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Four days’ charge on an Android
- pashakym 13y agoDepends on how are you using your phone and what applications you are running. Try to use G-maps and facebook for a couple of hours and your battery will be empty.
- pytrin 13y agoLike I say in the article - mileage will vary depending on usage, and GPS still sucks the battery. However, 4 days on normal usage is a nice achievement :)
- pashakym 13y agoAre you using TaskKiller? I use it to monitor "suspicious" services on my Adnroid. That helped me to disable many "old" apps that just run-out my battery.
- differentView 13y agoDon't play Ingress.
- aeroevan 13y agoI bought an EasyAcc 12,000 mAh power bank mostly for ingress....
- pashakym 13y agoYep :) I have something similar. Very useful when you travel somewhere.
- s0rce 13y agoI use my macbook air which is usually in my bag when I travel to charge my phone. It will charge via usb even when the computer is in standby.
- msabalau 13y agoMany players in my neck of the woods use Ankers. I find I can get by with just my Note II.
- MrVitaliy 13y agoS2 is at least 2 years old. Whatever battery (1650 mAh) it came with is probably due to be replaced anyway. Just get an extended battery such as Qcell [http://www.amazon.com/QCell-Samsung-SGH-i777-Extended-Compatible/dp/B006SK5GK0 http://www.amazon.com/QCell-Samsung-SGH-i777-Extended-Compat...] (a whooping 3600 mAh!) and have same 4 days charge with all the updates/gps/bluetooth/etc enabled, all the time.
- riobard 13y ago“This includes turning off radios when there is no data activity and other services as needed. ” Yeah, right… Forget about push notifications, push emails, IM, video/VoIP calls, background updates. Why not get a feature phone then? It lasts weeks between charges.
- angryasian 13y agoit's not that you don't receive them you just may not receive them in real time or if it switches to edge then you will
- babuskov 13y agoI use my Android like that. No need to have radio active when I'm near a desktop or laptop computer all day. I still use HDSPA+ when I'm outside for lunch or wifi in the evening in bed, but I turn it on/off at those times. No need to drain the battery all day.
- magic_haze 13y agoI set up the same system in Tasker: it is actually very surprising how well it works.
- malnourish 13y agoMind giving a quick explanation as to how/what rules you use?
- scep12 13y agoWhat's your screen-on time in minutes or hours?
- jordanthoms 13y agoWhat's your screen on time? Most phones will get 4 days easily if you never use them...
- pytrin 13y agoI installed BatteryStats just now, and added a few screenshots to show more detailed usage data. It says screen is at ~20% - so about 20 hours of screen time.
- coolnow 13y agoI highly doubt that, unless you have some truly shocking 3rd party extended battery. The screen has taken 20% of the battery life but it doesn't mean 20% of 4 days = the amount of time the screen was on. I suggest you press Screen in Settings > Battery and then reporting that. The screen is the single biggest juice sucker in modern smartphones.
- pytrin 13y agoYes, you are correct, my bad :) Clicking on screen in the Settings -> Battery says screen time on is 4h 32m. So I guess in a 4 day cycle I get to a little over 5h
- gilgoomesh 13y ago> Cycled the battery. After running the battery calibration app, I let the battery drain all the way to 0% (phone shutdown) and then charge it back to 100%. This is bad advice if you want your battery to last longer until you need to buy a new one. Full discharge cycles might give you a slightly longer charge for the next cycle but they reduce the overall lifetime of the battery as much as 3-4 drain/charge cycles between 20% and 80%. A battery that continually runs 0% to 100% drain/charge cycles will only live 300-400 cycles, versus a 20% to 80% battery that may live 1200 cycles. You might think the tradeoff in battery lifetime versus charge duration is worth it but as the battery loses lifetime, its maximum charge will be reduced so you'll quickly have shorter charge durations.
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- pytrin 13y agoYou are correct. I also mention the tradeoff between discharging very low to battery life, with a link to a nice article on the topic.
- magic_haze 13y agoI've seen this advice floating around the internet before, and while I agree with the lower limit, who the hell charges their phone to just 80%? I just plug the phone in at night and let it charge to 100% while I sleep. Is there even an option on smartphones to do anything different?
- ars 13y agoI have a battery monitor that plays a sound when it gets to a certain level, then I unplug it. I charge it when I'm at the computer.
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- RachelF 13y agoIf you don't use much mobile data turn off 3G/4G, letting 2G take care of voice and slow data. This saves much power.
- coolnow 13y agotl;dr if you hardly touch your phone, it lasts longer between charges.
- thekevan 13y agoNot sure if this is the place for this but with my Galaxy Note 2, I generally get about a day and a half with moderate to heavy use, including not charging it overnight. I generally charge it overnight every other night and sometime plug it in for a few hours during the day. I have not tweaked any of the settings and seldom use the battery saver option. I never use Bluetooth as I have no need for it. None of my apps are authorized for GPS except Google maps or FourSquare--I just have no need for most apps to know where I am. I do make sure to turn off wifi when I am outside of my home and using cellular data. If there is a weak cell signal and wifi available, I will turn it on. This isn't scientific but I feel going in and out of wifi signals does drain the battery.
- adestefan 13y agoThey're getting 4 days by basically not using the phone.
- batiudrami 13y agoYep, these stats don't matter at all until he gives screen on time. Current (last 12 months) phones tend to manage about 6 hours of screen-on time, and the LG G2 in particular appears to be getting some fantastic numbers.
- lelandbatey 13y agoYep, look at those blue tick marks at the bottom of the graph. That shows the periods of time that the phone was active in some way (screen on, wifi on, network use, etc). From the graph, it seems like that was pretty much never. By contrast, here's what my phones same battery readout looks like: [0] http://i.imgur.com/4IC70y4.png http://i.imgur.com/4IC70y4.png [1] http://i.imgur.com/kW9t1du.png http://i.imgur.com/kW9t1du.png EDIT: Something to note about my battery life: I've used my phone a lot today, as can be seen from the photos, and I'm only down to %84 battery since charging it last night. The reason for that is because I bought an after market battery for my phone that increases it's capacity nearly x3. I find the added size not just manageable, but preferable. The extra weight and size in my hand makes the phone more hefty, which is exactly what I like.
- johlindenbaum 13y agoAm I reading the graphs correctly that it states that in 3 days OP only used Chrome and Gmail for roughly 9 minutes each? Yeah... don't use your phone, and OH MY GOSH, the charge lasts forever!
- pytrin 13y agoNot sure what those numbers mean - perhaps it's CPU time. I use chrome and Gmail for about 30-40 minutes every day.
- pavanky 13y agoI got ~40 hours yesterday on my HTC one X by doing nothing special. My phone still had 6% left when I plugged in. The 2 days prior to that have been busy days at work for me and I have used the phone for ~3 hours (1 hour phone calls, 2 hours browsing / reading stuff). I did not disable any radios. I was on lte the entire time, bluetooth was enabled, my email and twitter were syncing as well. Perhaps Android 4.3 (and hence CM10.2) have improvements for battery life after all ?
- sandGorgon 13y agoAre you using the dual core evita or the quad core international version? Strange, but im on 28/9 build of cm10.2 and I barely last 3/4 of a day with half my radios off.
- pavanky 13y agoI have the dual core evita. Using 26/9 nightly.
- sneak 13y ago> I got ~40 hours yesterday Did you have the same yesterday I did? My Tuesday was only 24 hours.
- wnevets 13y agoI hate post like this, no one cares how long your phone last when you never use the thing. At least once a week theres a post like this over on /r/android & /r/nexus4
- StavrosK 13y agoI'm very satisfied with the battery life of my HTC One. I use it quite a bit during the day (a few sessions of Duolingo per day, HN frequently, the odd email/chat, etc) and it's still at 40-50% at night (I charge it anyway when I'm asleep, though). It's currently been on battery for 18 hours and it's still at 23%, and this includes listening to audiobooks for an hour in the car, etc. It's pretty great.
- spiritplumber 13y agoI still have a G1 with an extended battery, and it gets charged once-twice a week. I use it fairly regularly, so it's not jst standby. Underclock, people, underclock :)
- lcedp 13y agoIf I would keep screen off, turn off any updates and receive no calls I'm pretty sure I will get a week with out any special roms or apps. But what's the point to have a smartphone then?