Is this normal re: HTC One (M8) battery life

[danyzfr6]

I've only had the phone since Thursday, but I am pleasantly with the battery life so far. I get through the day with heavy use and still have about 35% to 40% by the time I go to sleep. Does think it may be because I'm in an area with excellent cell signal, but compared to the Nexus 5 I had, it does appear to be way better.

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[Soundtrack to Chaos]

The radio is probably the largest draw on the battery, but the fact that you're going to also introduce two different OSs is another huge flaw in you're comparison.

My iPad 2 gets far better battery life than my M7 One, but that's because it's a tablet running iOS and not a mobile phone running Android. It's apples and oranges. Batteries are different, OSs are different, radios are different and usage is different.

Didn't I previously stated something along the lines of Android sucks in standby while ios doesn't? That seems to be the major difference. I have a Nexus 7, galaxy s3 and a ipad, two of the three mentioned devices suck in standby, and I'm sure both have larger batteries than my Air, especially my phone with its 7000mah extended battery.

 

[Jdroids]

Android sucks in standby, you can always expect to lose battery life over night. Where as I can fully charge my iPad, to out for 12 hours, come home with my battery at 98%.

I'm not sure why android devices can't be as good in standby


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That's not true any more. My Razr HD can lose only 1~2% overnight like 7 hours while on WiFi and 2~3% on LTE. And from what I see, S4, G2, Note 3 can do that easily too. This is mostly due to better, efficient snapdragon/radio chipset and android OS optimization since ICS.

 

[Soundtrack to Chaos]

That's not true any more. My Razr HD can lose only 1~2% overnight like 7 hours while on WiFi and 2~3% on LTE. And from what I see, S4, G2, Note 3 can do that easily too. This is mostly due to better, efficient snapdragon/radio chipset and android OS optimization since ICS.

Sure doesn't work that way on my android devices nor the TC's device. My devices are on jelly and kit kat.

I lose anywhere between 5-8% over night on each


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[Jdroids]

Sure doesn't work that way on my android devices nor the TC's device. My devices are on jelly and kit kat.

I lose anywhere between 5-8% over night on each


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It depends on how it's used. Just because you had such experience doesn't mean others can't get better battery life overnight. It could be you had some rogue apps syncing too much, consuming battery through sleeping or you were in bad signal area. Still 5~8% overnight is not that bad if for those reasons. Another thing is I always keep GPS off while sleeping through night. If GPS is left on, google location service will drink more juice.

On every new android phone forum since S3, I watched threads on overnight battery drain and of course it varies with users. but generally new android device are pretty good battery sippers overnight unless there is some issues with apps or location for signal.

 

[Soundtrack to Chaos]

It depends on how it's used. Just because you had such experience doesn't mean others can't get better battery life overnight. It could be you had some rogue apps syncing too much, consuming battery through sleeping or you were in bad signal area. Still 5~8% overnight is not that bad if for those reasons. Another thing is I always keep GPS off while sleeping through night. If GPS is left on, google location service will drink more juice.

On every new android phone forum since S3, I watched threads on overnight battery drain and of course it varies with users. but generally new android device are pretty good battery sippers overnight unless there is some issues with apps or location for signal.

I'm not saying my performance goes the same for everyone, but on a whole it seems that people who use the android platform have this same issue. It's not a huge deal, but it's annoying .

I never disable my gps on any device, whether I travel with it or not


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[dtblair24]

in my insignificant experience...I too agree that iOS does a lot better in standby mode. My iOS devices are absolute champs when it comes to that.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

This was taken just now while the phone is charging.
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I would be extremely happy with that honestly.

 

[adriandb]

Who doesn't plug their phone in at night? Battery loss overnight is irrelevant.

 

[Jdroids]

Who doesn't plug their phone in at night? Battery loss overnight is irrelevant.

I don't plug it overnight. I only recharge only before or after bed time and see how it drains overnight. It may sound cumbersome, but once you got used to it it's easy to do. One benefit of this practice is that you get to set up your phone for best battery saving in stand by mode because overnight drain is very good indicator/monitor of how your phone does in standby.

Android phones are still very dependent on apps/setting when it comes to battery drain on stand by. In that regard, I agree iOS does better as it's not very sensitive to how phone is used. But once set up properly, today's android phones can do just as good or even better on stand by.

 

[doc31]

I'm not saying my performance goes the same for everyone, but on a whole it seems that people who use the android platform have this same issue. It's not a huge deal, but it's annoying .

I never disable my gps on any device, whether I travel with it or not


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Don't see how you can compare a phone standby time to a tablet. I don't use iOS match but they seem to do a matter job with power management but that's besides the point. Your phone in order to work properly must maintain an active connection to the network (polling for incoming calls etc). So if you want to go a better comparison put your phone in airline mode and just turn on wifi i'm sure you'll see a bigger difference then.
Also the ipad air has a 8820 mah battery. My Nexus 7 (2013) has on for 3d 16h and has 64% left (3950 mAh battery)

 

[adriandb]

Don't see how you can compare a phone standby time to a tablet.

You can't.

 

[Soundtrack to Chaos]

Who doesn't plug their phone in at night? Battery loss overnight is irrelevant.

No it isn't

 

[Soundtrack to Chaos]

Don't see how you can compare a phone standby time to a tablet. I don't use iOS match but they seem to do a matter job with power management but that's besides the point. Your phone in order to work properly must maintain an active connection to the network (polling for incoming calls etc). So if you want to go a better comparison put your phone in airline mode and just turn on wifi i'm sure you'll see a bigger difference then.
Also the ipad air has a 8820 mah battery. My Nexus 7 (2013) has on for 3d 16h and has 64% left (3950 mAh battery)

Not even just that, when I compare Nexus 7 to my iPad I get the same standby issue.

And wow, I didn't know that the iPad had that big a battery, I always wanted to know the mah on it and couldn't find it, thanks.

 

[the1m.polo]

Really? How so? I use my tablet to capture more notifications than even my phone collects, and the iPad turns it's screen on after every notification, so to have that great battery life is pretty ridiculous, as compared to how my phone and my Android tablet work

Look at it this way, if u Sit in your car and had it in park and rev your engine to about 4k Rpms non stop well That's your cell phone looking for signal constantly. Compared to your tablet being revved to only 1k Rpms non stop to use WiFi only.. Which do you think would burn gas faster??..then add the fact your tablet has a bigger gas tank..

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[D13H4RD2L1V3]

I'll agree that iOS is better at standby battery life.

However, Android is getting better at that, so don't count off Android just yet for standby battery life.

 

[mario64]

Quick update. Disabling Blinkfeed didn't seem to make any difference and it still dropped 11% overnight but overall doesn't seem to be too bad. I've used it a fair bit today and it still has 49% left.

 

[roflwaffleton]

Android sucks in standby, you can always expect to lose battery life over night. Where as I can fully charge my iPad, to out for 12 hours, come home with my battery at 98%.

I'm not sure why android devices can't be as good in standby


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My tablet. I'd say that's pretty good standby.

 

[roflwaffleton]

Quick update. Disabling Blinkfeed didn't seem to make any difference and it still dropped 11% overnight but overall doesn't seem to be too bad. I've used it a fair bit today and it still has 49% left.

I don't think disabling Blinkfeed would make much of a difference. The way mine is set up, I have to manually refresh it. So it's not updating unless I want it to.

 

[eglnt]

I have been getting insanely good battery usage on this phone. I have 3 different email accounts on this phone and I use blinkfeed during my breaks. I used Google maps yesterday as well. I have never had a phone battery last this long. I had the S3 as my last phone and I was changing batteries after 8 or 9 hours. Always carried at least one spare.