Battery life is decent to good to treat depending on how you use your device and set up. The phone will easily last you a day with moderate use.
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After much consternation with this phone hanging around in my Amazon cart for the good part of a month, I finally pulled the trigger this afternoon. I should have a shine gold G3 on Thursday. A decision mostly based on some of the posts in this thread I might add. Still, I didn't buy any case or screen protector which I usually buy alongside a new phone. This is the first phone in a long time that I'm going to pay attention to that 14 day trial time. If the battery life isn't there for me? It goes back and my beloved Note2 goes back into service OR I buy a case and put the Note2 up on Ebay!
After much consternation with this phone hanging around in my Amazon cart for the good part of a month, I finally pulled the trigger this afternoon. I should have a shine gold G3 on Thursday. A decision mostly based on some of the posts in this thread I might add. Still, I didn't buy any case or screen protector which I usually buy alongside a new phone. This is the first phone in a long time that I'm going to pay attention to that 14 day trial time. If the battery life isn't there for me? It goes back and my beloved Note2 goes back into service OR I buy a case and put the Note2 up on Ebay!
After much consternation with this phone hanging around in my Amazon cart for the good part of a month, I finally pulled the trigger this afternoon. I should have a shine gold G3 on Thursday. A decision mostly based on some of the posts in this thread I might add. Still, I didn't buy any case or screen protector which I usually buy alongside a new phone. This is the first phone in a long time that I'm going to pay attention to that 14 day trial time. If the battery life isn't there for me? It goes back and my beloved Note2 goes back into service OR I buy a case and put the Note2 up on Ebay!
I am on my 4th day of owning the phone and battery life for the first three days has been pretty horrendous granted I have been torturing it with 100% brightness and plenty of screen on time. That said I am pleased with what I have been getting out of the phone as a whole.
Curious as to what you are seeing. All of the posts I have seen about bad battery life have had zero specifics or screenshots. What is draining your battery the most? Display obviously...but doing what...videos, games, etc?
4 hours screen on time with brightness turned up fairly high seems good to me but maybe it's not to some...
Edit: I'm not saying you are wrong or anything LOL...Just curious is all.
.....despite the fact that I have had the brightness up at 100% most of the day.
Curious as to what you are seeing. All of the posts I have seen about bad battery life have had zero specifics or screenshots. What is draining your battery the most? Display obviously...but doing what...videos, games, etc?
4 hours screen on time with brightness turned up fairly high seems good to me but maybe it's not to some...
Edit: I'm not saying you are wrong or anything LOL...Just curious is all.
In the UK and got my G3 last week. There as now been two software updates to improve battery life and I have to say it awesome (has you Americans like to say). on for 15 hours and still at 40 % with average use.
It is not like they do not have professional reviews to also back their experience up. As per reviews and general consensus by owners and Verizon sales staff that were given the device for their six month rotation for use:
If coming from an older device (not Verizon folks):
Light users have better battery life due to the bigger battery and minimal SOT
Medium users have equal or better battery life to their previous device for same reasons. Especially if a two year old device like the S3.
Heavier users notice on average two hours less battery life, IF they came from an S5, Note 3 or G2. That correlates with reviews that actually tested the device, a lot of forum posters, friends and Verizon sales who came from S5, Note 3 and G2 devices.
All depends on what device you came from and your use
Added: Sales reps at At&t and Verizon are very enthusiastic about the G3. They like it personally. At least the ones where I live.
I bought the G3 last week. I'm very unimpressed with the battery life. I guess it's the QHD. It dies pretty quick and charges very slow. I'm back to the Note 3 again. That still lasts me over a full day and charges insanely fast.
I noticed that it charges fast with the screen off but terribly slow with it on. My battery problem is the knock on feature. I work in a kitchen and keep it in my back pocket so it doesn't get damaged. That's constantly waking it up. I finally figured out how to turn knock off. The whole phone freezes with knock turned off. I hope they come out with a fix for it. It ends up in the 20s by the end of an 8 hour shift on airplane mode as I don't get good service inside. That's ridiculous. My Note ends up in the 70s with Wi-Fi on and Wi-Fi calling. My battery stats show all the use is screen too.My experience has been the exact opposite. My phone seems to keep battery life forever and charges extremely fast with the charger that was included in the box. Coming from a 2 year old GS3, there is no comparison. Two days ago I got down to ~35% which is the lowest I've ever gotten it. I did recharge it to full (with the phone on), had approximately 4 hours of continuous screen on time, with wifi on (crappy signal that went in and out), and played games, surfed the web, and watched Netflix that whole time. Brightness at 65% with auto on that whole time except for the hour or so of Netflix which had 100% brightness, no auto.
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