ITT: Post your Captivate's battery life

[xnoctis93]

If I got a captivate running on a 100% full charge, and left it playing music and only used it to listen to music, how long would it last? the phone would simply be running music

 

[yahoowizard]

Only one way to find out...

 

[LordHumongouz]

I'd recommend following the calibration found in this informative thread:

Recalibrating Your Battery... - Android Forums

Seemed to improve my Captivate's stock battery. Also, I deep discharged the battery about five times when i first got it.

 

[Dimcorner]

If I got a captivate running on a 100% full charge, and left it playing music and only used it to listen to music, how long would it last? the phone would simply be running music

So I started at 88% battery when I read this post and have left the music playing. 3HR 18mins later it's at 69% so 19% drop in power.

GPS is set to automatic, auto refresh is on, and Wi-Fi is on.

 

[xnoctis93]

So I started at 88% battery when I read this post and have left the music playing. 3HR 18mins later it's at 69% so 19% drop in power.

GPS is set to automatic, auto refresh is on, and Wi-Fi is on.

awesome thanks a ton for testing it out

 

[Steckums]

I just tried the recalibrating thing. I will post my results when my battery is low.

 

[qwertyaas]

Right now I'm sitting at 2d 2h 35m with 25% left.

27% Display 3h30m
24% Cell Standby
24% Calls
17% Idle
3% Wifi
2% Android System
2% OS

 

[Smoghog]

I'd recommend following the calibration found in this informative thread:

Recalibrating Your Battery... - Android Forums

Seemed to improve my Captivate's stock battery. Also, I deep discharged the battery about five times when i first got it.

Has anyone tried this yet? I unplugged it and turned it off after a supposed "full charge" and plugged it back in, and the battery meter is definitely not completely full when turned off, but it's taking forever to get there. How long did it take for you guys?

 

[qwertyaas]

Has anyone tried this yet? I unplugged it and turned it off after a supposed "full charge" and plugged it back in, and the battery meter is definitely not completely full when turned off, but it's taking forever to get there. How long did it take for you guys?

When I did that it was charging for 3-4 hours total (that was my last charge). This is the result now:

Odd thing is, voice calls were only around 40minutes. Do calls really eat that much battery life?

Display was around 5 hours.

 

[samtr87]

I was on the phone with my mom for 26 minutes and it told me that the call used 40% of the battery. This was after 13 hours of being unplugged.

 

[alphadog00]

I was on the phone with my mom for 26 minutes and it told me that the call used 40% of the battery. This was after 13 hours of being unplugged.

I assume you are saying that the battery usage app said that talk time used 40% of the current battery usages NOT that your phone had used 40% of its battery on one call? There is a difference.

If your phone was unplugged for 13 hours and used 20% of its battery - and the phone call used 40% of the used up battery - so 26 minutes of talk time actually used 40% of the 20% - or maybe 8% of the battery. I would expect this - the phone is rated at about 5 hours talk time - so one hour is 20% of the battery.

If your battery was 100% and a 30 minute phone call used 40% of the battery, then that is different, but not impossible. Poor signal areas cause the phone radios to work extra harder. I had a work location with a terrible signal one year - my phone battery would last 8 hours sitting on my desk - no push email or data at all.

 

[TevocRoux]

I'd recommend following the calibration found in this informative thread:

Recalibrating Your Battery... - Android Forums

Seemed to improve my Captivate's stock battery. Also, I deep discharged the battery about five times when i first got it.

This info should be a sticky. I followed these directions and have seen massive improvement in my stock battery. I've been using JuicePlotter and JuiceDefender (free versions) to start working on battery issues. I've also modified every config I've seen listed in these forums.
According to JuicePlotter, prior to the above fix, I was losing charge at a rate of about 15% an hour and much faster when I would use the phone for anything. I wouldn't make a full day (10 hours) of light use without having to recharge. Generally, I'd have to recharge by 1 or 2 in the afternoon (20% left)
I've only implemented this change today but according to JuicePlotter, I'm losing charge at 5-10% an hour...sometimes less when I don't even use the phone. I am very impressed with this fix. My phone has never been able to go 8 hours without a recharge....I'm still around 70%

When I followed the steps, there was a large discrepancy between powered on charging and powered off charging. Meaning, once I started charging while the power was off...instead of being 100%, it was much lower.
Much thanks to the OP and the person that found that message board and thought to post over here.

 

[Steckums]

Here's today's results after recalibrating:

10h 21m 30s since unplugged: 34% remaining
Display: 43% (1h 29m 40s) (At lowest setting all the time)
Cell Standby: 18% (10h 21m 30s) Time w/o signal, 23% (I was at work, where I don't get signal.)
Phone Idle: 11% (8h 51m 49s)
Mediaserver: 9% (34m 15s)
Android System: 7% (23m 48s usage, 10s foreground)
Android OS: 5% (16m 8s)
Twitter: 2% (4m10s usage, 2m26s foreground, GPS 17s)
ATKF: 2%, (5m 1s)
Swype: 2% (4m 13s)

I run on WiFi when I'm at home, and turn it off when I'm out and about.

 

[CrimsonPride]

my phone says its been unplugged for 1 day, 9 hours but that is off, its been atleast 1 day, 12 hours. and i have used it alot, took alot of pics and video at the alabama game yesterday and im surprised its still running. im at 7%

fancy widget is at 11%
snowstorm at 7% i mustve forgot to kill it
maps at 7%

and i listened to several minutes of music, battery proves to be pretty good to me. i had wifi off all yesterday but its been on all today. i had my data turned off yesterday since i only have the 200mb plan and i just turn it on when i want it so most of the time neither was on but i did look up stuff on espn from time to time

 

[charlie310]

I just got this phone last night, and am really amazed at its capabilities. It is my first Smartphone. FYI, I noticed that the battery info is not accurate. For example, I unplugged my phone from its first charge last night at 11pm. I browsed with it, watched youtube, etc. for around 3 hours, then turned it off before I went to bed. I woke up at 12pm and turned on the phone. Right now, 12am, the phone is about to die. It is showing 6 hours and 47 minutes since being unplugged, when I actually had it unplugged for 15 hours. I think it got the 6 hours, 47 minutes from when I last turned it off and on (i didn't have a kill app).

 

[Jirv311]

I was on wife about 4 hours, the rest 3g. As of right now, with moderate usage today.

Wow, nice work. LOL.

 

[CrimsonPride]

I just got this phone last night, and am really amazed at its capabilities. It is my first Smartphone. FYI, I noticed that the battery info is not accurate. For example, I unplugged my phone from its first charge last night at 11pm. I browsed with it, watched youtube, etc. for around 3 hours, then turned it off before I went to bed. I woke up at 12pm and turned on the phone. Right now, 12am, the phone is about to die. It is showing 6 hours and 47 minutes since being unplugged, when I actually had it unplugged for 15 hours. I think it got the 6 hours, 47 minutes from when I last turned it off and on (i didn't have a kill app).

your battery will get better with time, i installed a battery meter widget, i use battstatt, that tells the actual percentage of battery left. and app killers do work, i have gone 2 charges without using one and my battery definitely drains faster but im seeing if i still get the shutdowns without it

 

[JaeWeb]

Battery Level: 40%
19h 23m 57 sec since unplugged.

Display: 55%
Cell Standby: 21%
Phone Idle: 14%
Android System: 3%
Voice Calls: 3%
Android OS: 2%
SlideScreen: 2%

This is my first day having this phone, it does much better than my Cliq which would have been dead by now. Moderate texting, light phone call usage. I'm happy

 

[Infiniti35GT]

After 1 day 4h 57m. I'm at 61% battery remaining. This is with a live wallpaper & beautiful widget screen brightness all the way down most of the time but when outside/in use I turn it up & checking the weather once or twice. Sent and received a bunch of texts mostly receiving MMS text check my email a few times on WIFI. I have very little service at my house & was there for about 9 hours. At office and other places I go I have great service. ***NO task-killer, no juice defender, no juice plotter, nothing. I have system panel and I never kill tasks. I let them run until I open something up and I can watch the Android OS kill the task or set it to background on my own. After rooting I noticed my battery life got a little worse but it's back up now.

Cell Standby ----- 30% --- 1d 4h 59m
Display - ---------26% --- 1h 53m 32sec
Voice Calls - ------23% --- 17m 41s
Phone Idle --------16% --- 1d 3h 6m 24s
Mediaserver ------ 3% --- used 16m of CPU
Android System ---- 2% --- used 9m of CPU

I'm going to try the battery recalibrating just to see if I can improve this. Worth a shot.

I wonder with the phone getting a really high usage for voice calls if that is from the noise cancellation feature being turned on. I keep mine on all the time and started asking people if they notice a difference with it on or off and in some cases the person on the other end is unable to tell even when I thought it would make a slight difference. I wouldn't expect this feature to be perfect but by now the caller should tell a difference. (Bluetooth headsets from 3 years ago had noise cancellation that would cut the battery time in half but the unit would work great with it on)

 

[Infiniti35GT]

Same charge as above sitting at 2d 2h 33m 1sec currently 26% remaining on battery life. Same set up as before live wallpaper, beautiful widget, checked weather a few more times not many phone calls (thank god) few simple texts, not much internet use done on wifi. Again no task killers, no juice defenders nothing like that. I check system panel to make sure that nothing is running as "service" (like SNS or device management) making sure that everything is set to "background" but never had to kill any tasks. *If something is running as a "service" or "foreground" open up a few apps like a game and a movie then close out of them and the other applications that are using your battery will set themselves to background apps.

Cell Standby ----Same as above 31%
Display -------- 2h 59m 51sec 27%
Voice Calls ----- 22m 13sec 18%
Phone idle ---- 1d 23h 33m 9s 18%
Mediaserver ------ 24m 4s 2%
Android system ----- 16m15s CPU usage 2%

 

[Infiniti35GT]

I would like to try fully charging the phone then make a phone call that lasts 15 min (or 20 even 30 just as long as the 1st call is the same length as the 2nd) in a spot with consistent great service with the noise cancellation on. Then fully charging the phone again & making a phone call for the same amount of time in the same location with the same amount of service with it off to see if there is a difference in battery life consumption with the noise cancellation feature on or off. I haven't thoroughly tested to see if there is a sound quality difference but I may get a chance to this weekend.

 

[Infiniti35GT]

The phone finally ended up dying after 2days, 18hr, 20m, 5s. Display use was right around 3h 45min. Thats my best so far I did more to the battery once it was dead then again this morning once it hit 100% charge so I'll run it again to see how long it will go.

 

[KeelanT]

My display always says its using 90+%. Also, I keep the display at its lowest setting with auto brightness off abd every time i open the browser it turns the brightness up. New to android. Ive had the phone for 6 days noticed a slight battery increase. 57% at about 6 1/2 hrs. Moderate use.

 

[mhbrown]

Unplugged my phone 6 hours ago from a full charge and it just died. I had wifi, bluetooth, GPS, wireless network location all off, I was signed out of GTalk, and i barely used it at all besides sending/receiving a few text messages and one 5 minute phone call. I got the phone from someone off Craigslist. Maybe he gave me a bad battery or something. Or, there's something else using up my battery. Next time I'll start looking at my usage, though it'll be a while before I get it charged again, since microUSB cables still aren't THAT common.

 

[Mechromancer]

My phone lasts about 10 hours with regular use. Regular use being defined as a few Youtube videos, web browsing, 30 minutes of music, google maps, and maybe 30 minutes of angry birds during a typical work day. I make very few phone calls.