@FoxKat - sorry, Wifi was off for that little experiment as well. And yes I understand that being at 70% regardless of use after work would be great for other smart phones, but I've been told to expect more out of the maxx.
Yesterday, for instance, I used the phone more heavily and it was down to 14% when I got home around midnight. But I am not a heavy user in general. Yesterday I downloaded about 4 apps, didn't turn 4G on til I left work (around 5), WiFi was never on. I had about 3 hours of screen time (on 0% brightness 70% of the time, automatic for the rest). I streamed a video for 15 minutes on 3G, listened to music for about a half hour, from my phone, not from streaming. And then just some general browsing, probably 50/50 3g/4g and texting. I also only had a total of about 5 minutes of calls.
I know it's decent, but I've been led to believe I should expect more by the posts I've seen on here and other sites. I've seen a number of people claiming to have 4g/wifi/gps/etc on all day, stream a few hours of videos, make an hour of calls, send a lot of texts and then have 70% left by the time they go to bed. Is there something I'm missing? Again, thank you very much for the input, I appreciate it.
OK Mike, I misread what you typed. I see now that the commas are "inclusive" rather than "exclusive", sorry. So that's helpful information. So if WIFI was off, then we can't account any of the power usage to that radio, and GPS, 3G/4G radios were all off as well. So I take it you mean you turned the phone to Airplane mode, or did you physically turn off each radio itself?
I will take a moment here to say this for the benefit of everyone interested...these phones and the batteries are made en masse, meaning they are manufactured in a process that is both huge in volume and yet precise in duplication. In other words, imagine walking up to the assembly line and pick up a completed phone, then waiting 10 minutes and grab another one from later in production. If you were to compare the two it would be virtually impossible for you to tell them apart - not just physically but also in operation. You could charge them both to 100%, power them up, install a group of identical applications, run them, time the battery life and you'd find both phones would run virtually identically and would run out of power within a very thin margin of each other (perhaps as little as only a minute or two apart). Minor differences in battery consumption will occur due to the fact that every individual component that is in one phone will have a slightly different internal resistance than the same component in another phone, so every individual component will use slightly different amounts of power, but on the grand scale they will operate nearly identically, not hours different.
Why tell you what you already know? To put a perspective on things. If you were to take one of those phones, and I were to take another, we would use them differently, charge them differently, install different apps, use different widgets, wallpaper, social networking, email, etc. This would result in different battery performance for you and for me. Believe it or not, if you took two identical phones with the only difference being a different wallpaper picture and timed them to dead battery, there would be a more significant difference. Every individual pixel of the SAMOLED Display uses power and depending on how bright each pixel is determines how much power it consumes...brighter means more power. Bright Red, bright Green, or bright Blue will all consume about the same, but bright white will consume 3 times as much because white is a combination of all three primary colors, RGB (Red, Green, Blue). So I have a very dark blue background, with a slight gradient so the middle is a bit brighter, but still very mild, to give the icons a good contrasting background and yet still be some color. Black would consume the least but I am not a "black" kind of person (I've never owned a black car), I prefer some color.
So my impression is that there must be something that your phone has installed or set up (or some combination), which others whose batteries seem to be performing so much better don't have. If the phone has recently been Factory restored, then if it performs the same without any changes from stock, then I would begin suspecting either the phone or the battery - in that order.
this is highway though... in a quarter mile, its not nearly that good
You're punching holes in my reasoning! :banghead:
