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Well it arrived yesterday, and I'm super-happy to say that so far (knock on wood) it appears to be essentially flawless; no screwy keys, no bad backlight, no boot-looping or overheating or any of the other issues that seem to plague some of the batches of phones. I also got the Moto 1930mAh battery, so battery life shouldn't be a big issue.
I was worried about the screen quality (a common D3 gripe), but I gotta say, after being accustomed to an older, smaller, scratched-up, lower-res, innaccurate, resistive touch screen on my HTC Tilt 2 for the last two years, I'm totally happy with the D3's screen; aside from it being slightly dimmer than some of the super-bright/saturated Super-AMOLEDs, it looks fine. I looked pretty closely and watched the text scroll in the Home interface and on web pages, and I never saw this "blurriness" that apparently drives all the super-picky screen elitists to hate PenTile. It looks great to me, probably due to the high res.
When it comes to navigating Android, I pretty much just stare at it and drool like a catatonic chimp, occasionally poking at buttons/icons, and dragging stuff here and there. Years of Windows Mobile haven't left me very Android-inclined I guess, but it looks intuitive and I've heard that it may be a slightly better OS than WinMo, so I'll figure it out.
And, as expected, the keyboard blew away any expectations I had. It's awesome.
So far I love the thing.
I'm a little scared to root; can I brick my phone while trying to root it?
Nice! I see: root! It can't be easier. Just double click!
I'd wait a bit before root. In general I say wait for an SBF of a sort. Soon we should see an update to address the bluish camera, power leaking car dock and few other minor annoyances. Hopefully recovery files will leak soon.
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Well it's been 2 days now. I've figured out how to drag icons around and add/remove them from my Home screen, updated some stuff, and downloaded/played GRave Defense HD (fun game btw).
I left it to charge all night, and plucked it from the chrager at exactly 7am yesterday when I left for work. I've used it moderately so far; watched a few YouTube vids, played some GRave Defense, texted a fair amount, checked Gmail, explored the menus a lot and fiddled around with it quite a bit. So far the battery is down to about 48% in a period of 30 hours (7am one day to 1pm the next day) without being turned off at all. I'm betting it will hit two days before needing a recharge, althoug with heavier usage it mayonly last 30-36 hours per charge. Still, not too bad at all for such a monster smartphone. I'm actually pretty impressed. I do have the 1930mAh Moto battery though. Which, I must add, doesn't even add any noticeable size increase to the phone.
Gotta say I LOVE this phone so far; I definitely picked the right phone for me; I can't find a single thing wrong with it, really. I don't know what people are *****ing about as far as the interface being slow or the screen being in any way blurry; you practically have to look at the thing under a friggin microscope to even see the slight cross-hatched PenTile dithering. I think people are just looking for excuses to complain. Of course, I don't have that much for a basis of comparison; I'm not really spoiled with all the latest phone technology, having only a Tilt2 with its old 528MHz single-core processor and buggy-ass, laggy TouchFLO-3D-on-top-of-Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system for comparison.
the blurry thing is hard to see at first.. but after a while you will notice it.. it doesnt bug me so much but its there lol.. overall i love the phone too.. great purchase.. i just got into the rooting and exploring android further scene.. rooting is easy .. its literally 2 clicks away.. cant harm anything.. but from there.. becareful what u do .. u dont want to delete the wrong thing .. then ur sol till an SBF comes out..
I agree it is a good little phone and once you get used to it you get to liking it. I am finding that it is a nice phone to be able to dink around with. My only thing is I haven't found a launcher I just love. Blur seems slow, as does ADB, and Go Launcher was buggy. But other then that it seems like a good little phone.
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Oooh, I just figured out that I can forcibly turn up the brightness in the Display settings and the display looks brilliant in a half-lit room. I don't want it eating up battery though so I'll keep it down around 60% or so.
I loaded DICE player and it literally crashes and reboots my phone EVERY TIME I load any kind of video file. Craptacular. I'll stick with MoboPlayer.
I rooted my unlocked XT860 quite easily using PSouza's Tool (version 1.06). It worked very well! I was afraid as well but didn't see anyone in the forum that said they bricked when they tried it.
I semi-bricked my phone by trying to flash one of the ROMs out there (Steel Droid), so I warn you - don't do any ROMs until they are released as international-friendly! (or specifically built for our XT860's).
To unbrick, I flashed the Chinese ME865 SBF. It's nice to have my phone back but it's on Android version 2.3.5, which is currently not root-able.
So there *is* a way out in case of catastrophe, but it's not as nice as having a stock Bell SBF.
I also rooted and added Hashcodes recovery to my XT860, but like everyone else, I'm impatient for something to flash. It's like our phones are all dressed up, but have nowhere to go
Its slightly depressing as well, surfing all the other sites, the popular ones and some not so popular...there's just no dev action on this phone. No forums even where we can exchange information. Well, except in here, hidden in the D3 forums.
I can't complain about the phone at all, to be honest, as I won it in one of MobileSyrups giveaways.
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Well just as an update, the battery ran until about 8pm the following night, from 7am the previous morning. That's about... What? 37 hours? When I plugged it in, it still had 10% as well, but it was going down pretty quick, likely would not have lasted another hour or two. Not bad at all though; 37 hours without a recharge while surfing, texting, and downloading/installing hordes of new apps is certainly a pretty good time-frame for a smart phone these days.
Just downloaded/installed Pandora Radio, it is the dog's bollocks (that's British for "Awesome").
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Well just as an update, the battery ran until about 8pm the following night, from 7am the previous morning. That's about... What? 37 hours? When I plugged it in, it still had 10% as well, but it was going down pretty quick, likely would not have lasted another hour or two. Not bad at all though; 37 hours without a recharge while surfing, texting, and downloading/installing hordes of new apps is certainly a pretty good time-frame for a smart phone these days.
Just downloaded/installed Pandora Radio, it is the dog's bollocks (that's British for "Awesome").
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You got 37 hours from a xt860?!
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Endoroid said:
You got 37 hours from a xt860?!
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Since the times of milestone one, those big numbers are surfacing.
Usually they came from people that doesen't use the always on data or is used to keep the phone in 2g.
With my xt883 and the extended battery i'm happy if i reach the end of the day...
Well OK, to be fair, I work in a secured area and can't bring my phone in, and must leave it in a little locker outside the door. This happens about 5-6hrs a day, so you could subtract up to 10 or 12 hours of actual usage time out of that 37 hours, but I made sure that at no point was the phone ever turned off or put in sleep mode or airplane mode; it was always on and had signal.
Wow impressive. I wish my battery life was that long. But unfortunately CDMA isn't as friendly. But I can make it through the day with over 50% left if I do it right.
I'm lucky if I get 8 hours, regardless of use
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My stock XT862 (debloated though) does about 12 hours on heavy usage. Does 16h on normal usage
I think my only regret so far was getting the Moto 1930mAh battery; sinc then I've heard amazing things about the Mugen power 3600mAh one. Oh well, the Moto battery definitely pulls it weight.
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I think my only regret so far was getting the Moto 1930mAh battery; sinc then I've heard amazing things about the Mugen power 3600mAh one. Oh well, the Moto battery definitely pulls it weight.
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Still regretting ??
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My stock XT862 (debloated though) does about 12 hours on heavy usage. Does 16h on normal usage
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Yes however the xt862 has had a software update fixing the cell standby/idle bug. The xt860 has had no update.
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Still regretting ??
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WHAT?? That's a D3?? Holy crap. Maybe I will stick with my 1930mAh bat for a bit... how's ur battery life? Is it worth the bulk?
Well,
I'm pretty sure my battery life is based on like, a werewolf-system where my battery is amazing at the middle of a Month, and terrible on the full moon. Minus the killing, maiming, and wolfbane. Also, I'm pretty sure my Thrill has never become human through the true love of a young, beautiful woman. But I digress, my battery life sucks balls (basketballs to be specific). After installing the nightly builds, my phone was awesome because of having cyanogenmod. But today, going from 5:45 am to 9 am, using my phone as usual (Constantly playing music, thirty minutes web use, low brightness), it died faster than a backup character in the "walking dead".I could usually expect to have around 60-70% battery at then, but today it was 30% at that time, and died by two. Did I mess up on the Rom, any other schtuff, or is it just the nature of having an experimental build? Any feedback would be freaking awesome, and anybody who responds will win my trust, love, and support for the remainder of their life.
Thanks!!! You guys are freakin great!!
i know with my phone, after each reboot, my phone will show a completely different percentage of battery left.
Example : My phone does the clicking glitch and shows 58% left. After a quick reboot to calm the bugs, my phone will show 35%.
My battery seems to have a mind of it's own and will have good days and bad days.
I hear you out on this one...
Just this morning I unplugged my phone, texted for about an hour, killed all running apps, set the phone down, came back to it 4 hours later and I'm at 70% battery... and I'm WATCHING it drop.
This phone needs a ROM with better battery management, I'd pay for one.
Maybe something like Neutrino for the atrix 4g (That rom was godly)
i had nightly 1 till like number 12 came out. nightly 1 i never noticed the battery issue. then next one i flashed i noticed it. so i think somewhere something happened... also... has any one found a workaround for the echo in calls for the person we are calling as a result of the noise canceling mic not enabled properly?
Sent from my LG Thrill 4G...
I just LOLed at this thread.
...because you guys got an official ICS release and you seem to be enjoying it so much. I'm still able to return my phone (within 30 days) and try another phone out. Would you guys recommend it?
All the reviews I have read have put the skyrocket as being an overall better phone. However, I am a big fan of HTC. I used to have an inspire and I swear that was the best phone I EVER owned. Not very impressed with my skyrocket at this point. I'd like to see what you guys have to say.
At this current point in time.. the Vivid is ok. there's not much too it. there aren't even many themes that work properly with it. the skyrocket (samsung touchwiz in general) gets a bit stale. if you use your phone a lot (data and sms) stay with the skyrocket because your battery will last much longer. on heavy usage i get about from 7am to 11 am
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At this current point in time.. the Vivid is ok. there's not much too it. there aren't even many themes that work properly with it. the skyrocket (samsung touchwiz in general) gets a bit stale. if you use your phone a lot (data and sms) stay with the skyrocket because your battery will last much longer. on heavy usage i get about from 7am to 11 am
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Yikes, that's really bad. I do use my phone a lot so battery life is huge for me. How are you feeling about ICS on your phone? Does it feel different at all or was it all just hype?
I went to the att store at least 5 times to male sure j wanted the vivid over the skyrocket. Overall i think i made the right choice with the vivid. Battery life is bad but i bought a 3600mah battery on amazon for 10 dollars and i get at least 20 hours with very heavy usage. Plus i couldn't stand the low Res on the skyrocket display
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I also had an Inspire before my Vivid, and other HTC's before that. i've always been a big fan, and loved my Inspire right up til the day I broke it. I like my Vivid 10 times better than that. I get a solid 10 hours on normal usage as far as battery. With the custom ROMs that are available, and the Mods that have recently been released, and the official release of ICS...hopefully development will pick up even more and we catch the interest of some themers and such too..
Edit: F me for not proofreading..that "solid 10 hours on normal usage" should have read "solid 20 hours on normal usage". To only get 10 hours it would have to be pretty much constant screen on. I literally watched my battery die the other day to try and work out another issue, so the screen was on most of the day, and it still took til right before I went to bed for it to die.
well i had a infuse 4g and went to the vivid after my infuse stopped functioning right i would have to say i am glad it broke love my vivid
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At this current point in time.. the Vivid is ok. there's not much too it. there aren't even many themes that work properly with it. the skyrocket (samsung touchwiz in general) gets a bit stale. if you use your phone a lot (data and sms) stay with the skyrocket because your battery will last much longer. on heavy usage i get about from 7am to 11 am
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it's a full hour of heavy LTE data usage
i dont know what yall guys are talking about my vivid battery last at least 10 12 hrs with heavy usage during the day and im in a lte area...my phone is always on lte and i dont see any differance between my vivid and my buddies skyrocket as far as battery...
and besides imo touch wiz sucks i have the so called battery hog sence and like i said my battery last just as long as his...we even have races to see whos battery will run out first and its all ways about the same time
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...because you guys got an official ICS release and you seem to be enjoying it so much. I'm still able to return my phone (within 30 days) and try another phone out. Would you guys recommend it?
All the reviews I have read have put the skyrocket as being an overall better phone. However, I am a big fan of HTC. I used to have an inspire and I swear that was the best phone I EVER owned. Not very impressed with my skyrocket at this point. I'd like to see what you guys have to say.
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i say get the vivid and youll enjoy it....ics is the **** mayne
i dont know why everyone says the skyrocket is better...the price tag doesnt make it better.. i hate that
besides they feel really cheap..i almost feel like im going to crush the skyrocket in my hand cuz its so light and weak feeling
Thanks guys. I think I might go to the ATT store today and see if they have a vivid on display running ICS.
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Thanks guys. I think I might go to the ATT store today and see if they have a vivid on display running ICS.
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they might not...but you can look up on youtube the vivid running ics ...
I kind of wish people would stop bashing the battery on the Vivid. It's pretty damn good. When I plug in my phone at night, its usually at more than 50% battery and is reporting more than 16 hours of use. I've experienced better battery on the Vivid than I did on the GS2.
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I have to agree on the battery. If you are using it, regardless of which phone it is, the battery will drain. However the battery on my vivid does not die like the captivate would. I work two jobs and can comfortably go to both knowing my phone will not be in the red when I get off work. It always lasts. I had to bring my charger for the captivate wherever I went. The vivid is amazing!
I'm shocked at the bad battery reports.
I'm actually getting amazing battery life.
Play games rather often, have gps and wifi and mobile data always turned on. Usually browsing the net, xda, facebook, a bit of texting and a few phone calls, sooo many widgets and a livewallpaper, max brightness, and I get at least 12 hours out of my phone, usually more.
And on days I don't use it much... well I've been charging it every other day this week.
I would say that the battery is pretty good. If I can keep from turning on the display I can probably get 15-20hrs. The display really sucks the watts. While you can turn it down (I have it set on automatic) and that help out a lot. Unfortunately, if I just set it for say 20% brightness, I can barely see it indoors and forget outdoors. So automatic works best for me. I have push email and everything else updates at least once an hour.
how do you guys feel about the processor/ram? Do you have trouble playing the latest games or applications? although I'm not a huge gamer, I prefer to be at least moderately updated with the latest hardware.
another question: as was suggested earlier I started looking up some videos. I didn't see any videos showing off the really awesome multi-task functionality that's in ICS. Does it still work the same way on the vivid?
I'm running WC's ICS rom, his kernel is clocked to 1.5 instead of the stock underclock of 1.2. I have experienced absolutely ZERO lag on my Vivid, and I've played several games without issue, emulators also aren't laggy and super buggy on it either.
And the multi tasking is pretty intuitive and nice, you can long press on "home" and it'll pop up the apps you've used most recently in the state they were in when you left unless you fully quit that app or game.
Battery isn't going be great on any of the current LTE phones.
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Battery isn't going be great on any of the current LTE phones.
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again with the bashing of the battery... the battery is great
my battery last longer than my old inspire and infuse so it has nothing to do with lte. all though lte does use the battery more but not like your implying
Ive owned 4 HTC's and the vivid is the best of the bunch so far.I can't imagine a day without it or a day using any other phone again for a long while!This phone is simply amazing!As for the battery i think its pretty awesome.Check out this post where i posted my battery report after 24 hours of use.Yea thats right 24 hours and then some on one charge!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23800715&postcount=13
The battery thread can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544094
+1 for battery life, especially if you check the automatic brightness.
I wouldn't stay with the skyrocket, especially with all the new devices coming out now (highres screens, ics, build quality, etc). I'm glad I choose the vivid and I always recommend it over skyrocket hands down.
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A couple thing's I've noticed, when doing some serious gaming, the unit gets VERY hot. We've seen this before with Teg 3 tablets COUGH*acer*COUGH, but my concern is putting a case on this thing... I'm worried that retaining all that heat might cook the thing's insides.
This will probably resolve itself, but last night I went to bed at ~80% battery, watched a movie, and when it was done, the screen turned off as normal... and when I woke up, the battery was down to 25%. My Razr Maxx had similar issues when new and apparently had to do with the OS calibrating it's battery meter.
What is everyone else seeing on theirs?
Use CPUspy to see if it was deep sleeping? BetterBatterystats to check wakelocks? Mine seems to be sleeping fine, haven't seen mine do anything weird yet
I'm not a serious gamer but I did put my N7 through about an hour of some pretty intensive gaming and it got a little warm like any device but it was never HOT to the touch. Battery life on day 1 was a bit weak but thats because I was too excited and did not give the N7 time to fully charge before playing with it.
Yesterday it was fully charged at around 2pm when I unplugged it.
Went to the library for a little over an hour and mooched their WiFi then went to my friends house.. from 4pm till midnight we were abusing my N7 pretty much constantly... showing off GNow, Maps compass mode, sports scores etc and when I got home around 1am I still had 47%.
Granted, I didn't game at all yesterday or watch much video.. but it was still being used fairly constantly.
Therr are apps that cause your device to wake. I discovered "hangaroo" does this on my wife's evo3d.
Some market apps are that annoying, just uninstall that certain app and the device shouldn't wake up randomly
on xda for android and mistyping like a boss
The only thing on my N7 that wasn't on my other Android devices was Dark Meadow: The Pact... I'm thinking, like mentioned, it's a new device issue that'll resolve itself as far as battery life. The 2nd and 3rd day with my Razr Maxx, I awoke to a dead battery, now it's rocking 2-3 days between charges.
And the heat, well, that was mostly during that Dark Meadows game and that's completely optimized for a Teg 3, so it's abusing all 4 cores plus the GPU portion of the chip. Still, not sure I'd want all that contained in some insulating case.
My Nexus 7 doesn't get hot like you described. My only issue is that the left part of my screen isn't stuck down completely. It pops up while people on reddit are saying is common. Anyone else with this issue here?
cheami said:
My Nexus 7 doesn't get hot like you described. My only issue is that the left part of my screen isn't stuck down completely. It pops up while people on reddit are saying is common. Anyone else with this issue here?
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Played about two hours of GTA 3 yesterday, it did get 'warm' but not hot.
I think it really depends on how lucky/unlucky you are with the Nexus 7 unit you received. Some people are reporting a dead unit after using it for about 3 hours. Others are reporting dead pixels. And, you're reporting this...
I guess I was lucky enough to not have any of those issues with my Nexus 7.
So, my first Note 7 was great. I had none of the reported lag or battery life/battery drain problems. I replaced it last Friday. The replacement phone is set up identically, but my battery life is much worse. I have yet to hit 4 hours SOT, with my max being around 3. On the old one I always got at least 4. In battery usage, Android System is at the top of the list, and CPU total is 6.5hr out of the 12 it's been off the charger. Nothing has changed so I have no idea why this would be. Is there a fix for this? Has anyone else had this issue with their replacement?
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So, my first Note 7 was great. I had none of the reported lag or battery life/battery drain problems. I replaced it last Friday. The replacement phone is set up identically, but my battery life is much worse. I have yet to hit 4 hours SOT, with my max being around 3. On the old one I always got at least 4. In battery usage, Android System is at the top of the list, and CPU total is 6.5hr out of the 12 it's been off the charger. Nothing has changed so I have no idea why this would be. Is there a fix for this? Has anyone else had this issue with their replacement?
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Unfortunately, it's a wide spread issue. Many people are reporting battery issues, such as drain and slower charging. All signs are pointing to these new batteries being jank. Either that, or built in software changes in the firmware to intentionally neuter battery performance for safety measures.
I am having the same issue bad battery drain.
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I had horrible battery with my first one and more of the same with this new one. I get through my 8hr day at work with 20-15% left and just a Lil over 1hr screen time. Always android system and android os keeping the cpu going.
I disabled just about all Samsung bloat except Knox and ant services. Gonna see how it goes tomorrow.
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I had horrible battery with my first one and more of the same with this new one. I get through my 8hr day at work with 20-15% left and just a Lil over 1hr screen time. Always android system and android os keeping the cpu going.
I disabled just about all Samsung bloat except Knox and ant services. Gonna see how it goes tomorrow.
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Let me know how it goes. With my original phone I was getting the best battery life I've ever gotten from a phone (the Nexus 6 previously held that title). Very disappointed that the replacement doesn't last like the original.
same for me... any reason known ?
My fast charging seems to not be working, at least I don't think so. Worked perfect on my v1 note 7. Now, no lie it's charges quicker with fast charging turned off. Found that strange. And my battery life is horrible cause I'm always on my phone so nothing weird there lol
Not sure if this will be relevant for anyone else:
I found in another thread (that I cannot find for the life of me now...) some talk about an issue with Oculus Home eating up a lot of resource while attempting to install itself, failing and continuously retrying. I thought my phone was broken. I went from full to 20% in 5 hours extremely warm the entire time, typing in any app was painful. It prevented the gear fit 2 plugin from updating causing all sorts of weirdness with S health and my gear fit 2. So much so that I called Samsung tech support for the first time (great btw).
I got rid of everything Oculus related on my phone and now it feels brand new.
That app was like cancer it seems
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Not sure if this will be relevant for anyone else:
I found in another thread (that I cannot find for the life of me now...) some talk about an issue with Oculus Home eating up a lot of resource while attempting to install itself, failing and continuously retrying. I thought my phone was broken. I went from full to 20% in 5 hours extremely warm the entire time, typing in any app was painful. It prevented the gear fit 2 plugin from updating causing all sorts of weirdness with S health and my gear fit 2. So much so that I called Samsung tech support for the first time (great btw).
I got rid of everything Oculus related on my phone and now it feels brand new.
That app was like cancer it seems
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Yea the last oculus update destroyed the app. I hope they get it fixed soon.
http://phandroid.com/2016/09/30/samsung-galaxy-s7-edge-battery-drain-oculus/
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Let me know how it goes. With my original phone I was getting the best battery life I've ever gotten from a phone (the Nexus 6 previously held that title). Very disappointed that the replacement doesn't last like the original.
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Slightly better today so far but still horrible. Snapchat is killing the battery. I sent 2 snaps and looked at a couple stories.
I miss my ver. 1 battery life
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I swear I have a galaxy s6. This battery life is straight atrocious.