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General battery life thread

matthagan15

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Mar 10, 2012
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I know there are a lot of battery life posts so I figured I would start a general one to discuss how long your battery lasts and what exactly takes up the most battery. Please be specific, tell if you are using full brightness or the auto setting, 4g lte or WiFi, and if you have good or bad reception. Just things like that. I feel like the g2 is unique in its battery capacity so I think we could clarify numerically just how long on average the phone lasts for a wide variety of uses. Thanks for anybody who helps me out.
 
I think the problem you'll find, is that there is such a wide variety of usages, that no two people will have the same values. But for the sake of argument, my typical day, is as follows:

Get up around 10 AM, unplug phone. Go for a run at the park for about an hour, with Pandora streaming, and Runkeeper tracking. Go back home, get ready for work. Then streaming Pandora via Bluetooth in the car for about 45 minutes on the way to work. Then, maybe a dozen or two texts throughout the work day, with a couple 10-min segments of looking at the weather, FMLs, Fantasy Football, etc. My screen is on Auto/60% the whole time. I take a 25 min phone call every evening about 7, and then another 45 min Pandora trip home with brightness dropped to minimum, cause hey, it's dark.

On that day, I still am at over 30% when I get home. I'm on WiFi at home, 4G for all but about 20 mins for the commmute, the rest of which is mostly 3G with a brief no service area (Wilson Booster ftw) of maybe a min or two each way.

Now if I'm not working, and stay at home on WiFi all day? Like the 2nd day I got the phone? I was at 70% something at the end of the day lol.
 
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I know there are a lot of battery life posts so I figured I would start a general one to discuss how long your battery lasts and what exactly takes up the most battery. Please be specific, tell if you are using full brightness or the auto setting, 4g lte or WiFi, and if you have good or bad reception. Just things like that. I feel like the g2 is unique in its battery capacity so I think we could clarify numerically just how long on average the phone lasts for a wide variety of uses. Thanks for anybody who helps me out.

The phone will get you through the day. I'm on vacation and my laptop was stolen so I use this now as my computer. I've been on it since about 4:30a.m. I've been doing nothing but internet stuff and internet videos. That's the worse for the battery. Especially now that I live in a 3rd world country with terrible 3g.

And these are the results
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So basically this says I've been constantly on the phone since 4:30a.m. and I'm still at over 60%

My iPhone would be dead already.

Other than the obvious internet data, what kills the battery the most is the screen. The standby is amazing and this is what gets you through. The iPhone dies slowly in your pocket.
 
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Right now I've got over 25 hrs on my battery, with a little over 4 hrs SOT, and I'm still at 50%. That's been pretty typical for me. Although I've noticed, as with all my previous phones, battery life is much better in the first half. It tends to drain a little quicker once you get below 50%, so I haven't been able to get a full 8 hrs of screen time yet.

This is using Mobile data all day with GPS and network location on, everything set to sync normally. Brightness on manual at around 35% indoors, and much higher out in direct sunlight. But I don't hang out outside very often so it pretty much stays around 35% most of the time unless in watching videos, in which case I set it to 70 or 80%.
 
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