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How's your battery life?

I'm getting 16 hours (moderate use: mostly texting and data) before i feel like i absolutely need to plug in and around 17 hours before it's completely dead. These times vary depending on use (light, moderate, heavy) but so far even with extremely heavy usage i still somehow managed to get 11 solid hours unplugged. I was getting curious about how your batteries were performing.
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[VS910 4G GB2.3.4]
[GingerVolt 1.2] - downgraded from 1.3 because i wasn't getting the same battery performance
[Ice Cream Kangwich]
[V6 SuperCharger Script]

Almost double after the Gingerbread update. Usually I don't even charge it at night with light use during the day. I would say like 20 hours average

I'm at 7.5 hours down to only 73 percent!!
GINGERVOLTED!

With JuiceDefender, I can go two days without charging.
Even if the only feature you use is turning data / wifi off when you turn the screen off and/or setting background sync to only sync every 5 minutes (instead of perpetually), you'll see a massive increase in battery life. Pretty sure you can do all that with free version, paid versions let you set schedules and other nifty things.
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trampledbyturtles said:
I'm getting 16 hours (moderate use: mostly texting and data) before i feel like i absolutely need to plug in and around 17 hours before it's completely dead. These times vary depending on use (light, moderate, heavy) but so far even with extremely heavy usage i still somehow managed to get 11 solid hours unplugged. I was getting curious about how your batteries were performing.
[VS910 4G GB2.3.4]
[GingerVolt 1.2] - downgraded from 1.3 because i wasn't getting the same battery performance
[Ice Cream Kangwich]
[V6 SuperCharger Script]
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What's your screen density set to?
I'm at 7.5 hours to 51% and I feel like latitude is on, because maps is the majority of my battery use and I haven't used maps today... meh
VS910 4G Kangwich

S.Meezy said:
What's your screen density set to?
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It's set to 200 the only problem is that the dialer looks a bit mashed up, everything else looks good...
Edit: also, all the notification icons fit in landscape.
VS910 4G [ICK GV 1.2]

33 hours with extended battery, best i got was 2.5 days
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I'm at 86% after 2 hours of really not doing anything. A couple of downloads one or two text messages. I'll see what I'm at at the end of the day. I can't say that my battery life has ever been all that great anyway. We'll see.

I'm sitting at 89% after 3 hours and 40 minutes. 4 phone calls and checking xda several times.
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I only get about 12 hours with what I would say is average use.

I am using the extended battery and with fairly heavy use I still still last just about 15 hours. On a slow day, that number goes way way up. I tried Juice Defender, but it took so long so me to use the internet (waiting for the radio to turn back on) that I uninstalled the app, it was just far too annoying.

Today, only using my phone for 4 Instant messages and nothing else, at 5 h46minutes I'm at 29%. That is not very good at all.

I wiped everything, re-installed GV 1.3 hoping the lower battery life was a fluke last time but no luck. Over the past few days I still only average around 12 hours. Not really sure what changed from 1.2 to 1.3, I seem to get slightly better performance but at the cost of 5 hours of use. Probably going back to 1.2 till I figure out whats happening...
VS910 4G [ICK GV 1.3]

ufkal said:
Today, only using my phone for 4 Instant messages and nothing else, at 5 h46minutes I'm at 29%. That is not very good at all.
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Even if you don't use your phone, it's constantly synching in the background to check for new emails/facebook messages/and whatever other apps you have installed that check for updates in the background.
Enter JuiceDefender. You can set it to turn off your wifi/data when you turn the screen off, only turning on when you turn the screen on or ever 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes to allow autosync to fetch updates, instead of letting it run every second of every day. Paid versions will allow you to set Peak, Night, and/or Weekend schedules so if you need more frequent updates while you're at work, you can automate that process.
I swear I don't work for JuiceDefender...I just love their app.

jamRwoo said:
I swear I don't work for JuiceDefender...I just love their app.
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Before I reached the end of your post I thought wtf! do you work for JuiceDefender? lol... They do make a fine app.
VS910 4G [ICK GV 1.3]

jamRwoo said:
Even if you don't use your phone, it's constantly synching in the background to check for new emails/facebook messages/and whatever other apps you have installed that check for updates in the background.
Enter JuiceDefender. You can set it to turn off your wifi/data when you turn the screen off, only turning on when you turn the screen on or ever 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes to allow autosync to fetch updates, instead of letting it run every second of every day. Paid versions will allow you to set Peak, Night, and/or Weekend schedules so if you need more frequent updates while you're at work, you can automate that process.
I swear I don't work for JuiceDefender...I just love their app.
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Over the last year + I have tried JuiceDefender, I've even paid for it, but I can never get it to work, let alone save any battery life.

I'm getting a solid 12 hours out of mine running Gingervolt with light to moderate usage with 4G on the whole time. I have noticed a huge increase from fryo when I was struggling to get even 7 hours to gingerbread where I was getting about 9-10 hours and an even bigger increase form gingerbread to Gingervolt.
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trampledbyturtles said:
Before I reached the end of your post I thought wtf! do you work for JuiceDefender? lol... They do make a fine app.
VS910 4G [ICK GV 1.3]
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hehe.
I need to state a disclaimer after doing all that repping...It seems JD (including Beta version) does not place nicely with Gingercrumpets...err bread. And it will cause your 3G/4G to start ****ting all over itself. I'm going to start tinkering around and see if I can come up with a settings scheme that provides for some increased battery life without ****ing anything up. If I achieve this, I'll post the settings backup here.

I was getting crap on my battery life.
8 hours on a full charge at most.
I installed Juice Defender, and while I haven't hit the foible that others have been having problems with, I can honestly say that I am glad I did.
I've gone from the 8 hours draining the battery to a 1d 5h, 58% battery usage.
(Battery had 42% left on it when I plugged it back in.)
I'm quite chuffed at this.

antiwesley said:
I was getting crap on my battery life.
8 hours on a full charge at most.
I installed Juice Defender, and while I haven't hit the foible that others have been having problems with, I can honestly say that I am glad I did.
I've gone from the 8 hours draining the battery to a 1d 5h, 58% battery usage.
(Battery had 42% left on it when I plugged it back in.)
I'm quite chuffed at this.
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--chuffed (past participle, past tense of chuff)
--Verb:
--(of a steam engine) Move with a regular sharp puffing sound.
I'm confused. JD turned you into a steam engine?

The Most Honest and Unbiased Review of the Nexus 4

I've had a chance to play around with the Nexus 4 for about a week now and I'm ready to give my full review on it.
Display:
The Nexus 4 has one of, if not the most, beautiful displays on any device I have every used. I know the word "retina" is thrown around a lot, but seriously this display is absolutely gorgeous, especially on full brightness. The viewing angles are the highest of any device i have ever used. Text is crisp on any app you use and I have still not seen any pixels. I have read that the One X's display is better, but since I have never used it, I cannot say if it is or not. But anyway, this screen is so bright and vivid and the colors really do pop. I wish the navigation bar buttons did not take up so much room or if the entire bezel was used for the screen, because, in my opinion, they take up too much space.
Design:
I believe this phone has the best design out of any phone in existence, The front is very flush and when the screen is off, you cannot even tell where it ends and where the screen begins. The rubber like band around the phone makes it very grippy and does not slip out of the hand. The back is absolutely gorgeous with the flush glass and the pixelated design really is beautiful. It is one of those things you have to see in person. Although there is a plastic banding in front of the rubber banding that is prone to nicks and scratches, like the T-Mobile Galaxy S II I had previously. There are reports of peoples phones getting very hot, the screen turning yellow, some rattlings from the camera housing, and some other problems with the hardware. This is expected for first round devices. My phones only problem is I too hear the rattling if I shake my phone, but I only hear it if I try to hear it. Another problem is the phone SLIDES OFF OF EVERYTHING. Seriously I bet my of the people that break this thing will be because it slid off of something. A case prevents this though.
Performance:
Stock Android 4.2 Jelly Bean has one of the smoothest UI's of any device. It even tops my iPad 3. There is absolutely no lag in the OS whatsoever. This is because "Project Butter." When you touch the screen, the CPU gets fired up and is ready to go instantly. You can see this if you go into SetCpu and watch how the amount of CPU speed increases the exact moment you tap the screen. All of the stock apps run perfectly. (Except theres no December in the Peoples app ) The app switcher is just amazing and fast. It is so much better than any other app switcher available and it is great to have a dedicated button for it. The Nexus 4 is great at running graphics and performance intensive games like dead trigger, cod zombies, shadow gun, mini motor racing etc. all of these games have no lag whatsoever, because of the 1.5ghz quad core processor and 2 gigs of ram this thing is packing. Also, Google Now is amazing and completely integrated into your life. You will fall in love with all of its features like weather, traffic updates, sports, flights, translations, appointments, and regular search. But all of this amazing performance and features come at a price...
Battery Life...
I wish I could say this 2100mAh battery keeps this thing alive all day but alas, it does not. If you are a heavy user, which I am guessing most XDA users are, it will not last you throughout the day. On low brightness, sync off, and location services off, I find myself having to fully charge it again before the day is over. Now if you are a moderate user, you will not experience this as much. But let me give you an example of what happened today: I was at a restaurant with family for Thanksgiving. I left the house at 5:50 PM with 95% battery. At dinner I used the phone for a little over an hour and a half just browsing the web like looking at laptops on tiger direct, reading gizmodo, endgadget, cracked, etc, and when I got home at around 8:30 I had 46% battery left. I s**t you not. So heavy users beware. I hate using cases, especially for a phone this beautiful, but I might have to find a battery case to get myself through the day.
Storage:
This phone not having an SD Card slot like most android phones is a real killer, especially because it only has 8gb and 16gb. I unfortunately got the 8gb. I knew I was not gonna get the full 8gb, on my iPod touch 8gb I had roughly 7gb of usable space, but on the Nexus 4 you get barely over 5gb of usable space, and that just sucks for most people. Using the cloud to save pictures and music does help, but you can not get as many high graphics games because of this low storage. Which sucks because the Nexus 4 is great when playing high performance games. Again, I would highly recommend getting the 16gb. It is only $50 more. Im most likely gonna sell my Nexus for as much as I can and pay the difference for the 16gb when more are in stock. Hopefully Google does what they did with the Nexus 7 and makes the 16gb the same price as the 8gb and makes a 32gb model.
Camera:
This phone has a great camera. When you are outside, it takes some of the best pictures for a phone. Even the front camera does. And little things like how you tap the screen to access the many camera settings and the new photospehre, you will just fall in love with them. All of my photosphere pictures stitched perfectly. This device is not very good in low light situations, though. This is helped with the devices on board flash though. You can also easily edit your photos through the stock gallery app, and there are plenty of editing options for all of you instagrammers out there. They are mostly all very nice and work well. There is one problem I did have with the camera though. The HDR setting did take better photos, but I could rarely get them to focus, even when I focused manually. Maybe a software problem? Hopefully this is fixed in future updates.
Mobile Stuff/Miscellaneous:
Call quality on this phone is great and I have not got any dropped calls or any complaints from people on the other end. Text messages and picture messages send quickly. The new keyboard with its swype like feature is very good and accurate. I get great speeds on HSPA+. I am in Chicago and can get 25mbps download and 5mbps upload, which is great. You can also get it to connect to LTE if your network uses band 4 for it, like T-Mobile's will later this year, which is great for us Nexus 4 users on T-Mobile. The voice to text is absolutely amazing and almost always gets what you say. I have used Siri and voice dictation on iOS and it just does not even compare. I love how it types what you say as you say it.
Conclusion :
The Nexus 4 right now, in my opinion, is the best android phone out there. And maybe the best phone overall. It is a great phone at a great starting price. This thing has an amazing screen and has no lag in whatever you are doing. Really the only thing that kills it is the storage. If this had a micro SD slot is would just be so much better than it already is. The camera is great when outdoors and when you have sufficient light, flash helps a lot in low light, and the many camera and gallery features are great. The battery life is sub par, but when you're at home or work, you can almost always give it a quick charge when you need it, but you can not just add more storage when you need it. (Except if you use OTG devices.) I would highly recommend this phone to anyone out there looking for a great device. It is not complicated at all and it very noob friendly.
If you have any questions or want me to add anything please just comment or PM me and I will try to help as much as I can! I will add more to this thread if I have more to say later on.

great review!

tuffballa said:
great review!
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Thanks!

Yeah pretty good review. I find battery life to be very good on the N4 believe it or not. I reach almost 5 hours on screen time with 15 hours off charge. Thats with heavy use. My brightness is on auto, i browse the web switching from cellular to wifi depending on where im at, sync is off and i turn it on during the day to check my emails, stuff like that. Do a lot of tapatalk, few calls, lots of texting and little youtubing. I use it normally, not to fool myself and try to reach 2 days just to be satisfied. Oh yeah lol, since last night im using a custom kernel.

Great, unbiased review! This review made me want the Nexus 4 even more! Hopefully I can get one soon. :fingers-crossed:

barondebxl said:
Yeah pretty good review. I find battery life to be very good on the N4 believe it or not. I reach almost 5 hours on screen time with 15 hours off charge. Thats with heavy use. My brightness is on auto, i browse the web switching from cellular to wifi depending on where im at, sync is off and i turn it on during the day to check my emails, stuff like that. Do a lot of tapatalk, few calls, lots of texting and little youtubing. I use it normally, not to fool myself and try to reach 2 days just to be satisfied. Oh yeah lol, since last night im using a custom kernel.
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Please share with us the custom kernel you are using. Thx.
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Out with the family for thanksgiving for 2ish hours and using the phone for 1 and a half of those... The true spirit of thanksgiving!
Nice review though
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llustig said:
Please share with us the custom kernel you are using. Thx.
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cyberkid2002 said:
Out with the family for thanksgiving for 2ish hours and using the phone for 1 and a half of those... The true spirit of thanksgiving!
Nice review though
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Yeah I knew that was gonna look bad but I had to say it. Anyway my family can be dull at times
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34480134
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That's impressive :good:

ctowne said:
That's impressive :good:
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I saw you post it before which is great, but I cannot go through the day with service sync off. To me that just defeats the whole point of the phone. Perhaps with an incremental update battery life will get better. Seems maybe too much stuff is syncing in the background and is keeping the CPU from sleeping. 5 hours is good though... I'd like more but that's really all I need.

ctowne said:
That's impressive :good:
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And I was using it heavy, like there was no tomorrow
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Jayrod1980 said:
I saw you post it before which is great, but I cannot go through the day with service sync off. To me that just defeats the whole point of the phone. Perhaps with an incremental update battery life will get better. Seems maybe too much stuff is syncing in the background and is keeping the CPU from sleeping. 5 hours is good though... I'd like more but that's really all I need.
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I turn on sync every hour or so. Just don't need it on all the time unless I'm expecting an important email or something. But people should use their phones as they normally do, not just to reach a certain amount of screen time cause that's just ridiculous. So yeah, if you need sync on then just leave it on, personally I don't need it on all the time.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34480134
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Why isn't your phone awake when the screen is on? I can't really remember but I think that on every Android i've had, when the screen is on, the phone is Awake

Picked up my N4 today and have been getting to grips with it, initial impressions are. It's fast though have had slow down. Gets very hot during anything using GPS or when playing games. Camera is average and when using the flash images are washed out. It's a bit early to say much about the battery life but after 1hr38mins, its down to 73%. build quality seems good. I thought it would be a bigger leap up from my old phone but am a little disappointed currently. I will continue but if it doesn't impress further it will go back. Do love jelly bean!
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raul90 said:
Why isn't your phone awake when the screen is on? I can't really remember but I think that on every Android i've had, when the screen is on, the phone is Awake
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Good question, I have no clue. I just checked my current stats as I'm writing this comment, I'm 9 hours off charge with 2h 15 min on screen time and no awake time
I checked my battery stats when I had the note 2 and the line is all blue when the screen is on. I don't know....
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you used your phone for an hour and a half at family thanksgiving dinner??

[Z] Very High data utilization by "Android OS" in "Data Usage"...

i am getting very high data usage by under "Android OS" in "Data Usage" (settings)... anyone else has this issue? how does one resolve this?
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DooMLoRD said:
i am getting very high data usage by under "Android OS" in "Data Usage" (settings)... anyone else has this issue? how does one resolve this?
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Weird it consumed 41MB in 7 days?!!! What is going on here?

Re: [Z] Very High data utilization by "Android OS" in "Data Usage"...
Could be if you use torrent,Facebook,and auto sync.
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Re: [Z] Very High data utilization by "Android OS" in "Data Usage"...
Oh..! That sounds reasonable since I use many apps that eats lots of data while in standby mode.
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Re: [Z] Very High data utilization by "Android OS" in "Data Usage"...
Restrict the background data as that's where its getting eaten and see what happens.
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Re: [Z] Very High data utilization by "Android OS" in "Data Usage"...
Just to help you. You also draining batt very fast in standby probably.. Have you seen kernel wakelock named : suspend_backoff or something? If so just remove chrome totaly.. I hate to do so too because its my browser of choise but resolves all android os usage and batt draining issues..
Ps. For audio out 3 wacklocks and further batt draining issues by mediaserver.. Remove lock screen sounds and touch sounds etc from settings.. Reboot and let it settle.. Hope i helped..
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Re: [Z] Very High data utilization by "Android OS" in "Data Usage"...
Streaming media appears to be included in androidos for this build.
I noticed mine was high last night, so have been using onavo (free on play store) to monitor it a bit better today.
It spikes correspondingly in data usage reporting under semc settings for Androidos and streaming media in onavo when watching youtube (youtube also shows up separately but less data)
Mines quite a bit higher but I'm on unlimited data with 3, ignore the warming limit I just put it in to scale the graph.
Real racing shows a disturbing amount if traffic though..
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Yap same here... but I've got no clue how, unless it has to do with streaming media. The only things I sync are gmail/whatsapp and that can never use more then 100mb. Needs some investigation to find out what's causing this.

Dsteppa said:
Yap same here... but I've got no clue how, unless it has to do with streaming media. The only things I sync are gmail/whatsapp and that can never use more then 100mb. Needs some investigation to find out what's causing this.
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fards said:
Streaming media appears to be included in androidos for this build.
I noticed mine was high last night, so have been using onavo (free on play store) to monitor it a bit better today.
It spikes correspondingly in data usage reporting under semc settings for Androidos and streaming media in onavo when watching youtube (youtube also shows up separately but less data)
Mines quite a bit higher but I'm on unlimited data with 3, ignore the warming limit I just put it in to scale the graph.
Real racing shows a disturbing amount if traffic though..
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kostasalfa said:
Just to help you. You also draining batt very fast in standby probably.. Have you seen kernel wakelock named : suspend_backoff or something? If so just remove chrome totaly.. I hate to do so too because its my browser of choise but resolves all android os usage and batt draining issues..
Ps. For audio out 3 wacklocks and further batt draining issues by mediaserver.. Remove lock screen sounds and touch sounds etc from settings.. Reboot and let it settle.. Hope i helped..
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marcgear said:
Restrict the background data as that's where its getting eaten and see what happens.
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funny thing is i get similar behavior on my Xperia T too.. and both devices have similar apps installed... i just too Titanum Backup and sycned across both devices...

On my xperia z, android OS used about 115MB and 110MB of that was over wifi so I don't really care about it but I think it might be some of the sony built-in apps using it. Because apps like whatsapp or gmail are listed in there and they don't use much

Dsteppa said:
Yap same here... but I've got no clue how, unless it has to do with streaming media. The only things I sync are gmail/whatsapp and that can never use more then 100mb. Needs some investigation to find out what's causing this.
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same here, how do we fix it??

You guys have some crazy data use!
Admittedly, I do try to do any obvious data-heavy stuff when I'm on WiFi, but my usage is a fraction of that! My highest usage app over the last month is the Play Store with 154MB... However, on WiFi Android OS comes in highest.

this solution helped me
i had a similar problem when android os eat 160 mb in two days.then i searched the internet and i found that solution is easy just go in settings<backup and reset<check off back up my data this helped me, since then android os usage was only 1.8 mb in 12 days :good:
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feskysvk said:
i had a similar problem when android os eat 160 mb in two days.then i searched the internet and i found that solution is easy just go in settings<backup and reset<check off back up my data this helped me, since then android os usage was only 1.8 mb in 12 days :good:
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I agree, I had the same issue on my xperia P. Removed google backup and problem was solved
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parapaul said:
You guys have some crazy data use!
Admittedly, I do try to do any obvious data-heavy stuff when I'm on WiFi, but my usage is a fraction of that! My highest usage app over the last month is the Play Store with 154MB... However, on WiFi Android OS comes in highest.
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from the 1st of april until now I used up 1.58 GB..
normally I get about 3GB of data use at the end of the month

Okay i tried and turned off the backup and reset thing, i hope to see a change cuz every month within the first week my android OS had already used 800MB

Go figure
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On T i had the same problem, on S i have the same problem.
It's strange if it's related to Backup&Restore because on S it started in nov2012 and i've used backup and restore since AUG2012.
Worst is that Mobile traffic is used also..

parapaul said:
You guys have some crazy data use!
Admittedly, I do try to do any obvious data-heavy stuff when I'm on WiFi, but my usage is a fraction of that! My highest usage app over the last month is the Play Store with 154MB... However, on WiFi Android OS comes in highest.
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I typically average 9-12 gig each month. I dont use Wifi, TMobile USA Unlimited 4G I stream everything in HD.

Streaming is reported on ytube or other players, in here its about android os. Right?
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Great Battery life with everything enabled.

It's been a week since I turned on most features on my S6. Bluetooth all day. GPS enabled. Auto brightness. Apps syncing every hour including weather widget with location on. Ok Google on system wide and a lot more on too. I don't focus on SOT too much because I'm not on my phone constantly. I focus on overall battery life.
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With only 3 hours screen on time of course overall battery life will be decent. I typically lose less than .25% an hour when my phone isn't touched. Slept 10 hours Saturday night and only lost 2%.

when you buy this phone you have to rooted and flash a kernel and a custom rom thats it!! for me im running vindicator r3 and xtretos lite and everything is work! is a huge difference from stock! for me this phone is perfect now. i multitask i do split screen everything you can do. i can't complain
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mikeyinid said:
With only 3 hours screen on time of course overall battery life will be decent. I typically lose less than .25% an hour when my phone isn't touched. Slept 10 hours Saturday night and only lost 2%.
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I understand that. My point is that I have most features on all the time that people usually turn off just to save battery.

!JORGE! said:
when you buy this phone you have to rooted and flash a kernel and a custom rom thats it!! for me im running vindicator r3 and xtretos lite and everything is work! is a huge difference from stock! for me this phone is perfect now. i multitask i do split screen everything you can do. i can't complain
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Everything you mentioned works fine without doing all that complicated rooting and ROM flashing process, then having to back up all your apps and messages and wait like 20 minutes to get it all back on there.

megagodx said:
Everything you mentioned works fine without doing all that complicated rooting and ROM flashing process, then having to back up all your apps and messages and wait like 20 minutes to get it all back on there.
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im just saying as a reference and with my own expirience i find a huge difference in between stock and rooted saying stock rom and stock kernel and my first reason of rooting is to get rid off all the bloat this phone come with! in stock rom without root everything is laggy!
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mikeyinid said:
With only 3 hours screen on time of course overall battery life will be decent. I typically lose less than .25% an hour when my phone isn't touched. Slept 10 hours Saturday night and only lost 2%.
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How do you do that?
Im on 5.1.1 running xtresto pure 2.0 and simplkernel and lose about 5% over night with only mobile data on
any tips?

FM5 said:
How do you do that?
Im on 5.1.1 running xtresto pure 2.0 and simplkernel and lose about 5% over night with only mobile data on
any tips?
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Yeah get rid of snapchat and instagram. Are on top of your list. dont you see?
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So far 15 hours since last full charge. Had the fun plugged in my car for a few minutes while I drove to Walmart and I have 30% battery life left.
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ambervals6 said:
Yeah get rid of snapchat and instagram. Are on top of your list. dont you see?
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ya i dont see myself using instagram and snapchat while im asleep (8am-4pm), and both are greenified. thanks for trying to help!

You could just buy an external battery pack case and never have to worry about battery life ever running out again within a 24 hour period.

I'm running stock rooted, I'm losing about 1% per hour while I'm sleeping. I'm hoping the battery is still settling in because I'm not able to get great SOT as of yet. I've had the phone less than a week, came from Verizon with the S6E. Would get about 4 hours SOT max there...
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My stock S6 will lose about 10-15% overnight when I'm sleeping, I usually end up turning on Battery Saver and enabling Airplane Mode and I still lose about 5-8%. I have to charge my phone a few times through out the day, I'm actually even happier with my JBL PowerUp speakers w/wireless charging, I have them at work and just set it on there when I'm at my desk so I can at least get more juice out of it.
I need to look in to flashing a custom ROM on this, I really don't care about tripping KNOX as Samsung Pay won't even be available for quite some time. Are there any other downsides to tripping KNOX? I know there are ways to get around it without tripping it, but I don't really know if I should care or not.

Turn off lte use only 3g-4g that will help with ur battery drain
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Great battery life here with these tweaks:
1) I have a macro (Macrodroid app) which kills select background apps (excluding email, messaging, and such) when the screen goes off.
2) KTWeaker installed using the Asking Alexandra profile
3) Flyon Mods app is also installed and all tweaks are enabled
Under average use the phone can easily make it 24+ hours without a charge

cwhiatt said:
Great battery life here with these tweaks:
1) I have a macro (Macrodroid app) which kills select background apps (excluding email, messaging, and such) when the screen goes off.
2) KTWeaker installed using the Asking Alexandra profile
3) Flyon Mods app is also installed and all tweaks are enabled
Under average use the phone can easily make it 24+ hours without a charge
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What is your Screen On Time? i got 3 hours and 20 minutes at 6% charge left With most services and bloat disabled using Titanium

Just checked GSam now. I've got an hour on you at 4 hours and 20 minutes screen on.

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Just checked GSam now. I've got an hour on you at 4 hours and 20 minutes screen on.
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Link to the apps you used? and how do i get the alexandria profile?

Links to the apps I used? Not sure what you mean. I could probaly email you the asking alexandria profile but if you download the KTWeaker apk and launch the app you can download that or any other profiles that will facilitate the performance/battery maintenance you are after.
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You will likely need to be rooted for the apk file and possible the Fly on mod.
KTWeaker here > https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23578570567713744
Fly on Mod here > http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-fly-mod-app-alpha1-feel-smoothness-t3171503
Macrodroid can be downloaded from the Play Store

WiFi strength, range, and throughput

Rate this thread to express how you think the HTC 10's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

I am getting drop-outs on my WiFi connection even when feet from the router. The strength is OK but it drops connections, and when making WiFi-based calls the phone complains that WiFi signal strength is low (even when max bars! Clearly this needs and fix from HTC as others are reporting this too.

when I use the normal wifi from my router I seem to have issues but I'm on very old firmware still from Verizon 1.19. I hear the update helps out with wifi issues. When I connect my to my router using the 5G connection it works flawlessly.

I find the wifi strength is not top notch. Very easily it drops its speed. Using ICE Rom.
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I found this fault on previous HTC phones that I've dealt with like the M8 M9 all had weak Wi-Fi connection and range.
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I vote excellent. I walked away from our apartment the other day and my 10 clinged on to it's dear life and maintained 1/5 bars where my M7 and missus's G3 just went: nope.
I'll have the "ultimate test" for my 10 next Wednesday. Going to school and in our "lab" we have a WiFi router. This lab is basically a bunker, a bomb shelter.
My M7 could pick up the WiFi from there (with the door closed) fine in a couple of locations around and near the bunker. It's going to be interesting to see how well my 10 can pick it up.

Wi-Fi singal to me is a great, but the speed and connection seems quite off. At times I can use my laptop while my HTC 10 is connected to the same Wi-Fi connection and my laptop speed will be great, but the HTC 10 seems quite sluggish. Additionally, sometimes I will get an error notification with Wi-Fi calling, and sometimes I'll get dropped calls when I have great Wi-Fi signal.

WiFi signal is absolutely horrible for me. Most of the time I only get 1-2 Bars except im really close to the Router.
My Tablet and other phone always get way better Signal strength.
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Wifi on HTC 10 is the most horrible implementation I have seen on any device. If you think your wifi is great, go contribute your debug logs to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/wifi-constant-suspend-resume-leading-to-t3392562
Vote on that thread only after doing the diagnostics, not by "oh, my wifi is great because I can browse on my phone".

I had issues before update 1.80.401.1: connections never seemed stable
Now on the update I've nothing to complain about, throughput is good, ping is stable and the wifi never seems to drop again.
Roaming between access points is also great, no drops there as well.
The range is fine as well. From the house to the garage (about 30m away) I still get a good enough signal to use internet, watch youtube etc.
That's through 2 brick walls and a garden with trees

Wifi range on this phone (HTC 10) is atrocious. The phone is basically useless to me. At home, it refused to connect to my 5ghz band and would only connect to the 2.4ghz band, unless I was within 5ft of the router.
We are currently in Costa Rica on our honeymoon, and while my HTC 10 remains in the hotel room safe 99% of the time while we surf, explore etc., the few times I've needed it it absolutely refused to connect to any of the 3 wifi networks here. Meanwhile, my wife's Galaxy S4 connects to any of them with no issues and gets 20mbps download speeds. My Macbook Pro has no issues and two other people we've talked to have had no issues with their iPhone and LG G4.
I wanted to love this phone but it's given me nothing but issues when it comes to network connectivity. I made the last second decision to leave my Nexus 6P and bring the HTC 10 in an effort to have a smaller phone with me during this trip, but I completely regret it. As soon as we get home the sim card will be pulled and the phone will be shoved into a drawer until another worthy phone comes along to use my next JUMP! Ondemand upgrade on.
It's too bad HTC is making the next Nexus phone. Because I sure as hell won't be buying it after this B.S. experience.
Also, for reference, when I got the phone from T-Mobile I unlocked it and flashed the U.S. unlocked RUU firmware/ROM for faster updates. I had these issues on the 1.53.617.5 RUU and they persist after the latest 1.80.617.1 update.

@sn0warmy do you have the uh oh warranty with 1 day replacement? Because I wonder if this is a hardware issue as some people report good WiFi.

Haldi4803 said:
@sn0warmy do you have the uh oh warranty with 1 day replacement? Because I wonder if this is a hardware issue as some people report good WiFi.
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I'm not entirely sure. I do pay for the accidental coverage through T-Mobile and I'm sure I could use that to get a replacement through them (they've always been great in giving me replacements when requested). But I've seen so many people with the same issues, who report the replacement doesn't solve the problem., that I almost just don't even want to bother.

sn0warmy said:
I'm not entirely sure. I do pay for the accidental coverage through T-Mobile and I'm sure I could use that to get a replacement through them (they've always been great in giving me replacements when requested). But I've seen so many people with the same issues, who report the replacement doesn't solve the problem., that I almost just don't even want to bother.
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I had the same problem and a replacement for a new phone did the trick....

In my experience, it is mediocre at best.
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Rate this thread to express how you think the HTC 10's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
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My HTC 10's wifi reception and speed is noticeably worst than my LG G3, and MUCH-MUCH worst than my 6 years old Dell Vostro 3350 laptop. At first I thought that my specific unit is defected, and went back to the store to replace it. The store's manager claimed that "it is what it is", and allowed me to examine and compare it thoroughly to his Smsung S7. They performed similarly. Some consolation...

Haldi4803 said:
WiFi signal is absolutely horrible for me. Most of the time I only get 1-2 Bars except im really close to the Router.
My Tablet and other phone always get way better Signal strength.
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Totally agree man, my old M8 was WAY much better compare to my HTC 10 unfortunately.
I use to get almost full signal in my house at the second floor with the M8, with the HTC 10 cannot even browse.
I have to say this is the only thing that I don't like of this phone, hope a new firmware will do something.

Yeah, I'm on the latest OTA, 1.80 and Wi-Fi is better, but not as good as my old LG g3. Just enabled 2.4Ghz only, and it feels better
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Agreed, reception is terrible, I bought the unlocked t mobile version through htc, am on the latest update 1.80.617. I am currently sitting in a hotel room with crappy wifi service, but next door there is a walmart with a strong signal and I am connected through that on my laptop with 4 bars, but I can't get the 10 to connect at all.

Oh look, there is still one bar left.... no reason to switch then....
GTFO WiFi... GTFO

This is well know android issue that has nothing to do with htc.. Android has wifi roaming issues, same happens with samsung ore oneplus...