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So I've had it since November 8th, that was a while ago... and I've been at work today and lightly texting, using gochat fb from time to time, reading RSS, calendar, minimal brightness, hspa+, and after 8 hours my batteries at like 15%, does this seem like normal usage/battery drainage to anyone? I'm at work so ill extend on this a little more later, but people were saying you should see battery improvements after a week or two ..
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zexco said:
So I've had it since November 8th, that was a while ago... and I've been at work today and lightly texting, using gochat fb from time to time, reading RSS, calendar, minimal brightness, hspa+, and after 8 hours my batteries at like 15%, does this seem like normal usage/battery drainage to anyone? I'm at work so ill extend on this a little more later, but people were saying you should see battery improvements after a week or two ..
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There's a lot of factors that go into battery life it might be the Facebook chat constantly using data and killing the battery it might be other things...I would recommend juice defender beta it really helps me out. I usually just keep my phone on 3g unless I really need the speed and that helps tremendously. I'm going on 14 hours with more use than you've described above with 29% battery left.
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With the usage described, by the time I was getting to the end of the thread I thought you would mention you had 15% after 5-6 hours.
I am not sure what phones you have had in the past and if they were Android phones, but what you just described is GREAT battery life.
Take into consideration these things:
1. 3G
2. Screen on
3. Phone not sleeping because of chat
4. Huge screen
5. Fast CPU
Did you really expect battery life to be the same on this as on your Nokia 6310i almost 10 years ago?
Now regularly getting just over 48 hours between charges (this morning I've still go 20% left in the tank)..
..3g off, but wifi on during daytime (with background sync for email, weather, uknews widget, xbox live stats widget etc), a few calls here and there (inc using speakerphone) moderate texting... using 3g when away from home e.g. commuting to work a couple of days a week.. regularly checking fb etc.. smart action to disable wifi, 3g and background sync over night but that's about it..
pretty..
damn..
awesome!!!
I guess you're right, I do expect too much usage from the phones these days it seems.. anyway, lightly (read: barely) using the phone today, 6 hrs usage so far and its kicking at 70% still, not bad.. I also installed JuiceDefender (sounds like a condom brand lol) so that seems like its helping I think, ill start setting up my smart actions and stuff too.
Even with my brightness all the way down it seems like its using a whopping 46% of the battery, jeeeesus
I also do feel like my smartphone is my primary device these days, I mean, I don't even use the desktop I just bought.. gonna sell it and get an HDTV + HD station + wireless keyboard w/ touch pad.. and I will be set!
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Don't know if this helps but I've now been listening to music for 6 hours straight and still have 40% battery left, that's checking 5 mail accounts every hour, going on book face and 2 google accounts. The battery rocks
+ charged it to 100‰ as I knew tonight would be music night
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My battery on my Razr is excellent
Ok I'm here to tell ya z battery on this here Razr is fine. I spent 4 hours on the golf course with the screen and gps on the whole time with my SkyDroid golf range finder app, had several calls and even surf the web a few times while waiting to hit my next shot and I only lost 32% on my battery. I can go 24 hours easily with heavy use.
Now I'm rooted...use Battery Calibration and AutoKiller Memory Optimizer and I'm golden. Both those apps need Superuser Permission so you have to be rooted and maybe I'm just lucky but I'm pleased with the battery life so far. Now ask me in a year after 300+ battery charges and maybe it will different as I'm not a big fan of non-replaceable batteries. I do like my Razr however.
Good Luck
I was getting terrible battery life when I first got the phone. Did 3-4 battery cycles (let the phone die completely, charge to 100%, use phone and let battery die completely, rinse, repeat) and my battery life has improved dramatically.
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I just got the amaze for the second time..... Never cared to notice before but I think for being htc and htc is well known for its quality hardware but terrible battery life.. I was in awe over the battery life for it on a first time full charge !!
Off charge at 7 am and heavy usage till 3pm and with 70% battery left after 8hr..
Reallyy!!!!
All my evos and mytouch devices in the past on OTHER CARRIERS were dead by 12 Noon!!
Maybe htc got it right with this phone.. I'm really content with stock Rom , which makes me wonder how much better can it get with this talk about Energy 03.10.12 Rom....being stellar Battery life!!
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Energy is nice. I get great battery life. But if you're content with stock then just roll with that.
How in the world. I get 7 hours with intermediate use.....compared to every else's I feel like I night have a faulty battery
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fuego77 said:
How in the world. I get 7 hours with intermediate use.....compared to every else's I feel like I night have a faulty battery
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I can kill my battery in 7 hours if I use it really heavy, or make it last 24+ hours with little to no use... It really varies and "usage amount" is all relevant
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I just got the amaze for the second time..... Never cared to notice before but I think for being htc and htc is well known for its quality hardware but terrible battery life.. I was in awe over the battery life for it on a first time full charge !!
Off charge at 7 am and heavy usage till 3pm and with 70% battery left after 8hr..
Reallyy!!!!
All my evos and mytouch devices in the past on OTHER CARRIERS were dead by 12 Noon!!
Maybe htc got it right with this phone.. I'm really content with stock Rom , which makes me wonder how much better can it get with this talk about Energy 03.10.12 Rom....being stellar Battery life!!
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wait till you install some apps lol...I had the same experience out of the box
Ya now I see first day was great .. now at 63% in 2 hours with juice defender even.... wtf??
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Yeah phone is very nice battery sucks. My roommate has the s2. He listens to music , has gps ,on 4g on texts a few here and there from 6am to 3pm batt on 75 percent I'm like wtf. My **** gose to 100 to 62 % in a hour and a half and I have the 1950 mah batt Agh
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I just literally hit the yellow mark in my battery department, which means 30% left. I took off charger at 9 am and is now 800 pm and I have streamed quite a bit of music, about 20 texts and a few calls, little web such as this very forum.
Even forgot to turn off my BT. So going on almost 11 hours. I should get my usual 10-15 hours of use. All on stock.
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The only phone that I've ever owned that poor battery life that could compete with the Amaze's battery life is the original Evo.
In other words, The Amaze's battery life is tied for the worst that I've ever seen from a phone. Any phone.
Custom ROMs should improve things, as will the Anker battery so I hear. I'm going to test these theories.
My goal is to get equivalent usage compared to other Android phones. That will be my standard, not trying to squeeze 24 hours of continuous video watching or something like that. Right now on stock, with my standard usage patterns, it's dead in 8 hours tops. (Again, my other phones would not have been dead)
I'm am with you all. I have my days with this thing including the update to ics. I am ranging from 5 hrs to 15hrs. Yes they are the exact same usage. Minimum 1 hr of net, 20 minutes of you tube and about 6hrs of podcast or music. During this time I have the settings at : screen set as low as possible via widget thing and auto sync. Guess it depends on how the battery feels.
Forgot to add these results are from work. 12 hr shifts. 6 hours I am able to use continuously. The rest of the time its on breaks and sits in my locker.
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I just got the amaze for the second time..... Never cared to notice before but I think for being htc and htc is well known for its quality hardware but terrible battery life.. I was in awe over the battery life for it on a first time full charge !!
Off charge at 7 am and heavy usage till 3pm and with 70% battery left after 8hr..
Reallyy!!!!
All my evos and mytouch devices in the past on OTHER CARRIERS were dead by 12 Noon!!
Maybe htc got it right with this phone.. I'm really content with stock Rom , which makes me wonder how much better can it get with this talk about Energy 03.10.12 Rom....being stellar Battery life!!
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Yeah last better than the custom Roms I've been using. In fact the new stock leak runs better then any Rom I've tried. Now to unlock and root.
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Like glacier said earlier, it just depends on usuage. If at a sit down job and nothing to do but play on your phone, it is easy to drain about any phone.
I used to drain my BB 9700 in 8 hours with constant use, with tons of apps on it. That was considered one of the best phones out for battery life. Thing is when idle a lot, I could get an easy 24 hours off it, sometimes even close to two days.
Just depends how you use it. I can kill my Amaze in 6 hours, but again I average between 10-15 hours stock.
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from usage, i get the best battery life on stock, i had BP before i reverted to stock, and BP was the worst i had in battery life, my list goes like
1. Stock
2. Sense 3.5 RC 1.7
3. Bp
stock is great for me, when idle for 7-8 hours it only drops 2% at most not 20% like BP or not 5-10% liek sense 3.5, gonna stick to stock as i dont need 'root' access, i just use the phone for video, music, talk, text, and browsing
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I'm am extremely disappointed with the battery life on my HTC amaze.
Today for example, it was fully charged at 6 am.
I sent a couple texts, talked for less than 5 minutes, and did nothing else.
I had to plug it in by noon because the battery bar turned orange????
I carry 2 spare batteries in my purse.
I jave anker and I'm on my 3rd cycle. So far the battery life is slightly worse than stock for me.
I'm running speedrom which is supposed to have better battery life, but so far I can't tell the difference and I'm a moderate user.
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The phone awesome but you'd think with a large battery. ..battery life would be stellar! !
It sucks on stock and unofficial Rom.
Are we all gonna have to lean to a EXTENDED BATT?
Any tweaks options opinions Specific ssettings or Roms that You don't just see drain 2% every two minutes
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Before you bash learn how to use your phone and apps that show you what is ratting your battery.
If your that disappointed get a droid maxx
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My battery life improved signifigantly with the ICS rom Revamped, go look for it on the development forums if you don't mind flashing a new rom.
Your phone goes dead every hour and 40 min?
I'm going on 17 and a half hours with 73% battery left. Not a ton of on screen time but a lot of deep sleep but still good to me
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The biggest drain is the screen, while in use, and this is my suggestion. Definitely has increased my screen-on time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544757
Screen filter helps with display and the new revamped rom is back up.
My wife might be a B but she can at least help herself and use the search box
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I use my note running Saurom RC7.1 with overclocking from 5am until 11pm everyday, I am doing various tasks throughout and have alot going on with different widgets running and such...
5am = 100%
10:15am = 73%
Not sure what your doing but maybe your battery maybe not holding a charge like it should?
Eric
Do not use Hyperion, QCell or any other cheap ebay/amazon batteries. They are only about 1700mah at best and will kill your phone under moderate use in about 60 to 90 minutes. Maybe less.
I'm on stock GB rooted with all bloat frozen via TB and I can get through a whole day of use on one Samsung OEM batt with light to med usage.
kevinjgray88 said:
Your phone goes dead every hour and 40 min?
I'm going on 17 and a half hours with 73% battery left. Not a ton of on screen time but a lot of deep sleep but still good to me
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This is no where near the average!
And you seriously must not use your phone, like at all
17 hours at 73% is a bit extreme, but so is 2% per minute drain.
I think I can represent a fairly average user. I usually check email, weather and a little reddit during my morning routine. BT is always on and connects to my car while I drive to work for about 30 minutes. I average about 2 or 3 long phone calls a day on my phone. Some text messaging throughout the day and some short internet sessions on my phone while at work. Plus a few minutes here or there for Draw Something. I stream Google Music every day on my way home for about 30 minutes. Once at home my usage varies depending on what I do for the evening. But so far I usually find I have about 50% battery life when going to bed. I actually made it through Friday and Saturday on a single charge.
So I would say that this phone has above average battery life for an android device. It isn't stellar, but it isn't bad either. My Infuse could eek out about the same life with less use. My N1 never made it even close to this length. My buddy's MyTouch 4g can't usually make it a full 24 hours.
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This is no where near the average!
And you seriously must not use your phone, like at all
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Yeah that was over night with a lot of deep sleep. It sounded impressive lol
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lojak29 said:
The phone awesome but you'd think with a large battery. ..battery life would be stellar! !
It sucks on stock and unofficial Rom.
Are we all gonna have to lean to a EXTENDED BATT?
Any tweaks options opinions Specific ssettings or Roms that You don't just see drain 2% every two minutes
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In a word: no
In a picture:
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Considering the screen size, the battery isn't actually that big. It sounds enormous due to other phones with almost a thousand less mAH, but I just bought a bunch of extra batteries. The removable battery feature is the biggest reason I switched to Android.
LTE is a HUGE battery killer. I turned off wireless since LTE is SOOOOOO much faster than any wireless connection I'm on. I'd be lucky if I could get through a workday without it being below 50% by the end of a work day and completely dead by 7pm.
Turn on wireless and it's now almost 3pm and still have 78% left.
Lets face one fact everyone is different. .everyone claims this and that and regardless of what carrier or what device people will.never see the batt life they would really.like to see.Say like 50% after 3 days heavy usage that would be a thing we.may see in.smartphones in a few years. Android o.s will always be battery harsh.Its a huge topic.
Another point.on all the claims of Great and terrible batt life has to do with the fact. .people just dont truly get how others may use there devices so heavily..streaming vid...music...downloads...mail sync...Some maybe few truly use there phones 24 hrs non stop. There probably will never be a batt drain solution for those people.So telling one person that batt is fine with all this moderate usage coming from a person who uses there data more like "lightly" rather than heavy, doesnt help a person who is a heavy heavy data user.Neither sides will ever come to an agreement.
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lojak29 said:
The phone awesome but you'd think with a large battery. ..battery life would be stellar! !
It sucks on stock and unofficial Rom.
Are we all gonna have to lean to a EXTENDED BATT?
Any tweaks options opinions Specific ssettings or Roms that You don't just see drain 2% every two minutes
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best thing to do... use setcpu or some other overclock program. make a profile so that when your phone is sleeping it runs at the very minimum. my battery can last me up to two days depending on use. heavy use at the very least 7 hours
This is about how much screen time I get a day with the new collective ics rom
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kevinjgray88 said:
Screen filter helps with display and the new revamped rom is back up.
My wife might be a B but she can at least help herself and use the search box
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lmao....
SayWhat10 said:
This is no where near the average!
And you seriously must not use your phone, like at all
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Wow that is awesome! I'm getting home with a full days use at around 50-60%- It seems to be better than my captivate was on life that's for sure.
I have had mine for two weeks- On side note? hehehe Does cycling a battery really prove to get better life as time goes by or is it a old school story about batteries use to have memory etc... and now they don't?
Modern batteries don't have memory but their battery meters can become decalibrated which can be fixed with a full change cycle. Nonetheless, I don't recommend doing that too often (I only do it like once a year) since that's bad for the battery.
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Just had to post this factoid. I've had the DNA for about 2 weeks and i honestly can't believe the battery life. It is just getting sick battery life. I've had alot of smartphones over the years, but this one is by far the best in battery life. My last phone, droid razr, was on juice defender and barely made it through a day without charging and minimal use.
An example day like yesterday is typical:
unplugged at 7am fully charged. Bluetooth streaming music for an hour ride to work, 4 hours of music streaming during work along with 30 min of gaming (lunch). Streaming music all the way back home - 74% At home, 1 hour of tasker, 30 mins of various email and facebook. Result - 59%. No charging overnight, on it's 7am alarm, it is at 53%.
It will go 2 full days of use without charging. How did they do that? The battery is barely bigger than my dual core RAZR on a much smaller more efficient 4'3" screen. I've always had SuperAmoled phones like the galaxy S3, RAZR, etc.. I thought superamoled was more efficient.
I saw the XDA review a couple days ago and another online review a month ago. In both cases, the reviewers were also a bit perplexed about the great battery life. It wasn't just good, it was unusually GREAT.
That's good to hear.. mind to post some screen shots? Particularly the screen on time.
If I didn't live in a signal black hole I would easily get 2 days out of mine...
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The RAZR's battery life was so bad, I remember those days :crying:
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That's good to hear.. mind to post some screen shots? Particularly the screen on time.
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What's a good app to show this breakdown?
I agree 100% Compared to my thunderbolt (had it until a few weeks back, was almost 2 years old) which could not really make it through the entire day with regular usage, the DNA usually ends up at around 50% (at least from looking at the battery symbol, I've not bothered to look at the actual percent) with regular usage. I live a few miles away from a tower, so not sure if that affects battery life significantly, definitely works well though. Combined with the wireless charging setup (was not planning on getting it initially, but had ended up selling back the thunderbolt + had some sort of work discount, so it had ended up only being around $11) battery life is the least of my concerns at the moment
I feel the same way. I had a TB with rezound battery and SoaB 1.4 and it drained so fast. My DNA seems to last forever. It's such a relief to not have to have a charger around if I'm going to be gone for more than 6 hours.
natypes said:
I feel the same way. I had a TB with rezound battery and SoaB 1.4 and it drained so fast. My DNA seems to last forever. It's such a relief to not have to have a charger around if I'm going to be gone for more than 6 hours.
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Any thoughts as to why it gets so amazing battery life? On paper a quad core 5" screen with just a 2020mh battery should barely make it through the day. The nexus 4 surely doesn't get this life on a similar chip with smaller screen (i have one).
orateam said:
What's a good app to show this breakdown?
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Gsam Battery Monitor
orateam said:
Any thoughts as to why it gets so amazing battery life? On paper a quad core 5" screen with just a 2020mh battery should barely make it through the day. The nexus 4 surely doesn't get this life on a similar chip with smaller screen (i have one).
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The screen is super efficient, the processor is super efficient, and sense is pretty good with standby.
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I concur. I charge my DNA every other day. I've only had the battery completely drain once before getting it to a charger.
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Same here with the battery. I have been really impressed by the battery. Before I got the phone all I heard was bad about it.
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I totally agree with the above comments. I was scared by the prerelease estimates of the battery. Using it daily has proven the opposite. Some times I look at my phone at the end of the day and worry about the battery not fully cycling. There is to much charge left to start charging. Hopefully new batteries don't have that issue. In addition these awesome developers truly maximize the capabilities of this device. And they never seem to quit.
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So what are you guys doing to get the battery to last so long? I think I have pretty good battery maintenance, and I get almost one day out of it with minimal use.
I did just get the device a couple days ago so maybe the battery hasn't been conditioned yet?
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Cremacious said:
So what are you guys doing to get the battery to last so long? I think I have pretty good battery maintenance, and I get almost one day out of it with minimal use.
I did just get the device a couple days ago so maybe the battery hasn't been conditioned yet?
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What's your screen on time like. Because one person's definition of minimal may not be the same as another person's definition of it.
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I know my screen on time is really low. I teach so really do not use my phone more than 1 hour of screen on time between 7:00 am - 3:00 pm. Image below:
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However after that my usage really picks up. My phone still lasts until 9:00-10:00 without fail. Thanks to the amazing development group dedicating so much effort into this phone I have seen improvements in charge speed. I will post my before bed power screen tonight for comparison of usage and full day performance assessment.
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Your app usage seems really high.
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Check battery usage at the end of the day and disable any apps running services you're not using. Mine was using Maps a lot for some reason so I disabled it in Titanium. There were a few other apps with notifications that I turned off as well and now I'm still at around 70% around 11PM after being off the charger since 8AM with moderate usage.
Just installed GSAM yesterday.
Ran the phone a little harder than normal, I use juice defender, but set it to FORCE ENABLE data, which offsets it's use. To give an example, typically on Juice defender on idle, it uses about 1% an hour. So overnight, i would expect less than 8% drop, but these last few days, it was more like 15%.
Had the phone on for 34 hours on battery and it still at 24% battery. (just plugged it in to get the screenshots).
DroidLife; HTC One (M8) Review
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/04/07/htc-one-m8-review/
Battery life sucks on the M8 ?
HTC claims that the new One (M8) could see upwards of 40% better battery life over last year’s M7, but I’m not I’m buying it. I saw average battery life in my testing on the 2,600mAh battery that wasn’t necessarily greatly improved over last year’s One. My testing typically includes multiple days in a row of nothing but 4G LTE, followed by a few with WiFi mixed in. On 4G LTE-only days, my phone was almost always begging for a charger after 10-12 hours of use and around 3 hours of screen-on time.
Per this review they say battery life is average at best, and not that good, only getting 3h On Screen time, and overall just like 10h - 12h of total battery life on the phone, and with WiFi on they get 14 hours total battery life.
I thought all the real world reviews of people, and other sites were raving about the battery life on this new One M8 ? getting like 5h to 6h On Screen time ?
I think like any phone the usage patterns vary so much that there's only so much you can conclude from individual reports. On average it seems people are getting great battery life so I would go with it will be decent. Anandtech has a more controlled testing method and the M8 even beats the LG G2 in many tests so I would say it will get great battery life under normal circumstances. Droid life is very subjective with battery life while Anand is much more objective which is why I put more faith in their tests. In the end though I had the G2 while on sprint and my battery wasn't anywhere close to what most people were getting but I also had very weak signal most of the time. Now that I'm back on ATT I'm hoping when I get the M8 I will get better battery than the G2 on Sprint.
He's smoking crack. I had a bad app for the first few days of owning my M8. Uninstalled it (after finding it in battery stats on Gsam) and it hasn't even been the same phone. Blows away my M7 on battery life and is pretty close to beating most of the other phones I have used, including the G2 and Note 3.
Idle drain was around 3% in 8 hours (tested this weekend) without battery saver mode on, which is insane for an Android phone and it lasted me almost two full days over the weekend. It can't hold a candle to my 1520, but it's still much improved over the M7 and many of the recent Android flagships.
I was on 1 day 17 hours on battery before plugging mine in this morning with pretty normal daytime use including a bunch of reboots to flash stuff. Good enough for me.
K I'm blind. Where do you find the screen on time in the phone?
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tacote said:
K I'm blind. Where do you find the screen on time in the phone?
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Under Battery Manager in settings. I suggest using an app like Gsam Battery Monitor though. Works much better!
K tyvm
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greyhulk said:
He's smoking crack. I had a bad app for the first few days of owning my M8. Uninstalled it (after finding it in battery stats on Gsam) and it hasn't even been the same phone. Blows away my M7 on battery life and is pretty close to beating most of the other phones I have used, including the G2 and Note 3.
Idle drain was around 3% in 8 hours (tested this weekend) without battery saver mode on, which is insane for an Android phone and it lasted me almost two full days over the weekend. It can't hold a candle to my 1520, but it's still much improved over the M7 and many of the recent Android flagships.
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What you use to find the culprit in GSAM? Was it the bottom left icon that's called "App Sucker" when you open it?
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What you use to find the culprit in GSAM? Was it the bottom left icon that's called "App Sucker" when you open it?
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It was a OWA webmail app I had installed and yes, it showed up in the app list. It only had 1.5% reported drain, but uninstalling it made a huge improvement on my battery life. I guess the rule is: if it shows up there at all, it's impacting your battery.
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greyhulk said:
It was a OWA webmail app I had installed and yes, it showed up in the app list. It only had 1.5% reported drain, but uninstalling it made a huge improvement on my battery life. I guess the rule is: if it shows up there at all, it's impacting your battery.
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Ah gotcha! I've had really good battery life but if I notice anything funny I'll take a look in Gsam. Thanks!
I've owned a LOT of phones the last 2-3 years. Iphone 5/5s, Galaxy S4, Nexus 5, and now the M8. The battery life on this kills every one of them. I use it all day, going from watching videos on youtube, browsing FB, IG, and Tumblr, texting, and emailing. Mostly on LTE, but with a little wifi mixed in. At the end of the day I avg 5.5hr of screen on time, and have 25% battery left. I don't know what conditions they did their testing in, or what they may have had running in the background, but I think they should redo their tests.
Moostafa29 said:
I've owned a LOT of phones the last 2-3 years. Iphone 5/5s, Galaxy S4, Nexus 5, and now the M8. The battery life on this kills every one of them. I use it all day, going from watching videos on youtube, browsing FB, IG, and Tumblr, texting, and emailing. Mostly on LTE, but with a little wifi mixed in. At the end of the day I avg 5.5hr of screen on time, and have 25% battery left. I don't know what conditions they did their testing in, or what they may have had running in the background, but I think they should redo their tests.
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I have very similar use. One Gmail account pushed, one business exchange account pushed, emailing, texting, calling, videos, browsing, camera etc all day long. And I have some LONG days since I have grad school after work two days a week until 9 PM so I don't even end up getting home until 945. Battery life is almost if not as good as the note 3 I was just using. And I chose the note 3 in the first place because it could get through my day.
They better check their hypotenuses.
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I find it hard to believe that they could have possibly had bad battery life from this phone. I charged mine overnight Sunday night, then took it off the charger Monday morning. I just charged it this afternoon. I don't have gsam, but I'm sure I had at least 2 hrs screen time, and well over 1 hr talk time. That's way better than any other android phone I've ever had.
This has been hands down the best battery life I have seen of any smartphone I have had (see signature) screen on time is greater than 3 hours with a total time off charger of 16-17 hours. Imo if you want 6 hours of screen time, get a tablet lol.
http://androidandme.com/2014/04/reviews/htc-one-m8-battery-it-keeps-going-and-going/
This review is a lot more in line with what I'm seeing. I went out of my way to use the phone two days in a row without charging and it made it home with 7%, being on the whole time with lots of picture taking and otherwise normal use, listening to music on the train, etc. Considering that only a couple of years ago one of the biggest knocks on android phones was battery performance, I'd say things are pretty good right now.
I am a power user. I got well over 6 hours screen time yesterday. And still had 10% left. I would be LUCKY to get 3 hrs on my Nexus 5.
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Vcolassi said:
I am a power user. I got well over 6 hours screen time yesterday. And still had 10% left. I would be LUCKY to get 3 hrs on my Nexus 5.
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Do you not have anything to do in your life that you use your phone 6 hours a day?
Lol, I just got back from vacation. Still on it technically. Was lazy yesterday aside from going to the gym. Wanted to test the battery life so how far I could push it. Used the phone the majority of the day instead of my PC into the late night. Pretty impressive.
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On a regular day. I see me plugging in the phone before bed with probably 30-40% juice left. 6 hrs screen time won't be a everyday thing lol.
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Here is something that helps battery life in my case, if you go to your Accounts and Sync settings then click on google, you can choose what google services you want to sync. Just turn off the stuff you don't use. It's not too big, but it helps.
I have two phones M8 and Note 3 I use them equally all day one for business and one for personal the M8 which is for business had been the victor in battery life easy by 4-6 hours, I love them both there really not in the same device category but M8 has really good battery life.
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