[Q] Battery Life and playing large files - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've been watching my battery life recently as I hate my phone dying during the middle of the day and was wondering if battery life would be affected by playing large music files?
I listen to spotify quite a bit and haven't really noticed my battery severely affected by playing music for a long time but this week I was listening to a podcast which was 160MB (2Hr music podcast if you were wondering) and my battery life plummeted. This would also correlate then to why my battery life plummets when listening to other large podcasts.
Any ideas

Try to wipe battery stats from recovery or calibrate your battery with an app from the play store.Also if that podcast is on the internet or radio i think that's why (those signals like to eat battery) .If not then try switching to 2G only mode when you are listening to them and turn off background data.
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nerot said:
Try to wipe battery stats from recovery or calibrate your battery with an app from the play store.Also if that podcast is on the internet or radio i think that's why (those signals like to eat battery) .If not then try switching to 2G only mode when you are listening to them and turn off background data.
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wiping batterystats has been shown to do absolutely nothing. Battery calibration apps are also useless. If u were streaming this podcast vs listenjng to music locally, thay would explain the large drain.

I had all internets (wifi and data) off to try and max it out yet it was still plummeting but my CompSci friends have said that it's likely. Thanks for your help guys

chrisbramm said:
I've been watching my battery life recently as I hate my phone dying during the middle of the day and was wondering if battery life would be affected by playing large music files?
I listen to spotify quite a bit and haven't really noticed my battery severely affected by playing music for a long time but this week I was listening to a podcast which was 160MB (2Hr music podcast if you were wondering) and my battery life plummeted. This would also correlate then to why my battery life plummets when listening to other large podcasts.
Any ideas
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Be on stock rom and buy a powerful batter.
Also delete bloatware apps.
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Wireless Tether.
orkillakilla said:
Stream video from YouTube. Probably the biggest battery drainer (do a search for "longest video" and you'll find one like 13 hrs long). Mix this with the ideas above and your battery will drain in no time
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He has the right idea, exactly what I do and make sure you tube is playing in HQ
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And does it support in-line headphone remote control (double click to skip forward, triple click to go back)?
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If you buy it to play games, you should buy a PSP or 3DS...
tamiktamik said:
If you only buy the Titan to listen to music by itself, then you should have a good/fair battery life, but if you buy it to play games, watch out cause it will drainyour battery quickkk
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To be fair, the same can be said for any mobile device I've used. Games are just battery hogs. iPhones included.

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m.nassy.uk said:
Thanks for the reply guys, are there any decent more powerful batteries available yet?
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