I currently have a droid charge. It has a vastly superior screen compared to the thunderbolt, and a better gpu. However on standby, it destroys it's battery. I'm talking around 10% per hour just on standby. I was wondering what standby was like on your phones. Htc has been pretty good about this in the past and I may jump ship to the thunderbolt just for the ability for my phone to be there after a day of doing nothing. Thanks in advance.
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I currently have a droid charge. It has a vastly superior screen compared to the thunderbolt, and a better gpu. However on standby, it destroys it's battery. I'm talking around 10% per hour just on standby. I was wondering what standby was like on your phones. Htc has been pretty good about this in the past and I may jump ship to the thunderbolt just for the ability for my phone to be there after a day of doing nothing. Thanks in advance.
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It depends on several factors in my experience. Network coverage: are you on 3g or 4g? If 4G, how many apps are using it? If 3G, how weak is the signal? System settings: does the kernel throttle down the CPU with screen off?
I've had respectable experience with 3 HTC's recently; the dInc, dInc2, and the Tbolt. In my opinion, the dInc2 is what EVERY HTC should aspire to be. Completely lag-free, never a force-close, beautiful, biright, and color-honest screen, power to run any app, and better than useful battery life. I'm talking standby measured in days and talk time upwards of 6 hours or better. The Tbolt seems to dump about 5% to 6% per hour standby on LTE. Half that on CDMA. You might also want to theme everything on your phone as dark as possible. white text on black if you can find it. That screen will actually eat more power to produce the same brightness of white as a Super LCD. However, to produce the same brightness of red, it will consume around half the power. I've also noticed on my Tbolt that the Idle Process is eating a lot more power than i think it should and I'm not sure what to do about that... like around a third of the battery over 10 hours.
Thanks, I should clarify. This is actually happening on 3g with a strong signal. I rarely use 4g at all actually. I use an app that sets the phone to conservative cpu usage. I'm using juice defender and I'm hoping that will make a difference.
Really it all depends on a combination of what rom/kernel/radio your using, your coverage and your settings. Turn off assisted dialing, tell HTC, and phone finder as they tend to eat up alot of juice in standby. In install everything you don't use with titanium backup pro, including backup assistant, tell HTC, stocks, news etc... Turn all your sync acts to 4 hours or more, use auto brightness for screen brightness. Etc...
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Kamar234 said:
Thanks, I should clarify. This is actually happening on 3g with a strong signal. I rarely use 4g at all actually. I use an app that sets the phone to conservative cpu usage. I'm using juice defender and I'm hoping that will make a difference.
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wow..... That's insane.... If you don't need the phone at night, I'd kill the radio and let it sit over night. It should use next to no power then. If it is, there's something quirky in the ROM or apps.
Yeah, compared to all the other android phones I've ever used, on the Droid Charge the os battery usage is pretty high. I don't really keep anything running in the background and even try to go with dark wallpapers seeing how it's super amoled+. No dice, it just sits in my pocket and dies. When I plot my batter use, it looks like I was talking on the phone. I find it kind of absurd that some phones allow you to talk on them for almost the same amount of time I can be on standby with this one. How long can the Thunderbolt last on standby. What are you guys averaging per hour on idle in terms of battery usage.
I usually go from 100%->84% overnight which is around 7 hours, so I'm losing ~2.3% per hour.
I keep 4G and background sync enabled. Currently running CM7 1.4 with Tiamat 1.0.4 undervolted.
Wow. I burn almost 10% per hour on standby with an undervolted conservatively governed phone on 3g. I'm really considering jumping ship. I'm willing to have an inferior screen and gpu if I can just have a phone that can last a day in my pocket.
i get around 10-15% drain per hour myself when my Thunderbolt isn't in use(even if i turn off mobile data and/or use something like juice defender).
heck, and just watching 1 movie on this thing kills like 50-60% of the battery.
i say phones just suck!(battery)
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i get around 10-15% drain per hour myself when my Thunderbolt isn't in use(even if i turn off mobile data and/or use something like juice defender).
heck, and just watching 1 movie on this thing kills like 50-60% of the battery.
i say phones just suck!(battery)
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This is from last night, heavy use through out the day. You need to check your settings or change your rom/kernel/radio you should not be getting that kind of drainage.
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Wow, that's freaking amazing! I could never get that kind of battery life on my charge. Looks like I'll be picking up a thunderbolt tonight. What is your setup?
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Wow, that's freaking amazing! I could never get that kind of battery life on my charge. Looks like I'll be picking up a thunderbolt tonight. What is your setup?
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Gingeritis 3d beta 6, Chingys new radio leak and ziggys kernel (kernel comes with beta 6). No Oc or any tinkering with kernel, just settings in the phone for as little batt drain as possible. 3g and wifi when its available. I only use 4g if I need to dl something big like a rom and I don't have wifi available.
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Well, I ordered my Thunderbolt today. I should hopefully have it by Wednesday since I ordered it so late in the day. I'm really hoping for a phone that doesn't commit suicide in my pocket while on standby.
Its all guna depend on your phone/batt/rom/kernel/radio and settings my friend
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I really don't have a problem not enabling 4g unless I need it. Interestingly enough, when I looked at the specs of the thunderbolt and the charge side by side, the charge is rated for a longer talk time, but the thunderbolt is rated for a longer standby time, even though the charge has a substantially larger battery.
For battery life with the Tbolt my standby was always at 58% or more in 4G area. Until I installed "2x Battery" from the market and my battery has gone from lasting 6-8 hours to doubling and almost tripling my battery life. So definitely check that app out if you are having excessive standby waste. I'm pretty sure I got that app idea from here somewhere.
I'll definitely look into that. Thank you.
Tried last night with 3g on instead of 4g and I went down 8% in 8h10m. This is on the stock battery, so battery life is pretty good running AOSP. I remember it would drain a lot more when I used to run sense though.
@somai - i followed what you have the gingeritis 3D VI with ziggy kernel and I am losing battery life.
I charged the battery 100% and battery calibration set then I am getting loss 100% to 76% in 5 hours with moderate use.
I tried using the OMFGB and CM7 got damn good battery life 2-3 days in moderate use.
I don't understand why your gingeritis 3D got better than my gingeritis 3D. =/
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I bought myself and my wife a TB on launch day (yes I love being a guinea pig), and there are no 4G covered areas anywhere near here (all 3G). Both phones were properly charged after being activated and before being tested. My own phone was unplugged yesterday morning when I arrived at work at around 7:30 am and it finally died at midnight with light to moderate use (some phone calls, texting, web surfing, downloading apps, one hour of listening to music with double twist app and jogging with cardio trainer app)., Today my phone has been unplugged for five and a half hours and it's down to 80%. My wife is getting about the same battery life from her TB.
We knew from earlier reports that this phone lasted only about four hours running 4G LTE, and even WiMax running on Evo gave it terrible battery life, so I'm not entirely surprised that there are are still problems with this phone regarding battery life and 4G. I am almost relieved that I don't live in an area that has 4G at the moment.
Just to clear the air, I'm hoping that other TB owners who do not live in a 4G area will share their experiences with battery life so we know that this is mainly a 4G issue and not entirely a TB issue, and hopefully if that is the case, we can get a push for a 4G toggle until this issue is resolved.
Same here
I am getting better battery life out of this phone than I was on my Eris on GSB 2.0. I am very surprised. I use WiFi at home and that seems to really help but out in 3g....it really is quite good. I haven't had it in a 4g area so I can't compare but I have no complaints.
Even in a 4G area you can turn off LTE and get better battery life. I made a shortcut to the phone setting using anycut.apk to make a short cut to phone info. Got this from another thread on the forum. Works great.
My battery lasted 12 hours yesterday with what I would consider heavy use. An hour of gaming, 2 hours of pandora, about an hour of voice calls and checking facebook throughout the day. I'm very pleased with battery life. I was on wifi most of that time though and there is no 4g in my area.
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Happy with battery life so far
So far my experience has been quite favorable. I have been using my phone quite a bit, navigator, text, browsing, games, fm radio (we really like that) and frankly the gloom and doom reports fortunately haven't come true for me. I am easily seeing 9+ hours.
I have had a couple of nasty freeze-ups while on the phone. The first one sent the phone on its own reboot, the second required the battery to be pulled (good night that is a challenge) since the screen and the buttons became unresponsive. I will have to watch that - a phone has to work as a phone or well, it is a mini tablet instead of a phone.
first full charge last night, off the charging this morning, after 10 hours of uptime unplugged, which included a few phone calls, facebooking, playing around for about 30-45 mins on games, i was still at 81%.
This is far better battery life than my evo ever was(until i rooted it and had CM7, was getting 3 days a charge then.) And if it says anything, it isn't rooted yet(working on that now) so I am very happy and impressed with the phone so far...
and as for a previous post. I was unaware that you could turn off 4G/LTE at all. My understanding was it was always on no matter what.
Agreed. When the TB is not switching from 3g to 4g. Battery is good
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@sympathy wtf bro there is no such thing as getting 3 days worth of a charge on an EVO 4G unless u have like a 5000 mah battery? do u ?
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@sympathy wtf bro there is no such thing as getting 3 days worth of a charge on an EVO 4G unless u have like a 5000 mah battery? do u ?
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He is running a custom rom that likely dramatically governs the processor and other power factors. It was the primary reason I rooted my Incredible as the custom kernel I got had me go from 10% at the end of a 16 hr day in standby to about 80% remaining. So I could totally see 3days of light to no use from the EVO with a custom ROM.
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He is running a custom rom that likely dramatically governs the processor and other power factors. It was the primary reason I rooted my Incredible as the custom kernel I got had me go from 10% at the end of a 16 hr day in standby to about 80% remaining. So I could totally see 3days of light to no use from the EVO with a custom ROM.
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yeah that is pretty much it.
CM7 is very very light, and also had SetCPU to down clock the processor to 245Mhz anytime the screen was off. It was also on the stock battery too. I have no idea what I could have gotten with an extended battery. That 3 days wasn't practical, but I made it happen non the less to shove it in a friend of mines face who kept his iPhone 4. I had an iPhone 4 and left it for the Evo, and he got mad about it.
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if you look at the bottom you can see the screen was very seldom on, I always had wifi off, gps off, and 4G off. Phone was still at like 9% i think to when I took that screen shot. I could have gone longer but my phone is my alarm clock and I had to be up the next morning and needed to go to bed. Stupid jobs and having to work. haha.
After a couple of charge cycles I must say that I am very satisfied with the battery life on my Thunderbolt. I was at work the other day for 12 hours and the phone was at 35 percent when I left.
I agree. The Evo has terrible battery life out of the box but with CM7 and proper tweaks for it's settings, you can get pretty good battery life, even using a stock battery.
Considering that the battery for TB is a lot better out of the box than the Evo, at least for those in non-4G areas, I can only imagine how great it will be running CM7
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I agree. The Evo has terrible battery life out of the box but with CM7 and proper tweaks for it's settings, you can get pretty good battery life, even using a stock battery.
Considering that the battery for TB is a lot better out of the box than the Evo, at least for those in non-4G areas, I can only imagine how great it will be running CM7
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the only thing that bothers me about it, and someone please chime in if I have no idea what I am talking about, is after pulling up quadrant and just looking at the info for my system, it showed my processor on my TB as running at 245Mhz at that moment, and capable of running at 1024Mhz.
I could be wrong but I thought the evo ran at 998Mhz right out the box and didn't change clock speeds.
So if this is the reason why battery life has been so much better out of the box, hopefully we can still make a gigantic improvement.
Now that we have some huge updates and all these new roms I am curious who is getting the best battery with which rom with the most display time. I am on MIUI getting about the same battery I did with stock 3D. Only about 2 and half hours display time.
I am thinking about going to another rom but, I would like to see what rom could get the best display time.
All the AOSP ROMs for some reason give me terrible battery life. I tried ViperRom and it's battery life is decent. Synergy is okay. Right now, however, I'm using warm twopointthree and it has great battery life. Maybe the best I've seen so far.
Decks sense rom still gives me the best battery life, by far. I used it with the stock kernel and it kicked butt. Very stable overall. I've been getting a solid 19 to 21 hours on CM7 with normal usage, which is good too. I love aosp.
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Steelh rom is decent on battery life but deck is awesome I got like 30 hours of his rom
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What's your guys display time on average
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VirusRom InfectedROM_Eternity battery life and performance is awesome with stock kernel. Don't even use setcpu its works so well. Plus the Beats audio and sexy skins are a great plus. Of course if you're own your phone 24/7 its going to drain but at the rate its suppose too and it should be awesome in standby. Yeah Asop roms seem to drain.
I've tried pretty much all the roms. The most stable rom with the best battery life is hands down Myn's rom warm2point3
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I've tried pretty much all the roms. The most stable rom with the best battery life is hands down Myn's rom warm2point3
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+1...MYN,IS THA SHIZNIT!!!
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Ha I love myns ROM to but its not better than decks battery life. I've killed every app and switched to airplane mode and not better than decks Sry just had to but my opinion no disrespect Mr myns
Throw your official already. Plzzzzz
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I get about 15 hours with about 4 hours awake time with mine with moderate to heavy use (internet browsing, videos, texting, and games). Running SteelRom 2.6.
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I get about 15 hours with about 4 hours awake time with mine with moderate to heavy use (internet browsing, videos, texting, and games). Running SteelRom 2.6.
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This is probably the best answer I've ever heard on the matter of battery life and is on par with mine.
Nobody seems to understand that battery life is determined by your usage patterns. So, the next person won't ever get YOUR battery life unless they use their phone like YOU. People also seem to forget that total battery life and awake time are completely different.
Awake time (actually using your phone) will not give you anywhere NEAR the amount of hours some people claim. If you continuously used your phone from a charge of 100% to 0%, NEVER letting it sleep, I would say anywhere from 3-5 hours.
Standby time (screen off/sleep) will definitely get you close to what some people claim. If you charged your phone to 100%, then let it sit in standby the entire time, I'd say anywhere from 24-36 hours.
Awake/Standby combined will average out anywhere from 8-12 hours depending on usage patterns, but can definitely spike up to 16 hours.
(These estimates are with the stock battery)
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This is probably the best answer I've ever heard on the matter of battery life and is on par with mine.
Nobody seems to understand that battery life is determined by your usage patterns. So, the next person won't ever get YOUR battery life unless they use their phone like YOU. People also seem to forget that total battery life and awake time are completely different.
Awake time (actually using your phone) will not give you anywhere NEAR the amount of hours some people claim. If you continuously used your phone from a charge of 100% to 0%, I would say anywhere from 3-5 hours.
Standby time (screen off/sleep) will definitely get you close to what some people claim. If you charged your phone to 100%, then let it sit in standby the entire time, I'd say anywhere from 24-36 hours.
Awake/Standby combined will average out anywhere from 8-12 hours depending on usage patterns, but can definitely spike up to 16 hours.
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Um feeling like this is coming at me yea freeza I use my phone more than any other person out there. I use gps and phone mms internet fb g+ xda app and still get 30+ hours from decks. I don't charge my phone on my cars chargers I use charge it to 99% then let the phone do its thing.
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Um feeling like this is coming at me yea freeza I use my phone more than any other person out there. I use gps and phone mms internet fb g+ xda app and still get 30+ hours from decks. I don't charge my phone on my cars chargers I use charge it to 99% then let the phone do its thing.
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No no, not directed towards you at all. Just in general.
Kool have a good Friday man let's get chocolate wasted. Shauuuu
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Kool have a good Friday man let's get chocolate wasted. Shauuuu
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ahaha already one step ahead of you bro!
What's you guys battery comsumption in standby in mA?
According to Current widget mine is around 150mA and when in use t ranges from 400-900mA it is much higher than my previous Desire HD where I get 1-5mA in standby and 60-400mA when in use.
Does anybody notice the same?
I have 2 batterys and it is not enough to see me through 12 hours.
On CM7 VAlpha 3, I'm getting the best battery life I've ever had. When I plugged the phone in at 2:30 am this morning, I still had 54%, and that was with me waking up at 10:30 am. I'd been on battery for 14 hours with 7 hours of awake time (Mainly Cut The Rope, Plants vs. Zombies and Zombieville USA, but a couple half hour phone calls and about 70 text messages as well, also on wifi about 75% of the time).
Clean Rom 2.5 is money. Stable and I'm getting around 16 hrs from a full charge with moderate use. I get 1 bar of signal at work and at least 30-40 min of talk time all day with a little FB and Ebaying. Check it out. Also has a Rom updater app that'll let you download custom fonts, icons, colors, etc.
viperrom
I've been loving viperrom. I have a clean install, no battery saver apps. I just used the viper mod to adjust my cpu settings to be powersave when screen is off. And I'm getting the best battery life i've ever gotten.
Running at 30 hours uptime, i'm still at 37% battery with moderate use.
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Oh, and that is with Bluetooth enabled as well.
I've done almost everything to fox my battery life in this thing - you name it! I did Jug's 1% battery fix, I calibrated it by draining the battery and then unplugging to get the Question Mark battery symbol and charged from there, I got a fresh battery from Anker and charged it 24 hours prior to use, I flashed numerous ROMs in full battery charge, enabled JuiceDefender and underclocked my device off screen, and YET I STILL GET 3 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE ON SCREEN. It's probably the most frustrating technological thing I've been through in a portable device.
My radio is 1.77.30.
I'm completely tired of this phone and its battery. Should I reflash the radio? Does anybody (from ALL these amazing stories of battery life of 7+ hours of on s screen moderate" use
post their setting of ROM radio and clock to better detail? I'm desperate for anything even if it comes to complete replication.
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UPDATE: I flashed Alien the other day. It's only been two days and I'm experiencing 4 hours and a half of on screen time on a single charge.
I carry an extra battery since their so damn portable. So in total I get 9 hours of continuous use doing anything (14 hours in call.) Not bad.
I'm looking for an atrix with 2.2 (froyo,) though. It's my last measure against battery health and this phone is the best beast of a phone I'd have.
I don't use Juice Defender, nor do I truly overclock at all (besides off screen). Syncing is off. Everything else is normal. I'm thinking of applying the SuperCharger update thing. It'll probably give me a slight extra boost and I'll have 10 hours of moderate use. (real moderate use, not in pocket for 10 hours)
So yeah. Underclock to 312 mhz Max off screen using CPU Tuner and use only one core. Manually enable data by using a widget on screen called Data Enabler instead of using that program Juice Defender. Flash Alien v4. And you're done. (oh, and use Supercharger script) - which I'll do later.
Yup, i've just flashed back to complete stock and am going to try all of this over again.
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The battery life is ridiculous, i shutdown wifi.....forever, 3g that i need so much for my business mails....shutdown...got SetCPU to undervolt stuff and in the end i always get the same result: less than a day of IDLE phone plain simple IDLE!!!
I got "watchdog" from market and it checks threshold of apps against the cpu, removed google+ app that was going over 20% cpu on idle, same with 2 more apps, removed.
If i power use the fone i get what, 2 hours less than if i just use it normaly...thats bad bad.
Pls post your results, i am on Orange France with faux kernel (d00 something, the international one).
What rom are you using? Mine's on Alien and I can take 2 days straight on idle. And still have 20% batt left.
I'm on Cherryblur 1.4d right now. I've been through Alien, Darkside, Ninja Speed Freak, CM7, Red Pill and stock gingerbread. Basically, I'm a ROM whore.
Hmm.. is the battery on your alien better than cherry blur?
maybe you should calibrate your battery by discharging it fully till it offs, charging it fully overnight then calibrating it using the software called "batery calibration" from the market.
For me battery life is one of my favorite things with this phone. Although to be fair I decided to stay on Stock Froyo to keep it that way. Still waiting to see how ICS will play out...
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You're lucky. I've had nothing but bad experiences with Gingerbread so far.
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I'm on Cherryblur 1.4d right now. I've been through Alien, Darkside, Ninja Speed Freak, CM7, Red Pill and stock gingerbread. Basically, I'm a ROM whore.
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If you are constantly switching Roms like I am assuming you are doing. The battery life is going to be bad until you let one of them "Settle". I had the same issue with one of my phones getting crap battery life until I stopped switching roms constantly and the battery got used to what I was using. Once I did that the battery got quite a bit better over about a week.
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If you are constantly switching Roms like I am assuming you are doing. The battery life is going to be bad until you let one of them "Settle". I had the same issue with one of my phones getting crap battery life until I stopped switching roms constantly and the battery got used to what I was using. Once I did that the battery got quite a bit better over about a week.
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I figured that to be happening, but then I never really thought it would help even if I did stock with one. I mean, what can change within a week when a ROM follows the same patter or algorithm. But ill give it a try.
What rom do you use?
Probably you thought of this already, but do you maybe use a specific soon on all the rooms roms? Maybe that app keeps your phone awake and used battery. What does the battery manager say about usage?
Darkside was what I was using before I switched over to the ATRIX 2. Don't get me wrong nothing wrong with the og I just like the size and build a bit better on the a2.
batterylife really depends a lot on the roms. even with calibrating the last cm7 nightly sucked the hell outta my battery overnight (~25% in 5h doing nothing but sleeping).
unfortunately mod-kernels don't work on cm7 b2 yet
I use Aura or The DarkSide for a ROM and I can usually get 1-2 days of battery with consistent use before I have to charge it again. It also helps battery life to not OC. I've used other ROM's, but these two seem to be the best for battery life, functionality, and speed out of all the ROM's.
Do you have any apps constantly running? Check your battery stats and see what uses the most battery. JuiceDefender has actually been reported to use more battery than it saves, especially if you're already using a ROM and/or MOD's that are suppose to help your battery life. Maybe it's just your individual device, though. There's always going to be faulty devices when it comes to technology. If you can't find a fix, I would try getting it replaced, if possible.
Then I'll stick to a ROM. I'm not sure which one I'm going to stick with. Maybe Darkside. Red Pill, however, offers some of the best comments for battery life I've heard. To choose, to choose...
And no, no constant apps running. I try to keep everything as simple as I can until I fix this problem.
my battery life has gotten a little better since i went to the Alien ROM, now getting about 10 - 12 hours before a charge. I do use my phone really heavy throughout the day though.
Huge improvement with mine. Just flashed the new cm7 and decided to give faux's kernel a try.
I don't have a problem with my battery. The massive problem is when you have LWP running. I'd get 12 hours a day during normal operation.
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Then I'll stick to a ROM. I'm not sure which one I'm going to stick with. Maybe Darkside. Red Pill, however, offers some of the best comments for battery life I've heard. To choose, to choose...
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flash homebase(blue chronic) with blue chronic 6.2 update and then use titanium backup to freeze gmail and all social services. also calibrate your battery by completely drain your battery and charge to full, you might need to do that a few times. with this setup i usually get 36 hours of phone idle and 2-3 hours of screen time and thats with the cpu clocked to 1.3ghz. everything is fast and smooth with this rom.
Let's get some info going on battery life.
I bump charged 3 times this morning so its time to put this bad boy to the test.
I have auto brightness off. WiFi 4g Bluetooth and GPS on.
Update 1
It's been just over 5 hours and I'm sitting at 74%. Moderate usage. Websurfing facebook one 20 min phone call. Not bad at all. Been on 4g most of the time
Update 2
my day is over, im home battery is at 17% and I used the phone quite a bit. Had to navigate for about 15 min in there. Used 4g most of the time, tho there was about 4 hours of Wifi usage in there too.
so that is about 12 hours of usage here. I bumped charged 3 times as i said. I dont think the "small" battery is an issue at all!
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so far, i'm getting the same as my incredible haha..i don't have 4g here so, i'm on wifi all day
2 hours into it, 81%..that's NOT bump charging either.
2 horus into my 1500mah inc, i'd be at like 75%. so i'd say SO FAR she's doing well..
this is also wtih 76% display, using it for 48 minutes outta those 2 hours. not bad!! and she's idling at a cool 24.4 degrees C here...battery left widget is a good widget
I'm seeing the same as the dinc too. Battery was halfway down at 4 hours of running time. That is with 4G enabled, WiFi off, BT off, GPS on. Screen Brightness on medium. It seems to be on pace to last 8-9 hours. I did stream some Pandora and visited some websites. Also, service in my building is spotty so my phone will search for a signal and switches between 3G and 4G all day. The battery shouldn't be a problem on this phone with normal use.
10 hours, 50 minutes on battery so far:
45%.
not bad! this isn't 4g though, this is all 3g and wifi..pretty much mainly wifi. display 68% with it being time on for 1 hour and 48 minutes.
this things pretty much gettign the same battery life as my inc, so i'm happy with that. a 14-15 hour day is what i was expecting and will be easily done i think!
Weeeeeee forty or so straight minutes of use..texts, browsing, music listening...just trying to kill the battery to recalibrate battery left widget...lol gotta love the drop. I just hit ten percent now, at like 13 hours off. Awesome
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I hvae been charging for less than 2 hours, and im already at 90%!!
This thing lasts a long time and charges fast as hell lol.
Good job HTC
What are the "Power" settings for your guys? Performance, Normal, or Economy? The phone comes out of the box in Performance mode, but I toggled it to Normal which in turn turned off my sync (how that is normal I have no clue) and who knows what else.
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What are the "Power" settings for your guys? Performance, Normal, or Economy? The phone comes out of the box in Performance mode, but I toggled it to Normal which in turn turned off my sync (how that is normal I have no clue) and who knows what else.
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I didnt mess with mine , so its still on performance
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same, i'm still on performance...thats hwy i dont like those built in settings..i want to change stuff to how I use it, ya know? i keep sync on for google, facebook and weather, and that's how i want it haha
but i think it's a good idea like if you're out and you wanna quickly change power modes.
It is good if you have like 25% left and need a quick way to prolong the battery life. I think it is a good idea because not everyone is an expert on this stuff.
agreed; i'm also interested in checking out that low power sleep mode..seems like a good idea for people who leave it unplugged overnight...just have it turn on a few minutes before your alarm clokc and bam!
id like to see a thread in regards to how long it lasted using constant 4G data with the screen on the whole time.
Constant 4G data would hit a data cap before the battery died I bet.
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id like to see a thread in regards to how long it lasted using constant 4G data with the screen on the whole time.
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do you mean set the screen to never turn off, and then setup a download and let it sit until it dies
i can do that, i have the oldschool unlimited plan and im at 7gb right now. I cant do it today because im at school, but I will do that tomorrow and let you know
The screen kills the battery life
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The screen kills the battery life
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not anymore than any other phone. I came from the dorid charge, and we talked about the same thing. and before that I was using the Dinc, and again, we talked about the same thing.
Pretty sure we need to start expecting that screens use more power than the rest of the phone.
The same is true on a laptop.
The poster above me is suggesting a 'stress test' of the battery by turning on all its high power usage abilities and then seeing how long it will last. 1 hour, 2 hours.. I did this on the droid charge and it only last 1 hr 45 min
I thought I posted in this thread. I set my settings to Normal instead of Performance. I haven't noticed any lag or any issues. I did notice it turned off LTE, set the WiFi settings back to 15 minute sleep, etc. So I changed those settings to my normal always on, keep the screen brightness low, and have seen ~1/3 better battery life with the same 'play and experiment' usage. Not exactly scientific, but I feel as though I have used it equally on both settings.
First full day of use and I got about 8 hours of battery life. (Heavy Usage) I work in a warehouse alone so I'm always playing music and use my Rezound as an mp3 player.
About 6 total hours of music playback, some faceboook every break or lunch, some twitter and lots of text messaging about 100 txts and about a 15min convo within the 8 hours. (What really killed my battery was the music playback)
Everything was on gps, 4g, auto brightness, auto sync etc.
8hr Shift started with full battery, shift ended with dead phone. Gets the day by, but for those that do not use over 6 hours of music playback, I'm sure you will see about 15hours+ on your device.
~angio
Just got the standard Rezound battery for my Thunderbolt 21.80 after discount. I will report usage in a few days after some battery calibration and full charges and discharges. So you can compare this battery on Rezound with a rooted thunderbolt with custom kernel.
On battery 4 hours 50 minutes with the settings I posted above. Normal usage, on 3G/4G 74% remaining.
After 8 hours, 5 of those on 4G while the rest on Wi-Fi. 3 Push email accounts, some Facebook, and web browsing. I'm still at 80% battery life.
Hell I don't know what they did to this phone but I might just return my extended battery as I don't think I'll ever need it based on my light/moderate use throughout the day. Can't wait to see what a debloat/kernel would do to this phone. My Bionic which I had before with a higher capacity battery would be sitting around 40% by now.
I first had an incredible, now a rezound, and want to move on to the DNA. I was wondering how the battery life is treating those who have it. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
996
996 said:
I first had an incredible, now a rezound, and want to move on to the DNA. I was wondering how the battery life is treating those who have it. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
996
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I've had the phone for 2 days now. I consider myself a moderate user - especially during work. Today I had bluetooth and location services off, streamed for a bit, surfed the internet, and did a heavy dose of texting and downloading apps all through 4G (no wifi @ work). The battery lasted me roughly 14 hour due to the usage of it only in spurts. For reference I got into work at 8 and left at 5:30 with 45% battery life left. I then used it only a little the rest of the evening.
However, yesterday was Thanksgiving so I was on it most of the day, and it needed to be juiced up around 9 hours with all the bells and whistles on (phone wasn't on auto bright, etc).
If you are a light - moderate user and do a little application maintenance I can see this phone easily lasting 16-20 hours. When the phone is off it SIPS the battery.
If you lean towards the heavy side then it will need a charge closer to 7-8 hours. I come from a Thunderbolt for reference and this obliterates it. To sum it all up, the battery is better than I thought it would be. The key is to kill services you don't use. We will have to see how it fares when I am in NYC for work with no access to a charger. I'm sure if I use it sporadically I could be fine for an entire day.
Hope this helps.
I hope these screenshots help!
~5 hours on airplane mode.
~6hrs on LTE
Rest is wifi.
Not a super heavy user, but so far i am impressed.
Under 30%, the battery drops so fast! Dont count on 30% to give you anything useful...An afternoon of light texting will probably kill it.
My battery only charges to 99% -- has anyone else seen this? Will my phone keep trying to charge it, and therefore wear out the battery?
Will a QI pad just constantly charge, instead of stopping once its 100%?
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Battery life has been nothing short of amazing!
thank you all for the responses! I am hesitating on purchasing this phone due to the battery. I feel like it should have been a 3000mAH. I am a heavy user. On 4G a lot. so yeah
Battery is a lot better than I thought it would be. Really impressed with this device!
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Guys you need to be honest with yourselves here, anyone can do everything possible to get the most out of their battery (heck I got 3 days out of a Droid 1 before), but in real world use you'll be lucky to make it through the day if you use your phone a lot. If you're a light/moderate user you will be fine from morning until night, but if you tend to use your phone for hours expect to charge it during the day.
that seems better than the s3
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996 said:
thank you all for the responses! I am hesitating on purchasing this phone due to the battery. I feel like it should have been a 3000mAH. I am a heavy user. On 4G a lot. so yeah
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I get plenty of time
Down time or when screen is off HUGE improvement on battery life I've noticed. I charge wireless at night & last all day
DNA
Yeah I'm with most of the guys here - battery life has been great. It beats the brakes out of my GNEX. This is a very efficient phone.
I am getting this phone and an Anker Astro charger, according to these posts I'm more than likely not going to need that charger, lol
9 hours is sick coming from my Droid 1
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Guys you need to be honest with yourselves here, anyone can do everything possible to get the most out of their battery (heck I got 3 days out of a Droid 1 before), but in real world use you'll be lucky to make it through the day if you use your phone a lot. If you're a light/moderate user you will be fine from morning until night, but if you tend to use your phone for hours expect to charge it during the day.
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I am being very honest with myself. So far, I am getting more battery life than a Galaxy Nexus with extended battery. I hit an easy 3.5 hour screen time yesterday.
Playing games.
Watching netflix
Streaming Pandora to BT for 2 hours.
Streaming Google Play music for 2 hours (headphones)
Playing with settings
Making calls
Texting
MMS
Browsing Internet
Youtube
Half of my time was on LTE and the rest on WiFi. I took it off the charger at 7:30am and it got down to 12% before I put it on the charger at 10:30PM.
My Gnex with the same use would have been completely dead by 3:00pm and only if completely on WiFi.
My usage hasn't become less since I used DNA...if anything it increased due to me setting it up and playing with it. So I really, really doubt I am kidding myself.
I came from the GNex as well. First day I had this device I had to go and work my 16 hour shift(3pm-7am). I always had my GNex plugged in by 7pm after my normal use of browsing, texting, games and such. I made it until around 10pm before I plugged it in, and that was just because it was at 40% and I wanted to top it off before my 2nd shift. Went back to 100% and used it until about 430am when I stopped playing around and read a book on my Kindle. Used my phone as an alarm for every 30 minutes and I didn't plug it back in until I got into my car for the drive home. I've never been happier with a stock device.
I just got this phone. I have a GS3 as a reference for battery life. If I can get three hours of screen time out of it, I will be a very happy camper. I guess it just goes to show you that when everything is working together in harmony and everything is power efficient, the size of the battery isn't nearly as important. Look at the iPhone, no matter how much you want to hate on it, they have been stick sub 1500 mah batteries in there forever, and they seem to last all day for the most part. I would have preferred to have a larger battery, but after reading the reviews this morning on it I was convinced to go out and pick one up. The screen is awesome, I'm really surprised that it doesn't drain more battery than it does.
I just made it to lunchtime without it going dead.
Dropped to 40% with some download ads, a few YouTube videos l, some Facebook and some music via blue tooth.
I had to plug it in a few hrs later when it dropped to 20%.
About as good as my Rezound with a 2800 mAh battery.
Pretty much nothing will last me all day with the data I use.
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