After being skeptical about the G3 after seeing the reviews, my preordered Verizon G3, came in.
The phone doesn't get hot as I heard so much. Maybe just warm but not to the point where it could even be a problem. The brightness is not bad at all as people said it was.
I can't really call it a lag, but on the optimus launcher that came with the phone seem kind of stutters. When I changed it to nova or Buzz, it was super buttery.
I rarely see lag, but it seems like simple graphic games like don't touch the white tiles, which I love, lags.
The screen is absolutely beautiful.
The camera is either hit or run most of the time. Pictures of my dog looks nice, but it has some blurr to it. It was taken indoors at night time.
I also took pictures outdoors, which was fairly dark with,no that much light. It actually looks darker in real life, but the performance in dark was very good.
I don't know why there are so many complaints about this phone. Maybe I just luckily got the one without defects, but I'm loving this phone.
I will post the camera photos soon. Tomorrow I'll probably take some outdoor photos and upload them as well
The battery lasted about almost 5 hours of videos, browsing, and heavy customization with avg brightness at 70%, frequently going to 100% to show off my screen to my friends.
I would like to see some battery results. I will do the same, today is going to be the first day of full use from a full charge (Verizon variant also)
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I would like to see some battery results. I will do the same, today is going to be the first day of full use from a full charge (Verizon variant also)
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Screen off time is ridiculous. My nexus 4 was off charge for 2 hours (mixed wifi and hspa+), playing local music for 40 minutes and 10 of minutes checking email/apps/web browsing and my battery dropped to 88%. When doing the same with the g3 my battery dropped to something like 97%.
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Screen off time is ridiculous. My nexus 4 was off charge for 2 hours (mixed wifi and hspa+), playing local music for 40 minutes and 10 of minutes checking email/apps/web browsing and my battery dropped to 88%. When doing the same with the g3 my battery dropped to something like 97%.
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same thing here..listening to music..instagram..whatsapp..fb..texting for 25m and only lost 1 percent..im impressed..i have the battery calibrated
hello00 said:
same thing here..listening to music..instagram..whatsapp..fb..texting for 25m and only lost 1 percent..im impressed..i have the battery calibrated
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How do u calibrate batteries? With an app correct?
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How do u calibrate batteries? With an app correct?
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The only way the battery gets calibrated properly is to perform several full charge/discharge cycles. It is not however, advisable to fully discharge the battery.
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How do u calibrate batteries? With an app correct?
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if u are not rooted then use this method..the phone knows what u are doing and it should re-calibrate any phone
1. once ur phone dies..charge it..dont turn it on
2. let it charge fully until u see the light turn green..unplug the phone
3. turn the phone on..go to the display settings and select the option which makes the screen not turn off..now plug the phone back to charging and charge to full 100% again
4. once thats done unplug the phone and let it drain the battery to 0% let the phone turns off it by itself
5. once loaded to 100% unplug the charger again and do not load until the phone turns itself off after reaching a 0% battery level.
6. once off fully charge it again and it should work properly..the screen setting can put back to normal again
it is a long process but it has to be done this way for the process to work properly
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Screen off time is ridiculous. My nexus 4 was off charge for 2 hours (mixed wifi and hspa+), playing local music for 40 minutes and 10 of minutes checking email/apps/web browsing and my battery dropped to 88%. When doing the same with the g3 my battery dropped to something like 97%.
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This is what is happening for me... Maybe I need to try this battery calibration... Cus this is quite bad. View attachment 2858293View attachment 2858293View attachment 2858293
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This is what is happening for me... Maybe I need to try this battery calibration... Cus this is quite bad. View attachment 2858293View attachment 2858293View attachment 2858293
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yeah that's not good at all. I did one charge cycle, and most of the time i was on 4g not wifi (from 97% battery down to 33% battery). Hopefully i can pull off more than 4 hours of SOT while on wifi. My old Evo LTE could get 4 hours of SOT when on wifi and 3g and airplane.
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This is what is happening for me... Maybe I need to try this battery calibration... Cus this is quite bad. View attachment 2858293View attachment 2858293View attachment 2858293
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Screen off perfromance is amazing
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That's really good. What variant, and how long have you had it?
Done any battery calibration?
frankdanktank said:
After being skeptical about the G3 after seeing the reviews, my preordered Verizon G3, came in.
The phone doesn't get hot as I heard so much. Maybe just warm but not to the point where it could even be a problem. The brightness is not bad at all as people said it was.
I can't really call it a lag, but on the optimus launcher that came with the phone seem kind of stutters. When I changed it to nova or Buzz, it was super buttery.
I rarely see lag, but it seems like simple graphic games like don't touch the white tiles, which I love, lags.
The screen is absolutely beautiful.
The camera is either hit or run most of the time. Pictures of my dog looks nice, but it has some blurr to it. It was taken indoors at night time.
I also took pictures outdoors, which was fairly dark with,no that much light. It actually looks darker in real life, but the performance in dark was very good.
I don't know why there are so many complaints about this phone. Maybe I just luckily got the one without defects, but I'm loving this phone.
I will post the camera photos soon. Tomorrow I'll probably take some outdoor photos and upload them as well
The battery lasted about almost 5 hours of videos, browsing, and heavy customization with avg brightness at 70%, frequently going to 100% to show off my screen to my friends.
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Without a poll it is hard to judge the satisfied rate.
I'll take a stab. Reading posts for about 2 weeks, I'd say10% or so flat out hate this smartphone, returned it or will before the return period expires. 25% like it but not without some concessions, i.e., battery, display or whatever.
Pretty much I think a much larger percentage of folks keeping it rather than dumping it. I started a thread about what was your previous smartphone so if it was something rather older then the G3 is a no brainer upgrade. BUT some have rather current flagships and a very good percentage are keeping the G3 regardless.
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That's really good. What variant, and how long have you had it?
Done any battery calibration?
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Tmo d851
I think the auto brightness is much too dim so I ran min of 50% brightness, no battery calibration aside from 2 charge cycles.
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Screen off perfromance is amazing
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People have been reporting that when dropping from 100% to 99% it takes longer than normal, and afterwards starts to drain fast again.. Could you confirm it please?
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People have been reporting that when dropping from 100% to 99% it takes longer than normal, and afterwards starts to drain fast again.. Could you confirm it please?
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That probably has to do with the overcharge. When coming off from full charge, it is more like 110%, so it doesn't show that it had dropped below 100%. Same with g2.
Make sense?
There is already a thread for the same purpose http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2772242 Please continue there
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what brightness lvl do you set on your hd 2 usually?
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what brightness lvl do you set on your hd 2 usually?
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You're gonna get a lot of different answers for this, obviously, but I have mine at 40% on battery and 80% on external power. I only ever change it if I'm in direct sunlight and need a bit more kick.
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You're gonna get a lot of different answers for this, obviously, but I have mine at 40% on battery and 80% on external power. I only ever change it if I'm in direct sunlight and need a bit more kick.
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How does your battery life fare on 40% brightness? (understanding that you may use the handphone resources quite different from others too)
dkjh said:
How does your battery life fare on 40% brightness? (understanding that you may use the handphone resources quite different from others too)
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I'm not the best person to talk about battery performance with as I have mine plugged into a PC all day at work and have a charger next to my bed and have it plugged in all night. I lose about 5-15% between about 5pm and 11pm, but I don't use it a great deal unless I'm doing some programming for it, and again, it's plugged into a PC when I do that.
70%.
When I saw how beautiful everything looks when the screen is that bright, I could not go back.
Battery life is noticible different, but that 'auto-brightness' just did not work for me. It was almost evertime not bright enough..
I still go trough each day without problems.
Lumos, and I set brightness to defined light level.
60% on battery
100% on charge
With Lumos, auto with a custom curve between 20% and 90%, with exceptions for photo viewers and video players which force 100%.
anything below 30% is unusable in UK sunshine. i leave it there. 100% burns my eyes
Mines on auto and I the battery life is fine and lasts me the day with heavy use. Gets me through work and nights out that's all I need.
I usually put 30% on battery, not going out much, with a few calls, texts, webs and music, it should last for about 1.5 days
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70%.
When I saw how beautiful everything looks when the screen is that bright, I could not go back.
Battery life is noticible different, but that 'auto-brightness' just did not work for me. It was almost evertime not bright enough..
I still go trough each day without problems.
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I switched to 70% and i have to agree with you the brightness is absolutely brilliant! but the thoughts of battery being used up faster irks me. So i set it at 50%! Gona test out the battery life
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60% on battery
100% on charge
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What is your usage lvl and how long does you battery last?
I keep hearing some people claim how "great" their Vibrant's battery is. I am on my third Vibrant and battery life has been terrible on all of them. Just recently I noticed ~16% of my battery got drained for ~15 minute voice call. (The attached screenshot shows voice call using 27% but at that time my battery was at around 39%, which means the 15 mins took about ~16% total battery.) I just passed my 14-days buyer's remorse, so exchanging it (unless I want a "like new" one) or returning it are not an option. Any suggestions on how to improve battery life? I already keep the brightness on the screen to the lowest it gets.
Thanks!
Hmm that defintely is not normal. I would check with the store in getting another replacement. 15% drain on 15 min call is not normal for any phone.
There is a bug where if you power down the phone while it's charging, then the reported battery % is higher than actual. Perhaps the seemingly fast drain is a result of the reported value "catching up" to the actual level.
Edit: So I figured out where you're getting your numbers .
Still doesn't seem right though, did you notice the battery percentage before the call by any chance?
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There is a bug where if you power down the phone while it's charging, then the reported battery % is higher than actual. Perhaps the seemingly fast drain is a result of the reported value "catching up" to the actual level.
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My rooted G1 had that same bug. Start charging it, power it down, power up and from completely dead it would show around. 24% in a couple minutes of charging. This phone I've noticed does it as well as newer blackberry's. Bizarre...
What I would suggest is draining the battery till it dies, charge it back up fully and see if you can have it happen again. Could've been a fluke.
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I keep hearing some people claim how "great" their Vibrant's battery is. I am on my third Vibrant and battery life has been terrible on all of them. Just recently I noticed ~16% of my battery got drained for ~15 minute voice call. (The attached screenshot shows voice call using 27% but at that time my battery was at around 39%, which means the 15 mins took about ~16% total battery.) I just passed my 14-days buyer's remorse, so exchanging it (unless I want a "like new" one) or returning it are not an option. Any suggestions on how to improve battery life? I already keep the brightness on the screen to the lowest it gets.
Thanks!
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looks like a bad battery reading to me.
Complete charge, complete discharge, and complete charge should reset it.
Yeah the percentages do need to be calibrated and sometimes they are off a bit, say 100%-90% actually often goes faster than 80%-70%.
The batteries are also partly responsible since discharge Ah is not a completely linear relationship with voltage (which is why the percentages need calibration).
I would say unless you have a rogue application on your phone eating battery it is more likely just how it is being reported.
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Yeah the percentages do need to be calibrated and sometimes they are off a bit, say 100%-90% actually often goes faster than 80%-70%.
The batteries are also partly responsible since discharge Ah is not a completely linear relationship with voltage (which is why the percentages need calibration).
I would say unless you have a rogue application on your phone eating battery it is more likely just how it is being reported.
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So if battery A has x% greater mAh than battery B it does not mean A has x% greater battery life?
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So if battery A has x% greater mAh than battery B it does not mean A has x% greater battery life?
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Yes, if the phones are identical.
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I'm having same issue. Battery life on my Vibrant is just horrible. I can barely go half a day until it's fully discharged and that's about 30 min talk time an hr maybe browsing apps and internet and a little WIFI/BT. Just for example I charged it after complete discharge and took it out at 11.30 pm last night, drove my brother to the airport and back around 1.30 and while it was sitting in the car and a few calls I made, it already went down to 74%, I purposely left it without charge till morning.... at 8am it was showing 47%... WTF!!
I have rooted the phone with update.zip, I have installed ATK and have Crazy settings on it.... one thing I don't get is that after it kills apps, they keep coming back every few seconds. Also brightness is at the lowest and no live wallpaper...
UltimateJuice by the way is showing 1.58 times, which is BS... right now it's 10.30AM and its down to 38%....
Any help would be appreciated!
Try not using atk
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Try not using atk
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This
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http://phandroid.com/2010/08/25/dro...roid-phone-battery-life-comparisons/#comments
Vibrant's battery life does suck, even with the supposedly power efficient processor and super amoled!!!!!!
Samsung has some more work to do. Hopefully, the froyo update can alleviate the problem!!!
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I have rooted the phone with update.zip, I have installed ATK and have Crazy settings on it.... one thing I don't get is that after it kills apps, they keep coming back every few seconds. Also brightness is at the lowest and no live wallpaper...
UltimateJuice by the way is showing 1.58 times, which is BS... right now it's 10.30AM and its down to 38%....
Any help would be appreciated!
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Read this first.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html
Anytime the screen is on its eating battery. We have the best screen in the market. If you really want a conservative wallpaper use something almost all black or solid black. When a AMOLED screen is displaying black the LEDs are off.
For those "apps that keep showing up" those are due services that are running in the background. If you don't use the app often set the notifications to a lower time or set it to update manually.
If you've rooted there is a thread on "how to keep your phone quick and snappy" read it. Also fix your permissions through recovery. Rogue apps apps can drain battery.
after 3hrs of on & off hard using (minus extra long phone calls >45mins) I can pull 12-16 hours easily on one charge.
Look into things like eugenes vibrant 6 & JACs UV(under volted) kernel.
GL and car chargers are awesome!
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Battery life on my Vibrant has been superb. You might need to change settings or something. This screen shot was for today with lots of calls and market shopping and I even watched a movie. I do not use a killer, yes I'm rooted with lots of tweaks to my notification bar. I'm using the spiritbomb lwp and its been great.
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Unfortunately, the battery life on the Vibrant just sucks, compared to the iPhone.
I came to a Galaxy S and a Vibrant form the iPhone 3Gs.
With the same style of usage, the iPhone lasts at least 40% longer than the Galaxy/Vibrant.
I like the phone a lot, but am really unhappy to have to constantly think about how I use it, to avoid it dying on me before the end of the day.
Basically, with moderate use, it will last for a day, but if I go out after work and do a little texting or take a few pictures, it will die before I get home.
12-14 hours is really not good, since with my old iPhone I used to be able to last almost two full days without recharging.
Plus, the blocking of the camera at 15% of battery life is a truly idiotic decision by Samsung.
Thanks for your feedback! I am newbie in the Android world, as I come from the Apple planet. It just takes time to get used to it.
As for XDA App, where can I get it?
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Battery life on my Vibrant has been superb. You might need to change settings or something. This screen shot was for today with lots of calls and market shopping and I even watched a movie. I do not use a killer, yes I'm rooted with lots of tweaks to my notification bar. I'm using the spiritbomb lwp and its been great.
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I am looking into the mod for the notification bar, specifically the battery. I have seen a circle battery with percentage, where do I get one?
XDA is your Friend
Search XDA for all ur app and theme needs, as for the Iphone being better on battery. I dont doubt its better, but from my experience and many family and friends showing me there iphones they are always tethered to a power source. Theres no better test than driving 300+ miles a day every day and coming back to the hotel and seeing my phone tell me i have been using it for 20+ hours and i still have 25% charge. I am constantly using my phone for calls, text, movies and such. Without my phone my wife would probably divorce me lol The amount of travel i do via plane, train and automobile is all the real world facts i need. Vibrant is a keeper.
Yes it sucks.
And under 15% it's not allowing me taking pictures!
Come on, I know I am under 15%, but I still want to take 1 or 2 pic!!
Ok so I read a post that said drain your battery completely for better performance so i did.Got low bat warning and played Avatar to kill it quick.Only it didnt die fast,seemed like forever for this damn thing to really die!!!Maybe I just imagined it so I tried it again.Got low bat warning and watched a 25 min youtube vid followed by a 16 min youtube vid and several rap videos before it cut off.Try it and see how long it takes to really run out of juice and I think youll be surprised
I remembered with my G1, that once i got the low battery warning, I was always able to milk every ounce of power from that battery.
after picking up my vibrant yesterday, i charged to a full 100% with the phone turned off
i've been on it all day long, installing apps and restarting quite frequently, and i just got my first battery warning (21%)
will probably run it into the ground after work for another full cycle charge then just charge whenever it needs it. seems to have more than enough to make through a full day, and i'm only saying this because i haven't been able to put it down since this morning and it's still ticking
edit: and this is all done indoors with fluctuating 3g/2g coverage (home and work)
I have twice run my battery into the ground and charged to 100% with the phone off. Now I am getting a little over 25 hours on a single charge. this battery is indeed better than they said it was.
ardchoille said:
I have twice run my battery into the ground and charged to 100% with the phone off. Now I am getting a little over 25 hours on a single charge. this battery is indeed better than they said it was.
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Better than what?
If coming from an old WM, sure, it's better.
But coming from an iPhone, which lasted for 2 days with real use, the battery of the Vibrant sucks.
With moderate use, I can's get through a full day (14-16 hours). It's the one real problem I have with this otherwise great phone.
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But coming from an iPhone, which lasted for 2 days with real use, the battery of the Vibrant sucks.
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3GS or 4? cause the battery on anything before that was abysmal.
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3GS or 4? cause the battery on anything before that was abysmal.
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I had two 3Gs (now have a Galaxy S and a Vibrant). It lasted almost double what the Vibrant does, with similar use.
Love the screen of the Samsung, but the battery is making me a little depressed. I am hoping that Froyo will improve it a bit.
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I had two 3Gs (now have a Galaxy S and a Vibrant). It lasted almost double what the Vibrant does, with similar use.
Love the screen of the Samsung, but the battery is making me a little depressed. I am hoping that Froyo will improve it a bit.
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yeah, hopefully drops sometime soon.
it seems battery life is either really good or really poor, not a lot of middle ground. of course, this could mostly be because of different peoples' opinions. but i'm coming from a dumbphone i only had to charge once a week, and so far i'm pretty impressed. like i mentioned earlier, i've been on this thing non-stop since this morning, and it's just now flashing the battery symbol at me. i imagine once i go through a couple of full cycles, and the new toy factor wears off, it will be a non-issue (for me)
what is your real world usage like?
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I had two 3Gs (now have a Galaxy S and a Vibrant). It lasted almost double what the Vibrant does, with similar use.
Love the screen of the Samsung, but the battery is making me a little depressed. I am hoping that Froyo will improve it a bit.
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Why not just buy some extra batteries? I picked up 3 extra batteries for when I fly so I can watch movies with no worries...
I get great battery life on my Vibrant. Make sure you turn off everything that you don't need....wifi, gps, keep screen brightness low and not on 100% at all times etc...obvious stuff....
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Just checking email and talking for maybe 30-60 minutes, plus a few texts.
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Why not just buy some extra batteries? I picked up 3 extra batteries for when I fly so I can watch movies with no worries...
I get great battery life on my Vibrant. Make sure you turn off everything that you don't need....wifi, gps, keep screen brightness low and not on 100% at all times etc...obvious stuff....
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Man, I have turned the brightness down to below stock, and I do have two extra batteries. But that's kind of like going back to my WM days.
After the getting spoiled on the iPhone, which would last for almost two full days with everything running, and with similar use, I really hate having to constantly think about the battery, and worry that it's going to die on me.
True story:
Someone hit my car a few days ago and I tried to take a pic with my Vibrant. It was in late afternoon, so the battery was at 15% I guess -- so the phone effectively told me to "F*** Off." Or at least that's how I took it No pic, of course.
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Just checking email and talking for maybe 30-60 minutes, plus a few texts.
Man, I have turned the brightness down to below stock, and I do have two extra batteries. But that's kind of like going back to my WM days.
After the getting spoiled on the iPhone, which would last for almost two full days with everything running, and with similar use, I really hate having to constantly think about the battery, and worry that it's going to die on me.
True story:
Someone hit my car a few days ago and I tried to take a pic with my Vibrant. It was in late afternoon, so the battery was at 15% I guess -- so the phone effectively told me to "F*** Off." Or at least that's how I took it No pic, of course.
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I hear where you're coming from...have you tried switching out the battery to a different one? I know that some of the batteries were faulty and gave people horrible battery life.
The iPhone also ran at a much slower clock speed and it was equipped with a pretty good battery. There's no denying the awesomeness of the iPhone battery...I'm just thinking that you may have a bad battery. Try changing it out.
There's also a 2800mAh battery pack coming out very soon....it may suit your wants and needs...
The iPhone also lacks widgets and multitasking - and the screen is not as bright so those all help in maintaining battery life.
If you crippled your android in the same way - you could get 2 days pretty easily as well.
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The iPhone also lacks widgets and multitasking - and the screen is not as bright so those all help in maintaining battery life.
If you crippled your android in the same way - you could get 2 days pretty easily as well.
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Very true...
It's like a Geo Metro vs. Ferrari ...hypothetically, if they had the same size gas tank which one would consume more gas and run out faster? It's obvious...
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Very true...
It's like a Geo Metro vs. Ferrari ...hypothetically, if they had the same size gas tank which one would consume more gas and run out faster? It's obvious...
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Come on now....
I have both, and they both have their good points and bad points.
The battery is a bad point for the Vibrant.
The screen is the best point (it's actually not "brighter", but has much better contrast than a backlit LCD). I keep the Vibrant's screen at it's lowest brightness, anyway.
But in terms of speed, there is really not much difference in daily use - if anything, the iPhone 3Gs feels a little smoother much of the time. Again something Froyo might improve.
My well conditioned battery is at 5%, after 16hrs 54 min., with very light non-call use today (calls are at 49 min. 26 sec.).
My point is, that I have to expect more after using the iPhone, while some here are obviously happy with it. But it ain't great.
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Come on now....
I have both, and they both have their good points and bad points.
The battery is a bad point for the Vibrant.
The screen is the best point (it's actually not "brighter", but has much better contrast than a backlit LCD). I keep the Vibrant's screen at it's lowest brightness, anyway.
But in terms of speed, there is really not much difference in daily use - if anything, the iPhone 3Gs feels a little smoother much of the time. Again something Froyo might improve.
My well conditioned battery is at 5%, after 16hrs 54 min., with very light non-call use today (calls are at 49 min. 26 sec.).
My point is, that I have to expect more after using the iPhone, while some here are obviously happy with it. But it ain't great.
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Something is wrong with your battery if that's all you're getting.
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Something is wrong with your battery if that's all you're getting.
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We get five to six hours of display on with this phone. That number is perfect if the phone was on 35% precent or more of those 16 hours.
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It's ALL about the apps you use.
My battery life is pretty good, I can go two days with moderate phone use and my normal heavy-e-mail and occasional messaging usage. I don't do much web browsing with it, but I fiddle with it constantly throughout the day.
My friend couldn't get through one day on his, so I encouraged him to play around with some of the apps he had that I didn't, and now he can get well into day two before it gets low enough he wants to recharge.
My wife complained about her battery life, and I realized she was pinging four e-mail accounts once per minute. Just cutting that back to a five minute interval made a huge difference.
Even so, I've ordered spare batteries and a charger since I travel often and a missed call could cost me a lot of money, and they're too cheap to not keep a few around. (In one of those other threads somebody linked to an ebay deal with two batteries and a charger for 8 bucks.)
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or he's got a bunch of widgets.
That's almost universally a theme when people complain about Android battery usage.
Got my replacement Vibrant yesterday afternoon, charged it full while turned off and took it out at around 9pm. Worked on it a little last night and today installing apps browsing and about 60 min talk time so far.... 3PM and still got 30% left.
Definitely much better battery life than the one I had on first phone. I did get a replacement battery as well, but haven't tested that one yet. This one so far is working as expected.
I haven't rooted yet so I am not sure if that and lag fix has any affect on the battery.
Also ATK is not installed yet, and i hear it has adverse affect on battery. Is that true?
what do you guys see on the battery code?
G7, G8 or G9?
With the couple of reviewers stating the battery isn't that great. Let's see if it they're right..my "screen on time" was a little over 5 hours*...
This is mine after a full 100% with auto brightness with moderate to heavy use..
Edit. remember to include "screen on time screenshots" unlike my OP.
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After running down the out of the box battery to 20%, gave it a full charge. Since then, sitting at 6.5 hours off battery, 2 hours 1m 46s of screen on, mostly surfing the web, facebook, a handful of texts, using the Moto Display, Wi-Fi on half that time, off the other half, and about 10 pictures, 79% left.
daboyal006 said:
This is mine after a full 100% with auto brightness with moderate to heavy use..
Add On: I have do something about this moto voice lol
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Screen on time is the most important battery stat. Any chance you can edit your OP to include a screenshot of it starting from fully charged?
Yeah please post screen on times when reporting back.
I picked mine up yesterday, got it all setup, and charged over night. I'll be able to report back later this afternoon once it's had some significant uptime. I also have my LG G3 and Moto X 2013 next to me, and I'm trying to keep the usage uniform across all 3 to compare.
INCREMENTAL said:
Yeah please post screen on times when reporting back.
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Screen on time is the most important battery stat. Any chance you can edit your OP to include a screenshot of it starting from fully charged?
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Yeah I just remembered about that but I did check it out before I charged it. It was about 5 hours before it finally died out ...I'll do it again today
Sent from my DROID TURBO 64 GB
Got mine and it was at about 44% out of the box. Ram it down until it shut down and have been having baby use with it since (except for about 7 hours sleeping). And yeah, that is totally a rogue app. Never had problems with it before though. :/
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This is comparing a Verizon G3 and Turbo, as well as a T-Mobile Moto X 2013. I've always had issues with the wireless keeping the phones awake, so the battery life isn't what most of you would probably see, but it's still a fair comparison.
DROID Turbo:
LG G3:
Moto X 2013:
So basically it's doing better than the G3 and way better than Moto X 2013. I agree with you though I think the poor Wifi reception is causing the phone to be awake more often or spend more battery maintaining signal. I'm at about 5 hours with 1 hr SOT and 80% battery. Seems reasonable but I thought it'd be better.
mobilehavoc said:
So basically it's doing better than the G3 and way better than Moto X 2013. I agree with you though I think the poor Wifi reception is causing the phone to be awake more often or spend more battery maintaining signal. I'm at about 5 hours with 1 hr SOT and 80% battery. Seems reasonable but I thought it'd be better.
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That's my conclusion as well, I will run these through the night and I'll have a better comparison, then this weekend will be real world use.
It has something to do with our wireless infrastructure at work that causes devices to stay away 90% of the time, at the end of the work day I'll have 6-7 hours of it being away with very little SOT.
I'm surprised that it's only a slight improvement over the G3 though, I was expecting more.
Still trying to get through my first few cycles. So far this morning my phone is at 90% with only 25 minutes of screen on time. I did run google play music on the drive over here. But still, those are rather terrible battery stats, hoping to get through the first few cycles and get better battery life.
Juliann826 said:
Still trying to get through my first few cycles. So far this morning my phone is at 90% with only 25 minutes of screen on time. I did run google play music on the drive over here. But still, those are rather terrible battery stats, hoping to get through the first few cycles and get better battery life.
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You gotta give it more than the first 10% of one cycle to get an accurate representation. Let us know after the battery is down more.
Still gonna let it get lower before charging again. This is with a full charge. I am coming from the G3 and batt life seems way better on this, but can't tell since not even 1 charge cycle
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(...)but can't tell since not even 1 charge cycle
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Exactly, it takes few charging cycles for the battery and the phone to calibrate and maximize the battery life.
Alright here's mine.
Bought yesterday, charged to 100% overnight, used all day at work.
Thus far appears much better than my previous phone, an LG G2, but battery life has never been a problem for me.
Did well in phone arena tests though:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Step...the-new-king-of-flagship-battery-life_id62350
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Still gonna let it get lower before charging again. This is with a full charge. I am coming from the G3 and batt life seems way better on this, but can't tell since not even 1 charge cycle
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So we have 1 legit post from 100% to 0%. 4 hours screen time.
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So we have 1 legit post from 100% to 0%. 4 hours screen time.
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Here is my final before going back on charger
PS. This is with 1hour streaming music and 4 hours streaming Plex
Seems like battery life it pretty dam good. Don't see why other people's reviews about battery are so crappy.
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Here is my final before going back on charger
PS. This is with 1hour streaming music and 4 hours streaming Plex
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I think this is not good. Four hour screen time is awful.
mike2518 said:
I think this is not good. Four hour screen time is awful.
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SOT isnt the only thing that shows how a battery is good or not. Like I said, I streamed a lot...with my G3, it would have crapped out long before going a full day, and the battery is only about 20% bigger. I got more than that out of the Turbo. Also note, this was the full first cycle. If you dont know already, the battery will get better after a full cycles. So Im loving it. I only have one true gripe and that is the low call volume, but I know that can be fixed through an update, which I hope they do soon.
I'm beyond impressed with this phone in the 48hrs I've had it. Coming from a Pixel 3 and S10e, upon first powering on it felt noticebly jankier than my other phones and understandably so. But after initial setup and allowing it to settle, it's actually pretty snappy. For my use case at least- web browsing, Twitter, Reddit, etc. PUBG is playable, but I'll leave that to my 3xl.
But what is blowing me away is the way this 670 sips on battery. It took me way longer to drain this thing than I thought it would, but between yesterday and today I managed almost 9hrs sot. This was just here at the house, 100% wifi, adaptive brightness on, and aod on. I'm curious what it would do with aod off, but at this point I'm sufficiently hooked on that feature. This is far and away the best battery I've ever had on a phone and it's truly plenty snappy. A step behind the 3 of course, but I'm good with this and the gains in battery are more than worth it. I honestly don't know who buys a Pixel 3 at this point.
Caveat: digital wellbeing was turned off before this test.
Bought unlocked at Best Buy. $399 with a $100 bb gift card; effectively $299. Crazy good value. It feels like Google just decimated the mid-range market.
BTW, the clickiest buttons I've ever had on a phone. The buttons seem oddly high quality for a phone this cheap.
I'm getting about half that with the XL but it's expected, I'm cruel to my batteries. I do agree about the value statement. When day one deals have the phone widely available for 100 (or more) less than MSRP you can figure that's your real buy in price and at 300 and 380 these things are screaming deals. You've got a top notch camera, a good software experience, best update path available,etc. Not an easy combo to beat and I'm very curious about where the sales numbers are going to come in at on these things. Personally, I'm hoping their good and we'll see more of the same.
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I'm very curious about where the sales numbers are going to come in at on these things.
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I think this phone will be very popular. I don't see any reason it wouldn't have a strong development scene as well.
Yeah, I've been over optimistic about some phones that didn't do as well as I expected so I'm a little more guarded now about taking guesses but that aside I see this one as a winner. It's a very compelling package in it's price point.
I gotta give it a pretty good on the battery too. My 3a (small version) arrived on thursday.
It's clear it's gonna be able to consistently do 2 days for me.
Couple hours of PowerAmp via BT, which is a fairly power hungry use, plus 2:45 hours SOT (barely any overlap between the music and the screen use, by the way), over 12 hours with 57% left, good enough as far as I'm concerned..
Quite satisfied with the phone, happy to be back on a "Nexus" (the 3a feels so much like the spiritual successor to the Nexus 5X I knew it'd be the phone for me. I was right).
If next year they make a 4a with small bezels and the same or just slightly bigger screen size (so a slightly smaller overall size), I'll be all over it, almost guaranteed to stay with me for years.
Pixel 3a XL user. I'm not a heavy user but unless something changes I charge the phone every other day. I am on day 2 about to call in quits for today with 34% charge remaining and SOT of 6 hours and 30 minutes. Will put on the charger tonight. I really don't want to start charging the phone when it has over 60-70% charge remaining. I may start charging the the phone to only about 80%. I do that for my laptop because it is supposed to improve battery life. I hope that the excellent battery life continues.
Anyone know if ambient display affects the battery life noticeably? I heard some Pixel 3 owners are complaining about 1-2%/hour idle drain when its on, I hope it's fixed on the 3a.
I'm coming home with 80% battery left where it use to be 20% on my LG....This phone is awesome.
OuHiroshi said:
Anyone know if ambient display affects the battery life noticeably? I heard some Pixel 3 owners are complaining about 1-2%/hour idle drain when its on, I hope it's fixed on the 3a.
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Yes aod is very battery hungry.
I lost 12% over night (8h) .
For me aod is a deal breaker so I turned it off for more battery life.
Overall the battery life is extremely good on my previous oneplus 3 I barely had 4 - 4,5h sot (with all tweaks).
Now I get 8-9h sot so I'm pretty impressed.
With root, substratum and blackedout apps I'm sure the battery life will get some significant boost.
Oh and the idle drain is also very nice, no deep sleep issues. Now with aod off I loose over night 0% yes zero
yabadabadooo said:
Oh and the idle drain is also very nice, no deep sleep issues. Now with aod off I loose over night 0% yes zero
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I'm assuming that's using airplane mode or something no?
I'm liking sofar but I got spoiled by my last phone's battery (Mate 9) At least I'll be getting updates though! I have ambient display off and I have a watch connected and a bluetooth earpiece on about half the day. I haven't not kept on charge when I knew I was going to be away from the home for sometime but it does seem like it will get about 20-22 hours on the battery at my usage level. I'm happy with that.
I have been pleasantly surprised by my battery life with my 3a. Best battery life I've ever had on an Android phone, at least in recent memory.
Molitro said:
I'm assuming that's using airplane mode or something no?
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Just dnd and wifi. Idk
I don't know what's going on but my battery drain is horrendous. Screen on drain is slower than screen off. I don't have any rouge apps or anything according to BBS. Adaptive battery is on. Ambient display off. Not sure wtf is going on here.
AutomaticFailure27 said:
I don't know what's going on but my battery drain is horrendous. Screen on drain is slower than screen off. I don't have any rouge apps or anything according to BBS. Adaptive battery is on. Ambient display off. Not sure wtf is going on here.
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Try a battery monitor. I use betterbatterystats.
alphahere said:
Try a battery monitor. I use betterbatterystats.
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I am, there is nothing
AutomaticFailure27 said:
I am, there is nothing
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I see BBS in your previous post. Sorry missed that.
Really hope that someone can give you some help.
AutomaticFailure27 said:
I don't know what's going on but my battery drain is horrendous. Screen on drain is slower than screen off. I don't have any rouge apps or anything according to BBS. Adaptive battery is on. Ambient display off. Not sure wtf is going on here.
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Try to deactivate wellbeing
I'm not shure if this could be your drain issue but on the Pixel 3 it does the trick
yabadabadooo said:
Try to deactivate wellbeing
I'm not shure if this could be your drain issue but on the Pixel 3 it does the trick
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That was one of the first things I've done. Pretty much all these 'fun and useful' features I've turned off as my phone is 90% of the time in my pocket. I reinstalled Naptime and Greenify, to get it to doze faster.
I just flashed ElementalX Kernel, so we'll see if that helps any.
I don't know why you can used for 9hrs SOT, but I think the average SOT might be 6-7hrs in wifi condition, although it is common, but concerned about its 3000 battery, that's fine. Anyway, how is your setting for that