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Rediculous Battery Life!!!

This thing is a beast. I have 30% battery left and I have been using it for 41 hours without charging it. And I use it pretty heavy on sundays and on 3g all day saturday. I think it's got the best battery life of any device i've ever used. How are other peoples battery life?

Can you post your battery usage please? Just interested what you've been using in those 41 hours. Seems incredible!

burden010 said:
Can you post your battery usage please? Just interested what you've been using in those 41 hours. Seems incredible!
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no prob....does drocap2 work?

I get similar battery life.
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I can't find a screenshot app that works and yes it's rooted.

From what I read you need the SDK to take screen shots.
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Here you go....the best I could do

im going on 2d 3h 21m
4hours with display on
wifi on and off

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im going on 2d 3h 21m
4hours with display on
wifi on and off
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This is about the exact same results I get. I had about 30% left yesterday after two days and 4-5 hrs of usage.

I pushed about 36 hours before the device shut itself off. Medium to Heavy use (lots of browsing, some games, all around tinkering and playing in numerous apps), and a decent amount of that was standby.
Over-all, I'm very impressed with it and it has completely replaced my laptop (sold it before I got the Xoom, actually). I was actually having a hardtime leaving it off the charger because of how used to I am having to plug my devices in after a few hours of heavy use.

I did a real world test for my xoom this weekend. I used it as i "normally" would. when I wanted to do things, I just did - browse, played games, etc. I used it saturday night to show pictures of a new house to lots of people. Basically, how I would use it if I wasn't specifically testing battery life. Long story short, i went all weekend without charging. Charged fully at 4pm Friday. plugged in Sunday at 11pm with 20% or so still left.

with all due respect that's not accurate. A more accurate usage of batt life is 'display usage'
I get about 7 hours batt life. I was at least expecting 9 hours

aohus said:
with all due respect that's not accurate. A more accurate usage of batt life is 'display usage'
I get about 7 hours batt life. I was at least expecting 9 hours
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9 is a little too much i'd say. It really depends on what app you use and how much power the cpu takes out of the battery. For example, simple web browsing and apps aint gonna run on 2 cores. Gaming on the other will though. And real life usage is really what matters.

Legacy2385 said:
This thing is a beast. I have 30% battery left and I have been using it for 41 hours without charging it. And I use it pretty heavy on sundays and on 3g all day saturday. I think it's got the best battery life of any device i've ever used. How are other peoples battery life?
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35% left with wifi and 3g on all the time and 38 hours unplugged/turned on.
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That's about what mine lasts for, and I love it!! Its a nice break after my incredible only lasts for like 20 hours MAX with setcpu. XOOM for the win.
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mrjoshzombie said:
I pushed about 36 hours before the device shut itself off. Medium to Heavy use (lots of browsing, some games, all around tinkering and playing in numerous apps), and a decent amount of that was standby.
Over-all, I'm very impressed with it and it has completely replaced my laptop (sold it before I got the Xoom, actually). I was actually having a hardtime leaving it off the charger because of how used to I am having to plug my devices in after a few hours of heavy use.
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I try to keep it off the charger as much as possible....i let it run down to about 30-25% give or take before I charge it. I want to keep this battery in as good a shape as I can.

Legacy2385 said:
I try to keep it off the charger as much as possible....i let it run down to about 30-25% give or take before I charge it. I want to keep this battery in as good a shape as I can.
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Samesies
My Xoom has awesome battery life... I am satisfied completely.

Xoom Battery Life

Anyone who owe an iPad prior to the Xoom can comment on the battery life? On the iPad, I can go on a week or two just on general browsing w/o having to charge. Just the tap to the top power and the screen turns off, not shutdown.
On the Xoom, how long does it last on general use? I know the spec said up to 9hrs, but I am more concern on general usage w/o having to do a full shutdown.
(assuming I get WIFI version, so with 3G turned off for those with 3G now)

Lots of posts about this. Engadget did a comparison of the original ipad and xoom did 8.22 hours and ipad had 9.26 or something like that, on continuous playback. I use mine nightly and charge it every few days, same as my ipad. Can't compare to the ipad 2 sice I won't be purchasing another iOS device.
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I only had an iPad for a few weeks, but I'd say the battery life is comparable. Over the long run that one hour doesn't mean much. I charge it over night every other day or so, and I use it pretty heavily.

Sirchuk said:
Lots of posts about this. Engadget did a comparison of the original ipad and xoom did 8.22 hours and ipad had 9.26 or something like that, on continuous playback. I use mine nightly and charge it every few days, same as my ipad. Can't compare to the ipad 2 sice I won't be purchasing another iOS device.
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Thanks. I read that post and many others. I am less concern of continuous usage and more interested in occasional usage.
Charge once every 5 or 6 days should be okay. I was afraid it might be once a day or two like the android phone. Which kind of stink.
The iPad I have now, I charged it last Saturday, been using it about an hour or less a day just on typical browsing. I am at 50-60% battery life still. To me that is good. I don't have to do a shutdown and wait for it to boot each time. Just turn off screen with the tap of the power button.

I think the xoom/android will use more battery in this type of scenario for most users.
Depending on your Widgets and background syncing options . It should suffice though I am assuming.
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You don't have to shut down the zoom either.
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You gotta remember that engagdet loves to suck apple's balls. So, I don't trust them to have unbiased reviews.
I get 9-10 hours on my xoom.
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Amen to that.
I am yet to see an apple product getting less than a 9
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You gotta remember that engagdet loves to suck apple's balls. So, I don't trust them to have unbiased reviews.
I get 9-10 hours on my xoom.
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I'm easily getting over 7 hours of video watching. I'm playing with different video codecs and bit rates to gain better quality and battery life.
Very time consuming, LOL.

I use it too much to let it sit but it just lasted 5 days with daily use around 5 hours. The unolugged fully charged Tuesday and only did small charged and it does with heavy use Saturday morning. Personally why get a device that you only are using for 5-7 hours a week?

It's because of the xooms warp drive... its not syncing with the flux capacitor. Don't worry they'll fix it with an update soon.
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xlGmanlx said:
I use it too much to let it sit but it just lasted 5 days with daily use around 5 hours. The unolugged fully charged Tuesday and only did small charged and it does with heavy use Saturday morning. Personally why get a device that you only are using for 5-7 hours a week?
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i would consider 5-7 hours a week more then average for tablet use, im looking to get one and i bet i don't use it more then the 15 minutes a day that im on the can.
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Ive had my xoom for a week now and I use it ALOT!!! playing games at lunch, email and note taking in meetings all day. Ive changed the thing 2x and both time it was still above 50% battery life. Moto did something right with this thing. LOVE IT.

5 - 7 hours is average. If I need to do stuff, I have HP Envy Laptop w/ SSD that boots fairly quick to do things. I want to use the tablet for quick things, like check email, browse the internet, read magazine, etc., Something that is instant on, do a few quick stuff for 15 - 30 minutes and be done.

I use it to study pdfs all day for my upcoming CCIE, and I can use it from 8am till I go to sleep at night without the turning the screen off all day. Well, except for lunch.

How Is the Battery Life on HTC EVO 4G?

hows the battery life on the HTC EVO 4G with bluetooth, gps, wifi, email alerts and notifications all turned off?

I find the battery life to be right on par with other Android smart phones, and I always have mobile data/notifications on. Wifi seems to increase battery life.

Its pathetic in my book compared to my previous htc phones. About 3 to 4 hours use and its dead. Pathetic.

pretty crappy. don't buy in to all these ppl saying "it lasts me 2 days etc etc" either cuz they don't actually use their phones

I have a stock 2.3.3. Yesterday, after 9 hours on battery with minimal usage (a few games of pew pew) I was about 30%. Today I used it a little more and was about 60% before lunch. Depends on your usage.

It's aiite. I get 1 day and 2 hours on my fone with moderate usage... Depends what rom and kernal your using.

If you have 4g on all day and are constantly playing games prolly 5 hours. If you use it as a phone and not an xbox then you can get a full day out of it easy. My brother leaves 3g on all day and plays a few games and still has 10% after 15 hours...
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PhxkinMassacre said:
If you have 4g on all day and are constantly playing games prolly 5 hours. If you use it as a phone and not an xbox then you can get a full day out of it easy. My brother leaves 3g on all day and plays a few games and still has 10% after 15 hours...
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That sounds right.
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like others have said...depends...
i always have all 4g or 3g on, gps, wifi, bt, and screen high brightness...
i get a few hours, but for ME that's fine, as i'm always plugged in.
if i remember to dump bt and 4g when im at home, i'll maybe get a little more.
went to nyc to walk around last week...it was dead by noon, which was an inconvenience since i couldnt charge...

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Honestly, it's terrible. There are steps you can take, however, that can get it "average" or "acceptable".
And like someone above said, don't listen to all these people saying they get 2+ days out of their phones.... they either
a) have an extended battery
b) use their phone light~moderate usage
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using a Sense ROM and chatting on my phone all day using talk, streaming music, and checking email on 3 accts, I get an entire workday and then some out of my phone. I take my phone off the charger at 7am and don't put it on again until after 10pm. At that point I still have about 20-30% left.
I keep GPS and BT off unless I am using it, the Always On Mobile Data is disabled, and I use WiFi at home and work.
As some people stated, it depends on usage.

I asked the same question the other day..60 views no replies...because everyone was raving about the awesome battery life on Kingdom_signed_062311_194639.zip but I get under 4 hrs because my screen is on alot playing the "word" game. Seems thats about right for heavy use.

My phone has been unplugged for 10hrs now and I'm at 32%, I mostly talk between 2 to 3hrs a day, check emails, facebook, play games through out the day, text, but I keep everything off til I want to use it except data is on all the time, I keep all updates turned off I do updates as I choose, I'm happy with it plus I keep a fully charged battery with me anyway
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bjb_nyj101 said:
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Honestly, it's terrible. There are steps you can take, however, that can get it "average" or "acceptable".
And like someone above said, don't listen to all these people saying they get 2+ days out of their phones.... they either
a) have an extended battery
b) use their phone light~moderate usage
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With my stock battery I can get at least 6 hours with juice defender and a good kernel and I am glued to my phone. I read alt of ebooks on it and browse the web. My extended which is only 2600 I get at least 15 hours. I also use miui.if you don't like the phone get
A different one and stop whining
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genderblurr said:
With my stock battery I can get at least 6 hours with juice defender and a good kernel and I am glued to my phone. I read alt of ebooks on it and browse the web. My extended which is only 2600 I get at least 15 hours. I also use miui.if you don't like the phone get
A different one and stop whining
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I agree with you on this one. If you dont like the evo then just get a different phone ****.

josh030181 said:
My phone has been unplugged for 10hrs now and I'm at 32%, I mostly talk between 2 to 3hrs a day, check emails, facebook, play games through out the day, text, but I keep everything off til I want to use it except data is on all the time, I keep all updates turned off I do updates as I choose, I'm happy with it plus I keep a fully charged battery with me anyway
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hi, josh.. what if i turn off everything (BT, wifi, email alerts, notifications, and reduced brightness).. and talk for 2 hours straight. listen to mp3 for 45 minutes. play a word game for 30 minutes. do you think that the battery will last 24 hours?

xlk said:
hi, josh.. what if i turn off everything (BT, wifi, email alerts, notifications, and reduced brightness).. and talk for 2 hours straight. listen to mp3 for 45 minutes. play a word game for 30 minutes. do you think that the battery will last 24 hours?
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What rom and kernal are you using?

xchompondizx said:
I agree with you on this one. If you dont like the evo then just get a different phone ****.
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With my stock battery I can get at least 6 hours with juice defender and a good kernel and I am glued to my phone. I read alt of ebooks on it and browse the web. My extended which is only 2600 I get at least 15 hours. I also use miui.if you don't like the phone get
A different one and stop whining
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*sigh*
You people need a lesson on reading comprehension. No where in my post did I say that I don't like the Evo... So why would I get another phone?
I said that the battery life sucks, which it does. Especially if your phone isn't rooted.
Also, I feel bad for you: only 15 hours with an extended battery!? LOL that's terrible. I use a Sense ROM (Fresh3.5) with netarchy-more-havs (don't know the version number) and I get at least 20 hours with moderate~heavy usage, on the stock battery.
When I'm using MIUI with Tiamat & ViperBoy's undervolt scripts, I get over 24 hours with moderate~heavy usage. I have no doubt that if I had an extended battery, I could get 2+ days.
P.S.
I will be getting another phone. Preferably the iPhone when (if?) it drops on sprint, or a mango windows phone 7 device. If neither of those happen, galaxy s II it is...

It's terrible. Heavy usage I get 2 maybe 2 and a half hours. If you don't use it much,the standby time should be enough to get you through the day. I remember streaming the world cup on Sprint Espn and it barely made it past one 2 hour game before it became totally dead. Don't know how some say they get 5 plus hours on 4g running under heavy usage. I think their idea of heavy usage is much different than mine.

I'm on kinged kingdom nightlys sense 3.0..I get 10+ hrs with heavy use!! Calkulins Undervolt script..ROM is insane fast, with moderate use I avg 1day 9-11hrs..haven't hit two day mark with moderate use thou..working on it. STOCK battery! Make sure ur SD card is partitioned correctly. Optimize your RAM..the smoother and more stable the ROM,the better battery life,cuz your phone won't be struggling to function properly!!
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YABB Yet Another Battery *****ing Thread

Gawdang battery, lasted too long!
So my first android was the nexus one, then the galaxy s, then the nexus S. I am used to the "fantastic" battery life of android phones. So yesterday I was deciding on whether to get the galaxy nexus to continue the tradition, but decided to get the note instead.
I want to do the right thing and that is to do a full charge and full discharge on the first few rounds of battery life but it took AGES for it to discharge fully. I am so pleased with this, I now have better battery life than my wife's iphone.
******** If you see the battery chart, I could not resist playing with the phone so did a little charge there. I am also trying to avoid root as long as possible, after the so call "stock vanilla" experience, its nice to have toggles on the notification without jumping through loops

Wow. 6 hours. That's impressive
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And that is on stock. I wonder if I flash a custom kernel, would I be able to get better? Overall very happy. On my second trip of full term charge to empty.
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5 hours screen on only took 37% of your juice? 5 hours with kill almost 100% of mine! whats wrong with my note?
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How the hell...
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That's good to hear, getting my Note in 2 days and I can't wait. Been trolling the forums and hearing a lot of good things

I got my Note on Thursday morning. I didn't have time to set it up until Friday evening. I fully charged the battery first. I've got gmail and twitter syncing, and bluetooth and wifi on. I've made a few calls and showed it off to my family on Christmas Eve. It hasn't been heavy use by any stretch, but I have yet to recharge the battery - it's at 33% right now with screen on time of just over three hours. I'm pretty satisfied so far.

gaolinde said:
5 hours screen on only took 37% of your juice? 5 hours with kill almost 100% of mine! whats wrong with my note?
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You see from the screenshot that he was charging for a while.
So I don't understand this thread. How can you know how long battery last for if you part charge it?

Not much to understand, my friend. This thread was not made to prove anything, just to show I am real happy with my phone. You are completely right, I did charge it in the middle, I was transfering songs and movies out from the computer and forgot to take it off the usb.
I am now on the second from full to zero. Lets see how much screen time I can get, but already its a winner for me. 77% with 10h on battery and 1h 39m screen time.
Happy holidays all.
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That's good to hear, getting my Note in 2 days and I can't wait. Been trolling the forums and hearing a lot of good things
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I got my Note on Thursday morning. I didn't have time to set it up until Friday evening. I fully charged the battery first. I've got gmail and twitter syncing, and bluetooth and wifi on. I've made a few calls and showed it off to my family on Christmas Eve. It hasn't been heavy use by any stretch, but I have yet to recharge the battery - it's at 33% right now with screen on time of just over three hours. I'm pretty satisfied so far.
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Congrats on your new purchases, may you have much joy with it, like I do mine.

i got the note a few days ago and im very pleased with the battery usage. right now on normal usage im on 48 hours of on time, with 40% battery left. display is the biggest usage of course, and has been on 2.5 hours. ive done lots of installing via wifi and playing with new apps and running games, and a few calls, etc. my old galaxy s would get 48 hours only with very minimal usage and nowhere near 2.5 hours of the display on.

So I am now on my 2nd discharge or 3rd and I rooted it, so there was a whole lot of plugging in and adb and stuff, but I think on a real discharge I can get away with about 4 hours screen time, that is stretching it i think but, generally still very very happy with it. Compared to the nexus S and the galaxy s before, this is heaven for me. I still maintain its better than the wife's 4S

Wow. It sounds like a lot of us with battery problems might still have half full batteries falsely claiming to be empty. Aside from turning off the heater function, this might be the next big explaination of "poor battery"
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Lol at heater function.
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Galaxy S6 Edge Battery Life

For those of you who have received your Galaxy S6 Edge already, congratulations I wish I was one of you ☺
Please report how your battery life (so far) is. I know it's a small sample but I'd like to know about.
Thanks

As far as i got to know, the battery life of Samsung Galaxy S6 is quite good and is having nice longevity. It offers the 2600 maH battery life which is much good from the other smartphone's that's in the market now days. http://cdn4.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Got mine Saturday played a ton with it that day. Sunday was much of the same. The battery was so so. By no means will I ever rate a battery week one.
Today was more of a normal day and I was pleased with the battery life. It is difficult to say how it will be. I'm coming from a Note 4 so making comparisons isn't fair.
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Got mine Saturday played a ton with it that day. Sunday was much of the same. The battery was so so. By no means will I ever rate a battery week one.
Today was more of a normal day and I was pleased with the battery life. It is difficult to say how it will be. I'm coming from a Note 4 so making comparisons isn't fair.
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you could post some SS for it, at least we can have some idea, thanks...

This is the only reason why I might skip the edge. I currently have Z3 and it is just so much joy to never be worried about battery life. I don't even check what is the SOT anymore since I know that no matter what I do with the phone it will last the whole day.
However S6 edge just looks so gorgeous and my blocky Z3 starting to look so last season..

CandyAndy said:
This is the only reason why I might skip the edge. I currently have Z3 and it is just so much joy to never be worried about battery life. I don't even check what is the SOT anymore since I know that no matter what I do with the phone it will last the whole day.
However S6 edge just looks so gorgeous and my blocky Z3 starting to look so last season..
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Well, if you think like this, you can never buy a new phone. There would be many downsides of Note 5 and an that point you will think of S7.

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Well, if you think like this, you can never buy a new phone. There would be many downsides of Note 5 and an that point you will think of S7.
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So you are saying that industry reached its peak with battery life with z3 and everything else after this it's just downhill?
I hope not!

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So you are saying that industry reached its peak with battery life with z3 and everything else after this it's just downhill?
I hope not!
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I agree with Andy. The Z3's battery life was the stuff of legends compared to the crap life of just about every other smartphone out there. I miss mine too sometimes but honestly, I'm rarely without power so a quick charge is a reasonable tradeoff.

Battery life, like mentioned is so so. It's better than my last phone, but definitely not up to z3 standard.
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In 28m 24s on battery I'm at 95 percent with 23 mins of screen time and like 2 youtube video, texting, and making changes to the home screen.
I will be comparing it to my iPhone 6 Plus and OnePlus One later in the week.

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In 28m 24s on battery I'm at 95 percent with 23 mins of screen time and like 2 youtube video, texting, and making changes to the home screen.
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God damn it, that's not bad at all! Keep us posted please, you lucky so and so!
And throw in some pics

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God damn it, that's not bad at all! Keep us posted please, you lucky so and so!
And throw in some pics
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Agreed, from the little sample we have so far, seems pretty good.

I'm a true power user, so I will be on the phone all day pushing it.
After some gaming and phone calls, web surfing and more texting. Pics below

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I'm a true power user, so I will be on the phone all day pushing it.
After some gaming and phone calls, web surfing and more texting. Pics below
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This would end up with approx. 12 hours standby and 8 hours sot, and you are in 4g LTE heavy user...very impressive my friend
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EnIXmA said:
This would end up with approx. 12 hours standby and 8 hours sot, and you are in 4g LTE heavy user...very impressive my friend
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Yeah I forgot to mention that this whole test will be done on LTE.
If I have over 45% by 5pm est I will be impressed.

omf05 said:
Yeah I forgot to mention that this whole test will be done on LTE.
If I have over 45% by 5pm est I will be impressed.
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For playing games and youtube this is quite good! Let us see your stats later. Maybe at 50%, screen on time and usage details like above. You're the first to give real details. Thanks

Anybody else getting abnormal amount of "Cell Standby" drain? For reference, I am also on Wifi Calling. This cell standby battery usage is usually higher than screen on time.

My cell standby is 1% and I've been using the phone since 9am.
I have WiFi calling off and power save mode off. Tomorrow I will test it with power save mode on. Right now I'm sitting at 61 after 1hr of hulu. I did some textimg ,phone call and a few videos on ign also. . Next update will have pics and details

Same here. Cell standby is killing my battery. Factory reset may help?
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Did you all do the update?