Hey all,
I bought this Epic ten days ago, and immedietly downloaded Automatic Task Killer and set it to everything except for AIM and Clock.
Now, the battey that came with the phone was not lasting me that long. I had left home with 99% and by the time I got home it had depleted to about 35%. I used it for about 25-30 mins of browsing on lowest brightness, with 3G, wifi, enabled. I may have used 4G for like 5 minutes but it remained off the rest of the time. I also listened to some music for maybe 15 minutes.
Yesterday I had got this battery replaced with a brand new one as I thought the battery was bad. I got it at 45% and squeezed out nearly 24 Hrs out of it but most of the time it was idle. I drained he battery completely and recharged to full with he phone off.
Now, I left with the phone at 99% battery and with about 45 mins of use, and about a couple of hours of idle, its down to 65% (using the battery widget) I checked the "About Phone" battery thing and it says 4hr 39min.
Now my question is that is my phone broken or something? Is the battery life suppose to be this low? I read people getting 30 hours off a single charge when I barely squeeze out 12!
I appreciate any insight you guys can give me as I have only 3 days left to return it (I LOVE this phone though so most likely get it exchanged but they will give me either a refurb or charge me $35)
Thanks so much!
I bought this Epic ten days ago, and immedietly downloaded Automatic Task Killer and set it to everything except for AIM and Clock.
Now, the battey that came with the phone was not lasting me that long. I had left home with 99% and by the time I got home it had depleted to about 35%. I used it for about 25-30 mins of browsing on lowest brightness, with 3G, wifi, enabled. I may have used 4G for like 5 minutes but it remained off the rest of the time. I also listened to some music for maybe 15 minutes.
Yesterday I had got this battery replaced with a brand new one as I thought the battery was bad. I got it at 45% and squeezed out nearly 24 Hrs out of it but most of the time it was idle. I drained he battery completely and recharged to full with he phone off.
Now, I left with the phone at 99% battery and with about 45 mins of use, and about a couple of hours of idle, its down to 65% (using the battery widget) I checked the "About Phone" battery thing and it says 4hr 39min.
Now my question is that is my phone broken or something? Is the battery life suppose to be this low? I read people getting 30 hours off a single charge when I barely squeeze out 12!
I appreciate any insight you guys can give me as I have only 3 days left to return it (I LOVE this phone though so most likely get it exchanged but they will give me either a refurb or charge me $35)
Thanks so much!