For in the field, a spare battery or two would seem to be a help (why I have one).
Yeah I got a double pack and haven't regretted it. I just wanted to find out if he was full of poo about his 12 hours of screen time in 4 days.
For in the field, a spare battery or two would seem to be a help (why I have one).
Read up on how amoled screens work and use as many dark themes as possible. I easily get 6 hours of screen time, sometimes over 8 hours if I'm not using it for stuff that keeps the cpu going while it's off like streaming music and enable power saver.
Not just dark, but downright black:
How much power does a black interface really save on AMOLED displays? | Greenbot
dark works, black works best, that's why my Firefox has black background add-on installed.
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The iPhone might have a 10-15% advantage, but not a huge difference. the 6p will get much better idle though.
iOS is not reliable in tracking actual usage.
There are times when my 6+ will say that I have 10hrs usage and 1.5days standby. The standby is correct but there is no way I used that phone for 10hrs.
My iPad is the same way. I barely use it anymore since buying my Note 4 and 6+ so it sits there. The standby times average about 14 days and it shows over 1 day of usage. How is that possible when I use the thing for maybe 5 minutes a day? I also turned off data on the iPad because I don't want to pay for the data plan anymore, I have no use for a data plan on it.
I think the way the Android OS calculates usage is far more accurate but it's not as accurate as many people think it is.
Just use your phone and really, it doesn't matter what the 6+ shows as usage because it's just plain wrong and always has been since the first iPhone.
Ios usage =Android time held awake plus SOT. This includes background sync, music, calls,etc. Basically anything that uses the cpu, screen on and screen off .
There is no option to see SOT on the iPhone.
For example, I got 5 hours 30 minutes of usage,but only 10 minutes of SOT here.
Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 4
My point was that you said before that it was not reliable in providing usage, which is inaccurate. What you are looking for is SOT which it doesn't provide. I would agree with you that it is confusing but the usage stats are accurate.Regardless, iOS makes it hard to figure out just how much usage you are actually getting. Since all of those processes are lumped together, it seems like the iPhone/iPad is getting far much more usage then just about any device ever invented.
As long as i get thru a day, i could care less. I plug it in every night anyway.
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