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I have a HTC Incredible probably the best phone I have ever had excellent battery life and amazing customization. I really like the thunderbolt. Any pro or cons other than the ones that every review on the internet tell me? Also would love your opinions on if I should get it or not.
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I feel like this phone is a huge step up from my droid x and incredible. The extra ram and second generation processor makes this phone fly. After a few battery cycles the battery gives me an 8 hour day of battery life on heavy usage. I text and tweet all day and lots of phone calls
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papi92 said:
I feel like this phone is a huge step up from my droid x and incredible. The extra ram and second generation processor makes this phone fly. After a few battery cycles the battery gives me an 8 hour day of battery life on heavy usage. I text and tweet all day and lots of phone calls
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Well said...
I switched from a iphone, at the time it was the best phone available so I thought. Anyway I love this phone my friend who works on network for verizon pushed me onto this phone as he was testing a protype and waiving in front of my face all the time.
Needless to say its awesome, but some of the build quality is cheap, aka the side volume buttons and top power button, not very tactile had them get jammed a few times and so on. Exchanged for another one cause of that and that one had a bum headphone jack. Just make sure you fully test the phone out before doing any rooting.
That being said the phone flys onces its rooted and the battery life at that point is actually really really good as far as I can see.
The Thunderbolt is literally the fastest phone I have owned. The screen itself is brilliant and beautiful as well.
Hi.
Not to take into consideration external after-market extended batteries and so on, which Android device has the best (longer-lasting) battery?
I am not asking which battery has more juice. I am asking which device will give me the longest talk/text/web on time.
I know this question is very broad, but still - would like to know where to aim, since I am looking to get an android phone for my wife.
NOTE: SIM-CARD based phones!
we are on T-MOBILE
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Galaxy Note with cheap "5000 mah" extended battery will give maybe 5 days light phone use or 7 hours intense web use. So 36 hours between charge is realistic.
Its big but you love it for its big screen once you get used to it.
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if your device rooted, try "One Power Guard" download from onexuan.com,It can help you extend battery life .
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Out of the box. Nexus 7 beats sgs3. So nexus 7 has best battery. But I guess upcoming, droid RAZR maxx will be best.
Xperia S has a decent battery life
razr maxx??? it has 3000+mA right??
The optimus g will probably be my next phone and I have a few questions that I'm hoping someone could answer for me please
1.The last android phone I bought from att(like forever ago) was restricted to where I could not install apk files out of the box. I was wondering if you can install apps from apk files or if att restricted unknown sources.
2. Does usb otg work? It's not a big deal, but I'm still curious on the status of that?
3. How's the battery? I've seen a lot of different reviews with different battery lives.
4. Lastly, how do you like your optimus g?
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1. yes it works no problem
3. so far battery pretty good
4. so far like it, just hoping for bootloader to be unlocked soon and hopefully CM10 comes to optimus
usb OTG should work for some peripherals... Not sure what the resistance is on this device so like a usb keyboard may not... Usually if MHL works OTG will with some tweaking.
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my battery life is abismal, on my second handset. To be honest, the quad core really doesnt equate to much, a little snappier for the user, my s3 was fantastic on battery life, and the camera was better too. I really am not seeing this phone as an upgrade, the only reason i got this device is that it might possibly get a quicker port of the nexus 4 rom, and offer lte.
I just got a day out of mine with 3+ hours of screen time first charge. I know it won't always be that way but so far I'm happy with it. I too had a gs3 and I've noticed a big speed increase on thus phone. I think it was a good upgrade. Better screen as well.
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Thank you all. I will be coming from an xperia x10 lol...It will be a big jump in all aspects
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My battery life is abysmal, also! Will probably swap for Note 2 this week! But can install from other sources without any issues.
Will say the screen & CPU are just awesome!
battery was crap for me the first two days. Today it has been good so far. Streaming audio off/on since 7am est.; still at 87%.
Point is that new batteries take time to condition. I'll withhold judgment for now.
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Thank you all. I will be coming from an xperia x10 lol...It will be a big jump in all aspects
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LOL, I literally replaced an xperia x10 with a LGOG, last Friday. It's a HUGE jump in performance. First battery cycle was less than idea (~10 hrs of more than moderate use), but after, I turned off a few items that didn't need to be running (e.g., wifi) and set some reasonable parameters on sync frequency, I had 30% battery, last night, before going to bed, after 15 hrs of moderate use.
AT&T gives you 14 days to find out if you like it or not. It takes several charge discharge cycles to get the anode and cathode in the battery all excited and functioning at peak efficiency. You people that rage at poor battery after a couple of days drive me crazy.
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LOL, I literally replaced an xperia x10 with a LGOG, last Friday. It's a HUGE jump in performance. First battery cycle was less than idea (~10 hrs of more than moderate use), but after, I turned off a few items that didn't need to be running (e.g., wifi) and set some reasonable parameters on sync frequency, I had 30% battery, last night, before going to bed, after 15 hrs of moderate use.
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So everything is better except the battery ?( ill probably start carrying around a backup battery to charge it with anyways) sounds good thanks
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So everything is better except the battery ?( ill probably start carrying around a backup battery to charge it with anyways) sounds good thanks
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Actually, even with wifi on all day and my work email sw syncing every minute, the battery life of this phone is better than what I got on my x10 and I'm using it significantly more.
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So everything is better except the battery ?( ill probably start carrying around a backup battery to charge it with anyways) sounds good thanks
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Battery is non removable, so if you need a spare, you may need to wait for a charging case like they have for the iPhone.
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I have progressed from an international s3 (i9300) to a Google Nexus (which I liked better even though no LTE, Google Wallet made up for that). I just replaced the Nexus, whose power button died, with the Optimus G. If I could get Google Wallet to work it would be the best of the three.
No one has mentioned the feel of the G versus the S3. It feels much more substantial and solid. The quad-core and LTE make it super fast.
Lastly, I am hoping that it will be easy to port the Nexus 4 ROM to the Optimus G leaving me with a Quad-core LTE Nexus 4.
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Battery is non removable, so if you need a spare, you may need to wait for a charging case like they have for the iPhone.
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I know that it's non removable. I meant I would carry somthihg like this around or leave it in my car http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FU6KG6/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
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What interface languages at&t device has? English, spanish, france? Or more? I mean not keyboard input languages but interface
I think this answer your question.
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I know that it's non removable. I meant I would carry somthihg like this around or leave it in my car http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FU6KG6/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
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It will depend on the kind of use that you give to the phone and how you administer the use of the Eco Mode, Bluetooth and GPS.
I have it with Facebook, Twitter, 2 Gmail accounts, 1 Exchange account, almost all Google apps installed, watch at least 3 youtube videos (during free time at the office), texting all day long, Twitter, 4g and LTE most of the day, Wifi at home, brightness in 60%, GPS off (Except for Ingress) and I have it in Eco Mode except when I'm playing. Power Saver active at 50% and all that give me from 6am to close to 9pm (depending on the day).
The main things that drains the battery on the device (by my experience) is:
- Brightness over 75%
- GPS
- Bluetooth is a killer
- Camera is another killer
all that without Eco Mode and you will eat the battery in less than 6 hours.
I got some NFC stickers for the house, office and car, helping me enable and disable features along the way during the day and it helps with the battery a lot (only have enabled what's necessary at the right place).
Hope it helps.
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I too am leaning very heavily towards the LGOG versus the Nexus 4 (possibly even the HTC One X+). I'm coming from a Dell Streak whose battery has seen it's better days (about 4-5 hours on a full charge). I definitely know I'm in for a treat as far as performance goes no matter which way I go, but I'm wondering how long it will take to get a 4.2 port on the LGOG. As a non-dev, I'm totally clueless on the process, but my thinking is that there can't be many differences between the two.
My main questions is now that it looks like the LTE radio may actually work link for the N4, is the only difference going to be the sd slot? Granted that is a huge + in the OG column, but so is software updates for the N4 if it's going to be a difficult port. I know that this is a new phone and the bootloader was just unlocked, but realistically, what kind of updates from the dev community can we expect for this device?
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AT&T gives you 14 days to find out if you like it or not. It takes several charge discharge cycles to get the anode and cathode in the battery all excited and functioning at peak efficiency. You people that rage at poor battery after a couple of days drive me crazy.
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Agreeing with this post. I have an Inspire 4g as well and my battery lasts for 2 days without charging, and it's the same battery I bought the phone with 3 years ago.
Stop asking about battery life and learn to condition it. You'll save a lot of money.
As far as I know, the LGOG is a FANTASTIC phone.
Hey guys, so I am finally upgrading my galaxyy nexus. Right now I am stuck between the Bette looking, more powerful DNA, or the huge, beastly battery wielding note 2. Right now I am probably leaning towards the DNA, but the one determining factor is battery life. Is it as bad as they say? Coming from a gnex, it probably can't be any worse, but I am in need of at least solid battery life. Thanks !
If I turn the standalone GPS off, I get 12-16 hours of moderate to heavy use. Your mileage may vary. This may change as the 2.04/2.06 s-off comes out and we can root and rom our phones/.
It's far better than the Nexus, but obviously the Note 2 has the best of the three.
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I am locked and stock, my phone lasts from 8:30a - 11:00p. Moderate use throughout the day. Not a lot of games, but I am constantly browsing ign, tapatalk(xda), and bleacher report. I don't have any problems. Hopefully this helps!
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Mine lasts all day unless I'm in an area with really poor cell reception. Then it searches constantly and drains quickly. Moderate use, unrooted 2.06
Who says its bad? There are several other threads that talk about how great the battery life is for most DNA people. I EASILY get 12 hours on a fairly busy day. .....my $.02.
I consider the battery life on my DNA great. I don't know hours wise but I have never had to charge it in the middle of the day and I have gone 2 days on occasion (with light usage)
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i wouldn't even consider a note 2 now that the S4 is out....
but honestly, i'd chose the DNA over both of them.
When I had my DNA stock the KWL would murder the battery to levels worse than my GNex by far. Probably a dead connection but anyways. I'm now S-OFF running Viper and my battery life if phenomenal.
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Battery life on the gnex was bad. Eventually I found Shiny ROM and Fancy kernel and could easily go 18 hours with 3+ hours screen on time.
Sense driving me nuts I haven't looked to fund the same info I used to check regularly but with that said I don't have to. The DNA gets marginally better battery life. I charge at night and go all day with the same usage of not more.
There's series of peopled getting horrible battery life then stories of people going days without charging. It's all about usage. 2 hours of playing Modern Combat 4 is much different than 2 hours of browsing although it'd the same screen on.
As a side note, no pun intended, I used a Note 2 for a week with cyanogenmod and got worst battery life than my gnex.
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i wouldn't even consider a note 2 now that the S4 is out....
but honestly, i'd chose the DNA over both of them.
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I had the s4 for a full day, full charge. Battery life was not impressive at all. It was on par with my DNA if not worse imo
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I had the s4 for a full day, full charge. Battery life was not impressive at all. It was on par with my DNA if not worse imo
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i only meant for like, specwise alone..and screen lol the GS3 and NOte 2 screens suck.
I love my note 2 very impressed with my battery life and honestly I cant see myself with anything but touchwiz...former apple dork here had all of them except the 5
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14-16 hours battery on my DNA. Coming from my gnexus this is a godsend. I could only make it 4-6 hours on it.
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Hey guys, so I am finally upgrading my galaxyy nexus. Right now I am stuck between the Bette looking, more powerful DNA, or the huge, beastly battery wielding note 2. Right now I am probably leaning towards the DNA, but the one determining factor is battery life. Is it as bad as they say? Coming from a gnex, it probably can't be any worse, but I am in need of at least solid battery life. Thanks !
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Screen off, battery life is pretty good. If you're always on wifi and do nothing but periodically clear out your email backlog and make the occasional brief phone call, it could go as much as three days before tapping out.
Screen on, the battery life is kinda mediocre. Figure about five or six hours of screen-on time will drain the battery. If you really wanted to, I'm sure you could zero it out in four or less.
Google Now and Latitude location services can increase idle power consumption by 50% or more. I spend most of my time on wifi, so I'm not sure to exactly what extent the various levels of cellular connectivity hit it. (And not going to test until I figure out why Google Music has decided that it should pull hundreds of megabytes per hour over my connection. All Access has issues...)
The headphone jack seems to draw more power than on previous phone's I've had. I haven't really quantified it yet, but I get substantially better battery life streaming music to a bluetooth 4 (w/ apt-X) receiver than I have with headphones plugged in. Worth keeping in mind.
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and honestly I cant see myself with anything but touchwiz...
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you're the only person I've ever heard say that.
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(And not going to test until I figure out why Google Music has decided that it should pull hundreds of megabytes per hour over my connection. All Access has issues...)
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I've been trying to figure out how I've fine through 4gb of data 2 weeks before my cycle resets. Going to have to check that out.
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you're the only person I've ever heard say that.
I've been trying to figure out how I've fine through 4gb of data 2 weeks before my cycle resets. Going to have to check that out.
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I keep hearing that the Google services newest update has caused increased idle usage as far as data goes. Although, I've yet to see it. Would the people who are having issues state if they actually use them? I take sync off anything I don't use. Like Google music, books, movies, etc. So maybe that's why I don't see that problem. Anyone?
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I keep hearing that the Google services newest update has caused increased idle usage as far as data goes. Although, I've yet to see it. Would the people who are having issues state if they actually use them? I take sync off anything I don't use. Like Google music, books, movies, etc. So maybe that's why I don't see that problem. Anyone?
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Maps and location services were killing my battery. I did not open the Maps app yesterday yet it was one of my biggest battery draws. I turned off Google Now and I no longer have maps even listed today. However, my battery life is about the same. Go figure. I think that battery reporting is more likely the issue.
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Li-pol is much more efficient than li-ion dna has Li-pol smaller batteries last longer. Also that's why it's non removable.
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I swapped out my Note 2 for the Droid DNA (I know some of you will think im mad)
To be honest the battery lifes arent much different once you start using the phone.
The note 2 does have maybe 6 hours better battery life (For me anyway) but i found the GPS drained the battery alot more on the Note 2 than the Droid.
To be honest i still struggle to drain the DNAs battery within 24 hours. The note 2 with Heavy use probaly lasted 36 hours..
Again these are just my thoughts
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Just got this in my email. As a person that used their battery on my galaxy note 2, 3, and 4, I am more than disappointed at how us nexus 6 users got a big middle finger then a weak response for extended battery.
If you don't need or care for extended battery then please don't comment. This is for users like me who do need or prefer extended batteries regardless of the bulkiness and extra weight
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01429DBXW
Just got this in my email. As a person that used their battery on my galaxy note 2, 3, and 4, I am more than disappointed at how us nexus 6 users got a big middle finger then a weak response for extended battery.
If you don't need or care for extended battery then please don't comment. This is for users like me who do need or prefer extended batteries regardless of the bulkiness and extra weight
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That is an INTERNAL battery. Unlike the Note Edge, the Nexus 6 DOES NOT HAVE A SWAPPABLE INTERNAL BATTERY. I am currently using the Zerolemon battery case for the Nexus 6 and it does what it needs to. If they had made it any bulkier, nobody would have purchased it.
That makes sense about the removable battery but still 3500 is pretty weak
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You do realize that the 3500 is in addition to the 3220 that the Nexus already has right? That's 6720 total and almost as much as the 7000 in my galaxy S3 back in the day.
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You do realize that the 3500 is in addition to the 3220 that the Nexus already has right? That's 6720 total and almost as much as the 7000 in my galaxy S3 back in the day.
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It doesn't actually work that way. There's a difference between using an extended battery and having a regular battery with extra 3500 charger. From experience the latter ends up using more battery somehow and making your phone hot
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I've never had a heating issue with my battery cases on other phones. I haven't used one on the Nexus yet cause I got a TYLT charger for work.
Even if it's a "75%" increase its still a huge increase and knowing Zerolemon, it will be a great product. Too bad they took a year to release it and I'm already in "what's my next phone mode"
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I've never had a heating issue with my battery cases on other phones. I haven't used one on the Nexus yet cause I got a TYLT charger for work.
Even if it's a "75%" increase its still a huge increase and knowing Zerolemon, it will be a great product. Too bad they took a year to release it and I'm already in "what's my next phone mode"
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Yeah. Can't blame them for the non removable battery BS in the first place
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