17 hours wow!!!

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:09 PM

I had my phone since March 17th and wow did I have battery problems, it is like they no longer exist, I have attached a pic of stats 17 hours and still going strong, this is without extended battery,I run my mouth a lot lmao. So before you return your phone, unless its a defect give the battery time to adjust to the way you use your phone. Check out my OMG I WOKE UP thread you will see that I had a billion battery probs lol.

**m.albertlee** · 03-22-2011, 04:13 PM

what significant changes have you done to the phone to make the batteries last that long? and How light/heavy was your usage? and is your phone Rooted with S-Off or non-rooted?

**Upstreammiami** · 03-22-2011, 04:15 PM

wtf thats insane lol

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by m.albertlee

what significant changes have you done to the phone to make the batteries last that long? and How light/heavy was your usage? and is your phone Rooted with S-Off or non-rooted?

I dont know a thing about rooting lol im still new at this but I did a bump charge (someone helped me here, its under the Juice Defender/ Blockbuster thread) I talk a lot play games and surf the web, watch videos
(medium usage) talk too much to be light lol, I am not big at downloading movies, I also changed the hour in which I sync things from 1 hour to 4 hours. I went through hell with this battery in the beginning, I would wake up and battery would be dead.

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Upstreammiami

wtf thats insane lol

I know Im loving it

the bump charge is what got me going and lovely people here are amazing always help, and I know I can ask some dumb questions. I ordered a extended battery but I am going to return it, I don't need it.

**Sploinkin** · 03-22-2011, 04:19 PM

What happens when you reboot your phone? Was part of that overnight? If not, excellent battery life!

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by Sploinkin

What happens when you reboot your phone? Was part of that overnight? If not, excellent battery life!

part was at 12 midnight off charger went to bed got up at 5 am been with it ever since so yes about 4 hours down time but for me that's amazing because before even with downtime I still was losing battery life. I count all the time off the charger because it never made a diff was still losing battery, even more battery loss in sleep mode.

**Shygar** · 03-22-2011, 04:25 PM

Yea after reading your other thread and implementing some of those changes, I'm getting a lot better battery as well. One thing that seemed to help a lot was to turn on wifi and to uninstall task killer.

My biggest usage is still the screen. I have it set to auto adjust so if I start seeing bad battery I'll lower that again.

**jmz768** · 03-22-2011, 04:26 PM

You didn't even use it for anything. Why exactly should we be so impressed?

**shley00** · 03-22-2011, 04:26 PM

I've seen no changes. You're lucky

**Carbon Stig** · 03-22-2011, 04:28 PM

This sounds promising. On my 2nd day of owning and hating the battery life. Its actually charging on my desk, while i use my iPod to reply and surf the web lol.

**jim302** · 03-22-2011, 04:29 PM

Not surprising. I haven't had any battery issues, and I have been getting a lot of calls and more texts than usual. No 4G LTE here yet, but I did have Wi-Fi connected and Bluetooth running 24/7 (too lazy to turn them off because I will always forget to turn them back on).

The display seems to be the biggest battery hog in the phone (which is not a surprise, they usually are the biggest consumer of power, and this display is huge). If you are using voice and quick texts or emails, the battery should last just fine for most people. Games and heavy Internet browsing are another story and will probably make an extended battery necessary. Not that different from any other phone I have used.

Voice calls just aren't that big of a deal. I had over 1.5 hours yesterday and the battery lasted a good 12 hours before hitting 20% (and it only hit that after playing Angry Birds for a while). And I was in an area with bad reception, which causes the battery to drain faster on any phone.

Also, anyone coming over from a BlackBerry will need to get used to the fact that their old phones were unusually efficient with battery usage and data usage due to the way they are designed. The increased features with other platforms come with some costs, and one of those is battery life.

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by jz68

You didn't even use it for anything. Why exactly should we be so impressed?

wow, alright you don't know my story I am impressed because I thought my battery was defected, I could only get two hours in of talk time before it would die, it would be off the charger and still die while in sleep mode. I didn't post this to be ridiculed I put it up here for the people that are having difficulty with there batteries while it is off the charger, Therefore if this does not apply to you, don't read it.

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Shygar

Yea after reading your other thread and implementing some of those changes, I'm getting a lot better battery as well. One thing that seemed to help a lot was to turn on wifi and to uninstall task killer.

My biggest usage is still the screen. I have it set to auto adjust so if I start seeing bad battery I'll lower that again.

Hi shy I was going to use task killer and was told not to because it does more damage than good.

**shley00** · 03-22-2011, 04:31 PM

What % do you have your brightness on?

**shley00** · 03-22-2011, 04:32 PM

I guess I should try bump charging

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by shley00

I've seen no changes. You're lucky

Hi shel did you read the other thread, Juice Defender/ Blockbuster? That thread is very helpful, I followed the steps on page 4 of that.

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by shley00

What % do you have your brightness on?

it's on 25%

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by jim302

Not surprising. I haven't had any battery issues, and I have been getting a lot of calls and more texts than usual. No 4G LTE here yet, but I did have Wi-Fi connected and Bluetooth running 24/7 (too lazy to turn them off because I will always forget to turn them back on).

The display seems to be the biggest battery hog in the phone (which is not a surprise, they usually are the biggest consumer of power, and this display is huge). If you are using voice and quick texts or emails, the battery should last just fine for most people. Games and heavy Internet browsing are another story and will probably make an extended battery necessary. Not that different from any other phone I have used.

Voice calls just aren't that big of a deal. I had over 1.5 hours yesterday and the battery lasted a good 12 hours before hitting 20% (and it only hit that after playing Angry Birds for a while). And I was in an area with bad reception, which causes the battery to drain faster on any phone.

Also, anyone coming over from a BlackBerry will need to get used to the fact that their old phones were unusually efficient with battery usage and data usage due to the way they are designed. The increased features with other platforms come with some costs, and one of those is battery life.

wow jim that's amazing you had no battery issues, and your right I get less time when doing certain things such as blue tooth, therefore I use a headset instead. I am just happy that the battery is adapting to my usage, coming from iphone4 I was going insane lol

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by Carbon Stig

This sounds promising. On my 2nd day of owning and hating the battery life. Its actually charging on my desk, while i use my iPod to reply and surf the web lol.

Hi carbon the battery will get better, we all purchased the phone not to limit our use but to experience a better time while surfing the net. We shouldn't have to substitute for the amount of money we paid for the phone.

**want a droid** · 03-22-2011, 04:45 PM

He's right though. You must not be using your phone if you're getting 17 hours. What was your display time on at the time of that picture being taken? I'm guessing <1 hour?

After 7 hours with my display on for 2 hours my phone was down to 58% (on WiFi). After 7 hours with my display on for 2 hours on 4G my phone dies.

I could also easily get 17 hours without using my phone...

**Forgetful** · 03-22-2011, 04:48 PM

Wow your battery is better than mine now. Good to hear it all worked out. These smart phones are wonky.

**lovy** · 03-22-2011, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by want a droid

He's right though. You must not be using your phone if you're getting 17 hours. What was your display time on at the time of that picture being taken? I'm guessing <1 hour?

After 7 hours with my display on for 2 hours my phone was down to 58% (on WiFi). After 7 hours with my display on for 2 hours on 4G my phone dies.

I could also easily get 17 hours without using my phone...

I have been using my phone all day to talk, I could hardly do that before. As I stated I posted this for the people that could not take their phone off the charger at all without it dying, I was one of those people. I just wanted them to know that defected battery is not always the case just takes some adjusting thats all. If my phone was charged and off the charger I couldn't even get two hours.

**want a droid** · 03-22-2011, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by lovy

I have been using my phone all day to talk, I could hardly do that before. As I stated I posted this for the people that could not take their phone off the charger at all without it dying, I was one of those people. I just wanted them to know that defected battery is not always the case just takes some adjusting thats all. If my phone was charged and off the charger I couldn't even get two hours.

What was your display on time at 17 hours?

**Iceycold** · 03-22-2011, 04:53 PM

Hey Iovy, you posted on my Juice Defender & Block buster help, remember I helped you out a bit?

dam 17 hours is insane, what other additional tweaks did you do besides the ones in that old post I told you to do?