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My overall experience on my Nexus S: -Horrible, awful battery life. Probably about 12 hours. Hoping they get a fix out soon... -UI is much smoother and more

My overall experience on my Nexus S: -Horrible, awful battery life. Probably about 12 hours. Hoping they get a fix out soon... -UI is much smoother and more polished than Gingerbread (smoother animations, extra room to put apps on homescreen with the bottom bar) -The new widget features are great (can add a homescreen icon to call/text a specific person, play a playlist, navigate/open a map for a specific location) I love it except for the battery issues.

SkyMarshal 15y ago
Funny hearing someone complain about 12hrs battery life. I was getting about 7hrs on my Nexus S with Gingerbread, till I started disabling Wifi and GPS by default, and only using them when needed. That bumped it up to about 12hrs which I was very happy with. Obviously not nearly as good as the several days worth that a regular phone provides, or the +20% more or so that iPhones can do, but serviceable at least. UI lag is noticeably reduced in ICS, which was my only other major complaint besides battery life. Still much room for improvement vs iPhone, but it's no longer an actual irritant which I'm thankful for.
ajross 15y ago
"Battery Life" is extremely situational. I'm getting a typical 16 hour day on mine with 10-20% reported capacity left over. That's with light use (maybe an hour of screen-on time) in an environment with 1-2 "bars" (haven't checked RSSI nor investigated how it scales to the signal icon) of Verizon coverage.
drivebyacct2 15y ago
>-The new widget features are great (can add a homescreen icon to call/text a specific person, play a playlist, navigate/open a map for a specific location) The widgets you listed here are identical to their GB counterparts. Also, I find it strange you get such poor battery life. The battery life on my Nexus is far superior to stock.
- FaceKicker 15y ago
  > The widgets you listed here are identical to their GB counterparts. ... shit, did they really exist before? Wow, I'm an idiot. I guess I never looked at the widgets menu very closely until I got the upgrade... > Also, I find it strange you get such poor battery life. The battery life on my Nexus is far superior to stock. It seems to be a (nearly?) universal issue - Google stopped the OTA update due to the battery issue. (http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/google/android/google-postpones-ice-cream-sandwich-update-for-nexus-s/ http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/google/android/google...)
Maxious 15y ago
Nexus S supports deep sleep on custom ROMs. I've been impressed with ICS increasing battery life by hardware accelerating the basic apps

SkyMarshal 15y ago

Funny hearing someone complain about 12hrs battery life. I was getting about 7hrs on my Nexus S with Gingerbread, till I started disabling Wifi and GPS by default, and only using them when needed. That bumped it up to about 12hrs which I was very happy with. Obviously not nearly as good as the several days worth that a regular phone provides, or the +20% more or so that iPhones can do, but serviceable at least. UI lag is noticeably reduced in ICS, which was my only other major complaint besides battery life. Still much room for improvement vs iPhone, but it's no longer an actual irritant which I'm thankful for.

ajross 15y ago

"Battery Life" is extremely situational. I'm getting a typical 16 hour day on mine with 10-20% reported capacity left over. That's with light use (maybe an hour of screen-on time) in an environment with 1-2 "bars" (haven't checked RSSI nor investigated how it scales to the signal icon) of Verizon coverage.

drivebyacct2 15y ago

>-The new widget features are great (can add a homescreen icon to call/text a specific person, play a playlist, navigate/open a map for a specific location) The widgets you listed here are identical to their GB counterparts. Also, I find it strange you get such poor battery life. The battery life on my Nexus is far superior to stock.

FaceKicker 15y ago
> The widgets you listed here are identical to their GB counterparts. ... shit, did they really exist before? Wow, I'm an idiot. I guess I never looked at the widgets menu very closely until I got the upgrade... > Also, I find it strange you get such poor battery life. The battery life on my Nexus is far superior to stock. It seems to be a (nearly?) universal issue - Google stopped the OTA update due to the battery issue. (http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/google/android/google-postpones-ice-cream-sandwich-update-for-nexus-s/ http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/google/android/google...)

Maxious 15y ago

Nexus S supports deep sleep on custom ROMs. I've been impressed with ICS increasing battery life by hardware accelerating the basic apps