If you want to use auto-brightness, by the way, there is a great app called Lux that better manages that. You do need to interact with it a bit at first, to link specific lighting levels with the brightness that you want, but it helps me use auto-brightness in a way the stock Maxx does not - keep the levels low indoors, when the phone is quite readable, but also allow levels to be readable in bright sunlight outdoors, which you just cannot do on the Maxx with autobrightness on, at least in my experience.
The 48 hour battery life was an advertising thing only and assumed low to medium phone use with few background tasks with a strong mobile signal. If you use the phone a lot or have a lot of apps running in the background - fetching mail and social network feeds, uploading photos and videos after you take them - or found yourself frequently in places where the signal was weaker and your phone had to send more power to the antenna to keep connected, you could never get 48 hours on a single charge. Some people who use the Maxx still do, but I think many of us probably get from 24 to 36 hours on a single charge since the KitKat update. When I first bought the phone I tended to get about 40 hours on a charge, but I now use the phone for a lot more than I used to (I used to use an iPod for playing music, and carried both the phone and the iPod, but I stopped doing that) and I know easily get through a full day with plenty of battery to spare. Yesterday for some reason my phone's screen stayed on in my pocket for a full 90 minutes displaying an error message, but I still went to bed with about 30% battery left after 16 hours. Most days, if I do not charge, I go to bed with between 35% and 50% battery left - but most days I find a way to sneak in some charging, such as while I am driving somewhere, or sitting at my desk for an hour, etc.
The 48 hour battery life was an advertising thing only and assumed low to medium phone use with few background tasks with a strong mobile signal. If you use the phone a lot or have a lot of apps running in the background - fetching mail and social network feeds, uploading photos and videos after you take them - or found yourself frequently in places where the signal was weaker and your phone had to send more power to the antenna to keep connected, you could never get 48 hours on a single charge. Some people who use the Maxx still do, but I think many of us probably get from 24 to 36 hours on a single charge since the KitKat update. When I first bought the phone I tended to get about 40 hours on a charge, but I now use the phone for a lot more than I used to (I used to use an iPod for playing music, and carried both the phone and the iPod, but I stopped doing that) and I know easily get through a full day with plenty of battery to spare. Yesterday for some reason my phone's screen stayed on in my pocket for a full 90 minutes displaying an error message, but I still went to bed with about 30% battery left after 16 hours. Most days, if I do not charge, I go to bed with between 35% and 50% battery left - but most days I find a way to sneak in some charging, such as while I am driving somewhere, or sitting at my desk for an hour, etc.
