SOT greater than 6 hours

[Nakrohtap]

I see a version of the "don't gimp your phone" response to questions like the OP's in every discusssion that lasts more than a couple of posts.

I don't buy it.

We all have multiple features and apps pre-loaded on our new phones that we will *never* use. Now, for each of us, the list of thsoe will be different, but if they are apps that run in the background, and there is a way to stop them from doing so, of course you should disable them. If there are enough of them, of course that will give you better performance and battery life than you would otherwise have. If you can gain a more than negligible increase in battery life by adjusting the way you use the phone, for some that's a reasonable trade off, as well.

Fast charging is not equivalent to battery capacity and life.

Let me say that again.

Fast charging is not equivalent to battery capacity and life.

Just because User A may get 6 hours of SOT with his usage pattern, and User B may get only 4 with hers, doesn't mean each shouldn't want to get the most they can for their unique situations.

My points boil down to use your phone as you like and don't remove features you use to try and better SOT. person A may never get what person B gets, based on different variables. It doesn't mean don't remove bloat or disable features you don't use.

 

[Roman Akert]

To be honest, I'd rather 6 hours using all the features than 8 hours with some of them switched off. Actually, even if using the phone for what I paid all the money for only gave me 4 hours SOT then I'd take it.

It's not a question of using all the function to get most 'bang for your buck' but switching those that are of no use (at a given time) to you/me off.

An analogy would be the lights in your house. Do you leave all of them on all the time?

 

[KPMcClave]

To be honest, I'd rather 6 hours using all the features than 8 hours with some of them switched off. Actually, even if using the phone for what I paid all the money for only gave me 4 hours SOT then I'd take it.

But nobody uses *all* the features.

 

[chickweedblur]

To be honest, I'd rather 6 hours using all the features than 8 hours with some of them switched off. Actually, even if using the phone for what I paid all the money for only gave me 4 hours SOT then I'd take it.

For the most part I'm with you on this. I agree that apps you never use or settings that are obvious that help conserve battery should be taken advantage of but dimming my screen beyond what's nice to look at or turning BT on and off every time I need it is stupid on an $800 phone. Even just downloading and not using an app can be problematic. I just took a trip and after coming back I unloaded UBER, Tripadvisor, Delta, etc because them simply won't stay dormant. That's pretty stupid.

At the risk of going off on a tangent, it's still the biggest (and pretty much only) shortcoming of Android - the seeming inability to fully control app background usage. I frequently find apps I haven't used in days or weeks be a top 2-3 consumer of battery for no particular reason. The idea of only loading apps when you need them is amateur hour. My wife (iPhone) has 2-3x the number of apps on her phone, turns nothing off and takes it off the charger at night and wakes up in the morning at 98-99%. Even with push disabled and AOD off I'm thrilled with anything around 1-2% drain an hour while completely dormant.

 

[KPMcClave]

For the most part I'm with you on this. I agree that apps you never use or settings that are obvious that help conserve battery should be taken advantage of but dimming my screen beyond what's nice to look at or turning BT on and off every time I need it is stupid on an $800 phone. Even just downloading and not using an app can be problematic. I just took a trip and after coming back I unloaded UBER, Tripadvisor, Delta, etc because them simply won't stay dormant. That's pretty stupid.

At the risk of going off on a tangent, it's still the biggest (and pretty much only) shortcoming of Android - the seeming inability to fully control app background usage. I frequently find apps I haven't used in days or weeks be a top 2-3 consumer of battery for no particular reason. The idea of only loading apps when you need them is amateur hour. My wife (iPhone) has 2-3x the number of apps on her phone, turns nothing off and take it off the charger at night and wake up in the morning at 98-99%. Even without push disabled and AOD off I'm thrilled with anything around 1-2% drain an hour.

This isn't how the package disabler apps are primarily geared to fucntion, but I use EZ Disabler to disable apps that I only use occassionaly. A good example is Fandango. I search for showtimes and buy my tickets with the app when I go to the movies. I go to the theater maybe 4-6 times a year. So, most of the time Fandango is disabled, and I don't have to reinstall it every time I want to use it. Some of my restaurant rewards apps are like that, too. Obviously, most of the packages I disabled just stay that way all the time.