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Battery Life

what's your baseband btw?

do you have the "3G issues" - ie. switching constantly back and forth to Edge from 3G?

my baseband is 32.19.00.16U_4.02.02.14...

i'm just wondering if **maybe** battery life has anything related to baseband, much like 3G issue is proving to be related to baseband...
 
For me,

Baseband 3.19.00.16U_4.02.02.14

T-Mobile

Have 3G issues and feel like battery life could be much better.

Does this correspond?
 
I've gone without even charging my phone some nights and taken it into the next day...

running g talk, and also Mylookout security app in the background.

Make sure you guys adjust some of your notification settings...

for example, the default News app that is NEW and comes with the nexus one? i went into mine and turned OFF the refresh completley.

I feel i don;t need that refreshing, if i want to check news i just open it up and refresh it that time.

Small things like that will contribute to the big picture that is your total battery life.

I also don't use Facebook notifications at all, turned it off, and i opt to receive Emails instead
 
Well after having my N1 for a couple weeks; i am now traveling in mexico with no data. I have gotten 1.5 days so far with about 15% battery gone. It's kind of obvious that the data is what kills you; but (ok battery just jumped to about 25% gone) i didn't expect this much life which is reassuring.

I do have WIFI on too, so to me it seems that my battery issues in my case were mostly related to my incessant checking of e-mail and internet.
 
allen099 said:
For anyone with older Android phones, what are you getting out of your battery? The Nexus has the highest capacity of any phone out there (and also the fastest/power hogging processor), so I'm curious how this works out. Thanks!
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I am using the Droid and I am very pleased with the battery life. I can get a full 24 hours with heavy use and probably 36 hours with lighter use.

By heavy use I mean Google Talk on all day, probably an hour of talk time, lots of twitter checking and web browsing over 3G during the day and a couple hours of WiFi browsing at night. I also send and receive about 50-75 texts during the day.

I was really excited about getting the N1 on Verizon this Spring but it sounds like there are some kinks to work out still.
 
JayDH said:
I am using the Droid and I am very pleased with the battery life. I can get a full 24 hours with heavy use and probably 36 hours with lighter use.

By heavy use I mean Google Talk on all day, probably an hour of talk time, lots of twitter checking and web browsing over 3G during the day and a couple hours of WiFi browsing at night. I also send and receive about 50-75 texts during the day.

I was really excited about getting the N1 on Verizon this Spring but it sounds like there are some kinks to work out still.
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Thanks JayDH. That sounds like some great battery you're getting there! For me, I did a test today...left the phone on 3G while connected to Wifi. The screen was on. I received about 8 texts today, made a 2 min phone call, and my battery dropped to about 80% in 13 hours of uptime. That's a bit pathetic in my opinion. I had GPS turned off, as well as background wallpapers. The only services that were running was Gmail Sync, and 2 Email accounts polling at 30 mins.
 
After unplugging my phone at 7 AM, it died at 3 PM. I didn't really use it too much. A bit of web browsing, maybe 75 texts, GPS for 20 minutes. That's not really all that much, IMO. What's the point of the phone doing all these things if I can't even use it?

As a result, I did a complete discharge and a complete recharge last night. I unplugged the phone at 8 AM this morning. I'm at 92% already. Hmm.
 
i unplugged my phone at about 8:30a today and it's at 89% already... read couple emails, changed my wallpaper... that's about it... pathetic
 
allen099 said:
Thanks JayDH. That sounds like some great battery you're getting there! For me, I did a test today...left the phone on 3G while connected to Wifi. The screen was on. I received about 8 texts today, made a 2 min phone call, and my battery dropped to about 80% in 13 hours of uptime. That's a bit pathetic in my opinion. I had GPS turned off, as well as background wallpapers. The only services that were running was Gmail Sync, and 2 Email accounts polling at 30 mins.
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still at 80% after 13hrs?? and you're complaining? dude, i drop to about 80% after like 2 hrs!!
 
Esquire1 said:
As a result, I did a complete discharge and a complete recharge last night. I unplugged the phone at 8 AM this morning. I'm at 92% already. Hmm.
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3.5 hours of doing nothing, it's at 80%. Absolutely ridiculous. I'm going to wait for the next Google update and if that doesn't fix it, or if the update doesn't happen within a week, I'm going to get it exchanged.
 
mi_canuck said:
still at 80% after 13hrs?? and you're complaining? dude, i drop to about 80% after like 2 hrs!!
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If the phone has as good of standby as it says, the battery should barely move if it's not being used. If I had actually used the phone, I would have been to 80% within 2 hours. Point being, when the phone is used even slightly, the battery just drips. The experiment I did yesterday does not constitute a normal day (with receiving only 8 texts and a 2 min phone call).
 
Esquire1 said:
3.5 hours of doing nothing, it's at 80%. Absolutely ridiculous. I'm going to wait for the next Google update and if that doesn't fix it, or if the update doesn't happen within a week, I'm going to get it exchanged.
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I did not wait... I suspect a bad battery something internally wrong... because some (most?) are reporting great battery life....

poking around in the Droid forums, seems like most of them can get 2 full days out of a charge... I need almost 2 full charges for one day based on their described usage...

wtf is Moto doing different than HTC? Isn't the AMOLED screen supposed to use LESS power than the Droid's TFT???????
 
just to give you an idea of how $h!tty my battery is... i'm at 4h 10m since unplugged from a FULL overnight charge... battery is at 52%... the ONLY significant event is a 50min phone call (with HTC ironically, and on hold most of the time)... no other usage except checking emails (not even reading them on the device)... screen at 10% brightness... wifi: OFF... GPS: OFF... BT: OFF.... only FB and weather bug running in background... and both are set for 2hrs interval... haven't even used the WEB....

nothing above is outrageous... in fact, that's LIGHT usage IMO.... and yet I can barely make 4hrs with 50% battery... i don't mean to sound like a broken record, but this is focked up.... if the replacement doesn't get SIGNIFICANTLY better battery life... i'll be ebaying/craigslisting it... it's ruining an otherwise outstanding device for me :(
 
Can you discuss how the exchange process went? Like why did it take 50 minutes? What did you discuss? How does the exchange process go?

I'm interested because this seems like the route I'm going to have to take.
 
Esquire1 said:
Can you discuss how the exchange process went? Like why did it take 50 minutes? What did you discuss? How does the exchange process go?

I'm interested because this seems like the route I'm going to have to take.
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I think because the guy seemed new... He started entering stuff in the wrong form, then it took FOREVER to get things switched up... He was also determining the way to get the phone exchanged where I would get it the quickest... I don't really mind it having taken that long - I mean, I was on hold a lot and it was annoying, but it all worked out and that's the important part... I didn't have to fight with them - it was quite hassle free from that respect. They (HTC) appear to be trying to deal with the issues as best they can. I can only speak from my experience of course.

I say if you're planning on doing it, just do it. The sooner the better.
 
allen099 said:
Thanks JayDH. That sounds like some great battery you're getting there! For me, I did a test today...left the phone on 3G while connected to Wifi. The screen was on. I received about 8 texts today, made a 2 min phone call, and my battery dropped to about 80% in 13 hours of uptime. That's a bit pathetic in my opinion. I had GPS turned off, as well as background wallpapers. The only services that were running was Gmail Sync, and 2 Email accounts polling at 30 mins.
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If you check out the About Phone -> Battery Use, what percentage of your battery goes to the screen? I have mine on minimum brightness and I still get 60 - 80% of the battery going on the display. So if you're leaving the screen on whilst not using it, the battery will go. Fast.

As for dropping 20% in 3 hours... simple (but perhaps not precise) maths makes that a total of 65 hours til your battery dies completely with similar usage as described above. That doesn't sound unreasonable to me, especially with syncing your emails every 30mins.. and I bet you then read any new emails that come in too, using more display power.

The technical specs say the phone will last Up to 5 hours on 3G, Up to 6.5 hours on Wi-Fi. *shrug* I don't see why this is such an issue. Are people saying they won't be near a plug socket or computer for 24 hours?
 
Esquire1 said:
3.5 hours of doing nothing, it's at 80%. Absolutely ridiculous. I'm going to wait for the next Google update and if that doesn't fix it, or if the update doesn't happen within a week, I'm going to get it exchanged.
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I'm now at 61% and about 7 hours in. Not bad. It would usually have been dead without fully discharging/charging it. But cell standby is taking up 72%. 46% without a signal, which is true.

mi_canuck: What are your battery usage percentages? I'm fairly convinced my problem is software related, perhaps the OS itself, and not hardware related.
 
6h 48m ........ 31% :(

phone literally just sitting there since last report... just checked a couple emails... that's it


battery use screen says:

Voice calls - 60% (this is literally only 50min of calling - ONE call total actually, which was to HTC customer support) (time on 51m 35s)
Display - 22% (on 39m 58s)
Cell standby - 8% (time without signal 2%)
Phone idle - 4%
Android System - 3%
Email - 2%

(that's it - nothing else listed, nothing else used...)


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mi_canuck said:
6h 48m ........ 31% :(

phone literally just sitting there since last report... just checked a couple emails... that's it


battery use screen says:

Voice calls - 60% (this is literally only 50min of calling - ONE call total actually, which was to HTC customer support)
Display - 22%
Cell standby - 8%
Phone idle - 4%
Android System - 3%
Email - 2%




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Have you downloaded Spare Parts and checked Battery History?

I found some pretty interesting things about what was using my battery unknowingly. Check Network Usage, Sensor Usage and partial wake usage. Check it "Since Last unplugged". See what is sucking your battery. Let me know what it says. or if you are having trouble understanding what it is saying.

Also, the other thing that would not be accounted for is the switching between 2G and 3G, that will kill your battery as well.
 
I D/L'ed Spare Parts - figured I've got nothing to lose... nothing seems abnormal except the "Sensor Usage" part... Not sure what "Sensor Usage" is referring to... But when I click on it (and this is with "since last unplugged" selected)... Gallery (of all things??) has been running for 6h 59m... Next on list is Android System - 1h 55m...

First of all - I don't know the accuracy of this Spare Parts app... but what the hell would Gallery have anything to do with "Sensor Usage" ??? :confused:

Everything else was as I would expect... nothing stuck out... GPS had nothing "since last unplugged" because it was off the whole time... CPU usage was way low... Partial wake... also low usage... Network usage - Email used up a big chunk but that usage panel measured data... received was like 3.6MB, 2.9MB... so again, nothing jumping out...

The Sensor Usage is what really sticks out...




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now at 7h 33m.... 21%.....

(only activity since last was D/L'ing the Spare Parts app and installing... and looking through it for 5min...)
 
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