Maybe I am alone on this one re: battery life

[LeaninBack916]

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I mean yeah you got a long time but the awake time is hardly anything. My main thing is I want to be able to get through about an 8 hour segment with a full battery.

I admit... I am a music junkie. I dont use my mp3 player anymore. Just my locally loaded music and Pandora. I multi-task... always tweeting the most ridiculous things as usual. Amazon music may be next.... I love Pandora but of all the apps, its sucks juice the most. Even other apps that stream arent as power hungry as that. I charge overnight, use it until about 12 at work mainly for some tweets and music listening (programming/IT support) and then I let it charge till full in the afternoon at about 2:30 and then use it between the gym, my home, and pandora in the car (but I do use the car charger while there). It gets me to the end of the day. About midnight its done.

If I hardly used it like I see here (like a tweet or two), I bet I would get a long battery life. I once went to sleep at 11pm with 33 percent battery. Woke up at 6am to get ready for work with 30 percent. That screen does sap a lot of juice.

 

[DaleB]

Not in a year, not in two years. Never will you see an Android phone have good battery life. It's just not gonna happen and frankly, its a bit said. People have done well in managing it to last over a day, which means you have to sacrifice not using specific feeds which is dumb because iPhone uses hordes of push notifications and it lasted about 40 hours. If I use my Android phone the same way I used my old iPhone, then it dies in 10 hours.

I have to carry about 2 battery packs to make sure I'm not always looking for a usb cord. And frankly, its a bit pathetic on Google's part for not optimizing this issue. You need to be a rocket scientist to go and tweak all your settings to get extra juice. The average doesn't care or won't do that and so they will keep on complaining on the battery life.

it's 2011, extra batteries is lame.

You are trying to make us believe you got 40 hours on one charge on an Iphone... Come on we might have been born at night, just not last night.

 

[chud]

I mean yeah you got a long time but the awake time is hardly anything. My main thing is I want to be able to get through about an 8 hour segment with a full battery.

I admit... I am a music junkie. I dont use my mp3 player anymore. Just my locally loaded music and Pandora. I multi-task... always tweeting the most ridiculous things as usual. Amazon music may be next.... I love Pandora but of all the apps, its sucks juice the most. Even other apps that stream arent as power hungry as that. I charge overnight, use it until about 12 at work mainly for some tweets and music listening (programming/IT support) and then I let it charge till full in the afternoon at about 2:30 and then use it between the gym, my home, and pandora in the car (but I do use the car charger while there). It gets me to the end of the day. About midnight its done.

If I hardly used it like I see here (like a tweet or two), I bet I would get a long battery life. I once went to sleep at 11pm with 33 percent battery. Woke up at 6am to get ready for work with 30 percent. That screen does sap a lot of juice.

Dunno what to tell you. Battery tech generally sucks in relation to what all kinds of electronic devices are capable of these days. Some people, like yourselves, want an all in one solution and no sort of device management is going to make a huge difference in getting through the day. If you're in front of a computer most of the day...guessing here....why don't you take some of the load off your phone?

 

[drjb74]

Unfortunately, there is really no way around this problem, other than plug it in, or buy an extra or extended battery. As battery technology progresses, giving longer battery life, cell phone technology will progress as well. It is a never ending cycle.

People want their phone to make calls, surf the net, watch movies, listen to music, and make their coffee in the morning. They also want it to have a huge screen, with fantastic resolution, but they want to put their phone in their pocket.

My first cell phone was a Motorola flip phone, which had an LCD display (numbers only, like a calculator) and was probably between 2 and 3 inches thick. Now, my NS4G is thinner than my money clip (since their is never any money in it thanks to the kids).

They are always going to be trade-offs, and every individual has to decide what they can accept, and what they cannot. There are always options and solutions, it just depends on which works for you.

(getting down off my soapbox now...)

 

[clindner]

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How do you get a full cell signal? Airrave? I never have more than 2 bars, EVER.

 

[chud]

How do you get a full cell signal? Airrave? I never have more than 2 bars, EVER.

Yes, that was taken while on the Airave. I get full bars outside the house regularly though.