Battery Life

[Fastmhz]

so far so good with the new Nexus!!!

at 5hrs 30min and still at 72% and this is with WiFi and GPS both ON, streamed a bit of Pandora - about 30min maybe... watched a bit of video... sent a few txts and browsed a little bit... not much.... currently have auto-brightness on, but i'm still undecided if i'll keep it that way or run at a static 10-15% brightness... we'll see...

not my heaviest usage day but overall quite pleased... my first Nexus would be around 40% by now if now lower.... more proof that there was something definitely wrong with it...


PS - a good battery widget is 'BatteryLife' (all one word, there's another called 'Battery Life')... this one is by CurveFish.... can modify the colours and gives you battery health as well.... quite handy





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Have you tried Battery Indicator? At first I was using the BatteryLife but it takes up two icon spaces. The battery indicator just stays up on the notification bar.

 

[mi_canuck]

i don't want something in the notification bar... too distracting and then i'd be paranoid when the battery would go down every 1%... i'd rather have a 2 space widget on an alternate screen....

 

[hllwyh]

I am not sure if this is good information, but when I was in a T-mobile to change my services for my N1. While I was there the employee advised me to turn off the haptic feedback or it would kill my battery. Thought it worth mentioning.

 

[Faber]

I guess there are some pretty wildly different battery results from people. I've had my phone on with its original charge for 3 1/2 days. I don't yet have a sim card but I left the antenna on to see how it affects the battery. I've been using the phone a lot on my home WIFI though. In total, my screen has taken 8% of the battery life and 90% has been eaten up by cell-standby. That is in stark contrast to what most people have been reporting (50-60% of battery life going into powering the screen). I'm probably using the screen a tad bit less than others but I have been using it a lot. Hopefully this indicates that my battery will last a hell of a long time once I actually have the sim (which I'm getting on Monday! ).

 

[oniongirl]

that's a pretty good battery life you have there! I was using mine without a SIM for the first few days but didnt experience anything as good as that, and I had the antennae off. But I think I only put it down whilst I slept so that's not surprising.



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[MartinS]

2 full days with moderate use. Some Wi-Fi, some Bluetooth for car use, texting and calls. 8.30pm on day 2 and 30% left. Happy with that.

 

[hllwyh]

Now that I have a couple of days of use with the N1 with fairly heavy use, gps, maps, browsing, email, WiFi, 3G, music, gaming, several downloads, running a number of programs, couple of photos taken, etc. Display auto, Haptic feedback on, really nothing turned off. Today I have had it off charger for 13+ hours with 29% battery left. My take is the battery life is fine. I do tend to turn apps off when not in use except gmail, voice search, browser, and of course, Advanced Task Killer. Compared to what I saw my friends experience on the G1 I am happy.

 

[mi_canuck]

i've noticed that with the update, the OS seems a little more aggressive at killing apps sooner when in background and not used.... makes task killer a bit less essential.... i only use ATK to keep tabs on things... but when i go in there, i'm surprised at how little is really running... on my first Nexus (before the update was released) - i'd go into ATK and there's be TONS of apps running.... now there is very little so I think that the update has helped in that respect...

 

[AnotherFatalEpic]

I had uninstalled ATK because I was convinced that it wasn't necessary. Well since I've been downloading apps lately I reinstalled it and noticed a LOT of apps that I never use like to run in the background. Off Topic: Does anyone know if ATK paid is better than free version?

I thought that I had a GREAT battery... it's been lasting me from 8AM to 10PM without dying... and sometimes I charge it mid-day for kicks.
Come yesterday, I talked on the phone for 1 HOUR and it drained my battery. Normally at the end of the day the display is what drained 75% or higher of the battery. At the end of yesterday it was almost 50/50 between Voice Calls and the Display (with like 2% being cell standby and 3% running apps and such).

Does this mean that 1 HOUR of talk-time is half the battery? I am worried now that 2 HOURS of talking is going to kill it . <--- emphasis on sad face

 

[mi_canuck]

so much for 7hrs of talk time (10 on 2G)

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i'm quite satisfied with battery life on my 2nd Nexus unit... but I still have a Seidio 1600mAh coming as it doesn't hurt to have more, and i'll also have a spare...

 

[mi_canuck]

PS - I talked for 1hr (all from one call) on mine the other day, and it definitely didn't suck 50% out of the battery, that's for sure.... so maybe you have a stuck app or something... ???

 

[AnotherFatalEpic]

Not sure, but I am not sure how to read the percentages of battery usage it gives either.. I didn't see my battery go down considerably after the call, its just that at the end of the day it was rated at close to 50% in battery usage.

I noticed I have Google Voice running sometimes too.. is this because I have it set to use my GV number if I call internationally?

ALSO: Does anyone know if using the Seidio 1600mAh will void warranty since it is non-HTC/Google??

@mi_canuck, let me know how the battery turns out... I am considering buying one but I'm worried about see question above.

 

[rynowhi]

I wonder if the phone isn't ending calls when it should and it keeps running a cycle on it. That would explain why after a 20 minute phone call my power isn't at 60%, but when I check back 2 hours later it is and the power culprit is my voice calls. It does always have an accurate reading of the time however...

 

[mi_canuck]

maybe get the market app called "Spare Parts" - with that, you see a lot more process and items that use the battery - it may help identify the culprit...

 

[AnotherFatalEpic]

Hmm.. I'll try that.. Downloading right now..

 

[AnotherFatalEpic]

Scratch that, read some comments about instability afterwards and difficulty uninstalling. Anyone else have this issue with "spare parts"? Cancelled the download, I'm worried that it might screw up my phone.

 

[kafkef]

Spare Parts worked fine when I tried it.
I recently set an all black jpg as wallpaper which reduced the screens battery usage from an average of 56% to around 37%.
I disabled wallpaper scroll via Home++, which made navigating between screens much smoother. I also keep the display brightness off when inside or in low light places.
So far battery is at 68% 18 hours after unplugging but with quite low usage (~10 sms, couple of phone calls, browsing the market and updating a few apps).

 

[Bob Loblaw1]

I disabled wallpaper scroll via Home++, which made navigating between screens much smoother.

Great find! Thanks.

 

[mi_canuck]

Scratch that, read some comments about instability afterwards and difficulty uninstalling. Anyone else have this issue with "spare parts"? Cancelled the download, I'm worried that it might screw up my phone.

well if you battery life REALLY sucks, your phone is already screwed up

 

[AnotherFatalEpic]

12h since unplugged, 69% drained by Voice Calls. 1hr talk time, 48% battery life remaining .

I haven't ran it down till its died but I'm almost positive that another hour of talk-time would have near killed my battery!

Oh well, I'm sending it in for the dust under the screen, and I called just now about the battery issue and the rep said that they check every aspect of the phone during a repair so that any issue I experience should be resolved.

*got my fingers crossed, crossed, crossed.

 

[mi_canuck]

i'm finding batter life "decent" on my 2nd Nexus... especially with the 1600 Seidio battery (which isn't a huge amount better - I say to anyone, save your $55).... but definitely voice calls suck a massive amount of juice... no way - NO WAY - is the talk time on this thing 7hrs (6 on 3G)...

i had 30 minutes of calls the other day, and that accounted for 44% of my "battery use".... so basically... a little over an hour talk time and my battery would have been dead??? probably not quite linear - i don't know if i trust the battery usage thing that much... but say 2hrs of talk time... i bet a Nexus is down to its knees...

if i get rid of my Nexus, it will be due to battery... but so far, everything else working fine... and i can easily make a full day on a charge - usually about 12hrs, and still have 30% left... but doesn't leave much buffer...

 

[Rusty]

If anyone uses Data Counter Widget, the current version stops the phone sleeping.

 

[Drhyde]

I'm not entirely sure what's going on here. My N1 can start as early as 7 am till 3 am the next day and be somewhere around 25% give or take. I keep background services on with wifi and still get great battery life. If users here have such awful battery life, then I would be on the phone with Google immediately. I've had wonderful battery life with the N1.

 

[AnotherFatalEpic]

@Drhyde, how much talk-time are you putting on that thing?

My battery life is great, as long as I'm not using it as a phone (voice calls).

My Nexus is on its way to HTC, I called them back and told them that I sent it in for the dust issue but that I had some more problems I was worried about, they said that no matter the reason I'm sending it in, that they will inspect every aspect of the phone including any power issues.

I hope they are being honest and not giving me the run-around. On any note, I've still got my fingers crossed, CROSSED, crossed.

 

[rori]

Have you tried Battery Indicator? At first I was using the BatteryLife but it takes up two icon spaces. The battery indicator just stays up on the notification bar.

check this out !!

..just installed and testing...cyanogen will put this in his next release