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Most likely the reason that it can't make it through a day without a charge is because of 4G/LTE. If battery life is that important, you can force your phone to
by MikeKusold 14y ago
Most likely the reason that it can't make it through a day without a charge is because of 4G/LTE. If battery life is that important, you can force your phone to only use 3G and you will see much greater life.
- ThePherocity 14y agoI'm in a city without LTE yet for this carrier, so that isn't it. Haven't installed any apps that should be background intensive either. I used to stream music all day from the iTunes match and still have more battery than what I have just listening to previously downloaded music.
- gman99 14y agoAll the more reason to turn off LTE in the phone. Not sure how the phone is configured, but it's entirely possible the phone is using up battery trying to find non-existent LTE towers unless it's explicitly disabled (but I do agree with you in that battery life in most of the android phones is terrible)
- ThePherocity 14y agoHeh, okay, thanks, it's done. I'll see if it improves.
- ljf 14y agoOdd - I found the inverse when going to iPhone (unintuitive and low battery life), from android. With my Galaxy Note, the battery life improved, considerably after 5 or 6 charge cycles.
- bmurphy1976 14y agoI installed "System Tuner" and found that my live wallpaper was chewing up CPU even when I wasn't browsing the main desktop. Once I switched to a different (non-broken) wallpaper my battery life doubled. I've also used this tool a few times to figure out why my phone was running hot (even though I wasn't using it). For instance, last night, my Facebook app was in a bad state and was chewing up 20% CPU in the background. I killed it and everything was back to normal. The tool isn't the easiest to use, but it might help.
- ThePherocity 14y agoThanks for the live wallpaper tip, it was neat but not worth having a brick for half the day. I'll check out the tuner app.