Help Hey Nexus S 4G users, how long did your battery last?

[porthos7]

so if no picasa, then I obviously don't have it correct?

 

[Sedan_Clan]

19 hours? Are you rooted and using Juice Defender or something? Larger battery than stock?

I'm not rooted, but I do use JD. My batter is the OEM unit. The 19hr day was a good one; I average around 14-15 hours of use without a charge.

 

[jmm92108]

Thank you NOMster that fixed it!!! That was driving me crazy for the past couple of weeks and I was 1 day away from returning the phone! I have now been on battery for 1 day and 16 hours and I still have 30% battery left. Its been minimal usage but still, thats pretty good.

 

[mjgravina]

I am running about >15hr standby and 10-12hs with moderate using (15min game app, 5 phone calls, 2x 5min browsing sessions). I have the Power Options on my main screen, and other than WiFi, everything else is turned off. I only turn GPS on while in my car, but I gots my charger there.

 

[LisaGreen]

My battery life is terrible. At full charge in the morning, it barely survives the day with low usage -- It's just idling when I am in the office, where I have a landline & full laptop.

Thinking about getting an extended battery. Any recommendations?

What does rooted mean?

 

[eddieras]

My battery life is terrible. At full charge in the morning, it barely survives the day with low usage -- It's just idling when I am in the office, where I have a landline & full laptop.

Thinking about getting an extended battery. Any recommendations?

What does rooted mean?

have you checked Latitude? once i shut that down i got much better battery life.

 

[caseyatbt]

Mine is horrible as well. I even rooted and am running Oxygen ROM. If I stream just a little music I get less than 4 hours. My EVO had better better battery life. I kept hearing how good the NS4G battery life was and so far not so good. I erased battery stats and it improves some. I am running identical programs as my EVO so I expected at least the same results. The I really like this phone and want it to work out. I I wish there were some cheap extended batteries on eBay but they are all for the Nexus S. and not the 4G.

 

[the1who]

There is a discussion in the Google threads about the Maps application showing up in the battery usage as a high consumer, and there was one suggestion that stuck out to me and I have tried it. I believe my battery usage has become better, something worth trying. I turned off use wirelss networks in the location settings. This phone has a pretty robust GPS receiver in it, compared to a Vibrant of course, or the Galaxy S line, so I am not too concerned about it. If I run GPS applications, it will lock on within seconds, so I am not too worried about the other option. It has given me more battery life by the end of the day at work. Hope this helps, I have only been doing this for a week myself.

 

[MarkHirt]

If Maps is using the battery (when you not using it) it's Latitude (part of Maps) that is really running. The only way to keep Latitude from always running is to log out of it.

 

[filthycoop80]

The Nexus S is shipped from the factory with the NFC enabled. This eats up a ton of battery. From the home menu:

Settings
Wireless & Networks
Scroll down to NFC, uncheck box (as long as you do not use this feature)
Exit.

This should help battery life if it is still enabled. Also, choose a good battery saving program. Juice Defender is OK, I prefer 2X Battery. You pay a few dollars for it, but it is a smaller program, uses less RAM and CPU which preserves battery, and is faster at enabling/disabling data connection. It's all about the tweaks in one of these programs that extends life. I have mine set at 1 hour refresh intervals. There are settings from 10 min to 2 hrs, so depending on how frequent you need things like email/facebook updates, your battery life will alter. Hope this helps!

 

[AC1108]

I'm a pretty heavy user and I get 8 hours before I swap batteries. I've tried all kinds of things with no luck but I have grown to expect it due to the usage. It's much better than my Epic though.

 

[micahdiablo]

I average about six hours

 

[Dreamliner]

I'm on GPA17, underclocked to 800 and 'Powersave'. I use voice pretty heavily. I'm glad I get (mostly) through an entire day...my EVO never did.

Medium call use (~2.5 hours), and a bit of YouTube at the end to pop up the Display %...

 

[the1who]

That's a pretty steep chart. I make some to a few phone calls, never a huge phone talker, not a heavy talker like you. I can make it all the way until 10PM from 8AM, so at least 14 hours and still have 40% at least left. I run a fair amount of apps as well. Running 2.3.5, not sure how and why everyone is suffering so much. I am doing a lot better on this phone than the Vibrant I had that's for sure.

 

[Sedan_Clan]

That's a pretty steep chart. I make some to a few phone calls, never a huge phone talker, not a heavy talker like you. I can make it all the way until 10PM from 8AM, so at least 14 hours and still have 40% at least left. I run a fair amount of apps as well. Running 2.3.5, not sure how and why everyone is suffering so much. I am doing a lot better on this phone than the Vibrant I had that's for sure.

Same here. I'm can get 14hrs out of my phone, and I'm a heavy texter.

 

[Hellmark]

This is my third day with my Crespo4g. I was coming from a MyTouch3g, which i'd routinely get 3-4 days out of a charge. Day one, I didn't keep track of battery usage, because I was upgrading to 4.04 OTA, installing CM9, etc. Yesterday, my battery life was atrocious. It was down to 30% after about 5 hours, with data turned off for most of the time. I've since turned off most syncing, disabled NFC, and had data enabled (even 4g). Its been off the charger for 7 and half hours, and is at 42%. 4G kept going in and out, because 4g signal is weak at work, and I've used GPS a bit (I've been riding my bike to work, and so had GPS on, with My Tracks logging my trip, when I road to work, then when I went to lunch).

Battery life still leaves to be desired, but I'm much happier with things.