typical android battery life ??

[expatCanuck]

Greetings -

New to the forum & things Android.
Just before Thanksgiving, I replaced my BBerry Curve with a T-Mo myTouch 4G
(the LG beast). Much to like - screen is excellent, great form factor.

Don't care for the bloat (I'd dearly love to delete the Bonus Apps app,
as well as the locked garbage apps (Bejeweled, anyone?)).
I'm concerned that there won't be sufficient critical market adoption
to be able to ultimately root the beast & clean it up.
Would welcome learned wisdom.

Major gripe is battery life - less than 24 hours with what I'll describe as light use,
and that's with the screen at about 25%, give or take.

Are there other Android phones that will last a day (or even two) on a single charge?
(When my BBerry was new, 2-4 days was the norm.)

And I charged my old LG pos flip phone once a week.

Insight welcome.

Thanks,

- Richard

 

[UssjTrunks]

That's standard for Android phones. I get 6-8 hours of heavy use from my Nexus S on low brightness. 24 hours sounds about right for light use.

Blackberries compress data which I imagine helps with the battery life.

 

[jerofld]

Androids will never have the battery life of BBs. The larger screens, the more robust OS, and the extra features require more juice.

As for rooting, you have plenty of options with a myTouch 4G

The subforum:
T-Mobile MyTouch 4G - Android Forums

The root section:
MyTouch 4G - All Things Root - Android Forums

And the thread that talks about super easy rooting:
http://androidforums.com/mytouch-4g-all-things-root/213378-super-easy-root-3-minutes.html

 

[chanchan05]

Maybe its just me, but I've never really considered a BB as a smartphone. It seems like a feature phone with BBM slapped on. Very few things to consider about it apart from BBM IMO. Not to mention there seems to be even fewer apps than Symbian does.

In the smartphone range, only BB seems to have a battery life comparable to feature phones. Android, Symbian, heck even iPhones dont have that kind of battery life.

 

[Stuntman]

I think that I can get over 5 hours of continuous web surfing on my HTC Desire Z. It is unlikely that I would use it for this long. Most of the time, I just check my messages and social networks when I get any alerts. I may use it for a few minutes here and there throughout the day. For my typical use, it lasts a full day with plenty of juice left. I'm in the habit of charging my phone every night. That way, on those occasionial heavy use days (like using GPS for over an hour), it will last an entire day.

 

[UssjTrunks]

Maybe its just me, but I've never really considered a BB as a smartphone. It seems like a feature phone with BBM slapped on. Very few things to consider about it apart from BBM IMO. Not to mention there seems to be even fewer apps than Symbian does.

In the smartphone range, only BB seems to have a battery life comparable to feature phones. Android, Symbian, heck even iPhones dont have that kind of battery life.

The Blackbbery is the quintessential smartphone. It helped spur the entire industry forward.

 

[aysiu]

I get about 20 hours with normal use, 24 hours with light use, and then 12 hours with heavy use.

Cyanogen 7.1

 

[adaaaam]

Maybe its just me, but I've never really considered a BB as a smartphone. It seems like a feature phone with BBM slapped on. Very few things to consider about it apart from BBM IMO. Not to mention there seems to be even fewer apps than Symbian does.

In the smartphone range, only BB seems to have a battery life comparable to feature phones. Android, Symbian, heck even iPhones dont have that kind of battery life.

LOL.. BBs are like the icons of smartphones, whether you thnk it or not. Only the younger generation would even consider calling BBs 'feature phones'... they defined phones that smartly merged keyboards, normally a pc peripheral, with the cell phone. Just remember: if your phone can install additional programs from a marketplace of at least hundreds of them, then its a smart one

 

[chanchan05]

LOL.. BBs are like the icons of smartphones, whether you thnk it or not. Only the younger generation would even consider calling BBs 'feature phones'... they defined phones that smartly merged keyboards, normally a pc peripheral, with the cell phone. Just remember: if your phone can install additional programs from a marketplace of at least hundreds of them, then its a smart one

I know they are smartphones, but still. And no, if a phone can install an app from a marketplace of hundreds of them does not make it a smartphone. Tell that to the Nokia s40 phones, like the 5610, 5310, 6300, etc. These are feature phones but you can get a few hundred apps for them from getjar.com...