I've switched to the M4 from the Moto E 2015. Both phones are set up just about the same.
The E had amazing battery life, easily going 2 days between charges. When not in active use it barely used any power, and even during use it was pretty efficient.
The M4 is also very good at staying asleep when the screen is off.
However, during even the lightest active use, such as Web browsing, even with screen brightness turned way down, the thing just gulps the battery down. Every 2-3 minutes it goes down 1%.
Are you having this experience too?
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On WiFi I once got 5 hour screen on time. Not sure how. I used it to browse Web and do other basic stuff like YouTube.Likely depends how demanding the task is.
On Lte/Data battery drains way faster.
Yes, this has been a major concern for me. I hate the battery of this phone.
I went from the M2 to the M4. The battery was waaaaaaaay better on the M2. If the M2 had about 7% battery going to bed, my alarm would DEFINITELY go off the next morning, and I would have 5-6%. It was great, so reliable. I charged it around every 2 days. I used it for all normal functions including web browsing, music playing, emails, messaging etc.
If my M4 has 7% battery going to bed, the alarm will not go off, and the phone will be dead. That's absolutely guaranteed every time. I HATE that. I really do. It has been years since I've been so dependent on having chargers around. I swore that I would not return to a phone that I had to charge every day.
What I really don't understand is on GSM Arena, their review says it has an even better battery life in lab tests, than the M2. Not in my case.
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_m4_aqua-review-1249p3.php
I use all the battery saving techniques that are available. I had the same set-up on my M2. It's not how I use the phone, or how much, or the battery saving, it's the phone.
Something else to consider, is that we've seen from Samsung and Apple that the same model of a phone can have different manufacturers. The same two models were not necessarily made with all the same parts. Mine is the 06 version, the Americas. I bought it in Canada.
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Yes, this has been a major concern for me. I hate the battery of this phone.
I went from the M2 to the M4. The battery was waaaaaaaay better on the M2. If the M2 had about 7% battery going to bed, my alarm would DEFINITELY go off the next morning, and I would have 5-6%. It was great, so reliable. I charged it around every 2 days. I used it for all normal functions including web browsing, music playing, emails, messaging etc.
If my M4 has 7% battery going to bed, the alarm will not go off, and the phone will be dead. That's absolutely guaranteed every time. I HATE that. I really do. It has been years since I've been so dependent on having chargers around. I swore that I would not return to a phone that I had to charge every day.
What I really don't understand is on GSM Arena, their review says it has an even better battery life in lab tests, than the M2. Not in my case.
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_m4_aqua-review-1249p3.php
I use all the battery saving techniques that are available. I had the same set-up on my M2. It's not how I use the phone, or how much, or the battery saving, it's the phone.
Something else to consider, is that we've seen from Samsung and Apple that the same model of a phone can have different manufacturers. The same two models were not necessarily made with all the same parts. Mine is the 06 version, the Americas. I bought it in Canada.
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Battery life is amazing only when it's not connected to wifi or data. Otherwise I totally agree with you. You can delete much of the bloatware and that helps a lot
I don't know what you guys are doing with your phone but I'm getting insanely good battery life on wifi
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I'm going into bed with around 60% of battery left after day with normal usage
That is ridiculous! I want that! Let's swap our phones please!
Yeah, I wonder if the Americas version got some different parts? Maybe the screen? Who knows. But, Samsung and Apple users have had this discussion, then found out their identical phones were not made the same. Hmm.
I've flashed different firmware over time and I don't see any difference there either.
Update - Actually, a thought has come to mind. Two of you have mentioned that you use wi-fi and are happy. I mostly use data, not wi-fi. I wonder if it's the Snapdragon chip? Burns heavily on the battery?
i have not any problem with battery life...
I use the original 1.100 firmware (the phone came with the crappy .99)
3g singal all the time, data not active (expect perhaps for about 30-40 minutes), wifi active.
Well I was just browsing the web a little bit and I spotted two seperate reviews of our phone which both say the battery is inconsistent and that 4G is the battery-burner. I was right!
Confusingly, the M4 Aqua’s battery performance was very inconsistent. On Wi-Fi, we could be browsing the web or playing games for twenty minutes and only lose a few %. However, when on 4G, we saw drops of up to 15% in just half an hour of use. If you’re willing to be a little cautious with how you use your device, and you don’t insist on intensive use while off Wi-Fi, you could probably manage two days.
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During my time with the handset I found that generally the battery life was good – though uneven. Some days when moderately using the M4 Aqua for phone calls, texts and checking emails regularly, I'd end the day with the M4 Aqua still retaining an impressive 60% of its battery life – which means it would be easily capable of two day battery life.
However throw in some web browsing – both over WiFi and 4G – and the battery depletes much quicker, with a drop of around 20% after 15 minutes of browsing. So the M4 Aqua does do a fair job of holding onto battery life when used in certain circumstances, but not so well in others.
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I knew it couldn't just be me! I do use 4G primarily. I knew it!
So...I buy an iPhone tomorrow. Last of Sony. (not because of battery).
my 4g is always off. just dont need that kind of speed when im outside. 3g is enough for me mostly coz its not a battery hog like 4G
I was just wondering if you guys use manual or adaptive brightness. I used to use adaptive but when I turned it off for a while I saw my battery life was dramatically affected. I went from 7-8 hours of screen on to less than 5. Also, there is a severe drop in my battery when I start using the screen. Today I was using my phone lightly throughout the day and listening to some music. When I got home, my phone was at around 50% and I started to watch some youtube video on Wi-Fi. After about an hour my phone had dropped to 15%. I don't know if this drop in battery life is just due to me now using my phone with a brighter screen. I also use twilight filter which I'm not sure if it affects the battery life. I have the E2303
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I bought myself and my wife a TB on launch day (yes I love being a guinea pig), and there are no 4G covered areas anywhere near here (all 3G). Both phones were properly charged after being activated and before being tested. My own phone was unplugged yesterday morning when I arrived at work at around 7:30 am and it finally died at midnight with light to moderate use (some phone calls, texting, web surfing, downloading apps, one hour of listening to music with double twist app and jogging with cardio trainer app)., Today my phone has been unplugged for five and a half hours and it's down to 80%. My wife is getting about the same battery life from her TB.
We knew from earlier reports that this phone lasted only about four hours running 4G LTE, and even WiMax running on Evo gave it terrible battery life, so I'm not entirely surprised that there are are still problems with this phone regarding battery life and 4G. I am almost relieved that I don't live in an area that has 4G at the moment.
Just to clear the air, I'm hoping that other TB owners who do not live in a 4G area will share their experiences with battery life so we know that this is mainly a 4G issue and not entirely a TB issue, and hopefully if that is the case, we can get a push for a 4G toggle until this issue is resolved.
Same here
I am getting better battery life out of this phone than I was on my Eris on GSB 2.0. I am very surprised. I use WiFi at home and that seems to really help but out in 3g....it really is quite good. I haven't had it in a 4g area so I can't compare but I have no complaints.
Even in a 4G area you can turn off LTE and get better battery life. I made a shortcut to the phone setting using anycut.apk to make a short cut to phone info. Got this from another thread on the forum. Works great.
My battery lasted 12 hours yesterday with what I would consider heavy use. An hour of gaming, 2 hours of pandora, about an hour of voice calls and checking facebook throughout the day. I'm very pleased with battery life. I was on wifi most of that time though and there is no 4g in my area.
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Not very sure how to do that..can you explain how i can do this ..Thanks
Happy with battery life so far
So far my experience has been quite favorable. I have been using my phone quite a bit, navigator, text, browsing, games, fm radio (we really like that) and frankly the gloom and doom reports fortunately haven't come true for me. I am easily seeing 9+ hours.
I have had a couple of nasty freeze-ups while on the phone. The first one sent the phone on its own reboot, the second required the battery to be pulled (good night that is a challenge) since the screen and the buttons became unresponsive. I will have to watch that - a phone has to work as a phone or well, it is a mini tablet instead of a phone.
first full charge last night, off the charging this morning, after 10 hours of uptime unplugged, which included a few phone calls, facebooking, playing around for about 30-45 mins on games, i was still at 81%.
This is far better battery life than my evo ever was(until i rooted it and had CM7, was getting 3 days a charge then.) And if it says anything, it isn't rooted yet(working on that now) so I am very happy and impressed with the phone so far...
and as for a previous post. I was unaware that you could turn off 4G/LTE at all. My understanding was it was always on no matter what.
Agreed. When the TB is not switching from 3g to 4g. Battery is good
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@sympathy wtf bro there is no such thing as getting 3 days worth of a charge on an EVO 4G unless u have like a 5000 mah battery? do u ?
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@sympathy wtf bro there is no such thing as getting 3 days worth of a charge on an EVO 4G unless u have like a 5000 mah battery? do u ?
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He is running a custom rom that likely dramatically governs the processor and other power factors. It was the primary reason I rooted my Incredible as the custom kernel I got had me go from 10% at the end of a 16 hr day in standby to about 80% remaining. So I could totally see 3days of light to no use from the EVO with a custom ROM.
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He is running a custom rom that likely dramatically governs the processor and other power factors. It was the primary reason I rooted my Incredible as the custom kernel I got had me go from 10% at the end of a 16 hr day in standby to about 80% remaining. So I could totally see 3days of light to no use from the EVO with a custom ROM.
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yeah that is pretty much it.
CM7 is very very light, and also had SetCPU to down clock the processor to 245Mhz anytime the screen was off. It was also on the stock battery too. I have no idea what I could have gotten with an extended battery. That 3 days wasn't practical, but I made it happen non the less to shove it in a friend of mines face who kept his iPhone 4. I had an iPhone 4 and left it for the Evo, and he got mad about it.
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if you look at the bottom you can see the screen was very seldom on, I always had wifi off, gps off, and 4G off. Phone was still at like 9% i think to when I took that screen shot. I could have gone longer but my phone is my alarm clock and I had to be up the next morning and needed to go to bed. Stupid jobs and having to work. haha.
After a couple of charge cycles I must say that I am very satisfied with the battery life on my Thunderbolt. I was at work the other day for 12 hours and the phone was at 35 percent when I left.
I agree. The Evo has terrible battery life out of the box but with CM7 and proper tweaks for it's settings, you can get pretty good battery life, even using a stock battery.
Considering that the battery for TB is a lot better out of the box than the Evo, at least for those in non-4G areas, I can only imagine how great it will be running CM7
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I agree. The Evo has terrible battery life out of the box but with CM7 and proper tweaks for it's settings, you can get pretty good battery life, even using a stock battery.
Considering that the battery for TB is a lot better out of the box than the Evo, at least for those in non-4G areas, I can only imagine how great it will be running CM7
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the only thing that bothers me about it, and someone please chime in if I have no idea what I am talking about, is after pulling up quadrant and just looking at the info for my system, it showed my processor on my TB as running at 245Mhz at that moment, and capable of running at 1024Mhz.
I could be wrong but I thought the evo ran at 998Mhz right out the box and didn't change clock speeds.
So if this is the reason why battery life has been so much better out of the box, hopefully we can still make a gigantic improvement.
I first had an incredible, now a rezound, and want to move on to the DNA. I was wondering how the battery life is treating those who have it. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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996 said:
I first had an incredible, now a rezound, and want to move on to the DNA. I was wondering how the battery life is treating those who have it. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
996
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I've had the phone for 2 days now. I consider myself a moderate user - especially during work. Today I had bluetooth and location services off, streamed for a bit, surfed the internet, and did a heavy dose of texting and downloading apps all through 4G (no wifi @ work). The battery lasted me roughly 14 hour due to the usage of it only in spurts. For reference I got into work at 8 and left at 5:30 with 45% battery life left. I then used it only a little the rest of the evening.
However, yesterday was Thanksgiving so I was on it most of the day, and it needed to be juiced up around 9 hours with all the bells and whistles on (phone wasn't on auto bright, etc).
If you are a light - moderate user and do a little application maintenance I can see this phone easily lasting 16-20 hours. When the phone is off it SIPS the battery.
If you lean towards the heavy side then it will need a charge closer to 7-8 hours. I come from a Thunderbolt for reference and this obliterates it. To sum it all up, the battery is better than I thought it would be. The key is to kill services you don't use. We will have to see how it fares when I am in NYC for work with no access to a charger. I'm sure if I use it sporadically I could be fine for an entire day.
Hope this helps.
I hope these screenshots help!
~5 hours on airplane mode.
~6hrs on LTE
Rest is wifi.
Not a super heavy user, but so far i am impressed.
Under 30%, the battery drops so fast! Dont count on 30% to give you anything useful...An afternoon of light texting will probably kill it.
My battery only charges to 99% -- has anyone else seen this? Will my phone keep trying to charge it, and therefore wear out the battery?
Will a QI pad just constantly charge, instead of stopping once its 100%?
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Battery life has been nothing short of amazing!
thank you all for the responses! I am hesitating on purchasing this phone due to the battery. I feel like it should have been a 3000mAH. I am a heavy user. On 4G a lot. so yeah
Battery is a lot better than I thought it would be. Really impressed with this device!
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Guys you need to be honest with yourselves here, anyone can do everything possible to get the most out of their battery (heck I got 3 days out of a Droid 1 before), but in real world use you'll be lucky to make it through the day if you use your phone a lot. If you're a light/moderate user you will be fine from morning until night, but if you tend to use your phone for hours expect to charge it during the day.
that seems better than the s3
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996 said:
thank you all for the responses! I am hesitating on purchasing this phone due to the battery. I feel like it should have been a 3000mAH. I am a heavy user. On 4G a lot. so yeah
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I get plenty of time
Down time or when screen is off HUGE improvement on battery life I've noticed. I charge wireless at night & last all day
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Yeah I'm with most of the guys here - battery life has been great. It beats the brakes out of my GNEX. This is a very efficient phone.
I am getting this phone and an Anker Astro charger, according to these posts I'm more than likely not going to need that charger, lol
9 hours is sick coming from my Droid 1
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Guys you need to be honest with yourselves here, anyone can do everything possible to get the most out of their battery (heck I got 3 days out of a Droid 1 before), but in real world use you'll be lucky to make it through the day if you use your phone a lot. If you're a light/moderate user you will be fine from morning until night, but if you tend to use your phone for hours expect to charge it during the day.
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I am being very honest with myself. So far, I am getting more battery life than a Galaxy Nexus with extended battery. I hit an easy 3.5 hour screen time yesterday.
Playing games.
Watching netflix
Streaming Pandora to BT for 2 hours.
Streaming Google Play music for 2 hours (headphones)
Playing with settings
Making calls
Texting
MMS
Browsing Internet
Youtube
Half of my time was on LTE and the rest on WiFi. I took it off the charger at 7:30am and it got down to 12% before I put it on the charger at 10:30PM.
My Gnex with the same use would have been completely dead by 3:00pm and only if completely on WiFi.
My usage hasn't become less since I used DNA...if anything it increased due to me setting it up and playing with it. So I really, really doubt I am kidding myself.
I came from the GNex as well. First day I had this device I had to go and work my 16 hour shift(3pm-7am). I always had my GNex plugged in by 7pm after my normal use of browsing, texting, games and such. I made it until around 10pm before I plugged it in, and that was just because it was at 40% and I wanted to top it off before my 2nd shift. Went back to 100% and used it until about 430am when I stopped playing around and read a book on my Kindle. Used my phone as an alarm for every 30 minutes and I didn't plug it back in until I got into my car for the drive home. I've never been happier with a stock device.
I just got this phone. I have a GS3 as a reference for battery life. If I can get three hours of screen time out of it, I will be a very happy camper. I guess it just goes to show you that when everything is working together in harmony and everything is power efficient, the size of the battery isn't nearly as important. Look at the iPhone, no matter how much you want to hate on it, they have been stick sub 1500 mah batteries in there forever, and they seem to last all day for the most part. I would have preferred to have a larger battery, but after reading the reviews this morning on it I was convinced to go out and pick one up. The screen is awesome, I'm really surprised that it doesn't drain more battery than it does.
I just made it to lunchtime without it going dead.
Dropped to 40% with some download ads, a few YouTube videos l, some Facebook and some music via blue tooth.
I had to plug it in a few hrs later when it dropped to 20%.
About as good as my Rezound with a 2800 mAh battery.
Pretty much nothing will last me all day with the data I use.
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Pretty much as the title says really. There are some horror stories about the device not even lasting a full day with average use.
Not really when I can get 5 hours of screen time
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You decide for yourself. I don't think that its horrible. Avg use will usually put me at 30% or so at the end of the day. Including social networking, browsing web, text messaging, minimal gaming
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If your a heavy user chances are you wont get a full day, but thats most phones. I bought a extended battery case for mine from at&t and I get a full day and more with that. But if you use it for basic text and calling and a little internet here and there you should be fine!
Avg use throughout the day
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I get my 15-20 hours with medium use. More than satisfied with that.
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I get my 15-20 hours with medium use. More than satisfied with that.
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thats about what im getting too.
I think both the enlarged battery and JB increased the battery life substantially, as an avid anime watcher, i often use my phone for 720p playback for long sittings (lasting from 1-3 hours) and the batery only loses around 20-25% with the screen about 10-20% brightness which btw is decent enough for most indoor environments (the one x+ still has a bright display despite being a tad dimmer the og one x). Coming from an evo 3d the battery life is about 50% better and about the same if not slightly better than my father`s galaxy siii. Standby is very good and the phone copes well with web browsing as well however don`t expect great battery life during gaming. All in all i am very satisfied.
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I get my 15-20 hours with medium use. More than satisfied with that.
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Ditto. Ditto.
With average use like making a phone call send a text message and occasionally checking the internet or use my phone as remote for my wdtvlive hub and wifi always on i now on 33 % battery capacity with 2 days 9 hours of time. Must say have have energy saver on.
Also checked it with heavy use. One day i had to go to a city by train. So went out the house with google music streaming on my bike. At the train station the train arrived , i sat down and started to surf the net (all still with google music streaming) Arrived in eindhoven and started up google maps to see were i had to be. Walked for a mile and a half all navigated by maps. (still with google music streaming ). When going back home started up maps to see were the train station was and started up google music again. Back in the train watched some youtube (now with google music off offcourse ) back in my place on my bike google music again till i was at home i still had 45 % battery capacity.
So im happy with this stats !
My battery life is pretty good, actually.
At first, when I received my One X+ I even thought of returning it in, and maybe buy a SIII.
BUT... after 1 month, the battery is perfect and lasts 1 day without charging mid-day.
However, I let my One X+ run out of battery completely before fully charing it the first four days.
Guys I am a heavy user and I love to play hd games a lot for prolonged duration's.
On sIII battery used to last a whole day atleast using phone non stop ,is htc one x+ for users such as me???
I mean I just love sense but so far didn't buy bcoz of horrible battery issues I got from experienced mates who were using htc smartphones.
Iam now happy with battery life i get - my average using i get almost 2days (power saver on, i swich off some times when needed).
The thing is when i first got my phone i taught i will return it coz bat didn't even last 1 day with low usage, BUT the problem was - i didnt discharge hone till 0% till it swichs off, - calibrate battery!
So yeah calibrate your battery first! If you are rooted you can do it with app for store, but if not (like me for now tho) just discharge it from full charged 100% like 3 times till it swiches off.
Is it okay to fully discharge your phone 3 times in a row???
Actually I have a decent battery life on my X+, 16-18 hrs a day, but I never discharge it until the phone shut down by itself
I get good battery life. Usually a full day.
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Is it okay to fully discharge your phone 3 times in a row???
Actually I have a decent battery life on my X+, 16-18 hrs a day, but I never discharge it until the phone shut down by itself
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I don't think you should do that. You should only fully let your battery die around once or twice a MONTH. I just usually want until my battery is 20-30 percent to plug it in
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Battery is freaking amazing and I'm a heavy user.....
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All the time on 3g... Could last for another day if I didn't browse so much
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So there are a lot of variables to this. My experience is that if you don't need to use more than one email account, don't have that email account set up as an exchange account then the avg user will probably have good battery life.
If you're like me and have three exchange email accounts set up, then battery life is ridiculously horrible. This is compounded by the fact that on the at&t version you can't turn off LTE and force the device into HSPA+ (3G) mode, even when you have the device rooted and on a custom rom.
I have gone back to my original One X for the moment and will let the smart folks here continue to tweak the device. It took about 4 months after the original One X was released to get a fairly bullet proof set up that worked well and had decent battery life.
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Had the phone for about a month now. With background sync on, and over 150 apps installed my phone runs on average use for about 15 hrs, now that means usually when I'm out during the day. To me, that's fine, considering it lasts much longer than my previous HTC Desire, which had horrible battery life. While heavily gaming and browsing, the phone may last from about 2:40 to less than 4 hrs. While watching hd movies it held out close to 4 hrs, while the standby time I found to be fantastic! All in all, I'm pleased, considering the high end hardware it packs
I was able to get 5.5 hours of on screen time with the phone being on for 17 hours.
That is with a mix of youtube, phone calls, small amount of Netflix for testing, watching a movie from SD Card.
I left the Wifi on the whole time as you can see with one of the screen shots. I did have on Stamina mode.
This was after letting my phone charge the first time to full and not plugging in again. The down time with the phone not being used was because I left it on while I slept. In 8 hours the phone only dropped 8% while I slept (very good).
So to answer a lot of questions about the battery, it is AWESOME!
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I was able to get 5.5 hours of on screen time with the phone being on for 17 hours.
That is with a mix of youtube, phone calls, small amount of Netflix for testing, watching a movie from SD Card.
I left the Wifi on the whole time as you can see with one of the screen shots. I did have on Stamina mode.
This was after letting my phone charge the first time to full and not plugging in again. The down time with the phone not being used was because I left it on while I slept. In 8 hours the phone only dropped 8% while I slept (very good).
So to answer a lot of questions about the battery, it is AWESOME!
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Could you give us a bit better test , like more usage , I mean screen time is great but you barely did anything in t he phone , 41% of app usage is nothing , 1 min of phone call is also nothing.
Don't get me wrong I'm interested into xzu but I'd like to see regular / intensive usage , also could you tell us which brightness you were using ?
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This was Web surfing, watching Netflix, you tubing, etc. It never just sat with screen on. I actually used it the whole time.
Screen brightness was about 30% the whole time.
With the screen at 30% brightness, was the perceived brightness level pretty good? Maybe a little low? I'm curious to know, because I suspect lower brightness settings than usual will be satisfactory with this display.
Screen brightness is good. Although I have not tested it outside in the sunlight. I am going on a canoe trip tomorrow so I will be able to test the waterproof and brightness out
**** dude, be careful, lol. I'm sure the phone will be fine in the water, but I'd hate for it to slip out of your pocket and be gone down the river! You'd never find it. Makes me sick just to think of, lol.
Anyway, I am definitely getting the LTE version of this when it becomes available. Thanks for the battery and display insights.
That's why I bought the insurance haha.
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I was able to get 5.5 hours of on screen time with the phone being on for 17 hours.
That is with a mix of youtube, phone calls, small amount of Netflix for testing, watching a movie from SD Card.
I left the Wifi on the whole time as you can see with one of the screen shots. I did have on Stamina mode.
This was after letting my phone charge the first time to full and not plugging in again. The down time with the phone not being used was because I left it on while I slept. In 8 hours the phone only dropped 8% while I slept (very good).
So to answer a lot of questions about the battery, it is AWESOME!
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In the first attached print screen with the list (phone, screen, phone radio, etc.) how did you disable the graph at the bottom to show up or how to make it disappear?, thanks
I had 18hrs 40mins of up time and 5hr 15mins of screen time. 3G/WiFi mode, Stamina mode OFF
Usage includes web surfing, facebook, messaging and video playback (1hr).
Don't worry about the brightness. ZU at 0% is brighter than S4 at -1 (lowest is -5) lol. ZU really had a bright screen.
Mine after second cycle. Not so good isn't it?
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The battery capacity won't be at max after just one or two cycles. Use it for a full week and then see how it performs.
So far for me, I am down to 24% after 10 hours. I won't make it through the day since I"m still up for 5 more hours. This was on moderate usage. With Stamina Mode Enabled.
- one phone call
- three emails
- checked facebook twice, and instagram twice
- watched 20 minutes of youtube tho
- listened to music while working out for one hour
- 57 texts sent/received
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Mine after second cycle. Not so good isn't it?
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I don't know, over 3.5 hours screen on time with 17% remaining seems pretty good to me. I haven't really done any formal tests, but I don't seem to get much more than about 3 hours screen on time with my Nexus 4 period, let alone with almost 20% remaining, and I can always make it through a day. This is would be an upgrade for me. The most telling thing, however, is the screen brightness. About where did you have it set?
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I don't know, over 3.5 hours screen on time with 17% remaining seems pretty good to me. I haven't really done any formal tests, but I don't seem to get much more than about 3 hours screen on time with my Nexus 4 period, let alone with almost 20% remaining, and I can always make it through a day. This is would be an upgrade for me. The most telling thing, however, is the screen brightness. About where did you have it set?
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I set it to minimum with auto brightness. So no specific number. That's acceptable to me but not so good. And we have to wait until 9 September to get the true Rom.right now only what we use is Xperia Z Rom. Not for ultra. Let's see how it goes then. Looking for better camera, screen and batt
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Battery life seems to be totally acceptable, I never saw a powerful smartphone able to survive an heavy use for a full day or maybe at its time only the Nokia 6310i able to last 4/5 days of heavy use, but it was a tiny monochrome screen for a big phone and huge battery. And yet there i still no ROM/Kernel available so the battery life can be optimized.
But a question, what about the charging time?
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Battery life seems to be totally acceptable, I never saw a powerful smartphone able to survive an heavy use for a full day or maybe at its time only the Nokia 6310i able to last 4/5 days of heavy use, but it was a tiny monochrome screen for a big phone and huge battery. And yet there i still no ROM/Kernel available so the battery life can be optimized.
But a question, what about the charging time?
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And what is the DC current output of the Sony standard charger?
well every time a new phone comes out, early reviews are mixed with some having terrific batter while others are having a dreadful one. Theres only one way to have a scientific approach to measure a battery life, and it is to use a standardized test on the phone with most commonly used settings on and others off and no applications installed etc. Since that is hard to do lets just use a poll.. Whats your uptime, SOT and some major setttings...like below
UPTIME: 24hours
SOT: 6H15mn
Connectivity: LTE
Settings: Auto brightness, gmail sync
also put up screenshots of the battery tab so we can see the usage, not just people just starring at a black screen
thanks for voting guys but its also crucial that you post the infos as described that way we can help fellow members with bad battery life
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This can't be accurate; the GSM signal power and quality differs for every user and it's an important factor to consider. If I use my phone in two different locations in my city I'll have different results.
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This can't be accurate; the GSM signal power and quality differs for every user and it's an important factor to consider. If I use my phone in two different locations in my city I'll have different results.
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Yes there are many factors that impact the battery life unless we all run the same battery benchmark on airplane mode with default configuration and no apps installed, battery life is not comparable but it's just to get an average
The new chip is just bad. This won't get fixed.
You can try to use a custom battery savings mode and just enable the CPU limiter, it'll cap performance to the S8 but battery will be quite a lot better.
I can get a day or more but its no match for the Mate 10 Pro I had before
Sorry but won't post any screenshot as I have to put in charge everyday around 3 pm, unplugged at 7 am, to make sure battery will last til the end of the day =(
My previous 3 phones were S8+, Note 8 and Iphone X, all I can say is that S9+ battery life is much worse compared to the 3 of them.
Expecting an update to fix that, if it doesn't come in the next 10 days I'll return my handset.
rahan95 said:
unplugged at 7 am
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You realise leaving it charging over night knackers the battery because it keeps trying to top up which over time puts a lot of extra wear and tear on it
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Sorry but won't post any screenshot as I have to put in charge everyday around 3 pm, unplugged at 7 am, to make sure battery will last til the end of the day =(
My previous 3 phones were S8+, Note 8 and Iphone X, all I can say is that S9+ battery life is much worse compared to the 3 of them.
Expecting an update to fix that, if it doesn't come in the next 10 days I'll return my handset.
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what???what do you do with your phone???i unplug @7am and plug it back next day @ 7am with 6-6.3hrs SOT
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You realise leaving it charging over night knackers the battery because it keeps trying to top up which over time puts a lot of extra wear and tear on it
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You realize I've been doing that for 20 years with no issue at all?
Sorry if my first post was not clear : I put the phone to charge (induction) when going to bed around 1am, unplug it in the morning around 7am and have to do a complementary charge in the afternoon .
very good
The more it consumes internet over mobile data the power decreases. However, good at all
AndreiLux said:
The new chip is just bad. This won't get fixed.
You can try to use a custom battery savings mode and just enable the CPU limiter, it'll cap performance to the S8 but battery will be quite a lot better.
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I don't want to disappoint you. But my previous phone was S8+. Unfortunately with the official update to Oreo the battery performances was a little bit worse than S9+.
Agree with the fact that with Android 7 Galaxy s8+ had a better battery life. But with Oreo... that's another story.
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Bump this as some users are reporting very bad battery life while most can achieve 5-7 hours easily please participate in the poll
I have the SD variant S9+ and I'm in the very bad battery life camp.
I am also in the bad battery camp... I can get about 2-3 hours of SOT before it just craps out and I just spent 800$ on this thing. I'm ready to return it myself.
I'm on exynos and really enjoying my battery life. Anywhere between 5.5 - 7.5hrs sot depending on how I use the phone.
Rocking on 6 or 7 hours sot with all social apps, pubg mobile, Twitch, YouTube, discord.. Exynos version. Who has bad battery should move to Apple because u can't even make your android smartphone have a good battery.
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This is better SOT than I've ever gotten from any smartphone I've owned. 5 hours SOT and still 38% left.
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Standby time is amazing, too. 9 hours overnight used only 5%.
The battery life for this phone is good. The standby battery life is not great. I don't get a good signal at my job, so when I get in I cut off my data. With the data off, the phone is still draining battery.
However, if I'm in a good signal area or on Wi-Fi, I can get 6-7hours sot.