With the spate of questions about battery life lately, I have to wonder if it's just a quirk of this battery in conjuction with the way the Note is used.
I know it's a big battery and all that, and that batteries of similar types have similar properties, but, as some of us are closing in on the year mark, more of us are finding that duration is slipping with little change to our phones. Yeah, there's a spate of Kit Kat complaints but even some of us who are still on Jellybean are starting to see averages drop. My buddy at work is seeing the same thing.
My average has fallen from 24hr to a little over 22. Some of that might be a difference in charging cycles but it makes me wonder if perhaps the retention curve is reduced a bit because of the size of the screen, increased use of streaming videos, etc.
My old Razr stayed pretty constant until about 22 months out. At that point, it went downhill fast. I didn't use it nearly as much for streaming, except for music.
There might not be any link, and I'm not complaining, since batteries are pretty cheap (and Zman wondered why people don't just keep swapping out batteries and my buddy at work said he stopped doing it because it felt like he was stressing the snaps in the back with all of the swapping out).
I just wonder if the ratio between screen size/usage and the capacity of the battery might causing premature loss. Obviously it's really good upfront so no complaints. Just wondering if it's just the nature of the battery because of capacity vs. use/infrastructure.
This isn't to say that some might not have issues with rogue apps or wasteful setups.
I've just noticed that my own daily battery life has slipped. As I said, there could be some variation in charging cycles but not that much. And I'm streaming more Netflix than I did in the beginning. But I went a few weeks without streaming any Netflix and my charging cycles were still down.
Like I said, just spitballing.
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I know it's a big battery and all that, and that batteries of similar types have similar properties, but, as some of us are closing in on the year mark, more of us are finding that duration is slipping with little change to our phones. Yeah, there's a spate of Kit Kat complaints but even some of us who are still on Jellybean are starting to see averages drop. My buddy at work is seeing the same thing.
My average has fallen from 24hr to a little over 22. Some of that might be a difference in charging cycles but it makes me wonder if perhaps the retention curve is reduced a bit because of the size of the screen, increased use of streaming videos, etc.
My old Razr stayed pretty constant until about 22 months out. At that point, it went downhill fast. I didn't use it nearly as much for streaming, except for music.
There might not be any link, and I'm not complaining, since batteries are pretty cheap (and Zman wondered why people don't just keep swapping out batteries and my buddy at work said he stopped doing it because it felt like he was stressing the snaps in the back with all of the swapping out).
I just wonder if the ratio between screen size/usage and the capacity of the battery might causing premature loss. Obviously it's really good upfront so no complaints. Just wondering if it's just the nature of the battery because of capacity vs. use/infrastructure.
This isn't to say that some might not have issues with rogue apps or wasteful setups.
I've just noticed that my own daily battery life has slipped. As I said, there could be some variation in charging cycles but not that much. And I'm streaming more Netflix than I did in the beginning. But I went a few weeks without streaming any Netflix and my charging cycles were still down.
Like I said, just spitballing.
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