So basically I've had the nexus for 2 days now, and battery life is bad for my standards. I had the Note for 2 weeks and averaged 6 1/2 hours of screen on time before the battery went dead, that includes browsing mostly on the web and the xda app. The only thing on was data and bluetooth, no wifi. On the nexus, with everything off except data, I only average 3 hour screen time. Is this what other folks are experiencing on their nexus?
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mike2518 said:
So basically I've had the nexus for 2 days now, and battery life is bad for my standards. I had the Note for 2 weeks and averaged 6 1/2 hours of screen on time before the battery went dead, that includes browsing mostly on the web and the xda app. The only thing on was data and bluetooth, no wifi. On the nexus, with everything off except data, I only average 3 hour screen time. Is this what other folks are experiencing on their nexus?
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The note's battery is one and a half times the size as the galaxy nexus battery..
2500 mah compared to 1750..
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I was denied a Nexus last week so waiting until tomorrow now. I have a Rezound atm and on this thing it lasts about 2 - 2 1/2 hours(constant use).
just last night I played a game called Sentinal 3 on it. phone was in CDMA mode(LTE off), bluetooth & wifi disabled, and brightness all the way down. when I started playing the battery was at 93%... played 2 levels, took a break & then the battery was at 34%.
granted, each level took about 20min... but still...
I get about ~4 hours of screen time before my battery is dead. Really depends on what I'm doing, and how spread out those 4 hours are.
I'm getting about 3/12 on a work day. With about 25% left. Which is pretty damn good considering the screen. My gpu is 384 mhz and my undervolt's are 250mv+ for each frequency. This weekend i'm seeing if i can get 5 hours screen time with wifi. I know i can get 4 hours plus already and that was before patching my kernel for upping the gpu and undervolting.
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I get about ~4 hours of screen time before my battery is dead. Really depends on what I'm doing, and how spread out those 4 hours are.
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I should have mentioned that those hours I was talking about were spread over 12-14 hours each day. Btw, would changing kernel and ROM improve battery?
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I get about ~5 hours of screen time before my battery is dead
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I should have mentioned that those hours I was talking about were spread over 12-14 hours each day. Btw, would changing kernel and ROM improve battery?
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It's possible, depending on the ROM and kernel.
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So basically I've had the nexus for 2 days now, and battery life is bad for my standards. I had the Note for 2 weeks and averaged 6 1/2 hours of screen on time before the battery went dead, that includes browsing mostly on the web and the xda app. The only thing on was data and bluetooth, no wifi. On the nexus, with everything off except data, I only average 3 hour screen time. Is this what other folks are experiencing on their nexus?
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Note has pretty much the same screen as the Nexus (exactly the same except 1280x800 vs 1280x720), but a massively larger battery. That will allow higher screen on times.
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Note has pretty much the same screen as the Nexus (exactly the same except 1280x800 vs 1280x720), but a massively larger battery. That will allow higher screen on times.
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The Note's screen is over half an inch bigger..
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I should have mentioned that those hours I was talking about were spread over 12-14 hours each day. Btw, would changing kernel and ROM improve battery?
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Mine was 3 hours too over 12 hours. Not 3.5. This is before i patched my kernel for undervolting. Also my workday is strictly cellular data with many high rises so my cellular is constantly switching radios beause of reception and congestion. I am very very pleased with how well it does. My standby drain is ridiculously good. I get about 1% drain an hour at work and about 1% drain every 2-3 hours at home. I still haven't tested light flow because it is not playing nice with ics yet. I'm sure that will affect my drain. I think people's expectations were/are too high for display time. People that are social nuts and have a live ticker feed on their homescreen so they know when their friends are picking their nose should get the s-lcd version of the nexus. Lcd power drain is a lot more linear compared to amoled screens.
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joshnichols189 said:
The Note's screen is over half an inch bigger..
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The note's battery is a third bigger too.
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The Note's screen is over half an inch bigger..
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Same panel same resolution though. Its pushing relatively the same number of pixels as the Nexus, but with a bigger battery.
voxigenboy said:
I was denied a Nexus last week so waiting until tomorrow now. I have a Rezound atm and on this thing it lasts about 2 - 2 1/2 hours(constant use).
just last night I played a game called Sentinal 3 on it. phone was in CDMA mode(LTE off), bluetooth & wifi disabled, and brightness all the way down. when I started playing the battery was at 93%... played 2 levels, took a break & then the battery was at 34%.
granted, each level took about 20min... but still...
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Ahh u trader.....I'm telling...LOL..I'm grabbing mine tomorrow as well bro. Hopefully there still available in the afternoon and they don't sell out. I'm hoping the batt life is a lil better than this
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The note's battery is a third bigger too.
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I already mentioned that..
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Mine was 3 hours too over 12 hours. Not 3.5. This is before i patched my kernel for undervolting. Also my workday is strictly cellular data with many high rises so my cellular is constantly switching radios beause of reception and congestion. I am very very pleased with how well it does. My standby drain is ridiculously good. I get about 1% drain an hour at work and about 1% drain every 2-3 hours at home. I still haven't tested light flow because it is not playing nice with ics yet. I'm sure that will affect my drain. I think people's expectations were/are too high for display time. People that are social nuts and have a live ticker feed on their homescreen so they know when their friends are picking their nose should get the s-lcd version of the nexus. Lcd power drain is a lot more linear compared to amoled screens.
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Your standby drain makes me so jealous. I am in the same camp as many, seeing about 3-4% drain an hour with the screen off. That's also with Juice Defender shutting down wifi and data when the screen is off. This leads to my screen/total stats ending up around 2/12, which is frustratingly bad given the numbers I know this phone should be capable of.
I've tried 3 different ROMs, 2 different kernels, 2 basebands, multiple battery calibrations and charge/discharge cycles, but things never improve. So annoying.
I'm pretty happy with my nexus's performance.
It depends what you're doing, keeping wifi on seems to be a killer, im assuming that's because it's constantly scanning. I get ~5 hours screen time with 25% left at the end of the day.
I take off charge @ 7.30am
Goes back on charge with 20-25% at about 11pm
I use auto brightness
I listen to internet radio during my commute for about 30minutes each way over 3G, read my rss feeds and regularly using gtalk and gmail throughout the day. I rarely make phone calls.
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I'm pretty happy with my nexus's performance.
It depends what you're doing, keeping wifi on seems to be a killer, im assuming that's because it's constantly scanning. I get ~5 hours screen time with 25% left at the end of the day.
I take off charge @ 7.30am
Goes back on charge with 20-25% at about 11pm
I use auto brightness
I listen to internet radio during my commute for about 30minutes each way over 3G, read my rss feeds and regularly using gtalk and gmail throughout the day. I rarely make phone calls.
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I would be ecstatic with this performance. I would say though that I am lucky to get half of that screen time, with brightness set at about 15%.
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keeping wifi on seems to be a killer, im assuming that's because it's constantly scanning
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not true, specifically during standby. Keeping wifi on during standby and keeping sleep policy to always on has dramatically saved my battery life. I too was @ 3-4% an hour when wifi was off. Now I keep it on and I average 1% an hour. 3g/4g radio towers use more juice on standby than does wifi. There is countless articles about this on the web.
I get about 3:30 hours of screen time on a full charge. But I think this question is very relative. For example I could get more screen time if I wasn't streaming 30-45 minutes of music and didn't have 1:30-2:00 hours of voice calls.
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Same panel same resolution though. Its pushing relatively the same number of pixels as the Nexus, but with a bigger battery.
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Pixels aren't necessarily what matter when talking about battery life. It's important, but since both are pushing, generally, the same number of pixels...it comes down to screen size. Screen size makes a much bigger impact on battery life (nonlinearly).
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-Wifi and Bluetooth on whole time
- Tons of texting, a lot
- Over 1 hour of phone calls on Bluetooth
- Over 3 hours of A2DP streaming
- Periods of no signal (subway)
- Screen on for 2 hours
- Google Reader and Web browsing
- Used the phone as I would normally without thinking about battery at all.
Very very happy. UPDATED with recent screenshots before I plugged it in.
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Out of interest, how many times have you charged your phone (0%-100%)?
Never drained it to zero and started using it right away without charging it. Its been charged to 100 twice already. My uptime is 73 hours and that's exactly how long I've had the phone.
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Wow! I wish mine was as good as that, seems to be getting better with each charge though, which is a positive.
Most I have got is 12,
Hopefully this will increase over time
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Most I have got is 12,
Hopefully this will increase over time
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me too OP: share your secret!
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Probably dim screen. Usually screen takes 60%-70% of the power.
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Most I have got is 12,
Hopefully this will increase over time
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Honest question, how many times are you more than 12 hours from sleeping or relaxing in your house?
12 hours is more than adequate for a normal user
This is mine after a fresh wipe and no apps installed. Just thought i`d see how it did with normal use.
Here's mine; at a point the phone got itself shut down for some reason, and I couldnt get it restarted at that moment, so I left it like that, and when I could turn it back on, it was quite warm around the camera unit, and also the battery was pretty much drained - thats what you can also see on the screenshot at the "20minutes" part of t he scale. After I've removed the battery and put it back, the phone was working for quite a while again, like 12 more hours.
I'm sure auto brightness helps as it keeps screen dim but during my use it was brighter especially outdoors. My whole point is there is no secret, you should use the phone as you would like it. One thing I could have done I'm sure to improve battery life is turn off wifi and bt when they weren't in use and possibly not have as many apps running but then what's the point in having the phone?: D
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I get around 11-13 hours. Not too impressed. My iPhone 4S gets 20 easily. I'm really conservative on my Nexus too because doing anything intensive (games, video recording, youtube etc) really rapes the battery. I'm guessing some of you turn off auto sync or something.
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I'm currently on 1 day 1 hour, with 50% left. Although with light usage.
Stretlow said:
Honest question, how many times are you more than 12 hours from sleeping or relaxing in your house?
12 hours is more than adequate for a normal user
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true, just a pain in the ass to plug in.
would be nice if it lasted 18hrs so if I can wake up, stay out late, and then plug it in when I go to bed
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true, just a pain in the ass to plug in.
would be nice if it lasted 18hrs so if I can wake up, stay out late, and then plug it in when I go to bed
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I was able to do that last night but honestly not a big deal plugging it in.
It's simple really - the more you use the phone the worse battery life is but that's because you used the phone more! I never use the phone LESS just for battery life because then you're doing yourself and the phone injustice.
43% - 14h.. screen taking up 48%
from what I can see, apart from the screen, the biggest battery hog is wifi/3g
I installed Juice Defender and I am getting fantastic battery life now:
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from what I can see, apart from the screen, the biggest battery hog is wifi/3g
I installed Juice Defender and I am getting fantastic battery life now:
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So JuiceDefender works fine for you? I just read that alot of users had problems with ICS and JD. Would be great if it worked though!
Here's mine. Since I was at work all day I only got time to play Dillo Hills for about 20 mins but I've found the battery is REALLY good after flashing the Android Revolution ROM. MoDaCo causes too much drain IMHO.
Battery life isn't too bad on mine. I got mine on the 10th and I used it right out of the box. Battery life wasn't that great until I did a charge to 100%. The OTA update didn't change much for me in regards to battery. Currently at 21h uptime and I'm at 32%.
It feels like my phone can't last much more than a day.
Am I expecting too much juice from my phone or is this the normal amount it should be at?
Generally speaking for me I only last about 12 hours unplugged. Even when not in use on idle, i seem to lose 1% every 10-20min or so.
Someone please shed some light based on these battery screenshots and tell me if its normal or not.
Your biggest wakelock is audio out. Turn off keyboard sounds and screen touch sounds and lock sounds. Now your phone can sleep better.
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You seem to have fairly frequent screen-on usage paired with frequent intervals of GPS usage (see battery graph).
Are you using GPS that frequently? If not, id investigate on why your GPS is being utilized so frequently.
I'd say based on your usage, your battery life is fairly normal.
Two hour screen time... That sounds about normal to go from full to dead. You're lucky the phone made it 12 hours. Many people get a lot less.
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Two hour screen time... That sounds about normal to go from full to dead. You're lucky the phone made it 12 hours. Many people get a lot less.
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Two hours screen on time is normal? I hope you mean for the Verizon version..
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with wifi on the whole time, that should help the battery last longer. I'm on LTE version and my battery life is similar to yours, but on 4G.
Based on your info, I would guess that you can improve it by turning off some things going on in the background. Widgets, weather, screen brightness, anything else using lots of background data or ram?
Sleeping with 4G, sync, and GPS all on I lose 1-2% per hour. But that's with no background apps other than stock OS stuff + AVG. I normally get 2.5 hrs screen time 100%-0% on 4G over a 12 hour period.
Well there's half the problem right there, facebook, it's refreshing for updates all the time.. also, underclock your phone so the max is 920MHz might save some, unless you wanna do some gaming or something it doesn't matter. Audioout seems to cause a lot of wake time for all android phones.. seen it in the epic 4g forums. But yessiree Bob.
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Two hours screen on time is normal? I hope you mean for the Verizon version..
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Normal for a lot of people. Just look at all the poor battery threads. I get 2:30h with my gsm GN running Wifi and very minimal apps which sync. My browser is inverted and my screen brightness is low.
I get good standby time, but that doesn't really comfort me as I have a powerful phone I can't actually USE.
You will hear people say they get great battery life or they are fine with 2h screen time, but I just think they don't want to admit that a $700 phone in 2012 should have better life than this.
If you ask for advice, people will tell you to stop complaining and / or get a new phone. Don't reply to them or an XDA mod will threaten to ban you. Happened to me.
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Normal for a lot of people. Just look at all the poor battery threads. I get 2:30h with my gsm GN running Wifi and very minimal apps which sync. My browser is inverted and my screen brightness is low.
I get good standby time, but that doesn't really comfort me as I have a powerful phone I can't actually USE.
You will hear people say they get great battery life or they are fine with 2h screen time, but I just think they don't want to admit that a $700 phone in 2012 should have better life than this.
If you ask for advice, people will tell you to stop complaining and / or get a new phone. Don't reply to them or an XDA mod will threaten to ban you. Happened to me.
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2:30..? On wifi? What are you running? I can always get over 3 on wifi with the stock battery..
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I'm not sure whats going on on your phone but here is my current battery life.
Running AOKP M3
I listened to music for at least 4-5 hours this morning. I have Twitter set to update every hour or so and auto-sync on. If you have any other questions about how mine is setup, just ask.
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I'm not sure whats going on on your phone but here is my current battery life.
Running AOKP M3
I listened to music for at least 4-5 hours this morning. I have Twitter set to update every hour or so and auto-sync on. If you have any other questions about how mine is setup, just ask.
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But you hardly had the screen on.. that's what the thread is about screen on time as the screen is the biggest battery killer
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I had 2hr and 5m according the the battery usage screen right now. =/
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2:30..? On wifi? What are you running? I can always get over 3 on wifi with the stock battery..
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Stock 4.0.1. My usage is mostly browser based and Evernote.
If you watch movies, your screen time will be higher, but I use my phone for productivity and it dies fast.
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Normal for a lot of people. Just look at all the poor battery threads. I get 2:30h with my gsm GN running Wifi and very minimal apps which sync. My browser is inverted and my screen brightness is low.
I get good standby time, but that doesn't really comfort me as I have a powerful phone I can't actually USE.
You will hear people say they get great battery life or they are fine with 2h screen time, but I just think they don't want to admit that a $700 phone in 2012 should have better life than this.
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+1
With standard battery and stock ROM this phone can only give 2.5 - 3 hours screen time, which is unacceptable IMO in this day and age.
Turn GPS off, turn wifi off, don't use this app, only use that app, turn sounds off, don't increase the brightness, limit the cpu etc etc... So why did I buy a smartphone that I can't use then?
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I have owned more android phones than I can count, and tried more ROMs and Kernels than you can imagine. Countless times I have seem claims of improved battery life, and until recently nothing made a noticeable difference short of not turning on the phone. I am running the latest GummyNex Rom with the Franco Kernel 15.2 and it is shocking. I have verified the last two nights by leaving phone off the charger. Night #1 -8 hours 30 minutes phone sat while I slept, on 4g GPS enabled, and used 8% battery. Last Night 8:15 phone sat, same conditions only 7% battery usage. I am using the "Franco Turtle" governor and notice not performance degradation and only incredible battery life. Very impressive
I had a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and was very disappointed at the battery life. I was only getting about 3 hours of screen time with the 2100mah battery.
Now I'm using the T-Mobile $30 plan, so I'm looking for a GSM phone.
How many hours can the GSM Galaxy Nexus last? I heard 5-6, which sounds really good!
I've ran a search, but haven't really found what I needed.
Thanks!
Havent fooled around with wakelocks yet but getting about 2-3 hours on screen with AOKP M4 and Franco M1.
I'm on AOKP M4 and Franco r89 and am getting above 30 and a half hours battery life with the normal battery, not the extended ones. If you have much problems with the battery, try undervolting it a bit.
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I'm on AOKP M4 and Franco r89 and am getting above 30 and a half hours battery life with the normal battery, not the extended ones. If you have much problems with the battery, try undervolting it a bit.
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He's looking for display on time.
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guyhoang said:
I had a Verizon Galaxy Nexus and was very disappointed at the battery life. I was only getting about 3 hours of screen time with the 2100mah battery.
Now I'm using the T-Mobile $30 plan, so I'm looking for a GSM phone.
How many hours can the GSM Galaxy Nexus last? I heard 5-6, which sounds really good!
I've ran a search, but haven't really found what I needed.
Thanks!
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Its the same around 2-3 hours. I get about 3 hours on my LTE Nexus. GSM or LTE the screen is power hungry.
Its about 4 hours of screen time for the gsm version, sometimes higher. It is higher than the lte version for some reason.
I'm on stock 4.0.2 on my GSM model and I can get about 3-3.5 hours of screen on with a full charge, depending on what I'm doing of course. Total time is about 12-15 or so hours, depending.
I leave my brightness at 65% though. I could get more if I lowered that down.
I'm on stock 4.0.1, unrooted, locked. I get roughly 3.5 - 4 hrs of screen on time per charge (stock OEM battery).
Edit: I should add that I keep it at about 40% brightness.
I got 4.5hrs stock yakju 4.0.2 then moved to 4.0.3 AOKP M4 and franco M1 and get 2hrs so ibplan on going back to stock tonight.
I get around 4 1/2 hours running aokp with the stock kernel. Using auto brightness and no other adjustments.
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I get around 4 1/2 hours running aokp with the stock kernel. Using auto brightness and no other adjustments.
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I get around 2-3 hours with LTE on 24/7, push notifications, everything synced, and auto-brightness.
Thanks all! Im on my way to pick one up. 4.5 hours would be good.
With my stock 4.01 yakjuux galaxy nexus I get 2-3 hours screen on time although 3 hours is rare. I have my data on 24/7 and push Gmail on the whole day, screen brightness is at 20%. How are you guys managing 3-4 hours screen time?
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Thanks all! Im on my way to pick one up. 4.5 hours would be good.
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it's unlikely that you would get 4.5 h over the course of one day (or working day).
4.5-5h is achievable only on wifi and with very low idle time.
I'd say aim for 3.5h and wish for 4h
I couldn't understand how everyone was getting these ridiculous screen on and life battery times.
Then I saw how little you spend on cellular data connectivity. I crank out almost 1:30 screen on with about 8-9 hours, screen dimmed, gps off, auto sync off, LTE on. Now I don't feel as bad trying to underclothes every mv.
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I get around 2-3 hours with LTE on 24/7, push notifications, everything synced, and auto-brightness.
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Thread is about GSM...
ArmanUV said:
it's unlikely that you would get 4.5 h over the course of one day (or working day).
4.5-5h is achievable only on wifi and with very low idle time.
I'd say aim for 3.5h and wish for 4h
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Pretty much. Without tweaking and Very light usage you shouldn't expect much over 3 hours.
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I couldn't understand how everyone was getting these ridiculous screen on and life battery times.
Then I saw how little you spend on cellular data connectivity. I crank out almost 1:30 screen on with about 8-9 hours, screen dimmed, gps off, auto sync off, LTE on. Now I don't feel as bad trying to underclothes every mv.
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Again, thread is about GSM. But what you have to realize is everyone's usage pattern is different. "Light" and "heavy" usage mean completely different things to different people.
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Again, thread is about GSM. But what you have to realize is everyone's usage pattern is different. "Light" and "heavy" usage mean completely different things to different people.
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I think the take home of my post was more the fact that most use wifi at some point in the day.
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2-4h screen time means what? from 100% charged to 0% charged?
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it's unlikely that you would get 4.5 h over the course of one day (or working day).
4.5-5h is achievable only on wifi and with very low idle time.
I'd say aim for 3.5h and wish for 4h
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After owning both the GSM and LTE models, I tend to agree with this.
when reading my google books i get significantly higher screen time, around 7 hours screen time. Black screen with low cpu usage gives excellent results.
My two Brothers just picked up the unlocked GSM Nexus off the Play/Market store last week. One has it running on pre-paid T-Mobile, the other on Straight Talk ATT, and their battery life is ****ing unbelievably better than what three of us get on the Verizon Nexus, and we are not using 4G/LTE at all.
Both my Brothers use their phone at work, no Wifi just the 3G signal, and they both text me this week telling me battery life %. Right now after 4+ hours unplugged they both around 85%-90%, not using it except sending several texts and reading websites. And after a work day unplugged for like 10 hours they both have like 70%-75% left.
Now myself, my Wife and buddy have the Verizon Nexus, my Wife barely uses her phone at all, and at lunch time will be at like 70% battery left, and after getting home still unplugged for 10+ hours she's at like 45%. Where my Brothers with same use would be at 70%.
My buddy has the same as my Wife's usage, no WiFi wither, not using phone much and his phone is at like 40% after 12 hours or so. Both of them have 4G/LTE off and GPS off, and no sync on.
I use my phone a lot for work sales calls, and I am in the red by like 4:00pm, I get maybe 7 - 9 hours of use on a busy workday.
My Brother on the GSM T-Mobile, said after 23 hours his phone was at 45% battery life, and that was him using it quite a bit, dozens and dozens of texts, lots of websurfing, tons of e-mails. Our Verizon Nexus would never get that kind of battery life.
It is known. What really matters though is screen on time.
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It is known. What really matters though is screen on time.
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I agree screen time is crucial. But my Wife uses her Verizon Nexus very little at work and by time she comes home is at like 45% battery after about 12 hours or so. My Brother on GSM Nexus after 12 hours and using it a bit more would be at 70% battery.
That is a HUGE difference in battery life with very similar use.
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I agree screen time is crucial. But my Wife uses her Verizon Nexus very little at work and by time she comes home is at like 45% battery after about 12 hours or so. My Brother on GSM Nexus after 12 hours and using it a bit more would be at 70% battery.
That is a HUGE difference in battery life with very similar use.
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do they work in the same building?
if your wife works in a place with not as good of a signal, i expect her battery to drain faster as the phone is trying to get more signal.
I installed AOKP 5 on her phone last night. Her battery seems much better. Unplugged for 7 hours at 80% battery now. That is a major upgrade. But again she barely uses her phone at all during work, pretty much just sits there. Where my Brother with same use today is at 90%.
I am running CM9, unplugged for 6 hours at 35% battery, but I use my phone a lot during work. Have 2.5 hours screen time. Tons of texts...lots emails...several phone calls....web surfing.
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With GSM you can expect around 3 hours screen time and tons of standby time.
The standby time is great, but the screen time is somewhat mediocre to me.
Some days my battery just gets ate and others (like today) I'm having good battery. Usually I'm finding that apps are open in the background even after I hit back to "close" them. So if I keep up on the "Recents" menu and swipe it all away, I see an improvement.
I'm waiting for the MIUI styled "X" that closes ALL recent apps in one strike. Every little bit helps. An older version of Gummy (x.8) I had insane battery life. From 8am-3pm I would still have like 75%. I'm running LiquidSmooth right now and at 3pm I am at 60%. This was with 40 emails and 2 20min calls. No texting today
But LiquidSmooth has more options and is much faster then Gummy, so IMO the small battery difference is a good trade off. Later Gummy versions seems to consume more battery while lacking in the features.
AOKP never ran well for me in either the performance or battery department. Seemed to be laggy AND battery lousy. However I haven't played with it in a few weeks.
I too keep 4G disabled but I also have WiFi on all day (I never turn it off). I also use "Bluetooth On Call" which enables my bluetooth while on a call, so I can use a wireless headset. It automatically disables bluetooth, but I'm sure it consumes more battery then a normal call.
I only have 40minutes of screen ON time too. Mostly quick checks of emails. A few turns of WordFued and DrawSomething. I do work in a dungeon with little/no signal, which I suspect eats it up.
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It is known. What really matters though is screen on time.
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But it depends what you do in that screen time. If you do a lot of gaming and browsing with 3 hours it's great. If you just swipe through the home screen and send a couple text message with 6 hours of screen time, not so great.
A cool test would be to turn on airplane mode and play a movie. I'd be interested to see if it has something to do with programming vs hardware.
Then the same test with 3G.
Both really need to be setup similarly, same wallpaper, apps, etc, to really get a good measure of comparison
This isn't a news flash. Its been pretty well known.
barondebxl said:
But it depends what you do in that screen time. If you do a lot of gaming and browsing with 3 hours it's great. If you just swipe through the home screen and send a couple text message with 6 hours of screen time, not so great.
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Well, yes and no. Gaming does use more cpu and such than just flipping through your home screens so I see where your coming from and agree to an extent.. But also consider that display is almost always the biggest battery consumer in battery stats, regardless of what you are using it for.
If you switch the 4G off then it will be a different story.
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I installed AOKP 5 on her phone last night. Her battery seems much better. Unplugged for 7 hours at 80% battery now. That is a major upgrade. But again she barely uses her phone at all during work, pretty much just sits there. Where my Brother with same use today is at 90%.
I am running CM9, unplugged for 6 hours at 35% battery, but I use my phone a lot during work. Have 2.5 hours screen time. Tons of texts...lots emails...several phone calls....web surfing.
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If you really want to compare the battery on all those phones, at the end of the day have your wife, your buddy, your brothers, etc...send you a screen shot of their battery stats. There are so many reasons why your battery life can change, and unless you are following someone all day then you really won't know the full picture.
And yes I usually say screen on time is a better "quick" comparison of battery life. Someone who has a display timeout of 1 min compared to someone with 5 min will have significantly different battery results, even with similar usage.
LTE is a *****.
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Jameslepable said:
If you switch the 4G off then it will be a different story.
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This.
player911 said:
A cool test would be to turn on airplane mode and play a movie. I'd be interested to see if it has something to do with programming vs hardware.
Then the same test with 3G.
Both really need to be setup similarly, same wallpaper, apps, etc, to really get a good measure of comparison
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CDMA radio technology is a bit worse on battery than GSM, I'm betting that's where most of the difference comes from (LTE excluded obviously). With my screen on constantly, I've gone over 5.5 hours of screen on time before on my VZW GNex with about 50% 3G/50% WIFI usage. Again though, that was almost constant screen on from 100% to 0% battery. I've also watched the entirety of LOTR: Return of the King Extended Cut (4:20 minute run time) with my phone while also having 2 or so hours of standby on one charge, but I was in airplane mode for the majority of the movie watching. The screen is absolutely the worst battery killer by leaps and bounds and that will hold true no matter the variant.
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Well, yes and no. Gaming does use more cpu and such than just flipping through your home screens so I see where your coming from and agree to an extent.. But also consider that display is almost always the biggest battery consumer in battery stats, regardless of what you are using it for.
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True, it always is the biggest battery consumer as anything you do on the phone requires the screen to be on. But it also depends on what kind of users we are. If you use your phone mainly for calling and texting and emails, then 4+ hours of screen time with a total of 16 hours should be good and doable. But if you do a lot of gaming, browsing web, tasks that are heavy then 3hours+ on screen time with a total of 10-12 hours on the chart is pretty good I think.
I agree with a previous poster, screen on time is all that matters. That's why I got an ugly humpbacked Trexcell 3800 battery. Now I get 5 1/2 hours of screen on time on my Verizon GNex. Great when compared to my old time of about 2 hours.
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None of us on the Verizon Nexus have 4G on. We all leave LTE off.
So why is the GSM version getting substantially better battery life ? Seems to be at least a 25% difference, if not 1/3rd better battery life on the GSM Nexus.
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None of us on the Verizon Nexus have 4G on. We all leave LTE off.
So why is the GSM version getting substantially better battery life ? Seems to be at least a 25% difference, if not 1/3rd better battery life on the GSM Nexus.
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See my post above. CDMA radios are slightly worse on battery than GSM radios.
Like I said, I've seen 5.5 hours of screen on before once and 4+ many many times. I highly doubt the difference in battery between my VZW Nexus and a GSM Nexus under constant use from 100% charge would be more than +/-5% in either direction so the difference is somewhere in the standby times of the two devices ie. GSM vs. CDMA radio.
So I 've been wanting to really test how long my battery could go with minimal use.
This included...
about 45 minutes of 3G tethering
and about 13 hours on 3G. 4G was disabled the whole entire time
As you can see it was idle a lot, but I almost got 2 full days on stock battery. So no complaints.
Part of me feels like if it was not for that 3G tethering maybe I could have got 4 more hours+
Not bad indeed.
Would rather use my phone and have to charge when I get home then leave it in my pocket all day.
Also your wifi was toggled on the whole time... that would have saved some battery.
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my gnexus can only last 1hr and 50mins of screen time and i have to charge it ~2 or ~3 times per day.
zeke1988 said:
my gnexus can only last 1hr and 50mins of screen time and i have to charge it ~2 or ~3 times per day.
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That sounds pretty dire....are you running at full brightness with Wifi and bluetooth and the GPS on (happens e.g. if you enable GPS for apps and then open Facebook) and no screen timeout while running the camera?
I've had an hour of screen time, and about 9 hours of screen off; I've not had it on to charge at all today, and I'm at 60% battery.
If you go into settings/battery, what else is keeping your phone awake? In other threads, people suggest installing 'Better Battery Stats' (nb, cheap, not free) and posting screen shots of the kernel/partial wakelocks. I can't interpret them myself, but others can...
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my gnexus can only last 1hr and 50mins of screen time and i have to charge it ~2 or ~3 times per day.
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How is the signal strength where you spend most of your time?
When I'm at home, it's crap, and I'm about in the same boat as you.
You can get the better battery stats for free if you can locate the guys thread here on xda. But I recommend at least donating to him for such a useful app.
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The only complaint I have with this phone is the massive difference between hspa and lte versions in battery life. Other than the razr maxx no late phone has acceptable battery life including the nexus. To get 5-6.5 hours screen time on my nexus versus friends 2.5-3 on an lte version is just crummy. I know some people just have extra batteries but that short of usable battery life is just too much of a hassle for me when I'm out and about. I would be forced to get a huge ugly seidio battery if I needed to move to Verizon. Even with 4g disabled the Verizon/sprint versions don't get the screen time I get with my hspa nexus. I really hope lte radios get more efficient and battery tech gets better. Removable or not, all phones can be made as sleek with a huge battery if manufacturers wanted. The maxx is proof of that.
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I am giving my machine a hard time every day. Usually it ****s up after something like 4 hours. That is much better than the old machine I had. However, it is not good enough cause I work for 8 hours. So after the midday break in the canteen there is no more angry birds for me. I think of getting a second machine, one for the morning and one for the afternoon.
Yay, another super 1337 battery thread.
Check out my super 1337 battery savings with a stock battery!!!
/Facepalm.
I'm lucky to break 2 hours screen time on my GSM phone before I have to recharge. How the hell you guys managing such spectacular battery life?
CoronaDelux said:
I'm lucky to break 2 hours screen time on my GSM phone before I have to recharge. How the hell you guys managing such spectacular battery life?
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what's your signal strength during that time? At work I get horrible reception, and leave work probably around their percent. Weekend I could away without charging
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CoronaDelux said:
I'm lucky to break 2 hours screen time on my GSM phone before I have to recharge. How the hell you guys managing such spectacular battery life?
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Lol, how's this for on screen time on a stock battery? I just managed to get the screens before I had to charge it up, It's the longest I've gotten with my ROM and kernel combo. Last screen shows it's the ~1800 mAh battery, the third line down reads 35/1750 mAh.
*Edit* Hold the phone, 1400 mAh is stock, right? My 'stock' battery is 1750mAh... How does that work?
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How did you manage that?
I Am Marino said:
How did you manage that?
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Wifi and conservative use... well kind of I probably could have gone long... but couldn't stop using the phone.
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Is everyone else getting strange battery drops? When the battery is at 19%, it drops directly to 15%, without going through 18,17,16. Is this happening to you or is my battery screwed up? It's been doing it for weeks now so I don't think it's about lack of battery training
This is with a genuine 2000mah extended battery, minimal use over a long weekend. This is also with emails, facebook etc all polling at 30 min intervals, wifi on but not always connected and screen on auto brightness. I had also conditioned the battery by fully charging and discharging about 5 times when the battery was new.
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This is with a genuine 2000mah extended battery, minimal use over a long weekend. This is also with emails, facebook etc all polling at 30 min intervals, wifi on but not always connected and screen on auto brightness. I had also conditioned the battery by fully charging and discharging about 5 times when the battery was new.
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Screen on time?
bgdxv said:
Screen on time?
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Looks like 35mins...
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