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how is the dell streak 7 treating you guys?
any short reviews?
should i buy one or save my money?
bstylz911 said:
how is the dell streak 7 treating you guys?
any short reviews?
should i buy one or save my money?
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They may be updating the WiFi models to honeycomb next week. I have the 3g model. It is good, except the battery life is not good ( max of 4 hours). The screen is 800 x 480, but I find it quite nice. Get rid of the Dell stage launcher. It is very snappy. I'm pleased with mine. Edit: the honeycomb update is supposed to help the battery drain issues.
The form factor is great, fits the hand well and is good for carrying around. It won't charge from a computer USB, but will operate while connected. It has to have the special mains charger to actually charge the battery.
Edit: some people have reported a problem with " read only" memory, but I have not had any issues.
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They may be updating the WiFi models to honeycomb next week. I have the 3g model. It is good, except the battery life is not good ( max of 4 hours). [...]
The form factor is great, fits the hand well and is good for carrying around. It won't charge from a computer USB, but will operate while connected. It has to have the special mains charger to actually charge the battery.
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FOUR HOURS? Wow. That sucks. My Wifi Only with wifi on I think it's around 10, with wifi off at screen off, more like 50. All assuming standby with no use etc..
I wanted to add one more thing about the USB connection, it uses this stupid proprietary, hard to plug in, potentially not reliable (IMO) dock connector for charging or USB, there's no microusb connector or such on the device. Personally this annoys me, I hate the dock connector. Maybe it's more robust than I think it is, but every night when I plug it in I wonder how many more times it's going to work.
My first one suffered nand read only (but i spend atleast 4hrs a week in adb and nvflash and fastboot trying to solve) cant send mine into dell cause i took it apart very easy 6 screws .....but being as i bought it new and got to make payments from tmous no biggie you live you learn ......my second one i paid like 150 cash for and its been great ive even tried to get it to lock the nand so i could figure out what the problem was, it seems solid as a rock
pros (1) great form factor
(2) 4g model keeps me connected to the shop when im out
(3) doesn't look as cheesy as some of the other models out there
(4) great for ICE (in car entertainment) movies,gps,streaming music over 4g
Cons (1) battery
(2) if you do any gaming or video make sure your not gonna use it for the rest of the day ....lol
(3) and finally yes there are people out there that will oooo and ahahah over your new ipad .....until you tell them its not one and then there like O....its one of those android junk tablets then isn't it
sorry for the slight rant ....but boring day at the sign shop .....back to making stickers i go
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FOUR HOURS? Wow. That sucks. My Wifi Only with wifi on I think it's around 10, with wifi off at screen off, more like 50. All assuming standby with no use etc..
I wanted to add one more thing about the USB connection, it uses this stupid proprietary, hard to plug in, potentially not reliable (IMO) dock connector for charging or USB, there's no microusb connector or such on the device. Personally this annoys me, I hate the dock connector. Maybe it's more robust than I think it is, but every night when I plug it in I wonder how many more times it's going to work.
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I don't use the wifi off at screen off because it requires the table to re-acquire the wifi. You are the first person to claim 10 hours of use, much less 50 hours of standby. Most people have experienced along what I claim, about 4 hours max.
Or are you saying that the device is on standby for 10 hours? That is possible.
I get 10 to 12 hrs on moderate use, mainly web & light games throughout the day. I would imagine that it might last 4-5 hours of constant use.
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I get 10 to 12 hrs on moderate use, mainly web & light games throughout the day. I would imagine that it might last 4-5 hours of constant use.
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Same here. Cant wait to see how Honeycomb enhances the battery life.
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I get 10 to 12 hrs on moderate use, mainly web & light games throughout the day. I would imagine that it might last 4-5 hours of constant use.
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Yup, 4 hours is about it, and that includes keeping the screen brightness down. Mine does better on 3 G than WiFi.
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So guys..good buy for 208$ or save.money?
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bstylz911 said:
So guys..good buy for 208$ or save.money?
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I personally say yes. I love this thing and I expect it to get better very soon.
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So guys..good buy for 208$ or save.money?
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It is definitely a good price. I like mine.
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bstylz911 said:
So guys..good buy for 208$ or save.money?
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I really like mine now that I got the read-only error fixed by Dell. And for $208 that is a pretty good deal. I say go for it.
I really like my Streak 7 Wifi. Bought it for $200 a couple of months ago. It does everything I want so far and with Honeycomb on the way even better.
I would definitely consider the new Amazon Kindle Fire coming out in November for $199 if I was currently in the market. I don't know how the Fire is locked down or anything yet but I would definitely find out before buying. The hardware seems to be a bit more modern in the screen.
With that said I still love my Streak and have no regret in buying it.
Thank you for all your input and decided to buy the streak. I had a streak before but it has the read only problem
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I don't use the wifi off at screen off because it requires the table to re-acquire the wifi. You are the first person to claim 10 hours of use, much less 50 hours of standby. Most people have experienced along what I claim, about 4 hours max.
Or are you saying that the device is on standby for 10 hours? That is possible.
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Reconnecting to wireless is about 5s.. By the time I unlock it and go to an app, wifi is up... Completely a non-issue. If if you use something like Green Power, it'll continue to receive email etc, and I have it leave wifi on while connected to AC.
As for my usage, I pretty much said exactly what i meant..
FOUR HOURS? Wow. That sucks. My Wifi Only with wifi on I think it's around 10, with wifi off at screen off, more like 50. All assuming standby with no use etc..
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So just to repeat it.. Standby, 10 hours with wifi on, 50 with wifi off. I've never really measured run-time with the screen on the whole time, but it generally uses 12-15%/hr in normal use, higher playing games or other heavy CPU stuff.
I've had days where I'm doing a lot with the tablet, such as a few hours programming a new thing in Tasker, playing Zenonia, browsing news etc etc.. Never have I had it dying before bed, maybe 20% at the end of the day at the worst.
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Reconnecting to wireless is about 5s.. By the time I unlock it and go to an app, wifi is up... Completely a non-issue. If if you use something like Green Power, it'll continue to receive email etc, and I have it leave wifi on while connected to AC.
As for my usage, I pretty much said exactly what i meant..
So just to repeat it.. Standby, 10 hours with wifi on, 50 with wifi off. I've never really measured run-time with the screen on the whole time, but it generally uses 12-15%/hr in normal use, higher playing games or other heavy CPU stuff.
I've had days where I'm doing a lot with the tablet, such as a few hours programming a new thing in Tasker, playing Zenonia, browsing news etc etc.. Never have I had it dying before bed, maybe 20% at the end of the day at the worst.
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Well, congratulations. No one else I've heard of gets those kind of times.
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I recommend the Kindle Fire if you can wait.
If the 7 gets honeycomb yes, buy it - if it doesn't, do not buy.
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Well, congratulations. No one else I've heard of gets those kind of times.
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Odd, I've done nothing special. Haven't removed any of the silly stock apps, stock ROM, using a custom kernel but it didn't change battery life (added tun.ko). I went back and forth with airplane mode, phone apk's removed, and no change in either regard and didn't see much difference there either, but I've since left it in airplane mode.
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Odd, I've done nothing special. Haven't removed any of the silly stock apps, stock ROM, using a custom kernel but it didn't change battery life (added tun.ko). I went back and forth with airplane mode, phone apk's removed, and no change in either regard and didn't see much difference there either, but I've since left it in airplane mode.
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How did you remove the phone.apk? I noticed that the cell standby uses up the most battery on my Streak 7. I would like to remove that if possible... or at least prevent it from running.
I've got mine in plane mode to stop cell standby and the wifi on and off as needed. I usually get through a workday using up about 60% battery.
I love the form and the speed. I wear a cargo vest on my job maintaing apartments, the streak, in an Otterbox Defender, rides in a front pocket. I use Evernote to docume
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This is an annoying and frustrating issue. I thought it was lte but it did it today on wifi. I thought my backup anker battery was to blame but it does it on the stock battery too. It seems to do it when the battery gets too hot. It will restart eventually without battery pulling but typically it'll be in safe mode and when i restart all my non sense widgets will be removed and my keyboard will be set to default. Anyone have any possible solutions?
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Cor-master said:
This is an annoying and frustrating issue. I thought it was lte but it did it today on wifi. I thought my backup anker battery was to blame but it does it on the stock battery too. It seems to do it when the battery gets too hot. It will restart eventually without battery pulling but typically it'll be in safe mode and when i restart all my non sense widgets will be removed and my keyboard will be set to default. Anyone have any possible solutions?
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What rom are you on? Are you over clocked?
Stock ics unrooted locked bootloader no significant changes
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There may be something in the OS that shuts down apps, or the whole phone, when it gets too hot. The phone is going to try to protect itself from overheating. I seem to recall earlier threads from last fall on this subject. What else do you have running that could be turned off? Is the phone inside a case that could be removed to allow for more air exposure?
Last weekend, I was running navigation software (CoPilot), my bluetooth connection for phone calls, and had the screen brightness turned up so I could see the navigation screen in the sunlight. The phone was plugged into the car charger. I got a message telling me that the charger could not keep up with the demand. I turned down the screen brightness and that seemed to solve the problem.
I am using a custom ROM and have not had those problems and I use Pandora everyday for at least an hour. May be something to try.
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It usually does it on lte most of all. I do have a heavy duty otterbox commuter on but its needed for my job. Im a stocker at Lowes. I think i found the cause of my problem today on wifi. I was playing with a siri clone called jeanie from the market. The app is a bit laggy so i dont think its optimized for ice. I noticed earlier my phone was getting warm while playing with it so i disabled from running in the background. I left it on just in case they update it and it gets better
Is there anyway to disable lte and just use hspa+/3G. Not only does my phone run hotter on lte it also has poor battery life. I dont need 36meg download speeds to run pandora
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I don't know for sure, but in the play store there's an app 'LTE Switch'
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I don't know for sure, but in the play store there's an app 'LTE Switch'
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I could not find a specific app called LTE Switch. I found several apps that said they turned LTE on or off. However, they appeared to be for specific phones or carriers.
No app on the market works. Most will take you to a hidden settings page with a drop down menu that you can disable it with...however the menu is locked, and regardless of your choice it'll select GPRS/HSPA+/LTE auto mode. I tried the APN trick but no luck there either, LTE logo was still in the notification bar, and speed tests backed it up...40meg download on both.
I think your phone getting hot may be a red herring.
I have the same problem. I always play pandora over bluetooth, and the phone will arbitrarily shut off just as you've described, but I've checked the past few times and the phone wasn't hot at all (and I've definitely felt it hot while doing other things before).
A few minutes later the phone will reboot in normal mode, but every time this happens the bluetooth antenna will not turn back on until I reboot it again.
Also stock, unrooted, ICS
Yeah same thing here! The past time it did it it also deleted all non HTC widgets.
I was using my anker battery that day and I am realizing it overheats easier than the stock HTC battery and also realizing it will drain like crazy after it overheats. I try to only use that battery at home while my stock one is charging. It'll still do it on the stock battery but not as often. Overall though LTE is the issue here. Funny thing is this phone is actually very energy efficient when its not on LTE. It's a major fail you can't turn it off. It's obviously AT&Ts doing, because its straight locked.
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I'm going to leave my otterbox off for 24 hours and try to play Pandora over LTE tommorrow and see if it helps
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No otter box no case at all and same thing. Battery cover very warm and phone instantly shuts off. I'm really starting to loose my patience. It sucks because otherwise the phone is excellent but this single issue has me contemplating trying to negotiate a different phone from at&t. It might sound like alot to stream Pandora over the air and Bluetooth but I did this with my captivate for a year with no issues. Having lte isn't the point either because I don't need 36 meg downloads to play 128k bit rate streaming and its supposed to switch to hspa+ when I don't need it. Anyway I'm contemplating a factory reset to see if it helps. I went straight from gingerbread to ics without wiping and didn't have the issue on gb
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A thought I just had was maybe its the Pandora app its self causing the issue. A recap of everything:
Didn't happen on gingerbread
Removing case doesn't help
Aftermarket battery or stock battery doesn't matter
Won't shut off when using wired headphones or speaker
Won't shut off with wifi on
Google Music works fine regardless only does this with Pandora
So I'm coming to the conclusion Pandora is not optimized for ics or maybe mine isn't. I installed Pandora on gb so the upgrade may have not translated well for it.
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Might I recommend slacker radio... I like it better... More customization... Less bs...
And the $4 subscription service allows caching of music locally on your phone
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Cool I might try it out
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Slacker is a good suggestion, been using slacker for years now. Very data light also, left it running while I slept one night by accident and hit "maybe" 500 megs in eight hours
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Pandora is also very easy on data caps but Google music isn't at all. Oddly Google music doesn't overheat the battery though. My guess is Google music is smart enough to see hspa+ and use it while Pandora just uses whatever is available.
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Yeah google music wrecks my data. I personally haven't havent used Pandora since updating but I imagine its probably a wake lock issue with the phone overheating. It might be keeping the phone from sleeping properly and over taxing it. (Mind you I'm speaking out of my butt and really don't know if that's the case) I know using rdio/slacker for 8 hours I don't have any heat issues on ics at all. And with the new kernels available the battery life is a lot better
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Yeah I'll definitely give slacker a try. I've never been crazy about the Pandora app anyway. Gets the job done but its basic and boring
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I installed more than 100 apps, and loaded 7 pages of homescreen by nova launcher with tons of widgets. It runs much smoother than Gnex with 4.1 and Att One X with 4.0.4 with similar loads. Though there's still slight hiccups at initial swipes. After the widgets' been loaded up, swipe between home screen is buttery smooth. Multitask button is also much more responsive than the other two.
However, my biggest compliant with this phone is the battery. It only ran through 8 hours with less than 2 hour screen on time today! Oddly, Google map used 26% of the battery when I didn't use it at all. Android OS also drained a lot of juice.
Any idea? I think screen should drain 50% of the juice at least.
Try turning off Google Now. I believe that when Maps and Android Services are the major hits to your battery, it's caused by Google Now. I get much better battery with it turned off.
That said, Google Now was one of the major things I wanted to love about Jelly Bean, and to have to turn it off to get decent battery life is ridiculous. Here's to hoping they sort that out eventually.
Those stats are typical for a first charge. I had similar results at first but after a few charges my screen on time jumped up to about 4hrs. I keep Google Now on.
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Freeze maps i use route 66 works great
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If you don't use maps / navigation - Turn off GPS, set it to find your location by WiFi - triangulation etc.
Your battery will get a massive jump - I noticed it on mine when make was using juice without me using anything like that.
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taylorzhang said:
I installed more than 100 apps, and loaded 7 pages of homescreen by nova launcher with tons of widgets.
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Anyone else thought he was making fun of the others crying about the battery when they read his first sentence?
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ibegary said:
Anyone else thought he was making fun of the others crying about the battery when they read his first sentence?
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LOL...that's exactly what I thought. I would think after downloading, installing, and configuring all these apps the battery would understandably decrease quickly. In addition, Google Now is "learning" our habits/info. Give the phone a couple weeks after the "honeymoon" period and I'm pretty sure battery life will get better.
I've sort of come to accept the fact that keeping GPS enabled on an Android phone is an unobtainable luxury. I keep it disabled until I'm actually ready to use navigiation, and my battery life doubles as a result. Annoying considering I have GNow, location history, etc disabled and have NO apps set up to poll the GPS - there's no excuse, but whatever, it's a bug.
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If you don't use maps / navigation - Turn off GPS, set it to find your location by WiFi - triangulation etc.
Your battery will get a massive jump - I noticed it on mine when make was using juice without me using anything like that.
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If I do this, does WiFi stay on all the time or does it just turn on when it needs to find your location? I usually have mine off and only turn it on when I am at home.
I've turned off Google now and disabled Chrome. I've never had problems with maps. Though maps will start to do **** if you have searched for something that requires the maps to be turned on but you actually haven't turned on maps.
Wiped device, rooted, installed the 4.2.1 image direct from Google, fresh.
MUCH better than starting stock at 4.2 and OTA'ing to 4.2.1.
Not sure if serious, but this method worked a miracle for me. I was going to sell it, but not now.
This was a serious post? Haha wow
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I think he is trolling.
No, he just hasn't had an Optimus G. That device has the worst battery. Nexus 4 is somewhat better.
How many charge cycles has your phone been through? I think you just need to give it some more time to settle in.
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what's the consensus on first charge? mine is arriving Monday and i was thinking i would hop over to the nearest t-mobile store and get
a new sim for straightaway. Should it be booted up and charged to full, left off and charged or maybe run down from whatever charge it comes with?
To be honest I was expecting better battery life with 2100mah and stock Android but it's really not that bad. It's just average. After some tweaking and keeping an eye on running apps in the background I'm pretty happy with the battery.
I am getting good battery life, 16h off charger at 45% 1hr 49min screen on
My battery life's doing just fine. It's draining a lot as I install all my apps, but that's a given. When I use it modestly, it performs like a champ
I'm not trolling. This is like my third charge cycle. The first one with my usual apps all installed. 100 app is what I usually put on my android phone. They've been quite consistent. I use to do 5 homescreen but i decide to stress nexus 4 with 7 pages. In addition, 1h 50min screen on time is not bad considering it only takes 14% of the battery. Which means if screen takes 50% of batterry, I will get more than 5 hours. That should be more than great. So the problem is why Google map is draining the battery when stats page shows it's not really active. You can see from the pictures that even if the screen is not turned on, the slope is still very steep, that's what I hate about. Why cannot android simply standby as power-efficient as iphone? Some posts suggest that i should turn off gps and let wifi to set my location. I'll take this advice and hope for the best.
Hello everyone!!
I recently bought an Xperia Z, but the problem is that the battery depletes after 3hours of onscreen time?, i went to the store and they too found it strange since it should have around 6 or 7 hours of onscreen time.
They exchanged the phone and gave me a new one, and sadly that phone had the exact same problem( REALLY!!?!?!!), and to top that, it's with screenlight at 25% and every battery heavy options turned off.
So i went to the store to get a refund. In the store another guy had exchanged his Xperia Z 4 times till He got a Z with a battery that worked as intended....
I will never buy a sony product again after this letdown..
And i would definitely not exchange my phone 4 times to hit the "Working-Battery lottery!"
It seems there is some sort of failure in the release of many of the Z's released, i found this guy with same problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191530
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I also have bad battery life, but yet I don't see your point of making this topic at all.
6/7h on screen time really yo? On a 1080p screen... maybe next year. There are plenty of people that reached 5h+
If you want 7h on screen time, get an iPhone LOL! That way we would get rid of you and you would be with the other sheeple.
Topic is useless, can't believe you made an account just to say that.
LOL How old are you?
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LOL How old are you?
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LOL How old are you?
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I don't get it, my battery lasts all day, I charge through the night and take it out at 7 roughly. Then I use it through the day playing games like shadowgun and using social networking sites like Facebook. I also use gmail quite often and I also watch YouTube videos aswell. If I have brightness automatic and battery stamina mode it can last me throughout the day. I haven't charged my phone sine 7 and I still have 13% charge left.
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If you want 7h on screen time, get an iPhone LOL! That way we would get rid of you and you would be with the other sheeple.
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Pretty sure that wouldn't even work. One of the girls I work with just got an iphone 5 and the battery drains like crazy on that thing. She starts at 3am, and by ~8 she is below 15% and has to charge pretty soon after. Then she has to charge when she gets home, and again when she goes to sleep.
Meanwhile, I am one of the heaviest power users I know of, I use my phone for work (flashlight, camera, calendar, calculator, barcode scanner), frequently check facebook, ragecomics reader app, general web browsing and play store browsing, small downloads eg mp3, apps, flashable .zip tweaks from here, frequently check simpsons tapped out, play some dead trigger, watch about 30 -60 mins of movies, receive a few calls and texts, maybe 10-20 mins of music playback. Out of habit I normally pull my phone out every 10-15 minutes and unlock it, flick around absent mindedlu, then lock it again after not actually opening anything :\ not sure how I picked up that habit.
To top all that off, I have my screen brightness set to 100% with adjust to lighting conditions ticked, I have location services and sattelites on, auto sync on, 4g data always on, wifi on but location based activated, NFC on, and finally, also have better battery stats installed and allways doing it's thing as I am also experiencing some rougue wakelocks I am slowly dealing with (still stumped on what is causing audio_out2 and deleted_wake_lock)
Despite all this, my phone comes off charge around 330am, and doesn't charge till 8pmish when it finally runs out of juice. That is one hell of a solid effort as I have done pretty much nothing to help out my battery, and doing everything to make it struggle.
I have only undervolted slightly, and am using doomkernel on KA04 rom. I am not using stamina mode either. Infact, when I was using it on stock rom, I couldn't see any difference between using it and not using it. I can't really see how it would do much IF you had NO wakelocks (or very little). Besides knocking out LED all it really does it disable background processes, if you have your phone set up right you shouldn't really have any anyway:good:.
This phone leaves my previous galaxy S2 in it's dust for battery life under the same usage in anycase (I used to charge that thing about 3 times a day most days).
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LOL How old are you?
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+3 or whatever that is up to now.
All phones take time and a number of charges before the battery stabilises, and start running at optimum.
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+3 or whatever that is up to now.
All phones take time and a number of charges before the battery stabilises, and start running at optimum.
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My battery was pretty bad when I just got the phone, now it's better
Can we just put all of these meaningless threads into 1 meaningless thread?
gm007 said:
LOL How old are you?
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AnnaQQ said:
I will never buy a sony product again after this letdown..
And i would definitely not exchange my phone 4 times to hit the "Working-Battery lottery!"
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That's nice , tell me more about bad battery life :laugh: . All battery's need at least 10 charges to unlock their full potential !
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No no, we're @ 5 now.
DreadPirateDan said:
Pretty sure that wouldn't even work. One of the girls I work with just got an iphone 5 and the battery drains like crazy on that thing. She starts at 3am, and by ~8 she is below 15% and has to charge pretty soon after. Then she has to charge when she gets home, and again when she goes to sleep.
Meanwhile, I am one of the heaviest power users I know of, I use my phone for work (flashlight, camera, calendar, calculator, barcode scanner), frequently check facebook, ragecomics reader app, general web browsing and play store browsing, small downloads eg mp3, apps, flashable .zip tweaks from here, frequently check simpsons tapped out, play some dead trigger, watch about 30 -60 mins of movies, receive a few calls and texts, maybe 10-20 mins of music playback. Out of habit I normally pull my phone out every 10-15 minutes and unlock it, flick around absent mindedlu, then lock it again after not actually opening anything :\ not sure how I picked up that habit.
To top all that off, I have my screen brightness set to 100% with adjust to lighting conditions ticked, I have location services and sattelites on, auto sync on, 4g data always on, wifi on but location based activated, NFC on, and finally, also have better battery stats installed and allways doing it's thing as I am also experiencing some rougue wakelocks I am slowly dealing with (still stumped on what is causing audio_out2 and deleted_wake_lock)
Despite all this, my phone comes off charge around 330am, and doesn't charge till 8pmish when it finally runs out of juice. That is one hell of a solid effort as I have done pretty much nothing to help out my battery, and doing everything to make it struggle.
I have only undervolted slightly, and am using doomkernel on KA04 rom. I am not using stamina mode either. Infact, when I was using it on stock rom, I couldn't see any difference between using it and not using it. I can't really see how it would do much IF you had NO wakelocks (or very little). Besides knocking out LED all it really does it disable background processes, if you have your phone set up right you shouldn't really have any anyway:good:.
This phone leaves my previous galaxy S2 in it's dust for battery life under the same usage in anycase (I used to charge that thing about 3 times a day most days).
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actually on my iPhone 5 I get more like 9 hours of screen time, sometimes 10. Not saying that your friends account is false, but that sure is hell doesn't seem consistent with any battery rundown test I've ever seen.I can go 2 days without charging it roughly, I'm sure the incoming hate and vitriol for my use of an iPhone as a daily driver is about to pour in from the less intelligent Android users, but this is one of the reasons my iPhone is still my daily driver. That and a consistently good camera.
Cheers~
P.S. I have owned many many many Android flagships and am an experienced power user.
Since when did iPhones ship with battery stats?
Or is there an app for that?
Batteries need a few charging cycles before doing their job properly. It's like having sex for the first time. The first time you might be disappointing but as you do it more often, you supposedly become better at it. Batteries work the same way.
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RoChinu said:
Batteries need a few charging cycles before doing their job properly. It's like having sex for the first time. The first time you might be disappointing but as you do it more often, you supposedly become better at it. Batteries work the same way.
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You took the best example outta everything lmao.
But I'm so happy with this phone's battery life.
RoChinu said:
Batteries need a few charging cycles before doing their job properly. It's like having sex for the first time. The first time you might be disappointing but as you do it more often, you supposedly become better at it. Batteries work the same way.
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Can't believe you just compared batteries on a phone to sex.
My battery life is acceptable. Getting up to 4hours screen time or a little more from 09 - 22. At this time, I then have about 14% more or less. And this is by alot of whatsapp, messaging, maybe a call or two. This is not using LTE. I find it very battery draining so I stick with 3G. Besided i am on WiFi most of the time.
So as long the phone can do a whole day without charging in most normal days for some people that don't travel alot, I ffind the battery acceptable
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Not only is the battery draining a an alarming rate, but the phone gets unbelievably hot to the touch. Culprit seems to be Quick Connect. I saw others with this issue on the TMO side, their simple solution was remove Quick Connect with TiBu. Like we could be so lucky.
Anyone else? What can I do?
If it's getting hot, I would return and exchange the phone.
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If it's getting hot, I would return and exchange the phone.
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Might be what I have to do.
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Get a replacement. You got one of the bad ones out there.
You probably should do a factory reset and test that out before trying for the return.
This is what I am doing. On the phone with AT&T now. They are so helpless. They have no clue what Quick Connect even is. Finally got them to send a new device over.
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This is what I am doing. On the phone with AT&T now. They are so helpless. They have no clue what Quick Connect even is. Finally got them to send a new device over.
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Do you have Bluetooth turned on? In my case I have the galaxy gear fit and I've noticed when my s5 syncs data or just plain holds a connection with the gear fit "quick connect" gets moved to the top of my battery usage.. I changed the sync intervals to manual and oddly enough the battery drain went down a lot
Hope this helps
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Do you have Bluetooth turned on? In my case I have the galaxy gear fit and I've noticed when my s5 syncs data or just plain holds a connection with the gear fit "quick connect" gets moved to the top of my battery usage.. I changed the sync intervals to manual and oddly enough the battery drain went down a lot
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Actually I don't. Think that it is a phone from a bad batch. I tried turning everything off to make the battery life better.
I disabled the items as in the screenshots and am left with about 45-50% battery by the time I am home, with about 4 hours screen on time.
Parameters:
Brightness: auto always
Gmail: 2 accounts on push sync (20-60 mails)
K9: 4 accounts on push sync (200-300 mails)
Facebook: Push on always
Whatsapp: Push on always (more than 1000 messages per day, on average)
Wifi: 100% on when at home (2 hours off charge)
Data/4G LTE: On all the time (never disabled)
Maybe disabling the items I disabled might help you too.
So I have a "new" phone (likely refurb). Same issue. My battery was at 100% when it came off the charger.
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4 hours and battery down to 28% from 100!!!! Something is really really out if place.
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Exactly. Notice how Quick Connect is the top offender. Anyone else see this? This was the issue I had with the last GS5 and this is a "new" one. Same issue. Leads me to believe it is something that I am doing.
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Exactly. Notice how Quick Connect is the top offender. Anyone else see this? This was the issue I had with the last GS5 and this is a "new" one. Same issue. Leads me to believe it is something that I am doing.
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im my case is a large folders of photo bring me the phone on fire.....
its a bug of media server
Why don't you guys simply freeze media server and quick connect?
I froze quick connect on mine n have no issues connecting to Bluetooth devices.