How's the battery life?

[scorpiodsu]

Of course it will take a couple more days to really see but has anyone who got the device yesterday and early today notice and significant differences with other phones?

 

[komatoez]

I went through my first charge pretty quickly. I downloaded at least 300MB of apps and such over so so 4G and had over 4 hours of screen time from a quick first charge (I took it off the charger soon after it showed 100% rather than let it sit). See the screen captures below. Also, I was having the wifi connection issues until I remembered that I had to do something about that (thanks forums!). All in all, I am very happy with the battery life so far, but then I am coming from a thunderbolt that was terrible.

 

[droid83]

Too early to tell. I can say its better than the Tbolt on the first day. Need to let it drain a few times, recharge and get better result. I'm not even using the 2850mah battery I got on ebay. Test mode at the moment.

 

[ibcop]

I always like to burn through a few cycles with the battery before getting a good feel on how the battery is. And not to mention most people aren't putting them down.

 

[racedog]

Only been a little more than 24 hours but so far my battery life is very impressive coming from the GN.


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[wowpaw]

I went through my first charge pretty quickly. I downloaded at least 300MB of apps and such over so so 4G and had over 4 hours of screen time from a quick first charge (I took it off the charger soon after it showed 100% rather than let it sit). See the screen captures below. Also, I was having the wifi connection issues until I remembered that I had to do something about that (thanks forums!). All in all, I am very happy with the battery life so far, but then I am coming from a thunderbolt that was terrible.

Wifi connection issues?

 

[komatoez]

Yeah. The wifi connection sort of goes in and out. You can fix it by dialing dialing a code (something like *#1100#) then selecting wifi from the menu and then turning off power save off.

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[quake101]

Are you guys using the power saving settings? If so, all of them or just select ones?

 

[Almeuit]

I am on the sprint one but hey we all have the same battery so..

I took these right as I plugged the phone in to go to bed. I was on 3g for at least 9-10 hours due to work during this time so if I had wifi I think it would of lasted longer.

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[wowpaw]

^ Can't really compare since we have LTE which tends to be a battery hog.

 

[Fillyo]

First day I went over 15 hours with over 2 hours of screen on time, good enough for me.

 

[Premium1]

3 hours screen on time isn't to shabby. Still seems much better than the nexus.

 

[memphisboy]

Anybody care to share what percentage do you have your screen brightness set at? I usually set mine at 50% but thinking of going 100%

 

[Almeuit]

^ Can't really compare since we have LTE which tends to be a battery hog.

I will in a month or two .

But some can compare wifi usage to this. Some have wifi a lot so their battery will be awesome

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[scorpiodsu]

I will in a month or two .

But some can compare wifi usage to this. Some have wifi a lot so their battery will be awesome

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What does wifi have to do with it? It just makes sense to compare battery life with the same network for consistency.

 

[Almeuit]

Lol k never mind

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[Necronius]

is anyone else having huge power draw from their browser? I've tried chrome and ics browser+ and they are obliterating my battery. 36 minutes into a fresh charge I'm down to 86% charge. I checked what was draining it, and the browser accounts for 46% vs only 23% for the screen. I've never seen an app drain more than the screen. No idea what to do to improve it.

 

[Channan]

is anyone else having huge power draw from their browser? I've tried chrome and ics browser+ and they are obliterating my battery. 36 minutes into a fresh charge I'm down to 86% charge. I checked what was draining it, and the browser accounts for 46% vs only 23% for the screen. I've never seen an app drain more than the screen. No idea what to do to improve it.

That's still not too bad. At that rate, you'll get over 4 hours of usage.

 

[thirsy1258]

That's still not too bad. At that rate, you'll get over 4 hours of usage.

I'll be pisssd if i only get four hours nexus was only getting that

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[eleeezy]

Really? I can only manage 2.5 hours screen time

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