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The title says it all. I was at about 2 hours and 45 minutes at 20%. I stopped there, popped the battery out, and swapped it with the one charging on my dock.
1 hour 45 mins right now at 51%
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Med brightness and 4g killed it in about 4 hrs
2 hours right now, 40% left
off charger for 11.5 hours
I got about 3 hours today on WiFi with some pretty heavy use.
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5 hours and 40 mins on battery 2 hours with screen on wifi only still 46% left
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Yea, it's about a 5 hr batt stock. A lot better than the SGN though.
Try the extended batt from HTC. I picked up 2 the other day from Bestbuy for $50, but here's the cool thing - the new back has a MUCH better antenna array by far. Especially BT, and cell shows 3 bars instead of 0/1 with the stock thin back.
Oh yea, batt is good for about 35 hours so far. Makes the phone a bit bigger, but seems to actually fit in the hand better IMHO. You get used to it pretty quick
buckwheat.phd said:
Yea, it's about a 5 hr batt stock. A lot better than the SGN though.
Try the extended batt from HTC. I picked up 2 the other day from Bestbuy for $50, but here's the cool thing - the new back has a MUCH better antenna array by far. Especially BT, and cell shows 3 bars instead of 0/1 with the stock thin back.
Oh yea, batt is good for about 35 hours so far. Makes the phone a bit bigger, but seems to actually fit in the hand better IMHO. You get used to it pretty quick
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I might buy one for better signal and to be able to keep wifi on when I'm home because wifi is killing my stock battery even sleeping. I also get a crappy cell signal at home.
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I get a little over 2 hours of all out 3G use with a full charge (it was a slow morning at work, so I actually tested that today). I can make due with such blah battery life, but it's a little frustrating.
I installed BAMF Rezound 1.01 last night (first flash since we got root), and got rid of some bloat and froze a few other items. Hoping this makes a difference. I'll calibrate in the morning and will head back this way if I get a substantial benefit.
Fingers crossed... this battery anxiety is killing me... My wife will be so mad if I get an extended and need yet another case!
At 7 hours and 30 mins and 3 hours of screen on time I'm down to 20%. Bout to go plug her up.
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buckwheat.phd said:
Yea, it's about a 5 hr batt stock. A lot better than the SGN though.
Try the extended batt from HTC. I picked up 2 the other day from Bestbuy for $50, but here's the cool thing - the new back has a MUCH better antenna array by far. Especially BT, and cell shows 3 bars instead of 0/1 with the stock thin back.
Oh yea, batt is good for about 35 hours so far. Makes the phone a bit bigger, but seems to actually fit in the hand better IMHO. You get used to it pretty quick
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Exactly my experience. I'll have to get another extended battery.
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I'm going to look into that too! Sounds great. Also Happy New Year!
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They are half off in verizon stores. So hop on that. $32.00 with tax for me.
I can generally get about 8-10 hours of fairly heavy use now with my phone with about 4-6 hours or so of screen on time with auto brightness. If I'm actually careful about it, I can easily go 15+ hours with 6+ hours of screen on time.
Using extended battery, heavy usage last night at work (2 hours of netflix over 4G plus alot of web usage)
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Hey guys, do we have any real world tests of GPS fix time / accuracy??
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Havent seen any but this is a good question to ask "vickytoria" to test for us in her video thread.
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Was my understanding she no longer has a test unit?
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Gps in this unit is wonderful... damn fast <2 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIthAE9TGKU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
See the video at 9:25 for yourself to be amazed.
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Accuracy is almost 30 feet which is 10 meters all the time which is a good sign.
Note that the device was tested in aero plane mode so no Agps which means a real good sign.
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Gps in this unit is wonderful... damn fast <2 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIthAE9TGKU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
See the video at 9:25 for yourself to be amazed.
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thanks for linking that.
wow! less than 2 secs connection on non-assisted gps.
btw, how does hox performs in that test?
lol @ background music, unbreak my heart.
it's like the s2 singing that song since it's thinking it's going to be replaced by the new s3.
hehe
as this device has glonass along with gps it should be damn fast.
nice video posted above and some extra news is the mobile needs 20 seconds to boot... i thought there would be some improvements here
A very good post and nice video, i was actually worried about this.
He says that even when he is in buildings and houses the GPS managed to lock onto a satellite.
radeonxt said:
thanks for linking that.
wow! less than 2 secs connection on non-assisted gps.
btw, how does hox performs in that test?
lol @ background music, unbreak my heart.
it's like the s2 singing that song since it's thinking it's going to be replaced by the new s3.
hehe
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HTC One X
Lock speed : 2 - 5 Seconds
Accuracy : 5 feet (<2 meters) [ Consistently getting 5 - 15 feet ]
Number of satellites lock : 2 - 10 Max [But never looses connection]
Location : Singapore
Has Only GPS
Galaxy Note
Lock speed : 2 - 5 Seconds
Accuracy : 30 feet (+-10 meters) [ Consistently getting 24 - 35 feet ]
Number of satellites lock : 8 - 17 Max [But never looses connection]
Location : Singapore
Has Both GPS and Glonass
Galaxy S3
Refer above video
I expect SGS3 will be in range with Galaxy Note with accuracy of < 30 meters and instant lock to the satellites as shown in the video.
Point to note here is, just because the devices locks to more no. of satellites doesn't mean the accuracy is going to be good. I have seen it and experienced it but do not have an explanation for it.
I am very much interested in SGS3 wrt the GPS for Using SYGIC ! especially with the original Samsung car mount.
<<Raj$>> said:
Gps in this unit is wonderful... damn fast <2 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIthAE9TGKU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
See the video at 9:25 for yourself to be amazed.
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he already loaded the location with the gps on the s3
he didnt on the s2 and disable wifi when he starts
if you look at 5min, where the S3 is probably still hot starting in gmaps, after 2-3s he quits gmaps and the GPS lock icon is still blinking (= no lock), so much for "instant lock"
the S2 locks rather fast (even if most likely slower) with hot fix outdoors in similar conditions
so sure, glonass+gps is probably faster, but, the comparison video is pretty poorly made.
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He says that even when he is in buildings and houses the GPS managed to lock onto a satellite.
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another wow! for the sgs3
bilboa1 said:
he already loaded the location with the gps on the s3
he didnt on the s2 and disable wifi when he starts
if you look at 5min, where the S3 is probably still hot starting in gmaps, after 2-3s he quits gmaps and the GPS lock icon is still blinking (= no lock), so much for "instant lock"
the S2 locks rather fast (even if most likely slower) with hot fix outdoors in similar conditions
so sure, glonass+gps is probably faster, but, the comparison video is pretty poorly made.
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I agree with you. That was a bad comparison and doesn't give the S2 justice.
I took a screenshot of my S2, beeing indoors, and as you can see I got a 3 sec. fix. It varies between 3-10 seconds.
At the Galaxy S3 Presentation Show I read in the specs the s3 supports glonass too. I love glonass on my xperia play and miss it so much on my EVO 3D.
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German-Guy said:
At the Galaxy S3 Presentation Show I read in the specs the s3 supports glonass too. I love glonass on my xperia play and miss it so much on my EVO 3D.
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Do you have any problems with GPS-apps in Xperia?
Theoretically, with GPS and Glonass, you should get 24 satellites in view with both, 12 over the horizon with GPS and 12 with Glonass. I'm not sure if all GPS-apps are able to show 24 sats?
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HTC One X
Lock speed : 2 - 5 Seconds
Accuracy : 5 feet (<2 meters) [ Consistently getting 5 - 15 feet ]
Number of satellites lock : 2 - 10 Max [But never looses connection]
Location : Singapore
Has Only GPS
Galaxy Note
Lock speed : 2 - 5 Seconds
Accuracy : 30 feet (+-10 meters) [ Consistently getting 24 - 35 feet ]
Number of satellites lock : 8 - 17 Max [But never looses connection]
Location : Singapore
Has Both GPS and Glonass
Galaxy S3
Refer above video
I expect SGS3 will be in range with Galaxy Note with accuracy of < 30 meters and instant lock to the satellites as shown in the video.
Point to note here is, just because the devices locks to more no. of satellites doesn't mean the accuracy is going to be good. I have seen it and experienced it but do not have an explanation for it.
I am very much interested in SGS3 wrt the GPS for Using SYGIC ! especially with the original Samsung car mount.
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I own a Note and One X and the Note's GPS performance is much better than the One X's. The One X's is fine for navigation purposes, but less so for sportstracking and so forth. It's lock speed is not 2-5 seconds as you suggest (it's generally 5-10s and occasionally a little longer, which is fine, but not as good as you suggest), and neither does it never lose position.
NZtechfreak said:
I own a Note and One X and the Note's GPS performance is much better than the One X's. The One X's is fine for navigation purposes, but less so for sportstracking and so forth. It's lock speed is not 2-5 seconds as you suggest (it's generally 5-10s and occasionally a little longer, which is fine, but not as good as you suggest), and neither does it never lose position.
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thanks for clearing that up.
liars go to hell.
Who cares about the lock time, accuracy is more important...
I had HTC One X for 1.5 month and GPS was the best I've ever seen. I use Sportypal to track my workouts and not only it almost always showed my track on the road and not over houses, but it also was almost perfectly smooth with little zig-zagging:
SG3 though, I had only few days and first experience is not good, actually it's terrible. It was loosing connection all the time on clear day and the result - the track was all over the place:
This phone had the best GPS I've ever seen on any device, and I've had many phones. It connects under 2 seconds and finds more than 10 sattelites every time, even without a data connection. I'm very impressed by it.
Have you guys seen the battery stats thread over at the note 2 sub forum?
5-6 hours of screen time is very impressive.
I'm lucky if I get 3 hours.
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3? I'm lucky to get 2.
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Phone does drain pretty quickly with moderate use.
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21productionz said:
Have you guys seen the battery stats thread over at the note 2 sub forum?
5-6 hours of screen time is very impressive.
I'm lucky if I get 3 hours.
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I have a note 10.1 3g and get 12ish hours screen on and 28 hours unplugged per charge. The note 2 has half the screen size of the note 10.1and just under half the battery size but jellybean is more efficient. Given that the other hardware is so similiar, 6 hours seems spot-on giving the scaling- 7+ is possible with the right settings. Can't wait for the Note 2 on ATT- this exynos 4412/Mali 400mp seems to be a kickass combo of performance and power efficiency.
There was also an article on a Russian site from a gnote 2 tester that reported the screen uses around 35% - 40% less power when displaying whites- that HUGE for Super AMOLED since whites have always been its weakness in terms of power consumption. That's getting close to the same power efficiency as Super LCD2.
Come on ATT....hope they sell the phone shortly after the 24th.
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Note 1 life
I'll post a screenshot of the battery usage sometime, but I've been getting incredible life with my Note 1.. The other day I had 30% with 16 hours of use when I plugged it in at night. That's with streaming music for a couple hours,checking email, texts, making calls, and browsing (Normal use). Granted I'm using auto-brightness, dark backgrounds and non-stock cpu settings.. HOWEVER, when the screen is on for long periods (i.e. playing games) i'll drop 10% by the time i'm done.
Soo a Note 2 with a bigger battery and a better cpu should be amazing.
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I'll post a screenshot of the battery usage sometime, but I've been getting incredible life with my Note 1.. The other day I had 30% with 16 hours of use when I plugged it in at night. That's with streaming music for a couple hours,checking email, texts, making calls, and browsing (Normal use). Granted I'm using auto-brightness, dark backgrounds and non-stock cpu settings.. HOWEVER, when the screen is on for long periods (i.e. playing games) i'll drop 10% by the time i'm done.
Soo a Note 2 with a bigger battery and a better cpu should be amazing.
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I'd want to see a non-rooted, stock, out of the box comparison between the two all circumstances being equal. Any other conditions aren't really comparing the battery life against the two devices.
Around 13-16 hours was what I was getting with my note out of the box. But running the ROM I'm on, I can get up to 30 hours like I did two days ago or 26 hours yesterday.
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Honestly how long the battery lasts is not important to me...screen on time is. I use my device pretty heavily day to day, so it will always be charged overnight.
I see an avg of 4hrs screen on with my setup now. The note 2 sees well over 6+...I've seen them even double my screen on time. That's amazing.
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Yeah not sure why we are always talk about stand by time, which will always last a full day if you only use the screen for a hour or so.
I have serious doubts about 5-6 hours when I am getting less than 2 hours screen time if I do pure LTE browsing, 3-4 hours if I do pure WIFI or low CPU tasks like reading books. In real life usage it is always going to be around 3 hours. Keep in mind the tests that websites like Anandtech are 100% optimal tests. In reality you will browse a wide variety of sites with different work loads and have wide variety of signal conditions.
Battery is only 24% larger, but screen is larger and CPU Is quad core (even if it is .32nm), I would be pleasantly surprised if stock vs stock it gets more than 4 hours of battery time in average usage.
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Yeah not sure why we are always talk about stand by time, which will always last a full day if you only use the screen for a hour or so.
I have serious doubts about 5-6 hours when I am getting less than 2 hours screen time if I do pure LTE browsing, 3-4 hours if I do pure WIFI or low CPU tasks like reading books. In real life usage it is always going to be around 3 hours. Keep in mind the tests that websites like Anandtech are 100% optimal tests. In reality you will browse a wide variety of sites with different work loads and have wide variety of signal conditions.
Battery is only 24% larger, but screen is larger and CPU Is quad core (even if it is .32nm), I would be pleasantly surprised if stock vs stock it gets more than 4 hours of battery time in average usage.
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Then you need to go on the GNote2 forums. Battery life is stellar. 24% larger is a huge difference and the processor is more efficient.
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With a different SoC, battery and AMOLED screen, I can believe the Note2 has 6 hours of screen on.
But with the Note1, it clearly can't get much over 4 hours of screen on time even in ideal conditions. Standby is great but the screen eats the battery.
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With a different SoC, battery and AMOLED screen, I can believe the Note2 has 6 hours of screen on.
But with the Note1, it clearly can't get much over 4 hours of screen on time even in ideal conditions. Standby is great but the screen eats the battery.
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Yeah and for a first gen product with an old processor...basically a warmed over sky rocket...4 hours isn't bad. With the latest PA 2.50 CM10, i can see upwards of 4.5hours.
I struggled to see 3 stock.
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I willing be ditching my Note 2 and I want to know from you guys that have had experience with the dna your overall opinions on the battery.
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right now i'm at 37%. off the charger for 12 hours, with 2:20 screen on time. i'll get 3 hours screen on by the end of the day. this is using wifi all day, taking many pics, sending lots of texts and MMS in an area with crappy 4g service (so MMS take forever to go through, if they do) and plenty of emails..then used facebook, instagram, tapatalk, etc.
on 4g, i'd probably get 10 hours or so with 3 hours screen on time. yesterday i had 16.5 hours with 3 hours screen on time on wifi/4g mix.
I have very good 4g where I live and I always use wifi when I'm at home. I mainly read up on tech blogs, a lot of Web browsing a few quick videos and some picture taking. So im hoping I can get 12 hrs.
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i think you'll be able to. like i said, i've gotten up to 16-17 hours before. it's not bad, it's pretty much the same as the GS3
Its holding good for me. This is the last 24 hours.
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I get 12-15 hours off charger with 4-5 hours on screen time.
Auto brightness, most stuff syncing. Streaming spotify for at least an hour and playing a good amount games.
It doesn't hold up to the note 2, but its the same if not better than the s3
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Bigandrewgold said:
I get 12-15 hours off charger with 4-5 hours on screen time.
Auto brightness, most stuff syncing. Streaming spotify for at least an hour and playing a good amount games.
It doesn't hold up to the note 2, but its the same if not better than the s3
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I get these exact same numbers as well. Theres a thread in here called "enough with the battery already" in which people have posted screenshots and go more in depth about battery usage and stats.
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J.Guido85 said:
I willing be ditching my Note 2 and I want to know from you guys that have had experience with the dna your overall opinions on the battery.
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Did you check the BATTERY THREAD???
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34082361
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Bigandrewgold said:
I get 12-15 hours off charger with 4-5 hours on screen time.
Auto brightness, most stuff syncing. Streaming spotify for at least an hour and playing a good amount games.
It doesn't hold up to the note 2, but its the same if not better than the s3
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I know everyone has there opinion but battery life is not close with gs3.
Battery is the DNA biggest issue.
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intruda119 said:
I know everyone has there opinion but battery life is not close with gs3.
Battery is the DNA biggest issue.
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Everyone I know with a s3 gets about 4 hours on screen time, which the DNA can easily get. I've gotten above 5 a couple of times.
Either you got a lemon of a DNA or you are confusing the s3 with the note 2.
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Battery life for me has been awesome. Coming from the Rezound, on a good day with medium to light use (for me) I'd be lucky to get 12 hours. I bet I could go two days on my DNA before I'd HAVE to plug in. As always, YMMV.
On days when I use my DNA heavily (3+ hours of streaming videos with some web browsing mixed in + another combined 1-2 hours of texting, checking FB, etc), I can make it from 6AM through to 12AM. Granted, I'm usually at around 9% by 12AM, but I can still make it through the day without needing to worry about battery. On days when I just use it for the 1-2 hours of texting, checking FB, etc., I can go for 2 days before I need to charge. I am mostly in 4G LTE areas, with around 1 hour combined time spent underground with no signal. My mobile network is always on, I never use WiFi, my auto-sync is always on, and my screen brightness is set to around 40%.
So in my honest opinion, the DNA's battery is quite decent. My brother has an SIII and he doesn't get anywhere close to these numbers.
I'm on my second day of using the phone (I had it on the charger for hours the previous day until around 4:30 P.M.) It is currently 9:56 A.M. the next day and I have about 46% on the battery (Quoted use time is 14h 29 min on battery). This is on moderate use, so not too shabby. I have never had a good battery in any of my phones (I came from the regular Droid Razr, so 2020maH vs. 1780maH) so I am used to not having a good battery.
FYI, I rooted this and flashed a ROM on it about a week ago, and there isn't any definitive upgrade over battery performance yet. While it's nice to have no bloatware, I haven't found anything out that really is much of a benefit over Sense 4.1 in terms of performance/battery. Too many bugs to work out yet.
Battery Life
The battery life on the DNA has FAR EXCEEDED any expectations I would have had.
I have had the phone about 3 weeks now and I do not use it heavily, so I have gotten up to 3 days, 6 hours of battery out of this thing.
The least I have gotten has been about 23 hours and that was driving from NH to NYC and making calls, texting(not while driving of course :angel: ), GPS navigation running and checking things like FB and Twitter. Average seems to be about 29-30 hours for me.
So I am VERY pleased so far, HTC did a great job with battery management.
I'm coming from a T-Bolt, which is known by all to have horrific battery life.
The DNA has blown me away in terms of battery life.
I dont do video or music streaming. But I do heavy voice, txt and constant data (exchange push, gmail, and sending lots of emails per day). Also a fair amount of web browsing, FB, twitter, and all that stuff.
Im coming from an evo lte to the DNA. Its really amazed the hell outta me the difference. I mean the evo has dual core and a smaller screen and no were near as powerful. How they can make something use less juice but that much stronger is really cool. Id say 30% better. You want me to solve ALL your battery needs and questions? Best damn thing I ever bought. You wanna talk about powerful! I rate it a 6.5 outta 5 stars lol.
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Bigandrewgold said:
It doesn't hold up to the note 2, but its the same if not better than the s3
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I can easily get 48 hours with my SGS3 (with ICS), a little less with JB. Can you manage to get that long with a DNA ?
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Im coming from an evo lte to the DNA. Its really amazed the hell outta me the difference. I mean the evo has dual core and a smaller screen and no were near as powerful. How they can make something use less juice but that much stronger is really cool. Id say 30% better. You want me to solve ALL your battery needs and questions? Best damn thing I ever bought. You wanna talk about powerful! I rate it a 6.5 outta 5 stars lol.
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Which model Anker is that? I'm looking into the Anker Astro3E 10,000mAh one
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I can easily get 48 hours with my SGS3 (with ICS), a little less with JB. Can you manage to get that long with a DNA ?
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How much screen time did you use? Talk time? Number of texts sent? How much WiFi or 4G data did you use? I can claim to do the same with my DroidX if I turn on Airplane mode
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I can easily get 48 hours with my SGS3 (with ICS), a little less with JB. Can you manage to get that long with a DNA ?
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With my GS3, I would range anywhere between 18-30 hours with 4+ hours of screen time. That was on ICS or JB. I was rooted with custom ROM's, but I didn't do anything special other than that. A lot of it was with the stock kernels.
I'm only on my 3rd full day with the DNA and I'm keeping a very close eye on battery life. I want to make sure I'm at least getting close to my GS3 otherwise it might not be a worthy move for me after all. So far it has been doing decent but I haven't been able to have a normal usage day yet. Today would be my first normal usage day.
If the battery holds up, I like the DNA more than the GS3, so I would keep it. If the battery doesn't hold up, I'm going to consider the Note 2.
I'm on my first full work day. Pretty confident that ill make to the end of the day.
Only issue is that I had to change my habits a little. Stock vs stock with gs3 is clear winner as far as anything media related to battery.
By no means is it horrible.
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Well, I've had an entire day with the S4 now, and I can confidently say, "big whoop." yes the hardware is impressive. Yes I'm getting Quadrant scores over 12,000. Yes it has removable storage. Yes it has a removable battery. Yes the dev community is active. In the end I'm struggling with a case of who the F cares?
Recently I've been camped on a Note 2, and I'm really underwhelmed by this S4. I don't really know what I was expecting, but I was thinking there would be at least a little sparkle. The gimmicks are worthless for the most part, the display doesn't dazzle me the way the DNA does, and the build construction while better than the S3, is nowhere near as pristine as the DNA.
In all honesty, I miss being part of this HTC community. In the end I couldn't live with the DNA because the battery just wouldn't hold out long enough for me to make it through the day. I'm willing to accept that as a deal breaker. If it weren't for that however, I would probably be sticking to the DNA camp for a long time. The Samsung hardware specs are impressive, but the DNA has_soul_. I don't know how to put it any better than that. I'll probably go back to the Note 2 for the screen real estate and stellar battery life, but I'm going to continue to miss this forum. I won't miss the S4 one bit.
Take this post for what you will, a comparison of htc/sammy, a rant, some addled thoughts late at night, whatever er. Feel free to chime in if you want, or not. Feel free to delete the thread if someone thinks it's not relevant. I just had to get these things off my brain and onto the forum I care about most on XDA.
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I gotta admit, I have the s4 and I find myself feeling the same way. At least we gave it a shot right?
th3xg00b
For people having battery issues, there are a lot of things to try. Depending on kernel, configuration, etc. I have had crazy amazing battery life. It really varies though and there are some things that can just totally wreck battery life. Just have to be mindful of it.
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Well, in regards to the s4, battery life was horrible regardless of what I did. I fun minimal stuff that syncs. No social networking crap or anything and it managed to hit 46% after 8 hours. The same usage on my DNA and I get a minimum of ~12 hours at 50%. Best I've done on a charge is about 22 hours. That alone was the straw that broke the camels back...
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Your DNA doesnt last you the whole day? What are you doing on it? I am running pio's PAC rom with crpalmer's kernel(and even before his kernel) I was *easily* getting 30+ hours with normal usage(messaging every ~15 minutes, around 1-2 hours of browsing reddit, various tinkering, and phone calls).
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Your DNA doesnt last you the whole day? What are you doing on it? I am running pio's PAC rom with crpalmer's kernel(and even before his kernel) I was *easily* getting 30+ hours with normal usage(messaging every ~15 minutes, around 1-2 hours of browsing reddit, various tinkering, and phone calls).
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well, if this was directed towards me, my moderate usage is playing games, texting all day, at least 30 minutes of youtube, engadget, emails...thats about an 18 hour battery for me
123421342 said:
Your DNA doesnt last you the whole day? What are you doing on it? I am running pio's PAC rom with crpalmer's kernel(and even before his kernel) I was *easily* getting 30+ hours with normal usage(messaging every ~15 minutes, around 1-2 hours of browsing reddit, various tinkering, and phone calls).
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I owned three different DNA's over the course of about four months, and no matter what I did I couldn't get more than about 12-15hrs max from the battery. I was more than mindful, I ran battery stats until I was blue in the face, I ran multiple ROMs and kernels, bought two wireless chargers, etc. I'm jealous of those who would get 30+ hours on a charge, but it just wasn't possible with the way I use my phone.
Under the same or harsher conditions, I get around 30-48 hours on the Note 2, including up to about 5-6 hours of screen time. Not trying to say the Note is better, just relating experience and one key factor in my handset choice. If I had liked the S4,it would have required an aftermarket battery for sure.
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th3_g00b said:
I gotta admit, I have the s4 and I find myself feeling the same way. At least we gave it a shot right?
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+1. Definitely worth the experience. I feel now I've at least gotten it out of my system.
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Average battery life with newts sense 5 and beast setup default is 22 hours. Each day I do over 3 hours screen time and several calls. It lasts me a full day and that's all that matters to me.
Just curious but why do you need more then 13-15 hours of battery life? I understand its convenient if you're ever gone from home for a long time but you couldn't invest in a battery pack or carry a charger with you at all times just in case you are gone for a long time? I'd understand if you were only getting 4-6 hours of battery because that's what I got from my Gnexus. I'm up and at the gym at 6 in the morning and I don't have to charge my DNA until 6-9 pm when I finally make it back to bed with the stock rom (2.06) running 2x battery.
Glad to see people feel like the DNA is still a stellar phone. I was really curious to see if I should have waited to get the S4 or the HTC One if it ever came to Verizon. Now I don't regret getting this phone for free. It was practically stealing because it is such an amazing phone.
Flame on !!! I've been saying the same thing about the S4 and HTC One and have been beat down.
how the hell is your battery life on newts sense 5 22 hours?? I get like 13 maximum. wtf. and it's like barely 2 hours screen on.
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jayochs said:
how the hell is your battery life on newts sense 5 22 hours?? I get like 13 maximum. wtf. and it's like barely 2 hours screen on.
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I use newts last rom with beastmode kernel with a little oc and I get 20+ hours of battery life with 3+hours of screen use.
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blemish31 said:
I use newts last rom with beastmode kernel with a little oc and I get 20+ hours of battery life with 3+hours of screen use.
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i'm using newts latest sense 5 with beastmode kernel with NO oc, stock default settings, and i get barely 14 hours with like 2 hours screen on.
what the fart.
They might also be on wifi in areas with great signal coverage. I highly doubt they're getting these insane numbers on 4G.
I get about what you get.
I can see people enjoying the S4 less than the DNA, but there's no way the DNA beats the One. Not in any universe.
If you're only getting 2 hours of screen time..... you're doing it wrong.
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13 hrs of work yesterday and I had 65% left when I got home. No wifi, all 3g or 4g. Plugged in before bed with 50% after 18 hrs unplugged. Probably only 2hrs screen on, but still.
Running Newts latest with beastmode kernel as well with no oc.
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deathrow1992 said:
If you're only getting 2 hours of screen time..... you're doing it wrong.
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lol let's hear your "expert" opinion then.
i've been with android since 2010, and i consider myself a power user. i text multiple times a day, always use 4G etc. i have everything syncing at all times.
i used to get 14-15 hours, and 3 hours screen on for the DNA until around Google I/O when they updated something. the play store got EXTREMELY slow and it would take 20 minutes to download a 15mb app, and my battery went to garbage.
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lol let's hear your "expert" opinion then.
i've been with android since 2010, and i consider myself a power user. i text multiple times a day, always use 4G etc. i have everything syncing at all times.
i used to get 14-15 hours, and 3 hours screen on for the DNA until around Google I/O when they updated something. the play store got EXTREMELY slow and it would take 20 minutes to download a 15mb app, and my battery went to garbage.
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Kidding
I honestly wouldn't know because I'm on stock and I can get 2 days+ with light use and my phone can last almost the whole day with heavy. I'm on stock though.
Maybe try and reinstall the ROM you have? Could be something with the download that is giving you trouble.
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I hit 16hrs. 4hrs screen on and at 40%
I'm on stock as well.
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