I have had my RAZR Maxx for a little over a month now. I have never once been able to go a full day on one charge. After 5 hours my battery is already at 60% with very little usage on most days. My Droid Incredible had the same battery stats with a third of the battery capacity.
Am I doing something wrong? I don't understand. How are some people getting 40 hours on one charge?! Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions I can try?
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There's ALWAYS the possibility that you got a bum unit, but if that's not the case, I'd look at all the apps you've installed. facebook in particular has been known to kill battery. If it were my phone, I'd back up all my apps, uninstall EVERYTHING, and see if battery life returns to normal. If it does, reinstall one by one until you see your battery life go to hell again. That's your culprit. If battery life doesn't improve, it's warranty time.
I top off my charge once a day, but can go 2 full days if I need to. What you're describing is NOT normal. I don't even bother to do all the battery saving things I did on my old Droid X because (when working properly) the Maxx battery is so great, you can afford to be wasteful.
Chances are it is your phone. This is very light use and I am at 75% still on my charge. Screen is on about 85% brightness and I never turn my bluetooth or wifi off.
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Ever since going to the Maxx from the OG Razr, battery life is awesome...I went from 6-8 hours with moderate use on the Razr to 14-17 hours on the Maxx with moderate to heavy use. Loved my Razr but because of my position at Boeing, I needed my phone on me at all times not sitting on my desk living on the charger every night.
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I have been tracking my battery life for the past few days, and I have discovered that I can go about 13 hours with moderately heavy usage. Is that good? I'm not really sure what to compare it against.
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Well I'm blowing all of you out of the water, Since about a week before the last update dropped I've been getting 5 DAYS out of my phone and one of those times included streaming Netflix for about 1-1.5 hours, I leave my WIFI off because I find it drains the battery quicker then using the 3G (4G still hasn't hit here yet, due anytime now) and I got mine during the double data so I have 4 Gigs to play with a month. My brother typically gets 1 to 2 days out of his.
the biggest battery hogs are
WIFI
GPS (used it for about 4 hours one day, and that was the only time my battery only lasted me one day).
and the Display
Edit: Oh we got the BOGO Razr Maxx deal back in february.
As for tips to max battery:
Turn off WIFI
Turn off GPS (unless you need it for what your doing)
Dim display as much as possible
if you are going to use WIFI go into the advance wifi menu and set the wifi sleep policy to "when screen is off"
If your not in an area with 4G service at the moment go into Wireless & Networks, go to the bottom to network mode? (I think) and choose CDMA ONLY
so it won't be constantly searching for 4G.
go to privacy and turn off the Back up my data.
daniel644 said:
Well I'm blowing all of you out of the water, Since about a week before the last update dropped I've been getting 5 DAYS out of my phone and one of those times included streaming Netflix for about 1-1.5 hours, I leave my WIFI off because I find it drains the battery quicker then using the 3G (4G still hasn't hit here yet, due anytime now) and I got mine during the double data so I have 4 Gigs to play with a month. My brother typically gets 1 to 2 days out of his.
the biggest battery hogs are
WIFI
GPS (used it for about 4 hours one day, and that was the only time my battery only lasted me one day).
and the Display
Edit: Oh we got the BOGO Razr Maxx deal back in february.
As for tips to max battery:
Turn off WIFI
Turn off GPS (unless you need it for what your doing)
Dim display as much as possible
if you are going to use WIFI go into the advance wifi menu and set the wifi sleep policy to "when screen is off"
If your not in an area with 4G service at the moment go into Wireless & Networks, go to the bottom to network mode? (I think) and choose CDMA ONLY
so it won't be constantly searching for 4G.
go to privacy and turn off the Back up my data.
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5 days is a little over the board. This means that you almost dont use your phone. play games 30min - to 1h a day. Surf internet 1-2h a day. 30min of calls and 50-100 text. listen to a radio 2-3h a day and then report back.
those criteria that i wrote down there is typical user that really use their phone.
droidxrooting said:
5 days is a little over the board. This means that you almost dont use your phone. play games 30min - to 1h a day. Surf internet 1-2h a day. 30min of calls and 50-10 text. listen to a radio 2-3h a day and then report back.
those criteria that i wrote down there is typical user that really use their phone.
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Actually it has been proven that leaving he Wi-Fi option to all ways stay on reduces battery consumption due to the Wi-Fi radio nit having to have to scan.
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Actually it has been proven that leaving he Wi-Fi option to all ways stay on reduces battery consumption due to the Wi-Fi radio nit having to have to scan.
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Maybe if you stay in the same place all day long it might, but as soon as you leave the house the wifi is scanning till it finds something else.
Other tips are to reboot the device atleast every other charge cycle (once I started doing that my battery gained another DAY)
USE THE SMART ACTIONS, specifically "Battery Extender" or Disable Background Sync, as it is a Major power sucker.
Disable apps that maintain data connections like, FACEBOOK or WORDS WITH FRIENDS (words with friends cost me a DAY in battery life)
Yes I use is below average, but even on the day I was screen on GPS turn by turn for 4 HOURS I still had an entire DAY out of it.
daniel644 said:
Well I'm blowing all of you out of the water, Since about a week before the last update dropped I've been getting 5 DAYS out of my phone and one of those times included streaming Netflix for about 1-1.5 hours, I leave my WIFI off because I find it drains the battery quicker then using the 3G (4G still hasn't hit here yet, due anytime now) and I got mine during the double data so I have 4 Gigs to play with a month. My brother typically gets 1 to 2 days out of his.
the biggest battery hogs are
WIFI
GPS (used it for about 4 hours one day, and that was the only time my battery only lasted me one day).
and the Display
Edit: Oh we got the BOGO Razr Maxx deal back in february.
As for tips to max battery:
Turn off WIFI
Turn off GPS (unless you need it for what your doing)
Dim display as much as possible
if you are going to use WIFI go into the advance wifi menu and set the wifi sleep policy to "when screen is off"
If your not in an area with 4G service at the moment go into Wireless & Networks, go to the bottom to network mode? (I think) and choose CDMA ONLY
so it won't be constantly searching for 4G.
go to privacy and turn off the Back up my data.
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You're probably like one of my coworkers. Braging about his nexus, and getting 4-5 days of use on one charge. When i looked at screen on time, after 4 days, his was 1,5 hour. Mine was 3,5 hours, after one day.
ZolaSlo said:
You're probably like one of my coworkers. Braging about his nexus, and getting 4-5 days of use on one charge. When i looked at screen on time, after 4 days, his was 1,5 hour. Mine was 3,5 hours, after one day.
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Well I do have a laptop and use it for my internet when at home or work, my phone is for on the go use not for laying around the house wasting cell battery just to browse the internet, like you single day battery guys.
Be smart about your use and there's no reason you can't get atleast 2 days with the Maxx's battery.
Hey, to each his own. Like I said, I can get 3 days of use out of my regular, "slim" Razr if i'm not using it. Time since the last charge doesn't say anything about battery.
br Zola
I too have also noticed a battery slowdown although i just loaded a new ROM recently and i just found out Today that i should wipe the Battery History, once i get it charge to 100%- which i plan on doing tonight
First day with my Maxx coming from the regular Razr and I can see a difference, I'm at 11h 10m and was saying I had 50% left, also my screen on time is 2h 49m. I have auto brightness on, full sync, google gps and pretty much use it without babying it. I've seen a improvement that's for sure.
After a couple hiccups the first couple days while the phone dialed in the charging, I regularly go 2 days with moderate to heavy usage. Wifi hotspot for my tablet, phone calls, light gaming, watching videos, internet, etc. I have 4G always on, Bluetooth for calls, GPS on when needed, but I don't use wifi anywhere. A good 4G signal beats most wifi speeds.
So, look at your apps. There might be something, like FaceySpace that's sucking down your battery.
I noticed a huge negative difference after receiving the .181 update.
After trying the Black Widow rom, I was forced to flash back to .173. I reapplied the .181 update and have notice really good battery life since.
I just installed an ICS rom two days ago. So far, the battery life is MUCH better. 5 hours on battery so far and only down to 90%.
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I keep my brightness to a minimum (which is still bright), keep 4G off (only turn it on when I need it) and get days upon days of use out of the Maxx.
Display brightness, for me, seems to be the biggest killer.
What does anybody think?
Razr Maxx
8hours 50 minutes off the charger
4g on, wifi on(connected whenever it was on), gps on, auto sync on
screen brightness on auto, but set to dim bright screens
screen 67% battery use and 3 hours 13 minutes screen on
android os 10%
32% battery remaining
Im on stock ICS
This seems a little low for battery life. Does anyone else think so?
Thanks for any feedback!
bcoop8 said:
Razr Maxx
8hours 50 minutes off the charger
4g on, wifi on(connected whenever it was on), gps on, auto sync on
screen brightness on auto, but set to dim bright screens
screen 67% battery use and 3 hours 13 minutes screen on
android os 10%
32% battery remaining
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This sounds almost exactly like what mine is doing.
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I just bought a Droid X2, but have decided to take it back for an LTE phone before the change in unlimited data.
I really don't like the way the charge looks, but it seems to be just as good as the TB. The TB has the likely potential to have a better community and better roms.
However I cannot have a phone that cant hold a charge for a whole day. And I do keep my phones for the 2 year duration of the contract, so whatever I get I need to be happy with.
I get the idea that the TB lasts between 4 and 8 hours. Is this a hardware issue, or is it the ROM which would be fixed as time progresses?
It is pretty bad. If you live in a 4G area, you should get the extended battery.
There are some settings tweaks, especially in the stock ROM, that help tremendously. The notification/background data is what kills the battery.
I always get at least 8 hrs with normal to heavy use.
But if your streaming video constantly, yeah like 4 hrs.
Most I have seen is around 20 hrs.
Seems like it always dies with about 4 hours of awake time or actual usage.
In a 4G area. And I think it will get better with hopefully a new OTA.
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If you are going to play with ROM's, standard battery life is real bad. I loose about 25% of the battery, 4G downloading, then flashing 1 ROM!
Add 2 hours worth of on anf off fiddling with the screens and setups takes it down to 40% remaining, then I have to turn off wifi, and 4G to get through the workday, ending <10%. If I do 2 ROM's, i'm dead before lunch. Gotta get a cable for work.
Get the extended battery. Mine lasts typically a day and a half with it, moderate usage. Awesome phone.
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I can get a full day out of my phone with moderate use (texting, calls, web browsing). I have my settings tweaked and have juice defender running which really helps. I'm on stock ROM and am not rooted, there is a lot you can do to improve the battery.
Well if you use your phone as much as I do then you would be surprised how quickly the Barry drains out haha
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Mine is usually 60-85% display, and I have it on dead minimum brightness unless I'm outside in the sun, in which case I set it to auto for a few minutes. Mind you, that's maybe five or ten minutes max of screen on time, two or three times a week. On the other hand, a twenty or thirty minute phone call can take ten percent off; I'm one of the people who sometimes remembers that it can make calls, too, so my experience is probably a bit off. I also have most everything set to sync every 2 hours, but I have imo.im running constantly.
If I'm using it pretty heavily, it may be down to 40-60% on the standard battery by lunch, which would be about three or four hours of screen on time. I'm in a 3G area, btw. I just carry a charger; which has the advantage of making other microUSB people happy when their phones die (and we can mock the iPeople with proprietary chargers). Yes, the battery sucks, but every phone has trade-offs.
If you won't have any way to charge the phone (car, wall, etc) during the day, then I don't think you will be happy with the phone. Between my wall charger (or USB cable), car charger, and two batteries (spare is the Seidio 1600 mAh), I'm satisfied.
As for the Droid Charge, the Touchwiz UI compared to Sense is a non-starter.
Is it bad? Yeah, seems like. Is it as bad as everyone is making it out to be? I dunno. I remember a lot of people complaining about the battery when I got the Incredible. With light use (about an hour of internet and email over 3G, one or two half hour calls, and a handful of texts), I'd charge it every other night (and have 30% or so when it went on the charger).
I picked up the Thunderbolt yesterday and charged it overnight. It came off the charger at 7:30 this morning, and I'm showing 54% as I'm typing this at 8:45pm. Since it's new, I was probably fiddling with it more than usual (but not a ton more, as the differences between the Thunderbolt and the Incredible aren't huge).
So with 4G on, yeah, it runs it's battery down faster than my old Incredible. But it seems like I can make it through a day without much difficulty.
EDIT: I figure I might as well mention my settings.
I have the brightness set to about 30%. I shut off any and all vibration. Screen timeout is 1 minute, volume is maxed for everything. Bluetooth and GPS are off (unless I need them). The weather widget updates every three hours. I don't use any other widgets that use data (just a volume profile and a power control widget). The phone can do background sync for my contacts, but my gmail, other mail, and Twitter (Seesmic) are all set to update manually.
I'm getting about 8 hours of moderate usage here as well. I've come to terms with the fact that using a device that is more powerful than my netbook will come with some battery trade-offs.
hey guys,
I'm going to follow this thread for a bit. My HD2 jumped into the Harbor yesterday and will probably be switching to Verizon for my next phone. I'd really like to get the TB, but am really concerned about battery life.
It sounds like people are getting a battery life similar to what I was getting running Gingerbread off the SD card on my HD2...which didn't quite cut it for me on days I was working in the field and not able to charge. But at least with the HD2 I could run WinMo on days like that and not have worry.
Keep the info coming!
thanks
setting tweaks
Headshots4life said:
I can get a full day out of my phone with moderate use (texting, calls, web browsing). I have my settings tweaked and have juice defender running which really helps. I'm on stock ROM and am not rooted, there is a lot you can do to improve the battery.
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Hello, im currently running with juice defender, but i was wondering if you could help me with what all settings i should tweak to help the battery?
After applying the MR1 OTA update I still wasn't happy with my battery or GPS performance, especially compared to my past phones (Incredible, X, original droid, blackberries, etc)...
After doing a wipe and reloading the apps I use by hand, I have seen battery life match the Inc in 3g only areas, and GPS lock on my location consistently in under 7 seconds.
In mixed 3g/4g areas (where I live), similar results. Battery life and GPS lock are very much improved. And the TB now makes it through the day for me.
In solid 4g areas, well, last night I was surfing the web, reading, looking to see if the GB update for the X had hit. I went to bed around 1 am with 80% battery, didn't hook to charger. This morning at 9 when I looked it had received some emails and auto updated some apps.. battery was at 55% so that is better.
It's still not as good as my droid x, but the TB is certainly more usable than when I first got it a month and a half or two months ago.
The t-bolt is better than my inc was, with bams GB rom I got 12 hours of heavy use with stock battery....my 2 cents...
I just tested my battery life. It was about 2 hours with Carl pagan cosmos on 2g. 4g really eats the battery. After I recharge, I'm going try it over 3g and see if that makes any huge differences.
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What is the deal with this phone? The battery life is not very good at all. I came from a phone that had a 1150 battery and this one has 1600! I am getting almost identical battery life as my old phone. I am running a fully debloated rom at stock clocks with the display turned all the way down and can HARDLY make it through an 8 hour work day. I've narrowed it down to the screen.
I remember reading about amoled when it was first announced and they said it would consume significantly less power than any other display technology. I'm starting to second guess this.
Its either the screen or the dual core processor that's draining this decent sized battery so fast.
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I've been getting 12 hours on batter with almost 6 hours screen on time. Heavy usage. Every day. Better than my iPhone 4.
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Amoled does. From what ive beem read ing super amoled plus.is alot better. The darker the better. Slcd is.a.good option for battery mizers though.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
Yes ive also read that the way super amoled plus works, is there is no backlight and individual pixels light up, so its better to have simple wallpapers with mostly black, would probably give you better battery life, as most of the screen will no be using any energy.
All android devices murder their batteries. It's nothing new get over it lol.
This device gets decent battery life considering it's the most powerful option out currently though.
The general masses do not understand how to set these phones up for optimal battery life. There are threads all over XDA on how to do this.
This phone for android is probably the best or near best in its class. I am impressed. Its better than my captivate was. I can get through 15 hour days with heavy use all the time with average of 4 hours screen time and i listen to a lot of music when the screen is off. This phone rocks i dont even see the need for a extended battery
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Every app i use i set on black theme. Wallpaper black. Display all the way down unless IM out side or watching a movie. I get 12hrs plus using gtg's rom.
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I have no idea what you do with your phone or what . But I get more then enough battery with this phone, I do it all text talk surf web forums play and I make it home with enough battery to probably lend you some. Seriously we all know your not going to get iPhone battery life obviously the iPhone it just plain simple. But come on, this type of thread it's getting annoying there's a few already with help and tips on your issue search for them. Maybe you just got high hopes, or maybe it's not the phone it's you. BTW Amoled probably consume less battery but not enough for us power hungry users to see a different.
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I don't think is the screen alone itself but the dual-core running at 1.2Ghz might eat more battery than your old phone with an smaller battery
seh6183 said:
What is the deal with this phone? The battery life is not very good at all. I came from a phone that had a 1150 battery and this one has 1600! I am getting almost identical battery life as my old phone. I am running a fully debloated rom at stock clocks with the display turned all the way down and can HARDLY make it through an 8 hour work day. I've narrowed it down to the screen.
I remember reading about amoled when it was first announced and they said it would consume significantly less power than any other display technology. I'm starting to second guess this.
Its either the screen or the dual core processor that's draining this decent sized battery so fast.
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You might want to install CPUSpy and BetterBatteryStats (BBS) so you can better diagnose where your battery issues are coming from. 8 hours seems very poor for this device. Use CPUSpy to see how much your device is running in deep sleep - with light usage I usually see around 80% deep sleep. You can use BBS to look for apps causing excessive wakelocks (BBS is available here on xda) to see if a particular app is causing the problem.
Unless you have a hardware problem, I don't think the display is your problem - the display on this device has a smaller percentage hit on battery use than my 3.2" LCD Aria.
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I've been getting 12 hours on batter with almost 6 hours screen on time. Heavy usage. Every day. Better than my iPhone 4.
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I'm lucky to see 3 hours of screen on time with MODERATE. Usage.
You are either lying or my phone needs to be warrantied.
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This phone for android is probably the best or near best in its class. I am impressed. Its better than my captivate was. I can get through 15 hour days with heavy use all the time with average of 4 hours screen time and i listen to a lot of music when the screen is off. This phone rocks i dont even see the need for a extended battery
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Again since I am unable to recreate these results I'm gonna have to go with my phone is defective.
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Again since I am unable to recreate these results I'm gonna have to go with my phone is defective.
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Yet you've completely ignored people who have told you to get CPUSpy and BetterBatteryStats to figure out what's keeping your phone awake.
Most likely your phone is not defective, but you've installed an app that's hogging the battery or set up a configuration option that kills it, such as:
Hotmail calendar sync is known to cause massive battery drain due to a Hotmail server side bug
Some Exchange servers are misconfigured and cause major battery drain
Skype is a battery-hogging nightmare. If you absolutely have to use Skype, make sure to take it out with a task killer when you're done with it.
I haven't really pushed my device with screen-on time, however what are your idle battery drain statistics? If you have drain more than 2-3% per hour when the phone is idle (such as overnight), something is very wrong. You should be getting drain on the order of 1% an hour if you leave the phone overnight in moderate signal.
Entropy512 said:
Yet you've completely ignored people who have told you to get CPUSpy and BetterBatteryStats to figure out what's keeping your phone awake.
Most likely your phone is not defective, but you've installed an app that's hogging the battery or set up a configuration option that kills it, such as:
Hotmail calendar sync is known to cause massive battery drain due to a Hotmail server side bug
Some Exchange servers are misconfigured and cause major battery drain
Skype is a battery-hogging nightmare. If you absolutely have to use Skype, make sure to take it out with a task killer when you're done with it.
I haven't really pushed my device with screen-on time, however what are your idle battery drain statistics? If you have drain more than 2-3% per hour when the phone is idle (such as overnight), something is very wrong. You should be getting drain on the order of 1% an hour if you leave the phone overnight in moderate signal.
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I havent ignored anyone. You assume that because I haven't responded to such comments that I haven't tried them. I frequently use cpuspy to make sure my phone is sleeping and I use bbs as well.
I'll leave the phone off the charger overnight to check it out though.
This still doesn't change the fact that HEAVY useage at 5+ hours of screen on time is absurd.
I am also planning to experiment with airplane mode and using only wifi tomorrow.
seh6183 said:
I havent ignored anyone. You assume that because I haven't responded to such comments that I haven't tried them. I frequently use cpuspy to make sure my phone is sleeping and I use bbs as well.
I'll leave the phone off the charger overnight to check it out though.
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Make sure to do the following to get the most accurate data:
Top off to 100% (to the point you get the full-charged notification)
Remove from charger
Reset timers in CPUspy
Put phone down and go to bed
seh6183 said:
I havent ignored anyone. You assume that because I haven't responded to such comments that I haven't tried them. I frequently use cpuspy to make sure my phone is sleeping and I use bbs as well.
I'll leave the phone off the charger overnight to check it out though.
This still doesn't change the fact that HEAVY useage at 5+ hours of screen on time is absurd.
I am also planning to experiment with airplane mode and using only wifi tomorrow.
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I'm not sure why you say 5 hour screen on time with heavy usage is absurd? Are you thinking that isn't possible with this device?
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This phone for android is probably the best or near best in its class. I am impressed. Its better than my captivate was. I can get through 15 hour days with heavy use all the time with average of 4 hours screen time and i listen to a lot of music when the screen is off. This phone rocks i dont even see the need for a extended battery
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+me, amazing battery life w/the SGS2
seh6183 said:
I'm lucky to see 3 hours of screen on time with MODERATE. Usage.
You are either lying or my phone needs to be warrantied.
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You can still exchange with a new one under 14 days or 30 days. 6 hours with screen on is not absurd on this phone in 12 hours. I have been with screen on with 2:45 hrs and voice with 45 min in 1 day and 8hrs with still 15+ % battery juice left.
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IIRC, one of the review or comparison against iPhone4S benchmarked GS2 as 5 to 6 hours of internet browsing which means both screen on and using data. Wi-fi gives it a slightly longer battery life than cell data. Unfortunately, it didn't benchmark video playback time. iPhone4S spec says 8 hours of video. I hope GS2 is close to that. This is play video from local storage, not streaming. So, the data connection battery draw is out of picture. I managed to get 4+ hours of video playback with flight mode on with my old Captivate. Hopefully, GS2 will last longer, e.g. survive a coast to coast flight while still have some juice left for navigation.
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I'm lucky to see 3 hours of screen on time with MODERATE. Usage.
You are either lying or my phone needs to be warrantied.
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He's not lying. I have seen 5 hours of screen on time and still had a little juice left at the end of 16 hour days. And it wasn't a one time deal. Seen it several times, though I usually don't use my phone that heavily. Yesterday I barely used my phone at all and was only down to like 85% after 16 hours.
As the title says I haven't seen anyone actually test the battery for a couple days, it's usually review and move on.
So how is it?
Well it hasn't been mentioned so it probably isn't worse than we expect it to be.
Also interested to know. Of course since this will be the first few days people have it, they'll be using it a ton so it may not be the best estimate on battery life but I would love to know an idea of how much to expect.
They haven't had time to calabrate yet.
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First charge with heavy use got greater than expected life. I will still buy an extended one, but thats cuz i hate charging. 7 hours of heavy use on 3g only.
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7 hours of heavy use isn't bad. So idling with 4G off probably isn't terrible then. That is what I am most concerned about. Hopefully we will get kernel source and just get some undervolt going.
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7 hours of heavy use isn't bad. So idling with 4G off probably isn't terrible then. That is what I am most concerned about. Hopefully we will get kernel source and just get some undervolt going.
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yeah not to mention that after you root you can flash leaner kernels and ROM's. But we'll have to wait for development to pick up, I really hope we see some good developers here.
So right now it's 1am and I took the phone off of the charger at 8:21 with 85% battery life. It is now at 47% with some steady texting, exchange activesync, some web browsing, and a 7 minute video all on 4g. I'm not sure what to make of that but it seems decent.
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So right now it's 1am and I took the phone off of the charger at 8:21 with 85% battery life. It is now at 47% with some steady texting, exchange activesync, some web browsing, and a 7 minute video all on 4g. I'm not sure what to make of that but it seems decent.
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DAMMIT I WANT!!! 3 more days...
I don't know that I've charged it fully since I got it. It was close to fully charged before I went to a wedding tonight. Lasted all 6 hours or so I was there, but was tuckering out (~20%) by the time I left. But I did spend a bit of time playing with the phone. And 4G was on the whole time. And I turned live wallpaper on, played with my weather and clock widgets, tried to get a wifi connection that wouldn't work, browsed the web a bit.
I recharged on the way home to about 50%, and sitting around playing with it for the last hour to 1.5 hours, it's still at 40%.
If it makes you feel any better, the biggest battery hog was the display, BY FAR. Like 80-something percent to the <20% combined for the other functions. I'll try and remember to post my impressions from my first "normal" day of use tomorrow and let you know how the battery fairs.
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I don't know that I've charged it fully since I got it. It was close to fully charged before I went to a wedding tonight. Lasted all 6 hours or so I was there, but was tuckering out (~20%) by the time I left. But I did spend a bit of time playing with the phone. And 4G was on the whole time. And I turned live wallpaper on, played with my weather and clock widgets, tried to get a wifi connection that wouldn't work, browsed the web a bit.
I recharged on the way home to about 50%, and sitting around playing with it for the last hour to 1.5 hours, it's still at 40%.
If it makes you feel any better, the biggest battery hog was the display, BY FAR. Like 80-something percent to the <20% combined for the other functions. I'll try and remember to post my impressions from my first "normal" day of use tomorrow and let you know how the battery fairs.
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I got mine yesterday and I can say it is about 25-30% better than a rooted thunderbolt....My logic says once rooted we will get really good battery life.
I am a heavy user and I can say I turned off fast boot and bump charged it 3 times on Thursday night. I gave it a heavy use all day on Friday.
Took it off the charger at 10 am around 8 pm I was on 35%. So that was 10 hours of heavy use and still had 35% left. If I was using the rooted bolt I would have been dead around 5:30 and a stock bolt...even sooner.
hope all these battery estimates are true, sounds like this will be my next phone!
Took it off the charger at about 11am today... Was close to 100%, maybe 95%. Just hooked it up to charge about 10 minutes ago (so off charger completely for ~10 hours). It had ~10% battery life left when I hooked it up.
Had Wifi and/or 4G on the entire day, including an hour and a half in a bad service area, where it fought for a bit to find service until I logged into the wifi network. Played about 1 hour worth of Pandora on high quality setting. A couple minutes of 4G Youtube. Tons of tinkering with games and downloading apps and playing around. Screen brightness was set to something like 30%. live wallpaper enabled. Weather and clock widget enabled. Data tracking widget enabled. Did a few seconds of video Skype too. I would say it was consistent use all day, but not necessarily heavy for most of the day.
EDIT: I forgot. One short phone call. I'm sort of a bad guinea pig for battery life on a phone because I really don't make a lot of phone calls. Consider my use representative of someone who uses data during his commute and for texting/games/forum/app usage.
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Took it off the charger at about 11am today... Was close to 100%, maybe 95%. Just hooked it up to charge about 10 minutes ago (so off charger completely for ~10 hours). It had ~10% battery life left when I hooked it up.
EDIT: I forgot. One short phone call. I'm sort of a bad guinea pig for battery life on a phone because I really don't make a lot of phone calls. Consider my use representative of someone who uses data during his commute and for texting/games/forum/app usage.
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I have very similar usage habits. Glad to hear that this seems to have relatively good battery life.
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Had Wifi and/or 4G on the entire day, including an hour and a half in a bad service area, where it fought for a bit to find service until I logged into the wifi network.
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Bad/No service areas will kill a battery so fast. My office is in a windowless reinforced concrete room inside a reinforced windowless room inside a reinforced building. (Yo dawg)
I get no service at all. If I leave the 3g on, phone won't make it past 5 hours. Turn the 3G/WiFi off and battery percent goes down a few points.
I need one!!!
Kellex over a Droid-Life has gotten just over 10 hours of normal usage (all in 4G) for the past couple of days. He also stated he is not a heavy user by any means.
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Seems like it isn't as bad as most thought it would be.
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I remain interested in the phone but undecided due to some really bad hardware failures I have on my Dinc.
While I am very interested in battery life like everyone else, please everyone keep in mind that "how is the battery" is as personal a question as "which radio is the best one to use."
There is no way one person can truly tell you how the battery will be for you. If you sit in an interior office without wifi, and have sync contacts and facebook set for every hour, that ALONE will cause a drain that may not be comparable.
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I remain interested in the phone but undecided due to some really bad hardware failures I have on my Dinc.
While I am very interested in battery life like everyone else, please everyone keep in mind that "how is the battery" is as personal a question as "which radio is the best one to use."
There is no way one person can truly tell you how the battery will be for you. If you sit in an interior office without wifi, and have sync contacts and facebook set for every hour, that ALONE will cause a drain that may not be comparable.
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What does this phone have in common with a year old phone.
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jbh00jh said:
What does this phone have in common with a year old phone.
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Yay, you got another post!
That aside ... just please everyone keep that in mind when making battery life decisions based on what others experience; battery life can be GREATLY impacted by things well outside what programs you might run and how many texts you might send.
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Yay, you got another post!
That aside ... just please everyone keep that in mind when making battery life decisions based on what others experience; battery life can be GREATLY impacted by things well outside what programs you might run and how many texts you might send.
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Yay, so did you.
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If you've got a normal Razr poll your on-screen times! I got this phone for probably a week now an screen time seem to just touch the 2.5~3 hour margin, what about yours?
I get the same, I was a bit concerned before I got the phone because of the non removable battery, but i'm really happy with battery. It lasts longer than my nexus s
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got my razr in febuary and wasn't happy with the battery, my og droid and my wifes bionic were way better but i'm happy to say that with jd plus i regularly get 18 to 20 hrs,i always charge at 20 to 25 % i also don't kill apps with a task killer anymore after reading about task killers in the forums i love my razr!
Im in the Uk & i clearly chose the wrong phone. My battery drain is immense as i am a heavy user.
2:15hrs my phone from 100% charge was at 5%. I put it on charge n it took 5hrs to get back to 100% with heavy usage
i usually get 3hr-3hr 50mins screen on time, but i have gotten up to 4hrs 50mins on my razr, but i am using it on simple mobile so edge only and i'm not a heavy data user.
I do not use any battery saving apps, only freeze social crap and stuff like that that loves running in the background eating up your battery (provided that you do not use that social crap, of course).
timhl7 said:
I get the same, I was a bit concerned before I got the phone because of the non removable battery, but i'm really happy with battery. It lasts longer than my nexus s
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This is really comforting, makes me feel blessed not ever getting the Nexus
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got my razr in febuary and wasn't happy with the battery, my og droid and my wifes bionic were way better but i'm happy to say that with jd plus i regularly get 18 to 20 hrs,i always charge at 20 to 25 % i also don't kill apps with a task killer anymore after reading about task killers in the forums i love my razr!
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I haven't personally tried JD yet so pardon my ignorance but isn't it just a automated profile setter based on time that turns your connectivity off? :0
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i usually get 3hr-3hr 50mins screen on time, but i have gotten up to 4hrs 50mins on my razr, but i am using it on simple mobile so edge only and i'm not a heavy data user.
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That's still some crazy results, I've even tried using screen filter throughout the day with brightness set to half of what already seems to be the lowest
For some light web browsing with flash switched to on demand on but really just 2-3 hours at Max :s
jd plus is totally customizable,for instance i have it set to enable wifi at certain locations like home,ect.when the screen is on ,my battery power has more than doubled since i started using it,today my phonehas been unplugged for6 hours with on screen time of 1 hour 14 minutes and i still have 63% of my battery left, i would post screen shots but i don't know how!
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I got my RAZR in Feb. It got crappy battery life 2-3 hours of battery life. Im medium to heavy user. Since I've rooted my phone 3 weeks ago. I've removed and BloatFreezer most of the apps that. Run in the background I don't use very often. To say I very happy with my battery life I get 6 to 12 hours now. I can work on my car playing Pandora off my wifi and get about 7 hours of play. I've turned down my screen brightness all the way down. Its hard time see sometimes but I deal with. I'm very happy with this phone can't wait till I get the MAXX
I get two to three and a half, four hours os screen time...
That corresponds to a day and a half
Cheers
It really depends on how it's used, if it's a day that the screen is on most of the time & I'm on wifi I can over 6hr on screen time, but totally time on battery won't be much longer. Then only battery saving things I use is shutting BT, GPS, wifi & data if not being used (wifi & data always has either or on) & I use Lux to auto dim using subzero levels in low light(this is probably what helps the most).
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Not sure what my time is, but I must charge daily or risk dead phone at night. Phone idle, Android OS, voice calls, display, cell standby and wifi are usually my highest battery users in that order from most to least, everything else is usually 6% or less. Wish I had bought the Maxx as I hate charging daily! Considering buying the Maxx battery conversion kit if rooting and bloatware removal doesn't help enough with battery life.
I didn't vote since I'm not sure on my actual time.
okay well today I decided I wanted an upgrade, Im not eligible until Feb 1st (or a few days after) so I called tech support and was crying about how my upgrade is 2 weeks away and how i really want a new phone. so long story short, they directed me to my local verizon store after changing the date to today; an hour later home with the DNA.
and I am impressed.
I have the galaxy note 10.1 as my main tablet, and the Droid Dna is much snappier than that, and their specs are pretty much the same.
so as much as I "hate" htc, i bough the dna because i thought it looks cool, and im glad I did
and I dont hate HTC, im just one of those frustrated T-bolt users lol, and now my grandpa is rocking the t-bolt and loves it...if only he knew what android 4.0 was......
Nova launcher prime. That is all
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This phone is amazing! I just got mine as well.
time to start tinkering!
I love it
But the only issue I have is with wireless charging
It takes forever, and I have that nokia one, not sure of the official model number, but its the size of an apple mighty mouse and looks similar
So does anyone know why wireless charging takes so long?
And I do not have a case on it
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I love it
But the only issue I have is with wireless charging
It takes forever, and I have that nokia one, not sure of the official model number, but its the size of an apple mighty mouse and looks similar
So does anyone know why wireless charging takes so long?
And I do not have a case on it
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After using the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 for the past year+, the DNA just CREEPS when charging, both wired and wireless. It's really painful how long it takes to charge.
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After using the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 for the past year+, the DNA just CREEPS when charging, both wired and wireless. It's really painful how long it takes to charge.
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I came from an iphone and this phone charges really slow. But it also lasts me 15 hours average so Im cool with that haha.
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I can also agree that this phone charges slower than my Nexus but I notice no difference between wired and wireless charging.
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I came from an iphone and this phone charges really slow. But it also lasts me 15 hours average so Im cool with that haha.
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Really?
It only lasts about 7 for me:/
And this is day 2, so I jay take it back and exchange for another dna, as this could be a faulty battery, or sidegrade to a s3
Now heres what my usage is;
Im a college student, so my phone is off charger by 730 am (from the night before) and comes to school until about 3 or so.
In just those 8 hours, with wifi off, gps off, brightness set to auto, and only like 30 mins of screen on time; its at like 30-35
And 3 isnt a good time to die cause I have the rest of the day I need it, so is it me using it wrong or maybe bad battery?
Cause im debati on going to verizon tomorrow to replace it with a s3 or a new dna
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Really?
It only lasts about 7 for me:/
And this is day 2, so I jay take it back and exchange for another dna, as this could be a faulty battery, or sidegrade to a s3
Now heres what my usage is;
Im a college student, so my phone is off charger by 730 am (from the night before) and comes to school until about 3 or so.
In just those 8 hours, with wifi off, gps off, brightness set to auto, and only like 30 mins of screen on time; its at like 30-35
And 3 isnt a good time to die cause I have the rest of the day I need it, so is it me using it wrong or maybe bad battery?
Cause im debati on going to verizon tomorrow to replace it with a s3 or a new dna
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Bad battery. No way you should only be getting 30 minutes of on screen time!
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How is your signal at school?
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Really?
It only lasts about 7 for me:/
And this is day 2, so I jay take it back and exchange for another dna, as this could be a faulty battery, or sidegrade to a s3
Now heres what my usage is;
Im a college student, so my phone is off charger by 730 am (from the night before) and comes to school until about 3 or so.
In just those 8 hours, with wifi off, gps off, brightness set to auto, and only like 30 mins of screen on time; its at like 30-35
And 3 isnt a good time to die cause I have the rest of the day I need it, so is it me using it wrong or maybe bad battery?
Cause im debati on going to verizon tomorrow to replace it with a s3 or a new dna
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That is horrible batteryife. Unless you have horrible coverage where you are or your school is made of lead you should be at like 70 percent, not 30
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While not a huge factor, dont use auto brightness. Uses an unnecessary amount of battery. Just set it to where you want and leave it. But I agree that is terrible battery life. Im getting 15 hours average out of mine.
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I've had my Droid DNA about 3 weeks and I'm in love with it myself. I must suggest everyone get a charging pad as well, it seems to make the battery last longer from it's charge!
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I've had my Droid DNA about 3 weeks and I'm in love with it myself. I must suggest everyone get a charging pad as well, it seems to make the battery last longer from it's charge!
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why would that possibly prolong the battery life?
my signal at my school is maximum bars , and 4g.
and okay, ill be heading over to verizon in a few minutes to see what they wanna do
because the dna should get at least 12 hours of my "low-average" usage
and okay, ill try to get a new DNA and if I do ill put the brightness somewhere in the middle instead of auto brightness.
thanks all!
Try this app: Deep Sleep Battery Saver. It has worked wonders on my DNA's battery life. It turns off apps and the radios for the WiFi and Mobile Data when the device's screen goes dark. At set intervals, it'll wake up the radios and download email, etc. You can also whitelist apps that you do not want the app to shut off, like an alarm clock app or an SMS app. You will still receive your phone calls. As of this writing, I have 94% battery 5 hours after I disconnected the phone from the charger. I have made a few calls and texts. I haven't used data since I am at work and am in front of a computer the whole day.
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my signal at my school is maximum bars , and 4g.
and okay, ill be heading over to verizon in a few minutes to see what they wanna do
because the dna should get at least 12 hours of my "low-average" usage
and okay, ill try to get a new DNA and if I do ill put the brightness somewhere in the middle instead of auto brightness.
thanks all!
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I agree with what everyone else said - you probably had a defective unit. I use my DNA much more than you do, with Auto-sync on, Background data on, Mobile Network always on, Brightness at around 40%. In my daily commute, I total around an hour of time spent underground in a subway station with no signal. Given all this, with ~3-4 hours of screen-on time, my phone lasts me from 7:45 in the morning all the way through until ~12 midnight with usually at least 20% battery life left. I don't know if it means anything, but I charged my phone fully before turning it on for the first time (I didn't even let the Verizon store rep turn it on to activate it for me - I told him to not even open the box). If you're interested, this is what I did:
1. Made sure the phone was not turned on at any point before I took it out of the box.
2. Took the phone out of the box without turning it on and plugged it in.
3. Waited for the light to turn green, then unplugged it and let it sit for a few minutes.
4. Re-plugged the phone (the light would be orange again), and waited for it to turn green.
5. Repeated the unplugging and replugging process until the light turned green almost immediately upon plugging in.
6. Turned the phone on and did the activation and all that fun stuff.
7. Used the phone normally, and did not charge it until the battery was fully depleted (turned off by itself because battery was too low).
8. Fully charged the phone until it was full again (without turning it on).
9. Repeated the unplugging and replugging process again until the light turned green almost immediately upon plugging in.
10. Turned it on and started using it normally from that point on.
I'm a bit OCD with my phone battery But hey, it seems to have worked out well for me so I'm happy!
Juicedefender is the best free battery saver I have tried.. Just having it on the balanced pre-set made a difference.. After suffering through the Tbolt, Droid razr, and Gnex, I'm pretty happy with the battery
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Well I unfortunately went to the dark side, no not the company with a piece of fruit for a logo...samsung
And I wanted the dna but the lady told me that the battery life is normal for that phone cause of the big screen with 1080p and a quad core processor. I tried to disagree a little, but then she told me she has had the s3 since its launch and she hasnt had an issue yet. So I played with her phone, cause demo units are almost always bogged down. And I liked it.
So as of now, im off the htc bandwagon....but hopefully ill be back in about 8 months when my next line is available for upgrade