I usually have a multimeter on my counter for my ecig mods, and, since I change batteries pretty often now that I have spares for my thrill, I'be been randomly checking thier voltages. What I've found is that a "dead" battery is at ~3.7V. That's not dead. These phones should discharge to something like 3.2V. Anyone have any idea as to why they would read nominal voltage as dead?
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After few more charges, it discharges to about 3.43V, still high I think, so I'll keep an eye on it.
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After few more charges, it discharges to about 3.43V, still high I think, so I'll keep an eye on it.
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What you're saying actually makes sense. The system has to calibrate itself to the battery. This is why battery life tends to improve over time as you discharge and charge the phone. There are ways to kick start the process but eventually it will do it on it's own. My battery life has tripled after a couple weeks.
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i am wondering why i have fully charged and discharged my phone numerous times and my battert is horrible. its gotten worse. i unplug it with 100% at 5:30 a.m. its now 9:40 a.m. and im at 62%! i have sent 2 text messages this morning and my app manager has no open apps. Why would my battery be so bad? i have had this phone since the day it came out and love it. im not real familiar with all the "rooting" or all this fancy stuff but i do know that the phone should have a better battery life than it does.
Does anyone know what i should be looking at to see what is killing the battery so fast. almost 40% in 4 hras and i havent even used it?
thanks.
"puzzld"
puzzl31 said:
i am wondering why i have fully charged and discharged my phone numerous times and my battert is horrible. its gotten worse. i unplug it with 100% at 5:30 a.m. its now 9:40 a.m. and im at 62%! i have sent 2 text messages this morning and my app manager has no open apps. Why would my battery be so bad? i have had this phone since the day it came out and love it. im not real familiar with all the "rooting" or all this fancy stuff but i do know that the phone should have a better battery life than it does.
Does anyone know what i should be looking at to see what is killing the battery so fast. almost 40% in 4 hras and i havent even used it?
thanks.
"puzzld"
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Try installing a ROM that removes some of the services that a stock rom has this way will save your battery time a lot
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Try installing a ROM that removes some of the services that a stock rom has this way will save your battery time a lot
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what do you suggest??
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what do you suggest??
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I have installed several ROMS i am new to the LG Thrill but with my previous HTC G2 y used cyanogen but as per this is a 3D phone cyanogen is not ready yet. But the best rom i have tried so far has been the thriller
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1261704
although is missing good things from the newer firmwares like the 3d app converter.
But i'm ussing the thriller Rom until LG releases the Gingerbread official update that comes with great new stuff
Here's what I've found out about the battery. It's apparently a known issue by google addressed in later updates.
Here's a great method to work with it for now.
puzzl31 said:
i am wondering why i have fully charged and discharged my phone numerous times and my battert is horrible. its gotten worse. i unplug it with 100% at 5:30 a.m. its now 9:40 a.m. and im at 62%! i have sent 2 text messages this morning and my app manager has no open apps. Why would my battery be so bad? i have had this phone since the day it came out and love it. im not real familiar with all the "rooting" or all this fancy stuff but i do know that the phone should have a better battery life than it does.
Does anyone know what i should be looking at to see what is killing the battery so fast. almost 40% in 4 hras and i havent even used it?
thanks.
"puzzld"
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This mine with 48% battery life left. I found out on mine if you play one of the 3d games and don't exit out of right it continued to run and eat the battery. I use wifi where ever it is available. Always leave it on unless I am on the road then I turn it off so it won't be hunting for a connection. Have gone 28 hours and have 30% battery left.
Had phone since September 4th and battery life has improved tremendously. Stock and unrooted.
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My phone is stock and unrooted as well. i charged it this morning from completly dead. started to charge at 6:30 am and took untill almost 11:00 before it was a 100%. now it is 1:30 pm i have sent 1 text message and thats it except meybe waking it up to see if i have missed calls or txt and my battery is down to 44%! 2 hrs really? i have not used it. Wifi is on but should not be sucking that much juice. i trashed the yahoo news app. my weather app is set to update manually. i dont have anything special done to my ohone like all these forums suggest the "rooting" or special rom's. it pretty stock.
I have used the battery calibrator app and it didnt seem to do anything for me. anybody else have other suggestions? i basically get about 3-4 hrs of battery life berfore having to charge unless i use the phone then i get about 2.
oh yeah and my wife has the same phone, some battery issues but i think her's is normal. so to see if it was the battery or my phone we swapped batteries. my original is in her phone working fine and i have her's and still crappy so i know it wasnt just a bad battery.
what do i do next??
You could install CPU spy from the market and see what it is showing you. See if it ever gets into deep sleep mode. I also use battery monitor widget from the market to see what all is using battery.
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Have been on GB for awhile now and for the most part, I'm loving it. I just read a post where the op says that Darky's gb roms have great battery life. I've been on Contiuum 5.5 since it came out, and I love Cezar's roms, but the gb one's seem to have less than desirable batt life.
I guess my question is this: It's been awhile now since I was on froyo and so I can't recall how battery life was. I'm thinking about going back, just for that reason. BUT, don't want to go through the whole process if batt life was just minimally better than 2.3.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Friday
My battery life is much better with these I9000 GB roms than it ever has been.
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I agree also, my battery life is the best it ever was. When I come home from school my battery life is around 80-75 percent. Versus on Froyo which would be around 45-40 percent.
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GB has given me great battery life. On days that I play with my phone for hours (games, music, news, txt) at the end of day I would have less than 10% battery life. Now (with exception of when I use Netflix on 3G) I can't get below 60%.
Is everyone uc??? Perhaps (most likely ) I haven't got voltage set, or tweaks tweaked correctly...
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Is everyone uc??? Perhaps (most likely ) I haven't got voltage set, or tweaks tweaked correctly...
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No, I use xcal kernel because I felt like my phone had more problems when I tried playing with UC or OC. Where I found my control is managing what apps are installed on my phone. Anything that is a resource hog is gone and anything that needs to connect to data all the time is gone. I also froze (using TiBu) google maps and SNS. Those two items on gingerbread seem to drain my battery.
24 hour battery life with heavy usage is doable.
EDIT: Did you flash to a GB ROM without clearing battery stats/flashing without a fully charged battery?
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No, I use xcal kernel because I felt like my phone had more problems when I tried playing with UC or OC. Where I found my control is managing what apps are installed on my phone. Anything that is a resource hog is gone and anything that needs to connect to data all the time is gone. I also froze (using TiBu) google maps and SNS. Those two items on gingerbread seem to drain my battery.
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I've been wondering what SNS is.
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I've been wondering what SNS is.
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It allows you to sync your Facebook, Twitter and Myspace accounts with the phone. Since I use Tweetdeck the only other purpose I would have it is to sync Facebook pictures with my contacts. Since I flash so often, its one less thing I have to link.
I learned that if I freeze SNS and install the Facebook app, I still can't sync the contact pictures.
I am on hour 36 with moderate usage with over half a battery left using Contiuum 5.x It is awesome!
I've tried several GB kernals and ROMs and my battery life sucks!
I can't get 24 hours out of any of them even with minimal use.
And yes I did a charge bump and no I don't have any widgets running and yes I froze maps and no I'm not OC'd.
I'm lucky if I get 10-12 hours.
I love GB and the speed and smoothness but this battery thing is giving me pause.
FredOak3 said:
I've tried several GB kernals and ROMs and my battery life sucks!
I can't get 24 hours out of any of them even with minimal use.
And yes I did a charge bump and no I don't have any widgets running and yes I froze maps and no I'm not OC'd.
I'm lucky if I get 10-12 hours.
I love GB and the speed and smoothness but this battery thing is giving me pause.
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I get about 18 hours on a battery with heavy use. Have you updated maps? The new updates are killers on battery sense it always restarts. Do you leave wifi and by on? These will also cause your battery to drain
KTownGT said:
24 hour battery life with heavy usage is doable.
EDIT: Did you flash to a GB ROM without clearing battery stats/flashing without a fully charged battery?
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KT, I did flash with full batt, but didn't clear batt stats...
I'm with Fred! Lucky if I get 10-12 hrs without having to plug tele in!
FredOak3 said:
I've tried several GB kernals and ROMs and my battery life sucks!
I can't get 24 hours out of any of them even with minimal use.
And yes I did a charge bump and no I don't have any widgets running and yes I froze maps and no I'm not OC'd.
I'm lucky if I get 10-12 hours.
I love GB and the speed and smoothness but this battery thing is giving me pause.
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I can easily get 20 hours, and I work in a giant metal and brick cage that is impervious to all radio signals.
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KT, I did flash with full batt, but didn't clear batt stats...
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I would try clearing battery stats; what's the worst that can happen? You're battery life being bad?
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I would try clearing battery stats; what's the worst that can happen? You're battery life being bad?
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LOL @ KT!
Maybe I just need a new batt?
For those that haven't saw it yet:
Now that my battery stats are functioning after a few cycles, I'm getting phenomenal battery life.
The picture below documents it. It's probably light use for most of you - an handful of calls, checking my email every couple hours, an hour of music playing on a walk. I also shut off auto-rotate last night, hearing that it may solve the "charge drop" issue, and maybe that contributes to the following.
Today android os usage was about 5 hours and killed my battery. Could not get it to stop either even with reboots. Very annoying. Hasnt been happening much till today.
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I diconnected my phone from the charger, and it was at 100% at 830 this morning and now at 1130 it is at 56%/. This is after probably abotu 1-1.5 hours of browsing the web on my phone and configuring widgets.
I was wondering if that is normal battery drain? I have been flashing my phone quite a bit lately and it seems that the battery life is not that great. I have already recalibrated my battery as well.
Also my phone is overclocked to 1.3ghz.
You might want a second opinion but I'm going to say yes
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1130 AM? If so that is not good at all.
Not good at all, I am running Pinnacle 1.2 for 29. 5 hours since last charge and I have 29% remaining, that includes roughly 3 hours display on time and just shy of 1 hour phone calls.
Very happy with Pinnacle 1.2
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1130 AM? If so that is not good at all.
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Yeah 11:30 AM. Perhaps I should look into flashing another rom, although I have been very happy with Apex 9.2 except with this battery issue.
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Yeah 11:30 AM. Perhaps I should look into flashing another rom, although I have been very happy with Apex 9.2 except with this battery issue.
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If you're on Apex, try going without the overclock and switching to the DarkCore kernel. That might help your battery life a little bit.
Did the phone feel hot?
What kind of sites were you hitting? White background? Lot's of Flash?
You've got three things that I see hitting your battery hard - the data transfers, the screen and the CPU usage. Depending on how your overclock is set up, I'd guess it's causing your CPU to use at least 30% more juice.
I can get days of idle time, but only hours of heavy use out of my battery. There are certain web sites and games that seem to suck the battery dry.
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If you're on Apex, try going without the overclock and switching to the DarkCore kernel. That might help your battery life a little bit.
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I am already running dc 3.1. I may try to undo the overclock.
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Did the phone feel hot?
What kind of sites were you hitting? White background? Lot's of Flash?
You've got three things that I see hitting your battery hard - the data transfers, the screen and the CPU usage. Depending on how your overclock is set up, I'd guess it's causing your CPU to use at least 30% more juice.
I can get days of idle time, but only hours of heavy use out of my battery. There are certain web sites and games that seem to suck the battery dry.
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Nothing really intensive. Mostly just xda forums.
I notice that I get much better battery life with i897 roms vs i9000 roms.
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Sounds like you have an app running wild.
Well when my phone is on standby, I find that it drains at a reasonable rate. It is just when I use my phone that it drains fairly quickly.
You're doing it wrong.
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Not good at all, I am running Pinnacle 1.2 for 29. 5 hours since last charge and I have 29% remaining, that includes roughly 3 hours display on time and just shy of 1 hour phone calls.
Very happy with Pinnacle 1.2
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29.5 hours? With Pinnacle 1.2 I'm getting about 8 hours with moderate use
Agree with jsfLip!
With moderate use, my Cap get out of battery in 8-10h.
Iam using Pinnacle 1.2, its standby status is quite good! 1-2% after 8h standby at night!
Please have a try!
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What's your combo? (rom, kernel, modem?), Ben?
I agree with Ben. You're doing something wrong.
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29.5 hours? With Pinnacle 1.2 I'm getting about 8 hours with moderate use
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and whats the definition of moderate use? Sorry I ask this but I have seen people with 4:30 hours of display calling it moderate.
Plus you need to caliberate your battery
Can't figure it out.
To: miztaken1312
I've tried different settings on my phone and have not been able to get your kind of battery life.
I recently flashed MosaicVI and using the JV6 modem. After using this modem I have been getting better results but not quite as good as your.
What I'm trying to find out is there any certain setting you have your phone in, i.e. only on WiFI, Auto Display, sound, Disabling Your data when not using it? I would really love to get this kind of results. I'm sure everyone else would to.
Oh, I've also cycled my phone battery 3 times everytime I flash a different ROM. Please school me up on how to get those results.
P.S. I tried to quote you and reply but me being new to posting comments did not let me.
Go to market and download "Data switch". You will see marked improvement to your battery life.
So is that the secret? "Data switch".
All it does is turn off data usage so your cappy is not using data for all the background services (synch and such). Its what I use when I want the battery to last and don't need a data connection.
Got my extended battery yesterday!! Makes bionic heavier but i actually like it better that way...lets see how long it lasts fully charged at 830 this morning...to be contunued
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Congrat! have a nice day
Yessir, enjoy. Makes it last so much longer! I feel like the last 5% takes forever! lol
Oh yea long day today so it will be put to the test
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Just picked one up yesterday as well. Makes it feel like the phone I had previously which was an EVO with an extended battery. I like it and for 25 bones right now it's hard to pass up.
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For reals can't pass it up at half price!!
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It make the phone more comfortable to hold for me as well. Enjoy.
So how did it go? Are you still on the original 1st charge from yesterday?
Just got my EXT. Bat. today via Fed EX will give it a full charge tonight and test hard tomorrow, almost feel like the bionic is to lite with orgin. batttery in it??
Very good design on this extended battery
Alright!!!! So I last charged it this morning @ 830am...it is now about to be 8 so almost 12 hours now and its @ 50%!! So my usage consisted of checking emails, texting, facebooking, lil bit of checking xda, twitter, and a couple of very short calls so I would say my use was at moderate through out the day...I'm very happy with the extended battery!! I think I had done my normal streaming of Pandora or iheart radio (around 2 hours in the office) that it would still be going right now
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I just received mine today. Then I hit a brainstorm. I popped it into the external battery charger and it started charging. So, I thought to myself - why not have 2? Added bonus - I'd have a spare back cover as well.
Et voila! I went back to VZW and ordered a second one today.
I'll be popping mine in late tonight and seeing how it goes in a non 4G area with WiFi on, GPS on, etc....
I'll probably try to condition the battery as well as I can also, draining it as far as it will let me the first time and then fully charging in the external charger. Same with the next one that comes in.
Nice I'm going to.go home and use my quick charger!!
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I like the weight and feel of the phone with the extended battery. Feels a lot more like my Thunderbolt, which is what I am accustomed to.
Ugh....can't believe I missed it. I just got my phone yesterday, too.
This is my first run with the battery. Hour and a half GPS, gaming, phone calls, 2 hour Rdio streaming, hitting it pretty hard before I went to bed. Woke up and used it even more.
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Dumb question for anyone using the extended battery. I got mine earlier in the week and it doesn't really seem to last any longer than the standard battery. Charged it all the way up and the most I can get out of it is about 8 hours. I don't really consider myself a heavy user either. Do you guys find that you have to run it all the way down and it last forever on 5% or does it just seem to overall last longer for you?
Thanks
Also received mine yesterday. Has been off the charger now for 12 hours. 2 of those hours were spent streaming slacker radio which I am doing right now still. Battery is at 40%. Also I have been browsing the internet, facebook, and xda all day. I am very impressed. I like the weight of the phone too. It feels solid and well built, kinda like you know your holding a powerful machine.
Edit:I also have had skype active in the background all day and 4g turned on.
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Dumb question for anyone using the extended battery. I got mine earlier in the week and it doesn't really seem to last any longer than the standard battery. Charged it all the way up and the most I can get out of it is about 8 hours. I don't really consider myself a heavy user either. Do you guys find that you have to run it all the way down and it last forever on 5% or does it just seem to overall last longer for you?
Thanks
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Sounds like you may have an app or several apps that are constantly syncing in the background. I can go all day with the stock battery. When I used the extended battery, I went all day and had 50% left.
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Sounds like you may have an app or several apps that are constantly syncing in the background. I can go all day with the stock battery. When I used the extended battery, I went all day and had 50% left.
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Thanks for the reply, I just did a factory reset and am gonna roll with that for the next day or so. If its not that I read somewhere else that there may be a batch of more power hungry phones. If this continues I will exchange it I guess.
I don't know if it's just me, but I've been experiencing some insane battery life of my N7. I've gone about 4hrs on battery, wifi on, and battery hasn't dropped even 1%. Anyone experiencing the same?
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I don't know if it's just me, but I've been experiencing some insane battery life of my N7. I've gone about 4hrs on battery, wifi on, and battery hasn't dropped even 1%. Anyone experiencing the same?
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Without a doubt. Before 4.2, my screen on time topped out at 5 hours. Now I can pull 6 hours.
Sounds off. No change at all in 4 hours? Can't be correct.
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There is no way that's accurate... Power down the device and power it back on. See if it still says 100%.
same here
YES I am having insane battery life as well. Still 100% and hasnt changed after 3-4 hours. Will keep observing
nogutznglory said:
I don't know if it's just me, but I've been experiencing some insane battery life of my N7. I've gone about 4hrs on battery, wifi on, and battery hasn't dropped even 1%. Anyone experiencing the same?
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I noticed the longer battery life also. When a lot of stuff is running sometimes I will use the ES Taskmanager Kill app and when I did that there is more free memory than before and even when a lot of apps are being used there is more free memory than before also.
HOLY. Definitely inaccurate. I notice a small increase in battery life, but nothing that big. I get like 30 minutes extra.
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There is no way that's accurate... Power down the device and power it back on. See if it still says 100%.
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Ok.. Just powered down and powered back up..
Nothing changed.
I won't plugged my n7 til it dies.. See how long it'll last..
It's not strange on a devices with such a big battery to last 4 hours on 100%. Notice how the screen is rarely on?
That seems inaccurate but battery life is definitely better
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It's not strange on a devices with such a big battery to last 4 hours on 100%. Notice how the screen is rarely on?
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That's what I was thinking. But since I bought the device, it hasn't done this. This is either a bug or battery life is extremely increased!
On 4.1.2 my battery drops 1% in 16 minutes of the same usage. This is definitely way beyond!
Still monitoring it.
Might as well play a few games to see what happens.
There is definetely a bug with battery readings.. It is likely drop more than normal , once it drops to %99.
Ok. I did a bit of NFS and it brought my battery down to 95%. Now to see if it'll drop normally.
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4.1.2
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Isn't it obvious? Google implemented project roadrunner. xD
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Isn't it obvious? Google implemented project roadrunner. xD
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Hmm.. I thought that was a rumor??
nogutznglory said:
I don't know if it's just me, but I've been experiencing some insane battery life of my N7. I've gone about 4hrs on battery, wifi on, and battery hasn't dropped even 1%. Anyone experiencing the same?
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I think your battery stats are jammed, I'm not seeing anything like that at best 30 - 40 minutes of extra battery, which is still nice. If your right your device is drawing power from the air around it
I had very simalar resdultsvwhen i flashed the ota url. But i flashed the factyory image the other day to start off fresh and no longer have reults like this. I'm not saying I'm getting bad battery... Far from it. It's just not the same as when i flashed the ota which is strange.
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My guess is the update just messed up the battery app like it did everything else.Keep your charger handy so when your tab shuts down and it still shows 100% you can charge it.
Just got the phone today and have not had a chance to calibrate the battery but the battery life so far is horrible compared to the original S4.
Anyone else experiencing bad battery life on this phone?
I'm the opposite. I had the S4 for a week and a half and traded it for the Active a couple of days ago. My battery life has been better than the original. I've got this phone set up the same as I did the s4 too. It probably just varies on what apps you have installed.
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Just got the phone today and have not had a chance to calibrate the battery but the battery life so far is horrible compared to the original S4.
Anyone else experiencing bad battery life on this phone?
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I am experiencing the exact opposite. The battery life on my S4 Active absolutely smokes anything I ever got on the original S4.
My active is better on battery than my S4 also. Set up exactly the same
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I traded my Active for the regular S4, the aqua looked good on the website but disgusting in real live. I'm getting much better life with the S4 running the 9505 firmware and some of the Samsung features turned off.
These are just a few shots of my battery life. This is standard and sometimes it is a lot better:
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I get the same battery life as joshuadjohnson22. Usually about 3.5 hours screen on and if im lucky I can survive 16 hours on a charge.
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The battery life on my Active is far better than any other phone I've owned. I got 5 1/2 hours screen time yesterday with over 16 hours uptime. Still had 15% left when I replaced the battery this morning. Never seen anything like that before.
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I had the S4 for a few days and I was worried because my battery would be drained in less than 8 hours. Coming from an S2 that I had to baby to get through the day I was worried. Ever since I exchanged the S4 for the Active I don't really worry about playing games, even for a couple hours, because it easily gets me through the day.
Disable the only big battery drain I had was maps constantly updating my location. I disabled that and run on power saver. I woke up at 6am this morning and its 7:30 now, I still have 59% left. I used to average 22 hours on my old captivate so I guess I'm not doing too bad. I realize that having a phone that out performs most PC's is going to munch some milliamps.
I'm rooted, debloated, and try to avoid constantly updating apps. I use better battery stats to "tune" my usage too.
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I had the phone for a week, and after a few days my battery was draining like crazy (lost 90% overnight with everything off).
I went to the store and got a new battery...so far it's been amazing. I think my back cover may not have been 100% locked in to be honest, not sure if that would affect it or not.
I used to get between 4-5 hours on screen time. Stand by time doesn't mean much. I have noticed that the display is brighter so that could do it.
I also tried the battery from my S4 and same results.
My original battery is on charger. I am going to charge to full and completely drain it and check on screen time and report it.
After I recalibrated the battery it is looking great now. 1 hour on screen time only used 10% battery.
I will keep you posted.
The battery on my active is much better than on my regular s4. The standby time is actually good. My regular s4 always loses about 15% an hour in standby with nothing running.
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I never lost hardly any battery at all in stand by with my regular S4.
I also set my GSM battery app to disable apps I don't want to turn on either (ATT Locker, ATT Wifi, etc..)
I am at 13hrs with 30% remaining. I have 2 email accounts, weather, and a network monitor that sync actively. So far, I like this, coming from a note.
I just declocked the cpu today and intend to do some more dabbling.
Lasts from waking up til bedtime for me.
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Do any of you use the CPU part of the power saver mode? Is your phone slower and do you see more battery life using it?
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Do any of you use the CPU part of the power saver mode? Is your phone slower and do you see more battery life using it?
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I just use my phone without worrying about what is on or off...the battery has been that good for me. I don't have any clue why, but I have never gotten battery life this good out of any previous smartphone.
Loving the battery life of my S4 Active, better than my Note 2 on Verizon with Beans.