Has anyone else had relatively poor battery life? I can barely get through a day of mediocre user and it s saddens me greatly.
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I get about 8-10 hours with moderate use. That includes a bit a Facebook, Internet and texting every hour. Thats good enough for me since im usually not away from a charging port for 8 hours.
If all i do is Facebook and texting then I get about 4-5 hours with it before it goes to 20%.
I recommend to make sure you phone is almost dead, or wait for it to die, put it on the charger for the night while it's OFF. It seamed to help me, another thing i noticed if you have bad signal, you battery will get used A LOT more. i am at 69% after 6 hours and 52 min. display is at 63% so i guess that's moderate use.
Mine starts getting bad after its been on for 5 or 6 days without a reboot.
Don't know if that relates to you guys but it does me
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Moderate use, my up time 44 hours and I still have 30%.
twcrosno said:
Moderate use, my up time 44 hours and I still have 30%.
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what is moderate use for you? could you post picture with the graph.
Moderate use for me I mean: played game about 30 min, you tube about 30 min, a few phone calls and texts, xda application used about 20 times , downloaded some applications.
Now you can root (!) and use SetCPU to get longer life via the profile settings.
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Moderate use, my up time 44 hours and I still have 30%.
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Up time does not reset after charges. Some how i doubt you got 44 hours unless it's just been sitting there doing nothing
Make sure wireless network setting is in Sprint Only mode and uncheck the enable always on mobile option. I get through a whole day easy.
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I am wondering if this is some kind of fluke but my battery status shows 1Day 1Hour 39mins since last charge and my battery meter still reads 54%. Light to Moderate use. (Some phone calls, texts, fantasy football app, web browsing)
Normally seems like I get anywhere from 20-24 hours per charge.
I'm running the Infected Rom Eternity.
You serious bro…. lol….
Normally you get 20-24 hours (which is a day)…
And you are amazed that you just got 25 hours.
Hahahaha
Crazy! My mind is like….. bllowwwwwn
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You serious bro…. lol….
Normally you get 20-24 hours (which is a day)…
And you are amazed that you just got 25 hours.
Hahahaha
Crazy! My mind is like….. bllowwwwwn
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re-read LOL he says he's still got 54% left
Wtf.. how ? I just switched to warm ROM from eternity cuz eternity was overheating my phone .. random reboots, lag, and battery drain.
Right now I'm at 70% after 3 hours since la
st charge.
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re-read LOL he says he's still got 54% left
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lawl... pwnd
Man, I'm guessing you've killed the 3G radio, wifi on, every service on manual update, GPS off, brightness to moleman mode + that usage?
I wish I could pull 1/2 that longevity without heavy sacrifice.
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Man, I'm guessing you've killed the 3G radio, wifi on, every service on manual update, GPS off, brightness to moleman mode + that usage.
I wish I could pull 1/2 that longevity without heavy sacrifice.
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It stays on Wifi whenever I am at home then I switch to 3G when I leave. Brightness is set to Auto. I never turn on GPS, (that's what my Garmin's for) and everything sync's normally. It's weird, some days I'll get this kind of battery life and somedays I'll get a lot less. Even with similar usage from day to day.
I get about two days of use with everything on. (No gps or bluetooth) Facebook sync on, texting, web browsing xda app, and a couple short games. I don't ever have any battery left though..
If I stay home I have closed to 60% left after 18-20 hours of regular usage----a few calls, browsing, games and texts----but I have wifi and an airave
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I am wondering if this is some kind of fluke but my battery status shows 1Day 1Hour 39mins since last charge and my battery meter still reads 54%. Light to Moderate use. (Some phone calls, texts, fantasy football app, web browsing)
Normally seems like I get anywhere from 20-24 hours per charge.
I'm running the Infected Rom Eternity.
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Simple. Take a screen shot of screen on time. Who cares how long your battery lasts, if you don't have alot of screen on time.
I read this trick from somewhere (possibly a myth?)
Charge phone to 100%
Unplug, allow 5% discharge,
Charge back to 100%
Experience supreme battery life.
I'm out 10 hours a day often (**** high school ) and I get about 17 hrs average
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When I first got my Evo 3D the battery life was just decent. After about a week, I put it on the charger after 18 hours and it's never below 70%.
norm12 said:
If I stay home I have closed to 60% left after 18-20 hours of regular usage----a few calls, browsing, games and texts----but I have wifi and an airave
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Norm man ha, what's up?? Hope all is good. Nice to see you over here.
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How much time was the display on for?
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My battery has been doing really good lately also. I went 24 hours with 14% left with above average use. Wifi on the whole time. No 4g or gps though. Brightness at 1/3rd as always.
Serren said:
My battery has been doing really good lately also. I went 24 hours with 14% left with above average use. Wifi on the whole time. No 4g or gps though. Brightness at 1/3rd as always.
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Once again, screen on time is what is important.
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Wow. Just wow. Light and every now and then moderate use I normally get 10 to 14 hours. Same across pretty much every ROM and kernel.
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zadias said:
I read this trick from somewhere (possibly a myth?)
Charge phone to 100%
Unplug, allow 5% discharge,
Charge back to 100%
Experience supreme battery life.
I'm out 10 hours a day often (**** high school ) and I get about 17 hrs average
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I'm not completely sure about this, but here is what I remember reading:
That was only useful on other phones when it would display 100% when really the battery was 90%. Doing this charged it to the maximum battery capacity. The Evo 3D stops at 100% when the battery is actually full so we don't need to do anything.
I think this phone does not register being plugged into the computer as being "plugged in." Therefore it does not reset the meter, and you get readings like this, even though there was some (computer-connected) charging in between.
My mom has a rezound that's not unlocked or anything. For some reason her battery log says 64% is phone calls 20% is screen and the rest is cell data and apps. She has logs and was only calling for 30 minutes or less and the battery use says 2.5 hours. She has avast and used the phone for emailing and Internet. What's wrong
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Based off your picture, there is nothing wrong.
She was is a call for 30 minutes and it took up 64% of her battery and the length was recorded as 2 hours 14 minutes. Something is obviously wrong.
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she probably had multiple phone calls totaling 2 hours and 14 minutes over a 9 hour period... nothing alarming in terms of battery usage I don't think...
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She was is a call for 30 minutes and it took up 64% of her battery and the length was recorded as 2 hours 14 minutes. Something is obviously wrong.
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No, not a single 30 minute call killed 64% of the battery... over the course of over 9 hours, phone calling in general consumed 64% of the battery. Thats totally normal dude. Far from "extreme" battery issues..
The total time in calls was only 30 minutes. Why would a 30 minutes call alone kill 64% on my phone a 2 hour call kills around 20% something is obviously wrong
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No I checked the logs there were a total of 30 minutes over 9 hours.
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No offense, but this is common sense. Just look at the graph, it declines very steadily. Its obvious just from looking at it that 64% of it's capacity wasn't consumed during any 30 minute period of time that the phone was in operation.
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If it had been a drain like you're saying, there would be an abrupt dip over approximately 30 minutes of time on the graph during that particular phone call.
The phone is not telling you that the phone calls used 64% of the whole battery. It's attempting to tell you the percentage of power that has been used per application. For example, if you have 50% battery life, and it says voice calls have used 64%, that means that phone calls have used approx 64% of what your battery has drained.
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I assume from you sig that you also have a Rezound. Have you tried making 30 minutes of phone calls, especially if they're multiple calls and not one single conversation? The battery drain is exactly on par with what I see on mine. Phone calls and screen on will put a heavy drain on the Rezound battery.
what im saying is nto what you think i am saying. Im saying why is that app alone using so much battery and i kow it is doing it when the phone is idling. IM saying the phone had 30% battery and the app used 60% so the app used a total of around 45% of the battery. Why is the dialer app doing that. It makes no sense because there were no calls excepts for a 30 minute one.
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what im saying is nto what you think i am saying. Im saying why is that app alone using so much battery and i kow it is doing it when the phone is idling. IM saying the phone had 30% battery and the app used 60% so the app used a total of around 45% of the battery. Why is the dialer app doing that. It makes no sense because there were no calls excepts for a 30 minute one.
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What we don't understand is why this is so concerning? The phone had 30% battery life left after 9+ hours on stock software. Most people would consider this good.
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What we don't understand is why this is so concerning? The phone had 30% battery life left after 9+ hours on stock software. Most people would consider this good.
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+1 I would consider this great battery life on my phone. IMHO I don't think you have anything to be concerned with.
My battery life sucks no matter what I use, Finally I bought an extended battery, it helps some but really 10-12 hours is about MAX without a charge
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What we don't understand is why this is so concerning? The phone had 30% battery life left after 9+ hours on stock software. Most people would consider this good.
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Agreed. Just try to have a similar situation as your mom's phone. Run for 9+ hours, and have a 30 minute phone call. Especially if you're in an area with not so great reception, the phone call will show up as using a large percentage of your battery. It is not abnormal for this phone at all. (My wife's Droid 4 uses up much less battery for phone calls than my Rezound. It simply isn't a great phone for battery life in any aspect, other than if you're purely idling.)
Its a pretty steady decline over a 9 hour period. The battery is fine. Nothing is out of the ordinary. Your imagination is getting the best of you here.
What I'm trying to say is this. My rezound is getting 14 hours of battery white a few hours of screen on. Hers has the same screen on device model and battery type and get significantly less.
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answer: no two phones are alike.
thread closed.
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The phones should be having the same battery life. Phones go batteries faster than others because of sync...turn autosync off on hers as her facebook Twitter news weather etc is probably syncing every hour. Idle should never drop that fast.
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After it passes the 50% threshold...or do I have a bad battery. I'll have 3 hours screen on time at 50%. But barely make it to 5 hours screen on time. Was the same way on my s3. Got 2 hours of screen on through the first 50%, barely got 3 hours screen on the last 50%. Noticing the same on this battery. Either the way the phone reads the battery is incorrect or the last half of the battery is messed up
I enjoy the battery very much but I see some people getting 7-8 hours screen on and I'm assuming it's because their batteries don't do what mine does
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I got 5 hours screen on time out of mine with no wakelocks. However my coverage is never in the green it's always just moderate.
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Never understood the big deal why people care so much about screen on time. As long as I can wake up at 4:30am and my phone last me the entire day, which includes texting, phone calls, web browsing, a few emails here and there, listening to some music.....and I can go to sleep at 10:30pm with about 30% battery left, sometimes more, I'm good. I have gone over 24hrs with regular to moderate use a few times. Battery is great in my opinion. I guess people have their own way of judging battery life...
my battery life is killer
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Never understood the big deal why people care so much about screen on time. As long as I can wake up at 4:30am and my phone last me the entire day, which includes texting, phone calls, web browsing, a few emails here and there, listening to some music.....and I can go to sleep at 10:30pm with about 30% battery left, sometimes more, I'm good. I have gone over 24hrs with regular to moderate use a few times. Battery is great in my opinion. I guess people have their own way of judging battery life...
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I agree I'm just curious why my battery dies quickly after it hits 50% I ended up with 5 hours screen on time and about 14 hours off the charger which is good. I'm assuming if the bottom half of the battery didn't die off so quick then thus battery would be even better
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I can easily get 20+ hours with 4-5 hrs screen time with auto brightness. With moderate usage, texting, games, browsing and YouTube.
its definitely something with your phone. i can run this phone with heavy use the whole day and be right around 45% before bed. people talking about extended batteries im like huh?
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its definitely something with your phone. i can run this phone with heavy use the whole day and be right around 45% before bed. people talking about extended batteries im like huh?
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It's all in how you use your phone. Be smart with your brightness, sync settings and charge cycles and you should't have any issues at all. I got over 35 hours on my HTC One by using auto bright and doing light to moderate usage. Everyone will have different results. Also if you are rooted use "Greenify".
I work on 3rd shift (11pm-7am) and I charge my phone when I get home around 830, let it charge to 100% and unplug it before I fall asleep and I am good to go until the next morning.
Think your phone might be messed up.............
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I'm able to go a full day with moderate usage easily. I am very pleased with the battery.
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Starting day 4 and I think the battery is great. No complaints from a moderate to heavy work/social user...
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After it passes the 50% threshold...or do I have a bad battery. I'll have 3 hours screen on time at 50%. But barely make it to 5 hours screen on time. Was the same way on my s3. Got 2 hours of screen on through the first 50%, barely got 3 hours screen on the last 50%. Noticing the same on this battery. Either the way the phone reads the battery is incorrect or the last half of the battery is messed up
I enjoy the battery very much but I see some people getting 7-8 hours screen on and I'm assuming it's because their batteries don't do what mine does
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I think mine might be bad too. I can't seem to get more than 9 hours usage unless i leave it in airplane mode all day. Im going to try returning it on Friday.
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I think mine might be bad too. I can't seem to get more than 9 hours usage unless i leave it in airplane mode all day. Im going to try returning it on Friday.
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My battery is great because of the top 50% last a long time. But once I pass that it seems like it drains fairly quickly. My first note didn't do that. Plus when I unplug my phone, it drops to 98% within 10 minutes of no usage
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My battery is great because of the top 50% last a long time. But once I pass that it seems like it drains fairly quickly. My first note didn't do that. Plus when I unplug my phone, it drops to 98% within 10 minutes of no usage
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Try watching your phone and unplugging at 99%. Its probably dropping to 98% because when your phone reaches 100% it does a trickle charge where it drains a little then charge again. You might be removing it during that cycle.
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Try watching your phone and unplugging at 99%. Its probably dropping to 98% because when your phone reaches 100% it does a trickle charge where it drains a little then charge again. You might be removing it during that cycle.
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Testing today and I'm at 90% after 3 hours and have an hour of screen time. Pretty amazing. yesterday I was at 40 minutes screen time. I also killed the battery off last night. I read it wasn't good, and I read that it was. So far so good. Will run it all day and see how the bottom 50% works today.
This is all on 3g while listening to music
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Mine sucked starting out once I started getting rid of all the bloat sprint packed on here its gotten a lot better
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phyba said:
After it passes the 50% threshold...or do I have a bad battery. I'll have 3 hours screen on time at 50%. But barely make it to 5 hours screen on time. Was the same way on my s3. Got 2 hours of screen on through the first 50%, barely got 3 hours screen on the last 50%. Noticing the same on this battery. Either the way the phone reads the battery is incorrect or the last half of the battery is messed up
I enjoy the battery very much but I see some people getting 7-8 hours screen on and I'm assuming it's because their batteries don't do what mine does
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First day I had it while setting everything up, screen on, apps chugging away... After 6 hours it had only drained 40% from a full charge.
Second day, rooted. Playing with a huge variety of apps to find the right ones for me. 5-6 hours screen time, 5% from a 85% charge. I was however downloading a massive collection of large files over WiFi, that will use a chunk of battery.
Last night I adjusted all my settings to optimize power consumption and improve battery life, installed Greenify and hibernated apps that like to linger after closed. Removed all unnecessary apps and Stopped useless imbedded apps. Will report at the end of the day my results.
So far it seems that the battery life you get out of a stock battery is based on how you use your phone, what you use it for and how long you use it. Turn off any features you're not currently using, such as Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi or put the phone in Airplane Mode when you're not in service so it's not constantly searching for a signal.
I watched half of a 1080p movie with a Bluetooth stereo headset, basic functions running in the background and only dropped 10% (45mins). This AMOLED screen uses much less power than that of my previous phones, the CPU seems to process quickly and efficiently, I would have assumed a 1080p video would use more resources to decode.
Just charged my phone from 40%, I got 21 hrs out of it with 4 hrs screen time, music, texting and general browsing. I will post a screenshot tonight when I get low again.
Oh I also ran Antutu like 10 times showing friends.
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I was astonished at how long my battery was lasting me! Check it out, this surprised me a lot!
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I was astonished at how long my battery was lasting me! Check it out, this surprised me a lot!
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My phone came off charge this morning at around 4am and because I was pretty busy, by 10am I'd only had about 15 minutes screen on time.
Expected time to use: 289 hours 21 Minutes
But most of my use is something like this
Battery 50% / Usage on Battery 11 Hours / Screen on 3 hours 50 Mins
32% 14 Hours 5 Hours
This is when mostly on wifi
On the one day I slammed the battery on commute to work I got down to around 30% after 13 Hours 40 minutes of use with 2 Hours 40 Screen On, but that included full brightness, only HSPA,streaming music.
Snapdragon 800 + this 3000mAh battery is something else.
Right, that's one of many reason why I bought this phone. I believe the new battery technology implement by Lg is not just a gimmick
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Me too... Its so great to pull your phone off the charger and not even worry about battery life...
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Where is the screen on time.? Ppl use android and they don't post screen on time that like ios which doesn't show nothing.
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Hey guys
I got my ultra yesterday and it came with about 40% battery and it took nearly 2 hours of screen on time to kill it which was amazing
I've given it a full charge so this is my first cycle and battery life isn't great with just over 1hour and 10 minutes screen on time which is worse then my 18 month old s3
Will it get better over time? I've got all the power saving features on
Thanks
J
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Hey guys
I got my ultra yesterday and it came with about 40% battery and it took nearly 2 hours of screen on time to kill it which was amazing
I've given it a full charge so this is my first cycle and battery life isn't great with just over 1hour and 10 minutes screen on time which is worse then my 18 month old s3
Will it get better over time? I've got all the power saving features on
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J
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Yes it will get better over time.
Brilliant I look forward to it
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1 hour 10 minutes from 100 to 0%? You should get around 5-7 hours of screentime. Just keep using it though and it should get better in a few days.
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1 hour 10 minutes from 100 to 0%? You should get around 5-7 hours of screentime. Just keep using it though and it should get better in a few days.
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Just went through the first cycle and it was about 3 hours, Battery seems weird on this device, I unplugged it from full at 100% but I leave it on 100% for about 20 minutes after and it went straight down to 99% where as my nexus 7 doesnt do that :S
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Just went through the first cycle and it was about 3 hours, Battery seems weird on this device, I unplugged it from full at 100% but I leave it on 100% for about 20 minutes after and it went straight down to 99% where as my nexus 7 doesnt do that :S
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Hard to tell if it's normal or not. Are you using any apps that updates themselves frequently in the background? Widgets? Whatsapp? FB Messenger? I've had mine in standby for 8 hours (while at sleep) at 100% before, and it was still at 100% eight hours later, so it shouldn't drop 1% in 20 minutes.
Just keep using it for a week or so, and if it isn't better, you might have a lemon. But again, it's incredible hard to say what it might be. You can also do a factory reset and see if that solves anything. It might simply be a bug or an app that's gone rogue.
Agree with LordManhattan and 3mL.
When I first got it, I had the same questions about battery life. I was literally seeing it draining a percent a seconds. There were some rogue apps, like whatsapp and pinger (textfree), that were constantly doing something in the background. Uninstalled those and got much better results. After about a week or so and a few battery cycles, the battery also improved drastically.
Try some of the apps that monitor and hibernate apps, e.g. greenify and wakelock detector. I'm sure there are others but those are the ones I use.
I had a 2 percent drop last night so not to bad
And im not rooted so I cant use those apps at the moment
Ill see how it gets on
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I m on stock rom rooted. using stamina mode while allowing some of the apps to run in background. battery life is great
never let battery life go below 50%. on contrary to popular belief, it is not wise to let ur batter drain completely. for the first few cycles refer to the manual
I normally get about 1-2% drain over night, a bit more if the cell signal decides to play up a but.
Over this week I got 4d 12h on one charge with 12% still remaining - very light usage: 3 or 4 calls, a few emails, a few geo-tagged photos, a note or two with poor signal most of the working day.
Its been rather strange for me, on the first charge cycle I got 4.5 hours of screen on time and the 2nd I got 4 hours
Im now on my 3rd and im at 85% with only 48 minutes of screen on time which isnt too bad but I feel like I have to have low battery mode and stamina mode on just to get it through the day
Hopefully Sony release a fix or 4.4 with better battery life
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Its been rather strange for me, on the first charge cycle I got 4.5 hours of screen on time and the 2nd I got 4 hours
Im now on my 3rd and im at 85% with only 48 minutes of screen on time which isnt too bad but I feel like I have to have low battery mode and stamina mode on just to get it through the day
Hopefully Sony release a fix or 4.4 with better battery life
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Well i don't want to be rude, but are you just stare to your screen for 4 hours? Or are you also doing something with the phone?
Because it really matters what kind of activity regarding your battery life you're doing. Smartphones are not battery friendly, get your charger with you or buy a mobile charger.