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To those who own the phone, I want to know any battery life statistics you can provide.
I am very interested in this phone as it has that amazing keyboard, a nice 4" QHD screen, and it at least seems plausible there will be roms available at some point. But battery life I am not sure about, all the reviews I have read don't hit too hard on the battery life and I want someone to tell me heavy details about the battery life.
On a side note, if anyone can compare their D3 to this that would be great. I currently own a Droid Incredible, it is running MIUI, I have brightness set to 15-35% max, I have 3G turned off with Wifi on (as I live on a college campus with lots of wifi). On Easy to Moderate usage, I wouldn't have to charge for 2-3 days, On Medium to Heavy usage I end the day with at least 15%. With those same settings could I expect that from the Droid 3? (if so I would be extremely happy as I am very pleased with the Dinc battery life but I definitely need a keyboard.)
thank you for any help!
-Brett
I know the people who successfully had used the bloat removal script apparently get great battery, didn't work for me. But, depends what you consider heavy and moderate I guess. I usually charge once before leaving from work (I like to have more than 50% battery) I think I'm down to about 30% usually towards the end of my shifts playing music from my phone, txting a lot, browsing facebook and some forums.
It works decently when I'm off work tho cuz I txt and browse less.
Battery life is much improved if you listen to those running the leaked OS which the rest of us are waiting for "soon". Currently, battery life is disappointing. The battery life with light usage is erratic, some nights, just sitting on my desk, its drained to 20% from a full charge in 10-12 hours. Other nights, its at 80%. I gave up trying to figure it out.
I'm coming from a Droid X and the D3 is getting at least 35% less battery life for the same usage. My numbers aren't scientific, but I know I'm usually at 30% with the DX by 4pm; with the D3 I'm usually at 15% by 2pm. Both are using the Motorola extended battery.
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Battery life is much improved if you listen to those running the leaked OS which the rest of us are waiting for "soon". Currently, battery life is disappointing. The battery life with light usage is erratic, some nights, just sitting on my desk, its drained to 20% from a full charge in 10-12 hours. Other nights, its at 80%. I gave up trying to figure it out.
I'm coming from a Droid X and the D3 is getting at least 35% less battery life for the same usage. My numbers aren't scientific, but I know I'm usually at 30% with the DX by 4pm; with the D3 I'm usually at 15% by 2pm. Both are using the Motorola extended battery.
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Comparing apples and oranges will always be disappointing.
This phone has better battery life than any other phone I've owned since 1999 -- AFTER the update! Note that I do not consider simple hours-to-dead measurements, but how much I use the device. I think that for a dual-core, large-screen, keyboard, 3G device, its efficiency is excellent. Anyone who thinks the D3 has poor battery life has not owned an HTC or Samsung device lately
Before the update.. about 8-14hours of battery life. With the update, easily 2+ days and I use it quite a bit.
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I can confirm that the battery life is drastically increased with the new OTA update. After about 9 hours of usage of occational web browsing, listening to music, and making a few calls, the battery only drained by 40% on the extended battery pack.
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Anyone who thinks the D3 has poor battery life has not owned an HTC or Samsung device lately
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Sorry Dude but my incred2 running Miui and or OMFGB SMOKES this D3 with the new OS leak with battery life..Smokes it.......
I missed a charge over the weekend (charger not plugged into wall) and by the end of the second day on the battery I still had 49% charge left.
Make sure you get the extended battery.
Inc2
Yeah my dad has an inc2.....the battery life is pretty remarkable. My d3 just doesn't last as long haha
Before I purchased my Droid 3, I took the heed of several and also got the extended battery.
Now I use mine for business purposes, so I do not use any social applications. Just Exchange, Gmail, and one POP3 account. All set for Push. Probably on the phone 30-60 minutes a day. I have the Exchange data turned off at night as I use Touchdown for this and it lets me set my schedule.
I charge it when I it gets down to around 20 %, That is normally after three days of use. That's been pretty consistent since the first week I had it which has been at least a month ago.
Still Stock..... Of course YMMV....
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I can confirm that the battery life is drastically increased with the new OTA update. After about 9 hours of usage of occational web browsing, listening to music, and making a few calls, the battery only drained by 40% on the extended battery pack.
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Do you have a Bell branded XT860 or are you running with Verizon Droid3? I am wondering because my XT860's extended battery is a little rough (barely gets through an entire day) and was wondering if Bell released an update for that phone. Note I'm on Rogers, so I'm not sure if that would make a difference on me getting OTA updates.
Comparing a single-core phone with a 3.7" screen to a dual-core phone with a 4" display is not apples to apples to begin with. Throw in a FULLY debloated and optimized ROM(miui) with a custom kernal on a single core 3.7" phone is more like grapes to watermelons.
With the standard battery I can take the phone off the charger when I wake up and get through the day no problem. I am simply rooted with all the bloat frozen with TiBu.
Anyone heard anything about these batteries? They are only about $24 dollars shipped from Amazon. Are they worth it? Here is the link to Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Naztech-11650-Extended-Battery-Samsung/dp/B005A2RLWS.
Thanks for all the help.
Edit: I decided to take the leap and purchase it. If anyone wants to know how it runs, let me know and I will put a review out there.
I was actually thinking of getting one of these.
Saw a simillar one on eBay last night. Is it any good. I mean in comparison with the stock one. How is the performance overall?
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Anyone heard anything about these batteries? They are only about $24 dollars shipped from Amazon. Are they worth it? Here is the link to Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Naztech-11650-Extended-Battery-Samsung/dp/B005A2RLWS.
Thanks for all the help.
Edit: I decided to take the leap and purchase it. If anyone wants to know how it runs, let me know and I will put a review out there.
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I picked up a very simliar one (likely the same item?) from a US seller on eBay this week. The battery life has been GREAT on this thing so far!
The cover is not too bad at all. For reference, I compared it to my old Treo 650 I had laying around, and the Nexus is still SLIGHTLY thinner than the Treo. The extra bulge actually makes the phone MUCH easier to hold.
I debated the Seidio and really expected to regret not going there, but I'm totally satisfied with this one and the extra 40 bucks in my pocket.
I bought two of them. A+ batteries...I use Pandora about 10 hours a day, every day and when I go to bed (17 hours unplugged) the phone still has about
40 % left
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I just bought it too off Amazon, it's going to get here tomorrow. I'll let you guys know how it is and what I think of it...hopefully it's great, I can really use it. Stock battery just doesn't cut it, battery life is terrible. I just take a spare battery with me to school everyday, I also have a battery charger that plugs into a wall outlet so that helps.
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Naztech 3000 mAh Review
I apologize for the delay in getting this review posted, but I wanted to make sure that I had fully tested this battery. I have attached my most recent screenshots for this battery. I have had this unplugged for a little over 24 hours and as you can see it still has 66% battery life. This is an awesome extended battery. I have used this for streaming music, tracking my runs, a couple hours of calls, and playing some Madden 12. On average, I am having to plug it in after about 36-40 hours with heavy usage. When I say heavy usage, that means 2 hours of GPS use, 2-3 hours of streaming, 3-4 hours of gaming , and background sync turned on. This is per day usage, so you can double those numbers. The most recent test is just after some moderate usage. Overnight from 12pm to 7am, it only dropped 2%. I am quite impressed by this battery and I, like many others, find that the bulk it adds is better for holding on to the phone. If you have any other questions regarding this battery, let me know. I can run it through any tests that you would like.
Thanks.
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I apologize for the delay in getting this review posted, but I wanted to make sure that I had fully tested this battery. I have attached my most recent screenshots for this battery. I have had this unplugged for a little over 24 hours and as you can see it still has 66% battery life. This is an awesome extended battery. I have used this for streaming music, tracking my runs, a couple hours of calls, and playing some Madden 12. On average, I am having to plug it in after about 36-40 hours with heavy usage. When I say heavy usage, that means 2 hours of GPS use, 2-3 hours of streaming, 3-4 hours of gaming , and background sync turned on. This is per day usage, so you can double those numbers. The most recent test is just after some moderate usage. Overnight from 12pm to 7am, it only dropped 2%. I am quite impressed by this battery and I, like many others, find that the bulk it adds is better for holding on to the phone. If you have any other questions regarding this battery, let me know. I can run it through any tests that you would like.
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Can you post a few pictures of the battery?
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I apologize for the delay in getting this review posted, but I wanted to make sure that I had fully tested this battery. I have attached my most recent screenshots for this battery. I have had this unplugged for a little over 24 hours and as you can see it still has 66% battery life. This is an awesome extended battery. I have used this for streaming music, tracking my runs, a couple hours of calls, and playing some Madden 12. On average, I am having to plug it in after about 36-40 hours with heavy usage. When I say heavy usage, that means 2 hours of GPS use, 2-3 hours of streaming, 3-4 hours of gaming , and background sync turned on. This is per day usage, so you can double those numbers. The most recent test is just after some moderate usage. Overnight from 12pm to 7am, it only dropped 2%. I am quite impressed by this battery and I, like many others, find that the bulk it adds is better for holding on to the phone. If you have any other questions regarding this battery, let me know. I can run it through any tests that you would like.
Thanks.
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What battery program is that?
It seems good..
I agree, this battery is awesome, it really does work even with heavy usage. Had to calibrate it though, took me like 3 cycles of letting it die and then fully charging. I unplugged my phone today at 8:51 AM and my battery is at 55% right now, was chatting a ton via messaging and AIM on my phone during the NFL and MLB games, browsing some boards on it during them, checking scores using the browser, and I've had AIM running all day. I was at work from 9 to 1 and I had AIM running the whole time then too which I've noticed on all my previous phones(N1 and MT4G) is a HUGE battery hog, probably the biggest I've encountered aside from playing games, and even the battery usage in the OS shows AIM at 70%. I was chatting using messaging and AIM while I was at work, not much but a good amount. Oh and I was on mobile data all day long(T-Mo), never used Wi-Fi even when I was in my house.
This battery is pretty awesome but I feel like it could be even better but I think it'll MORE than do because the amount of time/usage I spent on it today probably will exceed my longest day of school so I'm guaranteed to get home from school with probably at least 30% so I'm happy. On the old battery it was near dying when I was about to get home or near the way home, and I commute an hour and 20 mins every day to school in the city so that's why it matters so much to me...and I have an hour break sometimes in school so it matters then too. I mean I read on my breaks(my textbooks) but you need your phone to keep entertained and stay sane lol, can't read nonstop forever.
This battery is more than good for me, I feel like it'll last a whole day and usually you're never away from a charger in the course of a whole day so it shouldn't be a problem for any of us. If you are you must like in the middle of nowhere lol.
And about the grip and holding with the bulky battery cover, I agree that it makes the phone a lot easier to hold actually. They made the battery cover perfect with it's hump and all. The hump fits perfectly into your bottom 3 fingers with your thumb on the phone and your index finger goes right above the hump near the camera. The holding position is FANTASTIC and SO NATURAL and AWESOME, it's sweet. Feels like you can't even drop your phone cause of that and makes it super easy and nice to hold, feels great and comfortable holding it. It's so natural, A LOT better than the stock OEM battery cover which I would never use the phone with without a friggin case, it's a slipping nightmare without a case in that situation.
Overall, total frickin steal for only $30 after shipping. And it's on Amazon, it can't get any better! I'll post some more tests/runthroughs and trials on my school days too to get a better idea of it.
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Oh and I'm running Peter Alfonso or GPA 17 for the Nexus S. Didn't flash any other kernels though like Netarchy or Trinity, just using his ROM with whatever kernel it came with. Wonder if it would be different with Trinity as in better...it's probably too late to flash the kernel anyway right, I flashed GPA 17 like a week ago and have been using the phone, would the kernel interfere with the ROM or mess it up in any way after already putting a good amount of data in the phone? Or is it safe to flash a new kernel whenever and not necessary only when you've just flashed a clean new ROM?
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[/COLOR]Oh and I'm running Peter Alfonso or GPA 17 for the Nexus S. Didn't flash any other kernels though like Netarchy or Trinity, just using his ROM with whatever kernel it came with. Wonder if it would be different with Trinity as in better...it's probably too late to flash the kernel anyway right, I flashed GPA 17 like a week ago and have been using the phone, would the kernel interfere with the ROM or mess it up in any way after already putting a good amount of data in the phone? Or is it safe to flash a new kernel whenever and not necessary only when you've just flashed a clean new ROM?
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You can flash a kernel at anytime and not loose anything. Just make sure you clear dalvik after the flash and you're all good. Just for good measure, I usually clear system cache along with dalvik, but you probably don't need to. Once you clear the dalvik, first boot will take a minute or so, so don't freak out. After that, it's back to the speedy boot GPA17 is known for.
What is dalvik cache anyway?
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What is dalvik cache anyway?
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Dalvik is a Java virtual machine in which all the applications run. And the Dalvik cache is a component of this system that allows faster for loading.
Hi over there mates!
Just wanted to know which is in your opinion the best rom for battery performance/stability purposes?
I tried long ago MIUI (that rooled but killed battery) and now I've got CM7 but the battery performance isn't much good in my opinion.
Which kernel/rom mods would you recommend me?
Thanks in advance.
I wouldn't expect more than a day of moderate/heavy use on this device on any ROM. The battery is too weak. I'm running CM 7.2 and it runs for about 2 days on light use (a little of youtube browsing, all-day wifi and a little of e-mail, no 3G and basically no calls/sms).
When I had my Nokia 5800 I never knew when I last charged, since it lasted about (or more than) 10 days (It was always on standby). With this guy, it's a little depressing to be hunting for outlets all the time, but can't compare the features and usability.
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I wouldn't expect more than a day of moderate/heavy use on this device on any ROM. The battery is too weak. I'm running CM 7.2 and it runs for about 2 days on light use (a little of youtube browsing, all-day wifi and a little of e-mail, no 3G and basically no calls/sms).
When I had my Nokia 5800 I never knew when I last charged, since it lasted about (or more than) 10 days (It was always on standby). With this guy, it's a little depressing to be hunting for outlets all the time, but can't compare the features and usability.
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I agree... I tried different roms and no one last longer than a day for a moderate use...
Cool...
Well... you know... if I could get it lasting a whole day would be enough
I don't like staying 4 hours with low use and -30% draining battery life
I didn't expect to get more than a 12 or 14h period without charging. :good:
Today I took my phone off charge at 3.30pm, I'm on 50% with adaptive brightness off. My SOT is 2hrs 10mins, during which I've used WhatsApp, texted, used Chrome, played some music and YouTube videos, and played Temple Run for 20mins. I also have Facebook running, but I haven't used it. It's 7.45pm now, and my phone is at 51% with an estimated time of 5hrs remaining.
So that's 3.5hrs off charge, with about 2hrs SOT time, and I'm on 51%.
Does this sound average for the Nexus 6 or is my battery draining more so than normal?
That sounds way below average. I'm at 49% after 10 hours of heavy use. At least 2 hours internet and 45 min of talk time.
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That sounds way below average. I'm at 49% after 10 hours of heavy use. At least 2 hours internet and 45 min of talk time.
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I have a super hard time believing that you had 10 hours of heavy use or we think heavy use are two different things.
To OP check out the battery life thread in general, could be a variety of rogue apps that are draining in background. If you don't turn things off I'm not surprised if you get around 4.5 hours of SOT
Is there a way to tell how many hours since charge? I just see that I have 12 hrs left
Yes, that is low in my opinion. On similar usage I typically get 6+ SOT 100% to 15%. Probably 75% WiFi, 25% LTE. Auto brightness.
This is about right. On my 3rd nexus 6 and they all exhibited the same behavior. I'm a heavy user as well and lucky if I get 5 hours sot. I had a short stint with a 6+ where I measured bit one day to give me a freakish 9.5hrs when I got down to 4%. I only hope things would get better for the battery as time passes. This is the perfect phone for me in every way except battery life.
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This is about right. On my 3rd nexus 6 and they all exhibited the same behavior. I'm a heavy user as well and lucky if I get 5 hours sot. I had a short stint with a 6+ where I measured bit one day to give me a freakish 9.5hrs when I got down to 4%. I only hope things would get better for the battery as time passes. This is the perfect phone for me in every way except battery life.
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You cant accurately measure SOT on iOS so I have a hard time believing this. I have several friends with the 6+ that barely get through the day here at my university, then again I can't vouch for what they do on their phones.
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You cant accurately measure SOT on iOS so I have a hard time believing this. I have several friends with the 6+ that barely get through the day here at my university, then again I can't vouch for what they do on their phones.
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Believe me, on a holiday break without anything better to do you can easily measure it lol
Its incredible battery wise and may be as a phone if you ca stomache iOs, i couldnt.
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Believe me, on a holiday break without anything better to do you can easily measure it lol
Its incredible battery wise and may be as a phone if you ca stomache iOs, i couldnt.
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What I'm staying is unless you have a stopwatch and can reproduce it accurately then it's hard to prove. I'm not necessarily saying your wrong, but it's hard to believe an iPhone is getting that kind of battery life, especially from what I have seen.
Now I'm not saying it's impossible but it's not something you see everyday. Its hard to measure something like SOT accurately without a built in system setting or app monitoring it. You can see why I have doubt's, but I appreciate you posting your experience.
This question makes no sense, as every battery thread. Battery is subjective, there is no such thing as "average" battery life. It all depends on how you use your phone and how your phone is set up. Everybody has their own kind of apps, setups, carriers.
The better signal strength you have in terms of carrier cellular data, the better battery you'll have.
Depending on what you do on your phone determines battery life. Yeah you can have 6+ hours SOT, but if you play games or watch videos then your battery life will be different from everybody else. Does that mean you have "poor" battery life? No, you just put your phone to more heavy tasks that consumed more battery life.
The way I see battery life, if I was able to end the day without my phone going down to 0% then it did its job. If I have problems with battery life, I'm only 15 minutes away from a quick Turbo Charge up to ~60% or get a portable charger if you don't have access to a wall outlet.
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What I'm staying is unless you have a stopwatch and can reproduce it accurately then it's hard to prove. I'm not necessarily saying your wrong, but it's hard to believe an iPhone is getting that kind of battery life, especially from what I have seen.
Now I'm not saying it's impossible but it's not something you see everyday. Its hard to measure something like SOT accurately without a built in system setting or app monitoring it. You can see why I have doubt's, but I appreciate you posting your experience.
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No offense taken at all. Quite the opposite, i completely inderstand where you're coming from. I have doubts myself when someone says they're heavy users on nexus 6 and get 8hrs sot. Everyones usage is pretty unique to them and can shift their sot numbers considerably to either side.
That being said and that i got that out of the way lol, what I meant when i said I had a lot of time on my hand is that i really had a lot of time towaste, that 9.5hrs was spent in one sitting believe or not. Most of it was binging on Netflix and the remainder was browsing on safari. I pretty much use my Nexus 6 the same way where its strictly split between Netflix/yiutube and chrome. Most if it on Wifi.
I didn't install any apps on top of stock in either phone except for google maps on iOS and adaway/titanium/greenify on nexus 6. I use the browser for everything else like facebook etc. And i dont play any games on my phones. May be my sot on the 6+ would've been different if my usage was different, but for my use case and setup the 6+ had the much better battery life.
However i ended up going back to the nexus 6 because its the better phone overall imo. I just need to find a way to improve the battery. I was hoping greenify would help a lot, but it didnt help much so far. My galaxy nexus had horrid battery life BUT the battery was replaceable and that made all the difference in the world, whuch this phone sadly lacks.
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No offense taken at all. Quite the opposite, i completely inderstand where you're coming from. I have doubts myself when someone says they're heavy users on nexus 6 and get 8hrs sot. Everyones usage is pretty unique to them and can shift their sot numbers considerably to either side.
That being said and that i got that out of the way lol, what I meant when i said I had a lot of time on my hand is that i really had a lot of time towaste, that 9.5hrs was spent in one sitting believe or not. Most of it was binging on Netflix and the remainder was browsing on safari. I pretty much use my Nexus 6 the same way where its strictly split between Netflix/yiutube and chrome. Most if it on Wifi.
I didn't install any apps on top of stock in either phone except for google maps on iOS and adaway/titanium/greenify on nexus 6. I use the browser for everything else like facebook etc. And i dont play any games on my phones. May be my sot on the 6+ would've been different if my usage was different, but for my use case and setup the 6+ had the much better battery life.
However i ended up going back to the nexus 6 because its the better phone overall imo. I just need to find a way to improve the battery. I was hoping greenify would help a lot, but it didnt help much so far. My galaxy nexus had horrid battery life BUT the battery was replaceable and that made all the difference in the world, whuch this phone sadly lacks.
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I see, thank you for clarifying your usage. If you want better battery life I recommend trying Franco kernel with Vomer Tweaks. I had 7.5 hours SOT with 25% battery left before I flashed a updated ROM and made a TWRP backup. I could have easily made it to 8.5-9hours SOT, however it was already 2300 and I didn't feel like staring at my screen until 0100 just to see if I could get more SOT. My phone was on all day since 0730 that morning, including time I used Bluetooth for GP music at the gym and some casting to my Nexus Player. Good battery life is possible but as you said everyone is different.
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What I'm staying is unless you have a stopwatch and can reproduce it accurately then it's hard to prove. I'm not necessarily saying your wrong, but it's hard to believe an iPhone is getting that kind of battery life, especially from what I have seen.
Now I'm not saying it's impossible but it's not something you see everyday. Its hard to measure something like SOT accurately without a built in system setting or app monitoring it. You can see why I have doubt's, but I appreciate you posting your experience.
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I see, thank you for clarifying your usage. If you want better battery life I recommend trying Franco kernel with Vomer Tweaks. I had 7.5 hours SOT with 25% battery left before I flashed a updated ROM and made a TWRP backup. I could have easily made it to 8.5-9hours SOT, however it was already 2300 and I didn't feel like staring at my screen until 0100 just to see if I could get more SOT. My phone was on all day since 0730 that morning, including time I used Bluetooth for GP music at the gym and some casting to my Nexus Player. Good battery life is possible but as you said everyone is different.
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Wow that sounds impressive and really all that i need as sot goes. I'll def read up on how to do it and give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the replies guys.
Okay, so went to bed, phone was at 79% battery. This morning it was about 74% or so. Been on Chrome checking stuff, it's dropped to about 65% in half an hour. Screen brightness is around 30%. WiFi on, half cellular signal. I'm not doing anything intensive. My SoT so far is 1hr 40mins. Standby time is 12hrs.
So tl;dr - dropped 5% over 12hrs on standby, then 9% in half an hour with the screen on at 30% brightness using mainly Chrome.
I guess am just a little concerned in case I have a defective battery or something. I've alrady had one replacement already due to the camera arriving damaged.
What do you guys think?
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Thanks for the replies guys.
Okay, so went to bed, phone was at 79% battery. This morning it was about 74% or so. Been on Chrome checking stuff, it's dropped to about 65% in half an hour. Screen brightness is around 30%. WiFi on, half cellular signal. I'm not doing anything intensive. My SoT so far is 1hr 40mins. Standby time is 12hrs.
So tl;dr - dropped 5% over 12hrs on standby, then 9% in half an hour with the screen on at 30% brightness using mainly Chrome.
I guess am just a little concerned in case I have a defective battery or something. I've alrady had one replacement already due to the camera arriving damaged.
What do you guys think?
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Sounds about right. 9% in half an hour would give you 5 hrs SOT, and thats about average.
If you were doing Franko kernel with volmer tweaks that would be low. They do a lot to slow processor down and reduce capability to save battery, but you probably wouldn't be able to tell except for the occasional lag while scrolling a web page.
I get about 3.5-4 hours SOT. Seems fine to me. I don't do anything whatsoever to save battery. I keep the screen brightness how I like it.
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Wow that sounds impressive and really all that i need as sot goes. I'll def read up on how to do it and give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
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Here is mine so far today. The reboot is from when I updated Franco kernel to r4. I used google play music at the gym and Bluetooth in my car driving to and from the gym and store. Battery life can be as good as you want it to be.
Edit: also I was only on WiFi for 40 minutes and LTE the rest of the time
I know it depends how you using it and so on. But generally?
I think mine is worse then pixel 4 xl. Have only charged it like 4 times but still. Using some Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, news , youtube.
Mostly wifi and feels like battery is dropping really fast.
I'm getting 7-8 hours SoT when battery hitting around 25-30% left. Here's my thread from my first findings.
Battery life?
So I'm coming from a 3 XL, and I even got the battery replaced April 2021, and I was getting about four hours SoT. My 7 in only two days is blowing my mind. Yesterday I had five hours SoT, and today after a full charge, It went from 100% to 99%...
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Today's usage.
its about the same as pixel 6 for me maybe a little less from daily usage...but smoother for sure and the phone is a little bit smaller which is always a plus
My battery sucks ATM. Only had like 3 full charges so might settle and getting better , hopefully
Another quick update. Haven't used the phone that much yesterday or today yet, and I'm happy with standby time. Over 34 hours off the charger with over 4 hours SoT, and still has over 40% battery.
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Another quick update. Haven't used the phone that much yesterday or today yet, and I'm happy with standby time. Over 34 hours off the charger with over 4 hours SoT, and still has over 40% battery.
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Doesn't sound great.
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LOL what do you want? 20 hours SoT? Maybe because I'm coming from a 3 XL with a 3430 battery that after 4 hours of SoT, and only being off the charger for 12 hours, not well over 30, my battery would be at 10%, not 40%, but to me this is freaking awesome battery life.
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LOL what do you want? 20 hours SoT? Maybe because I'm coming from a 3 XL with a 3430 battery that after 4 hours of SoT, and only being off the charger for 12 hours, not well over 30, my battery would be at 10%, not 40%, but to me this is freaking awesome battery life.
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20 would be stellar.
Anyone getting battery drain with Spotify?
Was listening for 3h with bluetooth headphones and it said Spotify needed 23% which i feel is quite a lot.
3h display on used 5%
Mine is honestly making me regret buying the phone. Too late, sent my trade in yesterday.
I previously had the Pixel 5a and got around 9.5 hours of screen on time over 24 hours. I think most days I could go about 30 hours before running empty.
My P7 gets around 6 hours of screen time over about 18 hours.
So a battery that's 7% smaller is seeing battery life more than 30% worse.
I'm not very happy with the battery life as you can tell, and I just hope a software update can improve things.
boardrx182 said:
Mine is honestly making me regret buying the phone. Too late, sent my trade in yesterday.
I previously had the Pixel 5a and got around 9.5 hours of screen on time over 24 hours. I think most days I could go about 30 hours before running empty.
My P7 gets around 6 hours of screen time over about 18 hours.
So a battery that's 7% smaller is seeing battery life more than 30% worse.
I'm not very happy with the battery life as you can tell, and I just hope a software update can improve things.
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That's the only thing that scares me from getting it.
SonnyKrockett said:
That's the only thing that scares me from getting it.
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Other than the battery life the phone is fantastic haha. It's not unmanageable, I do keep good high-watt chargers in most places like home, work, car, etc. But sometimes I go do something all day and I'm not near a charger. Guess I'll just get used to using battery saver mode in those situations.
I do enjoy the phone, but the battery giving me anxiety is not very fun.
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Other than the battery life the phone is fantastic haha. It's not unmanageable, I do keep good high-watt chargers in most places like home, work, car, etc. But sometimes I go do something all day and I'm not near a charger. Guess I'll just get used to using battery saver mode in those situations.
I do enjoy the phone, but the battery giving me anxiety is not very fun.
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Yeah. I guess. Working 10 hrs makes me nervous about battery life. Lol.
dont reference your SOT, reference it to your previous phone, everone usage SOT is different, one person maybe have 5 hours SOT but on the camera for 70% one person may have 10 hours but only use it for texting or internet.
What ways have you guys found to extend battery life during normal use? Without having to severely reduce the functionality of the phone, ie 5g or reducing screen brightness a ton. I feel like a modern phone a lot of the point is the screen and 5g so those I wouldn't want to sacrifice
Are there settings or other apps that can help? I'm fairly new to Android and so far I've been a bit disappointed with the battery life of the P7.
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What ways have you guys found to extend battery life during normal use? Without having to severely reduce the functionality of the phone, ie 5g or reducing screen brightness a ton. I feel like a modern phone a lot of the point is the screen and 5g so those I wouldn't want to sacrifice
Are there settings or other apps that can help? I'm fairly new to Android and so far I've been a bit disappointed with the battery life of the P7.
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What kind of battery life are you getting? I only play around on mine (Instagram, Pinterest, SnapChat, and some Candy Crush games), and my main drain is Clash Royale, and I get around 7-8 hour SoT with 20% remaining. I switched 5G off, and only use LTE because 5G (at least in my area) is bad.
Man, y'all must've been spoiled with like 10+ hours of SOT with your old phones... I get around 6-8 with 30 hrs total which I think is pretty dang good. But like someone else said SOT will be much different from person to person based on device usage. I watched a 2hr downloaded movie from Netflix with airplane mode on and it only dropped 12%. And with adaptive charging, I just charge it all night which it will charge, slowly, till full until my alarm goes off.
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Man, y'all must've been spoiled with like 10+ hours of SOT with your old phones... I get around 6-8 with 30 hrs total which I think is pretty dang good. But like someone else said SOT will be much different from person to person based on device usage. I watched a 2hr downloaded movie from Netflix with airplane mode on and it only dropped 12%. And with adaptive charging, I just charge it all night which it will charge, slowly, till full until my alarm goes off.
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Exactly. My experience is the opposite though. I came from a 3 XL, and by the time I switched from it to the 7 my battery capacity was down to around 2800. My 7 is like a God send for me. 7-8 hours SoT with the same use as my 3 XL, and I still have 30% left, when my 3 XL would be down to 2%. I couldn't be happier.
I came from the OnePlus9 and all around the OnePlus9 is a better device.
Google has a great UI experience, but these Tensor2 chips do not compete in performance or efficiency with the Snapdragon 888s or higher.
Theyre missing a lot of the refinement that Qualcomm has done with the hardware and it shows.
For those coming from a Pixel 3-5 series, yes this is a big upgrade, and many got great trade-in deals which is what made me give this phone a shot. It does not however live up to it's MSRP. Im hoping Google is able to refine things to greatly improve efficiency on these devices.