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Battery life is awful - ZTE Zmax Pro

Anyone who thinks this device has poor battery life... obviously has something incorrectly set up on their phone. The great battery life is actually a selling point of this phone. Granted, it isn't as good as the original ZMAX due to the higher resolution screen using more energy, but it's quite good. I usually get a full day with heavy usage.
 
ZMAX4EVER said:
Anyone who thinks this device has poor battery life... obviously has something incorrectly set up on their phone. The great battery life is actually a selling point of this phone. Granted, it isn't as good as the original ZMAX due to the higher resolution screen using more energy, but it's quite good. I usually get a full day with heavy usage.
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I think it's somewhat unfair to assume that the problem OP is having is a result of how their phone is set up, a defective unit is very much a possibility
 
ZMAX4EVER said:
Anyone who thinks this device has poor battery life... obviously has something incorrectly set up on their phone. The great battery life is actually a selling point of this phone. Granted, it isn't as good as the original ZMAX due to the higher resolution screen using more energy, but it's quite good. I usually get a full day with heavy usage.
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My original Zmax was awesome!!! Battery was great running Broken OS. I have the same set up on the pro that I had on the original. In fact this being my second Pro, they both had about 8 to 10 hour day. Maybe it's an app that doesn't get along with this model.

MigDaMusicMan said:
I think it's somewhat unfair to assume that the problem OP is having is a result of how their phone is set up, a defective unit is very much a possibility
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Thanks for the vote of confidence. :D

I updated to B14 so we'll see how it is.
 
yknujssab said:
My original Zmax was awesome!!! Battery was great running Broken OS. I have the same set up on the pro that I had on the original. In fact this being my second Pro, they both had about 8 to 10 hour day. Maybe it's an app that doesn't get along with this model.



Thanks for the vote of confidence. :D

I updated to B14 so we'll see how it is.
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I hope it helps :)
 
So far it seems a bit better. Except for a couple of glitches like it being off in the morning. And having phone call issues. We'll see in the next few days.
 

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I'm going to replace my phone at t-mobile tomorrow since I think my phone is defective. It gets hot and the battery drains way too fast I go from 100 to 70 in about a hour of moderate usage. I left my apartment at 4 this afternoon with 100% batter I did some light browsing to read some articles and went on twitter and by 6pm my battery was below 30% I have it on my external charger now.

I'm definitely going to get my replacement tomorrow.
 
Here's mine after 4 days. I keep my screen brightness at about 25% and I try to keep the background apps at a minimum, also I don't use battery saver. I never have network issues or anything either, don't know how much that would contribute though.
 

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Here's mine after 4 days. I keep my screen brightness at about 25% and I try to keep the background apps at a minimum, also I don't use battery saver. I never have network issues or anything either, don't know how much that would contribute though.
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That looks great. I'll probably get a new on next week and see how the battery is. It might be just some apps that I have. I just can't pinpoint what it is.
 
When was the phone manufactured? I got this phone as back up recently and it said it was manufactured Jan of this year, 2017. I also did the system update the day I got it. Battery is extremely good and lasts me the whole day and goes into the second day with some 50% still left.

Hope you get everything fixed.

Edit: Mine is a T-Mobile phone.
 
It seems to me that you can discharge this battery, but you'd have to try. It lasted me 2 days previously, but you can also drain it in 4 hours with maximising your use of everything, especially the screen brightness.
 
NeoZiggy said:
Geez!
Only thing I can think of that could cause such a drain would be if your area has very spotty coverage. The device switching between 2G/3G/4G constantly will consume a lot of battery.... but still, you'd have to be living in the mountains to have such bad reception these days.

I used to work in a building that had a secure area with cell jammers. I'd have to go through 2 full batteries a day because my service constantly dropped and picked back up a minute later.
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I should be getting my replacement this week..
 
So I just picked up my replacement device. It's on on B04 I'l update it when I get home to wifi and see if I still have the same problems after a week.
 
Yeah, my roommate and I both have the ZMP, and for both of us, excellent battery life. My battery drains faster when I have Bluetooth on, obviously, but even connected to my BT headphones all day, the battery lasts longer than the one in my Galaxy S3 with everything of, screen off, and just sitting on the nightstand.
 
My question is, why the hell did ZTECH hardwire the battery in the first place? Maybe they didn't want to be like V-Tec, the cordless phone mfr who offers a replacement battery as the first accessory. Or the HTC G1, where battery makers faked the code on the label to make customers think the batteries were OEM instead of low-quality, won't-run-your-TV-remote-for-a day sh*t.

S Wright
 
The battery is pretty good today. Maybe it's a weekend thing.
 

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Day 3...it actually lasted me the whole day with moderate to heavy usage. Tomorrow is the test 2 to see how good my replacement phone battery is since I'll be off from work and I get to really heavily use my phone.
 
Well I figured out my problem with the phone and a bit bummed out. It was my Moto 360 that was draining the bejeezus out of the phone. So now I need to see how I can wear the watch and not kill the battery. Maybe just using it as a watch :thinking:. Kind of suck though, having a smart watch but not being able to use it.
 
I bought my ZTE ZMax Pro about a month or so ago and was extremely pleased with it for the first two or three weeks. Now the battery is so horrible I'm having to charge it three times during the day, even while I'm at work and not on my phone at all!! I don't have bluetooth, wireless, etc. running and certainly don't have time to be playing on my phone when I'm working. I've cleared the cache several times, don't have background apps running, or do anything else other than check a few texts during the day. My battery is 100% in the morning, but by lunch it's down in the teens. I'm extremely disappointed in the phone and all of the glitches I've experienced in the past couple of weeks (like a text message getting sent fifteen to twenty times in a row, or a voice message suddenly appearing when my phone didn't ring, plus it running very hot when I'm on a phone call). Based on the research and reviews, I bought the ZTE ZMax Pro with positive thoughts. Now I would not recommend it to anyone and am sorely disappointed with my purchase.
 
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I bought my ZTE ZMax Pro about a month or so ago and was extremely pleased with it for the first two or three weeks. Now the battery is so horrible I'm having to charge it three times during the day, even while I'm at work and not on my phone at all!! I don't have bluetooth, wireless, etc. running and certainly don't have time to be playing on my phone when I'm working. I've cleared the cache several times, don't have background apps running, or do anything else other than check a few texts during the day.
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Looks like you're doing the right thing except you did not say what setting you have on screen brightness. Because that also kills battery really fast. And do you also have battery saver on?

Make sure you set brightness to 0 when not using it, and display is not set to never die or off. I put my display setting to after 15 sec.
 
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