Droid Turbo: Battery Life

[Firedogee]

Does anyone know how to display the battery percentage in the top left?

You have to download a battery app like GSAM battery app.

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[ryanr509]

The battery is excellent. Not sure what everyone expects but my S5 would be close to 50% by now.

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Yep my S5 would give me about 4-4.5 hours of screen on time. 2hrs and at 80% is damn good.

 

[Xelios]

Well so far I've got 10 hours and 30 minutes or so with 2.5 hours of screen time and 2GB of mobile data used, and couple hours of music.

Gotta say, my expectations were high. They were not met. However, it's still performing well. Tomorrow will be a better indication as I won't be in a low/no signal area.

EDIT: Forgot the important stuff. 65ish percent (charge from purchase) to dead.

 

[ryanr509]

Well so far I've got 10 hours and 30 minutes or so with 2.5 hours of screen time and 2GB of mobile data used, and couple hours of music.

Gotta say, my expectations were high. They were not met. However, it's still performing well. Tomorrow will be a better indication as I won't be in a low/no signal area.

EDIT: Forgot the important stuff. 65ish percent (charge from purchase) to dead.

Hmm I've got 2hrs 8min of screen time and have gone from 65% out of the box to 33% right now. Mostly just setting the phone up and browsing around the web and apps

 

[radyoactive]

Posting your battery stats on the first day isn't realistic. Everyone is on the phone more than usual, downloading and installing a bunch of apps, setting up ringtones, downloading emails, etc.

 

[Firedogee]

Give it about a week to settle in and I bet we will all be raving about the battery life.

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[Snareman]

Is there any reason if I'm not leaving the country to have it set to Global? I moved mine over to CDMA/LTE

I haven't had obviously more than about 10h of experience with the battery. It was fully charged 7h ago when I left for work and I'm down to 67% now which is about where my Maxx was after a 10h shift. I'll give it some time to see if it breaks in some. I wonder how it would have been with 3900mah and a 1080p screen.

 

[Eclipse2K]

Is there any reason if I'm not leaving the country to have it set to Global? I moved mine over to CDMA/LTE

Nope, one of the first things I do is change that.

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[Xelios]

Posting your battery stats on the first day isn't realistic. Everyone is on the phone more than usual, downloading and installing a bunch of apps, setting up ringtones, downloading emails, etc.

Yeah for sure, you make a good point. The coming weeks should be a good indicator though.

EDIT: For Global vs CDMA, I don't know what it means but I noticed I get better signal on Global mode. In certain places like Home Depot near me my signal completely dies if it's on CDMA. On Global, it can pick up atleast 3G.

 

[-Myk-]

My work phone is an iPhone 6, it can sit out of the charge with me not using it for 16hrs and still be over 90% battery. If my Turbo is better than that I will be happy.

 

[travaz]

Here is my battery life so far. When I picked it up it had about 60%. That was about 12 noon. I downloaded sowfware update plus 40 napp updates plus resetting a million things. at 855 or it was at 14% Put it on the turbo for 15 min and it went to 35%

 

[Snareman]

After my 10h shift (time off charge 11h) I'm down 100% to 51%. Screen on time 1:41.

 

[Eclipse2K]

After my first day I'm extremely satisfied. My Galaxy S5 would have been dead a while ago.

I think its safe to say my Turbo could go to over 6 hours of display time. Most of this was web surfing + 40 minutes of video watching. Some texting/Hangouts. Of course, I've been on WiFi most of the day.

As you can see below Android System barely takes any battery. On my S5, that would use as much if not more than the display! Touchwiz is so inefficient...

Overall, I love it. Other things to note is that I'm on Automatic brightness, sync Gmail. Skype has been signed on all day almost. WeatherBug only auto updates every 6 hours to a specific location. I wanted to set the device up like the S5 for comparisons sake.

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[doggy2965]

Give it about a week to settle in and I bet we will all be raving about the battery life.

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Correct

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[mobrules]

Give it about a week to settle in and I bet we will all be raving about the battery life.

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I agree. Charged up to 100 before bed and let it set unplugged overnight. 100% to 96% after 8 hours. I use the automateit app and it disconnects 4g when the screen goes dark. Really happy with this. Headed to work soon and will watch at least 2 hours of videos on the train. Tried to log into the mobile app to post screen shot but the mobile app didnt have any options for that. Ill try again later. But so far I am really happy.

 

[Toes Up]

Phone Arena has come out with their battery test and it looks good. Hopefully the link works.

Step aside, Sony Xperia Z3, the Motorola DROID Turbo is the new king of flagship battery life

 

[Firedogee]

I don't have a screen shot but I fully charged it yesterday and according to the GSam battery monitor app I got 8.5hours of screen on time and 10 hours of total up time out of that charge before going to bed when it was at 5% battery remaining.

Believe me, I pushed this thing in every way possible so that is fabulous (early) news about the battery life. Will keep you posted, but I think we have the phone of the year in our hands.

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[mobrules]

Here's the overnight. I'll post another at the end of the day.

 

[mspace81]

It just appeared in the app drawer. One quirk that I have noticed is that I have a delay between downloading an app and when it appears in the app drawer.

I noticed this too! I thought I was going crazy for a minute there lol.

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[pdarrah]

Definitely not a definitive, technical reply, but yesterday my poor RAZR M (messed up by kitkat) was at 72% at this time. With pretty much the exact same usage today (unplug at 6:30am, check email/weather/twitter, stick it in my bag & drive to work/set it on my desk & occasionally check notifications.) it is at 91% right now. I am THRILLED!