Official Battery Life Thread

[Rockn]

3rd day - 12 hours on WiFi all day at home took me down to 14%, lot of email and texts in the morning, a couple of music videos from YouTube, 4 1/2 hours in the late afternoon reading a Google book with a bright screen. 2100 extended battery. For what it is worth, 100% on the 4G signal all day, the tower is just around the corner maybe 700 feet.

 

[Corbo628]

I am very happy thus far. Ive been sending lots of texts and been using twitter and facebook a lot today. No 4G at my house so I have it switched to just 3G. Bluetooth and GPS are also off. Been on wifi most of the day. I do not think I'll be getting the extended battery even though I could probably go 2 days without charging at this rate

 

[Forgetful]

I am very happy thus far. Ive been sending lots of texts and been using twitter and facebook a lot today. No 4G at my house so I have it switched to just 3G. Bluetooth and GPS are also off. Been on wifi most of the day. I do not think I'll be getting the extended battery even though I could probably go 2 days without charging at this rate

What's the display on time when you click the screen button?

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[Corbo628]

90 minutes and its on the lowest brightness setting

 

[SammyRocker5150]

Got mine launch day. Drained the battery thursday for a full charge friday. Friday it ran 16 hours. 4g on all day. Downloaded apps played a game or two. Even flashed a rom. Moderate text and web browsing. Still had 20% left. Today im at 62% on 11 hours run time as well. No secrets here just the extended battery and i have the brightness set at about 25%

 

[mitra88]

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!?!

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(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.

I looked up the history detail of my GN, which has been sitting idle on my desk the whole day today. My data signal bar color is pretty much all yellow. Not even single green. I get average signal strength between 85 and 105dBm with, two to three bars. At home, I usually get around 10Mbps up/ 4Mbps down on speedtest.net. I do not think yellow in the history detail means your GN got the poor signal, maybe a mediocre?

 

[SSHGuru]

I get yellow and some red on my signal bar. Could be why my battery doesn't last and my phone gets hot.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

That doesn't sound good. Those with the extended battery what cases you find fit the phone?

 

[mitra88]

My History details, FYI.

 

[SammyRocker5150]

That doesn't sound good. Those with the extended battery what cases you find fit the phone?

I bought the high gloss case from verizon at launch. It's the bendable soft plastic one. works absoutely fine with the extended battery. Im going to try the barely there case.

Edit: You can fit the stock batter cover on the phone with the extended battery. But just barely. The reason I mention this is if you are trying to get your case to fit with the extended battery cover and it's just not working

 

[JoJoCal19]

Here is my battery life situation. My battery life is abysmal, but I know better than to return it after a day (been using smartphones forever). Thursday night I put in my extended battery and charged overnight. Friday I took it off the charger and immediately turned off LTE. I set screen to 25% brightness, wifi on. I managed to kill the 2100mah battery in 10 hours (7am to 5pm). Screen time or actual usage was approximately 2.5 hours. Friday evening I took the phone back for an exchange due to the earpiece sounding like it was blown. So today I put brightness at 20%, LTE off, and this time no wifi to test out the 3G connectivity reliability. I took it off the charger at 9am and when I got home at about 7pm (again 10 hours) it was at 6% left and just under 2.5 hours of screen time.

So that is two phones with just about the same battery life on the 2100 extended. I put it on the charger just after 7pm and did a factory reset. I'm going to run the phone the next couple days without loading it up with all my stuff. I may not even put FB or anything on it. Just use it completely stock. I'm going to give it several days to see if the battery life improves due to the OS learning the battery or whatever it does after several cycles. If I don't see an improvement by Thursday, I'm going to exchange the extended battery. Then I will put it through its paces again for several days/cycles. All of this time I will keep LTE off permanently. I don't need it.

If I cannot get the 2100mah battery to last at least 16 hours of being off charger and about 5, preferably 6 hours of screen time, I have a decision to make. I absolutely do not want to return this phone. It's so incredible. As much as I love my iPhone 4, I love the Nexus more in its own way. If I can't get it to meet my day to day uses I'm so tempted to just reactivate my iP4 and use this as a mini-tablet. It's that awesome. My only other option is to get the iP4S but I can't see using an upgrade and paying $300 for basically a slightly better camera than my iP4 (I won't use Siri). I think I'd rather keep the Nexus as a mini-tab and also maybe with the development there will be a kernel or something that will dramatically improve battery life, then I can reactivate later. Decisions decisions.

 

[Masheen]

I watched the battery drop from 60% to 20% on a 30 minute train ride above ground while reading this forum. The thing is, it is not the 4g killing the battery, it is the screen. Im on low brightness. 10 hours of use. 2 hours of screen on time. 45 degree angle on the battery graph when just answering texts and 90 degrees when browsing with the screen on. Im indifferent about the battery life it gets. The extended battery is nothing to rave about, it adds a mere 250 mAh. While I marvel at the GN's capabilities, innovation in mobile phone's batteries is much needed.

 

[SammyRocker5150]

I agree it absolutely is the screen. just having 4g on all day doesn't really eat much, using will chew some juice up. But man that screen. I have mine at about 20-25% and enough to see just fine, but it seems to double battery life opposed to a full brightness screen.

 

[davidnc]

Its too early for me to judge battery life on this phone yet due to the fact I'm always using it doing something lol.
When I purchased it on Thursday I heard another vzw Rep say he got 10 hrs avg while on 4g an actually that's kinda what I been expericening.
On Friday which was a work day in the AM I wasn't constantly on it except for receiving emails ,texts,almost moderate use for 7 hrs and I was on 71%battery life
.So I'm not really complaining about battery life .I still have only stock battery.Starting Monday I will start judging battery life more.,I been using phone heavy all day Friday from noon til now so can't give an accurate battery life.

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[tony bag o donuts]

Thanks I like casemate over seidio and my barely there case works great on my incredible. Easy on and off and that has me thinking of a spare instead of the extended one. Thanks!

 

[SammyRocker5150]

considering its the same price, the spare battery is a better deal because it comes with a battery charger with the y cable to charge your phone. However, I'm the kind of android user who would HIGHLY benefit from owning those items, I'm also a bigger fan of an extended battery, and tailoring my usage to my battery life. Especially now that I learned the stock battery cover will fit with the extended battery so my Barely There case will fit

Id love to have a cranked display and show EVERY SINGLE PERSON Tron in 720p on my phone, but my battery says no.

 

[SCampbell27]

Battery life is starting to worry me.

I just watched it drop 3% in a matter of 60 seconds from just checking a message on Facebook. And I'm not in a 4G area, so that shouldn't be an issue.

That's just ONE issue, the most recent one.

I Stop/Disable all Apps I'm not using, etc.

 

[Mathmatikus]

Disabled 4g and came just short of 4 1/2 hours of very heavy use and the screen on for 3 hours

I disabled the location services and used the phone as I normally would still only using 3g, usage I'd say is just under moderate, few games for 40 minutes, browsing, downloading, use spread out through out the day I'm at 11 hours with 35% left and 2 hours and 25 minutes of screen on.

I'd like to think the location services saved some major battery but the faster the screen is turned off the more battery you'll have later on. If only the screen ate less juice : \

 

[CarbonOak]

As an update to my 10 hours of above average use (email, texts, browsing, wifi/4G) with 10-30% brightness, I'm down to about 4 hours of heavy use (HD youtube videos, music, wifi/4G) at close to 100% brightness.

 

[BrianTX]

I Stop/Disable all Apps I'm not using, etc.

You stop them when you are done using them, or the ones you never use that are pre-installed?