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Hey guys
I might be buying an Atrix tomorrow and I was just wondering if anyone could post a picture of the threaded-SMS that's on the Atrix...
I'm also wondering what I'm suppose to do with this battery? I heard there is like a procedure to getting it to charge to its full potential when you first get it. Like drain the battery completely, charge all the way up, and then never let the battery go under 20% in daily use?
And lastly, how is the call quality on this phone? I've seen a lot of reviews and have been researching this phone for a couple weeks now and I have seen tons of mixed reviews about it...some people say it's horrible some people say it's crystal clear.
I might have some more questions when I think of them.
Thanks,
Elliott
I've never even seen the stock sms because I've always used "go sms" so I can't comment on it.
With the battery there is no need to discharge it a ton on the first day, I just recommend charging it full before you use it. Modern lithium batteries don't have a memory. As you break in the battery over a week you'll get better and better battery life.
I've found the call quality to be superb. On my captivate people sounded hallow, where as the atrix sounds really full.
These are just my .02 hope you enjoy your phone, I sure do.
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Clienterror said:
I've never even seen the stock sms because I've always used "go sms" so I can't comment on it.
With the battery there is no need to discharge it a ton on the first day, I just recommend charging it full before you use it. Modern lithium batteries don't have a memory. As you break in the battery over a week you'll get better and better battery life.
I've found the call quality to be superb. On my captivate people sounded hallow, where as the atrix sounds really full.
These are just my .02 hope you enjoy your phone, I sure do.
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Thanks.
What I'm more interested in is how the phone sounds to other people!
Elliott
I think the phone sounds great. My father has it and I talk to him everyday. I can't even tell when he has me on speaker, it's clear crisp and I can even hear tge conversations behind him. My father bought tge phone for me because I did not want to use my upgrade. He lives a few states away and I haven't gone to visit and trade him phones but he loves it and let me tell you this is his first cell phone.
Android has a text file that monitors battery performance and will adjust your percent remaining based on the file. This is the only reason you need to fully discharge the phone, or you will wonder why the damn thing only lasts a few hours. Some custom bootloaders allow you to delete this file to start fresh, but it seems on this one they only way to do so is a factory reset.
The default chat application is a bit of a snore, the standard chat bubbles seen on iPhone. Coming from a Sense device with a nice threaded sms app, I was let down.
Call quality is stellar, even in poor signal areas. The noise cancelling is adjustable quite easily, and at standard settings is powerful enough to completely block out my cat meowing loudly at my feet (the caller was unable to hear him, I asked)
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Android has a text file that monitors battery performance and will adjust your percent remaining based on the file. This is the only reason you need to fully discharge the phone, or you will wonder why the damn thing only lasts a few hours. Some custom bootloaders allow you to delete this file to start fresh, but it seems on this one they only way to do so is a factory reset.
The default chat application is a bit of a snore, the standard chat bubbles seen on iPhone. Coming from a Sense device with a nice threaded sms app, I was let down.
Call quality is stellar, even in poor signal areas. The noise cancelling is adjustable quite easily, and at standard settings is powerful enough to completely block out my cat meowing loudly at my feet (the caller was unable to hear him, I asked)
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I don't understand how a text file that monitors the battery would effect how long the battery actually lasts. It would just be "off" until it gauges it right, other than that your battery should last just as long regardless.
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I don't understand how a text file that monitors the battery would effect how long the battery actually lasts. It would just be "off" until it gauges it right, other than that your battery should last just as long regardless.
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It means that the phone will be reporting you have 5% battery left when you probably have 20+% left, so people will plug it in rather than let it discharge. Thus why you let it discharge so that it tracks battery performance correctly.
Cool good to know.
I tried out the phone today along with the Galaxy S and I have to say the first thing I noticed is that the icons on the Atrix seem very small...probably because of the higher resolution but damn, I'm only 18 and have pretty good vision and they weren't hard to see but still not easy.
I also found the virtual keyboard to be total garbage...maybe it was just the promo device that was on display but it seemed like the buttons on the sides of the device were basically unresponsive to my touches and so was the settings key on the bottom left of the phone.
Using the Navigator app it crashed twice while loading and had to be force closed...no idea why. Anyone else have this problem?
Also while using the phone (it was plugged in the whole time obviously), it got quite hot...is this normal of having it plugged in charging or is it just normal function? It got DAM hot!
Other than that I didn't really do much else on it to be honest.
Bell is going to release the HTC Incredible S on their network supposedly April 4th so what I am thinking is buying the Atrix on maybe Tuesday, which gives me 14 days to return it, which will bring me to about April 12th, which should give me plenty of time to try out the HTC at the store to see if I want to return the Atrix. What do you guys think?
Elliott
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I don't understand how a text file that monitors the battery would effect how long the battery actually lasts. It would just be "off" until it gauges it right, other than that your battery should last just as long regardless.
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i think he is referring to batterystats.bin file. not sure about the atrix but my captivate used to forget where 0% and 100% charge was and needed to be calibrated. havent needed to do that with the atrix though.
Bump. Can anyone else add anything? Check out my post above (#8)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12340064&postcount=8
Just curious as to what other folks are getting for actual screen on battery time, as in, what do you think you would get in constant screen on usage?
I don't suffer from really bad battery drain, I think I could get a couple of days of light use from it.... but it does fair chomp the battery in use.
I reckon I could completely drain the battery in 3 - 4 hours of constant use of say web browsing, the odd game, texting etc, and am just wondering how that measures up with others; with talk of this device having iphone 4 levels of battery life, my last daily driver was said iphone, and that device managed about 50% longer screen on time, so it doesn't quite match that, but some are saying theirs is better?
I don't have the brightness cranked or anything, and I'm not exactly unhappy, but it probably matches my Incredible S for battery life, and both phones are perhaps slightly better than the Nexus One or Desire, which I didn't think were amazing in that department...
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Just curious as to what other folks are getting for actual screen on battery time, as in, what do you think you would get in constant screen on usage?
I don't suffer from really bad battery drain, I think I could get a couple of days of light use from it.... but it does fair chomp the battery in use.
I reckon I could completely drain the battery in 3 - 4 hours of constant use of say web browsing, the odd game, texting etc, and am just wondering how that measures up with others; with talk of this device having iphone 4 levels of battery life, my last daily driver was said iphone, and that device managed about 50% longer screen on time, so it doesn't quite match that, but some are saying theirs is better?
I don't have the brightness cranked or anything, and I'm not exactly unhappy, but it probably matches my Incredible S for battery life, and both phones are perhaps slightly better than the Nexus One or Desire, which I didn't think were amazing in that department...
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Speaking of battery life while browsing,
http://blog.gsmarena.com/showdown-s...ng-battery-life-championship-not-so-brightly/
Keep in mind the screen is a great deal larger than the iphone 4.
3h of intranet browsing is max for me
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maybe an hour of max, 3 of lowest
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I also got about 3-4 hours with brightness set to 20%. I originally wonder if it's my problem only, as most of you say the battery can easily last for more than 1 day.
In my case, most of the battery is used by the display, given I used each about 1.5 hour before and after work during travel (with display turned on). So 3 hours of display on + some phone call and sms, that will drain the whole battery for me within one day. I think I need to buy a 2nd battery when it is available in Hong Kong.
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I also got about 3-4 hours with brightness set to 20%. I originally wonder if it's my problem only, as most of you say the battery can easily last for more than 1 day.
In my case, most of the battery is used by the display, given I used each about 1.5 hour before and after work during travel (with display turned on). So 3 hours of display on + some phone call and sms, that will drain the whole battery for me within one day. I think I need to buy a 2nd battery when it is available in Hong Kong.
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Yeah same here. Display takes almost 50%. I have automatic brightness set on. I could of course set it to minimum brightness and it would decrese the battery consumption but I think it is ridiculous that I first buy a phone which is praised for its bright display and then I turn it to the darkest. Completely stupid. I tried that quickly and even my old Desire looked better then.
But then I read results like this:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-i9...minutes-of-video-playback-on-a-single-charge/
And I just keep wondering that wtf is wrong with my phone.
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But then I read results like this:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-i9...minutes-of-video-playback-on-a-single-charge/
And I just keep wondering that wtf is wrong with my phone.
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Exactly. I want my phone can have this battery life too.
Same juice hungry Screen here. :-( I never use automatic brightness either. It's set to a really low brightness, byt it's still chewing away on the battery like there's no tomorrow.
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To shorthand it for everyone, the SGS2 came in fourth out of four when using web scripts until the battery dies utilizing the stock browser. Results are:
Web browsing battery life test:
Apple iPhone 4 – 7:40 h
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc – 5:25 h
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II – 4:59 h (Opera Mobile browser)
LG Optimus Black – 4:30 h
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II – 4:22 h (stock browser)
Samsung I9000 Galaxy S – 4:06 h
So since the SGS sucked more, I guess it's the Amoled screen doing them in. They should have used black web pages and the SGS2 would have won.
Actually, if you think about it, the SGS2 is pushing more pixels and has a dual-core processor with hardware acceleration to feed. So at least beating the SGS shows some progress.
Thanks for the comments guys. Good to know it's not just me. It'd be nice to get the same as the arc... So maybe there is room for improvement, but all those who say it can match the iphone are living in dreamland! Saying that, I'll still take the bigger screen, ta! However, certainly reviews like techradars are a little misleading imo.
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...but all those who say it can match the iphone are living in dreamland!
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It'll be interesting to see how the iPhone 5 performs with a bigger screen and dual core processors. At least we don't have to send our phones back to the mother ship to get the batteries replaced when they discharge for $150. Come to think of it, with a pocket full of extra batteries, we'd be able to go 24/7 with a couple of pit stops.
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Come to think of it, with a pocket full of extra batteries, we'd be able to go 24/7 with a couple of pit stops.
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Luckily, the battery is so light that possibly having 1-2 extra batteries won't feel any weight inside the bag. If Samsung can release a "battery" direct charger (instead of charging through the phone itself), it will probably make my life easier.
Anyway, though the battery life is not as good as I originally expect, I still consider this phone as my best phone, EVER.
BarryH_GEG said:
To shorthand it for everyone, the SGS2 came in fourth out of four when using web scripts until the battery dies utilizing the stock browser. Results are:
Web browsing battery life test:
Apple iPhone 4 – 7:40 h
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc – 5:25 h
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II – 4:59 h (Opera Mobile browser)
LG Optimus Black – 4:30 h
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II – 4:22 h (stock browser)
Samsung I9000 Galaxy S – 4:06 h
So since the SGS sucked more, I guess it's the Amoled screen doing them in. They should have used black web pages and the SGS2 would have won.
Actually, if you think about it, the SGS2 is pushing more pixels and has a dual-core processor with hardware acceleration to feed. So at least beating the SGS shows some progress.
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not really, the SGS2 has less pixels than the iphone 4 in that test, for example. and the iphone 4 also is hardware accelerated for browser and all UI elements, so its kinda a close match. smaller screen, but more pixels, but SGS2 has larger battery and AMOLED, so really its matched up.
Galaxy S2 Battery RESPONSE
Hey Guys,
I sold my iphone 4 to purchase the galaxy s2, never owned an Android phone before, I posted a post on the forum about rooting methods for the S2. Before I purchased the phone i did research on batter life and I read most users could do a full day or close to 2 days without charged. They said it had a better battery than the iphone 4 this was the decisive factor which lead me to buy the phone. To come to this post and read that the pone battery last only 4 hours for browsing this is childs play. I feel somewhat cheated and deceived.
Has anyone in the forum here achieved the 24 hour battery best while using the phone in full capacity ? How is this acceptable to you guys, 4 hours ? This is unacceptable.
Thanks
RedCell X
redcellx said:
Hey Guys,
I sold my iphone 4 to purchase the galaxy s2, never owned an Android phone before, I posted a post on the forum about rooting methods for the S2. Before I purchased the phone i did research on batter life and I read most users could do a full day or close to 2 days without charged. They said it had a better battery than the iphone 4 this was the decisive factor which lead me to buy the phone. To come to this post and read that the pone battery last only 4 hours for browsing this is childs play. I feel somewhat cheated and deceived.
Has anyone in the forum here achieved the 24 hour battery best while using the phone in full capacity ? How is this acceptable to you guys, 4 hours ? This is unacceptable.
Thanks
RedCell X
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Yes, I too read of the great battery life of this phone - but not on here - but on reviews from the likes of techradar etc. Very deceiving. That said, I can get through a typical day quite easily on a charge, but it's never going to take on the iphone on battery life no matter what they say.
That said, I think (hope) the situation will improve with more mature firmware.
It is a shame, but for me, its not a dealbreaker, especially as I am always near a power source.
Hello,
Yes I was deceived !!! I feel robbed and cheated. I simply don't know what to say.
RedCell X
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Yes, I too read of the great battery life of this phone - but not on here - but on reviews from the likes of techradar etc. Very deceiving. That said, I can get through a typical day quite easily on a charge, but it's never going to take on the iphone on battery life no matter what they say.
That said, I think (hope) the situation will improve with more mature firmware.
It is a shame, but for me, its not a dealbreaker, especially as I am always near a power source.
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most iPhones do not truly multitask, so they do not waste power. it is also a walled garden, with fewer freedoms, and fewer possibilities to mess up admittedly highly tuned and optimized power management scheme. Remember it is one OS on one piece of hardware, with every component tested and tuned to near-perfection.
and yes, if you set your SGS2 browser at 100% brightness, auto-enable Flash (that will waste power on all those moving ads etc that you are not even looking at), turn on music in the background streaming it to your Bluetooth headphones, enable Gmail sync, Exchange sync, Facebook, GVoice, GTalk, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Chat, AIM, Twitter, etc, and browse (read mostly black text on mostly white backgrounds) for 2-4 hours, your battery will drain.
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Hello,
Yes I was deceived !!! I feel robbed and cheated. I simply don't know what to say.
RedCell X
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You do not really have to say anything - just return it. Vote with your dollar (or pound, or rupee)
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You do not really have to say anything - just return it. Vote with your dollar (or pound, or rupee)
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This is to KREOXDA,
Hello,
Can you or have you used the sgs2 for 24 hours or more of heavy useage? Can you provide testimony for those who feel limited to the 4 hours of browsing others experience. In respect to your prior post, using your sgs2 surfing with flash OFF, twitter OFF, exchange sync, OFF,Google Voice OFF, BlueTooth OFF, Can you get a full 24 hours usage out of the phone ?
CandyAndy said:
Yeah same here. Display takes almost 50%. I have automatic brightness set on. I could of course set it to minimum brightness and it would decrese the battery consumption but I think it is ridiculous that I first buy a phone which is praised for its bright display and then I turn it to the darkest. Completely stupid. I tried that quickly and even my old Desire looked better then.
But then I read results like this:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-i9...minutes-of-video-playback-on-a-single-charge/
And I just keep wondering that wtf is wrong with my phone.
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I think the difference may be in scrolling. It doesn't sound like the test included scrolling of web pages - just loading. And I suspect that the super smooth scrolling you get on the SII gives those dual cores a good workout.
Hey,
I flashed lighting rom yesterday and was my first custom rom I have ever experienced. I love it, however battery life is worse than stock rom and I have done a recalibration of the battery. Is there something im not doing because I was lead to assume that my battery life would improve.
If there is something I am not doing, please enlighten me.
Thanks
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From my experience a custom rom uses power pretty much the same as stock but once you root the phone you can freeze processes which then save the battery.
On stock I was getting screen on time of about 4.25 hours but now on villain rom I got just over 5 and still had 22% battery left.
I use ant tek app manager to freeze the processes.
I am sure people are going disagree with me here but I really think people are expecting a little too much out of this liddle-o-battery, if your phone is running at 1.2 all the time then its gonna suk-da-juice. I don't pick ROMS based on its battery performance as most now have battery optimisations cooked in as soon as they are found anyway. I just make sure I have some practical SETCPU profiles set to keep those megahertz at bay but also charge my Phone at work so it don't cost diddly anyway.
I also have a spare batter just in case
When the phone turns on, the camera makes a noise like it is coming on, is this normal? If not this could be it, however I have also noticed that the drain is absolutely massive when the screen is on (almost 10% in 20min)
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To have ANY idea about whats going on with your phone post screenshots of settings > about phone > battery.
Of both the graph and of the list of %'s
Also what rom/kernel/modem
Only thing which is suspicious is that display is a lot higher than normal, possibly due to the crt bug where auto brightness is not very good, have now set it to manual.
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Not a clue, without screenshots I cant know how you are using your phone etc
Fair enough, I may see how my use is tomorrow, I have installed juice defender so hopefully that will help things, I really like this ROM
I flashed litening rom 2.0 then cwm flash update 2.1 + 2.2 coming from stock rom noticed a battery life increase of about 50%.
Hi guys just wanted to say my galaxy s2 is officially busted. Its still in working order do not get me wrong but something wrong with the hardware i think because i have flashed so many roms and stock roms to try and resolve the problem and i cant. My display is always sky high in battery usage and i cant get it down to save the life of it. Got everything on the lowest that is brightness settings and still nothing. Spoken to samsung and they say its not suppose to be like that and that display always high and as high as 60% is not right.
What can i do please cause i love the phone and it really pisses me off that it gets drained so bloody quickly? Shall i just sell it and get an HTC sensation instead or shall i send it to Samsung and be patient for ten days without my phone
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Hi guys just wanted to say my galaxy s2 is officially busted. Its still in working order do not get me wrong but something wrong with the hardware i think because i have flashed so many roms and stock roms to try and resolve the problem and i cant. My display is always sky high in battery usage and i cant get it down to save the life of it. Got everything on the lowest that is brightness settings and still nothing. Spoken to samsung and they say its not suppose to be like that and that display always high and as high as 60% is not right.
What can i do please cause i love the phone and it really pisses me off that it gets drained so bloody quickly? Shall i just sell it and get an HTC sensation instead or shall i send it to Samsung and be patient for ten days without my phone
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Id say just wait for the new phone, the galaxy s II obliterates the Sensation. This coming from a person who's owned both devices.
About your display problem, sounds pretty weird never heard of an issue like that before.
tjoannou2001 said:
Hi guys just wanted to say my galaxy s2 is officially busted. Its still in working order do not get me wrong but something wrong with the hardware i think because i have flashed so many roms and stock roms to try and resolve the problem and i cant. My display is always sky high in battery usage and i cant get it down to save the life of it. Got everything on the lowest that is brightness settings and still nothing. Spoken to samsung and they say its not suppose to be like that and that display always high and as high as 60% is not right.
What can i do please cause i love the phone and it really pisses me off that it gets drained so bloody quickly? Shall i just sell it and get an HTC sensation instead or shall i send it to Samsung and be patient for ten days without my phone
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What is your average display "Time on" on "Battery usage" when you're almost running out of battery?
How quickly does it drain? Don't you have warranty to get it replaced if it's actually faulty? I can't really decide if that's the case from your non-sense post.
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. My display is always sky high in battery usage and i cant get it down to save the life of it. Got everything on the lowest that is brightness settings and still nothing. Spoken to samsung and they say its not suppose to be like that and that display always high and as high as 60% is not right.
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My display is high as well with android Os in second most of the time and its normal, cause I use the phone a lot so obviously the screen will be high.
I get around 13-17 hours heavy usage so am happy I dont think its anything to do with rom flashing unless you get lower then 10 hours battery life
sorry i should of made it more clearer. Once i charge my handset as soon as i start using it you can see the percentage drop rapidily. i go into the battery usage and the display is at its highest and draining the battery. And that is with brightness to low settings. If i do not use the phone it can last me for a whole day and a half. But im to scared to use it for browsing and thats over wifi cause i know it will not last me to long...i know the handset is a battery drainer but come on the display should not be as high as it is..and with the warranty i have put the stock rom back so can they find out still that i had my handset rooted if i was to send it in
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sorry i should of made it more clearer. Once i charge my handset as soon as i start using it you can see the percentage drop rapidily. i go into the battery usage and the display is at its highest and draining the battery. And that is with brightness to low settings. If i do not use the phone it can last me for a whole day and a half. But im to scared to use it for browsing and thats over wifi cause i know it will not last me to long...i know the handset is a battery drainer but come on the display should not be as high as it is..and with the warranty i have put the stock rom back so can they find out still that i had my handset rooted if i was to send it in
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If you get two hours with screen on, than that's normal and not a hardware failure. Use white backgrounds as little as possible.
Apparently they could, I believe they some kind of count record of the amount of roms you have flashed and the only way to reset is by using a 'JIG' if you search the forums should be able to find more info on the 'JIG'
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068522&highlight=jig+to+reset+counter
you might try some of the other forums about reseting it
Looks like SAMOLED+ consume most power on SGS2. I thought it's normal. Just know mine also having the same problem.
Sucks to be the guy who receives all these problems. I suggest, you just get a refund, as you should be ashamed of yourself if you sell a defective SGS2.
If you like the sensation, get it. It's also good, as I usually borrow it from my sister when we feel like exchanging phones for a few days. Sensation's default battery life is a little worse than the SGS2, as I only get 18hrs-1d 4hrs in the Sensation(still not rooted/default ROM) against the 1d - 1d 10hrs of the SGS2(Leomar ROM + Ninphe 2.2/undervolted).
My sister just got those chichitec 1900mAh batteries, and she said battery life on the Sensation improved(Only her word, as we have yet to exchange phones again this weekend). Now, all it needs is an undervolt + good ROM and the Sensation's battery should last a longer if not the same than the SGS2. Though you'll surely miss the SAmoled+ quality if you compare it with the SLCD of the Sensation, hope HTC improve on this department, they should have used IPS instead of SLCD.
A little tip if your getting the Sensation, is to thoroughly check its touchscreen sensitivity. My Sensation, is a little buggy sometimes, sense lagging/resetting + weird touch sensitivity. Though, I think it should be fix by flashing a good ROM + Kernel. Good Luck.
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Looks like SAMOLED+ consume most power on SGS2. I thought it's normal. Just know mine also having the same problem.
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well im going to fully charge it again today and see how it goes. i have reverted back to stock rom and just rooted with chainfire kernel and installed titanium backup and unistalled all the samsung hubs and froze the wifi sharing bit. but my display is still high but i see how long i can get out of it i will post a screen after i let it drain down ..
and sorry to hear that you are having the same problem.
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My display is high as well with android Os in second most of the time and its normal, cause I use the phone a lot so obviously the screen will be high.
I get around 13-17 hours heavy usage so am happy I dont think its anything to do with rom flashing unless you get lower then 10 hours battery life
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what is your display percentage and how can you manage to get so many hours out of it? any tips? i will be posting screen shots tomorrow for you guys to see what im talking about
If you have been using the phone the screen will always be #1 on the list, as its the part that needs the most power.
The phone will get about 6-8h of screen on time total before the battery is flat, but it will depends on mobile coverage (weak coverage will drain faster), if you are using heavy data, wifi usage (will be better than using mobile data on a weak signal or if you are pushing a lot of data round).
Generally radios will eat up the juice.
Also games will hurt.
You can use CPUspy to see what states the CPU is in, and if its going to deep sleep.
Also in settings > about phone > battery use, you want the awake and screen on lines to match up as much as you can.
(Music will keep the phone awake while the screen is off, and so will downloading stuff etc)
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and sorry to hear that you are having the same problem.
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The truth is, that what you report as a problem, is not a problem, it is simply a fact. SAMOLED displays drain batteries like hell. Mine does exactly the same. Like you, I was starting to think that my unit was somewhat faulty, but soon fund out that it was not. In fact, the truth is that the galaxy s2, if left on with the acreen at normal brghtness, fully drains its battery in a matter of 5 hours or so. It is due mainly to the display draining something like 0.8 Watts, alone.
People saying they get almost 2 days use simply tell bullocks, because there's no way of actually using this phone and getting more than about 15 hours autonomy from its battery.
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Samsung support/RMA process has worked very well for me. Third phone already. Maybe ask them to replace yours?
I'm still confused over there. You're just talking without making any sense at all. The only thing I've got from all this is that you're complaining about display being the highest on the battery drain list. That means nothing. Or not much at least. Those values need to give a total of 100%, so if you're using your phone, and display is the highest, your phone is working really good, and you don't have the AOS bug. Which means your device is not faulty, you just don't understand the battery statistics screen. Pardon me if I understood your problem wrong, but if I didn't, just carry on with your life, your phone has no problems at all. I get around 1.5 days with medium usage, and I think that's normal for a phone like this.
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I'm still confused over there. You're just talking without making any sense at all. The only thing I've got from all this is that you're complaining about display being the highest on the battery drain list. That means nothing. Or not much at least. Those values need to give a total of 100%, so if you're using your phone, and display is the highest, your phone is working really good, and you don't have the AOS bug. Which means your device is not faulty, you just don't understand the battery statistics screen. Pardon me if I understood your problem wrong, but if I didn't, just carry on with your life, your phone has no problems at all. I get around 1.5 days with medium usage, and I think that's normal for a phone like this.
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You are not being rude at all. I have flashed yesterday batistas new rom and using jeffrey speedfrey kernel and i have fully charged the phone and calibrated it as well. I am going to let it die down and recharge it again to the max and see how it goes after that as well. My point of this though is as below on the screenshot. The display is always in that percentage and that is what has me worried. I have checked on other posts and the most that they get is 35 to 50%. I have the lowest brightness settings and it still that high..That is why i am asking if there is something wrong with my phone. I am getting good battery life so far just with medium usage and having wifi on since i have charged it but the display is what worries me. If someone could help me with these pointers as well i would appreciate it:
Does underclocking with Setcpu help battery life even more?
And what do you guys think of the screenshot?
i know this sounds silly but how does someone close a thread once they opened it i have a few i want to close..
Thanks again to everyone for you help..
It has dropped to 76% after 10 hours and a couple hours of screen usage. I don't think that there is a problem.
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It has dropped to 76% after 10 hours and a couple hours of screen usage. I don't think that there is a problem.
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why is my display % so high though that is what im questioning. its not just for a few minutes its as soon as i get the phone out of sleep the display percentage sky rockets. and its that much cause the phone was asleep overnight
I've had the HTC One X+ for a week now and it's a really good phone, however, the battery really lets it down. The battery drain is terrible on my phone. The phone is really good in sleep mode, only losing about 2% in 1 hour, but as soon as it's not in sleep mode, as soon as you start to use the phone, the battery drains like hell. For example, when I'm web surfing or using applications, it loses 1% like every 2 minutes and that's crazy!
I don't know why, power saver is on, switched to 2G instead of 3G, disabled Google Now, auto-sync, basically everything I think would drain the battery. Brightness is on it's minimum. I feel so restricted when using my phone! But I've read other people having really good battery life even with moderate use, so am I doing something wrong? Should I factory reset my phone? Is there something wrong with my phone? Can someone help me?
Thanks!!
Have you disabled all AT&T apps? They drain battery as hell especially ATT locker.
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Under Settings/Sounds/Ring Tone untick the three options as they just have the sensors constantly checking, then under Settings/Power untick Fastboot.
Then get a battery monitor app like GSam Battery Monitor which pinpoints the power drainer. How many apps do you have installed? Dump the ones you hardly ever use.
Also, several charge/discharge cycles are necessary before battery reaches best performance.
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I think losing 2% of battery every hour of standby is pretty bad. How many hours of screen time on do you get from a full charge to around 10%?
Sharpshooterrr said:
I think losing 2% of battery every hour of standby is pretty bad. How many hours of screen time on do you get from a full charge to around 10%?
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2% isn't bad. You crazy.
My phone's battery life is really good and keeps improving with more usage. I do not however, expect more than a few hours of gaming.
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Won't lie i got the same problem you are facing right now. The battery life is horrible, in fact it only lasts about 3-4 hours gaming if i am lucky. Before 5 minutes i opened a game called "dead trigger" my battery was 94% after 5 minutes of playing guess what? BOOM 89% straight which is extremely bad from my point of view.
You know, you do have screen with a high resolution, and you're using the max of the graphic and other chips while gaming...and that costs power...most likely NFC is active, as is BT, 4G, brightness on 200%, the loudspeaker blearing some music out of the cloud, GPS on, and 15 apps not closed properly, weather syncing every 5 secs, and 700 apps installed from Happy Santa to FakeYourPhone!
I really can't get it that you complain about it. It is a mobile smartphone that can be used to play games. If your priority lies with the latter, have a charger handy with you! Play, enjoy, and stop moaning...Period!
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Bad Battery Drain as well
I'm going to tack onto this thread. I got the HTC One X+ about a week 1/2 ago. The phone is amazing. It has everything I want, but I cannot make it through the day once without always consciously thinking about battery drain and how quickly the phone just sucks down the power. The following Battery Monitor graph is when I have JuiceDefender installed so it turns off the data radio whenever the screen is off or I'm connected to WiFi. I was on WiFi from 7:45 this morning all the way to 5:00pm. The drain on this thing is so fast. I didn't watch a single video today nor any games. This is all facebook data, internet data, and just some general playing on the phone. I also turn on the power save feature for Jelly bean so I turned off vibration feedback, brightness is turned down, and CPU saving is turned on.
Do I have a dud phone or is the One X+ really that awful on the battery? I'm strongly considering taking it back but every single other thing about the phone is great but if the battery on every One X+ is that bad I don't know if it's worth it. Please help assuage my fears or give me some advice on what I can do better.
Do you have Google now active?
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You have WiFi, lte, and I'm assuming other radios on. Curious to see what other apps you're running in the background.
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Do you have Google now active?
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I do. I kind of thought it was one of the neater parts of Jelly Bean. Is it a complete battery hog? This is my 1st android phone but I'm a long time Smartphone owner. I'm guessing by your question I should disable it and see how the battery performs.
It is an LTE phone though i'm on wifi 90% of my day. Background apps that run are usually Whatsapp, Facebook, and Linkedin. Right now I'm losing about 2% charge every 10 minutes if I'm using it. I gotta plug the thing in as much as I can just so I can use it. I'm perfectly fine with tweaking the thing, just not sure how much 'tweaking' is needed to get some better performance out of the things.
I'm wondering if Facebook is the problem... Just a thought...
The One X+ isnt that bad in terms of battery life in my experience, I've done 15.5 hours with 2.5 hours screen on time, Not sure what folks are expecting, Thats pretty average for a smartphone... That is with Wi-Fi on, LTE on, Google Now on, Autosync on, the little weather widgety clock thing on.. and pretty much me not doing anything besides closing apps when im done with it, I have Kik messanger and TextPlus on in the background but they arent doing much to my battery life... I dont use the power saver until it toggles at 15% battery life, I have vibration on, and my brightness is fixed at like 33% constantly... I have every ATT app disabled in the app thing.. I also have the "best Wi-Fi performance" thing ticked which says it might use more battery...
Yes, Gaming and watching videos on the thing is going to drain the battery out fast, Just like every smartphone I've ever owned... Its better than my GSM Nexus with the stock battery (Its roughly halfway between the stock battery and the extended one) and better than the S3 I had very briefly (However I will note the S3 couldnt keep a signal at all whereas my One X+ can...) The conversion seems to be that you trade about 2 hours standby time for 30 minutes of screen-on usage in my case
Picture 1 is me using my phone normally in a day.. 15.5 hours is more than enough (I'd say i get closer to 13 or 14 average) with 2.5 hours of screen on time
Picture 2 was me basically doing nothing but watching Youtube and playing games this morning... its really not all that bad, the biggest consumer/ battery hog for me is Mediaserver for some reason, I'm not actually 100% sure why (I know what it is...) or if i could pull even better battery life if there is something actually wrong with it and its draining my battery excessively... But I'm not complaining about it because well.. this was me abusing my phone pretty much
Not arguing that some folks are getting rubbish battery life, Because they are, I'm actually more curious as to whats causing it, There has to be something here and some way to fix it
Follow up to yesterday's battery
Ok in the attachment is my usage today. As you can see it is totally what I would expect from the phone. I got it to that point by disabling Google Now. That kind of stinks however, I can actually use my phone without being nearby an electrical outlet all the time. The other thing that works well is how much cooler it is to the touch under normal use. Normally it was quite hot. I work in a basement(3 bars with LTE) so my guess is Google Now was always trying to utilize location (even if it wasn't immediately obvious) on the screen via the indicator and thus would just kill my battery especially when I would pick it up to use it with the screen. I wish I could use Google Now but perhaps I can slowly bring back some of it's abilities and find a happy medium.
I'd also like to make note that I am still utilizing the power saving features for Jelly Bean along with JuiceDefender.
No offense but I cant read that battery thing you got. I cant see how long you used it or anything, all i can tell is your battery is at 70%...
-edit- i think i might have got it, 7h or so?
KenjiS said:
No offense but I cant read that battery thing you got. I cant see how long you used it or anything, all i can tell is your battery is at 70%...
-edit- i think i might have got it, 7h or so?
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Yeah my apologies, the timeline is on the X axis at the bottom. Unplugged at 7am, and at 2:32pm it was above 70%. Pretty drastic difference since normally the last week or so I've been hitting 70% at about 9am.
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Yeah my apologies, the timeline is on the X axis at the bottom. Unplugged at 7am, and at 2:32pm it was above 70%. Pretty drastic difference since normally the last week or so I've been hitting 70% at about 9am.
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Sounds more in line with what im getting... Though i have Google Now on... Weird.. Very weird
GSam is a bit nicer and free FYI so you might wanna give it a look
how much playback time should I be getting for 720p mp4 files? My phone drains about 10% every 20 minutes with power save on, auto sync and all wireless radios off and minimum brightness, I am quite disappointed, is this normal drain?
I had to open my big mouth, Now my One X+ has developed a little problem It wont enter Deep Sleep so yeah... now the battery life isnt terribly great
You guys might wanna check that your phone is entering deep sleep and not getting held awake by something, because now im seeing similar drain to you guys...
Very new issue though, Weird... I uninstalled an app I felt might have caused it and ill see if that fixes it, Currently recharging my One X+ to reset the counters and everything...
According to BBM, It appears to be my Wi-Fi keeping the phone awake for some reason... Next step if the uninstallation doesnt fix things will be to disable Wi-Fi and see if that changes anything