You have 4 hours of screen time and 80% left? Do you have the battery mod attached?
If not, then with battery mod, battery could last a week with at least 6 hrs screen time.
Do you have location services on? Do you have location services set on the highest, most accurate setting?
Do you use Google Now/Moto Voice?
The Quad HD screen on the Force (535ppi) vs. the 1080p on the Play (403ppi) makes a huge difference. Not to mention the 625 processor vs. 820. The 820 is power hungry and needs to be to push all those pixels. I'm not sure what Qualcom did with the 625 but it's incredibly power efficient. At the end of the day it's a trade of but for me, I'll sacrifice less pixels and camera performance for battery life.
Just thought I'd post my battery story. Bought the phone last Wed. It came with 97% battery. Day 1 was heavy use setting it up then I'm more of a light user. The battery lasted me until SUNDAY 5PM - 101 hours! Strangely, I charged it full after it went completely dead and here I am 18 hours later and its quickly down to 82% already. I did accidentally leave my Sunday TIcket app on in the background with location turned on (which I never do).
I'd say that losing 18% battery over 18 hours of idling is still pretty darn good! One percent per hour is pretty typical of any phone, usually it's more in my experience.
So how about it Play owners? What is your battery loss in percent per hour when the phone is idling?
That's an interesting point about the screen resolution not being a major factor.
I don't think the better battery is mostly from the lower screen resolution. I have a S7e and people with Grace UX on the Note 7 and S7e don't have that much better battery life after changing the screen resolution. I think it's the processor itself. The most I can get off of this S7e with a Snapdragon 820 is 7 1/2 hours of SOT on WiFi. Getting 10 hours of SOT with 2 days of use is crazy. Though I wouldn't switch my S7e if I had a chance to get this I would still like to have this to see what it could really do. You know full brightness, GPS on, gaming, etc.,. It would be a fun experiment to see what it could really do.
Glad to hear from someone that is using the phone as intended with all the bells & whistled turned on. You use the phone as i do. Highest location accuracy, wifi, Bluetooth on, always listening on. I'm very much impressed. Seems to be the phone I've been wanting for quite some time.Not sure who you're asking, but I have everything turned on. High accuracy location, brightness at 75%, wifi and bluetooth on 24/7, moto voice always listening, etc etc.
On 'bad' days I trend to 8 hours of SOT. On good days its over 10. (I say "trend" because I've never been able to run the phone below 40% in a single day no matter what, so I'm extrapolating from the data when I finally plug my phone in at the end of the day).
I don't even plug my phone in when I'm navigating in the car anymore. I've done a few ~30-45 min trips with Google Maps navigating. I extrapolated out the battery loss with the screen on with Google Maps navigating from those trips and you could navigate for over 8 hours on a single charge with the screen never dimming or turning off. It's absolutely insane!
I'm flying to NYC later today for work. If I left my charger at home I wouldn't even bother looking for a store to buy a usb c charger. I am absolutely confident I would still have plenty of battery when I get home at midnight tomorrow.
Just the phoneGlad to hear from someone that is using the phone as intended with all the bells & whistled turned on. You use the phone as i do. Highest location accuracy, wifi, Bluetooth on, always listening on. I'm very much impressed. Seems to be the phone I've been wanting for quite some time.
Do you have the battery mod on the phone or are you just the phone with a style back?
There's a big difference in power savings between a screen that you can lower from QHD to 1080 and an actual 1080 screen.
It's still a 1440p screen.I wouldn't think so would it? You can lower the screen resolution on the S7e to 720p if you want. I would think that would make a significant difference.
It's still a 1440p screen.
It's still a 1440p screen.