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So todays my 1st day at work with my evo3d. With my 4g id take it off my car charger at 6am with a full charge then by about 10am id have to stop using it to text or browse bc the battery was in yellow. So today im looked at the battery indicator at 7am....8am....9am lol and nothin changed. So i checked the battery in the settings and it actually dropped to 95%. Just to be sure i reset the phone and it was still at 95%. Wow im so amazed at how much better this battery is vs the 4g!
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That's what you get when millions of customers complain
If this phone doesn't last you atleast 8. Hours you're doing it on purpose
Bussin Caps from my 3D shooter
No kidding.
I look at my remaining battery when I go to bed and think, boy, could have used this thing much more.
The only problem is that I don't know that it will make it 2 solid days without a charge session. I'll have to see if that's possible on light use/strong signal days.
Mine so far, 4 hours with moderate to heavy usage and I have over half my battery left. Pretty good so far, much better than my OG EVO.
on the days that I think, "wow this thing has incredible battery life--it's barely moved at all since I unplugged it!" typically it will just plummet to like 50% without warning... the battery indicator is pretty much a joke if you ask me.
well...as soon as seido releases their extended slim battery i think it will be perfect...i have no complaints about the battery now and I was getting about 40 hrs on my OG EVO after putting cyanogen on it
ScrapMaker said:
on the days that I think, "wow this thing has incredible battery life--it's barely moved at all since I unplugged it!" typically it will just plummet to like 50% without warning... the battery indicator is pretty much a joke if you ask me.
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My 4g use to take that same dive.....so far this one drops bout 5% at a time
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I've been off the charger now for over 6 hours, WiFi on, Bluetooth on, about an hour and a half of phone calls over BT, 30 min browsing, push email, about 20 texts and checking Facebook and Linkedin about once a half hour and my battery is at 66%. My Evo 4G would have been dead by now with that kind of usage.
This weekend I was able to get 24 hours out of the phone both days. I'm very pleased with the battery on this phone to say the least.
Is all this great battery life with or without the updates?
ogrenator said:
well...as soon as seido releases their extended slim battery i think it will be perfect...i have no complaints about the battery now and I was getting about 40 hrs on my OG EVO after putting cyanogen on it
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+1 for the extended slim, can't wait to see that
It's funny, but I'm not quite jonesing to root my 3VO quite yet. This has got a lot of new technology (3D, asynch dual cores, 4G, etc.) that I want things fully baked. I know 4G's not exactly new, but considering how many ROMs for the OG EVO had issues getting it up an running (not to mention lost WiMax keys), I still consider it an extra challenge.
I had the 2000mAh GaliliO battery for the EVO 4G, and would go morning 7am to late evening without issues, 14+hrs with moderate use.
I would say the 3vo is comparable, but on a 1730mAh battery, It's scraping up to around 10hrs of moderate use, and I have not spare to swap out yet. Out of the box, the battery beats EVO out of the box last year, but still leaves something to be desired.
I've got a couple 1850mAh's on the way, hoping they don't blow chunks.
Battery Life -
My Battery Charges up to 100% - the light stays on - but it stops charging...
and actually losses charge.
thoughts?
mahalocat said:
My Battery Charges up to 100% - the light stays on - but it stops charging...
and actually losses charge.
thoughts?
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How much charge? Many have noticed the battery cycling between 95-100% once it's fully charged. If you're losing more than that, you might want to look into it a bit further.
awesomeindeed said:
I've been off the charger now for over 6 hours, WiFi on, Bluetooth on, about an hour and a half of phone calls over BT, 30 min browsing, push email, about 20 texts and checking Facebook and Linkedin about once a half hour and my battery is at 66%. My Evo 4G would have been dead by now with that kind of usage.
This weekend I was able to get 24 hours out of the phone both days. I'm very pleased with the battery on this phone to say the least.
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Funny, my Evo 4G would have been around 85% after that... unless I was in a fringe area, then all bets are off. I never ran Sense ROMs though, so it might not be a fair comparison.
mevensen said:
How much charge? Many have noticed the battery cycling between 95-100% once it's fully charged. If you're losing more than that, you might want to look into it a bit further.
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Thanks - I haven't seen it drop below 96 on the charger -
I will keep an eye on it though.
spencer88 said:
Mine so far, 4 hours with moderate to heavy usage and I have over half my battery left. Pretty good so far, much better than my OG EVO.
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Did you already install the OTA?
My Rezound will be here Wednesday.
I am wondering who bought the extended run battery and what kinda of improvement you saw.
When i got the extended battery for my dinc it made a large difference.
I dont know how much better the Rezound will do verses what the dinc did on battery life.
Wondering what to expect,
What are you guys getting for bat life,
tx
Hitch_Itch said:
My Rezound will be here Wednesday.
I am wondering who bought the extended run battery and what kinda of improvement you saw.
When i got the extended battery for my dinc it made a large difference.
I dont know how much better the Rezound will do verses what the dinc did on battery life.
Wondering what to expect,
What are you guys getting for bat life,
tx
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I have the ext battery and never use it. I get about 15+ hours average with this battery. I would say get it if you will not be around a charger for over 10+ hours or if you will be doing heavy video watching and gaming. I use my phone fairly heavily and get plenty of life from the standard with the ROM and kernel I'm running. The longest I've seen from my battery now is around 23 hours. The shortest I've seen lately was about 10 hours.
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I have the ext battery and never use it. I get about 15+ hours average with this battery. I would say get it if you will not be around a charger for over 10+ hours or if you will be doing heavy video watching and gaming. I use my phone fairly heavily and get plenty of life from the standard with the ROM and kernel I'm running. The longest I've seen from my battery now is around 23 hours. The shortest I've seen lately was about 10 hours.
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Im sure the rom and kernel you are running helped out a lot.
i will be running Nil's gingersense, i ran his roms on my Dinc without any issues.
Thanks for the info, no need to waste the money if its not needed.
What are the rest of you guys getting?
tx
Hitch_Itch said:
Im sure the rom and kernel you are running helped out a lot.
i will be running Nil's gingersense, i ran his roms on my Dinc without any issues.
Thanks for the info, no need to waste the money if its not needed.
What are the rest of you guys getting?
tx
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I got two extended batteries and an extra external charger and just swap batteries everyday haven't had a need to plug in the phone for a while.
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I have the extended battery. I only pop it in when I am going to be solely on 4G for more than 8-10 hours. I keep it in my truck fully charged incase I need it. Other than that I get about 15-20+ hours on the stock battery with moderate usage. Last night I had been on battery for 14 1/2 hours and still had 67%. Of course, I was on WiFi the whole time as I never left my house.
I have the extended battery and love it...I get 24+ hours from a full charge, and I never have to worry about it running out. I frequently ran out of battery with the stock battery. I think it's worth the peace of mind and being able to work your phone if you need to without having to use measures such as turning off data or something life that. It's not even that big that it would be worth a thought. If it's still half price, it's a no brainer.
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It's not even that big that it would be worth a thought. If it's still half price, it's a no brainer.
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What he said^^^^^
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Without going into whether or not you need it, I would get to your Verizon store and buy it while its half price. You have 14 days to return it.
Personally, I didn't like the bulk and lack of cases. I am going to try and stick with the standard battery for now. I returned the extended. I may be wrong but time will tell.
In terms of what people are saying here about battery life with the extended battery, I agree.
FYI... the extended battery doesn't seem to add weight, just bulk.
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It's not that bad size wise. I only notice it when going back to stock from extended. My phone feels tiny in my hand, lol.
If you can get it for 25 bucks why not get it?
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I was thinking that it would be hard to find covers for it
I work in construction so I have have done in the past is buy a cover for the phone and also buy a leather holster and clip it to my work belt, i have dropped my dinc multiple times from around 8' and nothing has ever happened to it.
If I get the extra bulk Im wondering if I can find that type of setup
the 1/2 off price is Real tempting
I'm a pretty heavy user of the muliti-media aspects for my phones so when I bought my new Rezound a couple days ago I bought the Verizon sourced 1750 extended battery and cover. It's my backup up I know I'll be using it frequently going forward.
I upgraded from my original AMOLED dinc. I love my Dinc and I love this new Rezound.
They have the holster/case for the extended battery in the store.
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They have the holster/case for the extended battery in the store.
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I will need to check that out,
I looked online for the Rezound ext battery and could not find anything on the VWZ website.
thanks for the info
They pulled it down because people were exploiting some loophole to get it for $5. I figured it would have been back up by now though.
I picked up an extended battery a couple of weeks ago while they were on sale, and definitely appreciate the extra use time it gives me over the standard battery.
That much said, I'll be sticking with the smaller battery under most circumstances, mostly because I prefer the Seidio Surface case that will not accommodate the extended battery. The Verizon case that fits the thicker back leaves the top and bottom of the phone exposed, which makes me a bit nervous in the event of a fall. I'd love it if Seidio would make an extended Surface case.
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http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/accessory?action=accessoryDetails&accessoryId=48044
It's definitely worth it as long as you can get it for $25, i just got one a few days ago. I like to run my phone at full power and brightness so it's great, I got 27 hours yesterday (9 hours awake) at full brightness and 1.8 GHz while the screen was on, but then again I was on wifi also.
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http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/accessory?action=accessoryDetails&accessoryId=48044
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thanks,
thats a pretty cool looking setup, but I would be afraid if the phone dropped on its back the camera lense would crap the bed.
Thanks for all the ideas
Dang, i forgot, when does this sale end again?
This phone is far more meeting my battery life expectations. Better than touch pro, touch pro 2, og EVO, EVO 3d, epic touch 4g, and the galaxy nexus I ran for about 2 weeks. At 48% with over 12 hours moderate use.
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true true
this phone sleeps well
Mine has been pretty decent for the amount of use that I put on it today. I've been playing around all day with it.
Im imprf with the battery in this phone...been texting all day and i have 3hr 7min of screen on time
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I don't get it, mine seems nothing as good as everyone else's, maybe I just use it more? I'm not rooted, my screen brightness is 15 percent, GPS off, cdma only, not on WiFi, my sync is on for gmail and facebook that's it. What can help me get better life?
davilas said:
I don't get it, mine seems nothing as good as everyone else's, maybe I just use it more? I'm not rooted, my screen brightness is 15 percent, GPS off, cdma only, not on WiFi, my sync is on for gmail and facebook that's it. What can help me get better life?
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saying your not on wifi, can you be? using wifi will use a ton less battery then using 3g to send and receive data.
WiFi isn't an option I'm an emt so I'm out and about when working, I can always charge my phone in the ambulance, I'm just jealous of everyone else's battery life, and when I left my phone unplugged at home overnight, on WiFi, the next morning it had lost a good amount of juice despite being on WiFi
davilas said:
I don't get it, mine seems nothing as good as everyone else's, maybe I just use it more? I'm not rooted, my screen brightness is 15 percent, GPS off, cdma only, not on WiFi, my sync is on for gmail and facebook that's it. What can help me get better life?
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Don't worry your not alone. I have all the tweaks. Burned through the battery in 6.5 hours today. I guess I am a heavy user.
Battery life is a little bit better than my OG Evo. I am not too excited about it since swapping battery is no longer an option.
Double digit lasting doesn't see possible without turning everything off and going to sleep.
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Always show display time in addition to the main graph when posting screenies about battery life. I've been pretty impressed myself, waiting for things to settle before my conclusion
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That makes me feel a little better, thanks, I guess I just use mine more than others
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That makes me feel a little better, thanks, I guess I just use mine more than others
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Sorry this question is so off-topic but I'm really interested in being an emt, how stressful is it and do you feel like work takes over your everyday life or do you still keep your sanity by having a good enough amount of time for whatever you want to do?
I work 4 days a week. 48-50 hours a week but 3 days off is good enough for me, and the stress it depends, if you work 911 with fire its for sure stressful at times, you see a lot more, if you work for a private company, not 911, its less stressful you will run less intense calls and its a lot easier than 911, I've done both, private usually pays more, but the 911 is more satisfying and more intense at the same time
Yeah, my first charge I got 28+hrs with 7+ hrs screen on. I was blown away, needless to say. It's gone WAY downhill 2 days later. I must have installed some app that's Fn me up. Need to install better battery stats, I guess.
Still can't get XP to recognize new Evo as storage device.
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davilas said:
I work 4 days a week. 48-50 hours a week but 3 days off is good enough for me, and the stress it depends, if you work 911 with fire its for sure stressful at times, you see a lot more, if you work for a private company, not 911, its less stressful you will run less intense calls and its a lot easier than 911, I've done both, private usually pays more, but the 911 is more satisfying and more intense at the same time
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Ahh thanks for clearing that up for me, it seems like a really cool job that'll keep you interested and would give you the nice feeling that you're helping people out. Obviously I still need to research more about the field but its nice hearing from someone who is actually out there in the field right now, thanks, again
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Yeah, my first charge I got 28+hrs with 7+ hrs screen on. I was blown away, needless to say. It's gone WAY downhill 2 days later. I must have installed some app that's Fn me up. Need to install better battery stats, I guess.
Still can't get XP to recognize new Evo as storage device.
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People still use XP? Try resetting battery stats.
Did you have the OG? I read some where someone had to remove all their old HTC/Evo drivers, then reinstall the new Evo's drivers etc.
Traceamount said:
People still use XP? Try resetting battery stats.
Did you have the OG? I read some where someone had to remove all their old HTC/Evo drivers, then reinstall the new Evo's drivers etc.
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Xp is still good besides Microsoft is releasing to many os' and 7 is nice but 8 will probably be a flop..
Definitely not better then Epic Touch.
Mine has been awesome so far. I mowed my lawn yesterday and had the music player going the whole time. So after about 2 1/2 hrs I was only down to 96%. My old EVO would drain to about 70-75% after mowing my lawn. By the end of the day (8:30am-11pm), after fairly moderate use, I was still only down to 45%.
Battery is AWESOME!
I'm very impressed with the battery life.
30 minutes of calling over bluetooth, hours of screentime, streaming music for over an hour over bluetooth, 3G all day.
And at 1am it was still at 40%
I still have my OG Evo 4g and love it, I however am on my phone ALOT and am very concerned over the non removable battery on the new Evo, I use my Evo with an extended battery and it lasts me about 6-7 hours and always carry an extra extended battery in my pocket since I hit the 6-7 hour mark by 2pm , I stream XM on my phone as well so alot of data usage. I really dont understand why HTC went with this design, like an iphone you have to always be tethered to a power source which is annoying as hell.
Can anyone with similar usage chime in that has the new Evo. I love HTC and wish to remain loyal but this seems like a deal breaker to me, and like previously mentioned by another user, HTC is great when it comes to updates compared to Samsung.
I am considering the s3 and it does have a slightly bigger screen and replaceable battery.
Any Input, my contract with Sprint is ready for an upgrade
i had the evo 4g battery was horrible.. i had the evo 3d battery was good for me with stock battery.. now i have the lte and i was up in the air for the same reason the battery.. i am super happy with the battery.. i use my phone alot and it has never ran out... i still have like 30-40% when i do to sleep.. battery is way better than i thought it was!!!!! thats 4 sure.. if your coming from the og evo then.. u will be super happy..
The battery is amazing. Enough said haha
Homestly, in my first day with this phone I've gotten better battery life than I have with any other phone before, sans my OG Evo with a 3500mAh battery, undervolted.
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I stream Howard Stern to my Bluetooth headphone for most of the day aswell so very heavy use
I stream google music all day and hit the charger at about 7pm with 30% left.
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I stream google music all day and hit the charger at about 7pm with 30% left.
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Thru Bluetooth??
the LTE is a shizzz!! so is battery life
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I still have my OG Evo 4g and love it, I however am on my phone ALOT and am very concerned over the non removable battery on the new Evo, I use my Evo with an extended battery and it lasts me about 6-7 hours and always carry an extra extended battery in my pocket since I hit the 6-7 hour mark by 2pm , I stream XM on my phone as well so alot of data usage. I really dont understand why HTC went with this design, like an iphone you have to always be tethered to a power source which is annoying as hell.
Can anyone with similar usage chime in that has the new Evo. I love HTC and wish to remain loyal but this seems like a deal breaker to me, and like previously mentioned by another user, HTC is great when it comes to updates compared to Samsung.
I am considering the s3 and it does have a slightly bigger screen and replaceable battery.
Any Input, my contract with Sprint is ready for an upgrade
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You can get the extended batteries on the iPhone, so I'm going to guess that extended battery cases will come out for the EVO LTE. Some of them more than doubles the battery life of the iPhone.
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Yep to Motorola rockr s9s
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Yep to Motorola rockr s9s
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I would love to see your settings. I stream iheart radio or Pandora for 9 hours every day via Bluetooth starting at 7am till 4:30pm. I get to work with about 98% and plug in every day by noon. Now on days I am not at work I am very happy with battery life. I kept track last Sunday and got approx 10.5 hrs with moderate/heavy use. I consider streaming via Bluetooth for 9 hours pretty extreme use.
This phone is great on battery. The charger for my tablet died so I used my phone for all my web surfing at home and at work today. 14hrs with 3.5hrs screen on time (at 40-90% brightness), about 2 hours of podcasts, a bunch of stuff downloaded, some games, Instagram etc. I got home half an hour ago and I had 15% left, that's pretty damn good for heavy usage.
No doubt, even with medium to heavy usage I can easily get through the day and my work barely has one bar which used to drain my OG EVO incredibly fast. I do have LTE/CDMA mode switched to CDMA only
My concern is what happens after a battery loses its ability to hold a charge
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I would love to see your settings. I stream iheart radio or Pandora for 9 hours every day via Bluetooth starting at 7am till 4:30pm. I get to work with about 98% and plug in every day by noon. Now on days I am not at work I am very happy with battery life. I kept track last Sunday and got approx 10.5 hrs with moderate/heavy use. I consider streaming via Bluetooth for 9 hours pretty extreme use.
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Fresh out of the box settings. I guess haven't messed with anything really.
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If your main concern is battery life and you are a heavy user who doesn't have access to a charger when you need it, then in all honesty this isn't the phone for you.
While the battery is really good, many people are saying it's better than any other phone out, it doesn't neglect the fact that it does drain just like every other battery throughout the day.
You could most likely get through the day with a single charge as a heavy user, but if other factors aren't in your favor such as signal strength then it won't be likely.
You also have 14 days to test the phone out which is more than enough time to see if the battery life will work with your daily routine or not, if not just return it and get the SGSIII.
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The battery looks pretty easy to get to from what I've seen.
Thank you all for the input, I guess I have a decision to make.
I love my EVO and really hate to give it up, best phone I've had ever
Good point that I could return within 15 days if I decide I dont like it and switch to the s3, that is what I will do.
Thank you all
Now the question too is once you start using LTE will the battery still last as long? Probably not unless you are on WiFi most of the time
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The non removable battery was a big con for me too. With my past EGOs I always had a few spare batteries for those times I might get too low.and wasn't around a charger.
So I decided to get the new EVO but also get a portable battery pack charger.
I Currently have a Galaxy Nexus and was considering a trade offer for a EVO 4G LTE. was wondering how is the battery life on this thing? what are some battery stats are you guys are getting over here?
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I Currently have a Galaxy Nexus and was considering a trade offer for a EVO 4G LTE. was wondering how is the battery life on this thing? what are some battery stats are you guys are getting over here?
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Depends I can get 6-8 hrs video streaming on wifi if I use it less it last a rather long time. I have the gn and this I love them both and couldn't choose if I had one line lol.
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The battery life is fantastic but my old phone was a generation older then your Nexus. With my Epic 4G if I got 1.5hrs of screen on time (15-30% brightness and 1-2% no signal) I would be on the low battery warning. If I used Nav it would drain the battery 1% a minute. On the Evo I can have the screen cranked up to 50% or higher, get 2.5 hours of screen on time, music streaming and navigation going and get home at the end of the day with 40% left. :victory:
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Depends I can get 6-8 hrs video streaming on wifi if I use it less it last a rather long time. I have the gn and this I love them both and couldn't choose if I had one line lol.
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Yea, I don't really want to get rid of it because Devlopment is just so much more fast paced on the GNex then any other device. but at the same time my battery life and under powered cpu/gpu are a turn off for me... decisions decisions lol
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Yea, I don't really want to get rid of it because Devlopment is just so much more fast paced on the GNex then any other device. but at the same time my battery life and under powered cpu/gpu are a turn off for me... decisions decisions lol
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I really think your switching to better hardware with the evo. It comes down to how much you care for the software differences really
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I really think your switching to better hardware with the evo. It comes down to how much you care for the software differences really
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I'm not a fan of sense by any strech of the imagination... but im sure the devs can do something about that to where I wouldn't have to deal with that for too long.
I usually get a full day out of this device no matter what. I've only really tried two roms, mean and viper. Viper for me, had a more steady decrease rate where I could get 5-7 hours of screen on time during a day easily. I've not heavily used it since I've been on mean rom, although I usually hit 50% after 45-60 minutes of screen on time with mean.(Albeit this is over a full regular day's usage where my phone battery time would be between 9-11 hours)
Since I figure a follow up question will be the performance between the two, they perform about the same. The difference in performance for day to day usage is minimal at best. Either way both roms get a full day for my current usage.(Full day being 13-18 hours)
I think that it is pretty unanimous that the EVO has far superior battery life. Every review and person I've talked to say that.
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I think that it is pretty unanimous that the EVO has far superior battery life. Every review and person I've talked to say that.
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I would have to say the evo 4g lte and galaxy s 3 (s4soc) has amazing battery life.I average 16-20 hours medium use!(facebook,instagram,browsing,calls,text,youtube) a friend of mine has the vz galaxy nexus,within the first week he had to buy the 3800ah? Siedo. His stock battery would die in 6-10 hours medium use. He also lost NFC during the battery swap.
This device even outlast my evo 3d with the 3000mah battery! At first I wondered why they permanently shoved a 2000mah battery inside,but honestly with efficient hardware the battery life was/is greater then I expected.
I'm on my phone all the time. Phone calls, texting, you tube videos, email, Facebook, etc. My screen is usually at 25%. I average about a 10% drop an hour during heavy use periods,with about 14 to 16 hours a day without having to charge.
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