How is the battery life for samsung captivate?

[ktrwcm2014]

Hi i might get the samsung captivate near new year and im trying to decide between iphone 4 and captivate.

I heard that the battery life for captivate is bad. now is this true??

please leave a commment

thanks in advance

 

[Larry202br]

I have a captivate, and my wife has an Iphone, I can say that it's no worse than the Iphone.

 

[rubiconjp]

If you leave apps like Twitter, Facebook, Tweetdeck and Yahoo Mail do frequent auto-updates then battery life is horrible.

For these apps, I set them to manual update, leaving only my work exchange mail and GMail accounts to do auto-sync, then my battery last about 1.5 days.

 

[Captain19]

I get almost two days by manually checking email. I also leave the GPS turned off unless I need it and I don't use any live wallpaper. The wifi is on all the time when I'm home.

 

[rubiconjp]

Yep exactly. I also turned auto-updating off in apps like EBay, paypal, Google finance and yahoo finance.

Many apps do auto-updating by default.

 

[btswein]

About a day, GPS off, Live wallpaper, brightness on the first setting on the power manager thing, Gmail autoupdate, FB autoupdate, etc etc. Heavy user

If you really worried, 2 extra batteries and a charger for $10. Boom. done.

 

[ru_benz]

I have both a Samsung Captivate (for personal use) and an iPhone 4 (for work). My Captivate's battery can last 1.5 days with light use, but I charge it every night--there's no point in having half a day's charge. As for my iPhone, I charge it every other night, but it doesn't get quite as much use as my Captivate.

 

[gcobb]

It's like any other phone. If you have random apps and animations on it will run down faster. I had the iPhone for 3 days and gave it up. I went with the Captivate and I'm glad I did.

 

[Timberline]

When I first got my Cappy, I'd get a full work day's use out it - barely - with a mixture of calls, email, and apps. I've noticed that after a couple of weeks my battery life has improved significantly. Now with the same use, I've got~1/3 battery life left by the time I get home.

Considering the power of the device and what I'm doing with it, I consider this very acceptable.

 

[jdCaptivate]

With light/moderate use, I've gone 2 days until shutdown. However, I usually average about 1 1/2 days.

Which is the average for every smartphone one the market.

 

[p1gnone]

How does it matter?

EBAY >> 2 batteries+external charger >>10days delivered >> Freedom never with the iPhone

Had an iPhone3g this battery is no worse anyway.

 

[diegovin5]

Hey guys I just bought a captivate but my battery live time is too bad, do you know something that i should do, in order to get more live time on my battery.

 

[yahoowizard]

Just trust me, the more you use it, the longer it lasts. Might take a week or two or maybe even a month, but yeah, it'll get better. For the timebeing, you can buy the two spare batteries+ battery charger for 10 bucks or w/e it's at now, which is super useful.

@OP, if you've had a smartphone before, it's pretty average, but if not, then you're in for a huge surprise. I've seen other phones last for weeks or even a month on its battery, but if this phone lasts two days straight, it's a miracle.

 

[coolcatmom]

I agree with everyone who says battery life greatly depends on your apps. I can get three or four days without certain widgets or apps installed or running. Now I get about two. I don't think that is too bad actually. I have been through plenty of phones in my life and I don't see it as out of the ordinary. My husband has a regular Samsung Rugby and he charges it every night.

 

[sremick]

Mine bites. 5 hours maybe with normal use? Longer if I don't use it but what's the point of a smartphone if you don't do anything but keep it on standby in case you receive a call.

I'd think I had a bad battery if so many other people didn't complain about similar battery life.