get close to the 9 hour battery life. On the other hand before work I unplugged it at 100% and it sat in a 40 degree car from 7:00am to 5:00 pm and only fell down to 94%.
Asus does recommend a series of full discharges and then basically keeping it topped off from then.
I've been using it almost non stop since 8:00 pm, when it was fully charged. Now, it is 3:00 AM, and at 42% battery life. If it keeps going at this rate, I should have over 10 hrs of battery life. It is on auto brightness. I've been using it to study pdf powerpoint slides, playing some angry birds, and surfing the net with firefox. During the longer studying sessions, I used airplane mode. That probably saved battery life.
I left my transformer fully charged last night and turned it back on this morning to find the charge at 55%.
Didn't seem to be any background apps running that could have accounted for the charge drop, though my wifi was stuck off requiring a reboot to turn it back on.
Anyone else with similar experiences?
den997 said:
I left my transformer fully charged last night and turned it back on this morning to find the charge at 55%.
Didn't seem to be any background apps running that could have accounted for the charge drop, though my wifi was stuck off requiring a reboot to turn it back on.
Anyone else with similar experiences?
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I am having the same issue. Last night I had 42% when I put it in sleep mode. This morning tried taking it out of sleep mode and the tablet reboot some time last night Weird. When it came back on it was down to 22%. Dont know but I am getting horrible battery life. Started using it at 10pm last night and by 1 am it was at 45%. Had on auto brightness All I did was surf, and stream music from my server. Maybe I need to drain it down tonight......
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I am having the same issue. Last night I had 42% when I put it in sleep mode. This morning tried taking it out of sleep mode and the tablet reboot some time last night Weird. When it came back on it was down to 22%. Dont know but I am getting horrible battery life. Started using it at 10pm last night and by 1 am it was at 45%. Had on auto brightness All I did was surf, and stream music from my server. Maybe I need to drain it down tonight......
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That shouldn't happen. Maybe try turning airplane mode on before you go to sleep? Or maybe you need a task manager?
Attached an image of my battery life. I definitely got around 11 hours on one charge.
As for recharging, it seems to recharge to full in 2-3 hours.
I'm finding that during actual use, my TF is doing about as well as my Xoom. However, the Xoom is using MUCH less battery while on standby. Where the TF is burning around 2.5-3%/hour on standby, the Xoom burns <1% on standby.
I'm still on the original build (i.e., haven't had a single update applied) and as noted earlier in the thread some things might have been optimized. And, I'm still burning on average around 3.5%/hour, so that still translates to over 25 hours battery life. Not as good as the Xoom but still pretty decent.
If it gets a little better in standby after an update, though, I won't complain.
I got 9 hours 34 minutes of CONSTANT use. For 4 hours straight I was running a flash application constantly.
I'm doing my second batter run down right now with normal usage.
When mine worked, I used it for nearly 2 hours straight on wifi with the screen on Auto, playing games and browsing the web. It drained 20% extrapolating such I'm getting the 9.5 hours of constant use WITH games. I was pleased until my screen failed on me
When you all drain the battery, are you taking it all the way till it powers itself off or plugging in at a low power state?
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i don't have exact times but on my first charge it drained fairly quickly and was below 15% in maybe 36 hrs? with my xoom the first charge lasted 5 days! so in comparison as of right now the xoom had better battery life, but people are saying it gets better so we'll see. i don't mean this as a complaint at all because it doesn't bother me to charge it and i love this tablet. just something i have noticed.
i might add that these times i have given are just browsing, using a few apps and games, but no movies are anything.
aftre seeing a couple other posts in this thread it seems the xoom may just be getting much better standby time.

I actually like my Sensation, but I'm gonna have to return it

Kind of makes me sad though. The device feels good in my hand and I like it overall, but the battery performance is unacceptable for me. I went to bed with it having something like 93% (dropping from 100% after like 15min of play). Not even 6h later I wake up and when I look at it, the battery is already drained to 85% only from standby (Yes,always-on mobile data is deactivated, power efficiency is on). After playing with the unit in train and some browsing while commuting for 30min, its already at 70% or something. During the next few hours, while working, I was just checking mails, using whatsapp from time to time and writing a few messages. No surfing, no videos no games.
By 3PM the battery was at 15%. Even worse, the damn thing takes some 4h+ to fully charge. That's just too damn long, my iphone 3gs charges fully in about an hour. What is also very frustrating is that the Sensation discharges a good portion of its current as pure HEAT. Never saw a phone get this warm afer 15min of normal usage.
I knew battery wasn't going to be stellar but this just sucks. Most of all that a full charge takes 4h. fail :-/
EDIT: Ok guys the 2.3.4 update did the trick! The battery now chrages fully within 2h and battery life has ridiculously improved!
I took it off the cord around 8am this morning. Now it's 2pm and my battery is at 83 with some 46min screen time and slight usage. Also the heating seems to be gone.
Apart from that, everything runs smoother with the new update. Guess I'm gonna keep the little guy after all
However, I did order 2 extra Ankers + charger (25$!) as additional mobilty is never wrong.
Before you return it, I recommend that you call HTC support and request a warranty exchange for the phone and battery.
You may have a defective unit.
While my battery isn't stellar, I get a minimum of 10 hours before I drop below 20% life (always-on mobile data off, manual syncing, not too many widgets).
Your phone battery performance is not indicative of Sensation battery performance for the overall majority.
Most have said that the battery gets better after a few full charges/discharges, and the todays new update is supposed to improve battery performance. Many people say the Sensation is better than most other 4G phones.
I dont play games and such, mostly phone text and email and it lasts me a day and a half. There is also a better battery you can get.
That charging time is ridiculous, which leads me to believe that your unit and/or battery is defective.
Mine charges from 15% to 100% in 2 hours. Same for almost everybody elses phone.
You might want to reconsider and try warranty exchange mentioned earlier. Also, I would suggest the ChiChi battery. I'm running from 7:30 to about 4:00 with my WiFi hot spot turned on for my Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I'm using my phone for calls, texts etc., my battery still has about 30% left when I leave work.
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Dude , custom rom and anker / chitec battery.
My first time with my new anker achieved almost 24 hours on battery and almost 4 hours screen time with quite alot of use during that time.
Totally destroyed my oem battery in every way.
Also I would do a Warranty Exchange and with the new update I have seen a big differance in 2.3.4 vs 2.3.3 in terms of battery life and speed of Sense in general. I purchased a Anker 1900mah battery for $10 and fully charged to dead I get on average about 17-20 hours and I would say I'm a good moderate to HEAVY! user. Switching back to a stock battery after calibrating with the Anker Battery has also improved battery life seeing that I get between 12-14 hours with stock now. I would charge to 100% go to bed and wake up with about 97%-98%
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Dude , custom rom and anker / chitec battery.
My first time with my new anker achieved almost 24 hours on battery and almost 4 hours screen time with quite alot of use during that time.
Totally destroyed my oem battery in every way.
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+1 I agree 110%, Try this though Calibrate the Anker Battery then fully charge your stock battery and see what battery life you get.
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Get a anker battery and download leedroid/android revolution/insertcoin. I guarantee you won't want to return it than. When I first got my device I was thinking about doing the same thing but after I looked through the thread I saw people were getting better results with the anker or chichi. Don't be discouraged that its a third party. It actually out performs the stock battery and embarrasses it.
Also download calibrate battery from the market.
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I had terrible battery life for the first week or so. 6 to 8 hours max, and 2 hours screen time if I was lucky. After conditioning the battery by fully discharging then fully charging on the AC adapter for a few cycles, it corrected itself for the most part. Yesterday I had 15 hours with 3 hours screen time and still had 20+ percent left. I have a chichtech battery sitting in my mailbox right now waiting for me to get off work.
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I had terrible battery life for the first week or so. 6 to 8 hours max, and 2 hours screen time if I was lucky. After conditioning the battery by fully discharging then fully charging on the AC adapter for a few cycles, it corrected itself for the most part. Yesterday I had 15 hours with 3 hours screen time and still had 20+ percent left. I have a chichtech battery sitting in my mailbox right now waiting for me to get off work.
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After I got my anker I sold my OEM and got two more. I also have a evo3d battery that I haven't used. I also have been hearing good things about it.
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really appreciate the good advice guys, thanks. I have done my bit of reading here and many many people here report having around 4h charge timr (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154780)
So you guys can not confirm this? If so, it might be my battery is faulty. I will upgrade to 2.3.4 and calibrate. Probably will improve battery time, I doubt however it will reduce the charge time...
Something is definitely up. I just got my Sensation 10 days ago and am still stock. It takes me ~2 hours to fully charge, and that's with me using the phone like crazy while its charging....and the phone light on the entire time.
And I get a good full days use out of it....sometimes 2 days if I dont use the screen much and just phone text email.
IT'S ALIVE!!!
Ok guys the 2.3.4 update did the trick! The battery now chrages fully within 2h and battery life has ridiculously improved!
I took it off the cord around 8am this morning. Now it's 2pm and my battery is at 83 with some 46min screen time and slight usage. Also the heating seems to be gone.
Apart from that, everything runs smoother with the new update. Guess I'm gonna keep the little guy after all
However, I did order 2 extra Anker's as additional mobilty is never wrong, and with such an offer it was a steal:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005DY4MAW/ref=oss_product
Also check if your phone is always awake because I had this and it had a huge affect.
I easily get 16-20 hours with LeeDroid's ROM.
i had the same battery issue with my first sensation. Even after several cycle of charging - discharging, battery calibration, the battery would not last for more than 7-8 hours. i exchanged it , for first couple of days, it didn't hold the charge for long,.but after i did battery calibration and update to 2.3.4, now my battery will last for 12 to 14 hours with moderate use. doesn't get hot with normal use, but over the weekend , i use map navigation and temp reached 48C. I think, i should not use it as GPS for longer than few minutes, or it may burn the phone.
Juice Defender Ultimate is definitely worth the tiny amount of money it costs. Just got just over 3 days on my Sensation, admittedly i hardly used it.
Usually i get a good 22 hours from it with medium use.
HTC sensation
Just replace the battery and you will see the difference.. my phone last ast least 10 hours.. its just amazing....
I lose almost no charge while it sits on standby.
I work 12 hour shifts, I listen to Music the entire time, browse, login to home computers for about 30 minutes using Teamviewer and keep up with RSS feeds throughout.
By the end of shift I'm down to 5%.
Sounds like you need a replacement, rather than a return, bud.

Very curious quirk On Android Open Kang Project ROM... Near Unlimited Battery!!!!

hi all...
soo after my comments over a week ago on the aokp website for this build, i decided afterall to take the plunge and update. i was on b26, so subsequently had to flash b27 and then this. everything has gone absolutely swimmingly with no issues at all so far....
HOWEVER>>>>>
I am faced with a very puzzling quirk. its by nooooo means a problem at all, infact it quite the opposite!!! let me explain.
i've started charging my phone in the evening these days for some stupid reason and then, when charged taking it off and going to bed. After getting this milestone on, my battery has been killed over night, draining to around 15%. Normally, it would drain to around 70% and be flat by the end of the day ready for charging again.
This continued for a few days when i decided to root out the cause of the massive overnite idle drain. I installed a fantastic free app called Badass Battery Monitor (which i highly recommend btw!), and over a period of a couple of days the offending app was weeded out. It was Nova Launcher. This had never happened to me before and couldn't understand it. So, as part of my diagnostics, I decided to confirm the findings by removing it and just using stock.
Over a couple of days monitoring, with exactly the same charging method, my battery levels returned to normal drainage with around 75% battery left by the morning. Fantastic. I had found the problem fixed it and got back to normal. Soooo where is the quirk i here you say!!!? lol Well......
On average, from everything i've read in forums, battery drain overnight while phone in standby is around 20/30%, so mine WAS right up there with the majority of you.
Last night, i decided to charge to full and then wipe battery stats. Which i did. Now, bare in mind here that I ONLY have the standard battery that is supplied with the Galaxy Nexus. I got up this morning, and to my utter amazement, my battery had only drained 2%
Now been incredibly realisting here based on average overnight drains, i was 100% sure that this was deffo an error. I have done everything from restarting the phone, taking the battery out, but still the level in my battery was saying the same.
As I sit here writing this, I have been streaming a radio station via wifi on the phone for the last 2 hrs, and atm my battery is telling me that it is STILL 85% full.
I am DEFFO not complaining, but i'm sure now, you can see why the hell i am so puzzled! HOW THE HELL IS THIS HAPPENING, because i can genuinely find no explanation at all for it
as a follow up, it is now more or less 5 hrs since my orginal post, and my battery is reporting that it is 75% full
Jeesh, 20 to 30 idle drain overnight? My phone drains about 3 to 5 overnight which is typically 8 hours of sleep.
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Interesting quirk. Are you a heavy or a light user? It'd be nice to see how it drains after a full drain and recharge.
Mrgadgetz said:
Interesting quirk. Are you a heavy or a light user? It'd be nice to see how it drains after a full drain and recharge.
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well, to see if what was been reported was correct, i've been an absolute heavy user today. i have wifi on, ive streamed radio via internet for around 3 hrs, ive been playing all sorts of games and watched a few youtube vids. and my battery is atm reporting 74% life left
so here i am, STILL very very puzzled..
my battery life is just going and going with no signs of running flat... have a look at these screenshots and give me an explanation as to why i suddenly have a super battery!
MAYBE you really have a super battery or your mobile is glitched and shows the battery like that due to laG?
I'm on miui and I lose 0% overnight. It just depends on the ROM, but 20-30% is ridiculous!
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Ictcreations said:
so here i am, STILL very very puzzled..
my battery life is just going and going with no signs of running flat... have a look at these screenshots and give me an explanation as to why i suddenly have a super battery!
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Your states do not seem super impressive. On most phones the screen is the biggest drain. You show 49% battery with a screen on of only 1 hour. After 33 hours you've only used your phone for 1 hour screen on. Thats VERY little.
I usually get 2.5-3 hours of screen on time for my galaxy nexus.
Ictcreations said:
I installed a fantastic free app called Badass Battery Monitor (which i highly recommend btw!)
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Thanks for the app recommendation! Been looking for something like it all day.
This will depend on ROM/Radio/Kernel user installed programs/sync etc but 2-6% is normal drain over night anyone with 20% needs to seriously look @ battery stats and work out what's causing wake locks.
Also not forgetting most phones need to bed in after a flash which can take 2-3 days before we see real battery info.

How does the battery drain on your S6?

On my G3, when I fully charge the phone, it would stay at 100% for a VERY long time before dropping down to 99%. The most I've gotten out of the 1% before was about 25 minutes of SoT.
On my S6, once the phone is fully charged, it seems to drop to 99% very quickly, within just a couple minutes of using the device.
What causes this difference between the two models and does your S6 act the same way as mine?
So far my GF and I notice the battery drops quickly also.
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Battery is terrible!!! Drains at about 10% per hour.. And I'm on the latest available stock rom.
dilgit said:
Battery is terrible!!! Drains at about 10% per hour.. And I'm on the latest available stock rom.
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That's pretty damn good if it do so. That's 10 hour SOT.
I can barely get 4 hours SOT.
Battery life is good for me.
19hrs since last charge, 52% power remaining. Screen on time of 1h 15min.
genetichazzard said:
Battery life is good for me.
19hrs since last charge, 52% power remaining. Screen on time of 1h 15min.
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Thats terrible on screen time though
reubenskelly1992 said:
Thats terrible on screen time though
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Yes but look at the great standby time.
Genetic is inline to get around 2-3hrs SOT with almost 40hrs Standby thats not too bad actually
But on screen time ia surely more important
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But on screen time ia surely more important
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Sure SOT is important but it depends on your standby too. Example 6hrs SOT with 8hrs Standby is kinda expected and normal. If you can get 6hrs SOT with 24hrs Standby the that is mightly impressive.
True but 19 hrs standby and 1 30 on screen is awful. That means you picked up the phone and drained it half way in an hour and a bit
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True but 19 hrs standby and 1 30 on screen is awful. That means you picked up the phone and drained it half way in an hour and a bit
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Im not sure you get how it works bud.
That 1.5hrs SOT was not achieved in one continous sitting.
If you read my previous post i explained that you can get 6hrs SOT with the S6 easy but your standby will be short say around 8hrs. If you watch videos no stop on the S6 you could probably get 7-8hrs SOT before the battery is flat. This is normal for the S6.
Basically: Long SOT = shorter standby
Long standby = shorter SOT
The Holy Grail is Long Standby + Long SOT
EDIT: Im only referring to the S6 in my asaumption. There are flagships out that can get long standby and long SOT already out there namely Note4 and Mate7.
I have pretty terrible standby time though. An all nighter drained 10% but if i use the phone continuously i could get 4hrs of sot lol
Brightness was on auto
shiningarmor said:
I have pretty terrible standby time though. An all nighter drained 10% but if i use the phone continuously i could get 4hrs of sot lol
Brightness was on auto
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I get about a day standby with between 4-5 SOT.
Overnight drain is around 3-4%, I normally sleep around 7hrs a night.
I'm using XtreStoLite seriously debloated ROM, Ktoonsez 920F Kernel.
Also using App Ops and Disable Service to kill Google Play Services wakelocks.
Hope this helps you get better battery life bud.
Playing music through streaming music app Simfy, doesn't require the screen to stay on.
SOT isn't the only way to gauge a battery's performance.
Haha you guys took this thread pretty off-topic. My question was more related to the actual way your battery drains vs battery life.
Japultra said:
Haha you guys took this thread pretty off-topic. My question was more related to the actual way your battery drains vs battery life.
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Apologies OP didn't mean to derail tour thread.
Hmm i wouldnt want to root and unlock yet. Im gonna give it at least a month or two because the rattling home button is quite a concern to me. Even though its not really that bad
Man I must be lucky cause battery life for me looks REALLY good, especially considering the small capacity and the 2k display. Last night I fell asleep in front of the TV with my phone at 20%, woke up this morning and it was still at 20%. It's sipping battery nicely. I'm happy!
Edit: I'm all stock using the G920i. My brightness is controlled manually indoors, automatically outdoors.
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barondebxl said:
Man I must be lucky cause battery life for me looks REALLY good, especially considering the small capacity and the 2k display. Last night I fell asleep in front of the TV with my phone at 20%, woke up this morning and it was still at 20%. It's sipping battery nicely. I'm happy!
Edit: I'm all stock using the G920i. My brightness is controlled manually indoors, automatically outdoors.
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I noticed the same thing with my S6 the first night I got it. It came with 50% battery and after an update and me playing around with it a bit I went off to bed at about 23%. The next morning I woke up and it was at 22%. I consider that to be exceptional considering nothing was disabled and it wasn't even on its first charge.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to fully set up my S6 due to exams so it's been sitting on my desk looking pretty. I'm still using my S5 for the time being and plan to fully switch over to the S6 in the next few days!
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The battery on my edge seems to drop 1% every hour.

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