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How much On screen time do you get?

On average, since I've owned the phone (rooted and rom'd) I get 5+ hrs on all WIFI and 3+ hours when on all 4g/3g. Typically that is in about a 12-16hr day. Stock battery with cpu power save only enabled.
 
I think 3-4 hours seems about normal. You can probably extend that by shutting off all the radios & sync, but then how much fun would that be. ;)
 
Shocky said:
About 3 hours over two days, I call BS to 6 hours.
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I'll see your 6 hrs BS and raise you 14 seconds.

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Well....

(Admittedly I charged it for 30 mins, but that's over two days)
 

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SUroot said:
I'll see your 6 hrs BS and raise you 14 seconds.

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Nice, but I get nowhere near this.

I also know allot of people with the Galaxy S3 and none of them get anywhere near 6 hours.

If I'm conservative I can get 4 hours but that would be making conscious effect to save power by turning stuff off and keeping the brightness low.

To get higher I would have to go to extreme measures of enabling power saving mode from the start, turning everything off and leaving the screen on with the phone doing pretty much nothing or something that's not very demanding. :D

But that wouldn't be normal usage and results would be a waste of time.
 
Its a one off for me but its possible. I was at home that day so fluctuation in signal strength was not an issue as it usually would have been. Other than that I made no effort to conserve.
 
It really depends on your use.

If I were to turn the screen on, radios off, etc. and just leave it I could probably break 10 hours. However, I could also unplug the phone, have it set to sync constantly and kill the battery without ever turning the screen on.

Average for a day is about 5-6 hours screen on time, using 4G and wifi. Web browsing, kindle, texting, gaming. I keep my syncs to a minimum though. Twitter set for manual, no FB, email for 1 hour. ( I think...) Brightness is 50%, power saving is CPU + Screen power + No Haptic ( so only background color unchecked. I have yet to find any game or anything that needs the extra power from the CPU, but its easy enough to disable that if I do. ) Motion activation off. Medium Dark wallpaper ( Same as my avatar ), No active widgets. Fair bit of junk disabled ( Weather, news, verizon stuff, stock, samsung backup, etc. ) Data usage I have managed 53 gigs over 3 months on the Mobile Data, and 5 gigs on wifi. I often use navigation too.

Right now I'm sitting a little over 2 hours screen on and over 2/3 battery left at 6h 37 min since unplugged. So I'm currently looking at ~6 hours screen on after ~19.8 hours unplugged when my battery finally dies.

Interesting thing is web browser and amazon kindle are not listed on my battery page even though I used both this morning. Kindle about 1 hour and web browser for about 1.5. <shrug>

Screen 73%, cell standby 21%, OS 3%, system 2% and idle 2%.

I do always make sure I don't have any wake locks. My awake and screen on match virtually perfectly. I have good signal, maintaining 4G basically everywhere around here ( Verizon. )
 
SUroot said:
Its a one off for me but its possible. I was at home that day so fluctuation in signal strength was not an issue as it usually would have been. Other than that I made no effort to conserve.
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So what do you get on a normal day?
 
Like others have said, it all depends on what you're doing. Right now I'm sitting at close to 3 hours screen time and I have 50% battery left with 19h since unplugged, so I could probably get 5-6 hours of screen time with the same usage, which really isn't doing much other than checking emails. I could burn those battery up on a full charge if I was watching youtube straight for like 3 hours.
 
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