How is the battery life on the skyrocket?

[acles003]

I've had the phone for 2 weeks and I'm struggling to get a full days charge with extremly light usage. Something seems to be killing the battery...all syncing & apps I know to close are off...the battery usage says that android system is the biggest battery user...any thoughts?

I have gotten 9 to 11 hours off my battery the 2 days I have had the Skyrocket. My biggest drain is also android system, followed by Dolphin Browser. This is my 3rd Android phone and dolphin has never been my 2nd highest battery drain before.

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[phantomracer]

unplugged my SR 4.0 hours ago, light music playing through headphones (maybe 1 hour), some email reading. In 4GLTE network area. battery at 42%. So I am guestimating 6-7 hours on a charge.. damn!

Going to pick up this battery upgrade I think

 

[vkodali]

It looks like the battery seems to be draining fast for me where the signal is 1 to 3 bars ... it's pretty good when the signal is 4 to 5 bars. I think I notice a lot of difference if the signal is good.

 

[android Gator]

My SR gets about 14 hrs on a full charge with light to moderate use.

 

[ALexSoFLy]

Before putting your phone on stand-by, try going in to settings, applications, running applications, and stop the unnecessary applications that are running in the background. Also, in your email settings, change your check email frequently to never or a few hours. These are just a few things to consider doing to prevent battery draining. I believe the weather widget also has a recurrent refresh so be sure to look in to that. I've had an iPhone before and the reason why androids have bad battery life is mainly because of apps running in the background and apps refreshing automatically to obtain new data. Also with 4G phones, its constantly falling into 3G and HSPA...

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[nicholasdejohn]

This is day 2 with my SR. I unplugged it at 7AM and I am now just plugging it in when the phone told me it was at 15%. So, I am getting 12-13 hours out of a full charge. I have 2 gmail accounts sync'd on push, 1 yahoo with push, and 1 exchange with push. I use my phone for mostly emails, phone calls. Listened to a couple of songs from Google Music, downloaded a couple of apps and was on the internet for the most of an hour total.

If this good or should I be getting better? I'm coming from an HTC Inspire 4G that wouldn't do half of what I am getting with the SR.

 

[Lavitapostandroid]

After reading your experiences, I am thoroughly impressed with the battery life of the skyrocket. I don't have lte in my portion of Chicago, so I am not really worried about getting an lte device yet. I agree that juice defender is really special. I get a full day out of my phone normal usage. I just got an igo anywhere because I am using my phone as my media player for my boombox @work

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[dalvik]

This is day 2 with my SR. I unplugged it at 7AM and I am now just plugging it in when the phone told me it was at 15%. So, I am getting 12-13 hours out of a full charge. I have 2 gmail accounts sync'd on push, 1 yahoo with push, and 1 exchange with push. I use my phone for mostly emails, phone calls. Listened to a couple of songs from Google Music, downloaded a couple of apps and was on the internet for the most of an hour total.

If this good or should I be getting better? I'm coming from an HTC Inspire 4G that wouldn't do half of what I am getting with the SR.

i'd say thats fine. this is how many hours you should be normaly getting with this phone with your usage. I get a little less though but I play with the phone a lot so i have around 3 1/2 sometimes 4 actually...hours of display before the battery hits like 15% I used to get phenomenal results with my Atrix 4G but I understand and dont expect the same from an LTE phone with 4.5 display so i have a spare battery with me all the time I go outside for the whole day. other than that this phone rocks

 

[nicholasdejohn]

i'd say thats fine. this is how many hours you should be normaly getting with this phone with your usage. I get a little less though but I play with the phone a lot so i have around 3 1/2 sometimes 4 actually...hours of display before the battery hits like 15% I used to get phenomenal results with my Atrix 4G but I understand and dont expect the same from an LTE phone with 4.5 display so i have a spare battery with me all the time I go outside for the whole day. other than that this phone rocks

I probably play on my phone a little more now than I am quoting as it is a new toy and everyone wants to play with their new toy and try everything out. I'm gonna try and download Juice Defender Battery and see if that makes a difference at all.

 

[dalvik]

just hit 14% - 11hrs 33mins with display on for 4hrs 3min. was doing all kinda things browsing the web playing games a bit and mostly listening to music for about 1 1/2 hours.. its not bad but my Atrix was better.

 

[djrbx]

New Android user here. I have my Skyrocket rooted and removed all the necessary bloatware. I have previously been an iPhone user for the past 4 years. With the iPhone, I was getting at least a day and a half with heavy to moderate use, more if I didn't use my phone heavily. Not once have I ever complained about battery life.

I can't believe that we as Android users are happy to get half a day (12 hours) of use. I am not trying to hate but this should not be the case anymore. The main problem here is that while Android is a great operating system, Android sucks at battery management. For people who need the phone for business, I should not have to feel lucky if the phone lasts me 8-10 hours between charges.

Go to any iPhone forum and it is rare that you get constant battery related issues, even then, it is due to a bad battery to begin with and not with how the user uses the phone. Compare that with Android forums, every other thread is about how to extend the battery life because it just doesn't last. I know many Android users who have extended batteries or even bring spares with them to make the phone last the day. If I compared that to how many people that have the mophie juice pack for their iPhones; well, it's rare.

The Android team needs to fix this issue because no matter how much I can make the OS work for me, it practically useless if I can't use it on a day to day basis because the phone keeps dying.

/end rant

 

[TvTechGuru]

I just got the Skyrocket on Friday and I'm happy to report great battery life. I get a good day & a half. As of now my phone has been off the charger for 15.5 hours and i'm only down to 29%. Pretty good if you ask me.

 

[acles003]

New Android user here. I have my Skyrocket rooted and removed all the necessary bloatware. I have previously been an iPhone user for the past 4 years. With the iPhone, I was getting at least a day and a half with heavy to moderate use, more if I didn't use my phone heavily. Not once have I ever complained about battery life.

I can't believe that we as Android users are happy to get half a day (12 hours) of use. I am not trying to hate but this should not be the case anymore. The main problem here is that while Android is a great operating system, Android sucks at battery management. For people who need the phone for business, I should not have to feel lucky if the phone lasts me 8-10 hours between charges.

Go to any iPhone forum and it is rare that you get constant battery related issues, even then, it is due to a bad battery to begin with and not with how the user uses the phone. Compare that with Android forums, every other thread is about how to extend the battery life because it just doesn't last. I know many Android users who have extended batteries or even bring spares with them to make the phone last the day. If I compared that to how many people that have the mophie juice pack for their iPhones; well, it's rare.

The Android team needs to fix this issue because no matter how much I can make the OS work for me, it practically useless if I can't use it on a day to day basis because the phone keeps dying.

/end rant

As much as I hate to agree, I do. The ONLY thing I miss about my Blackberry Storm from 2008 is how an OTA basically doubled its battery life. 12 hours should not be something we celebrate, yet we do.

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[hurley81388]

Definitely agree with you guys....i'm returning my skyrocket next week. used to be an iphone 3gs user and getting 10-11 hours from 100% to 0% is ridiculous.

if you have a desk job and can leave the phone charging all day this is fine i guess but for those of us who are on the go for 12+ hours everyday this phone is not for you.

i heard the galaxy s2 (att version, hspa+ only) has better battery life but i'm probably going to get the iphone 4s instead

 

[cajunlte]

I just replaced mine and installed everything back except activesync and am getting wonderful battery life now. I don't expect this thing to get as good or better than an iphone because it isn't an iphone. Much better imo

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[planoman]

Why are we still having these discussions? You are comparing a Prius to a (insert sports car of choice). A 3.5 inch screen and hspa compared to 4.5 lte phone and you are trying to compare the battery life? If you want iPhone battery life, get an iPhone. If anything the SR has better battery life than many expected having an lte radio. Wait till iPhone FINALLY gets a larger screen and lte then we will compare. IPhone gives you a tiny screen and calls it power management...the SR screen is almost 30% larger!

Sorry for the rant back.

 

[acles003]

Why are we still having these discussions? You are comparing a Prius to a (insert sports car of choice). A 3.5 inch screen and hspa compared to 4.5 lte phone and you are trying to compare the battery life? If you want iPhone battery life, get an iPhone. If anything the SR has better battery life than many expected having an lte radio. Wait till iPhone FINALLY gets a larger screen and lte then we will compare. IPhone gives you a tiny screen and calls it power management...the SR screen is almost 30% larger!

Sorry for the rant back.

Excellent point, and I was speaking to Android in general. The Skyrocket specifically has good battery life considering the screen size. Its better than my HTC Thunderbolt I had.

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[hurley81388]

Why are we still having these discussions? You are comparing a Prius to a (insert sports car of choice). A 3.5 inch screen and hspa compared to 4.5 lte phone and you are trying to compare the battery life? If you want iPhone battery life, get an iPhone. If anything the SR has better battery life than many expected having an lte radio. Wait till iPhone FINALLY gets a larger screen and lte then we will compare. IPhone gives you a tiny screen and calls it power management...the SR screen is almost 30% larger!

Sorry for the rant back.

okay my response- i do not have LTE in my market and i'm on wi-fi all the time with no background processes running except push gmail and google calendar sync with 2 accounts which i had on my iphone as well. so the battery life should be similar because LTE is not a factor nor are any background apps in this situation. also, i'm rooted with bloatware frozen on stock ROM.

also, i'm not sure exactly how battery physics works but the iphone 4s has ~1400 mah battery whereas the SR has 1850. that is roughly 30% bigger in terms of mah size but again, correct me if i'm wrong this should compensate for the larger screen which is pushing less pixels than the iphone's smaller screen.

EDIT: and i may add this is comparing my SR battery life to a 2 year-old iphone 3gs. SR never has BT or GPS on because i've found this totally kills battery life whereas i always leave BT and GPS on in my iphone. also, no widgets or anything on SR at all to keep it as close to iphone as possible.....

 

[Sedn]

My iPhone 4 usually last 7 - 9 hours under moderate-heavy usage. It would last the work day. When I had my iPhone 3gs it lasted 6-7 hours when streaming music and checking FB every few minutes.

I believe the reasons why people talk about extended battery life so much is because the option exists to take advantage of it when you are not on an apple locked down device. Also the battery life is an issue that must be taken care of by each manufacturer, so we must be careful to not blame the general concept of android.

 

[jsarino]

I'd agree with Sedn on this one. My wife's iPhone 3gs, which had heavy call and data usage (1-2gig/month typically) would range from 7-10 hours. So, battery life is all relative to how much a person uses their phone (or configure it for that matter), and to the device's specs, regardless if it's an Apple, Android, Windows, RIM, or otherwise. Keep in mind too that since Android phones are modifiable, any changes will alter battery life for the better, or worse.

For an LTE-powered phone with a large screen, my SR still can go through nearly a full day, which is better than my Nexus One could do on a good day (10 hours, if I'm lucky).