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Help How is the battery?

lsutigers03 said:
Sounds like most people are having good experiences with the battery. Has anyone used an Atrix? I love the phone but for such a big battery it's pretty poor. Overall how good is the phone? Because if the phone is great and the battery is much better then I would make the switch.
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The phone is fast, but the quality just isn't there....

The battery life was good though, I got 28 hours on it before returning my last one.
 
Noob here, I think I have a battery issue, I got my phone last week and the battery was completely dead out of the box. Wouldn't even power the phone up. I had to charge it for 3 hours before I could get it to come on. I thought the phone was DOA. It takes almost 3 hours for the thing to charge. Is this normal? I also only get about 4 hours of battery life. I am learning about how to manage that so I won't say much about that yet.

Thanks,
Bill
 
bbuhlman said:
Noob here, I think I have a battery issue, I got my phone last week and the battery was completely dead out of the box. Wouldn't even power the phone up. I had to charge it for 3 hours before I could get it to come on. I thought the phone was DOA. It takes almost 3 hours for the thing to charge. Is this normal? I also only get about 4 hours of battery life. I am learning about how to manage that so I won't say much about that yet.

Thanks,
Bill
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4 hours? What are you doing with the phone? Make sure you're not running 100% brightness.

Also, 3 hours to charge is pretty normal, sadly.
 
lsutigers03 said:
What isn't quality and what caused you to return it?
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Nearly every screen has some sort of defect on the Galaxy S2. (At least the AT&T version does). You can read more about it on the XDA forums.

That was a big issue, but the fact that I couldn't receive text messages or browse the web was a bigger issue.

5-40kb Download

100-300kb Upload.

This was "average"

I also confirmed with tech support that the phone does indeed have a weak radio in it. My area is full 4G, and all the towers are in good condition.

I was only getting 1-2 bars of Wifi sitting 2 feet from a D-Link DIR-825 Router as well.
 
>>4 hours? What are you doing with the phone? Make sure you're not running >>100% brightness.

>>Also, 3 hours to charge is pretty normal, sadly.

Mostly I am trying to get the phone configured like I want it so the display is taking the majority of the battery at this point, I have the brightness at auto. I did turn off the "any time" sync this morning too. Otherwise two mail accounts, traffic app, about 1hr of basic web traffic per day and I check twitter and facebook probably once a day and may or may not post something. AT this point I have GPS off, bluetooth off and wireless off. It should be able to go a whole work day wouldn't you think?
 
bbuhlman said:
>>4 hours? What are you doing with the phone? Make sure you're not running >>100% brightness.

>>Also, 3 hours to charge is pretty normal, sadly.

Mostly I am trying to get the phone configured like I want it so the display is taking the majority of the battery at this point, I have the brightness at auto. I did turn off the "any time" sync this morning too. Otherwise two mail accounts, traffic app, about 1hr of basic web traffic per day and I check twitter and facebook probably once a day and may or may not post something. AT this point I have GPS off, bluetooth off and wireless off. It should be able to go a whole work day wouldn't you think?
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How much mail do you have coming through? And is the traffic app constantly refreshing?

Widgets tend to use a good amount of the battery as well. The only app I used was the weather app which I refreshed 2-3 times a day manually.

Edit: Also, try setting the brightness manually to somewhere lower, but comfortable. maybe 20-30%?
 
bbuhlman said:
>>4 hours? What are you doing with the phone? Make sure you're not running >>100% brightness.

>>Also, 3 hours to charge is pretty normal, sadly.

Mostly I am trying to get the phone configured like I want it so the display is taking the majority of the battery at this point, I have the brightness at auto. I did turn off the "any time" sync this morning too. Otherwise two mail accounts, traffic app, about 1hr of basic web traffic per day and I check twitter and facebook probably once a day and may or may not post something. AT this point I have GPS off, bluetooth off and wireless off. It should be able to go a whole work day wouldn't you think?
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i believe something is wrong with your battery. I have 3 push email accounts, none of them are extremely busy though. my wifi is always on, i check facebook and several other apps several times a day. play some games sometimes, several texts and i easily get through the day, usually around 40% left after a 14 hour day. i also have a weather widget update every 3 hours, a clock every 3 hours, tweetdeck every 30 minutes and one more every hour. i also never turn gps off, bluetooth is rarely on though.
 
I think there is something wrong with the battery too. I'm going to pursue getting another battery from ATT, the phone is only a few days old.
Thanks!
 
for everyone that complains; LOL, I use to carry and extension cable and either 1 or 2 batteries when I was going to be out for a long day with my iphones ;)

with this I'm very happy just to be able to switch out batteries and not look wired up :D
 
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