Battery Life of the Galaxy

[Deflord]

I am switching jobs to an IT position. And I currently have an HTC One X which I truly love. But my company uses Verizon so my AT&T phone would go bye bye. So now my question is how good/bad is the battery life with the Galaxy S3? I can get a pretty good battery life with my current HTC. My work is encouraging me to look into the iPhone but I kind of am more into Android than iPhone. But curious on battery life though since I am a heavy user.

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[broadwayblues]

I can see why people love the HOX so much. If there was one on Verizon I would be all over it. Having reviewed both phones I can say that the One X might edge out the S3 in battery life, however I wasn't on LTE with AT&T.

The S3 on LTE isn't bad at all, but it falls short of the HOX on HSPA+.

However I would be willing to bet that the S3 would be the stronger phone if they were both on equal footing, such as both on wifi.

Sent from my Verizon Galaxy S III.

 

[PeteJE]

Mine has been really great 18+ hours is easy with 3 hrs screen on time. It takes some tweaking at the start: I disabled S voice - I use power saving (but deselected CPU power saving in the power saving menu so my CPU is never on power save. I use auto brightness 99% of the time (some say that is a power sucker too vs. picking a fixed brightness level).

I also had to remove a version of Handcent, that, for me, was causing constant wake locks and draining my battery. I also manage my data - if I see it switching to 3g a lot (like deep in my building at work) I put it on wifi to keep it from working hard with the radios.

 

[paintdrinkingpete]

If you're gonna be working in IT, chances are you'll be sitting in front of a computer...a lot. Keep a charger at your workstation and plug in during the day...no worries!

I realize this doesn't answer your question, but I haven't had my S3 long enough to make a real evalutation. My last phone was a HTC Thunderbolt though, which is notorious for poor battery -- but I also work in IT, and just got into the habbit of plugging the sucker in around lunch time to charge it up.

 

[worwig]

A coworker had an ATT HTC One X. I was jealous, with my HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon and the poor battery life it had. But it turned out his One X battery life was as bad. He returned it, and ATT gave him a new One X. After a week of suck battery, he returned that One X and got an ATT S3. He has MUCH better battery life with the S3. Could be better, but good enough. I realized that Verizon was never going to get the One X, or it wouldn't have an SD card slot, or a replaceable battery, so I switched to a S3 on Verizon. The first three days, the battery life SUCKED BIG TIME. I think I just had it on for too many hours a day playing with my new toy. Now I can get through a day with about 40% left. Good enough.

 

[paintdrinkingpete]

A coworker had an ATT HTC One X. I was jealous, with my HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon and the poor battery life it had. But it turned out his One X battery life was as bad. He returned it, and ATT gave him a new One X. After a week of suck battery, he returned that One X and got an ATT S3. He has MUCH better battery life with the S3. Could be better, but good enough. I realized that Verizon was never going to get the One X, or it wouldn't have an SD card slot, or a replaceable battery, so I switched to a S3 on Verizon. The first three days, the battery life SUCKED BIG TIME. I think I just had it on for too many hours a day playing with my new toy. Now I can get through a day with about 40% left. Good enough.

Yeah, I've been an HTC fan for a while...but all those factors were just too much. Samsung just seemed to get more right this time around.

Yup, I've learned to never try to evaluate a new phone's battery until at least a week after activation...

 

[Deflord]

I get good battery life with my HTC One X after about 10-12 hours I'll have about 15%-20% left which works for me. AMD that's my goal if the S3 can get me 10-12 hours then that will work. I don't expect a full crazy 18 hours or whatever.

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[SMD]

I have found battery life really good on my S3. I'm in Los Angeles so I get good LTE signal. Although when I'm home I'm on wifi and I have a good 40% left at the end of a full day. On LTE its less but still pretty good.

I went to a relatively small town Minnesota that had no LTE so I was o a pretty good 3G signal all day and my battery life was significantly less. I usually had to charge my phone by the early evening.

 

[Deflord]

Excellent that is what I wanted to hear. Now to see about hearing aid/cochlear implant compatibility!

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[kalnel#WN]

I've had great battery life so far. This morning, I used it for 2 and a half hours, and it only ran down to 68%. My all-time best is 26 hours (no charging, all on 4G) with about 4 hours of screen time.

I get a fairly strong 4G signal, so I haven't noticed a huge change in battery life between 4G and wi-fi.

 

[Deflord]

Good deal - I live in Houston so its an LTE Network - so okay its looking good so far!

 

[Deflord]

If you're gonna be working in IT, chances are you'll be sitting in front of a computer...a lot. Keep a charger at your workstation and plug in during the day...no worries!

I realize this doesn't answer your question, but I haven't had my S3 long enough to make a real evalutation. My last phone was a HTC Thunderbolt though, which is notorious for poor battery -- but I also work in IT, and just got into the habbit of plugging the sucker in around lunch time to charge it up.

Actually I am going to be a field support engineer - my current job right now is sitting in front of a computer all day long not my bag. So now will be working out on the field which is what I wanted to do - which is why I was asking about the battery.