Hey guys, I'm new here and this is my first thread...
So I just bought an used HTC One X+ from a guy who sold it after 2 years of usage.
Phone is in perfect conditions, and I really like it, but only the battery is draining too fast. Especially when gaming: I played Temple Run 2 for 15 minutes, and the phone went from 25% to shutting off, because the battery was empty. Using other applications is just fine, I'm now 12H 12M on battery and there's 18% left.
So my question is: Are here some others who had this device for 2+ years, and how is your battery life on the HOX+?
Do I need to replace the battery, or is this just a common problem? Or is this just an software issue?
I'd like to hear from you guys
dave7698 said:
Hey guys, I'm new here and this is my first thread...
So I just bought an used HTC One X+ from a guy who sold it after 2 years of usage.
Phone is in perfect conditions, and I really like it, but only the battery is draining too fast. Especially when gaming: I played Temple Run 2 for 15 minutes, and the phone went from 25% to shutting off, because the battery was empty. Using other applications is just fine, I'm now 12H 12M on battery and there's 18% left.
So my question is: Are here some others who had this device for 2+ years, and how is your battery life on the HOX+?
Do I need to replace the battery, or is this just a common problem? Or is this just an software issue?
I'd like to hear from you guys
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I've had this phone for almost 2 years and battery life hasn't changed. From day 1 I got about 12-15 hours on a full charge..
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hello, i have radar c110e for a month so far and my battery, fully charged, shows me only 2 days and 10h of stand by time. is it normal, i think it's so little life.. i read all smartphone web sites, htc.com and they say the battery has 15-17 days in stand by. :S
File_Submti said:
hello, i have radar c110e for a month so far and my battery, fully charged, shows me only 2 days and 10h of stand by time. is it normal, i think it's so little life.. i read all smartphone web sites, htc.com and they say the battery has 15-17 days in stand by. :S
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That 15-17 day is with nothing running (no data, syncing, apps etc..) and with the screen off. I can easily get two full days out of this phone, which is great considering I couldn't even make it through a day with my old Galaxy S Android phone.
Ref Bat Life of Radar.
I am just stoned to have experienced the battery stays for close to 2 days....
This is my first WP7 phone after using WP6 and WP6.5...
Suggestion to new users: Do a complete charge/discharge cycle for atleast 5-8 times before u can put the phone to charge in between cycles. This ensures that the ions get completely activated and all life at the same time. In fact would suggest you do it always...
5 - 6 days only talking with the phone. 2 days if I use Wi Fi or play games or often do something on it. Very good hardware of this phone but bad operation system.
Hi All
I have had my HTC One X+ for roughly 3 weeks now and just recently I noticed the phone reaching a very hot temperature, I have not measured exactly but it is significantly hotter than I have ever noticed since owning the handset. I don't use it that heavily i.e. for games etc and only charge it when the battery is less than 20%, I have not needed to have the power saving setting turned on because the battery life suited me without the settings. However when I noticed the overheating it seems the battery is draining much quicker, A full charge went down to 8% within roughly 4 - 5 hours without any heavy use.
Can anyone assist me on this
Thanks
Khuz
Khuz360 said:
Hi All
I have had my HTC One X+ for roughly 3 weeks now and just recently I noticed the phone reaching a very hot temperature, I have not measured exactly but it is significantly hotter than I have ever noticed since owning the handset. I don't use it that heavily i.e. for games etc and only charge it when the battery is less than 20%, I have not needed to have the power saving setting turned on because the battery life suited me without the settings. However when I noticed the overheating it seems the battery is draining much quicker, A full charge went down to 8% within roughly 4 - 5 hours without any heavy use. Oh, mines a week old. The damn things using more power than what the charger gives out.
Can anyone assist me on this
Thanks
Khuz
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Did you update?, i just played a game with the charger plugged in with full battery, after 10 mins of game play my battery was at 95% and that with the charger plugged in, my battery life wasnt as good as yours before the update but it was def alot better than it is now, theres quite a few more bugs since 1.16.401 and up, touch screen is dodgy as hell, that could be one reason for the battery drain, im seriouslt thinking of selling it and getting out my onex.
No I havent done any software updates, currently have the latest version available which 1.14.161.18. The problem only started yesterday out of nowhere, I can't understand what is causing it!! My usage has not changed at all :S
I was having the same issues the second I turned my HOX+ on. I have fixed it by not using LTE all the time. I found that when LTE was on, it over-heated my phone and killed my battery life especially when restoring my gmail on initial setup with settings and apps coming down from the cloud.
The first week I had my 920 I was lucky if the battery was at or above 40% by 12 noon. The 920 is my 2nd phone line and I am using it mostly to learn WP8, to surf the web some and listen to a lot of podcasts, usually 6+ hours of them a day. The past 4 days the battery in the 920 is showing insane runtimes. It is currently 11:30pm and it has been off the charger since 8:00am, over 15 hours with overs 8 hours of audio podcast listening. The battery is currently reading 61%. I originally got the impression that LTE was killing the battery, but that is no longer the case.
I have a Share Plan with AT&T with 2 phones, a Galaxy Nexus (GSM model from Play Store) and a Lumia 920. I use my Nexus as my main phone line, to access GMail and Google Reader (a lot of Google Reader feeds). The Nexus has been off the charger the same period of time and is showing 41%.
For me wifi destroys my battery for some reason I get 15 hours with wi-fi on or 28 with it off
Interesting, mine will usually run for 24-30 hours before hitting 15%, including regular usage. 4G gives it a whack but generally I find similar to other phones, if low coverage it chews the battery
Reading all the doom and gloom of 4G LTE on various mobile phones, after my 1st weeks experience, I was expecting similar results going forward. But, after 2 weeks of use, the battery falls in line with the results you mention. And, with that I am not complaining.
same situation here.
It looks like the phone needs some days to warm up and get long lasting.
Also I see that wp8 is heavly optimized for background task in order to not consume a lot of battery eg: my phone lasts more than 2 days with light usage.
I listen to podcast for many hours and it doesnt affect the battery that much, in fact I'm surprised by it because I know audio playing takes a load on the cpu.
Mine.. overnight without charge or using the phone it drained from 100% down to 35%. BS
Two words: Background tasks.
Make sure you don't have unnecessary background tasks running. I have less than 5 and my battery runs more than 2 days easily.
How do you kill or monitor background tasks?
I had really good battery time of 19 hours the first day of installing the new firmware, then I enabled bluetooth again and it drains like crazy. its hit or miss but people seem to think that whatsapp drains battery. I personally would like to disable LTE (its really slow in my area) and just keep bluetooth that seems to give me 12+ hrs of battery.
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How do you kill or monitor background tasks?
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You can block background tasks for 3rd party apps in Settings->Applications tab->Background tasks. There is no way to monitor these tasks because WP OS doesn't offer any such capability.
Unfortunately there is no easy way to block 1st party apps and if they are misbehaving (like sync something over and over), there is nothing you can do about it.
Turn on Battery Saver can also effectively kill all background tasks. But that's draconian. I still would like my smartphone do something in the background for me.
Don't forget, the biggest battery drain factor could be your cell phone signal. If you keep the phone in a fringe area, the cell radio will drain your battery very quickly while try to maintain communications with cell towers. This is outside the OS and you can't do anything about it.
I had a weird battery drain the day after the last upgrade. No apps running in the background BAR the movie that i had paused.. I lost 80% without using the phone in a 6 hour period (post charging). After a reboot it seems ok. Perhaps i should pause another movie to see if it happens again....
I must say that I have mine 2 days and the battery drains too fast... I dont know what to do .. Maybe because its new ? Some one can help me maybe ?
rotter123 said:
I must say that I have mine 2 days and the battery drains too fast... I dont know what to do .. Maybe because its new ? Some one can help me maybe ?
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don't judge a phone's battery life until a week later.
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don't judge a phone's battery life until a week later.
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in wp8 is 2 weeks later
My battery is pretty inconsistent. MOST of the time it's awesome, and will last like 20-25 hours without needing to charge, but that just makes it especially jarring when every now and then I go to check my phone at 4 in the afternoon and it's at critical, and I have no idea what causes it.
Plus when it does die I have to put it on the charger for like 2 hours before it will let me turn it on.
I found interesting point in the battery life today, if the screen is off, the battery drain is in the range of 3-4% which is good, however, if the screen goes on the battery drops like 15% in just 25 minutes. After thinking I tried to set the screen sensitivity to normal and it solved my problem. I kept the screen on for more than 45 minutes and the battery went down almost 6% only which is good. I still have to test more to give a concrete evidence.
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I usually run a battery discharge app Saturday night. Then a full recharge with the phone off. That usually gives me dependable battery life of about 12 hours a day for the entire week. If I forget and not run the discharger I notice it midways into the week when I only get about 8 hours out of it.
AT&T lumia920:
after updating my phone to the 1314 update, my battery life got worse.
I went from 14 hours per day to only 8 hours.
thanks nokia -_-
note: I was not experiencing any connectivity issues on my phone.
let's see how many people here actually have NFC on and Auto-Brightness on... lol
I used the sleep app last night after charging to 100%, and then I fell asleep with it on.
I woke up to find the sounds still going, and when I checked my phone worried that I killed the charge, I found it still had 92% left. That's impressive.
Hello
I've bought a One X+ second hand and the guy that sold it to me said it was only 2 months old. I have reasons to believe he was telling lies.
Here are some screenshots from Battery Stats Plus:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/...3-09-26-19-26-15_zpse7d1dcab.png?t=1380267112
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/...3-09-26-19-26-05_zps4f737dd4.png?t=1380267087
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/...3-09-26-19-23-55_zps3f36168b.png?t=1380267068
I've only used the GPS for like 3-4 minutes (not using google maps) and Google Maps separately (no GPS) for 3-4 minutes total. I don't know why it shows a big % on battery usage from Maps. Also the battery history from Settings said that I had the GPS on all the time even thought it was turned off.
DS Battery Saver was also turned on (Gentle profile) so it would go to sleep when screen is off.
I generally can barely manage over 24 hours on a single charge (normal usage, 2 hours of on screen time).
When it's sleeping (all communications turned off) i'm usually losing 1% of battery every 45 minutes. Another thing: the last 15% of battery drains in 3-4 minutes when using the phone (browsing, etc).
Is my batery ok ? I think the device's older than 2 months when I bought it because my older Sensation XE could easily manage over 1d6h normal usage even after 1 year.
Mayhem00 said:
Hello
I've bought a One X+ second hand and the guy that sold it to me said it was only 2 months old. I have reasons to believe he was telling lies.
Here are some screenshots from Battery Stats Plus:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/...3-09-26-19-26-15_zpse7d1dcab.png?t=1380267112
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/...3-09-26-19-26-05_zps4f737dd4.png?t=1380267087
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/...3-09-26-19-23-55_zps3f36168b.png?t=1380267068
I've only used the GPS for like 3-4 minutes (not using google maps) and Google Maps separately (no GPS) for 3-4 minutes total. I don't know why it shows a big % on battery usage from Maps. Also the battery history from Settings said that I had the GPS on all the time even thought it was turned off.
DS Battery Saver was also turned on (Gentle profile) so it would go to sleep when screen is off.
I generally can barely manage over 24 hours on a single charge (normal usage, 2 hours of on screen time).
When it's sleeping (all communications turned off) i'm usually losing 1% of battery every 45 minutes. Another thing: the last 15% of battery drains in 3-4 minutes when using the phone (browsing, etc).
Is my batery ok ? I think the device's older than 2 months when I bought it because my older Sensation XE could easily manage over 1d6h normal usage even after 1 year.
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Your getting simlar battery performance to the rest of us.... My HOX+ needs charging atleast twice a day..
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I am not really harmed with mine's battery life, ofcourse I would prefer having better battery. But overall I can survive 15 hours with 2 hours onscreen surfing the web /xda
And about 40 minutes hardcore gaming (fifa 14 and other games)
With about 30 minutes call time.
But keep in mind during screen off I have my connections off.
P.S if you can root, you should definetly use "Greenify". It's the perfect battery and usage saver.
My day as you see is short but during the night (around 8pm) when I sit on the phone for 6 hours of intensive gaming and surfing the web, I usually have to make 1 and a half charge
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Hmm....well ok. Before buying the phone I read the battery test on gsmarena and was pretty much pleased with their results. But they tested it on android 4.1 whereas I have 4.2.2
Well if you really want to test battery and know if it's bad or not , charge till 100% then remove the plug and keep it sleeping till it runs out of battery. Or check on it after 3 days to see the percentage .
After doing so, surf the web browser till the battery runs out from 100%
Then charge again till 100% and do some hardcore gaming till it runs out.
The final test, charge till 100% then use the phone with your normal daily use.
If you do not like the battery performance you can switch phones.
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I'm using anker 1900mah battery. From the full charge, I web browsing for an hour and 1 minutes, and the battery had only 67%. That means I'll have 3 hours using it with screen on. Is it normal or too weak? The guy who makes the darkglass rom said his brother can gaming for 4 hours + with his rom and tweak. I installed the same thing on my phone, and for gaming, I think the best it can last is less than 2 hours.
mrthanhnguyen said:
I'm using anker 1900mah battery. From the full charge, I web browsing for an hour and 1 minutes, and the battery had only 67%. That means I'll have 3 hours using it with screen on. Is it normal or too weak? The guy who makes the darkglass rom said his brother can gaming for 4 hours + with his rom and tweak. I installed the same thing on my phone, and for gaming, I think the best it can last is less than 2 hours.
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Amaze is known for dying too quickly. The battery at best can last 18-20 hours if you use it frequently for smaller purposes, like texting, checking Facebook etc. Some roms and tweaks do perform better battery wise if you use them long enough but in the start the battery dies too quickly.