Yes, apparently ART has a noticeable (positive) affect in battery life

[JeffDenver]

Nice. Stock? Kernal?

Stock with ART. I did use it... Gaming, web browsing, IMing, email and book reading.

 

[JeffDenver]

WOW! That is super! How much did your available storage decrease. This looks pretty promising.

I haven't checked on storage difference. I've been told it is a 5 to 10 percent difference, but I have not checked myself.

 

[Lanhoj]

This is battery life with display on full, no dimming.

Doesn't look like you used it at all.
Some Apps should show up there if you did.
Chrome, YouTube or something, anything.

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[mchockeyvette27]

Definitely much better than when using Dalvik. I wasn't getting anywhere close to this. This is better than my HTC one also. And although this was on WiFi the whole time, that's good enough for me. There was about an hour of games in there too. And idle time seems to drain a lot less too.

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[JeffDenver]

Doesn't look like you used it at all.
Some Apps should show up there if you did.
Chrome, YouTube or something, anything.

Nope they don't. Yes, I did use it. Candy crush, maps, hangouts, aldiko, firefox, Gmail, taptalk... Probably others I forgot. I used it like I normally do except I kept the display on.

 

[mchockeyvette27]

Whoops it didn't add this.

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[Rookie4sho]

Are you guys actually sure its Art that's making your batteries last longer and not the fact that you all have a new device that needs to be conditioned. I mean as your conditioning your new phone batteries, for every charge and discharge you are going to see an improvement. Perhaps everyone should have conditioned there batteries at least for a week or so before switching to this Art mode.

 

[androidfan1x]

Are you guys actually sure its Art that's making your batteries last longer and not the fact that you all have a new device that needs to be conditioned. I mean as your conditioning your new phone batteries, for every charge and discharge you are going to see an improvement. Perhaps everyone should have conditioned there batteries at least for a week or so before switching to this Art mode.

Or maybe because of both.

 

[turbodmac]

I picked up this device Sunday morning, and switched to ART that evening. Yesterday was my first full day so I was playing around with it quite a bit. I obviously can't credit anything to ART since there's no reference without it but I had almost 19 hours off the charger, LTE for about 8 of it - WiFi the rest. My screen is on auto with an on time of almost 4 hours. Comparing to my Z10, the battery life is already better with the same number of accounts set up (4 emails, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.) and additional Facebook, Flipboard and GoogleNow widgets as well. When I put it on the charger I still had 26% battery left. I have to say I'm quite happy so far no matter if ART is making a difference or not.

 

[JeffDenver]

Are you guys actually sure its Art that's making your batteries last longer and not the fact that you all have a new device that needs to be conditioned. I mean as your conditioning your new phone batteries, for every charge and discharge you are going to see an improvement. Perhaps everyone should have conditioned there batteries at least for a week or so before switching to this Art mode.

My comparison was with the same device days before. And I never use wifi. So for me it was an accurate comparison.

 

[Robbie317]

I switched to "ART" 3 or 4 days ago and I have not really noticed any major gains or losses in battery life or performance. Any gains seem to be minimal at best... That You tube video showing how art is slightly faster on the two Nexus 7's even shows you with an app that takes a while to open the difference is a split second... Battery life wise I am getting about the same after as I was before ART.. But I also don't use my phone the same each day... Hard to tell a real difference unless your in a lab with two devices running the same apps at the same time and in the same way over the course of a week or two.... Great little phone specially for the money... It's super fast and for my real world use the battery last plenty long enough... After the original EVO 4G I got use to making sure I had a cable at my desk (at work), in my car, at my computer (at home) and at my night stand... I typically will throw it on the charger every day roughly 2 hours before quitting time so I leave work with a fully charged battery to last me through the night..

 

[65fastback]

Yesterday with the battery at 80%, I did the ART conversion. I still have not plugged my phone in yet. I know, a lousy 35 minutes of screen run time and brightness set to 0% most of the time (hate overly bright screens) and this is where I am at right now.

 

[srkmagnus]

A Wizard should know better!!!!!

Ha ha Yes, I know. I don't remember if that's how it came out of the box or if I set it that way just because. It's normally set about 35-50%, which is great for me unless I'm outdoors.

 

[65fastback]

1 hour 3 minutes of on screen time

 

[MarqBland]

I switched to Art yesterday and had to return to Dalvik. I had my phone connected to my bluetooth speaker and streaming radio in Google Play Music. The phone would either restart every few songs or would go into the Nexus boot screen but the music would keep playing. I haven't modified the phone at all. I will note that it didn't seem to happen when I played music that was stored locally, only when streaming music in Google Play (I didn't try streaming in any other apps). Anyone else have an issue like that? Other than that, I've never had a problem with the phone, so I just returned it to Dalvik and haven't had any issues.

 

[srkmagnus]

I switched to Art yesterday and had to return to Dalvik. I had my phone connected to my bluetooth speaker and streaming radio in Google Play Music. The phone would either restart every few songs or would go into the Nexus boot screen but the music would keep playing. I haven't modified the phone at all. I will note that it didn't seem to happen when I played music that was stored locally, only when streaming music in Google Play (I didn't try streaming in any other apps). Anyone else have an issue like that? Other than that, I've never had a problem with the phone, so I just returned it to Dalvik and haven't had any issues.

That's one of the issues with ART. It's not playing nice with certain apps, features and or mods. That's an issue of apps not being designed for the system and the result is force closures and crashes like you are having.

 

[Rule9]

That's one of the issues with ART. It's not playing nice with certain apps, features and or mods. That's an issue of apps not being designed for the system and the result is force closures and crashes like you are having.

Not too worried, it should be good to go around the time it hits carrier phones as a finished product

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[MarqBland]

That's one of the issues with ART. It's not playing nice with certain apps, features and or mods. That's an issue of apps not being designed for the system and the result is force closures and crashes like you are having.

Yep which is why I didn't get bothered by it. I can't wait until it's fully cooked though!

 

[cj100570]

I thought it was self evident that this was good. Over 19 hours with over 50% display time and still 20% left.

Apparently some readers aren't able to follow the logical flow....

 

[DigitalReality]

Ditto!

Hopefully WhatsApp updates soon to support ART.
Until then, I unfortunately can't use ART.

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