- Oct 26, 2010
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With so much complaining about battery life I decided to do a test. *This is not by any means scientific or meant to argue against other users usage*. I know some people are on their phone all day with push email, sending texts, navigating, making phone/video calls, etc. I honestly feel any super power user living that fixed to their phone will have a hard time with battery life with basically any phone out there minus maybe the Razor Maxx with it's super battery.
Anyhow, I just ran a 1280x720p (full screen usage) movie through my phone and recorded the battery life. I didn't do any lame 30% brightness nonsense - the settings I used were brightness at 100% and volume at level 13 in MXPlayer which was at the volume I would listen to the movie at, loud but not ear blowing. The movie was also a brightly lit sunny california movie, not something dark like the Matrix or Trueblood which would save on battery life. Below are the times I checked on the video and the battery life as well as the specs:
Battery fully charged to 100% then phone restarted to start fresh. 4G LTE mobile data connection left on, wifi off (I would like to further test another day using airplane mode to see the difference).
9:18pm time in linux phone was at 100% phone battery
At 20 minutes in - 97%
At 40 minutes in - 93%
At 70 minutes in - 87%
At 80 minutes in - 85%
At 85 minutes in - 84%
Movie ended. By this math, if I'm not mistaken and given the phone could drain to zero which I am certain it can't, I should be able to get 8.854 hours of video playback. Again, this is if the phone could drain all the way to zero which I seriously doubt. Even still, 8 hours straight of 100% brightness video and loud audio is pretty damn impressive for a screen this size. And to wrap it up... the battery is removable unlike other phones so I can just buy a spare to keep handy on long trips, though I've never needed one with any phone so far luckily.
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Anyhow, I just ran a 1280x720p (full screen usage) movie through my phone and recorded the battery life. I didn't do any lame 30% brightness nonsense - the settings I used were brightness at 100% and volume at level 13 in MXPlayer which was at the volume I would listen to the movie at, loud but not ear blowing. The movie was also a brightly lit sunny california movie, not something dark like the Matrix or Trueblood which would save on battery life. Below are the times I checked on the video and the battery life as well as the specs:
Battery fully charged to 100% then phone restarted to start fresh. 4G LTE mobile data connection left on, wifi off (I would like to further test another day using airplane mode to see the difference).
9:18pm time in linux phone was at 100% phone battery
At 20 minutes in - 97%
At 40 minutes in - 93%
At 70 minutes in - 87%
At 80 minutes in - 85%
At 85 minutes in - 84%
Movie ended. By this math, if I'm not mistaken and given the phone could drain to zero which I am certain it can't, I should be able to get 8.854 hours of video playback. Again, this is if the phone could drain all the way to zero which I seriously doubt. Even still, 8 hours straight of 100% brightness video and loud audio is pretty damn impressive for a screen this size. And to wrap it up... the battery is removable unlike other phones so I can just buy a spare to keep handy on long trips, though I've never needed one with any phone so far luckily.
Rev.