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Help Not Happy With Battery Life

daviddcmd

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I have the N4 and an Optimus G. For two phones that are suppose to be the same the battery life is far from it. The LGOG has a far better battery life. On the N4 every task, txt or any other function reduces the battery life noticably.

Would a hard reset fix this issue? The battery app shows the android system and screen as the most usage. I've turned the screen down to 50%.

Any help appreciated.
 
Wow my phone stopped charging at around 8am and still at 11am when I got up it was still at 100 percent.

That's 3 hours of standby without dropping a single percent.

Now I've been up playing around. Ran antutu benchmark, checked email. Wi-Fi on the entire time and still at 97%

If anything this phone has a super battery!!!!

It's more to do with 4.2.2 as it was never this good on 4.2.1

Really if you got a problem with the Nexus 4 battery you need your head examined.

This just proves people will bitcch and moan about everything.
 
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Fast cheap phone
Battery won't last a day even when sleeping.
Still playing with features to see if I like it or sell it.
Cheap phone?

I bet the people that spent upwards of $800 don't consider it cheap.

I bet the rest of the world with the exception of North America doesn't consider it cheap either. It averages out to around $500

Another spoiled, mongoloid American:rolleyes:

Just sell it dude.
 
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Wow my phone stopped charging at around 8am and still at 11am when I got up it was still at 100 percent.

That's 3 hours of standby without dropping a single percent.

Now I've been up playing around. Ran antutu benchmark, checked email. Wi-Fi on the entire time and still at 97%

If anything this phone has a super battery!!!!

It's more to do with 4.2.2 as it was never this good on 4.2.1

Really if you got a problem with the Nexus 4 battery you need your head examined.

This just proves people will bitcch and moan about everything.

So you're saying because you don't have a problem no one else does or I obviously need my head examined. Did it ever occur to you Einstein that not all phones are alike? My issues are real and I'm on 4.2.1.
 
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So you're saying because you don't have a problem no one else does or I obviously need my head examined. Did it ever occur to you Einstein that not all phones are alike? My issues are real and I'm on 4.2.1.
Yes, that's right, you need your head examined...

Your best answer so far was the second post: Set your phone on auto-brightness(Which is noticeably less than 50%). It's how your phone SHOULD look under ANY lighting conditions and after owning several LG IPS displays the Nexus 4 works just as fantastic.

And stop playing with your phone so much. Believe it or not constantly throwing the phone through it's paces with the screen on can drain the battery.

You never ever stated what issues you're having other than poor battery. You never gave any backround on anything specific...Just sorta whined...That won't get you help my friend.

I love to help people.

I can tell you while I feel the battery was just fine on 4.2.1 it is MUCH better on 4.2.2.

Please if you have any questions or issues shoot...now that we've gotten to know each other:)
 
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Yes, that's right, you need your head examined...

Your best answer so far was the second post: Set your phone on auto-brightness(Which is noticeably less than 50%). It's how your phone SHOULD look under ANY lighting conditions and after owning several LG IPS displays the Nexus 4 works just as fantastic.

And stop playing with your phone so much. Believe it or not constantly throwing the phone through it's paces with the screen on can drain the battery.

You never ever stated what issues you're having other than poor battery. You never gave any backround on anything specific...Just sorta whined...That won't get you help my friend.

I love to help people.

I can tell you while I feel the battery was just fine on 4.2.1 it is MUCH better on 4.2.2.

Please if you have any questions or issues shoot...now that we've gotten to know each other:)

Auto brightness doesn't work for me, it's too dim. One reason why I took back my S3.

I have Juice Defender set to extreme and have very few widgets. I'm running Apex Launcher with only 4 active screens.

Whenever I send or read a txt the battery drops 1 to 2 percent in fact ANY one function I do it drops 1 to 2 percent.

Perhaps when 4.2.2 pushes through I'll see an improvement.

You won't be winning many friends with your insults BTW but thanks for any help you can provide.
 
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Auto brightness doesn't work for me, it's too dim. One reason why I took back my S3.

I have Juice Defender set to extreme and have very few widgets. I'm running Apex Launcher with only 4 active screens.

Whenever I send or read a txt the battery drops 1 to 2 percent in fact ANY one function I do it drops 1 to 2 percent.

Perhaps when 4.2.2 pushes through I'll see an improvement.

You won't be winning many friends with your insults BTW but thanks for any help you can provide.
Insults? Cmon man it's the internet. All good playful fun.

My best advice to you is this: Uninstall Juice Defender and NEVER, EVER think about installing it again...These things were useful pre-ICS. On anything post-ICS you're killing your battery. Trust me. Stock Android nowadays does a fantastic job of managing memory and battery life on it's own. All juice defender is doing is fighting with the OS to do something it already does probably much better than Juice Defender.

As far as launchers I think Nova is much smoother and much more stable than Apex. I've used both and eventually bought the paid version of Nova. I love it!

So to be a fair judge of everything immediately uninstall Juice Defender and charge your phone to 100%

And if you haven't tried Nova give it a shot as well!

Without Juice Defender I predict your battery life to almost double on this phone...Really it's that bad

Personally I think the auto-brightness is perfect on this phone..It POPS!
 
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Fast cheap phone
Battery won't last a day even when sleeping.
Still playing with features to see if I like it or sell it.

something is wrong if it doesn't last when in deep sleep.
I lose about 1-2% overnight, WiFi and cell radios left on. The battery graph is a nice, flat straight line.

even when I had battery issues with my old gnex, it would only lose 10% overnight. (I should've re-flashed that phone)
 
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...when you need it.

That's what I've been doing on SMARTPHONES...and surprise surprise...

Without trying to teach anyone to suck eggs, that means:
- Switch on Wi-fi at home & 3G/H off....if out 3G/H on Wi-fi off
- Turn off Location
- My Brightness is at minimum (I found eats the most battery) increase when needed
(only takes a 2 finger swipe and a couple of more touches
- Use less widgets - I only have Flipboard Widget running all the time
(always get notifications for everything else)

Unplugged from charge at 8:30am - now 3:15am & have 55% battery left
Will be interested to see if there are indeed improvements with 4.2.2

Thanks for reading :)
 
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...when you need it.

That's what I've been doing on SMARTPHONES...and surprise surprise...

Without trying to teach anyone to suck eggs, that means:
- Switch on Wi-fi at home & 3G/H off....if out 3G/H on Wi-fi off
- Turn off Location
- My Brightness is at minimum (I found eats the most battery) increase when needed
(only takes a 2 finger swipe and a couple of more touches
- Use less widgets - I only have Flipboard Widget running all the time
(always get notifications for everything else)

Unplugged from charge at 8:30am - now 3:15am & have 55% battery left
Will be interested to see if there are indeed improvements with 4.2.2

Thanks for reading :)
I think there's no doubt 4.2.2 is much more battery efficient. It became readily apparent after using the phone for a few hours. Its also mentioned in the change log
 
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I think 4.2.2 has improved battery life significantly. Not that I was getting bad battery life on 4.2.1, but since I have had 4.2.2, standby seems almost not to drain the battery at all. I mean, I'm sure it does, but it's certainly pretty difficult to notice.

I'm a pretty heavy user of my phone. I use it in my car to play media, in the gym for the same reason (audio and video) (sometimes streaming, sometimes playing podcasts already downloaded), I text a fair amount, check these forums often, surf the web, read my news in the morning, etc. etc. on my phone. If I weren't a content creator, I don't think my home computer would get turned on all that much.

I have sync on only for Gmail and contacts. I don't live on Facebook, and all the Facebook notifications are annoying to me, so I turned them off. During the day, I have brightness set to auto, but at evening/night, I have it set to the lowest setting on the power control widget. I am also on wifi rather often (work, home, coffee shops), and I turn on Bluetooth only when I need it (namely only in my car). These aren't settings that bug me. I don't use my phone sparingly just to save my battery (I do carry an external battery pack with me, but unless I'm on a long driving trip, I hardly use it).

My personal opinion is that people make way too big an issue of battery life.
 
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Cheap phone?

I bet the people that spent upwards of $800 don't consider it cheap.

I bet the rest of the world with the exception of North America doesn't consider it cheap either. It averages out to around $500

Another spoiled, mongoloid American:rolleyes:

Just sell it dude.
Really, no need to nationality-bash. Yes, the Nexus 4 isn't an inexpensive phone in the rest of the world (also, not to Americans who are buying it from T-mobile for $500 or $200+ a contract), but from the Play Store, it is pretty inexpensive. And not just in north America, either. In the UK, it sells for 239 British Pounds (the 8 GB model). You have a point, but you can make it without the US-bashing.
 
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I think the battery life is fantastic. I have all my location services turned on, which is a big battery drain, but I still get a full days use out of it. If I turn the location services off, then I can get 2 days use from the phone. Im on 4.2.1 also.

At the end of the day its about how you use your phone and how you have it setup. Would your android system problem be something to do with Juice defender? As stated above, apps like Juice defender can be counter productive so try removing it. If its worse, then reinstall it but I doubt it'd be worse.
 
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Can't say I've noticed any difference in battery since I installed 4.2.2 on Friday - guess I need to give it more time.

I agree with the post above that states you need to be sensible in order to maximise your battery: switch off stuff you're not using like WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, location services and sync, plus keep the screen brightness on auto.

Don't give me that line about "if I switch stuff off how can it be a smart phone?". That's just dumb: it's still a car even when you don't have the headlights, demisters and horn going all the time.

Re the N4 being cheap: are you kidding? It's an absolute bargain - probably the best EVER smartphone bargain. At least, it is when you buy it from Play. That's one of the key features of the phone.

If you're being asked to pay the same price for it as, say, an SIII or a One X, then it's really a whole different proposition and I would say, don't buy it.
 
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My take on the battery life is it still isn't great, it got a little better with the 4.2.2 update but it seems as though that my battery drains the same on some days. This phone is amazing and for the price I'd still go with this phone. Maybe eventually google will start making a better battery for this phone? if people knew how to remove the back cover of this phone that is.
 
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