Official Battery Life Thread

[Wicket]

I dont disagree at all. I am just trying to establish a base line that will mimic my usage when traveling for business. I am willing to bet that if I turned off BT I could get about 14 hours. Admittedly that ain't shabby (24 hours would be optimal) so I have to wonder if 4.0.3 would improve what I had already gotten.

oh ok, mistook how you were meaning.
I'm really hoping 4.0.3 fixes a lot of things.. I'm pretty happy with the phone and don't seem to have as many issues as others but there are some things I'd like to see fixed, starting to wonder what Verizon was doing while delaying this phone for 2 months..

 

[MikeC_513]

I'm getting pretty good battery using juice defenders free version on the balanced setting along with setcpu. I have a pretty simple setup for setcpu with screen off putting everything at a minimum and then just setting my max speed or whatever it is called to 3/4ths or so with screen on since I don't multi task too often.
I'd note that I went about an hour of browsing without turning the screen off once, so I did but some decent use on this charge.

 

[jimifan1122]

Aside from some of the strategies I've seen on here, I got fantastic battery life once I turned NFC off. With 4g off, screen dimmed down, and NFC off I got 17.5 hours and, after that, still had 35% of the battery left (stock battery). I actually made several phone calls and responded to lots of email and texts throughout the day.

 

[Droid800]

Today I got the best battery life I've ever gotten. Didn't change much, so I'm not sure why.
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[sc0rpion]

I'm finally getting some good battery life. Nfc turned off, 4g off, screen brightness like at 10%, wifi on most the time. Played games, browsed some web and a few phone calls. This is probably my 8th recharge cycle, I'm starting to think it just has a longer break in time for the OS to learn the top and bottom of my battery charge.

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[theduder]

I went over 20hrs yesterday for the first time on extended battery. Everything on, screen full brightness. A small portion of that was overnight, but my old phone never slept properly and the GN seems to be sleeping just fine.

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[mjforte]

I gotta say I'm impressed so far. I did an overnight test on wifi and it only drained about 10% where as my Bionic would have drained a lot more. Plus I've been using it nonstop since I woke up this morning.

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[jastop]

Re: Official Battery Life Thread - media scanner

One of my problems appears to be media scanner related. I noticed in the log files an out of memory error, also the media database size was growing pretty large. In my case it got to about 80MB. I cleared the database, turned off google photo sync and rebooted.

Media scanner completed without the memory error. Media process no longer showing as one of the top users in battery stats. Android OS time down noticeably.

Battery now going about 14 hours to 40% with wifi+Bluetooth+nfc+3g only, 4 hours screen time. Was only getting 5-6 hours.

 

[Gongin]

So I work 20 minutes from town where there is no 4G, so to keep it from scanning I put it to 3g only. Well I forgot I had it set to that and haven't been on 4G for two days.....

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[Gongin]

Stupid phone didn't attach screenshot.

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[spiff72]

VZW Outage Last Night?

I left my phone off the charger because it was at about 75% when I went to bed last night, and when I checked it this morning it was dead.

Once I put it on the charger and got it booted back up, I went into the battery usage history (using 3rd party app (Battery Monitor Pro, I think), and found that the current draw from about 5 or 6 am (EST) was unusually high, and I then went to the battery usage in the settings app and found that the phone was without signal for about 2-1/2 hours.

You can see in the images that the inflection point where the battery started to nose dive actually began BEFORE the apparent loss of signal.

I did just switch ROMs yesterday (from Android Revolution to Axiom), so I can't rule out some kind of software glitch.

Just wondering if anyone else saw this. I am in West Michigan.

Thanks

 

[HES]

I dont disagree at all. I am just trying to establish a base line that will mimic my usage when traveling for business. I am willing to bet that if I turned off BT I could get about 14 hours. Admittedly that ain't shabby (24 hours would be optimal) so I have to wonder if 4.0.3 would improve what I had already gotten.

oh ok, mistook how you were meaning.
I'm really hoping 4.0.3 fixes a lot of things.. I'm pretty happy with the phone and don't seem to have as many issues as others but there are some things I'd like to see fixed, starting to wonder what Verizon was doing while delaying this phone for 2 months..

Well I ran 12/31 with BT off yesterday. I got about 11 1/2 hours. So a big whooping improvement of 2 and 1/2 hours. Color me not impressed. I also had a loss of signal for close to 25% of the day.

 

[jafels]

I didnt use my phone as much as usual but it still got a little work

 

[bigboi0523]

I didnt use my phone as much as usual but it still got a little work

What rom are you using? Do u find Facebook to be a battery hog?

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[anon(596177)]

I have noticed that if the battery drain really starts to get ridiculous, rebooting the phone has helped dramatically. I went from draining a battery in 10 hours with minimal usage (no phone calls, maybe a dozen and a half txt messages) to about 36 hours with slightly increased usage (2 phone calls, about 20 received and 20 sent text messages, opening up the Steelers football app to check highlights of the game occasionally over the course of 3 hours, opening words free to play 2 words with a friend) just by rebooting the phone.

Even right now, my main usage killer is words free, that friggen app along with the screen being on sucks the battery dry while its open. I'll edit my post and add a screenshot later. But when it was draining in ~10 hours with barely any usage, the main power user was "android os". Something's goin on in the background that's causing the battery to dwindle.




EDIT: Those screenshots: Keep in mind when reading that these figures only account for about 40% of battery drain, and that the phone was rebooted about 48 hours prior to the beginning of this battery cycle.

This is my battery usage for the last 5-6 hours, so basically since I got up this morning. The screen and words free accounts for almost 60% of it, so realistically if it had been sitting without me touching it all day it would be at about 85% battery remaining after almost 6 hours.

Battery usage of the screen. 30% of the current battery drain for an hour of the screen being on.

Words free battery usage. Almost 30% for a HALF HOUR of in app usage (not just it sitting in the background, but it being up on my screen. Mind you I have this app set to check back with the server every hour instead of the default 5 minutes)

Android OS usage. The keep awake time is actually relatively low compared to what I was seeing before reboot. Before the reboot my keep awake time was nearly the same as my "time on battery" statistic.

 

[jafels]

What rom are you using? Do u find Facebook to be a battery hog?

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Im stock with the extended battery.....facebook is a huge battery sucking hole. I dont really spend much time on facebook and its always near the top of battery usage.......anyway i thought 1day and 7 hiurs was pretty good with over 3 hours of screen on time.

 

[Nexusfan]

Im stock with the extended battery.....facebook is a huge battery sucking hole. I dont really spend much time on facebook and its always near the top of battery usage...

That and Google plus, both of which had near zero usage. Disabled plus and restricted facebook (and logged out). Battery life jumped from 3 hrs to 22hrs. I even the stay awake issue seems to have disappeared. Now to figure out how to disabled facebook...

 

[Dojam]

Best Battery Performance so far...

 

[rbess1965]

I have a Droid Charge and looking into a Nexus but waiting a bit so they can get some of these things ironed out before I make the move. Things like data & speed issues and apps that aren’t optimized for ICS yet. Anyway, remember that anything that has a wireless transmission or reception is an FM radio that taxes your battery. It helps to keep on only the service that suits your needs at the time and keep all the others off. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Hotspot, 3 location services and more, all eat up battery. I use a thing called Profiles Lite to control most of the services based on where I am. You can set up separate profiles for Home, Work, Car and Sleep. This is basically the same thing Motorola is promoting as a feature in their Razr. Good job of keeping up Moto. Take a look at Profiles Lite and you’ll see what I mean. At home I switch to Wi-Fi, no BT and ? brightness. In the car it switches off Wi-Fi, turns on BT and sets brightness to Auto. At work, Wi-Fi & BT off, screen to 25% and so on. You get the picture. Sounds like a lot but it works. Also keep Back Ground Data turned off. Apps that need it like the Market will ask for it. I average about 14hrs on mine now.

 

[Wicket]

I have noticed that if the battery drain really starts to get ridiculous, rebooting the phone has helped dramatically. I went from draining a battery in 10 hours with minimal usage (no phone calls, maybe a dozen and a half txt messages) to about 36 hours with slightly increased usage (2 phone calls, about 20 received and 20 sent text messages, opening up the Steelers football app to check highlights of the game occasionally over the course of 3 hours, opening words free to play 2 words with a friend) just by rebooting the phone.

Even right now, my main usage killer is words free, that friggen app along with the screen being on sucks the battery dry while its open. I'll edit my post and add a screenshot later. But when it was draining in ~10 hours with barely any usage, the main power user was "android os". Something's goin on in the background that's causing the battery to dwindle.




EDIT: Those screenshots: Keep in mind when reading that these figures only account for about 40% of battery drain, and that the phone was rebooted about 48 hours prior to the beginning of this battery cycle.

This is my battery usage for the last 5-6 hours, so basically since I got up this morning. The screen and words free accounts for almost 60% of it, so realistically if it had been sitting without me touching it all day it would be at about 85% battery remaining after almost 6 hours.

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Battery usage of the screen. 30% of the current battery drain for an hour of the screen being on.

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Words free battery usage. Almost 30% for a HALF HOUR of in app usage (not just it sitting in the background, but it being up on my screen. Mind you I have this app set to check back with the server every hour instead of the default 5 minutes)

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Android OS usage. The keep awake time is actually relatively low compared to what I was seeing before reboot. Before the reboot my keep awake time was nearly the same as my "time on battery" statistic.

Click to view quoted image

glad to hear I believe in the IT world it goes something like.. "Have you tried turning it off and on again"