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[Q] Bad Battery Life?

Is the O4X's battery life as bad as gsmarena is saying? Just a little over 4 hours of video playback and 4 hours of web browsing?

If you read the comments of the blog article on it, you will see that there is a lot of discussion over the brightness.
By comparison to the SGS3 and One X, the Optiums has a much brighter screen which will mean a lower battery life. Of course if they set all the phones to the same actual brightness (not percentage) the numbers would be different.
I am currently waiting delivery of my 4X, but after I have conditioned the battery (let the handset configure itself to the battery), I'll definitely be seeing what its capable of.

Alright thanks, I hope you'll be able to get back to this thread when you find out more.

I've had mine since friday and I think I've charged it about 3 or 4 times now and the battery life is getting better. It lasted only about 2 hours when I first charged it and started it for the first time. But I was using it constantly.
Today I started it in the morning (fully charged) before going to work and now, 10 pm, it's been on for about 16 hours and I have 40% left. Data have been on all day and I've been signed in to Google Talk all day, I've browsed the web for a total of aprox. 1 hour, used the camera, tested the GPS and been chatting with a friend on talk. So I'm pretty satisfied so far.
It's better than my O2X.

crewol said:
I've had mine since friday and I think I've charged it about 3 or 4 times now and the battery life is getting better. It lasted only about 2 hours when I first charged it and started it for the first time. But I was using it constantly.
Today I started it in the morning (fully charged) before going to work and now, 10 pm, it's been on for about 16 hours and I have 40% left. Data have been on all day and I've been signed in to Google Talk all day, I've browsed the web for a total of aprox. 1 hour, used the camera, tested the GPS and been chatting with a friend on talk. So I'm pretty satisfied so far.
It's better than my O2X.
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That's good to hear. How many hours was the screen on?

I'm not sure unfortunately. But i would say between 2-4 hours.
Edit: okay it was a little less than I thought. The. Battery usage in settings says the screen have been on for two and a half hours. And that's including the time I have used after 40%. I'm down to 25% now.

My Battery lasts after a few cycles all over two Days with medium Usage (No gaming - WA, FB, eMail)........

i ca go for 1 day, with a bit gaming and usual use.

I have slightly longer battery life on my 4X HD than on my Nexus S when using the phones in the same way (casual use). But I think there is room for improvment on the battery life with more optimized software either from LG or when we start seeing custom roms for this device.

I charged mine to 100% and just dropped 8% in 25 minutes, 20 minutes of that was driving and not using the phone, no Bluetooth or anything like that. The battery life is shocking and can't wait for extended ones to become available. Besides that I truly love this phone
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ianford10 said:
I charged mine to 100% and just dropped 8% in 25 minutes, 20 minutes of that was driving and not using the phone, no Bluetooth or anything like that. The battery life is shocking and can't wait for extended ones to become available. Besides that I truly love this phone
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How many complete charge cycles have you done?
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When I got my p880 I did 3 battery cycles, and I could only get about 8 hours of standby alone, no other use at all. I then did a factory reset and formatting of the memory card, which I hadn't done when I switched from my old SE X8. Now my p880 can easily go more than a day with some gaming, calls, browsing etc. My guess is that old android files on the memory card was the reason for the bad battery life. No expert though, maybe someone else has a better idea.
Today I tried the Chrome browser, and it really drained the battery. Something like 20% after browsing for 15 mins. Anybody else have experience with this?
Overall I'm really happy with this phone, great screen, fluid operation, good battery.

I've had battery drainage issues with the chrome browser as well. Even in stand-by the browser would drain the battery. It has only happened like two times for me in the four weeks i've had the phone, so not a biggy but still something you should be aware of, if you experience battery drainage issues
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alexp999 said:
How many complete charge cycles have you done?
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I keep topping it up as I run most of my business from my phone so need it to have lots of juice in it. Today I'm going to completely drain it so it turns off then fully charge it again and see what happens
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Poor battery life?

I have an iPad 3 and a rooted Nook with CyanogenMod on it. Both go days and days on standby, meaning fully on but the screen just off. My N7 which I just got a week ago is totally dead after 24 hours, even if I have not used it at all.
Is this normal?

Mine lasts about two days with minimal use.
Make sure wifi is set to sleep while screen off.
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You need to get something like Gsam from playstore. It may tell you if an app is draining your battery severely, or if apps are waking the tab too much.
Also, Cpuspy will tell you if its going into deep sleep. On playstore as well.
Those will hopefully tell you why your battery is draining. I charge my N7 about every other day....maybe 3. Its mostly used to read books, and sometimes some games. So definitely not heavy use. But standby, about 1 percent lost overnight.
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Not normal. Just did over 3 days with 6 hrs screen on time. Turn wifi off when screen is off and make sue you dont have any apps running non stop. Better battery thats is a north app for this. Check the partial wakelocks
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Hmm ok, I will try to figure out what's going on. I am using MightyText... could that be it?

That not normal at all try suggestions above, mine drop only about 0.2% per hour on standby with wifi-on and screen-off.

Hi
How long does it take to charge the device from 2% to 100. %
Mine is more than six hours, is it normal?
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tarek zag said:
Hi
How long does it take to charge the device from 2% to 100. %
Mine is more than six hours, is it normal?
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Mine takes 2 to 3 usually. Are you using the cable and charger that came with it? If not, that can play a roll. Also, if something greedy is running, can slow charge times too.
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I use the original charger but not the original cable, my be this is the trouble?
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tarek zag said:
Hi
How long does it take to charge the device from 2% to 100. %
Mine is more than six hours, is it normal?
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About 3 hours on stock wall charger and cable.
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Mine drains pretty quick when in use, but if idling, it lasts a very long time. I've seen it not drop 1% until maybe 2-3 hours idling. Heavy usage drains like 1% every 10-15 min.

Aria807 said:
Mine drains pretty quick when in use, but if idling, it lasts a very long time. I've seen it not drop 1% until maybe 2-3 hours idling. Heavy usage drains like 1% every 10-15 min.
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Same here. Idling last night at 70%. Woke up 7 hours later at 69%(airplane mode) but as soon as I start using, drops super fast.
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I think it is MightyText. It seems if I get a text from someone I have not received a text from before it opens a window on the locked screen showing the text and then the screen never goes back to sleep. It stays on until the battery runs out. If I get a text from someone I had a conversation already going with this does not happen.
Pretty weird but it explains why it is totally dead when I would get home from work.

I had poor battery life too,but I've done something that someway fixed that.
I format system etc and reinstall 4.2.2 stock with stock kernel.
After some charging circles here the results

i know if you leave skype on it drains an insane amount of battery...so i keep it logged out now whenever I don't use it

I would have liked to see the main battery status page. See if you did anything with it, or just kept the screen alive for 9 hours? LOL.
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I've seen couple of movies about 6 hours using mx player, and about 3 hours WiFi internet browsing using Firefox and tapatalk.
Light is set to auto except when watching movie, set to step 2.
Sync always closed.
Total time from charged to empty about 26 hours.
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Nexus 5 battery life

For anyone that's interested, this is today's battery life on my Nexus 5. Came from a Galaxy S4 and I must say, I'm impressed.

deansaunders said:
For anyone that's interested, this is today's battery life on my Nexus 5. Came from a Galaxy S4 and I must say, I'm impressed.
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Wi-Fi connection the whole time?
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Man!
Almost 7 hrs of SOT... Thats Frigging AWESOME! Can you tell us your usage patterns? What was enabled/disabled...? Majority time on WiFi or Mobile Network (2g/3g/HSPA/LTE). Signal Strength of the Carrier
On my N4, the highest ive gotten is 5 1/2 hrs of SOT and that is with most of the stuff disabled and on wifi!

Whoa! At first 11 hours looked bleak, but 7 hours of screen-on time sounds fantastic! :laugh:

Wifi on the whole time or not.. 7 hours of SOT is impressive.. especially on a 2300mAh battery

as a current S4 user, seeing things like this is making me really impatient in waiting for the N5! i could barely get 5 hours SOT on an AOSP rom on my S4 or even on TW and this was with greenify and auto sync off at night.
really hoping that once I get my N5 average SOT time will be 4-5 hours as thats all i really need to be satified

Where's Google services?
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kava1 said:
Where's Google services?
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What screen brightness setting are you using? I barely hit 3 hours of on-screen time on my galaxy S3 so this looks really good! :good:

The most screen on time I used to get on my S4 is 5:30 with wifi only use. That number has dropped to 4:00 now on wifi and 3:00 when I am on LTE for pretty much the whole time.
This battery life is impressive to me and seeing the camera comparisons between nexus 5/S4 and having the Nexus 5 win has solidified by decision to get a nexus 5. Now if only I didn't have to wait 3-4 weeks...
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Few questions:
1) google now on or off
2) Do you have sync on?
3) Do you have facebook/twitter/instragram...etc?

That looks amazing. Also that resolution on the screenshot....

deansaunders said:
For anyone that's interested, this is today's battery life on my Nexus 5. Came from a Galaxy S4 and I must say, I'm impressed.
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Hey mate, that's a miracle, the curve goes even up at times :angel:
You obviously made some micro-charges during the day, you cheeky troll

For the first charge out of the box, should you charge the device on or off in order to get the best out of the battery as well as improving battery's lifespan? Cheers
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Those two little bumps where it goes up in charge I think are where I had it plugged into the pc to transfer stuff across.
Anyway.....
Wi-fi was on all day apart from a couple of occasions where I went out for a short while and it was on H+ (full signal)
Google Now is disabled.
Sync is enabled.
Screen is on auto-brightness but my living room is fairly bright and so I'd guess at the screen being on 50-75% brightness all the time.
Those 7 hours of screen on time were pretty much all down to browsing on Chrome and aimlessly scrolling on Facebook.
I'm very impressed with this phone (even though my power button rattles) and at first didn't know if I'd made the right choice ditching my S4 to get it, but after having it since Friday I'm glad I did now. Another thing, the signal is great. On my S4 in the gym I used to get 1- 2 bars of 3G signal at best, with the N5 I get 4 bars of H+.
For anyone thinking about getting this phone, you won't regret it, especially if you're not a fan of having to charge your phone at 3pm because it's dead.

nasimdejai said:
For the first charge out of the box, should you charge the device on or off in order to get the best out of the battery as well as improving battery's lifespan? Cheers
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I ran it down Friday and charged it overnight, then ran it down again Saturday, charged it over night (both times 0% to 100% and both times whilst I was in bed I left it switched on but in aeroplane mode) and this was the result on Sunday's usage.

Did you put the charger twice?, the charging bar is empty, but in the graph there're two times it seems it was charging.

bloot said:
Did you put the charger twice?, the charging bar it's empty, but in the graph there're two times it seems it was charging.
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I mentioned that above, I think it's where I plugged the phone into my pc to transfer stuff across.

kava1 said:
Where's Google services?
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They were underneath wi-fi. I think they only equated to about 2 or 3%

deansaunders said:
I mentioned that above, I think it's where I plugged the phone into my pc to transfer stuff across.
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Thanks, nice results though!.

I've seen multiple devices I've owned including this one where the battstats go up in tiny peaks without me charging it. Just saying, it happens even if it wasn't plugged in to PC. If u were in the PC we would have seen the charging bar wouldn't be empty. Its almost like the battstats graph predicts usage and where the batt prolly will fall to but then if u stop using it it goes back. Idk hard to explain.
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My battery life report ~ focused on idle drain

Heres my first full discharge of my newly purchased N5. It was all light usage as noted below. 70% of the time i had good signal.
Took off the charger at 100%, went to bed. 8 hours later, 96%
40 texts exchanged
10 minute voice call
35 minutes of music via BT
40 minutes of GPS
screen time of 3hrs
total time of almost 2 days

emerica243 said:
Heres my first full discharge of my newly purchased N5. It was all light usage as noted below. 70% of the time i had good signal.
Took off the charger at 100%, went to bed. 8 hours later, 96%
40 texts exchanged
10 minute voice call
35 minutes of music via BT
40 minutes of GPS
screen time of 3hrs
total time of almost 2 days
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Something I was looking forward to. This suggests the Nexus does have great idle time. And the drain is mostly because of the screen. People are expecting magic with such a screen I guess.

I have been using for the last two days, haven't cracked 2.5 hrs on screen time.... I need to keep tweaking
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dsarch21 said:
I have been using for the last two days, haven't cracked 2.5 hrs on screen time.... I need to keep tweaking
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not sure if this will make a difference for you but 3 things that i did is getting me 4+ hours a day screen on time easily. turn off location services completly (just turn them on demand if prompted), disabling google now launchers always listening option, and my personal best fix, disabling tilt scrolling in the chrome browser. tilt scrolling is a little janky atm because it never actually shuts off, so chrome is always registering any device movement in your pocket or whatever even if the chrome app isnt even open, and disabling that helped a TON

dsarch21 said:
I have been using for the last two days, haven't cracked 2.5 hrs on screen time.... I need to keep tweaking
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Mine has been great today. I have gotten almost 4.5hrs screen on time and I'm still at 38%. That's with stock rom/kernel and Google now and sync on. Granted that today's usage was mostly on WiFi by it is still much better than my N4 was.
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Does anyone have this issue with their Nexus 5? I don't have a sim in it yet (waiting to get my micro sim from T-Mobile). But man, Gmail is absolutely destroying my battery life.
I'm sure my battery life would be awesome if this wasn't happening.

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Am I doing something wrong with my battery?

Okay I usually get around 3 hrs of battery life that's screen on time how is it some ppl are getting 9 hrs up to 16 hrs of screen on time were they lying or just trolling? I do feel like this phone is suppose to have better battery life I mean my $40 phone gets around 4 hrs sot It has been off the charge for about 21 hrs but it let's say I took it off the charge and used it non stop it still uses for 3 hrs now only time I got over 3 hrs sot was actually almost 8 hours I was using a 3rd party book reading app but that's it lol oh I do have everything turned off except for WiFi and I don't game on it cuz it never lasts long enough I do have greenify using non root features because I don't really wanna root this cuz I thought it was good enough to not to but Idk any advice would be appreciated thanks
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Okay I usually get around 3 hrs of battery life that's screen on time how is it some ppl are getting 9 hrs up to 16 hrs of screen on time were they lying or just trolling? I do feel like this phone is suppose to have better battery life I mean my $40 phone gets around 4 hrs sot It has been off the charge for about 21 hrs but it let's say I took it off the charge and used it non stop it still uses for 3 hrs now only time I got over 3 hrs sot was actually almost 8 hours I was using a 3rd party book reading app but that's it lol oh I do have everything turned off except for WiFi and I don't game on it cuz it never lasts long enough I do have greenify using non root features because I don't really wanna root this cuz I thought it was good enough to not to but Idk any advice would be appreciated thanks
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Remove all Samsung apps, replace Google Apps with third party apps, use greenify powernap and amplify to save battery

They weren't getting 9 or 16 hours of on screen time... I get around 5ish, many people claim 6+.
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I also have issues with my battery. yesterday I get warning low battery (15%) and few minute later phone shoot down because low battery. Qhen connected to charger battery level instantly went to 34%. Is there a way to calibrate battery on non rooted phone?
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I get terrible battery life on mine. I have both a note 4 and an iPhone 6 plus. I went to Disney for the entire week last week and carried both phones. I gave up using the note as it would be dead by 2. I could use the iphone all day and still have 40% . Even when I want using the Samsung it was still dead by the end of the day. I wasn't doing much on either phone other than taking pictures and using the disney app.
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darekz said:
I also have issues with my battery. yesterday I get warning low battery (15%) and few minute later phone shoot down because low battery. Qhen connected to charger battery level instantly went to 34%. Is there a way to calibrate battery on non rooted phone?
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sheldavidson said:
I get terrible battery life on mine. I have both a note 4 and an iPhone 6 plus. I went to Disney for the entire week last week and carried both phones. I gave up using the note as it would be dead by 2. I could use the iphone all day and still have 40% . Even when I want using the Samsung it was still dead by the end of the day. I wasn't doing much on either phone other than taking pictures and using the disney app.
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Don't know how your phone could be dead by 2pm mine will last me 2 days easy. You must have something installed wrong.
I'm running xposed, and Viper4Android too. It's my own build of the stock ROM though. If you want to give it a try and me a PM. Its a super debloated ROM runs great though.
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Class_of_punk26 said:
Okay I usually get around 3 hrs of battery life that's screen on time how is it some ppl are getting 9 hrs up to 16 hrs of screen on time were they lying or just trolling? I do feel like this phone is suppose to have better battery life I mean my $40 phone gets around 4 hrs sot It has been off the charge for about 21 hrs but it let's say I took it off the charge and used it non stop it still uses for 3 hrs now only time I got over 3 hrs sot was actually almost 8 hours I was using a 3rd party book reading app but that's it lol oh I do have everything turned off except for WiFi and I don't game on it cuz it never lasts long enough I do have greenify using non root features because I don't really wanna root this cuz I thought it was good enough to not to but Idk any advice would be appreciated thanks
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Naw i'm with you. I think if all you do is like text and call you'll get 4 to 6 SOT. I get around what you're getting with a new battery and rooted and on firekat etc etc.

LOL 16 hours of SOT?!?!? No, no one gets that. but you can get upwards of 10 hours. I average with my Note 4 on 4.4.4 and Hyperdrive RLS3 about 8 hours 23 min of SOT based on a couple months of data on Gsam Battery Monitor. Now I don't let everything go wild either. I have email sync every 2 hours, My Google account i manually sync (Contacts, app data, calendar, etc.) and under data usage i turn off background data on things I don't need to be doing anything in the background. Things like Netflix, Youtube, Es File Explorer and leave Location set to Power Saving unless I need Maps amoung other things. But leave all my messaging apps browser and google/system stuff alone. That gets me about 9 hours or so SOT with just web browsing, email, texting and using Whatsapp, but if I'm downloading ROMs or watching Netflix or YouTube, I'm getting about 6-7 hours SOT.