holy battery life...

[rbaker507]

Bought external charger and 2 batteries for $10 on eBay, no more worries!

 

[tibbys]

yeah the nexus s 4g battery life is horrible, worst battery. evo battery > ns4g battery

 

[chud]

yeah the nexus s 4g battery life is horrible, worst battery. evo battery > ns4g battery

No.

 

[ShadowKing]

yeah the nexus s 4g battery life is horrible, worst battery. evo battery > ns4g battery

i find that VERY hard to believe while i can go 16+ hours off a charger with my nexus while my evo would only go for 5-7. i can push email/twitter/facebook at the fastest settings with high brightness on my nexus and i'll get at least 8-10 hours with constant checking and tweaking.

 

[gabbott]

yeah the nexus s 4g battery life is horrible, worst battery. evo battery > ns4g battery

After owning an EVO 4g for a year... that has not been my experience at all. I got great battery life on my EVO and even batter battery life on my NS4G.

You probably have an issue with an app that is draining your battery if your experience with the NS4G has been such.

 

[Ryuuie]

yeah the nexus s 4g battery life is horrible, worst battery. evo battery > ns4g battery

My Nexus S 4G lasts 2 days, 14 hours on average. I've never heard a non-rooted EVO 4G getting that much out of its battery.

This isn't a knock against the EVO 4G but to say that the battery life is horrible is just incorrect.

 

[meangreenstebo]

Maybe you all can help with my battery issues. I am still getting through a full day with the extended - but would love to get through a full day with the stock battery (with minimal use). I opened up running apps in settings and see these things:

Settings
Easy Tether
Advanced Task Killer Free
PVWmdrmProxy
Calendar
Google Services
Maps
Voicemail
TeleNav GPS Navigator
HTC DM
HTC IQAgent
com.smithmicro.DM
PVWmdrmService
Touch Input

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So that is what I have running - I tried stopping the TeleNav App - it warns me not to, I stop it anyway - and then it immediately starts running again. I do not have the GPS on - so it is just the App running.

Are these apps all needed? Are any of them sucking up significant juice? Any ideas why the TeleNav App will not stay "stopped"?

I am EVO user - looking to move to NS4G but don't want to do it if I am going to have the same battery problems on the Nexus. It looks like most people on here were EVO users and now using Nexus so that is why I am asking in this forum.

I am stock, unrooted. I plan on rooting as soon as there is a way to do it (have upgraded to GB through the OTA).

 

[garrettfarnum]

Maybe you all can help with my battery issues. I am still getting through a full day with the extended - but would love to get through a full day with the stock battery (with minimal use). I opened up running apps in settings and see these things:

Settings
Easy Tether
Advanced Task Killer Free
PVWmdrmProxy
Calendar
Google Services
Maps
Voicemail
TeleNav GPS Navigator
HTC DM
HTC IQAgent
com.smithmicro.DM
PVWmdrmService
Touch Input

__

So that is what I have running - I tried stopping the TeleNav App - it warns me not to, I stop it anyway - and then it immediately starts running again. I do not have the GPS on - so it is just the App running.

Are these apps all needed? Are any of them sucking up significant juice? Any ideas why the TeleNav App will not stay "stopped"?

I am EVO user - looking to move to NS4G but don't want to do it if I am going to have the same battery problems on the Nexus. It looks like most people on here were EVO users and now using Nexus so that is why I am asking in this forum.

I am stock, unrooted. I plan on rooting as soon as there is a way to do it (have upgraded to GB through the OTA).

Don't use Advanced Task Killer and don't cut apps. They aren't running in the background, it's just android preparing the startup codes so when you start the program it'll run easier.

 

[meangreenstebo]

Not too sure about that - before I installed the task killer, my battery life was substantially lower (I couldn't make it through 6 hours). The task killer really seems to work for me.

 

[chud]

Advanced Task Killer Free - get rid of this
PVWmdrmProxy - you might not need this if you dont use a lot of Windows Media


Maps - this is a killer

TeleNav GPS Navigator - might not be able to kill it but it might not be doing any harm either. you can freeze it if you root and get titanium backup.

PVWmdrmService - see above

I am EVO user - looking to move to NS4G but don't want to do it if I am going to have the same battery problems on the Nexus. It looks like most people on here were EVO users and now using Nexus so that is why I am asking in this forum.

nice thing about the Nexus over the EVO is there are a whole lot less services running.

download Android System Info from the market to give you a little more detailed info on your app usage.

 

[chud]

Not too sure about that - before I installed the task killer, my battery life was substantially lower (I couldn't make it through 6 hours). The task killer really seems to work for me.

Not necessary on Gingerbread.

 

[gregg37]

yeah the nexus s 4g battery life is horrible, worst battery. evo battery > ns4g battery

You, sir, are smoking the good stuff! The stock Nexus battery lasts longer than my expanded EVO battery did.

 

[meangreenstebo]

Not necessary on Gingerbread.

Can you explain why it is not neccesary on GB? When I boot the phone - all of the apps are running. I open the task killer - kill them - and they are stopped. Without the task killer - they would continue to run in the background unless I were to open each one individually and stop/close them. I am on stock GB right now... Any advice/help or explanation would be appreciated (just trying to understand).

 

[meangreenstebo]

nice thing about the Nexus over the EVO is there are a whole lot less services running.

download Android System Info from the market to give you a little more detailed info on your app usage.

It seems that all of these apps are the ones that are killed by task killer and automatically start up again (Maps, TeleNav, all of them). Is there any way for me to kill these apps without having them just start back up again? So frustrating.

 

[Ryuuie]

Can you explain why it is not neccesary on GB? When I boot the phone - all of the apps are running. I open the task killer - kill them - and they are stopped. Without the task killer - they would continue to run in the background unless I were to open each one individually and stop/close them. I am on stock GB right now... Any advice/help or explanation would be appreciated (just trying to understand).

Gingerbread allows you to kill apps on its own without the need for 3rd party apps (for that matter, Froyo does as well).

However, Gingerbread will also give you a screen that shows you what apps are doing what and whether they are in the foreground or background. Apps are usually kept in the background so when you open them again, they'll start quicker than previously.

Task Killers usually kill apps at the wrong time and can cause problems when an app is opened again.

It seems that all of these apps are the ones that are killed by task killer and automatically start up again (Maps, TeleNav, all of them). Is there any way for me to kill these apps without having them just start back up again? So frustrating.

Nope, unless you root and completely remove them (however you don't want to remove Maps like that).

Just let them be, they're fine and they're not really causing any battery drain.

 

[chud]

Ryuuie has it pretty much squared away. I personally though have found much better battery life when Maps isn't running.

I've been sitting at 34 - 33% for a good two hours now since I remembered to sign out of Latitude which in turn killed Maps.

 

[tibbys]

i find that VERY hard to believe while i can go 16+ hours off a charger with my nexus while my evo would only go for 5-7. i can push email/twitter/facebook at the fastest settings with high brightness on my nexus and i'll get at least 8-10 hours with constant checking and tweaking.

I find that very hard to believe..

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk

 

[tibbys]

My Nexus S 4G lasts 2 days, 14 hours on average. I've never heard a non-rooted EVO 4G getting that much out of its battery.

This isn't a knock against the EVO 4G but to say that the battery life is horrible is just incorrect.

I would push close to 3 days with the evo4g...

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk

 

[tibbys]

To my experience with both phones, my nexus s. Would be dead in a few of hours of it being fully charged. No GPS, wifi, and brightness all the way dimmed and still it would die very quickly.

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk

 

[chud]

To my experience with both phones, my nexus s. Would be dead in a few of hours of it being fully charged. No GPS, wifi, and brightness all the way dimmed and still it would die very quickly.

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk

a few hours? so, 3? 4?

you DO realize what kind of outcry there would be if that were even close to the norm, right?