With all the talk about heavy moderate or light use I'm starting to understand one person's definition of those terms is different than others.
There are some people that have their phones for just personal use. They read FB and other social media. They listen to music. Might watch a little You Tube some gaming etc. I'd consider that to be light to slightly moderate depending on SOT. BUT if they dont get a lot of work related email it changes things.
For someone like me this is my personal and work phone. I get a LOT of email daily and answered many back. I am receiving upwards of 50-60 emails in a day and responding to half of them.
I am texting frequently when not in the car and when in the car on the phone hands free with plugged in ear buds.
I do use FB and probably check it hourly for 5-10 minutes. I check Twitter occasionally during the day as well.
Most of my use in battery is email, text, reading some articles relevant to work, and pulling up video links sent to me. I'll use the AC forums app as well as feedly and the WSJ app.
To me when you're using it in this manner it uses a LOT of juice apparently.
That's heavy use in my opinion. Always reaching for it throughout the day. And I don't have an office I go to. I have a home office so I'm not restricted from when I use it and how I use it.
I'm getting with Heavy use in this manner about 9-11 hours max and maybe that's what I should expect despite my iPhone 6+ under the same conditions giving me 12-15 hours.
Side note: I shut off WiFi to the phone and noticed MUCH better battery life using just 4g or 3g because my signal is not great. To me that's the opposite of what SHOULD happen.
Maybe with an update this will change. I'm on Verizon BTW
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Actually emails, texts, browsing here and there, etc.. You can get a lot of hours. Watching videos and some games, will go through battery much quicker.
If you have the WSJ app, something to keep in mind, is many news apps use location, but don't tell you unless you go digging in the settings.
Even with that many emails coming in, syncing, depending on how often, could use a lot. Are you using the email app or Gmail? I sync the inbox of one account, it sends me notifications, but that doesn't stop the numbers showing up beside the other boxes or me having notifications. I mean if you have regular people you might want to be notified immediately when they email, you might want to set up some as priority and sync your priority box and the when you open the app, you just tap on "all inboxes" and see what else you have there.
I disconnected the home phone years ago, we all have cell numbers, I use my phone for personal and work. Sometimes I'm on the office, sometimes at home, sometimes St other offices. Sometimes I will be at places that have horrible signal and it will drain my battery a lot. I have a fast car charger that I can get about 30% battery in about 10 minutes. I also have a fast charge external battery if needed and I have an extra fast charge wall charger block I keep in a small bag in my purse with the external battery. Usually the only thing I ever had to use is the car charger, but every once in a while, I'm out somewhere I know a plug us available and I'll plug up my phone while there.
Now there is something else you might want to consider and my sister has this with her iPhone 6, is a charging case. It isn't something you use all the time, just if you are in a position where battery is running low, pop the case on. I find the fast car charger does well. You don't have to go all day without plugging it onto the car charger when you are in the car driving between appointments.
Also with iPhone and Android, you have a lot more running in the background with Android than you do with iPhone, so it is really hard to compare the batteries. Just a basic phone and not a work phone especially, less functionality with the iPhone works for many people. I can pull excel or word documents from my home computer, my office computer and my office network, on my phone, I can do them on my phone and upload to all three. For me, Android is better functioning for those type things than iPhone is.
Android also reports battery in an odd way for some. If low signal is using a lot of battery, it is going to take getting that booster to get a true use of battery for you and that can also mean, you are able to turn on some of the other features you have stopped and not get bad battery drain. A bad signal with an LTE phone will drain your battery fast. Also once things are like you want, you can free ignore the percentages of use, unless you start draining quickly for some odd reason.
Think of the battery this way. You have a pie and 3 people are eating. One person eats 1.5 pieces, 2 people eat the 1.5 piece together. Now one person will show eating 50%, but that isn't 50% of the pie, but 50% of the pie that has been eaten.
99% of the time, my screen time is my highest percentage. Now if I'm in a low signal area, my Android System or call standby by will sometimes pop up higher, but I know it is the bad signal causing it. Good signal and high screen and Android System very high, I start looking for something strange happening.
Now if I'm out somewhere and will be for a while and signal is low, I will turn off location completely while there. Yes, I have some things that aren't going to work, like geo news or my weather alert radio, those are based strictly on location, but that stops the battery drain from them. Most times in don't worry about it though, I just stick the phone on the car charger when I leave that place.
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