Has anyone used any bluetooth headsets yet. How's the battery life? Mines is terrible. I have the BTHS-300. The sound is good. Forward/Back and Answer button function great so far. But it kills the X1 Batter Life.
Have been using my Planctronic 665 set and the X1 battery drain is about 20% the whole day... but dont talk too much even though the bluetooth is always on
In general I have gotten very good battery life with my D3 (as long as I have a signal that is...) but I've noticed one definite thing that really seems to suck down the battery... bluetooth. On my D1 I always left bluetooth on all the time because I have it hooked up to the SYNC system in my car for music and using the phone. On that phone, the battery usage window never really showed bluetooth attributing to any usage... but on my D3 it will consistently show that bluetooth has used 25-30% even when I'm not actually using BT!
Mainly I like to leave it on out of convenience so that it auto connects to the car as soon as I start it up... But even without every being in the car and having the phone on battery with BT on, it will drain from 100% to 50% in about 5 hours without really touching the phone or making any calls... just sitting on my desk at home with full 3G signal. How is it possible that it's using this much power for BT to idle?
Anyone else seeing this issue? Or better yet have a solution aside from turning BT off?
I had the Bluetooth on all the time with my Droid 2, granted I was running custom roms since the day I got it, but Bluetooth did not take nearly any of the battery my droid 3 does. I can still get a full day on the Droid 3 but Bluetooth is taking over 30% of my battery every time.
Has anyone noticed excessive battery drain from bluetooth after disconnecting a headset?
After disconnecting my headset (Motorola S9), I have to turn off my bluetooth, otherwise, my battery status will show Phone idle % = to the bluetooth % (Phone Idle = 28%, bluetooth = 27%) and my battery will go dead in just a few hours.
Yes. Noticed it yesterday after using my new car dock. I just need to remember to turn off bluetooth
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I've been using bluetooth with my car stereo and haven't noticed a significant difference.
I used Bluetooth with my car handsfree and noticed it used a lot of battery too. :/
Have had to leave BT off for the most part.
Since day one leaving bluetooth on all the time has been showing a 25-30% battery usage
I've never had a phone that didn't die quickly when bluetooth is on but not paired.
It is akin to the phone searching for a signal in an area of no service. The radio draws more amps when it has no signal.
I agree there is additional drain when Bluetooth is enabled. What I am noticing is that if I reboot the phone, the drain from Bluetooth is fairly normal. After connecting/disconnecting a headset, the drain increases by 10 times. It is almost like the Bluetooth drivers get stuck in search mode.
I've noticed the same thing and have been turning it on and off as needed.
I don't think this is normal though - I left Bluetooth on 24/7 on my OG Droid for almost 2 years and don't think I ever saw it consume as much battery.
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I've noticed the same thing and have been turning it on and off as needed.
I don't think this is normal though - I left Bluetooth on 24/7 on my OG Droid for almost 2 years and don't think I ever saw it consume as much battery.
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this. the radio shouldn't be consuming additional power to search for devices. BT power doesn't change between searching and pairing. it's not like trying to lock a cell signal. i left my wifi/BT on my D1/D2 everyday and never had the level of "drainage" that appears in the battery usage.
i've been running without them on for testing purposes and i'm not convinced there is a problem with them. right now i'm more convinced that there is a problem with the battery usage app, or at least the statistics engine.
There is certainly something here - but I am not sure is it related to the bluetooth or to the car dock. Before I got my car dock I used bluetooth speaker and didn't notice battery running down faster. Now - after I take the phone out of the car dock, even disabling the bluetooth doesn't help - battery starts draining about twice as fast. If I reboot the phone after use in car dock, things get back to normal. And I feel phone stays warmer in the lower area. I hate bugs like that!!
Hi, i want to know if Bluetooth consume more battery since Kitkat's update
I heavily use my phone through Bluetooth and noticed it consumes more battery with Kitkat, around 15-20%
My battery life is even worse than 4.3 because of BT
After an hal of hour of listening music through BT (local music), Bluetooth and audio players reached about 10-15% in battery history.
That's huge.
I would appreciate any help or useful advice
Thanks
I have an xperia Z1 which i purely use in my car for sat nav and music playing via bluetooth.
The problem with the Z1 is that it still drains the battery even on a 2000mah car charger while you are using sat nav apps ( or other apps that use a lot of cpu) with the screen brightness fairly high.
Does the Moto G suffer this problem?
thanks
yes it does - runtime about an hour and a half then it shuts off and then starts to charge. irritatingly it doesn't say charging or on AC until it syts down.
most irritating.