Official Battery Life Thread

[pauldroidr2d2]

My battery drops really fast. It goes from 100 percent to 96 percent in 1 minute. Maybe I got a bad extended battery? I really hope it improves over time. Anyone else have this problem where the percent drops super fast?

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I try not to pay attention to especially the first few percentage drops. Those seem to vary from phone to phone. I tend to look at total time of use and standby that I get out of my batteries.

 

[elvisgp]

That's pretty normal. You'll probably drop down 90% really quickly as well.

Thanks for the help. But yes I do drop 90percent pretty fast. Is the real battery life of the phone? Or is it just the battery meter reading it wrong? Again will this improve?

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[CarbonOak]

Okay, after one full day of use, I got about 9 hours of battery life with above-average use of email, web browsing, a few apps here and there, 4G always on, wifi at work (because my work sucks away all cellular connections when inside).

I'd say that's pretty respectable for a 4G phone, though obviously not as great as my old Droid X, which easily saw 15-20 hours on a charge with average use.

I know 4G will drain it quite quickly, but it's expected. Even with my Droid X, I always had a charger at work, at home, and in my car. It's just how it is nowadays.

 

[zulu308]

close to 23hrs of battery life w/ the 2100mah

 

[WhisperALullaby]

Coming from an OG Droid, I figured battery had to be better than that. Guess I was wrong. Since there isn't any 4G in my area yet, I have it running on CDMA only. The brightness is down nearly the entire way, but I estimate that usage time was way under 2.5 hours (email, 5-10 texts, angry birds, light browsing). Just ran down the battery and charged it the whole way back up again, and really hoping it helps. If that doesn't help, do you think an exchange would be in order?

 

[EggoEspada]

Never have I bought an extended battery, but now I might with the Nexus. Right now now I'm 2h 54m in at 53%. I'll give it a few days, but this isn't looking too good. Also, the fact that the battery adds virtually no bulk, makes it very appealing.

 

[Mooondog]

Never have I bought an extended battery, but now I might with the Nexus. Right now now I'm 2h 54m in at 53%. I'll give it a few days, but this isn't looking too good. Also, the fact that the battery adds virtually no bulk, makes it very appealing.

Me neither...but bought one yesterday. Was $49.99 but the rep mentioned something about a discount or whatever and I only paid $24.99. I didn't ask what type of discount. I was like....."sure..that sounds great".

I mean, even for $50, it was a no-brainer for me. If someone balks at it because of the price, they had no bizzo buying a $299 phone to begin with.

Also, you can purchase a dock to charge a battery outside of the phone for about $30 he said (not in stores...have to order it). Most people wouldn't be interested in that but it's all about OPTIONS.....something you don't get with the Razr or iPhone with their built in batteries.

Either way, I not have 2 batteries. If I am going to be in a situation where I know I won't have access to plug in, I will make sure both are fully charged. It's not like lugging around the batteries from my old Moto flip phone.

 

[NJ Valid#AC]

Screen dim set to 35%
60% wi-fi use
40% 4g use
Medium to Heavy usage
Location is disabled

I'm very happy with this phone


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[tony bag o donuts]

Location disabled, so no GPS, Social Media apps running etc?

 

[MrDetermination]

I love how in most of these screenshots nobody is using their phone to make phone calls

 

[eikphoto]

2100mah battery

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[musicmaster]

Anyone figure out how to disable the 4G radio?

 

[EggoEspada]

Anyone figure out how to disable the 4G radio?

Settings --> More in Wireless & Networks --> Mobile Networks.

 

[octo996]

I bought the extended battery and just finished burning it out, charging it to full now. It came at 60% and lasted quite a while, it took me nearly 3 hours to burn it on heavy use with everything on.

I have a question regarding brightness and auto-bright.

Is it better to use the auto or set it to something low for maintaining battery?

Also on LTE/CDMA 4g mode does the phone automatically decide when to use the faster speed and when to slow down or does it constantly keep the 4g on and burn the battery?

 

[NJ Valid#AC]

Location disabled, so no GPS, Social Media apps running etc?

Yeah Google+ and FB. But I'm not a heavy user of either.

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[NJ Valid#AC]

I love how in most of these screenshots nobody is using their phone to make phone calls

LOL I rarely use the phone during the hours of 8-5, usually just email or text. I'm usually in the office and everyone calls me on the office line.

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[k6tcher]

3G only, 4G disabled: I do not have 4G in my area so... meh.

I got over 10 hours with moderate - heavy use (for me). Several calls, uploads, driving around sketchy service areas (I live in the sticks).... Anyway, here are my results.

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Not really impressed... but not too terribly shocked either.

 

[HES]

This is the results of today's usage (10 hours)

Again I am concerned. Today saw very little in the way of texting and surfing and only 38minutes of talking on the phone. I even turned off the GPS today. I know I could get better life if I turned on WiFi when available, and stopped using my blue tooth but then I wouldn't be replicating my time spent with clients where one is not available and the other is a must. Still it's only day 2 so I will keep an open mind

 

[Forgetful]

It'd be really useful to include the screen on time and voice call time (in minutes) when posting total on battery times.



Also for you guys that are thinking you have excessive drain, install current widget and see what your idle screen off current is. Idle screen on current. And current while you're surfing and stuff.

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[sc4fpse]

I've got the extended battery, and I'm absolutely shocked at how terrible it has been so far. How in the world is the battery life on this thing on par with the Thunderbolt with a stock battery!?!

(These images all resized automatically in my browser -- apologies ahead of time if they didn't in anyone else's).
As someone else mentioned, my phone dropped from 100% charge to 92% really, really quick. Like, 20 minutes IDLE quick. I was quite taken back when I checked my battery and saw it had dropped that quick. Insane, but I wonder if that's a calibration error.

I did stream 180 MB worth of Google Music today, some in 4G areas, some in 3G areas. I would say 60%+ of the time I was in a 3G area today, no fringe LTE coverage or anything. All in all, I would say today was a light usage day, as I was with my extended family and tried to be courteous with my phone usage, only pulling it out occasionally to check the time, or to look up the value of a few items my uncle was curious about on eBay. Combined with a total of 40 minutes Google Music, I would say I hardly used the thing today.

But what shocks me most is my second image and how terrible of a signal the Nexus tells me I have. Christ, let's be honest -- Verizon's network signal strength isn't the strongest at times, but really? 99% of the time today I had a poor signal? Something is seriously f@$ked up with Nexus' radio. Seriously. That's unacceptable. I was all over, traveling major interstates for extended periods of time, in major cities... I passed dozens of cell towers today, and I apparently hardly ever had a strong signal. That's incredibly awful, and that's absolutely wrong.

I'm going to drain my battery most of/all the way tonight. I'm hoping that as I get down to the last few percentage points of my battery, the device will be like "Oh, wait, I had that all wrong. I'll let this sit on 2% remaining for a few hours -- my bad" and finally get its calibration crap in order. I haven't had the opportunity/time to fully discharge and recharge the battery yet, so hopefully that will help.

Otherwise... man, not looking too good.

edit: Also, I noticed my battery made little jumps up throughout the day. No charger at all -- wtf Nexus? Haha.