I would like to hear some real life battery results, im not to happy yet trying to figure out if I have a app thats draining im currently using system panel monitor to assist .
The phone hasn't been out long enough for most people to have even conditioned their batteries, so any numbers you'll get in the next week or so are meaningless. It takes that long for a phone to settle down to something like normal.
Thats what I thought, the days of cycling were over there is def something draining the batt. I am not a thousand BS apps kind of guy, I have couple of installed apps and that is it I might do a hard reset and and install no apps and try that for a dayIt's a lithium ion battery, there should be no need to condition it the way consumers used to have to with Nickel based batteries.
A full discharge/charge cycle is useful every once in a while (maybe once or twice a year) to help the fuel gauge calibrate. They need it every once in a while as lithium batteries constantly degrade and calibrating helps the battery control circuit know the low charge and full charge markers as the battery degrades.
Im not tech. guru but I will say ive had a lot of phones recently and taken the right out and used them and never had a prob.Should the phone be fully charged before first use? Mine's due tomorrow morning, don't know if I should put it on charge during the day and play with it when I get home from work, or take it with me and spend all day "setting it up"
Any advice?
Im not tech. guru but I will say ive had a lot of phones recently and taken the right out and used them and never had a prob.
I got 20h on a charge you might say that is reasonable however about 15h was standby time with very minimal sunday use, looking at the battery log it was still discharging a little much even on the standby time I lost about 30% overnight wile sleeping witch was about 4 to 5 hours phone was not getting hot at all, Thank you for the input, I just did a reset on the phone and starting with a clean slate 100% stock im going for a full charge and see what happens. I had the same apps exactly installed on my s4 and when that would sit on standby it would flat line on the battery log so we will see .My first day of use was unimpressive. It lost about 3-4% per hour when idle. The reason I call this unimpressive is that it doesn't differ from other Android phones I've utilized. (My Moto X, loses about 2% an hour when idle.)
Since then, I have let it discharge completely (or as much as it does before it shuts down), and fully recharged. Today will be the first day of use after that cycle. I'll post my results back later.
Joel
The power saver basically turns off some functions of the phone. It turns data off when the screen is off, turns off vibrations, reduces screen brightness, and "conserves CPU power". On the last one, my guess is that it just downclocks itself, which should save quite a bit of power. All of this stuff can probably be done manually, but having it all in one option, and you can have it come on automatically at a certain battery percentage (I think), is really nice.Thanks for posting guys. Goes to show the M8 has raised the battery bar. When HTC updates the phone with Super Power Saver I wonder what their tweaks will consist of primarily? Can anyone explain?
Thanks for posting guys. Goes to show the M8 has raised the battery bar. When HTC updates the phone with Super Power Saver I wonder what their tweaks will consist of primarily? Can anyone explain?
I know my M8 isn't defective. I noticed that my reception bars were stronger on my M7 and EVO 3D than on my M8. When I had my 3D deactivated in lieu of my M8 I noticed the difference. I wonder if it's possible that HTC has already implemented a piece of power saver? Why would I suggest that? Because the reception bars on my M8 may will show one or two bars before making a call. Once I hit the call button the reception bars increase in strength like flipping on a switch. I'll go from one to two bars to having five or six. From my understanding, CDMA networks in general are more taxing on a cell phone battery than a GSM network. Maybe HTC has figured out how to throttle back the reception until you actually need it, which in turn saves battery power.
The M8 shows LTE reception with the bars when connected to LTE (even if you are connected to WiFI). This is different from previous Sprint phones, in my experience, which did not show LTE signal strength via Bars. Test this: Check your bars while on LTE then switch from LTE/CDMA to CDMA only and watch your bars jump. Also when you are making a call you are switching to 2g so it is showing that strength (I think so anyway).
No difference in bars turning on 4G LTE. I'm on Sprint by the way. One of the knowledge tech guys from Sprint told me the reception bars do not indicate data signal strength, only voice reception/signal. I was asking him about Sprint Spark and he knew his stuff.
I'm glad HTC changed the icons in the status bar for 3G and LTE. Those were long overdue!
Are you sure? I am on Sprint as well and as I stated this is the first HTC Sprint phone to show LTE strength via bars. I am going to attach some screen shots so you can see what I mean. The first one is my LTE strength. I then switch to CDMA only and it shows my 3G strength. You may happen to be in a spot where LTE and 3G are around the same strength.
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