Skyrocket...

[skyrocketeer]

Me too man, I get better than that most days...at 18 hours right now and still have 30% and I have been going heavy voice, text and email ...still working...long day...

I actually think the 4s was worse for me, I am real happy with the Rocket battery life.

 

[anon(50597)]

I have been on battery for 14 hours so far and am at 50%. I'll take that.

 

[qbnkelt]

For those of you with fantastic battery life, are you mainly on wifi?
I can get to lunch only if I'm on wiring or only if I don't touch the device.

 

[Blumaze]

First post in this forum, but I had to chime in on the battery talk. Having been strictly on android for a few years now, I can say without a doubt that imo, this phone is by far the best I've had as far as battery goes. I'm consistently getting over 16 hours a day on one charge. To me that's incredible compared to my last phone (HTC Inspire) where I would get about 6-8 hours before having to charge it. This is under what I consider as "my normal" usage, including 4 email accounts syncing every 15 mins over 10 calls and numerous text message's during a normal workday. After work I'll stream off Pandora, read several pages of a book on play book, go online, etc. and I'm plugging the phone on the charger for the night with 20-25% left on it.

My son's iphone 4s is no where near to getting 2-3 days of use. He's lucky to get a full day out if it. Granted he's constantly using it when not in school but even on his "light" usage days he's getting just about what I'm getting with the Skyrocket.

 

[anon(50597)]

I am on WIFI when at home but not at work.

 

[Sirrahdorraj]

@87%

 

[anon62607]

You know, I'm never far from a charger of sorts. But, me switching back to my iPhone 4S was more about the 'principle' of it. Meaning, if I have two devices, and I use them the same, why does one give me two-to-almost three days of battery use (iPhone 4S), and the other barely 12 hours? Now, I understand that the screen on the Skyrocket is bigger, but seriously, is it just that Apple make their products totally different to anyone else?

1. I want at least 15 hours of battery life from a device (with normal use)
2. a decent size screen
3. decent hardware

Is that asking for too much?

I had this problem in Afghanistan. I didn't have any power in the tent so I'd always charge the phone at a work site during the day and then it'd be on battery overnight. Being overnight aside from a little use (maybe an hour) watching videos or listening to music before I went to sleep it'd be idle all night. I started with my US iPhone which did just fine with battery, but of course it was still an AT&T phone and only roaming there. Text messages and data was obscenely expensive and the carriers in Afghanistan don't use the smaller sim cards, and I hadnt unlocked the iPhone so I switched to an android phone, unlocked, with a local sim. Battery life was completely random - the phone 100% stock, no added software (at first). Sometimes I'd wake up with 50% charge remaining and sometimes I'd wake up and the battery was dead - once again, remember this is with the phone idle almost all night.

Then I got a windows phone 7 and once again battery life was great - id wake up with the phone at nearly 100% and felt like I could use it freely without constantly watching my battery level. It feels to me like battery life is specifically an android problem, and WP7 and iPhone don't have it. The WP7 phone, btw, had a 4 inch amoled display and I used the screen at full brightness often enough (Samsung omnia 7).