It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the HTC 10 before depleting the battery.
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I like this idea and I'm surprised there are no comments yet! Indoors usage I'm getting around 7 hours screen on time if I skip gaming, could get more if I didn't visit my GF place cause the reception it's crap over there, but I'm pretty happy with the current result
Wtf! I'm getting under 3 and I'm a light user. I just browse the web, open yahoo mail and do a little raiding in COC and that's it. What is your guys secret?
Getting constantly around 5 with stock settings, social networks, some gaming and camera.
I get about 4 to 5. But it's also over 24-32 hours total, and a decent amount of music streaming over bluetooth. So if I instead measured over 16 to 18 hours instead, and didn't stream over bluetooth so much, I bet I could 6+.
Mostly around 5 hours SoT.
I have been getting anywhere from 3 to 5 hours with mixed usage. I believe that the phone is still trying to balance though, I have only had it for like 4 days. Hopefully I can get to 5.5-6 after the system gets into a groove
methodz said:
Wtf! I'm getting under 3 and I'm a light user. I just browse the web, open yahoo mail and do a little raiding in COC and that's it. What is your guys secret?
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Whats your brightness? Are you on data or Wi-Fi? Is this 3 hrs of sot with over a day of usage? Are you listening to music as you use phone? Do you have an Android Wear device? Way too many variables. It is better than your previous device based on your usage.
P.S. it's always best to compare only with yourself using other devices as nobody uses a phone with the same exact settings and each little configuration adds up to such disparity. Ex: Once had my S4 die in less than 3 hours with straight benchmarking and the same device have over 12 hours of sot and like 5 days off the charger.
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Also there's 2 types of panel, could be useful to include which panel you have as I wonder if that might cause different results. My screen time is pretty rubbish, it's always the highest thing using the battery. I think I get around 3-5 hours using auto screen set with a max around 1/2 which is worse than my old M8 and is really annoying me as I struggle to get through the day.
I've got the Sharp panel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/poll-panel-htc-10-main-s820-variant-t3370972
Only problem with comparing SOT is different people have different apps and habits, it's impossible to categorize everyone into light medium and heavy usage groups.
Personally I usually get around 3 - 5 hours SOT and I consider myself a light user and I am trying to get the most from my phone.
Itd be good if there was some kind of comparing table where different apps and their footprints were taken into consideration.
4 to 5 with middle brightness on automatic stock phone
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The phone is amazing!!! I'm using debloated stock Verizon firmware ( stock rom as well) rooted. I do use aggressive doze option in greenify app which is the only " battery saving" feature I have.
I use my phone quite a lot for making calls, snapchat and little bit of gaming ( world of tanks blitz for about 30 min, amazing game by the way). I couldn't be happier with the battery like and overall performance of the phone. HTC has made a good comeback!!!
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4 middle brightness on automatic
Anyone with non-stock ROMs and Kernels getting better?
today was my first full day with the 10 and i only got a little less than 2 1/2 hours of SoT (just plugged it in when it hit 10%)
i was connected to wifi almost all day, and streaming music for about an hour.
also i noticed that it lost about 10%/hr while just idling. i unplugged at around 9am and it was down to 85% at 1030 with literally zero usage.
definitely super disappointed with the battery life so far, but i'm sure it will improve over the next few days.
also this is the TMO US version.
My experience pretty awesome so far
Loving the battery on the HTC 10. Coming from a Galaxy S6 that could barely get 2 hours SoT this phone is a treat.
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As long as you keep wifi off, you can get 6+ hours of medium use across 1-1.5 days out of this phone. I got 4hrs+ SOT over a 4 day period with light usage. Only condition is wifi can't be on. With wifi ON, the phone won't last a day of light/medium use.
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As long as you keep wifi off, you can get 6+ hours of medium use across 1-1.5 days out of this phone. I got 4hrs+ SOT over a 4 day period with light usage. Only condition is wifi can't be on. With wifi ON, the phone won't last a day of light/medium use.
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Exactly that! And I still have 25% left!!!!!
By the way,i use stock Verizon firmware/ from. Rooted. xposed installed. Running greenify aggressive doze feature.
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As long as you keep wifi off, you can get 6+ hours of medium use across 1-1.5 days out of this phone. I got 4hrs+ SOT over a 4 day period with light usage. Only condition is wifi can't be on. With wifi ON, the phone won't last a day of light/medium use.
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Except you can look at my post right above yours and see that my WiFi was on the entire time. Not all of us are having this WiFi issue
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Had my N7 on the charger all day while at work. Got home, unplugged it and fired up Splashtop to stream MLG Summer Arena (flash content) with my desktop. Screen at full brightness, headphones plugged in, and maxed volume. About 2.5 hours streaming and a half our of Dead Trigger, I'm down to 27% battery life.
Feels like the battery performance isnt anywhere near the 8 or 9 hours claimed by Google and Asus. Am I missing something here? Anyone else feel like battery drain is really high? Stock, un-rooted, updated to 4.1.1.
Have a trip in two weeks with a 4.5 hour plane ride and would be nice know my tablet could keep me entertained for the trip...
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Had my N7 on the charger all day while at work. Got home, unplugged it and fired up Splashtop to stream MLG Summer Arena (flash content) with my desktop. Screen at full brightness, headphones plugged in, and maxed volume. About 2.5 hours streaming and a half our of Dead Trigger, I'm down to 27% battery life.
Feels like the battery performance isnt anywhere near the 8 or 9 hours claimed by Google and Asus. Am I missing something here? Anyone else feel like battery drain is really high? Stock, un-rooted, updated to 4.1.1.
Have a trip in two weeks with a 4.5 hour plane ride and would be nice know my tablet could keep me entertained for the trip...
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Even though I don't have mine yet I can say full brightness on screen can effect your battery life. I would suggest looking at what apps are running and possibly what could be eating your battery life.
Full brightness, thats the root cause. Try to reduce to, let say 50% ... Or as lowest as you feel OK.
When I use my gnex at home, I set to 15% ... Thats enough and still very bright.
Outside I use auto ...
Thats why I have a toggle widget for that ...
And I can have my gnex easily run for more than 48 hours stand by woth almost 4 hours screen on time
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Had my N7 on the charger all day while at work. Got home, unplugged it and fired up Splashtop to stream MLG Summer Arena (flash content) with my desktop. Screen at full brightness, headphones plugged in, and maxed volume. About 2.5 hours streaming and a half our of Dead Trigger, I'm down to 27% battery life.
Feels like the battery performance isnt anywhere near the 8 or 9 hours claimed by Google and Asus. Am I missing something here? Anyone else feel like battery drain is really high? Stock, un-rooted, updated to 4.1.1.
Have a trip in two weeks with a 4.5 hour plane ride and would be nice know my tablet could keep me entertained for the trip...
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I dunno, that's weird. I've been playing with this thing all day and have 3 hours screen time and 65% left.. live wallpaper, Dead Trigger an hour, SuperGNES (FF3) two hours, XDA and web browsing. I'm on 50% percent brightness though.
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100% brightest is way too bright indoors for me. Optimal indoors for me is about 30% and probably wouldn't go above 50%.
I've been getting 6 and a half hrs screen on time with over a day on battery, this has been 3 separate times. I use this tablet a lot, total time with me adding up that screen on time is over 25hrs maybe 30. I'm not counting the time when I first got it and ran it down several times before I was getting way better screen on time.
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how do you find out screen on time? i can only find battery time.
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how do you find out screen on time? i can only find battery time.
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Go to settings> battery then tap the % for Screen it will break down into Screen On
I use auto brightness and I'm getting way more than 10 hours use. Thats browsing and the occasional youtube.
Very impressed with the battery life and the whole Nexus experience.
My brightness is to 12%. More than bright enough for me. Getting around 9-10 hours with moderate to heavy usage. Very impressed with battery life.
I get better battery on CyanogenMod then I did on stock. Plus I can underclock to as low as 800mhz and it still runs like a champ.
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I have been amazed at how long it last.Over 10 hours with headphones running listening to lots of songs, trying out different apps and then watched the movie.Still never got under the 30% mark on the battery.
I've knocked down the brightness to 50% and will see how well the battery lasts after charging last night. So far I've been off the charger for a little over an hour with 40 minutes of screen time, down to 91‰ battery life.
The stock ROM doesn't have a way to take screen shots, does it?
Seriously, you had brightness and volume at 100% while using Splashtop, then gaming (pretty high intensity stuff) and you're surprised it lasted less than a stated time for Web browsing at like 50% or less brightness?
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baggy247 said:
Seriously, you had brightness and volume at 100% while using Splashtop, then gaming (pretty high intensity stuff) and you're surprised it lasted less than a stated time for Web browsing at like 50% or less brightness?
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I want to say the battery tests were performed at similar conditions while watching a movie for the eight to nine hour rating. Perhaps Splashtop pulling so much bandwidth on the network was a factor.
2.5 hours since unplug, 2 hours of screen time, down to 65% battery. YouTube, Chrome, Dead Trigger, and Facebook so far this morning.
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Have a trip in two weeks with a 4.5 hour plane ride and would be nice know my tablet could keep me entertained for the trip...
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Disable Wifi while you're in the air. That should make a difference.
my battery life has been spectacular. one other thing I noticed. when it charges to 100% (my nexus S never did), it stays there until you start using it. Best battery life of any mobile device I have had, ever. Except for my NOkia candy bar phones that stay charged for days.
I think my nexus may be defective. At first I left it at auto brightness, and drained the battery with 4 hours of screen time only web surfing. I've manually set the brightness to 35, and I still only get about 4.5 hours. This is just using Google chrome, no music. Throw in the occasional 10 minutes of world of too. Also what is standby drain for you guys? I lose 14% overnight, about 7 hours.
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I think my nexus may be defective. At first I left it at auto brightness, and drained the battery with 4 hours of screen time only web surfing. I've manually set the brightness to 35, and I still only get about 4.5 hours. This is just using Google chrome, no music. Throw in the occasional 10 minutes of world of too. Also what is standby drain for you guys? I lose 14% overnight, about 7 hours.
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That doesn't sound right, I'm on 51% with 23h40m on battery & 3h56m screen time, mostly just using chrome, I think mine used 2% last night in 8 hours.
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That doesn't sound right, I'm on 51% with 23h40m on battery & 3h56m screen time, mostly just using chrome, I think mine used 2% last night in 10 hours.
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What screen brightness are you using? Do you close all apps that you aren't currently using? My screen is the biggest battery drain, but I keep the brightness to sub 40. Normally I would just use auto, but I had no luck with it.
I am sick of hearing about how bad the battery life is on the Gear.
My Gear have great battery life, charge it every two days but yesterday.
The Google Smart watch is coming and it has much better battery life that the Gear's 12 hours??? !!!
Who can only get 12 hours on the Gear, and what do you do to burn the battery that quick?
Mine also lasts 2-3 days.. I'm connected to the note 2 if that makes a difference.
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Mine also lasts 2-3 days.. I'm connected to the note 2 if that makes a difference.
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Should make no difference at all.
thats because most reviewers dont know what they are talking about
My battery life is great. 3 to 4 days moderate use. And worse comes to worse wack it on the charger while i get ready for work and I have a days worth of battery.
I have a feeling they had pre-release versions which may have had worse battery life. Shame!
Yes, with more recent gear manager updates, I get around 3 days+
Mine lasts 3-4 days.
But I am only using it during the work day.
At the end of the day I have 85% left everyday. I think its biased reviews. I'm sure if the apple watch had a 6 hour battery they would says its genious and revolutionary.
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As a longtime 'professional' reviewer for over a decade (for the high fidelity audio industry), the non-rooted watch gives about 2 to 3 days battery life. Also, I don't recall seeing any reviews where they sideloaded apps, which makes the watch even more useful :good:
Frankly, don't trust all reviewers. :cyclops:
hahaha .... :laugh: ... they (those reviewers said about bad battery life) have already decided just on the number of xxx mAh. (once they see it.). :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I NEVER TRUST ... I TRUST MYSELF ON WHAT I HAVE DECIDED and TRIED ON MY OWN.
My battery life is 3 or 4 days. .. depending of use .
I think it depends of 'home screen ' . With watch styler, if my watch face is 'white' battery life can be 2 or 3 days. But with a standard watch face (black) battery life is 3 or 4 days...
If bluetooth is always turn on, the other battery's drain can only be screen... and it depends of the number of notifications you receive every days ! (And number you look at your watch daily )
Yes I agree with you on that I get 2 to 3 days of battery life heavy usage brightness at 4 and timeout at 15
Yes my Gear had pretty decent battery life, 2-3 days. Works out great just plug it in when I go to bed.
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Yes I agree with you on that I get 2 to 3 days of battery life heavy usage brightness at 4 and timeout at 15
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I have been using my gear on an S4 with android 4.2.2. Battery was usually about 50% at bedtime. I updated to the android 4.3 yesterday which gave me full capabilities of the Gear. Today after 8 hours of pretty heavy use (lots of email) I am at 90%. 4.3 does a much better job of handling BT connections, not just on the Gear but my other BT devices.
This is my 4th smartwatch (Sony MN800, Sony MN2SW, Pebble). The Sony MN2 was pretty decent, touchscreen/color but its battery life was terrible, had trouble making it through the whole day. Pebble had great battery life, constant on screen, but having to use buttons and no color was tough for me after having a touch color screen. Gear is definately heading in the right direction for me. Now that the battery life is can last 2+ days I am even more pleased with my decision to dive in. I turn the screen brightness to +2 which is extremely bright for indoor use.:good:
Yep, agreed.
My battery life is more than I can hope for with this thing.
I'm on day 2 and still have 61 percent battery life left.
I have screen brightness on 1 (which seems perfectly viewable for me) and time out for 7 seconds.
I can go 4 days easy with my current settings.
While I agree the battery life is a bit better than the reviews suggested, I'm surprised so many of you are getting 3-4 days worth. I use mine very lightly... it's stock, I don't have hardly any apps loaded on it, I'm currently just using it to occasionally see the time, and get txt/call/email notifications. I have the most battery efficient watch face (the black one with orange hands and only four markers), brightness on 4, timeout on 10s, using the latest gear manager on a stock Note 3. After 48hrs, I'm below 30% battery. The only excess usage I get is from the auto-wake... I do notice it coming on sometimes while I'm driving, or at the gym. Other than that, I really don't see how I could use it any less to get more life out of it (other than not using it at all). Once the software gets updated to make it a little more useful, I would expect battery life to get worse.
I'm not complaining, 2 days is acceptable to me, I just would have expected my usage patterns to put me at the long end of battery life relative to other users, rather than the short end.
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Yep, agreed.
My battery life is more than I can hope for with this thing.
I'm on day 2 and still have 61 percent battery life left.
I have screen brightness on 1 (which seems perfectly viewable for me) and time out for 7 seconds.
I can go 4 days easy with my current settings.
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I agree the reviewers had very bad results or bias, But at the same time I wish I knew how you guys were getting your results. Today was a light day, got maybe 20-30 texts and 5-10 emails. Didn't make any calls or respond to any texts with S-voice. I did just realize I had reset it recently so the brightness was at 4 with a 10 second time out. I normally run brightness at 2 and timeout at 7 to try to save the battery. I also use strong vibration and have the digital clock/weather watch face with a black background. I am at 82% after 12 hours, which again I don't think is bad. That would net me 2-3 days, but again that was what I consider very light usage. With heavy usage I doubt it would make it through the day.
I'm not complaining because I am ok with charging it every night, so long as it makes it through the day I am ok with it. I would just be happier if I knew I could get 2+ days with medium usage at least, including bright screen and all that jazz.
Also, side tracking I know, but what apps have you guys side loaded that you have found useful?
I have brightness at max and use it VERY heavily. I work as a mobile computer tech and all my calls are taken on it, I use svoice to make calls, I use svoice to reply to SMS and I'm always playing with it. The lowest battery at the end of a day (by which I mean 7:00am until midnight) was 38%.
I really cant fathom how it would be possible to deplete the battery in just 12 hours.
my use today :
I read 15 sms, 10 mail , take 3 pics and call with my father 15 min with gear speak phone (and the other 15 min with the phone.)
blue tooth connected permanently.
Number of auto wake : ?? A lot !!
Time Out : 15s
last complete charge : this night ( disconnect at 8 am.)
Now I read 1:28 am.
Battery level : 61%
it's all rights !!!
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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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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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
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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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It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the LG V20 before depleting the battery.
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I am getting about 6hrs of sot will post pic later
Sot im getting right now
I dont know about you guys but im getting outstanding battery life. I'm going to do a test later today. Im going to charge my phone upto 100 (after it reaches 0 today) and then when 5 minutes after it says is 100, i will unplug it and i will put a 1440p video that last more than 8 hours and see how long it last with full brightness and wifi on. Then im going to post Very specific details about how everything went. Oh , aslo it will have speaker at its maximum
oh and just have in mind, i have 35 user apps installed, and some of them constantly sync (so it means more battery consumption)
Just over 3hrs. I dont think my phone has started optimizing apps or putting them in Doze.
My sot had been nothing short of spectacular.. I'm getting 5hr average... nexus 6 would barely reach 3... my g4 not even 3 also..I always wondered how people were getting above 4hrs.. Ive gotten 6+.....I jus miss stock Android
I get 4 hours with medium usage and leave everything on. Wifi, BT etc. Brightness is on Auto but it shows at 50% to 70% most of the time at work. It's my bright office...LOL
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Just over 3hrs. I dont think my phone has started optimizing apps or putting them in Doze.
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Same as I got yesterday... I don't do anything to try and extend battery life though (brightness always on auto, and I usually turn it up a little bit). Today will be my 2nd full day with the phone, and after 2 hours off the charger I had 99% left (only 5 minutes screen on time), but then I used the phone for about 15 minutes and it dropped quick to 94%)... Time shall tell, hopefully it is till just optimizing like you said...
I'm on my 2nd charge and like you guys above, I'm getting abysmal battery life.
I'll give the phone another week or so to optimise, and if it doesn't - it'll be sent back to T-Mobile with a piss poor rating in terms of battery life. What a shame if that's the case..
2 hr 17 minutes screen on time. 68% left, second screen turned on while sleep. Loving it! Restored all my app backup from Google, so its not a plain phone.
This is after my first full charge it's only gonna get better as I rarely install new apps.
Auto brightness at times, manual on others, as the brightness of this phone doesnt compare at all to my note 4.
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First full day at work with the phone, and actually pretty light usage day and gotta say the battery is a bit of a let down so far. My shorter days at work over the weekend gave me some concerns, but today I'm at 2% left with 13h 28m standby and 2h 17m screen time. No calls, no videos. Maybe a dozen messages, web browsing, 20mins of spotify for commute. Frankly it "feels" like it lasts the same as my 2 year old m8.
10hours 45Minutes
I don't have a sim in mine so all my use is just on Wi-Fi. Indoor use with 30-40% brightness, 49 apps and services disabled. The day after this I did 1080p 60fps video streaming while plugged into my Bose speakers using the Hi-Fi DAC for a little over 5Hours and got about 6.5Hours total SOT. But so far 10hours 45 minutes is my record. Another time I did get right at 10 hours so it wasn't a fluke.
I'm not activating mine either so that's pretty sweet.
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Auto brightness at times, manual on others, as the brightness of this phone doesn't compare at all to my note 4.
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I concur as well. I'm also coming from a Note 4 and the V20 is definitely brighter at 100%.
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Sot im getting right now
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Hey, can you share any settings you may have altered to receive such SoT. I'll be lucky if I get 4. I used to get 6-7 hours on the Note 7 I had.
Yeah the battery life sucks, and I like everything else about the phone except ****ty LED screen (I know why they didn't use AMOLED, not cost, but because with no physical home button, the buttons would burn images in AMOLED, LED won't). In any case the true test of a battery is Pokemongo at 100% brightness (which you need with this screen at all times to look half way decent). Note 7 5 hrs, Note 4 4 hours, V20 3 hours, all at 100% and same resolution/settings. So yeah, the battery life sucks, end of discussion. And my phone is a week old, no bloat and settled. Another quirk is sometimes Antutu gets 147k excellent score and sometimes it gets half that, for no reason at all, as well as 3dMark being horrible as well for some reason, half of what it should be.
This is my third LG phone (Had the V10 and G5 before), and the battery performance appears very strong on this. On my first full, non-setup charge, and using my normal work activities (lots of emails, texts, calls, and periodic social media), here's what I got
Total time on battery: 54 hrs 52 min
Total call time: 3hrs 2 min
Total SOT 2hrs 44min
That's great life a regular business user. Also, the screen is way brighter than the V10 and G5.
I've been getting phenomenal standby time on this phone, thanks to the new and improved Doze, better than any other phone I've ever had actually. I'm just not getting great SOT, like many others out there and I can't figure out why. I've had the phone for about a week now and all of the apps should've been optimized by now, I think. Anyone else having similar issues?
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Dmarco, a factory reset could be the solution
Guys it is simple. It is the same Snapdragon 820 in about 10 other devices with similiar battery sizes. But the V20 will get A LOT less screen on time, my estimation is 25-50% less depending on how bright the screen is. I need the screen at 100% and low comfort blue filter to make the screen even kinda decent, like a Samsung at 70% brightness. Anyways the LCD screen on the V20 eats A LOT of battery power, it can't compete with an AMOLED. That said, the only benefit is that in 2 years your screen won't have any burn in and be worthless.
So, I dunno what these reviewers and youtubers are up to with these phones, but got mine earlier today (XL), roughly 7 hours ago, and have been using it since.
Phone arrived with 75% charge. Only charging I have done was about 2 20 minute trips plugged into my trucks USB port for Android Auto.
I have everything enabled such as location, soli, smooth display, etc. I use adaptive brightness, ambient eq is off.
I have been very happy with battery life so far. Reviewers are paid to be critical.
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My battery life has been excellent as well. I have no idea what these reviewers are doing.
Reviewers forget they have every battery draining social app going, bet they leave Bluetooth, location etc on. Plus they use the camera a but load for testing
I am in agreement as well. seems to be fairly strong with light use and force 90hz checked in dev options for me also. Definitely had worse phones before, definitely better also though. Don't understand the hate though - Pixel 4 XL= 3,700mAh battery, 6.3 in screen vs 1+ 7 pro 4,000mAh 6.67 in. Contrary to popular talk the oneplus 7 pro battery isn't amazing either which is why I don't get the shade.
It all depends what you consider good. Personally I think 6hrs of screen on time staring with a fully charged battery is good, 8+ hours is fantastic. So far the Pixel 4 XL is just barely hitting that good mark for me.
I'm sure that once a few weeks have gone by and kernel devs are on this like a fat kid on a cupcake we'll see guides for extra battery life and other optimizations.
So I've had the Pixel 4 XL , for 3 full days in the UK now.
Day 1 SOT was 6 hrs 3 mins with 9% left
Day 2 SOT was 6 hrs 15 min with 4 % left
Day 3 SOT is 5 hrs 1 min with 18% left.
The battery is more than adequate. I had the 3 XL which would get a max of just over 4 hours. I'm new to the forum but I have screenshots as well but don't have a clue how to upload lol. The phone is on 90hz at all times too but most times you can't really tell. It's an amazing phone so fast, the disappointment is video quality again and some of the pic quality are a similar levels to 3 XL but I need to fully utilise the camera.
Boy I don't know what you guys are doing because I have been getting nowhere close to that in screen on time. I'm at 3 hours is SOT right now with only 30% left
So I've had the Pixel 4 XL , for 3 full days in the UK now.
Day 1 SOT was 6 hrs 3 mins with 9% left
Day 2 SOT was 6 hrs 15 min with 4 % left
Day 3 SOT is 5 hrs 1 min with 18% left.
The battery is more than adequate. I had the 3 XL which would get a max of just over 4 hours. I'm new to the forum but I have screenshots as well but don't have a clue how to upload lol. The phone is on 90hz at all times too but most times you can't really tell. It's an amazing phone so fast, the disappointment is video quality again and some of the pic quality are a similar levels to 3 XL but I need to fully utilise the camera.
**Update day 4 so 6.49am in the UK, fell asleep so didn't charge currently on 27% with SOT of 4 hrs 3 min which will give me 6 hours comfortably to 0%. After day 1 I forced 90hz on, tap to wake on, pick up wake on too. I may add a few more days updates if anyone is interested.
Battery of my Pixel 4 XL is at best "meh" so far. I noticed problems with several apps running away and draining battery which I would blame on compatibility issues with Android 10. Overall though even without the apps the battery drains quite fast under normal usage conditions. Compared to my S10+ and iPhone 11 Pro the battery is much worse, especially when compared to the latter. It is definitely not a worry-free, all-day phone. The reviews critical of the battery life were spot on. I cannot even imagine the smaller Pixel 4. It probably cannot get through half of one day without a recharge. Reminds me of my BlackBerry Z10.
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Battery of my Pixel 4 XL is at best "meh" so far. I noticed problems with several apps running away and draining battery which I would blame on compatibility issues with Android 10. Overall though even without the apps the battery drains quite fast under normal usage conditions. Compared to my S10+ and iPhone 11 Pro the battery is much worse, especially when compared to the latter. It is definitely not a worry-free, all-day phone. The reviews critical of the battery life were spot on. I cannot even imagine the smaller Pixel 4. It probably cannot get through half of one day without a recharge. Reminds me of my BlackBerry Z10.
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Weird. Another test I found, stares a real good battery life as well. Compared to
iPhone 11 Pro Max 4000mAh
Note 10 3500mAh
OnePlus 7T Pro 4000mAh
renders the following results:
Sent from my HTC U12+ using XDA Labs
I've been using my 4XL fairly heavy for the last twenty hours: six hours and one minute SOT, 20% battery remaining, four hours left predicted. I'm having no complaints with this battery. The phone's been in out-of-the-box operating condition, too. I haven't tweaked the phone into a 'Maximum Battery Saving Mode', but I did turn off the "Wop" and "Bong" motion gestures.
I've been running it through the ringer and I really have no complaints so far on the battery.
5m4r7ph0n36uru said:
Weird. Another test I found, stares a real good battery life as well. Compared to
iPhone 11 Pro Max 4000mAh
Note 10 3500mAh
OnePlus 7T Pro 4000mAh
renders the following results:
Sent from my HTC U12+ using XDA Labs
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Really don't know what to tell you. As I said I have the other two phones as direct comparison (I've had the S10+ since launch day, same with the iPhone 11 Pro). For my workload and style of usage - heavy email, medium texting, lots of consumption of reading content throughout the day, news, streaming music about 1-2 hours per day, plus about 30-60 minutes of video on average it is definitely noticeably below the level of the other two phones, especially the iPhone 11 Pro which has kind of crazy-good battery life. I don't turn off any features to "save battery" (never believed in that because I should not need to adapt to the phone). I run auto-brightness, ambient EQ, use the high-refresh display (though not forced to 90Hz), smart stay, blue light filter and switch to dark mode at sunset, etc. Smartwatch (Gear S3) is always in tow. I can get between 4-4.5 hours of screen-on time before the battery is basically out.
I don't know why people are so focused on screen on time as there are so many variables behind it. Could have one person that's just texting all day, social media and some calls while mostly on wi-fi and be like zomg 8+ hours SOT BEAST MODE! Then you have someone that's watching YT videos, doing some gaming, pictures etc and on data the majority of the time but only gets like 4 hours SOT and gets branded as bad. People seem to forget as long as you make it through the day that's what should matter the most.
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I don't know why people are so focused on screen on time as there are so many variables behind it. Could have one person that's just texting all day, social media and some calls while mostly on wi-fi and be like zomg 8+ hours SOT BEAST MODE! Then you have someone that's watching YT videos, doing some gaming, pictures etc and on data the majority of the time but only gets like 4 hours SOT and gets branded as bad. People seem to forget as long as you make it through the day that's what should matter the most.
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Spot on and then you'll get someone seeing someone else on 8 hours SOT and wanting to copy their settings to try and get the same result on a completely different usage pattern then complain they can't get it.
zetsumeikuro said:
I don't know why people are so focused on screen on time as there are so many variables behind it. Could have one person that's just texting all day, social media and some calls while mostly on wi-fi and be like zomg 8+ hours SOT BEAST MODE! Then you have someone that's watching YT videos, doing some gaming, pictures etc and on data the majority of the time but only gets like 4 hours SOT and gets branded as bad. People seem to forget as long as you make it through the day that's what should matter the most.
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Spot on and then you'll get someone seeing someone else on 8 hours SOT and wanting to copy their settings to try and get the same result on a completely different usage pattern then complain they can't get it.
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Everyone knows the saying "your mileage may vary" but when a majority of people are showing 4.5-5.5 hours SOT, that is disappointing for a phone of this price range. There'll always be exceptions and people getting 6-7 hours consistently but maybe even people only getting 4 hours. That's the YMMV part for this phone. Now for something like the iPhone 11 models, people are consistently getting around 8 hours and even more on a full charge. That's a good 3.5-2.5 hours more SOT. For me I'll be happy with what I used to get the first year or so with my 2 XL which was 6-7 hours and an occasional 8 hour.
It's too soon for me to judge my phone but yes I'll be disappointed if I only get 4.5-5.5 hours but I'll deal with it.
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Spot on and then you'll get someone seeing someone else on 8 hours SOT and wanting to copy their settings to try and get the same result on a completely different usage pattern then complain they can't get it.
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I'm hitting over 7 hour SOTs for the past couple of days and I'm pleased with that. However I also went through each app and restricted background battery usage on every app that I felt wouldn't negativity impact me if imposed it.
this may or may not fit in this thread, but figured i would post it as its battery related
Anyone having issues with idle drain? ... mine seems to be held awake quite a bit, and i cannot figure out why. Same apps as my pixel 3xl, same everything.
Installed gsam, and its essentially saying the system is what is keeping it awake
Was wondering if anyone else had this issue, or is anyone has any ideas as to what may be causing this
Any help would be appreciated
c_86 said:
this may or may not fit in this thread, but figured i would post it as its battery related
Anyone having issues with idle drain? ... mine seems to be held awake quite a bit, and i cannot figure out why. Same apps as my pixel 3xl, same everything.
Installed gsam, and its essentially saying the system is what is keeping it awake
Was wondering if anyone else had this issue, or is anyone has any ideas as to what may be causing this
Any help would be appreciated
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Install BBS https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 Take a log per instructions in the OP and post it. They'll help you figure it out.