Android users...please put me at ease

[srkmagnus]

Battery is a very subjective topic. What is acceptable to one person is not for another. Don't be afraid to use your device out of fear that battery will be consumed too quick. Here's a great writeup by B. Diddy on battery saving tips if you feel that there is some extra life to squeeze out of it: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...how-tos/298919-guide-battery-saving-tips.html

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[SocratesRising]

Hi all

Not only have i found battery life to be brilliant on my M8 but it also charges faster then any other phone I've ever had and that has really surprised me. I have syncing on all the time for Google Now, my calendar and 3 E-mail accounts on push and only GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth are turned off when not in use i also always have my screen brightness on full as i always do on all my phones as personally always want the best screen experience possible all the time. This is the first HTC phone i have had since the HTC HD WM 6.5 days so I'm far from being a HTC fan boy and have to say i am really impressed by not just the excellent build quality of the M8 but also by how unobtrusive Sense is initially i was planning on flashing my M8 to a GPE Rom but now really can't see the point. Which is very different to how i felt about my Galaxy S3 which ran a Nexus Rom from as soon as i got it as couldn't stand all that Samsung bloat and TouchWiz. As i have typed this post i have just checked my Battery stats and after 21h 49m 5s i am on 50% i don't know about anyone else but i think that's pretty amazing and I'm not using any battery saving modes either.

Marc

Does anyone every email you?! 50% after 21 hours, get outta here, lol! Did you actually use it during that time for phone calls, web browsing, texts - any apps like chess or whatever?

 

[petvas72]

Hi all

Not only have i found battery life to be brilliant on my M8 but it also charges faster then any other phone I've ever had and that has really surprised me. I have syncing on all the time for Google Now, my calendar and 3 E-mail accounts on push and only GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth are turned off when not in use i also always have my screen brightness on full as i always do on all my phones as personally always want the best screen experience possible all the time. This is the first HTC phone i have had since the HTC HD WM 6.5 days so I'm far from being a HTC fan boy and have to say i am really impressed by not just the excellent build quality of the M8 but also by how unobtrusive Sense is initially i was planning on flashing my M8 to a GPE Rom but now really can't see the point. Which is very different to how i felt about my Galaxy S3 which ran a Nexus Rom from as soon as i got it as couldn't stand all that Samsung bloat and TouchWiz. As i have typed this post i have just checked my Battery stats and after 21h 49m 5s i am on 50% i don't know about anyone else but i think that's pretty amazing and I'm not using any battery saving modes either.

Marc

I have my HTC One M8 since Tuesday, so I cannot really say how battery life is, since I am playing with it all the time, but my first impression is that it uses more power than my iPhone 5S (my previous device). I guess I will have to see how it behaves in a couple of days when the novelty wears off and I start using it normally

You said that it charges very quickly. I had it last night on my iMac per USB connected and it didn't even manage to charge it fully after 5 hours..When on A/C it charges much faster though.

 

[buckifvr]

I heard that HTC will have a new charger available which will charge even faster. Not available yet as far as I know.

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[Dogmann]

Hi SocratesRising,

I must admit my phone isn't full of apps and no games as i just don't play them plus i also delete what apps i can that i don't use or need so those apps aren't running and wasting my battery also I'm lucky that the areas i am in all have great cell cover so battery drain from searching for a signal is minimal which of course makes a big difference. But yes i had quite a few E-mails that i not only read but deleted or answered and a couple of calls although they were short and used Google Now a couple of times to check travel times, also my wallpaper is mostly black which i have also been led to believe uses less power. I'm not saying its going to be that good everyday but in the 5 days I've had the phone battery life has been very impressive and not once have i got close to running out of battery and been in desperate need to charge it. Anyway here is a screen shot taken a few minutes after my post in the other battery thread just to confirm it.

[/url]HTC One M8 battery status by Marc Obermann, on Flickr][/IMG]

@petvas72

I mostly charge through the mains but even when i have used a USB port on my tower it still seems much faster then previous phones I've had.
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Marc

 

[mmmcheesedanish]

The power saver and extreme power saver would be nice but Verizon has not agreed to it yet I guess? I want that update!

 

[monsieurms]

I've had an iPhone 4S for over 2 and a half years. When the 5s came and there was not a bigger screen I planned my escape.

Battery tech hasn't caught up to phones yet, alas. It's always a good plan, but especially without a removable battery, try to top off frequently. Some lifestyles are more on the go--if you're a traveling salesman, for instance; but even there you can have a battery pack in the car. However, I think a lot of folks just don't think about it. You sit down at your computer, home or office. Have the charger in a convenient place (buy more than one!) and put it on the charger if you're not using it. You're watching TV? Top off. You go to get dressed? Top off. You go to sleep? Top off. There are lots of opportunities to top off in most peoples' daily lives. Some will be inconvenient, but some will be convenient enough so you won't even notice and will wonder why you weren't doing it before.

 

[petaf]

I will be honest. I didn't read the above responses. I did see some familiar posters that I tend to agree with so I am guessing a good chunk of this you have. Although my own OCD wants me to reply so I am.

Android, while insanely customizable, also has a few things that can suck battery.
#1. Turn off automatic Sync if you can. SETTINGS -- Accounts -- Turn off sync or at least go into each account and disable any pieces you really don't need syncing.
#2. Apps: Same thing as above for apps. Social Media, Weather and Email apps are the most common. Most have a section in the settings to set the refresh period. Turn them to Manual or at least a more realistic side. I pretty much disable auto-sync across the board. I can wait 1.5 seconds for Facebook to pull the updated feed, or for my email to sync (mainly because I hate having pushed emails constantly makign me want to check them and 95% of the time I don't care right then...lol).
#3. GPS / Location: Limit the depth of that. I tend to leave mine in POWER SAVING unless I'm travelling and then I set it for regular GPS while I use Google Maps.
#4.. Bluetooth, NFC, Wifi and the such. Disable them if they're not in use as there's no point. Especially NFC.
#5. If you do Root your phone... install Greenify. It takes almost no juice (it never shows up in my battery consumption portions of any relevance) but it's designed to keep apps from waking your phone and running in the background when they're not in use. You can specify the apps it manages so if you have something you don't want it to monitor (weather, mms and so forth) you can let those run as much as they want, but the things you DO want to limit use it will keep them from waking your phone. Wakelock prevention can help a lot.
#6. Set your screen to a lower brightness setting unless you need it, or at least set it to Auto.
#7. If you don't root your phone, in response to my #5, shut down apps as you're not using them so they don't try to eat up CPU processes, or data checks.

The above tends to help me a lot. Refresh/Sync is a HUGE side of things for me because just about every app now a days wants to update pieces, and that can tax your phone quite a bit when not on WIFI due to it pulling LTE data for it.

I mean no disrespect, but where's the fun in doing all this? I'd rather enjoy my phone's features and charge when needed.

 

[buckifvr]

Battery tech hasn't caught up to phones yet, alas. It's always a good plan, but especially without a removable battery, try to top off frequently. Some lifestyles are more on the go--if you're a traveling salesman, for instance; but even there you can have a battery pack in the car. However, I think a lot of folks just don't think about it. You sit down at your computer, home or office. Have the charger in a convenient place (buy more than one!) and put it on the charger if you're not using it. You're watching TV? Top off. You go to get dressed? Top off. You go to sleep? Top off. There are lots of opportunities to top off in most peoples' daily lives. Some will be inconvenient, but some will be convenient enough so you won't even notice and will wonder why you weren't doing it before.

All that "topping" off really seems unnecessary for the average person. Maybe for an ultra power user.

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[monsieurms]

All that "topping" off really seems unnecessary for the average person. Maybe for an ultra power user.

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Or, maybe, the person who posted the thread.

 

[pappy53]

You won't be able to do that on any of your past phones, that's for sure.

Actually, with the described use, that is very possible with the 4S, 5, or 5S.

 

[Vsweety]

I got an HTC One M8, phones awesome but I question the battery and I'm familiar with 4G drain and such. At 19 hours my phone is at 29% but a lot of that was in sleep mode. I made one 5 minute call, used navigation for about 30 minutes, texted throughout the day, used the browser a little, Facebook a little, email super lightly and woke the phone up a lot throughout my work day to check notifications. Sound ok?

Sounds excellent!
Of course we all want a battery that drains only 10% over 19 hours with medium heavy use. But that's simply not realistic at the current state of technology.
I wouldn't unduly worry if I were you.

 

[digitard]

I mean no disrespect, but where's the fun in doing all this? I'd rather enjoy my phone's features and charge when needed.

I mean no disrespect, but where's the fun in doing all this? I'd rather enjoy my phone's features and charge when needed.

I don't see where it's somehow losing "fun", or any features?
SYNC: Doesn't matter to me. I hate push email, and prefer to check it when I feel like it w/o alerts constantly coming in (I even set my work email app to manual updates). Same with just about every single social media alert on this planet. I don't need to know you replied to my comment, or I was mentioned. I'll find out when I feel like checking and it wont occupy extra time in my day by wondering why my phone just beeped.
APPS: No reason for them to constantly sync IMO since they update So often as it is. My FB feed updates every few seconds. Having it sync every 10-30-60mins is pointless since it has to pull the newposts anyways.
GPS: Dont need it. I have GPS in both my SUV's and rarely need it on my phone. I only ever use it for work trips as my vacation destinations w/ the family already are in the car GPS.
Extra features: Don't use NFC (very few do). Using the fast toggle built into Android isn't losing features. It's just turning of fthings not in use. If I want to use them I drag down the status bar and quickly turn it on.
#5. Greenify: Again... how do you lose fun by them closing when not in use. They're not in use! Worst case they take 2 seconds to start up again.
#6. Brightness: Not losing a feature. Just not blowing my eyeballs out 24/7.

My point being... I don't see anywhere in there where I'm somehow losing fun / features. i don't stop my phone from having nice features. I just don't let EVERYTHING run for no reason when I can turn something on with a quick tap.

I get what you're saying, but I also disagree. I'm not losing a single thing by being conscious since 90% of the above things eithe rauto-refresh when I do open them, or are features I rarely/never use (I've never used NFC. No need to waste power with it). It' slike saying "Don't worry about leaving the lights on 24/7 and everything in my house. I'll pay the bill regardless. Why waste the money (in this case battery)? I'd rather get 1-2 days out of my charge by just taking a total of 15 seconds a day to toggle on something if I need it than less than a day leaving it all on.

 

[Prinny Mask]

Does anyone every email you?! 50% after 21 hours, get outta here, lol! Did you actually use it during that time for phone calls, web browsing, texts - any apps like chess or whatever?

I usually have ~30% after 36 hours. I don't get very many emails, but I spend a great deal of time texting, and that's with waking the screen at least once every 10 minutes to check the time lol.

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[jhguth]

I'm curious what kind of life someone lives when they need more than 19 hours of battery life.

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[Prinny Mask]

I'm curious what kind of life someone lives when they need more than 19 hours of battery life.

I honestly don't need more than 19 hours. Being completely honest, I don't need my phone to last more than a few hours. At the most, I'd probably need 12 if I'm working that long a shift. And that's standby, so I'm not even using it. That's how I survived with a Thunderbolt. It's just with this phone, it lasts long enough to where I don't need to keep it plugged in when I'm not using it. So I don't. I could assume someone else's habits, but I really don't know. I don't need it to last 19 hours, but I know it will last longer than that, so I usually charge every 34-36 when it's actually running low. But that's just me.

 

[LCFC Tom]

I've been using my phone for a bit of gaming football manager. Plants v zombies and its easily last of 9 hrs each time so 12 hrs not using it will be a doddle

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[warpdrive]

Since I'm not using my new HTC One that much during work, and I hadn't installed any games other then dead trigger 2, I've only used my new phone lightly.

Email, text, 20 mins of gaming per day , and a quick call or two. For me, that's light use. Today I'm off from work, so I don't expect what I'm showing. But here is a pic of my best light use yet....

Who charges this thing if your not heavily gaming?



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[mmmcheesedanish]

I did everything including navigation without a charger to test the limits. That was day 1. Day 2 it was off the charger for about 8-10 hours and dropped to 49% but there was a point where between browsing,YouTube videos, ringtone downloads and such the phone screen was on for like over an hour to an hour and a half straight.

I feel like standby time is good and calls and texts don't use much but browsing and streaming eats it up pretty good.

 

[monsieurms]

I did everything including navigation without a charger to test the limits. That was day 1. Day 2 it was off the charger for about 8-10 hours and dropped to 49% but there was a point where between browsing,YouTube videos, ringtone downloads and such the phone screen was on for like over an hour to an hour and a half straight.

I feel like standby time is good and calls and texts don't use much but browsing and streaming eats it up pretty good.

Correct, and especially anything that uses the screen eats the battery pretty fast.