Ok, so I have been on at&t for my whole phone-owning life. Coincidentally, (or maybe not) I have always found that my devices vastly underperformed the battery life number talked about in respected reviews and screen-shotted in various forums (like this one).
Now, I know that usage may vary depending on how one uses their device blah blah blah. I have always tried to mentally adjust for this by looking at screen on time, awake/deep sleep numbers and percentages compared with others. I often find myself posting in the forums for various phone forums trying to get to the bottom of my battery life woes. Through my last five ATT branded android phones (S3, S4, G2, Moto X, and now M8) I have found i generally get half the "normal person's" battery life with HALF the screen on time on average with no other wildly obvious sources of issue. I've RMAd phones to no avail and turned to these forums too. Nothing seems to work.
It gets interesting, though, when I look at the two other phone I've owned in that span: the Nexus 4 and 5. Both obviously non-ATT branded devices and both just so happened to get similar battery life to whatever everyone else on the internet was experiencing out of the box.
So, what am I to conclude from all that? Is it possible I'm missing something major because it seems to me that something about the ATT branded phones is hurting my battery in a big way. It can't just be a matter of bloatware can it? The area I live/work in give me good signal pretty much all day every day (besides that variable would have come into play with the Nexi as well).
What do ya'll think? Also, I couldn't quite figure out the best play to post this in these forums, so if someone has a better recommended forum, let me know and i'll move shop.
Thanks in advance, I'm curious if anyone has an answer on this one....
Now, I know that usage may vary depending on how one uses their device blah blah blah. I have always tried to mentally adjust for this by looking at screen on time, awake/deep sleep numbers and percentages compared with others. I often find myself posting in the forums for various phone forums trying to get to the bottom of my battery life woes. Through my last five ATT branded android phones (S3, S4, G2, Moto X, and now M8) I have found i generally get half the "normal person's" battery life with HALF the screen on time on average with no other wildly obvious sources of issue. I've RMAd phones to no avail and turned to these forums too. Nothing seems to work.
It gets interesting, though, when I look at the two other phone I've owned in that span: the Nexus 4 and 5. Both obviously non-ATT branded devices and both just so happened to get similar battery life to whatever everyone else on the internet was experiencing out of the box.
So, what am I to conclude from all that? Is it possible I'm missing something major because it seems to me that something about the ATT branded phones is hurting my battery in a big way. It can't just be a matter of bloatware can it? The area I live/work in give me good signal pretty much all day every day (besides that variable would have come into play with the Nexi as well).
What do ya'll think? Also, I couldn't quite figure out the best play to post this in these forums, so if someone has a better recommended forum, let me know and i'll move shop.
Thanks in advance, I'm curious if anyone has an answer on this one....