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on LTE atlanta network
stock mail app checks every 30min
weatherbug checks every 1hour
is it normal to lose 1.5% every hour on standby?
after 8 hours sleep phone is just at 90% from fully charged
Was reading a review yesterday and it is one of the least battery drain phones overnight out there. 1.5% is actually pretty good on lte
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Scythe024 said:
1.5% is actually pretty good on lte
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Damn skippy.
1.5 is nothing to shake a stick at.
I'd be extremely happy with that low amount of drain. Despite my best efforts at conservation I haven't made it through a night with less than 50% drain.
Galaxy Note: what are you doing while I sleep?!
colonels said:
on LTE atlanta network
stock mail app checks every 30min
weatherbug checks every 1hour
is it normal to lose 1.5% every hour on standby?
after 8 hours sleep phone is just at 90% from fully charged
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Sounds about right to me, though I sat it on wifi as well same drain.
Use that battery app that turn off data while at night...juice defender or something
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Juice Defender is your friend!! It can disable everything for you when the screen is off, but will turn on your radios at a predetermined interval to do things like grab mail, update weather, etc.
The reason i start this post is to gather experiences and facts about Xperia P's battery life.
Sony was advertising that the compination of Novathor and Whitemagice results to almost 50% less need in power energy for the mobile and for that reason the battery of 1305 mAh is enought.
My opinion is that Sony has ultimately failed in this part.
My phone:
Rom : 6.0.B.3.162 (i dont have the signal drop problem)
network : WCDMA (3g)
Data: always on
Ayto sunch: Always Off
Live Wallpaper: No
Battery life: 10-13 hours
I usually use my cellphone for calls / texting / whatsapp/facebook. The thing that use my battery the most is always Display (always 60%-70% of battery) and the hour that the dispay is active, is 1h 30min to 2h 10mins. The average talking time per charge is 30m - 50 mins.
I usually charge my phone twice a day but if i use it for games or internet or photographs i have to charge it three times per day.
I m waiting for the ICS in order to see some battery life improvement . If i dont , then i ll sell it.
my battery drains 3% per 11 minutes on standby 3g / wifi on (with profile set at max 200mhz on screen off)
Can you please post your battery usage screenshot?
Sometimes even when the screen is off the phone stays awake due to some apps running in background. Generally battery monitor apps causes such problem. I have autosync on & network mode as WCDMA Preferred/GSM and use WiFi a lot though it is not always on.
For brightness as soon as I enter home I keep it at 0% & when I am to go out I change it to auto. 0% has good brightness. There is a widget available for this easy toggle. Also check your WiFI policy. Apps like VIber have tendency to keep WiFi always on even though you have kept the WiFI sleep policy.
I agree the battery is not that good but mine easily gets me through the day inspite of gaming, always Whatsapp on, Viber online & Facebook.
Note:- I have kept auto retrieval off for Facebook & default email client though notifications are on for Facebook.
Make ur phone root first than see wat ll happen after makd root battery life ll increase and u can control ur applications. If u need any help reply......
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royalbloodvi said:
my battery drains 3% per 11 minutes on standby 3g / wifi on (with profile set at max 200mhz on screen off)
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Mine drains like 2% over ten hours of idle use... And I don't have the screen off cpu profile....
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Battery Bad = SONY messed-up
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The reason i start this post is to gather experiences and facts about Xperia P's battery life.
Sony was advertising that the compination of Novathor and Whitemagice results to almost 50% less need in power energy for the mobile and for that reason the battery of 1305 mAh is enought.
My opinion is that Sony has ultimately failed in this part.
My phone:
Rom : 6.0.B.3.162 (i dont have the signal drop problem)
network : WCDMA (3g)
Data: always on
Ayto sunch: Always Off
Live Wallpaper: No
Battery life: 10-13 hours
I usually use my cellphone for calls / texting / whatsapp/facebook. The thing that use my battery the most is always Display (always 60%-70% of battery) and the hour that the dispay is active, is 1h 30min to 2h 10mins. The average talking time per charge is 30m - 50 mins.
I usually charge my phone twice a day but if i use it for games or internet or photographs i have to charge it three times per day.
I m waiting for the ICS in order to see some battery life improvement . If i dont , then i ll sell it.
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I have my phone for 3 days, an offer from the wife, no warranty though but the phone is like new. I'm considering selling it because I'm experiencing the exact same issues as you, charging the phone 2 or 3 times throughout the day is ridiculous. Had an iPhone 3GS and wanted to update my phone and migrate to droid. However I feel very frustrated about all the crap always running on the background, have 'easy task killer' and even killing apps then end up popping after awhile. I know I can solve this by rooting the phone but nevertheless I find myself always having to manually turn on/off wireless, 3G network, apps, etc... This is annoying and stupid, the whole purpose of a smartphone is to use its features, I find that although this phone has badass stuff (like HD camera) they are useless if one can't use them...
I'll try to fix this issue on the next couple of days if not I'll just sell this, go back to my old iPhone 3GS which with the same usage, wi-fi always on and 3G lasts a full 12hour day (at least) and save some more money to buy a 'decent' one like Samsung S III.
Thanks for your post, I thought my battery had issues and the more I read the more I understand SONY f-ed up!
my quad core s3 is a no-contract phone . uses pre-paid card. so there is no 3g/4g. i get around 4 hours screen on time with power saving mode on with juice defender on. i find that gaming time in this phone is awful. in the iphone 4, i get 5 hours 3d gaming time. now i dont even get 4 hours 2d gaming time! is this normal with the s3? but stll this is a fantastic phone. without gaming i get 6 hours screen on time. just would like to know if you get the same with gaming. iphone 5 seems to have a really good battery with 8h screen on time.
Make sure you disable wcdma in network settings.... your phone probably searching for a 3g signal and failing.
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Get rid of juice defender and turn off power save mode.
Also 8 hours screen on time for ip5 is questionable, these are the same people that said 8 hours 3g use and 10 hours LTE. As everyone knows, LTE uses more power than 3g.
Their numbers are lies/exaggerated.
If you want the iPhone so badly then you know what you need to do.
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I too have Power Saving Mode turned on, and manually adjust the brightness (it's always set to the lowest setting).
I have WiFi turned on the entire time that I'm home, and 3G when I'm out.
Auto Sync is on the entire time, because I want to be able to know when I get an incoming email.
That's pretty much it.
I am not able to come close to 4 hours of screen time, before my battery reaches 5-10%. Cell Standby accounts for the most battery usage.
Any pointers/tips?
P.S. Phone not rooted.
Do you have Viber? If yes there is a bug in the latest update that's keeping the proximity sensor on and draining the battery. 4 hours screen on time with battery save mode is really bad. There's probably some app draining the battery.
Ps. Ip5 battery life is a lie as usual, people who have it and actually use it say battery is actually quite bad. Also on the ios stats you don't have 'screen on' time report, but 'usage' time that is a lot more stuff than just screen on time. People who say the have 8 hours are probably just reading the usage time.
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Do you have Viber? If yes there is a bug in the latest update that's keeping the proximity sensor on and draining the battery. 4 hours screen on time with battery save mode is really bad. There's probably some app draining the battery
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Yep; I do use Viber. I think you're right. Ever since I got the latest Viber update, the battery seems to die off sooner.
Should I uninstall and check?
How can I check what rogue app is eating into the battery?
Well. i hate the iphone 5! no i dont have viber. juice defender shows me battery improved by 1.8x. i have auto sync off and power save on. i have disabled mobile data. and i realised i am just expecting too much! i was surfing the stock browser on wifi for 45 min and my phone went from 39% to 34%. guess thats okay.
Viber just fixed the proximity sensor issue; hope this resolves the battery drain issue.
BTW, what is the normal hourly battery drain percentage?
You can install an app called 'betterbatterystats' (very counterintuitive name!) to see what exactly is eating your battery, it takes a while to figure out how it works but it is very usefull!
Google location services in maps and Google now (if you are on jelly bean) drain quite a bit of battery and basically anything running on the background. Obviously you just deactivate what you don't need!
What about the iphone4 and SGS3 screen size ...every mm more=more power
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Three days ago, I flashed stock ICS (with wipe). I wanted to test the battery life.
Screen On time was a little under 4 hours.
I spent just a little over 2 hours on the phone.
Wifi was on/off intermittently.
Around 15 minutes of gaming.
The phone lasted 1 day and 20 hours.
That, in my opinion, is really, really good.
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Three days ago, I flashed stock ICS (with wipe). I wanted to test the battery life.
Screen On time was a little under 4 hours.
I spent just a little over 2 hours on the phone.
Wifi was on/off intermittently.
Around 15 minutes of gaming.
The phone lasted 1 day and 20 hours.
That, in my opinion, is really, really good.
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You can easily go for 2 days with this phone and normal usage if you turn off or use airplane mode at night. But I never do because the phone is so cool that I use it all the time! I charge at night, still I never get to 0% at the end of the day.
anyone else can post their experience with battery life?
I get easily 2 days without charging I don't see what your problem is
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samkent6 said:
I get easily 2 days without charging I don't see what your problem is
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are you using 3G internet or WI-FI?
Full time Wi-Fi, and proximity 8 hours screen on per day and background music
I have to use about 3 batteries... this is my experience
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battery life on this babe is good enough for me!
I get around 21-26 hours of standby time and screen on time ranging from at least 5 hours to 6.5 hours. When I don't browse much and just use the Adobe Reader I b get around 7 Hours plus a few minutes.
I switch on power saving mode when the battery drops below 30% and my brightness is set on auto and I'm connected to a 2g network. No gaming. I generally browse the Web for an hours , listen to music for a few minutes and then read on the Adobe Reader.
Auto sync is switched on at all times.
Would that be normal on this phone?
Display mode set to professional and auto brightness.
I am seeing on average about 20% per hour of screen on but there is a lot of impact depending on what you are doing.
For example texting takes very little cpu but gaming could be a lot more.
You're right I should have been more clear - No gaming or large video, mostly texting, browsing and FB.
Are you on wifi or 4g? How strong is your 4g signal.
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Regardless of a perfect 4g signal or wifi, I seem to lose around 20-25% battery per hour of screen use.
My screen has been on 30 minutes and dropped 3%
What are your display settings?
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My screen has been on 30 minutes and dropped 3%
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tsitalon1 said:
What are your display settings?
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Full brightness. I set the time out for 30 minutes and just let it shine.
Hmmm...
Well I noticed if I play a youtube video (a movie) it uses far less than general browsing, Facebook, usage. My only thoughts are that movies tend to have more black in them and we all know that AMOLED screens don't consume battery when displaying black pixels.
By chance do you have a dark theme or were you watching darker youtube video for 30 minutes?
No. I wasn't using the phone. I just left the screen on for 30 minutes to see how fast the screen drains. I was surprised at how slowly it drained.
This is the screen.
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Downloading a torrent kills my battery, makes me want to just tether to a different device and torrent off that
just a question, not meaning to sound smart or anything but why would you torrent with phone out and about? Why not just torrent when near an outlet to plug in like at work or home? I wouldn't want to kill my battery for something like torrenting unless i HAD to have something RIGHT THEN.
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Downloading a torrent kills my battery,
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That will do it
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58 hours 36 min from 100% to 9% battery.
6 hours 14 min screen on,
brightness set by lux auto, 45 to 54 in daytime and 30 to 40 with lights off or dim,
mostly web browsing, apps updating, emails checking, etc.,
few very short phone calls, mms, and one photo taken.
Stock rooted ls980 with some bloatware removed.
Happy G2!
harmonyxda said:
58 hours 36 min from 100% to 9% battery.
6 hours 14 min screen on,
brightness set by lux auto, 45 to 54 in daytime and 30 to 40 with lights off or dim,
mostly web browsing, apps updating, emails checking, etc.,
few very short phone calls, mms, and one photo taken.
Stock rooted ls980 with some bloatware removed.
Happy G2!
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Thats insane! My G2 is coming in mail today! Im coming from and iPhone 5! Im excited!
How'd you get lux to work properly? I installed it and was preventing my phone from going into deep sleep as it was doing 400+ wakelocks in 5min
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akong702 said:
How'd you get lux to work properly? I installed it and was preventing my phone from going into deep sleep as it was doing 400+ wakelocks in 5min
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I chose its "on wake" option, to avoid frequent sensor reading - didn't know that awakes cpu.
One auto adjustment per screen on sounds fine for most daily use scenarios.
Also removed it from notification to save some space there, instead added a udn nav bar long press shortcut to it, plus another shortcut on home screen, so to easily call it up for additional adjustments as nessesary.
Udn nav bar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2270198
harmonyxda said:
58 hours 36 min from 100% to 9% battery.
6 hours 14 min screen on,
brightness set by lux auto, 45 to 54 in daytime and 30 to 40 with lights off or dim,
mostly web browsing, apps updating, emails checking, etc.,
few very short phone calls, mms, and one photo taken.
Stock rooted ls980 with some bloatware removed.
Happy G2!
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Awesome! Can u give me the list of ur bloatware? What firmware are u using now?
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quachhanthanh said:
Awesome! Can u give me the list of ur bloatware? What firmware are u using now?
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Sure, I have the following system apps uninstalled after making a Titanium backup (always good to have a backup, just in case):
[ Edit: Added a few more frozen or uninstalled back to the previous list. Doing a nandroid or user data+settings backup is necessary if you agree human is not always error-free, and wanted to expect the best and be prepared for the worst. I just took a fresh lesson on this G2 - for the first time forgot to correct "build.prop" permission after updating it to system folder; no matter how many times we did it right, once missed and then you'll immediately see it's so easy to brick an dear android lol ]
[The following stock apps/services were uninstalled, frozen, or replaced by alternatives without causing problems in my uses.]
1Weather
Browser
CBS Sports
CloudHub 1.20.12
Dictionary
eBay
Goolge Play Books 2.8.61
Google Play Games
Google Play Magazines 2.0.0
Google Play Movies & TV 2.4.14
Google Play Music 5.0.1041J.689753
Google+ 3.6.0.44338848
Hangouts
LG MLT 2.4.7
LGSetupWizard 4.3.019
Life Square 4.0.28
Life Square Log Manager 2.5.42
Lookout Security & Antivirus
Lumen Toolbar
Messaging plus
Plug & Pop 4.2.16
POLARIS Office View 5.5.0.x
Qualcomm IZat 1.0
QuickTranslatorV4.0.45
QVoice Engine 4.1605.36624R (Required by Voice Mate)
QVoice Speech Pack 4.0100.33464
Maluuba QVoice Interface 1.3.4q
Voice Mate
Scout
Sprint Connections Optimizer 1.4.601
Sprint - Discover AppsV1.1.09
Sprint ID 1.9.22
Sprint Installer [Work with ID/Zone…]
Sprint Music PlusV1.0
Sprint TV & MoviesV1.1
Sprint Worldwide 1.0
Sprint Zone 4.5.31
SprintExtensionProvider (Used by VVM)
TextTranslator 4.1.10
VUTalk 4.0.33
There are certainly a few more removable but not as big or bad for memory as the above so I just left them aside.
Also tried some apps to manage what apps are allowed to auto start per boot up.
And I only use three home screens; use folders to organize apps icons.
Emails: Gmail uses server push so no polling to set; I couldn't get server push mode working in k-9 mail app, so had to set its sync to every 1 hour.
That's all, nothing special. I think G2 just got a big battery, very energy-efficient sleep mode, plus the GRAM static frame buffer as LG claimed to save up to 20% battery.
Some folks also got over 6 hours screen on out of their Nexus 5:
How to get 6+ Hours screen on time
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537930
How to r remove bloatware?
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imkr1 said:
How to r remove bloatware?
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With Root and titanium Backup yo can unistall all bloatware, but i recommended to freeze them in case of problems.
harmonyxda said:
58 hours 36 min from 100% to 9% battery.
6 hours 14 min screen on,
brightness set by lux auto, 45 to 54 in daytime and 30 to 40 with lights off or dim,
mostly web browsing, apps updating, emails checking, etc.,
few very short phone calls, mms, and one photo taken.
Stock rooted ls980 with some bloatware removed.
Happy G2!
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I'm honestly having a bit of trouble believing that you got 6 hours screen on time AND 58 hours off the charger. Seems like an either/or from what I've read. Did you really get these at the same time, or these are your max on both ends of the spectrum (idle usage vs active usage) ?
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I'm honestly having a bit of trouble believing that you got 6 hours screen on time AND 58 hours off the charger. Seems like an either/or from what I've read. Did you really get these at the same time, or these are your max on both ends of the spectrum (idle usage vs active usage) ?
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I find it believable. It really depends on what that on screen time is used for. Playing intense games like asphalt 8. No.. but simple stuff like browsing the web, tapatalk etc..sure. I personally loss about 1% every 4 hours or so on standby so if I could ever manage not to use my phone all the time lol I could put this to the test. But I'm on this thing all day so it's hard. I'm normally over 2 hours on screen time with 3 hours off the charger. Its hard to put down
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khaytsus said:
I'm honestly having a bit of trouble believing that you got 6 hours screen on time AND 58 hours off the charger. Seems like an either/or from what I've read. Did you really get these at the same time, or these are your max on both ends of the spectrum (idle usage vs active usage) ?
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Dude that was both. G2 had 6+ hours long screen-on PLUS great sleeping idling hours out of one single charge. Rock solid facts. :angel:
It used to impress me with that; now I got used to its long battery life and have to wish new phones catch up with that otherwise it'd be hard to move on to the next without the same or better battery juice.
More than happy to help you evaluate that nice performance with two more screenshots attached in below:
These pictures show G2 idled a few hours in my bedroom where 4g LTE signal strength stays 4 or 5 out of totally 6 bars. The first 5-hour drainage curve went almost horizontal! before it was carried to another place and used a little bit with 3-bar CDMA 3G connection and reached 96%. With that 5-hour slope how long do you think the big battery on G2's back will last in standby?
The phone stayed mostly at home in the long weekend so it enjoyed its good sleep, and as I said most screen-on time was for news browsing/emails/mms etc. (while tasks like streaming video or playing game will not benefit much from G2 GRAM static buffer.)
I don't play video games with phone so for moderate daily uses my G2 usually logs 4-6 hours screen on time before a recharge.
I like the idle on the g2, I can leave my phone over night or at work and still have full battery just about, I'm using the OC/UV kernel and Greenify, disabled alot of things, check the ss. I'm on Cleanrom 2.0 AT&T, would like to make the change to rayglobe but I don't know if I'll get the same battery performance.
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Dude that was both. G2 had 6+ hours long screen-on PLUS great sleeping idling hours out of one single charge. Rock solid facts. :angel:
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Okay, okay Sorry, just seemed nuts to me. My G2 was about 60 hours on battery, but only 70 minutes screen on time. And I've heard that people are getting max about 7-8 hours screen on time, so didn't sound possible to get that long on both at the same time.
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Okay, okay Sorry, just seemed nuts to me. My G2 was about 60 hours on battery, but only 70 minutes screen on time. And I've heard that people are getting max about 7-8 hours screen on time, so didn't sound possible to get that long on both at the same time.
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8 hours? No Problemo
khaytsus said:
Okay, okay Sorry, just seemed nuts to me. My G2 was about 60 hours on battery, but only 70 minutes screen on time. And I've heard that people are getting max about 7-8 hours screen on time, so didn't sound possible to get that long on both at the same time.
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Your g2 can make it too... come on g2 is g2 lol. Have you debloated the stock rom? Some social networking apps/services or fancy UI features like eye tracking might keep phone awake, busy or burn battery quicker, or try some auto start management tools? Someone here mentioned using Greenify - that even prevents apps from switching on by themselves (sounds great yet I didn't go that far, for it needs xpose framework, a new thing I'm not familiar with). If just doing news browsing and emails/msg then 5 or 6 hours screen on should leave enough power for long sleep time.
I think the difference could be in the "idle" mode. The battery curve in idle/sleep time is a check point - staying within a decent signal zone either on 3G or LTE for a few hours without traveling among towers, compare that g2 battery curve with those posted here and see if the slope is really really flat.
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Your g2 can make it too... come on g2 is g2 lol. Have you debloated the stock rom? Some social networking apps/services or fancy UI features like eye tracking might keep phone awake, busy or burn battery quicker, or try some auto start management tools? Someone here mentioned using Greenify - that even prevents apps from switching on by themselves (sounds great yet I didn't go that far, for it needs xpose framework, a new thing I'm not familiar with). If just doing news browsing and emails/msg then 5 or 6 hours screen on should leave enough power for long sleep time.
I think the difference could be in the "idle" mode. The battery curve in idle/sleep time is a check point - staying within a decent signal zone either on 3G or LTE for a few hours without traveling among towers, compare that g2 battery curve with those posted here and see if the slope is really really flat.
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Greenify doesn't require the xposed framework
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This is my latest charge. I can't believe how good battery life this phone have!
I'm pretty impressed with battery life. Mind you I cam from an iPhone 4s.
7h41m25s on battery 57% left with screen on for 2h42m3s
Rooted runing Paranoid Android 4.0, KitKat 4.4.2
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Once time, I was at home all day. On wifi and the screen brightness was at 0-30% all day. Got 10 hours of battery. That was with pretty much continuous usage for 10 hours... Hardly any standby. No gaming -- all web browsing, facebook and messaging.