okay well today I decided I wanted an upgrade, Im not eligible until Feb 1st (or a few days after) so I called tech support and was crying about how my upgrade is 2 weeks away and how i really want a new phone. so long story short, they directed me to my local verizon store after changing the date to today; an hour later home with the DNA.
and I am impressed.
I have the galaxy note 10.1 as my main tablet, and the Droid Dna is much snappier than that, and their specs are pretty much the same.
so as much as I "hate" htc, i bough the dna because i thought it looks cool, and im glad I did
and I dont hate HTC, im just one of those frustrated T-bolt users lol, and now my grandpa is rocking the t-bolt and loves it...if only he knew what android 4.0 was......
Nova launcher prime. That is all
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This phone is amazing! I just got mine as well.
time to start tinkering!
I love it
But the only issue I have is with wireless charging
It takes forever, and I have that nokia one, not sure of the official model number, but its the size of an apple mighty mouse and looks similar
So does anyone know why wireless charging takes so long?
And I do not have a case on it
harecurtis said:
I love it
But the only issue I have is with wireless charging
It takes forever, and I have that nokia one, not sure of the official model number, but its the size of an apple mighty mouse and looks similar
So does anyone know why wireless charging takes so long?
And I do not have a case on it
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After using the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 for the past year+, the DNA just CREEPS when charging, both wired and wireless. It's really painful how long it takes to charge.
dbdynsty25 said:
After using the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 for the past year+, the DNA just CREEPS when charging, both wired and wireless. It's really painful how long it takes to charge.
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I came from an iphone and this phone charges really slow. But it also lasts me 15 hours average so Im cool with that haha.
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I can also agree that this phone charges slower than my Nexus but I notice no difference between wired and wireless charging.
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croppz said:
I came from an iphone and this phone charges really slow. But it also lasts me 15 hours average so Im cool with that haha.
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Really?
It only lasts about 7 for me:/
And this is day 2, so I jay take it back and exchange for another dna, as this could be a faulty battery, or sidegrade to a s3
Now heres what my usage is;
Im a college student, so my phone is off charger by 730 am (from the night before) and comes to school until about 3 or so.
In just those 8 hours, with wifi off, gps off, brightness set to auto, and only like 30 mins of screen on time; its at like 30-35
And 3 isnt a good time to die cause I have the rest of the day I need it, so is it me using it wrong or maybe bad battery?
Cause im debati on going to verizon tomorrow to replace it with a s3 or a new dna
harecurtis said:
Really?
It only lasts about 7 for me:/
And this is day 2, so I jay take it back and exchange for another dna, as this could be a faulty battery, or sidegrade to a s3
Now heres what my usage is;
Im a college student, so my phone is off charger by 730 am (from the night before) and comes to school until about 3 or so.
In just those 8 hours, with wifi off, gps off, brightness set to auto, and only like 30 mins of screen on time; its at like 30-35
And 3 isnt a good time to die cause I have the rest of the day I need it, so is it me using it wrong or maybe bad battery?
Cause im debati on going to verizon tomorrow to replace it with a s3 or a new dna
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Bad battery. No way you should only be getting 30 minutes of on screen time!
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How is your signal at school?
harecurtis said:
Really?
It only lasts about 7 for me:/
And this is day 2, so I jay take it back and exchange for another dna, as this could be a faulty battery, or sidegrade to a s3
Now heres what my usage is;
Im a college student, so my phone is off charger by 730 am (from the night before) and comes to school until about 3 or so.
In just those 8 hours, with wifi off, gps off, brightness set to auto, and only like 30 mins of screen on time; its at like 30-35
And 3 isnt a good time to die cause I have the rest of the day I need it, so is it me using it wrong or maybe bad battery?
Cause im debati on going to verizon tomorrow to replace it with a s3 or a new dna
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That is horrible batteryife. Unless you have horrible coverage where you are or your school is made of lead you should be at like 70 percent, not 30
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While not a huge factor, dont use auto brightness. Uses an unnecessary amount of battery. Just set it to where you want and leave it. But I agree that is terrible battery life. Im getting 15 hours average out of mine.
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I've had my Droid DNA about 3 weeks and I'm in love with it myself. I must suggest everyone get a charging pad as well, it seems to make the battery last longer from it's charge!
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I've had my Droid DNA about 3 weeks and I'm in love with it myself. I must suggest everyone get a charging pad as well, it seems to make the battery last longer from it's charge!
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why would that possibly prolong the battery life?
my signal at my school is maximum bars , and 4g.
and okay, ill be heading over to verizon in a few minutes to see what they wanna do
because the dna should get at least 12 hours of my "low-average" usage
and okay, ill try to get a new DNA and if I do ill put the brightness somewhere in the middle instead of auto brightness.
thanks all!
Try this app: Deep Sleep Battery Saver. It has worked wonders on my DNA's battery life. It turns off apps and the radios for the WiFi and Mobile Data when the device's screen goes dark. At set intervals, it'll wake up the radios and download email, etc. You can also whitelist apps that you do not want the app to shut off, like an alarm clock app or an SMS app. You will still receive your phone calls. As of this writing, I have 94% battery 5 hours after I disconnected the phone from the charger. I have made a few calls and texts. I haven't used data since I am at work and am in front of a computer the whole day.
harecurtis said:
my signal at my school is maximum bars , and 4g.
and okay, ill be heading over to verizon in a few minutes to see what they wanna do
because the dna should get at least 12 hours of my "low-average" usage
and okay, ill try to get a new DNA and if I do ill put the brightness somewhere in the middle instead of auto brightness.
thanks all!
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I agree with what everyone else said - you probably had a defective unit. I use my DNA much more than you do, with Auto-sync on, Background data on, Mobile Network always on, Brightness at around 40%. In my daily commute, I total around an hour of time spent underground in a subway station with no signal. Given all this, with ~3-4 hours of screen-on time, my phone lasts me from 7:45 in the morning all the way through until ~12 midnight with usually at least 20% battery life left. I don't know if it means anything, but I charged my phone fully before turning it on for the first time (I didn't even let the Verizon store rep turn it on to activate it for me - I told him to not even open the box). If you're interested, this is what I did:
1. Made sure the phone was not turned on at any point before I took it out of the box.
2. Took the phone out of the box without turning it on and plugged it in.
3. Waited for the light to turn green, then unplugged it and let it sit for a few minutes.
4. Re-plugged the phone (the light would be orange again), and waited for it to turn green.
5. Repeated the unplugging and replugging process until the light turned green almost immediately upon plugging in.
6. Turned the phone on and did the activation and all that fun stuff.
7. Used the phone normally, and did not charge it until the battery was fully depleted (turned off by itself because battery was too low).
8. Fully charged the phone until it was full again (without turning it on).
9. Repeated the unplugging and replugging process again until the light turned green almost immediately upon plugging in.
10. Turned it on and started using it normally from that point on.
I'm a bit OCD with my phone battery But hey, it seems to have worked out well for me so I'm happy!
Juicedefender is the best free battery saver I have tried.. Just having it on the balanced pre-set made a difference.. After suffering through the Tbolt, Droid razr, and Gnex, I'm pretty happy with the battery
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Well I unfortunately went to the dark side, no not the company with a piece of fruit for a logo...samsung
And I wanted the dna but the lady told me that the battery life is normal for that phone cause of the big screen with 1080p and a quad core processor. I tried to disagree a little, but then she told me she has had the s3 since its launch and she hasnt had an issue yet. So I played with her phone, cause demo units are almost always bogged down. And I liked it.
So as of now, im off the htc bandwagon....but hopefully ill be back in about 8 months when my next line is available for upgrade
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I absolutely love everything about my first Android phone, the hardware, software, apps...it's all good...except the battery life. I've tried most everything I've read here to try and maximize it, and I'm still having to break out the charger to get me through the evening.
Coming from BlackBerry, I've been used to having battery life exceeding two days...not that I ever needed to last that long, I always charge each night anyways. I merely want to be able to make it to bedtime each night without having to charge the phone, without having to cripple the features I love about it, and without having to be overly wary of my usage.
Is this dream possible with this, or any Android device?
I've tried the stock ROM, now on UnNamed...tried Juice Defender (got rid of it), SetCPU, Screebl, using Llama to shut off wireless when away from home or work, brightness down low (shame with such a beautiful screen)...and I still average around 7% an hour drain. CPUspy tells me I spend 60% of the time in deep sleep and 15% at 200mhz.
I don't really know what else to try, I want so badly to keep this phone, but don't want to significantly compromise the way I'm used to using my mobile device. I don't play games, I don't watch videos, I use my phone as an information and communications tool...and from that standpoint, this phone is simply awesome, if it would just get me through the day.
I have one week left to try and resolve this...what should be my next step?
It does sound like you're having unusual low battery life, my phone says that it's been 2 days 6 hours since my last charge and I'm still at 30%. If I were you, I would go and try to exchange it and see if maybe they give a little extra time to test out the phone.
See I would be ecstatic with 30% remaining after just one full day...I take the phone off the charger at around 7am, and would prefer not to put it back on a charge until 11pm or later.
I got it from Amazon Wireless, so I'll have to give them a call and see what they say about an exchange...you always run the risk of getting a device with an issue though, and this one is perfect otherwise...
Best of luck resolving this man!
It seems that the drain is only really happening when the screen is on...I can let it sit for awhile, and the battery meter doesn't budge...but I pick it up and start using it and you can practically watch it dropping...
Turn your data off when you're not using it
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So from about 7:30 this morning until around 12:45pm, I dropped about 13%...which is around 2.5% an hour, something I can live with. Although that was with almost no use, screen off most of the time. In the last 45 minutes, I've been using the phone, reading emails, screen on much more, and it's dropped 8% more in just that 45 min period. My screen brightness is about 25%.
That can't be normal, right?
EDIT: Ya know, I'm just going to shut my mouth and enjoy my phone. I put it on the charger at work for the last 30 minutes of my workday today, and I'm at 80% at 8pm...I'm good with that. I'll pick up a couple spare batteries, and with chargers at work and home, I'm all good. I'll keep it as bright as I want it, sync data as often as I want, leave the CPU speed alone, and quit looking at the battery gauge...when I do that, it's a fricken awesome phone.
I was having this problem also, I use juice defender pro, and setcpu. I have juice set up to kill all connections when the phone is sleeping and set it up to where it syncs my facebook/emails every 2hrs, in setcpu you can create custom profiles that allow you to underclock your cpu when its sleeping, charging, certain times of the day/night. Im looking at my phone now and im at 1 day 0h 16 minutes with over half left. If you need some help setting up custom profiles and configuring juice (I recommend redownloading it again.) Shoot me a pm and ill see if I can help you. Good luck
I didn't want to compromise how I use my phone either. Most days I take my phone off the charger at about 7:30. By about the time I come back from lunch 1ish, it usually above 50%, but right around there. I generally plug it in at work for a few hours and generally can get it back to 90+ before going home. The day includes generally 3-4 hours pandora, so I figure that's par for the course. When I had my captivate doing the same thing it was almost dead by noon.
I think I might just be able to make it all day on a singles charge with what I consider heavy use, but its nice never seeing my battery drop below 40. Here's my weekly use, you can see the pattern of small drain, recharge, drain, charge overnight.
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Everytime I think my battery is draining too fast I think back to how long ago the power in my hands wasn't in a computer tower, and I calm down. My phone is an extension of my hand, always being used, I don't expect my friend to starve, and don't feel unreasonable to let him snack mid-day.
For what its worth I am on UnNamed. I used S8 and did not see the giant jump in battery a lot of people claimed, I felt it was the same. I wasn't on stock long enough to really tell. But, I feel you need a week or more to really know, and I didn't last that long on stock.
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What is your screen timeout set at? Anything more than 30 seconds will drain battery excessively. Also, do you keep your screen on when listening to Pandora, or while charging the phone? Those are also a waste of battery.
2.5% per hour when idle its not bad, and losing 8% in 45 minutes with the display on is actually pretty good...
I leave the screen timeout on 1 minute, its too frustrating to me when I am trying to read a webpage or thread and it times out. Maybe I am a slow reader, LOL. 45 seconds would probably work for me, but its not an option in these ROMs. I leave my screen brightness to automatic, and turn off my screen as soon as I start pandora. I do use Bluetooth to listen to pandora, so I bet that doesn't help. I also listen to audiobooks over Bluetooth in the car to and from work. But I did all the same stuff with my captivate. I have started using wifi when at home, but haven't seen a battery impact for that.
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not surprising at all to see your battery drain like that when you use bluetooth so extensively. nothing wrong with bluetooth, but it is definitely going to use up your battery faster - there is a huge difference in battery drain between a regular voice call made with the handset, and a voice call of the same amount of time made in my car via bluetooth - i don't have exact statistics, but i'd say about double the drain. same thing between a wireless bluetooth headset, and a pair of wired headphones.
sounds like you have solved your problem with multiple chargers, but if you wanted to avoid charging in the middle of the day, switching to a wired pair of headphones when listening to all of your pandora would almost certainly do the trick.
Wow, I didn't realize it was so much. I have headphones in my desk at work for computer trainings, but never use them on my phone. Plus I could plug my phone into my car's radio go play over the speakers. I think its a convienience thing more than anything else, not having to unplug for the car when I get to work, nit taking the headphones out to pick up something at the printer.
As you said another charger is a good fix, something I never need on weekends, but I ways attributed that to pandora more than Bluetooth. Definately food for thought. Thanks.
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As far as the screen timeout, I use Screebl and it works great. It senses the position of the phone to know when it's being used and keeps the screen on, then also can tell when the phone has been set down and turns the screen off within seconds. You can manually set the angles and positions so it also works fine when you're reading in bed. Helps with both keeping the screen on for those long emails as well as shutting it down quickly to save a little battery life.
Without a doubt, it's the screen being on that is the primary battery killer on my phone...when it sits idle, regardless of how often data is being used, I'm under 2% per hour drain. When the screen is on, you can practically watch the needle go down, it's crazy.
I do use SetCPU to drop the CPU to 200-500mhz when the screen is off, and to drop to 200-800 when it gets below 30%...aside from that, I'm done trying to optimize. I want to have my email and other notifications come in when they were sent, not an hour or two later. I want to see the great screen in the daylight, not a dimmed version. This is why I bought the phone. All that power requires some juice, so I'm going to make sure I've got extra juice on tap.
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I didn't want to compromise how I use my phone either. Most days I take my phone off the charger at about 7:30. By about the time I come back from lunch 1ish, it usually above 50%, but right around there. I generally plug it in at work for a few hours and generally can get it back to 90+ before going home. The day includes generally 3-4 hours pandora, so I figure that's par for the course. When I had my captivate doing the same thing it was almost dead by noon.
I think I might just be able to make it all day on a singles charge with what I consider heavy use, but its nice never seeing my battery drop below 40. Here's my weekly use, you can see the pattern of small drain, recharge, drain, charge overnight.
Everytime I think my battery is draining too fast I think back to how long ago the power in my hands wasn't in a computer tower, and I calm down. My phone is an extension of my hand, always being used, I don't expect my friend to starve, and don't feel unreasonable to let him snack mid-day.
For what its worth I am on UnNamed. I used S8 and did not see the giant jump in battery a lot of people claimed, I felt it was the same. I wasn't on stock long enough to really tell. But, I feel you need a week or more to really know, and I didn't last that long on stock.
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What is that app you're using?
The SGS II has power drain issues as well? I had the captivate and I could turn it on and watch the battery drain. I'm on Atrix 2 right now and I have zero issues with the battery. Best buy has dropped the price of the SGS II and it's really tempting to switch. Hmm what to do... What to do...
I picked up an Atrix 2 from Best Buy off contract last weekend so I could compare side-by-side with my SGS2, I really wanted the notification LED...but I took the A2 back yesterday. Improved battery life and the weak notification LED couldn't overcome the stark disadvantage in performance and screen quality (in my opinion). Laggy web browser and menu scrolling in comparison and an overly backlit looking screen with little contrast...although if I hadn't already had a couple weeks with the SGS2, I'd have probably been fine with it.
Everyone has different experiences with battery life depending on how they use their phone, you should grab the SGS2 and do a comparison and see what works best for you. Battery life has dropped down my priority list as of late, since I'm using the phone so much more now for every little thing (becasue it's so damn gorgeous), I have to expect to use up some juice.
Yeah I had to install miren browser, go Launcher, and handecnt SMS to change the color of the LED colors. Loving the phone and hopefully we will get an unlocked boot loader. SGS was really easy to root, flash, and OC. Still a bit pissed at AT&T for releasing another SGS II, no reason for doing that. I have a couple of weeks to kick the thought around. If its looking bleak for us A2 users then I'll jump on over to the OG SGS II lol. Screw the skypocketrocketshipboat.
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What is that app you're using?
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Its called device analyzer. Its an app made for data collection about android device useage for the University of Cambridge. It also keeps track of data use, but not as granular.
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quarlow said:
I leave the screen timeout on 1 minute, its too frustrating to me when I am trying to read a webpage or thread and it times out. Maybe I am a slow reader, LOL.
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try screebly, that will let you set you timetout to 15s, whiel avoiding the issue you speak of above.
As the title says I haven't seen anyone actually test the battery for a couple days, it's usually review and move on.
So how is it?
Well it hasn't been mentioned so it probably isn't worse than we expect it to be.
Also interested to know. Of course since this will be the first few days people have it, they'll be using it a ton so it may not be the best estimate on battery life but I would love to know an idea of how much to expect.
They haven't had time to calabrate yet.
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First charge with heavy use got greater than expected life. I will still buy an extended one, but thats cuz i hate charging. 7 hours of heavy use on 3g only.
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7 hours of heavy use isn't bad. So idling with 4G off probably isn't terrible then. That is what I am most concerned about. Hopefully we will get kernel source and just get some undervolt going.
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7 hours of heavy use isn't bad. So idling with 4G off probably isn't terrible then. That is what I am most concerned about. Hopefully we will get kernel source and just get some undervolt going.
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yeah not to mention that after you root you can flash leaner kernels and ROM's. But we'll have to wait for development to pick up, I really hope we see some good developers here.
So right now it's 1am and I took the phone off of the charger at 8:21 with 85% battery life. It is now at 47% with some steady texting, exchange activesync, some web browsing, and a 7 minute video all on 4g. I'm not sure what to make of that but it seems decent.
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So right now it's 1am and I took the phone off of the charger at 8:21 with 85% battery life. It is now at 47% with some steady texting, exchange activesync, some web browsing, and a 7 minute video all on 4g. I'm not sure what to make of that but it seems decent.
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DAMMIT I WANT!!! 3 more days...
I don't know that I've charged it fully since I got it. It was close to fully charged before I went to a wedding tonight. Lasted all 6 hours or so I was there, but was tuckering out (~20%) by the time I left. But I did spend a bit of time playing with the phone. And 4G was on the whole time. And I turned live wallpaper on, played with my weather and clock widgets, tried to get a wifi connection that wouldn't work, browsed the web a bit.
I recharged on the way home to about 50%, and sitting around playing with it for the last hour to 1.5 hours, it's still at 40%.
If it makes you feel any better, the biggest battery hog was the display, BY FAR. Like 80-something percent to the <20% combined for the other functions. I'll try and remember to post my impressions from my first "normal" day of use tomorrow and let you know how the battery fairs.
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I don't know that I've charged it fully since I got it. It was close to fully charged before I went to a wedding tonight. Lasted all 6 hours or so I was there, but was tuckering out (~20%) by the time I left. But I did spend a bit of time playing with the phone. And 4G was on the whole time. And I turned live wallpaper on, played with my weather and clock widgets, tried to get a wifi connection that wouldn't work, browsed the web a bit.
I recharged on the way home to about 50%, and sitting around playing with it for the last hour to 1.5 hours, it's still at 40%.
If it makes you feel any better, the biggest battery hog was the display, BY FAR. Like 80-something percent to the <20% combined for the other functions. I'll try and remember to post my impressions from my first "normal" day of use tomorrow and let you know how the battery fairs.
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I got mine yesterday and I can say it is about 25-30% better than a rooted thunderbolt....My logic says once rooted we will get really good battery life.
I am a heavy user and I can say I turned off fast boot and bump charged it 3 times on Thursday night. I gave it a heavy use all day on Friday.
Took it off the charger at 10 am around 8 pm I was on 35%. So that was 10 hours of heavy use and still had 35% left. If I was using the rooted bolt I would have been dead around 5:30 and a stock bolt...even sooner.
hope all these battery estimates are true, sounds like this will be my next phone!
Took it off the charger at about 11am today... Was close to 100%, maybe 95%. Just hooked it up to charge about 10 minutes ago (so off charger completely for ~10 hours). It had ~10% battery life left when I hooked it up.
Had Wifi and/or 4G on the entire day, including an hour and a half in a bad service area, where it fought for a bit to find service until I logged into the wifi network. Played about 1 hour worth of Pandora on high quality setting. A couple minutes of 4G Youtube. Tons of tinkering with games and downloading apps and playing around. Screen brightness was set to something like 30%. live wallpaper enabled. Weather and clock widget enabled. Data tracking widget enabled. Did a few seconds of video Skype too. I would say it was consistent use all day, but not necessarily heavy for most of the day.
EDIT: I forgot. One short phone call. I'm sort of a bad guinea pig for battery life on a phone because I really don't make a lot of phone calls. Consider my use representative of someone who uses data during his commute and for texting/games/forum/app usage.
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Took it off the charger at about 11am today... Was close to 100%, maybe 95%. Just hooked it up to charge about 10 minutes ago (so off charger completely for ~10 hours). It had ~10% battery life left when I hooked it up.
EDIT: I forgot. One short phone call. I'm sort of a bad guinea pig for battery life on a phone because I really don't make a lot of phone calls. Consider my use representative of someone who uses data during his commute and for texting/games/forum/app usage.
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I have very similar usage habits. Glad to hear that this seems to have relatively good battery life.
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Had Wifi and/or 4G on the entire day, including an hour and a half in a bad service area, where it fought for a bit to find service until I logged into the wifi network.
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Bad/No service areas will kill a battery so fast. My office is in a windowless reinforced concrete room inside a reinforced windowless room inside a reinforced building. (Yo dawg)
I get no service at all. If I leave the 3g on, phone won't make it past 5 hours. Turn the 3G/WiFi off and battery percent goes down a few points.
I need one!!!
Kellex over a Droid-Life has gotten just over 10 hours of normal usage (all in 4G) for the past couple of days. He also stated he is not a heavy user by any means.
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Seems like it isn't as bad as most thought it would be.
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I remain interested in the phone but undecided due to some really bad hardware failures I have on my Dinc.
While I am very interested in battery life like everyone else, please everyone keep in mind that "how is the battery" is as personal a question as "which radio is the best one to use."
There is no way one person can truly tell you how the battery will be for you. If you sit in an interior office without wifi, and have sync contacts and facebook set for every hour, that ALONE will cause a drain that may not be comparable.
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I remain interested in the phone but undecided due to some really bad hardware failures I have on my Dinc.
While I am very interested in battery life like everyone else, please everyone keep in mind that "how is the battery" is as personal a question as "which radio is the best one to use."
There is no way one person can truly tell you how the battery will be for you. If you sit in an interior office without wifi, and have sync contacts and facebook set for every hour, that ALONE will cause a drain that may not be comparable.
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What does this phone have in common with a year old phone.
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What does this phone have in common with a year old phone.
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Yay, you got another post!
That aside ... just please everyone keep that in mind when making battery life decisions based on what others experience; battery life can be GREATLY impacted by things well outside what programs you might run and how many texts you might send.
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Yay, you got another post!
That aside ... just please everyone keep that in mind when making battery life decisions based on what others experience; battery life can be GREATLY impacted by things well outside what programs you might run and how many texts you might send.
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Yay, so did you.
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I have had my RAZR Maxx for a little over a month now. I have never once been able to go a full day on one charge. After 5 hours my battery is already at 60% with very little usage on most days. My Droid Incredible had the same battery stats with a third of the battery capacity.
Am I doing something wrong? I don't understand. How are some people getting 40 hours on one charge?! Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions I can try?
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There's ALWAYS the possibility that you got a bum unit, but if that's not the case, I'd look at all the apps you've installed. facebook in particular has been known to kill battery. If it were my phone, I'd back up all my apps, uninstall EVERYTHING, and see if battery life returns to normal. If it does, reinstall one by one until you see your battery life go to hell again. That's your culprit. If battery life doesn't improve, it's warranty time.
I top off my charge once a day, but can go 2 full days if I need to. What you're describing is NOT normal. I don't even bother to do all the battery saving things I did on my old Droid X because (when working properly) the Maxx battery is so great, you can afford to be wasteful.
Chances are it is your phone. This is very light use and I am at 75% still on my charge. Screen is on about 85% brightness and I never turn my bluetooth or wifi off.
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Ever since going to the Maxx from the OG Razr, battery life is awesome...I went from 6-8 hours with moderate use on the Razr to 14-17 hours on the Maxx with moderate to heavy use. Loved my Razr but because of my position at Boeing, I needed my phone on me at all times not sitting on my desk living on the charger every night.
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I have been tracking my battery life for the past few days, and I have discovered that I can go about 13 hours with moderately heavy usage. Is that good? I'm not really sure what to compare it against.
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Well I'm blowing all of you out of the water, Since about a week before the last update dropped I've been getting 5 DAYS out of my phone and one of those times included streaming Netflix for about 1-1.5 hours, I leave my WIFI off because I find it drains the battery quicker then using the 3G (4G still hasn't hit here yet, due anytime now) and I got mine during the double data so I have 4 Gigs to play with a month. My brother typically gets 1 to 2 days out of his.
the biggest battery hogs are
WIFI
GPS (used it for about 4 hours one day, and that was the only time my battery only lasted me one day).
and the Display
Edit: Oh we got the BOGO Razr Maxx deal back in february.
As for tips to max battery:
Turn off WIFI
Turn off GPS (unless you need it for what your doing)
Dim display as much as possible
if you are going to use WIFI go into the advance wifi menu and set the wifi sleep policy to "when screen is off"
If your not in an area with 4G service at the moment go into Wireless & Networks, go to the bottom to network mode? (I think) and choose CDMA ONLY
so it won't be constantly searching for 4G.
go to privacy and turn off the Back up my data.
daniel644 said:
Well I'm blowing all of you out of the water, Since about a week before the last update dropped I've been getting 5 DAYS out of my phone and one of those times included streaming Netflix for about 1-1.5 hours, I leave my WIFI off because I find it drains the battery quicker then using the 3G (4G still hasn't hit here yet, due anytime now) and I got mine during the double data so I have 4 Gigs to play with a month. My brother typically gets 1 to 2 days out of his.
the biggest battery hogs are
WIFI
GPS (used it for about 4 hours one day, and that was the only time my battery only lasted me one day).
and the Display
Edit: Oh we got the BOGO Razr Maxx deal back in february.
As for tips to max battery:
Turn off WIFI
Turn off GPS (unless you need it for what your doing)
Dim display as much as possible
if you are going to use WIFI go into the advance wifi menu and set the wifi sleep policy to "when screen is off"
If your not in an area with 4G service at the moment go into Wireless & Networks, go to the bottom to network mode? (I think) and choose CDMA ONLY
so it won't be constantly searching for 4G.
go to privacy and turn off the Back up my data.
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5 days is a little over the board. This means that you almost dont use your phone. play games 30min - to 1h a day. Surf internet 1-2h a day. 30min of calls and 50-100 text. listen to a radio 2-3h a day and then report back.
those criteria that i wrote down there is typical user that really use their phone.
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5 days is a little over the board. This means that you almost dont use your phone. play games 30min - to 1h a day. Surf internet 1-2h a day. 30min of calls and 50-10 text. listen to a radio 2-3h a day and then report back.
those criteria that i wrote down there is typical user that really use their phone.
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Actually it has been proven that leaving he Wi-Fi option to all ways stay on reduces battery consumption due to the Wi-Fi radio nit having to have to scan.
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Rnd0209 said:
Actually it has been proven that leaving he Wi-Fi option to all ways stay on reduces battery consumption due to the Wi-Fi radio nit having to have to scan.
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Maybe if you stay in the same place all day long it might, but as soon as you leave the house the wifi is scanning till it finds something else.
Other tips are to reboot the device atleast every other charge cycle (once I started doing that my battery gained another DAY)
USE THE SMART ACTIONS, specifically "Battery Extender" or Disable Background Sync, as it is a Major power sucker.
Disable apps that maintain data connections like, FACEBOOK or WORDS WITH FRIENDS (words with friends cost me a DAY in battery life)
Yes I use is below average, but even on the day I was screen on GPS turn by turn for 4 HOURS I still had an entire DAY out of it.
daniel644 said:
Well I'm blowing all of you out of the water, Since about a week before the last update dropped I've been getting 5 DAYS out of my phone and one of those times included streaming Netflix for about 1-1.5 hours, I leave my WIFI off because I find it drains the battery quicker then using the 3G (4G still hasn't hit here yet, due anytime now) and I got mine during the double data so I have 4 Gigs to play with a month. My brother typically gets 1 to 2 days out of his.
the biggest battery hogs are
WIFI
GPS (used it for about 4 hours one day, and that was the only time my battery only lasted me one day).
and the Display
Edit: Oh we got the BOGO Razr Maxx deal back in february.
As for tips to max battery:
Turn off WIFI
Turn off GPS (unless you need it for what your doing)
Dim display as much as possible
if you are going to use WIFI go into the advance wifi menu and set the wifi sleep policy to "when screen is off"
If your not in an area with 4G service at the moment go into Wireless & Networks, go to the bottom to network mode? (I think) and choose CDMA ONLY
so it won't be constantly searching for 4G.
go to privacy and turn off the Back up my data.
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You're probably like one of my coworkers. Braging about his nexus, and getting 4-5 days of use on one charge. When i looked at screen on time, after 4 days, his was 1,5 hour. Mine was 3,5 hours, after one day.
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You're probably like one of my coworkers. Braging about his nexus, and getting 4-5 days of use on one charge. When i looked at screen on time, after 4 days, his was 1,5 hour. Mine was 3,5 hours, after one day.
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Well I do have a laptop and use it for my internet when at home or work, my phone is for on the go use not for laying around the house wasting cell battery just to browse the internet, like you single day battery guys.
Be smart about your use and there's no reason you can't get atleast 2 days with the Maxx's battery.
Hey, to each his own. Like I said, I can get 3 days of use out of my regular, "slim" Razr if i'm not using it. Time since the last charge doesn't say anything about battery.
br Zola
I too have also noticed a battery slowdown although i just loaded a new ROM recently and i just found out Today that i should wipe the Battery History, once i get it charge to 100%- which i plan on doing tonight
First day with my Maxx coming from the regular Razr and I can see a difference, I'm at 11h 10m and was saying I had 50% left, also my screen on time is 2h 49m. I have auto brightness on, full sync, google gps and pretty much use it without babying it. I've seen a improvement that's for sure.
After a couple hiccups the first couple days while the phone dialed in the charging, I regularly go 2 days with moderate to heavy usage. Wifi hotspot for my tablet, phone calls, light gaming, watching videos, internet, etc. I have 4G always on, Bluetooth for calls, GPS on when needed, but I don't use wifi anywhere. A good 4G signal beats most wifi speeds.
So, look at your apps. There might be something, like FaceySpace that's sucking down your battery.
I noticed a huge negative difference after receiving the .181 update.
After trying the Black Widow rom, I was forced to flash back to .173. I reapplied the .181 update and have notice really good battery life since.
I just installed an ICS rom two days ago. So far, the battery life is MUCH better. 5 hours on battery so far and only down to 90%.
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I keep my brightness to a minimum (which is still bright), keep 4G off (only turn it on when I need it) and get days upon days of use out of the Maxx.
Display brightness, for me, seems to be the biggest killer.
What does anybody think?
Razr Maxx
8hours 50 minutes off the charger
4g on, wifi on(connected whenever it was on), gps on, auto sync on
screen brightness on auto, but set to dim bright screens
screen 67% battery use and 3 hours 13 minutes screen on
android os 10%
32% battery remaining
Im on stock ICS
This seems a little low for battery life. Does anyone else think so?
Thanks for any feedback!
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Razr Maxx
8hours 50 minutes off the charger
4g on, wifi on(connected whenever it was on), gps on, auto sync on
screen brightness on auto, but set to dim bright screens
screen 67% battery use and 3 hours 13 minutes screen on
android os 10%
32% battery remaining
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This sounds almost exactly like what mine is doing.
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I really hate to be that guy asking stupid battery questions, because we all know that battery stamina is subjective, but this is really hard for me to understand.
I am coming from the Note 3. My general weekday use with the Note 3 would get me 14-15 hours off the charger with 50% left by quitting time. I bluetooth stream music/podcasts for 8-9 hours a day. Pandora for maybe a couple hours on some days and average screen on time of 1.5 hours. I never had to do anything special in regards to battery life. Auto brightness and just regular use and it always lasted the day easy.
Today was my 2nd day with the HTC One Max and I managed to get just over 10 hours off the charger before it was completely depleted and shut off and it died in the middle of a work shift. Normal use for me, auto brightness, maybe 1-1.5 hours screen on time (estimation). Very depressing.
Battery use in settings looked pretty normal to me although I'm not seeing a place for actual screen on time? But my question is this, is this the kind of battery life you guys are seeing? Will it get better after a couple cycles? Based on the reviews I had read before purchasing the One Max, it was stated that the Max battery out lasted the Note 3 battery in testing so I wasn't even the least bit worried about it when making my purchase.
Not sure what my issue is but I won't be able to keep this device if I can't figure this out.
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I really hate to be that guy asking stupid battery questions, because we all know that battery stamina is subjective, but this is really hard for me to understand.
I am coming from the Note 3. My general weekday use with the Note 3 would get me 14-15 hours off the charger with 50% left by quitting time. I bluetooth stream music/podcasts for 8-9 hours a day. Pandora for maybe a couple hours on some days and average screen on time of 1.5 hours. I never had to do anything special in regards to battery life. Auto brightness and just regular use and it always lasted the day easy.
Today was my 2nd day with the HTC One Max and I managed to get just over 10 hours off the charger before it was completely depleted and shut off and it died in the middle of a work shift. Normal use for me, auto brightness, maybe 1-1.5 hours screen on time (estimation) Very depressing.
Battery use looked pretty normal to me although I'm not seeing a place for actual screen on time? But my question is this, is this the kind of battery life you guys are seeing? Will it get better after a couple cycles? Based on the reviews I had read before purchasing it was stated that the Max battery out lasted the Note 3 battery in testing so I wasn't even the least bit worried about it.
Not sure what my issue is but I won't be able to keep this device if I can't figure this out.
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That's not normal. Factory reset it and don't load your apps in right away and see what you get. I have 50% remaining most nights when it goes on the charger.
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dottat said:
That's not normal. Factory reset it and don't load your apps in right away and see what you get. I have 50% remaining most nights when it goes on the charger.
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pretty much the same for me too...you must have a rogue app or process sucking your battery
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That's not normal. Factory reset it and don't load your apps in right away and see what you get. I have 50% remaining most nights when it goes on the charger.
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wase4711 said:
pretty much the same for me too...you must have a rogue app or process sucking your battery
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I hadn't really had time to set anything up like I usually would. The only 2 apps I had installed were Pandora and PlayerPro but I'm more than happy to wipe and start from scratch. I've downloaded everything I need for S-OFF, recovery, ROMs etc, I was just waiting to make sure everything else was in order before I start tinkering. Just curious, are either of you guys running a custom ROM?
yeah, I am running viper max,and its fantastic!:good:
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I hadn't really had time to set anything up like I usually would. The only 2 apps I had installed were Pandora and PlayerPro but I'm more than happy to wipe and start from scratch. I've downloaded everything I need for S-OFF, recovery, ROMs etc, I was just waiting to make sure everything else was in order before I start tinkering. Just curious, are either of you guys running a custom ROM?
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Stock rom... Rooted after s-off...using exposed framework for all of the tweaks I like.
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Stock rom... Rooted after s-off...using exposed framework for all of the tweaks I like.
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My phone on Stock Everything S-Off last a whole day with usually 50% left when I get home.
GrandMasterB said:
I hadn't really had time to set anything up like I usually would. The only 2 apps I had installed were Pandora and PlayerPro but I'm more than happy to wipe and start from scratch. I've downloaded everything I need for S-OFF, recovery, ROMs etc, I was just waiting to make sure everything else was in order before I start tinkering. Just curious, are either of you guys running a custom ROM?
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You don't need a custom ROM, this phone is perfect out of the box. Check with better battery stats what exactly is causing the issue. Could be Google play services.
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You don't need a custom ROM, this phone is perfect out of the box. Check with better battery stats what exactly is causing the issue. Could be Google play services.
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This is the kind of usage I am seeing. Very light usage today, maybe an hour of bluetooth music and 0 phone calls, several texts (12-15). Not sure what this means in the overall picture. I also installed BBS but not sure what I am looking for, I just know my stamina is weak sauce. :crying: I'm not sure I understand why Android system is using 75% of my battery and only has 4 minutes CPU, 24 minutes keep awake and 4mb data sent.
This is what I'm getting. I have the power flip case, but it only adds 1/3rd more battery..
*note the screen on time*
You must have an issue with something keeping your phone awake.
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Could you post your partial wake locks from better battery stats..
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Something like this would help to debug...
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Something like this would help to debug...
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Oh bummer. I threw it on the charger as soon as I got home so there isn't really anything to see right now but I look forward to seeing how this looks tomorrow after work. Thanks.
GrandMasterB said:
Oh bummer. I threw it on the charger as soon as I got home so there isn't really anything to see right now but I look forward to seeing how this looks tomorrow after work. Thanks.
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Oh yeah you surely need it.. Do also dump all the data to text file using the share option..
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There is definitely something wrong there. based on your shot, it looks like a verizon phone that doesnt have the power save.
Mines an international version my girlfriend got for me, Not rooted, S-On, completely stock out of the box, and this is my stats, mines based on moderate to heavy usage: (Note: the battery power saver turns on at 14% by itself) And my battery charges in 2 hours to 100%.
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GrandMasterB said:
Oh bummer. I threw it on the charger as soon as I got home so there isn't really anything to see right now but I look forward to seeing how this looks tomorrow after work. Thanks.
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I have recently started listening to music over the Bluetooth and remembered this thread. were you able to able to find the issue?
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I have recently started listening to music over the Bluetooth and remembered this thread. were you able to able to find the issue?
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I haven't been able to figure it out yet. Most days its fine. Like Friday I listened to 4 hours straight of Pandora just because I wanted to see what would happen. Like usually I would stop it if I had to run errands or when I talk to people but I let it go for 4 solid hours. After bluetooth streaming 4 hours of Pandora and about 2 hours saved podcasts and 9:51 off the charger I still had 63% battery left. Thats really great results IMO. If I can get through and entire workday with 50% battery left I am thrilled. I think it was 1:13 screen on time or close. Not a lot of screen on time but that is a lot of Pandora use and that usually hits my battery the hardest.
But Tuesday earlier in the week I didn't listen to Pandora/Slacker at all, a little less than 2 hours bluetooth podcast,less than 2 hours screen on time and hit 38% by quitting time (about 10 hours off the charger). Every now and then there is a day like that where the battery just disappears even with super light use. I have GSAM installed and am trying to keep an eye on use but I always forget and plug it in when I get home (on days like Tuesday) or I plug it into the PC at some point to transfer files or photos and that reset the stats.
I tried that Snapdragon battery Guru and was really excited. The first day after it finished "learning" my routine I got through the whole day with 77% left but all day long I would stop getting texts and Gmails and the data connection would no longer work if I tried to open Facebook or Chrome. I would check status and mobile data is on, connected to the network, good signal but I couldn't get any data to work until I toggled airplane mode or rebooted the phone. SO I finally got frustrated with it, reset defaults and uninstalled it.
One thing I do notice is that I usually use 10-12% of my battery to wifi while I'm at work and the only wifi I use is when I am at home. If I turn the wifi off while I am at work I forget to turn it back on when I get home and now that I no longer have unlimited data that is a pretty big problem. I need to set an alarm or something that reminds me to turn it on/off everyday I guess.
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I don't get your problem i have 2 Batterys if o have to get thru the whole day and night without changing. But 12-15h with one Battery are no Problem for me, and i use Bluetooth Headset GPS Wlan NFC all the time
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I don't get your problem i have 2 Batterys if o have to get thru the whole day and night without changing. But 12-15h with one Battery are no Problem for me, and i use Bluetooth Headset GPS Wlan NFC all the time
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First, based on my usage over the past 3 days, I don't know how that would be even remotely possible. Right now, I have all of that turned off, and my battery is dying just sitting there laying dormant....never saw that before, even with something as small as an iphone 4.
Second, I think you actually proved my point when you said you have to use 2 batteries. I've had iphones and an galaxy note 3 and s5 before and it was never an issue before that I even had to think about having a second battery. I used to read reviews of people saying that a benefit of a samsung over and iphone was the removable battery....while it's true that the battery might be removable, with the iphone you don't need to.
You should not exaggerate, sure this is not the phone if you're a really heavy user.
But I'm using it with everything ON, and never had a problem with it, I'm charging it every night.
But if you do have battery issues, you can buy yourself the 2500mah extended battery.
http://blog.gsmarena.com/apple-iphone-6-battery-life-test/
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-galaxy-alpha-exynos-5430-battery-test/
I am a heavy user and average about 4 hours of SOT with LTE Web Browsing and about 30 minutes of calls BUT I will probably get the 2500 Mah Battery ..
Also there may be a 20 -25% difference between Qualcomm and Exynos Versions with Exynos better ( wild guess on my part on %).
Still coming from a Note 3 , Alpha could be a shock.
Should have been 8mm thick with 2700 Mah
Battery and Ram and Camera and SD like Note 4....THEN Alpha would not be discontinued...lol.
I think you have somehow faulty phone, because this phone has awesome standby time, even with nfc/wifi/GPS on. And it can even survive 30mins of talking with just 3% of battery. Usually the battery in my alpha and in some other alphas survives 12+h with wifi/nfc on and with 3-4h SOT.
Sounds like the phone or battery is messed up. Just replaced battery. If it still doesn't fix, contact carrier
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I've had my Alpha for a week now (Exynos version) and I'm disappointed in the battery as well. I bought it for music playback and I took a six hour drive over the weekend with it functioning in airplane mode streaming music through the headphone jack. That was it. It was down to 9% at the end of my drive. Call me crazy, but that's unacceptable for it not being connected to ANY network. It was just playing music and an audiobook located on the device. Is this normal? I can return it, but I love the form factor and the audio quality is second to none, so I will probably just live with it.
-Collin-
There is an extended battery that you can get if you need some extra juice.
Try latest Firmware... BOA2 gave me 20% better battery life
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If you completely disable NFC the battery lasts for more than 2 days.
Can you post screenshots of your battery use? It would be interesting to see why your phones battery die so many times faster than mine
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Can you post screenshots of your battery use? It would be interesting to see why your phones battery die so many times faster than mine
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Yes, I would love to. Please let me know how to do that. I will also try to look it up, but I haven't used android in a while so it's all new to me again.
Incidentally, I continue to be dissatisfied with the battery compared to my past iphones. I have everything turned off, e.g., NFC, bluetooth, etc. And, I hardly have any apps installed.
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@ skirush, you either have a bad phone or an app that is draining your battery in the background. And don't blame the "pathetic" battery. I'm getting 70 minutes of screen time when my battery drains to 20%. Also, I am not using the power save modes.
Did you buy your phone new? It is very odd that you are not getting better performance from your Alpha.
I'm not really sure what to do. I'm pretty pissed about this whole thing. I went out on a limb and bought it new online. Once I got the phone, I confirmed with both AT&T and Samsung that the phone was legit and both said yes. In fact, Samsung even said that the phone is covered under warranty. So, instead of returning it (due to the poor battery life) I kept it. Now, I might be too late to return it to the company I bought it from. It's been over their 14 day return policy.
I have had the feeling that its messed up ever since I first got it, but I decided to stick with it since samsung said it was legit. Now, I'm regretting it.
thumbs down for Samsung support
I called Samsung tech support/customer service. Get this, they are willing to replace the battery...IF, I first send them my battery that's currently in my phone. That's just not possible. Like most people, I have one cell phone with one battery. I don't have a landline phone. So, I don't have spare batteries just lying around to use in the mean time.
That's bs from my perspective. I've had replacements on phones sent to me before. For example, ATT sent me a replacement Note 3 and they took my credit card info on file. After I returned the old unit back to them they release a hold in the amount of the phone.
Not sure why samsung is unwilling to do this. Seems ridiculous to expect someone to send them a battery for their phone, thus rendering it useless. And who knows how long it would take them to send a new one back to me. Could be a total 2 weeks without a phone between me mailing them the old battery and them sending me a new one. Who can do that?
a battery costs about 10$ and for longer trips you may need a second one. So why don't you buy an second one and send the battery from the phone to Samsung?
skirush said:
First, based on my usage over the past 3 days, I don't know how that would be even remotely possible. Right now, I have all of that turned off, and my battery is dying just sitting there laying dormant....never saw that before, even with something as small as an iphone 4.
Second, I think you actually proved my point when you said you have to use 2 batteries. I've had iphones and an galaxy note 3 and s5 before and it was never an issue before that I even had to think about having a second battery. I used to read reviews of people saying that a benefit of a samsung over and iphone was the removable battery....while it's true that the battery might be removable, with the iphone you don't need to.
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I am an ATT user so I did have the 850A version with the snapdragon and I did notice that the battery life was pretty bad, but not as bad as you illustrate - and yes this phone gets nowhere near the life as the IPhone6 (my wife has one too).
modpunk said:
If you completely disable NFC the battery lasts for more than 2 days.
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I totally agree with this. The NFC chip on this phone kills the battery. I dropped from 100 to 65 % in 4 hours with the phone in standby. I turned off NFC and 3 hours later it only dropped another 6%
LochNiss said:
@ skirush, you either have a bad phone or an app that is draining your battery in the background. And don't blame the "pathetic" battery. I'm getting 70 minutes of screen time when my battery drains to 20%. Also, I am not using the power save modes.
Did you buy your phone new? It is very odd that you are not getting better performance from your Alpha.
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I had a DLNA app in the background running (just the service) and it too drained the battery as it was constantly trying to find DLNA ready devices.
Bottom line: Either you have a defective battery/phone or you have a consumer that you have not discovered yet.
BTW I switched to the 850M with the samsung chip just because I get the rooting support that the A version will propably never get. Plus the phone outright is cheaper.
ski_rush said:
....Not sure why samsung is unwilling to do this. Seems ridiculous to expect someone to send them a battery for their phone, thus rendering it useless. And who knows how long it would take them to send a new one back to me. Could be a total 2 weeks without a phone between me mailing them the old battery and them sending me a new one. Who can do that?
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I purchased this aftermarket battery as a backup. it's been working like the original one. $6 shipped to you is a steal for me. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Replacement-Battery-For-Samsung-Galaxy-Alpha-G850-/111584617173
Sucks that Samsung is making you jump through these hoops. I would check with the retailer you bought it from if you can exchange it. If not, file a claim with your credit card. Good luck