Ricolando
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I have Exchange Activsync with the default settings and I'd call my battery life stellar. I've had it set since day one so I can't measure it against a baseline.
I browsed for 4 minutes and lost 1%. It's probably less than 1% since it was at 85% for a while before I started my timer. It was nytimes.com in case you're wondering.do this test for me ..browse on your phone for 3 minutes straight and i guarantee that the phone will lose 4% in battery charge ..I guarantee it
While 4% would be considered a godsend after my Evo 4G with Gingerbread, I think that is a tad high for the E4GT. I would really be looking for something in the 1-2% per hour range. Experiences certainly vary but I wouldn't expect more than 2% per hour if you don't touch it.
Ok i may have a defective unit and ill he taking it back today ..I'm at only 32 percent batter life now
How many times have we already recommended you do this? *facepalm*
I'm sorry if this is a waste of your time, but I'm only trying to be thorough in trying to diagnose what's happening here. I want to have at least some base to my argument when I go into the Sprint Store and tell them I need a replacement phone. Also, I want to make sure I go through the steps and document it so I feel a bit better about the situation, and that I'm not dreaming it up or that I have unrealistic expectations about the device. I'm also trying to do this for anyone else having a similar experience, so they can read this thread and come away with a definitive answer instead of having the thread trail off to nothing.
That said; from all accounts, it seems I have a bum phone, and based on other users' experiences, I will be seeking a replacement. Thank you all for your help, and I will report back once I get the new unit and test it.
EDIT - I realize that your quote wasn't directed at me personally, but I wanted to make sure that every response here was given due consideration. I apologize if I sounded a bit annoyed back there. Just bummed out, is all.
EDIT - I realize that your quote wasn't directed at me personally, but I wanted to make sure that every response here was given due consideration. I apologize if I sounded a bit annoyed back there. Just bummed out, is all.
The first day I got my Epic I put it on the charger in the evening and took it off as soon as the charge indicator was blue it remained off the charger all night. The next day I completed configuring, installing, etc. and I got 28 hours out of the battery (I live and work in areas with between 1 and 3 bars). I had the windmill live wallpaper going at that time. I have two exchange accounts that push as well as the requisite Gmail push and 4 other email accounts set to 3 hour download intervals (it would be unacceptable to turn off push mail for exchange accounts as I cannot miss an email).
Recently, battery life dropped off to around 15 hours/day which was frustrating and I was able to determine that it would wake up and stay running for some 15 minutes randomly. Watchdog, et. al. did not indicate the rogue program so it became a hunt for the violator. Turns out Beautiful Widgets were updating weather every 3 hours, as I had set, but keeping the phone awake and grinding for an extended period during that time. During this period I stopped all the live wallpapers trying to find the problem.
After uninstalling beautiful widgets I am back to stellar battery life (75% after 8 hrs and 25 min). The same is true of others that I know with other Galaxy SII devices.
I would say that as you have basically a stock device you must have a bad handset or battery (likely the battery if you are seeing no heavy awake time except when you use it).
Best of luck and based on experience you may be underwhelmed by the iphone, except for the early availability of apps. Availability should change as Apple has lost in the marketshare game and good apps will draw consumer $.
Thanks for the info. As an update to my earlier posts, I am now at 3h8m on the battery, and with no use other than emails received, checking said emails and checking the battery, I am down to 80%. Granted, that might not sound horrible, but again, I'm not doing anything with the phone. Here is a rundown of the listed services and the % they used of the battery, for reference:
Android OS: 68%
Email: 14%
Display: 11%
Cell Standby: 4%
Phone Idle: 3%
Epsom: Regarding your return to stellar battery life after uninstalling Beautiful Widgets; Did you return to your normal usage pattern? Yours seems about how I would use it.
Yes, I'm back to my normal usage pattern (same as I had with my EVO) which amounts to 30+ texts, 100+ emails (reply to about 20 from the phone), 2 hours of talk time, 20 min web browsing, 20 min of gaming during the day and 1 hr after work (sudoku, words with friends and hanging with friends).
When I had beautiful widgets installed I had to curtail my use, but for some reason I could still talk 5 hours and not kill the phone. It appears to be very efficient at using the cellular radio for that function.
I regularly got 15 hours out of my EVO. I was anticipating better with this phone, but not this much better. Your use % looks similar to mine so I would say you've got a bum battery or handset.
Guys I am not trolling if you think so.. I am actually having the same problems he is having ..I even have my battery protection starting at 70%and it does me no good ..I don't have anybody Widgets either ..oh and another thing is that my phone is rapidly charging now but rapidly decreases ..I plug it in and it gains 20% in like 15 minute of charging
Just to give you my experience with the phone so far OP, since I think I have a similar usage pattern as you do:
- I have 5 email accounts with periodic syncing (I think once every 1 hour) and two of them on Exchange. I've disabled background data to test the effect on the battery.
- Weather/Clock (Simi Widget), AP Mobile, Google reader, Yahoo Finance, More Icons (like 4 of them) widgets active.
- I hardly use the phone to actually talk but use it to check emails, browse on occasions, don't really game too much but will use it to read the news.
- Round trip commute to work is about 2 hours total and I use the phone's bluetooth to stream music.
Above is my general usage pattern and to summarize today's usage:
- Took the phone off charge around 6:20 AM
- Used the bluetooth to stream music on my way to work and noticed the battery was around 91% when I arrived to work at 8 AM
- I updated my contacts with some photos from previous emails which took around 30 minutes.
- Read some news via 3G for about 20 minutes.
- Checked emails periodically.
- Have not been connected to Wifi at all today
- Decent coverage at work.
Currently, I'm checking my usage stats and I'm at 6 hrs and 35 minutes on battery and have 57% remaining. 54% of my usage is eaten up by the display which is at below 50% brightness settings.
Is this great? Not really, but it will get me through the whole day on a single charge. I have not experienced the awesome battery life a lot of folks here have been seeing but somewhere in the middle of the AWESOME to CRAP.... so basically acceptable.
Thanks for the info. As an update to my earlier posts, I am now at 3h8m on the battery, and with no use other than emails received, checking said emails and checking the battery, I am down to 80%. Granted, that might not sound horrible, but again, I'm not doing anything with the phone. Here is a rundown of the listed services and the % they used of the battery, for reference:
Android OS: 68%
Email: 14%
Display: 11%
Cell Standby: 4%
Phone Idle: 3%