[Q] New One X+ owner, battery and usability sucks. - HTC One X+

Hey guys, I just bought an HTC ONE X+ last week with a contract from AT&T. I came from a One S on T-Mobile. So here's my problem, I would use my One S all day with WiFi and data on for about half the day and the screen turned on low and I'd still have 50% battery by 8 pm. That was after starting the day at 7 AM. I've tried to do the same with this X+ but leaving power save on and data and WiFi off nearly 20 out of 24 hour, just eats through my battery. I want to be able to USD my phone and I don't want a battery case. I was thinking of returning it for a regular One X with the dual core snapdragon as is in the One S. Would my battery longevity be similar in the One X? Would rooting and using set cpu to lower the cpu clock cause the one X+ to get better battery life?

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herokid672 said:
Hey guys, I just bought an HTC ONE X+ last week with a contract from AT&T. I came from a One S on T-Mobile. So here's my problem, I would use my One S all day with WiFi and data on for about half the day and the screen turned on low and I'd still have 50% battery by 8 pm. That was after starting the day at 7 AM. I've tried to do the same with this X+ but leaving power save on and data and WiFi off nearly 20 out of 24 hour, just eats through my battery. I want to be able to USD my phone and I don't want a battery case. I was thinking of returning it for a regular One X with the dual core snapdragon as is in the One S. Would my battery longevity be similar in the One X? Would rooting and using set cpu to lower the cpu clock cause the one X+ to get better battery life?
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Hmmm would a V4 engine consume less gasoline than a V8 engine, I do believe so but might need a rocket scientist here for that one .

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deeznuts said:
Hmmm would a V4 engine consume less gasoline than a V8 engine, I do believe so but might need a rocket scientist here for that one .
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The reviews on battery life are so mixed. The AT&T version One X still has NFC and the POGO pins so besides a 1.6 MP camera and a (hot running) quad core Nvidia that sucks battery life im not missing out. Actually V4's arent's very common, most are I4's on cars, you will see V4's on motorcycles. Just wanted to clarify... I have no experience with a One X and was just asking for opinions before I can return it to see if I really should do it.

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Lol what are you talking about battery life is great 4-5 hours of screen on time
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Then what the hell?
I must be doing something wrong or I'm just used to having more.
Look at my graph, that's barely using the phone at all all day. As soon as I turn on WiFi, my battery just jumps off a cliff... I have Google now, sync, and location disabled and I disabled all the possible apps I could think of that would drain batter.
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herokid672 said:
I must be doing something wrong or I'm just used to having more.
Look at my graph, that's barely using the phone at all all day. As soon as I turn on WiFi, my battery just jumps off a cliff... I have Google now, sync, and location disabled and I disabled all the possible apps I could think of that would drain batter.
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No you haven't done anything wrong you haft to break in your battery give it two weeks before you complain your battery Is being calibrated
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herokid672 said:
I must be doing something wrong or I'm just used to having more.
Look at my graph, that's barely using the phone at all all day. As soon as I turn on WiFi, my battery just jumps off a cliff... I have Google now, sync, and location disabled and I disabled all the possible apps I could think of that would drain batter.
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Poor mobile signal causes significant battery drain.

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herokid672 said:
I must be doing something wrong or I'm just used to having more.
Look at my graph, that's barely using the phone at all all day. As soon as I turn on WiFi, my battery just jumps off a cliff... I have Google now, sync, and location disabled and I disabled all the possible apps I could think of that would drain batter.
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I really don't know where these Battery Cry Babies crawl out of? They must think as soon as they charge the device one time out of the box, have everything turned on and enable such as NFC (who even uses this, really?), wifi, bluetooth, gps, etc. that they will still have great battery life on this or any quad core device? Here's a thought, only enable gps when you use it, only enable wifi, when you use it, only enable bluetooth when you are going to use it, etc. By simply doing this, have battery save mode enabled (really no reason to ever have it off unless maybe playing a tegra 3 hungry game), you will see actually great battery life from this device. Also fully charge it from 100%-0% at least 3 times to get the full effect, same applies after flashing a new rom and make sure you don't have some bunk 3rd party battery hungry app running as there's tons out there if you're not careful!

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deeznuts said:
I really don't know where these Battery Cry Babies crawl out of? They must think as soon as they charge the device one time out of the box, have everything turned on and enable such as NFC (who even uses this, really?), wifi, bluetooth, gps, etc. that they will still have great battery life on this or any quad core device? Here's a thought, only enable gps when you use it, only enable wifi, when you use it, only enable bluetooth when you are going to use it, etc. By simply doing this, have battery save mode enabled (really no reason to ever have it off unless maybe playing a tegra 3 hungry game), you will see actually great battery life from this device. Also fully charge it from 100%-0% at least 3 times to get the full effect, same applies after flashing a new rom and make sure you don't have some bunk 3rd party battery hungry app running as there's tons out there if you're not careful!
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You're totally right because I forgot to mention how I had everything running all at once all day.... Oh yeah I did say I turned everything off and only used WiFi when I needed it and same goes for data. Is it so hard to answer whether the One X will outperform the One X+ on battery or are you just the official pretentious all-knowing bastard troll of HTC phones? I use a timer to charge my phone 3 hours before I wake up so it's always at 100% when I start the day.
Thank you to those who offered some real answers and support.

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herokid672 said:
You're totally right because I forgot to mention how I had everything running all at once all day.... Oh yeah I did say I turned everything off and only used WiFi when I needed it and same goes for data. Is it so hard to answer whether the One X will outperform the One X+ on battery or are you just the official pretentious all-knowing bastard troll of HTC phones? I use a timer to charge my phone 3 hours before I wake up so it's always at 100% when I start the day.
Thank you to those who offered some real answers and support.
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I had all of a sudden a huge battery drain; first I couldn't figure out what was going on. I disabled all AT&T apps especially the AT&T locker app and now I am back to great battery life.

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Huge drain occur only when cpu are set to full clock. Gotta feed that beast
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herokid672 said:
You're totally right because I forgot to mention how I had everything running all at once all day.... Oh yeah I did say I turned everything off and only used WiFi when I needed it and same goes for data. Is it so hard to answer whether the One X will outperform the One X+ on battery or are you just the official pretentious all-knowing bastard troll of HTC phones? I use a timer to charge my phone 3 hours before I wake up so it's always at 100% when I start the day.
Thank you to those who offered some real answers and support.
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Now I have the regular att one x and usually I use it pretty heavily and I'm at 60% around 8 pm taking off at 7am...it all depends on the user...but like others said your battery is being calibrated and once you flash a new Rom your battery will have to take a few days to see more trust worthy battery..alsoyour dalvic cache is rebuilding itself the first little while so I can assure you after a little while you'll see improvements in battery life ...on my one x I got significantly better battery life after putting a couple roms on their and choosing the CPU/voltages how I want....and if your heavy user and complaining just think if you and someone else have the same car and your just flooring yours everywhere you'll get worse gas mileage..

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I just got a new AT&T One X+, and noticed that some of the AT&T bloatware was using battery.
I let Play Store update some of the bloatware and then under Settings->Apps, I disabled
AT&T Code Scanner
AT&T Family Map
AT&T Locker
AT&T Messenges
AT&T Navigator
AT&T ReadyToGo
I can't remember which one(s) were using most power, but disabling them all means that you never accidentally run them and don't see then on the Apps screeens.
HTC Checkin service also seems to use a lot of power, but not much I can do to stop that.
But for now, I just plan to use the phone as I want to, but make sure I can plug it into power if it gets low on juice.

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BelleauCarl said:
Huge drain occur only when cpu are set to full clock. Gotta feed that beast
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So far thats my experience, if i load up a game that uses that Tegra 3 to its full extent then goodbye battery.. I did go disable all the ATT apps however
But heck, if i watch Youtube videos and such i dont have much of a problem, My first day i managed about 15h with almost 3h on the screen... I gotta say unlike my GNex, this phone is picky on what you're doing in regards to battery usage, Probubly because unlike the One X+ the GNex's screen was the worst offender in regards to battery life....and unlike the GNex I dont have to go running when i hit 20% because 20% on my GNex meant "I'm going to drop dead in 5...4...3..2...1"
BTW stupid question, Where I live I know theres a very good HSPA+ tower (like full signal all the time, -75dbm) but my One X+ likes to stay on the LTE tower which has a dinky 1-2 bar signal strength to it(Not sure on the dbm on it, Havnt checked), Even though im using Wi-Fi at home, wouldnt it still be bad for battery life as the cell tower has a weaker signal?
I'd not mind a battery case, Had one on my iPhone 4 and my GNex, But I cant seem to find one, Do the Mugen ones for the One X work on the Plus as well?

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KenjiS said:
BTW stupid question, Where I live I know theres a very good HSPA+ tower (like full signal all the time, -75dbm) but my One X+ likes to stay on the LTE tower which has a dinky 1-2 bar signal strength to it(Not sure on the dbm on it, Havnt checked), Even though im using Wi-Fi at home, wouldnt it still be bad for battery life as the cell tower has a weaker signal?
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I would also prefer to use HSPA over LTE to save battery, but after some googling I realized that AT&T does not want us to have this option. There are some cumbersome phone codes you can enter to hop onto HSPA and not LTE, but no practical solutions yet

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ashamir said:
I would also prefer to use HSPA over LTE to save battery, but after some googling I realized that AT&T does not want us to have this option. There are some cumbersome phone codes you can enter to hop onto HSPA and not LTE, but no practical solutions yet
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That stinks of annoying marketing over practicality... At the very least when one isnt using a ton of data at the moment they should have the phone "throttle" the connection down to the strongest connection available, even if its EDGE...and if you're on a Wi-Fi network it should connect to the tower with the strongest signal, not the best data connection
At my house I get HSPA+ with full bars running at 7.5mbps, LTE runs at 5-6mbps and 1-2 bars
Ok granted, when i leave the house yes, i get pretty good LTE speeds up to 20-23mbps, and thats where i care about LTE working since at home i can just use my Wi-Fi network, what im more annoyed with at home is the fact that in the background im connected to a tower with 2 bars of strength which im pretty sure is killing my battery life because its STILL pushing Cell stuff to it (IE, my calls/texts) in fact while I havnt really been able to test this much a few of the times when i go downstairs (Thus losing the poor LTE tower and hopping over to the very good HSPA tower) i notice my battery drain seems to get a lot lower... But as i said i cant test that a lot

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Andrew149 said:
No you haven't done anything wrong you haft to break in your battery give it two weeks before you complain your battery Is being calibrated
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if no one ever told u that before i will tell u now....
stop! belive!! in!! myth!!!
or u know better then the android progremers?

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ShadowSide said:
if no one ever told u that before i will tell u now....
stop! belive!! in!! myth!!!
or u know better then the android progremers?
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No my battery has continued to get better every day here's some more proof,
Yes it may be some what of a myth but than again your phone needs to build up cache sync everything and than settle down
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I've had pretty good battery life on my HOX+ so far, but, I've only owned the thing for a week. I think a lot of it depends on how you use the phone and also how much you prioritize battery life over convenience.
For example, I've got Google Now turned off along with all the AT&T apps removed entirely. In addition mobile data is usually turned off unless I actually need to use it and so on. So things might not be as convenient for me, but, battery life is pretty good. Although, when gaming it does go down quickly as expected.
The other night I took my phone off the charger around 2am when I went to sleep and when I woke up at 10:30am it was at 98%.
I recall someone mentioning that they lost 1% of battery life very 10 minutes when Google Now was running. So I just started it on my phone and then disabled it. Although, I believe it is 'off' by default.
I almost never install programs that run constantly in the background. Especially if it is one that will restarts after being terminated even though it isn't necessary. I've read you aren't supposed to terminate running processes, but, I just hate having some games 'billing service' running in the background all day because I played it 8 hours ago. I am pretty selective with when and how I end processes as it just wastes battery life to 'free memory' and then have all those same processes start running again.
Unfortunately this post probably doesn't add too much useful information, but, I need 10 posts so just bear with me, lol.

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Heres my count for today...
Basically, a bit of youtube, a bit of music playing (around an hour i think) some web browsing, a little cut the rope (around 20ish mins?) played in Google Earth a bit (One app that never ran well.. until now!) Really and honestly i am not complaining one bit...
My cell signal in the background sucks, Thats probubly not helping matters (I know I can get a much better more solid connection if it was the HSPA+ tower but theres no way for me to disable the LTE apparently ) So basically I'm just annoyed that i feel the battery life could be extended if i could force it to connect to the tower with the strongest signal instead of the one with the LTE signal im not using at home because i have 40mbps FiOS....