I willing be ditching my Note 2 and I want to know from you guys that have had experience with the dna your overall opinions on the battery.
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right now i'm at 37%. off the charger for 12 hours, with 2:20 screen on time. i'll get 3 hours screen on by the end of the day. this is using wifi all day, taking many pics, sending lots of texts and MMS in an area with crappy 4g service (so MMS take forever to go through, if they do) and plenty of emails..then used facebook, instagram, tapatalk, etc.
on 4g, i'd probably get 10 hours or so with 3 hours screen on time. yesterday i had 16.5 hours with 3 hours screen on time on wifi/4g mix.
I have very good 4g where I live and I always use wifi when I'm at home. I mainly read up on tech blogs, a lot of Web browsing a few quick videos and some picture taking. So im hoping I can get 12 hrs.
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i think you'll be able to. like i said, i've gotten up to 16-17 hours before. it's not bad, it's pretty much the same as the GS3
Its holding good for me. This is the last 24 hours.
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I get 12-15 hours off charger with 4-5 hours on screen time.
Auto brightness, most stuff syncing. Streaming spotify for at least an hour and playing a good amount games.
It doesn't hold up to the note 2, but its the same if not better than the s3
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I get 12-15 hours off charger with 4-5 hours on screen time.
Auto brightness, most stuff syncing. Streaming spotify for at least an hour and playing a good amount games.
It doesn't hold up to the note 2, but its the same if not better than the s3
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I get these exact same numbers as well. Theres a thread in here called "enough with the battery already" in which people have posted screenshots and go more in depth about battery usage and stats.
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J.Guido85 said:
I willing be ditching my Note 2 and I want to know from you guys that have had experience with the dna your overall opinions on the battery.
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Did you check the BATTERY THREAD???
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34082361
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Bigandrewgold said:
I get 12-15 hours off charger with 4-5 hours on screen time.
Auto brightness, most stuff syncing. Streaming spotify for at least an hour and playing a good amount games.
It doesn't hold up to the note 2, but its the same if not better than the s3
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I know everyone has there opinion but battery life is not close with gs3.
Battery is the DNA biggest issue.
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I know everyone has there opinion but battery life is not close with gs3.
Battery is the DNA biggest issue.
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Everyone I know with a s3 gets about 4 hours on screen time, which the DNA can easily get. I've gotten above 5 a couple of times.
Either you got a lemon of a DNA or you are confusing the s3 with the note 2.
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Battery life for me has been awesome. Coming from the Rezound, on a good day with medium to light use (for me) I'd be lucky to get 12 hours. I bet I could go two days on my DNA before I'd HAVE to plug in. As always, YMMV.
On days when I use my DNA heavily (3+ hours of streaming videos with some web browsing mixed in + another combined 1-2 hours of texting, checking FB, etc), I can make it from 6AM through to 12AM. Granted, I'm usually at around 9% by 12AM, but I can still make it through the day without needing to worry about battery. On days when I just use it for the 1-2 hours of texting, checking FB, etc., I can go for 2 days before I need to charge. I am mostly in 4G LTE areas, with around 1 hour combined time spent underground with no signal. My mobile network is always on, I never use WiFi, my auto-sync is always on, and my screen brightness is set to around 40%.
So in my honest opinion, the DNA's battery is quite decent. My brother has an SIII and he doesn't get anywhere close to these numbers.
I'm on my second day of using the phone (I had it on the charger for hours the previous day until around 4:30 P.M.) It is currently 9:56 A.M. the next day and I have about 46% on the battery (Quoted use time is 14h 29 min on battery). This is on moderate use, so not too shabby. I have never had a good battery in any of my phones (I came from the regular Droid Razr, so 2020maH vs. 1780maH) so I am used to not having a good battery.
FYI, I rooted this and flashed a ROM on it about a week ago, and there isn't any definitive upgrade over battery performance yet. While it's nice to have no bloatware, I haven't found anything out that really is much of a benefit over Sense 4.1 in terms of performance/battery. Too many bugs to work out yet.
Battery Life
The battery life on the DNA has FAR EXCEEDED any expectations I would have had.
I have had the phone about 3 weeks now and I do not use it heavily, so I have gotten up to 3 days, 6 hours of battery out of this thing.
The least I have gotten has been about 23 hours and that was driving from NH to NYC and making calls, texting(not while driving of course :angel: ), GPS navigation running and checking things like FB and Twitter. Average seems to be about 29-30 hours for me.
So I am VERY pleased so far, HTC did a great job with battery management.
I'm coming from a T-Bolt, which is known by all to have horrific battery life.
The DNA has blown me away in terms of battery life.
I dont do video or music streaming. But I do heavy voice, txt and constant data (exchange push, gmail, and sending lots of emails per day). Also a fair amount of web browsing, FB, twitter, and all that stuff.
Im coming from an evo lte to the DNA. Its really amazed the hell outta me the difference. I mean the evo has dual core and a smaller screen and no were near as powerful. How they can make something use less juice but that much stronger is really cool. Id say 30% better. You want me to solve ALL your battery needs and questions? Best damn thing I ever bought. You wanna talk about powerful! I rate it a 6.5 outta 5 stars lol.
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It doesn't hold up to the note 2, but its the same if not better than the s3
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I can easily get 48 hours with my SGS3 (with ICS), a little less with JB. Can you manage to get that long with a DNA ?
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Im coming from an evo lte to the DNA. Its really amazed the hell outta me the difference. I mean the evo has dual core and a smaller screen and no were near as powerful. How they can make something use less juice but that much stronger is really cool. Id say 30% better. You want me to solve ALL your battery needs and questions? Best damn thing I ever bought. You wanna talk about powerful! I rate it a 6.5 outta 5 stars lol.
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Which model Anker is that? I'm looking into the Anker Astro3E 10,000mAh one
Bagbug said:
I can easily get 48 hours with my SGS3 (with ICS), a little less with JB. Can you manage to get that long with a DNA ?
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How much screen time did you use? Talk time? Number of texts sent? How much WiFi or 4G data did you use? I can claim to do the same with my DroidX if I turn on Airplane mode
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I can easily get 48 hours with my SGS3 (with ICS), a little less with JB. Can you manage to get that long with a DNA ?
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With my GS3, I would range anywhere between 18-30 hours with 4+ hours of screen time. That was on ICS or JB. I was rooted with custom ROM's, but I didn't do anything special other than that. A lot of it was with the stock kernels.
I'm only on my 3rd full day with the DNA and I'm keeping a very close eye on battery life. I want to make sure I'm at least getting close to my GS3 otherwise it might not be a worthy move for me after all. So far it has been doing decent but I haven't been able to have a normal usage day yet. Today would be my first normal usage day.
If the battery holds up, I like the DNA more than the GS3, so I would keep it. If the battery doesn't hold up, I'm going to consider the Note 2.
I'm on my first full work day. Pretty confident that ill make to the end of the day.
Only issue is that I had to change my habits a little. Stock vs stock with gs3 is clear winner as far as anything media related to battery.
By no means is it horrible.
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The phone awesome but you'd think with a large battery. ..battery life would be stellar! !
It sucks on stock and unofficial Rom.
Are we all gonna have to lean to a EXTENDED BATT?
Any tweaks options opinions Specific ssettings or Roms that You don't just see drain 2% every two minutes
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Before you bash learn how to use your phone and apps that show you what is ratting your battery.
If your that disappointed get a droid maxx
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My battery life improved signifigantly with the ICS rom Revamped, go look for it on the development forums if you don't mind flashing a new rom.
Your phone goes dead every hour and 40 min?
I'm going on 17 and a half hours with 73% battery left. Not a ton of on screen time but a lot of deep sleep but still good to me
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The biggest drain is the screen, while in use, and this is my suggestion. Definitely has increased my screen-on time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544757
Screen filter helps with display and the new revamped rom is back up.
My wife might be a B but she can at least help herself and use the search box
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I use my note running Saurom RC7.1 with overclocking from 5am until 11pm everyday, I am doing various tasks throughout and have alot going on with different widgets running and such...
5am = 100%
10:15am = 73%
Not sure what your doing but maybe your battery maybe not holding a charge like it should?
Eric
Do not use Hyperion, QCell or any other cheap ebay/amazon batteries. They are only about 1700mah at best and will kill your phone under moderate use in about 60 to 90 minutes. Maybe less.
I'm on stock GB rooted with all bloat frozen via TB and I can get through a whole day of use on one Samsung OEM batt with light to med usage.
kevinjgray88 said:
Your phone goes dead every hour and 40 min?
I'm going on 17 and a half hours with 73% battery left. Not a ton of on screen time but a lot of deep sleep but still good to me
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This is no where near the average!
And you seriously must not use your phone, like at all
17 hours at 73% is a bit extreme, but so is 2% per minute drain.
I think I can represent a fairly average user. I usually check email, weather and a little reddit during my morning routine. BT is always on and connects to my car while I drive to work for about 30 minutes. I average about 2 or 3 long phone calls a day on my phone. Some text messaging throughout the day and some short internet sessions on my phone while at work. Plus a few minutes here or there for Draw Something. I stream Google Music every day on my way home for about 30 minutes. Once at home my usage varies depending on what I do for the evening. But so far I usually find I have about 50% battery life when going to bed. I actually made it through Friday and Saturday on a single charge.
So I would say that this phone has above average battery life for an android device. It isn't stellar, but it isn't bad either. My Infuse could eek out about the same life with less use. My N1 never made it even close to this length. My buddy's MyTouch 4g can't usually make it a full 24 hours.
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This is no where near the average!
And you seriously must not use your phone, like at all
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Yeah that was over night with a lot of deep sleep. It sounded impressive lol
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lojak29 said:
The phone awesome but you'd think with a large battery. ..battery life would be stellar! !
It sucks on stock and unofficial Rom.
Are we all gonna have to lean to a EXTENDED BATT?
Any tweaks options opinions Specific ssettings or Roms that You don't just see drain 2% every two minutes
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In a word: no
In a picture:
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Considering the screen size, the battery isn't actually that big. It sounds enormous due to other phones with almost a thousand less mAH, but I just bought a bunch of extra batteries. The removable battery feature is the biggest reason I switched to Android.
LTE is a HUGE battery killer. I turned off wireless since LTE is SOOOOOO much faster than any wireless connection I'm on. I'd be lucky if I could get through a workday without it being below 50% by the end of a work day and completely dead by 7pm.
Turn on wireless and it's now almost 3pm and still have 78% left.
Lets face one fact everyone is different. .everyone claims this and that and regardless of what carrier or what device people will.never see the batt life they would really.like to see.Say like 50% after 3 days heavy usage that would be a thing we.may see in.smartphones in a few years. Android o.s will always be battery harsh.Its a huge topic.
Another point.on all the claims of Great and terrible batt life has to do with the fact. .people just dont truly get how others may use there devices so heavily..streaming vid...music...downloads...mail sync...Some maybe few truly use there phones 24 hrs non stop. There probably will never be a batt drain solution for those people.So telling one person that batt is fine with all this moderate usage coming from a person who uses there data more like "lightly" rather than heavy, doesnt help a person who is a heavy heavy data user.Neither sides will ever come to an agreement.
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lojak29 said:
The phone awesome but you'd think with a large battery. ..battery life would be stellar! !
It sucks on stock and unofficial Rom.
Are we all gonna have to lean to a EXTENDED BATT?
Any tweaks options opinions Specific ssettings or Roms that You don't just see drain 2% every two minutes
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best thing to do... use setcpu or some other overclock program. make a profile so that when your phone is sleeping it runs at the very minimum. my battery can last me up to two days depending on use. heavy use at the very least 7 hours
This is about how much screen time I get a day with the new collective ics rom
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Screen filter helps with display and the new revamped rom is back up.
My wife might be a B but she can at least help herself and use the search box
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lmao....
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This is no where near the average!
And you seriously must not use your phone, like at all
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Wow that is awesome! I'm getting home with a full days use at around 50-60%- It seems to be better than my captivate was on life that's for sure.
I have had mine for two weeks- On side note? hehehe Does cycling a battery really prove to get better life as time goes by or is it a old school story about batteries use to have memory etc... and now they don't?
Modern batteries don't have memory but their battery meters can become decalibrated which can be fixed with a full change cycle. Nonetheless, I don't recommend doing that too often (I only do it like once a year) since that's bad for the battery.
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How many hours of battery life are you getting out of your galaxy note 2 ...Do you disable wifi at and data at night .Another question when I have wifi and data enabled I noticed that wifi overides data so does data do anything to the battery since wifi over rode it ..Im trying to find out wheather or not I should just disbale certian featured and have longer battery life or just purchase an extra battery and carry that around just in case I will admit one thing the battery on the note 2 is definitely good but I question when people say they get two days of battery how much usage and are they disabling wifi and data at night ? I want to get 8 hours of on screen time it seems like I might get 6 1/2 to 7 hours with a day and a half of usage but rarely two days unless im on the phone lightly like 2 hours a day maybe 3 depending on what app im using thats hogging battery life
Did you have a bad experience with a phone charger Bro? LOL
The more you disable the better but at what point does saving battery become more useful than using the phone.
I understand the obsession because I had it with my nexus so I'm not judging people that worry about it but I use this phone for work and fun with 6+ hours day screen on and I am loving that I only charge when I go to bed and don't have to worry about it again.
Mine lasts all day and I'm on it all the time. Either texting, listening to music, email ect. Maybe you have an app running it down prematurely?
I've also bought 3 extra batteries. Their so cheap. So I have one charged up and ready to go no matter what...LOL
No offence but these threads are so useless. Yesterday I got 5 hours screen time and only 11 hours. I average 7.5 hours and over 16 hours. So what's my point? it depends on location, what you're doing, what apps you have etc.
Finally you could have looked at the huge battery life thread or one of the 5 others.
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kintwofan said:
No offence but these threads are so useless. Yesterday I got 5 hours screen time and only 11 hours. I average 7.5 hours and over 16 hours. So what's my point? it depends on location, what you're doing, what apps you have etc.
Finally you could have looked at the huge battery life thread or one of the 5 others.
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True story, we all have the same phone. If its dying on you, its what YOU'RE doing
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If you want a reason to worry about Battery get a Nexus or Droid Charge and you will have plenty to worry about! These were my last two phones and I obsessed about battery. Now I don't worry.
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True it last me all day no matter what I do that said its on the charger till I wake up and charging when in the car
As long as your not running too much in the background, you should AT LEAST get 5+ hours of screen time a day.
kintwofan said:
No offence but these threads are so useless. Yesterday I got 5 hours screen time and only 11 hours. I average 7.5 hours and over 16 hours. So what's my point? it depends on location, what you're doing, what apps you have etc.
Finally you could have looked at the huge battery life thread or one of the 5 others.
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Not to mention he created a second thread alone on the exact same thing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2158784
Usage is everything. Want 8+ hours screen time, all the time? Get an extended battery
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Hey thanks and yes I'm new on this forum I didn't think the first one went through so i created a second thread my bad ..But yes I do get at least 5 hours of on screen time for sure so Ive decided not to obsess and let it go I got a day and a half on one charge with almost 6 hours on screen time ... I'm running cleanrom 3.5 and I should be greatful this phone is a beast .. I'm done obsessing
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Just curious if anyone runs JuiceDefender? Perhaps I'm just paranoid about 4G sucking down my battery but I do hate hitting my wifi and mobile data toggles every day.
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Just curious if anyone runs JuiceDefender? Perhaps I'm just paranoid about 4G sucking down my battery but I do hate hitting my wifi and mobile data toggles every day.
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Nope, don't need it. I went through the whole micromanaging battery with OG Evo and the Galaxy Nexus. You don't need to do any of that on this phone. It has what I call "second generation" LTE radios, they are much more power efficient, and management of wifi and other radios is also improved. I leave 4G, Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS and Google sync on all the time. Battery usage is consistently 10% per hour when screen is on, and 1% per hour when in standby connected to Wifi or good LTE signal, dropping to 1.25% in weaker signal areas. Voice uses about 1% per 5 minutes talk time.
Just had to post this factoid. I've had the DNA for about 2 weeks and i honestly can't believe the battery life. It is just getting sick battery life. I've had alot of smartphones over the years, but this one is by far the best in battery life. My last phone, droid razr, was on juice defender and barely made it through a day without charging and minimal use.
An example day like yesterday is typical:
unplugged at 7am fully charged. Bluetooth streaming music for an hour ride to work, 4 hours of music streaming during work along with 30 min of gaming (lunch). Streaming music all the way back home - 74% At home, 1 hour of tasker, 30 mins of various email and facebook. Result - 59%. No charging overnight, on it's 7am alarm, it is at 53%.
It will go 2 full days of use without charging. How did they do that? The battery is barely bigger than my dual core RAZR on a much smaller more efficient 4'3" screen. I've always had SuperAmoled phones like the galaxy S3, RAZR, etc.. I thought superamoled was more efficient.
I saw the XDA review a couple days ago and another online review a month ago. In both cases, the reviewers were also a bit perplexed about the great battery life. It wasn't just good, it was unusually GREAT.
That's good to hear.. mind to post some screen shots? Particularly the screen on time.
If I didn't live in a signal black hole I would easily get 2 days out of mine...
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The RAZR's battery life was so bad, I remember those days :crying:
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That's good to hear.. mind to post some screen shots? Particularly the screen on time.
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What's a good app to show this breakdown?
I agree 100% Compared to my thunderbolt (had it until a few weeks back, was almost 2 years old) which could not really make it through the entire day with regular usage, the DNA usually ends up at around 50% (at least from looking at the battery symbol, I've not bothered to look at the actual percent) with regular usage. I live a few miles away from a tower, so not sure if that affects battery life significantly, definitely works well though. Combined with the wireless charging setup (was not planning on getting it initially, but had ended up selling back the thunderbolt + had some sort of work discount, so it had ended up only being around $11) battery life is the least of my concerns at the moment
I feel the same way. I had a TB with rezound battery and SoaB 1.4 and it drained so fast. My DNA seems to last forever. It's such a relief to not have to have a charger around if I'm going to be gone for more than 6 hours.
natypes said:
I feel the same way. I had a TB with rezound battery and SoaB 1.4 and it drained so fast. My DNA seems to last forever. It's such a relief to not have to have a charger around if I'm going to be gone for more than 6 hours.
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Any thoughts as to why it gets so amazing battery life? On paper a quad core 5" screen with just a 2020mh battery should barely make it through the day. The nexus 4 surely doesn't get this life on a similar chip with smaller screen (i have one).
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Gsam Battery Monitor
orateam said:
Any thoughts as to why it gets so amazing battery life? On paper a quad core 5" screen with just a 2020mh battery should barely make it through the day. The nexus 4 surely doesn't get this life on a similar chip with smaller screen (i have one).
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The screen is super efficient, the processor is super efficient, and sense is pretty good with standby.
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I concur. I charge my DNA every other day. I've only had the battery completely drain once before getting it to a charger.
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Same here with the battery. I have been really impressed by the battery. Before I got the phone all I heard was bad about it.
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I totally agree with the above comments. I was scared by the prerelease estimates of the battery. Using it daily has proven the opposite. Some times I look at my phone at the end of the day and worry about the battery not fully cycling. There is to much charge left to start charging. Hopefully new batteries don't have that issue. In addition these awesome developers truly maximize the capabilities of this device. And they never seem to quit.
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So what are you guys doing to get the battery to last so long? I think I have pretty good battery maintenance, and I get almost one day out of it with minimal use.
I did just get the device a couple days ago so maybe the battery hasn't been conditioned yet?
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So what are you guys doing to get the battery to last so long? I think I have pretty good battery maintenance, and I get almost one day out of it with minimal use.
I did just get the device a couple days ago so maybe the battery hasn't been conditioned yet?
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What's your screen on time like. Because one person's definition of minimal may not be the same as another person's definition of it.
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I know my screen on time is really low. I teach so really do not use my phone more than 1 hour of screen on time between 7:00 am - 3:00 pm. Image below:
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However after that my usage really picks up. My phone still lasts until 9:00-10:00 without fail. Thanks to the amazing development group dedicating so much effort into this phone I have seen improvements in charge speed. I will post my before bed power screen tonight for comparison of usage and full day performance assessment.
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Check battery usage at the end of the day and disable any apps running services you're not using. Mine was using Maps a lot for some reason so I disabled it in Titanium. There were a few other apps with notifications that I turned off as well and now I'm still at around 70% around 11PM after being off the charger since 8AM with moderate usage.
Just installed GSAM yesterday.
Ran the phone a little harder than normal, I use juice defender, but set it to FORCE ENABLE data, which offsets it's use. To give an example, typically on Juice defender on idle, it uses about 1% an hour. So overnight, i would expect less than 8% drop, but these last few days, it was more like 15%.
Had the phone on for 34 hours on battery and it still at 24% battery. (just plugged it in to get the screenshots).
Well, I've had an entire day with the S4 now, and I can confidently say, "big whoop." yes the hardware is impressive. Yes I'm getting Quadrant scores over 12,000. Yes it has removable storage. Yes it has a removable battery. Yes the dev community is active. In the end I'm struggling with a case of who the F cares?
Recently I've been camped on a Note 2, and I'm really underwhelmed by this S4. I don't really know what I was expecting, but I was thinking there would be at least a little sparkle. The gimmicks are worthless for the most part, the display doesn't dazzle me the way the DNA does, and the build construction while better than the S3, is nowhere near as pristine as the DNA.
In all honesty, I miss being part of this HTC community. In the end I couldn't live with the DNA because the battery just wouldn't hold out long enough for me to make it through the day. I'm willing to accept that as a deal breaker. If it weren't for that however, I would probably be sticking to the DNA camp for a long time. The Samsung hardware specs are impressive, but the DNA has_soul_. I don't know how to put it any better than that. I'll probably go back to the Note 2 for the screen real estate and stellar battery life, but I'm going to continue to miss this forum. I won't miss the S4 one bit.
Take this post for what you will, a comparison of htc/sammy, a rant, some addled thoughts late at night, whatever er. Feel free to chime in if you want, or not. Feel free to delete the thread if someone thinks it's not relevant. I just had to get these things off my brain and onto the forum I care about most on XDA.
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I gotta admit, I have the s4 and I find myself feeling the same way. At least we gave it a shot right?
th3xg00b
For people having battery issues, there are a lot of things to try. Depending on kernel, configuration, etc. I have had crazy amazing battery life. It really varies though and there are some things that can just totally wreck battery life. Just have to be mindful of it.
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Well, in regards to the s4, battery life was horrible regardless of what I did. I fun minimal stuff that syncs. No social networking crap or anything and it managed to hit 46% after 8 hours. The same usage on my DNA and I get a minimum of ~12 hours at 50%. Best I've done on a charge is about 22 hours. That alone was the straw that broke the camels back...
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Your DNA doesnt last you the whole day? What are you doing on it? I am running pio's PAC rom with crpalmer's kernel(and even before his kernel) I was *easily* getting 30+ hours with normal usage(messaging every ~15 minutes, around 1-2 hours of browsing reddit, various tinkering, and phone calls).
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Your DNA doesnt last you the whole day? What are you doing on it? I am running pio's PAC rom with crpalmer's kernel(and even before his kernel) I was *easily* getting 30+ hours with normal usage(messaging every ~15 minutes, around 1-2 hours of browsing reddit, various tinkering, and phone calls).
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well, if this was directed towards me, my moderate usage is playing games, texting all day, at least 30 minutes of youtube, engadget, emails...thats about an 18 hour battery for me
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Your DNA doesnt last you the whole day? What are you doing on it? I am running pio's PAC rom with crpalmer's kernel(and even before his kernel) I was *easily* getting 30+ hours with normal usage(messaging every ~15 minutes, around 1-2 hours of browsing reddit, various tinkering, and phone calls).
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I owned three different DNA's over the course of about four months, and no matter what I did I couldn't get more than about 12-15hrs max from the battery. I was more than mindful, I ran battery stats until I was blue in the face, I ran multiple ROMs and kernels, bought two wireless chargers, etc. I'm jealous of those who would get 30+ hours on a charge, but it just wasn't possible with the way I use my phone.
Under the same or harsher conditions, I get around 30-48 hours on the Note 2, including up to about 5-6 hours of screen time. Not trying to say the Note is better, just relating experience and one key factor in my handset choice. If I had liked the S4,it would have required an aftermarket battery for sure.
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th3_g00b said:
I gotta admit, I have the s4 and I find myself feeling the same way. At least we gave it a shot right?
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+1. Definitely worth the experience. I feel now I've at least gotten it out of my system.
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Average battery life with newts sense 5 and beast setup default is 22 hours. Each day I do over 3 hours screen time and several calls. It lasts me a full day and that's all that matters to me.
Just curious but why do you need more then 13-15 hours of battery life? I understand its convenient if you're ever gone from home for a long time but you couldn't invest in a battery pack or carry a charger with you at all times just in case you are gone for a long time? I'd understand if you were only getting 4-6 hours of battery because that's what I got from my Gnexus. I'm up and at the gym at 6 in the morning and I don't have to charge my DNA until 6-9 pm when I finally make it back to bed with the stock rom (2.06) running 2x battery.
Glad to see people feel like the DNA is still a stellar phone. I was really curious to see if I should have waited to get the S4 or the HTC One if it ever came to Verizon. Now I don't regret getting this phone for free. It was practically stealing because it is such an amazing phone.
Flame on !!! I've been saying the same thing about the S4 and HTC One and have been beat down.
how the hell is your battery life on newts sense 5 22 hours?? I get like 13 maximum. wtf. and it's like barely 2 hours screen on.
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jayochs said:
how the hell is your battery life on newts sense 5 22 hours?? I get like 13 maximum. wtf. and it's like barely 2 hours screen on.
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I use newts last rom with beastmode kernel with a little oc and I get 20+ hours of battery life with 3+hours of screen use.
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I use newts last rom with beastmode kernel with a little oc and I get 20+ hours of battery life with 3+hours of screen use.
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i'm using newts latest sense 5 with beastmode kernel with NO oc, stock default settings, and i get barely 14 hours with like 2 hours screen on.
what the fart.
They might also be on wifi in areas with great signal coverage. I highly doubt they're getting these insane numbers on 4G.
I get about what you get.
I can see people enjoying the S4 less than the DNA, but there's no way the DNA beats the One. Not in any universe.
If you're only getting 2 hours of screen time..... you're doing it wrong.
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13 hrs of work yesterday and I had 65% left when I got home. No wifi, all 3g or 4g. Plugged in before bed with 50% after 18 hrs unplugged. Probably only 2hrs screen on, but still.
Running Newts latest with beastmode kernel as well with no oc.
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deathrow1992 said:
If you're only getting 2 hours of screen time..... you're doing it wrong.
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lol let's hear your "expert" opinion then.
i've been with android since 2010, and i consider myself a power user. i text multiple times a day, always use 4G etc. i have everything syncing at all times.
i used to get 14-15 hours, and 3 hours screen on for the DNA until around Google I/O when they updated something. the play store got EXTREMELY slow and it would take 20 minutes to download a 15mb app, and my battery went to garbage.
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lol let's hear your "expert" opinion then.
i've been with android since 2010, and i consider myself a power user. i text multiple times a day, always use 4G etc. i have everything syncing at all times.
i used to get 14-15 hours, and 3 hours screen on for the DNA until around Google I/O when they updated something. the play store got EXTREMELY slow and it would take 20 minutes to download a 15mb app, and my battery went to garbage.
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Kidding
I honestly wouldn't know because I'm on stock and I can get 2 days+ with light use and my phone can last almost the whole day with heavy. I'm on stock though.
Maybe try and reinstall the ROM you have? Could be something with the download that is giving you trouble.
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I hit 16hrs. 4hrs screen on and at 40%
I'm on stock as well.
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Hey guys, so I am finally upgrading my galaxyy nexus. Right now I am stuck between the Bette looking, more powerful DNA, or the huge, beastly battery wielding note 2. Right now I am probably leaning towards the DNA, but the one determining factor is battery life. Is it as bad as they say? Coming from a gnex, it probably can't be any worse, but I am in need of at least solid battery life. Thanks !
If I turn the standalone GPS off, I get 12-16 hours of moderate to heavy use. Your mileage may vary. This may change as the 2.04/2.06 s-off comes out and we can root and rom our phones/.
It's far better than the Nexus, but obviously the Note 2 has the best of the three.
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I am locked and stock, my phone lasts from 8:30a - 11:00p. Moderate use throughout the day. Not a lot of games, but I am constantly browsing ign, tapatalk(xda), and bleacher report. I don't have any problems. Hopefully this helps!
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Mine lasts all day unless I'm in an area with really poor cell reception. Then it searches constantly and drains quickly. Moderate use, unrooted 2.06
Who says its bad? There are several other threads that talk about how great the battery life is for most DNA people. I EASILY get 12 hours on a fairly busy day. .....my $.02.
I consider the battery life on my DNA great. I don't know hours wise but I have never had to charge it in the middle of the day and I have gone 2 days on occasion (with light usage)
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i wouldn't even consider a note 2 now that the S4 is out....
but honestly, i'd chose the DNA over both of them.
When I had my DNA stock the KWL would murder the battery to levels worse than my GNex by far. Probably a dead connection but anyways. I'm now S-OFF running Viper and my battery life if phenomenal.
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Battery life on the gnex was bad. Eventually I found Shiny ROM and Fancy kernel and could easily go 18 hours with 3+ hours screen on time.
Sense driving me nuts I haven't looked to fund the same info I used to check regularly but with that said I don't have to. The DNA gets marginally better battery life. I charge at night and go all day with the same usage of not more.
There's series of peopled getting horrible battery life then stories of people going days without charging. It's all about usage. 2 hours of playing Modern Combat 4 is much different than 2 hours of browsing although it'd the same screen on.
As a side note, no pun intended, I used a Note 2 for a week with cyanogenmod and got worst battery life than my gnex.
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i wouldn't even consider a note 2 now that the S4 is out....
but honestly, i'd chose the DNA over both of them.
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I had the s4 for a full day, full charge. Battery life was not impressive at all. It was on par with my DNA if not worse imo
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I had the s4 for a full day, full charge. Battery life was not impressive at all. It was on par with my DNA if not worse imo
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i only meant for like, specwise alone..and screen lol the GS3 and NOte 2 screens suck.
I love my note 2 very impressed with my battery life and honestly I cant see myself with anything but touchwiz...former apple dork here had all of them except the 5
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14-16 hours battery on my DNA. Coming from my gnexus this is a godsend. I could only make it 4-6 hours on it.
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Hey guys, so I am finally upgrading my galaxyy nexus. Right now I am stuck between the Bette looking, more powerful DNA, or the huge, beastly battery wielding note 2. Right now I am probably leaning towards the DNA, but the one determining factor is battery life. Is it as bad as they say? Coming from a gnex, it probably can't be any worse, but I am in need of at least solid battery life. Thanks !
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Screen off, battery life is pretty good. If you're always on wifi and do nothing but periodically clear out your email backlog and make the occasional brief phone call, it could go as much as three days before tapping out.
Screen on, the battery life is kinda mediocre. Figure about five or six hours of screen-on time will drain the battery. If you really wanted to, I'm sure you could zero it out in four or less.
Google Now and Latitude location services can increase idle power consumption by 50% or more. I spend most of my time on wifi, so I'm not sure to exactly what extent the various levels of cellular connectivity hit it. (And not going to test until I figure out why Google Music has decided that it should pull hundreds of megabytes per hour over my connection. All Access has issues...)
The headphone jack seems to draw more power than on previous phone's I've had. I haven't really quantified it yet, but I get substantially better battery life streaming music to a bluetooth 4 (w/ apt-X) receiver than I have with headphones plugged in. Worth keeping in mind.
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and honestly I cant see myself with anything but touchwiz...
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you're the only person I've ever heard say that.
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(And not going to test until I figure out why Google Music has decided that it should pull hundreds of megabytes per hour over my connection. All Access has issues...)
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I've been trying to figure out how I've fine through 4gb of data 2 weeks before my cycle resets. Going to have to check that out.
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you're the only person I've ever heard say that.
I've been trying to figure out how I've fine through 4gb of data 2 weeks before my cycle resets. Going to have to check that out.
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I keep hearing that the Google services newest update has caused increased idle usage as far as data goes. Although, I've yet to see it. Would the people who are having issues state if they actually use them? I take sync off anything I don't use. Like Google music, books, movies, etc. So maybe that's why I don't see that problem. Anyone?
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I keep hearing that the Google services newest update has caused increased idle usage as far as data goes. Although, I've yet to see it. Would the people who are having issues state if they actually use them? I take sync off anything I don't use. Like Google music, books, movies, etc. So maybe that's why I don't see that problem. Anyone?
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Maps and location services were killing my battery. I did not open the Maps app yesterday yet it was one of my biggest battery draws. I turned off Google Now and I no longer have maps even listed today. However, my battery life is about the same. Go figure. I think that battery reporting is more likely the issue.
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Li-pol is much more efficient than li-ion dna has Li-pol smaller batteries last longer. Also that's why it's non removable.
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I swapped out my Note 2 for the Droid DNA (I know some of you will think im mad)
To be honest the battery lifes arent much different once you start using the phone.
The note 2 does have maybe 6 hours better battery life (For me anyway) but i found the GPS drained the battery alot more on the Note 2 than the Droid.
To be honest i still struggle to drain the DNAs battery within 24 hours. The note 2 with Heavy use probaly lasted 36 hours..
Again these are just my thoughts