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How is your battery life???

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MyNamesTooLong

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So I am going to be picking one of these up and am considering keeping it as my personal cell and selling my vibrant rather than the g2. This idea is the result of the vibrants horrible battery life...6 hours of normal use, 3 if I use it heavily. My question is how do you all use your phones, and how long do they last? I would like to make it at least 10 hours on one charge like all my previous phones.
 
Good to great but my phone isn't stock.

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On the 3rd day I had my G2, (after I reinstalled all the apps I normally use) I was disappointed with the battery life I was experiencing. It seemed to be draining unusually fast. At about 4 hours of normal use, it was prompting me to connect the charger.

I went ahead and disabled live wallpapers and deleted a few new widgets that I had added. That seemed to help. I also changed my email sync to 1 hour increments instead of 15 min and found that helped greatly.

I think it all depends on what you load and how often your apps/tools sync and pull down data.
 
Um... when I had the Vibrant, I left GPS on, Live wallpapers, sync like 3 emails and Facebook, and web browsed, and it lasted me a good 8-10 hours daily.

I think something was wrong with your Vibrant's battery. LoL!!

To be honest, I had the G2 stock for about 4 months. I have no idea how that guy got 1 day of battery use without charging. IDK if he's a heavy user, but I have to charge my phone every 8 hours on average for me. The G2 would probably last me about 10 hours before it actually dies. The Vibrant lasted me 12 hours before, doing the same thing. Leaving GPS on, Bluetooth, all that good stuff. LoL!! The only thing I don't leave on is WiFi because that will drain your battery if it's not connected.
 
No_Nickname90 said:
Um... when I had the Vibrant, I left GPS on, Live wallpapers, sync like 3 emails and Facebook, and web browsed, and it lasted me a good 8-10 hours daily.

I think something was wrong with your Vibrant's battery. LoL!!

To be honest, I had the G2 stock for about 4 months. I have no idea how that guy got 1 day of battery use without charging. IDK if he's a heavy user, but I have to charge my phone every 8 hours on average for me. The G2 would probably last me about 10 hours before it actually dies. The Vibrant lasted me 12 hours before, doing the same thing. Leaving GPS on, Bluetooth, all that good stuff. LoL!! The only thing I don't leave on is WiFi because that will drain your battery if it's not connected.
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So my current phones are a mytouch slide and an optimus T...the slide seems as if it could get better battery life if the screen wasn't such an energy hog. Is the main source of g2 battery consuption the screen? the last couple days I did some testing; under heavy use(games, web browsing, market, texting and a few calls) the slide is prompting me to charge it in about 5 hours. The optimus pretty much handles everything I throw at it with heavy use, but the screen isnt what consumes the most battery. both phones had wifi on and background data/syncing
 
My G2 phone lasts only about 12-16 hours when I use it regularly. I use the PlayerPro app for about 4.5 hours (through headphones). I use the Volume Boost app with it as well all day. Only rarely will I turn on the 4G signal, and I turn the option to receive continuous data off while I'm at work. Just don't use any apps and you're good, I guess.
 
Seeing as how this is my only option for 4g and a keyboard I kept the second one I came across. I seem to do fine with the battery life, and I actually use the phone.
 
I've had my phone since November of last year (7 months), and in my experience, it seems as though the single biggest battery killer for this phone is data. I use my phone primarily for music, with a little bit of browsing, texting, online-based games, and facebook here and there. And my home screens are filled with widgets. Now, for the first 6 months, i never seemed to ever get more than 4-5 hours off a single charge. Even if i did NOTHING with it, the battery would still drain. One time i left it unplugged overnight at 100%, and woke up to a 66% battery.

It actually wasn't until a couple weeks ago that i finally tried something that had never occurred to me before... i turned my data off (only because i was in a bad coverage area anyway) and left it unplugged overnight as an experiment. I woke up and was SHOCKED to see it still at 100%! The battery consumption is DRAMATICALLY improved without the data on. Its like night and day. So now i keep my data off when i'm not using it (similar to how you would turn the light off when you leave a room to save energy) and i am routinely getting as much as 10 hours of battery life despite heavy music usage (haven't tried a completely data free day yet though. It might last even longer than that). I can literally play music continuously for the better part of an entire day now. About the same lifespan as my mp3 player, which has officially been replaced.
 
En4cer2k11 said:
I've had my phone since November of last year (7 months), and in my experience, it seems as though the single biggest battery killer for this phone is data. I use my phone primarily for music, with a little bit of browsing, texting, online-based games, and facebook here and there. And my home screens are filled with widgets. Now, for the first 6 months, i never seemed to ever get more than 4-5 hours off a single charge. Even if i did NOTHING with it, the battery would still drain. One time i left it unplugged overnight at 100%, and woke up to a 66% battery.

It actually wasn't until a couple weeks ago that i finally tried something that had never occurred to me before... i turned my data off (only because i was in a bad coverage area anyway) and left it unplugged overnight as an experiment. I woke up and was SHOCKED to see it still at 100%! The battery consumption is DRAMATICALLY improved without the data on. Its like night and day. So now i keep my data off when i'm not using it (similar to how you would turn the light off when you leave a room to save energy) and i am routinely getting as much as 10 hours of battery life despite heavy music usage (haven't tried a completely data free day yet though. It might last even longer than that). I can literally play music continuously for the better part of an entire day now. About the same lifespan as my mp3 player, which has officially been replaced.
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I've had my phone since February. Full disclosure - I don't run any Widgets, but I do have it set to push emails whenever they come in, as opposed to every x minutes/hours. I also don't use any live wallpapers, and I hear those kinds of things can really drag down battery life.

I usually have to charge every 24 hours or so, but I also don't run the battery down to below 30% or so before charging it back up. This is the first smartphone I've owned, and on my last phone (a Samsung Gravity), I could go 3 days or so on a full charge, so I'm always open to hearing ways to conserve battery life.
 
I had it all, and I mean "all of it on today" at work, GPS, Data network, Sync apps, Satellite and good number of widgets and apps stalled, plus hooked up to my work computer you know for charging while up loading...he he he. I unplugged from work not shutting any thing down, listened to my MP3's down the road, to the bar (8 city blocks), did not shut my music player off sitting in the bar for (two for one's) or 2'z finished up went to the bus stop road for 15 min the got off the bus and the thing just said no more, 45 minutes i drained it to nothing, The Moral of the story: carry chargers, buy many, and leave them suckers every where. =)..


Tell me this is normal, ???
 
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