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Battery Life?

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dlo604

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I just got my phone yesterday, but I didn't charge it fully. Probably to about 90% pretty much drained it to about 10% that was under 5 hours and that was just using popular apps such as WhatsApp and texting friends and took less than 10 pictures.

Today I stepped out after the charge, and noticed that the 4G had dropped the battery 5% shortly after unplugging it.

I read on here to take the phone off of 4G connection and use it only when I really need it. I put it on the 2G connection and my Nexus even states that it's to save battery. However, 6 hours or so later I am noticing that my battery is now below 50 sitting roughly at 45% - 50%. Is this normal or ? I have also turned off Auto Brightness and set the brightness below half. I have been texting throughout the day, using WhatsApp occasionally, and on WiFi. I have sent roughly about 150 texts.

My phone is currently not rooted. I tried using the search function and I'm not sure if it's my work computer but it's not working...

Another thing that might be of interest is I'm on 4.0.2. Have their been issues previously?
 
Without seeing what's eating your battery in Settings, I can take a SWAG:

It's not the texting that's getting your battery... it's the SCREEN TIME. Sounds like your display is running a lot; and that gorgeous Super AmoLED Plus screen is chewing through battery.

I can recommend TWO things:

(a) 2100 maH extended battery. It provides 17% more juice and increases the phone's thickness by a mere 0.5mm.

(b) Juice Defender in the Market (or Play, or whatever it's called now). The free version on default settings will help you significantly... the Plus version will help you a whole lot more. Try the free version and see how that works for you.

Between those two things, I can pretty much go all day with occasional texting, phone calls, web surfing, videos and nearly constant bluetooth music streaming.

Hope this helps :)
 
The_Chief said:
Without seeing what's eating your battery in Settings, I can take a SWAG:

It's not the texting that's getting your battery... it's the SCREEN TIME. Sounds like your display is running a lot; and that gorgeous Super AmoLED Plus screen is chewing through battery.

I can recommend TWO things:

(a) 2100 maH extended battery. It provides 17% more juice and increases the phone's thickness by a mere 0.5mm.

(b) Juice Defender in the Market (or Play, or whatever it's called now). The free version on default settings will help you significantly... the Plus version will help you a whole lot more. Try the free version and see how that works for you.

Between those two things, I can pretty much go all day with occasional texting, phone calls, web surfing, videos and nearly constant bluetooth music streaming.

Hope this helps :)
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I'll try this right now! Thanks...hopefully this will help me last the night as I need my phone for the rest of the night without it dying!

I've also read some people complaining about 4.0.4 in regards to the battery life being depleted a lot quicker as well.
 
We went through ton of discussions on battery from the first day of Nexus release. In summary, it's like this.

1. Go through 2~3 full recharge cycles first to calibrate battery software in ICS.

2. Use Wifi as much as possible. It's the most battery efficient data connection.

3. Manage screen settings: Avoid auto brightness. Set it below 30% brightness. Use dark color tone in background. Timeout at 30 seconds or less. avoid live wallpapers.

4. Avoid some known battery hog apps like Google+ doing frequency syncing that can't be adjusted.

Also 3G/4G signal strength in your area is big factor. But if you use Wifi a lot, that becomes less issue. An interesting tip is to keep Wifi radio on all the time regardless of connecting to wifi access point. Many users including me are seeing noticeably better battery life with this.

Battery saver like Juice defender is another topic. Some folks swear by it and others don't like it. I'm somewhere in between.
 
the Facebook app seems to be a HUGE battery HOG.... had both FB and G+ apps... FB using over 15% battery... G+ not even registering... something is definitely up with the latest FB app... uninstalled it for now and using the web version (looks the same, just slower since it's through the browser)... so far battery life greatly improved already...
 
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