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I bought my phone cash, thinking that if I did I wouldn't have to get the 25 dollar per month internet, but the guy who I was dealing with on the phone trying to get the basic internet working was talking smack about "Why would someone NOT want 3g on their smartphone?!"
So I ask you guys, do you leave 3g on constantly, why or why not, and if you do what kind of battery life do you get? The 10 dollar internet never worked for me, and I rarely use 3g because of battery drain, just for tethering or big files, though I seem to have wifi around half the time anyways. EDIT: Also, what are you using, stock 2.1, 2.2, or a custom rom, and if a rom which one?
Personally I think the edge service is fast enough that I haven't really cared too much, I just wouldn't mind drawing on some other opinions and thoughts. Maybe I am one of the few smartphone owners who doesn't constantly play with my phone, but if I did I would want the battery to last long enough to play with it..
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Oh, and in advance, I rarely post here so I don't know if questions like this provoke flame wars or end up through the butterfly effect making small children in india cry themselves to sleep at night.. either way, no flaming please, just curious, thought it may be interesting, and thought it would be a fun thread
I use 3g 100% of the time, battery rocks. Usually 2 days to a charge, 1 if HEAVY use. Been over a day of good use, on 3g, and still at 33.
EDGE is probly fast enough but I get antsy when I have to wait for anything so that's why I use 3g.
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I have never once turned my 3g off. I average 1 day 6 hours of battery with moderate use, and have had nearly two days a few times.
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I always have my 3g on unless i'm some where where i have no signal. It's one of the key feature of the phone why turn it off?
I get any where from 15 to 25 hours depending on how heavily i use my phone.
Alot of the Vibrant community who have rooted devices and have settled into what will and wont kill your battery average between 15 hours to a full day plus. I myself see with 3g on about 15-17 hours.
Sexy Vibrant featuring Nero V3 w/Voodoo, and FFC installed
3G majority of the time (reception is what changes it to Edge) I get 12-14h battery life with "average" use (corp email set to pull every 30min reading emails ect)
Honestly, the only time I find that the network is draining the battery is when it is constantly trying to switch from "3G" to "Edge" or "Wifi" and back in bad coverage areas. If it's a reliable connection then it shouldn't really tax battery usage when idle.
About 16 hours with about 2-3 hour screen on time.. Several emails syncing plus facebook and twitter.. 100% hpsa coverage
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I'm always on edge when normal usage. I really have a bad 3g reception at my place plus my vibrant have a hardware defect just like the iphone 4.
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i do constantly , eats battery lol
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Honestly, the only time I find that the network is draining the battery is when it is constantly trying to switch from "3G" to "Edge" or "Wifi" and back in bad coverage areas. If it's a reliable connection then it shouldn't really tax battery usage when idle.
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I have noticed that also, alot of my job relies on me moving through very dense facilities and around the county. I lose a significant amount (7-10% an hour driving) where at home it sits 3-6% an hour drain.
I do not have a data plan like OP.
I have Wi-Fi in 80% of the places and time my phone is on. I keep the wi-fi on auto-connect and on all the time. Moderate to heavy usage-12-18 hours battery life.
Hmm, interesting replies and statistics so far, when I was in Daytona I think that I had significant drain because the 3g coverage was spotty at best, but I haven't tried keeping it on since I moved to jacksonville, where the coverage should be much better.
Question I wish I had asked in the original post, are you stock, if so 2.1 or 2.2, or do you use a rom, and if so which one? The guys claiming over 24 hours versus people getting 17.. quite a discrepancy, and I will bet this has something to do with it(besides just amount of use).
I am using 2.2 bionix V rom, and I get 18+ hours of use out of it on my heavier use days, though I think some corrupt files on my phone have gotten my mediaserver system process using tons of processor, killing my battery quicker. I am going to go ahead and keep it on 3g for a few days, and see what kind of difference it makes. Thanks for the feedback.
Tmobile's 3g coverage in jacksonville is pretty good.Heck I get almost 4g speeds here
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Hmm, interesting replies and statistics so far, when I was in Daytona I think that I had significant drain because the 3g coverage was spotty at best, but I haven't tried keeping it on since I moved to jacksonville, where the coverage should be much better.
Question I wish I had asked in the original post, are you stock, if so 2.1 or 2.2, or do you use a rom, and if so which one? The guys claiming over 24 hours versus people getting 17.. quite a discrepancy, and I will bet this has something to do with it(besides just amount of use).
I am using 2.2 bionix V rom, and I get 18+ hours of use out of it on my heavier use days, though I think some corrupt files on my phone have gotten my mediaserver system process using tons of processor, killing my battery quicker. I am going to go ahead and keep it on 3g for a few days, and see what kind of difference it makes. Thanks for the feedback.
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I'm on R10 rom and I keep the internet off if I'm not using it. Battery lasts about three times longer. Also charges up faster.
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What do you think the best ROM for battery life is? I've tried checkROM and wasn't too happy with it, due to the fact that the battery drained a lot while playing music - which is one of the main features I use on my Sgs2. Next I moved onto VillainROM, it just wasn't to my liking, as of now I'm on the beautiful HyperDroid-Androidmedia VXD and I'm loving it, I've noticed a fair amount of difference in battery life, 5hrs display time along with a lot of wifi, games, eveything, so I'm pretty chuffed.
I'm going to check out MIUI - but how's the battery on it? I've also heard that it isnt very stable...? If not I'll just stick to Hyperdroid .
Thank you!
I think <insert name of ROM here> is the best for battery life.
Allow the next 10 posters to fill in the gap with several different answers.
I have been able to get out around 36hrs from Gingermod v0.7. the key reason behind this was that i used to switch on data or wi-fi only when i was using it and not all the time.This drastically reduced my battery drain.For eg. i lost only 1% battery during the 8 hrs i was sleeping.
See this thread:
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Pointless thread that will be closed down - there have been 15 of these threads in the last couple of weeks
You can find all this out by searching first.
Thread closed.
Only you will find best rom as so many variables .....
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Anyones gs2 seem to drain battery quite quick? Ive had a few android phones and the gs2 battery seems to fly down.. Im a heavy user most days like get up in morning facebook and apps all day long.. Strange thing is though i get about 5 mins worth of usage before it drops the first line off the battery.. I get max of about 5 hours of heavy use before i need to recharge.. This normal for gs2?
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Anyones gs2 seem to drain battery quite quick? Ive had a few android phones and the gs2 battery seems to fly down.. Im a heavy user most days like get up in morning facebook and apps all day long.. Strange thing is though i get about 5 mins worth of usage before it drops the first line off the battery.. I get max of about 5 hours of heavy use before i need to recharge.. This normal for gs2?
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Google Search
About 30.600 results (0,42 seconds)
And from a Thread postet 5 min. ago [Bible] Galaxy S II Bible: Complete reference (updated 01/02/12) --> [TIPS] Battery Saving Tips Collection
A question ??? = Q&A..
As posted search but start your search with Better Battery Stats .
jje
I am using the stock ROM and not having any issues with the battery lasting less than a day. I had to make a few changes to the settings, but once tweaked I am really happy with it.
Normal for me... a day and a half of light to moderate use. Plenty of syncing every hour, lots of Wifi and GPS, never switch any radios off, lots of FM Radio, auto brightness.... blah blah.
KL1 + LPR baseband, stock rooted, bloat removed. No silly apps, no silly task killers, no battery defenders/benders/superchargers/tweaks or other nefarious idiocy
Im fully aware on how to search.. Wasnt asking for tips on battery life just generaly wondering if my stats was worse then the majority of users on here..
This forum is getting worse for big heads..
Anyways thanks for the input.. Will have to do some "searching" on how to optimise my battery.
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Im fully aware on how to search.. Wasnt asking for tips on battery life just generaly wondering if my stats was worse then the majority of users on here..
This forum is getting worse for big heads..
And far far worse for users that point blank refuse to search and only want to ask the same question day after day .
This is a developers forum not some hand holding fix my phone forum .
If you dont like the rules dont join .
jje
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Appologies if i have put this in developers. Was supposed to be in general.. Cant see what its in using xda app.
Wasnt meant to sound arrogant.
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Actually having just found the location.. This is Q+A right? Where am i supposed to ask a question?
For others ive attatched my battery stats for today.. Seems a little quick.. I also did a few tweaks to setting as suggested above. Hasnt made a difference.
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You're phone is active most the time, rarely sleeps. If you compare with mine above, you notice that the activity is in short infrequent bursts. The screen being on takes a huge amount of power - it's a big screen. And OLED.
I would say considering the sheer amount of use you give it, it's doing rather well... NO comparable smartphone (except the Razr Maxx) will give you much different. It can't.
By the way. not sure why the battery falls off a cliff from around 30% in your pic - scary!
1st, the post was apparently originally posted in a different location, then got moved to the Q&A section by a moderator.
2nd, your screenshot has what looks like a LOT of screen on time. What are your display stats for screen on time? (hh:mm:ss) From my estimation just looking at the bar graph, it looks like you have over half, and nearly 2/3, if not 3/4 of your overall battery time with the screen on, and the phone being "awake". With your overall battery time being 7:16:39, from your screenshot, that's about 3.5 to 4 hours of screen on time? If you are constantly using the phone, or keeping the screen on, it logically follows that the battery will drain.
3rd, JJEgan's point was this: This entire forum is meant for developers. (the name of it is "XDA Developers", after all) Yes, there is a Q&A forum, but more and more, users who are not developers are posting all over the boards stuff like "why is my phone doing blah blah blah" on commonly answered questions, (which is a clear indication that they didn't look or search very hard for the answer, even if they say they did) or, even more offensive in my opinion, "upload XXXX file for me" without so much as a please.
Non-developers are welcome, obviously - heck, anyone can join. But more and more people completely disregard the forum rules, which are plainly posted for everyone to read at the very top of each forum section.
Ahh ok.. Sorry.
I joine the forum as i have a genuine interest in all things phones wise.. Wether that be cooking roms, mods tweaks etc etc.. I dont come on here on the sole basis of asking questions.. Every now and again somethings niggle me about my device so the best place for info surely is xda developers. Though i only use the app at the minuite to view posts i did'nt actually know where the search link was. Though now i do i will use it...
Anyways:
Yea i did notice that big drop on the end of the battery stats.. Thats happened a few times ive noticed.
Dont think ive seen anyone elses screenshots look like that.. Could it be a sign of a dying battery? Or just wrong stats.
Ive read that the battery stats clearing does nothing as the stats it shows is whats using the power n not actual battery level.
My phones only about 5 months old too so everything in it should be in as new condition.
Strange..
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My stats for today are what i expect really.. Did an hour of gaming.. Ish..
Screen times on and gaming time are attatched other uses are android os and 5 mins of draw something lol.. Addictive.. Might actually uninstall it so i put my phone down once in a while
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Almost 4 hours of screen on is about average, actually. And I can't tell; looks like you still have about 20% or so left on battery in those shots?
I had round about 20% yea. Heavy gaming today though.. No jobs to do
As long as its not too bad i can manage. But thanks alot for your input..
Really appreciated.
Sorry for the confusion mods as to where this was posted.. I will climb under my rock untill i manage to blow something up inside my device messing with it lol.
Love the work you guys put in.. Had many roms etc from these forums. So thanks for that.
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That was the end rusult of hammering it btw.. 8 hours worth so thinking about it.. that really aint bad..
And no sudden drop of battery.. Strange..
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Hi guys,first sorry for my bad english.
All began few days ago,charging speed become very very wierd like 0 to 100 % takes 10/12 hours...I do admit its not first time had this but iv repaired that with changing kernels but not this time.Thats the first issue.
Other issue is the battery life decreased rapidly.From 61% to 0 battery widget said it need arround 1:50h to deplete while IDLE.I mean i wouldnt ask for any guidence here if i wasnt able to figure it out by myself.
For all saying dw battery stats i did,and nothink major that other than Clock widget made some huge wake locks and kept device quite hot so i disable it.
First time all this occured was while i was using Buzz Launcher and tougth the drainage may come from it so i switched to Nova launcher.Im using Ultima rom currently with Siyah kernel,and i did try all kerneles with all possible settings and nothink either repaired the battery to go further than 5/6 hour lifetime or charing speed.
So tommorow or today idk ima go to visit the shop that bougth phone from and demand to change my charger from wich i know my first issue is from but i really am afraid if the battery isnt screwed also so to ask for change also.
Also iv done wipes/caches wipes everythink,Ussually helped before but not now.
MY question is can that baattery performance now sucks cause the terrible charging speed that is on now????I want be sure or see if someone had this problem.
Thanks
Given the number of kernels you've flashed I'd suggest going back to completely stock rom and kernel to test.
The original chargers are prone to failure and your battery is only guaranteed for six months, as this is a consumable item for regular replacement.
Also, questions go in the q&a section to reduce clutter in here.
boomboomer said:
Given the number of kernels you've flashed I'd suggest going back to completely stock rom and kernel to test.
The original chargers are prone to failure and your battery is only guaranteed for six months, as this is a consumable item for regular replacement.
Also, questions go in the q&a section to reduce clutter in here.
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So is there kernel cleaner app to cleanse the kernel "leftovers" since i flash so many of them ??
Check this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36124435
Report the thread and ask the mods to move it to the Q&A section.
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Oomahey said:
Check this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36124435
Report the thread and ask the mods to move it to the Q&A section.
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Done it for the op
I FINALLY plugged my phone back on to the charger.
Almost 2 1/2 hours screen on time, about 90 minutes talk time, random browsing, maps usage while out. Screen was at 100% brightness for the first 35 hours, then 50% brightness until this morning when it auto set to 6% for battery conservation. Wifi on, overriding 4G when possible. I am literally stunned as how long one charge went.
NICE !!! But make sure you realize your phone is sleeping the majority of that time, so you have to consider that time as standby and not actual 'usage per say'
2h screen is almost insignificant.
I can reach 150h easily leaving the phone in a dark room for a few days.
Nothing special.
Fox_Soul said:
2h screen is almost insignificant.
I can reach 150h easily leaving the phone in a dark room for a few days.
Nothing special.
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Way to piss in a dude's Cornflakes. Coming from a vzw gnex myself, that kinda battery life is amazing
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Dork6243 said:
Way to piss in a dude's Cornflakes. Coming from a vzw gnex myself, that kinda battery life is amazing
VS980
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Someone here gets it.
Yeah, the phone was asleep a lot. Big whoop. I used it like I normally would have used my Rezound. I got over 10x the battery life with my NORMAL usage. I'm pretty pleased with that.
Fastbird said:
Someone here gets it.
Yeah, the phone was asleep a lot. Big whoop. I used it like I normally would have used my Rezound. I got over 10x the battery life with my NORMAL usage. I'm pretty pleased with that.
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I think it's impressive either way.
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My Galaxy Note I could get 14 hours of it with light usage. G2 same? 60 or more.
I don't get why people have to immediately start saying that it's not normal usage or even cheating, etc..
96 hours and 6% were used from the screen (so 2h 23m)... theres nothing special about it, really.
Its a great standy/idle time but.. not even worth to compare with a normal/power user and not even worth to make a thread about it...
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96 hours and 6% were used from the screen (so 2h 23m)... theres nothing special about it, really.
Its a great standy/idle time but.. not even worth to compare with a normal/power user and not even worth to make a thread about it...
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And why can I not be a "normal" user. I used that phone exactly like I used my last phone. Check in on social media from time to time, read forums for a little bit, talk some, use maps, etc. I just don't rely on it as heavily as others. But any time you have a smart phone with 4G that you can toss in your pocket and use for two plus days reliably, that's something worth noting. My HTC Rezound if left to sit in standby and never touch wouldn't go 12 hours or so before being dead.
So yeah, I think it's worth noting. Not everyone has to use their phone as their primary means of everything electronic.
well, 96 hours = are 4 days.. and in this 4 days the screen was on for like over 2 hours. I dont know but that makes no sense fro me.. for me it actually looked like you just waked up your phone to check the battery
I mean, its cool for you that you reached such time, but why making a new thread and show some nonsense?
On my last cycle i watched it was like 8 hours screen on time within like 51 hours from 100% to 3%.. did i make a new thread? nope.
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well, 96 hours = are 4 days.. and in this 4 days the screen was on for like over 2 hours. I dont know but that makes no sense fro me.. for me it actually looked like you just waked up your phone to check the battery
I mean, its cool for you that you reached such time, but why making a new thread and show some nonsense?
On my last cycle i watched it was like 8 hours screen on time within like 51 hours from 100% to 3%.. did i make a new thread? nope.
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I'm throwing a bull**** flag on your 8 hours of screen time with 51 hours total.....no screen shot showing it then it didn't happen.
Surfman423 said:
I'm throwing a bull**** flag on your 8 hours of screen time with 51 hours total.....no screen shot showing it then it didn't happen.
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I love your madness xD I said "LIKE" and I know it and I'm fine with it. I don't need to show my epenis with some screenshots believe it or not. Not my problem I will live with an awesome battery life with MY usage, that's why I don't show such stuff
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kewkie said:
I love your madness xD I said "LIKE" and I know it and I'm fine with it. I don't need to show my epenis with some screenshots believe it or not. Not my problem I will live with an awesome battery life with MY usage, that's why I don't show such stuff
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But yet you take the time to trash talk someone who is pleased with his and was excited enough about it that he took the time to share it with others. Now it is my madness that you speak of???
It's more like spamming the forum. And don't care about my time i have enough to throw out
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I think Kewkie is the only one wasting everyone's time. These threads are created for researchers who plan on buying. Finding a forum with tons of positive feedback isn't a waste of everyone's time. My galaxy Nexus had 2 hours screen on time but would be completely dead in 8 hours. So to have the same screen on time and it go another 90 hours! That's thread worthy.
Maybe instead of bashing, you could throw up your own screenshots. Lots of forums have uptime battery threads.
If we don't have one, maybe the OP could edit the title and make an official battery posting thread. They are handy to have to compare roms and various versions. For example I just got the 12B Verizon update and my battery seems to have taken a hit. It would be nice to have before and after results.
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player911 said:
I think Kewkie is the only one wasting everyone's time. These threads are created for researchers who plan on buying. Finding a forum with tons of positive feedback isn't a waste of everyone's time. My galaxy Nexus had 2 hours screen on time but would be completely dead in 8 hours. So to have the same screen on time and it go another 90 hours! That's thread worthy.
Maybe instead of bashing, you could throw up your own screenshots. Lots of forums have uptime battery threads.
If we don't have one, maybe the OP could edit the title and make an official battery posting thread. They are handy to have to compare roms and various versions. For example I just got the 12B Verizon update and my battery seems to have taken a hit. It would be nice to have before and after results.
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This +1
Let the OP express what his feedback is towards the phones battery life
@op Nice stats you have there thats like what 4 days without a charger and almost 2 hours and 30mins of SOT is quite impressive IMO
coming from the Note II i thought battery life was king till i bought this phone
See my post, im not hesitant to show my stats
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50000240&postcount=309
I find it interesting to say the least. I have an old motorola droid RAZR HD. When I charge it and just leave it for my alarm clock it will get 10+ days easy of idle time. However android os isn't the highest. Idk why but it seems the g2 android os is always a significant portion of the battery. Wonder what it could be.
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knock on raises android system. disable that and android system drops
It's the knock on feature. If you disable it, your G2 can live for a month
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player911 said:
I think Kewkie is the only one wasting everyone's time. These threads are created for researchers who plan on buying. Finding a forum with tons of positive feedback isn't a waste of everyone's time. My galaxy Nexus had 2 hours screen on time but would be completely dead in 8 hours. So to have the same screen on time and it go another 90 hours! That's thread worthy.
Maybe instead of bashing, you could throw up your own screenshots. Lots of forums have uptime battery threads.
If we don't have one, maybe the OP could edit the title and make an official battery posting thread. They are handy to have to compare roms and various versions. For example I just got the 12B Verizon update and my battery seems to have taken a hit. It would be nice to have before and after results.
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Maybe i do, actually i dont care, and for some guys maybe im telling the truth.
So you will tell us, that its fine when a guy is doing an research for the battery and finds this thread and thinks "wow 100 hours batteryife, damn thats sick!" so what if the guy who did the research is an poweruser and just can reach like 50? 55? hours because his screen time is 3-4 times more than the OP's one?
And i dont post sreens because i dont take a screenshot of any loading cycle and fap on it. I use my phone as an smarthphone and dont trim it to a useless phone without mobile data, without syncing, without getting messages from social media, whatsapp, viber, whatever.
So if you think im wasting others time, dont answer me or stop reading my posts
Just cause im telling the truth doesnt mean im a troll or whatever.
And 96 hours with 2h 23m screen on time is like, put the phone into a room and let it idle. I could make such test and i bet i can get even more hours, but why should i waste 5-6 days without using my smartphone as an smartphone, to show how great my batterylife is? No, sorry.. im fine when i can use my phone for like 2 days with a great screen on time and use my smartphone probably.
Why i post here then? Well, to open "researchers" eyes and those guys should look at the screen on time and dont get blended by the thread title.