I'm coming from a thunderbolt with an extended battery. I'm used to crappy battery life, and indeed I lose about a percent an hour playing music on my galaxy nexus with is way better than my thunderbolt.
The issue comes that when I have the screen on I lose about 1-2% a minute, even if I'm just reading an ebook. Calling is fine, DOWNLOADING/STREAMING is fine, but the screen on just kills the battery.
It also gets very, very hot on the upper portion of the screen, but doesn't if I'm downloading something with the screen off.
My question is, is this normal?
As well, the screen has a yellowish tint when looking at it directly, but takes a blue tint at a very slight angle (annoying) is THIS normal?
I want to know how much arguing and yelling I'm going to have to do when I try to exchange this phone.
Writing this took me from 22% to 13% D=
I'm new to Galaxy Nexus phones, but i've been here long enough to know that the yellow tint and blue side view tint is a manufacturer defect.
My battery drain, too, is really bad.
currently, it's 57% of my battery drain, but its been as high as high-60's before.
Facebook comes in 2nd, killing 10%. Almost makes me want to uninstall it.
Today, I noticed it was hot when it was idle in my pocket throughout the day.
It could be bad heat dispersion because of the slim design or cpu usage.
I feel your pain though. My battery went from 100% to 56% in 5H 20M of idle time and 40M of texting / light surfing usage.
Mobile data was off for the 5 hours and 20 minutes, too. >.>
My phone does all that too. Including the upper part getting hot. I would like to know more about this too.
What's your brightness set at?
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Mines about 60%
The CPU is in the top right hand corner, mine has hit 60°C before, still fine.
Having your screen on and at a high brightness will absolutely murder your battery and will help raise the temperature.
Screen will always be the highest drain as it is big.
Lower brightness to save battery and delete that damn Facebook app, it stops your phone going into deep sleep which drains your battery.
As for the yellow tint, flash a custom kernel and modify the colours.
My whites are perfect, not a sign of yellow.
My brightness was set to auto, but I predominately work/play in dark rooms, when I wrote the post yesterday over a period of a couple minutes it was in a completely black room.
This is all in relation to the Thunderbolt, though. The screen uses more battery, but I thought AMOLEDs are very efficient (black wallpaper, yay minimalism!). I'm getting about the battery life as my Thunderbolt did with its stock battery, but considering it was the first LTE phone in the US I would think it would be a more inefficient and cumbersome radio chip. It doesn't get nearly as hot as the Galaxy Nexus did, which is why I am so alarmed.
I don't want to have a phone that I can only use the screen for an hour and some change, and while I don't expect to use it solidly for eight hours, I did expect it to last at least as long as the Thunderbolt did. Is there a larger extended battery than the one sold by Verizon that adds very little bulk? I may try investing in one.
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My brightness was set to auto, but I predominately work/play in dark rooms, when I wrote the post yesterday over a period of a couple minutes it was in a completely black room.
This is all in relation to the Thunderbolt, though. The screen uses more battery, but I thought AMOLEDs are very efficient (black wallpaper, yay minimalism!). I'm getting about the battery life as my Thunderbolt did with its stock battery, but considering it was the first LTE phone in the US I would think it would be a more inefficient and cumbersome radio chip. It doesn't get nearly as hot as the Galaxy Nexus did, which is why I am so alarmed.
I don't want to have a phone that I can only use the screen for an hour and some change, and while I don't expect to use it solidly for eight hours, I did expect it to last at least as long as the Thunderbolt did. Is there a larger extended battery than the one sold by Verizon that adds very little bulk? I may try investing in one.
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This. I also had a thunderbolt. I expected this Nexus to out perform it in the battery field but no way. My thunderbolt with stock battery would last from 6am to 6pm which was fine for me. Id just start charging when I got home at 3. This thing when I get home its at like 3% and these past 3 days Iv had the nexus off half the day to save battery while I took AP Tests.
This phone is perfect, except for the battery. As for brightness anything under 60% gives me that yellow tint. Im using the Apex rom right now. I dont see any custom color settings. What rom do you guys use?
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I'm coming from a thunderbolt with an extended battery. I'm used to crappy battery life, and indeed I lose about a percent an hour playing music on my galaxy nexus with is way better than my thunderbolt.
The issue comes that when I have the screen on I lose about 1-2% a minute, even if I'm just reading an ebook. Calling is fine, DOWNLOADING/STREAMING is fine, but the screen on just kills the battery.
It also gets very, very hot on the upper portion of the screen, but doesn't if I'm downloading something with the screen off.
My question is, is this normal?
As well, the screen has a yellowish tint when looking at it directly, but takes a blue tint at a very slight angle (annoying) is THIS normal?
I want to know how much arguing and yelling I'm going to have to do when I try to exchange this phone.
Writing this took me from 22% to 13% D=
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Download from toolbox lite and use it to disable some apps from loading at startup that you know you don't need. This got rid of the issue for me. Installing Franco kernel further helped my battery. I am on stock rom.
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I am lucky to even get 12 hours with minimal use. No calls, just some texting and maybe browsing my bank website. Screen is always the killer for me, even on 20% brightness. If I go lower the screen actually flickers.
I bought the red HTC Chichitech batteries and they didn't help me at all.
Tried overclocking module, didn't change much.
The only app that ever shows any significant battery use (over 5%) is Maps, when I use maps.
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I am rooted, S-OFF, using the Sense Modaco ROM. Battery usage was no better with the Stock Bell Rom before rooting or S-OFF.
My main concern is the screen flickering at low brightness. it's as if it's unable to decide on a specific level of brightness and makes me question if it's actually saving any power.
I set my phone to Auto brightness and I am going to see if that is actually worse of if it's on par with 20%.
Ugh - just realized there is another thread pretty much all about this. I thought it was a different issue. Still, does anyone know if there is a better batch of phones or something? I have a FutureShop warranty so it'd be easy enough for me to replace if it will actually provide a solution
No-one has posted anything, to my knowledge, about a different batch of phones having better battery life. I would check out the other threads about battery life (including those on the G2 side too) and see if you can get yours to last better. But it could just be something faulty on your phone/battery.
Auto-brightness would make it even worse..because there is some type of bug or something that isn't making it function like it should. I was also getting terrible battery life until I followed some of these steps: http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/05/20-tips-to-improve-htc-evo-4g-battery-life.html
Biggest killers are any widgets that are constantly updating..or facebook/twitter apps that are constantly updating. As well..i recommend SetCPU to underclock your phone when your screen is turned off. This should also help with conserving battery life along with some of the steps provided in that link.
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No-one has posted anything, to my knowledge, about a different batch of phones having better battery life. I would check out the other threads about battery life (including those on the G2 side too) and see if you can get yours to last better. But it could just be something faulty on your phone/battery.
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I am considering waiting a month or so and then having mine replaced. Unless I managed to figure something else out. My HTC Legend had better battery life.
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Auto-brightness would make it even worse..because there is some type of bug or something that isn't making it function like it should. I was also getting terrible battery life until I followed some of these steps: http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/05/20-tips-to-improve-htc-evo-4g-battery-life.html
Biggest killers are any widgets that are constantly updating..or facebook/twitter apps that are constantly updating. As well..i recommend SetCPU to underclock your phone when your screen is turned off. This should also help with conserving battery life along with some of the steps provided in that link.
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The reason I want to try auto or higher brightness is to see if lowering it was actually saving me any battery life. I am curious if there's a driver or display issues that causes it to use the same amount regardless of the setting. So far I don't seem to be running out any faster @ auto than I was at 20%, but it hasn't been a long enough time to tell for sure.
Also I am unable to do the battery tip for the evo because once I turn off the phone and go to charge it again, it's instantly green. But I am going to try it anyway even though it's green.
Since writing the first post I used the OC module to get my phone to 1.2ghz. I have SetCPU set to run on boot with the onDemand setting. I have a profile that says to slow the CPU when the screen is off. From what I've read it doesn't make a ton of difference with this particular phone, but we'll see...
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Also I am unable to do the battery tip for the evo because once I turn off the phone and go to charge it again, it's instantly green. But I am going to try it anyway even though it's green.
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Yep, that's what I found too, when you try and charge it thinks it's already charged and goes green straight away again. But as you said, worth a try.
I just wanted to report back and say that I had my phone replaced. So far so good:
- No screen flicker issue at low brightness
- Battery has lasted nearly 20 hours with moderate-heavy use (played NFS Shift, setup basically everything on the phone after rooting, installed all my apps, backups, flashed some roms, 20+ texts, 3-4 short calls, showing people random apps.)
If it's not all in my head then this is definitely much better now!
Curious. It seems that everyone who reports the screen flickering problem has poor battery life.
Defective displays?
I feel my battery life is pretty bad as well. I've unplugged the phone this morning at 7 AM. Now it's 2 PM, and I'm at 37%. In between, the only things I've done are: send/receive a few emails and chat on gtalk. Brightness is at 40%, animations are turned off, wifi and gps location off. Using latest Cyanogenmod (6.1.1) and have no screen flicker issues
Edit: 17 minutes later, it's now at 27%
How long have you had the phone for?
Initially the first few days I got the phone, battery life was really bad, could drain in a few hours.
After a week or two of use, I now have reasonable battery life, the phone can last all day with light usage and still have lots of juice left. Actually I think if you make a few calls and a few txts, battery could last 2 days. If you play with it, one day for sure but you need to plug in over night.
(if you're talking to me) It's quite new, just picked it up on Friday actually. Also I've kept on researching, and it seems that poor coverage (like I have at work, from 7 til 3) tends to drain the battery even more, since the phone keeps switching between HSPA, 3G, etc.
I had my first one for about a month at least. This replacement was from Saturday.
Today I've had my phone unplugged since 8am, it's 5:30pm and I have 45% battery left, but the screen is the #2 user. Standby is #1 @ 40% of my battery usage, due to over 4 hours of time without a signal. The screen is only 24% and has been on for 48 minutes. Voice calls is #3 at 23% battery usage, with 23mins of calling.
My other phone would have died by now.
Also I spent an hour of streaming bluetooth audio to my car. Bluetooth doesn't even register on the battery usage. I've never seen it use more than 2% and it's always on. I am not sure why people say it uses a lot.
Just want to share my experience.
I too had poor battery life. Stock Bell ROM. Got to 3:00 pm and it used to die. Use this for work. Pushing data all day from Exchange server, bluetooth on all day because I'm in and out of the car, talk on average 30 minutes per day, texting, surfing, tethering, blah blah. Believe it or not, my old Omnia II would get me thru the day no problem.
I was also tempted to return it. But I decided to try a few things. Installed Set CPU and a task killer at the same time. Shut down as many tasks as possible on start up. Widgets and accounts, except Exchange-push, run and sync every hour. I get about 40% battery by dinner. I am happy now .
I'm quite happy with my Desire Z's battery life, It lasts for about 36 hours with moderate use. I have Juicedefender and Ultimatejuice installed, data or wifi are opened only when an app needs data connection, this increased my battery life by 10 hours or sth like that. Nice app.
I had terrible battery life until I went overseas. It is a stock Bell ROM, but I arrived in Spain Monday and am using a Spanish SIM card.
My battery life has increased from 14 hours with Bell's 3G signal to my current 27 hours and 35% remaining battery using GSM and WiFi always on. Funny thing is that no matter where I am it says the screen is by far my biggest power drain.
Where did you buy your Desire Z and how did you get it replaced? I'm with Bell and they would take mine to send out for "repair" but not sure if that will do anything. This will take 3-6 weeks apparently and I'm not sure if they it is worth it.
I'm running 10 hours with that I consider fair usage (few calls, text, map/gsp, and facebook.) My display is the highest battery usage at 60% and on for about 1:45h. I'm very disappointed.
Hey,
it's the same with my G2.
Max 24h.
I've standard ROM installed.
No WiFi.
Brightness to about 30%.
Juice Defender is installed and I'm surfing and just the regular stuff, but even if it's just in standby, it's taking a lot of power (display takes most)
Best!
-blubberor
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Where did you buy your Desire Z and how did you get it replaced? I'm with Bell and they would take mine to send out for "repair" but not sure if that will do anything. This will take 3-6 weeks apparently and I'm not sure if they it is worth it.
I'm running 10 hours with that I consider fair usage (few calls, text, map/gsp, and facebook.) My display is the highest battery usage at 60% and on for about 1:45h. I'm very disappointed.
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I bought mine at FutureShop since I didn't think Bell would let me without buying at least a month of service (or being an existing customer). I also purchased FutureShop's extended warranty which is how I was able to get it swapped for a new one so quickly.
I use the extended battery for the evo. Lasts about 1.5 days with ass loads of use. Just have to trim the plastic edges a bit.
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I have a couple of those red chichitech batteries but I wasn't able to notice any improvement with the problem phone.
My Desire Z also has a flickering screen at lowest brightness, and with moderate use it dies after about 12 hours max. Even on lowest brightness the screen ueses 59% battery. I rarely manage to make it through the day without having to charge the phone. Im on stock ROM with latest OTA (1.72) btw.
Gonna have it replaced next week just cause of the flickering screen. Has anyone tried the 1700mAH battery from seidio?
I was wondering why the samsung epic screen consumes so much battery life. I have my screen fully dimmed and on top of that the screen filter is around 50% and my screen still comsumes 80%-90% of my battery life. Is anybody working on any mode that will help this problem or is it because the samsung epic has a Super Amoled screen which comsume more battery life. Great phone I am just hope somebody can mode the screen consumption of the battery life. The battery is good with a custom Rom I just wish it could be even better.
You're missing the point. The fact the screen uses 80% of the battery means nothing more than that it draws more power than any other part, there isn't anything wrong with that. The screen is on so it uses power, pretty simple. Now if the radio was using 90% of the battery that would be bad.
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You're missing the point. The fact the screen uses 80% of the battery means nothing more than that it draws more power than any other part, there isn't anything wrong with that. The screen is on so it uses power, pretty simple. Now if the radio was using 90% of the battery that would be bad.
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Well that is true. I was just wondering if they cause make the battery consumption from the screen a little bit less taxing. I am grateful the the Radio is not comsumption a lot of the battery life.
Weird thing I had on my htc hero before an update was screen battery use was super high too (same levels seen here). Then after some update, it was a much more normal range (somewhere around 30-40% maybe?) consistently. I'm wondering if it's really that much of the power usage or just a bug in the reporting. Butt smoke is done blowing by me now.
The more it sits idle, the lower the percentage gets. It's a relative statistic.
Well, I guess its because the radio uses a lot less, it has to add up to 100 percent, and if you're using the display that time, then its probably what is using up the most battery
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lol.. super almond............ I like the new name he gave to the screen
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Lol I hadn't even noticed that one.
My screen takes up about 90% of the battery usage as well, but that is only since Froyo. On Froyo, the battery usage only shows Display at about 95% and Cell Standby at the other 5%. On Eclair it would show everything else that would run throughout the day like live wallpapers and whatnot. Froyo only shows Display and Cell Standby, but oh well, it doesn't mean that it's killing your phone quicker, since I upgraded to Froyo and got roms and everything installed, I get about twice the battery life.
I think you have to be NUTS to not like the Almond screen !!!
The battery life is good.
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I think you have to be NUTS to not like the Almond screen !!!
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LOL!!! The joke is on me!!! I do love the display. I am just getting greed for more battery life that is all.
Yeah, as was stated above, it's just a relative statistic. The screen would naturally take up more of the total 100% allocable battery life. Makes sense, since the screen is always on when you do anything to your phone. Try restarting your phone, then play your music player for a while with the screen off. You should see that statistic change considerably.
The reason the screen takes up such a large percentage of battery life is because they made the rest of the phone so efficient!
I barely used my phone yesterday. It has been on for 1 day 17 hours since I swapped batteries and I still have a 36% charge. The screen has been on for 1 hr 59 minutes in that time, but it accounts for 71% of my battery usage. When you aren't seeing the TWS bug, everything else in your phone draws an incredibly small amount of power which makes the screen look like it is using a lot of juice.
its the price you pay for hd quality i guess
Screen filters use more voltage to apply so don't use them. And it is an app that is always running. This is an amazing screen.
hello my phone doesnt last 1 day of charge and it says 40% is due to display/screen can anyone help me?
alvespt said:
hello my phone doesnt last 1 day of charge and it says 40% is due to display/screen can anyone help me?
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You can lower your brightness if it is not already at the lowest setting.
Unfortunately, the galaxy nexus has poor battery life. You could also try turning off data when you don't need it.
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the screen is at lowest and it doesnt make sense turning of data if the problem is from screen right?
I'm having the exact same issue. Screen is totally eating up my battery life. It took 30 minutes for the battery to go down by like 10%. And the screen is 40% of the battery life issue.
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Unfortunately, the galaxy nexus has poor battery life.
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Maybe I just don't use the screen as much as you, but I don't find this to be true for me. I find it has great battery life. I don't sit for hours with the screen on, but I do regularly text and check emails throughout the day, do a bit of web browsing, take some calls, and play some Angry Birds or other games in the evening. The screen is always at the top of the list for battery usage, but even on an extreme day I still have more than 30% battery left by the time I go to bed. I throw it on the charger and I'm ready to go again in the morning.
I disagree that the Galaxy Nexus has poor battery life, in general. I would argue that: all high-end phones have "poor" battery life because of all the things they do (especially 720p screens), your personal use of it consumes a lot of power and you could benefit from an extended battery, or you have a faulty device.
hi there, i do that exact same things with no games, so less usage but i get less than a day... i love the phone but the batery is just no working...
I don't understand why people don't get that when you have a screen that is 4.65'' it will destroy the battery life. My screen use is always at 60% or more but yet I still get good battery life. The screen is going to use the majority of your battery when compared to other things, that's just how it is.
sorry but thats not the point, when you pay 700 for a top phone, that is suposed to be the google experience to carry arround wiith you and you can only get 10 hours of battery time something went wrong in the process...
Most phones are $600 to $700, and name one 4g phone that will last more than 10 hours with moderate use and no extended battery, just not going to happen. You need to reset your expectations.
GN battery is giving lots of trouble, too. I picked up the phone from charge and it was 100% charged. ! hour of usage with 3g on. Usage includes 1 hours or music and reading of pdf books simultaniously and battery is dropped to 61%.
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sorry but thats not the point, when you pay 700 for a top phone, that is suposed to be the google experience to carry arround wiith you and you can only get 10 hours of battery time something went wrong in the process...
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I think you should take a look at every other android phone that has come out with the same specs in the last year. Everything from the EVO 3d to the thunderbolt have their default battery's not last more than around 6-8 hours with constant use because of the screen & processors.
THis is why Verizon offered the extended batteries at a discounted rate right off the bat, because default batteries have never ever lasted that long in topof the line smartphones. FFS the new iphone 4s I've heard from a friend that their phones don't even last 24 hours.
I have a galaxy nexus, and mine has lasted... let me see.. one sec...1 day 3 hours and 25sec's with 35% left. (of course I have the extended battery) but here's the kicker: the extended battery has basically the same back as the regular phone does. so if they so desired, verizon could technically put out another extended battery just like all the rest of the phones, but they might not do that. I'm content with the battery life as it is almost identical as the droid X from which I came. The only difference is since I have a lot of un-updated apps for ice cream sandwich one of them is using "mediaserver" A LOT. I'm talking about that being the top of my battery draining with the screen being second. They both have taken ~20% with android OS itself taking 13, PlayerPro taking 13, and other random things like calls and txt msging taking ~10% each.
So I would suggest not trying to watch a lot of stuff on your phone while on battery, or don't expect your battery to survive long while watching stuff on that great screen
hymn thanks for the feedback so the only solution I see would be to go for a bigger battery. I'm from Portugal were could I buy one and whays the power?
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If your screen usage is less than 50%, it be more worried about what else is killing your battery........
Regardless of what I have the brightness to, it seems display always uses the majority of my battery. For example, I recently flashed G-Lite and fully charged one night, set the display to about 30%, and left my phone idle overnight. In the morning (after about 8 hours) the battery was at 40% and display counted for 60%. The screen was definitely off. I had the phone on the stand next to my bed .
The G2s poor battery life really bugs me, especially after finding out how my GFs iPhone 4 lasts 20+ hours with heavy use.
You mean that the display accounted for 60% of the 60% power lost over night, right?
My opinion? Wipe and reflash if you can. Sounds like a weird random error. Are you running G-Lite 2.0.1, the latest version?
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You mean that the display accounted for 60% of the 60% power lost over night, right?
My opinion? Wipe and reflash if you can. Sounds like a weird random error. Are you running G-Lite 2.0.1, the latest version?
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Correct. I am indeed running version 2.0.1.
Setting brightness won't mean much when it comes to battery life because our screens, unlike AMOLEDs drain the same amounts of power regardless of how bright or dark colors are displayed.
I'll have to agree with captainreynolds, try to reflash if you can. If that doesn't work you may have issues with the battery. Battery life is not entirely an issue with the G2, but with android itself, which tends to use more battery when compared to other mobile phone OS's.
Although, I still manage to go through a day with the battery with heavy overclocking (1,6GHz) and above-moderate usage.
Superwiped, reflashed, and still the same problem. Today I had the brightness turned down to probably 10% and after unplugging my phone lasted 5 hours. Display was 64% of the drain (40 mins on).
The g2 can have good battery life, first thing is your battery having these issues no matter what rom? Have you tried flashing a diffrent radio? Does you girlfriends iphone allow her to buy a new battery from ebay for a few bucks and install it herself with out any trouble?
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Iphone heavy use for 20+ hours?? With blutooth, wifi, games, txt, videos, web browsing?? Heavy the whole time? I think not. I'm not an android fanboy or anything but that's a lil off.
As far as battery life does it do the same thing on every rom you try no matter what?
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This is so annoying. I call Tmobile and they claim 4.5 hours is normal for the G2. On top of that, I can't get a replacement even though I have insurance because it isn't broken, despite the fact that the display is draining an alarming amount of power from two different batteries, regardless of brightness (yes, I have set it to 0% brightness and it only makes a few percent difference on display consumption).
so do you know what radio your on and have you tried changing to a different one?
try typing *#*#4636#*#* into the dialer change settings to gsm only. i know your problem is with display but just curious what affect this has on your battery
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This is so annoying. I call Tmobile and they claim 4.5 hours is normal for the G2. On top of that, I can't get a replacement even though I have insurance because it isn't broken, despite the fact that the display is draining an alarming amount of power from two different batteries, regardless of brightness (yes, I have set it to 0% brightness and it only makes a few percent difference on display consumption).
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Are you running a custom rom? If so you could try flashing back to stock froyo then see how your battery life pans out, or u could unroot then root again.
If worse comes to worst I can recommend an extended battery for better battery life.
Could re-rooting fix it? I've been rooted since I got the phone in Dec '10
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Setting brightness won't mean much when it comes to battery life because our screens, unlike AMOLEDs drain the same amounts of power regardless of how bright or dark colors are displayed.
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You are confusing the brightness (%) with what colors are displayed. The brightness absolutely affects battery life, as I can get up to 30% more time between charges by going from "Auto" to 35 or 40%.
What you are thinking about is the actual colors displayed, such as black versus white. On an AMOLED screen, displaying lighter colors consumes more power than than darker ones. So having dark wallpapers and interface screens can actually help with battery life. Maybe one of the reasons that the AOSP Android theming uses so much black?
With LCD type screens, the color makes no difference. The same amount of backlighting is being used regardless of whether the screen color is black or white. This is completely independent of the brightness %. So you can be displaying black, and still have the brightness at 100%.
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Could re-rooting fix it? I've been rooted since I got the phone in Dec '10
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Rooting is just giving SU permissions. Just giving yourself SU permissions again shouldn't change anything.
i too have this problem. i have read somewhere, a topic on xda, saying that its the connectors and flex cables in the phone. something about wear spots on the flex cable makes the plastic rub off and you end up seeing bare metal on the cables.
try sliding out your keyboard half way, and look at the flex cable. do you see any of the metal hanging out?
I've owned an iPhone 3GS for almost four years now, and it's time to upgrade to something new. I've decided upon the OGP as my new device, but I have some questions about battery life. I've read a few reviews that said although not as good as that of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, the battery life is still great. Then again, I've also read a few reviews that have said that the battery life is horrid and that LG phones in general seem to use more battery than most while just sitting idle in standby mode. So, it seems to go both ways, depending on which review one reads.
My typical usage is about 90% browsing and reading webpages, and about 10% watching YouTube video, with a bit of music listening thrown in. With the iPhone I had to keep the screen set at about 50% to get me through a day of the above usage. Sometimes, an hour long recharge during lunch would give me battery life until the early evening. I hated having to keep the screen dimmed to 50%, but that's the way it is with that particular phone's power-hungry LCD. For video watching, I max the brightness so as to get as crisp of a picture as the phone is capable of.
I had looked at getting the Note 2, but I didn't care for the AMOLED's lack of whites and lack of brightness (and low resolution) in comparison to my dinosaur iPhone. If I did get that particular phone, I'd have to leave the brightness at max 24/7 although I don't know how that would affect batt life. Either way, the Note 2 screen did not appeal to my eyes, and the one on the OGP along with that of the HTC One were the best I've found in the larger phones.
So, my questions are, what do most people keep their brightness set to on their Optimus G Pro for most of the time, and how much screen time do you really get at that particular brightness level? And, does it seem that a few people have possibly gotten defective batteries? I realize that the G Pro's screen is an LCD with a white backlight on all the time the screen is lit, and probably won't be as efficient as an AMOLED, but with my type of usage (with the screen set to max) what kind of daily battery life can I expect from the OGP?
Well, I don't know if I can give you an estimate based on your exact usage, but let me share with you mine. I have my brightness set to 65% with auto brightness turned on. For me, that is a nice, comfortable viewing level that is easy on the eyes. I love the colors at 100% brightness, but it's almost too bright for me to look at for long times. Anyway, I only use my phone to send text messages and check web sites during the day, but then I play games in the evening (like super stickman golf). I can get through the day easily with 25% remaining when I plug in at bed time. I get about 4 -5 hours of screen on time out of that, so in total I could get about 5-6 hours if I were to drain the battery all the way.
So that doesn't exactly answer your question, but each person's usage is going to be slightly different. It also heavily depends on what you have for apps that are running in the background.
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I'll say this much, screen is responsible for about 50% of your phones battery drain across the board so if 100% brightness is more important than another hour or two of usage time then go for it. This thing should get you a full day even at 100% charge and relatively heavy usage but get comfy with seeing 20 or 30% by early evening. The hardest thing to get used to is remembering that 20% can still mean 2-3 hours of usage and is not an emergency. Another plus of this phone is you can charge about 50% with one hour of charging (or 25% on 15 mins) so as long as you are using a good charger you can juice up in a hurry.