-------Nexus 4 Battery Life (Horrible, Major drainage!)-------

[rjj1976]

Yesterday I was at 18 hours off charger with just over 3 hours of screen on time and a hour of talk time and was still at 42%. This is my normal. I don't know what you guys have your screen brightness on but mine is set very low and I know it makes a huge difference on my phone and also on my Nexus 7 and Galaxy 10.1.

 

[bboykin87]

I just flashed the unofficial CM 10.1 that was posted here and it has run great for me and improved my battery life. Mostly on WiFi today plus a bit of tethering in there as well as slacker radio

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[iortiz55]

Yesterday I was at 18 hours off charger with just over 3 hours of screen on time and a hour of talk time and was still at 42%. This is my normal. I don't know what you guys have your screen brightness on but mine is set very low and I know it makes a huge difference on my phone and also on my Nexus 7 and Galaxy 10.1.

See, I knew the Nexus 4 was capable of getting this much battery life. How do you have your setttings?

 

[user00265]

To me, this thing feels like a tank!
1.5h screen, 1hr slacker streaming, 1hr pandora streaming (and ongoing)... Done various calls with it and emails/texts.

 

[ryanr509]

U need to remember all these guys screen shots look like these guys getting 4+ hrs screen on time are all on wifi which is normal. Op are u using wifi or are u on 3g most of ur day? That will be the difference between 3 hrs and 4.5hrs screen on time

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[Mobius360]

Do me a favor and try Green Power, I linked to the free version below. I've been using it on my GNex and am pretty happy.

All this stuff of not installing any apps or never having things sync seems crazy to me. Just have to manage things better.

I don't think on screen time will ever change much other than brightness settings impacting it. 2.5 to 3.5 seems pretty standard on most phones. That's one thing I like about my GNex is I can swap a battery. I decided to order the N4 and give it a shot because I can possibly save a lot of money month to month. Just not sure I'll be OK with the battery life.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e.../details?id=org.gpo.greenpower&token=f3OAnW9m

60% of the time it works every time!
*Sprint HIGH Speed 3G/LTE Nexus*

 

[3 hhh]

Re: Nexus 4 Battery Life (Horrible, Major drainage!)

No, that was just an unlucky coincidence at the time of the screen shot. Around 95% of the time I have 4G with full bars.

i agree with you, that really a unlcky buying

 

[iortiz55]

U need to remember all these guys screen shots look like these guys getting 4+ hrs screen on time are all on wifi which is normal. Op are u using wifi or are u on 3g most of ur day? That will be the difference between 3 hrs and 4.5hrs screen on time

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3G. Rarely do I use wi fi. Yesterday I saw huge improvement. I'll post the screen shots as soon as I get home.

 

[iortiz55]

This was from yesterday (Nov 28) . Unplugged it at around 10 am. Still not where I'd like it to be, but much better than my first post. What made the difference was changing auto-brightness to about 10%. That helped A LOT.

But guys I'm telling you, this thing could be so much better. And this battery is SO bipolar. It's ridiculous. Today for example. It happened twice. The first time my battery was at about 86% and it stayed at 86 for like 20 min! Actively checking Twitter, Instagram, sending a couple texts. Stayed at 86. All was great. But then when it hit 85%, it went from 85 to 82 in like 2 min! I didn't do anything different. Twitter, Instagram, texting. Still drained. Second time was the exact same scenario except it was at 52%. Stayed there for a good 15-20 min but then it dropped from 51 to 48 in literally less than 5 min. I just hope that gets fixed over time. Overall, changing the screen brightness was what made the difference.

 

[ryanr509]

This was from yesterday (Nov 28) . Unplugged it at around 10 am. Still not where I'd like it to be, but much better than my first post. What made the difference was changing auto-brightness to about 10%. That helped A LOT.

But guys I'm telling you, this thing could be so much better. And this battery is SO bipolar. It's ridiculous. Today for example. It happened twice. The first time my battery was at about 86% and it stayed at 86 for like 20 min! Actively checking Twitter, Instagram, sending a couple texts. Stayed at 86. All was great. But then when it hit 85%, it went from 85 to 82 in like 2 min! I didn't do anything different. Twitter, Instagram, texting. Still drained. Second time was the exact same scenario except it was at 52%. Stayed there for a good 15-20 min but then it dropped from 51 to 48 in literally less than 5 min. I just hope that gets fixed over time. Overall, changing the screen brightness was what made the difference.

I wouldn't be expecting much better screen on time than that if u are on 3g most of ur day. Like said keep screen brightness low turn off GPS wifi and BT when u are not using them. Don't cripple the phone just to get an extra 30 mins of screen time keep ur stuff syncing whenever u feel necessary. Just make sure when u aren't using things to turn them off.

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[iortiz55]

I wouldn't be expecting much better screen on time than that if u are on 3g most of ur day. Like said keep screen brightness low turn off GPS wifi and BT when u are not using them. Don't cripple the phone just to get an extra 30 mins of screen time keep ur stuff syncing whenever u feel necessary. Just make sure when u aren't using things to turn them off.

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Any ideas why it drains the way I described?

 

[nj1266]

So I'm thinking about getting the iPhone 5 then. But I'm still skeptical, heard it's not that much better in terms of battery life. Cause having a long-lasting battery is the number one thing I look for in a smart phone. I would get the RAZR but I don't want Verizon and their prices haha

In Anandtech testing the N4 had very poor battery life. The iphone 5 did much better.

AnandTech - Google Nexus 4 Review - Google's new Flagship

I get almost 8-9 hours of screen time on my iphone 5 and 22-29 hours between charges

 

[ryanr509]

In Anandtech testing the N4 had very poor battery life. The iphone 5 did much better.

AnandTech - Google Nexus 4 Review - Google's new Flagship

I get almost 8-9 hours of screen time on my iphone 5 and 22-29 hours between charges

I would like to see a screen shot of 8-9 hours of screen on time. because I call bs

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[anon(94115)]

yeah i call BS on the 9 hours of on screen time. especially since a few of the stress tests that I have seen go 8 hours total

 

[ryanr509]

yeah i call BS on the 9 hours of on screen time. especially since a few of the stress tests that I have seen go 8 hours total

Ya most of the ppl I see on the razr maxx section get around 6 hours on 3g so maybe like 8 if ur on wifi and not doing anything besides texting. Or if u had all radios turned off except 2g

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[KwietStorm]

So I got my Nexus today, and after taking it off the charger, the battery was draining extremely quickly. Granted, much of what was going on in the proceeding hours was setup. It was downloading and installing 100+ apps and syncing accounts, and I did notice the drain slow down tremendously after everything settled. I won't know how it really is til I put the phone through its paces. I could get 22 hours on my One S at times, but closer to 14 on other days. These batteries are just funny like that. My question is with these mixed results people have been reporting, combined with other reports of the other Nexus devices running 4.2 charging slowly, I'm kind of surprised that I haven't seen any talk of a possible bug in 4.2 itself, directly correlating to battery charge. Couldn't this be very possible? Maybe its not the N4, but another 4.2 bug?

 

[Freshly_Snipes]

What settings do you have? Auto-sync, GPS, brightness, etc.

Everything on automatic sync. Never use GPS because I have a Garmin nuvi GPS in my car. Brightness is on auto. I live on Google Currents, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, XDA, Gmail, Android Central forums. So my screen is on majority of the day.

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[peejay1977]

Battery life on day 2, happy so far :

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[jflexe99]

First full day today on the N4. I had about 64% when I turned her on yesterday around 12:30ish or so. With setup and maybe 15-20 downloads, little browsing, lots of texting, playing with the phone. Went till about 10 or so till it was drained to 4%. I don't see the battery being bad IMO. Long as I can get through the day I am happy.

My original gNote normally got 2 days use without a charge...That's only 400 larger than this battery. Smaller screen, quad core, different components, but I can't see this phone not being able to last a day. Dunno why soo may people are crying.

 

[iortiz55]

In Anandtech testing the N4 had very poor battery life. The iphone 5 did much better.

AnandTech - Google Nexus 4 Review - Google's new Flagship

I get almost 8-9 hours of screen time on my iphone 5 and 22-29 hours between charges

WTF. screen shot please.