Music playback a battery killer ?

[taylorz_412]

Am I the only one experienceing this I mean while on 3g listening to music via the stock player beats enabled I can just watch the battery drain

 

[MrSmith317]

Are you on 3G because you want to be or you're on 3g because there's no 4G? If it's the latter did you disable 4G/LTE? If not your phone is searching for 4G and eating your battery. I've seen no evidence that stock music kills your battery.

 

[taylorz_412]

Are you on 3G because you want to be or you're on 3g because there's no 4G? If it's the latter did you disable 4G/LTE? If not your phone is searching for 4G and eating your battery. I've seen no evidence that stock music kills your battery.

I chose too LTE is disabled when I listen to music cuz I don't want a double drain but my area is blanketed by strong 4g

 

[cvette93]

I only see this issue when using Google Music. For obvious reasons.

 

[cubetop]

I can and have played music all day at work 8+ hours and lost <20% battery. I have gone to the gym with 15% battery and walked out with 10% after 1.5 hours. All using Beats audio. That is off music stored though. I'm guessing you're talking about streaming? This phone has incredible batter performance so far. (at least for me)

 

[318sugarhill]

Streaming music, or anything else, will affect battery on depending on the signal strength you have. the better the signal, the less power the phone needs to stream from the tower. Don't trust the 5 bar signal meter. It lies. I've had my Rezound less than a week now but it shows 2-3 bars at work when my dinc used to show 0-1. Does the rezound get better receptions? Absolutely not. When checking the network signal it is consistently between -99 and -102. That is a TERRIBLE signal, and it just eats my battery all day long. Trying to stream there would cause by battery to die within probably 2 hours. But if I head a mile over to the next town, I could stream all day long with a strong signal of -65, and have battery to spare. Signal strength GREATLY affects batter life.

Just an FYI, I got a 4 g signal of -73 the other day when the best 3g signal I could get was -88. Guess which one was more battery friendly? The 4g. Signal strength is everything to your battery.

 

[taylorz_412]

I can and have played music all day at work 8+ hours and lost <20% battery. I have gone to the gym with 15% battery and walked out with 10% after 1.5 hours. All using Beats audio. That is off music stored though. I'm guessing you're talking about streaming? This phone has incredible batter performance so far. (at least for me)

Not streaming stored music

 

[amadkins]

I routinely get 6 or 8 hours with < 20% drain listening to stored music. Streaming audio on my droid x used to annihilate the battery.

 

[bellken]

Am I the only one experienceing this I mean while on 3g listening to music via the stock player beats enabled I can just watch the battery drain

As long as the screen is off, the battery drain is within reason. I have been listening to music(stored) most of the morning, and, my biggest battery usage is the display. NOTE: I am running the leaked version of ICS, so, ymmv.

 

[veevans01]

No problems with battery drain with the music stock player or any of my other players.

 

[kulkaholic]

Streaming music, or anything else, will affect battery on depending on the signal strength you have. the better the signal, the less power the phone needs to stream from the tower. Don't trust the 5 bar signal meter. It lies. I've had my Rezound less than a week now but it shows 2-3 bars at work when my dinc used to show 0-1. Does the rezound get better receptions? Absolutely not. When checking the network signal it is consistently between -99 and -102. That is a TERRIBLE signal, and it just eats my battery all day long. Trying to stream there would cause by battery to die within probably 2 hours. But if I head a mile over to the next town, I could stream all day long with a strong signal of -65, and have battery to spare. Signal strength GREATLY affects batter life.

Just an FYI, I got a 4 g signal of -73 the other day when the best 3g signal I could get was -88. Guess which one was more battery friendly? The 4g. Signal strength is everything to your battery.

Man thanks, I have been tweaking my settings just to get a better battery life . ice cream music at work is well in my battery is toast in about 2 and a half hours , even when I shut off 4 g. my signal strength and 3g is crap does drop the building so, you just saved a few hairs from in early pulling out the demise

 

[318sugarhill]

Man thanks, I have been tweaking my settings just to get a better battery life . ice cream music at work is well in my battery is toast in about 2 and a half hours , even when I shut off 4 g. my signal strength and 3g is crap does drop the building so, you just saved a few hairs from in early pulling out the demise

I could only understand about half of what you typed, but yeah, signal is everything. Was at a kid party with my daughter today, and the signal was practically non existent. kept switching from 3g to 1x, and used half my battery in 2 hours just texting with Google voice, taking a few pictures and sending one email with a few of those pictures.

Whenever possible use wifi. Not only will it keep your data usage down (if you don't have unlimited), and it will save your battery. Wifi uses less power than the network, as long as you are connected to a wifi signal. Wifi will drain battery if you leave it on, but are not connected as the phone searches every 15-30 second for a wifi connection to connect to.

 

[idiotekniques]

the battery life on this phone is not good, but i did find that while playing music stored on my card, the battery life is very good. so playing onboard music is one of the few things that does not destroy the battery life.

 

[kulkaholic]

I could only understand about half of what you typed, but yeah, signal is everything. Was at a kid party with my daughter today, and the signal was practically non existent. kept switching from 3g to 1x, and used half my battery in 2 hours just texting with Google voice, taking a few pictures and sending one email with a few of those pictures.

Whenever possible use wifi. Not only will it keep your data usage down (if you don't have unlimited), and it will save your battery. Wifi uses less power than the network, as long as you are connected to a wifi signal. Wifi will drain battery if you leave it on, but are not connected as the phone searches every 15-30 second for a wifi connection to connect to.

fast typing + using auto spell check makers me sound like a gibberish mess.

I think the only option is a bigger battery. I can use Wifi at home but my battery is fine (3g area). The two places I work do not have wifi so a bigger battery and maybe rooting with a good kernal is my only option to not have to plug my phone in every two hours of streaming music.

Such is life!