I have my finger hovered over the "Buy" button in Moto Maker but im a tad concerened about battery life. Most reviews say its OK but have also heard slightly worse. Im a relatively heavy user listening to podcasts via bluetooth incar and also the normal social network stuff along with connection to a Moto 360. I do however have easy access to an in car charger throughout the day should the phone need charging. Im just slightly concerned for when I have days out with no access to a charger.
How are Moto X owners on here finding battery life?
Hi man. I'm not a heavy user and I can do the whole day.
As you say, the heavy users are not very happy with the battery life and there is not yet clear if with Lollipop is better or not. What I have read almost in every post about this, is that people is suggesting to have the turbo charger with you all the time if you are a heavy user....
Anyways, I'm not a heavy user and I think is OK, but yep...is not fantastic.
There are way too many of these threads. The battery is NOT bad. If u manage ur device well there wont be any issues with battery. Also everyone will have different results based on how the phone is used.
I'm not as heavy a user as you are; the main things I do on my phone is surf G+, browse the internet (using Chrome), use Reddit News, use bluetooth to connect to my car and stream music (probably about 2-3 hours a day), and of course text (using Google's Messenger app and GroupMe). I also have Location services on High Accuracy, but use WiFi mostly. Typically, I get 4-5 hours of screen time. The best I've seen was a little over 6 hours of screen time over a ~14 hour time period.
Coming from a Nexus 5, I think the battery life is awesome (I got 4 hours max. on a good day). If you do pull the trigger, get the Turbo Charger, too. With that, unless you go a really long time without seeing a power outlet, I don't think you should have any real concerns regarding battery life.
I really think the battery is fine here is a screen shot of my battery usage. I have exchange and two gmail accounts. This is with an hour flight listening to music on Moto Buds and 2.5 screen on time.
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Thanks for the replies. Apologies its all been asked before.
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Hi
Just Pictures for now will try to post usage sometimes later
Anyone else got these? feedback would be appreciated
UK EABY
HIGH EXTENDED 3500mAH Battery for HTC HD 7 HD7 + Cover
Ordered from the Above link
As you can see it spoils the beauty of the HD7 but I guess its worth it only if you plan to use your phone for a long day trip or something if you are taking photos.
Its China made and looks like hand made, bit rough if you know what I mean, still wondering whether I should use it or not, as I don't really use my HD7 that much
PICTURES
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Holy cow! that looks ugly hehe!
good lord thats immense! what sort of life do you get out of that thing?
Trust me.
I Just put it in and took it out straight away. It made my sexy phone look horrendous.
I rather have low battery life then carry that around so that battery is lying in the corner unless someone wants to buy it off
That is ugly as hell.
But I can see it being useful if you go hiking or biking a lot; you would get a lot of GPS-mapping done with that battery and the phone itself could just be attached to your bike or your bag. You wouldn't want it in your pocket though.
bought that same battery from a vendor here in the US... The phone doesn't seem to "recognize" it's larger capacity... all system info/system view apps still show the batt as the 1230 maH... once the battery indicator goes low, and the orange LED starts flashing and the low battery warning pops up, I can shut down the phone, pull and re-insert the battery, power it back on and it shows about 50% battery again for a couple hours...
I have it.
I have this battery, i can stay up for 4 days without charging it, but when it goes down to drain level and orange light comes up i have to take the battery off and start phone again to see the battery's rest of the capacity left. I use Deepshining V2.0 and i use the phone with wifi once a day to pick up new apps but i don't talk much. Overall i am OK with it despite the phone doesn't see full capacity
Ugly son of a b'tch.
Can't say that I agree here. Maybe because I'm running fOmey's awesome rom, but the last thing I'm thinking of is how "bad" the batt life is.
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Easily get 2 days. You'll see plenty of others around here reporting similar. Even with stock. Battery life increased with more recent versions of firmware and especially gear manager. And last longer with motion setting disabled
Are you using custom faces with watch styler or one of the stock faces? I think WS eats more battery but I find the many faces worth it. I plug in my phone every night so I have no issues with charging the watch
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Are you using custom faces with watch styler or one of the stock faces? I think WS eats more battery but I find the many faces worth it. I plug in my phone every night so I have no issues with charging the watch
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watchstyler - especially if using second hand drains battery
Yeah, can easily get two days, and the watch charges extremely fast so that isnt an issue for me
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people are complaining about gear's battery life and tells us about how great 'pebble' is. truth is, it sucks balls. either you are getting a smartwatch (gear) or a watch with smart extensions (pebble).
i don't see an issue with the gear's battery life, as the things i can do on it out beats any other "smart"watch.
The problem is most of the"professional" reviewers have probably only used it for a few hours and then only when it first came out, it's a shame they aren't more diligent.
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That's a fair question. No, I'm not using any custom faces.
I am completely stock and on newest firmware. I must say battery life is awesome for me. Using stock watch face with weather and could easily get 3 days out of my gear. Although I charge every night I am only draining about 40% from 330 am to 930 pm. Very very happy with this.
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OK I know phones put out heat but not with the simplest of tasks. I mean this is ridiculous if I play a game on it it gets smoking hot. My wife's nexus 6 doesn't even get warm and my s 5 I traded in for this barely got warm even with heavy use. Now onto the battery omg it drains faster than a 454 wide open does anyone have any advice or work around that actual work to improve both of these issues I am rooted have greenify, and tibu with some bloat frozen but still no noticeable difference thanks in advance
Oh yeah did I mention that the signal sux ass I'm constantly loosing lte coverage and it takes forever to even load the playstore....
I can literally sit here on the lowest brightness, everything disabled and watch the battery percentage go down. On super light use (navigating settings etc) it's warm.
Tried stock... or on clean rom...same.
Just charged to full, did a factory reset..Started fresh no restore and it went from 100% to 94% in less than 8 minutes. Is this a joke? Lol yeah this one is going back! Oh and those 8 minutes we're very very light use..just navigating phone.
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ugh
I've been up for 3 hrs and I'm down to 52% I am using my tether but that's it. Think I might take this back and try the edge or another s6...I heard lollipop 5.1 is suppose to fix these issues any buddy have an info what so ever on the problems causing this. I love the phone but something needs to happen here and fast
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I've been up for 3 hrs and I'm down to 52% I am using my tether but that's it. Think I might take this back and try the edge or another s6...I heard lollipop 5.1 is suppose to fix these issues any buddy have an info what so ever on the problems causing this. I love the phone but something needs to happen here and fast
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3 hours tethering and you only lost 48%? That's pretty good. Tethering uses your cell data (battery kilker) and constant WiFi (battery killer) while keeping the CPU out of deep sleep to process routing for the tethered devices.
Yeah I know it eats battery, I don't have Internet where I live so tether is all I get it blows I'm also comparing to my wife's nexus 6 and my s 5 which both never dropped at this rate.
I get as good battery life as my N6, which is not as much as I'd like, but it's good enough. It's 2 and I've only dropped my phone on wireless charging for a few mins, and it's at 74%.
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Hello fellow Moto X users! I want to buy a Moto X 2014 Pure Edition. Since this is my first smartphone, I have read several reviews online as well as the reviews of the people who have bought it from the online store. The phone looks great on paper except the battery, but since the software is optimized and mostly stock, I believe the battery is finer than those of pesky Samsung phones. I do not want to spend too much, neither do I have a taste for skinned Android experience.
There's one issue though, I haven't been able to get a clear picture of what the smartphone's battery is like. Some websites like GSMArena have claimed the web browsing time to be 9+ hours on Lollipop, while some other discussions on reddit point out to screen on time of 4-5 hours. I need help because this is the only great device I can buy for the limited money I can spend.
I request someone on the latest Lollipop firmware to post statistics of their battery life. If you can show me the variation of battery over WHOLE 24 HOURS with Screen ON Time over that period, I'll be very happy. I expect this phone to provide me 4-5 hours of screen on time over 18-24 hour period.
Thanks.
BUMP!
ANYONE? Please? Just a screenshot of screen on time and overall time?
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Not much to go by really. When I was working I had wifi on 24/7. The 5h+ SoT is purely on weekends when I just read on it, not doing anything else.
And I were you, I'd wait till Aug-Sep when Moto X 2015 comes out (has a 3400mAH~ battery). Other than that with mixed use of reading, tapatalk, spotify, web, mail checking and skype I'd reach around 5hrs of SoT by the end of the day.
Edit: I use Temaseks CM 12.1 set at 380 DPI. Stock ROM lacks the customization for my taste.
update: this was from the CM 12.1 Temasek build from 0530
This was done with reading on fanfiction reader only, nothing else.
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Got my Droid Turbo 3 days ago coming from an LG G2 and I really like it but the battery life is terrible with minimal usage and I can't even get phone to last for a day. It drops 5‰ per hour even if the screen is off and phone is in my pocket. When I do occasionally use the phone to check emails and browse the web on chrome, the entire phone gets very warm. So warm that its uncomfortable to hold it. During this time the battery really sarts to die. I am running unrooted factory KK 4.4.4 so does anyone think the problem will go away if I root it with one of the stripped down images? Or do I have a broken phone?
Fyi, the only apps that I've installed aside from preloaded apps are adobe, Microsoft outlook, greenify, waze, and a realcalc. Waze is never on unless in the car and plugged in. My G2 with all these apps and more and with double the usage lasted much much longer.
Please advise
Welcome! A couple things to keep in mind man: it can take a good week before battery life stabilizes on a new device. Waze has always been a ***** on battery in my experience. I personally disabled every sing app I don't use, which was quite a few of the pre installed. I keep my location set to battery saving mode unless using nav. I'm also one of the ones whose battery life got awesome after the 5.1 update. With all that said, I only lose 4% overnight, about 6-7 hours. Is your device not sleeping? Check the battery stats and see if something is keeping it awake. The stock one will give you general info but I use Gsam to keep a closer eye on things. Try removing Waze and see if that helps with the heat issue. Running GPS is the only time my phone even gets mildly warm.
No issues here. Got 8 hours screen on time just now
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I am unrooted kit Kat. I usually see 1% drain per hour plus 10% per hour of screen on time. 24 hours after a full charge, with 4 hours screen on, I expect about to have used 24%+40%.
Maybe I just need to full reset. What about heat? Do these phones get hot during use?
I assume you've checked the pre-installed apps (Motorola and/or Verizon) and disabled any you don't need. I've found some of them eat the battery a bit (FYI I came from a LG G2 and am using a Moto Maxx).
Go to settings-apps-all. Disable the junk you don't use. Some of those apps are battery killers. I wouldn't go root till you figure out if you have a lemon.